Di's Victorian Vexes

Wow, it is a long time since I did one of these, but I have been playing recently, and thoroughly enjoying it. That is when the computer isn't crashing. Yes, I'm still having issues with my new computer, but I've just fitted a replacement video card, and we'll see if that helps.
( Picspam this way )

*points to picture*  You see that?  Only two years one month after their fathers started, generation five are officially at university.  Of course, this also means that I am thiiiiis close to finishing the chapter, since this is the last picture I needed to take.  :D  :D  I'm so happy about this.

It's that time again, I'm going to share some of many pictures that didn't make it into either part of chapter 22.  This chapter really was wrapping up Eddie's plot, and starting to lay the foundations of Bertie and Stuart's story.  There was also a lot of gameplay in it, since, well it's about time generation five became teenagers. ;)


( About 80 pics for you. :) )

So that's the out-takes for this chapter, I hope you liked them.  I'm starting work on the spare story for Lysander and Rosalind next, but I don't want the gap between this chapter and 23 to be as big as the gap between 21 and 22, so hopefully it will be only a few months until we're back in Regalton.

I've been completely anti-social today working on this idea for this week's sim_scenes  challenge.  It went through a couple of changes as I realised I was trying to do too much and the narrative was suffering as a result.  This is the finished idea.

( I believe in Father Christmas. )

As always I could have done with a couple extra pics to round it off, but it seems to work and I think it's sweet, I hope you all do too.  Now I also have another idea for these prompts, but no promises on getting that one done. ;)

(Also the fact that the formatting seems to be completely effed up on LJ and this is the second post I've had to go back into and reformat after posting, seriously pissing me off).

I really do talk far too much at times, so I'm really not surprised that this is over the character limit. Anyway, here's my drabble for the prompt "Hell is gone and heaven's here/There's nothing left for you to fear" ("Let Me Entertain You" - Robbie Williams)

( Welcome to the nightmare )

Yup it is that time again I'm afraid, I'm going to speak about the last chapter and share lots of pictures that I didn't/couldn't use. 

( Gosh I can talk. )

I have a mixed bag of news about my current playing and the progress of my next chapter.

Good news is I have everything I need from the main house for chapter 18 and quite a bit of chapter 19 too. 

Good news is I have everything I need from three of the other families I'm shooting for this chapter. 

Bad news is I have two more to shoot with and they are quite big bits.

Bad news is one of those families is ten families away from where I currently am in the rotation.

Good news is I'm cheating a lot with the families who bore me so I'm hardly in their houses at all.  In fact I've decided to bypass the Turner household completely at the moment and play Stanley because they bore the socks off me and Stanley is Stanley.

Good news is I have next week off so I can get some serious simming done then.

As I am playing though I do have picspam for you all.
( Pictures! )

One last thing I'd like your opinions on.  I would really like to do more with Vicky when she graduates.  (As if I don't have enough I want to do).  To my mind she would make a perfect investigative agent along with Rosemary, so I'm thinking about doing at least one interlude which would be her starring in a mystery.  What's holding me back is the thought that Chris and Sarah already write the wonderful Sim Spade, and although this wouldn't be a spoof and would be very different, I'm worried about comparisons, and people thinking I'm copying their idea, so what do you all think?  Yay or nay?

Yeah I feel like waffling on about what I've been doing in game lately, so bear with me.

( Waffle and stuff... )