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TLDR there have been 2 deaths in the Tia/Siew household, but before that, I played Demiana Tia's grandfather, Phaesi Garas, and his son Harmine, so that they would be in sync with the rest of their family tree.

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Demiana had been sneaking out recently and, unfortunately, ROS gods decided that she would get her comeuppance for this un-ladylike behaviour. Because she sadly passes away, the Tias' residence is going to be overtaken by the Siews... at least until Zet Tia comes back from war (but even if the war doesn't claim his life, old age will).

Before it was decided Demiana would perish immediately, I had been considering Demiana's options, even though a marriage for her couldn't be arranged properly, as her grandfather couldn't be asked for her hand. She would have made a great match with Volesus Bruni (originally a Romance sim, now only interested in Grilled Cheese). The other option was Tullus Imago, but the Imagos are not on good terms with the Tias now... especially that Demiana saw Sampsa Imago at the graveyard.

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Demiana was an Athletic, Charismatic, and Family-Oriented Sagittarius. She was a very playful and active maiden. Even if she wasn't particularly pretty, I'd like to think she had a nice physique. Quite nice but also shy, she was hoping to find a romantic partner [or multiple], but her life ended prematurely. She was very friendly towards servants. She made friends with Peregrina, Titia and Cleo Flori (with whom she would sometimes sneak out, which possibly led to her 'downfall'). She was on good terms with her cousin's family, the Siews, and naturally, her grandfather Zet Tia will be devastated to hear news of her passing.

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I felt bad about turning this post into a happy one after Demiana's death because of Yune Siew's marriage... but in the end even this was not truly happy...

Saku and Yune met Phaesi this round to share the grave news of Demiana's passing. Phaesi lost his daughter Sosen almost as soon as she had left the family home, and now his granddaughter Demiana was also dead.

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There is some difference in age between Phaesi and Yune, but they had been BFF-s for some time already. Both Yune and Phaesi wanted to 'marry rich', and a marriage was arranged for these two Fortune sims. Yune still remembered the times when she was helping her mother with the family business, and she heard Phaesi had his own quite profitable store, which she was interested in.

Saku was very enthusiastic about the betrothal, since she wished for a relative to get engaged, married, and have children. She was also friends with Phaesi.

Yune and Phaesi had 2 bolts of chemistry, but they didn't want to go on dates, much less get engaged specifically to each other, despite the attraction. This marriage felt like an arranged marriage of convenience between two long-time friends?

Phaesi's wish to marry rich was fulfilled, but sadly, Yune didn't get her want. She still wanted to WooHoo though, and she got pregnant first try... with twins... who would both be fine, but... she wouldn't.

She had twin girls, with purple eyes (dark blue replacement), my first purple-eyed babies! They were called Paesia and Athanasia because I guess we are doing some random saint names for this family now. Paesia is black-haired, while Athanasia is brown-haired. We'll see how they turn out in the following rounds, for now they are only babies.

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Yune Siew was a Diva, Virtuoso, and Born Salesperson with Green Thumb. She always looked up to her musical mother, Saku, who used to work as a Dance professional. She shared her father's love of Cuisine, even if she didn't know him very much at all. She was enthusiastic about learning the ropes of running a successful business, but it was never meant to happen...

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Before the funeral(s), I played Demiana's grandfather Phaesi so that his son Harmine would at last become a teenager.

Phaesi opened a little blacksmith business. He got the Gold Robotics Badge and maxed out the Tinkering enthusiasm. For some reason Phaesi has got a bad reputation. Fitting for a 'merchant', I guess.

Phaesi opened his store twice, since I played them for almost two seasons. I normally don't use the LeTourneau Prize, but I thought it was fitting in this situation, since the business was getting closed anyway (I wanted to do anything I could to bring his 'money' up so he would count as 'rich', but in the end he didn't anyway).

He crafted ~8 swords and brooms, but didn't sell all of them. They got to business rank 3 and I let them get the 3rd money prize, which brought them to the total of 25,578$ (half of which was just from the rewards).

I'm considering making it a requirement from now on for sims who go to war to have swords (average price 1380$), otherwise they might not be doing so well during conflicts. The current war should be exempt from this 'rule', as there was no way of obtaining swords before.

I am also thinking about letting my servants settle down into their own houses when they can afford the broom (of freedom ;)) priced at 920$ on average... Unfortunately, there is a problem with that, as servants would have been unlikely to get paid much or at all? in this time period, I'm afraid. I would have to think about this more.

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The TiaSiew/Garas household had 51,991$ in the bank after I took away ~half of the money Phaesi had brought into this marriage (so that he only brought in his actual earnings). They paid the taxes off of the 25,578$.

3000$ - rent

2,558$ - tax (10%)

2,558$ - tithe

100$ - marriage license (I keep forgetting about charging for this, and I might have to make it more expensive for community lot weddings, so especially for patricians +)

They paid 8215$ total. They will pay the burial fee when the graves are sent to the graveyard. They are left with ~43,850$. In total the town has accumulated 81,905$ so far.

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If I'm building for no reason I'm seriously procrastinating... This church will only be usable in medieval times so I don't even know why I decided to do it. My sims will only start using this building when they start worshipping some sort of one god instead of multiple gods like they do now.

It has a whole basement meant to be a mausoleum, but it's probably still too tiny so there can be an outside graveyard too, at the front...

The organ placement upstairs makes absolutely 0 sense gameplay-wise, but that's where they're usually placed in real life churches.

The little room on the left of the altar is meant for 'priests'.

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Part 2 of random building - two towers next to the road, moved with lot adjuster to actually be on the sides of the road.

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Part 2 of CK3 traits for TS2

It's possibly the final part. If you'd like to see any traits I decided to omit (for now?), let me know.

On top of 'personality' traits, I made some illness ones. I preferred the Lover's Pox icon so that was selected. You could use it alongside the pox mod. The other illness trait is Bubonic Plague because the rat icon is cute. Yes, that's my reasoning. Plus, you could use this mod to get some c u t e rats on your lot.

The pure blooded trait was selected because I thought people playing 'dynasties' might like it, or maybe it could be useful if someone plays with Harry Potter characters or other similar concepts.

The twin trait could be useful for keeping track of related sims... in case you forget you have twins in your hood and they should age at around the same time if they live on other lots.

Download here

The archive contains 56 traits, and 1 collection file named traitsCK. As previously stated, you need the collection file or you'll never see any of the traits in your game. You also need trait_main

The traits were 'converted’ from CK3, property of Paradox, who have the rights to all the images.

PS If I did something wrong please do let me know, I am new to making any sort of cc. Let me know if I made any typos too.

In-game previews:

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CK3 -> TS2 Trait tokens part 1 out of ? ? ?

These traits are not functional. This is the first batch of medieval/historical traits, but I'm not sure if I'll finish this project. It's a random assortment of traits which might help with storytelling.

I'm not promising to 'convert' more, but let me know if you'd like a specific trait. I have no plans of converting the war ones, since to me they have no place in Sims games.

Some choices were made. The b$t@d trait has a picture I preferred. For traits which have multiple levels, like kin slayer or wounded, I picked just one level.

Descriptions are not exactly the same as in CK3 but I hope they make sense. I got rid of most of the numbers from descriptions because these stats would feel redundant in Sims games.

Download here

You need the collection file or you won't see them in your game. In inventory they display on an invisible background so it's blue in my game, with vanilla UI.

The collection file is called traitsCK and it contains 30 tokens for now. Put it in your collections folder. The rest goes into your downloads folder. Like all traits, they will need trait_main to work. If you don't like a specific trait, delete it from your downloads folder, but you need to keep the collection folder even for just one trait to display.

The traits were 'converted' from CK3, property of Paradox, who have the rights to all the images. I will take this post down if told to.

In-game previews of the traits below.

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Morbid historical simming poll time - trigger warning if you don't play with death/mortality in your game

Personally, I am a big proponent of the 'yes' option, just because of how I play the game. This pretty much always applies if my sim is an only child. Unless they are part of the church / have vows of chastity or similar. For monks, it's OK if they have children before they join a monastic order, but not afterwards. If the sim is not the heir and/or has siblings, they don't need to have children.

In modern gameplay I'd be more flexible with this, with ❤️L🧡G💛B💚T💙Q💜+ sims who don't need to have children at all if they don't want to adopt etc.

But I really want these big family trees in my historical save... I already have such high mother mortality that it's just sad to me. It might make for better drama if all those sims just died, but I can't bring myself to end those family lines.

By the way this 'poll' is always in my mind when I have a situation like this in my game. Meaning more death is coming. And after the next round men are coming back from the 'war'. Or not if they all die. 🎲

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Realistically the emperor would have a lot of servants, so for now I moved them all together into the imperial palace...

A potentially deadly ROS awaited the imperial household, but thanks to princess Sesheshet's (emperor's sister's) 3 mechanical skill points her odds of survival were improved and the worst case scenario was avoided. However, Sesheshet was supposed to just be bedridden the whole round. That means no fun for her... or anyone else in this household because most sims were sick. Also almost everyone had their moon cycle at the same time.

Sesheshet spent most of the round in bed, with little breaks to teach her daughter Fausta the remainder of her toddler skills. Sesheshet clearly agreed she needed some rest by rolling wants such as getting an expensive recliner. She was clearly telling me she was not impressed with the living conditions at the imperial palace. I established a little royal library (a small study really) with the mysteriously mysterious novel next to the jailcell, and a couple of simple twin bedrooms for all the ladies and servants in the house.

This wasn't a very eventful round, outside of the kids' birthday parties, but it took me a while to play... because it's a lot of sims to control. The only healthy servant, Cleo, was allowed to get close to the empress and paint her and the heir to the throne.

Empress Sen wanted to become fit, but also to learn cooking. Her desires seemed to be divided between looking good and eating well. At first she also wanted to become a zombie, but thankfully she got those dark thoughts out of her pretty head quite quickly. An empress needs to be a living, breathing organism, so I vetoed that want. I would perhaps consider her becoming a witch but she didn't wish for sorcery.

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The future emperor, prince Sertor, is a Capricorn: max Neat, 3 Lazy, 7 Playful, 9 Nice (all like his dad Mnevis). What differentiates him from his father is his shyness, as he's only 5 Outgoing. He also already knows he's interested in Cuisine.

I'm a bit afraid something is wrong with prince Sertor. His wishes are strange. He wants to interact with cats, and he wants to play peekaboo. But when someone plays with him, the want doesn't get fulfilled, so I think he's getting the want which is supposed to show for children and up...

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Hera wanted to propose to Gautseshen. Sadly for her, that union wouldn't be allowed, unless they ran away and secretly eloped. But I don't think Gautseshen would do that because she likes the comfort of the imperial palace, where she can keep befriending all the pets and writing her novels. Gautseshen and Hera can be partners but they won't be spouses officially because of the difference in social classes.

Hera's heart was broken, but the relationship didn't take a huge hit, so I think she understood her position. Gautseshen doesn't have any wants towards Hera and she doesn't love her anymore for now. They used to be in love as teenagers, but now there is only a one-sided crush on Gautseshen's side.

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Cleo wanted to sneak out with Demiana Tia. She was friends with her before, when she served the Tia family, so I allowed that. Perhaps Cleo would like to move in with the Tia household and serve them again. I thought it made sense for Demiana to be sneaking out, because she was at the cemetery recently.

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I need one of my servants to get pregnant soon so they can be proper wet nurses. Otherwise it makes little sense to have them nurse babies. Titia is quite old already, halfway through adulthood, so soon it will be her last chance to have more babies. What's ridiculous is she has yet to have her 'first kiss', even though she has 2 CAS-made daughters (I use the no mystery sim memories mod).

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I know it's not great but I placed a community lot inside the colosseum hood deco. I might actually build one someday with the walls and everything, but that day is not today. And I have been using this hood deco for a while, just as hood deco, so why not use that space for something. It's just terrain with some flooring, staircases and benches.

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2 alien skin default choices Feathers with birthmarks

I am learning how to do some more defaulting. I really liked one of the birthmark skins I've seen, so I defaulted it as the alien skin. I made 2 versions.

These are defaults for the alien skin. As with all defaults, pick only one. If you want these as custom skins, visit the original creator's post and download from there (more options are available too, I just picked these two).

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Pale birthmark alien default - download here

Preview on my alien sim:

Below is the green birthmark version.

Green birthmark alien default - download here

Preview of example spawn:

I didn't create these skins, I only made them into defaults. All credits to the original creator: Princess Maria of Sims

Suggested alien cc:

custom elf faces

genetics DIY so alien genes can be recessive

birthmark overlays

birthmark makeup

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Sen's Dream

If you remember my first interlude, here is the second one, half a year later. It's the fall season in my game and that means time for 'theatre plays'. Yes, I do realize women wouldn't have been actors for a long time. That's why this is just Sen's dream. And also almost all men are at war, so... no real actors are available.

Also a fun fact: sen means dream in some Slavonic languages.

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Today we are visiting the Imagos, who got quite the perfect ROS for what was going to happen to them anyway. There was supposed to be an elder moving in with them, but... wouldn't it be nice if there was a zombie instead?

I decided to zombify Jonah Tia (the founder of the Tia family) who was a a friend of Sampsa's loooong ago. He was also his sister's father-in-law. What solidified my choice was Sampsa's want to see Jonah's' ghost.

The townsfolk might have noticed one of the Tias' gravestones had disappeared... Demiana Tia was walking around the graveyard when Sampsa was there. She didn't see the whole process but she noticed Sampsa looking around the graves. She left immediately after circling the Tias' part of the graveyard, probably too scared to approach him.

One of the main reasons why Sampsa wanted to create a zombie was to someday become one himself. Jonah will probably start a little supernatural garden to gather 'ingredients' for the dark art of necromancy. He will also keep learning about all kinds of charms from the spellbook. Eventually, he will have to sacrifice his zombie self to bring his master back to earth.

Sampsa spent a whole day crafting the throne of darkness. It might be the last thing he'll accomplish in his mortal life. The throne will help his loyal zombie subject keep his needs up. It also helped Sampsa breeze through Charisma skill. That's his second maxed out skill, after Mechanical. He also got to 8 points of Creativity and Logic long ago, before he lost interest in them so these two are probably next.

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Nobody cared about Silvanus learning toddler skills, but he managed to learn everything anyway, thank autumnal gods. Grandma taught him how to potty, grandpa taught him how to talk, and uncle Tullus taught him how to walk and sing.

The orphan's parents, Sevira and Ofilius, were haunting. After that they were sent to the graveyard for (hopefully) eternal rest.

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Polla, Lalli's wife, had a smooth pregnancy, despite the flu. Everyone but grandma Baset was hoping the Imagos would get a new heir, but fate decided differently. Polla survived the birth, but this is her last child anyway.

The baby's name is Lucilia. She resembles her mother, but her eye shape is her father's, I think, as is her skin tone. She's a Gemini: 9 Nice, 9 Active, 0 Sloppy (all like dad), max Outgoing, and 1 Serious. I have no idea where the seriousness came from, as both her parents are extra playful.

Because it's a girl, Silvanus (Ofilius's son) will be the heir. It also means that the third-born son, Tullus, might raise to importance someday. Tullus got a job in Church, but as the Church doesn't really exist yet (in its medieval/Christian version anyway), I will allow him to get married.

Tullus is a Popularity sim but he's weirdly obsessed with making best friends with... pets of all things. He already made friends with both his dogs. Speaking of dogs, I need to breed them, but there was no time for it this round and no wolf walked by randomly.

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All they earnt was Sampsa's daily pension and Tullus's first... pocket money of 25$.

3000$ - rent

48$ - tax

48$ - tithe

200$ - 2 burial fees for Ofilius and Sevira

They paid 3300$.

They may really have to open some sort of a business because they are running out of money. Magical reagents anyone? Brains?

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A little graveyard update. I added some sculptures.

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Embrace the Deception - my selected defaults + addons on AlfredAskew's addon eye template

Hi! I've been using these eyes for 2 years now... I love them so much because there are heterochromia accessories for them! However, I needed a change. I wanted to replace dark blue with purple. That's how this default came to life.

The eye textures are not mine, they are the original creators', I only put them on the default template, following this instruction.

These are the colours I selected for the regular/Maxis defaults:

13 trout - brown

33 dawn - blue light

38 twilight - blue dark [yes, it is purple]

47 sand - gray

18 plantlife - green

If you'd like these eyes to be your defaults,

Download Here! (Default Only)

But there is more! I put them on these expanded eye defaults with addons by AlfredAskew.

You only want to download one zip! So either the above [default only], or the below - defaults with addons!

Eye Expansion Download Here!

All the extra colours selected:

Preview of some of the custom colours from CAS:

Extra colours used listed with genetic values [checked in Wardrobe Wrangler]:

54 nebula - alien [purple on black] - this will be super dominant as always in vanilla game unless you use a mod like Genetics DIY

50 cave – dark gray – 1

11 xanthoria – dark brown – 1

9 twig – gray brown – 1

51 midnight – black – 2

28 depths – dark gray blue – 2

17 amber – hazel – 2

6 honey – honey – 2

43 nocturnal – dark turquoise – 2

19 lichen – light green – 3

22 forest – emerald green – 3

24 pond – turquoise – 3

25 turquoise – bright turquoise – 3

27 runoff – bright blue – 3

34 underfoot – blue gray – 3

35 galaxies – dark purple – 3

12 gold – gold – 4

36 amethyst – rainbow – 4

37 lilac – light purple – 4

39 magic – pink – 4

41 red dirt – red – 4

42 ember – flame – 4

48 full moon – white – 4

For eyes, 1 is the most dominant, 4 is the least dominant. Maxis recessive eyes are 2 (dominant - 1), which means eye colours with values 3 and 4 will be even less dominant than Maxis recessive eyes (gray/green/light blue), to my understanding.

Note: If I am violating some terms of use by making the defaults, let me know. The eye textures were taken from Garden of Shadows, they are by simotonin, but I think originally they were by someone else [TeaLeaf?].

Note 2: You don't need the file CAS alien eye if you use this mod or similar (I use it so alien genetics are not dominant).

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I'm starting round 12 with the plebeians. This household consists of 3 families: the Oranges (Aulus Orange, his dad is at war), the Wolfens (Maria Wolfen, her dad is also at war), and the orphan, Volesus Bruni.

I believe Volesus and Aulus are cousins once removed, but the game doesn't consider them related. They have the same great-grandparents.

Volesus is taking care of the kids, which he enjoys as a Family-Oriented sim, despite being Romance aspiration... Well, actually he's not even a Romance sim anymore...

The ROS gods selected the Grilled Cheese secondary aspiration as a gift from heavens (or maybe from another planet?) for Volesus... His mother had this secondary aspiration, too... Unfortunately, the aspiration change backfired. Volesus's aspiration meter was just below gold and the ReNuYu Senso Orb turned him into a primary Grilled Cheese sim. To be honest, on one hand I'm relieved the Romance aspiration is gone before he started working on his conquests.

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Fitela is an elderly dog now. Volesus would like to become the master of the little Lykaia (Fitela's puppy). That was the last wish I locked before he turned into a cheese-eating monster.

My game decided to spawn one more alpha/leader of the pack. His name is Killer, how scary! The previous one is named Forest, and one of my families might adopt him if they get a chance.

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Maria Wolfen became a toddler. She's a Pisces: 6 Neat, 3 Shy, 9 Active, 2 Serious and 9 Nice. Her one true hobby is Tinkering and she already has 4 mechanical skill points. Her greatest fear is that her elderly dog dies.

Volesus didn't manage to teach her any skills yet, as there was quite a lot to do with the 'farm', and also he was sick with the 'bird' flu...

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Volesus opened the home business I had closed earlier, so it's back to rank 0 again. Once Aulus becomes a teen, I'll probably move ownership to him.

They earned ~750$.

500% - rent

300$ - tax

75$ - tithe

They paid 850$. The town has accumulated ~70.300$ total so far.

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Before I play the Orange/Wolfen household, I need to play the Vestal Virgins' lot, at least just to age them up so that Primula Bruni and her twin brother Volesus are both teenagers. It turns out both Vestal Virgins share a birthday.

I don't roll the ROS for my Vestals, similarly to how I don't roll scenarios for my monks, but maybe I should, to spice things up... or maybe I should have a random chance for a Vestal Virgin to fall in love 👀 but it would lead to a certain death, as they can only have partners after they have retired from their service.

It was spring time, and Rana really wanted to go on a date, but that didn't happen. I might have to get more parts of the aromantic trait (want disablers) and give it to my Vestals, or I'll just keep ignoring these wants as usual. Sim Vestals definitely struggle in spring. Rana was so starved for romance she almost ended up growing up badly...

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Primula is a Hopeless Romantic, so she will for sure want some romance in her life, too... but she will have to wait until her 'retirement' from the vestalhood. She is a Fortune sim because I originally rolled Romance for her, and I won't allow both twin siblings to be Romance aspiration. Also, are you r e a l l y trying to die, Primula?

As a child, Primula had all her want slots taken up by animal wishes, and Rana wanted a puppy, too. I might get them a puppy in a later round, but they really have no space on this lot.

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The Vestals have become BFF-s. Rana has been talking to Primula about the possibility of teaching her to read, but they will only be able to start a 'school' when Rana becomes an adult, so Primula will learn to read a bit late in life.

They have a little garden plot, and somehow it never rains on this lot. Let's say the soil is not very good (especially that the terrain is sandy here), but they should be able to grow enough bland vegetables to be self-sustained.

Side note, I'm getting a bit sick of the 'bird' flu. In every household I visit I'm greeted by the illness notification.

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Before I started playing the Laos, I had moved Magu in together with her new husband, Tasuku Tian. Lower classes don't need dowries and I don't think Magu would have one... Her parents and brother are deceased and her sister-in-law resides in her family home, so she must be quite poor... especially that she had gone to jail.

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To refresh everyone's memory, Satet did the unthinkable the last time I visited the Laos. This round I rolled if any passerby from my Sim Asia would notice Hisashi's mysterious death. In this part of the post you will find if she got away with murder, but TLDR she did for now, and only 1 out of 5 people I considered eligible noticed anything.

Yune Siew was the only person who 'noticed'. However, I don't think she could do anything with this piece of information, other than start spreading a rumour about Satet. Saku Siew also walked by, but she didn't find out. So even Saku didn't believe in what Yune was saying, and she must have told Yune to stop talking ill about the imperial family's relatives.

Two monks also came by when the store was open, but neither of them thought it was suspicious Hiashi had died under mysterious circumstances. Sangen Yu also walked by, but he didn't get suspicious either, and it wouldn't be hard to convince him anyway, since Satet is his friend.

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Overall, it was a very chill round. Only Satet and her youngest daughter reside in the Lao house now, as both Magu and Guiren moved out with their partners. Bazi got her first Moon Cycle. They both kept getting infected with the flu because of the chicken farm.

On the last night of the season Hisashi decided to haunt. I didn't move his urn because he was 'murdered' so they should have to deal with the consequences of Satet's actions, for as long as she lives.

One day, at the dinner table Satet started a conversation about crime/law with Bazi. Her daughter is either not interested in whatever her mother did, or she doesn't understand what really happened, since she was still a very young girl when the murder took place.

When I was ending the round and posing my sims for a family picture, Guiren came over to visit. She must have wanted to share the news of her blessed state, or ask for help with her birth.

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Bazi maxed out Fitness enthusiasm while working on maxing out her Body skill. Thanks to her efforts, the Laos got a genie lamp. I think nothing says getting away with murder like getting a magical object with the power to bring back the dead delivered to your house...

Bazi is a Pleasure sim. She has 2 romantic prospects. She could end up with either:

Fujitaka Tian - her aunt's brother-in-law? They have 3 bolts as a Romance/Pleasure combo

Bu Pin - her sister's boyfriend. They would probably have poor chemistry, but if something happens to her sister, that would be the logical choice

Right after Bazi became a teenager, she wanted to flirt, and she still had the want to become BFF-s with Fujitaka, so they flirted a little bit. He immediately got a crush on her, but she doesn't care that much about this relationship yet, in a romantic way anyway.

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The Laos' business is rank 5 [again? they can't get any business perks and I think it's broken]. Regardless, they earned 1200$ by selling chickens and eggs.

500$ - rent

480$ - tax

120$ - tithe

They paid 1100$. The town has accumulated ~69,500$... Almost 70.000$ since the beginning.

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Happy May Day! Today we're visiting the Yu household [here is this family's tag]. The round felt very short because Sangen Yu got the Uncontrollable Urges ROS and he couldn't be controlled for 2 days.

As his needs and aspiration meter were maxed out when the scenario started, he was fine. But it was still a bit scary, because the ghost of his mother was haunting. Luckily, she only scared him once.

Unfortunately, the Social Bunny appeared because Sangen couldn't stand being alone. This must have been a nightmare for an outgoing Popularity sim.

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Sangen happened to come across Hanako Tian and her older brother Tasuku at the community bathhouse. Both siblings became Sangen's best friends and a date was arranged for the young couple-to-be.

The Unsavory Charlatan kept trying to steal from Hanako during the date, but her Logic is too high for that cheap trick to work on her. Also she's broke so I don't know what he was hoping to swipe.

Sangen and Hanako didn't have a long courtship, but they had been friends for a while, so it made sense for me to just get them married. In addition to the need for companionship, Sangen really needs help at his fishmonger's store. The newlyweds are exactly the same age so they have ample time to think about starting a family.

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Their family funds were at ~0 when they opened their business, and they earned ~1180$. The high earnings were thanks to old crates of fish Sangen had prepared, as these sell for a lot more than just single fish.

500$ - rent

472$ - tax

118$ - tithe

They paid 1100$, so they have no money again. But I'm sure it'll only be easier from here on!

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Welcome to... another side household post. Today we are visiting the Tians, but I might end up playing all the Asian families this round. If you don't remember the Tians, here is their tag, and here is a short introductory video about them. I haven't played them for literally a year because they are not related to any of my main families, but it is likely going to change.

The ROS for this family was for Fumi to die, which was heartbreaking. She randomly got the flu, probably from interacting with other sims around the world, so I'll say her immunity system failed her. She had three children and lots of animals, which took a toll on her health.

Fumi Tian threw 3 awesome parties for her children [or for the occasion of herself giving birth]. She taught her sons the toddler skills. Sadly, her daughter was never taught to walk due to the lack of time, which means Hanako Tian got an extra negative trait, Clumsy.

I played this family for 2 seasons because it's high time Tasuku became an adult.

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Tasuku wasn't doing very well this round, mood-wise, which is not surprising, as he needed to become the head of the household after his mother's untimely passing. He had a nightmare about his younger sister for some reason. Perhaps he's worried about her future. They don't exactly have money to pay for her dowry... Maybe they would, if they sold their sheep.

However, Tasuku fulfilled his wish of befriending 10 people throughout his lifespan! It was a bit easier for him because he really should be older at this point, but I was treating this family more like townies for a while, and Popularity sims are very happy townies.

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I will probably play Sangen Yu next. He might marry Hanako Tian. I think Hanako would appreciate having her own household with a business attached, especially that she became a Fortune sim. She seems to be quite attracted to Sangen.

The youngest sibling, Fujitaka, also aged up into a teen. It is a bit odd all the siblings are teens at the same time. I will make Tasuku, the eldest, just a bit older so that he will be an adult.

Fujitaka is a Romance sim, so we will have to see how [un]faithful he will be. He didn't have the happiest childhood, as his mother had just passed away and he was in the red aspiration. He made friends with Bazi Lao, whom he might romance... among other girls.

As always, you can check my sims' traits here.

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Tasuku got the Gold Sales Badge, and the Bronze Register Badge. The business ranked up to rank 4. It didn't go very well, but they earned 281$ and 352$ just by selling milk and hay.

Because I played this household for 2 seasons, I allowed them to open the business one more time, in the summer. It was way easier to run the store when the siblings could help Tasuku.

They earned 633$.

500$ - rent

253$ - tax (40%)

750$ was all they could afford, so they didn't pay the tithe, or the burial fee for poor Fumi... Maybe once Tasuku gets married, he will get some dowry from his wife... If not, they will have to sell some animals to afford their taxes.

One of the sheep gave birth to a lamb this round, but another one was lost in a random scenario, so overall their herd gained no new animals. Also, all of their ewes became pregnant in the summer, which is exciting, but they will only give birth 'next year' in spring.