Brilliant Minds: The Wainwrights of Sunset Valley
Chapter 141
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Status update and some gameplay pictures
Hey, readers! I apologize again for the lack of story updates. Part of it is that I’ve been busy outside of playing Sims, and another part is that when I have had some leisure time for Sims stuff, I’ve been playing around with TS4 content that is either new or new to me. I have done some more writing, but it’s all still in draft stage and nowhere near ready to post yet. I’ve also been building and tweaking and updating lots so that the Wainwrights and Wrongs story game and others will be better, as it bugs me to see townies shuffled around into houses that don’t suit them, and I like having newer content to use if I want without having to stick with all Maxis defaults. Unfortunately, all of that takes a lot of time. Regardless, I have decided that come November, I will do another NaNoWriMo marathon of Wainwrights and Wrongs, using the mountain of material that’s been played to catch it up, so there’s that, and in the meantime, I’ll keep writing and try to put out chapters as I can. I will also get Brilliant Minds for TS3 updated.
All that said, here are some pictures from some of my playtest/for the heck of it saves that I used to try out lots and new to me content.
Continue readingBrilliant Minds: The Wainwrights of Sunset Valley – Chapter 138
Brilliant Minds: The Wainwrights of Sunset Valley – Chapter 137
Brilliant Minds: The Wainwrights of Sunset Valley – Chapter 136
My Recent Sims Projects
Hello, readers! I hope you’re enjoying the holiday season!
Again, I know it’s been a while since I last posted and wrote about how I had to let Brilliant Minds go due to the save and general issues I have with Sims 3.
None of that has changed, although a part of me still wants to keep the universe alive and going. I still make character references to my husband all the time and think about where the story was going and could have gone. I still can’t quite bring myself to call it abandoned, even though it’s been a long time now since I’ve worked on it. So, that’s where that stands.
Instead, I’ve moved on to Sims 4, as I mentioned in that post. I’ve now got all the expansions, all but a few of the game packs, and several of the stuff packs. It was fun just playing to play again for a while. Although this post is mostly an update, I’ll put the rest behind a cut since it’s wordy and it’s got screenshots.
Continue readingHappy Holidays!
It’s that time of year again! In the spirit of the season, the Wainwrights are posing for their annual holiday picture. Now that the family is far too big to try putting them all in one shot even on a year that did not have 2020’s track record, I decided to do one for each household instead.
This first one is the active household as it stands currently in the story. This time, Maria insisted that everyone look “festive, but classy” for Jessica’s first Snowflake Day. “No tacky t-shirts with bad puns or glowing reindeer antler headbands, please,” were her exact words. They were all happy to oblige, although nobody minded Boyd’s Santa hat or semi-questionably tacky tie. Buddy and Patches both got in the shot this time, too.
Since Blair’s household missed the fun last year, she took a cue from her parents and sister-in-law and did one at her house, too. She was a little less firm with the “festive, but classy” rule, and let Cycl0n3 pop on a candy cane top hat that he declared was classy, because, hey, it’s a top hat, right? She did her own hair up in a bow, and even grumpy Travis got festive with a Santa hat and holiday shirt. Even he doesn’t enjoy being a grinch on Snowflake Day.
This is Orion and Tara’s first Snowflake Day as a newlywed couple in their new home, so they posed for a holiday picture by the fireplace under the mistletoe.
Also, as a side note, I realized after I posted that while I updated the sims around town on the Children of Sunset Valley page, I forgot to update Orion and Tara, even though they were a main focus of the last chapter. So, that has been rectified, and they are now together reflecting their marriage in the “related to the active household” section.
Last, but not least, we have the Wolff-Sw0rd branch of the extended Wainwright clan and their holiday family portrait. They, too, heard about Maria’s “festive, but classy” request, but they put their own spin on it. Whether this has to do with the fact that Chris wore a cat t-shirt that said “Meowy Snowflake Day” while both Caleb and Hilda came to Grandma and Grandpa Wainwright’s holiday celebration sporting glowing reindeer horns last year has anything to do with it, is up to you to decide. Magnanimous guy that he is, Chris certainly would not want to run afoul of his dear sister-in-law/aunt’s expressed wishes, and Tad certainly would never troll his beloved, if not dramatic, sister, now would he?
That said, the outfits are classy, because, like his father, Chris feels that his holiday fireworks top hat and candy cane tie going with his snowflake suit fits Maria’s rules perfectly. As a bonus, the snowflake design hides the cat hair that dear old Diddy and his stray furry pals outside might leave on it. The rest of the family just went with holiday sweaters, and Morgana and Caleb went the extra step of a Santa hat, but they all had fun with it.
And with that, I hope all of you reading have a great holiday and happy new year!
Cheezey Sims 