Sequence of events in the Sims 3. Hopefully this little snippet of a story will give you the giggles it gave me.
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I'm about to be in a huge, extravagant wedding. So of course it's time to throw one for my sims. Nadia Oliver is a Fortune sim from a big family, and her fiance Yuri Perry is a sim with fifteen or so friends of his own. Their house wasn't big enough to host such a huge group of 22 invitees, unless it was all held in the yard, in the middle of Second Spring during a four-day rainstorm. Getting soaked didn't seem all that romantic. Instead, they commissioned the neighborhood's first occasional lot: Perry Pavillion. At $58k after being wanded, it's pretty posh.
( On to the pictures. )
( On to the pictures. )
I really want to run the power for my computer & modem under my couch, but surge protectors seem to be restricted to about four feet of length (I need six or seven) and every freaking extension cord I find isn't grounded/doesn't take grounded plugs. Not that I really want to use an extension cord with a surge protector. Gah. As it is, sometimes when Soren and Mikko are playing and tearing through the apartment, they pull my modem loose.
( Ah well. Less bitching, more picspam. )
( Ah well. Less bitching, more picspam. )
I love rainy days, really I do. But unfortunately, nearly half of what I had planned today involved running errands on foot. I got up after only being allowed 4.5 hours of sleep by Soren, who was intent on getting into the walk-in closet in my bedroom. I took my shower, donned some clothes, and walked the 8 blocks round trip to Dunkin Donuts. I was out of breakfast and needed coffee like a mad woman. As soon as I got home, it started raining. And raining. Hard. All day. Couldn't even do my laundry because the laundry room was swamped by everyone else who'd had their plans ruined.
Anyways, normally I love rain. Today, not so much. Especially since I chose to play Santa Yuma again today and there's a reason I gave it the byline "where it's always rainy season". It's Summer - Springx3. There were times when I couldn't tell if the thunder was in the game or outside. On the good side of it, I did deep clean the kitchen and bathroom. I freaking scrubbed the inside of the microwave with Soft Scrub. Mom would be proud.
( On to the pics, since hours of play means lots of pics. This is the culled-down version. )
Anyways, normally I love rain. Today, not so much. Especially since I chose to play Santa Yuma again today and there's a reason I gave it the byline "where it's always rainy season". It's Summer - Springx3. There were times when I couldn't tell if the thunder was in the game or outside. On the good side of it, I did deep clean the kitchen and bathroom. I freaking scrubbed the inside of the microwave with Soft Scrub. Mom would be proud.
( On to the pics, since hours of play means lots of pics. This is the culled-down version. )
I've had so many animation, etc, glitches lately and had to share:
Backwards baby head and impossibly bent arms. I think this was John.
Missing pet heads? Their entire heads were flattened and merged together at the end. It fixed itself in a few moments, but i was definitely freaky.
I love the lack of collision control. Andrea lucked out. Nadia's foot ended up under her head, not through her stomach like I've seen before.
Seriously poor outfit categorization by EAxis. A ballerina costume for sports?
I don't even remember what I did to cause this, but technically it was my fault, I know. A couple days after adopting Patches, who was Fuzzbutt's best friend, she turned into an elder. I tried to age her down. I ended up making her a kitten. When it came time for her to age, this happened. Changing her appearance fixed it. Notice how the tail is stuck straight out? Her body kind of skated.
Regular pics:
The reviewer is now my bitch. Wa ha ha. Level 10.
This is what I'm referring to when I talk about breeding bad toddlers. See the freaky eyes on John and Nadia (the two facing straight)? Melody had a messed up chin, but it was okay from certain angles.
Fuzzbutt found them scary and was always trying to protect Patches.
Pet deaths are so much worse than sim deaths. Fuzzbutt would not. stop. howling. The cat and dog had a mutual 100/100 relationship.
Melody tries to kiss up to the evil warlock. She's incredibly shy, playful, active, and neat. Middling on the nice. I think she's going to pursue a witchy lifestyle. I never really have played witches.
Yuki Oliver's business, Yuki Yuki. They sell noodles and cake. That's all she wrote. It's right by the baseball field, so I kind of picture it as a cheap greasy noodle shop like the one by my college's theatre. Best hangout for blocks. $4 pad thai. Nums.
Yuki samples her own wares. She was pregnant at the time (when is she not pregnant anymore?) and kept stealing customer food.
They bring the kids along to work. Melody mostly skips rope in the parking lot, while Nadia and John like to run around pillow fighting or take turns helping to bus tables. Yes, that's a custom sign. Harvey's Horticultural Supply has one, too, although it's an ovoid on a three-story column.
Dilemma of the day: Can you yell at the evil warlock for letting his spectral cat get up on the counters in your restaurant? Is the ensuing roach infestation when he takes offense worth it?
Oh look. More babies. Will someone please take this one so that Yuki can pop out another? They have five now. FIVE. If this was Darlington Shores, they'd be ponying up tribute or facing the consequences. As it was, I just grumbled as I added a second floor to the house. It was a stretch fitting three in the kids' room. Five, plus seven sims to one bathroom? Not going to happen. Current spawn: Melody (teen), twins John and Nadia (children), and twins Allen and Andrea (babies).
Backwards baby head and impossibly bent arms. I think this was John.
Missing pet heads? Their entire heads were flattened and merged together at the end. It fixed itself in a few moments, but i was definitely freaky.
I love the lack of collision control. Andrea lucked out. Nadia's foot ended up under her head, not through her stomach like I've seen before.
Seriously poor outfit categorization by EAxis. A ballerina costume for sports?
I don't even remember what I did to cause this, but technically it was my fault, I know. A couple days after adopting Patches, who was Fuzzbutt's best friend, she turned into an elder. I tried to age her down. I ended up making her a kitten. When it came time for her to age, this happened. Changing her appearance fixed it. Notice how the tail is stuck straight out? Her body kind of skated.
Regular pics:
The reviewer is now my bitch. Wa ha ha. Level 10.
This is what I'm referring to when I talk about breeding bad toddlers. See the freaky eyes on John and Nadia (the two facing straight)? Melody had a messed up chin, but it was okay from certain angles.
Fuzzbutt found them scary and was always trying to protect Patches.
Pet deaths are so much worse than sim deaths. Fuzzbutt would not. stop. howling. The cat and dog had a mutual 100/100 relationship.
Melody tries to kiss up to the evil warlock. She's incredibly shy, playful, active, and neat. Middling on the nice. I think she's going to pursue a witchy lifestyle. I never really have played witches.
Yuki Oliver's business, Yuki Yuki. They sell noodles and cake. That's all she wrote. It's right by the baseball field, so I kind of picture it as a cheap greasy noodle shop like the one by my college's theatre. Best hangout for blocks. $4 pad thai. Nums.
Yuki samples her own wares. She was pregnant at the time (when is she not pregnant anymore?) and kept stealing customer food.
They bring the kids along to work. Melody mostly skips rope in the parking lot, while Nadia and John like to run around pillow fighting or take turns helping to bus tables. Yes, that's a custom sign. Harvey's Horticultural Supply has one, too, although it's an ovoid on a three-story column.
Dilemma of the day: Can you yell at the evil warlock for letting his spectral cat get up on the counters in your restaurant? Is the ensuing roach infestation when he takes offense worth it?
Oh look. More babies. Will someone please take this one so that Yuki can pop out another? They have five now. FIVE. If this was Darlington Shores, they'd be ponying up tribute or facing the consequences. As it was, I just grumbled as I added a second floor to the house. It was a stretch fitting three in the kids' room. Five, plus seven sims to one bathroom? Not going to happen. Current spawn: Melody (teen), twins John and Nadia (children), and twins Allen and Andrea (babies).
I'm sitting on the college session in Darlington Shores, which is the end of a round. Three of the quads (what are they now? quadeds?) are in college with Richard Goldhammer. I decided to have them start up a Greek house. Richard's pretty spoiled, being the youngest of the Goldhammer brood and having his parents both get huge chance card bonuses after the other three were shipped off. So they're all set up...but I hate playing college, even abbreviated. My current sim distraction is in Santa Yuma, a 'hood that I built to play with all things Criquette and never intended to play.
Sims doing their best to pass as MATY members:
Harvey Oliver (founder) does his best Phyllis impression.
Genevieve Carlson channeling Lythdan.
'Hood pic, for staring at the pretty:
From & around the house ($20,530 pre-owned, so I didn't cheat much):
Baseball field to the right, city college (one of my SC4 imposters) behind, and you can see the monorail and maybe a bit of the train track at the base in the background.
More baseball field to the right. You can sort of see that statue that came with Apartment Life, and of course the Nightlife skyscrapers in the background. Also, you can see the bus stop that kisses the side of the house from this angle. It fades out from a lot of camera points. I kind of wish that could be disabled, but then I guess you'd have issues with being able to see the house you are in from lot view for all the surrounding buildings.
See? No bus stop now. Lovely bits of highway (hey, the house looks too nice to be that cheap otherwise), and a soccer field and my hospital (SC4 lot again) in the far background.
Yuki Oliver in the front yard. This is mostly just a shot of the baseball field.
Just a bit of the master bedroom. This is a smaller house, even for me. Only two bedrooms and one bathroom. The kitchen/dining/living is all in one room.
Speaking of which...Harvey and Yuki are a three-bolt Family-Family couple. That means they can't keep their hands off each other even for a second. This is from the great room. You can see that the previous owners were pet owners. The Olivers don't have pets, but are thinking of adopting this stray, Fuzzbutt (yes, her real name), that hangs around a lot.
The living area from a different angle. I was trying to do something different with the ceiling. I don't think it really works, but I can't be assed to change it.
I never put much up on walls when I share houses or build them for challenges. I like to fill my houses with pictures of the sims that live in them. There are only two in this house...Oliver posing in the front yard at night, and Yuki serving up a plate of pancakes. She loves cooking. He loves a girl who knows how to cook and is packing a few extra pounds, so it works. She just hit pleasantly plump.
The business
This is their business, right next door. Also right on the highway. Actually, I had to build a pedestrian overpass on the sidewalk and do some creative invisible fencing to keep customers from walking on the freeway. The biz is called Harvey's Horticultural Supply. It sells plants, garden decorations, and solar panels.
It's doing pretty well at Rank 7. It would have been better but for a bad review. I was doing some creative selling when the reviewer showed up and I didn't realize who she was. She wasn't too impressed that customers were being charged $9,000 for a plot of flowers. Also, for some reason, employees wouldn't restock the greenery. I finally had to put the employee on sales, Oliver on the cash register (waste of a gold sales badge) and Yuki on restock.
Three bolts, guys. Three bolts.
Sims doing their best to pass as MATY members:
Harvey Oliver (founder) does his best Phyllis impression.
Genevieve Carlson channeling Lythdan.
'Hood pic, for staring at the pretty:
From & around the house ($20,530 pre-owned, so I didn't cheat much):
Baseball field to the right, city college (one of my SC4 imposters) behind, and you can see the monorail and maybe a bit of the train track at the base in the background.
More baseball field to the right. You can sort of see that statue that came with Apartment Life, and of course the Nightlife skyscrapers in the background. Also, you can see the bus stop that kisses the side of the house from this angle. It fades out from a lot of camera points. I kind of wish that could be disabled, but then I guess you'd have issues with being able to see the house you are in from lot view for all the surrounding buildings.
See? No bus stop now. Lovely bits of highway (hey, the house looks too nice to be that cheap otherwise), and a soccer field and my hospital (SC4 lot again) in the far background.
Yuki Oliver in the front yard. This is mostly just a shot of the baseball field.
Just a bit of the master bedroom. This is a smaller house, even for me. Only two bedrooms and one bathroom. The kitchen/dining/living is all in one room.
Speaking of which...Harvey and Yuki are a three-bolt Family-Family couple. That means they can't keep their hands off each other even for a second. This is from the great room. You can see that the previous owners were pet owners. The Olivers don't have pets, but are thinking of adopting this stray, Fuzzbutt (yes, her real name), that hangs around a lot.
The living area from a different angle. I was trying to do something different with the ceiling. I don't think it really works, but I can't be assed to change it.
I never put much up on walls when I share houses or build them for challenges. I like to fill my houses with pictures of the sims that live in them. There are only two in this house...Oliver posing in the front yard at night, and Yuki serving up a plate of pancakes. She loves cooking. He loves a girl who knows how to cook and is packing a few extra pounds, so it works. She just hit pleasantly plump.
The business
This is their business, right next door. Also right on the highway. Actually, I had to build a pedestrian overpass on the sidewalk and do some creative invisible fencing to keep customers from walking on the freeway. The biz is called Harvey's Horticultural Supply. It sells plants, garden decorations, and solar panels.
It's doing pretty well at Rank 7. It would have been better but for a bad review. I was doing some creative selling when the reviewer showed up and I didn't realize who she was. She wasn't too impressed that customers were being charged $9,000 for a plot of flowers. Also, for some reason, employees wouldn't restock the greenery. I finally had to put the employee on sales, Oliver on the cash register (waste of a gold sales badge) and Yuki on restock.
Three bolts, guys. Three bolts.
Tallulah Correlli, mother of two, grandmother of three, best friend of twenty, starved to death in a perfect example of failure to thrive this evening. Arch-enemy Angelica Goldhammer watched events unfold with glee from her telescope.
After reaching her lifetime goal of having 20 best friends, Correlli realized that she was nearly an elder, unmarried, living with a lecherous ex-con in a dilapidated home with no opportunities, according to the 300-page novella she left as explanation.
Her lack of complacency with her life may have been exacerbated by repeated exposure to the riches residents in the more affluent section of town enjoyed. Specifically, the mayoral household's recent town meeting/birthday of Stephanie Le Maire:
Before succumbing to her hunger, Tallulah was seen to have drawn herself a warm bath, fully aware of her impending doom.
Then, she collapsed in the living room. Witness Angelica Goldhammer did a whole lot of nothing to help from her home a few blocks away.
After reaching her lifetime goal of having 20 best friends, Correlli realized that she was nearly an elder, unmarried, living with a lecherous ex-con in a dilapidated home with no opportunities, according to the 300-page novella she left as explanation.
Her lack of complacency with her life may have been exacerbated by repeated exposure to the riches residents in the more affluent section of town enjoyed. Specifically, the mayoral household's recent town meeting/birthday of Stephanie Le Maire:
Before succumbing to her hunger, Tallulah was seen to have drawn herself a warm bath, fully aware of her impending doom.
Then, she collapsed in the living room. Witness Angelica Goldhammer did a whole lot of nothing to help from her home a few blocks away.
Playing House 6 today, the Zelenkas, when the quadren happened to invite the other three children in the neighborhood home on the same day. Well, that's just a photo opportunity if I ever saw one!
Let's see. From the left: Draydenn Nejem, Charles Zelenka, Olivia Zelenka, Darrien Zelenka, Lydia Correlli, Jennie Zelenka, Ingrid Correlli.
Mini-tidbits:
Tallulah Correlli is apparently having a little fling with Jeremiah an Joshua's sperm donor, new resident Christian Detroit.
Drayden Nejem, as a toddler, apparently thought that now-elder Angelica Goldhammer is super hot.
And last, Margate loves the window at the Goldhammer house. Did you realize dogs can look out of and sleep in the bay window?
I'm now officially up to 14 households with 15 at the end of this round. I accidentally pressed the townie button last round, so it will still be a long time before everyone is added. I was trying to get random dormies and forgot that because the college is in the main 'hood, I'd actually be generating standard townies.
Let's see. From the left: Draydenn Nejem, Charles Zelenka, Olivia Zelenka, Darrien Zelenka, Lydia Correlli, Jennie Zelenka, Ingrid Correlli.
Mini-tidbits:
Tallulah Correlli is apparently having a little fling with Jeremiah an Joshua's sperm donor, new resident Christian Detroit.
Drayden Nejem, as a toddler, apparently thought that now-elder Angelica Goldhammer is super hot.
And last, Margate loves the window at the Goldhammer house. Did you realize dogs can look out of and sleep in the bay window?
I'm now officially up to 14 households with 15 at the end of this round. I accidentally pressed the townie button last round, so it will still be a long time before everyone is added. I was trying to get random dormies and forgot that because the college is in the main 'hood, I'd actually be generating standard townies.
Jeremiah Corelli, at brother Joshua's quadro Free Love wedding:
Yeah. He looks really enthralled. Normally quite cute, he looks positively cro magnon in a lazy sim slouch. Now granted, perv Nina Martin also showed up and was staring her pervy stare at him the whole time, but it's not like he had to look at her.
Seriously kid. I didn't even make you come to the show. You, Freddy Nejem, Cradle-Robber, and all the brown-nosing prospectives showed up on your own.
For more uninterested simmage, see Joshua. Family sims should be more enthused about their childrens' interests:
Poor Ingrid. Everyone loves her, but biological daddy doesn't care about her enthusiasm for jogging. Yes, that's one boring bathroom. They can't complain. They're finally out of the 9x5 studio apartment. They will take their bare, barely functional home for eight, and they will like it. And as for Dawn, she can quit wanting that last Body point to get her a promotion above Starter.
Quick pic from the Free Love quadro-wedding:
From the left: Blossom Innocenti, Dawn Fox, Joshua Corelli, and Antony Quiroz. Technically everyone is surnamed Corelli since I didn't feel like mucking with the hyphenation. If they weren't, I'd probably go with Corelli-Fox-Quiroz-Innocenti. Despite Antony's being a first generation jerk-overed townie, he is going after the position of Cult Leader. Trust me. The girls are obsessed with him. Joshua still gets some action, but so far every baby since the group wedding has been Antony's.
I'm now at 13 households. This week is turning out to be a big week. They got a much-needed cemetary and four "families" joined the community. I say "families", but three of those were single-sim households. The other was a teen (Walter Valerio) and his toddler brother (Nicholas). Parents were super stars and basically had the butler raise them, so as soon as he could gain his independence, he took his baby brother and moved out. I actually got the idea from the mayor's household. Franklin, the butler, has taken an interest in baby Stephanie Le Maire that he never did in Colin Henry. Of the other three, Flint Kitamura is a gay Science teacher living in a very odd octagonal home filled with photos of space and molecular models. Christian Detroit is a SWAT team leader living in the lower class area (next door to Walter & Nicholas). Monica Outlaw is an Astronaut straddling the middle class line, living in the outlying area in a small home on a 2x1 lot.
I'm sick of building.
Yeah. He looks really enthralled. Normally quite cute, he looks positively cro magnon in a lazy sim slouch. Now granted, perv Nina Martin also showed up and was staring her pervy stare at him the whole time, but it's not like he had to look at her.
Seriously kid. I didn't even make you come to the show. You, Freddy Nejem, Cradle-Robber, and all the brown-nosing prospectives showed up on your own.
For more uninterested simmage, see Joshua. Family sims should be more enthused about their childrens' interests:
Poor Ingrid. Everyone loves her, but biological daddy doesn't care about her enthusiasm for jogging. Yes, that's one boring bathroom. They can't complain. They're finally out of the 9x5 studio apartment. They will take their bare, barely functional home for eight, and they will like it. And as for Dawn, she can quit wanting that last Body point to get her a promotion above Starter.
Quick pic from the Free Love quadro-wedding:
From the left: Blossom Innocenti, Dawn Fox, Joshua Corelli, and Antony Quiroz. Technically everyone is surnamed Corelli since I didn't feel like mucking with the hyphenation. If they weren't, I'd probably go with Corelli-Fox-Quiroz-Innocenti. Despite Antony's being a first generation jerk-overed townie, he is going after the position of Cult Leader. Trust me. The girls are obsessed with him. Joshua still gets some action, but so far every baby since the group wedding has been Antony's.
I'm now at 13 households. This week is turning out to be a big week. They got a much-needed cemetary and four "families" joined the community. I say "families", but three of those were single-sim households. The other was a teen (Walter Valerio) and his toddler brother (Nicholas). Parents were super stars and basically had the butler raise them, so as soon as he could gain his independence, he took his baby brother and moved out. I actually got the idea from the mayor's household. Franklin, the butler, has taken an interest in baby Stephanie Le Maire that he never did in Colin Henry. Of the other three, Flint Kitamura is a gay Science teacher living in a very odd octagonal home filled with photos of space and molecular models. Christian Detroit is a SWAT team leader living in the lower class area (next door to Walter & Nicholas). Monica Outlaw is an Astronaut straddling the middle class line, living in the outlying area in a small home on a 2x1 lot.
I'm sick of building.
I finally finished my official Temple of the Oversoul. Previously, I'd been using a lot I got off of MTS2 because I wasn't feeling like building when I first rolled a church build. It didn't have the right feel. It was more of a traditional church look with gardens and a graveyard. The Oversoul is a computer. It didn't really fit that it would have a derelict church as its place of homage. The new building is much more of a crisp, modern design with the sole purposes of communing with the Oversoul and amusing it with Free Love/mayoral weddings.
The newest mayor, Noel LeMaire, wedded his bride Cheryl Bell in the morning. A few prospective residents (always with the brown-nosing) were in attendence.
Catching butterflies at the Temple of the Oversoul and releasing them at your home is considered very good luck. Even luckier is if those butterflies were caught on the fourth attempt. Cheryl was two for two.
The first weekly town meeting was the next day. I hadn't anticipated how difficult it would be to get all of the adult and elder residents to keep on task at once. The theme of the meeting was education. As Noel is a Knowledge sim and his wife is Family, plus the neighborhood has a high quotient of educated residents, it seemed logical that they would want to ensure that their children had more opportunities. With about $130k in the mayoral fund, a small start at a college can commence.
The full citizens. From the left, we have Dawn Corelli, Angelica Goldhammer, Nina Martin (who is now going after the younger kid, by the way), Colin Henry (the former mayor's only child), and Irma Nejem. Unseen behind Irma is son Freddy Nejem.
Again from the left: Joshua Corelli (husband of Dawn) and his mother Tallulah Corelli.
Greg Goldhammer (husband of Angelica), Irma Nejem again, Priam Emerson, and Elijah Nejem (Irma's husband).
Noel is particularly yummy. Cheryl isn't the least bit snotty about her newfound fame. Nope. Not at all.
The newest mayor, Noel LeMaire, wedded his bride Cheryl Bell in the morning. A few prospective residents (always with the brown-nosing) were in attendence.
Catching butterflies at the Temple of the Oversoul and releasing them at your home is considered very good luck. Even luckier is if those butterflies were caught on the fourth attempt. Cheryl was two for two.
The first weekly town meeting was the next day. I hadn't anticipated how difficult it would be to get all of the adult and elder residents to keep on task at once. The theme of the meeting was education. As Noel is a Knowledge sim and his wife is Family, plus the neighborhood has a high quotient of educated residents, it seemed logical that they would want to ensure that their children had more opportunities. With about $130k in the mayoral fund, a small start at a college can commence.
The full citizens. From the left, we have Dawn Corelli, Angelica Goldhammer, Nina Martin (who is now going after the younger kid, by the way), Colin Henry (the former mayor's only child), and Irma Nejem. Unseen behind Irma is son Freddy Nejem.
Again from the left: Joshua Corelli (husband of Dawn) and his mother Tallulah Corelli.
Greg Goldhammer (husband of Angelica), Irma Nejem again, Priam Emerson, and Elijah Nejem (Irma's husband).
Noel is particularly yummy. Cheryl isn't the least bit snotty about her newfound fame. Nope. Not at all.
I have a situation that's been annoying me the past two seasons: Nina Martin, the ex-smuggler turned gardener has an inappropriate love interest. She moved to Darlington Shores when she bribed the former mayor, Keagan Henry, into taking her and her best friend, along with her best friend's teen and toddler sons. Believe me, a bribe was needed. Tallulah Correlli was a lowly hostess, and Nina had had to quit the smuggling racket when things got too hot.
They were left with only $8,000 to start up a household. But hey, there's a shiny new plaza in front of the mayoral manse. Life's tough, but no big deal. Until, that is, Joshua Correlli, Tallulah's teen son, started dating. Something about seeing Jeremiah on dates clicked with Nina Martin. Since then, she's started her own pursuits...the pursuit of a little jail bait. It's been everything I can do to keep them out of bed. Joshua is Family. A tryst with his mother's best friend and roommate wouldn't fit his personality. No, he's tagged for founding Free Love. His main girlfriend transitioned when he did. I'm just waiting for dawn to bring her over, as I suspect she'll be dropping a much-needed date gift off overnight. But, in the meantime:
That's Nina, popping wants to flirt, kiss, and make out with Joshua. Frak.
They were left with only $8,000 to start up a household. But hey, there's a shiny new plaza in front of the mayoral manse. Life's tough, but no big deal. Until, that is, Joshua Correlli, Tallulah's teen son, started dating. Something about seeing Jeremiah on dates clicked with Nina Martin. Since then, she's started her own pursuits...the pursuit of a little jail bait. It's been everything I can do to keep them out of bed. Joshua is Family. A tryst with his mother's best friend and roommate wouldn't fit his personality. No, he's tagged for founding Free Love. His main girlfriend transitioned when he did. I'm just waiting for dawn to bring her over, as I suspect she'll be dropping a much-needed date gift off overnight. But, in the meantime:
That's Nina, popping wants to flirt, kiss, and make out with Joshua. Frak.
...not that anyone necessarily cares, but we know I like to talk.
Political structure:
The structure of Darlington Shores is very much like in Teardrop Isle. There is a mayor. The mayor will either be someone with the LTW to be mayor, or in the absence of such will be chosen by election (read: roll of the dice). The mayor funds all town improvements and public buildings. So far, Darlington Shores has a plaza and a public gym. Unlike Teardrop Isle, sims in Darlington Shores must build and fund their own businesses. They do not, at this time, pay taxes. All residents may petition the mayor for community improvements, or may attend regular meetings to suggest changes, but all structural decisions to the society are made by the mayor.
New residents:
A mix of valuable, contributing citizens is of utmost import in Darlington Shores. Every Monday, the mayoral household hosts a party, or gathering of potential residents. The prospects schmooze and flatter, and try to impress the mayor with their job or skills. After all, Darlington Shores is a perfect community and made even more desirable by its exclusivity. The mayor then decides how many households will be added (one to four), and how many sims of each age group will be in those households. Likely candidates are then chosen from the townie pool. Children must be created forthwith, and elderly relatives found if the mayor so decides that one is needed.
New residents are provided with a welcoming package of a random sum of simoleans. They must be grateful for this, whether they receive $150k or $8k. They are now Darlingtonians. Darlingtonians do not complain about their lot in life. They take their crust of bread, and they are grateful.
Lifetime Wants, aka The Oversoul doesn't care what YOU want, it cares what IT wants:
Sims may feel they have a greater purpose. They do. Their purpose is to dance to the Oversoul's beat. The mayor, for all intents and purposes, is a conduit of the Oversoul and must be obeyed. If a sim is brought into the community to be a General Practioner, the sim will be a General Practioner as soon as he or she can reach the experience level necessary for the position. If the sim would rather chuck it all and live on a hippy commune growing mushrooms, he or she can learn to live with disappointment. If the sim's ultimate wish is for something other than a particular career, the sim may pursue that want with two exceptions:
The Rule of Four:
Everyone knows that four is the ideal number. It is 2x2, it is 2 to the second power. It is 2+2. It is perfect in its evenness. Therefore, the number of families added each week cannot be more than four. The number of offsite businesses a sim owns cannot be more than four. Any individual sim may not have more than four children, regardless of where they are housed. Adherence to The Rule of Four is peace. It is happiness. It is absolutely necessary.
Repercussions:
After the Great Grilled Cheese Zombification in Urban Paradise and The Massacre of Queen's Cove, the Oversoul went into a benevolent cycle. It is bored. Sims are getting too uppity. Hence, you will be punished. Per The Rule of Four, each sim is allowed a maximum of four offspring. For any children over four, a tribute of $25k must be paid. Resources don't come from the air, after all. Mouths won't feed themselves. If tribute is not rendered by dawn the day after the birth of the fifth child, all dependent children will be taken into indentured servitude, and the parents will be delivered a fresh plate of roasted baby fat, so that they can fully understand their place in the world.
Members of the Free Love Cult are allowed four children for every two adults involved in a plural marriage before tribute must be made. Free Love amuses the Oversoul.
Children of the current mayor are not allowed to reside in the mayoral mansion after they have become adults. If a child of the mayor remains past midnight the night of their ascension, ruin will fall upon the mayoral seat.
Of course, the standard smitings of Romance sims who stray during their marriages will continue. Keep your pants on.
Political structure:
The structure of Darlington Shores is very much like in Teardrop Isle. There is a mayor. The mayor will either be someone with the LTW to be mayor, or in the absence of such will be chosen by election (read: roll of the dice). The mayor funds all town improvements and public buildings. So far, Darlington Shores has a plaza and a public gym. Unlike Teardrop Isle, sims in Darlington Shores must build and fund their own businesses. They do not, at this time, pay taxes. All residents may petition the mayor for community improvements, or may attend regular meetings to suggest changes, but all structural decisions to the society are made by the mayor.
New residents:
A mix of valuable, contributing citizens is of utmost import in Darlington Shores. Every Monday, the mayoral household hosts a party, or gathering of potential residents. The prospects schmooze and flatter, and try to impress the mayor with their job or skills. After all, Darlington Shores is a perfect community and made even more desirable by its exclusivity. The mayor then decides how many households will be added (one to four), and how many sims of each age group will be in those households. Likely candidates are then chosen from the townie pool. Children must be created forthwith, and elderly relatives found if the mayor so decides that one is needed.
New residents are provided with a welcoming package of a random sum of simoleans. They must be grateful for this, whether they receive $150k or $8k. They are now Darlingtonians. Darlingtonians do not complain about their lot in life. They take their crust of bread, and they are grateful.
Lifetime Wants, aka The Oversoul doesn't care what YOU want, it cares what IT wants:
Sims may feel they have a greater purpose. They do. Their purpose is to dance to the Oversoul's beat. The mayor, for all intents and purposes, is a conduit of the Oversoul and must be obeyed. If a sim is brought into the community to be a General Practioner, the sim will be a General Practioner as soon as he or she can reach the experience level necessary for the position. If the sim would rather chuck it all and live on a hippy commune growing mushrooms, he or she can learn to live with disappointment. If the sim's ultimate wish is for something other than a particular career, the sim may pursue that want with two exceptions:
- Romance sims are reminded that if they choose to enter any sort of commitment, they are expected to forgo intimacy with anyone other than their fiance/spouse. Failure to heed this warning will result in smiting or, ultimately, death.
- Family sims are reminded of both The Rule of Four and the need to pay tribute when The Rule of Four is bypassed. Don't come crying later.
The Rule of Four:
Everyone knows that four is the ideal number. It is 2x2, it is 2 to the second power. It is 2+2. It is perfect in its evenness. Therefore, the number of families added each week cannot be more than four. The number of offsite businesses a sim owns cannot be more than four. Any individual sim may not have more than four children, regardless of where they are housed. Adherence to The Rule of Four is peace. It is happiness. It is absolutely necessary.
Repercussions:
After the Great Grilled Cheese Zombification in Urban Paradise and The Massacre of Queen's Cove, the Oversoul went into a benevolent cycle. It is bored. Sims are getting too uppity. Hence, you will be punished. Per The Rule of Four, each sim is allowed a maximum of four offspring. For any children over four, a tribute of $25k must be paid. Resources don't come from the air, after all. Mouths won't feed themselves. If tribute is not rendered by dawn the day after the birth of the fifth child, all dependent children will be taken into indentured servitude, and the parents will be delivered a fresh plate of roasted baby fat, so that they can fully understand their place in the world.
Members of the Free Love Cult are allowed four children for every two adults involved in a plural marriage before tribute must be made. Free Love amuses the Oversoul.
Children of the current mayor are not allowed to reside in the mayoral mansion after they have become adults. If a child of the mayor remains past midnight the night of their ascension, ruin will fall upon the mayoral seat.
Of course, the standard smitings of Romance sims who stray during their marriages will continue. Keep your pants on.
( Episode Eighteen )
Past Episodes of the Highland County Chronicle
I'll be updating the family tree with the next episode, either tonight or tomorrow. I'm not allowed to play until I get current (that means no opening the game to get new headshots). There have been quite a few new additions. I believe that the last tree showed 11 living sims. We now have 17.
( Episode Seventeen )
Mike Browning, staff reporter
Despite their mutual Knowledge roots, Yuri and Piper Marderosian had found themselves raising a full family with three children. The eldest, Luke, was a teen closing in on his last days in the family home. The middle child, Darla, was an expressive (see: bitchy) child with plenty of charisma. The newest addition, Ryann, was still a mystery. Yuri was a stay-at-home father who took care of all the household chores Piper was simply too lazy to bother caring about, while Piper ran (see: sat on her rear during business hours) her successful mixed arcade and bowling alley, LANES.
In the blink of an eye, Ryann had grown from a tiny infant to a bubbly little toddler. No skilling toy was good enough for Ryann. She wanted to play with her family and chase down Mips the cat.
Let us not forget Edward VonCouchworth, who had not yet failed to fill the entire family's need for comfortable seating in front of the television, fully in view of the sidewalk and near to the bookcase so that Piper would never have to move far from her favorite spot.
"I has a Mips! Mipsie my kitty!"
Darla frequently visited her Uncle Logan. Logan and Mae now had two children: Brad and his toddler brother Bryan. They had also adopted a dog, Alegra. Darla and Brad were the best of friends, as both enjoyed tormenting their classmates and ventrilofarting the teacher.
Since he had absolutely no intention of taking over ownership of LANES, Luke decided to spend his time there doing something useful: learning how to flirt with women. Nizhoni Fremont was an all-too-easy target for his awkward attempts.
As can be predicted, leading a lonely townie woman along is a decidedly bad thing. This is especially true when said lonely townie woman knows where you live and has no sense of boundaries.
"Is Luke around?"
"Uh. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with full-grown women showing up at my doorstep to ask about my teenage son."
"Is that Nizhoni person your girlfriend?"
"No, she's just some girl who goes to LANES all of the time. I practiced flirting on her and she got the wrong idea."
"Nizhoni's your girlfriend. Girlfriend, girlfriend! And I'm going to kick your fishing-rod holder in this game!"
"Oh give it up, Darla. Don't make me bite you."
Ryann was pleasantly surprised when she became a child. "I thought I just had indigestion."
Unlike her orally-obsessed brother and moody sister, Ryann just wanted to play. Play sports, play tag, play throw-the-child-around-in-circles-until-s
"Why hello, Luke. Do you like my top? It's inspired by the great cad, Goopy Gilscarbo. What he lacks in morals, he doesn't make up for in fashion sense. However, it looks much better with a standard pair of jeans."
"It does look good on you. What's your name again?"
"Emiko Raffin. Have you ever noticed that so many sims in this neighborhood have names that are out of the ordinary? I wonder why that is?"
"No idea. You're pretty, though."
"Playable genetic destiny calling, I take it."
Good lord, this is embarrassing.
Gossip, page 26
More Togetherness Than You Can Shake a Stick at, Episode SeventeenMike Browning, staff reporter
Despite their mutual Knowledge roots, Yuri and Piper Marderosian had found themselves raising a full family with three children. The eldest, Luke, was a teen closing in on his last days in the family home. The middle child, Darla, was an expressive (see: bitchy) child with plenty of charisma. The newest addition, Ryann, was still a mystery. Yuri was a stay-at-home father who took care of all the household chores Piper was simply too lazy to bother caring about, while Piper ran (see: sat on her rear during business hours) her successful mixed arcade and bowling alley, LANES.
In the blink of an eye, Ryann had grown from a tiny infant to a bubbly little toddler. No skilling toy was good enough for Ryann. She wanted to play with her family and chase down Mips the cat.
Let us not forget Edward VonCouchworth, who had not yet failed to fill the entire family's need for comfortable seating in front of the television, fully in view of the sidewalk and near to the bookcase so that Piper would never have to move far from her favorite spot.
"I has a Mips! Mipsie my kitty!"
Darla frequently visited her Uncle Logan. Logan and Mae now had two children: Brad and his toddler brother Bryan. They had also adopted a dog, Alegra. Darla and Brad were the best of friends, as both enjoyed tormenting their classmates and ventrilofarting the teacher.
Since he had absolutely no intention of taking over ownership of LANES, Luke decided to spend his time there doing something useful: learning how to flirt with women. Nizhoni Fremont was an all-too-easy target for his awkward attempts.
As can be predicted, leading a lonely townie woman along is a decidedly bad thing. This is especially true when said lonely townie woman knows where you live and has no sense of boundaries.
"Is Luke around?"
"Uh. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with full-grown women showing up at my doorstep to ask about my teenage son."
"Is that Nizhoni person your girlfriend?"
"No, she's just some girl who goes to LANES all of the time. I practiced flirting on her and she got the wrong idea."
"Nizhoni's your girlfriend. Girlfriend, girlfriend! And I'm going to kick your fishing-rod holder in this game!"
"Oh give it up, Darla. Don't make me bite you."
Ryann was pleasantly surprised when she became a child. "I thought I just had indigestion."
Unlike her orally-obsessed brother and moody sister, Ryann just wanted to play. Play sports, play tag, play throw-the-child-around-in-circles-until-s
"Why hello, Luke. Do you like my top? It's inspired by the great cad, Goopy Gilscarbo. What he lacks in morals, he doesn't make up for in fashion sense. However, it looks much better with a standard pair of jeans."
"It does look good on you. What's your name again?"
"Emiko Raffin. Have you ever noticed that so many sims in this neighborhood have names that are out of the ordinary? I wonder why that is?"
"No idea. You're pretty, though."
"Playable genetic destiny calling, I take it."
Good lord, this is embarrassing.
Past Episodes of the Highland County Chronicle
Highland County Stats-at-a-Glance
Total population: 112
Full-time residents: 14
Resident households: 5
Community lots: 6
Owned businesses: 3
Municipal buildings: 1 (Highland County Military Base)
Known townies:
Known creepy stalker hobby mavens:
Service personnel:
Average household funds: $39,049
Lowest household funds: $2,366
Highest household funds: $76,923
Current University Contribution Fund balance: $83,700
Total population: 112
Full-time residents: 14
Resident households: 5
Community lots: 6
Owned businesses: 3
Municipal buildings: 1 (Highland County Military Base)
Known townies:
| Atarah Fox | Basil Orleans | Beryl Xanadu |
| Brett Dixon | Daina Shah | Debbie Admiral |
| Delilah Tremblay | Dick Hatfield | Emiko Raffin |
| Ernest Richard | Ezra Castaway | Fiona Diamond |
| Itzel Emmanuel | Jane Montoya | John Kim |
| Karen Goldhammer | Lucien Hassan | Lucien Valerio |
| Malika Jaques | Martin London | Naomi Volta |
| Nizhoni Fremont | Noelia Madison | Pearl O'Dell |
| Poul Winter | Sahara Oneida | Tracie Orr |
| Umberto Griffin | Wolf Oak |
Known creepy stalker hobby mavens:
| Ariel Timber | Ariel Xanadu | Asherah Fitzgerald |
| Ashley Cruz | Ashley Nakano | Brandon Wallace |
| Manuel Lin | Matthew Smith | Puck Samara |
Service personnel:
| Aohkii Grey | Aohkii Hazelwood | Ari Farraday |
| Ari Nakamu | Ariel Umeo | Ashley Malachi |
| Bellatrix St-Pierre | Chase Ivanova | Isolde Yeoman |
| Jason Riddle | Jonathan Shah | Kotori Outlaw |
| Samantha Sunshine | Tyler Haynes |
Average household funds: $39,049
Lowest household funds: $2,366
Highest household funds: $76,923
Current University Contribution Fund balance: $83,700
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