Presenting the newest lot from Kulo Seeri! Now that the Story Progression mod is doing its stuff and I don’t feel as dissatisfied with my play, I can build community lots and not feel like I’m wasting my time. So I made one.

Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating! Regardless of whether you are celebrating the holidays or not, I wish you a good end to the year and all the best for 2023!

Now, I refuse to build over Christmas, because I loathe building (as you probably know) and want to spend the next few days kicking back with my family. But when I saw these beautiful seasonal flowers converted and retextured by @tvickiesims, I had to make an exception and place some on my newest Kulo Seeri lot - so, without further time spent editing things, I present to you my last build until December 26th at the earliest!

This is Honeyberry Field, a scenic location outside Kulo Seeri and popular foraging spot in the warmer seasons. Lots of wild herbs and flowers grow here, as well as berry bushes and beehives (from which the area gets its name) - however, it does occasionally attract wild bears.

I swear my nice sims are much better at wrecking potential friendships than the grouchy sims. These pics were taken during one trip to the Heart of the Village, during which four sims, all with at least eight points in Nice/Grouchy, wound up with negative relationships with each other. The problem? Trying to initiate “admire” socials towards random strangers, which are invariably rejected.

First community lot for Kulo Seeri is ready! I’m pretty pleased with it, for an evening’s work I think it turned out well.

This is the Heart of the Village, a popular gathering spot for the Nuidya. The only resource gathered here is water from the village well, but the little streamythings dug around it are a good place to do laundry, and there are small areas set aside for the children and sacred cats. There’s also a treeball tree (aka a basketball hoop disguised as a tree) but you can’t really tell the difference between that and a regular tree from here, and I couldn’t get a decent enough camera angle to show it.

Up in the top pic, there’s a sweat tent (edited Jeka’s rustic sauna from MTS to remove the door so it’d work in the tent) and either side of that are a little shrine and the standing stone that serves as the village’s primary aether beacon. The beacon itself isn’t visible in this pic because it’s one of those invisible magic effect things Sophie-David at MTS made, but usually there’s a little glowy orb floating above it. It is also where betrothal ceremonies take place.

I wasn’t feeling invested in previous iterations because I played strict three-day rotations. That meant, more often than not, I had to break off just as stuff was starting to happen and go play the next household of relative nobodies. I didn’t feel like I could stay in a household longer than those three days because I’m fussy about keeping ages in sync - I have tried variation ageing mods, but they wound up irritating me. I also felt guilty that most of my sims, born and raised in my game which is now on its eighth or ninth generation, still felt like nobodies to me, but I was always too soft to cut them from the line-up between rebuilds.

So I tried SP. I found that it actually worked brilliantly for me, giving the “nobodies” lives while I wasn’t playing them, but still having the option to go in and play them if I wanted to. Even the way it auto-names babies born off-camera works for me, in that it gives me inspiration for the proper Nuidya names I give them as toddlers. I do use a wacky name mod mashup, but that can always be interpreted as temporary names and birth omens.

Speaking of which: introducing Harmony Victoria, the NPC landlord guardian spirit of the Lake Lulla region! She was spawned by the game following much 50/50-ing and restoring backups sent by the god Luna to guide the inhabitants of Kulo Seeri and Credence, as they are set to be major players in the next era of Juvash... I really like her and her randomly generated name, so I gave her a quick makeover and wrote her into the story instead of blocking her with the Visitor Controller. However, I’m not sure Serani here quite understands the nature of this contract she’s signing, since very few Nuidya can read...

Hey hey simblr, guess who’s FINALLY back in vir game and almost ready to play?! I just have to build a couple of community lots for foraging, get the first home lot (actually an apartment) done and then it’s PLAYTIME, baby!

My gods I have missed playing so much. Hopefully I’ll get some quality playing time on April 16th, which happens to be Kulo Seeri’s sweet 16 - and by then I should have some story posts ready to share. I’m a sloooow builder at the best of times but I’m motivated to get it done so I can get back to playing. Although I can hardly believe that my little baby hood is sixteen years old in a few weeks...

Just finished the first community lot for new Kulo Seeri, and I’m finally going to stop being the approval-seeking fiteen-year-old I was when I started it back in 2007(!) and ramp the fantasy aspects of my game up to 11.