Emily Barnes / Semaphore from Camelorum Adventures
Emily/Semaphore across the DeviantArt landscape. Note: File's hair will not change color automatically, nor assume animated patterns.
Note: File is provided as-is. I do not intend to update this file at this time on my end for the June 2nd, 2016 patch (which I believe was unnecessary, as it broke more than it "fixed.") If you have trouble running Semaphore in your game due to the patch, please let me know, and I'll consider patching her. (I see no reason why she shouldn't work, as the new format does allow you to switch off the gender-fluidity mechanics if you don't want them.)
(Sort-of) in-universe sales pitch
Greetings, mayors of Sim Cities everywhere! Are unruly aliens or other creepy critters wreaking havoc in your Sims' neighborhood? How about you give Stan Woudean, the warden of Camelorum Correctional, a call? The well-meaning-but-criminally-clumsy misfits he keeps at Camelorum could just very well be assigned to help out! They'll do anything to avoid sitting around bored in their cells, so why not arrange something where everyone wins???
On special here is Emily Anya Barnes, better known to the townsfolk of Dromedary Heights as the "Semaphore."
Is that scary monster or dastardly do-bad in your area hard to see coming? Not for THIS lady's locks!!!
Time to Dig the Wig! She can flag down and fancy assault, clue, riddle, what-have-you, with the hair that can't decide what color it is for more than five minutes! She loves to explore, and is good with children.
Does your town need her? Call up Camelorum today to make an appointment! Tether gang labor rates apply.
What is Camelorum Adventures, and what's the 411 on Camelorum Correctional?
A full description is available at the Lemon Witch download. Feel free to check out that file as well, if you haven't already.
Who is Semaphore, and what can she do?
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.
What is her visual origin?
Down in Prestonburg, Kentucky, there's a the Lizzie B's Cafe. A certain Chad "Prodigal-Gamer" Patterson was inspired by a waitress he once knew who used to work at Lizzie B's. At the same time, there was a nurse he used to know there. The nurse eventually got in a fight with her boyfriend, and it led to the nurse spending a night in jail. Somehow, their stories merged with a dream that he had about a younger version of his wife crashing a car into a fountain.
Thus, the characters of Jenny Jane, Jenny Kay, and Emily Barnes were born. (Not to be confused with the real-life artist named Emily Barnes.) The Tale of Emily Barnes and the Two Jens was born. Prodigal wanted to start a book / series around this, but was unsure how to form a good plot/continuity. He also wanted to be an artist, but had little faith in his ability to draw.
In his original vision, it was Emily that drove, not the Jens. Emily was originally a brunette. She was originally sent to a year in Floyd County Jail, not Camelorum Correctional in Delaware. Her prison outfit was originally white with orange stripes, not the solid orange seen in the adaptation.
Since Prodigal hired artists to draw his characters for him, in their preferred visual styles, each artist had a wildly different interpretation for the character. Not all artists made it clear who they were drawing in each image. The first artist to ever publish a drawing depicting Emily was Karina MacGill, who depicted her as a blonde. Other artists made her a brunette. Some drew her with glasses, others not. It got confusing quickly.
While I was doing research for Sodality: Vindication, in which half the Sodality gets captured when the government betrays them and the other half flees to Italy to battle that season's main villains, I found a lot of the commissioned artwork that was made for Prodigal on DeviantArt. Many artist were unsure how to caption the images. Dealing with some depression and a thyroid problem at the time, I wanted a break from serious stuff. So I made the captions humorous, depicting the most bizarre possible explanations for what characters were thinking and how they got there.
It wasn't long before I began to get inspired for what would become Camelorum Adventures, recycling the Latin word for "of Camels" from the 2007 Ciem webcomic, where it referred to the Viron University football team.
One persistent problem was with deciding the proper hair color for Emily, since no two artists could agree. Since I modified the world to be one where Trapezoid Kids and a Lemon Witch could exist, it only made sense that random hair color changes be Emily's "superpower." That way, every artist can have the "right" answer at the same time!
Her eventual superhero / mercenary alias of "Semaphore" came from the fact that Kayla "Semaphry" Tarington was created as a character for Volkonir: Rise of Semaphry around the same time. (That project has been shelved.)
Emily is initially a prisoner of Camelorum, then Xiboruty, then Camelorum again. However, she gets upgraded to Semaphore after the Camelry, Conjoin timeline. I devised a potential sequel where she joins the Camelry officially. I dubbed it Rampage of Utkitroll, to both continue the duck jokes I was telling with my brother at the time and to cash in on Age of Ultron being in theaters.
Prodigal's reaction to seeing her with the wig (so her teammates could see the patterns from a greater distance) was "Dig the wig!" - which became her catchphrase.
What's included in this package?
For ideal height, you may wish to use a height slider by SimmyTheSim, though she should work fine without it. The attached zip file should include all her basic Tray folder files, and not much else.
She should have her Everyday 1 outfit set to her prison uniform. (Custom numbers not included, just the basic one that comes with Get to Work.) Her Everyday 2 outfit should be her Semaphore uniform...with one minor detail...
Her Semaphore wig, by default, is the standard fro that comes with the game. If you want her to look more like her MAAFUW sprite, you will need to download the Sims 3 Store to Sims 4 Afro Hair Conversion by Gloria Makamu separately, as it's not included in this upload.
Please pay attention to notes I've included in the attached images. They tell you what will work in your game, and what's Photoshop. I've made sure to include some images where only the crop size and notes themselves are Photoshopped, and the rest is game default. The animated GIF is made in ImageReady, and is there to let you know how her hair color pattern changes might look in a TV series.
Special notes on her hair and wig
The wig often shows up looking very dark. While the normal game default fro should work fine in either Regular Game Mode or Laptop Mode, the custom wig will only look good in Regular Mode. DO NOT run the custom wig in Laptop Mode! It...won't look right.
Emily's hair in the package doesn't have the blue tips seen in the promo image. The No-Effects image shows her with default game hair. The promo only shows her with blue tips to match her Sims 3 art.
Update:
Her prison uniform doesn't look all that convincing. What else can I get for her?
If you want to give her a more realistic prison jumpsuit, I highly recommend installing Fogity's Unlocked CAS Parts Mod Set. If you're content with her current Camelorum prison top, but want more identification on the bottom, there's a recolor available of her pants with a QR barcode here.
Final notes
I've selected her to be a Renaissance Sim, with the Quick Learner bonus trait. She is also listed as a Foodie (because she was a waitress once), Ambitious (wants to see the world), and Childish (you really wouldn't expect to see her in a jail.)
Is she available in other formats?
A release of her Sims 3 version is in consideration for the future. At the moment, however, the only Sim of her being released publicly is her Sims 4 version. The Lego of her in her Rampage of Utkitroll outfit is only a mockup. The Lego mockup of her prisoner forms are pending.
If you want to use her prisoner form or her Rampage of Utkitroll Semaphore outfit forms in a non-Sims format, she is now available in BitStrips here and here.
Additional Credits:
Credit goes to Gloria Makamu at GlorianaSims4, for the custom wig (not included, but linked in description.)
Credit goes to Chad "Prodigal-Gamer" Patterson for the original concept of Emily.
Her Lego Semaphore form is courtesy of the Lego Movie Custom Minifig Generator.
Her Zekehimberry95 art is Emily's Mugshot (com) at DeviantArt.
Her Travis J. Hanson art is "Emily Barnes" at DeviantArt.
Her original art depiction by Karina MagGill is titled "Along the Rails" at DeviantArt.
Merwild's "hardcore" interpretation of Emily is here at DeviantArt.
You can view additional interpretations of the character (and others) here.
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