Sailor §trange

I am either very cutsy or very bent.

( Sibling Affections )
Too cute for words!

Mir gave me a link to a site full of useful hacked objects that I have been trying out. The garden plots are especially good.

I have also worked out a minor technical issue that was bugging me - Tidus tended to be invisible when he was naked, and also lacked hands when he wasn't. Another reference sent me back to this site - one had actually been to before and had picked up several skins from. This time around I got an idea that maybe if I traded off Tidus' body skin I may be able to solve the invisiblity issue and lo and behold if it didn't work! As funny as the invisible body thing could be it kinda crimped my voyueristic tendencies as it hardly was interesting to have Tidus in bed with anybody else when I couldn't damn-well see what he was doing!

Also, this is not the first case of trading heads and bodies between various versions of the same character, Auron's head comes from that same skin site (Corry's Factory) while his body is from somewhere else. My reasons there is that what little I do know of him he doesn't seem the sort to wear really bright colours and the Corry-skin had his clothes a bit too bright to my mind.
Rikku is the same, I have a total of three skins for her, two of them FFX and one X-2 and I have her with the X-2 head but wearing one of the FFX bodies because frankly, I like the X-2 head but the Spira family, as it is constructed, is pretty-well all FFX (as far as I understand).
Same story with Cloud, I like the head that looks a bit more like the game-version but I have him dressed in the AC outfit and before reinstalling I had Squall dressed in the Leon outfit from KH (though the head from that skin was horrific).

I finally got around to making some more of the Valar families and it seems the average number of members in the is four - husband and wife Valar and two Maiar. I do however have a few odd houses, ones I was finding spots in for outside (non-Silm) characters. Ulmo's household includes the GF Siren (FF8), Mandos includes the Aeon Shiva (FFX) and the Bauglir household (Morgoth's) includes Ultimacia (FF8).
I do believe the Kramer house (Headed by Edea) will be more mixed, being the place where random characters that I can't put elsewhere (Yuffie, Jessie, Paine, Hojo, Alatar (Maia - one of the Blue Wizards)) will go. It kinda fits Edea to have the ragtag leftovers anyway.
Compared with this households the Valentine house, which has two FF7 characters and one FF8 doesn't seem so odd.

The only issue is that I am not sure how I will fit all of these folks into the neighbourhood but I will have to see how I go on that.

I also saw something rather curious when I got it into my head to send Tidus and Yuna on a date, there is some guy who wandered across my view downtown who has Finrod's head while wearing a Galbadian army uniform (from the much lamented Laguna skin whose head I hated). My first thought on it was "Galbadian elf?!!" I have seen this before, in Magic Town - the random mixing of heads and bodies to create NPCs. There's a couple of interesting cases in MT, one with Celebrían's head and a deep red dress, the other with Arwen's head and a somewhat gypsy-like multicoloured dress. It's kind-of amusing to see but that Galbadian elf... well, that was even more so!

Edit: Oh, and just as I remember it, I went and did what I was planning, I bought the Valentine Household a dog and named it Laguna. I still really think that's fitting, Squall having a dog named after him (especially as I don't have a sim of him)!

Oh, and does anyone know a good idea for a family name for a group of FF9 characters? I have skins of Beatrix, Eiko, Garnet, Kuja and Zidane and I don't know anything about FF9!

Well we got the Fullhouse pack and did a total reinstallation - pity we didn't know it would whipe out our well-played sims.

I've lost the lot, all of my neighbourhood.

I will be reconstructing them of course, I've already started on doing just that whith the Valentine, Gainsborough, Garden and SeeD families built. There has been one significant change though, Seifer is in the family group as Irvine and Zell and until I have investigated skins available I don't know where Edea will be.

So far all I have done is building their funds again, curtesy of the Rosebud Financial Aid Society. Seifer, Irvine and Zell are on a peice of land but other than some minor chatting and opening the free box of magic stuff I haven't done anything with them yet - even building a house. I'm not sure I will leave them on that property either.

The other familes I have also set back to their starting compsision, meaning the Valentine household is Seph, Cloud and Squall, the Gainsboroughs are Aeris and Zack.

I have yet to build the Spira house again, I want to see what other skins are available. I had problems with the Sulimo house as well because Manwe's skin was not showing up in the character creation section.
I also want to make more elves and reconstruct the F***wit family from my Weirdo neighbourhood. They may not be exactly the same as before though.

I'm not sure I will be able to find skins of Yuffie, Vincent or Cid Highwind - I've looked and the ones I have seen are crappy. I want to see if there a Cid Kramer, find a Rajin (I have Fujin), see if there's a Tseng and who's that FF10 guy, Kimhari?
I still wish I could find a head that I could use for Laguna, I want a Laguna!!!!

In other good things, some of the items I simply couldn't use are now usable. I hope I don't get more crashes for using them though.

We'll see how it goes, we have to go to bed soon though, early doctor's apointment tomorrow.

Okay so, I rebuilt the Valentine house - you know I have a great deal of fun letting sims who have just moved into a property stand around for a while. They do that patting-the-stomache-in-contentment-thing a lot and virtually pounce on visitors and the newspaper.

I decided I was tired of fighting to keep the relationships in the house on the level with one half of each couple off at work all day and got Squall to quit his job and in turn finding one for Cloud.

Again all the spare time unemployed sims have to do stuff that furthers their skills has come in handy, as Cloud has already had six promotions in his IT career. He is currently a computer game designer.

Meanwhile I am still struggling to reach Seph's next promotion with him needing more skills in mechanical, logic and body plus 6 friends. So while I've knocked over the logic one and the mech one I have still to attack the body requirement. Friends I can let slip a bit until after and do that the sneaky way - building the friendships by inviting Seph over to their houses, where his job is a non-issue.

Meanwhile, in persuit of that logic point Seph got potion-making but left the potion sitting there. The first one caused a bit of stress - mainly for Cloud, knocking his stats for a loop that took a few days (including a sickday off of work) to fix. The second potion turned out interesting too, a love potion, and it hit the same person as before (quite a while ago now, Seph drank it but it went to a good cause, it got Seph one of his promotions) the victim - ( Edea ).

In almost a repeat of that a sim-day or so later Aeris was cleaning a certain piece of brassware and predictably got the genie, wished for love (mainly to see if it'd work), chose female and got ( Selphie )!


Meanwhile, I have a second neighbourhood I've started, it's theme is just plain weird. I've been diging through the skins I have and have been putting together oddball families from them and then putting them in houses of "inovative" design.

( All about the weirdos )

Does anyone know where I can find character profiles of FFX and X-2 characters? I feel I kinda owe it to at least read up on them if I'm going to make sims of them to dump in my neighbourhood (with the likelyhood of removing the Adraan family to give them a property to live on).

Well I got a copy of the Sims 1 collection (Fullhouse) on laybuy - it's a pack with all the expansion packs in it and costs $99.95 (well, I think it had the .95). I did a price check while I was in EB Games and the expansions are $30 each seperately so to buy all the ones I don't have I would be paying $150 to get them seperately.

Also, while I was in there, I noted that they sell secondhand gaming consoles and in idle curiousity I asked about the Playstation they had and the guy said it was a PS1.
I'd consider it but I don't know if I could get a hold of a copy of FF7 anyway and is FF8 a PS1 game too? Either way, they'd both be hard to get.

Oh and I'm glad the Bint is the one who has to worry about bills, not that she doesn't spread the angst around a bit. :P

Well I gave one of the other households some playtime and in only three sim-days I already have two of the residents in a romance!


( Riona and Sephie, sitting in a... vibromatic heart bed??!!! )

Now I think I need to cultivate an outside friendship for Seph and I wonder how long before Riona and Sephie get an adoption offer?

Remember I mentioned in my Sim update that Sephiroth has been getting along with Squall? ( Well it's become the Great Sim Romance )