Knack Division: week 4++ (part 1)

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Ummm...50 to 70 pictures under the read more, depending on how many I can bring myself to cut
Birthdays!
Cats!
Foal!
Cake!

Short update because there's too many pictures.

Miliner Project: Knack Division (nalewrimo)

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From beginning...

An update!  With words, and an attempt at a plot, and new pictures, and typos!

40ish pictures under the cut.

Miliner Project: Shang Simla Guest Appearances

I love it when other people's sims travel across the internet - ending up on projects far and wide.  I admit, I am terrible at faces, but I love it anyway.

I've wanted to add other people's sims into the Miliner Project for ages, and as I added more and more I realized it would be fun to have a vacation destination party.

There's more (a LOT more) sims then this that I wanted to include, but I either couldn't find the files or couldn't get them to work.  And some sims, once added to Shang Simla, found a computer and refused to exit the house.  I can sympathize with that, but I wasn't able to get pictures of them. Or, for some characters I have plans for them further down the road.

I like to guess if I can put sim-names to sim-faces - so lets try to guess who everyone is, before I fill them in and try to add links. :D


I hope that this is as fun for you as it was for me. :)

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Miliner Project: Escape from Angst, end

Lynx stood still as his errant daughter intermittently cried on his shoulder and punched him on the arm.  The air was still, temporarily.

After his arrival, Lynx had run out of knowing what to say.   In the presence of relief, and the absence of sarcasm, he was at a loss.   He had wanted to yell until the whole world fell apart, and there was no where left for his children to go, except the safety of home.  He'd wanted to cry until he was empty and his emotions had evaporated.   But he also knew that he couldn't do either, so he did nothing but turn to patience, and waited for the world to feel a little more familiar and for normalcy to resume.

Eventually, the two walked back into the hostel, abandoning the empty veranda for comfortable seating.   Even though there were only two Miliners present, they somehow managed to drag with them the presence of the whole clan - babies and children, laughter and spit up,  and cat, meowing and floating orange hair landing gently on clothes, and grandparents, garden and all.  Maebe had gone from sulking loner to protected tribe member, and the mother hens and curious knight errants gave her and her father a blessedly wide berth.

"Yeah." Lynx shuffled his feet on the jute carpet, while surveying the assembled tourists, adventurers, and get-a-way starlets.  "It was cruel and unusual to try to leave your family with no hint as to whether or not you were ok.  I can't think of a worse thing to put a parent through."

Miliner Project: Shock and Awe (mini update)

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Miliner Update: Maebe's Escape, part 2

Maebe stood near the training dummy, giving it the occasional tap with her foot.  It had been 2 weeks since she arrived, and the dummy never obeyed.  Her shoulders were slumped, her eyes turned away from the spectacular view.   When the wind blew her hair into her eyes, she blinked rapidly, her eyes watering.  She did not move the hair back to its usual place.

There were a few other sim fu hopefuls in the training area, but as they walked by she hunched her shoulders further.   One of the other neophytes achieved her white belt and paused to show it off, and as the others broke into a smattering of applause, Maebe slipped silently through the gate and down the path.

Miliner Update: Maebe's Great Escape, Part I

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The air of Shang Simla was only warm compared to the chilled and metallic air of the rumbling airplane that had deposited Maebe, minus airfare and associated expenses, into the bustling airport.  The airport was almost a tourist town in its own right, and the only difference between there and home was the plastic knick-knacks being sold.  Even the fast food places were the same.

Instead of there being a hostel in one part of town, and extravagant hotels in another, all tourists were isolated way up on high ground, struggling students and rich jet-setters alike.  It was beautiful, and felt extravagant, and certainly kept people too tired to complain.  Just getting up the stairs could make anyone feel like a sim fu champion.

The breeze, which was now decidedly cool, carried the damp scents of the city-town up and around the hills.   Home, Twinbrook, smelled swampy and green - Shang Simla smelled damp and green.   It was a difference that very few people could appreciate.

Familiar insect noises cried and fluttered, like a heartbeat.   The wind rustled the bamboo leaves, sounding like someone had thrown the next chapter of their book to the breeze.  From a distance, a tinny stereo belted out a local favorite, all strings and wind instruments, and the music wafted up to the hostel along with the scent of something that was obviously fried and also, just as obviously, delicious.

Maebe hovered on the porch.   She sighed, and whispered softly, "If only I hadn't sold my guitar..."  Gently, with pizzicato steps, she let herself in, found a bed, and dreamed of the next day and the wisdom and peace she would find.

...goods store on a fine collection of pain relievers and bandages.  She took as many hot showers as the hot water tanks in the hostel would allow.  She took to pacing rather then sitting down.

Maebe had yet to hear from her parents.  The last text message she received, before shutting off her phone, was from her cousin.  Toni had wanted to know why Maebe had stopped answering.

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scones thanks, Ocelot protests

First of all, thank you so much for the kind words and encouraging comments.   The feedback on the cakes has been so nice that it is basically overwhelming.  But in a very good way!

As I've mentioned in passing before, I have some frayed cartilage in my wrist, which causes some discomfort.   For a long time now I've been scared of making it worse, and I refused to do many of the things I love.  But for various reasons I decided to just go ahead and draw and paint and get my confidence back up and do a whole heap of cakes - and right now I obviously feel like that worked out!

Now, I really don't know what to do, but go back to the regularly scheduled lunacy!  ♥

FIRST - read this:
http://thenoirnights.blogspot.com/2011/08/hidden-sights-chapter-12-whys-and.html 
(and then the comic below will make more sense)

Or not, but it's a fantastically done legacy and you may get hooked.  You have been warned!

But poor Ocelot, can't help but identify with the antagonist.  :(

Here's a true fact about orchids:
When they die their ghost hops on-line and orders several replacements.   Plus some other orchids that happened to be on sale.    It's true!  There's no escaping them!

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blast from the past Miliner picture

"I...don't get it?"

It's a wild Maebe!   And this is, apparently, where her aversion to romance started.  With homework?

Not only did she have the world's most pinch-able cheeks, but apparently back in the olden times life was more rugged and grainy.   The kids had to walk uphill, both ways, through a storm of poor image quality.

Update: Disqus seems to be overloaded, the site gave me 503 errors when I went to visit.   So, I don't think comments are working.   Ah, boo.  I've temporarily turned it off - I'll either be able to import any new comments, or I've totally lost a whole heap of really nice discussions.

Mini Miliner Comic: Twinbrook Squish

So is that why EA left out pumpkin plants, the best plant ever?

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Miliner Project: Mercurial Maebe

 

through the fruit trees and mystery bushes and overgrown lettuces and hid away from ears and eyes in 

Miliner Project: Prom is fun?

How about some Flashbacks this Friday? 3 mini Ocelot comics

Things to know:  I started working on the Miliner Project as a webcomic after gen 3 had already been born - but I love my legacy founder Ocelot.   So here he is, working on starting the legacy.  Go, Ocelot, go!

Also, I've switched to drawing the bubbles.   It is much faster, but looks worse.  Hopefully I will get better?   Because each bubble took 10 to 30 minutes to set up correctly, and it was adding up.

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mini comic: Trumblur Questions

And here is yet more proof that I'm woefully behind on comics.  Look, Aurata is even smiling in her sleep.  Maybe she will be happy again once she hits reaches her teens?  Hahaha.

P.S.  It's supposed to be a cat.

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Miliner event: Heiress reaches childhood, immediately stops smiling

It was also Aurata's birthday.

I took many many many pictures for the comic, but was having too much fun playing to stop, due to my love of the Miliners.  Here's hoping I don't need to go back for any re-dos involving toddler Aurata or baby Bombay.   I better work on some comics, plus track down a prom dress for Maebe (!!! :D), before I open the game back up.   Or who knows, I could truck along through several more generations, and then totally confuse myself with the massive amounts of screenshots.

Birthday tickles!

It is a testament to the power of Aurata that Maebe woke up, had a teenager mood swing, wished to get in a fight with Ocelot and end her friendship with Cho, booby-trap the house, and then also wished to tickle Aurata.


Unlike for Bombay, Aurata got a party.   And also a glitched game.   It was past midnight by the time someone in her family got her to the cake, everyone was smelly and starving, and all but one of the guests had left.

Good intentions, paved roads, so on and so forth...

"Are you excited?"  "EXCITE!!"

hungry

I'm not sure what's going on here, other then it was right after age up.

Devoted grandfather ate at work before the party.

The one guest is cousin Saul.

Oh yeah...

  Previously, Fisher had his bed in the smallest bedroom.   It was also one of the rooms where I'd totally ran out of motivation to decorate.   So it was, essentially, a tiny, depressing, ugly box.    But then, out of the darkness, there was a Camille.   And she was magical.   And the depressing box instead became a small bedroom, appropriate for two fashionable siblings to share.  And scones left her husband to marry the transparent storage cubes, because they are that awesome.

Augh, blurry. Click for full size if interested :)

Aurata smiled for almost every minute of her toddler-hood.   Oh well.   She has purple in her hair, and it's not mutant blond, and so she's heiress.   Not that purple is a requirement, since Lynx got to stay and Bobsie got the boot in gen 2 - I just was extremely pleased to see Ocelot's hair. Oh! And...she rolled Neat.

So, no more gen 3 babies.  I am very pleased.

CUT THAT OUT >:(

Miliner event: Bombay finally emerges from her pupa

I finally opened up the Miliner project and let some aging happen. :)


It is Bombay's birthday!   She is Lynx and Alesha's daughter, and she has been in a pupa for several months now.

Her stats:

Genius, Grumpy
kids, crepes, sea foam

YAY

YAY!

...   smush

 I know Bombay, I know.   I made that face, too.   Darn you, EA! Oh well, I love Lynx and his mutant blond hair, and I will love Bombay.   At least until she hits YA and I can move her out of the house.


ALSO I have Alesha's sim file stripped of CC, if anyone would like her.   But without her CC she is very face 1, so she is easy to reproduce without the .sim file.

comic: Secret Codes Impede Clear Communication

Edit: Thank you for your patience, 3rd panel is now up.

 

Could I ask you something?

 

So I turned aging back on...

The bad news is Ocelot and Cho are moments away from keeling over.  But on the bright side Bombay won't need to be a pupa forever.  I probably could do endless comics about the Miliners as they are now, but it's fun to see them change, too.

Lynx had a birthday!

Sim file: Ocelot

Sim file packaged with default skin and hair:
(pictured hair is an Anubis 360 retexture of a Peggy hair - but I'm having a heck of a time re-finding it.  I'll update when I do  ♥ )

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