Didily's Sims

Wow, up to round 5 already! Although I should note, I'm only playing 2-day rounds, so it isn't nearly as impressive progress as it sounds. But still...10 days in isn't bad! Let's jump in to visit the chief's hut.
( Splish splash... )
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Welcome back! It's been a while... I haven't actually played this game since roughly around the time of the last update in...*checks*...June, wow. But I had some pictures still and felt like posting them, so here we are.

I'm not going to do a big recap on everything, but here are some general refreshers for the island:

• A ship of singles on some sort of dating cruise crashed off the coast of an isolated island and the survivors have shaken up life for the locals by assimilating (in the case of Jessica, story mode's protagonist), stubbornly clinging to their normal lifestyles as much as possible (in the case of the rather useless castaways household), or living somewhere in between (in the case of David Bennett, alternate protagonist, and Earnest Langsford, lone castaway presumed drowned by everysim else).
• Local culture involves a class system where the chief and shaman are at the top, and lowborn and outsiders are at the very bottom. Some changes in status are possible, usually through marriage or (less common) adoption, and (rarely) changes can be decreed by those at the top. This was seen recently by former shaman Amanaki bypassing tradition to assign an outsider as his replacement, causing some controversy among the locals.


• In between there is plenty of relationship and baby drama, as is so common in a Sims game. ;)

And here's a quick recap on what happened last time with David Bennett:

• David's mission is to bring civilization to the locals and money in his pocket via his new hyena training and breeding business. So far it's slow going with skeptical locals and not super fertile hyenas. But he has high hopes that things will turn around soon!


• Current hyena population on his lot: Patupaiarehe (f), Korowai (m), and puppies Cascade (f) and Nepeta (f).


• David is very good at beachcombing, so if this hyena gig bombs out, at least he has some skills to fall back on.


• He also works in the Gatherer career, so between skilling for that, going to work, and training hyenas, it's been tough to squeeze a social life in there too, though he is excellent friends with Jessica and gets along okay with the other outsiders, plus a handful of natives.

Okay, now let's see how much I remember from half a year ago!
( Lots of hyenas and a half-naked David under the cut... )
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At the Tama household today, and following Winford's example, shall we fall right in?
( It's a soft landing under the cut, I promise. )

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Ooh, shiny! Here's another quickie update for you. :)
( Lots of toddler spam under the cut. )
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At last we're into the last post of round 3! Definitely next round I'll post much smaller updates. Whether or not that means they will be up more frequently is debatable, but I at least I won't take hours to get one post up. :D
( You don't know how long I've wanted a night picture of those stones. )

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Back for more!
I took oodles of pictures this round, so I'll divide it into parts.
( This update brought to you by the letter M )
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And we're back! This took longer than I expected to upload due to my pictures being horrendously out of order, and because I kept getting distracted by old LJ entries... >.> Anyway! It's time to meet the other half of the island.

( It's kind of long but I really didn't want a part 3... )

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(Crossposted on LJ & DW)


As with most games I play, I am several years late to the party, but I've been having fun with Castaway Stories so I thought I would share some pictures from my game. 

I'll start with a quick journey through the story mode, but I won't really talk about the plot...just in case someone reading this is thinking of playing it for the first time. Sure Sim stories are highly predictable, but this one is a little more creative than most.


( Away we go! )

As you can see, I'm experimenting with a new format and platform. If anyone has tips on using dreamwidth more effectively and maybe image hosting tips (because imgur has changed a lot and I can't figure out how to post images that can be viewed without clicking a link) they are most definitely welcome! For now I'm using dreamwidth's image hosting and it seems okay, but a bit limited and disorganized. Suggestions welcome, either here or on tumblr!