Welcome to My Story

Well not a story exactly, but a chronicle about a little medieval era kingdom I created using EA's & Maxis' open world game, The Sims 2. This blog is more of a journal to help me remember this kingdoms history as time progresses. As of this writing all but one of my founders have succumbed to old age, and the first of the great-grandchilden have been born (with many more on the way). As the kingdom's beginning has started to become hazy in my mind I thought it would be a good idea to chronicle it online and to share a look into my game and into the lives of my treasured sims.

Those of you who are fellow Simmers and members of the Simming community will be familiar with the open create-your-own-world gameplay, as well as the "playing God" aspects of it. With the right custom content you can create any type of world from modern day suburban, to prehistoric stoneage and distant future spaceage and everything in-between and beyond. The choices are limitless, provided you can find (or create) the custom content for it of course.

Viridis is a pseudo-medieval world recreated as much as possible with custom content found mainly at Mod the Sims, Garden of Shadows and awesomely of all, Plumbbob Keep and their associates. I would also like to give a shoutout to Simbology, MATY, Simlogical, Insimenator.org, Paladin's Palace, Cyjons Stuff, Parsimonious, Leefish Network, All About Style, and many other sites and Creator's Blogs I have collected awesome mods and stuff from over the years. My gameplay style would not be possible without any of them.

If you see anything in the pictures you would like to get your grubby little mitts on don't be afraid to ask. I'm more than happy to put you in the right direction.

A word of warning on the presentation of my story;

There will be some chapters that will presented in the novelesque style that I presented in the prologue, but don't expect that amount of effort for every chapter. The vast majority of my Sim's everyday lives is simply not saga-worthy, and there is going to be plenty of posts that will be nothing more than a few pics with commentary like "and then whatshisface toilet trained whatsherface .....and then got to work on his fishing, and Oh look he got his gold badge. Yay!.....after which he got to work on making sproglet no.2 *wink*" and so on and so forth. You know, the usual Sims 2 Legacy, Royal Kingdom, Prosperity, Build-A-City challenge fare. Only when I feel a certain arc in the neighbourhoods story is worthy (and inspires me) in putting in the extra effort will you get anything but the standard drivel from me, and even then it may not even the same style every time....So don't say you haven't been warned.

Furthermore there may be times when I will go back on a chapter and edit it to change names, places and aspects to the story which is always in a unfixed fluid state in my mind, or felt needed to be changed. Nothing is concrete, even when you think it is written in stone Bwah-ha-ha-ha.

On another further note, my pictures are taken with the game's craptastic camera, and I am shitty at editing pics to make them look bwew-ti-full anyway so be prepared for the crappiness that are my pictures O.o