Dunne&Ias' Sims 2 Stuff

I don't think I know enough about the community's younger members yet, so I went with the first one.

I rolled a die to see if this would be a new adult, or an orphan distant relative of someone, and it landed on the second option.

Another die determined that this would be a distant relative of the landed gentry and since I already know this hood will only have one member of that class, this person is now a ward of the Pelehan family. It is a child and it is a girl. According to the name generator, her name is Adria Ledford. She comes with an inheritance that will help her get married, so, good for her.

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Projects:

The silk worm project is completed. Instructions have arrived from the mainland and Meredith Weaver, the charismatic young girl, convinces her parents to get rid of all their sheep and stop making wool fabrics and instead make silk. The Weaver Family is now silk fabric producers. They must deliver five bolts of fabric and five spools of thread to the Terrence Pelehan every season but may sell the rest, or take on additional delivery contracts if someone wants to buy a bigger lot of fabric.

Is there a witch? This project has one more week left.

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So when it comes to new sims, the plan is this:

Sacred Isle is relatively complete. Some more hood deco around the beach and I have not yet decided if this island should have a residence for a High Priest/ess or if no one should live here.

This is the Temple, a place for weddings and gatherings in the fresh open air.

Pack land on Luna Island, which so far isn't going to contain anything else than this.

So I've been thinking about these werewolves, and I think these are the rules:

Werewolves all live on this one lot. If someone wants to move away, they have to get a cure to their lycanthropy. This lot is not allowed to have more than 8 adults.

None of them will have employed jobs while living here as outcasts to the community, but they also won't mind because their home has everything they need. They can sell off some of their stuff to passers-by if they want to, and this is a good way to meet people.

While the urge to grow the pack is strong, they're not going to let just anyone join the pack.

The pack shares everything, even each other if the desire should strike.

(I told you I don't care about historical accuracy and I can't be bothered with consistent Bodyshop content so I just won't).

From the left: Saga, Atticus, Philomena and Jonathon. Their last name is "the werewolf".

They all have special yellow eyes and the passing down of this eye is how the next generation can be identified as a werewolf if they happen to mate with any human sims.

As outcasts to society, they don't pay taxes and they don't use any of the community services. Self-sufficiency is high on the agenda but they have no problems shopping and trading with humans.

Luna Island needs a bit more hood deco around their home lot, but at this point, it won't contain anything else, so I'm calling it done for now.

I wanted to do both of these!

Active projects:

Silk: 1 turn left

Is there a witch? 2 turns left

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Again, I'm going with the first question because it seems more fun.

This is part of why I don't want to play a historical hood: a tool they lack is electricity.

While I have no problem initially playing without the technological parts of the game, eventually I do want to add them. So they'll have to be unlocked somehow. But I've put a ban on the vanilla workbenches so I can't do robotics which is how I usually solve it in a BaCC, becuase I want work to be connected to resources.

This will take some pondering I think.

The poll is this week's project.

Other active projects:

Silk: 2 weeks left

Is there a witch?: 3 weeks left.

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Oh you know I'm gonna do the first one, no contest.

They say there's a well hidden deep in the forest. If you find it once, you won't find it again, no matter how much you make sure to triangulate your position.

Some say this well moves around.

Some say it's the work of a witch (does this community have witches? I don't know yet. We have werewolves so supernatural things exist)

They say though, that if you come across this well, you need to be careful. They say some people can hear a voice coming from the well and foolish people will rush forward to try and help whoever is down there.

There is no one down there.

There might be someone down there if you are not careful, because then that person will be you, you will not be buried in the sacred grove with your ancestors and your spirit will forever be trapped, calling out to weary travellers and those who have gotten lost in the forest and are looking for a sip of water.

Some people say it's a wishing well. Others say the rumours of it being a wishing well were started by the witch in the forest.

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A project is started to find out if someone is a witch. This project will take four weeks (turns).

Other active projects: The charismatic young girl, Meredith Weaver, has recruited a bunch of adults to figure out these islands are suitable for silk worms. 3 weeks left.

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Town Center now has some buildings. The larger ones are home businesses for the Merchant Class and the smaller ones can be used as either apartments or smaller residences for the lower classes that don't need to live near their base resources.

fae inspired build/buy stuff in 2026? Especially outdoor stuff

Updated map as it stands right now (had to take two pictures to capture it all.

New things added: The island where the werewolves live who are not really part of the community is now Luna Island.

The island that will hold the Sacred Grove and The Temple is now Sacred Island

The farmland island is now Golden Island.

Forest Hill is now correctly spelled.

Hm. Tricky.

The daughter of a sheep farmer, her name is Meredith, I guess, does not like the idea of her future shearing sheep. She's heard of fabrics made of little worms instead, and manages to get several adults involved in figuring out how it all works.

This is a project that is going to take five turns, because they'll have to send someone off to the mainland for information before they can even start on a new production line.

Meanwhile, the project to search out farmland has been successful (I mean, I already knew that when I made the map but whatevs), and one of the empty islands is suitable for growing vegetables and fruits. Good for us! This island is now called... Golden Island, because of colour of hay.

I can't build the farmhouses because I don't know how the families who live there will look yet, as usual.

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Oooh, this is a fun card!

I don't think my community is very unified, so I'm going with the first question, and say that someone lives on the small island furtherest away who refuses to conform to the landlord's demands and is thus mostly ignored.

I rolled a D10 and concluded that this person or persons is a werewolf. I don't really enjoy playing with werewolves that much despite my insane Teen Wolf obsession, so I guess it'll be a new challenge for me. I also rolled a die to learn that this other little community has 4 members.

The die say they are not all in the same family, in fact it's four single adult sims, two male, two female.

As non-members of the main community they'll have to forage for most of their food and resources. but they are allowed to own a shop and aren't on house arrest (i.e. I will not prevent them from visiting a community lot as long as they're not the active household when it happens). They may not take any of the unlocked jobs, but they also don't have to pay taxes.

Their children will not be allowed to go to school and while other playables may marry them, in that case, that sim is also now an outcast, although their children may go live with a relative if they turn out to be human (I'm gonna go by eye colour for this)

This one took me kinda by surprise so I'm going to have to think about how to solve this practically for a bit.

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I really need to name the town center island.

Forest Hill Lumberjack Hut

This lot is for the lumberjack and anyone interested in woodworking to come cut down trees and if they need to, process them into planks or firewood.

Forest Hill (I've learnt to spell the word now, and will adjust the hood name) Iron Mine.

As established by the game play, this island has some iron findings. This is the lot a miner or blacksmith would go to to gather ore and coal. They'd have their own forge or smelter of course, but in case someone else would need to mine and smelt something, there's also a work shed.

So it's time to come up with a blacksmith. I tried having a miner AND a smith in my play test, but what the miner could gather in one season, the smith used up in one day, so now the smith will do their own mining (or more likely, get one of their family to help out).

Pelehan Island is reasonably complete. One more round of hood deco is probably needed and it annoys me to no end that I couldn't get the front of the house to align perfectly with the road leading up to it.

I also need to find a longer bridge that won't stick out too much so I can connect this island to Forest Hill, the largest island.

Pelehan Island is home to the seat of the Pelehan family, Pelehan Court, who owns all of the archipelago (so far), and it is made out of wood because that's the resource we have available. It is very sparsely furnished because this is an ias BaCC and furniture isn't something you can just buy. But the family will receive furniture from a future carpenter, or weaver, or black smith, that will eventually allow them to complete their mansion.

Some initial roads and hood deco placement, mostly trees.

Most roads don't connect. Theoretically, resources and people would be loaded onto boats to get around, or they'd just walk through the forest.