Year 1 - Spring - Mondegreen (Gentry Knights)
The final house (so far) - Mondegreen Manor! Home to Lord Lionel Mondegreen and his wife and daughter. This was was fun but definitely took me the longest, it's much harder to make a nice manor house for the gentry than churning out those peasant hovels! I am not totally happy with the garden but oh well, maybe that’s something they can aspire to if/when they reach nobility.
I think my favourite room is the kitchen! There’s no proper picture of the master bedroom though for reasons that will become aparent soon...
Lord Lionel Mondegreen has been Lord of the Manor in Driftwood for quite some years now. He and his wife Jessica only have the one daughter, Primrose. Now that she’s getting older, they’ll need to find a suitable match for her… luckily Lionel’s younger brother is a military captain and they’re setting up an outpost here in Driftwood. Maybe one of the soilders will prove himself worthy of her hand and the lord title.
The Mondegreens employ Margery Dowrick as a servant. She’s pretty handy, doing the cooking, cleaning and gardening thanks to christianlov’s “All In One Nanny” mod. I’ve never used the mod before and while it’s a little glitchy I’m overall pretty happy with it! She also lights all the fireplaces, which adds some wonderful ambience but, uh…
Well, it’s a good thing we just unlocked the military barracks!
Primrose isn’t really supossed to fraternise with the lower classes, but she’s a popularity sim! And she gets bored. She ends up striking up a friendship with Bryanna Glanndour (who doesn’t seem that impressed with her, haha).
Lord Mondegreen’s a reasonably capable knight even at his age and has a fondness for horses, but considers himself primarily a man of learning! Currently, his daughter’s education is a high priority for him. She learns music, chess, even studies mathematics. Recently she’s finished a book on maintaining a sucessful marriage - the girl certainly has her priorities in order!
He and Jessica spend a lot of time together reading, too. The study tends to be the busiest room in the house.
Towards the end of Spring, Primrose ate something she shouldn’t have and contracted food poisoning. It didn’t seem anything serious, at least for now…
She and Margeary seemed to bond a little, despite their difference in status. Primrose was always a nightmare customer on all the peasant lots and I imagine her to be quite snobbish, but I think she also gets pretty lonely.
Oh, and the round ended with poor Lady Mondegreen being sprayed by a skunk. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sim try to stroke a skunk autonomously - it was quite the shock! Jessica probably got the least attention this season, but she’s a dog person, so I am considering getting her some dogs next round. Maybe breeding them could be an interesting hobby (and potential secondary source of income)?
