#build progress

[sansimeonsims]

The entire province so far. San Simeon's city proper (including the Parian) all have structures and are basically 90% or so finished from the exteriors. Second in completeness is San Jacinto Cadatuan, with only 2 more large houses to go at the town plaza before I start making exclusively thatch houses (jury's out on the hacienda houses).

Several towns remain unbuilt, and I have considered putting a few lots on the chopping or merging blocks to get the town in line with the ideal maximum of 100 lots (instead of the 113 it approximately has now). I may do a similar sweep when I revisit Kedatuan in the future.

More details under the cut:

I'm planning to use Votenga's medieval towers as a substitute for tower structures, acting as pure deco elements instead of some humdrum building nobody visits. I'm mostly put off by their size right now but we'll see how it goes.

A few of the lots on the other side of the mountain seem kinda redundant, even with the assumption that people not from the demographic that lives in Bahay na Bato would live in rural thatch houses, it seems odd that they'd be this far from a town.

My main concern though is the pair of lots here, which would suddenly be lonely if I did away with the others. But seeing as there's no town for them to cluster nearby and the lots are already pretty awkward as it is, I may just turn this into a nature lot and delete some of the others.

Next in the question of "am I really gonna keep this" is this town right here. I can't make any final decisions until I've started building, but merging at least one lot might be in the cards.

While I may be able to justify this one long lot as another hacienda, I can't do the same to the beach next to it. It's already pretty steep and there are two beaches in this island already.

Moreover, some other lots might not simply survive me laying down roads. One of these lots is bound to get removed.

Finally, there is the question of whether merging lots is a good idea. On one hand, this keeps the area sensibly occupied while reducing the lot count, but bigger properties also slow the game down.

Decisions, decisions...

[aleksa-sims]

2 hours & a game crash later:

Since my game just crashed, I have to rebuild a room I almost finished, but not today!!!!I need a break from building.

[theneighborhoodsave]

P. Mondrian High School is under construction!

Yeah so I caught a second wind and decided to take advantage of it. I'm sorry for jumping the gun on the poll results, but after some thinking I'm most attracted to the 50s modernism style. It's going to be plenty modern though, so not to worry there for those who preferred the other shell! This def will set me back a bit, but that's okay. A family gameplay centered save wouldn't feel right without a high school to me.

[lilylikesplants]

Haha, get squared, idiot!

spent about half an hour belting, then subsequently squaring up the gantry

[deeranddragons]

Astarion’s first impressions of my tav Cain, because playing a good aligned paladin with a charlatan background is really, truly, deeply hilarious. I loved lying at every possible opportunity to make my life easier. I wish there wasn’t a cap on inspiration points because I was getting it left and right from cain and astarion combined.

[traitorvalkyrie]

I really liked this picture I took during stream yesterday. Just wanted to share it with you guys here.

[queerorthodoxy]

If you're going to be a Christian you need to acknowledge its history of violence and colonization so you do not continue the violence!!!!

[starry-bi-sky]

Out of Context Stuff for a Danyal Al Ghul au i haven't posted - Pit Beast Danyal

Damian, 13: Look, Danyal, -- I am so sorry for everything that happened between us in the League, I hope you can forgive me.

Danny, 10 (allegedly): (has been secretly plotting to murder Damian this whole time, is still gonna do it obvs, but is going to make it significantly less painful now)

Danny: I-- of course, older brother. :]

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Bruce: what do you have there, Damian?

Damian:

Danny: (a hulking 10ft pit beast standing beside him, growling idly with ram horns gouging out his eyes and a second set of horns jutting into the air, spines down his back, and a long, spiked tail with an animalistic, skull-like face)

Damian, who smuggled him in (they've made amends): a smoothie, father

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Damian: this is my little brother Danyal, i murdered him when he was five. He festered in rage for the last half-a decade, took over a League mountain base in Switzerland, murdered everyone inside and then tried to murder me when I went to investigate with Drake.

Danny: hello!

Damian: we're cool now

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Damian: thoughts on resurrection

Danny, (a full ghost): i will succeed in murdering you if you try it

Damian: we'll put a pin in it then

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Danny (still instilled with League values): why don't we just murder him??

Damian, on patrol (Danny followed him): we don't murder people, Danyal

Danyal:,,,,are you sick, Dami?? Have you been possessed? Why not!?

(There is raucous laughing through the comms)

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Danny, five, pre-death: Dami! :D

Danny, dead, vengeful: Older brother (:

Danny, post-forgiveness: Dami! :]

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For some actual context: Danny is fully dead in this au, its a result of the classic DPxDC Demon Twins "death duel" trope but instead of Danny getting revived, he stays fully dead. Danny was five, Damian was seven. His ghost lingered though, and due to the proximity of the pits his ghost steadily absorbed the ambient energy it was letting off. The pits are not corrupted ectoplasm in this au, it's just liquid ecto.

Which means Danny's corruption from an angry and hurt little ghost boy to an unrecognizable monster is from his own doing. It's a result of him stewing in his hurt and anger for years, it physically warped him. He's very powerful. Danny can travel between League Bases but chose a small, out-of-the-way base in the Swiss mountains to fester in and then just. Never Left.

His influence steeped into the very foundations of the building, allowing him to transform and warp the rooms and hallways for his own bidding, Meaning he could turn it into a seemingly unending labyrinth if he so wished to, and block the entrance.

Eventually, blinded (both metaphorically and physically) by his own rage, Danny grew powerful enough to appear physically in the living realm and attacked everyone in the base, slaughtering them all and leaving the base abandoned. He attacks anyone who dares enter -- whether that be other league members, or the unfortunate hiker who stumbled across the base. His conscious is steeped into every nook and cranny of the building, there is nowhere you can hide where he can't find. Nobody leaves without his explicit say so. Nobody ever does.

Him appearing as ten years old before Damian in the skits above is his own physical doing. First it was to prevent Damian from being suspicious of him. Damian initially thought Danny was revived with the pits, he was too busy with his own training afterwards to notice that Danny never showed up again, and when he did notice, he assumed it was because Danny was too ashamed of his loss to face him. He'd always forget to ask about him.

Then it becomes a personal choice to appear as ten. It's how old he would've been had he been alive.

danny forgiving Damian is kinda for an offshoot branch of the main au. Whereas the main au takes the form of a ps4 first person horror game where Damian and Tim are investigating the Base for Plot Reasons. There's no sign of the rumored "monster" living inside until the end, where Danny, who was found inside the Base and has been happily "helping" them look around, manages to persuade Damian into splitting off from Tim in order to "show him something."

This something turns out to be Danny revealing that he never really forgave Damian for that fight, and he reveals through a horrifying transformation, that he was the monster the whole time. Which the game subtly hints at throughout as Danny's strange behavior becomes harder to ignore.

First from his insistence to only refer to Damian as "older brother" (when before the duel he always called him Damian or Dami), to him right off the bat denying the existence of a monster when questioned. ("There's no monster here, older brother. It's just me.") To other various things, like his knowledge of the outside world not matching up to modern times or things going on with the league outside of the base, or what happened to the other league members.

This whole idea was inspired by the song "Scylla" from Epic the Musical, with Danyal being the voice of Scylla as well as Odysseus, while Damian stands as Eurylochus. The instrumentals after Scylla says "hello" is him turning into the pit beast, and Scylla's "drown in your sorrow and fears" part is danny, as the pit beast, snarling at Damian while he attacks him.

There's a Good Ending, a Bad Ending, and a True Ending. The Bad Ending results in Damian being killed by Danny, it happens when Damian decides not to question or suspect Danny and treats him kindly. The Bad Ending is a cutscene, where Danny kills Damian quick and painlessly.

Meanwhile the Good Ending is Damian killing Danny. This is a boss fight, and it happens when Damian treats Danny coldly and suspiciously the whole time. Danny as a result, decides to make Damian's death painful as he had planned to, which is why it's a boss fight because it only causes him to double down on his anger.

The True Ending is Damian escapes with Tim. It happens when you treat Danny warmly up until the last minute, where when Danny proposes to Damian that he wants to show him something, Damian goes to talk to Tim and finally, reluctantly agrees that something is off with Danny, and that he'll be careful going in. It starts off with the boss fight until a third through, where it then changes to a cutscene where Tim manages to get the door open and Damian escapes out. It's then a chase scene down a never-ending hallway as the building actively works to keep you trapped inside. But you eventually make it to the exit so long as you avoid all the projectiles and doors.

Remember when I mentioned that Danny only lets people leave when he wants them to? That's where the treating Danny kindly throughout the game comes into play. It causes him to second guess himself and, eventually, reawaken and strengthen the love and admiration he had for Damian prior to his murder. It's why in the Bad Ending he kills Damian quickly -- because by then, he loves him enough that he doesn't want him to suffer, but is still so consumed by his rage and need for vengeance that he kills him anyways. That quiet part is what allows Damian (and Tim) to find the exit, because some part of Danny still loves Damian enough that he wants him to live.

The True Ending ends with a cutscene of Damian and Tim tumbling out into the snow/grass outside of the base. Damian looks up back to the entrance to see Danny standing there. But rather than a ten year old boy, there's a little five year old Danyal Al Ghul instead. He stares at Damian emotionlessly, blood seeping from his chest, staining his clothes, and little, bloody sword in his hands and tearstains on his cheeks, before he turns away and disappears back into the building.

[rheya28]

Mio & Sora

[ginpotts]

DOCTOR WHO: THE NINTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES Big Finish Presents ✧ STAR-CROSSED ✧ 2024

[sansimeonsims]

Views of San Simeon's central walled city. All the inner city lots are filled and the exteriors need only a good polish to be done. Interiors are incomplete.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

1x10 | 3x5 | 4x3 | 4x6

[driftwoodgrove]

Willow creek rec center wip 🌳

[lilylikesplants]

Take a look, ney, take a gander(ganter) at my gantry!

I'm really liking this purple colour, I think it looks great!

[4bsurdcreature]

Ren Firebe and the Intangible Feeling that Something has Changed!