Another Down, Lots More to Go

More buildy!

I have the art gallery and the poolside club the better part of finished, so I'll probably have those posted up next.

But right now, I have another little apartment and its resident done.

It's a shady-looking building on the outskirts of downtown.

The sort of rundown place where you just pay the rent and nobody asks any questions.

And down in the decaying basement lives this punky-looking vampire.

Whose apartment manages to be both dark and  loud at the same time.  This sort of mismatched style would be questionable to some (maybe even most), but I am sure she likes it.

There's a second bedroom that's currently being used for her exercise equipment, and of course a closet-sized space where she keeps the obligatory altar-coffin-thing..  And yeah, that bathroom mirror is a store item, but it's a free one.  It doesn't count!

Now, time to go finish the poolside club and the art museum!

A Little bit of "Done"

I've been hopping all over Dark Harbor, tweaking my building shells, placing my rabbitholes, designing a floorplan here and experimenting with a club design there... all well and good, but I decided today I wanted to take at least one small slice of it, and finish that slice.

There's so many different flavors of goth, and for the sake of variety, I'm going to design for as many of them as I can get away with in this town.

First up?  Corporate goth.

I built a dreary, soulless apartment building.

In which you will find a dreary, soulless starter-priced studio apartment.

In which toils away one quiet little workaholic.  I forgot how tricky it is to make a sim look convincingly Asian without the benefit of Asian skins.  This entire town will be done without CC or store items.

Yeah, it's just one guy in a studio apartment, but it's nice to have the first little bit of "finished" out of the way.

Oh yeah, this thing!

I got my game working, but in order to do so I had to bite the bullet and (*shudder*) move it over to my Windows partition.  Basically, Cider sucks.  Same hardware, clean install, same town, same household, same house, same collection of mods, and the game runs 300% better on Windows 7 than on OSX because EA would rather wrap their game in a Windows emulator and call it a day than actually code the game for Mac.

Since everything runs smoother than it has for me since before World Adventures came out, I've been too busy having a good time building and playing to post.

Have a few highlights, because if there's one thing I love about simming, it's the pictures!

So who thought giving Kali a cowplant was a good idea?

Sending the maid to taste-test my latest cauldron concoction.

Creepy ice cream truck.  I am pretty sure it's actually some sort of spy vehicle sent by the Forces of Justice to keep tabs on my Evil Empress.

I paired Kali back up with Rei for my reviving of my game, because I felt the guy never really got much of a chance in my for-fun town.  He's good pixels.  I enabled Risky Woohoo as autonomous (along with the regular variety) and the two immediately proceeded to breed like rabbits.

Troublemakin'

Pillowfightin'

Lucky brat.  I wish I had a pet unicorn growing up!

You just know this one's going to be trouble when she grows up (also: woohooing while under the influence of ghost potions.  Fun stuff.)...

Speaking of trouble...

Killing a simbot, because I realized I'd never done it before and wanted to make sure I knew how:

And..

Four nearly back-to-back pregnancies meant one of Kali's underlings managed to usurp her as Emperor of Evil while she was away on maternity leave.

So of course I had to do something about him.

He seems annoyed that the fire interrupted his nap.

The entire family had to come outside to pretend they had no idea why they couldn't get the door open...

And that's where I'm at now.

And all this playing is all well and good, but somewhere along the way I got a wild idea and decided to embark on the biggest project I've ever done.  I'm taking Rflong's blank slate Dark Harbor and build my own town, completely from scratch and in my favorite weathered gothic style.

So far all I've done is figure out where the 50 or so community lots will be, and place the skyscraper shells for the city center.  But it's a start.

Expect to see a lot of in-progress shots as things progress.  And of course it'll all be put up for download (both as a town-save and the individual lots by themselves) once I'm done. It's a huge project, but my motivation to make it happen has only increased since I peeked in CAS the other day to realize that my family's children's classmates all either have terrible traits or are doomed to grow up ugly.  They're gonna need a new place to move to if I want the next generation to find a mate.