Jonny Parable

Welcome! Cottage Hills is a now discontinued story series from my Sims 2 game. Below are links to background information of the town and all the stories so far in chronological order, divided into different books. Enjoy!

Introduction to Cottage Hills

Cottage Hills, A History

Meadows Farm and Rosenberg Hall

Blacksmith and Winery

Bookshop and Apothecary

Clinic and General Store

The Inn

Church and Lighthouse

Animal Ranch and Poultry Farm

The Woodsman's Forest

Huntsman and Wizard

Festivals and Holidays

Around the World

The Mystery Plague

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |

The Island of Shadows

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 |

The Golden Flower

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 |

The Island of Sun

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 |

The Red Chamber

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |

Part 11 | Part 12 |

Redemption

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |

| Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 |

A Winter Tale

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

| Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |

| Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 |

| Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 |

| Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 |

The Vanishing of Basil Reed

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |

EA being bought out by the people it has, plus the Sims new AI takeover, makes me just really not want to play this game anymore, frankly, or to have anything to do with it, like posting about it. To be fair, the game itself has been getting atrociously buggy. Save files are corrupted, the simulation lag is getting worse, which makes playing the game very unappealing. Mods make it fun for a while but I dunno, what's the point really? Almost all of them break every update, and I can't get into the game enough to create stories and long gameplay like I used to. The game can't cope the longer I play in a file anyway, so there's just no future in this game for me.

Watching Sims 1 and 2 accounts on Instagram making cool content with the games, or just looking at all the wonderful Sims 2 games here, makes me so sad for how this franchise is ending. I've uninstalled the game, and honestly I feel so much better. I'm hoping to just move on to Paralives and just have nothing to do with EA anymore.

Port Cobbleton (Windenberg)

The Serene Capital (Newcrest)

Bandayang (Selvadorada)

Simadhu (Granite Falls)

Olkanshire (Moonwood Mill)

Cobblebrook (Henford-On-Bagley)

Port Empress (Tomarang)

The Magic Realm

The Dragon Isles (Sulani)

Took a whole bunch of screenshots of the residents going about their lives. I've recently been quite into more cartoonish features, I feel it really helps the Sims look memorable and stand out. I might probably introduce them by household, and go over the whole system that I've been setting up in a later post, but for now, I'm enjoying setting up the families, their freidnships and their businesses, and adopting a very slice of life play style, and these images are the result of that.

Anyway here are the game's residents, this is Ginger Goldbloom, the grocery store owner, and I've given her a whole family of Goldblooms who are all technically tagged as vendors in case I want to set up some vendor booths.

Above is Netty Sweetfield, the Garden Shop Owner and her pink-haired daughter, Anise Sweetfield. Netty has another daughter and son who will be playables, but her and Anise will take up the NPC Crumplebottom roles.

Above in the red top hat is of course the Village Mayor, Lord Vernon Bon Vivant, and beside him is Pub Owner Suzie Scott.

And of course, here's Michael Bell, the Creature Keeper. Below are a bunch of Sims I've created who are playables, as well as a few who are townies. This save file is connected to Port Cobbleton and Olkanshire, with this village sitting in the countryside outside Port Cobbleton, but not as deep in the woods like Olkanshire. With this save file, I'm really going for just a small community of playable Sims who all have functional roles in the main gameplay, and where they will all fill up service and community roles, like the innkeepers, bartender, baker, blacksmith, carpenter, clothier and merchant among others . Of course the non-playable townies will not just add some whimsy to the townsfolk, but are knowable, unique and will also fill up NPC roles. These include the local nunnery, constabulary, firehouse, plumbers, journalists, doctors etc. Here's a few of them that I caught walking around in today's play sesh.

Morrid The Mayor's Butler

Doria the Singing Barmaid

Sebastian Bon Vivant, Landlord/Repo Man

Dr Ima Shrink, Therapist

Opal Wanderling, Painter

Molly Bakewell, Baker and Rosie Valore, Boutique Owner

Brandon Bakewell, Baker

Sir Reginald Diggit, Famous Explorer

Harris Harrison, Constable

Armadeus Sonata, Local Snob

Lily Clementine, Barmaid

Ambrosia and Clemence Clementine, Innkeepers

Dr Daiko Goodwood

Jade Long, Bathhouse Owner

And of course, Walliver Meadows, the game's "main" playable. This game will be rotational, as rotational as Sims 4 can be, so casually rotational. And really, there's no main character, maybe no story even, everyone is a main character, but having him here is kind of a good way to set up any stories I do wanna do.

And that's all for now. This isn't all the playables and townies, of course, there's quite a few more and this post isn't supposed to cover them all nor is it particularly systematic, I was just excited to share these characters while going about my game session today so here you go, thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed these funny sims. I had a lot of fun making them, which is unusual for me, but alas I do love Doria.