Story Update: The End of the World Ch.2 Too Much

Well, there's more involved in getting these things put together than you might imagine before starting out, I am really enjoying the process so far, but I have to fight not to get too drawn into building and redecorating.

I've been re-touching Barnacle Bay and slowly re-styling the inhabitants to suit the story and more my taste. I want it to blend nicely and feel slightly less prestine and cheerful.

What I learned while writing this chapter is that I rely a lot on what happens in my game to tell the story, not that I actually play Darcy's family, but as I leave free will on while forcing them to interact with the world around them they sometimes surprise me and end up taking the story in completely new directions.

The End of the World Ch.2 Too Much

Gender Bias

I like to consider myself a modern woman, with a clear cut view of what equal opportunity means, discrimination is horrible and I don't like stereotypes.

But I still want a male butler, doggone it!! I mean is it really too much to ask that after you've hired and fired your seventh pretty, blond, shapely manequin of a woman you could get just one middle aged, balding, fat guy!?! And what is it with those creepy female butlers looking like clones from a seventies sci-fi movie?

Gees! Even creating my butler in CAS and sticking the character in the butler bin via the Master Controller I still kept getting the manequins... duck it, I'll just leave the Goldbeard's butle-less for now, they won't be featured all that much in the story anyways, not yet in any case.

Story Update: The End of the World Ch.1 Gull's Nest

I'm currently working on various new ideas for my story, which means I'm creating Sims and building/rebuilding parts of Barnacle Bay to better suit my taste and the story. I'm also trying to write out some profiles and figuring out what else I need to do about the story blog. So recently I haven't had time to write the actual story, isn't that a little ironic?

Ah well, thankfully there are no readers yet, which means I'm kinda talking to myself at the moment... doesn't that feel just a little awkward... Anyway, for any eventual future readers, first chapter of The End of the World, Gull's Nest is now up.

Breaking New Ground

A blog without posts is like a post without logs... or something equally silly.

I thought it looked a little empty, so I decided there was a need of a small post just to get myself into the right mindset.

My intent is for this to be a hub of sorts in case I act on my notion to write more stories using The Sims 3 as a medium. I have one in the works which will begin as soon as I wrangle blogger into submission. I still have a few things to figure out.

The story is called The End of the World and it will be a drama series with some adventure and mystery thrown in.