So, I downloaded this new Sims 2 neighborhood, Disarray Harbor, on Mod The Sims by Reckless Jerry. At first I was just exploring and getting to know all the families one by one, usually not spending more than a day on each household to not mess up any possible timelines. Luckily, while there are many drama crossover’s in here, you can play a few days before things start to get out of sync. I realized I wanted to start remembering what was happening after the fifth or sixth household out of twenty that just writing it down wouldn’t be enough. Show and tell helps a lot and I figure if I’m going to take pictures, I might as well share them online. Maybe the creator themselves would find it amusing but that in itself would just be a bonus.
I figure I’ll most likely share other stories from other neighborhoods too as time goes on as well as share ideas I have for custom hoods that I’ve found impossible to design. Like a holiday/winter Christmas like “Santa Villages” I would visit in the nineties to early two-thousands. One was called Leavenworth Washington State (not to be confused with the prison in Kansas!). While the town is not technically a workshop, it is a Bavarian-styled village. I liked to wonder, what is it like here in the off season? Or what kind of drama goes on even during the busiest time of the year? Is the actor playing Santa having a secret affair with one of the “elves”? For shame Santa! What about the other workers? Toys have to be built, gift shops to be ran, coco sold, ice skating and Christmas tree lightings galore! In total I think about creating this into three parts: a regular neighborhood, a sub neighborhood and a vacation spot to play without all the drama. But I struggle with designing a mountain terrain layout as it is let alone to start building the lots and creating the households. So for me, all of this and other neighborhoods just remain in my head until I jot them down on here and maybe someone will be inspired to take the project on.
As far as Disarray Harbor goes, I did jump in and play a handful of stories with their own timeline within their household so I’ll have to write a handful of those without pictures. But for the rest, thanks for being here and checking out this blog!
Sarah