I'm baa-ack! I'm moving on to New Salem now, which as you may have guessed is a town about witchcraft. The basic premise is that, rather than being persecuted, witches are in charge here. When a teen is found to have "talents" he/she is sent to the witch school. I have borrowed the name of the school, it's four houses, and it's founding teachers from Harry Potter. Admittedly I know very little about Harry Potter in the first place, so I'm not offended by using these names.
A main difference between this 'hood and others I play is the timeline. Here I'm playing a much slower timeline where I play each household for one day, changing the season each round, but only aging sims once per "year" in winter. In effect, each day equals 3 months or one season. This allows pregnancy to last the appropriate amount of time, children to be born closer together in age, and for sims to develop relationships over a longer period of time. I'm also having triplets as an option here, despite not having the triplets/quads hack. I'm getting around it by sending 3rd trimester moms to a community hospital (apartment building) where aging is also off, so that once the first baby (or babies) is born, the mom can have a second pregnancy immediately.
Since this town is still young, there are only a few students at witch school and no one has gone to Uni yet. There have been a few babies born and there was one accidental death, resulting in a single mother's children being put into the foster care of another family. There will eventually be covens, but as no witches have reached adulthood yet, that idea hasn't been fully developed yet. For now it's mostly a bunch of normal families, living normal lives, hoping their children aren't witches.
I will update family by family, starting with a background story since they've all been played a bit already, then continuing with updates as new or interesting things happen. Since it's played so slowly a lot of times nothing of note is going on, so I may skip those households that were uneventful, or just post less frequently so there's more to tell.
That's enough for now. First post may be today or tomorrow. So for now, Happy Simming!
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