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Gen Three- Chapter Eight


It wasn't confusing at first, waking up. I was warm and comfy in a bed, and I was coming to consciousness after quite a deep rest. Most mornings during vacations started in such a way, and I remembered with bliss that I was on vacation. Christmas was soon, and that meant a lot of fun things were coming up. Parties and get-togethers, visits from family out of town, littering the yard with snowmen, drinking obscene amounts of hot chocolate- I could see more of why grandpa considered the whole time period a holiday.

Confusion, however, did start to settle in for at least a few seconds. My body was so, so heavy in an unusual way. The firmness of the bed made me realize it wasn't mine, and the sounds and smells were way off from what they should be. Cracking open my eyes cleared things up more. I knew the hospital well. There I lay in one of the small rooms in the emergency section- specifically the one near the end of the hall given that I right across from the men's restroom.

I was glad I remembered easily enough why I was here. Something had been wrong with me, I had passed out, and Mr. Mountain had suddenly shown up. Remembering that didn't make me feel glad. Not only had everything most likely been exposed, but the trouble Timber and I were bound to get in was going to be ten times worse given how I'd also ended up like this.

Color My World Short Story #8 Part One


The overwhelming scent of chocolate chip cookies both delighted and repulsed my nose. On one hand, the treats were the most delicious and tempting baked goods to ever waft their smell in my direction. One the other hand, such a scent had been attacking my nostrils for too long that my senses begged me for a breath of fresh air.

     "Here, let me get the door for you." Allium offered as I finished rolling up the final balls of dough into the tray.
     "We finally made it, Charming. The last batch. I didn't think we would ever see the end of the tunnel." I joked as I slid those last cookies into the oven.
     "Yeeeah, I'll be careful next time accepting the request to make stuff for Holly and Mimi's club's bake-sale. Two hundred chocolate chip cookies didn't seem like it would be a lot."
     "How does two hundred of anything not seem like a lot?" I had to question with a smile.
     "I've always been bad at math," Allium joked along with his trademark smirking grin, "Seriously though, thank you for your help. Since you had a hand in these, the cookies are going to sell like crazy."
     "They'd better. Right now, I never want to see another chocolate chip cookie for at least a year." I laughed.

Gen Three- Chapter Seven


Grandpa's supposed third favorite 'holiday' had arrived. His most favorite holiday was Christmas, and the next one after that was summer vacation. Winter break followed on the list. That list amused me both for the fact that grandpa still counted breaks from school as great moments during the year even though he was sixty and that two of his top favorite holidays weren't holidays at all. I think he did it mostly to be funny. I wondered if his ranking of days off would change soon though what with him going ahead and retiring. Each day would be a vacation now.

In any case, school was indeed now off for the holidays. School or Christmas or anything like that was the last thing on my mind though. It was the 15th of December- one day before the ultimate day. The one where Timber's mother would be arriving in Berrybrook to meet us at the lake. It was all my mind could focus on, yet I could hardly believe it was the truth. The stress must have been why I lagged behind as Gilly, Timber, and I made our way to the lake to show Gilly the kittens. The long trek up the hills had long since grown easy to me in the weeks prior, but now it was an arduous journey once again. It didn't help that, in her excitement, Gilly kept dashing off. A whole week had passed since I revealed the existence of the animals to my sister. With my parents, growing suspicious of my constant wandering as well, I had had to act normally and not visit the cats until this day where the start of the vacation allowed my siblings and I much more leniency to trek around town.

Gen Three- Chapter Six


Grandpa and dad were shaking their heads and chuckling at us quite often these days. When the day had come for mom and Aunt Mimi to celebrate their birthday, everyone's jaws dropped when mom unwrapped the gift Gilly and I got her. Well, Uncle Frost didn't seem to be surprised, but that was obvious. Mom couldn't believe we'd gotten her the holographic toy. She hadn't expected anyone to go for the most expensive present on her list, and how we'd managed to afford it absolutely baffled her. How we got a hold of it was a constant question of hers over the past several weeks. However, now the enraptured attention Gilly, mom, and I all had with mom's toy kept us distracted during all our free hours.

     "I finally taught him how to do a flip," mom revealed to us one weekend afternoon, "Geode, flip."

The tear shaped purple blob giggled and jiggled as it completed a merry backflip.

     "Good. Now speak, Geode."

A series of unintelligible squeals and squeaks came from the creature. Mom pet the top of his intangible form. Geode reacted to it, and I continued to be astounded by the toy. The disk mom held in her hand that created the whole spectacle took in sounds and hand movements to make it appear as if we were actually interacting with something that wasn't there.

     "Mom, it's almost two." I had to remind her though despite me wanting to see more.
     "Oh, right. Say goodbye to Dia, Geode."

Gen Three- Chapter Five


The smell of the store was one of my favorite things about where dad worked. The library kind of had that smell too, but most of the books there were naturally more worn. Newer books, like the ones lining the shelves here, appealed more to my senses.

     "Find something you want?" Ember asked from behind me, having picked her own choice of reading material.
     "Yeah, this one looks good."

I pulled down my selection, and I enjoyed the fact that dad's business was basically a second library to us. Reading, of course, was an activity mom and dad encouraged greatly over stuff like video games, so we had free pick of what the Mosaic Pages Bookstore had to offer provided we stuck to what was appropriate for our age. Dad would just deduct the price from the store's income, and what we paid was also greatly reduced considering we were the owner's children. Dad would very rarely grumble that we should just go to the actual library instead, but that meant an extra trip or two driving us there for him, which silenced further complaining. Besides, it's not like he had to worry about going broke. Business was good.

     "Where's Gilly at?" I wondered when I turned around.
     "On the second floor. Where else?" Ember rolled her eyes while wearing a smile.

Top 5 Baby Boy and Girls Names for CMW

I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time. If you've ever noticed in CMW that certain names are repeated or are similar, that isn't a mistake. Since I began this story, I always envisioned there naturally being names that parents in the CMW universe picked more commonly over other names. I thought it would be fun to put together a list of what I believe those names would be. I'm sure you'll spot some familiar ones. So, here you are!

Color My World Short Story #7


A sigh went around the table as Sunflower pulled out one of her favorite responses for our game of 'Never Have I Ever' we were playing. The rest of us hated it seeing as how she used it each time without fail, and it got all four of us to instantly drop a finger.

     "I feel like you just like rubbing it in- you never having gotten a cavity before." Allium pouted.

He was now tied for last pace with Amaranth. They each had one finger in the game. Unluckily for Amaranth, it was Allium's turn next. Allium could easily get him out if he thought of something good. It wasn't too difficult for any of us to know exactly what to say to screw over everyone else. We knew each other too well. Here we sat around the dining room table in my parents' house that now belonged to my sister just like we had in the old days. I was house sitting while she and her family were off on vacation. Why Ice couldn't understand why I hadn't wanted the house permanently was beyond me. Everyone else in my family thought nothing of the days when it was down in the single digits and we still had to get on our boat to get off our little island. Doing grocery shopping, getting new furniture on and old furniture off, needing to go to work or school when it was storming with thunder and lightning galore...how could it be anything else but a major pain in the ass?

D&D Characters

In the past, I tried writing up some story summaries of Dungeons & Dragon campaigns I've been a part of. I stopped doing them because as soon as I got one written up it seemed like the campaign would start falling apart the very next week due to schedule conflicts or other people no longer being interested in playing that campaign XD I've got quite the collection of characters at this point, and I adore them all. I'd like to share them still in some way, so I found this really nice avatar maker here. With it, I've made all of my characters save for one, who can't be made with that maker as she's a dragon. Below is the rest of my collections of lovelies (^^) They're listed in the general order of their creation.

Color My World Short Story #6


Amaranth was the most adorable thing ever.

     "Are you having fun?"

I had asked him that question, and now he beamed up at me the most ecstatic smile I had seen from him yet. Coal teased me often that our son turned my heart to mush, as it did his, and not once had I ever been able to deny that. But, why would I want to deny it? I needed my heart softened each and every day. Work was becoming unbearable.

It had been almost a year since the chaos now. A year since a collection of idiots in our lower ranks decided to band together to undermine and steal from another group that we had momentarily allied ourselves with for a massive project. Not only had the idiots been caught breaking the formed contract, they had framed too much on people Amaranth would now never know- his grandparents. My parents were gone. Coal's parents were gone. The traitors had been weeded out and handed their punishments, but things remained a mess. Coal and I, though we had nothing to do with the project, had targets on our backs from our former allies still wanting retribution for how badly the deception screwed them over. They wouldn't try to take our lives, that would cause too much suspicion from our families, but they could find other ways to hurt us...like stealing away my little boy still grinning up at me. My little boy who blessedly helped me forget for those precious few moments that I was different from everyone else around me.

Gen Three Mermaids

In an update I posted a while back, I created Amaranth and Ethereal's family as mermaids. I decided to do the same with Coal and Holly and their little collection of kidlets. I went ahead and made them all adults just so they could have the better customization.


Color My World Short Story #5


Although I was expecting it at some point that afternoon, the knock on the front door still made my heart skip a bit in surprise. I welcomed the jolt, however. Fridays had become my favorite day for the reason of who would be standing on the other side of the door. It turned out that that Friday I received an extra piece of joy.

     "Charming!" I remarked at my friend's presence with glee when he walked in with Amaranth, "I didn't know you would be coming home this weekend. I thought you were going to be studying for that test retake."
     "I worked hard throughout the week, and I got my professor to let me take it this morning. I passed with flying colors, so I was able to catch a ride down with Am." Allium explained, pulling me into a tight hug before stepping back and beaming widely.
     "That's really good to hear. I'm glad you're holding up well with such a difficult class. I appreciate the hard work as well. What's it been? A month and a half since you've had time to visit?"
     "Something like that. Too damn long." Allium chuckled.
     "That's why he had me bring him along here first as well instead of taking him home. His mom told us you were looking after Hunter right now." Amaranth joined in.
     "Yeah. It's Eden's turn to take Button to the vet while I babysit, and Rose and Jac are off on a date," I explained, "The boys are over in my study area. We just came in from playing outside in the snow."
     "If you'll excuse me then..." Allium said merrily.

Couple Song for the Christmas Couple

Contains spoilers for Gen One through Three


Color My World Short Story #4


As we found our way upstairs and into Eden's room, I found myself drawn to the corner. There was that curiosity to explore what hadn't been seen before. It wasn't that I hadn't been in here previously, but there simply hadn't been many reasons to come in. Eden had only invited me in one other time, and that had been years and years ago when the pictures in the corner hadn't been there.

     "Meadow was so adorable when she was younger." I cooed.
     "Wasn't she?" Eden smiled.

He placed down his bags of stuff. With Allium, Meadow, and their friends off enjoying their weekend, Eden and I had done some shopping after our book club finished its meeting.

     "Who took the pictures?" I asked
     "I did."
     "You know, you've shown me pictures of her at this age before. I really haven't seen photos of her at any other age though past the ones you have from when you moved here."
     "That's because there are none," Eden sighed, "The only pictures that exist of her besides the ones taken here were all taken by me. It wasn't long after these pictures here that my adult life really got moving. I visited my parents and Meadow occasionally, but I stopped having the urge to take photos of her. It really didn't cross my mind. If I had know then that my parents couldn't be bothered to capture anything of her life, I would have acted differently. However, I didn't know."

Gen Three- Chapter Four


Excitement bubbled vigorously against my chest as Timber led me upstairs. His bedroom was pretty large and incredibly fun to hang out in, but what I looked forward to was the beaten up manila folder he pulled out of his desk drawer. When the power had returned two days after the storm and school resumed, he had mentioned during a quiet moment at lunch that the contents of the folder were what he was so eager to have found. However, quite a bit of time passed between that moment at lunch and now when I was finally able to visit. What was good though was that Mr. Mountain was solidly preoccupied down in his room on the first floor, so there was little worry about being overheard or caught.

     "Are you sure it's safe for you to be holding onto the folder? Won't your dad notice it's missing?" I asked.
     "It's fine," Timber promised, "It's been over three months since we've moved here now, but he's being super slow about unpacking. He hasn't even gotten close towards going through the box I found this in. I can just return it later after I show you it now, and he'll be none the wiser."

With a drama that made me think Timber had been practicing for the grand reveal, he flipped open the folder with flair and a wide smile.

Gen Three- Chapter Three


The wind whistled a rolling song along the side of the house as the tree branches bounced and waved while the first few fall leaves scraped the ground as they were pushed along. Wanting to look outside to enjoy the afternoon weather, I turned my head. That was the completely wrong thing for me to do. I barely moved a few muscles, but my whole body silently screamed at me with its unending prickling soreness. Moving was too much of a privilege for it to handle. Sighing, I returned to my book only to be interrupted by a knock on the door several seconds later.

     "Come in!"

Gen Three- Chapter Two


Several days past the time where I had had to wear black again, I found myself standing in the graveyard feeling little better than I did when dad had been forced to turn that first day of school into a miserable one. It was even worse for Merlot, who, about two weeks past that day now, still had to use crutches to get around. His ankle was almost healed, but there remained some lingering pain. However, I barely heard a complaint about it come out of his mouth. I wondered if he wanted to whine more, but kept his mouth shut because of the different kind of pain all the rest of us were feeling.

     "I'm sorry about your uncle." Timber said to me kindly.

He had spoken that to me many times since the news came out. That afternoon had been difficult for him in his own way. Not having a connection Uncle Eden, he had just had to stand by and watch us suffer instead.

Summary of Families for CMW Gen Three

So, there's a lot of new kids and faces for Gen Three, huh? Last generation I did a post with pictures, but there's simply so many Sims this time around that I honestly just couldn't be bothered. The summary below should help make more sense of who's who and who belongs to who. I'll be writing a few little tidbits of information that won't really make it into the story as well. There will be some slight spoilers for characters who have not been introduced yet, but the information revealed is nothing major. In addition, here's a link to the Family Echo family tree that I've created.

Gen Three- Chapter One


My mouth twitched with a smile as I watched Apple stretch tremendously this way and that. The biggest sigh of relief escaped her lips, and I swore she was trying to break her face in two with how greatly she yawned.

     "Thank goodness this day is over! I didn't think I was going to make it." she expressed when her grandiose movements ceased.
     "Apple, it's only been the first day of school. We didn't do anything but go over the syllabus in each class. Our homework is to bring in a box of tissues and have our parents sign their approval for the books on this year's reading list." I pointed out.
     "I know. That's why this day was terrible," Apple whined, "I hate boring stuff like that. If I have to spend all day inside, at least give a proper class. Why teach us how to read if they're just going to read at us the stuff we can look at ourselves? People aren't going to pay attention to it either way."
     "What's a syllabus?" a third voice chimed into the conversation.

Gen Three- Prologue


I learned what true heartbreak was at a very young age.

Three to be specific. Three years and a month to the day to be exact. The day was May 23rd- a Saturday. It had been a fun one for me. Every so often Uncle Eden and I got to spend some time together by ourselves without my sisters or his children or grandchildren around. We'd gone to the festival at the park where we rode on rides, watched a magician on stage, and ate a bunch of tasty food. That was when I asked if we could go to the beach to play on the boardwalk like I often did with my dad, but Uncle Eden said we had to visit the hospital first.

Short Story Ideas

So, with about six days to go until Color My World's return, there were a few more things I wanted to say before it begins. The main item on my agenda to mention is that I will still be doing NaNoWriMo during November like years past. Like previously, I'll be putting the main chapters on break during that month so I can focus on that project instead. I've been hard at work though prepping content, so unlike last year where I fell a bit short on getting out short stories I already have two done and scheduled to post. I've also found that the short stories are quite refreshing. With it being my intention to keep far ahead in terms of creating chapters, I would also like to keep up with the short stories after November ends. I'd like to do at least one per month, perhaps more depending on how it all goes. I have a good number of my own ideas for them, and there were several suggested in the questionnaire I posted after Generation Two ended. I thought I'd give this opportunity for you guys to suggest any more ideas you have for what you want to see, although you're welcome to always request them at any time really. These were the ones suggested last time:

     -Seeing Doodle with the toddlers
     -Seeing more of the Gen One and Gen Two kids as toddlers or children
     -Amaranth, Eden, and Blaze dealing with the main conflict at the end of Gen One
     -More color swaps and colorful children

These are the ones out so far to give you a general sense if needed of how I do them:

     Short Story #3 (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three)

To Confirm It

Just thought I'd write this quickly to let you know I'm confirming Color My World's return for October 6th! I've got the prologue and two chapters done already, and I've got the pictures for a short story taken as well. Hope you're looking forward to it :)

Whooo Boy...

Well...life can be fun sometimes. After three more weeks of waiting, my laptop is finally back from the repair shop. It's apparently a Frankenstein of a contraption, which, coupled with the complicated software problems Alienwares can have, led to a ridiculous amount of fiddling in order to get it working. It is working now, but...there was a miscommunication between the information I gave the shop and the information the woman who did the intake for my laptop gave the man who did the repairs. I told her it had been rebooted clean, but that after putting my files back on and running most of my games again that it was still having driver issues. Unfortunately, the way she wrote that on the intake told the repair worker that it had been rebooted clean but not that most of my stuff was on there. And so, in the craziness that it took him to makes things right, he wiped the laptop clean again. He had no idea until I went to pick it up yesterday and asked about the files when he went to show me the updates he had made. I did have the most important stuff backed up on a flash drive, my novel mostly, and he ran some sort of program throughout the night that brought back what he could. I was told the program typically didn't bring back game files though, so...

As of right now, the 100 Majesties, the Perfect Genetics challenge, and my old The Goddess' Order files are completely gone. All my custom content too. I have a copy of the Color My World save to still make that work in addition to the Vampire Coven save. I also have the .sim files for pretty much all my Sims, my Mods folder, and my Exports folder containing the .sims3pack files of my sims as a backup for the .sim files.

Pretty much what the program brought back was all the picture files, all dumped into one nice big folder for me to sort through. 13,194 pictures to be exact. A lot of it is weird stuff that was extracted as the program grabbed ALL jpeg files on my computer, so stuff like the album icons from iTunes, icon images for programs, etc.

Needless to say, I now get to redownload and reinstall all the Sims stuff AGAIN after I just finished getting it all set up, and I'm missing even more stuff than before. There is a hope that my family friend who did the first wipe might still have all the files copied, but he can be hard to get a hold of as he frequently travels. If not, well, I can rebuild 100 Majesties and possibly Perfect Genetics, but those are getting pushed to the back burner once more. I still want to shoot for a CMW comeback in October, so my focus is finding the items for that first.

And, as soon as I can afford it, I'm getting a BackBlaze account XD

Color My World Generation Two In-Depth Summary

     Years have passed for Ethereal and Amaranth, and their life after facing the trials The Company placed before them is perfect. That is what their third son, Coal, believes the first ten years of his life were anyway. His parents' marriage is peaceful, he and his family have a large house to live in, they have lots of money, and all of the family friends live right nearby where their children are his own circle of friends. There is also always something interesting going too. With a household as full as his, there was no way it could be any other way. Wisp is his oldest brother, who is about to enter his final year of high school. Then there's the fraternal twins- the albino brother Prism and the red and green sister Desire. Coal came after them, and that leaves the little toddler sister Cerise to finish up the pack.
     Once a month, the family piles into the car to meet the rest of the extended family at the city park to enjoy their time together. Coal thinks it's interesting how his Uncle Eden married a woman also named Eden. Hunter is his oldest cousin, although Uncle Eden had him with Allium's mother, Rose. Next after him is Malachite and Rosemary, the two children Eden and Eden, usually called Deny, adopted. Purity and Sap, who had married, also adopted a son, Cyclone, as well. They had then had their own son, Azure. Both Rosemary and Azure are a third of Coal's group of friends. The other two thirds are made up by Midas, Frost and Sunflower's only son and child, and Hollyhock, known as Holly, and Mimosa, the identical twins and younger daughters of Allium and his wife, Dahlia.
     Coal remarks that back in those days there were only three things that disturbed his seemingly perfect life- his parents' general frugalness despite their wealth, Prism's incessant brotherly teasing, and Mimosa's eternal over-affection for him. The adults tell him that it's hard for Mimosa to help herself, as the mental illness she was born with sends her emotions all over the place. Her constant hugs, wishes to hold hands, and generally clinginess tends to irritate him, but Coal still enjoys her company as a close friend regardless. That day at the park, he and Mimosa and a few of his friends have a skeeball competition where Coal comes out on top. Amaranth doesn't think his score is too impressive though, and Coal turns his father's teasing that he can do way better into a bet. Amaranth has to beat the top score within one round, or else he'll have to buy Coal a motorcycle when he's older. So confident, Amaranth doesn't even request a payment from Coal is he's successful. Coal's hopes soon sink when it becomes clear Amaranth will indeed be successful. That's why he and Azure playfully interrupt to mess with Amaranth's game. Fun tricks back and forth are had for retaliation, and the day continues on like normal.

Color My World Generation One In-Depth Summary

     In the world in which the story takes place, people are made up of all sorts of colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, gray, and brown to be exact. However, ten-year-old Ethereal is without color. She is an albino, a physical state admired and glorified by the rest of the world. Yet, that world is something Ethereal knows nothing about. Kept in a pure white room with tall walls encasing the yard she's given to explore, Ethereal has lived her entire life isolated from everyone else. The scientists tell her she's an important part of a project they have planned. Ethereal finds she has no issues with that. Almost no issues, anyway.
     Ethereal grows up knowing only three people. The first one, Mr. Blue, is in charge of her physical health. She doesn't mind when he does a simple check of her state from time to time, but in the majority of cases Ethereal finds herself sedated in the small medical room attached to her living space. It is what he does when she's unconscious that bothers her about the project. Ethereal never finds herself hurt. Unfortunately, she always finds that blood has been drawn, there are multiple needle holes in her arms, and something simply feels off when she wakes.
     As much as Ethereal doesn't like Mr. Blue's visits, they don't happen often. Who she does see everyday is a woman named Ms. Yellow. This scientist who is neither nice nor mean brings Ethereal her meals, checks on her twice a day, and overall makes sure nothing has happened to her. Who is nice to Ethereal is the final scientist allowed in her room, Eden Yonder. Mr. Blue and Ms. Yellow tell Ethereal to call him Mr. Green, but Eden refuses to let himself be called by that title. Ethereal grew confused when Eden told her long ago that he was in charge of monitoring her psychological health as she had no idea what that word meant, so Eden simply smiled and stated he was in charge of making sure she didn't turn into a nut case. Ethereal enjoys his frequent visits. His visits majorly contain them playing together or relaxing on the grassy hill. Occasionally though, Ethereal grows mad at Eden when he tries to tell her of the outside, normal world. She has no interest in such tales, and Eden isn't supposed to tell her that stuff anyway.
     It would go on to be that Ethereal would find her mindset changing rapidly. Eden shows up for an unscheduled visit only to reveal in a contained rush that she has to make a choice. Ethereal can refuse a sedative he has brought, but if she does he has to leave never to return and she would never see him again. On the other hand, if she trusts him they can continue to be together. Knowing she would go crazy losing the lone source of love she's had, Ethereal chooses to trust him. She easily falls asleep. When she wakes, a small rundown brown and gray building is where she now finds herself. Eden is there too, of course, and after instructing that they have to keep the windows covered, he explains the truth.

Getting There

This little update should hopefully be the last one of these for a while. It turns out that my laptop had to be looked at again as a few days of using it revealed the problem hadn't been fixed entirely. It still runs most things perfectly well, but due to its age the graphic drivers and such are no longer supported by the parent company. This meant that my computer got stuck in a state of limbo where the drivers would work somewhat, but because of the lack of support it would no longer fully recognize them. Thus, I am now switching over to new drivers completely. The parts should be in soon, and they'll be better than what I had before.

After that's all taken care of, I do intend to start working on Color My World again as I mentioned in my comment on the previous update. The rough timetable has been pushed back somewhat due to this extra delay. However, I would like to start posting at least towards the end of September. If not then, it will be early October. October 6th, most likely. That was the start date for both Gen One and Gen Two, so it would make a fitting date for Gen Three as well.

Also, there will be two things coming out soon. I realize both Gen One and Gen Two contain a lot of content to read. I will be posting in depth summaries of the completed generations to serve as both a refresher for previous readers and a catch up point for those who want to read the story but find the backlog too overwhelming. They'll be out either tonight or tomorrow.

Another Update!

I'm back!

It took a bit longer than expected to get my laptop back up to par again. It's basically been with the computer guy all these weeks as the usual methods to fix it weren't working. In the end, the computer had to be wiped clean and restored to a fresh reinstall of my windows program (again). Thankfully, my experience with this happening in the past left me more prepared in this case. All of the Sims stuff is safe, and the majority of my custom content I backed up so I won't have to manually search out and download it all again. That being said, there was a bunch of stuff I wasn't using, so I will be taking a day or two to give that a cleanup as well. Once that's done, I'm looking to putting out a bunch more new content. I hope you look forward to it!

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #60


Allura took Saturday morning to do what she wanted to do. When afternoon came around, it was time for the older children to have some fun. Celeste, Evangeline, and Oliver badly wanted to go to the pool. Abigail tagged along just because, but she really didn't have much interest in swimming. Lynette, thankfully, also showed up to the lot.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #59


The busiest room in the house used to be the nursery, but when Celeste, Evangeline, and Oliver grew up Abigail found that she no longer had the peace of a bedroom all to herself. It really didn't take long for the relatively small household the family owned to fill up. That would have to be something to be remembered when the time for the next move arrived- more space.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #58


In all the chaos of handling a house full of children, Allura remembered to make some calls in time in order to set up a gift giving party. The guest list focused merely on bringing family over, but there were a few random people who popped by. It couldn't be minded too much. They did bring food and more presents to share.

A Bit of an Update

It's been pretty quiet around here recently, and I'm sure that's been well noticed. It's been an up and down month and a half or so. After losing my job of three years due to store closure around mid-December, I was jobless until about the beginning of May. Not for lack of trying though. No matter where I applied, even minimum wage retail/food jobs, simply no one was biting. Then I managed to get a job as a baker's assistant at this cake shop I really like. It paid better than my old job, and things were fine for a few weeks. Then I got a call about a week ago. The owner had overestimated how much business the shop would be getting. For whatever reason, the amount of traffic and orders they were getting wasn't comparing to previous years. The owners barely had enough money for the shop, let alone me and the few other people they hired, so I'm currently on a weird sort of hiatus. I might be called back if things pick up, but no one knows if such a thing will occur. I've been told, of course, that I am more than free to look for other work, but I'm running into the same silence I ran into all those first months of the year. It doesn't help that I've already expended most of my reasonable choices. The cake shop was already quite a drive away.

My main point with this update is to let you all know what's been going on and why it's been harder to post. My other goal was to gauge interest in an idea. Someone once asked me why I didn't try out a Patreon. I said at the time that I wasn't sure if it was worthwhile, but now I'm debating on whether it might be worth it to at least try. The plan would be to focus both around my Sim writing and my normal writing to hopefully pull in some sort of following. Everything would still be free here and on my Tumblr, naturally, but there would be those extra Patreon perks. I've even been considering learning how to make poses. It's something I've always wanted to do, and I know there's always demand for that. In any case, what are your impressions? Even if subscribing to a Patreon isn't something you'd like to do, how do you feel about helping to advertise the blog/my Tumblr/my normal writing? Just, how do you feel in general about the whole thing, is what I'm after. Predictably, I'd be overjoyed if I managed to find some sort of constant monetary support from it. It would definitely mean Color My World would return almost right away.

I'll get back to posting on a more constant basis as soon as I can. I'm unsure if I'll continue transferring the Vampire Coven posts over though. The formatting gets ridiculously messed up copying from Tumblr to Blogger, and it's rather irritating fixing it.

In order not to leave you with nothing, here's a little something I did one night when I had free time. A Tumblr I follow, TaiNoodles, made adorable mermaid dolls with the Sims from her main rainbowcy, so I made some for the Vivid family. You couldn't get even a fourth as intricate with the children and younger mermaids as you could with the adults, but I still think Prism, Desire, Coal, Cerise, and Glade came out cute.


Vampire Coven ~Post Collection #3~


     “Well, Brannon Weldon,” he retorted smugly, “I am Eldon Vorigan, Elder of the coven in this area.”
     “Yeah, so I figured when word got around the sleeping vampires had finally woken up. We did know you were there. Just couldn’t get to you. And I didn’t realize you could call yourself an Elder when your ‘coven’ consists of no one but you and your wife.”
     “You said you came here to talk, or do you truly only desire to attempt to insult me?”
     “Just wanted to make sure you remembered the laws you have to follow. I’m not happy about your return, but your kind isn’t the lone one who follows tradition. We’ll leave you be as long as you don’t step out of line.”
     “Ah, yes, the guidelines your ancestors and my people agreed upon in our pact of peace. Do not fear. My wife and I remember them well. We are leaving the humans we feed on quite unharmed, and their memories are altered as necessary. For the most part. There was a single man who had to give a whole donation, but one such meal is well within the limits we promised to not break.”

Coal the Cop

It's been a bit since I've posted some CMW related stuff, so I thought I would remedy that. The 3rd Generation is still a ways off, although I have been working a little on getting the most important factors prepared- the families, lots, and etc. Depending on how that work goes and how spoilery it is, I might preview something now and again. For now though, here's some shots of an AU of CMW, a CMW where Coal got to be a cop. The story would have remained the same save for Buckeye not injuring Coal's eye.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #57


The household woke up to some sad news. Fintan had passed away during the night, leaving poor Tim quite upset at the loss of his father. Allura comforted him as best as she could, but some things just have to be cried out.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #56


When the timing was appropriate, Allura called Aphpo to see if he was willing to make another visit back to earth. He was, but Allura was disappointed that the weather wasn't more cooperative for their time together. They wanted to take a nice walk before checking out the stadium. However, the pouring rain forced them to abandon the walk and go straight to warming up, in a certain way, in their own comfy corner of the large lot.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #55


Several factors contributed to Allura inviting Fintan over for a very special visit despite her list of potential fathers having several names before his. The main two reasons for the change were the fact that he was so stubbornly persistent in making sure Allura didn't forget him, constantly calling, popping over for random visits, and that he was getting up there in years. There was only so much time that could be wasted before she lost her chance. Thus, the two got together to get rid of that time constraint.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #54


Two children to look after was definitely double the trouble compared to before, but Allura once again found at good pace at which everything proceeded with relative ease. So much time was spent in the nursery teaching Bailey her skills while tending to Jane's needs. Allura had just fully gotten the hang of it all when it all changed. First, Bailey had her birthday.

Vampire Coven ~Post Collection #2~


     “Let me go, you bastard!”

     The placid expression on the human’s face erupted into one of fury. His words rang loud. His attempt at shaking off his captor’s grip, however, resulted in a deft punch to the chest that sent him sprawling onto the ground.

     “You are starving as well if your charm broke so quickly.” she noted.
     “It lasted long enough,” he scoffed, “I had to journey across the entire forsaken town to find an isolated target.”

Her nose crinkled in disgust.

     “His blood smells of ale.”
     “Then leave him to me if you are going to be ungrateful. I’m sure turning to dust will be a pleasant sensation.”

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #53


Ryleen's departure was felt by Allura more than expected. Bailey cried loud and cried often, but after getting into a certain schedule Allura was able to stay on top of her needs without losing too much sleep.

Vampire Coven ~Post Collection #1~

Vampire Coven ~Intro~

     "We are dying..."


     “The light in the eyes of our kin is fading. The final Fruit has wilted. I leave you this letter in the final hopes that you, my last creation, will rise from your coffin this very evening and strike. Expand, my dear, and gather our forces in the eternal night. Keep them by your fingers. Your love is the coven, but more importantly, your love is our breed. The humans are cattle. Heed tradition, punish severely. All sacrifices may be made for the holy goal. Our species is golden.”




     “It rests in your hands.”

Vampire Coven Challenge on the Blog?

For those who aren't aware, I also run a Vampire Coven challenge on my Tumblr. I've mentioned it a few times here, and now I wanted to check the interest to see if people wanted to read it here as well. I figure it'd be easier for most people to have it all on one medium to read. To keep the workload down though, there wouldn't be a directory for it, especially because it doesn't have distinct chapters.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #52


Despite moving what would be hundreds of miles in the real world, Allura was still required to attend a graduation ceremony at the local city hall of the family's new hometown. It was a minor inconvenience, but Ryleen at least got to wear her fancy dress she'd never been able to show off before. Allura graduated with good grades and was voted most likely to become a rock star.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #51


As the days progressed, things were steadily coming to a close on Ryleen's time to shine- no matter how short a time it's felt since she began. A household full of bodies would soon become much more empty as Blake, Miles, and Emily grew up into young adults. Blake and Miles clearly didn't like the idea of having to move out, as they would not make a nice expression for me no matter what I did or where I had them pose for the picture.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #50


Ryleen had to remark on how much time had flown. Esma, who had just felt so young, was already leaving the household. It was harder to say goodbye this time as it was sinking it that already things were coming to an end. Ryleen would be done with her part, and it would be more than time then for the family to find a home in another location.

D&D 5E The Empire of Stars Campaign Diary #1

Back in October, I attempted to start doing campaign diaries for the D&D sessions I was a part of. Unfortunately, not too long after I posted the first one for the main campaign, we decided to end it as there were some problems with how the story was progressing in addition to the DM having some personal situations that kept him busy and stressed. I got distracted with other various things on the blog, and I debated for quite a while on whether to do diaries on all the sessions we had done for that game. I've finally chosen it's not something I'm going to spend time on seeing as there's no satisfying conclusion. Thus, I'm picking up the project by finally going ahead and releasing the information for our now main campaign, the first one we started playing in-person. It will also now be referred to as The Empire of Stars campaign, as that is the setting- a fictional fantasy Asian location.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #49


We open up today with a birthday for the youngest ones in the house. Blake, Miles, and Emily grew into adorable toddlers who would charm Ryleen's heart yet give her zero free time.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #48


Ryleen, overall, didn't have much interest in making the genie that appeared from the lamp super close friends with her. Pamela walked away from Ryleen the instant she was out to plomp herself down in front of the television without saying a single word. She really liked just going about the house doing her own thing while ignoring everyone else.

Tales of Lerathian: The Puppet (Chapter One Excerpt) (Revised 2016)

Going off the heels of releasing the revised prologue for Tales of Lerathian: The Puppet, I decided that I'd release a bit more of the new version of the story. Last time I released all of Chapter One, but this time around it's just going to be a short snippet. Even so, please check out the old so you can tell me what you think of the new!

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #47


Truly having trouble finding men suitable to aid her with the challenge, Ryleen took a whole day away from the house to visit various potentially crowded lots in order to make some progress. Not much luck was had in that department, so Ryleen let herself get distracted by watching a show going on at the restaurant the family owned.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #46


Ryleen found herself happy as she got confirmation of a new pregnancy while Earl freaked out nearby in one of the bedrooms over something small. He has a bad habit of getting scared over nothing.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #45


The earlier half of Ryleen's day in the future went to meeting her plethora of descendants and having fun with all the new technology. The latter half went to getting right back into routine by scouting out men suitable for her needs. Everyone she met was a breath of fresh air, but eventually a certain man caught her eye.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #44


With the chaotic days flying back fast thanks to the unexpected triplets, the new baby girls were toddlers in what felt like an instant. Here's the oldest and the lone fairy of the three, Renity.

Color My World Short Story #3- Part Three (END)


For the first time in months, I overslept and arrived at work late. Well, late according to my standards. My mandatory shifts didn't require me being at the building for several more hours, but this was a rare occasion when I missed one of the deadlines I set for myself. No one paid me any attention in the break room, so I hurriedly shoved my stuff in my locker before rushing down as nonchalantly as possible towards Snow's room. My heart raced as I opened the door, and it sank a million miles when I stepped inside. He wasn't there. None of his stuff was there. There wasn't a single thing in the room that signified a baby was nearby, and, worse, several things had been packed inside that hinted the space would return to a place to stuff storage.

Maybe...maybe they had simply moved him back into the nursery?

Color My World Short Story #3- Part Two


It wasn't as difficult to roll out of bed as I expected. I guess I had long accustomed myself to little sleep and early mornings. However, given how much work Ethereal would require if she was living with me normally my crazy work schedule really wasn't that different from that of a first time parent with a young child. Ridiculous hours, never ending responsibility, and constantly exhausted...which was why if I could barely handle it, I knew Blaze struggled a dozen times more. The drive to Berrybrook proved calming and gave me the clear mind I knew I would need to deal with the biggest baby out of Ethereal, Amaranth, and Blaze. He was difficult to begin with, and that phone call the previous afternoon wasn't going to do me any favors.

I arrived several minutes later than intended, although it certainly didn't make a difference to Blaze. I had began driving to the house in which Coal and Desire had hoped to build their family. The money for the place had been the wedding present from Coal's parents, but, unfortunately, the two story building with three fireplaces, an in-ground pool, and excellent view of the sea now had a For Sale sign in the front yard again. Getting my car down the appropriate street, I found a spot to park on the road and made my way towards the place Blaze and Amaranth now called home, which was little more than a glorified trailer.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #43


The newest upcoming addition to the household decided to make its existence known right as Ryleen went to empty the training potty. The mess transformed into a collection of crushed boxes and cans, and Ryleen wished for a boy this time around.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #42


Rosette conveniently wanted to visit the graveyard, so she was the one to make the somber trip to deliver Genevieve's remains to the lot. She found a nice corner, that space there on the right, to place her instead of putting her inside of the mausoleum. I contemplated keeping the urn at the house, but I figured Genevieve's ghost might prove distracting from time to time.

After completing the task, it was time to reduce the household to one. Serenada and Rosette took off to live with Sebrinley in order to allow Ryleen to focus completely on taking up her era of the task.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #41


Homer had become an Adult again, so he was invited over to take another potion to make him a Young Adult. The same problems were encountered again with Genevieve getting randomly reset when using the potion on him, but at least the triggered the first time this time and she didn't have to waste a second one. It was certainly something seeing Homer younger than his youngest daughter.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #40


Our last baby boy is growing up so fast! Rolan had his birthday to become the lone teen in the household.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #39


Genevieve was making great progress in teaching Luliett how to speak when confirmation that her time with Toby was successful arrived. Hoping to have multiples this time, perhaps this would be her last pregnancy? Time would tell.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #38


Now that time had truly begun to tick since her birthday, Genevieve forced herself away from her alchemy to discover what else she could find in town. Hoping for a little more diversity than white guys with dark hair, dark eyes, and who all enjoyed the same brand of sunglasses, she wasn't impressed that the vast majority of men she came across had pretty much all of those things.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #37


The household woke up to a horribly wet kitchen. Someone had used the sink the previous night, it broke, and nothing had been done about it. The result was a terribly slippery floor and a not very amused Genevieve. Perhaps one day we can start getting all the appliances upgraded so she doesn't have to constantly called the repairman like she currently does.