Camelorum Adventures Story Pack

The Camelorum Adventures Story Pack is a pending content pack for The Sims 4, created by Dozerfleet Labs as a celebration of several related works that make up the Dromedeverse. A few items from the pack are already available online, though not unified into a single pack on DzMD's official domain yet.

Descriptions
This incomplete pack contains bits and pieces (and may contain more in the future) from across the Dromedeverse, with emphasis on Camelorum Adventures. Grillitan Diner and The Trapezoid Kids will get some inclusion in the pack too. The following is for describing characters and content that are already available for download.

Characters
MODM is planned for inclusion in the future. He can currently be downloaded from the Gallery. Only a few characters have already been made available off the Gallery, mostly on DeviantArt and Mod the Sims. They are listed below:


 * Rico Grizpath / BELF

BELF stands for "Bear-like Extraterrestrial Life Form." His real name is Rico Grizpath, but everyone calls him BELF.

When Carly Rancine and Jenny Jane were minding their own business in Camelorum, the Percolation got hold of them and began...sending them to other universes. They did their best to hold it all together, but ran into problems when they found themselves in an Orange is the New Black-themed universe. They tried to save that version's Tricia's life, but only succeeded in driving her to suicide even faster after turning that version of Menendez into a Sith Lord. (Oops!)

Before Carly's randomness power could do any more damage to that world, she and Jen were suddenly transported to a world that looked very much like a 1980s sitcom world - mainly, a knockoff of ALF.

It was there in which they met BELF...

It seemed peaceful here, compared to a world in which it began raining bicycle training wheels and talking chickens from the sky. Still, they just had to wind up in the living room of the unsuspecting Geoff Banner! Mr. Banner was already bewildered as to why he ever agreed to take in BELF to live with his family. So what were these extradimensional convicts doing on his sofa? And why were they being so friendly???

Anyway, the girls went with Geoff (and BELF, against everyone's better judgment) to his business trip to Grand Rapids. They were acting on a hunch that the BELF universe contained an analog of Carly's mom, which they might be able to meet at a Fretter store (since it was the late 80s, when that chain still existed.) It sort-of works, and Carly begins to have more memories of her mom. Although, the alt universe counterpart would definitely not be of much help to the girls!

As Jen and Carly are finally Percolated back to their home universe, however...they discover that a clone of BELF was created and sent with them! Now, Clone!BELF is stuck in the Dromedeverse with them, possibly forever!

"Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!"

BELF would be assigned a cell, until Stan could build a zoo and figure out what else to do with him. However, he didn't need to wear a uniform. He was a B.E.L.F., for crying out loud! He would sometimes help the Camelry down the line, but was mostly just another trolling animal - like the Pigs were. While the Pigs liked to harass the inmates, BELF formed a closer personal friendship with Stan - the closest thing to Geoff in this new timeline.

BELF loves cats, and is overprotective of them. However, he absolutely hates ferrets, and thinks Gwen is a hero for killing one.


 * Barry Navoz / Ion Boy

During his first year at his university of choice, Barry Reily Navoz was very really nervous. (No, really!) He was also clumsy, tripped a lot, socially awkward, well-meaning, and bullied. A LOT.

Then, one evening, everything changed. His bike's rear axle snapped in half. His front tire exploded. And a speeding tow truck driver almost hit him, then taunted him with: "I wish I had!!!"

He was near a frat house. They invited him inside, since they were having an open house party. Then, during the festivities, they pulled out a wire and tripped him. Which caused his drink to fly out of his hand and hit a gal in the face. Who then fell over in shock and stepped on a cat. That then jumped out the window and caused a car to swerve and lose control. That car then crashed into a pole and knocked it over - right as the Gnatmobile was driving through. A billion-dollar car, wrecked. The driver seriously injured.

Barry tried to come to The Gnat's rescue, but instead found himself receiving the blame for causing the accident when everyone at the frat house pointed fingers at him. Karma would strike a year later, and when Xiboruty attacks the town, a phone pole would impale every single one of those frat boys with extreme prejudice - though Barry would have nothing to do with that. But I digress.

Barry was quickly railroaded, his hopes and dreams for his future shattered and his family vanishing into thin air. When he learned he was being sent to Camelorum, he initially began having thoughts of suicide. Then he remembered it was Camelorum, not Llamalorum - where he'd probably be murdered before he'd have the chance at suicide. A few things surprised him right away about his new home of the next three years: First off...how WEIRD it was! Second, how most of the inmates were not nearly as hostile as he expected them to be.

They behaved...more like it was high school than prison. Though, high school was bad enough! Third...he noticed that there were hardly any guys there. It was emasculating to think it, but he was almost entirely surrounded by girls. Yet, only Carly "the Glitch" Rancine showed any interest in him...though everyone was afraid of her since her power was basically to warp reality uncontrollably.

(Nobody wanted to be turned into fly-elephant-things or have giraffes going through their stomachs by accident! Nor get turned into paper helicopters if she got angry. Honestly, they'd sooner get Candace mad! At least her options for transmutating others are limited to June bugs and plants, and she can even control it with gloves on.)

On his manual labor assignments, Barry strives frequently to improve his standing with locals and become more coordinated, and fix his bad luck. He also tries to find a way to win over Carly's heart - before she reveals to him that he already has it.

Yet, his luck all changes on the day that Xiboruty attacks Camelorum to kidnap Carly and Emily. He reveals to Carly that he hid a battery inside of her somewhere, and wants to retrieve it - even if that means over her dead body. She hates being the damsel in distress, but is hopeful Barry can rescue her. As for Emily? His plan was to turn her into engine oil. Anyway, when Xiboruty attacks the prison and kills about 67 women in there, he mouth-tentacle-face-sucks Barry unconscious when Barry tries to save Carly. This was supposed to kill him, but like Candace, he survived and got powers instead.

On that day, Barry was reborn as a graceful, levitating being that could manipulate chemistry, change his own skin color, and make others vomit or have diarrhea on command. He was reincarnate...as Ion Boy.

It didn't take Barry long to agree to be a mercenary working under Johnny "Lightning Hobo" Geriwall. Even if he didn't receive a pardon as a reward for saving the world from Xiboruty - and the mayor was determined to send Barry back to prison - it didn't matter. Xiboruty messed with Carly, and Barry would not stand for it! Barry fought alongside Lemon Witch, Lightning Hobo, Glob, Laney the Laughable, Wycliffe the Iguana, Huss the Iguana, Calvin the Iguana, Zwingli the Iguana, Jenny Jane, and Jenny Kay to get his beloved Carly back. The Camelry, some Tongue-Flick Power, and the Jen in Black were all able to seal the deal when Candace gives some spare gloves to Carly that allow her limited control - turning her into the Maddening Rod.

Barry takes pride in knowing he is finally useful to someone and appreciated - even if he's still behind bars. When Xironooti creates the troll duck android monster known as "Utkitroll," Barry springs back into action as Ion Boy to save the day. This time, Carly as the Maddening Rod and Emily as Semaphore get to go too.

After the Halfway House is built, Barry and Carly are both transferred there. They remain there until they can be set free completely, and then they marry once they have their freedom back. By then, the mayor has lost his bid for re-election and the town has turned in favor of the Camelry. Even the Gnat appears to have forgiven Barry.


 * Candace Mason / Lemon Witch

Candace Dixon Mason was born to scientist and bookkeeper Eddy Mason and his wife Amelia Mason. She has a younger brother named Bobby Mason as well.

When Eddy learned that his boss was trying to cover up the creation of the 20s Altered Judo Iguanas by Purview Labs staff, he tried to blow the whistle. However, the boss was being blackmailed by an evil alien named Xiboruty at the same time. Xiboruty made a devilish deal with the company's CEO. The result of that was that they'd let Xiboruty get away with a variety of planting devices across Dromedary Heights for some sinister plan, in exchange for him making their PR problems go away.

Xiboruty abducted Eddy, and hid him in a secret place. He then pulled an Ariel Castro, and tried to cover his tracks by pretending to want to help Amelia find her missing husband. However, Candace grew suspicious of Xiboruty's real motives. Xiboruty soon realized that she knew too much, and attacked her in her bedroom. He let his Xomian mouth tentacles come out and knock her unconscious, realizing there was a slight chance she could survive and gain powers as he fled the scene - being chased by another Xomified Human he had created.

When Candace awoke, she discovered herself to have the inexplicable power to turn any living thing into a June bug or a fruit, or change it back. However, she was sometimes making the changes happen uncontrollably. Terrified of hurting her family, she ran away from home. She tried to meet up at the mall with an old high school friend named Jessie. However, Jessie was mistaken for a similarly-dressed shoplifter by a mall cop named Roger Sanders. As Roger attacked the two girls, Candace lost control of her power and turned him into a lime.

Jessie gave her some yellow gloves to wear - which Candace found helped her have better control of her powers. She changed back to human all the shoppers she'd accidentally turned into June bugs. Then, she noticed a store being robbed. She came to the rescue, turning the robbers into various fruits. The mall shoppers hailed her as a hero, and dubbed her "Lemon Witch" both for her outfit and because of how her power seemed to work.

However, she had difficulty completely de-liming Roger, for some unknown reason. Roger pressed charges; and Candace agreed to surrender, feeling horrible about what happened to him. In spite being extremely popular with the town, Candace was declared a public menace by the mayor (Roger's cousin.)

The judge and jury declared her a felon guilty of Class B assault. She was sentenced to 3 years at Camelorum plus manual labor, plus 30 days for contempt of court due to her sense of humor during her trial.

Since then, Candace has vowed to use her sentence to gather clues and solve the mystery of her father's disappearance - as well as gain a better understanding of how her powers work, so she can become a proper superhero when she gets out of jail officially. She is recruited as a mercenary several times, but is always denied a pardon. Local vigilante The Gnat is unsure if she is a hero or villain. She is determined to prove she's not the villain, no matter what the mayor's opinion of her.

However, she does want revenge on Xiboruty for his role in ruining her life - and to stop him from ever hurting anyone else.


 * Emily Barnes / Semaphore

Emily Barnes is a recent high school grad from Floyd, VA. She was working at a Grillitan Diner, and had a very wealthy family that included her younger sister Marta. While everyone was well-meaning in the Barnes family, Marta started feeling sickly. The family thought little of it at first, and Marta told Emily to live her life and not be held up by Marta's health problems. Emily soon regretted taking that advice. While she was gone, Marta got cancer, and would spend the rest of her days in and out of the Floyd County Hospital.

While Marta was receiving treatments for cancer without Emily's knowledge, Emily started pursuing her dreams of seeing the world outside her hometown. She quit her job at Grillitan to become an adventurer. Her first stop was to Dromedary Heights, where she heard rumors that the Trapezoid Kids from the nearby town of Giddewaltz, DE were going to be performing a live concert.

Emily ventured out alone, which was a very unwise thing to do. However, she made friends quickly: Jenny Jane and Jenny Kay. Alas, the three girls had a little too much to drink at the bar before Jenny Jane took the wheel and attempted to get the three of them to a hotel. Little did they know that Xiboruty was planning his evil schemes for Dromedary Heights - and eventually the world. Jen lost control of the car the three were in, and crashed into a fountain that had at its center a statue of the founder of Dromedary Heights.

As the girls got out to assess the damage, they inadvertently exposed one of Xiboruty's evil lairs beneath the fountain. A blast of Xomian energy emitted from beneath, and the girls' lives were changed forever. The Jens were imbued with intense knowledge of Xomian culture, science, etc. They became instant super nerds, if a bit ditzy. Emily, however, noticed that her blonde hair started turning brown. And would sometimes become various other colors. What did it mean? She didn't know, but she was terrified.

The Jens stayed, lost in a daze to absorb their new revelations. Emily, on the other hand, panicked and fled the scene, afraid of the freak she'd become. The police arrived at the scene, and noticed the Jens acting strangely. It didn't take long before the girls spilled the beans on everything that happened. At first, officers thought the girls were crazy - until they saw Xiboruty's now-abandoned lair. It was very open-and-shut what needed to be done: the girls had to be sent to Camelorum. The trial wouldn't take long. At all.

However, Jenny Kay let it slip that Emily was part of their group. Emily fled back to Floyd and tried to lay low. However, the judge in Dromedary Heights was a descendant of the town's founder. When he discovered that the statue and fountain had been wrecked, he was ready to throw the book at the girls. Emily running away made her a fugitive. An APB was issued for her, and the news cast just so happened to state that she had color-changing hair right as her hair began changing color inside a bank. Police that were there at the time immediately noticed, and Emily surrendered peacefully.

Emily was sentenced to 3 years plus labor at Camelorum, and was given a cell with fellow Xomified Human Carly Rancine - also known to some as "the Glitch," or "Maddening Rod." They were just a few doors down from Candace "Lemon Witch" Mason, and the girls quickly formed their own clique for survival. In spite Jenny Kay ratting her out, Emily doesn't harbor a grudge. In fact, the two find each other quite useful (for Xomian research! Get your minds out of the gutter, it's not that kind of show! :-P)

Throughout her various adventures in town, Emily has seen some very strange things. She missed the days when the weirdest thing she'd ever seen (apart from living, talking trapezoids) was her own hair. However, she soon discovers that if certain colored gloves help Carly and Candace have more control over their specific phenomena, then maybe gloves would help her understand what her hair's patterns mean???

After she is abducted by Xiboruty, who planned to turn her into engine oil, and saved by the Camelry, she vows to toughen up and join the Camelry to defeat Xiboruty's even-worse cousin Xironooti. In spite the mayor's personal contempt for Emily, he agrees to have her learn martial arts and toughen up. When Xironooti releases the cyborg man-duck monster known as "Utkitroll" on Dromedary Heights, the Camelry decide they need someone who can always seen things coming. Emily gets a fro wig, and some red gloves. In short order, she educates her teammates on what the hair patterns mean. She can flag down almost anything with her color-changing wig.

Thus, Semaphore (named after the mountain flag system) was born. Semaphore would later be let out of prison again to battle the Shakesbear, as well as even Xironooti himself, along with other dastardly villains who were on their way to Llamalorum.

She is let out briefly to visit her dying sister Marta, along with some of the friends she made at Camelorum. Changes quickly come to Dromedary Heights. All the mutated sapient animals created by Purview Labs are moved into a zoo that Stan purchases. Camelorum Correctional expands to include a halfway house, and Emily gets transferred there due to her good behavior.

After leaving Camelorum, she earns income for a while as a mercenary. It's hard to get the jump on any team with Semaphore on it.


 * Cheshire Pig

This object clone is of the Porkelain Pal statue in the game. Ever wanted the Cheshire Pig from Camelorum Adventures to harass your Sims? Now he can! You can download him from MediaFire. Should work with the Sims 4 base game.

Rules? He plays by his own, buddy! With a voice like that of Tobey Keith, Cheshire strolls about trolling the whole universe (but mostly just Camelorum Correctional,) acting like the unholy love child of Annoying Orange and the donkey from Shrek.

He was supposed to be a Percolation Xerox of the Cheshire Cat into the world of Dromedary Heights. But alas, being around Carly caused the Percolation's xeroxing subroutine to divide by zero. So to balance the budget, the Cat got turned into a pig. He seems to have fully embraced his new identity.


 * Beatrice Index and Luin Kim

These two mad scientists / would-be world conquerors can now try to take over your Sims' universe!

Lots

 * Camelorum Correctional

The main setting for the series. Currently only available through the Gallery.


 * Town-in-One Pitterson home

Candace and Patrick's home after the series. Currently only available through the Gallery.


 * Radio station

The radio station Slushy goes to work for. Creation pending.


 * The classic Grillitan Diner

The main setting of Grillitan Diner. Currently only available through the Gallery.

Clothing

 * "Free Candace" T-Shirts

Not everyone in Dromedary Heights is happy about what happened to Candace. Now, your Sims can get in on the "Free Candace" fever too! These T-shirts should work in the Base Game, and not require any expansions.

Just be warned: the mayor, and school principal at Olivia's school, have tried to ban all mention of Lemon Witch from town. It backfires big time. Worse, Olivia looked up to Candace even before the mall incident! And that was WAY before the Camelry defeated Xiboruty!

When Olivia was in kindergarten (the school was K-8), Candace was the 8th grader that stood up for her when she was being bullied by some kids. Several years had gone by, and Olivia never imagined her hero would wind up in prison. But now that the political circumstances have become what they are, Olivia is ready to take action! While many other kids her age are still playing Angry Birds, Olivia is out looking to make a real difference!

Her family is on board with the 5th grader's personal crusade too...but they have no idea how radical the child is about to become! Can she be taught a sense of restraint, before she does something incredibly stupid???


 * Barcode pants

These are color swatches of a default mesh of pants that come with the game. However, it seemed silly that they wouldn't have any tracking system on the pants for prisoners, as well as odd that men in CAS would be given orange tops and red bottoms. This barcode reads: "Camelorum Correctional - Delaware Department of Corrections" specifically for Barry.

Just to be fair, a version exists for the ladies. In the off chance that Emily would ever want to try something crazy and escape. (Not likely, since the mayor and judge of Dromedary Heights locked up the few friends she has left in the world in Camelorum with her.)

If your phone's barcode scanner can't read the QR code on the pants, use Sims 4 Studio to extract the DDS file and open it in Photoshop (a plugin may be required.) Then, have your phone read the barcode from the DDS file.

Grillitan Diner
The human cast is pending being made available for download. This section wouldn't include Jenny Kay, as she eventually marries Reggie Schmelding some time after the Camelorum timeline. She's part of that timeline's section instead. The rabbit may be hard to adapt. Smiley Cleaner and Grease Depositor may have to be made as decals.

In spite this, the diner itself is available for download on the Sims 4 Gallery. The signs are available for download on DeviantArt and Mod the Sims.

Classic Grillitan Diner Sign
It may be a restaurant, but it's not a Grillitan Diner without the official sign.

Grillitan's original sign design was not a correct font for a true pink neon sign; but was instead a backlit LED sign. It was first made as an MSPaint file, and was then converted for The Sims 2 by the artist known as Atavera. In December of 2017, it was converted by Dozerfleet Labs for use in The Sims 4.

Modern Grillitan Diner Sign
Made with the Neon font by Emil Bertell. It may be a restaurant, but it's not a Grillitan Diner without the official sign.

This sign was made to replace the look and feel for Grillitan Diner, so that a true neon sign could exist. This also removed any obligations to Atavera, who had since retired from Sims modding.

The Slushy Show
It's unclear how the animal characters would be adapted for The Sims 4. However, Sally Nieryan and her father could be adapted, as could any other human characters.

The Trapezoid Kids
The Trapezoids themselves, as well as Octolipi, would be hard to adapt. However, the human cast is already available on the Gallery, and could be made available on DzMD. This includes Keith Witterman, the Slettermans, Karen Mindoche, the principal at the school that the Trapezoids are sent to, and Agents Spitz and Mutters.

Requirements
Check links on already-available content for their official DLC pack requirements.

Custom content requirements

 * S-Club MK Hair 2 at The Sims Resource (for Lemon Witch's season 2 hair)


 * Semaphore has a basic wig for her hero costume. Gloria Makemu (Gloria Sims 4) once provided an afro wig that is more accurate.  That link has since vanished.


 * Mowhak Conversion by Jor'Gha (for Beatrice's mohawk)


 * Height slider by SimmyTheSim at Mod the Sims

Notes: BELF is a custom suit, typically worn by an alien Sim. So he IS the custom content! Cheshire Pig is a statue, rather than a proper Sim.

Future inclusions
In addition to the buildings, a completed pack would possibly include for download:


 * Beatrice's Pink Dodo outfit
 * Beat-Drop and Eurodance
 * Lightning Hobo
 * Jackie Regg / Laney the Laughable
 * Stan Woudean
 * Jenny Jane and Jenny Kay
 * MODM
 * The Mason family
 * Patrick Pitterson
 * Frank
 * Bob Barean
 * Julie Mulie
 * Antonio Martinez
 * Anna Ford (human or frog mode)
 * Anita Hallot
 * Gwen Indot
 * Rita Rigatoni
 * Shantal "Floodlight" Luminoso
 * Katrina Cantina
 * Melinda Rotinda
 * Xiboruty
 * Xironooti
 * Utkitroll
 * Tobey the Toilet Monster warning decals and posters
 * Wycliffe
 * Huss
 * Calvin
 * Zwingli
 * Shrapnel
 * June O'Reilly
 * Xiang of the Killer Hiccups
 * Tina Barina
 * Janet Joblin

Development
Camelorum Adventures first took shape in 2015 as a series pitch, and Sims mods were inevitable. That being said, it took a while before conversions of characters to share-safe files could happen. A Sims 3 version of this pack was abandoned by 2016, and Lemon Witch became the first character to get an upload to Mod the Sims. Success with this led to Semaphore and then Ion Boy getting released. Complications with custom content rights meant that Beatrice and Luin were left off of MTS, but instead distributed on DeviantArt. The girls also got mockups of Minifigs made for them, as a proposal for Lego Camelorum Adventures. Various buildings were experimented with, but not finalized for redistribution outside of the Gallery.

Further pursuit of release of content from the Dromedeverse to any outlet for DzMD was halted in 2017, when resources were instead dedicated to ensuring the Dromedeverse played a role in the production of Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers. By December of 2017, adaptation of the classic Atavera design for the Grillitan Diner sign, last seen in Ciem 2007 via The Sims 2, was being pursued - along with several other Blender conversions of objects in order to bring the world of Swappernetters to life in The Sims 4 the way it already existed in The Sims 3. Much of that work would go into creating The Sims 4: Into the Future Conversions Stuff, with some of it also inspiring the Swappernetters Story Pack Series.  It wouldn't be until November of 2018, however, that work would resume on making the modern Grillitan Diner sign - which almost wasn't approved until January of 2019.

The Grillitan signs proved essential toward developing the mesh-making skills that would later be needed to create the signs that feature in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff.

Distribution
The first item to be successfully distributed related to this pack outside of the Gallery was a Candace Mason / Lemon Witch Sim, submitted to Mod the Sims on February 16th of 2016. She was followed up by a Cheshire Pig statue on DeviantArt on February 20th of that same year. Cheshire was kept off of Mod the Sims, due to speculation that he'd be rejected due to "low quality" given the low resolution of his teeth. On February 22nd, Emily "Semaphore" Barnes was added to Mod the Sims. She was followed on February 27th by Barry "Ion Boy" Navoz, whose alias was in-turn inspired by the Ukinojoe YouTube parody video Irod Bad 2. On March 6th, Beatrice and Luin were finally made available on DeviantArt. They were followed by BELF on March 14th, and by the "Free Candace" T-shrits on Mod the Sims on March 18th.

The Classic Grillitan sign was released to Mod the Sims on January 30th of 2018, almost a whole two years after the other Dromedeverse content. Almost a year after that, on December 31st of that same year, the Modern Grillitan sign was released to Mod the Sims. It proved less popular than the Classic sign, in spite being more technically accurate (and mesh-original.)