This gift is for Simmer Mystik, Mystik you commented in your letter that you like your sims to have a certain amount of skills. It got me thinking in an opposite direction, like why a sim might reach a certain age with limited skills. I hope you enjoy this take away from the ideas your letter spawned, and hope you don't mind that the house meandered away from the small log cabin it was supposed to be. ~ Mmdrgntobldrgn Brigh Corcoran hadn't planned on a family or anything beyond becoming a master alchemist. One particular summer, late in her life, as she was traveling, she found herself in love. While normally a witch might take on a mate, things did not work out that way for Brigh. Before she and her lover could formalize their union with the witches guild he vanished. There were plenty of rumors about why he vanished, but rumors never brought anyone back. When Brigh learned that she was expecting she weighed her options, as well as sought the council of a trusted friend withing the guild leadership circle. In the end it was decided that she would leave Moonlit Falls so that she could keep her daughter and avoid the gossip that was sure to follow her as a single mother if she stayed. She was able to purchase a plot of land on the outskirts of Hidden springs that already had an older cottage on it. While it wasn't the cabin she had planned on getting she found that it suited her needs far better, and suspected that someone else of power had owned the home before her. When her daughter was born she named her Siofra, and together they became regulars at the library. When Siofra graduated from high school she announced that she wanted to be a mystic healer. She also was determined that the best way for her to learn how to heal people besides with magic was to get a job at the hospital and learn mundane medical practices too. One day a scientist named Trefor Howell came in with strange symptoms. When he admitted to drinking a strange compound on a dare, Siofra just shook her head. When all the normal tests came back normal, she had him turn his back and ran a magical test. Whatever he had consumed had turned him into a witch. She instructed him to meet her at the park near her home. As she helped him adjust to life as a witch, Trefor fell in love love with Siofra. Eventually they married, and he moved in with her and her mom Brigh. A few years after the wedding they had a delightful son who they named Tyrone. They quickly discovered that Tyrone was clumsy and absent minded. While they did their best to keep an eye on him at all times, the occasional accident happened. One day as Brigh was going back and forth between the area where she studied alchemy, and made potions for town folks who wanted one, and the greenhouse she didn't realize that Tyrone had followed her into the study. She was walking back into the greenhouse when she heard a splash and a toddlers cry of shock. Brigh dashed back and rescued Tyrone from the cauldron, but the experimental brew she'd been working on had already affected him. Not only had Tyrone's skin and hair been altered, but all of his witches magic had vanished. Brigh swore she would find a way to cure him. Unfortunately she'd forgotten to write down what was in the cauldron, so they didn't know what had mixed with the sweets and pebbles he always had in his pocket. Siofra and Trefor hoped he would outgrow the change but that was not to be the case, and while he knew he was supposed to stay out of his grandma's space he frequently went there to read. Brigh could frequently be found studying her books, and tending her garden, in hopes for figuring out a cure. She kept a small terrarium available for any bugs that Tyrone brought home. For all that he was absent minded, clumsy, and eccentric he seemed to have a gift for finding bugs and random gems and metals. Which combined with reading was about all he was allowed to do, as he managed to cause more work for others any time he tried to help. Siofra asked her mom, Brigh, if she could watch Tyrone for a short while alone, as she and Trefor had been asked to give key note speeches at a conference in Champs Les Sims and there would be no child care at the conference. Brigh smiled and wished them a safe trip. Siofra called when they reached their room, and let her mom know everything was going well. Two days before they were due home news of a ferry accident broke. Brigh thought nothing of it until an officer showed up at the door, in the late afternoon. As Brigh made arrangements for the remains of Siofra and Trefor to be brought home, she wondered how she would break the news to Tyrone who had gone to the library to study. At first Tyrone had been inconsolable, but eventually Brigh got him to open back up and enjoy life again. She continued to research every venue she could think of to improve her skills. Although curing Tyrone was no longer her main focus, she wanted to bring her daughter and son in law back if she could. It took her a little bit by surprise when Tyrone became a teen, she'd been sneaking a special ingredient for so long that she had forgotten to keep track of time. In the months that followed Brigh became so singly focused on her research that she forgot to nibble on her secret ingredient, and time caught up with her. Tyrone was devastated by the loss of his grandma. As the winter months stretched before him he ran on auto pilot; go to school, water the plants not the floor, pay the bills. As he paid the last of the money that had been in the box in Brigh's study he wondered what was going to become of him. Would he make it on his own? Or would he be sent off to an orphanage somewhere? 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Tyrone and house - no cc to pick up Tyrone's adventure Please note, I've never used the replacement fireplace exterior pieces before so apologies if they don't work right. The lot is 30x30, Important - the apothecary station creates spawners so if you rotate the lot use tce & buydebug to clean up the extra spawners. For anyone who would like to take Brigh and the rest of the family on a different adventure you can find a fresh from cas unskilled/no goodies version here.
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Lars and Olive settled into their new home with dreams of little feet in their future. Sometimes Lars would wake in the middle of the night shaking. Initially he tried warm milk and soothing teas to get back to sleep, but it was to no avail. Instead he found that physical activity was his only friend on those nights, so he got logs from anyone cutting down trees and stacked them out back. Whenever he couldn't sleep he'd go out back and work the wood. By the 4th month they had added a narrow hallway that ran front to back along the side of the house, and added a small porch and a kitchen door to the side nearest the garden. The winter was rougher than expected and Olive fell ill with the measles causing her to loose the child she was carrying. Unsure of what to do to help her through her grief Lars built her a chicken coop. She didn't warm up to the chickens right away. Yet she knew that Lars had built the coop and gotten the chicks out of love. So in addition to his favorite meal of salads, she made him waffles and pancakes using the fresh eggs. When another family fell ill to the measles, Olive volunteered to be one of the nurses. As the measles spread through the town, the disease left a wake of broken families and heart ache in it's wake. While the family Olive had tended pulled through, another family suffered devastating losses. After a brief conversation between themselves and the orphanage which was running out of room, Lars and Olive brought home two orphans. By this time Lars had finished adding a master bedroom downstairs so they turned the upstairs room into a room for the older child, while the baby slept in their room. Lars had made the front porch bigger as well. Time went by and the two children thrived under their loving care. They were able to redo the downstairs bathroom with a proper shower stall, and tile floor. The summer that Lars managed to get Olive a canning station, was the summer that Olive learned she was once again expecting. Lars did what he did best, and pulled from his supply of lumber and added another room upstairs saying "the growing boys will need their own space anyway. Olive was nervous, and when she reached her sixth month she was put on bed rest, just as Lars finished the upstairs bedroom. By the time their daughter was crawling, Olive was a regular with the ladies sewing circle. Lars once again did what he did best in between milking cows, tending their simple garden, and checking on the chickens, he built Olive a sitting room where she and the sewing circle could meet without children of all ages tumbling through and spilling baskets of thread and fabric, or using edging material as napkins. One crisp fall evening the orphanage called and asked if they had room for two more children, twins in their early teens. Without thinking to ask Lars first Olive said yes without hesitation. When Lars came in for his lunch, she told him about the call. Before she could get past orphanage Lars asked how many, and when would they be arriving. After Olive gave him the details he wiped the last of the simple salad dressing from the corner of his mouth and gave instructions to the gaggle of youth around the table. Once everyone had their new chores he went to his wood pile and got to work. By the time the twins arrived later that week Lars had added a full bathroom and bedroom to the upstairs. They turned the original room into a family room, and Lars finished wrapping the porch all the way around the house. The years ticked by, and eventually they had two more babies of their own. As each child grew up they would take weekend trips to check out universities, junior colleges, and apprenticeship programs. Each trip Olive brought home a new recipe. One of the children would always ask about it and she'd answer that she had tucked away the books for later reading. Time is never kind, and eventually Lars couldn't keep up with the farm. They gifted the cows and chickens to a young family just starting out. They did their best to keep up the garden, but in time just the simple front steps was more than they could manage. On a visit home their eldest child, took stock of the situation and sent out an email to the clan, for Lars and Olive had fostered and adopted over two dozen children besides their own three. In the end it was decided that Lars and Olive would move in with some of the children and check out senior homes in Island Paradise where their youngest child lived. They put one stipulation on their children, that the house built of love and all it's contents be put on the market as is for some new family to enjoy and grow in. The following month the Sunset Valley Paper Ran a front page article, complete with a color picture, with the headline "Kesses Family Farm Up for Sale". The byline listed the price at just under 98,000 to move in fully furnished; or a little under 42,000 to move in unfurnished with the furnishings going to the local charity shop that helped fund the orphanage. Cherri got to do routing testing for me, along with one other thing. I had to redo this one from scratch. The pictures below are why. That hole in the ceiling tiles shouldn't be there, additionally when I was looking for any other holes and found random ceiling tiles where nothing should have been. Additionally walkways weren't lined up as they had been to start. So even though no cfe or moo was used for the build I was seeing cause for concern.
Last time I played a lot with random ceiling holes, my sims frequently went to work in their birthday suits and no blurring. Ulp! On the plus, the redo allowed for me to get the basement in, along with a few tiny extra touches. Kesses farm, not quite a starter, starter on a 40x40. The lot is close to 20,000 to move in unfurnished. https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9351537 The farm is owned by the Kertesz's. The mayor's son had a hard time pronouncing the name as a toddler, and would say "Go Kesses farm" when asked where the fresh fruit came from. Lars and Olive, took it in stride. One day as a joke Lars posted a sign Kesses farm at the base of the hill and the name stuck. A great war broke out across the globe. Szilárd, Lars for short, was an orphan on the cusp of his 18th birthday when the military arrived in his town looking for recruits. Knowing his choices for careers was limited with no one to sponsor him for apprenticeship he signed up for the military. Olive, grew up in the city, and joined the resistance, without telling her parents, since the military wouldn't accept female recruits. It was chance that found her passing information to Lars instead of the regular Sargent when she couldn't reach a designated rendezvous point. While Lars wouldn't admit it, he was smitten with Olive from that day on, and arranged to be on duty whenever the Sarge indicated that there might be a special visitor. Over time they formed a bond of friendship over shared taste in classical music, and a mutual fondness for the color blue. When the war came to an end and the realization that he might never see Olive again if he didn't admit his feelings to her Lars proposed to Olive. Without a moments hesitation Olive accepted. Once Lars had his exit papers and stipend in hand, and Olive her small award for all of her work with the resistance, they boarded a plane for Sunset Valley where a small farm was waiting for them, and a new life. They are starting their new life with a little over 38,000 in household funds; a few skills. Lars Traits: Brave, Family Oriented, Good Sense of Humor, Loves the Outdoors LTW: Surrounded by Family Olive Traits: Family Orientated, Frugal, Good, Lucky, Nurturing LTW: Surrounded by Family Dear Kesminlix, Hi, I'm your buddy for the Happy Holidays gift exchange. At first I wasn't sure what to make, so I took some time to explore the world, Great Bear, you mentioned that you've been playing. Wow, what a fun world. As I and my tester sim Cherri explored I noticed an empty lot on the island in the river and an idea sparked. I suddenly knew just what to build, as I started building I realized that I needed to take it one small step further to really achieve the feel I wanted. Presenting Juniper Farm Park The family that sold the park to the town had only one request. To leave the last stand of juniper trees on the property. The town council had no problems with the request as the land suited the needs for a small park with seasonal activities throughout the year. While the original, structurally unsound, barn was removed, the slightly newer tool shed was converted to a small community room with restrooms in the back half. Lot Details: 20x30 zoned as a small park, if you would like for your sims to own the lot you will need to rezone it for hangout or other own-able lot type. Spring Summer Fall Winter Your park comes with two options:
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