The Magpie Prettacy - Generation 4.3!

[tigeranne]

Hello, we're back. :) Let's start with the usual summary.

Last time, Abbie and Chester finally met, and it was love at almost first sight. They got married in the back yard, making Editha jealous. Jennifer MacAvoy, Helena's daughter, moved in, and the house got really crowded. The solution was to move the family into a much, much larger house. Molly had bad luck with her academic papers, but managed to become Minister of Education, and get her LTW. There were lots of fights, mostly between Alfie and Isabel, or Peggy and Editha. Abbie had her first baby, Leicester, who grew up resembling her a lot apart from having mysteriously blonde hair. Francine wrote several more fantasy novels, and Editha started a series of "romance". Peggy got a job in the athletic track, and Barth in education. It was suddenly discovered that Sharkey and Francine were unrelated and had chemistry. They ended up getting married. Abbie had another baby, called Gregory, who was also a blonde and had none of the original Magpie features. Alfie died from old age, but was around long enough to see the secret baby he and Weedy made on a trip to the beach. All the old pets died, and the update ended with the adoption of a puppy called Jo-jo.


Francine: ...and she actually thinks it's a romantic novel! LOL!

Jennifer: The worst part is that someone gave it 5 stars on Amazon!

Francine: It's got to be herself, ha ha ha!


This is just Jerome coming to snog Jen. It's the first time I've seen the transparancy glitch, though.


Someone: Yes, but X is like this unknown factor in the equation, right? So X can be anything, it doesn't have to be a number. It could be an orange, or a car, or the secret location of Blackbeard's hidden treasure.

Someone Else: No, that can't be right. How can any of those be half of the Y times itself?

First Someone: Because Y can also mean anything, since it's unknown. So it could be like the taste of the apple, or the type of fuel for the car, or the concept of the lost knowledge of the location of the treasure.

Other Someone: Wow, Ariglacy is fascinating. But it's so confusing, you know?

Looks like the intellectually stimulating conversation attracted a rapt audience. x)

(It's alittlestrange's Belinda.)

Two hours later...


First Someone: No, it's not really maths at all, really. Geometry is maths. Ariglacy is like... scientifically possible Truth, that can't ever be known.

Second Somone: Is that because you can't really make it into numbers and shapes and stuff?

First Someone: Yes, because it could be something that doesn't have shape!

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you spend a hot date on the beach.


Who would have thunk that Jen and Jerome were the academic sort?


Apparently they snogged a whole lot? I had to keep sending them back and forth between lots, because Jen kept running out of date-related wants.


Oh, here's Mrs. Crumplebottom. That means this was downtown.


Mrs. C: There will be a lot of coal in this stocking. x(


Jen: Let's live dangerously! *grab* *snog*

Mrs. C: There won't be enough coal in Birmingham to fill this stocking!


That ought to get her attention, right?


Uh oh. She's doing that handbag-clutching.


Okay, we get it. Jen is hot, etc.


Jerome: Baby baby baby YEAH!


It... seems like Mrs. C has lost her bite. :-/ And with this line-up of NPCs, it was time to head back home.


Francine: If I want to go to Reality 4(tm), I need to practice my multi-tasking!

That won't be for a while, though. I'm not paying $100 for a base-game. Yeah, that's the price around here, because of import taxes and a very greedy government, etc.


I used the Bat Box to reset Chester's LTW. My new rule is that I can re-roll it once, in the cases where it would likely have gotten someone hurt in life. So if anyone rolls an LTW for having 20 lovers, or becoming a crime lord, I can re-roll it. If it's something that's simply annoying, like wanting to raise 20 pets, I can't.


NO.


I can't get over how funny this kid looks!


Since Sharkey was already holding Greg, he got to do some walk-training with him as well. I was determined to at least try to have the rest of the kids grow up a bit better than poor little Leicester did.


Why are they all standing outside? Well, at this point I started experiencing really killer lag. At first I thought, logically, that there were simply too many Sims in the household. Then the game froze up completely, as in it loaded the lot, but wouldn't move at all. In a desperate attempt to not have to split up the family, or move them to a smaller lot, I moved them out and back in.

It actually did the trick, but I wasn't able to grab their magic lamps, or the secret supplies of elixir stored for emergencies, before moving them to the family bin. :( But whatever, eh? The game ran smoothly again, and I could let them all stay in their grand new house.

Editha and Peggy celebrated the homecoming by having a hateful punch-out in front of their baby nephew.


Baby #3 is in second trimester. :)


There are some advantages to being a 150-year-old mother, with perma-plat and a lax work schedule.


Weedy: Nothing to be afraid of Bertie! You're a fearless baby Orca, who swims through the black depths of the sea! Come to Mommy!


Jo-jo was one of those puppies who won't eat. As you can see, there was a completely unobstructed food dish right there. She just wasn't capable of detecting it.


Not even when it was the only item locked in a room with her! As an extra happy coincidence, someone brought pet-copper Remington home from work! The only solution was to temporarily delete her.


*SIGH!* Why couldn't these two have started heart-farting before they got engaged to other people? (TBH, it was probably because Ettie got engaged to Elmer while Barth was still in school.)


Occasionally, people find their way to the sauna, which is upstairs and down the corridor a bit. The pool, which is right outside the back door, has only been used autonomously by guests so far.


This Townie girl came home with Leicester. She's not exactly pretty, but there's something adorably evil-looking about her.


Molly and Jen are getting along great. It makes it even sadder having to let Molly, Edna and Ettie grow old. Louise gets to stay young a little while longer, since she was originally so much younger than them.




Eat! You. Stupid. Puppy.


The boys were approaching school age, and Gregory hadn't learned any skills yet. :(


Okay, this is a new feud: Molly vs. Sharkey.


I'm so tired of this chance card!


That point comes and goes, kind of like a cat you forgot to neuter while it was young.


Glad you think so, Lei.


Poor Abbie! :(


Louise: I'm not sure if you have noticed, oblivious husband, but I am kind of stuck between the sofa and this gigantic game console that I would have been totally capable of stepping over if it was facing the other way!

No matter where I put the console, it traps someone.


Oh, this one again. Weeeell, this is Weedy... >:)


Weedy: I just hope nobody tells the kid!


Third trimester. :D


Rowland got to feel useful, and bond with the youngest generation again.


Weedy: Yay, I'm home! We totally sunk a Norwegian whaling ship, and sent the crew home inside a giant clam! It was EPIC! *Impales Barth's brain*

Helena: These steps are so hard to walk in extra-gravity boots! D:

Barth: Welcome to our everyday life... *sigh*


Spoiler: Even the right cheesecake didn't work.


Yes, please come back, Ethan!


What do you know! Birthdays!


Chester started looking for a job in the journalism career. I've never had much luck with that one. :-/


Then it was Elys' time to leave the Earthly plane. She was ancient, even in Troll terms, and most of her children had already passed. Goodbye, Elys. Thank you for surviving a childhood buried in the snow, forgiving Sinjin his cold feet, and starting the main branch of the family.


She preferred Editha to either of her siblings, but at least she didn't discriminate too much between her daughters.


I figured Helena's "Woohoo with 50 Sims" LTW filed under the "potentially harmful" category, and she rolled this one instead. Jen wanted the same one, so I thought they could join the culinary track as a double act, when it came up.


Nightly skilling-party. Ettie was SO close to getting the next promotion, and Jennifer was studying cooking for her next LTW.


I had no idea Barth had that high creativity! :) That's one skill he won't have to study for, at least.


Yay! Gregory's house-trained!


This kid's early childhood has been pretty traumatic. He's probably going to grow up morbid beyond belief, considering who's the main person in charge of raising him!


Oh, and with Alfie gone, Isabel suddenly remembered that she hated Rowland, too! I'm not even ashamed to admit it, I was really tired of her.


Welcome back, Jo-jo. Are you ready to eat now?


Editha finished her follow-up novel. A classic, no doubt!


At least it was worth 8000 points and a couple of days in Platinum.


He's good at fixing broken appliances and feeding the munchkins.


Score!

Jo-jo: *Vacuums up kibble*


Maybe installing an elevator wasn't such a good idea as I thought. It breaks relatively often, and apparently only takes one Sim at the time.


Yay, charisma skilling. Joy unbridled.

I used a cheat to unlock all the career rewards for Elys before she died. It probably wasn't actually cheating, I hope, because I only took the ones they had already earned, which they lost when the game froze.


That was broken, too?


Oooh, it's that time again! :D


It's a girl. :) Only one, even though I tried both the right cheesecake AND forceTwins! She's got very fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. I don't think there has been such a Nordic-looking kid in this family since Gen 2. They're really changing, aren't they? :-/


Her name's Flora. I know it's a bit similar to Lora, but they're not in the same generation, so it won't be a problem, I hope. Originally I was going to name the first daughter Hester, but I think I'll save that for a grand-daughter.


Good! Now there are two Sims in the house who can plant eggplants. :)


Gregory: Bewtie? I feel weiwd!

Bertram: Me too!


Ready?


Set?


GO! :D

Bertram: WOW! Look at all those points!


They both grew up well! :D And Peggy also got that badge she wanted. At this point she was dangerously close to aging up, because she had so few doable wants.


Bertie is a Scorpio. It's pretty obvious which parent he takes after. (Hint: It's not Alfie.) He should be fun!


Gregory is an Aquarius, and he's almost the oposite of his great uncle cousin.


The first thing they did was to scramble upstairs and play Dictator of the World. BTW, the podium with the golden plumbob is the one that gives you money. I guess the Sim using it is getting paid for giving some sort of broadcast. The Bushmeister only gives skill. Rule of thumb, in remembering which is which, just remember that Bush was against free hand-outs. x)


Doesn't this look inviting? :) Chilling by the pool in candle light, on a summer evening? Does still look as tempting if you know that this was in winter, and that Ettie's temp was in blue? :p


This was another of those dates that only served to score some aspiration points. Vena was asleep in the tent, so Barth lit up a fire to stay warm, waiting for her to wake up.


Hi there, Brandi LeTorneau. :( Who said you could roast marshmallows over here?


She did wake up, and they did have a pretty okay date. At this point I started realizing that Barth had become incredibly boring, and that he needed a new style.


Francine finished another novel, and I think I'll let this one conclude her fantasy series. She constantly rolls wants to paint as well, and those are quicker.


The book was a success!


Painting is genius. :) If your Sim has high creative skill, and keeps rolling wants to sell masterpieces, you can rack in 6000 points a day as long as they keep rolling the want!


Such a bright mind. Such a brilliant young intellectual. Good to see that Editha hasn't knocked any of her braincells out of her.


I guess with so many Sims in one house, there are bound to be a couple who don't like each other.


Abbie: BOO HOO MY FAMILY IS STUPID AND I DON'T HAVE ALL THE BABIES I WANT YET!


I finally moved Alfie and Elys' graves to the cemetary, and everyone started grieving all over again. :( As if half the household wasn't in a bad mood already, from all the fighting.


Oh really? Well, let's age her up, then!


Ethan: Not tonight, harr harr harr! >:)


Oops. I tend to forget the oldest kid's teen birthday.


Leicester: Sweet! I'm a puberty monster!


He rolled Knowledge! :D That's the first one since... Since Douglas? Wow! He likes blondes and old ladies, as long as they're not charming or eloquent.




Ventriloquist? With a little wooden Gus whose mouth runs on hinges? D: That's terrible!


Burton has merged with the piano, and he's now one with the mysterious power of music.


Abbie finally managed to grab her daughter, and bring her to the cake. Time for the big reveal!


O.o Wow. She's more nose than anything!

Long story short, she has a similar compostition of features to Greg - with Abbie's nose and Chester's eyes, but something in her expression is different. She's not a clone. :)


She's a Libra, one of the more common signs in this family.


POP! Yeah, I wasn't going to leave Flora to grow up with only boys as her playmates. I decided to let Abbie have the traditional four children my Heirs usually have, and re-roll until it was a girl.


Oh, and Leicester declared his LTW! It's a cool one nobody's had before in either legacy. :D Yeah, I know the whole "pirate" thing sounds a bit... But heck, it gets a pass because it's IN SPACE! And for Science!


He's not a Family Sim, but he looks happy enough to be bonding with his baby sister.


Neat. Now she only has to study Charisma. Oh joy...




Jo-jo is a white Labrador Retriever?


Promotions are good, but don't help much when she's hovering on the brink of oldness. :( She's not got high creativity either, so she can't paint a picture for a quick fix. Nor does she have a boo she can smooch with. Okay, it really sucks to be Peggy. I admit I haven't taken good care of her.

HALF TIME! STRETCH YOUR LEGS AND GRAB A DRINK! REMEMBER TO FEED THE PETS AND LET THE KIDS OUT FOR THE NIGHT!


One of the 4x4 rooms upstairs became the observatory. It's very useful to have the telescope behind a door that can be locked to outsiders. Samantha Ottomas comes barging in on an almost daily basis.


Chester was rolling wants to teach Flora to walk, so he got the honour.


Abbie was not handling the last pregnancy too well, and spent most of it asleep. Jennifer had to step in and teach Greg homework. Did she ever manage to teach any of her own, is the question.


This time I cheated the potty training, and made sure her bladder was nice and full before she got on.


Helena: I'm so proud of you for pummeling Sharkey!


No, I don't think adoption is a good idea right now.


Weedy: Yeah, I know it's boring, but humans put a lot of emphasis on book-smartness. If you want to combat an enemy, you need to know how they think. The boring stuff first, then I'll teach you how to blow up oil-rigs when you get older, okay?

Bertie: But Mom... wouldn't that just get oil everywhere?

Weedy: Not if we blow them up before they can start drilling! MUAH HA HA HA HA!

(TigerAnne does not endorse terrorism. Not even in the name of saving the planet. Weedy is a sociopath, and sociopathy is bad for you, so don't be like Weedy.)


Leicester wanted to get into a private school, and Chester wanted to get Greg in, so the Head Master was invited for dinner.


Ethan still asks to hang out every night. I don't blame him they've got lots of fun stuff now.


Leicester's adventurous spirit kept him out all night, having a brutal snowball fight with an elderly relative. :)


Burton's so in love with his piano, that he's started dressing up in a suit for her.


There is no real point to this picture, I guess.


I wonder what sort of fandom Editha's books attract. x)


Because apparently she has one.


Abbie: Uh, you guys..?


What a modest pop!


Flora: I disappove of not getting enough attention!


She made some pretty hilarious faces as a toddler. :)


Greg followed in his mother's footsteps, looking like a poster child for some sort of Troll-world brand of foods.


And guess how much training the pet has had...


Rowland: I can sense that the Ancient Way is strong in this kid!


Jennifer and Weedy are hugging each other more than their own mother/daughters.


Abbie: Yes hello, Mr. Wince! Welcome to our home!

Vince: That's not how you pronounce my name, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since you're from a really posh family. You people always sound a bit odd.

Abbie: What do you mean?

Vince: You know. How you pronounce "Peter" as "pizza", et cetera. We had this boy at our school last term whose face was all pimples, and Mr. Morton the English teacher felt really upset that the other kids were calling him "pizza". But it turned out his name was actually Peter!

Abbie: Uh, okay. Let's go inside, shall we?


And now they have plenty of fancy rooms to show!


Vince: Indian food, huh? I hope this is not pre-packed, because that disagrees with my sensitive stomach lining. Nah, they probably have a genuine Indian chef. :D


Vince: Are you really the relatives of Editha Magpie? I must say I highly admire her penwomanship! Her last novel was superb.

Chester: Oh, I wouldn't know, Mr. Headmaster, sir. I mostly read Illustrated Science and NatGeo.


That's a pretty good safety margin!




And in a few days they can repeat the process with Flora.


Magpie-style acceptance party!


Abbie: OWW OWWWW I'VE CHANGED MY MIND! I don't think I want ten children, after all!


It's a girl, he he. And look, she's got red hair. :) She also inherited Chester's default eyes and skintone.


Philomena! And once again the name generator provides a nick-name. Ferrett she is!




Poor Flora, she always looks like she's had a little too much cough syrup.


While Abbie was tossing her into the air, I thought "No worries. Those old houses have really high ceilings!"


Yay! It's not that long since Ettie was there! :)


Read, Peggy! Study that pesky skill!


They will be SO sad! x)


I decided to grow Flora up earlier in the day.


She's still all nose. x)


Diaper-filler? But she learned skills!


And she still looks a bit high, and smug about it. The lower part of her face is something special. It looks like she's got Chester's actual chin, while the rest of the lower jaw comes from Abbie. She got Abbie's mouth, I guess.


Also: Check out this epic family tree with 23 happy Sims! It's rare that not at least one of them is dirty, hungry or tired.


I thought the "Better Butlers" mod would stop Ethan from serving sodas?


You know, not serve double up of them.


Actually, she might have been born the day before.


GAH! Abbie! He's allegedly your grandfather! (No, he's not really. But he did bathe her and change her diapers and stuff.) Let's focus on the birthday child, eh?


Okay. Looks like a bit of cheating with the Sim Blender is in order. I'm SO over having to try three different cakes before the baby transforms.


You know, I was hoping for something a little different. She's not exactly identical to either of her older siblings, but the family resemblance is unmistakable! Basically, her eyes and brows are from Chester. From the nose down she's all Abbie.

I don't think Ferrett will be heir. It's between Flora and Greg.


And the Family Aspiration strikes again!


Abbie: I don't want that baby! Take it back and give me an uglier one!

I admit that I cheated another baby into existence. It was a girl, who turned out very much like Leicester, but with red hair. She wasn't special enough, so I quit without saving. Ferrett will be Abbie's last baby.


Abbie: I'm sorry for what I said, Ferrett. You're my baby, and I would never ever replace you!


Weedy: From this angle, she kind of looks like me. Except I've got a pretty nose. :D


It was pretty easy to teach both the girls their skills.


Abbie: Good girl! Now you can stalk Mommy around the house!


That's 3500 points for her, at least. She needed a bunch more to afford the elixir, and had 4 or 5 days to get them. This was the sort of situation I was keeping the emergency storage for. :(


The boys were off to their first day of private school, and Flora to her first day of any school.


Isabel has sniffed the pop-rocks again. Some habits die hard!


Leicester: I'm the smartest kid in school!


Hey, it's Parsley. I guess he's out on parole. :)


YAY!


Please don't roll Fortune!


Abbie: Mommy's going to help you do your homework now, and then Mommy needs a 20-hour nap, okay?

Poor Abbie, she was hardly out of her PJs for years.


Ferrett: WAAAAAAHHHH! MOOOMMYYYY! D:

Abbie: What is it, darling? Are you seeing monsters again?


Helena: It's hard to play the piano with gravity-gloves!


Abbie: *YAWN!*

Ferrett: *Pees in Abbie's pants*


I don't think I've ever taken a picture of a Magpie potty-training face. How did I forget that?


Ferrett wanted to learn to talk, and there was still some Smart Milk left in her system, so she got her wish.


Abbie: "Chair"

Ferrett: Tsheoww!

Abbie: Meh, close enough.


Maybe the look of the Magpie children improved a little too much in one generation, but I LOVE Generation 5! They look so funny!


There's nothing unusual about this.


Bertie: When I grow up, I'm going to be a Sumo wrestler. Then I'm going to fight crime!


She's got great role models to teach her manners.

Gus & Chester: Shlafzz! Snarrf! Chomp!


The family members with better table manners sit somewhere else.


Sorry about so many pictures of them eating scrambled eggs, but its the easiest way of getting them to line up nicely in a picture.


Bertie: I think I'm allergic to bacon!


Yes, Chester wants that job.


Look! She's Perma-Plat! :D


Leicester: I wish I knew how to make an abominable snowman, but it would probably scare Ferrett. And Editha.


I wish kids earned charisma from these things! They'd be half way to maxing it out by the time they were teens.


At least their sister has little to worry about.


Um, Ethan? You just served 20 helpings of salmon. I don't think they have room for Julius salad.


Burton: What are you doing with my beloved?

Weedy: Isabel? She's not even here.

Burton: No, I mean Myrtle!

Sharkey: He's gone and named the piano. And this is the man who keeps us safe from villains!


Yes, Francie. I'm sure your Dad would love to hear all about your sex-life. x(


Hello, Wesley!


Anyone else suddenly craving strawberries? Or Kiwi? Or Oranges?


The boys were already at their teen birthdays. It looks like their week as children passed really quickly, but trust me when I say it didn't. I just didn't take many pictures, due to the sheer amount of studying, dating and skilling that went on. When you've seen one picture of a Sim reading, you've seen them all. Same deal with kissing, actually.


Here's teenaged Bertie. His hair has to go, because his Mom thinks it looks to burgeoise on someone who's supposed to be in rebellion.


Popularity. He likes girls in bikini, who gives good speeches about peace and war and stuff, but no tomboys, please.




And then it was Gregory.


He grew into his chin, I'll give him that. :)


He rolled Fortune. >:( GREGORY, YOU'RE NOT HEIR! He likes hardworking, bling-wearing girls.


He's still not Heir!


Then the party ended depressingly, with Grim coming for Isabel. :(


She left money to the butler they had in her childhood home, but nothing for her son.

It would be too sad to end the update with that, so have a little spam of father and son experiencing dust-cloud failure.


Sharkey: Owwww, my nose! You've got my nose!

Gus: No, I do NOT! My nose is reasonable! Owww, my knee!


Gus: I'm going to stuff that ridiculous schnozz-pipe back into your face! HA HA HAAAA!

Sharkey: NOOO DAD! That's my EYE! D:


Sharkey: Oww, that bloody hurt!

Gus: MMMPPHF GNNNF MNNBFFF! GRRRR!


Gus: Look what you've done to my spine! *head!butt*


Gus: GET YOUR FINGERS OUT OF MY EYE-SOCKETS!

Sharkey: GET YOUR FEET OFF MY [CENSORED]!!!


Sharkey: Owww, Dad! You can be pretty mean! D:


Poor Louise. Maybe she should have gone on one of those family TV-shows after all.


BTW, the boys decided on their first LTWs. Bertie wants to go the athletic route. Totally doable.


And Greg wants to top the business career, also doable.

Thank you for reading! The Magpies are suddenly back!

Comments

[nentarisims.livejournal.com]

$100? Wow. Over here it costs about $70, which was enough to make me give up on getting it right now.

Sometimes the problem is that pet dishes end up being moved diagonally and the pets are unable to reach it. Whenever I'm playing a household with pets, I keep going to buy mode to set the dishes straight.

I think the girl who came home with Leicester is actually Tessa Ramirez from Bluewater Village.

Oh, Poseidon... *shakes head* Tyson is shaking his head at his daddy.

Wow, Flora is rather interesting-looking.

Trust me, you're going to love the Aventure career track. The Space Pirate outfit is... well, you've got to see it. And as a huge fan of 1960s Doctor Who, I tend to squee hard whenever I see the words "space pirate" together because of reasons.

Oh wow, that was a very successful headmaster visit. Having a huge fancy place works wonders.

Ferret reminds me a little of a girl I knew once. I was expecting her to look a little ferretty, though.

Oh dear. Watching a fight without the smoke can be very disturbing.

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

Funny thing was, I made sure the dishes were placed the right way. She just refused to go near them. As you'll see in the next update, I did identify as possible hack conflict, that may have been behind many of the recent glitches.

Yes, her name was Tessa. :)

I like the old Dr. Who episodes too! :D Can't much persuade anyone else to watch them, though.

Come to think of it, Ferrett reminds me of one of my former classmates, who grew up in the same neighbourhood as me. She was a nightmare, violent and with a loose grasp on reality. According to credible sources she still has.

Thanks for reading! :D

[nentarisims.livejournal.com]

I was suspecting it might be some other reason besides the dish placement, but I thought it was better to mention. :)

I really love the Ramirez family, though I never played them.

According to friends, I'm usually an evil seducer when it comes to old Who and tend to get them hooked on Troughton. Not a bad reputation to have, all things considered. :P

Oh dear.

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

Hey, the ariglacy discussion sounded good to me. Or maybe I'm weird.

I love Crumplebottom! Sometimes I think she's wandering around town completely inebriated and therefore doesn't notice public snogging. My Sims have only ever incurred her wrath for wearing swimsuits.

Good job, Francie! Make the puppy read the book. What is Reality 4? The only Reality I know is the DAZ Studio plugin. That sounded wrong.

Your new LTW rule sounds good to me! After all, the game shouldn't force you into things you object to.

Just so you know, you posted the wrong screen shot. It was supposed to be Gus's chance card, but it was the birthday reminder for Greg and Bertie.

The townies think Weedy is deranged? Well, she is! And that's what makes her awesome!

So long, Elys! Wow, the family gets richer all the time! And if Bertie ends up morbid, he'll be in good company with the Ducklings.

Way to go, Jo-jo! You figured out how to eat! And yay for Bertie and Greg's synchronized growing up--and well, I might add!

I LOVE ETHAN. I LOVE FACE 12. Even if he is delaying the baby from growing up. She grew up with as much nose as early Duckling generations, bless. I like how Leicester grew up, too. Knowledge suits him.

And it's halftime, so I'll cut my comments in half and come back later. :D

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

What is Reality 4?

Sims 4, he he he. To them it must be like an alternative dimention, goverened by completely different laws of nature.

Ouch, the chance card! I saw that, but I forgot to edit!

It's going to be fun guiding Leicester through the adventurer career! I've never played it before, so it's all new and unknown!

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

A-ha. I don't pay attention to games so I wasn't sure what you meant.

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

I always cheat my way through potty training. I think it's dumb that even under the best circumstances you can't get through it in one session like the other skills, so I Sim Blender the kid's bladder until the task is complete. :D

Ethan in the dance sphere thing? I LOVE HIM EVEN MORE NOW. Plus his name is Ethan. That was my beloved grandpa's name.

I don't know how you come up with these novel synopses. That's why my Sims don't write any. My brain is too broken. I guess I could use a random plot generator.

Aww, Flora's little pouty faces are so cute, and she turned into a really cute kid. Chester's eyes look good with her face. Philomena is an interesting name, but Ferrett is cute!

Poor Burton. All aglow for the piano and can't even get to it. And good job rolling Fortune, Greg! Maybe you could buy him sculptures and stash them in an empty room upstairs. They've got to have enough money for that. XD

I LOLed at the non-dust cloud fight. You see the strangest things that way. I had to put a no-dust-cloud mod back into my game because my computer can't handle generating the dust cloud anymore, poor old dear.

Okay, that was fun! I'm looking forward to the next update!

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

In a way, Ethan is the other grandpa in this family. He's been with them trough so much. I need to take out the Better Butler's hack, though. As you'll see, it started causing a bit of trouble.

Editha's novels are based on one of my really old stories, where the main characters were fans of a show called "Intrigues in Houston", and DW, Ann & Co. were the main characters. It was an expy of Dallas, which is the funniest soap ever made, for realz. In general, though, I come up with crazy stuff because my brain is malfunctioning in some very interesting manners.

I'm really happy with how Flora turned out. :) As teenagers, the differences between her and Ferrett become more pronounced. It doesn't matter so much that she's so similar to Greg, since they're opposite genders.

Poor Greg, he's going stand around crying a lot, probably. Luckily, his LTW isn't that hard to achieve, and he'll probably roll wants to earn the appropriate skill points. I was going to download a lot of artsy stuff to decorate the halls with, but I haven't gotten around to it. I did get a lot of paintings, but then I made the mistake of checking out TrappingCrushes, and suddenly I had loads of new clothing, and... I still haven't started putting them into my downloads folder.

Wait. You mean that Sims are fighting in your game again? Have you rehired Scariposa?

Glad you liked it! Next update should be coming around Tuesdayish. :)

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

I figured your Sims' novels had some back story to them. That's a good idea to use old stories you thought of way back when.

I hope he will roll wants for skill points. Aphrodite was a shopaholic. I have another Fortune Sim in generation nine who is a spare, but he wasn't always rolling wants to buy crap. Oscar was THE best.

Nope, it's not Scariposa. :D Believe it or not, a couple of Ducklings end up hating each other's guts. I have no idea how the feud started, but it will probably make sense when you see who one of the feuding duo is. I also have a couple of townies who are mortal enemies now. XD

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

Fighting Ducklings? Oh no! D: But they are the perfect family! An example to all of us! :'(

Still, it will be fun to watch them throw some punches!

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

I know! The Ducklings are a happy family without any encouragement from me, and that's how I like them. In some ways they're my ideal family, so it's quite a shock to see any of them hating each other. But don't worry--for the most part they're still very harmonious. :D