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Oooooooh Ari! I'm mesmerized! The children are so beautiful! (even Ysabel is exotic in an unsettling kind of way :-)

And gosh, I've got to say again, it's just incredible what you've done with the Medieval theme. I'm totally caught up in it. But what happened to Caleb? Was the only way the witch would cure him, to go off to the gypsy camp?! I am totally lovin' life in the grove! More!

Thanks, Sugah!! I am so happy you like my pics. It's fun to share them.

Thank you, Toni. You'll have to wait until the next rotation to find out what happened to Caleb - because I'm evil that way. BUT, you'll get to find out when I get to the witch's castle, and she's second on the rotation, so it will be in my next round of pictures.

:praying1: You're killing me!!!!

Is it not time for a Faery's grove update soon???

Alright guys, lol. I'll try to get on that this weekend. I have a few more pictures from the last time I played that I can post, though I haven't played in a few weeks, now.

Oh Ari
I am a bit behind in your thread ;(

Anyhoo, wow what wonderful pictures sweetie.
I am always so amazed when you post new ones of how much detail you put into your hood.
It is fantastic :)
It all looks so real and you even think of the smallest details :0

Great work sweetie

Thank you so much, Jen!

Ok so I'm seriously slacking here. I've been spending too much time in BellydanceLand. I haven't even played my game in ages. But I haven't caught you up on the last time I played, either.

One thing that's fun about playing the royal house, is that I can spam the word 'Royal' in front of every picture, since they're all...you know...royalty.



Royal Crying - The princesses all share a room.



Royal Anger - the king was mad at the young prince - probably because King Jonah is a neat freak and can't stand messes.


Royal Stupidity - the butler started yet another fire in the castle kitchen. I know it's really not his fault, as there is a lot to do, especially with 4 toddlers in the house. But I wish the AI was a little more intelligent for the service sims that cook because they often throw food in the oven and wander off to do another chore.


But this one was the last straw, as he just stood there in a stupor while the flames got bigger. The fire brigade came out and took care of it, but I was still mad.


Royal Servos - I got rid of the butler and bought a new servo for the castle. The new one's name is Ashton.


Royal Cuteness - this is my favorite picture. The quads have all grown into children (thank the sim gods!) and are all adorable. Too bad I can't remember which is which, lol. From left to right we have Emma (I think), Colette (the Princess of Garbage from one of my previous posts - and incidentally my favorite princess for that very reason), Prince Drake, and Ava (I think).


Royal Bragging
Drake - "When I am the king, I will rule the entire world."


Drake - "Even the birds will be mine."


Royal Ambition
Ava - "What about the moon and stars?"


Drake - "But of course, silly sister. The moon and stars will be mine to command."


Royal Painting - All 5 children practice their creativity. Francesca, the oldest, is very close to becoming a teen.


Royal Royalness - Prince Drake just looks royal. I think it's the cape.

That's all I have for now. Next will be Morgana's winter adventures. I'll try not to wait too long to post again.

Prince Drake is rockin' that cape! lol!

The children are adorable Ari! I just loving looking at your pictures.

Sorry the butler got sacked though. Poor thing

I don't know how you feel about mods, but Squinge has an old one (that still works in my all EPs and SPs game) that makes the simmie stay put until they're finished with the oven. I think it's called 'don't walk away while cooking.' It doesn't completely eliminate fires, as they can still burn things if their skill points are low, or they just get hit by some Maxis randomness....but it really does cut down on those big blazes alot! In fact, I've only had I think three maybe four cooking fires in the past year, and I play I'm sure 5-10 hours a week (ok, ok...I should get a life. lol! What? It's an escape from my grueling job! ).

Anyway, I can find you a link to the mod if you think it'll help your servants keep their jobs



UPDATE (Didn't want to double post): Katvip has done meshes for a Medieval Library! Mostly decor, but maaaan....I think they'd be perfect for the Castle! They're here. Oh, the website is slow (traffic I think) so it'll take a little while to load, but trust me, it's worth the wait!

Thank you so much, Toni. I'm glad you're reading.

That mod sounds pretty cool, I might check into it. The butler was let go on good terms. He and King Jonah shook hands and bid each other farewell. I think I dismissed the butlers from my noble houses, as well, because it seemed like more work than not to keep them around - and they all have servos that I can control and that just seemed easier, since they're like having live in servants.

The meshes are gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing!

Glad you like the meshes too! I've downloaded them myself. I love the telescope and globe-thingie (whatever it is! lol!).

The mod for better cooking results is here. It's old, but I've been using it with all EPs and SPs with no probs.

Hope you're having a good day~

The Royal family is realy funny, the royal crying cracks me up, and the guy dont move when the royal stove catch on fire, is too cool, i never seen such behavior, maybe the royal family needs some new blood, because some of them seams to have a lack of brain cells the royal sweetness are all cute children Beautiful pictures and funny remarks on them! you are totally cool Ari, and have a special gift to make others laugh and feel happy with your pictures and story line, thanks for sharing your game with us!

Royal fun!!

I've been slacking! Sorry about that!

Thank you Toni - both for your compliments and for the mod. I will go check it out. I do have a couple of noble houses with butlers and I rather like them and would like to keep them. Having this mod would make a big difference. But I think I'll just leave the castle with the servos - it's a really big place and one poor butler can't keep up with it all.

LOL Jackie! Yeah, things weren't going so smoothly in the castle, were they? Maybe it will be better now. Thank you so much for your compliments - they are so fun to read.

Thank you so much, Ulli!

I've actually played a lot the last couple of days and got through an entire season. I guess I better catch everyone up!

It is autumn in the kingdom. I think I said somewhere that it was winter, but I was mistaken.



The witch summoned Caleb Farmer to her little castle and cast a spell on him to make him fall in love with her.



I told you she was evil.



She also caught this woman kicking over the garbage can. She immediately greeted her...



But having a friendly chit chat was the last thing on Morgana's mind. She gets three days of youth from each essence she drinks. She can stay young for a very long time.



Over at the Bloodstone house, Rebecca gives birth to her second child, a boy named Reeve.



Another charming future master of the house. Henry displays his gentlemanly manners. I have many children in this kingdom who can't figure out where the food ends and their body parts begin.



Augustus practices yoga for his career in athletics.



It's sometimes a painful learning process.



Reeve grows into a cute toddler.



One of the cats outside drinking rainwater because he's hungry. They have 2 cats - Snooty and Snotty. I swear if the family didn't love them so much I'd get rid of these stupid animals. They are often too stupid/lazy to eat and I get occasional pop up messages telling me that they're starving to death. They won't eat until their hunger bar is nearly empty.



I found out the hard way that servos can't fix showers. I guess it makes sense. But the servo went on the fritz and was dashing through the house. The action in its cue was 'Run Amok'



There was nothing I could do for it. It finally ran out behind the house, had one big spark...



and broke.



Thankfully, the repair man was able to fix it.



Reeve fell asleep in the pet bed. Aww.


Off to the Moonblade house.

One of the optional features for the servos is a security setting. Anytime a sim comes onto your property with the intent of kicking over the garbage can or stealing the newspaper, the servo will stop what it's doing and run outside to electrocute the perpetrator.



But for some reason, the Moonblade servo attacked Rebecca Bloodstone (who is now on her third pregnancy). I had invited her to a birthday party - I'm not sure why the servo thought she was a security threat, unless she did something out of range of the camera.



Anyway, the servo shocked her twice, which kind of alarmed me since she's pregnant, so I powered it down for the evening. What a great start to a birthday party!



Joseph grows up! I'm rolling random aspirations for all teens - unless I feel very strongly about a certain one. Joseph rolled fortune - very fitting for the head of a noble house.



Josephine also rolled fortune.


Off to the last noble house - The Dragen Family


Aww. Justina reads her daughter a bedtime story.



I caught the servo taking a bubble bath! Um...



It went about as one would expect - not well. After a stint of running amok, it broke. Stupid servo.



I love that I've been playing this game for years and it still surprises me. Has anyone else seen this before? Little Amelia rubbed her feet on a patch of carpet and then proceeded to walk around with an evil little grin on her face, finger outstretched to shock someone!



Then I caught her sister, Adela, doing it.



Finally, the action stayed in queue long enough to be carried out, as one sister shocks another.









The two had fun with this, ha ha.

I have more pics, but this is enough for now. Next time we'll visit the merchant families.

Those servos seems little stupid or? Take a bath, of course they breake.

Morgana is evil, poor Caleb farmer.
And to feed innosent sims to that cowplant bad Morgana, bad!

The sisters in the end are cute. I haven´t seen that schock thing before.
This game has lots of interessting things I have never seen.

Thanks for the update. Love to see the merchant families.

Oh priceless! I only recently found out about the shocking thing too. Ha haaa!

Oh Caleb! Nooooo! What about his family? Morgana is such a witch! Oh wait! She is a witch!

Yeah...those Servos are none too smart. I was just thinking about the wisdom of it taking a bath, when I saw the next shot. lol!

Love Augustus' outfit...and yeah, looks like he needs to keep practicing a bit more!

Reeve is adorable! It's funny too that his jammies are those little bear ones, and he's sleeping in the pet bed. How cute is that?!

I just love the look of your Medieval Hood...and even the repairman has cool clothes.

I'm as thrilled about the juicy updates as I am about you finding some me time to play Ari. Looking forward to seeing more pix. I swear the Faery Grove is such an escape for me! I love it! Thank you so much. I here grinning from ear to ear! lol! What can I say? I'm easy to please!

I'm so glad you've found more time to update lately. I always enjoy hearing about your sims. I think I've only seen the shock action once maybe. I'm not sure what triggers it, but it must be really rare. You did a great job of catching it. Amelia's expressions are priceless.

It is good you are back with an update, I missed that ... like always there is so much action that ones have to look at the pictures a couple of time and it's realy good, Josephine is a very beautiful girl, Morgana too, even if she is disgusting in her acts I never play with Servos, and maybe I miss a lot, but I think they just go amok or get broken ... so even if I have a cool servo skin (and Mesh) I just build them and sell them in my shop Poor Rebecka, that servo electrifier her good ... and the thing the children do, I never seen before, with the static electricity , but they can do strange things sometimes if they have low or none "nice", high "play" and "outgoing" , well like they cheat in games and such.

Thanks for the update my girl, it was beyond (more then) good

Oh Ari,
I am so glad you are able to give us such an awesome update..

I have never seen the shocking before, but I love your piccies...

Wow those servos are kind of weird at times....lol

I love, love, love it sweetie!

You guys are so awesome. I can't believe you guys are enjoying this so much. I feel kinda bad that this isn't really a story but just random pictures taken while I play. But I am truly honored you guys are reading and enjoying it - it makes posting the pictures very worth it.

Ah yes, Morgana is such a witch. Drinking the essences of the innocent and seducing just about any male she can get her hands on. And always willing to lend a hand...for a price.

Interestingly enough, both Amelia and Adela are very nice - and one of them has max nice points. So I'm not really sure what triggered the shocking. Maybe they're both playful - I'll have to start writing down everyone's personalities - I have some very interesting extreme personalities going on in this kingdom.

My medieval hood is getting there - there are unfortunately some glaring reminders that this is really a modern game - like the stop signs and the red plastic fishing poles - but I change whatever I can.

Thank you guys so much for taking the time to look and comment. More coming soon!

If you have the time, you can have the neighborhood in Neighborhood objects mod, and delete all the stop signs in all the crossings in the hood, this will take some time, but you will get red of those signs ... I did that in my, but sometimes I see those stop signs I missed

Don't have to be a real story for being fun, you take nice, and very humorist (Funny) pictures, and you got your way with words to explain them, and they also show how fun you have when you play (I'm sure you laugh a lot when you take them), thats whats excite me, and it feels like a story, so I guess it is

Random gameplay pictures are just as a full-fledges story, especially with your fun comments.

You make me want to try to play the Royal Kingdom Challenge every time you update. I even made a neighborhood for it with families not too long after you started yours. I think because I started out with random families instead of couples and gave them weird random names that are too hard to remember, I haven't gotten into them. That and I haven't had the time. Time being the main thing. It looks like a really fun and interesting way to play!