Vaddi bobo! Time to finally talk about the Sekrit Project, because it's no longer sekrit! Beware of spoilers under the cut if you haven't read the Bookacy interlude or the Prologue to Villains or Heroes? yet.



( Picspam and BTS, ~70 pictures )

Okay, so. As I'm currently back on track with my simming stuff, caught up with comments and replies or just about, playing the Alphabetia rotation and actually getting started with the sekrit project, I thought I should maybe post a bit of BTS. It's not a huge thing this go around, for the most part I used actual gameplay pictures and used most of what I took, but I hope you enjoy this mini-BTS anyway.

( BTS this way, spoilery for chapter 37, plus a random piece of awesome at the end )

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled simming, and for me, back to working on the sekrit project!

So in the end of the picspam yesterday, I believe I promised you some "hood babbles". Well, in the end I got my maintenance stuff done yesterday, so now I get to babble some and play more.

My maintenance included taking a full backup, removing gossip, downloading few hacks and defaults I've been meaning to, and installing the three SPs my sister got me for my birthday last month. That seems to have gone smoothly. In addition, I stumbled onto something pretty neat just a couple of days ago and realized it was EXACTLY what I needed.


I might have shown you before; this is what Alphabetia looked like yet yesterday evening. But, this is not what it looks like anymore!




( Few more pics and babble this way )

So such is the state of Alphabetia currently. :)

Time for another installment of picspam. Three more houses can be found under the cut, with slightly less pictures than in the previous installments.

( Three houses, 120+ pictures )

Didn't feel like firing up my game tonight, so I thought I'd do a bit more of the catching up on picspam. I've got three more houses today.

( 3 more houses, where? Here! (About 140 pics) )

Phew, that's it for today's three houses. More when I again get myself together on this front.

Progress is being made, hooray for progress!

So as I have been mentioning, I've been playing the rotation as I write the double update, sort of alternating the two. It seems to work kind of nicely, I don't get bored with either. And the time when my game loads/saves/switches households is time well spent writing on the laptop.

Anyway! I've just today played the rotation through Chris and Cyrus, for which I was very excited. I'll probably do some sort of rotational picspam after I get the chapter out (and probably mostly uncommented, since I'll have a big backlog by then), but I thought I could share a few things from these two now. You know, the part where they *gasp* get married and stuff.

( Why Chris and Cyrus' REAL wedding won't make the chapter (very mildly spoilery, though not really) )

( Writing progress babble )

So all in all, things are moving forward, both in game and in writing. Not bad!

Alright, despite excuses such as having gone back to work and other such things that come in the way of simming, it's time for another part of my autumn picspam. Two houses again, because that's apparently just about what I can manage at one time. I'm a bit behind with these but oh well, when aren't I?

( Onwards! 90+ pictures )

So such this time. Again I'll post more rotation picspam when I find the time. :)

And, after a little bit of copy-pasting, here's part two:

( Part 2, again 100+ pictures )

Phew. That was quite some picspam. Maybe next time I'll try to go with fewer pictures per family, or fewer families at a time. Anyway, now you're caught up with what's going on in my game.

In other news, I'm working on my download archive thingy, as well as a new, shinier family tree. Both projects will take time, but I'm working on them. Feels good to be rolling again!

Alright, I believe I promised you some BTS for chapter 33, so here goes. The following is, naturally, spoilery for chapter 33.

( What happened behind the scenes? )

Alright. I suppose that's just about all I had for today's BTS. When I wasn't being blocked (and for a loooooong time I was, and it was terrible), this was a really interesting chapter to write, one I'd been looking forward to a long time. But so should be the next one. I'm currently working on a the autumn rotation in Alphabetia, getting started on the wedding and baby paloozas - I think I've earned it. But sometime during the (sim) autumn or winter, plottiness will be happening, too... Eventually, there'll be chapter 34. But before then, there's playing to be done, and I think picspam to be posted too, when I have some. :)

Happy this year, all!

I thought I'd start the year with the little funny story about what happened when Elias Terrano got married. Just for fun.

( So, what happened when Elias Terrano got married? )

As for the Bookacies, I've now gone back to Alphabetia and started with the growing up and making over the oldest of generation C. Chip grew up yesterday with his girlfriend Sunny, and Sunny grew up in the most unfortunate outfit so far. With that, I also discovered that I should probably do a CC cull soonish. Apparently I've now got so much that my computer is starting to have a hard time with it. I managed to crash it twice by going shopping on a community lot and trying to buy clothes for two sims at a time. That was too much for the poor computer. But surely I can find stuff there that I don't really use.

Anyway, next up is the growing up of Corinna, I believe. And because I'm anxious to get going, I won't do a short rotation in the main hood but will go directly into growing up the main bunch of the generation after only giving the older ones a few days' head start. Then, there will be weddings and babies, hooray! (So far, two generation C sims are pregnant. Cho has been since before the hard drive switch, and yesterday Sunny and Chip got themselves riskied up on their first woohoo as adults. That makes my first risky.) So I believe the next picspam I need to do will be on some growing ups and makeovers. :)

Looking at the preview of this post, it looks like I need to do something about my pictures yet. It seems that the resized versions get a little unclear on the details, like the text. Sorry about that, I'll need to work on this.

Edit: It was the settings of my resize program, I turned up the quality option and now they're much clearer. Pictures are now replaced by better quality ones. Apparently the text is really so tiny that it's hard to read even if it's not blurry, I will have to try to remember this when doing future picspams.