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Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 94 (The Body in Brindleton Bay)

cw: dead body and a blood puddle, discolored/shadowed by the lighting, just to be less graphic tbh. For that reason I also don't zoom in on the body that closely, but text mentions who it is and there's no trick! That is who it is, even without a close-up!

Conrad met his young, eager partner, Zion Spangler, at the docks. His last partner, Josephine, had stuck around a few years longer than planned, but she was so close to retirement she deferred almost all her field work to Conrad and Zion. The sergeant liked the newly-minted detective's ambition and his instinct, and they approached the crime scene with caution.

A body laid at the edge of the pier in a pool of blood, already slightly washed away by the heavy, wet coastal snow of Brindleton Bay.

"The owners of the Salty Paw said someone knocked on their door about a body by their patio tables, but everyone was inside because of the cold and no one saw anything," explained Zion.

"Did you find any clues at the scene?"

"None. The snow washed away every footprint and fingerprint we might possibly find."

Zion got down on his knees to brush through the snow surrounding the body in search of clues. But Conrad took one look at the victim and knew exactly who they needed to look for. "Any ID on him?"

"Everything. Even his money. Vic's name is Jameson Bower."

No it wasn't. Not really. "Run that name through the database back at the station. Make sure he doesn't have any aliases, check his record."

Conrad could have offered to do it himself to cover his tracks. But he wanted to mentor Zion to be as good a detective as he could be, and he knew what the body of Jimmy Stefano represented. Surveying the grisly scene, his heart raced.

When Conrad backed out of the search for Rafa, Ximena called his bluff. This was his jurisdiction. He couldn't ignore a dead body connected to the cartel in Brindleton Bay. He didn't know whether Ximena wanted to hurt the cartel or bring him down, but she wouldn't let him walk away.

He'd all but asked for this when he agreed to meet her in this very spot months earlier, hoping he could get her to disappear by giving her what she wanted, helping her brother in the process. But Ximena hated to go quietly, and if he'd ignored her she wouldn't have let him be, either. It probably always would have come to this, but that didn't make it any easier to swallow.

He called Heather to check in. "Did you get to your parents'?"

"We're fine, Conrad. Lavender's asleep again and I'm just hanging out with Sammy." She tilted the camera on her phone to show off River and Cass' infant son, quietly drinking from a bottle. "Is the body related to the cartel?"

"It is."

"What are you going to tell your boss?"

"The truth."

"You could lose your job for sneaking around."

"Wouldn't I deserve it? I had to come clean to you first, and now it's time to come clean to everyone else."

"Conrad, I love you," she said. "I'm so mad at you for lying to me that I don't even know what else to say right now, but I need to be mad at you in one piece. We can talk more if you make it here this weekend."

"I love you, too." Zion called him then to return to the precinct. "I have to go."

As much as it burned to leave their conversation on that note, Ximena had forced his hand. If he didn't come clean to his coworkers and his boss, he'd lose his job. He might, anyway, but he couldn't move in shadows anymore.

With the scene documented and cleared and the body moved to the morgue, Conrad and Zion returned to the station. They worked through the night, and by morning it was obvious the victim was Jimmy Stefano, a low-level member of Los Tigres de Selva, one of the most violent cartels in Simlandia. "Do you think it's a new turf war?"

Conrad shook his head. "I don't think Los Tigres has operated out of Brindleton Bay for years."

Zion was confused. "Well, what stopped them? They operate just fine out of everywhere else."

"They don't need Brindleton Bay when they've got hold of the ports in San Myshuno," he said, but his attention turned when their captain arrived. The man barely said hello, immediately shutting himself inside his office. Conrad didn't know if it was just that he'd had to come to work on a Saturday, or this specific case, but he had to come clean.

He knocked on the door. With a look, the captain waved him inside. "Sargent, you look tired." He laughed as if he'd made a joke.

"Been a long night."

The captain's expression changed. "Go ahead and shut the door, Sargent."

Conrad sat with an anxious expression, knees together, eyes down like he was about to be reprimanded in grade school. "About the docks victim, sir. I knew him."

The captain nodded plainly. "I read your file when I took over. But you're not the first cop who turned toward the law when they could have easily gone the other way."

"The thing is, I've been working a case under the table for a while now. I found Jimmy Stefano and filed a report against Ximena Bonilla."

"After everything done to bail you out and send you through the academy, you thought it was a good idea to investigate the cartel runner you once dated? For what reason?"

"She found my address, scared my fiancee. Ximena told me her brother was missing, and he and I were close. He was so young, and I wanted to help him."

"You didn't want to help San Myshuno PD? Ximena Bonilla's brother is a wanted man..."

"I would have told him to turn himself in and work a plea," he insisted. "My old precinct would look good, and I hoped Rafa could turn his life around with a little encouragement from someone other than his sister."

"Are you still in touch?"

"No, sir. I told her two days ago I was done searching for Rafa because I thought she was trying to trick me into investigating the cartel. Blocked her number. After the body showed up I tried the number I had but it's been disconnected."

"So she's the prime suspect."

"I think she might've figured out Jimmy talked to me and she wanted to get rid of him. If she didn't kill Jimmy herself - and she might have - I think she ordered the hit to draw me into an investigation against the cartel that could get me killed and endanger my family."

"Do you think she's working with Los Tigres?"

Conrad shrugged. "I don't know. I did a bit of digging and it looks like the cartel itself might be in a bit of disarray. Power vacuum after the murder of one of their higher ups (go on Frida!), so a turf war seems unlikely. I think the safest way to do this is to treat Ximena like a lone wolf. The cartel's not even supposed to be operating in Brindleton Bay these days."

"Since George Brindleton pulled his guys from the ports, they could have moved back in."

Conrad's stomach flipped. "George Brindleton?"

"George Brindleton lost his boats, but he didn't lose his security business. Pulled his men just before he left for Sulani. Said he was cutting costs at the port during the dead season, but I think he's just trying to remind us how important he is after his son went to prison. We upped patrol to try to deal with the lack of security down there, but his guys don't abide by any constitutional rights...I don't admit this outside these walls, but Brindleton's ports have always run better under private security."

"Was this before or after the restraining order I took out on him for Heather and the kids?"

The captain excused Conrad to think, soon calling him back with Zion and another officer who typically dealt with the press. "This is the plan. Our suspect is Ximena Bonilla, but we don't announce it. We look for her, or her brother, and no one else. We say the investigation is ongoing until we've found one or both of them. And Spangler, you're taking point on this one."

"Why me? Gordon's the sergeant."

"Gordon's too close to this one. I want him focused on looking for Rafa Bonilla, not Ximena, but he'll cooperate with you and help behind the scenes. She might try to reach out to him, and if she does, you'll be the first to know. And if you're not, he's a suspect, too." They nodded with understanding. "And Gordon? No more bullshit under the table or I'll put you on leave and find a way not to pay you."

Having worked through the night, Conrad relinquished his files to his mentee, but he left the precinct with a sense of unease. He still had a job, and he could still search for Rafa without needing to hide anything from his coworkers, but while Ximena was unaccounted for he would scarcely be able to relax.

After a nap in the break room, Conrad prepared to drive to Henford-on-Bagley and face his fiancee. ->

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NOTE: I reinstalled TOOL to place the body. The blood isn't placed underneath the victim properly, but I was working at the edge of what was visible in a fully zoomed out screen, and for my second ever placement of a build/buy item and first ever placement of the teleporter off a lot in-game, I'm happy enough with the fact it looks like he bled out from the knees. 🤷 Maybe he did, I don't know, I didn't get detailed about the condition of the body because it doesn't advance the plot. Who and why is more important than how.

WCIF Poses & CC? @simmerianne93's Injured poses pack #1, which is a great set - so cinematic. One of the injured poses has the victim with eyes closed and looks a little like EA's curled-up death animation to me, and that's the one I used. And Blood on the Floor from the There Will Be Blood set by Lore from SimsRebelCreators. Several swatches (including red!) and different spatter patterns if you need some blood for your storytelling!

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Rachel’s plan is underway. Antoinette put on her favourite playlist and drove from Britechester to San Myshuno.

Once she started to approach Solomons office she called him.

In my head as their team meeting was happening, Antoinette was driving down from Britechester. It coincided that as the team meeting was wrapping up she called.

Beginning - Previous - Next

RIP Nip 🏁

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Always Keep Simming - Exploring Ravenwood during the night 👻

Aileen learned about an organization called “Lenore’s order” and found some tarot cards! She was intrigued to find out more about the history of this place. Colin was still thinking about the advice the specters gave him to overcome his grief, while Gemma practically forced a child ghost named Edith to become her friend 😂 Edith was mean, then friendly, then mean again. Gemma was very impressed with her temperament (which was similar to her own actually…). Gavin didn’t quite like the creepy forest, in fact, he quickly lost sight of his sister, thus he returned to the town center and waited with their grandparents.

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Note:

Gemma was always under the watchful eyes of her dad - don’t worry 😉

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[RIMINGS] Special Christmas Day

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Brindleton Bay's top student and award-winning computer team captain– Cavalier Cove School for Girls hasn't seen anyone like her.

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| ‘im with a booster, scammer, and a pole dancer’

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here I was thinking the limp was a temporary injury. What a way to show us what’s really tea. Well done watcher 👏🏽

Struck By Love – Nov 25th Post 5

Cut for potential spoilers, chronological order reading recommended

Art: And I can take care of myself to

Mila: Maybe we wouldn’t worry if you’d just get rid of that damn bike

Art: Mom I am not getting rid of my motorcycle, I love it

Zayden: *chuckles* You sure are stubborn kid

Art: I told you four years ago I wasn’t going to let this disrupt my life

Mila: But that bike put you in a hospital bed

Art: Okay first of all, it was the cab drivers fault that I got pinned. Second of all, I still have one and a half working legs

Shout out to @marcishaun the QUEEN of guessing for guessing this!

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Alira Hairstyle: DOWNLOAD (Maxis Match & PPCW)

* 3 style options:

VER 01 - both sides in the front

VER 02 - left side in the front

VER 03 - both sides in the back

*each of those styles have 5 color options (face paint section)

Hair and recolors have two color versions MM and PPCW

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I hope you know the reference 😌

Struck By Love – Nov 25th Post 3

Cut for potential spoilers, chronological order reading recommended

Mila: Now where is Layla? I want to meet the woman who’s swept my son off his feet

Art: Yeah we... we’re kind of going through a patch

Zayden: Well have you talked to her about it

Art: Yeah I’m talking but it’s like she’s just shut down for now. It’s not her fault though, her ex husband was a real piece of work

Zayden: You don’t just think you’d be better off cutting your losses

Art: No. She’s the one for me. I can feel it. You don’t just cut that off

Mila: If you would only tell us what it’s about-

Art: No. That’s between us, and I don’t want you holding anything against her when things do fall in to place

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Struck By Love – Nov 25th Post 2

Cut for potential spoilers, chronological order reading recommended

Mila: I do like the amount of light you get in here

Art: Yeah well it makes painting easier, dad will you sit down already

Zayden: Just admiring the view, don’t get views like this in Windenburg

Art: I told you I didn’t mind an apartment in the spice district

Mila: Nonsense. You’re an artist, you belong here right next to the gallery that will one day be begging for your work

Art: It still seems like a lot of money

Zayden: My grandmother wasn’t an astronaut just to let her descendants run out of money and sleep in cramped apartments. Besides, the space is good for you and the equipment

Art: Yeah I suppose

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Default coffee cup

Available in 26 swatches, 13 shown above include coffee art. The other 13 are the exact same but have no coffee art. I will more than likely add more swatches at some point, like some cute fall inspired cups etc!

Base game compatible

Remember you can only have one in your game at a time otherwise they will conflict

Photos below of a few of the swatches

Available for free on my patreon page here

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📸 Posepack_049 [Anna&Bibi]

⭐ 5 poses

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📌All of our items are made with love, I hope you enjoy it. Please do not modify or re-upload my mesh without my permission.

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embrace sadness posepack.

about:

- 7 poses intended for female sims, sad emotion. - the poses was inspired by these pics!

requirements:

- andrew pose player & teleport any sims, or wicked whims (18+) for easy placement. - double bed (teleporter at the middle, shown in preview).

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3D eyelashes ☆*:｡Part 4

Hello! I've mainly been using my eyelashes part 2 since part 1 and part 3 were painted with very thin strokes, which I discovered didn't quite match the style of my sims. So here is part 4, with thicker and softer strokes 😌🤍🕊️

The Sims 4

Base-game compatible

Hand-drawn textures

3D mesh

4 designs in 4 colors

They come as accessories and as skin details

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Eyebrows by Obscurus

I hope you like them 🤍🌹

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Some shots taken by Lucia on her evening walks ☾⋆⁺₊

Can we appreciate the overall aesthetics of this EP though?

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How their engagement is going.