Stories Be Told

THIS MOD IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS! I'm still working on making more character-based quotes, as well as career, favourites and family talk. This release is already pretty beefy, but know that there is more coming!

What is it about?

Stories Be Told is a mod designed to enhance your townies and help you, as the player, get to know them just like your Sims do, with 4,392 quotes!

This mod focuses on making your worlds feel more interactive and bringing your neighbors to life. You’ll gain insights into their traits even before your sims officially figured out their traits themselves, discover their favorite skills, and if you're lucky, some backstory of certain sims! It's all about creating a more immersive and connected experience with the sims in your world!

What are Stories?

The mod comes in 2 variations: 'Random' stories, and 'character' stories.

'Stories' are what sims can say about themselves to your sim! Depending on the _variation _and the sim you're talking to, the comments will get a little more personal when you get to know that townie a bit better (Relationship score).

This is especially powerful when talking to a pre-made story for a certain character, but it also shines through a bit in the random stories.

The stories are loaded in through XML, so making your own will be easy if you know how to handle XML! :)

Random Stories

This variation is for sims that do NOT have a character story.

It comes with the following "Topics" that the townie can mention:

1. Generic (Included)
2. Traits (Included)
3. Skills (Included)
4. Career (Soon-to-be-added)
5. Favourite color, music & meal! (Soon-to-be-added)
6. Occult (Soon-to-be-added)
7. Current buffs (Soon-To-Be-Added)

Random Stories will start firing at 10 relationship points! (This also means -10 for dislike!)

Generic: It's essentially anything that does NOT meet the other topics. This can be about family, pets, life-related mentions, or even just meeting your sim for the first time! It's great if you want to write your own miscellaneous comments that aren't sim specific.

Traits: Quick warning about traits! Because there are SO MANY, I had to split them into 2 files, so I lost a little bit of a track as to what I initially had written down. There is a chance that some dialogues look strange in their formatting, because of that. I tried to solve as many outputting issues as possible, but with this many dialogues, I'm bound to have missed some.

Please report them to me if you find any weird dialogues!

Character Stories:

The original part of the mod! (And frankly, my favourite part of it :D) See: Stories Be Told - WIP 1

If you rather want more personal stories, with Stardew Valley-like heart events, then this is that powerful option of the mod! :)

What's included: 1. Characters are pre-made EA sims. 2. Depending on how close you are with them, they will open up more and more about themselves. (even romance and hate dialogues!) 3. Some sims will even trigger heart events with life-altering decisions!

What characters currently got Personal stories to play?

The following sims in Sunset Valley have full-fleshed stories: 1. Morgana Wolff 2. Thornton Wolff 3. Christopher Steel 4. More to be added soon

I know it's not that impressive, but it takes a lot of work to get these done. Plus, I have been focused a lot on the random stories! :) But I'll make sure to add more later!

⚠Warning about Character stories:

Know that these stories were written in mind with a FRESH and NEW game in mind! Also keep in mind that certain stories will need other townies to properly work. (i.e: Thornton needs Jamie Jolina in town for it to work).

It doesn't really matter if Nraas Story Progression progresses these sims, but know that any major changes could end with some immersive breaking issues! It's therefore adviced to blacklist these sims from your Nraas Story Progression.

strong Quick Note:

For better flow and therefore not feeling like the sims are trauma dumping on you, it may be a good idea to get this mod: Slower Friendships by Plumbobgothica

❤️ Heart events

While technically possible with Random Stories, they aren't yet included. Soon though!

These are Stardew Valley-like events! Once your sim reaches a certain point in their friendship together, they can invite you over. These are highly personal events that they ask you on.

These scripted events are meant to just play itself out. So once your sim has agreed to meet up with the townie, DO NOT INTERVENE! (As in, doing other interactions, talking to the townie, etc).

When fired, the sim will get a dialogue notfication, just like in the picture above! While ignoring the message won't cause a decline in LTR points, you might miss out on stuff though!

Heart events can also give you some huge possibilities on the other sim's life. It's all in your control!... mostly!

⚠Warning for Heart events!

While I've tested them intensively, there is a possibility that there are glitches, bugs, or issues with them. Sometimes sims just wanna sim, and therefore don't always show up, or run off, or not wanting to do the interaction they're mentioning they're doing. Those last 3 things are hard to bypass with the way the game was developed.

👩🏻‍🔧Troubleshooting

A few things prepared before commenting! Please check out this list before asking me how to do things.

"My sim isn't getting any dialogues from other townies!" Make sure that you are looking at the latest "Speech" notification! Otherwise, try talking to them a little more :) Their Life time relationship points with each other should be at 10. If you can't wait that long, feel free to set it through nraas instead! (Your Sim > Nraas Master Controller > Immediate > Long term relationship: By value)

"Townies keep talking about the same stuff!" While these stories are somewhat random, and we all know that computers suck at that, just try to speak with them more! It's possible the story queue is a little queued up with same-y traits and the only way to flush that is to talk more :)