HELL YES! I've always wanted to see the working class of Lothere, excluding farmers... And a shirtless muscley guy never hurts either. Hmmmm could a younger muscley apprentice be a match for Githa or what ever the girl who got sexually assaulted by the old slut name was. Hmmmm or even Matilda! Awww imagine a young couple totally surrounded by freshly melded swords with a little elf girl setting fires to help her step-daddy? Awww and make the blacksmith/appentice a red head. We need more of those. I love red-heads! GO TEAM EADRAD!
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oh you heart stealer, don't shy away, tell me your name!

You guys crack me up once again. That is definitely what I would call extrapolating.

I was thinking we have had enough of the red-haired guys lately, but maybe no? Somehow Eadred seems to have made a larger-than-life impression on me.

I don't mind, Githa or Matilda does need a husband.

I guess it's too late to make Fergus be a silversmith. There's a Sim I wouldn't mind seeing shirtless and in a kilt.

Whoops, my bad. I meant silversmith not blacksmith.

*note to self ~ make sure you have your glasses on when reading all these comments*

D'uh silly me

Yay!!! I was right in the first place!!!

That makes a change. Really.

I actually agree. He'd be far too clumsy with those huge hands of his and ruin many a fine piece of jewellery. Yet I'll bet he'd be able to fashion a really fine sword or two, as well as shodding horses.

He's a big contrast to the weedy, sickly Sebastien though. And with that strength, I'm betting he's going to lumber straight into trouble, without thinking.

Actually, when you think about it, Araphael has always had a habit of walking straight into trouble, so it's nothing new to him.

See what you started?

Wait I come back from work to this?! hahahahaha who's "serves you right match-meeting" are we takling about? Anna's?
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Smile Don't Frown, Look Up Don't look Down
oh you heart stealer, don't shy away, tell me your name!

Oh gee I don't know... Perhaps he could have a female customer that catches his eye and she ends up being the wrong gal to pick on? There are plenty of noble women in Lothere that would be outraged by the flirtations of a silversmith. I could see Iylaine really giving him a run for his.. Er, silver.

I was kinda thinking the same thing... I have a hard time imagining Iylaine going to market, though I know she must at least sometimes. Or maybe she really does just send Warty or Malcolm or Gunnilda for everything. She is something of a hermit.

Actually, I was thinking Gunnilda. That would be funny. Gunnilda seems like the kind of lady who could be more than a match for just about anyone, assuming she didn't feel duty-bound to obey him (i.e. by being married to him).

I thought about Gunnie too! But something about it just didn't quite seem funny. Maybe it's because I think of Gunnie as having a boring, sad little life right now. But we haven't seen her in a while. I dunno. You're the mastermind, Lothere!
Edit: I also thought of Cat but then... I rather think that she would just make lots of dirty innuendo and then return dutifully home to her husband.

Those are some very....creative ideas, people. I would definitely support more lower-class men coming to Lothere, so that we can get girls like Matilda and Githa married off. Realistically though, their prospects aren't high. I actually can't picture Anna having a sordid affair. She was very flirtacious and hard to get before she married, but she seems to be very satisfied with her current station in life. An affair with the silversmith would not be "the thing" to do, or however she likes to put it. I mean, she didn't even consent to do that for Duncan!

Gunnilda is 36, but even at 40 I suspect women still have those kind of desires, young sir.

Actually I was thinking that the smith himself would try flirting with Gunnilda, and Gunnilda would totally shoot him down, so the idea is not incompatible. Gunnilda has only ever seemed to have lustful thoughts for Egelric, and even those have been little more than vague suspicions that it would somehow be different with him. I would be surprised if she felt attracted to someone else, unless he resembled Egelric in such a way that he pushed all the right buttons. Fergus, say.

(Don't worry though... not only would that be sort of creepy, falling in love with the cloned, angel-inhabited body of the still-born son of the man you couldn't have, but I already have quite detailed plans for Fergus, and it's a little late for me to turn back now.)

But that may be taking us far from Penelope's original idea of one of the local womanizers (manizers?) meeting his match. Since the silversmith would be a man, he wouldn't pose much threat to Leofric, Egelric, or anyone else. We haven't really had any incurable flirts or serial sleep-arounders among the women. The worst was probably HIlda, flirting with her father-in-law and looking for her Real Man. Anna was quite a tease, but I already have plans for her, in a year or two.

The idea of Lady Eadgith having a torrid, bodice-ripping affair with the local young, shirtless ripply-muscled guy is perhaps the most conventionally interesting. That would certainly serve Leofric right. I have a hard time imagining it though. Maybe we will see how she's doing in an upcoming chapter, but she's haughty enough that she probably wouldn't seriously consider sleeping with a peasant. And don't forget... she's married to Leofric. She and Leila seem to agree: once you've had Leof, ordinary men lose some of their charm.

There's no such thing as too many shirtless kilted men! *drool*

Of course, I don't say that 36 is old nowadays... it isn't at all ! But in the 1080's, people of Gunnie's class often died at 50 (even before) so 36 begins to be old. Anyway, I just don't want Gunnie to be with anybody except Egelric. I think there would be a firework or something in Lothere if ever they end together ! Back to our subject : Lady Eadgith for the silversmith ? Maybe if she were angry against Leofric and wanted to make him suffer. I also thought about Lady Gwynn if the apprentice had a big nose

~Your French Friend~

SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is his name?

Heh.

You know you've been playing the Sims too long when you look at a photo of a real man and wish you could download his hair.

I haven't named him yet. Maybe I will pick one of the runner-up names from the Name Araphel poll. I was thinking of making him a Manxman, which would at least explain the kilted shirtlesness. Anyone seen a good torque mesh anywhere?

ETA: Pecs

Oh man, Lothere, I had the exact same thought yesterday! I saw some teenaged kid on a commercial and he had the greatest short black hair. The first thing that came to mind was, "I wish I had that for my game."

Wow, look at that hair! It's extraordinary. And that sullen little face...

I'm thinking Pixie Flirt?

Good call, Penelope.

Twisted, sadly Silversmith is the black-haired Sim up above *points*

I haven't made that red-headed angel yet, but I Think I Will. I just have to think of a reason for his existence.

Unless I made Silversmith be Blacksmith, and Red-head be Silversmith... That would be quite a look, topless in a kilt... *ponders*

So I tried to sim our old friend the Parisian Redhead today (just for fun) and this was as close as I got:

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk283/penelopethefox/Picture1.png

Naturally, I completely blanked where that hair was concerned.

Yeh know, I was tempted to make my own eyes for this guy. The only ones that I had that matched in color were from Enayla and the irises were crazy big so I substituted some eyes of mysterious origin. Hmm I'll try the Anva.

EDIT: hehehe I want an avatar of "the Nose"!