In order to get a sense of time passing and experience multiple generations, I have decided to suspend disbelief in the area of aging proportion, and use the Sims 2 default age spans in Ayre.
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Year One, Summer: The McGobhan Family
Newly widowed Brodie McGobhan, the new blacksmith, and his daughter Fiona, steal the hearts of the people of Ayre as he grieves the tragic loss of his wife.
Year One, Summer: New to Ayre
Previous Post / New Post The first new residents to Ayre this summer are its first Merchant family, the Stroganovs. Leonid, an ambitious man of trade, hopes to start a thriving merchant guild in Ayre, and is willing to start from the ground up by developing Ayre’s rudimentary market. During the summer, with the patronage …
Year One, Summer: The Berry Family
After Deirdre Berry dies, the family members each grieve in different ways, and the summer solstice takes on new meaning and significance.
Year One, Summer: The Weekly Market
Previous Post / Next Post To find space for the weekly market, foundling home, blacksmith, merchant, and mid-summer faire grounds, I had to move the fence line back. With the patronage of Lord Alban Stirwuard solidified through Lady Jane Chevalier’s oath of fealty, Ayre also has a new town gate with guard tower. Right now, …
Year One, Spring: Recap
Previous Post / Next Post Next Recap If you aren’t sure if you’ve read all the spring updates, be aware that the recap contains spoilers (probably not heartbreaking, but still…). The Table of Contents is a good place to check if you caught all the spring updates. At the end of Round 1, $65 more, …
Year One, Spring: The Forester Family
Previous Post / Next Post Next Forester Rhett Forester’s wife wasn’t speaking to him, which made for a tense and quiet morning meal, especially with the baby, Idonae, still in her crib asleep. The family had been rudely awoken to the unfamiliar stench of goat dung and the sound of bleating. He wasn’t sure if …
Year One, Spring: The Chevalier Family
Previous Post / Next Post Next Chevalier One day early in the Spring, Lady Rosalind heard an explosion in the kitchen, and ran to see what had happened. Feeling panicked, she whirled around, looking for help, or a bucket of water. Brice, one of the men-at-arms, heard her cries and ran in, but he couldn’t …
Year One, Spring: The Wise Family
Previous Post / Next Post Next Wise Family Post Gertrude Wise worked in her herb garden, pulling weeds and harvesting early flowering pennyroyal, St John’s Wort, and valerian. This felt like a stolen moment, with the rest of the noisy family gone to the village green to fetch water. She could hear her twin brothers’ …
Year One, Spring: The Honeycutt Family
Previous Post / Next Post Next Honeycutt Anais Honeycutt harvested berries, while her daughter, Destiny, added fertilizer to the garden plots. It was the first day of Spring, and Anais was sure that this year was going to be a peaceful one in which their family and village would be able to do their part …
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