A Tinn’s tale

Hello!

Tinn actually celebrates its second birthday this month! *gasp*
Yes, I created it two years ago. However, much has changed since then. I thought it might be fun to show you this pic, which is the oldest one I have:

As you can see, I did not pay much attention to the real authenticness with the sofa, carpet and toddler toy. Lol. I think I just didn’t have the CC back then. This is one of the peasant families. The girl, Thalia, is now on the verge of getting married. She was the first of the kids to hit adulthood and will also the first to marry.

Almost all of the kids are currently teens, and relationships have begun to blossom throughout the last winter and spring.

This is a peasant love: Martin Baker (uhuh, the toddler from the previous picture!) and Marisa Thatcher. They are very sweet together. In Summer they will marry, as both will come of age then, and Martin will inherit the Bakery. I am curious to see whether Marisa likes to cook all day!
I use Inteen, and when they have 7 days left till adulthood, they can marry and everything. So I use that. 7 days left means 20 days old in total, and that seems an appropriate age to marry, to me. (It also means that if I count that way, their parents already are hitting their fifties (and their elderhoods), very old for the medieval times! So they will, slowly but surely, get sick and/or die from Old Age. I think I will roll a die if they hit sixty, to determinate if they will live on, and every passing day too. That way, they will make place for the new generation, but some will live to see their grandkids. )

These two lovers are Eveline Optima, the firstborn of Quinten - though she is a girl - and Jeannes Green. Jeannes really is being complimented by the defaultreplacement skins. Eveline loves it.
Because Eveline already is 25 days old, but Jeannes 18, they won’t marry until Autumn of even Winter. Jeannes will run the grocery, which is currently in the process of setting up by his father.

Also in the little Castle, Eveline’s younger sister Charlot has found love with Rudolph Miller. He’s the one who has gained the most out of the new skins.. He’s not hideous anymore, but rather interesting.  But luckily, that doesn’t matter for Charlot, who is most happy to have a Summer marriage to a boy who will inherit a non-existing Mill, and instead breeds dogs for a living. I hope she likes puppies.

In the spring, some adults grew into elders. Maike and Geofryc Baker will get out of their modern clothes as soon as I play the Taylor Shopp and will receive some nice hairs and wrinkles, too. And I also need a decent Medieval relaxing chair.

The owner of Taylor Shopp, Anne Weaver (we’ve met her in the story, she also grows some very sweet apples in her free time) has turned into an Elder as well. She looks really cute!
 

I had to change her hairstyle though, even if it looks good on her, due to an event that took place just before her birthday..

Her husband died! *sniff* I rolled Leiela’s Book of Death to determine some deaths of the elder ones. Merrin Weaver was one of the victims. I hated to see him go, as he is such a cutie, but he would also have turned into grey hair that very evening and I wanted to preserve his ghost as an adult. So..

In remembrance of dear Merrin. His children have painted a few portraits of him though, so he will never be truly gone.

Anne now wears the widow hat. I want to recolour it, because the knot is kinda blurry. I like the hat, though. It’s one of the very very few nice medievalish(and lower-class-ish!) hats out there. So I better make good use of it! It seemed silly to put it on every single married woman(as was common, if I recall correctly), but widows should do. Especially if I make a few more recolours of the hat. I haven’t done much recolouring, but this couldn’t be too difficult, right?

So, that’s how some of the other families’ve been doing. I also wanted to tell you about my townies..

I was just tired of all the times my teens brought some stupid townie kid home from school. There are so many other villagers, why choose one of those?
But back when I started Tinn I had never even heard of clean templates and some while ago I even misclicked and created a Downtown (noooo!) so I had numerous townies to deal with. So, recently, I decided I only wanted my own villagers to occupy Tinn (and why shouldn’t they? It was the medieval times, there weren’t that much people or travelpossibilities anyway!) so I went into SimPE and deleted every townie and stray that I didn’t want.

DON’T do that, EVER. It’ll bork your hood and they will come back anyway, but broken. You’ve been warned.
I restored my backup (thankgod) and searched for methods to remove townies for once and for ever, and found a topic on Maty, but I guess I’m very unawesome because I didn’t understand a word of the tutorial xD Didn’t have a clue where I was supposed to look.
So, I just killed them one by one. There was one townie I wanted to keep, she’s in the background looking rather satisfied..

I ended up with three townies I liked, dressed them up in medieval clothes and made them townies again. All the 160(!) tombstones I put into the inventory of one of them, an elder female who wasn’t likely to marry into my villagers, and wiped their memories.

I think it worked, when I played some other families they stopped by and the mailman, paperboy and two drivers for the schoolbus and taxi were regenerated. I changed their names to something nice and medievalish. Here they are. I want to change their appearance though.. Has anybody got a clue how to remove those hats?

Agnes Carpenter, previously Angie Cormier. She got all the tombstones. I wanted to say that nobody would suspect such a sweet old lady from murder, but she’s pretty mean- hitting Maike and pulling pranks on everyone! I like her though. She also got a few wrinkles and another hairstyle- an older woman shouldn’t wear her hair loose like that, tsk.

Thomas Tax, previously Sullivan Raha(?). He’s quite okay, I think, though I changed his skin to something lighter.. No offence, but darker Sims do not really fit in Tinn- it’s placed in Western Europe, and I don’t think they had the means to travel that far, back then.

And the joyful paperboy, Simon Herald. Previously Todd Philippine(?). He’s cute! I gave him some freckles.

I really want to replace the shiny screaming yellow outfit. Maybe later even their whole appearance with that of some villager, but they’re okay for now.

That’s it for now! I hope to have the next update up soon. It will be some Chandler family action, and will also include some fishing, if the lake has stopped freezing..

Joyful Simming!