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Welcome back to my townie rotation. I’m doing two updates today, because this family’s week went by really fast with very few pictures… so I did two families’ weeks in a row.

Chet getting his job in the Culinary.. Gladys does too, but they have different aspirations. Spoiler: Neither will get there.

Chet helping out around the house while Gladys gets to work on cooking.

And this is what these guys keep doing. Boring.

Chet complaining about the rain. C’mon, guys, I tried to get you something else to do at the Flea Market. Not my fault it was raining!

Soggy Bubbles. Neither were impressed.

This.. and cooking.. is what the rest of the week looks like. I decided early on not to get these two together, and I turned the kid’s bedroom into another bedroom for Chet.. so there’s no “getting to know you” photos.

I finally get bored enough to take them out to a bar to meet new people… and Chet is all smiles.. because apparently it’s Ladies’ Night.

Gladys meets and woos another elder.. the only guy at the bar that night other than Chet and her. But because they’re elders, they both get tired pretty easily and the night ends mostly uneventfully.

Chet working on his aspiration to meet people. None of them look particularly happy to meet poor Chet, though. .. Aaand.. that’s it for the week. They pretty much skipped the holidays, because neither of them were into the traditions.. and they just worked and skilled. Hence the lack of pictures.

Next family.. so on to the next post.

Back to this family’s introduction | On to Week Two

StrangerVille Index |

Starting Family Members:

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.”

George Cahill

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!).

StrangerVille Index |

Starting Family Members:

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.”

Dylan Sigworth

Age: Young Adult (20 days)
Traits: Perfectionist, Bookworm, Genius
Aspiration: Nerd Brain
Career: Currently unemployed

Jess Sigworth

Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Family-Oriented, Outgoing, Active, Infected
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Career: Level 3 Military

Christie Sigworth

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.

StrangerVille Index |

Starting Family Members:

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.”

Alice Martin

Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Creative, Music Lover, Bookworm
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
Career: Currently unemployed

Mark Eggleston

Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Cheerful, Art Lover, Bookworm
Aspiration: Friend of the World
Career: Currently unemployed

Leslie Holland

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.

StrangerVille Index |

Starting Family Members:

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.”

Ted Roswell

Age: Adult (19 days)
Traits: Hot-Headed, Evil, Paranoid, Infected
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Currently unemployed

Meredith Roswell

Age: Adult (23 days)
Traits: Neat, good, Outgoing
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Currently unemployed

This family is starting out as EA made it.

StrangerVille Index |

Del Sol Valley Index |

Starting Family Members:

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.”

Judith Ward

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.

Del Sol Valley Index |

Starting Family Members:

EA’s description of this family: “Octavia Moon and Thorne Bailey are the power couple of the century. Octavia is the lyrical genius behind all of Thorne’s greatest hits. Due to Thorne’s most recent misshap on social media his public image has started to falter. His fans are starting to realize that Octavia is the real talent. Orange is their good natured son but due to his entire life of wanting-for-nothing, he is also a bit naive.”

Octavia Moon

Age: Young Adult (21 days)
Traits: Good, Family-Oriented, Creative
Aspiration: Bestselling Author
Career: Level 6 Author
Reputation: Good
Fame: B-Lister

Thorne Bailey

Age: Young Adult (22 days)
Traits: Self-Assured, Music Lover, Active (Dastardly)
Aspiration: Musical Genius
Career: Level 6 Musician
Reputation: Bad
Fame: Proper Celebrity

Orange Bailey-Moon

Age: Child (13 days)
Traits: Outgoing
Aspiration: Social Butterfly
Career: Grade School C Student
Reputation: Good
Fame: Rising Star

This family is starting out as EA made it.

Del Sol Valley Index |

Starting Family Members:

Founders: Vanessa Jeong and Charlie Francis. EA’s description of this family: “Venessa Jeong just moved to Del Sol Valley from her quaint country town. She is looking to make it big as a rising actress. She has stared in a few low level commercials, but her agent always tells her she has what it takes she just needs to find that breakthrough role.” Charlie was part of Get to Work’s “Malpractice” family: “Download the doctors featured in “Malpractice”, one of The Sims 4 Get to Work video shorts. #GetToWork #Malpractice”

Venessa Jeong

Age: Young Adult (22 days)
Traits: Cheerful, Ambitious, Neat
Aspiration: World-Famous Celebrity
Career: Level 3 Actress
Fame: Notable Newcomer

Charlie Francis

Age: Young Adult (23 days)
Traits: Foodie, Cheerful
Aspiration: Master Chef
Career: Currently Unemployed

Charlie will get a culinary job.

Del Sol Valley Index |

Back to this family’s introduction | On to Week Two

And we’re back to my townie rotation. This is a short week for these guys, because they just kept doing the same things over and over again. But that’s ok. That means I get back to Master Simmer that much faster.

The first thing I did was update the house a bit, because starting a family right away sounds like a good idea… and I felt that putting a door on the bedroom was essential. To do the update, I had to move the whole lot to the front a bit, but that’s okay.

I end up adding other things to the house, too, but that’s later.

Getting to know each other. EA may say these guys are a couple, but they start in my game as mere housemates.

Holly just wasn’t having any of it. We had to be good friends before the Romance socials would work.

Surprise! A rose!

First kiss.

Post first-woohoo getting a job. He looks rather overwhelmed.

Since he wants to be a musician, and he’s kinda rock and roll looking, I get him the Grim’s Guitar, which I rarely use.. and let him get to work.

Holly’s back up, so for picture sake I get them dressed again, and get the conversation/kissing going…

… And he says no. What the heck?! Things are just not working out for these two. We’ll try again later.

Meanwhile, I send our resident fisher-sim, Holly, out fishing.

… She clearly needs practice.

Our first fish! Happens to be a goldfish, but she looks pleased with herself all the same.

Finally. I had him ask this time, and it worked out better.

Married!

No baby first try. Too bad.

It’s Springfest, so Mr. Glutton Bjorn is baking cookies. Seemed like he would be the chef for the household, so I went with it.

“Hooray! I found eggs!” I love her hot weather outfit.

Finally! Baby on the way! Not that you can tell with as slender as Holly is.

Evening fishing. It’s probably a lot cooler and more pleasant out there.

Bjorn trying to learn to rock out.

He needs to listen to music for his aspiration, so we add another couple things to the house. Clearly, the stereo is a hit because it’s already in use.

Aww.. What a cute couple.

Pregnancy cravings + cookies in the fridge = cookies for Holly.

She’s still fishing, though. Even if she has to waddle down the hill to get to the stream.

He’s getting better. Slightly. Then he gets tense because of his “Loves Outdoors”…

… So I send him down to join his wife.

Bjorn.. dancing is clearly not your thing. Holly, however, is hungry .. again.

I finally get tired of the same thing day after day and buy him a workout machine.

Love Day. So easy to celebrate.. but since she’s due any moment, I avoid the date part of it.

Welcome Nicola!

Holly finds the workout machine.. and complains about it the whole time.

So I hire a nanny.. and Nanny Gandhi shows up again. Apparently he’s popular in Oasis Springs.

… And Holly goes to fish. I love the lights reflecting in the water.

Fixing their favorite toy.

Yep, that’s where the bottle goes. Now, figure out how to change that stinky diaper.

Oh… joy. I wish they hadn’t changed the vampires, I miss the fact that they actually DID something when they broke in. Now they just daze you and you can go right back to bed. It’s very lame.

See? Their favorite toy.

More things to fix.

Dinner together. For a change.

Aww… She looks just like her dad.

A charmer. of course. She looks like one!

The bedroom upgrade.

Bathroom also gets an upgrade. Toddlers need baths. And that bathroom needed another door.

And that’s the end of this week. I had fun with this family.. for some reason, more fun than I had with the last one … I still have no idea why. But moving on. Now I get to go play Master Simmer!

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Back to my townie save. I don’t know why, but I had a hard time getting into this week.. despite the fact that I love Stephen and Johnny..

First order of business: get Stephen a job. He joins the Culinary career. Also of note: I loaded in to Johnny being blue with cold, so that’s why he’s wearing his outerwear in these first few screenies. Also bought them a thermostat.

Next order of business: starting their family. I planned on just getting them a little baby boy, but it didn’t exactly turn out that way.

Then: I do some house updating… (that computer was the first addition..)

.. Then the mixology bar.

… A double bed was necessary.

… And a kid’s room….

So we can welcome little Melvin … and baby Caiphus. I kept their names.. and Melvin was just too adorable to not say “yes” to two kids. Insta-family!

He makes a great addition!

Melvin needs to be inspired, so cloudgazing is where he heads off to.

While Johnny welcomes the baby, Caiphus.

Stephen joins Melvin for a little cloudgazing. Because why not.

Then, he works on filling the fridge. Helps with his job performance, too.

Johnny’s butchering the guitar in the corner. Everyone is literally cringing. Including me. LOL.

Doing those inspired pictures for his aspiration.

While Stephen welcomes the nooboo.

Helping with homework, while Johnny writes jokes. It’s much easier on my ears.

Mixing his favorite drink. How does an alien already have a favorite drink? Who knows.

I’m sure the baby can hear you through the wall, Melvin. But the thought is what counts, right?

Socializing with dad #2.

Bedtime. Awww.

Oh, wait. We need a bathtub.

Oh my gosh! Caiphus is SO cute!! He rolls Wild. (Because I forgot to take a picture, of course..)

Starting on the potty training. Needed one of those, too.

SQUEE!!! I just want to take this little guy home.

Homework help. And who needs a shirt, anyway..?

A creative family. (Stephen is at work.)

This completely cracked me up. Who’s the toddler here?

Winterfest dawns with MORE miserable rain.. I don’t think they’ll get to use that swingset all week! .. But at least it gives us time to finish that school project for Melvin.

Excellent!

And just in time to buy a tree.

Johnny joins in. The tree turns out really pretty.

Wait, what?! .. A Winterfest disaster. They all run in different directions, and it feels a bit like herding cats trying to get the fire out, everything cleaned up, people back inside out of the rain.. ugh.

.. Pile of presents is much safer.

I love this interaction. Even Caiphus being filthy makes it cuter. How is that possible?

Everyone loves Stephen’s cooking.

Even Stephen. *wink*

The whole family in one shot. Nice.

Caiphus! What are you DOING?!

Toddler’s in bed. So the adults finally get to socialize.

…. But not for long.

Oh .. here we go. LOL. I love this. Too funny.

… What? *facepalm* Well, whatever works for you, buddy.

.. I also notice the funniest moodlet I’ve seen in quite a while. Shaking tailfeather, huh? What even.

Apparently Stephen’s favorite drink is wine. To each his own, I guess!

Sigh. AGAIN!? I guess he’s going through a phase.

Nanny Gandhi shows up while the Daddies are at work. He spends all his time cleaning house.. and cooking.. which is funny, because the fridge is well-stocked. Why did we need more food??