A Few Days, Winter 129

Winter 129

Serendipity Herendez is 50; Arafa Herendez is 21

Half a month to the Winter Flames festival. It was always the busiest time of year for Serendipity and Arafa - even without having to deal with holiday shopping like the city folk.

Planning Ahead

So... I went away for the weekend (to see my favourite TV show being recorded, but that's beside the point) and came back with a bucket load of ideas for both Kulo Seeri and my Secret Santa gift. No, I still can't say what I'm making or who I'm making it for.

Jingle bells, jingle bells...

Hey everyone! I have another announcement to make that means I might not be updating my blog for a while. But don't worry about me, it's good news this time.

Tour of New Kulo Seeri, Part 1

There still isn't quite enough happening for story posts, so I want to show you all some of the lots I've built for Kulo Seeri this time round. There are actually too many to fit in one reasonable sized post, so the next part will come tomorrow or during the weekend.

Ancestors' Day, 128

I finally got KS back to a playable state yesterday! Since there hasn't been much time for stories to develop yet, here are some pictures of the Nuidya equivalent of Halloween, the Ancestors' Day festival.

And we're back!

August 27th: Depressed VT is depressed. *goes on hiatus*

Two months and many disgusting tablets later: Hey everyone! I come bearing rambly announcements!

But Nobody's Home

We interrupt this very irregularly scheduled blog for another announcement from VT. Sorry it's not a story post but I really need to get this out.

Dream Sequence: Zita

Lifting the Mood, Year 121

VT says: OK, OK, remembering to take screenshots took a back seat to playing and this update takes place about two years after the last story post. The next updates will start nine months or so after this one. But it is an update.

Still Alive and Simming

OK, I know, no updates for a while. June eats my Sim time. But I am using what little time I can spare to try and stave off withdrawal. And I do have more than one project underway.

Emergency Meeting, Year 119

Year 119, fourth quarter
Casey z.Ellen is 69, Li Yoo is 60, Kim Yoo is 26

Daniel was late.

Li wouldn't have minded as much, but he'd been the one to call this emergency meeting in the first place.

Letters Home, Year One and a Half

A year and a half after arriving in the new village
Narrated by Anyu z.Avira


Greetings to all the Sims back home. Glad to hear things are starting to improve over there and that at least one carrier pigeon managed to evade the cats. We're all doing pretty well over here and everyone was still breathing last time I checked, so Angel, no more nightmares, OK?

It's been quite a first year for us - Turi and Markal fell for each other pretty early on. Which is just as well, since he was the only available man in the camp who's not our cousin. Of course, then she caught him flirting with Lilac.

She wasn't happy. Never mind that Markal will flirt with anything that moves. Lilac and Turi fought for weeks over that... then a storm rolled in just as it looked like they were going to kill each other, a lightning bolt lit a tree in our singles' camp on fire and it immediately stopped raining. While we tried to put it out, one of the cats ran out of the village and didn't come back. Daniel said it was a sign from the spirits that things had gone far enough, and all four of us got three months of construction duty. Mean elder council. I was trying to keep the peace, just for the record.

Aunt S'Ahmisa slipped back into Nuidya life like she'd never been away. Her family took longer to adapt, but now you'd think none of them were born in Bridgeport. I'm not sure whether Zita will slip back into SimNation habits when she finds out her mother's been talking to Hestrie and Serendipity about her marrying Shansam, though.

Still, there is talk that S'Ahmisa and Shansam have taken the betrothal discussions a little too far. If it's true, the boy is fifteen kinds of crazy. He tried to kiss Li a few months ago (what is it with him and council elders?) and got two weeks' night watch at the food stores for his troubles.

Towards the end of last year, Lilac and Turi both found out they were pregnant. (My fault and Markal's respectively.) So we had a couple of very hastily arranged spearpoint weddings, as soon as Markal and I could scrabble together half-decent bride prices, that is. I have to say the ladies aren't particularly happy about being anta pal ni (or in-laws, whatever that means, as Asken called it).

And let me tell you, I want to know who came up with the bright idea that men have to fish up half the ocean for their wife's family before the wedding. We spent so much time picking "fragrant" medicinal herbs that the cats followed us around like lovesick ducklings for a week. On the bright side, it did help us finally find the missing one.

Although he wouldn't come anywhere near our hut after the fire, and sticks around Daniel most of the time now.

Speaking of which: Last week, Kim announced that she was pregnant, which made three in the camp at once. Daniel is the father of the baby. But only if Zareb isn't. She's not sure. Honestly, I never thought she had it in her - it's always the quiet ones, isn't it?

Daniel and Zareb seem to have done a lot of bonding lately though. They joke about the situation a lot, and they're always at each other's huts for one reason or another.

I don't think they'll still be such good buddies if Kim has a green baby. I think that would be the only way we'd know for sure whose it was.

Turi and Markal got married a week ago. It went surprisingly smoothly considering it was so close to the end of both Turi and Lilac's pregnancies. In other words, Lilac managed to hold off giving birth until after the ceremony was over and everyone had gone home.

Let's just say our new hut needed some speedy extending. Our daughters, Vedrafe and Karatla, and their brothers Ganyalis and Kifsina, are happily driving us crazy from one sunrise to the next. I never thought I'd envy Turi with her new twins, Kitira and Aralata. I'm amazed Serendipity can whip up headache remedies as fast as she does.

I've sent an assortment of leafy things with this letter. As I said earlier, the cats love them. Maybe they'll distract them away from the pigeon lofts.

Take care everyone.
- Anyu

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VT says: I got so caught up in playing the first six rotations that I forgot to take many pictures. I thought this letter, and a few of the pictures I did take, would be a good way to showcase the highlights of the first year and a half. I might try a few more like this, since the population is still probably too small for full updates.
And no, I'm not going anywhere.

So this might be goodbye.

OK, guys, I know I said I was nearly done with KS. I am nearly done. But the thing is... I don't know if I will actually be blogging about them. Or any of my Sims, for that matter.

Meet the Cast (Happy Unbirthday Readers)

So. Saturday was my birthday, and although I didn't have the time then (or most of this past week!) I wanted to do something for the blog. Although I have to admit my friends and I still haven't outgrown gathering round for sugary snacks and party games, I think we'd have some difficulty playing pass the parcel over the internet, and as for downloadable gifts, my CC skills are still lacking in a lot of areas.

So, what else to do but introduce my readers to the Sims who will feature in my new hood?

Tick Tock Tick... again

OK. Seven years (nearly), five generations and many, many rebuilding projects do not make it easy to abandon a hood permanently. Neither does the fact that even though I've hardly played it for most of that time, I've developed a habit of yelling "Sena Yuleng!" when I'm frustrated.

New Year, New Site

Happy 2014 everyone!

After a busy few months I'm ready to jump back into the TS2 community. Kulo Seeri is once again on the back burners since I can't seem to revive my interest in it right now (rebuilding... meh) but I'm still playing in my other hood and working on a new project or two, including attempting to wrangle an uberhood. (Been working on that one for YEARS. Too many places where EAxis design clashes with my playstyle and personal Simmer's Code.)

However... I've noticed that most of the action in the Sims 2 community seems to be on tumblr now, so all future posts about pretty much any Simmy thing I might be doing will be found here. Not that I think anybody particularly notices anyway. :P

- VT