The MacAvoy ISBI - Generation 6.3!

Helloooo, deranged ISBI fans! We're back with more magenta horror!
Last time, Daniel managed to snare Phillippa "Pippa" Townsend into marriage, and they had their first child - a girl named Everly. Elena grew up, and moved over to Tallie's place by the sea. Everly had the most ridiculous babyhood of All Times(TM). Calista Despret - also sometimes known as "Phil's Grandmother" - came over to babysit, and floated around in magenta T-posing glory. Pippa was pregnant again by the end of the chapter, so let's see how she and Danny are coping with becoming parents of 2+ children!
CW: TigerAnne's conservative upbringing is shining through! :O

This was where we left off last time, with Everly slightly upset and wanting her dad's attention.

For someone with the Pleasure aspiration, Danny took surprisingly well to the whole parenting thing.

He potty-trained patiently.

Then he successfully taught Everly to use her feet.

There will be many pictures of Everly, prepare to be tired of her.

For a while, Everly showed signs of being the second-most accomplished toddler I've had in my game, with first place going to Butch Scheiler and Nettie's son Henway Graceland. As you'll see soon enough, I think Everly has the amount of nice-points in common with Henway as well.

I wondered if the Macs, or Daniel at least, would be able to keep a caged pet immortal, like the Scheilers' chipmunk Pingo. I'm bad at naming rodents, okay?

Danny: I'm taking care of a baby, so a miniature hedgehog shouldn't be any problems.

Pippa has occasional motherly moments, where she spends some quality time with her children. As you're about to see, though... These moments are little islands in the sea of crazy.

Everly spent a lot of her early childhood under the mothering care of Mrs. Bunny's charismatic gaze.

Danny: Nothing's stuck in my teeth. :) I'm ready for a pesticide-free selfie! *hashtag organic* *hashtag growUrOwn*
Am I a little jelluz that the Macs have a greenhouse? Maybe just a leeetle. I vaguely remember my Dad building one, with the purpose of growing his own tomatos, back when I was a little tot. I also vaguely remember it lying in a flattened heap after the first strong winds it tried standing up to. It was a very lightweight structure of planks and plastic sheets.
I have a whole lot of garden just lying there barren, though. Maybe I should research into getting a small greenhouse. I could do that.

Hey, who invited Lisa McArthur in? I didn't think any of them even knew her, she was just passing by. This family is becoming a little more autonomous than I thought was possible for TS2 Sims.

I believe him.

Oh no, that chance card is dangerous! You can get your Sim accused of plagiarism. And with how many people have written those same two books now, that's really no surprise.
Yes, Pippa was alone in bed. Her detached head snoozed peacefully away, while her beheaded body stood guard. Oh no, that sounded like how Raelynn would phrase it. Her style is rubbing off on me.
I'm offended by that!
Sorry kid. :(

Anywho, Danny made it past the scary chance card, and this was a good time to hit save.

Hey, those are much better hours than he's been working this far!

Pippa: Oh darn.

And then things got mighty interesting!

Pippa: GnnnnnnnnnnnnngghhhhhhhhnnnnaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Good luck with that!

Lora: The Miracle of Life!
Lee: OH LORA!
Lora: OH LEE!
Well, I guess that settles the big question of whether they like-like each other. x) I was going to re-roll the birth, so the new babies wouldn't be Everly clones, but I couldn't deny Lora and Lee their happiness when they'd finally gotten bold enough to admit their feelings.
Pippa would just have to get pregnant again!

Anyway, it was a girl and a boy, and they both looked exactly like this. Here's Milo, and his twin sister is named Fallon.

Danny: This is your crib, it's where you're supposed to sleep. If anyone puts you on the floor while Daddy's at work, you scream and make a fuss to show you're not accepting it, okay?

Carter was a good grandfather, just as he'd been a good parent back in his time. Spoiler: Narrator did not get her wish to see him snuffed.

The cats congregated by the door, to arrange a demostration for more varied kibble flavours. They had decreed that two weeks of the same stuff should be the maximum. It looked like Harriet had caught some kind of horrific radioactive bat to make a statement, but it was actually her whiskers glitching.
Unfortunately the Macs don't speak Cat very well. :C

Sadie: Despaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair!

This is pure nostalgia for Jen's time as the Torch Holder! :D

Milo: Help us, Everly! You're almost an adult!

Everly had an advantage, at least. She could tell the grown-ups whether she needed a bottle or a diaper.

Her foraging skills could use some more work, however.

Danny's raising cool, modern kids. You may have guessed that from their names already. x)

The kid with the caretaker best trained in combat gets the first bottle.
Everly: Mommy, it stinks here.
Pippa: Yes, darling. That's the... the trash can. It's full again.

Danny: This is cool. We're showing them that team-work is necessary.

Danny: Maybe I cooked the fries a little too much?
Riana: They taste fine to me. Then again, I don't have very high standards. My parents couldn't cook at all during my formative years.
Danny: You're so genuine and non-bourgeoise. I like that about you!


Let's have some Everly spam.

This is the moment a babby is formd.

Save and quit time, I guess? :-/

Sadie's grown so comfortable in her work outfit she's not even changing to formal wear to play the piano anymore. Maybe her idea of what actually counts as formal wear has changed too. It'll be fun to see how she'll dress the next time she's invited to a wedding. :O

Lora: I don't remember any of my kids ever doing this! Not even your mother!
Danny: Just hand her to me, please.


This was a chance card. I hate captioning them.

The Macs received their license for growing the children up, so let's see how identical they all are. (Why, yes. These licenses are issued by the local governments, and are sent out by mail to the households. Sometimes they get lost in the mail, that's why they can take longer to arrive.)

I always save right before someone grows up, and this time the game decided to crash in the process. Well, okay then. Let's relive some of the past few hours of the MacAvoys' lives.


First there was another chance card, and Pippa saw a UFO.

Everly saw things she was too young to understand.
TigerAnne, you needa kill that old fart! He's harmful to minors!
He's dead from old age by now, so no can do. Sorry.

Yeah, okay... You know whose fault it is if Everly grows up all twisted and deranged!

Danny did some gardening in funky perspective, so he had some new material for his daddy-blog. He's got 4121 followers on Youtube and 15443 on Instagram.

No one came to Milo's birthday. I guess they all figured they'd seen his face before, since he's bound to look a lot like Everly.

He looks pretty much the way we all expected him to, doesn't he? No big surprises with this child.

Fallon's birthday wasn't even attended by the back-end of a cat.

Oh man... She's keeping that hair for a while! That's probably exactly how Danny would style his kids.

Danny: Grandma is getting a bit slow on the uptake, but we must accept her as she is. That's my grandma, BTW, not yours.

Fallon got dressed in an outfit recycled from when Elena was that age (very thrifty and non-consumerish), and prepared for some life-skill training.

She learned to pee. It would be neat if she could get walking down at the same time.

Pippa: Our daughter is extremely tired now, and you mustn't overwork her since that may cause an energy crisis for her small system and stunt her growth.

Fallon had best go to bed.

That's more sad than anything.

After a hopefully good night's sleep, it was Milo's turn to drink the nuclear milk.

Meanwhile his sisters were entertaining themselves by earning skill points that would come in handy later.

Sadie: You know, I don't think Pippa is all that well fit for all this baby stuff.
Danny: It's cool, Mom. She's got me by her side. I'm an enlightened modern male.
Sadie: And what does that mean in your case, exactly?
Danny: It means that I'm secure enough in my masculinity to change diapers, among other things! BTW, Milo should always sleep in the pink crib. We need to teach him how to smash gender roles.
Sadie: You know that a hundred years ago pink was the boys' colour? So claiming pink for girls was actually a very feminist thing to do. When you're reversing it, by forcing pink onto the boys and denying it to the girls, you're actually reverting to Victorian, pre-feminist gender roles.
Danny: Sources for that, please?

Are you starting to feel sorry for Pippa yet? Because I think I am.

Aren't the kids worth it, though? x) Look how cute they are!

Everly: I'm hungreee too! They've forgotten me now that they have new kids. :(

Awww, Everly... Don't think for a moment that you're forgettable.

I even suspect that she may be Lora's favourite.

:C

Tempest let him self in again. He does that. Maybe he's homesick?

Fallon's Smart Milk effect wore off before she learned to walk, but she did learn.

While she was busy being talented, her siblings practiced self-sufficiency on the other side of the door.

Daniel: Goodnight, Milo. Sleep well in the special pink boy-crib. :D

Milo: *isn't sleepy*

Poor Fallon was exhausted, but she gave her dad the high five before bedtime. :)

Lora: I'll rescue you, Milo. Great-grandma's not playing favourites, and to suggest so would be nonsense.

Oh no, poor Everly! Homework!!!!

She doesn't know what horror lies ahead. Poor innocent child... :'(

Awww yiz, skill that charisma!

Look who I found in the bathroom. Either he'd never gone home, or he was back again.
Tempest: The fake news don't believe in Antenna Man. :( They never learn.

Pippa: GNAMGNAMGNAMGRRRRNAMMNOMMMM NOMNOMNOMMMMMMNOMNOMZ
Everly: How many babies are you having this time, Mom? A cat I saw on kitten livestream had seven just now.
Pippa: IT'S JUST ONE, ALRIGHT!?

Carter: You're hotter than this soup!
Sadie: Oh come on, you can do better than that!

Who's a good girl? Who's an heir candidate?

Oh no, Carter... D:

Carter: THERE'S NO DIGNITY IN AN ISBI!

Pin Cushion lived a short and dangerous life. If you never see him again, it's because Daniel did what he does best, and forgot to feed him.

Riana is very fond of the Macs' cats, actually. I think she must have become a bit of a cat-person after having two kittehz moving into her place. It sort of just fits Riana's gothic mystique, doesn't it?

But I, TigerAnne, did something I said I wouldn't do, something incredibly naughty. I had Daniel adopt a puppy. He had a want for one, and I thought why not. Let's bring back the utter chaos this family used to be surrounded by! So here's Maisie.

Poor Milo, he just wanted to use the grown-up bath tub. :C
Lora: In another ten years' time, munchkin.
Milo: How long is that?
Lora: Probably longer than you can imagine yet.

Everly had experienced Mrs. Swiller's classroom. It was terrible.

Pippa: So then I kissed your Daddy, and one thing just led to another. Suddenly we were married! :O

It's reassuring to see that Pippa has at least spent enough time conscious to be able to be best friend's with her oldest daughter.

Pippa: And before we even fully realised what had just happened, we had you! Then we had Fallon and Milo, and now we're having this little boy.

Everly: How did you get the beach ball into your tummy?
Pippa: Beach ball?
Everly: Yeah, the one the baby swims in! Your tummy's not shaped like a baby. And on the live stream of the kittens there was this poster on the wall, showing the inside of a cat that was pregnant. The kittens were inside a beach ball, it looked like.
Pippa: Oh, right. The baby starts as an egg, and the egg grows in size along with the baby.
Everly: How do you put the egg in?
I don't have kids, but if I did I just know this is how that kind of conversations would go between us.

And this would have been me, a lot.

Riana the animal lover was over again. Sadie brings her home from work almost every day.

We still like Carter.
No we don't?!
No, Narrator doesn't, but he's a good grandpa.

Fallon: Moooooooooooooooooom! DaaaaAAaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaad!!!!

Fallon: Nevermind, Dad! I let myself out.
Fallon is scoring heir points.

Sadie's scoring Most Badass Grandma points. But she can't really win, because her own mother is a Captain Hero.

Awww, Danny... Your old dad didn't mean to break the dishwasher. Don't be so hard on him!

Carter: Remember when you failed a lot of classes in elementary school? I mean, how did you even manage to fail elementary school classes? You will make sure that your own children don't continue that particular family tradition, right?
Danny: Sure, Dad. I'll try. But there's more important education for this generation of children than maths and spelling.
Carter: Well, sure. There's environment and social issues. Don't you think it's just a little easier to learn about those things if the children can actually read, though? And if you want to go into science, like bio-friendly engineering, you need a good understanding of maths.
Danny: They can't all go into STEM, Dad. Who's gonna collect the trash for recycling every week? Who's gonna stock the shelves at Walmart? Who's gonna get my darn order straight at the coffee house? Not some out-of-luck computer tech dude who doesn't really want to work there, that's for sure! When I say almond milk, I want almond milk, NOT SOY! Soy is greasy!

Carter must be so proud of his grand-daughter for sharing his passion. The reason she's gotten chubby is because Daniel's had to force feed his family in order to keep poor, fainting Pippa alive. Her third pregnancy made her turn full on ISBI-spouse, and fail to locate the available food when she was called to eat.

And poor Everly was so, so bored. :( She tried to entertain herself, but boredom kept forcing her to cancel and despair before her mood could get up.

I wish I knew the details of that dream. It was probably perfectly decent, I'm sure.

Hooray, she's sleeping! Daniel was not able to enforce bedtimes what so ever, and Everly spent a lot of her childhood at night. She got Annabelle's old room, made over to fit a younger child.

Pippa showed some traces of survival instinct that morning, and cooked nutricious oatmeal for breakkie.

The gardener showed the usual lack of it.

Everly: Gotta love these Starbucks-lovers, they tell you I'm insane...
I'm sorry to inform you that we have a Taylor Swift fan.
Everly: Boys only want love when it's torture..! :D

THE NANNY OF APOCALYPSE WAS BACK.


Blah blah blah bleh he got money.

Pippa: IT REALLY IS JUST ONE, ISN'T IT? ISN'T IT?!

Everly: THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THE KITTEN LIVE STREAM!

Pippa: AAAAAAAaaaAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!

Pippa: Hooray it was just one! Does he have my genetics? I can't really tell.
No, he didn't, just judging by the back of his head. Reroll!

Pippa: Does she look like me? I can't really see anything.

Third (Was it, though?) time was apparently the charm. Here's Brodie. He doesn't have Pippa's skinset, he's got the same one as Blaze and Moxie. The most important thing is that he won't look exactly like his "triplet" older siblings, though.

Pippa: That felt like a lot more than one! Plz to take the baby, I need a nap!

WRONG POTTY, PIPPA! D:

Pippa: BOOOHOOOOOOOOHOOOHOOOOO!
Please just go and use the bathroom before you get another thing to cry about!

Look at such happy family. <3

Pippa: OH NO! Uh... the cats have peed on the floor again!
Bailey: Slanderous lies!

Look at the state of things. Save and quit, I think.

Look at such sympathetic employee.

Everly: Dad! We're living a dystopian existence!
Danny: Aww, sweetheart. I'm so proud of you for knowing those words!

Dystopian children have no respect for authority. O_O

Milo: I found lunch! :D

Hey, cool! Two more kids to bribe into doing homework!

I noticed Phil walking past, and I had a very naughty idea. If Phil becomes a friend of theirs, he may hang around at a time when "his grandmother" Calista is present. I know he's still got a crush-heart for her, so it would be really interesting to see what would happen if they were ever in the same room again. And we can add to the potential drama that Aylatani works with Danny, and will probably come visit at some point. x)
Narrator does not approve of this plan!

Awwww, this made me miss the Scheilers and their nightly community meetings. It's almost time for a new generation!

Everly: I'm too young to suffer from existential despaaaaaaair!

Hey Narrator? Do you want to caption a couple of images?
Pippa was deep in desperation about her life. She stomped a puddle in the garden for anger management, angrerily squishing slugs between her strong army toes. Sadie had a flowery new dress. She was out in the rain taking romantic selfies, to post on dating sites in preparation of becoming a widow.

This was not how Poppy had envisioned her life. She just wanted to fly her jet between the thunder clouds and soar free.

Milo: Daddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Milo: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?

Pippa: It's my day to be the dad.
Fallon: Dad, you stink. You should take a bath first!
Pippa: Do you want to know what bathsponge tastes like?

Fallon: My arm hurts!
Pippa: My whole consciousness hurts!

This is starting to remind me of the Edgarcy, when Edgar and Aylatani had all six babies at once.

LOL WUT?

Guys, it was Pippa's identical twin sister - Amelia. Yes, I made them as twins when I seeded the neighbourhood with custom townies.

Danny: Huh huh huh, my Great-grandfather once cheated on my Great-grandmother Jennifer. He went on a blind date with this chick called Regina. Like at home!

Poor Maisie, I keep forgetting she exists. Maybe this wasn't the best time to adopt a puppy. She should probably go with Danny and Pippa when they move out, because I've decided that they'll leave once Pippa gets the two-day notice about elderhood. She deserves another chance at life after this. So yeah, we'll be seeing a very young torch holder!

Fallon was ready to grow up.

Hooray!

Amelia: ...so my high school fling Nathan couldn't tell the difference between us. He accidentally kissed Pippa instead, and couldn't understand why "I" responded by knocking all his front teeth out of his face. It was the front page of the school paper! :D
Pippa: Yeah, I almost got suspended for that! But the headmaster saw my side of things.

Meanwhile...

Something tells me Everly doesn't have full neat points. :(

Amelia: ....so yeah, basically. This whole neighbourhood sits on top of a dimentional rift. Some of the dead people who used to live here fell into it, and now they have never existed. Their graves are gone from the cemetary. This has led to a crisis of reality, because there are now people here who descend from people who were never real. This family is some of those people. So basically what I'm saying is that this whole timeline may corrupt totally, and we'll all find ourselves transported into alternative dimentions where everything is a little different.
Lee: How gnarly.

Danny and Everly made a brave attempt at homework training, but Everly was too bored to finish.

She spent most of the day reading the paper instead.
Everly: The Antenna Man conspiracy theory is spreading panic among low-information demographics. LOL, do people really believe in that?

Fallon: Our Great-great-grandfather and some of our other ancestors didn't actually exist, so I think maybe we're ghosts too, kinda!
Milo: That's so cool! We can bring ourselves to show and tell!

Maisie: I'm gonna do a thing now.

Oh wow, she's a poodle! A lonely, miserable poodle. :(

Milo: Wow, you're so much larger than our other cats!

Skill that creativity!

I think maybe the MacAvoys need more cats, when Maisie moves out, so that everyone can have a therapy-pet available. Cats are happiness, love and sanity! The only reason they haven't adopted more of them is that all the available kittens are aggressive, and most of the adults are look-alikes of cats that already live in the neighbourhood.

Fallon discovered the pool, which should hopefully be knowledge embedded in her muscle memory. Maybe she can avoid total boredom.

Then it was time for Brodie to have a very cursed birthday.

I just knew this had to be the teaser. x) Can you see a theme starting to form?

Danny: Happy Beeday, Brodie! Pfffffffffffff!
Brodie: ....

Anybaloo, here he is, one restart later! He looks different from his siblings, placing him in the heir race even if he hasn't done squat yet. He's also going to be very young still at the point his parents leave, but I'm thinking of doing double heirs. "Everyone" seems to do the "alternating torch-days" thing, so I want to try that too.
The MacAvoys will be back suddenly!