tigeranne | Bad Influence: The Brianna Files

Yo my peeps my peeps, this is your Narrator typing! I hope you're not mad about more TS4 and Brianna. But before we get there, we have a word from our sponsor:

Yes, hi. This is TigerAnne. If you're a Starbloom fan, and let's be honest, that's probably the only reason you're reading this in the first place, you're probably wondering where they are. I'm playing them right now, actually. :) The next chapter includes a move to the "Medieval Age," and I had to build two new lots. I was so out of practice that I barely had any idea what I wanted to do, building wasn't fun, and I didn't want to play on an empty lot because that doesn't make good pictures. That is why it's been taking some time. I've been procrastinating and playing the low-effort Brianna. However, both lots are starting to look slightly inhabited. I've been playing the family and have a few pictures already, but this next chapter needs a prologue that I don't yet have the set for.

The hospital arc didn't get finished properly, because the lot I was playing it on became hopelessly corrupted. I was using a personal edit of a TheRaven lot, which I don't have a clean copy of. Instead of remaking that lot again, I'm going to build an entirely new hospital and just come up with some in-story explaination for why it's a different building. I'm kind of excited about building this lot, because it's based on a real one that always intrigued me with it's ivy-covered, somber elegance.

So with that said, I - the Narrator - can get to business!

Maegan was getting popular as a live streamer. She had mostly given up her writing career, to focus on streaming.

Brianna was teaching herself to cook posh nosh. ZOMGEE that recipe is just evil!

A new dog showed up at the feeding station. She was a young pitbull, who Maegan named Lilah. The big fluffy Keeshond is Maya, BTW. You can't remember all the animals, so I'll remind you! There are so many of them.

Lilah seemed super chill.

Dixie scratched entire clumps of fur out of Brenda. Not that she didn't have an excessive amount of it, but it stunk that they didn't get along. Brianna had wanted to adopt Brenda, since she reminded her of her great-grandma.

Sometimes an animal came by who wasn't a stray. This guy is Doc, and he does have an owner.

Maegan wasn't like entirely opposed to having more dogs. Lilah was a good girl, but not everyone wants a pitbull. It would be more difficult to find a home for her. For one, they have a terrible rep because the wrong kind of people keep getting them because of their bad rep. There are also unethical breeders who look for the individuals with the worst tempers, which is the opposite of what any responsible breeder of any kind of dog would do. Some people just want a dog that's a homicidal maniac, because they're trash who have many enemies. They abuse the dogs into becoming aggressive maul-machines, which is all people hear about. Vicious cycle, etc. For two, pitbulls are very high-energy and need a lot of exercise and playtime. Yeah, some of them are couch potatoes, but that's not what they're usually like. Maegan knew all that, because her family had a pittie when she was younger. Even though she hated exercising she was willing to make sacrifices. Lilah didn't act like a poorly bred, traumatised dog either.

There are usually a whole bunch of animals around. This is an average night crew. Sorry about the dark picture. I'm using a lighting mod that makes the nights darker. It's also a good idea to get a separate one that makes the indoor areas brighter. Everything looks so much better!

Brianna weeded and sprayed the garden, because she intended to leave it for the new inhabitants. We know the new owners, BTW. :)

Mogul is a bit of an exaggeration, I think? It's good that Maegan has success, though. She's so depressed about her past events, and needs nice things in her life. Like another pupper!

Farhan hoped that if he flapped his arms a lot, his shoulders would look as wide as Samuel's.

Mrs. Agnes Crumplebottom: This is where the girl who trolled me lives. She's got green hair and glasses, and hundreds of tats. Send her all your offensive Boomer memes.

See that woman with black hair and a blue skirt, who wears a top the same colour as her skin? It seems like Imgur's AI can see that she's got a top on, while Georgia's dress is invisible. Dad says that's why he doesn't want AI getting a driver's licence.

Maegan phoned someone. Was it Farhan? Probably, but I have forgotten.

This is Cookie. He's a tiny white dog with a tennis ball for size comparison.

Maegan: Samuel, please stop rifling in the trash.

Why do they keep getting weird friends?

Maegan hung out with Beverly, and made her feel cool and adult. She would have felt even cooler if she could get some new clothes.

It's so sad when your dog is legit smarter than your human roomie.

What do you think Maegan replied?

Of course she wanted to go on a date.

There's the rest of Beverly's family in the back. Her brother's name is Shawn, BTW. I can never remember, but now you can!

Maegan: Look! Muscles! You have no idea how much I suffered for them.

Farhan: I don't know anyone else who knows as much weird stuff as you! Tell me more about the garden gnomes that contain cremated grandmothers.

Maegan: Well, some people pour their grandmother's ashes into a gnome and send it off, so their grandma can get to travel like she never had time or money for in life. But a lot more cases are someone not wanting an awful relative buried locally. If you find a gnome at a flea market, and the hole at the bottom is plugged, don't buy it.

PSA: Don't dispose of your horrid rellies by pouring them into garden gnomes and selling them. That is illegal and against the law.

Farhan: I would never do such a thing. You have a lot of wisdom.

(PSA: I've had two wisdom teeth out lately. My dentist does it with local anaesthetics. It's no big deal, seriously. The worst thing has been my other teeth becoming all itchy and feeling like they were crawling out of my mouth to find their missing friends.)

Dixie: Pet me!

Sigrid: Eww no! You stink. You're the cat from the song.

Sigrid: Stop following me, stupid stinky cat! You smell like you've rolled in a pile of fish guts.

Dixie: I have! Pet me!

Dixie keeps running away. :( It's not because she's ignored or unhappy, she just likes to go off on adventures and make the fam miss her. Usually she leaves early in the morning and comes back the same night.

Brianna, is there something you haven't told us?

(I checked in CAS and she's not supposed to be able to pee standing. Yeah, you can enable that for female Sims. It's probably because her work outfit is "male.")

Dixie wants to play Grizzelda on stage.

Gavin Something (who lives with Mitchell) came by and chatted with Maegan. He's so the kind of guy she should be dating.

Brianna had her last weeding session in this garden.

Then they were all off to their new home, built specially for them. It's a bit challenging at first, when the house is all empty and you don't really know where to place anything because there's too much space everywhere. But there was no use waiting, so they ripped the bandaid off and moved in.

Here they are! Home!

And now a lot of behind-the-scenes work took place!

For some reason the pop-up for this holiday never comes in the morning, like all the others. Sometimes it hasn't popped up until like 8pm, and there's almost no time left to skill.

Dixie needed to learn the Use Scratching Post skill. She never did this at their old place.

Maegan painted a "realistic" painting. It kinda looked a bit like Sigrid. She's got brown braids and a red jacket.

(It's probs not meant to be her. Sigrid was adopted into the family through Neighbourhood Stories, so she was prolly randomly generated. I'll stop breaking the fourth wall now.)

All the excitement made Morgan very tired.

Maegan programmed an app, because that was important to her new aspiration. (Nerd Brain aspiration, she wants to be SMRT.) It's a spell check app that understands contemporary slang and doesn't try to rekt'ify it.

Brianna met Tamara outside, and invited her in.

Look at Beverly! She had finally gotten some new clothes and was very psyched. (I tried to keep her nerd-chic style, and just give her better items of clothing.)

Brianna replanted her garden. I didn't know plants counted as furniture, but they do, and she found all her plant friends in the house inventory. They had decided to follow their mistress. The new owner of the other house will have to start from scratch, but that's okay. She'll start with no skill anyway.

Maegan, what are you doing?

Maegan Spaulding updated her status to Out for a run! :)

Maegan: It's better than my previous one. I think.

Morgan: Go go go go go!

Maegan: This is overrated.

Brianna: You're doing it for the dogs!

Of course Brianna took all her stray friends with her. :)

Annie's a sweet little dog, but she'll be easy to find a home for. Brianna's not keeping her.

Maegan: One drink for gardening, one drink for working out.

Oh no, she was drowning her sorrows. Maegan needed positive influences.

Then Brianna did something impulsive that she'd.... not regret! She adopted Teddy, because he was a nice, social dog who she could easily find a home for. Rite? Except she realised immediately that she had no intentions of giving him to anyone. He was her friend!

Do you miss the Starblooms? I do.

(Cue two cats starting fighting outside, as I was writing this. SPAY AND NEUTER, and they won't be such pests!)

Brianna rehearsed her next video with an audience. It's easier to practice a speech with someone who listens (kind of) to you than just talking to the wall.

Maegan and Tamara were discovering that they were each other's kind of people.

PS, here's the layout. That's Maegan's bedroom at the bottom of the picture, next to the main bathroom. Brianna's room is top left, Morgan's room is top right, and there's another bathroom in the middle.

Asleep +10000, yeah I feel that one. It's hot and I'm studying. :(

For Brianna it was autumn, though. The weather was blustery, and the river had white tops on the waves. Yeh, there was nothing too exciting in the box she caught. I think it was an apple or something.

Why is she like this? She should marry SammyFrog's Andrew Dimwit, because he likes doing things that make him miserable too. And even he isn't any more of a loser than Farhan.

See, this is much better! This is the kind of positive she needs!

Awwww, Lilah's part of the family.

Then a loud, thundering storm started blowing around the hill tops and along the river valley. Brianna felt fright!

Maegan wasn't much braver. Someone in her family had probably died from a lightning strike before.

Brianna had once witnessed her aunt dying from being struck by lightning, while they had been visiting her cousin's delinquent children in jail. The aunt has a twin sister who saved her life, though. Brianna was also present when her third step-grandfather was brained by hailstones the size of plums one night. No one except Brianna's grandmother actually liked that guy, but it was still pretty nasty.

Morgan felt better sleeping in the living room with Dixie and the dogs.

It rained so hard they almost couldn't even see the neon lights across the river.

Dixie and Lilah were glad to be sleeping inside, instead of in a leaky bush.

Aww. Sisters.

Isn't there an episode of Dr. Who like that? One with the Cybermen? People are given earpods that brainwash them.

Morgan is three. Who told her about UFOs abducting people?!

Brianna on cam: As y'all can see, we have a lot more space in the kitchen now.

Morgan: Space? ONO UFOS?

Dixie let the new sibling know the pecking order, and that just because Dixie was the smallest sister it didn't mean she was the BABY sister. Capiche?

Then Lilah got sick. Maybe she had been sick for a while, but she clearly wasn't feeling well. Brianna took her to the veterinarians in Brindleton to have her treated.

Brianna: Yeh, so my werewolf-cat kinda bit her, but that shouldn't have this effect, right? My cat's not actually a wolf, it's just a nickname.

And this was when it was discovered that Bartholomew A. Bittlebuns Senior wasn't a stray. Supriya Delgato brought him in for a check-up.

Some of you may know already that Brianna and Maegan have made a little mistake.

Morgan spent so much time with the dogs that she was almost a feral child.

Morgan: Woof!

Brianna didn't really know much about parenting, just like I don't know why I cut their feet off in this picture. :0

Then Brianna got to work with scissors, and snipped off all the terrible costumes that the runaway pets had been forced to wear. She wondered if many of them came from the same crazy seamstress or.... Seamster? Tailor? The costumes were sewn around them and didn't have zippers or snaps.

Poor JD looks so much better without the shark fin!

Wait, I thought Blue didn't like Captain Whitacker?

WHAT?!?!

NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH! HOW IS SHE PREGNANT? THEY CAN DECIDE ON THEIR OWN TO MATE?!

Yes. They can. Oh no, there were already so many homeless animals there, and now a litter of extra puppies.

It was Darion's turn to host the Babysitters' Union meeting. I don't know why Baylee wasn't there. Maybe she's not union iced.

I don't know if you can see the dustclouds that were blowing in the wind.

Teddy got his first bath as a resident dog.

He had to be clean, because all of the pets were going in for.... wisdom tooth extractions. Let's just call it that, in case there are small children or very old people reading this.

Already?! Well, I mean, they're at the vet's, so that's great timing.

Blue didn't like dentistry.

Does this look like a mother who is in the throes of giving birth?

Blue was placed on a conveyor belt and taken into a portal where little Oompa Loompas worked their medical science.

They transmitted pictures to a screen so the veterinarian could see and give them directions.

And then Blue got to experience the post-extractive mumps.

Maegan didn't like medical stuff after what happened to Dylan. (He was her boyfriend or husband, presumably Morgan's father, who was mangled to death by a vending machine before this story. Maegan doesn't feel like talking about him.) She played a medieval knight simulator while waiting for the pets to get fixed.

Dixie: I'll killllll the Oompa Loompas!

Dixie: I fell asleep before I could kill them.

Lilah wouldn't give birth at the Pawspital, so they went home to let the others sleep off the anaesthetics.

The blonde in the red shirt is named Hayley Brewer. She's from a family in another neighbourhood in Oasis Springs. Hayley herself isn't that central to this story, but she's related to some people who are.

(Yes, I do have a plan for where to take the plot? I always do.)

Poor Blue! Dentist hangovers are bad. I hate that feeling when the numbing is going out, and it feels like I have insects crawling on my face. (The type they gave me to take my wisdom teeth didn't feel like that, but the regular type I get when I have to get a filling always does!)

Awwwwwww here be the puppy! It was Talk Like A Pirate Day when he was born, so his name is Pirate. It seemed to fit him, since he was pirated and his parents had him without permission. It was just one, and Maegan wanted to keep him.

Brianna went back to Brindleton to get Lilah fixed. This guy was also there, to get his husky-shepherd-whatever dog a check-up.

Brianna: Hayden? Hayden McKinnon?! Is that you?

Hayden: Brianna MacAvoy? You're here?!

Brianna: Yeah, long story that!

Hayden was called to talk to the vet, and Brianna had to take Lilah home to recover. She wondered to herself if she'd actually met the same version of Hayden that she'd once known and loved. Her friend Georgia had somehow disappeared and come back with no memory of them knowing each other. Brianna had concluded that two parallel versions of Georgia had somehow traded spaces.

Lilah looked so pleased with herself for managing mischief.

Darion let himself in, late at night. It was a bit like this one butler Brianna's grandparents used to have, who kept showing up to cook for days after they fired him. Except that the butler beat up Brianna's grandma all the time, and Darion is a nice old guy, but that's what it reminded Brianna of.

Maegan: What are you doing here at this hour?

Darion: I have a crick in the back and can't walk home. Can I sleep on your couch?

Maegan: Sure, just move the dogs.

Have you ever seen an old man with a back on strike trying to move an 80-lbs sleeping dog? But Maegan wasn't like going to let him sleep in her bed, either.

Poor Mayor Whiskers. He must have tried to sneak some fish, and been locked into the freezer room.

Farhan had to have a full-body wax job to get rid of his lice.

Maegan: I like a bald guy. :) A completely bald guy!

Farhan: I still have eyebrows.

He couldn't take the hint, so Maegan spelled it out for him.

Yeh.

Tamara came over, and she'd had an awful day at work.

Tamara: If I hadn't left the room then, there would have been a medical casefile describing a man with a mechanical pencil shoved up his urethra.

Brianna: Ouch?

That case probably exists. I'm not going to google it. One time I saw a video where a proctologist was in a shop, and he showed off a long line of decorative items that he instructed people to not stick up their butts. It was like wooden mini Xmas trees and hollow glass stuff. I'm not making it up!

Dixie? Weren't you more of a whiteish colour?

Brianna: Oh wow, you ARE Pirate, I thought you were a little dirty Piglet trying to do the Old Switch-a-roo!

If she thought Pirate would feel embarrassed she'd be disappointed, but she didn't. Pirate isn't like either of his parents. He didn't get any of their good traits, like Teddy's loyalty or Lilah's friendliness. He's a little bundle of nothing but trouble. >:)

Morgan: Brianna, there's this big boy here. Can he come in?

Morgan: Elliot is nootering him!

Brianna: HE WHAT?

Chase: AAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAOWW!

Morgan: My name is Morgan. I'm three years old.

Chase: My butt hurts.

Teddy started taking an interest in kitchen stuff.

Maegan got promoted. SPAY AND NOOTER your pets, even the Sims 4 ones!

Brianna tried to get Morgan into a bedtime routine, because she didn't like going to sleep. It was probably because she was raised by dogs, and they're known to stay up late to howl at the moon.

Chase seems like a mean little boy, just saying.

Suddenly Brianna discovered that there was this stand in her neighbourhood where they sold stuff.

Like coffee. There aren't many exciting places in their hood, so Brianna was just happy that there was this one thing that people could go to and hang out.

Then she went fishing, to overcome her fear of the dark.

The next morning it snowed!

LOL I dressed Brianna like TigerAnne in 2005!

(TA's note: Guilty.)

Morgan: Santa Claus is coming to town!

So this is, clockwise from Lilah: Lilah, Dakota, Zip, Brenda, Mama Kitty and Annie. Mama Kitty likes to make everyone know that she's their Mommy, and that they must obey. In this pic Zip had been disobedient.

Brianna watched some weird show about an old guy, because it was Season Premiere Day.

Morgan brought all her friends in so they wouldn't miss it.

Maegan's painting skills were improving. Morgan wanted a picture of Postman Pat and his cat in the post van, but Maegan wasn't very good at painting animals, and she was scared of painting a guy who looked as unusual as Postman Pat in case someone who hadn't seen the show thought she was mocking some real life person. That's why Maegan just painted a generic red car with no cats or English country postmen.

Brianna took Morgan to the park so she would get to see humans and maybe pick up their habits.

There were no hedgehogs or pixies living in the leaf pile, just a bunch of lawn worms.

Pirate followed them. :)

Morgan had heard the dinosaur story so many times that Brianna had started making up sequels, because that was the only kind of bedtime story Morgan wanted.

Sunsnow is an official weather?

Poor Morgan.

Teddy may have been a circus dog! LOL yeh, someone forgot they were cooking.

It was Darion, because he was watching TV. A++ babysitting, dude! I wish it was possible to not pay him.

Morgan: I'm trapped in this chair and no one can help me!

Oh well. Brianna to the rescue. And she'd reached the top of her career!

I don't know what happened, but suddenly Brianna started being scared of dying. No one she knew got recently killed or anything. Maybe it was subconscious trauma. She did see her step-grandfather's brains, back at her childhood home. Or maybe she just felt that she had peaked, and it caused existential ennui?

You guys can never guess what Pirate looks like as an adult.

It got really hot again, and Morgan wondered if it was going to be cold enough for Santa Claus to drive his sled.

Maegan: Don't worry, Santa isn't real.

Maddie got a virus and puked all over the floor. Poor furbaby.

Maddie: Croaaaaaaaaaaaaaak.

Aww no, look at them!

Maegan: I hate you, little brainless vegetables!

This is Chester. Yeah, it's a dumb name, because she's female. Also it makes me think of Chester Gieke, who perves on one of Brianna's aunts.

Dixie: Noooo that is pee!

Gidget tried to cheer up Tanner, because he's always grumpy.

Blue had lunch and passed out in food coma. One of my cats just flops over and is asleep sometimes too, but he always does it on a sofa or something, not on the ground.

Maegan took Teddy for a jog. She wanted to practice with the easier dogs before she took Lilah out for a run. Lucky for Maegan, Lilah was an independent dog she could just let out, and Lilah would exercise herself around the neighbourhood.

Don't do that in real life, even if your dog always comes home. It could get run over, or mauled by another dog or animal, or shot by someone who thinks it's a dangerous breed.

Teddy was happy when he saw the pizza dude wasn't Farhan.

This is the Spooky Corner! Brianna didn't find a whole lot of Halloween stuff for sale, so she had to settle for some blowmold Jacks. The light-up tombstones were kind of cool, though.

Blue was always really happy when people came over. She liked getting up on two and dancing with them.

Teddy got enough exercise that day, LOL!

That leash is VERYY long!

Pirate loved Dixie and followed her around as if she were his mom.

Yeah, no. I don't get how he ended up looking the way he does. When he was a baby he resembled his parents.

Kailee Kilgore: Clearly this dog is exhausted and you should not be walking her. This is abuse!

Since the dog wasn't up for it, Brianna went to the gym with her friends instead.

Nerniya wasn't really up for a hard workout session either, so she gave moral support while Brianna and Georgia hauled weights.

Eliza Pancakes and Brant live at the gym. They get their bills sent there.

And Brent. He's there too.

Samuel Platt is the coach.

Georgia: No skipping leg day!

Brianna had total stick legs, so she accepted the Hill Challenge.

This is Cory. He's another guy who Maegan would be better off dating.

LOL gangsta Freezerbunny!

The new neighbours moved in! Remember I mentioned Brianna's aunt who died from being hit by lightning? This is her. :) Yeah, she's kinda young. Brianna's family is special. They have medicine.

So this is Adana, and the gothic girl is her twin sister Riana, who was the one who saved her when she was zapped. Riana's actually a blonde, but she'll get her proper goth hair later. Also, I edit their faces several times, so don't get too attached to them looking exactly like this.

Brianna was watching sports. It brings out her inner.... Brianna.

Morgan: Bedtime?!

Bailey: What do you think?

Every now and then a new animal showed up. Today it was a little terrier named Pixel.

Morgan got a dollhouse for her birthday. It was pretty big, so it didn't fit in her room. (It was for when she turned three. She's not four now.)

Farhan will be such a great dad, no? :(

Dakota has to be longing desperately for a home if she's miaowing lovingly at Arabella.

Pirate was allowed to be up late and watch talent shows with his mom. It wasn't like he had school in the morning.

Aww, Maegan had a whole squad cheering for her in the e-sports tournament. <3

Let's do the clockwise thingy: Tobie, Lilah, Pippa, Teddy, Blue and Captain Whitacker.