The MacAvoy ISBI - Generation 4.4!
Nov. 14th, 2014 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigeranne
Yes, when it rains it pours. Besides, it's been so long since we've seen the Macs, and I want to get cranking on the insidiously planned Starbloom suffering. I sure hope it will be as funny to read as it was to play!
But first: ISBI! Last time, Lora was still made of win. Well, except for when she took the long-suffering Donna on an outing, and caused her to have a nervous breakdown in the karaoke corner at Lucky's. The butler was dismissed after he started causing lag, and they will have to clean up their own mess now. Alice started showing tendencies of becoming the family's new Cat Lover, much to the cats' displeasure. Sadie started showing tendencies towards becoming the new resident little meanie-butt. Wesley and Annabelle did great in school, but Annabelle's birthday pop-up announced that she was in low Aspiration. Nikkie died, after a short lifetime of mostly suck. So did Lonnie, the last of the cats from the old house. The update ended with Sadie starting to show the familiar idiotic behaviour.
Fred: I can't believe you have all turned out as good as you have, with your family history! Your mother should win an award for raising you right!
Sadie: I don't understand why kids run away. I would never do that, because I'm made of tougher stuff!
He looks so happy to be going to work today, ha ha!
Wow, what's this? Autonomous hygiene?
Please, don't shred the desk. The kids need it for their homework. Feel free to shred the homework, though!
Sadie: I'M TOO STINKY TO SLEEP! THE SMELL KEEPS WAKING ME UP!
Sadie: Maybe if I try another bed...
Oops. Alice got fat. Doesn't matter, though. She can work it off when she becomes heir, which seems more and more likely.
Look! She does house work out of her own free will! This one's a keeper!
Alice: Whyyyyy is my family so messy?
Alice: Hi, invisible fishies! I know you're in there. Daddy says it's just an empty tank, but Mommy told me that only the Heir can see you guys. I'm not chosen as Heir yet, but I will be!
Kendrick: Slave child, put down that toy and feed me!
The cats seem to have more respect for Alice. She can get them to perform tricks for their treats. They're probably scared she'll huggle them again.
It's so nice to have cats who get along, and play with each other. :D
Whoo! :)
Sims + FarmVille = Conflict of Interests
Alice's shaping up to become rather multi-talented. She's also the most interesting-looking of the two, so unless she rolls Fortune or Romance, she's pretty much guaranteed to become Heir. And I think I can deal with Romance.
Yay... Way to pick the best day to get promoted. And it will take some time before she gets vacation days.
Lora needs to skill up as much as she can, while she's still the Torch Holder. She's got a late start to her career, compared to her mother, but she's given Generation 5 a much better starting point.
Careful, Wesley. Aunt Donna may not be more than 45 years old, but she's probably got the anatomy of an 80-year-old. Don't break her!
Annabelle: Hi, Mom! We're playing you!
Lora: I don't shoot people! Who told you I shoot people! I'm gonna kill the sorry person who told my children that I kill people!
Donna: Congratulations on having the best dating-life of anyone I've ever known!
Donna: I have never even had a date. I've never known happiness! Why did you have to be born, when I was going to he the Heir! BOOO HOOO HOOOOOO!
Lora: Um, uh... Ask Mom.
Lora: Sweet! I love riding with Fred's carpool!
Donna: I've never rode in a helicopter, BOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!
Lora: Can we just... go, please? It's one of those days.
Whee hoo, chance card. :( The last update was so blissfully free of them. Let's see... My hometown was once a sea port, so I'm a little biased towards those.
I think Miss Crumplebottom is displeased by Fred's passionate love life. Hang on, the purse-lady is Mrs. C, isn't she? So this must be Agnes.
It's not like they're going to be poor or anything, so I don't really care.
At least Wesley is doing great. :)
The younger ones, not so much. They don't do homework, because they're too tired and bored after school.
Yeah, not good. :(
Looks like someone brought a friend home.
Parsley: I hate my brother. The air smells so much fresher when he's not there!
Then it was time for Annabelle's puberty awkwardness to start.
She had a pretty good turn-up. Even the repair-man Lee was there.
Crap. Well, as long as she doesn't roll Fortune, Romance or Pleasure, she's still got a chance of a happy life.
Oh, look at that. Pleasure. T_T And she's got terrible taste in men. Mimes with minimal effort in hygiene. Way to go.
I really didn't think her life was that bad. D: I think we know who the unfortunate child of this generation is.
At least she finally succeeded in learning to study! :) Phew!
Here's her "misfit teen who nobody understands" make-over. And looking at her, it's pretty obvious that I relied heavily on Face 7 when I made Fred.
Of course, when these two find a bathroom for once, it's the same one.
Oh, Annabelle... Don't become a new Nikkie, Donna or Elenora. Please.
And Sadie's taken to missing the school bus.
Hooray, more chance cards! Anyway, I see Lora as a much more sensible, less cowboy, sort of person than her predecessors. I think she would go for the back door.
The skill points are great! But, didn't she just destroy a bunch of prehistoric artifacts?
Bathroom disputes are solved by staring contests.
Yess! Detective! I'm fine with her staying there for a while. It's a cool job!
And it's Fred's turn to babysit Elise. I'm starting to wonder if her parents are some sort of ultra-career-focused people, who send her home with their co-workers so they can stay at work instead of looking after her.
As long as the kids still hug their parents at the mailbox, there is hope.
Linimpa: Are you the guy who should have been my father?
Wesley: What are you talking about? I'm only 16, and you're like 12 yourself!
Linimpa: Mom has a picture of you. She says you'd have been her True Love, if Dad hadn't peed on the toilet seat and made us!
Wesley: Isn't that just in the show?
Linimpa: Uuuh... *confused*
Wesley: Whooo! Biceps!
Yes, they are still sugar-coated marshmallow sweethearts with a cherry on top.
So why does she have that want? D:
Argh, now I'm having the cravings for hot chocolate!
Yes! Success!
Just in time for becoming a high school student. Looks like the twins' bad grades aren't affecting their Aspiration meters.
Fred: I wonder when the Fortune Teller is going to give us another lamp.
Eating spoiled food and talking chipperly about death. This is starting to resemble the Magpies.
I tried another hair on Lora. This one really suited her, I think.
Gargarney: I'm going to teach that brat a thing or two about almost being our father, and making us part of a crazy family! And about telling our little sister that our show's not real! I'm stealing his newspaper so he can't read Zits!
Sadie: Beer tastes like dirty socks, but it makes you cool! :)
And these are the good kids in the family.
Another chance card, joy... This is the last one in this update, though. Since I see Lora as more cautious and level-headed, I don't think she would sneak in through a window that was left open on a cold night. That would be too much of a coincidence, and there would probably be someone hiding right inside, expecting someone. So the back door it is again.
Okay, scratch "cautious and sensible". She's a freaking menace!
Poor Fred.
I used Sadie's childhood command to force her to aske for homework help.
Twice? I don't think I cheated. Maybe the game crashed or something.
Freeeeeeed! D:
Let's just say that Lora is good at earning Aspiration points.
She'll be around for a while, ha ha ha!
Different night, different dinner, same Fred.
And now, for a little tour of the house. This is Sadie's side of the twin-room, complete with snoozing Sadie.
Here's Alice's side. I don't have reservable beds, but those are the ones they tend to prefer.
Wesley and Annabelle's rooms are so narrow that it's impossible to get good pictures of them.
Lora and Fred's room.
It's a bit larger than it needs to be. Usually I'm crap at decorating bedrooms bigger than 4x5, but I'm pretty happy with this one.
Donna's room, that she used to share with Nikkie.
It's pretty minimalist, but I like the colour scheme.
Family room, next to the kitchen. The corner actually hides the stairs going up to the second floor. If you look at the placement of the sofa, you can sort of see it.
I had fun doing this room, and I actually think that I managed to stay out of the two comfort zones I seem to have when decorating, which are "dark and almost dreary" and "looks like a parrot exploded here."
Oops, the fishtank needs a scrub.
The entrance hall. The door to the study is right in front of the cat condo, and the door to the TV den exactly opposite of it.
The hobby room is at the end of the house, above the garage.
Lora is the kind of Mom who plays with her kids' stuff when they're at school.
Paperboy: Good morning, weird frostbite-guy who sleeps on the doormat every night.
Gargarney: Good morning, Paperboy. I'm waiting to steal their newspapers, as punishment for almost being my family!
Lora had a day off from work.
As you can see, it was very relaxing.
I bet she doesn't miss the butler at all.
Yissh! Annabelle is doing well in school again!
Annabelle: Says right here that I'm a genius!
Annabelle: So Mrs. Swiller can eat that packet of chalks she promised to!
I think so, with the greatly improved grades she's getting now.
The Cat is strong in this family.
The twins still struggle. *sigh*
Donna doesn't seem too pleased with the fact that the twins are becoming teens.
Sadie: I really have to? Actually, I'm perfectly happy as I am, and I've heard that homework gets harder!
But school days get shorter! Let's see what Aspiration she rolls!
Popularity. Meh. She likes muscular clowns with perfect vision.
And she grew up really well.
She's very pretty! I'd say at least in top 5 of my in-game born Sims. Don't feel bad for her. If she doesn't become heir, I have... other plans. I can't discriminate a pair of twins, and let one grow old and miserable. Not in this family, at least. (The Starblooms are a different matter.)
Then suddenly a bad vibe hit her.
Sadie: Bawww hawwww! Mrs. Swiller says I'll never amount to anything, and that I'll have to join a circus as a human cannonball!
Alice: Sadie? Mrs. Swiller can't hurt us anymore. We're big kids now!
Alice: But I've heard that Mrs. Hawkesworth is no joke, either.
Alice: Whooo! I'm tall!
Knowledge! That could mean a really fun LTW! She likes blondes and gingers, and dislikes smooth talkers. I think she will have a good selection of possible suitors.
She also grew up well.
She's so pretty! And she's a really good mix of her parents, too.
All the excitement seems to have gotten to her, though.
Sadie found her LTW. At least it's not PET best friends. Then I remembered that I'm not allowed to peek, so I don't know Alice's.
Sadie: I hate my life!
Alice: I hate my life!
Ooops, we have EMO.
Snow day!
All the kids get along just fine, so far. And I'm pretty happy about that!
Alice definitely seems to shape up as the brainy one.
While Sadie does pretty much what she pleases.
And Annabelle is the karaoke addict.
These two seriously give Rowland and Helena a run for the money as the most adhesive couple.
Fred: Oh no! I feel crumply!
Fred is old. :-/ He get's to keep his hair, though, and be a funky oldie like Rowland.
He'll be allowed to retire now. Lora's got her career going, and Wesley will soon grow up and get a job. Seriously, how is he still a teen? He's been one since the twins were toddlers!
That's it for now. As you've probably figured out, Alice is the Heir. She would have to fail spectacularly, or Sadie would have to do something extraordinary, for her to lose her position now.
Watch this space, because a new chapter of the Starbloom Travecy is in the future.
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Date: 2014-11-15 12:09 am (UTC)Oh dear.
Annabelle looks cute but... oh dear. I usually have no trouble with Fortune sims, as mine seem to be mostly career-oriented rather than obsessed with buying things, but Pleasure sims are the bane of my existence and I shudder every time I see that symbol. Ah well, at least they've got a karaoke machine to keep her happy.
The MacAvoys: giving booze to kids since 2014.
Yay Knowledge Sims!
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Date: 2014-11-15 12:58 am (UTC)And before the Macs gave their children access to alcohol, it was the Athertons. My Sims are delinquents.
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Date: 2014-11-15 06:12 pm (UTC)Sadie is shaping up to be a proper ISBI Sim, isn't she?
Lora: I don't shoot people! Who told you I shoot people! I'm gonna kill the sorry person who told my children that I kill people!
XD
I use a school-doesn't-tank-fun mod for the oh-so-spoiled Duckling kids, but not for the Dimwits because it feels kind of cheaty since I also use a homework sometimes/faster mod. I need to put it in for Ursula's kids, though, because they come home from school ready to hang themselves.
Aww, poor Annabelle. I love the shape of her eyes, though. And poor Fred. He must really like that particular chair to food nap in.
Thanks for the house tour pics! It really looks cozy. I have decorating comfort zones, too. Greens and blues and stripes. Can't do without stripes!
Good that the house is full of teen angst now. Hooray for Alice for rolling one of the best aspirations and securing heirship!
Two fun Mac updates! Now I'm looking forward to watching the Starbloom drama unfold.
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Date: 2014-11-15 07:03 pm (UTC)