#sims 3 storytelling

[wasset-aseskara]

HIDE FROM THE SUN - poses for Sims 3

Inspired by old Sims 2 vampire idles. And I couldn't wait until Halloween to share them. And sorry for the delay!

Includes 6 solo poses.

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[nocturnalazure]

Not-a-tutorial - Camera shots: Part II

This is the next part of the not-tutorial in which Noctie states out the obvious for every Sims storyteller out there.

What were we saying? Oh yeah, close-ups!

Close-ups have the ability to create a variety of emotions, like an impression of tension for example.

A close-up from a low angle can suggest superiority or a power imbalance.

Combo extreme close-up and cut off! Eyes are very expressive when taken at the right time and at the right angle.

A bird eye view shot can emphasize isolation.

Loneliness can be shown by having the character lost in the middle of the décor.

The subject does not always have to be in the center of the picture. Actually, placing the subject off center gives the image space to breathe. It creates a bit of a dramatic effect. I use this... well, all the frigging time.

I used and abused tilted angles when I first learned about them! Now I keep them mostly for action scenes or to add a dynamic effect.

I don't think you should use the theory as if it were a bible, it's just a reference to give you more ideas and inspiration. Find out what works for you first and foremost. :) Like me and my obsession with off-center characters and cut-offs! :D

I could do another non-tutorial about dialogues and speech bubbles, would you like that?

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #sims 3 storytelling #random #not-a-tutorial

[greenplumbboblover]

Life is Sunniest in Sunset Valley - Chapter 9

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[papermint-airplane]

Once I finish with my BC, I'm going to be stepping into the world of pictures with captions so Tumblr can stop screwing up my formatting. I threw together a little sample template for myself. What are we thinking?

Transcript under the cut

[Transcript]

Random Sim: Some son of a bitch ate the last donut and when I find them, I'm going to reach down their throat and get it back.

#sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 storytelling #just figuring some things out #is it readable enough? #it's readable to me and my eyes are...unique #so if i can read it everyone else can probably #i'm just paranoid for no reason #this is just me figuring things out

[linnisims]

The wedding between Olive Specter and Vlad Noctem.

Olive has found her true love in a vampire.

He loves her infinitely and he accepts her little son, Nervus.

It turns out that Nervus and Vlad get along great.

For him he is the father he never had and would never have had.

What do you think? Could their love lasts forever now?

In the photos you can see gameplay mods that I've downloaded from @thesweetsimmer111

Thank you very much for these great mods, I couldn't play without them anymore!

#sims 3 #ts3 simblr #ts3 #sims 3 story #sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 screenshots #the sims 3 #sims 3 simblr #sims3midnightholllow #olive specter #midnight hollow #sims 3 stories #thesims3 #sims 3 storytelling

[nikkeisimmer]

Excerpt from Chapter 2 (still in-progress)

River's Journal

We had a round-table discussion: What do we do about the survivors? How do we figure out if any of them can be saved.

Felix must have overheard because he went, of his own volition, on a scouting mission...to retrieve friends of ours who may have survived. Even if they had radiation sickness which couldn’t be treated, at least they wouldn’t die alone. Out of the 50,000 population of Sunset Valley, we were only able to save two who had not received enough rads to have been fatal. Holly burst into tears when she’d encountered Felix. She thought at first that he was the emissary of an alien invasion but was brought about to realize that we were still alive and that we had managed to survive the nuclear onslaught within a bunker – that in turn prompted tears of relief; she was saved.

Felix also managed to save Parker Langerak, who somehow even though he was outside at the time of the rainfall, that he’d only gotten a dose of about 30 rads. Which would probably make him slightly sick, possible fever, maybe vomiting, but not enough to be fatal, thank heavens – he was only a teen, he still had his whole life ahead of him. Felix and Parker managed to make it back when the rain stopped and Holly made a mad dash for our bunker when she saw the two of them heading for the bunker.

We did have to make peace with the fact that we couldn’t save all of them. This death-rain would eliminate the majority of the survivors who were left out on the surface. It also meant that we needed to stay within the confines of the bunker for as long as we could, at least until the radioactivity died down.

Yumi Sekemoto came to us, pleading and begging for us to save her grandchild, Sam. She knew that she was dying. In fact, she had suffered a major dose of radiation poisoning and was quarantined away from the rest of us.

Farmer was designated to help her in her last days to make sure that her passing was comfortable. Sam, luckily hadn’t managed to get much dosage of radiation so we managed to nurse him back to health. And he looked none the worse for having lost both his father and his grandmother. Poor young Sam, Haruo and I would raise him as our own; he would be our first.

Despite how we feel, joy at the thought of raising a little one ourselves, we know deep down that Leighton should have been the one raising Sam. Sam will only know us as his parents, since he was too young to remember much of his father, his father having died when the first bombs went off as he was downtown. Then losing the only maternal figure, Sam had. We both would love Sam, but he deserved to have his father still.

Our intention as Sam’s surrogate parents was to raise him up to be a young man that Leighton would be proud of, not to replace him.

For how much longer would we have to stay within the bunker. The plumbots were equipped with on-board geiger counters, but we had none and we had no idea how they worked or how they were created. We would have to salvage some down the road if we were able to.

For how much longer would we have to stay within the bunker. The plumbots were equipped with on-board geiger counters, but we had none and we had no idea how they worked or how they were created. We would have to salvage some down the road if we were able to.

It may be that we may have to move from this place...and find a home that we can actually make a community out of. But that may be far down the road. Right now we can’t take the chance of exposure to stronger radiation than what would be healthy for us to take. We need to be able to reproduce, to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction and we can’t do that if the reproducing females of our species are rendered sterile trying to find a new home. If we’re not careful we could genetically dead-end the species.

#sims 3 #ts3 #river mcirish #sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 storytelling #river and haruo #haruo chikamori #Sunset Valley - End of Days #sims 3 apocalypse

[galaxytittus]

Maple's phone.

Bonnefoy residence, c. 2013

(2/5)

transcript:

V: What? P: I got her phone. Get me a charger. *phone vibrates* V: She gonna get suspicious if you stay up here? P: I don't care. She knows not to be texting that pédé. V: *chuckling* I can't tell if you're doing this because you're protective or jealous. P: I'm never jealous. *phone vibrates* P: It's 2287. Go to messages. [R: good morning baby i was like half an hour late this morning u wore me out fr last night ;P M: ahh eww im in class dont say that rn but good morning :DD R: u should skip w me after lunch M: i can't i have dance practice after school sorryyy but u can come over later if my brothers leave the house R:👀👀👀 you just lmk baby girl and ill head over ASAP] Both: Fuck.

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[rigor-x-mortis]

Reason for detainment: aggravated assault in the local Wendy's parking lot.

#i love the barbie meme so much #mortimer didn't even do anything he was just there #silas is TERRIBLE #just a couple of besties #sim:silas #sim:mortimer #simblr #mortimer goth #silas velazquez #sims 3 #ts3 simblr #sims 3 storytelling #sims 3 story #i keep re-editing it #LMAO #story

[hannahssimblr]

I keep seeing anons mention Doors and your screenshots from a Sims 3 story. What was it about?

omg! Doors was my second 'big' story written using sims, the first that I took to its own blog because I kept getting banned from the exchange. It was a wild ride. I wrote it when I was maybe seventeen and it's VERY silly and disjointed, I was not a girl with a plan, I just went with the flow of it and you could tell, but anyway, the synopsis is under the cut.

it's about a 17 year old girl called Kady Lawson whose parents recently got divorced. She and her mother move to the top floor an old Brownstone building in Bridgeport.

Kady immediately starts to experience strange happenings in the house, and wonders whether she and her mother are really alone... It begins with strange knocking on the wall of her bedroom that only gets worse and worse as time goes on. Then things start falling off the shelves in her bedroom and she becomes convinced that there's a poltergeist in her house.

She tries to explain this to her mother (an airhead) who obviously doesn't believe her.

Anyway, obviously things get way worse and the poltergeist kicks into high gear and starts throwing things at Kady and physically injuring her. She also notices a figure of a strange woman in the background of a family photo that definitely wasn't there before. Creep city, if you ask me.

Anyway, then one night Kady is trying to sleep when the lights of the city outside strangely dim and it goes deathly silent. The figure of a woman materialises in the corner of her bedroom and stares her. Kady is too afraid to move so she just stares back and prays that she will leave her alone. After several terrifying moments the woman floats towards the bookshelves in Kady's room, through them, and disappears into the wall. Kady, super smart gorl, pulls back the bookcases to revel *gasp!* a hidden door.

Kady goes through the door to find an array of desperately boring things, paintings, boxes, an easel, nothing of remote interest except for another door on the other side of this little crawl space. Brave girl, she steps through it to find...

The neighbour's apartment. It's a trendy loft that belongs to a guy called Tristan, who becomes Kady's sidekick in this mystery. This is pretty much when I decided to give up on the ghost thing and make it a love story instead, but I tried my best to keep the mystery going even though i no longer cared about it. Tristan is a former child actor who has escaped Lucky Palms for a secluded life in Bridgeport, away from his insane parents, his grief over his dead sister and his (obvious, but never explicitly stated) drug additions. "It's hell, like siberia except it's warmer" - he explained to her. He's way too old for her, but I guess when I was 17 I thought age gaps were hot and relationships between 17/18 year olds and 23 year olds were A-OK lmao.

Tristan is somehow okay with Kady busting into his private space, listens to her problems and quickly agrees to help her to solve the mystery, 'cause he's a kooky guy, he's seen crazier things, and he could use the entertainment. I was obsessed with him. He was the weirdest character I ever wrote, and I eventually got bullied by adult women on some writers forum because I made him too gross and weird and they didn't like it hahaha.

Kady and Tristan try to solve the mystery of the haunted house and come up against dead end after dead end. They find relatives of the former owners of the house, look through old photographs, do a ouija board and Kady has a series of prophetic dreams. Meanwhile she's like "This guy is the worst and also gross!! But he's kinda....??" and he's like "I'm disloyal and selfish and I don't believe in love so don't bother" They have a small falling out over things that go wrong on her 18th birthday and stop speaking.

Anyway then fucked up stuff starts happening in Tristan's apartment and he comes back to Kady to ask her for help. There are things moving around inside his mattress and writing appearing on his walls, including a message that seems to implicate a former owner of the brownstone for murder.

They eventually locate a musty old diary belonging to the woman of the house from the 1920s. She talks about how her husband has been eyeing up the hussy next door, and she is NOT happy about it. It details her discovery that her husband has built a passageway between their homes so he can sneak over in the night and cheat on her. (don't ask me how she never noticed him building the doors or not being in bed with her at night, I didn't think about these kinds of things. It was just the vibe.)

Tristan and Kady do more research (lots of research in this story, they're also aided by Kady being suddenly psychic for no reason) and uncover a death certificate for the hussy next door (Esther). Cause of death - blunt force trauma to the skull lmao.

Kady invites Tristan over for awkward coffee, and he comes in and steps on a creaky floorboard (the same floorboard that creaks in chapter one!! I was planning ahead a bit i guess) she has an idea. She grabs a hammer and yanks up the boards to uncover a mound of old dusty books. Boring! Except one of them *gasp* was in one of Kady's prophetic dreams!!

It is a journal belonging to the murdered woman (who is the ghost, btw) where she is documenting her pregnancy. As an aside, I'm cackling at this line from Tristan when he puts two and two together. “Didn’t Vera say something in her journal about Esther looking kinda fat?”

Thanks for that, insightful king .

They go back to the crawl space that divides their apartments and discover a box of baby things. Then they hear an unholy crash coming from Tristans room. They rush out to discover his things thrown about the place, wardrobe hanging open, clothes everywhere. The ghosts are at it again, boys. But Kady discovers a box at the bottom of his wardrobe. Because she's nosy and has to respect for privacy she opens it and discovers photos of his dead sister. Sad!

Kady and Tristan get another lead that the evil killer woman had ties to Appaloosa Plains. They take a fun road trip, get a motel, and obviously I decided to pull a 'there was only one bed' move because it was the style at the time.

Adorable, inappropriate age gap, power imbalance love <3

(actually there were two beds, but they end up using one to have a deep conversation and almost kiss!)

They talk about their lives but Tristan freezes up because he's deep and he's got wounds! He shuts her out and refuses to talk anymore.

They venture into the country bumpkin capital of the sims world and trace the murder's family home to a building in town that is now a saloon. They ask the owner for information about her, and he has none. Kady admits to Tristan that she was kinda hoping to find a confession to the murder (why would she leave that lying around though? Anyway...) They discover that the murderer (Vera) changed her name, married a wealthy man and scorned her working class country roots.

They go poking around in the backrooms of the saloon and discover stacks and stacks of old newspapers in a cellar, which they write off as useless trash until they discover that they're all the same copy of the same paper from the same day. Somebody bought up every copy in town and hid them away. The search through the papers to discover a report of a missing person in Bridgeport - not Esther, but Vera's husband Henry! Gasp! did she kill him too?

As soon as they mention the word murder Kady spirals into an intense psychic vision and see's a half decomposed, skeletal body emerge from the darkness. Freezing cold suddenly and unable to move or scream, she collapses to the floor in terror.

Anyway, Tristan takes the opportunity to almost kiss her but doesn't because I was building suspense.

Then they randomly find a hole in the floor lol!

Tell me how nobody has seen this in like 80 years!! nobody like, swept the floor? Anyway. Roll with it.

There's a human skeleton hanging out down there and Kady vomits on Tristan's designer sneakers.

Weeks later, long after returning from Appaloosa Plains, Kady sulks in her window and wonders what the fuck she's meant to do about a crusty old murder that happened in like, the 20s. Who is she to solve it? Even Vera is dead so like, what's the point (I'm also wondering this Kady, so hopefully one of us can figure it out) I think she's also not talking to Tristan although this is not clear. She sees him walking across the street and gets sad because he's so sexy and yet so unavailable to her. *sigh*

All of a sudden Kady has ANOTHER psychic vision omg. She sees a little girl ghost appear in her room, a girl who introduces herself as the Esther's daughter! She says she died of the flu or some shit when she was ten and she holds all the answers. "Take my hand' she tells Kady. "I'll show you." Kady does, and they embark...

The ghost girl - Rebecca brings Kady down a mysterious corridor lined with doors, each one of which holds a piece of the puzzle.

Behind one door is Esther's murdered body, and the murder weapon, a humble hammer, lies on the floor next to her feet (look at my editing skills! amaze) she then witnesses Vera coming into the room and cleaning up the crime scene, removing evidence that she did it, hiding the hammer.

Then Kady goes into another room and sees Vera poisoning poor sickly Rebecca's soup for no reason other than she is evil. Kady blacks out AGAIN because apparently she literally cannot stop doing this and I didn't know how else to transition to another scene.

Kady comes to in time to see Tristan coming home from wherever he was (likely spreading STDs around the place tbh) she tries to tell him what she's seen but he doesn't care, he's too busy being damaged and interesting. Oh, he's also drunk. Okay.

He actually does tell her that he's a drug addict here. Okay. He got hooked on cocaine when he was an actor and now he's clean. Not relevant at all to the story I think I'd just found out about cocaine at this point in my life and i wanted to include it.

Kady visits Esther's and Rebecca's graves. She awkwardly speaks to Rebecca and says that she's sorry for what happened to her, but she's figured it all out now. She says that she hopes she can rest in peace now (even though you did nothing, babe, honestly.) She explains that Rebecca's father was murdered in Appaloosa Plains and left to rot in a cellar. She also DIDN'T CALL THE POLICE? Like she found a body and did nothing about it and now the mystery is over. Okay whatever.

Anyway, Tristan is moving back to Lucky Palms to be with his family because he has realised that he mustn't run away from his problems. He waits for Kady in her room (breaking and entering) and she comes home from the graveyard to find him there.

they finally have a big dirty smooch but don't do anything else I swear!!!!

I actually remember readers being annoyed that they didn't fuck, but like, I was a teenage girl who hadn't done anything but kiss yet! There was no way I was going to write about something like that, and I felt guilty for not trying to because so many readers were like "aw! what?? after all that and they're not going to bang??" Like sorry, no. I'm 17 and a virgin you're going to have to go somewhere else, queens xx

Kady and Tristan say goodbye in an airport and he says "I've fallen in love with you, I guess." Nice!

Then she has to leave, but he loudly sings love songs to her until he gets tackled to the floor by security (and possibly arrested? It's not clear)

Kady looks at him and laughs cos he's so wild and crazy. Whadda guy, am I right?

That's it lol. It was actually really really fun to read this story again and relay it, because I don't remember any of it. It was like reading it for the first time with totally fresh eyes. I had so many readers on this thing, like at least 500 which is INSANE to me now. The community was much more alive back then and more people were writing and reading, and like in a way I'm proud of it for what it is. It was a valiant attempt at a novella, and people really did connect with it, so as much as I'm kind of sneering at it (kindly - because it's myself) I have to stand behind it and say yeah! I finished it! And people showed up week after week and read it so that's really cool!

Thanks for sending this question - I don't know if an entire synopsis is what you were asking for, but there it is!

#sims #simlit #sims story #fiction #writing #romance #sims 3 story #sims 3 storytelling #sims3 storytelling

[unsimspirational]

SEVEN

Working in unison the two knights deflect the blows from the woman called Crimson.

Her face remains bland and innocent but her eyes are chilly with cold determination. She is strong. Much too strong to be a human. In the silent communication of men who’d fought together for many years, the knights blocked each strike of her sword in perfect unison but they know they can’t keep up their defense for much longer. 

Her blows have not abated and are coming in faster and harder and their strength is waning. The Second and Fourth Knights wait at the ready to defend the king in the event the two before them should fall.

Shouting encouragement to his knights the king looks on trying to wrack his ale-soaked and dazed brain as to whom of his enemies could have sent her. And why the woman seems so familiar to him.

Then, realization dawned. The disappearance of the kings of the east and west made sense now. Many years had passed and he was now a very old man, a man now nearly 130 years old. He’d foolishly forgotten the pact made so very long ago between the four kings and the remaining Fae. 

For it was the agreement with the Fae that kept them all alive for so long. The four longest-living kings in the realm, as they were known, brothers they all were. Foolishly he’d thought he had more time. But it is not to be.  

His progeny has come for retribution because the four kings are decades late in fulfilling their side of the bargain. The hybrid race he’d help create wanted to take their place in the realm. It was their turn to rule now.

End.

#sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 story #crimson #sims 3 storytelling #sims 3 stories #short story #medieval story #unsimspirational

[wasset-aseskara]

PARTNERS IN CRIME - poses for Sims 3

Includes 3 couple poses.

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[spiritualsimtatyana2000]

Valencia

She is an Aries witch who moved to Sunset Valley to be away from her parents in Monte Vista who pressured her not to be a witch in an abusive and strict way, she loves the color red like she would like to paint the town red in her imagination. She's not evil, she's a good witch with the traits: of charismatic, irresistible, beautiful, and perceptive.

She works as a detective while meeting others in the town of Sunset Valley and moving on forward in her new life. She found new friends there. She is in a better life, a better new place.

Some mysteries need to be solved, she is on the case and performs rituals in her red-lighted room upon the full moon to work on her magic and her alchemy skills. She is definitely not her parents' problem anymore, living her best life on her own. And hoping to find a lover who will accept her magic and appreciate her beauty and loyalty.

#sims 3 supernatural #the sims community #sims community #black sims #sims 3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 witch #sims 3 storytelling #sims storytelling #sims stories

[greenplumbboblover]

Life is Sunniest in Sunset Valley - Chapter 9

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[aurorangen]

Finally a new case assignment and it's all thanks to Vincent and Isaac! Let's hope it won't be anything like last time 😣

Transcript:

Darius: Team we've got a new case assignment.

Noah: What is it this time? If this is something useless again, then I'm gonna-

Darius: Nah don't worry, this one's up to our standards! Where is Renee?

Noah: She went to get some research papers.

[Renee comes back with confidential Strangerville material as she was given access by her seniors]

Renee: I'm back! I figured we should look into Strangerville since we don't have any cases.

Darius: Hmm? Strangerville?

Renee: [realises he doesn't know the place] You see, our friend from uni is from Strangerville. She went back to take care of business [sighs] but we've not heard from her since. She's disappeared from our lives.

Darius: [skims through a file] Nothing about it online…I wonder what's happening there. I'm sorry about your friend, but let's look at this in the future. We have a potential money laundering case to investigate.

Renee: [recalls Vincent talking about winning his case and its outcome on their walk] We should do that.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #renee reichmann #noah ngata #darius monet #im gonna pause this case and resume it after her pregnancy!!! #tbh we will have a few cases to fully explore for storytelling purposes for both renee and vincent! so yh they might be YA for a while lol #its like ill never play this storyline again so making the most out of it

[lynzishell]

Prev // Next

Transcript under the cut:

Phoenix: What? Dawn: Phoenix, you have the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever known, and I love you so much.

Phoenix: But? Dawn: No but, just listen. Phoenix: Okay.

Dawn: You know how everyone says that your whole life flashes before your eyes before you die? Phoenix: Yeah.

Dawn: When we were on that mountain… when I fell. I thought for sure I was going to die. But my whole life didn’t flash before my eyes. All I saw was you. Every second from the moment we met. And then I stopped, and suddenly everything was silent and black. And then I heard your voice. When I opened my eyes, I saw you. You caught me. I don’t even know how that’s possible. But you did. You’re not just the love of my life, you’re my partner, my hero, my soulmate. Not a day has gone by that I haven’t felt safe, supported, and loved by you too.

Dawn: Now you can ask me. Phoenix: Will you marry me? Dawn: Of course, I will.

#🥹💖 #public woohoo 3 of 5 #or maybe 4 or 5? #depends if the sun loungers outside their rental counts #idk what do you think? #ts4 #ts4 simblr #ts4 story #sims 4 #sims 4 storytelling #sims 4 challenge #starsignchallenge #starsignlegacychallenge #gen1 aries #aries pt3 #phoenix realta #dawn stephens

[nikkeisimmer]

It's Not Nice Outside.

Survivors are finding it really difficult. It's not gonna be pretty when it gets into nuclear winter, which I will be putting the survivors into in a week (Sim-time).

#sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 storytelling #Sunset Valley - End of Days #Sims 3 Apocalypse