Lake Onebega, June 2024 - An after exam party and leaving for home

 The post title sums up what happens in this next chapter about Inge and Oliver Freddy. 😉

But of course there is more to it than that.

Link to chapter:

Chapter 6.7 – June 2024, part II – The bird and the worm

The chapter begins peacefully enough with everyone sleeping. The first one to disrupt this peace however is Samantha as she decides to take out her megaphone. As referenced in the chapter itself, I didn't get to take a screenshot of her doing so, I only heard it through the floor as I was in the room upstairs watching Inge and Oliver Freddy sleeping...

Later its the usual routine of checking their report cards. They've both been getting straight As for several semesters in a row, so its no surprise that they're getting it this semester as well. Of course I want my sims to perform their best, so I always make sure this happens. 😉
    Inge wants to paint another painting and chooses a motive that has been chosen many times in the past by several painters, yet she feels that it might be a little... creepy.. The motive, a very peaceful one, wasn't very far away at the time of choosing...
    Now that they both have enough credits for a bachelors degree, Inge is starting to question if she wants to return to university after summer to continue for a masters degree.

Oliver Freddy wants to impress Inge by creating some art of his own when he gets a party invitation from Ayana Yuki. In a previous chapter Ayana, who used to live at their dorm, switched places with Samantha, so now Ayana stays at the sorority where Samantha used to live.

It was a pool party (swimsuit required), but Samantha was a little reluctant to go and to put on her swimsuit right away. She remembers the reason for her move, constantly getting into fights with Hannah Germanotta and even some of the other girls there, which made living there a little to hard.. however, as soon as she had made sure that this dreadful Hannah wasn't on the lot, she could safely put on her swimwear and jump in..

Oliver Freddy has some anxieties about being in the swimming pool, but is calmed down by Inges presence.

Inge feels it is to long since they've been.. uh.. romantic with each other (basically she has a wish to woohoo with him), and she tries repeatedly to make him in the mood for it, however Oliver Freddy doesn't seem to catch on, leaving Inge frustrated and eventually she just gives up...

Oliver Freddy uses his, lets just say, vivid imagination to tell a creepy ghost story while Inge is approached by some paparazzi that praises one of her previous books, a romantic science fiction novel called "The Gnorb from Demetris IV".

Inge has one last talk with Samantha where they promise to keep in touch over summer, before her and Oliver Freddy has to leave to head back to Sunset Valley.

Sunset Valley, June 2024 - Margrethes first driving lesson..

Yay, new chapter. 😛

Now, before we begin I'd just like to do a little throwback to the chapter where Margrethes family was first mentioned...

Chapter 2.1 - The Holm-Fredriksen Family

 

Primarily because of this map, though it is no longer accurate (outdated) as many people no longer live in the houses as seen on this map, especially on the street to the west of the pub.. so ignore that. What I want you to notice in particular is the name of the mental hospital seen in the bottom right corner, as it will be referenced in the latest chapter.

Chapter 18.8 - June 2024 - Escaping the clutch... and gravity - part I


So.. in this chapter, Margrethe is on a sleepover at her friend Lise Veronicas house. She is a little skeptical of the snakes in her room, but takes a liking to the rat.. even though it is a rat. Apparently she finds it to be very cute. 😉

She's not to happy about going to school, but it gets a little better once they leave the classroom to go on an excursion to the mausoleum where they learn about something interesting from the towns past...

Margrethes mom Pia spends her day at the doctors office, working hard yearning for that promotion. Interestingly their teacher is Jarle, Inges father.

Her father Fredrik is busy after work maintaining his connections with the people around town, here by playing chess with Therapist Terje Hågensen at the old chess club.

Then comes the moment that Margrethe has been looking forward to with excitement and fear... as her mom takes her out on her first driving lesson. Who could've known those hills were so scary...

In the evening she goes on a date with her boyfriend Robert at the bowling alley, where he randomly picks a fight and they spend the majority of the time pretending to watch the night sky through the clouds and the rain, while making lame puns about the same night sky... aim for the stars...

Link to chapter again:

 Chapter 18.8 - June 2024 - Escaping the clutch... and gravity - part I

Hope you enjoy it.  😉

The Red Winged Angels

 So, just yesterday I reposted another chapter from my Red Winged Angels story, in perfect time for Halloween, as it is a somewhat darker themed story compared to my more 'regular' People of Simbria story lines.

Title image of the chapter, thanks to imgur for hosting these images. Image is also clickable to bring you to the chapter.

This is a chapter from back when I was still playing on my old computer, which was a potato compared to the computer I use nowadays, which you can see from the quality of the screenshots (not the title screenshot, that was taken on my current computer). And even my current computer is a bit of a potato, so I have been thinking about getting a new one, but still a little bit on the fence there.

Natalie teaching her son Aaron how to walk.

You can also see that the screenshot is old with how I'm still using the fairy wings. This is from a time when I was still skeptical of adding mods and custom content to my game, and also back then my knowledge about mods and custom content was much less than what it it today. I had some custom content in my game though, but I tried to keep it to a minimum. Well, I think since then I have surpassed that minimum a few times over.... anyway...

Aaron with his friend Billy in front of the haunted house.

Anyway, the idea for the Red Winged Angels story came from listening to a song about quite a tragic topic, as well as from the Sunset Valley branch of my regular People of Simbria story. 

 

The graves of Natalie and Ingunn in Dole Plains.

So somehow there is a link between the two stories, however faint and unclear it appears.. because it is one that I have never fully explained, as I haven't arrived at the proper junction point where the stories meet yet.. and I'm not even sure if I will ever get there, as with a more recent chapter an event has caused that link to be severed somehow...

So, for the time being I think your best bet is to treat them as two seperate storiesn that have nothing to do with each other. 

Ranveig having a strange dream.

For the time being.

Long time, no see..

 Yeah, I have been pretty absent, not updating the blog.. and not playing the game much either since May of this year.. but now I am back with a new chapter on the university students, Oliver Freddy and Inge. The screenshots from this update are not very fresh, they are from May, but the text inbetween the pictures is more recent. It was written over the course of the past two days when finally I could find some motivation to sit down and write something.

So I guess it had to come to this eventually - the moment where I just didn't feel like playing the game nor writing a story around all the screenshots, and that happened earlier this year. Now, with this there is no guarantee that I'm going to return with regular updates - I don't want to make any promise that the next one will be here shortly.

With such a long time between each 'play and write' stuff session I'm gonna need to sit down and refresh my memory on how I did all this. There is a certain order in which I would play each town, and at the time of writing this I'm not sure if the next town I should return to is Sunset Valley or if it is some other town... but I will find out. ;)

Anyway, here is the link to the latest chapter and a quick summary:

Chapter 6.6 - June 2024 - Values

 It is the end of the sixth semester for Oliver Freddy and Inge, and after completing their exams they will have enough credits for a bachelors degree in art (for Inge) and medicine (for Oliver Freddy). At this point Inge may be contemplating calling it quits, however it is doubtful that Oliver Freddy will agree to ending their time at university just yet.. she also appears to have some doubts about their relationship, but either way I think that most likely come autumn they will return together for another semester. ;)

 Either way, they both pass their exams with flying colours, as expected.

 Inge finishes her painting of the parking lot, and Oliver Freddy continues his work on gardening and taking samples of plants to continue his research on cracking the code on how to create plant sims... or whatever oddities he is looking to create.. ;)

Inge hangs out with Samantha and a few other friends while Oliver Freddy is doing his exam, and after he has joined them, he gets an invitation to a juice keg party to celebrate being done with this semester.

He takes Inge and Samantha along to the party, but I think the kids are maturing (maybe), because they all take it pretty chill at the party, before going home again for the night. ;)

Also, this update isn't 100 % cronological as it features Inges perspective on the day, before jumping back in time to cover Oliver Freddys perspective on the same day. I wanted to do it that way this time, instead of jumping back and forth between the two.

And just because I think its a good picture, here is a shot of Inge playing pool that didn't make it into the update.

Once again, the link to the chapter:

Chapter 6.6 - June 2024 - Values

Hope you enjoy it. Until next time.

Ok, time for a new update...

 Yeah, it's been way to long, but I have to be honest...for some time I haven't been motivated to do much with this story line, even though it has been on my mind every so often and I do have a wish and a desire to continue playing/telling it, I just couldn't make myself do it..

So.. but here is the next update, though the game session it's from is not fresh. I played through this part in january... then I looked at the pictures, gave it some thought, but just didn't feel like writing down anything.... so, anyway, enought about that..

Here's the link to the chapter:

 Chapter 18.7 – May 2024 – My Medicine

 

Making the summary very brief, but the most important things happening is Monica levelling up her skill to level 10 in gardening, Lise Veronica hanging out at the arcade with her older friend Margrethe and perhaps making some plans for the future... then afterwards inviting her over to her house for a sleepover.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 "The Bushweeds" just released a new video for their latest single. ;)

The song is called "The Midnight Intrusion" and is simply about sneaking in to a party uninvited.. nothing more, nothing less.. :P

 

 

The music video is inspired by another music video made for a cover song of a cover song of an old traditional song... can you see which one? ;)

Yeah, I don't know if there's to much else to say about this video... it's supposed to give the impression of being chaotic, a party that gets a little wild, and of course.. I wouldn't recommend trying everything done in this video at home.. or anybody elses home for that matter, well, maybe especially not that... ;)

In the video I also used reshade for the first time, and I have already figured out that maybe I should increase the distance for the background blur... after I had finished this video.. ;)

Hope you enjoy the video.. ;)

What an absolute disgrace...

 ..that just came out of the oval office.

Just to make it clear where I stand, now more so than ever!