Improved Shack in Lucky Palms
This house is next to the military base. It starts out as a shack with uneven ground in the middle. I improved it for the family of sims living in it with inspiration from images of Palm Springs, old Western towns, desert dwellings and Vegas.
Clue or Coincidence?
Endora Kravitz
Lucky Palms Lookalike #3
Here are some pictures of the elder sim Endora Kravitz from Lucky Palms. She lives in a household with Sammi and Tabbi Claremont, names from the TV show, Bewitched. She is in the military career. My sim was tasked to invite her to a party, to gain relationship as a co-worker (my sim is in the Military career too). She was pleasant enough. There was one point in the conversation she disagreed with, but I missed seeing the details.
With her elder face, it’s obvious there’s been some effort and she’s been made to look like someone – her cheeks, lips, nose, eyes: they’re not generic-pudding-potato. Because of her name, the obvious person people think of is Endora and Mrs Kravitz from Bewitched.
She could look like Endora with the right make-up, but the mouth is probably too small and the face shape is not quite right. In Lucky Palms it seems the names are a cover, and the sims have been modelled off of someone else famous, each. So far I’ve found music and screen celeb’s.
Another possibility is Mrs. Howell from Gilligan’s Island (Natalie Schafer), because there is already a sim in Lucky Palms made off of Ginger, and her rival Mary-Anne. Schafer has unique cheeks and lips.
Nope.
I thought of her because of the sim’s age.
However, I have learned that some of the sims in Lucky Palms look more like their source inspiration when aged up or down, and some have been made a different age than real life.
That might be because one of Lucky Palms’ features is the wishing well in the centre of town, where you can wish for youth, among other things.
So I took Endora into CAS, using Master Controller, Advanced, Edit in CAS.
I aged her down …
Since there is a sim-likeness of the character Mary-Anne (Marisol Loera) from Gilligan’s Island while there is one for Ginger (Kitty Price) and their relationship status is enemy/dislike just like there was kind of supposed to be in the show and in real life, I wonder if there are other sims in town connected to Demi Moore? Maybe there is a Bruce Willis, or an Ashton Kutcher, or one of her leading men, like Patrick Swayze along with one for Whoopi Goldberg (they were in Ghost). Maybe Rob Lowe. He’s nice.
Interesting that Endora has a career in the Military while one of Demi Moore’s movies was G.I. Jane, and there was Charlie’s Angels too although a reference to that might have been better with the Law Enforcement or Criminal careers.
When I get around to playing Lucky Palms pre-mades’ households in rotation with aging off, I’ll be able to see what other real life elements of Demi Moore have been made into the sim Endora. Personality, bio, home decor, wishes, relationships, memories. I will come back with an update if so. It could be a while though. Until then …
Lookalikes
Some quick pics of Roy Phillips and Palmer Hayes in Lucky Palms.
Here they are in my sim’s house, which is an upgraded army shack next to the military base. Their own house, on the lake has black leather block couches and huge wall art arranged in a record-label vibe. The game has Palmer in a romantic relationship with Buelah, one of the Golden Girls household. The relationship status between Roy and Palmer is ‘Best Friends for Life’.
The two sims resemble Barry Manilow and his husband and manager, Garry Kief, whom according to this article (Butler, 2015), married in Palm Springs (half of the Lucky Palms inspiration) in 2014. Barry Manilow and manager married in 2014 – UPI.com
Here is a picture of Barry Manilow and husband Garry Kief. In this picture, among many others on Google Images, Garry Kief has the same glasses and body-type as the sim, Palmer Hayes.
Here are some pics of Barry Manilow by himself, one with similar glasses as his sim, and the hair.
Here is a side-view of the two sims.
Palmer has a trait of Hydrophobic. Is that saying “afraid to dip the toe in the water” or “afraid to get the feet wet”? Or just a quirky trait to have while living on the lake? He has interesting outfits. His everyday is very plain: brown shirt, brown pants. What is the meaning of that?
His pyjamas are a pale yellow dressing gown with a green dragon print.
His formal is a white jacket with green check, very similar to the jacket he wears in a photo taken only recently in 2021. What is with that? Is it possible the real life one is being influenced by his simself?
Here is his sim in the formal outfit EA/Maxis made:
And here is a screen snip of the photo of his real self in a similar jacket. There are other photos on Google of him in other check jackets.
ASTS 4
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Wilfred decided it was good practice for pickles and ice-cream runs when Theodora changed her mind about going on the honeymoon. He dashed out to the bookstore for the skill books that would help her get a head start when they return. With the excitement of the big day he’d forgotten how long he’d been up, and finally felt it as he came out, still in his tux.
Theodora offered to clean up while he was out, so they wouldn’t be faced with noxious gas and flies when they get back from Egypt.
She was sure to save her beautiful cake, in their fancy – green – fridge.
She took out the garbage, and did the dishes.
“I’m back, are you ready to go?” Wilfred asked as the front door shut behind him.
“I think so” Theodora smiled.
“Yes we’ll be alright now I’ve got my point of logic” she agreed with .. Wilfred? Yes.
So Wilfred ordered a taxi, jumped in it, and Theodora followed, with her broken umbrella.
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ASTS 3
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Wilfred thought his dreams had just about all come true. He was nearly at the top of his career; his life time want.
He’d found the perfect wife-to-be; Theodora and she had accepted his proposal.
There were just a couple of things he needed to fix first, besides his fixer upper car ..
So after work, while fixing his fixer upper car, he invited Tiffany over.
She arrived with the rain.
She ran straight past him to ding the doorbell and waited while it poured.
“I’m over here” he said.
“There you are” she smiled.
“You know what they say!” Wilfred pointed, “We’ve been to university but we’re out here in the rain”
“And your name is Adam .. son, and you have a basement” they laughed together.
“Yes and that was the movie we saw” she reminisced.
He launched into the school cheer for her to join him ..
“Vo Gurbitts!” they finished enthusiastically.
Wilfred was hoping that might get their friendship relationship up higher before he does the dirty deed.
ASTS 2
Part — 2
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen Wilfred .. he has been up to much. Right now he’s on his motorcycle, green his favourite colour. And he is irresistible.
When he returned from graduating, he uploaded his resume straight away.
He was going to start at his ..
Dream Career!
As a journalist!
On Monday.
A lady he’s seen but not met before told him she fancied him, Cecilia Rock, who lives next door and moved here from Roaring Heights just like Wilfred. She was going to be his new boss. Is there a possibility there? He wondered.
Of course in the world of The sims, that would be absolutely appropriate ..
He started on his house – at a discount! Because he maxed out Handiness.
First a basement, so he doesn’t have to muck around with cutting out a floor or foundations later.
You know he is a Vehicle Enthusiast, so he was sure to include a spiffy looking motorcycle and a fixer upper car.
He went downstairs, fed his fish, spruced himself up and ..
Dashed off to the local restaurant – for free! Because he was reviewing it, getting in his first story the night before he starts, although his performance meter doesn’t start until he arrives at work tomorrow, it will not have counted, and so he will write it tomorrow night.
He took his green bike for a cruise down the main drag on the way ..
At the restaurant, some familiar (to me) faces attended:
Arcta Hedrick, a born-in-game sim from a previous game in Riverview
Brian Parker, a CAS sim from Roaring Heights
And Gina Berry, another CAS sim from Roaring Heights
Oh the nostalgic conversation and anecdotes that were shared in there over dinner, I am imagining my sims are doing that, as well as comparing notes on me.
So much so that Wilfred was exhausted when he got back to his basement and slept like a fake princess with a pea, in his masculine princess bed.
A Graduation
One of the Sharpe’s graduated and threw a graduation party. It ended on a roof raiser thanks to getting up to no good in the photo booth with her boyfriend. It ended with the special event camera. She was rewarded with a photo with her best friend present, which was her boyfriend, and a suit to wear home.
Willburke Graylands
In 1788, a ship they named The Friendship, belonging to the First Fleet, attempted her return voyage to England from Australia. The crew were reported to have come down with scurvy and were unable to properly man her. Believing they had scuttled her in the Straits of Makassar, they abandoned her and survived. They were later transferred to The Alexander
On the 29th of July, 1789, a women’s convict ship they named The Juliana finally departed Portsmouth, England, headed for the Colony of New South Wales, Australia. The marines that staffed the ship were, without plausible excuse, unable to keep an accurate record of the number of female convicts on board. However, it was reported there were seven births (as a result of their ‘open ship’ while calling into many ports) and five deaths.
In 1860, Robert O’Hara Burke set off from Melbourne on an exploration expedition with 16 men, including William John Wills and Charles Gray. Their goal was to be the first to cross the continent from South to North, to open up a route for the newly invented telegraph line to connect to Europe, to discover a route for a railway, and to find out if there was an ‘inland sea’ that many believed lay beyond the ranges. They equipped themselves with food for 2 years, 6 tonnes of firewood, 80 pairs of shoes, a cedar-topped oak camp table with 2 chairs, beds, a bathtub, hats, buckets and a Chinese gong.
They reached as far as the Gulf of Carpenteria, and decided the weather was way too hot, the conditions far too dangerous, one of their men, Mr. Gray, was ill with dysentery, and another, Mr. King had wandered off delirious. So they turned back for Cooper’s Creek, where they were supposed to be met by some others with supplies. When they got to Cooper’s Creek, they discovered the others had only just given up waiting for them (for four months) and had left 9 hours prior. Dismayed, exhausted and bitterly disappointed, Burke and Wills truly believed this may be the end.
After weeping into their pillows for what seemed like hours, Burke looked up and saw a tree. The tree was clearly inscribed by one word: DIG. Burke grabbed his shovel and dug desperately.
Wills grabbed his shovel and helped. Gray grabbed whatever he could find and joined in the wild digging. They digged and dug, digged and dug, digged and dug and digged and dug, till the stars rose and fell. Sweat was drenching their dirty pioneer shirts, dirt and dust were flying everywhere. Just when they were about to collapse and surrender to death ..
.. their shovels broke through the bottom of the dirt and they all fell down!!
DOWN.. DOWN ..
SPLASH!! They’d fallen into The Inland Sea!! Burke reached out to cling to the table and implored Wills and Gray to do the same. They clung to the table and fell asleep, floating.
Not knowing how long had passed or whether they were in Heaven or hell, they awoke to find themselves washed up on some strange shore.
Their belongings were all over the beach. Aching all over, almost blinded by the sun and half naked, they pulled themselves up and trudged to the top of the beach.
There they all stood, eyes agoogled in disbelief. For before them lay a vast, vacant land they had no idea where was. Burke volunteered to explore further and find out where on Earth they were, find some people and get some help.
After a half day of walking, he found a road. For another two and a half days, he followed it.
Finally he came to an intersection, with a huge sign directing to Veronaville, Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Information. He was absolutely blown away by the spectacle of a horseless cart driving by.
He decided to follow the sign to Information.
At the tiny information office, in the middle of nowhere, he was informed by the clerk that he was nowhere. Nobody had yet been interested in these parts and ne’er bestowed a name upon it.
Burke asked how to get back to Australia. The clerk said he’d never heard of it, and couldn’t find it in any of his geography books, but that for $20,000 he could have a piece of this land and call it anything he wanted. Burke didn’t have any simoleans. But he did have 80 pairs of shoes.
It just so happened that the clerk had a beastly fetish for shoes. So he traded them for a piece of land, and the right to proclaim this a new neighbourhood: WILLBURKE GRAYLANDS.
Meanwhile, back at the beach, where William and Charles waited for Robert to return with some findings, a strange flagship appeared. It seemed to have come out of nowhere, one minute they were looking out to the bleak sea, turned their backs, and then the next minute it was there.
William fretted, he thought he was losing his mind. “Where are we? What is this place? Where did that ship come from? WHAT IS GOING ON?!!”
A Sunlit Tides Saga (ASTS) Part 1
World — Sunlit Tides
Starring — Wilfred Adamson
Part — 1
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This is Wilfred Adamson
He’s just started a new life in Sunlit Tides. He may make a bit of a legacy.
It won’t be strict.
Wilfred came from a household I made as an extra for Roaring Heights. Back then he had red hair, but I like to start a family with brown or black hair. I get entertained by seeing which recessive genes from their spouses appear in the children. Same goes for brown eyes, but Wilfred has blue-grey.
He has kept his old fashioned wardrobe, because he did enjoy those times, and still holds some of the values and ideas. He sports a leather apron because he is a Vehicle Enthusiast and is Handy, and green shoes because that is his favourite colour.
His other traits are:
- Genius
- Bookworm and
- Great Kisser.
His other favourites are:
- Goopy Carbonara and
- Rockabilly
His life-time wish is:
- To become a Star Anchor, to reach the top of the Journalist career.
His star sign is
- Sagittarius, although star signs only seem to play a part in having something compatible, rather than affecting Sims 3 sims’ personalities.
Some of Wilfred’s new neighbours are sim-bin sims I also made for Roaring Heights, as well as a pair of brothers born in game to a CAS sim I had in Riverview, their dad was Billy –- I like to fill up the vacant houses with my own sims, so’s there’s no room for the game to move in any.. undesirables. When he eventually comes across his old pals he doesn’t remember, will he make unions with them, or will he be drawn more to the Sunlit Tides premade residents, townies or even NPC’s?
Wilfred has the 50×50 lot near the consignment store. Sunlit Tides has two, more traditional sized 64×64 lots but they don’t have the special letterbox. The one 50 lot does. I don’t know how to access the special letterboxes in build/buy.
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Usually I would now pause Wilfred while building him a basic start of a house with his unaltered starting funds, a little over 10K after buying this lot.
But Wilfred is a Genius.
He had a better idea.
He got on his phone straight away and called the university
“Don’t you want to take the aptitude test and apply for a scholarship first?” the call centre asked him. “That’s so kind of you Sir, but I’m a brand new sim, I don’t have any skills or job experience yet, and the mascot with the free kit will take at least another hour to get here” he explained, “I really want to just get right onto it, and I do have the funds right now”.
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So Wilfred packed his bag to welcome meat truck
He was so eager to get in he accidentally shut the door on his bag.
The driver took him off to a two-week stint at university for 12 credits towards a Communications degree. This way he’ll only have one class a day, and plenty of spare time to build his skills. He will do this four times back-to-back, and each time he returns, he’ll have points for a scholarship, and probably make a profit. The term is instant in Sunlit Tides time, and so hopefully by the end of the fourth, he’ll still have time to upload his resume and start at the newspaper in the morning. If he manages to max out his Handiness skill at university, he’ll be able to build/buy his house at a discount, which is the reward for maxing Handiness.
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What he didn’t see in time, as his lot trailed off behind him over the hill, were his new neighbours arriving to move in next door. Their house is the basic Victorian supplied by the game’s lot bin, with much of it downgraded to make it affordable to them. When story progression makes them richer, I’ll give them a nicer one.
They are the Rock household. On the left is Cecilia Rock and her mother Marsha. On the right are Monica Young and her mother Patricia. Their mothers are sisters. This was so that CAS would recognise Cecilia and Monica as cousins. I wanted them to be for strategic reasons.
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The meat truck transformed into a helicopter. “We’re at University!” the driver-pilot shouted above the thump-thump of the blades, “Where do you want to live?” he asked Wilfred.
“Oh! A dormitory! That one please Sir!” Wilfred pointed excitedly, “it’s right next to the library!”
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Wilfred chose the bedroom on the first floor of the dorm, next to the mens’ bathroom. He locked the door to allow only himself, got rid of the low end beds, and used up nearly half of his starting funds to fit it out with better needs-boosting items, in a colour theme he believed he could take home and fit in with his future planned house. The bed was the most important, he doesn’t want to be wasting half his days trying to get enough sleep.
He’s betting on that he’ll make back what he spent, because he plans on using his spare time to build not only his Handiness skill, but also Writing, which is required for Communications and the Journalist career. He thinks he’ll make a bit of a motza on book royalties, and hopefully before Sunday pay-time arrives in Sunlit Tides.
Why has he got a fishtank?
Originally he was being played in Lucky Palms, where the only way to fish for tuna and then lobster was at university, then put two in the tank to breed. Now he doesn’t need to at Sunlit Tides but he still likes having it – sushi is a good non-stove and therefore non-fire meal to make, even better when it’s free.
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The meat truck come helicopter dropped Wilfred off at the ‘grand’ entrance of the dormitory. His new roommates were gathered to move in too. He didn’t bother with any of them, they were mostly Rebels and Nerds. He had a first things first mission to take anyway! He clicked on himself, because he is a Bookworm, and ran for..
The library.
In the past my sims have found that no matter what they do to try and make up for it, if they don’t read the text book, they fail. So all of my sims do this straight away, sped along slightly by the ‘power study’ moodlet of the library.
Stupid university library doesn’t have any skill books. The only skill Wilfred can work on for free there is Writing. He crossed out the Meet and Greet and got onto that. He’s aiming for the Romance genre – it pays a 4 digit sum royalty.
I suppose he could work on Logic by playing computer chess, and Charisma in the toilet.
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Before bedtime got too late, Wilfred ran around the campus to harvest the wild fruit and vegetables so he can grow and make free Autumn salad, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and after reading the recipe when the bookshop has a sale, fruit parfait.
You don’t need onion Wilfred, not even for an inventory snack.
He did when he needed to catch tuna.
Lettuce for Autumn salad is to the left of the art class front doors.
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