Behind the scenes at Grimstead

• Estate : Hamdun (Darkfire)
• Networth : $43,000
• Jobs : Servants
• Names : Kendra (age:16)
  • Keira (age:2)
• Tax’s – 2% Service Tax
  • (43,000 X 2% = $860)

Kendra has settled well into the servants quarters of the Darkfire estate, she has jenna Jaedyn’s young daughter with her. She’s re-named Jenna Keira and that how she’ll be known from now on, the re-naming was done in SimPe.

The tax’s in the castle aren’t high considering the quality of the accommodation however it was intended to house several servants which means Kendra who has only just got her first job can’t afford it.

there are a few ways of fixing this, i could move in townies to act as other servants, however Darkfire mountains are fairly secluded so it a little unrealistic for npc’s to suddenly appear.

Another option is that both Peter, and Tarik came to the mountains with live in servants, i could move those out of their lots and into the servants quarters. The complex of lots ive created is supposed to represent a single castle, so by moving the maids into kendra’s building story line wise means they are still there to help out about the castle. however I’ve already built both Tariks and Peters houses with the live in staff in mind and i kinda like the way they look atm.

The last option involves pets.. Kendra is now servants class ( merchant ) this means she is allowed to send pets to work, she already has one pet, a dog she got given by Calin Beav however even with a pet job it’s not enough to support the family alone.

So what ive done is gotten another dog, Kendra’s household funds are going to quickly decrease over the first few days so im going to have to really work on Kendra and both dogs skills etc so they get promoted quickly enough so they can support the house. This is going to be a hard task however for now its the way I’ve chosen to go with this household, see if i can pull it off.

Looking around at spare animals amongst my playables i found a nice dog at Falcons Tavern, his pair of breeding work dogs recently had puppy’s that grew into full grown dogs and he still had a male dog going spare. Unfortunately these dogs are cousins and ill never be able to breed them but to be honest ive got a few breeding husky / german shepards floating about so i don’t really need it.

As the round progressed i struggled to keep this little lot going, as ive mentioned it was intended to house several servants not just one, however i manage to get them though the round and ended earning just under what she needs each day, thus far shes survived because of the bonus’s.

Marriage wise im stuck, both Cailin and Edmund need wives in the mountains and Although Kendra is a few years older she’s within an acceptable range, however i really want her to start my “servant” class family and that means marrying someone who can move in with her into the castle and both of those boys are heir’s to houses and looking further a field there aren’t even any good options in Grimstead.

I didn’t want to allow townie marriages for Darkfire mountains however at this stage with so few options i think im going to have to if i want this kingdom to survive, if i don’t we may find it dies out very quickly.