Well, I don't have any Rifts Sims for you today for two reasons. 1.) I haven't had much time for or interest in the Sims for a while. 2.) I've just made a Star Wars character that I've become extremely fascinated with.
This is another of my boyfriend's campaigns and he had this really neat idea to do a character creation session where he'd briefly run though the timeline from the beginning of episode 1 to the beginning of episode 4 when actual game play starts. Now I'm not nearly as familiar with the Star Wars universe as the rest of my group--I've always been more of a Treky then a Star Wars fan, even though I was raised as both--so I can't explain this as well as they could, but I'll do my best.
The idea was he'd describe the major events and when we got to the point we wanted our characters to be introduced to the story we'd let him know, then he'd start running us through little scenarios appropriate to the time frame so we'd have some idea of what skills we'd need to develop to go the direction we wanted to go in--the earlier in the timeline we introduced ourselves the higher level we'd be when actual game play started.
My character is a female Twi'lek following the Jedi Wanderer archetype--that's Jedi Consular with a bit of Scoundrel thrown in--by the name of Lyn Me. I was found by the Jedi at the age of 4 at the end of episode 1 at the same time as one of the other PC's (played by my boyfriend's sister-in-law) who is that one blind race that wears a veil because they have no eyes--I forget what they're called. We were in the same group of younglings until we became padawan at 13 and went off to separate adventures with our respective masters. During this time period my master and I would occasionally have contact with other Jedi--this is how I met another Twi'lek padawan who was about 5 years older then me (my boyfriend's NPC). I was a 3rd level Jedi Consular when the purge came. My master arrogantly believed that nothing could kill a Jedi and, after dropping me off on a planet where he thought I'd be safe, returned to the temple despite the warning to stay away. When I felt him leave the force, I had to learn how to survive on the streets and stay hidden very quickly--that's when I got my first level of Scoundrel. I disassembled the lightsaber I'd been training with (despite the fact that I don't yet know how to reassemble it) to avoid being identified as a Jedi--I still have the parts. Shortly before the purge, my fellow PC had been given an undercover assignment posing as a dancer for Jabba the Hutt to find out if the Hutt had any connection to the separatists. She remained in hiding there for the next two years at which point she escaped with a super battle droid (my boyfriend's brother) Jabba purchased after the separatist army was disbanded. During those two years, I had been telepathically reaching out to everyone I knew to discover their status and try to locate them. I regularly sent flashes of my location to the ones I could find in the hopes that they would find me when it was safe for them to do so--so naturally, when my friend and her droid friend escaped, they came to me. About the same time they left Tatooine, I managed to discover the location of my other Jedi friend from a smuggler I'd befriended while I was in hiding, so as soon as the PCs arrived, we left to meet up with her. She'd become a full Jedi Knight just before the purge so she can help us finish our training. We spent the next 10 years hiding there and studying with her, then the rest of the time until episode 4 bouncing around the outer rim (avoiding Tattooine). On one of our stops, we managed to pick up a force adept (another PC), but had to leave that planet in a great hurry while being chased by a Jedi hunting squad that included Darth Vader. After a scene or two, we'll get the final PC--a Storm Trooper demolitionist called TK421. We'll all not kill each other because of the giant neon signs sporting the letters P and C and two blinking arrows pointing towards our heads we all have floating over us. TK is from a previous Star Wars campaign (that I was not a part of) in which he taught us 2 things: 1.) toggle-happy Storm Troopers
can literally blow up the plot (if he tries it again he gets his neon sign privileges revoked), and 2.) the words "Look! Jedi!" spoken by a Storm Trooper in distress have the power to actually summon Jedi in the direction he's pointing.
So anyway, here's Lyn Me. I made the skin, clothes, and eyes and downloaded the lekku (head-tails).
There are two minor problems with the outfit. On the headdress, I wanted there to be crisscrossing straps all the way down the lekku instead of just two horizontal bands, but when I tried to recolor it I couldn't get it to look right and it's still good enough to get the idea so, meh. Also, there is no way to get the skirt to look like what's in my head in the Sims. It's not really supposed to be a skirt. It's supposed to be a little bit fuller and slit up the side seams to the waist band. She wears tight pants underneath it and it's supposed to look like it's just a skirt when she's standing or walking normally, but when she has to take a combat-ready position or run it obviously isn't a skirt. Did that make sense? I hope so.
