The MacAvoy ISBI - Generation 4.3!

[tigeranne]

Last time on the MacAvoys, the family moved out of their architectural disaster of a house, and into a posh new home with plenty of windows. Lora was a very good mom, and got her oldest child, Wesley, all skilled up. She went on to have three daughters; Annabelle, and twins Alice and Sadie. All the children were taken excellently care of, in stark contrast to how Jennifer raised her children. Nikkie and Donna's crappy lives caught up with them, and they became elders. Donna probably had the shortest adulthood of any of my Sims. It felt shorter than her teen stage. The oldest cats (Yeah, they count as family members here!) - Lina, Rodney and Winston - went to wherever Sim-cats go when they die. Three kittens - Gordon, Kendrick and Indiana - were adopted. Lora continued to win at life.


Here's the first good look at Sadie. She's not identical to Alice, and I'm very pleased! I don't think she's a Lora-replica either, but I can't be sure until she's an adult.


Alice: KITTY! <3

Indiana: O.O


Alice: I WUW YOU KITTY!

Indiana: Um, help?


Alice: MY kitty! Not Sadie's!

Indiana: Help? Anyone?


Here she is, sans kitten. She appears to have gotten Fred's lips. As she grows up, it becomes more obvious. I think she's also got his eyes, because Lora had larger eyes as a toddler and child.


The parents are still as lovey-dovey as ever. :)


Nikkie still loves the pool. Maybe if they'd had one when she was a child, she'd be less bored, and not had such a miserable upbringing.


Nikkie: WoOoOoah-aaah-aaahhhh! Changed my mind!

Donna: You're old.


Fred: Congratulations on being the loveliest person in the Universe! :D

Lora: Congratulations on being my husband! x)


No, he's not playing brown notes. Nikkie's being overly critical.






Alice continues this generation's trend of talented children.




Good girl! Get those pesky charisma points while they're still fun!


Sadie: Auntie Donna's underwear is scary!

She's right. Unfortunately I still haven't found the perfect replacement. I don't want elderly grandmothers running around in sexy undies either.


Thank you for reminding me that this is an ISBI. It's a bit easy to forget when everyone is so functional.


Big Brother Wesley to the rescue!


Alice: You won't let me fall down the drain? Promise?

Wesley: I won't. Promise!




Something tells me that Donna's Aspiration is Pleasure, and that her meter is in the red.


Meanwhile, her sister is racking up the Aspiration points like they were jelly beans.


Oops. Someone didn't make it to the sleeping mat.


BAD Kendrick! Yes, he's back. I cheated him back in, and he's still considered run away. It seems like he's not aging either, but I'm not really sure. He's home, and he can be interacted with, and that's all I care about.


Sadie: Take me ooooouuuuuuutttt! D:


Oh no. That chance card. Let's try ONE. MORE. TIME. to vote FOR.


Yeah, okay. It stays borky-borked.


Alice?: MOM! Auntie is wearing her scary head again!






Adult Indiana is a cool-looking cat. I love his pale green eyes, but it annoys me a bit that his head's so small.


Donna: Really? You mean it? I get to go outside? :D


Donna: This is really kind of you, Lora! I haven't been outside since that time Mom took you and me out when we were teens, and... No, hang on. I forgot to go! Maybe I was out once when I was a kid, but I may have dreamt it.

Yeah, I'm feeling bad now. Okay?! I'll be better at taking the Gen5 spares out.


Donna: You get really tired from being out and about all day, though. I could use a nap.


Hi, eleventh-cousin Louise!


Yes, we're working on it. Okay?


WHAT? NOOOO! The Pleasure Sim had a fear of singing karaoke! x(


Hi, Guinevere! I haven't forgotten you guys!


Donna: Those are the lyrics? Filth, I say! Back in my day, lyrics were decent!

Lora: Sure they were. Remember the "Discovery Channel" song?


Oh no... x(


Lora: Hi, cousin Louise.

Louise: Oh hi, Lola...Dora...Lara... Are you taking your mother out for the night?

Lora: No, my mother lives with you guys! I have no idea who this is, ha ha ha...


Donna: I have got a lovely bunch of coconuuuuuts...

Lora: She must have escaped from a care home somewhere.

Louise: Yeah, maybe we ought to notify the staff.


Poor Donna. I think she must be the most miserable Sim I've ever had.


Donna: Thank you ever so much, Doktor Kopfschmertzen. I feel like a new woman now!

Louise: And she's got imaginary friends. I think we'd better call the police. Someone's probably looking for her.

Lora: *Pretends nothing's happening*


Hey, hey. It's Laurelin.


She's really proud to be engaged to Captain Hero. I hope she'll still love him when he retires to dedicate his life to Myrtle the Piano.


Sadie: Bye! I'm off to see the world!


Sadie: Okay, seen it! Seen all the way to the other side of the road! Now I'm going to find out who lives in my nose!


Lora: Maybe we should go on vacation, when the twins are older.

I've never actually played a vacation. The only reason I got the EP was for the beaches.


I thought it was time for Nikkie to retire. It was sort of dubvious how much having a job improved her quality of living.


Oh, and Fred is late for work, apparently.


Wesley: COUGH! SPLUTTRE! LUNG-HACK!

Annabelle: Moooom! Wesley's spitting on my food again.

Lora: Don't do that, Wesley. It's rude.

Annabelle: I think he got bugs from the veggies. Do I have to eat them?


Does she even know Brianna? Have they actually met?


I love the cat condo! It annoys me that I didn't change the colour of it before snapping the picture, so it would contrast more with the cat!


Thw twins are well out of the danger zone. :)


Sadie: You're my best friend, Mommy!


Quinten: Miss Sadie, I do believe you're in the wrong bed.


Quinten: You fit much better in this one, for no particular reason.


No, you can't turn cat-lady yet! You've still got to teach the kids to do homework!




I love this animation, ha ha. Part of me really misses having a cat.


The twins are an adventurous pair. I hope whoever becomes heir rolls Knowledge and wants to join the Adventurer career!


Alice: I love you, kitty!

Kendrick: GASP! WHEEZE!

Indiana: Serves you right for not helping me! >:D



Gordon: Hee hee hee hee!

Kendrick: *Dark, murderous thoughts*


Let's zoom in on that delighted expression of his!


Kendrick may be in utter agony and deepest despair, but Alice is scoring serious Heir-points by being a cat lover!


And Indiana is the loopiest cat ever.




I love weirdo cats, so it only makes me love him more.


At last someone thought of the kittens, and brought Alice indoors.


Donna: Every time I see that infernal karaoke machine, I relive my darkest nightmares!


Annabelle still retains the innocense of childhood, thankfully!


There are two more bathrooms in the house, but walking up the stairs is such a chore.


Lonnie: CHOKE! GASP!


Kendrick: Hang in there, Lonnie! I'll give mouth-to-mouth!


I'm trying to make up for barely taking any pictures of earlier generations' children when they were small. :P


Lora: Dear Diary. All my children are geniuses. This apple fell really far from the tree. :)


Hey! Look who we have here!


Linimpa: I think it looks a bit cold...


Didn't stop her, though. She loves the pool over at their place as well. It must be because her great-grandmother is 40% mermaid.

Aylatani has sufferd for 100 years. It's really trajick!

...narrator?

Yes?

This is not your story. Buzz off!


Maybe if I'd given them a karaoke machine earlier, they'd have been happier? :-/


Linimpa: I love visiting people's houses, because they think the show is real and feel sorry for me. At home I never get to play the video console!


This is familiar. :(


The only thing Lora wasn't so good at, was teaching her kids to do their homework. That was mostly because they went to bed right after school, though. I thought she had taught Wesley, but as I discovered by accident later, she hadn't.


Allen: Hi, I'm Allen. All my friends call me Poe, I don't know why. I'll be your Quinten today!


This is definitely Fred's daughter. She's not too good at finding the bathrooms.


Then it was time for the twins to grow up and moan about homework.


Annabelle: Yay! She's going to be my size! I'll have someone to play with again!


Alice: Wow, look how long my arms got!


It's not "Miracle Mite", but good enough!


She's pulling a goofy face here, but wow so pretty! I can see some of both parents in her.


Annabelle: Mom's going to forget about me. :(

No, she won't. I won't let her.


Sadie's turn to grow long legs and having to face Mrs. Swiller.


Lora: Make a wish!


Look at that! They're identical-coat twins!


She did even better than Alice. :)


Sadie looks really mischivous, ha ha!


Annabelle: No, go away! I'm trying to take a bath.

Sadie: But you're going to fall down the drain, where there are crocodiles! Never mind, you stink!


Finally!


Alice: You're my best friend, Mommy! PS, I'm Heir, right?

Lora: We'll have to wait and see.


Wesley: Whoooo! I got an A+! Mrs. Hawkesworth says my essay was the best she's read in 20 years!


Wesley: Says right here that I'm wicked clever!


It's win-some-lose-some when you're Surrounded By Idiots.


WHUTT?


Oh, it's just Kendrick digging a hole the wall. Nothing to look at here.


Awww, were the mean roomies hogging the cat condo again, so you had to take your agression out on a chair. :(


It wasn't easy to get Annabelle to sit down and be taught homework. The first time she gave up after less than 30%.


Annabelle: Why can't I go to another school, where Mrs. Swiller doesn't work?

Lora: Because the only other school around here won't take you unless you get better grades.


Remember I said that the killer lag thing started happening whenever Allen replaced the regular butler. At this point I hadn't figured that out yet, I just thought it was the butler hack that conflicted with something.


So, one quick move-out-and-in later, he was gone.


Alice: But this house looks just the same as the last one!


Yeah, it sucks to be Nikkie. It always did. :(


The week got resat to Monday morning, and none of the kids went to school. Lora had to take them herself. I like their new car. :)


The Law Enforcement career came up, and Lora wanted that job.


They got a new welcome waggon. It concisted of Iris Garnet...


Nathan Nightinsparrow...


And Beau Duckling. (By alittlestrange)


In his own Legacy, Beau tries really hard to become a werewolf. He wasn't putting up with nonsense from non-leaders, though.


Then he struck up a conversation about fashion.


Lora: Well, you better come in, Mr. Duckling. I've got to go catch crooks now, but just make yourself at home.


Okay. Who let the wolf in? Confess!


It looks like they're taking her away as a perp, ha ha!


Beau found the pool table.


Iris found a cat to snuggle. (Oh, look at her glasses not having texture!)


And Nathan found himself a scary movie to watch.


Alice: Mrs. Swiller is scaaaaary! I don't want to go back to schoooool!


Beau, that's not nice!


Um, Iris? There's no one using the karaoke machine! You were the last person who did, remember?


Wesley reads a lot. He should definitely have been a Knowledge Sim, and not Pleasure!


They only have one computer, because I want to encourage them to do things they can actually learn skills from.


Fred's still admiring the deco.


Nathan: Look at us being badass, in only our swim trunks while it's -5C and snowing.

Fred: Yep. We're the tough guys.


Nathan: I challenge you, man! We're going to have a serious pool-sliding duel!

Fred: You're on.


Nathan: Wheee!


Nathan: OUFF! Blooorp!




Fred wins!


Fred: Bwwwr! At least the kids can't say their Dad is a wimp!

Dunno? The pool's still heated, isn't it?


Promotion!


Sometimes a cool piece of CC seems less cool when you've seen it in use.


Ugh! That's not water!


Sadie: Catch, twinster!


Alice: Why do you always throw it so hard?


Sadie: I can't help being so strong! Grandma used to be a super-hero!


Sadie: Too bad you didn't inherit anything good, hee hee!


Alice: Yeah? We'll see about that!


This family eats an awful lot of vegetables. Take a good look at Nikkie, because this is the last time you'll see her. :(


However, Grim came for Lonnie first. Goodbye, Lonnie! You will be missed.


Why do the cats have it in for that plant? It's always the first thing they destroy. Did Cashcraft clone it from the scratching post or what?


Hi! It's Ferrett! :)


One day the Magpies will have cats, too. When the number of family members drops below 20.


Lora: Please tell everyone over at your place, and especially my hopeless mother, that all my children are really smart!


Well, looks like Annabelle is going to be the unfortunate child in this generation.


Suddenly something bad happened.


Nikkie died. :( Yes, I did tell you it was coming.


It's not often that Lora cries, which made seeing her bawl her heart out even sadder.


Goodbye, Nikkie. In another hood, you may have a happy life some day.


And we're ending the update with Sadie promising to become a proper ISBI Sim.

Sadie: Where is my bed, duuuh?


I've got the pictures for 4.4 sorted, and it will probably go up tomorrow night, or some time on Saturday. Watch this space, because there is also a whole lot of Starbloom suffering coming. :D