I'm working on the Pets stealth hood now... I've deleted the NPCs and all the display pets (the ones that show up in the pet boxes in shops, they're not useful for anything else - why do you need 10-15 characters for this??). I'm very torn on all the strays and adoptive pets, though. Part of me wants to keep them, even though that means a lot more character files. What do you think?

none of this
is ours, sister fox.
tell yourself that anytime now
we will rise and walk away
from somebody else's life.
- Lucille Clifton
Warnings/Bonuses: Adult themes. Coarse language.
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Okay, the following is finished (still need more playtesting which may provoke further small fixes, but still, mostly done):
- Belladonna Cove - 61 character files (23 playables, 2 NPCs, 36 dead)
- Desiderata Valley - 43 character files (16 playables, 27 dead)
- AL stealth hood - 11 character files (all playables)
- FT stealth hood - 3 character files (all playables)
- BV stealth hood - 3 character files (all playables)
- SNS stealth hood - 17 character files (8 playables, 9 Garden Club members)

Also, I took a few pictures for Pleasantly Strange last night.

Well, my sim cravings haven't been fulfilled tonight so I'm gonna work on my clean uberhood project instead. Progress report: Desiderata Valley is going to be finished quite soon, and the AL and FT stealth hoods have been cleaned.

I have a couple of questions concerning the other stealth hoods, about what people would prefer:

BV stealth hood - this one has the Travellers and a bunch of tourists. Does anyone actually want the tourists, or are you fine with the game spawning new ones as needed?

Seasons stealth hood - here be Ottomi, Ramaswamis, and the garden club. Same question, should I keep the garden club sims or not? They have kinda unique looking faces and I see them a lot in people's legacies and the like, which is why I ask. There are maybe unnecessarily many of them, but 3-4 will respawn when you play anyway.

And Pets stealth hood - home of Cyd Roseland and Critturs, and obviously, same question again. Keep the strays and adoptives, or no? Personally, the strays make me sad, so I never have any strays and use the nostrayrespawn hack. But people might prefer to have the original group of strays around.

Again, I am trying to keep the character files down to a sane number, and I think getting rid of the tourists and strays/adoption pool is the best thing. I'm kinda torn on the garden club, those are only 8 or so sims and so isn't a big problem, and they're also not straight face templates, which makes them more interesting. What do you guys think (if anyone cares either way :))?

Okay, so I finally went to take pictures for my story and... all the graves in Strangetown are gone. :( Both the ones in Olive's cemetery and the ones I put in the public cemetery. In the belonging shopping district Pleasantview, however, they are all fine! I don't know what happened.

I tried going back to older backups... many different ones, in fact, but they were missing in all of them. If I go back any further I'll be losing too much story progression, so I can't do that.

Does anyone have the faintest idea WHY this might happen, or if there's any simple way of getting them back? I guess I could try teleport cat + FFS debugger... that's just so tedious, though. D: Has this happened to anyone else?

Meh! It's not essential to finishing my story, which I was planning to end in 2-3 more chapters anyway, but it is extremely irritating and means I probably won't keep playing the 'hood after the story is done. Stuff like this just seems very... BFBVFS-y to me. I'm worried I'll get attached and then it'll explode in my face.

I will finish this story, eventually. But right now, tonight, I don't feel like working at it anymore. :(