I'm Still Playing With My Virtual Dolls · 7:02pm Aug 19th, 2020
With the show being over and the real world ravaged by disease. There seem few places left for some escapism.
So yeah, I've been playing more of the Sims 3. Perhaps our Simquestria denizens can have a better time of things in their merry fishbowl world.
(Warning. Image heavy blogpost!)
I suppose this will be a start of a series if enough of you find my inane hobby amusing. You can see my previous blog about it here if you want a refresher of my not-quite-eqgponysims.
( Also, fair warning, expect kissing in this one. Of the girl on girl kind. Along with many relationships that some may consider to be… unnatural. )
Let's start off with some additions to the roster. Previously, I didn't have all of the main mane cast rendered.
I tried to match up their EqG selves whenever I could. Though Sims 3 is limited by the simple fact that the game was designed to model real humans. Who wear things that real humans would wear. For whatever reason, nearly everyone in EqG wears these huge clunky boots. I have no idea if these are supposed to be analogues of hooves or if to hide the EqG proportions. I imagine without them they're weird pipecleaner-limbed people.
Also some design choices are just… ugh. Never does this come clear than when you look at the fashion disaster that is Rainbow Dash.
This is Rainbow Dash’s Outfit:
Just look at that! Look at that travesty. Windy deserves to go to fashion jail for letting her daughter leave the house like this. You got a blue coat, with a pink skirt and rainbow knee-high stockings while wearing enormous clunk-boots. Does Rainbow get dressed or does she just roll out of bed and into a pile of clothes and emerges with whatever landed on her body???
Not to mention that Sims 3 already is screaming at me when I try to give someone a ROYGBIV hairstyle. And this is with all the pastel color, hairstyle mods I could cram in.
This is my best attempt at a Rainbow Dash.
But, because I am a masochist. I say. “Let’s see if she has any other outfits I could use that maybe I can make match her better.” There's this one that looks like a track suit with sneakers instead of boots, thank Celestia.
Slightly better.
On the request of a dear friend. They suggested I should have some more adults to this highschool universe. In particular, Cheerilee! Let’s see if her show outfit is any better:
…it’s a miracle that Rarity gets through the day at CHS without a fashion-induced aneurysm.
But we’ll try to make that... showercurtain of a skirt paired with mountain climbing boots work.
Time to get back into the saddle of things! When I last left Simquestria, Sci-Twi was at the end of the college year on the cusp of graduation. The way college in Sims 3 works is that the selected sim travels to this little pocket universe to do a college term.
It was a little lonely for Sci-Twi to be amongst just ‘normal’ supernatural folk. BUT the game did a nice thing in which it auto-invited family to the ceremony. Which meant Princess Twilight and Sunset, how sweet!
Congrats Sci Twi! There is nothing sweeter for a science nerd. Looks like Twilight herself wants to give her own kind of congratulations. Even a magical horsegirl knows the value of higher education.
Well, if anyone is going to be turned on by higher education it would be Twilight. Technically its not even incest if you think about it, it’s more like masturbation.
I did want to switch households for this round of gameplaying (Don’t worry Sunset and co. are still very much around even when swapping families.) Those who know me, know my favorites are Twilight, Sunset, and Celestia. This world yearns for princesses! Let’s put them in and have them join the world proper.
Our royals will need a home to call their own first however. No rinky dinky preconstructed shack. Celestia and Luna are money. Old Money. Old, old, immortal money. Time to build them a proper castle to suit them!
It’s not quite an actual palace, but I assure you it has everything a modern princess could ever want.
A low wall lets the dining room and kitchen flow together well. There is a certain Far East vibe to the decorations. Souvenirs from travels perhaps.
A general entertainment hall with a built in stage, and the all-too-important karaoke machine. Along the wall there is also bar.
A less loud entertainment area for the more cerebral kind of games.
Celestia rides around on her vintage roadster while Luna is born to be wild.
On the second floor, a larger space for group games. I originally tried a pool, but apparently the game doesn’t let you break physics and put an indoor pool on the second floor without also taking the space underneath. Silly thing.
A workout room, a general study and a place with miscellaneous learning. For the times when you just want to puff on a pipe in a terry bathrobe.
On the top floor are the sister’s bedrooms. Celestia has her alchemy set, her required fireplace and assorted decor. A pedestal for her original magic wand. To remind her of her humble beginnings.
For a pony out of time like Luna, technology can provide its own magic. Communication over wires! Who would have ever thought. She also has a Dream Pod for a bed to allow her some measure to control her dreams.
It’s a pretty big house for just the princesses. So we’ll have Cheerilee move in as a housemate. Even though her room on the first floor is a small room, it’s still a room in an enormous palace with the finest things. Besides, she’s used to the differences.
I can do many things with the mod control panels, but some things I need to do manually, like relationship meters. I wouldn’t want to cheat with this anyway. It’s the Sims, filling meters is 90% of the game.
I did turn off jealousy and removed many blocks on romantic options. Because I want my idyllic fantasy world to be full of free love and friendship.
I am sure having no barriers to love won’t result in any troubling situations whatsoever.
Celestia’s lifetime wish is quite apt for her, and I think serves as a great goal to shoot for in the playthrough.
How about Luna? How’s she doing?
Being Luna, I suppose.
For Celestia’s climb up the political track she’s going to need tons of relationships and charisma. Might as well start with Sunset.
Nothing brings ponies together like a rousing heartsong!
Nothing quite like it, yep.
Sunset was always the more perceptive one of Celestia’s motives. She can pick up on these subtle hints. Incidentally, yes I do have them set as mother and daughter. For reasons.
Let’s check back with Luna...
Maaaaybe Luna needs some attention from her sister before she starts sprouting fangs and cackling to herself.
A gift ought to cheer Luna up! How sweet that Celestia wants to give her sist— hmm... what’s with that thought balloon?
Well... she’s not wrong. At least for one sense of the word. Who among us doesn’t think Luna is attractive? Besides it’s not like… like they are going to get married or anything weird like that.
Live long enough, and one just realizes that family matters the most.
It’s getting late, but not too late for an old sisterly tradition between these two. Someone should write a story about that.
Sister date night ends well with a soak together. They’ll never be lonely as long as they have each other!
I’ll spare most of the grunt work of early Sims gameplay. In short, Cheerilee picks up a job on the education track while Luna dives into the mystic arts of reading fortunes by the stars. Celestia continues to juggle the political career track.
Speaking of Cheerilee. How is ponyville’s eternal bachelorette doing?
Luna certainly finds her quite appealing. Perhaps there’s something familiar about the voice? But Cheerilee likes colts she would nev—
“It’s more a mix of resignation and lack of options, really.”
“Then we have that much in common, fair earth pony. Worry not, for an immortal, a mare of forty is nearly plundering the cradle, still.”
Meanwhile, Celestia uses the magic of Karaoke and dancing to build a rapport with Twilight
“Yes dear. That much was obvious. Do you even know any colts other than your brother?”
Hey, does anyone else smell burning toast?
Cheerilee, the can-do earth pony that she is, realizes that her reading of handicraft books forgot to mention the one critical component of unplugging what you are trying to fix.
Inspiration comes in the most unlikeliest places, perhaps burning mare smells like goopy carbonara and grilled cheese. Or is this just the thousand-volt seizure/stroke talking?
For the record, Luna knows enough magic to cast fire and ice blasts. I was wholly prepared to do battle with the reaper to keep him away. However, Death is a bit like taxes: Non-interactable.
But wait! Salvation! It seems Death has a perverse sense of humor. One has to wonder what emotions they feel when this is the reaction of the reaper. ‘Punished’ Cheerilee: “Why am I still here?”
After such a hair raising experience. Luna endeavors to be a little nicer to Cheerilee and the two bond over some party game. Nevermind the ominous message. Cheerilee likely hopes to get her bottom gobbled a little at this point.
Celestia is still learning the ropes about this whole ‘public’ official thing.
“My! Aren’t you a bold one, my most precious student. You’ve only ever had to find the courage to ask."
“I am pleased that you accepted my offer. I look forward to studying how well we synchronize together.”
“Err...wait. You’re that Twilight? The one with the computers? The partner to Sunset?”
“Affirmative!”
“Ahh...but you do know that I am Sunset’s mother, yes?”
“I want to see if there are any multiplicative properties to overlapping relationships.”
“Well I am game if you are…”
Celestia eventually comes to a simple solution to Twin Twilight Tag. She’ll invite the mare over (The right one)! for a sleepover. This will give the two many opportunities to bond and giggle and pillowfight, over.
And I will start off by saying that I had no hand in what happens next. Aside from manually clicking the ‘invite to sleep over’ button. I intended for it to be a cute evening of cute things. Celestia had other, more direct ideas ( Censored, but on the Risqué side)
Autumn comes and goes and winter begins. Celestia on her path to world domination election still needs to expand her social circle beyond her immediate family, her adoptive immediate family, and pressing her students to the nearest flat surface. It’s time for her to do something that every politician dreads. Socialize with the public.
The faire is in town and potentially full of strangers to meet!
Like this adorable, inappropriately dressed-for-winter girl building a snowman. She wastes no time in saying very loudly how much she appreciates Celestia’s help.
But before Celestia can build a kitchen countertop out of snow, her head snaps about and she spins 180 in place. All thoughts of Sonata forgotten. Confused, I rotate the camera and zoom out until I see what she sees. I am reminded of that scene from Kill Bill.
And she means that magnet thing literally. Celestia elbows her way through the crowd, walks past a screaming baby all in an effort to go tit to tit toe to toe with the Fairy Queen herself.
Surprise! As it happens, Chrysalis doesn’t want to rule the world. She just wants to rule Celestia’s world.
As being the first of the fair folk Celestia has met, she just has to ask saucy tinkerbell here for some Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake pixie dust. It glows a vibrant green in the dark. I haven’t been brave enough to drink it yet.
The begging seems to have flattered Chrysalis enough to admit her attraction. Be it at the foot of bed, or foot of a throne. Supplication is always turn on. Perhaps a date between these two is in the cards!
As Chrysalis walks off, she casually punches apart any snowmen she comes across. Including the one Sonata and Celestia made. You’re a mean one, missus Grinch (and just as green).
The next day, Celestia invites Chrysalis out to the winter faire. Because fairies like fairs! That’s just logic there. They might not like fares, though. Chrysalis breaks the ice by asking about laws and money.
“What an oddly specific question.”
On the fairgrounds there are those claw machines, and some even feature money prizes.
Naturally, Chrysalis shapeshifts into breezie size, flies into the machine and begins stealing bags of money.
Celestia does her best to give one of her patented friendship speeches about the law and money. And how maybe, just maybe, taking things, could be against said law. Celestia would know, she’s the area’s councilwoman and probably wrote some of the laws that Chrysalis is breaking.
“Come on. I’ve lapped you like seven times.”
“I think you are missing the point of skating. You have to use the skates.”
There is at least something mutual for the two to enjoy together. Even if it does mean getting buried to the waist in snow.
Chrysalis does have a solution for the cold. Perhaps not the best solution. But one can’t fault that it is a solution.
That’s all for now. I think I’d at least continue Celestia on her world leader journey. I welcome any suggestions folk might have! Or requests for characters they’d like to see.
In the meantime, for more Pony / Sims related humor. I highly recommend the Ponies series by Yudhaikeledai. He actually took the effort in animating a what-if game with actual ponies. It’s great!
Why did you just transcribe Rarity's inner monologue about Dash's fashion sense?
Always nice to see Sims doing Sims things. And yes, Yudhaikeledai's animations are fantastic.
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Hee. Added a Rarity icon to that paragraph, just for you.
I am most amused.
Ahahaha. I loved that one. <3