I’m terribly sorry that there has been no word from me for awhile, last week I was in Rome and the week before that I was getting sucked into the vortex that is Sims 3 as well as reading far too much. Either way, I’m fairly certain that you’ll begin to see updates again this week, I just need to play a bit first (and catch up on blogs, my RSS feed is bursting!)

At any rate, I’m not gone nor dead or anything else, and updates will be coming soon! I’m quite excited, I’ll get to play Arthur, Celia, Raiden, Geraint (you’ll learn more about him) and Socrates, it’ll be fun!

Well, this is part 2 of the long-ish update from the Enthycia-Gale household. This one continues more or less from the point where the first part ended (in other words, we’re not suddenly jumping from summer to winter).

It didn’t take very long before Celia too became a frequent visitor to the Enthycia-Gale household, one can wonder if she visited because she actually liked Poppy and Pomona or if she simply dropped by in the hopes that she’d pick up juicy gossip. At either rate it seemed like there was something going on in the house these days. Whenever Celia got there Pomona would follow Poppy around, trying to talk to her, talking about love and all the difficulties that came along with it.

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It’s been quite quiet from this corner of the web for a little while, however I have actually been doing sim-stuff (as well as vacation-stuff and lazy-stuff)… It just hasn’t been related to Harrington. At any rate I’m back and I’m bringing updates

This is part one of two entries that took place while I was playing Pomona and Poppy’s house. I split them in two as they’d be far too long to read in one sitting (this one is four pages long with a total of 27 pictures).

One can wonder what thoughts went through Pomona’s head as she stood in the kitchen/living room screaming her head off. Maybe she thought “never again!” or perhaps she was wondering where the hell Poppy was and what was taking her so long? Either way, it’s safe to say that Pomona was not feeling anything but severe pain and an urge to curse men to hell and back.

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After a bit of thought I came to the decision that I’d post an overview/introduction/I’m-so-proud-of-myself-LOOK! before starting with the actual… Err, storyline? I’m not entierly certain what it is, but at any rate it will all begin after this post. Most of these students are townies, except one. It doesn’t look like it’s a school built in a town with little of anything, I know, I couldn’t really help myself and went all out though I do believe I need to do some editing. At any rate, let’s begin!

This is Harrington School, excuse the gray sky and the rain and the sims, being the genius that I am I took a picture of the school after I’d started it. Oh well, I suppose the gray sky does sort of fit considering the fact that it is school after all.

Here’s an overview of the first floor and here’s one of the second floor. They’re a bit on the large side, so I linked to them instead.

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Before I begin I should probably let you know that this is the last “introduction post” that I plan on doing. I am adding Raiden and some other sims, but the main point of these introduction posts were to show you what went on while I wasn’t taking pictures. With this post that’s pretty much done and we can move over to more “current” stuff. I still have to figure how I’m going to split it all up, it all happened during the round of Poppy and Pomona, but a LOT of stuff went on so I might split it into three posts. (I wasn’t playing my default two/three day rotation) But I’ll see what feels best when I actually get there. For now, let me introduce you to Poppy and Pomona.

Poppy and Pomona are both townies, I didn’t make them and they “willingly” became friends with Clary (who they can blame for getting them into this madness). Poppy is now 29 and a family oriented sim, while Pomona is romance oriented and 28 years old.

We’ll start off with the moment that made me re-think blogging, it might not tell you a whole lot now, but it will eventually, I promise. Either way, I’d just built Poppy and Pomona a house (which looks quite a bit like Clary’s) and the first person to stop by was Raiden. Now, Raiden and Pomona did get along quite nicely although I don’t really think they had a lot of chemistry between them. Poppy does have two bolts with him, however she severely dislikes him (I think it began as an argument over at Clary’s and it has now evolved into them becoming enemies). Generally whenever Raiden came over (this is not the only time he’s dropped by) Poppy would quickly busy herself with something else, and since there’s usually quite a lot of sims on the lot, mainly men, she often ended up watching TV with them.

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Warning, this gets rather wordy, due to the lack of pictures etc.

At present (which would mean in 2014) Clary is a 32 year old married woman. However this brief post will introduce you to the pre-blog Clary and detail a little of what happened before I started blogging (which actually is quite a bit).

The then Clary Hansley came to Harrington at 18 along with her cat Flower (who is now dead but has been “replaced” by a cat named Flora who looks practically identical). No one is quite certain what made Clary move all the way out to Harrington, nor do we know much about the place were she came from, all that we know is that she quickly made friends and that she quickly had a reputation going around. Exactly what sort of reputation? Well, that’s what I’m hoping to tell/show you now

Here we have Clary along with the deceased Flower. This is actually taken a bit later after Clary moved to Harrington, she really had no hopes of affording a flower station when she first got to Harrington. Clary is a popularity sim and is very outgoing, she loves having friends over and making friends. Unfortunatley when she first moved to Harrington there wasn’t any community lots and the only real way she had to meet anyone was to hope that someone would pass by. Which took several days. (This might be because I totally forgot to force create some townies…)

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Ahh… So we (who’s we? A very good question) are finally open for business, about time too considering the estimate I gave myself as to when I’d start blogging again. Ah well, all is well that ends well? (Or something, idioms are not my strong point)

So what exactly is this blog? Well, most of you who come here know that this is a Sims 2 blog (at least I hope you do) and some of you might know who I am from comments to your blog or maybe even Vivienne Hamlet. Some of you are probably also noticing the lack of sim links in the sidebar… Never fear, this is well on its way to being changed I’ve just been so busy I haven’t gotten around to it (read: I totally forgot until I sat down and typed this!)

Either way, I never wrote something like this for Vivienne, but I figured I’d do so for Harrington, just because it felt right somehow.

My playstyle is generally quite prosperity-like in its approach, I don’t play with rounds (something about even naming it rounds makes me want to run off in the opposite direction) and my sim days are years instead of days. (Credit goes to Lakeside Heights for that)

I don’t have a particular economic system in place, though this ‘hood (along with its dead sister hood Vivienne) has its roots in the Build a City Challenge. However instead of using population scores I simply use money and have a poor smuck… I mean fortunate sim sitting in a shed house gathering money and other shiny trinkets much like a dragon. In more simplified terms; he’s the government funds. Beyond that though, there’s currently 2 community shops in Harrington, one grocery and one school (I’d forgotten how fun schools are).

There are presently two families in play (though I will add more when I go back to play, more on this in the actual sim-play-related posts) one is made by me and was started by Clary Savage (who is, despite the wording, very much alive and quite young) and the second are the townie family Gale-Enthycia (credit for the names goes to the name hack by Bitsy over at Somnium) it consists of two females Poppy and Pomona, both whom you’ll have the pleasure of meeting and seeing a bit later.

There isn’t any custom content links page up, so if there’s something that catches your fancy don’t hesitate to ask (heck, do so even when the page is up) I’m not the worlds most organized individual (proven by the fact that my excel spreadsheets are dumped everywhere) but I should be able to figure it out anyway.

That’s pretty much all I can think to write right now, I am going to write an “about” page and all that. It’s coming, but it’ll take the time that it takes (obvious much?).

As for me, I’m an 18-year-old female living in Norway with my dad. I’m just finishing up (small graduation party at 6p.m. today! Gah, I’m finished!) high school and looking forward to summer break (where a lot of time will be spent simming since I’m “only” going to Rome as far as I know (summer job you say? Well, I don’t like the short-term commitment of that so the official job-search starts at the same time as university does since I’d rather have a horrible job that I go to continously for a long time than a job that lasts me 3 weeks). After all this, if nothing goes horribly awry (*knock on wood, crossing fingers*) I’ll be studying history at the university of Oslo in the autumn

There, I’m aaalll done

Name: Geraint Eldon
Age: 34
Parents: N/A
Siblings: N/A
Romantic History: Clary Savage (fling)
Partner: None.
Children: Jared Hansley.
Pets: None
College: N/A
Job: Employee at Clary’s
Previous Employment:
Businesses Owned: None
Aspiration: Knowledge/Popularity
Lifetime want:
Hobby: Sport

Name: Clary Savage
Age: 34
Parents: N/A (CAS-made)
Siblings: None.
Romantic History: Geraint Eldon (fling), Arthur Mungo (fling), Raiden Aspen (ex-fiance)
Partner: Baptista Savage (married)
Children: Jared Hansley, Jaden Savage
Pets: Flower (dead), Flora

College: No.
Job:
Previous Employment:
Businesses Owned: Clary’s (grocery store)
Aspiration:
Lifetime want:
Hobby:

Name: Celia Garnet
Age:
Personality: 4/10/4/4/3
Parents:
Siblings:
Romantic History:
Partner:
Children:

Pets:
College:
Job: Business/Owner of Velvet
Previous Employment:
Businesses Owned: Velvet
Aspiration: Popularity/Fortune
Lifetime want:
Hobby: Music