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I had a dream where Aeris (FFVII) was standing on top of a cliff made of salt, alternating between contemplating the cliff itself and the Life Fruit (i.e. the glowing pears of the Sims 3) and avocado in her hands. Same dream then skipped to Cloud's final battle with Sephiroth, where he is figuring out how to force Sephiroth to eat a Life Fruit, in the belief that it will cure him of his madness. Cloud was also monologuing a bit about the Life Fruit and the times it's saved his life, and that bit implied that they were extremely rare, and the only ones left were ones that either had been given to the main characters before the Nibelheim events (like Tifa having one to give to Cloud when he made it to Midgar) or ones that Zack had squirreled away in places, like some secret lockers in Midgar and other towns. I think somewhere in there there was an implication that Aeris survived by dint of being fed one too.

Talk about crossover dreams!

So... a few of the latest Sims doings... ( Read more... )

I spent absolutely ages last night doing piles of work on the Witwicky lot in the Sims. Like before, it's Optimus's house, which means this time around it's also Magnus's, though given the pairing set-ups this time around I won't be moving Magnus out.

The original Witwicky lot has a few issues in it I am not wholly impressed with, including not a lot of yard space for a few fruit trees. I do so love growing crops for my sims (though the requirement in this game that they build their gardening badge before they can grow some types of vegies is less than impressive, though I have items to deal with that).

I also added an oversight to Edea's quite crowded household - Jenova. Actually, watching the toddlers in Edea's house playing with the toys in the nursery is cute. I need to go in and do some work in there though, I need to fix several of the bedrooms up - I know I need to do work on those ensuites.

I also need to get my aft in gear and get Megs and the Seekers housed.

This bit, in the section about Life Death and the Matrix, in the article about Transformers Technology on Wikipedia struck me as interesting:

It is the source of all Sparks that exist, have existed, or ever will exist, sending them out into the world to live, so that when they die, they will return to the Allspark and share their experiences, thereby increasing the collective wisdom and knowledge of the Allspark.


Anyone else see parallels with the Lifestream?

I've been thinking of a proposal twetwe123 made about making a mod if I had an idea for one... I have a silly idea that I have been ruminating for the past couple of days, and not my Sarevok/Imoen idea. Here's the basics:


CHARNAME and team are travelling from one area to another and somewhere in the random wilderness run into a strange group of people, the leader of whom has a strange story to tell.

( Final Fantasy Meets Baldur's Gate )


Edit: I may need help from fellow FF7 fans to come up with short dialogue strings for the characters who do go in this mod.

EDit, The Revenge: Just went through and put in all the names.

Something that just occurred to me due to my random comments to icedark_elf about a recent Crisis Core video:

Okay, so "lost in time" plots are a dime a dozen in Guardianverse, and this is yet another one.

Simply put, Griever gets thrown back in time, but he gets thrown to the point just after Zack died and Cloud is monumentally messed up, leaving Griever/Squall to try and pull him together and keep him from totally breaking down again. (Note: Griever already knows Cloud, albeit a version much older, i.e. Tyr - one of the elder GFs of Terra.)

This is a little FFVII plotbunny that has been hanging around, keeping the Griever-bunny from bugging me a bit (along with the help of a couple of perennial favourite non-fannish bunnies that I will never be induced to divulge).

( Return Of The Living Dead... )

Okay, so I'm finally done fooling around in Shinra Mansion in my sims game. If I'm going to be going to this sort of length with everything I'm just going to go ahead and install the expansions and do all the fixer-upper stuff afterwards!


Anyway, amongst all the stuff I did I aged up two of the residents, gave out four makeovers, and got pissed at the game interupting my painting bee.

( Another day in the Valentine household... lots of longwindedness and a few pics )

Maybe now I can leave this house until the expansions are loaded...

I am currently not happy at the ABC.

According to the new TV Week, they are not going to be showing Torchwood.


Oh, I'm looking up other ways of getting it - after all, Britain has the same regional settings as Australia so if I have to, I'll order straight from BBC UK.



In other news, Dirge of Cerberus finally came in, so maybe now I'll go back to my PS2.

Well I have been doing a fair bit of work in Sims 2, fixing problems and getting my households restored again.

First off, I was having problems with Supernova House - the house where Sephiroth and Jenova are. When I tried to load it, it would keep on crashing on me.
Well I got past it by creating a stand-in sim (Freya Strife), putting her on a block and using one of my pet modded items to move Seph, Jen and Cloud in.

This does mean however that I lost all teh furnishings in Supernova House, which is going to be a pain to restore, but it means I don't have to go back to an old savegame (which is a pain in itself, because I think the last save file I have is before I built the Org families).

I do have one strange problem though, Laguna is registering two Squalls in his relationships - the one who I just moved in, and the one he is married to. That's a pain, because it's suposedly the same Squall but until I can deal with the phantom one (that he thinks he's married to) I can't get them remarried, and I don't know SimPE well enough to get it straighened out.

I also went and changed Xehanort's hair to the Xemnas style from MTS2, the results of which are ridiculously cute, because I haven't yet let him age up from toddlerhood.

I'm going to poke around SimPE and see what I can find about the phantom Squall. If I have to, I'll kill off Laguna and remake him totally - same applies to Seph if I get similar problems with him and Cloud.

Edit: I did it, I killed Laguna off and made a new one. I hope it doesn't take too long for the reserection wants to disappear from Squall's Wants dial - maybe I'll look into making them parents.