#beginning of strangetown

[ladylauviah-blog]

I'm in this place in my Hood that all absurd ideas brought by Sims are just brilliant. Like - Olive Muenda wants to be a witch. Yup, I have one evil sexy hot witch in the forest. WHAT if I pair them up, for science of course and they have Nervous together? XD I mean, the hot witch kinda looks like a demon, no one says that Grimm couldnt be a sexy woman in disquise.

Also, Olive is weirdly attracted to Skip Broke.

[dystopianam]

Clean Maxis & Custom Neighborhoods Templates with Premade Sims! - Masterpost

UPDATED: JANUARY 6 (2025)

Do you love premades but get bored of constantly resetting neighborhoods and of ending up doing the same things over and over again? With this list I offer you some alternatives! Same sims...but with a little...more! Feel free to recommend me others if you know other neighborhoods like these!

Look here for other masterposts!

⚠️ ALWAYS USE THE HOODCHECKER AFTER INSTALLING A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD AND/OR ADDING A SUBHOOD. The HC will clean up messy memories, fix IDs incorrectly associated to other sims, and recover missing tombstones and urns. Always have no-unlink on deleted in your download folder for avoid unlinked character data and use the Urnstone Spawner for respawn manually the tombstones if the HC fail to recover them.

Clean Neighborhoods

meetmetotheriver's clean neighborhoods - HERE and HERE.

Pleasantview with Tutorial Joe and Jane by CroconawSims

Clean Veronaville with fixed scripted events by CroconawSims

Fixed Maxis Universities (Reupload) by CroconawSims

Clean Pleasantview without Bella Goth by CroconawSims

Clean Bluewater Village With All Townies And NPCs by CroconawSims

Belladonna Cove with poorer families by CroconawSims

Clean Belladonna Cove with townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Desiderata Valley With Townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Riverblossom Hills With Townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Pleasantview Plus: Restored Ancestral Sims & Genetic Infant Faces by ivycopur

Strangetown with Genetic Infant Faces (+Subhood Ver.) by Ivycopur

Clean Riverblossom Hills with Scripted Events by CupcakeLeaf

Genetically Correct Clean Template Strangetown With Scripted Events by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

Genetically Correct Clean Template Pleasantview with Scripted Events by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

Genetically Correct and Fixed Veronaville for UC by LordCrumps

Clean Bon Voyage 'Stealth' Neighbourhood by IAmTheRad

Fixed Maxis Strangetown by Dorsal Axe

Pleasantview Clean Template: Maxis Townies + Sim State University by theneonplumb

My Perfect Pleasantview by Pleasantsims

Cleopatra Capp's Clean/Fixed Strangetown Template by queencleopatracapp

Veronaville Clean Template: Maxis Townies + Academie Le Tour by theneonplumb

MeetMe Verona with Townies by sunradersims

Clean Riverblossom Hills with Genetic Infant Faces + subhood version by Kingakicia2001

Sim State University with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

La Fiesta Tech with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Académie Le Tour Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Bluewater Village Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Downtown Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia 2001

Veronaville Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia 2001

EDITED Maxis Neighborhoods

Alternative Neighborhoods by @dreadpirate

Alt Pleasantview V2

Alt Strangetown V2

Alt Veronaville V2

Alt Riverblossom Hills V2

...with a Twist! by @strangetomato

Pleasantview...with a twist!

Strangetown...with a twist!

In Castaway style! by @lordcrumps

Paraiso En Las Rocas (If I can, I would also recommend to download the empty version (or populated, if you don't mind mixing up premades and OCs) of Paraiso En El Mar, because I think they complement each other. PEEM has so many gorgeous community lots! You can use PEEM as Main and PELR as subhood or do the opposite. Personally I would fill the empty version of PEEM with the DV, RVH and BC premades (or just choose some of them) since PELR has all the PV, ST and VV premades + one from BWV)

Early Neighborhoods

Early Pleasantview by @gutosimmer

Early Strangetown by @gutosimmer

Pleasantview 25 years earlier (+ ancestors & infant faces) by Kingakicia2001

From the beginning hoods project on MTS...even more early! The beginning of...

... Pleasantview Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Strangetown Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Veronaville Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

Strange...neighborhoods! by @chrisnewbie

Strangertown (PC Strangetown + PSP ST)

Strangeytown (DS Strangetown + GBA ST)

Pleasantview Edits!

New Pleasantview by @simstate

Pleasantfort by @khal-ulti

Strangetown Edits!

New Strangetown by @simstate

Veronaville Edits!

Veronaville 2.0 by @delijume-sims

Veronaview by @lordcrumps

Veronaville: Brainstorm by @push-tet

Riverblossom Hills Edits!

Katatty's Riverblossom Hills by @katatty

Desiderata Valley Edits!

Katatty's Desiderata Valley by @katatty

Bluewater Village Edits!

Bluewater Village makeover by @plumbtales

Here...something's not right...?? 🤔🥴

Genderswapped Uberhood by sushigal007

Pleasantview but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Strangetown but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Veronaville but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Swapped Strangetown by @katatty

Empty Neighborhoods

There is no one here??

All Maxis Neighborhood Empty (No Sims) and Clean by @jawusa (Main + Subhoods)

Downtown Edits

GET ON LOSER, LET'S GO TO THE CLUB

Downtown makeover by @katatty

Downtown Revamp by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

University campuses 📓

SSU + LFT + ALT by @katatty

Vacation neighborhoods

Three Lakes by @plumbtales

Twikki Island with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Three Lakes with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Takemizu Village with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Stealth neighborhoods

Magic subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Pets subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Hobbies subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Exotic Destinations Subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

[elaez]

I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE so i gonna post WIP + bunch of sketches with my strangetown oc dude??? i'll... try to be short. name's danny duster, age... progressive, but in 2004 he was circa 15. he might have got ladies if he wasn't that paranoid, but since he keeps whining about everyone in strangetown being uhm STRANGE all he gets is tank grunt. dude unironically thinks of tank as The Most Adequate And Reliable Person In Strangetown, so they are snapping at johnny together. in the beginning it was more like "tank fights johnny as usual and danny's pulling him out of this fight", but after some events situation became quite the opposite... ...well, actually, he also thinks of ripp as a nice guy, but ripp doesn't really like him back.

AAAAND yeah i'm trying to play the PSP version... and i'm already in division! and i have some PSP AU danny doodles. he's circa 25 there and became quite a doomer weirdo (also a cemetery watchman lol) after Some Events + ran away from strangetown after graduation, so everyone thought he died or just went missing for 7 years. but he got back, unfortunately.

[maxispremades]

Ajay Loner's investigation begins!

Task #1: Research the situation in the town by reading local newspapers.

Task #2: Get to know the inhabitants and build benevolent relations with them. To make the task easier, the Popularity Aspiration was chosen as a secondary.

Notes on the margins: not all residents of Strangetown like acid rave.

Расследование Айджи Лонера начинается!

Задача №1: изучить обстановку в городе посредством чтения местных газет.

Задача №2: познакомиться с жителями и установить доброжелательные отношения с ними. Для облегчения задачи было выбрано дополнительное стремление к популярности.

Заметка на полях: не всем жителям Китежграда нравится кислотный рейв.

[21wanderer]

The parody

His name was Johnny Zest, born John Landgraab, but that wasn’t a name he used anymore. His family disowned him years ago after he skipped out of school. Johnny wasn’t academical, at all, he was the class clown, and boy did he make them laugh.

Johnny was funny, and he was good at it, so he wanted to work on that instead. He wanted to be a comedian. And that is what he eventually became, much to his family’s disapproval. Not anything big, but enough to make ends meet, and usually just at the local comedy club. One thing he was particularly good at was parodies. Given a little time, he could change his voice quite convincingly. People were amazed with his parodies. He nailed it, they told him.

After a show one evening, a guy approached him by the scene after his performance, as the next set was being set up.

“Great show, dude” he said with a big smile. Johnny thanked him for the compliment.

“Do you think you could make yourself sound like me?” the guy asked. “Well, I’ll need a little time to see how your face moves when you speak, and of course get to know your voice…” Johnny began to explain, but he was cut off before he could elaborate further.

“Heh, it would be great, if you could. I could put you on my channel, you'd get tons of attention." The guy kept talking, but Johnny was beginning to zone out.

Then it dawned on Johnny, who this guy was… He had to be some sort of influencer.

Johnny didn’t recognize him, the guy probably wouldn’t like the fact, that Johnny had no idea who he was. And this guy seemed to be the kind of person, who wanted to be recognized.

So Johnny just played along, after all, acting was what he was good at.

"Hey, let’s take a selfie together, I’ll post on my channel. Then maybe you can get me some free tickets for your next show. Then you can show your impression of me." It wasn't until the guy had taken his selfie and shown the uploaded result to him, that he actual figured out his name: Jackson Ready.

His meeting with Jackson had made him realize something, he wasn’t just good at parodies, he was great at it… Maybe it was time to put it to use…

He began studying Jackson’s posts intricately, trying to absorb as much knowledge about him as possible. Learning all about his hobbies, interests, and most importantly; his behaviour. He had to admit that Jackson was pretty generic, nothing really set him apart. He just filmed other people doing stuff, and then made it all about himself. Johnny couldn’t see any justification in this guy’s popularity, but he wasn’t going to complain, after all he was planning on using it.

He practiced extensively Jackson’s voice and behaviour. He also spent hours on makeup to make himself look just Jackson; they were quite similar, which made it easy, and Johnny wanted to be sure, that he nailed it. In the following weeks, he did everything to try and become just like Jackson, and he was getting more and more accustomed to it.

Thanks to a shady individual from Strangetown, Johnny had come into possession of the device, that was going to subdue Jackson and take him out of the picture. With that he was now all set to put his plan into motion. His last show on stage. The prelude to his greatest performance yet.

He sent a message to Jackson, of course with a free ticket attached, as well as asking him to meet him backstage after his performance.

Johnny managed to get through the show. Jackson was sitting front row… and Johnny had kept a good eye on him, this was going to be wild.

“Hey, dude, you were great tonight - freaking hilarious.”

“Thanks,” Johnny said, his pulse was rising, he knew his window of opportunity was small, and it will appear in just a moment. “So did you think you could make an impression of me?” “Yes, I have been practicing quite a bit.” Johnny said as he led Jackson to the backstage room. “Cool, we can do a couple of short recordings, then I can post in on my channel.” “Excellent, dude!” Johnny said imitating Jackson’s voice. Jackson was visibly surprised. “Woah! You sound just like me, but wait till I have started recording.”

“Oh okay…” Johnny said with his regular voice. Having hid a little tube device in his hand, Johnny anticipated the moment. Jackson was way to occupied looking at his phone screen, seemingly trying to get a good angle as well as light. But his inattention was just, what Johnny had waited for.

Johnny injected the tube into Jackson’s neck, Jackson yelped almost inaudibly, before he dropped his phone and collapsed on the floor.

Not wasting any time, Johnny quickly pulled off Jackson’s boots, socks, suit, watch, cap and underwear, stripping him completely naked. Jackson had a nice body, Johnny already knew that obviously, but seeing it in real life was something definitely more satisfying.

He went over to the mirror table pulling off his fake soul patch, without it his chin was as smoothly shaved as Jackson’s. He then grabbed the wig and quickly put it on. It looked pretty convincing, but Johnny was intending to dye his hair as soon as possible, so he wouldn’t have to rely on the wig. He put in the contact lenses, he knew Jackson used them too, so nobody would notice. Then he began to apply the makeup, he had prepared in advance. He knew exactly what to do to make the disguise flawless. He admired the result in the mirror, his Jackson face was spot on.

He began to undress and threw all his old clothes into his “prop box”, there were actually no props inside the box, the box itself was the prop, but as long as everybody thought it was filled with props Johnny could carry out his plan with little worry.

He stuffed all his old clothes into the box, then dragged it over to the unconscious Jackson.

He lifted him with surprisingly little effort, he wasn’t exactly sure, what that injection had done to him, but he quickly folded Jackson in half and placed him in box, then he shut it.

He then looked at the pile of clothes, that was all that remained of Jackson. He put on Jackson’s damp boxers, keeping his arousal in place. Then the t-shirt and socks, also damp, Johnny enjoyed how they smelled strongly of Jackson, he could get used to that scent.

Then he grabbed the weird suit Jackson had worn, Johnny wasn’t exactly sure, what kind of motor sport you’d wear it for… if any. But Jackson didn’t do motor sports, Johnny knew that much. Nevertheless he thoroughly enjoyed slipping into the suit, it was warm and slick on the inside, it creaked softly as it covered his body. His hand slid down the inside of Jackson's suit, he pulled a couple of times, his arousal was growing. He needed to remain focused, time was of the essence. He wiped his hand off on the leg of the suit. There would be plenty of time for that later. He had to complete his transformation. He slipped on Jackson’s boots, they fitted perfectly. He slipped on his watch and finally he placed the cap on his head… backwards, just like Jackson had worn it.

He now looked just like Jackson did as he entered the backroom just a few minutes ago, nobody would be able to tell the difference, he looked at himself in the mirror, it was breathtaking.

He placed the box on its wheels and quickly left unseen via the back door. He retrieved Jackson’s car key from the inner pocket of the suit. He unlocked Jackson’s car and stuffed the box in the trunk.

The perfect act, from the world’s greatest parodist.

[pixeldolly]

I'm unsure what to do. I have several options when it comes to simming, each with advantages and disadvantages, and I'm stuck trying to choose. 😩Help?

Walden - this one's obvious. My longest-standing (and possibly best-known) hood, with hundreds of pictures worth of posts. On the one hand, it's fun, it's intricate, it's well-established...on the other it's gotten so big and unwieldy, and I feel compelled to tell an ongoing story which often involves extra work on my part rather than just playing. I could drop/downscale the story and just post gameplay pictures but I feel it wouldn't be as interesting anymore. :/

Nekojima - also fun, and smaller, but suffering from similar issues to Walden, since it's very much a story-driven hood, with the additional issue of it not even being my story to begin with.

Some version of Strangetown/Pleasantview/whatever - done to death, can I really bring anything new to the table? I did have an interesting alt-Strangetown going (Strangetown with a Twist) which was fun though.

Something new. Again.

[ennysimmer]

Welcome to the Pleasant region

I needed a short break from playing my bacc Neptune and at my current uploading pace my queue will last for months, so I figured I could start another project for some variation :>

I love the premade hoods and I've been thinking about starting an uberhood for quite some time now. I don't know the exact definition of an uberhood, but I know I can't be bothered to play in all the premade hoods. Instead, I decided to go with the three base game hoods Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Veronaville (+ Downtown). I also added all households from Bluewater Village, and some from Belladonna Cove, to the mix. This will be my version of an uberhood.

The Pleasant region will be a bit different from my bacc. I won't share everything that happens. I'll focus on the bigger events during the rotations and summarize them in one or two posts per household. This means longer posts but posted less frequently. Sometimes I might skip posting about some families for one rotation if nothing interesting happened during their round.

Similarly to my bacc, I'll stick to rotational and (mostly) want based gameplay.

I have already played a few households in Pleasantview and oh my, it was a chaotic (and tragic) beginning for some of them. I'm looking forward to sharing what has happened so far!

[kamiiri]

Heard Plumbella shout you out in her iceberg video, thought it was really cool and just wanted to echo her appreciation and admiration of your work with the Strangetown families (and how amazing you make them look in TS4!!) You convey so much emotion and nostalgia in your Strange story and reading it from the beginning has been a gift! Hope you are having a wonderful day or night!

😭😭 thank you SO MUCH you're so sweet. this message made my entire day<3333

[intercomkris]

forming family ( ??? )

anaya ; anaya is an intern at futuresim labs located in strangetown. working there for over 3 years now, anaya is slowly beginning to grow unpleasant with the secrets futuresim labs is holding off from the public. anaya hiding secrets from the townsfolk in the bay, what could futuresim be hiding? but most all being pregnant is what has her on edge the most. . . what could this mean for her unborn child?

taylor ; taylor is a rookie programmer, working at futuresim labs. though just starting 3 months ago, taylor is unaware of the secrets that the lab is hiding and most of all his fiancé. strangetown native, he's more than happy to be closer to his hometown. when will taylor discover the uncovered truth behind whats going on at the lab and most of all his wife. . . would he make the right decision for not only himself but his child?

[uberhood]

This ain't your grandma's uberhood.

...because it's the third time I've tried to tell this story and i don't want to get overwhelmed again.

I'm playing a Sims 2 megahood, mostly focusing on an edited Strangetown, but with most of the Maxis premades, and a few added quirks.

Read the whole story from the beginning here.

More about the uberhood, and my goals for the story, under the cut.

HOODS

Here are the neighbourhoods I'm currently playing in the uberhood:

@chrisnewbie 's Strangeytown as the base hood, and the one that definitely gets played in full rotation.

Pleasantview (for Lilith and Dustin)

Veronaville (for Miranda/Hermia/Puck)

Desiderata Valley (for John Mole and Natasha Una)

@penig's Widespot (for the drama + Sky Weiss).

@jawusa's Aileen Landing (which I've never actually played before!)

@oceansmotion 's Natosi (for the spooky ghost town vibes)

@hoodbuildinggroup's Sedona, for the vibes

hoodbuildinggroup's Shady Shores, because I love those toddlers and I want them to grow up well

Maxis stealth hoods for the Ottomi, Newsons, Gavigans, etc.

As a downtown, I've added @aondaneedles 's Copperhead City.

For our universities, we've got penig's Land Grant University, Maxis' La Fiesta Tech, and aonda's Cactus Canyon University.

For our vacation destinations, we've got topp's Felicity Island, jawusa's Moonbase Apollo, and Maxis' Three Lakes.

I'm not adding Belladonna Cove, because I'm not a masochist. I'm not adding Riverblossom Hills, because most of it bores me. (I might change my mind about this and add Jules O'Mackey and the Roths...) I'd love to add Douglasville and Arkhelios, because they fit the vibes, but neither of them seems to have a subhood version :(

STORY

I want to at least start the story low-stakes and work up to the harder, more emotionally hefty stuff. Part of the reason I've been struggling so hard with the Uberhood is that writing... like... the Grunts... is a challenge.

This is why the first couple chapters center mostly around lone weirdoes who don't have any ties to a grander story. I want to introduce some metaplot eventually, but I want to do it slowly.

CREDITS

The way I tell this story is heavily influenced by @simhealing's Uberhood, and I probably borrowed a bunch of headcanons from her without realizing. If you like what I'm doing here, go check her out.

Most of the CC I use is from @withlovefromsimtown , @whattheskell/@ts2repositoryproject , @platinumaspiration and/or @lordcrumps. I'm WCIF friendly, but if you see something and you don't know what it is, the odds are that it's from one of those four creators.

Thanks for reading! Have fun!

[luverofralts]

Arkhelios Adventures

"All in a day's work. The living realm is always so responsive to its ruler."

Lukas grinned, looking back at their husband. They hadn't needed to stop by and watch their plan unfold, but sometimes it was rewarding to see it all come together. Izanami had needed to take a walk anyway to settle his stomach. Even when he abstained from eating mortal food, Izanami still suffered fits of vomiting up unmentionable items, though it was starting to slow down. Yesterday, there hadn't even been one incident and the twins had forced him to eat an omelet they had made. Lukas saw this as progress. Maybe whatever was happening was beginning to go away like a bad flu.

"The mortals never do stand a chance against you," Izanami sighed. The skin of his physical incarnation was beginning to feel cold despite the summer sun. He had agreed to a quick walk, not a stake out to ensure that the mortals complied with Lukas' every whim. "Now that you and Destiny have your ball back, can we return home? It's unpleasant to linger here."

"Yeah, of course. Thanks for being a good sport. Your daughter and her friends are going to love you for this. I'm going to love you for this. Those suits I ordered are going to blow the competition away. The ghost investigation will be good too, especially if the mortals do all the work for me. I'm going to have to pay that Strangetown demigod a visit if the Strangetown king really means to investigate. Jasone, was it? She was always nice to me. It's been forever since I've spoken to a demigod."

"Probably for the best, I think," Izanami muttered. "The last thing we need is for you to end up in the same room as Hailee. The afterlife burned the last time you spoke."

Lukas frowned, not enjoying where this conversation was leading. The less they thought about their ex-mistress, the happier they were.

"I'll have you know that she hasn't...."

Lukas trailed off, suddenly feeling slightly nauseous themselves. Something wasn't right. Something was very much not right.

White mist escaped from their mouth, just as it did with Izanami. Their stomach was churning into knots and a darkness gripped the deity, crushing their chest until they couldn't draw breath.

"Lukas?"

A familiar feeling washed over Lukas, one so powerful that even they could not stand against it. Their legs buckled. White hot pain seared itself into their mind. A voice as dark and cold as the sea murmured something they couldn't make out. Fear and pain and memory flowed from the deity so quickly Lukas was forced to wonder if they truly could die and this was finally their end.

They wrapped their arms tightly around their chest and took a shallow breath. They had done this before twice now. Lukas was reincarnating.

"Izanami, help! I'm reincarnating again! I can't! I'll miss the children growing up! I can't go through regaining my memories again, of remembering you again! I can't-"

The feeling faded as quickly as it had come on, but Lukas didn't dare release their arms. They stood frozen, arms wrapped tightly against their chest. At some point, they had started hyperventilating and now that they had noticed, it seemed impossible to stop.

"Lukas!"

Izanami was at his spouse's side in an instant, covering them with his own corporal form to protect them. Lukas' previous reincarnations had been triggered by fatal injuries or dark magic, but Izanami saw nothing like that. There were no injuries, no blood, just....

Izanami stared curiously at their frightened spouse. They didn't look like they were dying. They looked like they always did, but with brown hair. There hadn't been a reincarnation at all, not that Izanami could see. All the commotion had been for a simple change in his spouse's hair colour, not a violent end. Izanami was grateful beyond words to have his Lukas still with him, but was still baffled. What the hell was going on?

"Vrai, you worthless mortal, call my son! He'll answer if you're calling during work hours and he needs to be here to help his mother!"

Vrai snapped out of his daydreaming at the sound of Death’s voice. He didn't work for Death, but he was sleeping with Death’s son, which motivated him to stay on Death’s good side.

Vrai began to dial, but Lukas held up a shaky hand to stop him.

"Wait, let me try this first. I think I can...."

Lukas erupted into a brilliant beam of light, far too bright to stare at for very long. From what Vrai could make out with his hand still shielding his eyes, Lukas was shifting. Parts of them were rearranging, swirling around the light and then snapping into place.

"How's this?"

The light died down, revealing Lukas exactly as they had been two minutes ago.

"Your hair's different, but everything else looks normal," Vrai replied. "You really went through all of that just to dye your hair brown?"

Despite already being the palest person Vrai had ever seen, Lukas seemed to pale three more shades at these words.

"Still the brown hair?" they whispered in horror. "No. No. I'll try this."

The brilliant light shielded Lukas from sight once more. When it receded, Lukas was in their usual female form, except their hair remained brown instead of its usual black.

"Dammit! God dammit!" the deity swore when they looked at their long locks of brown hair. "This isn't happening! Izanami, tell me how to change this!"

If Vrai didn't know any better, he could almost swear that there was legitimate fear in Lukas' eyes. Their breaths were quick and shallow and they stated at their husband in a look Vrai could only describe as panicked.

"It's just a hair colour," Vrai offered kindly. "It looks good on you. You can always dye it back to black if you hate it that much."

Lukas ignored their employee's kind gesture, worriedly searching their mind for a solution to whatever was happening to them.

"Izanami, you know what this means, right?"

Izanami nodded, looking equally as lost.

"You haven't reincarnated," he said quietly. "You have access to your second and third reincarnations, but not your first. This is troubling."

"Troubling isn't the right word," Lukas insisted. "Horrifying is much closer. Catastrophic even."

"Forget calling Gee, I'll go drag him here myself," Izanami declared. "And the angels too. Someone has to know what's going on here. How hard can they be to find?"

"Considering Lukas almost burned them to ash along with the rest of us, I'd imagine the angels won't be helping any time soon," Vrai remarked, still unsure if this was an elaborate prank the deities were pulling on him. "And Gee knows nothing about Lukas or how they function. Apparently the training he's relieved from his predecessor was rather...incomplete. I doubt he'd be able to help here."

Izanami broke his concentration on his spouse to give Vrai a withering look that spoke volumes about how little he cared to train his son to replace him.

"A good reaper finds his feet on his own. Instinct takes over when you give yourself to the power. Others have done it quicker than he has, with more success. His ignorance is no excuse. He is my son."

"And this is why you never get invited to family dinner," Vrai chided. Gee would never ask him to defend him to his father, but Vrai felt like he had to.

His words only made Izanami's glower darker and more threatening.

"I get invited to family dinner all the time," he assured his irritating son in law. "It is a kindness that I show you to decline the invitation. Pray I never accept it. You would not like what happens."

Vrai tried not to gulp in fear. It was one thing to see the Grim Reaper without his cloak, it was something else completely to see the dark side of Death.

"Go find the angels," Lukas interrupted, giving Vrai the chance to escape from his conversation. "Vrai's right. Gee doesn't know anything; we need someone who does. What about Evalla? As much as I like to ignore her existence, she has channeled my powers before. Maybe she can feel what's changed now. She's the only one who has touched my power and remained alive. All the rest are gone."

Izanami nodded quickly. The idea made sense, and a single sim in the afterlife was far easier to find than four easily pissed off angels.

"I'll be back shortly, Dearest," he vowed, kissing his spouse's head before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

As soon as Izanami was out of sight, Lukas collapsed to the ground, barely holding back tears.

"I guess I'm supposed to babysit you or something?" Vrai sighed, staring at the deity currently on the ground, making pitiful sobbing noises. Vrai had honestly never seen Lukas like this over the several decades they had known them. Usually, the deity was the one pulling the strings on every occasion in the living world, indifferent to the feelings of others.

Whatever was happening, Lukas really did seem to be terrified. They and Vrai had had a complicated relationship over the years, but they could sort of count as friends if Vrai was being charitable. Dating their stepson and technically existing to serve Life counted as a friendship, right? He wasn’t getting rid of the deity any time soon either way.

"Your grand scheme about the ball is completing itself over there," Vrai pointed out, hoping to appeal to the more confident, mildly narcissistic side of the deity. Flattery might go a long way. "It looks like the Harvest Moon Ball is saved, all because of you. My brother even supports your scheme and you know how pissed off he gets when you steal our mother's tiara."

Lukas sighed, trying to compose themselves but failing. It wouldn't make sense to Vrai why they were so upset. No mortal could understand. Their hair colour had changed, and to them, what was so frightening about that?

"Vrai...You don't understand. Sit down. You'll draw less attention."

Vrai couldn't ignore a request that strange. If he didn't know better, he might have thought that the deity was actually opening up to him.

"Somethings wrong with Izanami," Lukas admitted, their voice barely above a whisper. "He's sick somehow, vomiting up things you'd see in your nightmares. And now this, whatever this is. There's got to be something bad happening here if we're both experiencing...changes. I don't know what this means for the universe; I really don't. It can't be good though."

Vrai frowned. He wasn't accustomed to Lukas doing anything but harping on him to obey their every whim. It was an unsettling change.

"You look fine enough though," he replied, hoping it was the right thing to say. "Your hair is just different. Compared to vomiting up nightmares, that sounds pretty okay."

Lukas signed heavily, wiping their eyes with their sleeves and hoping that Vrai didn't notice.

"I had a son once."

Lukas paused long enough for Vrai to question whether they were waiting for him to respond.

"Okay. You had a son," he coaxed. "You have a few sons from the family tree Gee drew up for me. I mean, there's Davis, obviously. I think Greg was mentioned once, unless I'm misremembering. There were a few more, right? And you have daughters too. There's one with dark hair and purple eyes that hangs around the afterlife offices I think."

Lukas shrugged.

"I guess. I don't really think about them much," they admitted. "I only married their mother to get back at Izanami. She was one of his reapers, and he broke up with me when I...no, it doesn't matter. I'm not talking about those children. I'm talking about him."

Vrai froze, unable to believe this conversation was happening. Every employee of the supernatural realm knew about him. Luke Jr, the one who stole Lukas' abilities and kept his father comatose for centuries. The damage he had caused both the living and the dead realms was incalculable. It was worse in Strangetown, where he grew up and began learning his father's powers. Vrai was the direct descendant of that suffering; there was no way he couldn't have known all about Lukas' infamous son.

Apparently, he had paused for too long. Lukas was already speaking, seemingly uninterested in hearing Vrai's reply.

"Has Gee ever told you about the world he grew up in?"

"Huh? No, not really. He said it wasn't as nice as things were now, but he loved growing up in Strangetown."

What the hell does that have to do with your son?

"That figures," Lukas sighed. "He's far too sentimental to be honest about the past. Things were different then. So different, you couldn't even comprehend it. My parents were born into a war that consumed their entire lives. It was endless, spanning across decades. I arrived in the world just after Strangetown fell to ruin, and then war became all I knew as well. We only created the teams of reapers because Izanami couldn't keep up with the number of souls about to die. Entire countries fell overnight, only to build a new foundation that also crumbled soon after. People were different back then. I was different back then. I didn't know half of what I know now about myself and what I can do. The Ocean has always been cryptic, and Izanami can't understand my domain. I've had to learn so much by myself over the years and when I first lost my corporal form and reincarnated, I thought my existence was over."

"That does sound frightening," Vrai said softly. "But you survived. You got a new incarnation. Things worked out in the end."

Lukas stared at the ground, trying to regain their composure, but the tears kept rolling down their cheek anyway.

"I normally wouldn't tell anyone this, but if I am reincarnating again and Izanami is falling apart, you may have to tell my new reincarnation this one day until I can remember it for myself. Last time, it took years to remember who I was. I can't go through that again. Not when my children need me to be there for them."

"Tell me what?"

Lukas sighed heavily, taking a long pause before continuing.

"When my sister died, our family died with her. Metaphorically speaking, I suppose, though it feels literal. I was cheating on the wife I married to make Izanami jealous with a demigod, also to show Izanami how over him I was. I was so cocky back then. We knew there had been attacks on reapers, but that wasn't my department. There were reports of demon activity that I ignored. All I could think about was myself and being as petty as I could. I didn't love my mistress, but she made me feel good about myself. And then it all fell apart."

Vrai nodded. History remembered some of what he believed Lukas was describing, and Gee had filled in some of the missing details over the years. Even he knew that tragedy and the birth of Luke Jr had devastated Lukas and the demigod Hailee Evans, and now the two loathed each other with every fiber of their being. Even while trying to be truthful, Lukas still refused to refer to her by name. None of this related to Lukas' reaction to their hair change, though Vrai was genuinely curious about where this conversation was going. The deity seemed to be babbling instead of coherently telling Vrai information they needed him to know.

"Demons killed your predecessors while I was with her. My champions, who I had protected and relied on for centuries were gone. It was my job to keep them alive until they had a child to replace their function in the universe. The last one died as a teenager with no heir. They were just suddenly gone and it was my fault. She lost her mother in the same attack that took my sister. Maybe it killed her family the same way it killed mine; I don't care enough to ask."

"What about this am I supposed to help you remember if you reincarnate?" Vrai interrupted. "That you don't get along well with your exes? That you need to stop being petty? I already could have told you that."

The tears stopped just long enough to glare at Vrai.

"No. I need to remember that this is a message. A threat."

Vrai shook his head.

"I don't follow. How is hair a threat?"

"My fathers were soldiers. It was all they knew and the wars are still deeply ingrained in them. You can see the deep scars they carry within them to this day written all over their souls. They're violent and broken and thrive in conflict. Linus is a self righteous asshole who clings to his principles, even when they hurt people. My father...well, Luke was raised in the darkness, groomed to be a weapon against everything good. When my sister died, they both blamed me for not protecting her. Even my little brother agreed with them that I was guilty of abandoning her. Then, I disappeared too, as my powers were stripped away by unworthy demons who couldn't handle them. My parents lost it when I vanished. Linus became unhinged in his search for his children, while my father...he reverted to his old ways in his desperation. The demons manipulated him, and he used his power to escape the afterlife to hunt the demons who had taken me. He killed a lot of people. A lot. If Izanami hadn't retired decades before this, he would have been livid over having to do paperwork on a dead soul killing the living."

Even while consumed by terror, Lukas had to smile at the idea. "I first began my reign with black hair like Linus. I'm pale like my father, and they both have blue eyes, so having Linus' dark hair made me feel like I belonged to both of them. It's stupid, but it always made me feel better somehow. Like I belonged just like any other child. When I reincarnated for the first time, I drew from my parents' power and created a new corporal form for myself. Everything was the same as my last form, except that my hair had changed. It made me look just like my father. That was the first thing absolutely everyone noticed. I couldn't look in a mirror without seeing the spitting image of my father staring back at me. My father had done unspeakable things to try to get his children back, and that was all I could see when I looked into a mirror. Failure. Darkness. The guilt I felt for returning without Riley. Every time I looked at myself, all of these feelings would overwhelm me to the point that I just dyed my hair black to block out the memories. And now, I conveniently get stuck in my second incarnation, with brown hair even in my female form? This is a message. I never thought I could reincarnate before I did. I lost my body for the first time because my guard was down and I was weak. I regained a body afterward that only reminded me of the darkness and pain surrounding my family. I get the message loud and clear."

"And that message is?" Vrai sounded doubtful that any of this made sense, but didn't want to spook the deity when they were already upset.

"That I may be forced to reincarnate again if I'm not careful, and maybe that I'm not worthy of it with the darkness within me," Lukas insisted. "Maybe one day I will go join Riley wherever she is as punishment for losing her. I'm capable of the same darkness as my father and my son, and maybe the universe is just sick of dealing with me."

"Uh...huh. Well, that is one interpretation," Vrai said carefully. It would take time to process this confession and Gee would be thrilled if Vrai shared this insight about his stepmother with him. This seemed private, though. Gee didn't really need to know this, Lukas was opening up solely out of fear. "Are you sure that it's not just a reversion genetically? One form degrading until it snaps out of place? It could be something as simple as that. You do shift a lot, maybe something's just stuck?"

Lukas shook their head vehemently.

"With Izanami being sick, this is too coincidental to happen by accident. It's a warning. 'I know what you're capable of and where you come from. Watch out or you're gone again, though maybe this time, I'll take your husband too."

"Who could possibly be warning you? You're a god. You're the embodiment of life contained in an irritating package. Who are you afraid of?"

Lukas looked baffled at the question.

"The Ocean, of course! Don't you listen to anything I say to you? Doesn't Gee ever tell you what happened to the last two demonic sovereigns? They're gone! They sank into his depths and are gone. Forever."

"And that's not a metaphor?" Vrai replied skeptically. "The ocean, the thing I have a yacht docked in, is threatening you?"

Lukas' demeanor changed in an instant.

"What? How can your son understand this completely while you act like this is the first time you've heard of it? Yes, that ocean. Of course, that ocean. It connects to every part of our world, right down to the core. It built this world, it's reflected in every drop of water in our bodies. We belong to it, and it's not always merciful. He has a physical form now, powerful enough to contain his essence and conduct his business in person. If you think that I'm powerful, then you can't even imagine what he can do. We serve him and try to stay out of his way. You'd better do the same if he ever takes an interest in you."

"So if Leo is right about his religion, does that mean my brother is wrong about his? Should I tell him? The Old Ways seem to comfort him, but if it's wrong-"

"Demigods are real, I have a child with one. You already knew that. Yes, they have their own powers and limitations and listen to their faithful. I had brunch with Jasone a decade or so back, and she seems to really like your brother. So, no, don't brush off your family's religions because you're narrow-minded. Demigods have nothing close to my power, but they're strong enough."

Vrai's mind raced with questions. Lukas was being vulnerable by some miracle while also confirming that Vrai needed to maybe listen more when Charley rambled on about demigods. Between this and the political drama happening in the royal garden behind him, it had been a wild day so far.

"Lukas! Evalla says that she can sense the currents of your power and that it's stable. There's nothing like what she experienced when you last reincarnated, so we're probably okay. I don't know what this all means, but you're not about to leave us and that's all that matters."

Izanami appeared out of nowhere, running to his spouse's side in an instant and dragging them off the ground into his arms.

"Did you find the angels?" Lukas asked breathlessly. "Evalla's just one person, and she could be completely wrong. Plus, everything that's been happening to you...this feels like a message. You know as well as I do who's behind this. What does he want with us?"

"Hold out your hand," Izanami said quietly, extending his own hand to cup his spouse's.

"Why? Will it help? Can it change me back? I can't see this form every time i look in a mirror. Not again."

"Remember the first piece of magic I taught you the day we first met? The declaration of identity? Try that now. If you can cast it, then you're probably fine. If you can't, well, that's something we'll think about if it happens. Go on, I'm right here with you. I'll do it too."

Lukas closed their eyes and concentrated on their outstretched hand. It was an easy enough use of their abilities. Demonic children and young witches could all cast it without a struggle. The magic gathered in the palm of a caster's hand, emitting energy that revealed information about the caster. It was the magical equivalent to wearing a name tag, hence why it was so popular with students. Children could use the magic to introduce themselves in class or when greeting new people. It could be used to identify lost children who hadn't memorized their full name and home address. The very first day of Lukas' existence, an extremely confused Izanami had taught them this, hoping that it would reveal the identity of the handsome stranger with powers he hadn't seen in anyone in decades. If they weren't currently so unsettled, Lukas would have had to stifle a laugh at the memory of Izanami's baffled face when the only thing the magic had revealed that day was "To Izanami, His name is Lukas."

With their eyes squeezed shut, Lukas could feel the magic within them begin to gather in their hand. They didn't dare look until the process was finished. It would be one thing to fail this simple test and fall apart worrying about what that meant, and something even worse to have to watch it happen.

A warm feeling rushed through their hand, and Lukas opened one eye to see if the magic was working. There, in their palm, was a familiar green glow. Green that represented plants and energy and vast jungles filled with vibrant creatures. All of nature sang in harmony within the magic in their hand. There could be no denying that the person generating such a sight was life incarnate.

There was a second energy brushing against the edges of Lukas' magic, equal in strength, but opposite in nature. A sickly yellow red glow had pooled in Izanami's hand, evoking thoughts of fire and sickness and decay. A force that ended whatever Life began. Lukas had known that energy for millenia and cherished it as intensely as their own. That was unmistakably Death.

They released the breath that they hadn't realized they'd been holding. Everything was okay. Their energy was stable, and Izanami's was as strong as it had ever been. They weren't reincarnating, and whatever had come over them earlier had to be just a fluke. Everything was fine. Opening up to Vrai had turned out to be unnecessary, but the experience seemed to have changed some of his opinions, so it hadn't been a complete waste. They were just thinking about how to force Vrai to never speak of what they'd discussed when Izanami cleared his throat.

"Dearest, something's wrong. Your...your declaration is wrong."

Lukas snapped to attention, their previous worries now banished from their mind. Since learning how to control their abilities in their first incarnation, the declaration magic should announce them as "Lukas Lane, god of life." Whatever it said now, they hadn't changed it.

"What does it say? I haven't changed it in millenia."

Izanami frowned, studying the magic before him like it was some kind of threat.

"It says, 'To Lukas Lane, enjoy this stroll down memory lane while it lasts."

Lukas froze in place, unable to process a single thought. Their suspicions were right, as they always were. This sudden transformation had been a warning, though for what, they couldn't currently understand. With dread, Lukas turned to read the energy in Izanami's palm, knowing that it was likely just as cryptically altered as their own.

"To Izanami, she's coming. She's coming soon."

Lukas met Izanami's frightened state with one of their own.

"What the hell does that mean?" they demanded. "Who's coming? When?"

Izanami nudged his spouse's hand with his own.

"Look," he insisted, still holding their hands together. "Watch where the declarations overlap. When they're touching, you can see something else. It looks like-"

"Don't mourn for Riley. She'll have plenty of company soon, unless you can stop them," Lukas read, their voice shaking audibly now.

"What does that mean?" Vrai asked, choosing to remind the two deities that he was still awkwardly standing beside them rather than escaping to the safety of the conversation of the monarchs behind him. "You said that your sister is dead and lost to us, isn't she? Is she coming back somehow?"

Lukas shook their head solemnly. Riley was never coming home. Of that, they were certain.

"It means that very shortly, unless we can stop it, more reapers are going to die."

[ladylauviah-blog]

can't wait for kitty in this mix lol

[dystopianam]

[MASTERPOST] Maxis Neighborhoods with Genetic Infant Faces

UPDATED JANUARY 6 (2025)

In this masterpost I have listed all the links to Maxis neighborhoods with genetic infant faces that I have found! If there are others that are missing from this list, please do not hesitate to tell me!

Look here for other masterposts

⚠️ ALWAYS USE THE HOODCHECKER AFTER INSTALLING A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD AND/OR ADDING A SUBHOOD. The HC will clean up messy memories, fix IDs incorrectly associated to other sims, and recover missing tombstones and urns. Always have no-unlink on deleted in your download folder for avoid unlinked character data and use the Urnstone Spawner for respawn manually the tombstones if the HC fail to recover them.

BASE GAME

Pleasantview with infant faces [NO NEIGHBORHOOD YET].

Strangetown with Infant faces HERE.

Veronaville with Infant faces HERE.

UNIVERSITY

Sim State University with Infant Faces HERE.

La Fiest Tech with Infant Faces HERE.

Academie Le Tour with Infant Faces HERE.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Bluewater Village with Infant Faces HERE.

NIGHTLIFE

Downtown with Infant Faces HERE.

SEASONS

Riverblossom Hills with Infant Faces HERE.

Weather subhood with Genetic Infant Faces HERE.

Default Replacement Ideal Plantsim Genetic Infant Faces HERE. (IT IS NOT A NEIGHBORHOOD BUT AN NPC. ONCE YOU PUT IT IN YOUR DOWNLOAD FOLDER YOU CAN NO LONGER REMOVE IT.)

PETS

Pets Stealth Hood with Infant Faces HERE.

FREE TIME

Desiderata Valley with Infant Faces [NO NEIGHBORHOOD YET]

Hobby Stealth Hood with Infant Faces HERE.

BON VOYAGE

Takemizu Village with Infant Faces HERE.

Twikki Island with Infant Faces HERE.

Three Lakes with Infant Faces HERE.

Exotic Destinations Subhood with Infant Faces HERE.

APARTMENT LIFE

Belladonna Cove with Infant Faces [NO NEIGHBORHOOD YET]

Magic Subhood with Infant Faces HERE.

EXTRA

Early Neighborhoods

Pleasantview 25 years earlier with Infant Faces HERE

The Beginning of Pleasantview with Infant Faces HERE.

The Beginning of Steangetown with Infant Faces HERE.

The Beginning of Veronaville with Infant Faces HERE.

Edited Maxis Neighborhoods

Clean Pleasantview Plus with ancestors & Infant Faces HERE.

[nervosims]

Don't Deadname the Servo! 🤖⚧️

episode 12 of my strangetown let's play series! lots of new beginnings and a new lease on life for our beloved Cymon X. watch it here

[maxispremades]

My little "rules" for the rotational TS2 gameplay!

Play all the households in the neighbourhood one after the other, the duration of playing for one family is one season (6 sim days) +- a few days if necessary.

Order of households:

Strangetown:

Loner — Singles — Curious — Specter — Beaker — Smith — Grunt

Pleasantview:

Kat — Burb — Lothario — Goth — Caliente — Broke — Dreamer — Pleasant — Oldie

Bluewater Village:

???

When someone of my sims goes to college, they are at the beginning of the university rotation. The duration of the game for students is one year (repeat until all students from the playable families graduate/drop out of the university).

These rules may change and be updated along the way 👽

русский текст

Мои маленькие «правила» для двоечного геймплея!

Играю всеми семьями в городке по очереди, продолжительность игры за одну семью — один сезон (6 игровых дней) +- пара-тройка дней по необходимости.

Порядок семей:

Китежград:

Лонер — Незамужних — Всезнайко — Некрономикон — Колби — Смит — Грант

Новосельск:

Котейко — Барбо — Лотарио — Гот — Гонгадзе — Брок — Дример — Новосельских — Олди

Торжок:

???

Если кто-то из персонажей поступает в университет, то оказывается в начале новой университетской очереди. Продолжительность игры за студентов — 1 курс (повторять, пока все студенты из играемых семей не выпустятся/вылетят из университета).

По ходу игры правила могут меняться и дополняться 👽

[madraynesims]

Madrayne, did you ever thought of (at least trying to) recreating the SURFING BOARD machine or whatever the thing is called in Sims 2 Console? Honestly...that thing is epic and only found on one of beginer lots. I have always found it weird you couldnt have it as BUY CATEGORY option.

Hi there! Yeah, absolutely. The plan is to get everything converted eventually, I just want to do it properly. There is the option of converting some of the more advanced objects as just decorative, then later providing a functional version by either me or another creator, which I could give the resources for if someone wants to do it. It's just there's soooo much to convert and I've been trying to focus more on Strangetown related stuff if I can help it.

Also, you can buy the Wurl N' Hurl Gnarlosurf 2000 from the buy catalog and enjoy it in any location you want! You just need 27,900 aspiration points to unlock it. Like here at The Orbit Room!