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EA’s description of this family: “George Cahill was a retired pilot who enjoyed taking his beloved plane Penelope for long flights across the world. After passing over StrangerVille there was a large flash of light causing his plane to short circuit and crash. George has since set up camp in the cargo bay of Old Penelope, and has lived on the outskirts of StrangerVille ever since. Although he has grown skeptical of the residents of StrangerVille he means no harm and mostly keeps to himself.”
Age: Elder (128 days)
Traits: Active, Paranoid, Hot-Headed
Aspiration: Public Enemy
Career: Currently unemployed
This family is starting out as EA made it. George will go work on the StrangerVille Mystery (someone needs to!).
EA’s description of this family: “The Sigworth family is rather new in town. Jess, the mom, had to transfer to the StrangerVille National Base. After spending a few days on the base Dylan has started to notice something is a bit off about his wife. Although Dylan is doing all he can to reassure their daughter that everything is okay. Christie is starting to catch on and it is only a matter of time until she realizes what is going on.”
Age: Young Adult (20 days)
Traits: Perfectionist, Bookworm, Genius
Aspiration: Nerd Brain
Career: Currently unemployed
Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Family-Oriented, Outgoing, Active, Infected
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Career: Level 3 Military
Age: Child (11 days)
Traits: Active
Aspiration: Artistic Prodigy
Career: Grade School C Student
This family is starting out as EA made it. Dylan will go into the Astronaut Career.
EA’s description of this family: “The Eclectic Arts Household consists of three friends who have decided to cut ties with the modern world in order to explore their inner creativity. They received a large sum of money from their parents, and are using it to explore their creative dreams in a less hectic town.”
Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Creative, Music Lover, Bookworm
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
Career: Currently unemployed
Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Cheerful, Art Lover, Bookworm
Aspiration: Friend of the World
Career: Currently unemployed
Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Bookworm, Geek, Goofball, Infected
Aspiration: Bestselling Author
Career: Currently unemployed
This family is starting out as EA made it. Alice will go into the Painter Career, as will Mark, and Leslie will go into the Author career.
EA’s description of this family: “The Roswell’s are the oldest residents in StrangerVille. Ted Roswell has since become the mayor and has been aggressively pushing to get StrangerVille to be more technologically advanced. He has made some shady deals, but his crowning achievement has been the construction of the Crater Base and Secret Lab. Ted’s wife, Meredith, has been noticing Ted acting very strange at night. It might have something to do with his frequent visits to the Secret Lab to try and cover things up.”
Age: Adult (19 days)
Traits: Hot-Headed, Evil, Paranoid, Infected
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Currently unemployed
Age: Adult (23 days)
Traits: Neat, good, Outgoing
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Currently unemployed
This family is starting out as EA made it.
EA’s description of this family: “Judith Ward is a legend in the acting community. She has starred in everything from comedies to dramas. You name it Judith has played the role. That is not to say she is an easy person to befriend. Judith has burned her fair share of bridges along the way. Her mentality is to get rich at all costs. She will be the first to throw you under the bus to advance her career. She has been married several times, but all of her partners have only slowed her down. She prefers to live fast and does not settle for mediocrity.”
Age: Adult (22 days)
Traits: Snob, Mean, Materialistic
Aspiration: Mansion Baron
Career: Level 8 Actress
Fame: Global Superstar
Reputation: Awful
This family is starting out as EA made it.
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Welcome back! I’ve taken a short break, but I’m back to simming now… and these guys were top of my list. So here’s where we are on points:
Current Points: 115 -25 Passing out -10 Fire! -5 Wetting self +25 Aspiration milestones completed +30 Births +30 Grades +30 NTH sims reaching the top of a career (Teen and YA/A/E) +20 Positive Traits Earned by NTHs +10 Randomizing every trait and aspiration for an entire generation +10 Not using spares' Satisfaction Reward points for an entire generation
And now we’re ready to get back in game!
And here we are. Feeding the toddlers. And ourself, apparently.
Ashley playing with one toddler while the other one screams about being dirty.. and Alan is busy cleaning up dishes.
One clean toddler coming up!
Aww. Brittney playing with Calico.
… Apparently she got bored.
They love gathering here.
Or here. If I can’t find anyone, I look one of those two places and I’ll find the sim I’m missing.
Becca chatting with Calico while parents take a nap.
… I just cleaned in there!!
At least someone still plays the guitar.
Oh, thanks, Alan. I pushed him too hard. And it wasn’t until he passed out that I remembered it would lose me points.
Well, at least she’s using the right card for the locale?
Funny place to do homework, but Alan helps nonetheless.
Stinky toddler dancing. It’s the newest thing!
Branden’s hot-headed trait raises it’s head, and he ends up beating up poor Calico.
It’s Alan’s adult birthday. Time just flies in this challenge.
Absolutely adorable toddler socializing. The two of them sat there until both were in the red with hunger, and I had to interrupt them to make them go eat.
Branden meets mom when she gets home from work.
The monkey bars actually gets some use for a change.
Becca… what are you doing?
It’s Winterfest, and I get everyone involved decorating. Except the toddlers, of course.
Working on some Mental skill for schoolwork.
Becca’s having a great time, but I’m not sure Alan looks like he’s having just as much fun here.
Father Winter shows up.. and gives us an expensive stove. And that’s a playful alien … still not sure how the kinds didn’t turn out to be funny colors, but it worked out.
Branden gets a surprise hug from Becca.
Hey Dominic.. that’s there for the toddlers! Bad ghost.
Happy Birthday for the toddlers…
Great. Another hot-head in the house.
Next…. (Alan looks like he’s enjoying life a little better with the last toddler aging up.)
Becca gets Geek. Yay! We didn’t get all three hot-heads, which I was starting to worry about.
Here’s their room makeover. I have to say, it’s kind of nice not to have to build a lot in this particular challenge. I’ve been building so much that it’s nice to have a change.
Now that the toddlers are all grown up, Alan gets back to work. This is another house call.
And 2 of three surgeries he needs for his promotion.
Homework party. And Ashley found the lump of clay that they got for Winterfest.
Maeve haunts for a change. and breaks most of our plumbing.
The last night, New Year’s Eve, and Alan wishes for a promotion. Which is definitely going to happen the next week. He’s got the checkmark, just needs that last surgery.
Brittney playing in the rain…
.. then helping out by mopping. I guess I never noticed how big the mop is compared to the kids. It’s kinda funny.
Family time.
Brittney’s been working so hard she forgot to take a shower.
Everyone watching New Year’s TV except Brittney.. who finally found a shower.
But at the end.. nobody’s watching. Too funny.
Dominic helps out by cleaning that mess outside.
Someone ends this episode with a bear costume. I don’t remember who, and it’s impossible to tell. See you next time!
Our points. Lost five for Alan’s faceplant, but we’re still doing okay.
Current Points: 110 -30 Passing out -10 Fire! -5 Wetting self +25 Aspiration milestones completed +30 Births +30 Grades +30 NTH sims reaching the top of a career (Teen and YA/A/E) +20 Positive Traits Earned by NTHs +10 Randomizing every trait and aspiration for an entire generation +10 Not using spares' Satisfaction Reward points for an entire generation
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House 009 Chapter 3 < | > House 009 Chapter 5
Checking on our goals:
House 009 Building Goals: Build a disguised underground lair with no ground floor walls House 009 Generational Goals: Level 10 Diamond Agent branch of the Secret Agent career on The Drifter Level 11 of the Villain branch of the Secret Agent Career on The Secondary SimAt Level 4 Field Agent, add a Gym to Burners and Builders in Oasis SpringsRaise the heir to Young Adult age (must take Vegetarian trait)
Welcome back! It’s time for the heir… or at least we’ll see them in this post.
We start out with Eva gardening.. as usual.
But at least now she’s completed gardening.
Karson working on his logic skill.
… It;s that time. Hoping for an heir. Spoiler: it fails.
So let’s try again!
Baby on the way!!
After the usual initial grumbling, Karson decides it might be a good idea after all.
Bills paid. I don’t think money is going to be an issue in this house.
Jack?? What on earth is wrong with you…?
So Jack goes to the vet.
HAHAHA! Never seen that one before. We’re not exactly rolling in money, though, so we opt for the basic treatment. Sorry about the cone, buddy.
Cones apparently don’t get in the way of ball time!
Or training.
Just because this house wasn’t exciting enough.. I adopted another dog. Another Aggressive dog (and Hairy, and a Troublemaker). This is Hazley, a Doberman Pincher. Maybe we can get puppies!
Jack wonders why mommy is working so hard.
“Well.. Hi, there! Wanna play?”
Jack keeping watching while Hazley gets into trouble.
Hardly looks like she’s pregnant from the front. I assure you, she still is!
Playtime!
Puppies? .. Spoiler: Nope.
See? Told you she’s pregnant. And taking a sleep replacer. She needed one. Badly.
The dogs having trouble routing to attack the local vampire reminds me I need to spend some money and upgrade the home… So I do.
No more metal floors and walls.
And yes, I added a room for the upcoming baby.
Labor pains….
Welcome to a little baby girl, Cassidy!
Karson giving pie to his Harvestfest gnome.
Eva seems surprised that her future cube worked.
Give. Me. Puppies….!
Yay!!
The last gnome refused to give seeds.. and broke most of the bathroom in the process.
Happy birthday, Eva!
Welcome to Cole! What an adorable bundle of fluff. Eva is cleaning up puppy poo behind them, which I thought was funny.
Hazley chasing off the neighbors.
Spooky fest trick-or-treat.
Hazley is running away… *sad face* Don’t worry, she comes back pretty quick.
Cassidy grows up to be a blonde Charmer. Aww..
See? I told you Hazley comes back. Cassidy loves her puppies.
While Cole looks on longingly.
Cole.. don’t you think that bed is a little big for you?
Jack listening very carefully to whatever Cassidy is saying.
The whole family.
Oh, Sorry Karson. Too much work, huh? On that note.. this week is over, and we finally have an heir. Eva is at level 7 in her career, and Karson is at 6. I hope that means both will finish out their career, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Back to Chapter 2.1 Part 1 | On to Chapter 2.2
Welcome back! Part two.. I just split the post in two, so here’s the second half.
Watching TV, while Heidi keeps Angelina company in the background.
They clearly like this particular room.
Still working on Brock’s excellent recipes. This one looks particularly tasty, though.
Run! It’s a thunderstorm!
Everyone is tense from the storm, so they’re watching TV.
Awww.. You can see the storm outside in the background. I’m glad all my sims are inside.
Working on her school project, finally.
…. There’s TONS of food in the fridge.. WHY are you outside in the storm making burgers??
Robot. Done. Please. Sell. Me.
The maid… without her uniform. What have you been up to?
Oh, no…
Not Heidi, too!! (Bills are expensive, and her income is really nice at this point…)
Picture #1 of Aiden wandering around the house with his digital sketchpad.
See? he is definitely on the move with it. Just sit down and paint already!
Angelina.. what are you doing??
That’s better.
The maid is slacking off again.
So she changes her clothes and cleans up a non-existent puddle…
Then gets paid and goes swimming again.. What the heck.
Everyone in the studio. They like this room.
Oh, no. You couldn’t even finish your painting?!?
Another pleading fail. Sigh. Guess she’s really gone, then.
Poor Angelina. She’s an orphan now. Guess it’s good that she’s a loner.
Maren and Aiden head off to the Museum to work on aspirations on their day off. Maren is looking at paintings.
Aiden is meeting people.
Maren then goes home, while Aiden goes off to another few lots to meet more people.
Love that Polite Introduction.
Happy Birthday Ashlie!
Here’s her Young Adult aging pic… Interesting mix of traits.. and an Astronaut? Hm.. ok.
She seems as sure as I am about her career choice. Which is not at all.
And Ashlie moves out.. with the rest of the house pretty sad.
Practicing Mixology for promotions.
Upgrading for handiness skill.
Trying out the playground.
Mabel working on her painting.
And Aiden’s down for the count again. I’m really pushing him too hard.
Here’s Brock’s list so far.
Fridge/Oven Recipes:
Outdoor Grill Recipes:
Fridge/Oven Recipes:
See you in the next post!
Back to Chapter 2.1 Part 1 | On to Chapter 2.2
Back to Chapter 1.6 | On to Chapter 2.1 Part 2
Welcome back! This is the first post of a new generation, so I started everything out with moving them out of the city into their own mansion. I waffled a bit about choosing and upgrading an EA house, but in the end, I decided to grab one of the shells I’ve got built and start decorating. It’s FAR from done, but I’ll show off some pictures of it currently as soon as we establish our goal sets.
… Our new goal list…
Set #46 – Stylist - Aiden Ireland (heir) Get to level 10 of the Style Influencer career (Stylist) Make over 15 sims
Now since the rules state any adults working on goal sets (other than the heir) need to be sims created by me, so off I went into CAS. I spent a lot of time dithering over whether Aiden is straight or not. His clothing choices when I ran through CAS just pointed to not. But I wasn’t sure I wanted to go the whole gay/adoption thing. In the end, however, I did make a guy for Aiden. Meet Brock Savage.
Foodie, Creative, and Family oriented.
Set #21 – Chef - Brock Savage (spouse to be) Get to Level 10 of the Culinary Career (Chef) Master the Cooking Skill Master the Gourmet Cooking Skill Complete the Master Chef Aspiration Cook All Base Game Recipes in Excellent Quality
Just to give myself something else to do/challenge myself, I also made an extra sim, Maren Brink, who rolled for a set of her own. She will basically be a roommate, and live in the basement apartment.
Art Lover, Perfectionist, Neat
Set #4 – Master of the Real - Maren Brink (roommate) Get to Level 10 in the Painting Career (Master of the Real) Master the Painting Skill Master the Photography Skill Take and display 25 Perfect Quality Photos
Here’s some pictures of me attempting to edit Umbrage Manor for them… as I said earlier.. I gave up.
I was going to move the two left hand bedrooms over, add another bedroom upstairs, and make a bigger living room/study on the bottom floor, but I just didn’t like the way it was turning out. So, I spent a while going through some of my bigger builds (especially the ones that are still just shells and haven’t been uploaded) trying to pick the perfect house. I picked one that is HUGE so I can have fun continuing to decorate as the challenge goes.
And here’s the house: (It’s in Willow Creek where Umbrage Manor used to be. I got so mad at the house I just bulldozed it. Luckily, this house fit where it was! Barely, but it did fit…)
Indoor starting out picture spam: (As you can tell, there’s really only the bare minimum in furnishings… I have a LOT of work to do.)
The kids rooms With separate bathrooms.
The Master bedroom suite. Behind the bed will be a walk in closet, to the left of that will be a nursery.
Teenager’s room, and the “mother-in-law” suite, added in instead of an upstairs rec room just so Heidi has a place of her own.
The most decorated rooms in the house so far.. Dining room and Kitchen. The bottom area of the kitchen will be a seating area in front of the fireplace.
The current collections wall. These are the ones I have complete from last generation. Also, partial shot of the living room.
Studio and bar area. The bar and the study (next pic) are the only things I had furnished when I placed this house, hence the Journalism desk that’s in the study.
The above-mentioned study. There will be a desk in the lower left for programming, but it’s blank there at the moment because I moved the Journalism desk to the “inspiration” room/studio.
The basement. The rooms to the top right are the downstairs apartment for Maren, it’s just not really furnished yet. There will be a bowling alley by the pool windows, and there’s a storage area just to the bottom of the picture that’s off-camera. Note that I have the workout area and sauna already placed. Priorities.
Aiden gets his first job. Stylist career here we go!
Sibling love. I will be moving Aiden’s sisters out as soon as they come “of age” so they can explore the world on their own (also, because I can’t use them for adult goal sets per the rules.)
Oh, I forgot already:
Here’s the starting funds and household.
The starting house value…
And I’m going to re-roll lot traits for every generation, so this is Generation 2’s lot traits. Interesting mix.
And now.. back to the last two things I need to do to get set up.
Maren gets her job as a Painter…
Brock gets his job in the Culinary track. And with that, we’re set to go. Finally.
Angelina is making herself right at home already.
Brock starts his day out by working to start filling the fridge for everyone.
Maren gets started on her aspiration with some inspired painting.
By the time I think to send Ashlie out collecting for her aspiration.. she’d already found the sauna. LOL.
It feels weird collecting when the house is this big, but she wants to be a collector.. so off we go.
Heidi playing with Angelina for the aspiration. I’m not pushing to get Angelina’s aspirations done, because I have enough on my plate with the three adults I have working on their goal sets, but when I get a chance, I do at least some of the stuff she needs done.
Being that I have to make the recipes on the outdoor grill with Brock as well as in the kitchen, I elect to decorate the patio/pool/playground area. … and then it promptly starts storming. *facepalm* Oh well, it’ll be there later.
Getting to know each other after some skilling.
This is when I knew I made the right choice for Aiden. He’s super into Brock already.
Awww… <3
Boyfriends!
Heidi tucking her youngest in for their first night at the new place. And yes, I remembered monster lights. Barely.
Least I know they’ll eat in the kitchen, right?
Ashlie decides to set the table.. thanks?
I buy Aiden a handiness table. He’ll need it if he wants to finish that TV/radio channel achievement.
Ashlie comes home in a mood again.
School project time.
I need three skills for the next Stylist promotion? .. Weird.
They use the dining room, too. Which is always nice.
Angelina watching TV.
Heidi painting on her own again.
Strange place for homework.. but okay..
Aww.. sorry Aiden. Pushed too hard for skills, I guess.
This post was too long.. so I split it… See you in the next post!
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Welcome back!
… Our goal list…
Set #1 - Author - BraydenGet to Level 10 in the Writer career (Author)Master the Writing SkillComplete the Bestselling Author AspirationWrite at least 2 Excellent Books in Every GenreWrite 5 Books of Life and Bind Them to Sims
Set #19 - Art Critic - HeidiGet to level 10 of the Critic career (Art Critic)Complete and Display the Snow Globes and City Posters CollectionsPerform as a statue for at least two hoursComplete the City Native aspirationWin a Karaoke ContestHave level 10 Singing skillTravel to all festivals at least once
It’s done. Literally. I have everything done that I can possibly think of doing. With the exception of maxing Ashlie’s drama club, but I haven’t really been working on it, so I don’t know if that will happen. So.. this is a filler week. Mostly just me watching my sims do.. whatever they feel like doing.
She’s gorgeous. Even if she is just taking out the trash.
The whole family.
I catch dad playing with Angelina.
That reminds me. I need to fill the fridge with Vegetarian dishes for Ashlie.
Brayden being helpful…
… Nooooo! Already?? I should have taken pictures of his stats at this point, but I never got around to it.
Heidi… your toddler is eating next to a pile of trash.. and you’re painting. Priorities.
Time for a Birthday!
Angelina just looks confused.
What a cute picture. “Mommy, I can FLY!”
Watching TV with Dad.
More Daddy time.
Ashlie comes home in a mood.
… And so does Aiden.
This would be when I try to start doing the TV and radio channels achievement. (Spoiler: I don’t get it, because the TV and stereo aren’t upgraded and by the time I figure this out, the sim with handiness passes away…)
Yep, it’s that time again.
I’m not sure this counts as “Mommy time” .. LOL.
Watching TV while eating. As you do.
I get Brayden in on helping Ashlie.
Done! … Not very well.. but it’s done..
Ugh. Neighbors. I relate.
Heidi finally getting around to filling the fridge with vegetarian food.
Angelina gets into trouble while Mom cleans up after her.
Hey… the vegetarian food is supposed to be for your sister, Aiden…
More neighbor drama. At this point, the entire household hates Salim.
Playing with that clay. Again.
Listening to radio stations…
Ohh… noo. *sad face* (While Angelina makes a mess…)
Heidi tries pleading with Grim for just another day or two.
Spoiler: pleading failed. (So Heidi turns on the TV?) .. While everyone else is sad. I think Ashlie is at Drama club.
Nope. There she is, cheering up her baby sister. 🙂
Grim, watching Sitcoms in his down time.
.. Man I love these tables. Hint: if you buy everything off the table, they will usually spawn more stuff for you to buy in a couple hours.
Another collection complete!! .. I elect to leave it in Aiden’s inventory for the time being since it’s almost time to move houses anyway. (I plan to move them when the next generation starts.)
Homework time. Outside? .. Okay, Aiden.
Oh, cool! She gets an award from it, and I send everyone but the toddler to see it.
Aiden working on his Handiness skill. I’ve resolved to get him to max next generation so I can finish out his channels achievement.
… And yep.. I forgot to get a picture of her aging.
.. But she’s beautiful.
Oh, no, Heidi. I’m so sorry. I was busy trying to get her to see her last of two performances before this person stopped playing, and poor Heidi paid the price.
Guess Ashlie isn’t quite up to curry .. yet.
The clay.. making it’s rounds. Still.
Is this far enough away for your mood swing, there, Aiden? … Nope. Still tense.
It’s pouring.. so painting aliens on a rainy day is what Heidi decides to do. Spoiler: that’s a 5000 simoleon masterpiece when she’s done…!
Preparing for tomorrow’s birthday.
The clay.. it’s back in the living room, now.
I take the whole family out to dinner to celebrate the end of a generation.
Everyone gets something different. And I make sure they all take pictures… to start that collection.
Angelina gets bored and draws on her placemat.
… Heidi ends up with food poisoning. Poor gal.
And that’s it! I made it through the generation successfully. See you in the next post, where we’ll get everything going for the next generation!
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