Egyptian Picspam and Stuff!
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fuzzysporkI meant to post this last night, but Crap and Things got in the way, so here I am now. Just a wee tour behind the scenes of my legacy...
As you can see, the place is hardly a bustling metropolis. I only have two occupied lots so far: the plumbbob on the left is the pharaoh's palace compound and the one on the right is the estate where his brother and sister live. Otherwise it's just a few empty townhouses and some community lots...
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The community lots include a market street, which is actually two lots. (That's the pharaoh's siblings' house at the end of the street. His parents are long dead now.)
The death of Narmer's parents made me realize I need a third community lot in town...
I needed somewhere to send the graves of the deceased spares in the neighborhood, so I built this lot consisting of a mastaba (the rectangular structure on the left which was a precursor to the pyramids) as a "tomb" that will house all the graves. That building in the middle is the shrine (or, you know, the place where I hide the telephone), and on the right is a pavilion containing all the "fun" things to do. Because you gotta have FUN on a community lot despite this one being basically a burial ground. Sims don't care. "Ghosts? Pheh! Just give me a hot dog and somewhere to dance!"
Of course the game wastes no time generating plenty of inappropriately dressed NPCs to swarm my community lots with...
Though it is kinda cute that he made butterflies appear in the "telephone shrine".
Since the rest of the town's population is comprised entirely of a couple dozen townies that I made using simselves and legacy imports, there's no lack of those frequenting the community lots, too.
They come to dance badly and talk smack...
Fentet is playing with fire by bringing that up with "Rais" there. (He's the only sim whose hair I didn't change, because he would probably punch me in the face if I did.)
Actually Fentet (formerly Fire... I think. You all look alike in the same dresses and hair!) is right on target with that subject because Rais (formerly - or rather still very much - Rhys Fitzhugh) has already managed to toss his genes into the pool - with the ONLY playable woman who isn't one of the pharaoh's wives. The pharaoh's sister! (I don't think it's ACR so much as it's HIM.) Anyway, she had a daughter...
This is Shebi, the pharaoh's niece. She inherited her father's finger guns and The Nose. She's also a Family/Romance Scorpio with ten neat points and a single nice point.
She's... charming.
If I pretend those are pig stomachs filled with fermented donkey urine, the water balloon prank is WAY more insidious. ;D
Anyway! To the main house!
The pharaoh's palace compound actually consists of 6 separate lots, which I have color-coded in this picture so it's easier to see each individual component that makes up the whole shebang. All neatly contained in a single retaining wall...
The green lot on the left of the main lot is a working orchard and currently an unoccupied residence that will likely house a spare family member who seems like the gardening type. The green lot on the right is the stables and livestock pens and it's also a livable residence. It's basically there just for show since all the animals are only statues. :P (Really would have been great to get a farm EP at some point, EA!)
The lots in the back are yet to be built. In the center (blue) will be a temple that I might make a community lot for the sake of having somewhere for public weddings. The lot I've colored red will become an extension of the women's quarters where the unmarried daughters and some lesser wives will live in future generations. The barracks will be where the unmarried guys go. I guess they get to be soldiers and palace guards and manly stuff like that.
The main house sits on a requisite 5x5 lot. I posted some pictures of the grounds and the interior on my Tumblr HERE and HERE. Linking there so I don't have to post all the same exact photos here. (Lazy or efficient? You decide.)
Anyway, the house has been recently enlarged, since the family is loaded already. Here's the layout I have right now...
<MUCH LABELING>
(Click the image for a huger image with bigger labeling!) So, I like symmetry. >_> Also, I'm kinda skating a line between historical accuracy and sim-friendly functionality.
What is unlabeled at the bottom center of the image is the back entry and portico which overlooks the pleasure garden...
As seen here from inside the house. *sigh* I want to live there. All of this is a work in progress of course. As legacy houses tend to be.
Anyway! Life in the main house...
...also consists of inappropriately dressed NPCs the game needs to spawn on occasion. The Games Hobby guy is now creepier than ever. D: Esi looks like she's about to yank his bottom lip right off if he doesn't stop mouth-breathing on her painstakingly beaded hair.
Esi is of course the Grand Wife and the queen of Egypt. She's also the one who seems to call all the shots around the house and often has King Narmer deferring to her...
That's his "Is that okay with you, dear?" look, I think. She is a former simself after all.
She's also a SPACE PIRATE, so there you go. Don't mess with Esi.
There are two lesser wives in the house as well...
Zahra is another former simself, and while Esi became the career woman, Zahra became mother goose to all the kids...
All of her mothering has resulted in her becoming best friends with every one of the ten kids in the house.
Neithhotep is a CAS townie I made for the sole purpose of marrying Narmer as a lesser wife and she bears the name of the wife Narmer had in Real Egypt. She's very low-key and stays in the background mostly. But she gave me some very pretty kids.
Speaking of the kids!
This picture represents the one and only time I managed to get all TEN of them in one shot.
At this point I realized that Narmer would be halfway through his elder years by the time the youngest (who is also heir) became an adult. So my original plans of No College had to be changed. And playing this house with 4 adults, 10 kids, and a cat all living in it at once was stressing me out way too much!
So the four older teens got sent to Alexandria College (historically NOT even a thing during this period, but it's temporary at the moment until I get something better made)...
I may have gone a tiny bit overboard on building the dormitory. D:
But hey, "when in Egypt" and all that. I can't do anything about the dorm doors which kinda throw off the whole illusion. Not to mention the computers in their rooms. >_> And the kitchen equipment presented a little bit of a challenge...
So I hid it behind some curtains! :D Of course it looks a bit like a puppet stage now.
And it IS kinda like a puppet show when the lunch lady puts food out. I spent way too much time being entertained by this... >_>
Anyway, I hid other things, some less creatively...
Like the fact that there's a photobooth behind those curtains in the corner. :P But I can't hide the fact that I don't have any young adult clothes that are appropriate! The girls made due, but Raneb there in the foreground (flirting with a simself) has to go totally modern for the time being.
I'll get to Raneb and his lady friend in a minute. First let me show you the kids who are here now, starting with the girls (in no particular order):
This is Merneith. She's Neithhotep's eldest daughter and a neat, nice Cancer Popularity sim.
Nofret is Raneb's twin sister and Zahra's oldest daughter. She's a Family sim and a Scorpio.
Then there's Merit, who is the oldest child of the family. She's Esi's daughter, a Taurus and a Fortune sim.
Okay, Raneb back there...
Raneb is the oldest boy in the pharaoh's household, but not the heir because he wasn't the queen's son. He's a Virgo Knowledge sim. And not too bad on the eyes. Even with the Royal Chin.
This particular simself popped up as his ACR "the one" when he arrived at college. I didn't even realize he knew her, but with the population being so low right now and as often as they are all visiting the main house, I guess it makes sense. Anyway, I had him invite her over to see how things progressed autonomously.
As you can see, things are going well.
Her name here is Manet. Hint: she has red eyebrows under that fringe. (and there are no eyeglasses in Egypt) (and I think I might have altered her original eyecolor a wee bit in CAS... though it's in the same color family) (Because I NEED VARIETY with all the black hair in town!)
Unless Raneb decides differently later, Manet is well on her way to being married in. I wasn't going to let spares marry any of the simself population (if they marry at all, spares are supposed to marry distant relatives to help keep the population in check... but there aren't any distant relatives yet!) but Raneb has a rather important role to play in the story, and more specifically, his son. SO, Manet, I hope you are up to the task! All I ask is that you give me some boys.
ANYWAY. Back at the ranch...
Narmer is obliged to school his daughters on the finer nuances of Whap. This keeps him pretty busy with EIGHT of them to school.
Fortunately, for both of us, the number of school-able daughters in the house is down to 5 now. So let's have a look at the kids still at home, going from oldest to youngest...
(By the way, I do not expect you to remember ANY of these sims! The important ones will show up in the story and you'll know them then.)
Kesi is one of Esi's daughters and a one-nice-point Sagittarius Romance sim.
Nefru is Zahra's daughter. She's a Fortune sim and a Taurus. She's also 7 outgoing, 10 playful and 2 nice, which has lead to some problems around the house that I will detail later in this post. Remember that face (or the hair anyway) she's an instigator!
This is Nekhbet, one of Neithhotep's daughters. (there are a LOT of daughters) With 7 nice points she weighs in as the nicest kid in the house right now. By a lot. D: She's an Aries and a Fortune sim.
Nafre is Zahra's youngest. She's a Taurus and a Family sim. She is also the target of most of her sister Nefru's meanness. Full blooded sisters or not, they do NOT get along.
And FINALLY the youngest two! Khepri is Neithhotep's daughter, while Khufu back there is the baby of the family. He's Esi's only son and the heir to the throne.
But it's Teen Time for them. So here they are after getting put into more appropriate attire...
Khepri is an Aries and a Fortune sim. This first generation is very Fortune sim heavy.
And finally, the last kid on the roster...
Khufu, the future king. He got a lovely mix of both his parents' faces, including the Royal Chin. Khufu is a Sagittarius, 8-3-10-10-3. He rolled Popularity and wants to some day own 5 Top Level Businesses.
o___o
*changes plot for next generation*
Ah yes, spot the instigating hairdo of Nefru on the right. She is obsessed with picking on her little sister, Nafre. At this point they are well in the negative numbers on the relationship panel. I try to intervene when I see her heading for Nafre, but with this many sims in the house I can't keep an eagle eye on all of them!
And with five teenage girls in the house, there is always some kind of drama going on. Esi is congratulating her daughter, and it has something to do with that boy in the background.
Meet Thothmes, the ONLY teen boy in the whole neighborhood! He's a legacy import and a bi Romance sim. This works out well for all the bi and straight girls, and all the bi and gay guys. But being as there are only TWO guys born in the game so far, and they both randomized straight, Thothmes has been getting a rather large helping of GIRL lately.
Since both he and Kesi are Sagittarius Romance sims, they get along very well. Or, you know, as well as mutual single nice points get on.
"My god woman! I do you the unfathomable courtesy of paying attention to you because your brother isn't interested in my exceptional charm, and you go and treat me so inconsiderately! I hope you think long and hard about this while I spend the next two hours making out with you."
Anyway, it's a constant parade of out-of-place-and-time NPCs and identical-looking simselves.
I do know this is Hebi (formerly Heidi) - or at least I'm 99% sure... She looks absolutely confounded by this man's headgear.
I usually try to make someone greet the walk-by sims when I see them out there by the mailbox.
So inevitably there's some simself making friendly with the future pharaoh. e__e Seriously, it's like they KNOW.
The next sim morning I was about to save and quit the lot, since it's Narmer's last day as an adult and I want to make sure the other household is synced age-wise, when I heard a commotion in the kids' room...
Spot the instigating hairdo! D: Since Nafre has "be attacked" in her queue, this is entirely Nefru's doing. My gosh, I've never had full-blood siblings hate each other so much!
Oy. I guess it's time for Nefru to get her instigating hairdo to college. :P
Well, that ends my playing session and thus my picspam. Just one more pic to show what my heir Khufu was doing during this early morning mayhem...
He's staying firmly out of his sisters' business by weaving fabric in the wives' chamber. Well. I guess being raised around this many girls he's bound to be more in touch with his feminine side.
Or maybe he realizes he needs more material for those pajamas. >_>
As you can see, the place is hardly a bustling metropolis. I only have two occupied lots so far: the plumbbob on the left is the pharaoh's palace compound and the one on the right is the estate where his brother and sister live. Otherwise it's just a few empty townhouses and some community lots...
-------------------------------------
The community lots include a market street, which is actually two lots. (That's the pharaoh's siblings' house at the end of the street. His parents are long dead now.)
The death of Narmer's parents made me realize I need a third community lot in town...
I needed somewhere to send the graves of the deceased spares in the neighborhood, so I built this lot consisting of a mastaba (the rectangular structure on the left which was a precursor to the pyramids) as a "tomb" that will house all the graves. That building in the middle is the shrine (or, you know, the place where I hide the telephone), and on the right is a pavilion containing all the "fun" things to do. Because you gotta have FUN on a community lot despite this one being basically a burial ground. Sims don't care. "Ghosts? Pheh! Just give me a hot dog and somewhere to dance!"
Of course the game wastes no time generating plenty of inappropriately dressed NPCs to swarm my community lots with...
Though it is kinda cute that he made butterflies appear in the "telephone shrine".
Since the rest of the town's population is comprised entirely of a couple dozen townies that I made using simselves and legacy imports, there's no lack of those frequenting the community lots, too.
They come to dance badly and talk smack...
Fentet is playing with fire by bringing that up with "Rais" there. (He's the only sim whose hair I didn't change, because he would probably punch me in the face if I did.)
Actually Fentet (formerly Fire... I think. You all look alike in the same dresses and hair!) is right on target with that subject because Rais (formerly - or rather still very much - Rhys Fitzhugh) has already managed to toss his genes into the pool - with the ONLY playable woman who isn't one of the pharaoh's wives. The pharaoh's sister! (I don't think it's ACR so much as it's HIM.) Anyway, she had a daughter...
This is Shebi, the pharaoh's niece. She inherited her father's finger guns and The Nose. She's also a Family/Romance Scorpio with ten neat points and a single nice point.
She's... charming.
If I pretend those are pig stomachs filled with fermented donkey urine, the water balloon prank is WAY more insidious. ;D
Anyway! To the main house!
The pharaoh's palace compound actually consists of 6 separate lots, which I have color-coded in this picture so it's easier to see each individual component that makes up the whole shebang. All neatly contained in a single retaining wall...
The green lot on the left of the main lot is a working orchard and currently an unoccupied residence that will likely house a spare family member who seems like the gardening type. The green lot on the right is the stables and livestock pens and it's also a livable residence. It's basically there just for show since all the animals are only statues. :P (Really would have been great to get a farm EP at some point, EA!)
The lots in the back are yet to be built. In the center (blue) will be a temple that I might make a community lot for the sake of having somewhere for public weddings. The lot I've colored red will become an extension of the women's quarters where the unmarried daughters and some lesser wives will live in future generations. The barracks will be where the unmarried guys go. I guess they get to be soldiers and palace guards and manly stuff like that.
The main house sits on a requisite 5x5 lot. I posted some pictures of the grounds and the interior on my Tumblr HERE and HERE. Linking there so I don't have to post all the same exact photos here. (Lazy or efficient? You decide.)
Anyway, the house has been recently enlarged, since the family is loaded already. Here's the layout I have right now...
<MUCH LABELING>
(Click the image for a huger image with bigger labeling!) So, I like symmetry. >_> Also, I'm kinda skating a line between historical accuracy and sim-friendly functionality.
What is unlabeled at the bottom center of the image is the back entry and portico which overlooks the pleasure garden...
As seen here from inside the house. *sigh* I want to live there. All of this is a work in progress of course. As legacy houses tend to be.
Anyway! Life in the main house...
...also consists of inappropriately dressed NPCs the game needs to spawn on occasion. The Games Hobby guy is now creepier than ever. D: Esi looks like she's about to yank his bottom lip right off if he doesn't stop mouth-breathing on her painstakingly beaded hair.
Esi is of course the Grand Wife and the queen of Egypt. She's also the one who seems to call all the shots around the house and often has King Narmer deferring to her...
That's his "Is that okay with you, dear?" look, I think. She is a former simself after all.
She's also a SPACE PIRATE, so there you go. Don't mess with Esi.
There are two lesser wives in the house as well...
Zahra is another former simself, and while Esi became the career woman, Zahra became mother goose to all the kids...
All of her mothering has resulted in her becoming best friends with every one of the ten kids in the house.
Neithhotep is a CAS townie I made for the sole purpose of marrying Narmer as a lesser wife and she bears the name of the wife Narmer had in Real Egypt. She's very low-key and stays in the background mostly. But she gave me some very pretty kids.
Speaking of the kids!
This picture represents the one and only time I managed to get all TEN of them in one shot.
At this point I realized that Narmer would be halfway through his elder years by the time the youngest (who is also heir) became an adult. So my original plans of No College had to be changed. And playing this house with 4 adults, 10 kids, and a cat all living in it at once was stressing me out way too much!
So the four older teens got sent to Alexandria College (historically NOT even a thing during this period, but it's temporary at the moment until I get something better made)...
I may have gone a tiny bit overboard on building the dormitory. D:
But hey, "when in Egypt" and all that. I can't do anything about the dorm doors which kinda throw off the whole illusion. Not to mention the computers in their rooms. >_> And the kitchen equipment presented a little bit of a challenge...
So I hid it behind some curtains! :D Of course it looks a bit like a puppet stage now.
And it IS kinda like a puppet show when the lunch lady puts food out. I spent way too much time being entertained by this... >_>
Anyway, I hid other things, some less creatively...
Like the fact that there's a photobooth behind those curtains in the corner. :P But I can't hide the fact that I don't have any young adult clothes that are appropriate! The girls made due, but Raneb there in the foreground (flirting with a simself) has to go totally modern for the time being.
I'll get to Raneb and his lady friend in a minute. First let me show you the kids who are here now, starting with the girls (in no particular order):
This is Merneith. She's Neithhotep's eldest daughter and a neat, nice Cancer Popularity sim.
Nofret is Raneb's twin sister and Zahra's oldest daughter. She's a Family sim and a Scorpio.
Then there's Merit, who is the oldest child of the family. She's Esi's daughter, a Taurus and a Fortune sim.
Okay, Raneb back there...
Raneb is the oldest boy in the pharaoh's household, but not the heir because he wasn't the queen's son. He's a Virgo Knowledge sim. And not too bad on the eyes. Even with the Royal Chin.
This particular simself popped up as his ACR "the one" when he arrived at college. I didn't even realize he knew her, but with the population being so low right now and as often as they are all visiting the main house, I guess it makes sense. Anyway, I had him invite her over to see how things progressed autonomously.
As you can see, things are going well.
Her name here is Manet. Hint: she has red eyebrows under that fringe. (and there are no eyeglasses in Egypt) (and I think I might have altered her original eyecolor a wee bit in CAS... though it's in the same color family) (Because I NEED VARIETY with all the black hair in town!)
Unless Raneb decides differently later, Manet is well on her way to being married in. I wasn't going to let spares marry any of the simself population (if they marry at all, spares are supposed to marry distant relatives to help keep the population in check... but there aren't any distant relatives yet!) but Raneb has a rather important role to play in the story, and more specifically, his son. SO, Manet, I hope you are up to the task! All I ask is that you give me some boys.
ANYWAY. Back at the ranch...
Narmer is obliged to school his daughters on the finer nuances of Whap. This keeps him pretty busy with EIGHT of them to school.
Fortunately, for both of us, the number of school-able daughters in the house is down to 5 now. So let's have a look at the kids still at home, going from oldest to youngest...
(By the way, I do not expect you to remember ANY of these sims! The important ones will show up in the story and you'll know them then.)
Kesi is one of Esi's daughters and a one-nice-point Sagittarius Romance sim.
Nefru is Zahra's daughter. She's a Fortune sim and a Taurus. She's also 7 outgoing, 10 playful and 2 nice, which has lead to some problems around the house that I will detail later in this post. Remember that face (or the hair anyway) she's an instigator!
This is Nekhbet, one of Neithhotep's daughters. (there are a LOT of daughters) With 7 nice points she weighs in as the nicest kid in the house right now. By a lot. D: She's an Aries and a Fortune sim.
Nafre is Zahra's youngest. She's a Taurus and a Family sim. She is also the target of most of her sister Nefru's meanness. Full blooded sisters or not, they do NOT get along.
And FINALLY the youngest two! Khepri is Neithhotep's daughter, while Khufu back there is the baby of the family. He's Esi's only son and the heir to the throne.
But it's Teen Time for them. So here they are after getting put into more appropriate attire...
Khepri is an Aries and a Fortune sim. This first generation is very Fortune sim heavy.
And finally, the last kid on the roster...
Khufu, the future king. He got a lovely mix of both his parents' faces, including the Royal Chin. Khufu is a Sagittarius, 8-3-10-10-3. He rolled Popularity and wants to some day own 5 Top Level Businesses.
o___o
*changes plot for next generation*
Ah yes, spot the instigating hairdo of Nefru on the right. She is obsessed with picking on her little sister, Nafre. At this point they are well in the negative numbers on the relationship panel. I try to intervene when I see her heading for Nafre, but with this many sims in the house I can't keep an eagle eye on all of them!
And with five teenage girls in the house, there is always some kind of drama going on. Esi is congratulating her daughter, and it has something to do with that boy in the background.
Meet Thothmes, the ONLY teen boy in the whole neighborhood! He's a legacy import and a bi Romance sim. This works out well for all the bi and straight girls, and all the bi and gay guys. But being as there are only TWO guys born in the game so far, and they both randomized straight, Thothmes has been getting a rather large helping of GIRL lately.
Since both he and Kesi are Sagittarius Romance sims, they get along very well. Or, you know, as well as mutual single nice points get on.
"My god woman! I do you the unfathomable courtesy of paying attention to you because your brother isn't interested in my exceptional charm, and you go and treat me so inconsiderately! I hope you think long and hard about this while I spend the next two hours making out with you."
Anyway, it's a constant parade of out-of-place-and-time NPCs and identical-looking simselves.
I do know this is Hebi (formerly Heidi) - or at least I'm 99% sure... She looks absolutely confounded by this man's headgear.
I usually try to make someone greet the walk-by sims when I see them out there by the mailbox.
So inevitably there's some simself making friendly with the future pharaoh. e__e Seriously, it's like they KNOW.
The next sim morning I was about to save and quit the lot, since it's Narmer's last day as an adult and I want to make sure the other household is synced age-wise, when I heard a commotion in the kids' room...
Spot the instigating hairdo! D: Since Nafre has "be attacked" in her queue, this is entirely Nefru's doing. My gosh, I've never had full-blood siblings hate each other so much!
Oy. I guess it's time for Nefru to get her instigating hairdo to college. :P
Well, that ends my playing session and thus my picspam. Just one more pic to show what my heir Khufu was doing during this early morning mayhem...
He's staying firmly out of his sisters' business by weaving fabric in the wives' chamber. Well. I guess being raised around this many girls he's bound to be more in touch with his feminine side.
Or maybe he realizes he needs more material for those pajamas. >_>
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