I had this idea before work, so I had to throw it out before getting ready!
So I watched some fun builds for Sims 4 newest pack Life and Death, and honestly, I was inspired. This is going to be very Addams family and Tim Burton coded. Light-hearted, fun, but also dark.
Supernatural stuff is my bread and butter. People living their every day lives, unaware that things that go bump in the night are very much real and are right under their noses.
The story idea that I have is just surface level stuff. My character is a girl who is currently in college and had grown up in a foster home, only just recently being fully and legally independent. She had no family, and she lived her life thinking that she was either abandoned or that there is no one that she can reach out to. She had always felt like she was different from her peers either because of how she lived during her childhood, or because there's something different and quite peculiar about her that even she is unaware of.
However, she would be eventually have a strange invitation - either a strange man or something as maybe an owl coming to her dorm room with a letter, she is addressed by name, and that her real family had finally found her and they're in a different state. Hopeful and ecstatic, she is ready to go during her summer break to visit these people.
Now, there are two options: this is her real family and they will also send her proof of it. OR this is an organization that presents itself as a family, where they are gathering supernatural creatures or people with supernatural affinities, and they forge the proof of them being her family. My character is indeed a person with supernatural affinities.
When my character arrives, she would be greeted at the massive mansion that seems a little dark, but there are many members of the family who welcome her. They would tell her that a tragedy happened around the time she was born and that a lot of family members have been separated forcefully, and that only now they're gathering. However, that's just scratching the surface - this place has many secrets.
The foyer of the mansion has two large staircases that seem to lead to the same second story hallway, but instead it leads to completely different parts of the house, they have a small chapel in the back of the estate with a secret staircase that leads into an old-fashioned speakeasy where vampires, skeletons, ghosts and other forms of undead gather. Haunted rooms, moving paintings, sentient objects. Secret societies of witches and warlocks that gather some objects and artifacts that seek out "the truth", a lot of friendly and playful dogs which are in fact werewolves that can shift into different lupine forms. Secret rooms, mazes, knight statues where one only speaks the truth and another only tells lies, and of course, many other things. Make it fun and creative.
The mansion is not the center of the activities as the supernatural beings are all over the city, but it is "The Headmaster's" home. The Headmaster in question is someone who keeps an eye on everyone and makes sure that the secret is safe. He is THE GUY in the supernatural society, so his mansion ends up being the hotspot.
I have no exact ideas for the plot, but I am mainly thinking about what had happened with MC in the past, what is her nature and what's "the tragedy" that everyone speaks off. More or less, the story is about uncovering the truth, but also including a lot of whimsical and fun side characters that come and go. I will have my main character whose story is centered around, and other characters that will come around the story. Your main character is entirely up to you, as well as what type of side characters you want to play.
My expectations for my writing partners:
So I watched some fun builds for Sims 4 newest pack Life and Death, and honestly, I was inspired. This is going to be very Addams family and Tim Burton coded. Light-hearted, fun, but also dark.
Supernatural stuff is my bread and butter. People living their every day lives, unaware that things that go bump in the night are very much real and are right under their noses.
The story idea that I have is just surface level stuff. My character is a girl who is currently in college and had grown up in a foster home, only just recently being fully and legally independent. She had no family, and she lived her life thinking that she was either abandoned or that there is no one that she can reach out to. She had always felt like she was different from her peers either because of how she lived during her childhood, or because there's something different and quite peculiar about her that even she is unaware of.
However, she would be eventually have a strange invitation - either a strange man or something as maybe an owl coming to her dorm room with a letter, she is addressed by name, and that her real family had finally found her and they're in a different state. Hopeful and ecstatic, she is ready to go during her summer break to visit these people.
Now, there are two options: this is her real family and they will also send her proof of it. OR this is an organization that presents itself as a family, where they are gathering supernatural creatures or people with supernatural affinities, and they forge the proof of them being her family. My character is indeed a person with supernatural affinities.
When my character arrives, she would be greeted at the massive mansion that seems a little dark, but there are many members of the family who welcome her. They would tell her that a tragedy happened around the time she was born and that a lot of family members have been separated forcefully, and that only now they're gathering. However, that's just scratching the surface - this place has many secrets.
The foyer of the mansion has two large staircases that seem to lead to the same second story hallway, but instead it leads to completely different parts of the house, they have a small chapel in the back of the estate with a secret staircase that leads into an old-fashioned speakeasy where vampires, skeletons, ghosts and other forms of undead gather. Haunted rooms, moving paintings, sentient objects. Secret societies of witches and warlocks that gather some objects and artifacts that seek out "the truth", a lot of friendly and playful dogs which are in fact werewolves that can shift into different lupine forms. Secret rooms, mazes, knight statues where one only speaks the truth and another only tells lies, and of course, many other things. Make it fun and creative.
The mansion is not the center of the activities as the supernatural beings are all over the city, but it is "The Headmaster's" home. The Headmaster in question is someone who keeps an eye on everyone and makes sure that the secret is safe. He is THE GUY in the supernatural society, so his mansion ends up being the hotspot.
I have no exact ideas for the plot, but I am mainly thinking about what had happened with MC in the past, what is her nature and what's "the tragedy" that everyone speaks off. More or less, the story is about uncovering the truth, but also including a lot of whimsical and fun side characters that come and go. I will have my main character whose story is centered around, and other characters that will come around the story. Your main character is entirely up to you, as well as what type of side characters you want to play.
My expectations for my writing partners:
- Detailed posts, the length doesn't matter as much as long as there's actually good content within the post
- Preferably writers who are 21+, mature and comfortable with many mature themes, as I don't like to avoid/censor/fade to black anything
- Romance is always welcome, but here it's not as necessary