Month: June 2019

Posted in Main House

Let’s get on with life, shall we

Posted on by Mila

This post was built at the same time as the Superior Niks post.

Everybody is going about their lives pretty smoothly. The focus is kind of on Niks the most, because she’s going to be The One, but by proxy, Evan is getting attention, too, since she’s his intended partner.

 

  • Vacations over, time to return to real life for Evan and Niks.
  •  Evan is thinking a lot about babies. He’s going to have to wait. Niks has a career she’s into, and a lot of life aspirations that don’t include kids. Thankfully they’re not going to get too old soon (cause aging up is still off for now.)
  • Dorian’s spirit is fading away. I have to make a decision. Do I let him stay around? Do I let him go away? He’s been a little obnoxious, and he’s started to break things.
  • I’m gonna let him go.
  • Niks had a fairly bad day at work. She tried, and she did what she thought was right, and it wasn’t. Now she’s stressed.
  • There’s a dog on the lot, and Evan’s decided he’s going to go introduce himself to it. Rudely. What the fuck, Evan. You bring a dog home from work and then ignore it, and now you’re going to do a Rude Introduction to another dog. What is wrong with you.
  • The dog did not like that.
  • Leaving Kenzie alone for a bit to do her own thing, it has been discovered that she is a social media junkie. Every few minutes she’s updating her status. She’s gained a fair following, but this is not what she should be doing with her life.
  • Niks apparently made the best sandwich in the whole of existence. She keeps exclaiming at every bite and is super happy right now.
  • Niks is the first one to use the new pool. It took them long enough to realize it’s down there.
  • She wants to get married to Evan. Not even just get engaged, she outright wants to marry him. That’s so cute. However, they don’t really know each other well yet, and she’s living in his family’s house and isn’t friends with any of them, so I think we’ll work on that first.
  • Dorian has asked Isla out on a date, even though he’s dead, and she can’t go because she’s gotta be at work. It’s a little heartbreaking. The poor guy just can’t get anything right.
  • Niks has two days off, so she’s headed out on the town to see what kind of trouble she can get into, pretty literally. Her current aspiration is Public Enemy, and she doesn’t know enough people to be able to get to some of the requirements.
  • We have now met, and made angry, a new sim named Houda. Houda does not like Niks, thus fulfilling a part of the new requirements.
  • Oh shit. Niks just threw a drink in some poor woman’s face because she’s in a bad mood. I think this woman may be the second one to fill the requirement. She’s already pissed.
  • Yup.
  • To calm down, she’s decided to talk to cats. She’s met a cat named Cashew who doesn’t like her very much, and a cat named Doodle who is obsessed with airplanes.
  • We have entered fall.
  • Isla got a raise at work again. She can’t actually get promoted, but all the extra money is welcome.
  • Evan got a raise AND a promotion. He’s become a Space Ranger.
  • Niks is trying to be a bee keeper, but her bees are really really angry. All the time. She gets stung so much.
  • Kenzie is at the beach, randomly befriending dogs. I don’t even know when she left the house. She’s found a stray dog named Loki and has become friends with it, and now she’s trying to take Loki home.
  • Niks has been promoted to Elite Hacker. She got a good raise with it, too.
  • Kenzie refuses to go home, and now she’s eating random food from the beach, and I don’t know where she got it, or how fresh it is. (finally got her to go home. It was an ordeal. She kept sleeping on benches like a bum, and playing on her phone.)
  • Everybody had a very good prank day, even Kenzie, who hates it. Nobody bothered her with it, nobody pranked her, so it was a good day. Evan, Isla, and Niks just pranked each other all day and had a really fabulous time.
  • Kenzie is taking Loki to the vet, the hope is to get the dog better, make friends, and try to adopt it. This will be heartbreaking, because Loki is an elder, and already looks to be ready to go. But this is Kenzie’s whim currently. Adopt a dog. So this is what we’ll do. Then everybody is going to cry, and I’m going to be like, man. Why.
  • How’d you get flirty, Isla? Who were you talking to?
  • Dorian just called KENZIE to ask her out. WTF, BRO. That’s not okay. I thought your spirit was fading anyway, go the hell away.
  • Apparently Loki hates the dishwasher.
  • WHY CAN’T WE ADOPT THIS DAMNED DOG ALREADY.
  • Abbie calls Evan every day to see if he wants to get breakfast. No, bitch. You’re toxic.
  • Kenzie has begun to flirt with the new maid, Daichi. She’s getting frisky in her old age. Hitting on these young bucks, watching romances, feeling flirty all the time.
  • Giving up on adopting Loki right now. I know it’s possible, but there must be an absurdly high friendship threshold for it.
  • Evan messed up at work. He was patrolling and didn’t check some alien kid’s pocket, and the kid robbed a store later with a weapon. He feels like he could have prevented it. Now he’s crying in bed.
  • They’re still passing around Blessing of the Ancients, they’ve been back from vacation for a while, and it’s still going through them every time they speak to each other.
  • Evan went into space on his own, and found himself on a strange swampy planet where he was confronted by a tiny green man who spoke his language, albeit a little strangely. The tiny green man implored Evan for food, and then sent him off with a strange weapon into a cave to fight a dark version of himself. When that was over, the tiny green man pointed at Evan’s sunken rocket and lifted it into the sky with some strange magic.
  • Niks has set a good example with her cleaning. The rest of the family has stopped leaving plates out and puddles on the floor for the maid to clean up.
  • Niks has gotten into a bar fight and won.
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Superior Niks

Posted on by Mila

I have decided to embark upon a journey. We shall make Niks into the most amazing sim ever. She will go through all the aspirations, she will have as many skills as possible, delve into every job. She will be superior to every other sim. Can we do it? How can we not.

We are starting her on this endeavor with some things already in place:

Traits: Geek, Cheerful, Self-assured, and Business Savvy

 Skills: Charisma – 1, Comedy – 1, Cooking – 3, Fitness – 1, Gardening – 3, Logic – 1, Mischief – 6, Photography – 1, Singing – 1, Vampire Lore – 2, Video Gaming – 4, Violin – 2, Writing – 1, and she just got Selvadoradian Culture from that vacation.

Career: Criminal – on the Oracle path

 

  • First things first, we have to get rid of how much she sleeps. She sleeps more than any other sim that I’ve ever made. I’m going to go into the rewards store and purchase Seldom Sleepy. This will help in getting more whims completed, and gaining more aspiration points to purchase other things.
  • Her first aspiration was Fabulously Wealthy. She’s almost there on this one, so we’ll keep at it for now.
  • Niks has acquired the painting skill from a whim where she wanted to start a confident painting.
  • Leveled up Video Gaming to 4.
  • Acquired programming skill.
  • Acquired Flower Arranging skill.
  • Acquired Handiness.
  • Acquired repair because she broke the stove, and I made her fix it.
  • Niks decided to make herself a drink, and gained the mixology skill.
  • She has completed the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration. With this, she has gained Shrewd, which means the household funds will get interest. Should be a good amount of it, too. We’re going to go for Mansion Baron next, since a lot of that has also been covered by Fabulously Wealthy and just the sheer amount of crap I have added to this home.
  • Mansion Baron was too easy to get. Most of it was done, I just had to purchase the columns. So I did that. She is now also Thrifty, which gives us 10% rebates on all our build mode things from now on. Which is awesome, but would have been nice to have prior to this, considering everything that has been build. That’s okay. There will be more. We’re going to move on to Public Enemy. She’s already in the criminal career, and I feel like if we don’t do this one now, it’ll be a while before we can get to it.
  • Using aspiration points from her recent successes, I have added Savant (to help her gain skills faster), Gym Rat, Observant, and Speed Cleaner (somebody has to clean in this house, we can’t always wait for the maid).
  • Acquired the archeology skill while on vacation in Selvadorada.
  • Purchased Morning Sun and Night Owl.

 

Ending Skills Stats:

Archaeology – 5

Charisma – 3

Comedy – 2

Cooking – 5

Fitness – 3

Flower Arranging – 1

Gardening – 6

Handiness – 5

Logic – 3

Mischief – 8

Mixology – 1

Painting – 3

Photography – 1

Programming – 6

Selvadoradian Culture – 2

Singing –  1

Vampire Lore – 2

Video Gaming – 4

Violin – 2

Writing – 1

Ending Traits Stats:

Geek

Cheerful

Self-Assured

Business Savvy

Seldom Sleepy

Shrewd

Thrifty

Savant

Gym Rat

Speed Cleaner

Observant

Morning Sun

Night Owl

Posted in Main House

A Vacation For Reals This Time!

Posted on by Mila

The Vangs have decided to embark on their seasonal vacation. Back to Selvadorada. This time they’re going for longer (since it’s not just me trying to fix a game glitch). Evan and Niks will likely explore the jungle again while Kenzie and Isla do whatever they want to do. Everybody’s way stressed out and tired of the grind, so this should help. Hopefully.

  • The twins have decided to use this vacation to reconnect. They haven’t been very active in one another’s lives since before Evan was born. They’re hanging out and chatting a lot, reading books, and dancing together.

Everybody bonding.

  • Niks is exploring the jungle and making some bad decisions. She has: tried to watch a Jaguar and fallen into a cave of bats, accidentally disturbed fireflies which bother some sloths, tried to distract the fireflies but made them angry – which then made the sloths angry enough to make tree branches fall onto her head, and gotten herself exhausted because she wanted to avoid some totems that looked nasty.
  • Finally, having some luck, Niks makes friends with some sloths and finds a relic. She and Evan make it all the way to the temple. Evan is not having such a great time. He forgot food, and can’t find a bush to fertilize.
  • Inside the temple, Niks gets to work exploring, while Evan passes out in a pee bush outside. When he wakes up, he discovers a bar inside, and makes them both energy drinks. He tries to go sit by the pool to enjoy his, but gets attacked by fire flies, and set on fire.
  • While Evan tries to figure his life out, Niks is busy exploring the place and solving puzzles. She has, unfortunately, contracted something, and been almost hit by a dart, and then actually hit by a dart, but she’s also gotten them further into the temple.
  • Niks has gained something called Ancient Joy, and apparently it’s contagious.
  • It’s night in the temple, and strange things have awakened. Niks has made friends with a skeleton named Boneita Esqueleto. And also she’s been set on fire by fire flies.
  • Niks has given Boneita a gift of a sugar skull. Boneita seems to really like this gift. She has taught Niks a skeleton joke in return.

  • The trio have decided to go for a swim.

  • Evan has been electrocuted a little by lightning bugs.
  • The power has been shut off back home because nobody remembered to pay the bills before they left. Thankfully cellphones exist.
  • The sickness has gotten to Niks. The lightning bugs have gotten to Evan. They’re both dazed in the middle of nowhere. This is probably bad. They’re wandering around in bathing suits, also.
  • Evan is not as into exploring as Niks is, he keeps hanging out at the random bar in the temple and dancing. He’s found a new dance partner by the name of Tibia Maximus. She is, like Boneita, a skeleton.
  • Niks has triggered something wrong, and it scared her so much she peed herself.
  • Isla and Kenzie are NOT enjoying their time here anymore, and it’s annoying Niks. She’s sent Isla home, ending her aunt’s vacation early. If Kenzie ever comes out of the jungle, I imagine she’ll be sent home too, since she’s moping around and crying.  Oh, nope. Evan did it first. Harsh, Evan, sending your mom home from vacation like that.
  • Niks has found her way to the heart of the temple! She has explored as far as she can, and has gained some pretty great rewards. She’ll study some things before she leaves, but she’s anxious to get back to a warm shower and a soft bed.
  • Aaaaand she’s been poisoned again. This time worse. She needs an antidote now, she can’t explore any further. Off to the library. At least it’s easy to order, but she really wanted to explore more. Can’t do that when you’re so dazed you keep dancing by yourself in the middle of an ancient temple.
  • Evan and Niks are spreading the Blessing of the Ancients like some kind of godly herp. Everyone they come into contact with is getting it.
  • Niks is going to need an archeology table when she gets home, she seems to be having a great time authenticating artifacts. Maybe she and Evan can share that office, and expand it some.

  • Back at their rented spot, cleaned, fed, rested, Evan and Niks are quite happy. They’ve taken some time to relax and woohoo before their vacation ends.
Posted in Main House

The House, expanded

Posted on by Mila

Here’s the house pictures I was talking about needing!

Reminder: The whole lot was moved from Willow Creek to Brindleton Bay because of size constraints in the previous lot. The house began as a very small, one bedroom unit that has just been added onto here and there as space was needed. It has become this ugly monstrosity that I love very much. Everybody needed more room for things (particularly outside things, such as a garden and a telescope), and I wanted to be able to expand. The decision was made during the last play day.

 

I’ve clearly added some roofs to my roof. I was playing around and I kinda like it.

 

Niks’ money tree garden, with all the money trees we used other sim aspiration points to get.

 

Evan’s rocket (not the dirty kind), office, and telescope.

 

The interior of Evan’s office. It’s a nice sanctuary. He’s recently allowed Niks to also use it a little bit.

 

The expanded family cemetery. Apparently sometimes urns become headstones? It happened, so I made the plot bigger.

 

Third floor bedrooms and playroom.

 

Second floor master suite, and … piano bar? I don’t know. Shut up. It’s a thing.

 

Main floor, kitchen, dining room, Isla’s room, living room.

 

Original basement: Art room, writing room, expanded gym area, and strays bedroom.

 

AND NOW! THE BEST PART! THE NEW POOL. I love this pool. I love this pool a lot.

 

Look at this majesty! LOOK AT IT.

It’s filled with glory.

 

 

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Change-up

Posted on by Mila

The lot that the main house is on is big, but it’s proving to not be big enough. I’m trying to decide if I want to move them over to Brindleton Bay. I’m on the edge of the decision. I want more room. But I also want to take my house over there. It’s so ugly, and huge, and monstrous, and I love it. Let’s see what we can do.

Well. I got the lot all moved over, but now we don’t have enough money to move in. So I think I’ll try selling a bunch of shit, since I just copied the lot to where I wanted it, and it has all of our stuff in it.

Selling stuff did not help enough. I have razed the home on the new lot, and we’re going to try something else.

Broke Delilah off of the main household and used her to buy the lot where I want to be. I still don’t have the funds to place the lot.

Delilah is back with the rest of the family, I guess we’ll just work on getting the funds up? This is annoying. I made my house too expensive to move into.

  • Everybody is going to the GeekCon. Not everybody is going to be happy about this.
  • Evan went to space and did some space trading. He’s pretty excited about the venture, but got so sleepy that he took a nap in the middle of the GeekCon space.
  • Aging up is still off, especially now that I’m trying to move them all to a new lot. I just have to remember to not add anything to the house so it can stay the same space when I’ve finally got enough cash to do this.
  • Delilah’s royalties are almost out. She’ll be going as soon as they are.
  • Isla is actually sad about losing Dorian. I find this funny, considering how little she cared about him when he was alive.
  • Kenzie keeps cranking out Masterpieces. This is great. Every little bit helps.
  • Everybody is dying of overheating! WTF. I had to put in a thermostat to stop it from happening.
  • Niks and Evan have gone on a date to celebrate a Night On The Town. They’re going back to Chez Llama, and hopefully it’ll be a better time than it was when they were there with Abbie.
  • Evan and Niks have made their relationship official! The date was a disaster, the food was awful, but they’re still going to make a go of it. And since it was Night On The Town, the food was free, and nobody had to pay for that trash.
  • Niks got promoted on her day off. Now she’s a Minor Crimelord. Look at her, getting ahead when she’s not even there.
  • I gotta get Delilah out of here, she’s started to haunt and break things.

 

I finally got enough cash together to move the household. And thankfully, selling all the old furniture brought me back to about half of my savings. Which means nobody is going to die of starvation. I’m going to leave Lillie where she is for now, since I don’t want to lose the Goth house. They can go visit her there just fine. I did cheat a little and bring the money tree over, and since it was duplicated, I have two now.

Evan also now has a lab/office for his space stuff, which will be good for him to be able to be away from people when he’s working, since it’s been a hassle to get him any kind of privacy.

The new lot is so big, there might be a pool later, though I had originally thought a second basement indoor pool would be a fun thing to build, I might do one outside.

 

  • Everybody is settled, the welcome wagon has come to greet the new neighbors. It’s all good.
  • Abbie is all about trying to get Evan’s attention now that he wants nothing to do with her. Just goes to show that she really is a shit person.

All of the “retired” sims had a bunch of aspiration points that I used before I booted them away, and I was reminded that I bought a bunch of money tree seeds when I was redoing the house, so now Niks has a bunch more gardening to do.

I’ve also decided that I want to make Niks into a SuperSim. She’s going to get into everything and be completely awesome. I’ve never done this before, and I think she’s the perfect Sim to do it with.

  • With Dorian gone, somebody needed to take care of the store, so Kenzie went to have a go at it. She took with her a whole bunch of paintings that were kicking around (accidentally duplicated with the move because somebody said online that they wouldn’t duplicate with the house, so I saved them in the inventory).
  • Kenzie is much better than Dorian at selling things and making profit.
  • Delilah’s royalties have run out, it is time for her to go to the Netherworld and be with the rest of her family. (I’m really glad this happened before she started to get really into breaking things around the house.)
  • Dorian has shown up now that Delilah is gone. I might have to fix this.

Isla is stuck at work. I’m trying to figure out how to fix this, she can’t take care of herself, and I can’t get into her inventory. I’m making the family go on vacation to see if it’ll reset things. Here’s hoping I don’t have to make her quit her job. She’s the one bringing in most of the family money right now.

  • Off to Selvadorada. (it worked. She’s no longer stuck at work.)
  • Isla is the only one in the family who is afraid of thunderstorms. Too bad it’s storming like a mfer on their vacation. This is not going to be peaceful or relaxing for her at all.
  • Niks and Evan decided to explore the jungle on their own. Niks went rifling through somebody’s abandoned camp and got stung by a scorpion. Instead of trying to find a cure, she and Evan found a bush to WooHoo in. Priorities, am I right?
  • Niks has ended up with a spider infestation. Maybe doing it in a bush wasn’t a great idea, kiddo.
  • With Niks poisoned, everyone decided to go to the market to see if they could find her a cure. The market is, of course, right next to a bar. Guess what happened instead of finding a cure. This bitch better not die.
  • The family discovered that bone dust is needed to cure Niks. Or they can buy something online for it. Thankfully there’s a computer in the museum.
  • Welp. Vacation ended before they could get there. She’ll have to order it when they get home. Hopefully she can. Or maybe she can just go to the hospital. This is absurd. She keeps getting dazed, and then being okay, which can’t be a good sign. Also the green circles all over her body. Those can’t be good, either.
  • Oh good, she’s ordered the cure and taken it. Green circles are gone, and she’s fine again. Just in time for work.
  • Niks was promoted to DigiTheif. She is an Oracle.

I have given them a pool. It’s in the basement. I’m pretty fond of it, honestly. It took a while to put together, and I wasn’t sure if it would turn out okay, but I think it did. A lot of other things have been changed/added to the house since it moved lots, so I’m going to have to do a pictures post later.

  • Evan has been promoted to Astronaut. Go Evan! He also brought home a stray with him. It is not a nice dog. He’s still trying to make friends with it, though.
  • He brought it inside, gave it a bath, and then went to bed. Thankfully the dog did not stay around once he stopped paying attention to it. This is not the time to get a dog, EVAN.
  • Niks has the worst luck when it comes to getting hurt. She was out playing in the rain and got hit by lightning. Twice.
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Killing Dorian

Posted on by Mila

I’m at this again. I’m really sick of Dorian crying all the time. ALL THE TIME. Even when he fucking sleeps. So I’m going to learn about killing a sim indirectly. Maybe through starvation. Maybe through embarrassment. We’ll see how it goes. All I know is, I’m done with him, and I’m still not ready to age up anyone else, so murder is it. Part of me wants to construct a creepy attic room to send sims off to die. I feel like it might become a Thing. Keep them out of the way of the others in the house, you know?

  • Dorian has been locked in the workroom. He’s got no bathroom. He’s got no food. What will do him in? Peeing himself to death, maybe?
  • Everyone is still doing their thing while Dorian stews in his own filth and pees himself while he starves. I wonder how long this is going to take.
  • Niks and Evan have had their first WooHoo. They decided to do it in Evan’s rocket. It was very cute, it took off with hearts as it’s trails. Niks came back as invisible, though?
  • Abbie came back around for Evan, asking if he wanted to meet her at Chez Llama for breakfast. He agreed, but he took Niks with him. It was an atypical power move for him.
  • For some reason, Niks is all about cleaning up when she’s out at a restaurant, but when she’s at home, she can’t be bothered. Just like the rest of them. This is what happens when you grow up having a maid.
  • Abbie was being really awful to people at Chez Llama, so Niks and Evan abandoned her early and went home. They’re better off. Abbie is a real See You Next Tuesday. They don’t need to be around her.
  • One of Dorian’s old friends came over to hang out with him, and he’s stinky, tired, and hungry. I don’t see how he could be very good company.
  • Somehow, Isla is still attracted to Dorian despite his current state of being.
  • Dorian’s food needs are finally in the red. Hopefully that means he’ll kick it soon. I need to move on with other things, and I feel like I can’t until he’s gone.
  • OH MY GOD, DORIAN, DIE ALREADY.
  • Evan was promoted to Space Cadet. I think he should go visit space.
  • Niks sleeps a lot. I mean, a lot. I think eventually I’m going to have to get her the perk for never being tired, because she can’t get anything done. She goes to work, comes home to sleep, and then eats, and goes to work. It’s very difficult to get her to have hobbies or anything else.
  • Dorian is dying from starvation.
  • It looks like it’s going to be a horrifyingly long death.
  • And there’s The Reaper.
  • Delilah is witnessing this happening. She’s going to be so messed up for a while.
  • Or not. She’s having a great time talking to him.
  • And he’s gone. Onward to other things!