(*A little late in replying, but I've rediscovered this thread & a few solutions nonetheless.*)

If that's the case, your IP's been blocked by GoS -- if you've never been there to have done anything to have gotten banned, then it is most likely that your IP was blocked as a spam bot. Since you say you can't access anything of GoS to message them there, you could always try PMing one of their mods over here or at MTS, to see if indeed it is just a matter of bots ruining it for the rest of us. Either Nymphy or liegenschonheit or Aikea Guinea runs GoS (I forget which does what now), and if I recall correctly, the first two have MTS profiles, and I think Aikea has (had?) a chatbox on ClubCrimsyn (or some other means of contact). I can't recall if any have/had profiles here; sorry.

Alternately, Ephemera's Vampire Skin in question (THIS is the skin you mean, yes?) is uploaded at the Sims 2 Graveyard, as is much of/most everything else from the now-defunct E-Studio (link here). Just a heads up though, that skin *IS* a default replacement for Vampires, not a standard custom skin. In the Ephemera/teru_k/GA-LAXY thread on GOS, however, it was discovered there is a non-default edition, as well as non-defaults of the entire FMW series (I'm about to hit the sack, so I'll be able to host/post images on the morrow, and possible upload files/folders if need be). At any rate, I do hope this helps some.

@TheNPCSim -- Not letting you in how? What sort of error are you getting when trying to load the site? What url are you typing, or link are you clicking? Garden of Shadows is working fine for me, albeit somewhat slowly. Can't figure out much here for you without any information from you.~

Is it trouble registering? If so, do know that you don't have to register at GoS to access the downloads (Hell, I've been lurking 3-6 months now), since all downloads from any thread are located on fileshare sites & aren't restricted to members. If it's the downloads from those sites that are not working for you, try one of the "mirror"/alternative upload links most users there provide, since popular files' monthly bandwidth can be devoured faster than a buffet in the hands of Fat Bastard.

If the website itself will not load, try clearing your web browser's cookies and your internet traces/cache (Cache Clearing for PC Firefox 3 -- A) Taskbar @ top: Tools > Clear recent history... > Time Range: Today or Everything > Details: Cache [leave rest UNchecked]). For more details on Browser cache & history clearing, try your respective browser's website; there should be info, if not tutorials, there. After that's all squared away & your browser's all chipper and squeaky clean, try reloading GoS. If it still will not load, there is a chance the site could be down for maintenance, experiencing  an error/host crapshoot/other LOLZ@U by the internet. In that case, I'd suggest waiting a few hours to a day & trying again a couple of spaced-apart times. If then it is still not letting you on, you could try contacting a GoS moderator here or on another site (ie, some use MTS). If you haven't been banned (either temporarily or permanently for past behavior onsite), then you could try politely (** and grammatically-correctly - they don't take kindly to chatspeak, smiley abuse or colored fonts! **) messaging one of their moderators who stroll into here/MTS on occasion. I can't say -now- who that'd be (it's been ~4 years since my last login here OTL), but in the past, liegenschonheit, Ghanima Atreides, Jenfold, Nymphy, and a few others were folk I'd seen here and/or at ModTheSims before I'd ever even heard of GoS.

Bear in mind if you or -anyone- on your router/network/household has been banned from GoS, you won't be able to access the site (kinda the concept of bans, after all), since your IP (your internet ID) would have basically been blacklisted. If that is the case, sorry dude, we can't help ya there. :/

Alternately, if you just want a general pale skintone, try any one of the [expletive]TON of skins Enayla uploaded here and at MTS, or the Louis#7 skins by Louis (user: Ren) @MTS//any Louis#7 Lin Edit. For that matter, check out Ephemera's skins (google or look here/MTS~), since it appears from posts above that EP/Ephemera was the creator of the skin in question; in particular, try the SimpleSkins set, as the pale looks fairly similar, if I'm not mistaken. There really are a ton of pale skins out there, if you're just looking in general. ;P

love these & have them in game, but it seems i've lost the mesh somehow & the link's dead ><"

do you know anywhere we can get it? (possibly add it to sims2graveyard.com?)

thanks

Hey Squinge, love your hacks!



Probably a dumb question, but since I have the new Seasons Inteen installed & I read somewhere on there it recommends a third-party hack like this one to support the pregnancy clothes, would it be safe to keep my old version (Pets release) of this hack or would that be PC suicide?  -->
                                                                       

Thanks,
CbR