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junky, was Abelard. As I read and re-read Lace's application, I found myself thinking pirates-and-nautical and... then I got a song stuck in my head. A song I learned from Mom's old Girl Scout songbook. It's called The Mermaid, and you can listen to it here with Jesse Ferguson or here by the Black Irish Band.
Oh the ocean waves do roll
And the stormy winds do blow
And we poor sailors are skipping at the top
While the landlubbers lie down below, below, below
While the landlubbers lie down below
So let's just jump right in, shall we? First thing is something I thought I had a much prettier picture of, but it turns out I do not, so... Swatch.
Twas Friday morn when we set sail
And we were not far from land
When the captain he spied a mermaid so fair
With a comb and a glass in her hand
Fourteen recolors of Grand Duchess Emerald's Mermaid on the Wall, from the now defunct Sapphire Sims. I used the same oak texture from my wooden Servos, shaded her body as best I could (the mapping on this is something else) for a stained-and-painted look, and seriously restricted myself as to how many tail colors I was allowed to make. There are seven skintones, four hair colors, four eye colors, two different scale patterns, and an assortment of Aelia Autumn and CuriousB Any Color You Like tail colors. Suitable for tavern decorations or ships' figureheads, you can find her in Deco Wallhangings (in her original blue hair color) for 180 Simoleons, with a poly count of 9,725 (she has individually meshed eyelashes. You can see a closeup of #10's face right here). She's shiftable in my game, and affected by the quarter-tile placement cheat.
Well up spoke the captain of our gallant ship
And a fine-spoken captain was he
"This fishy mermaid has warned me of our doom
We shall sink to the bottom of the sea"
Technically there are three verses here, not just one; The Captain, the Mate, and the Sailor.
For the Captain, you get five rich recolors of the Basegame pirate mesh for men. It's enabled for adults and elders, includes an optional default replacement mesh file with a pregmorph, and categorized for Casual, Formal, and Maternity. I beat on the original textures, removed the pockets, added some Sherahbim fabric (from her Drama gown) to the coat, swapped out the super-low-cut shirt for a more modest one by Heget, added Aquilegia's linen to that and the pants, put a sueded texture and some ankle-lacings on the back of the boots, and rescued the original wave embroidery because I kind of think it's adorable.
For the Mate, you get five more sober (or at least affordable) recolors of that same mesh (and again an optional pregmorph is included). Still enabled for elders, still available for Casual, Formal, and Maternity, but this time, the only trim is on the buttonholes, because it's a nice bit of period detail.
The Sailor, you may note, is perhaps a little shapely for a teenage boy. That's because this is the Sailor's verse:
Well up spoke a sailor of our gallant ship
And secretly a maiden was she
"I never had the chance to lay a sailor-man
I shall die with my virginity!"
So, you have five slouchy, camouflage-y, keep-your-head-down recolors of Cocomama's TF conversion of the Basegame pirate. Alas, these have no pregmorph (I looked!) so they're only categorized for Casual and Formal.
Well up spoke the mate of our gallant ship
And a well-spoken mate was he
"I have me a wife in Salem-by-the-sea
And tonight she a widow will be"
Well up spoke the cabin boy of our gallant ship
And a fine young lad was he
"I have me a sweetheart in Salem-by-the-sea
And tonight she'll be weeping for me"
Lace's wishlist said separates would be welcome (particularly flagged for multiple categories), that purple was hard to turn down, and that peasant-y stuff was lacking. I went for a bit of a rummage across the internet, and I found Skell's Matchmaker top for AF and TF, and I thought it was just darling. I tore up the underdress from Sherahbim's Faith gown, snuck Drama in under the cinch belt to add some texture, and kept the original lacings because I thought they were cute. Then I went through my color actions and came up with nine that were purple or purple-ish (Steel is 'ish'), and those are my Wife (AF) and Sweetheart (TF) tops. They're flagged for Casual and Gym, because alas they have no pregmorphs, and they just don't look like formal or outerwear to me. (Don't try to use them with my wide-laced kirtles; the upper half of the kirtle disappears fine, but there's a bit of lacing-over-bare-skin that sticks out from underneath the cinch belt.)
The bottoms are Oph3lia's shoe-swaps of a Jaccirocker skirt that everyone has fiddled with and the credits in the tooltips are truly impressive. The skirt texture is by Io (I think), the poulaines are FR's (and all in Pooklet's Safety Fuse), the stockings are mine, and the aprons are by Iamliz13 over on MTS. Instead of re-using the same purples on the cinch belts, I looked for colors that looked nice with those purples. You still get nine. These are flagged for Casual, Gym, and because they have pregmorphs, Maternity. Widow (AF) and Weeping (TF) also have a caveat, too; the apron has no straps, so it's really meant to go with a separate top that covers the waistline.
Well three times around spun our gallant ship
And three times around spun she
Three times around spun our gallant ship
And she sank to the bottom of the sea
Lace said both seahorses and jewelry would be hard to resist, so it seemed logical to combine the two. There are three (technically six) variations here; necklace, earrings, and necklace-and-earrings, all on a Liana mesh. You can use them as standard glasses-bin accessories or as Bon Voyage jewelry. For BV, the earrings-only set is flagged as a Right Earring, the necklace as a necklace, obviously enough, and the neck-and-ears version is flagged as a LEFT earring, just in case you want to pile on another necklace. The textures are a touch crunchy if you get waaaay up close, but the payoff is that you get that ridged look from even a little bit of distance.
And that's everything time and sanity let me complete. (I really wanted to do some cleaned-up recolors of the Bon Voyage pirate ship. SOMEDAY.) Also included in your download is a key to which goodies are in what folder, plus my texture resources in case you like my ideas, but want different colors or want to add fancier trim, plus a text file with as complete a set of lyrics for The Mermaid as I could hunt down.
Meshes are included, mermaid recolors are numbered to match the swatch, and I was a good girl and didn't put any special characters into my file names.
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junky, was Abelard. As I read and re-read Lace's application, I found myself thinking pirates-and-nautical and... then I got a song stuck in my head. A song I learned from Mom's old Girl Scout songbook. It's called The Mermaid, and you can listen to it here with Jesse Ferguson or here by the Black Irish Band.Oh the ocean waves do roll
And the stormy winds do blow
And we poor sailors are skipping at the top
While the landlubbers lie down below, below, below
While the landlubbers lie down below
So let's just jump right in, shall we? First thing is something I thought I had a much prettier picture of, but it turns out I do not, so... Swatch.
Twas Friday morn when we set sail
And we were not far from land
When the captain he spied a mermaid so fair
With a comb and a glass in her hand
Fourteen recolors of Grand Duchess Emerald's Mermaid on the Wall, from the now defunct Sapphire Sims. I used the same oak texture from my wooden Servos, shaded her body as best I could (the mapping on this is something else) for a stained-and-painted look, and seriously restricted myself as to how many tail colors I was allowed to make. There are seven skintones, four hair colors, four eye colors, two different scale patterns, and an assortment of Aelia Autumn and CuriousB Any Color You Like tail colors. Suitable for tavern decorations or ships' figureheads, you can find her in Deco Wallhangings (in her original blue hair color) for 180 Simoleons, with a poly count of 9,725 (she has individually meshed eyelashes. You can see a closeup of #10's face right here). She's shiftable in my game, and affected by the quarter-tile placement cheat.
Well up spoke the captain of our gallant ship
And a fine-spoken captain was he
"This fishy mermaid has warned me of our doom
We shall sink to the bottom of the sea"
Technically there are three verses here, not just one; The Captain, the Mate, and the Sailor.
For the Captain, you get five rich recolors of the Basegame pirate mesh for men. It's enabled for adults and elders, includes an optional default replacement mesh file with a pregmorph, and categorized for Casual, Formal, and Maternity. I beat on the original textures, removed the pockets, added some Sherahbim fabric (from her Drama gown) to the coat, swapped out the super-low-cut shirt for a more modest one by Heget, added Aquilegia's linen to that and the pants, put a sueded texture and some ankle-lacings on the back of the boots, and rescued the original wave embroidery because I kind of think it's adorable.
For the Mate, you get five more sober (or at least affordable) recolors of that same mesh (and again an optional pregmorph is included). Still enabled for elders, still available for Casual, Formal, and Maternity, but this time, the only trim is on the buttonholes, because it's a nice bit of period detail.
The Sailor, you may note, is perhaps a little shapely for a teenage boy. That's because this is the Sailor's verse:
Well up spoke a sailor of our gallant ship
And secretly a maiden was she
"I never had the chance to lay a sailor-man
I shall die with my virginity!"
So, you have five slouchy, camouflage-y, keep-your-head-down recolors of Cocomama's TF conversion of the Basegame pirate. Alas, these have no pregmorph (I looked!) so they're only categorized for Casual and Formal.
Well up spoke the mate of our gallant ship
And a well-spoken mate was he
"I have me a wife in Salem-by-the-sea
And tonight she a widow will be"
Well up spoke the cabin boy of our gallant ship
And a fine young lad was he
"I have me a sweetheart in Salem-by-the-sea
And tonight she'll be weeping for me"
Lace's wishlist said separates would be welcome (particularly flagged for multiple categories), that purple was hard to turn down, and that peasant-y stuff was lacking. I went for a bit of a rummage across the internet, and I found Skell's Matchmaker top for AF and TF, and I thought it was just darling. I tore up the underdress from Sherahbim's Faith gown, snuck Drama in under the cinch belt to add some texture, and kept the original lacings because I thought they were cute. Then I went through my color actions and came up with nine that were purple or purple-ish (Steel is 'ish'), and those are my Wife (AF) and Sweetheart (TF) tops. They're flagged for Casual and Gym, because alas they have no pregmorphs, and they just don't look like formal or outerwear to me. (Don't try to use them with my wide-laced kirtles; the upper half of the kirtle disappears fine, but there's a bit of lacing-over-bare-skin that sticks out from underneath the cinch belt.)
The bottoms are Oph3lia's shoe-swaps of a Jaccirocker skirt that everyone has fiddled with and the credits in the tooltips are truly impressive. The skirt texture is by Io (I think), the poulaines are FR's (and all in Pooklet's Safety Fuse), the stockings are mine, and the aprons are by Iamliz13 over on MTS. Instead of re-using the same purples on the cinch belts, I looked for colors that looked nice with those purples. You still get nine. These are flagged for Casual, Gym, and because they have pregmorphs, Maternity. Widow (AF) and Weeping (TF) also have a caveat, too; the apron has no straps, so it's really meant to go with a separate top that covers the waistline.
Well three times around spun our gallant ship
And three times around spun she
Three times around spun our gallant ship
And she sank to the bottom of the sea
Lace said both seahorses and jewelry would be hard to resist, so it seemed logical to combine the two. There are three (technically six) variations here; necklace, earrings, and necklace-and-earrings, all on a Liana mesh. You can use them as standard glasses-bin accessories or as Bon Voyage jewelry. For BV, the earrings-only set is flagged as a Right Earring, the necklace as a necklace, obviously enough, and the neck-and-ears version is flagged as a LEFT earring, just in case you want to pile on another necklace. The textures are a touch crunchy if you get waaaay up close, but the payoff is that you get that ridged look from even a little bit of distance.
And that's everything time and sanity let me complete. (I really wanted to do some cleaned-up recolors of the Bon Voyage pirate ship. SOMEDAY.) Also included in your download is a key to which goodies are in what folder, plus my texture resources in case you like my ideas, but want different colors or want to add fancier trim, plus a text file with as complete a set of lyrics for The Mermaid as I could hunt down.
Meshes are included, mermaid recolors are numbered to match the swatch, and I was a good girl and didn't put any special characters into my file names.
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
