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#9526 Old 11th May 2025 at 2:10 AM
I really should've had posted these 2 weeks ago , but anyway, here's a bit of memorable days of my Pleasantview. Long post and lots of screenshots, mind.

I built a custom mountain vacation destination, whose common theme is the trek across eras - starting from the renaissance, through the colonial era and into the modern times, each lot represents 1 of the 3 eras. And while only mostly complete, I was very much in a hurry to test it out. After all, the lots here were the very first vacation lots I made, and I was anxious to see how would they work in real conditions.


The 1st of the 3 Pleasant and Burb families to go belongs to a couple of adopted son and daughter, of the 1st Supreme Leader, Flore Burb, and her cousin Lilith Pleasant, respectively. Philippe Burb and Ophelia Pleasant have been progressing through their middle age (whereas their siblings and cousins are fast becoming elders ), and had a lot of money to burn, unlike about half of the families' households who must restrain themselves from going below $100,000 or be made fun of for not being wealthy! This vacation was to honor their late mothers who were too busy teaching, ahem, "tormenting" their granddaughters to achieve "perfection", and also for their kids to enjoy their last days as teens as they will be enrolled comes the next rotation play.

Philippe and Ophelia have full 6 days and nights to themselves. And although they should take charge, the household was pretty much led by Adriande Burb, Philippe's wife who works hard towards perfection and therefore a worthy spouse to the Burb family. The adopted 2nd cousins simply wanted to just relax, as together, they did make 3 big bonuses and max out their skills beforehand. That, and Adriande had a vacation to her name before she was married to Philippe.

The household found a lot of things to do at this cold north (or maybe south) tourist spot. They spent 3 expensive nights at a luxury, atomic-themed hotel that has everything from a spa and a shooting range to a none-functioning cloth shop (souvenirs and jewelry work, though) and a casino. The 3 days were spent on visiting a former missile silo-turned-tourist attraction, as 1 visit just wouldn't cut it! Already was Adriande amazed with just how more integrating the new destination is compare to the Takemizu Village; she has been hoping the household would never have to go to that village since!

They had to move to a cabin lodging for the next 3 days and nights, and faced the horror of tourists... Man, it wasn't worth not reserving every suite! At least, they had their fill with the missile silo and could visit a renaissance-themed area on the other mountain, where they learned the Slap Dance, which was quick to become my favorite, and bathed in the atmosphere of a renaissance town and the last walls made obsolete by cannons. Well, except for that one tour when they got pranked big time by Yogi's unscrupulous 3rd cousin!




The 2nd household belongs to Label Go, adopted daughter of the long-gone Tosha Go and biological daughter of the now-forgotten Don Lothario. She too, is a worthy spouse to the Burb family, but her half-alien sons are just so-so... That means the household has to house odd members ( ) of the vast families.

There is not much to say about Label's groupie. They were quick to take a stay at a cheap hotel in the renaissance-themed area, quickly earning vacation mementos and the Slap Dance, then escaped those messy, cringe jokes-cranking tourists to a campground across the missile silo for a night under the tents.

Label's 2nd trip was more of a chance to get her sons to go out and about, since they were too shy at Takemizu, and also letting some of their cousins who are attending university get extra days. Label herself had also become quite a traveler with a lot of mementos under her name. She can look forward to spending some days in her old age at a custom island destination...




The last household belongs to the 2nd Supreme Leader Susan Pleasant herself and her best bro of a half-sister , Amelia Pleasant . Ever since Lilith passed away, Lucy's only child has been helping Susan out, shaping her children for adulthood, and now raising their respective grandkids. Fortunately, her position as the Supreme Leader has been passed on, so Susan had more time to spend before Amelia became a proper elder and their youngest kids would be enrolled.

Right off the bat, and this ultimate household showed the ridiculous perfection Susan was forced to attain; this is her 1st vacation, and Susan wasted no time learning, and "convincing" Amelia and Maria to learn the local massage at the then-unvisited "bathhouse". Next? Mind-controlling locals and getting them to teach the Slap Dance! At a beachside dance floor, no less! Already the 1st out of 4 days and I had a bigger blast directing them to get more and more from this. Susan's household has been amongst the last played for a good reason.

Susan and Amelia are known for hardly ever sleeping - at home, they huff Snapdragon Bouquets that I modded; on vacation, Susan was no stranger to her cheesy magic and "make" the grandkids embrace sleepless nights, if only so they can stay up and remain sleepy for a few more hours before hitting the beds!

They followed Philippe and Ophelia and spent the latter half of their vacation at a cabin lodging, which had undergone an "improvement" at the dining section. Likewise, they forgot not to take their kids, and grandkids, to tour about at a renaissance township, before finishing off the last day revisiting the "bathhouse" to complete their memento collections.




Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my 1st custom destination. Every lot is way more capable of answering Sims' needs, and that alone allowed me and my Sims to focus more on having good times with their vacations. Now, as I am taking a long break, I will be seeing to the 2nd custom destination and some more mods before I resume the next rotation play.
Mad Poster
#9527 Old 12th May 2025 at 8:13 PM
In Beginning of Veronaville Plus, more babies grew up to toddlers.

The last Monty ancestors Trinculo and Maria became toddlers.

Starting the Summerdream ancestors Fae and Elvin became toddlers. Zephyretta and Sprite also became toddlers.

I also started playing through the Capp toddlers. I play three day rotations for each household, so I play through the first three days of toddlers and grow them up the next rotation.

Contessa Capp is now 1 day away from becoming a child. While I was playing through the first days of Consort being a toddler, Hector rolled the want to go into the Medical career. Andromache rolled the want to be in the Adventurer career. Consort is now 1 day from becoming a child.

Hector's little sister Alexas and Andromache's little brother Adam got married and went on a honeymoon to Twikki Island. Alexas rolled the want to have a baby so I had them try manually since ACR woohoo wasn't taking. She eventually gave birth to a baby named Brandon.

While I was growing up Richard Norman, his dad William was abducted by aliens. Since he was the first non-elder to be abducted he came back pregnant. I used the ACR morning after pill option since I don't want alien babies in this generation. He is now rolling wants for Mathilde to be abducted by aliens. Richard is now 1 day from being a child. Anne is 1 day from being a child.

Hamlet Jr is 1 day away from being a child.

I need to finish Tobea Scott and then get to the Monty and Summerdream ancestors.
Inventor
#9528 Old 12th May 2025 at 9:27 PM
One generation of the apocalypse challenge gang became elder, and another grew up to teens. I switched out the violin in the house to a piano for creativity skill building, so that I can have those songs constantly stuck in my head for a bit instead of the violin ones. Variety. And it goes out of tune every once in a while so people can't be at it 24/7 even if they want to. Stella Aspir hogs it whenever she can, though, especially since she retired. Yuliana Aspir prefers playing in the bathtub or fiddling with the career reward stuff lying around.

Zacharias Jocque got to the top of the intelligence career, so now there are only two careers left in the second tier of the challenge. Twins Elena and Soleil Aspir were meant to take care of those - natural science for Elena, and oceanography for Soleil, based on their respective personalities and the skills needed to reach the top. Elena is lazy and neat, Soleil sloppier and very active. The two of them and their little brother are all playful and only have one nice point each. Elena grew up to be a romance sim, and Soleil a fortune sim.
Despite being in private school, the schooldays took a big toll on all siblings' fun meters. Add in lots of people on a small surface, especially with a lot of visitors usually being around, only one bathroom, and a backyard full of ghosts. One bad day was all it took for things to go very wrong. Soleil, bored out of her mind and desperately needing the bathroom, stood around complaining about it instead of going, so that other people constantly occupied it, and eventually it was nighttime and she was alone downstairs, now hungry too and too restless to stay in the bath she'd filled up. So she went to eat, I sped up time and then suddenly there was a ghost, her hunger motive drained completely, and she died on the kitchen floor while the others slept upstairs. This is the first time I've had a teen die. A child passed earlier in the challenge too. That time it was Elias Aspir who lost his twin Miriam, just like his great-granddaughter Elena lost hers now.

The good news is that, again, there are only two careers to clear before tier three, and tier three is where the Paranormal restrictions are, and lifting those allows resurrections. I already have a genie lamp, two actually, and since I don't have the paranormal career I made up my own conditions to clear instead, and almost all of them are cleared. So, in short, Soleil can be resurrected in her family's lifetime.
Her mother Yuliana actually is close to her expiration date, so I put her into the hibernation chamber from mts that I got after the science restrictions were lifted, so that she can see her again before passing.
Her other mother Lakshmi in turn took on the oceanography career that Soleil herself was meant to go into and has been working her ass off to get all the skills required. Including a bunch of body points, and she's a lazy sim. Though not when it comes to saving one of her children. She flew through the promotions in record time and is now the right hand of Poseidon. That also helps with the ghost problem some, since it allows for ponds that can trap all the graves that are gathered in one spot.

Somewhere in the middle of this, Luca became a teenager. He rolled to be a fortune sim, just like Soleil. And his lifetime want: to become the right hand of Poseidon. Maybe to connect in a sense with the sister he lost, who was meant for that job, or inspired by his mother's drive. Or he just loves the ocean. In any case, I really liked that, so I let him join the career so he can take over once Lakshmi retires. Once at tier three I'm not in a rush to lift restrictions as quickly as possible, anyway. His townie friend Sophie Dallas grew up with him, and they turned out to have compatible orientations and good chemistry. In part because Luca ended up having blonde hair as a turn-on. The night of his birthday he was scared by a ghost and pissed himself so it didn't feel like the right time to try anything, but next time they saw each other, Sophie wasted no time wooing him, and he asked her to go steady. (And just as they were busy with that, Elena walked out of the house to come and give Luca a noogie. Such a sibling move.)

And Luca wasn't the only one getting some new experiences. Thalassa Aspir and Scot Greaves have been flirting a couple of times, first as teens and then as adults, but once they became friends and later bffs they never did, so they never developed a crush or anything. Now they haven't seen each other in a while, so they're bffs but once again not friends. And that's when he suddenly walks straight into the house, goes right over to Thalassa and kisses her on the lips. So that's the story of how Thalassa, very casually, had her first kiss at 65.

Finally, Elena became an adult, and got herself a job in the beekeeper career (custom one that I decided to use in place of the natural science career which I don't have in my game) as planned.

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#9529 Old 12th May 2025 at 9:57 PM
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#9530 Old 13th May 2025 at 8:38 PM
Little Liv Keller-Flores is having what one could call a "traumatic childhood". It's not that she is not loved but she is too young to understand what's happening.
All she knows is that everyone cries a lot and her big brother Jake
isn't home anymore. And she doesn't understand who is "Emily's little Grace" people keep talking about and why Jake had to go and live with Emily and this Grace. And her daddy goes to work every day where she cannot follow him and, yes, he comes back but while he is gone, only Remington the Butler pays proper attention to her! And if she follows mummy, she just snuggles Liv and sends her to play with toys and says she is tired and hungry and that this second pregnancy is worse than first. Oh, and Cherry, her other sister, is very fun but is out of home a lot and when she is home she now plays with annoying stranger called "boyfriend" in her room and ignores Liv and, and.
Life is just hard. Liv hopes someone will teach her to talk so she complain properly.
Mad Poster
#9531 Old 13th May 2025 at 10:39 PM
Working in SimPE setting up everyone in Arundel's secondary aspiration using an older program and being amazed at how accurate it is. How can you tell? The secondary always plays off the strengths that the primary doesn't cover. (It took me 5 hours too. 200 residents? You think?)

A fortune pixel who wants to be popular but doesn't have the personality for it? Covered. A family primary who really wants to live a romantic fantasy? It's done.
It will be interesting to see how this shapes all the residents. At the very least it gives their personalities a little bit more depth. I even have a few romance and pleasure secondaries..and I dislike those as primary. Perhaps they won't get out of control? Hopeful.

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Scholar
#9532 Old 14th May 2025 at 2:59 PM
I have been playing with Veronaville. I have this long-term goal of getting all three base game neighborhoods to the same point in time and then rotating among them. Strangetown is much farther along than the other two so it is on a hiatus right now.

In Veronaville, I have a storyline going where the fairies (at least, Titania) cannot get pregnant themselves, but the men can impregnate other Sims. They are also all bisexual and open in their relationships. So far, this has resulted in a pregnancy between Kent Capp and Oberon, who did not marry Titania. After the baby was born (a girl named Robin), Titania adopted ('stole') her and is now raising her as a Summerdream. Even though Kent likes to pass himself off as this casual guy who's not looking to settle down and dates around a lot, I think he's secretly deeply in love with Oberon and misses their daughter, since he is now acting as de facto nanny to his nephew, Regan and Cornwall's son.

Then, Puck Summerdream got Tybalt Capp pregnant, and Tybalt had to leave university during his senior year because of it. He returned to Capp Manor, where Consort was befuddled by the whole situation until Oberon explained it to him. Puck graduated and moved in with Tybalt for the birth, but then at his mother's urging, he brought their daughter Eleanor back to the Summerdream household to be raised there. Tybalt's main goal in life is to be a rich, idle playboy, so I'm thinking he's probably OK with how this all turned out, but then again, those fairies are bewitching, and like Kent, Tybalt may find relationships with regular Sims less than satisfying now.

Finally, Bianca Monty desperately wanted a baby, so Oberon was happy to oblige. But there, things took a turn once the elders got to meddling. First, Isabella fed Bianca cheesecake so she would have twins, which actually would have been ideal: one baby for her and one for Titania. But Patrizio is pretty proud and conservative, and he decided that the only acceptable thing was for Oberon to make an honest woman of Bianca. I guess you could call it coercion, but Oberon has agreed and moved into the Monty ranch for the wedding. I'm sure this won't blow up completely, seeing as how Oberon has two other loves that he has no intentions of giving up. /s

As for the Monty boys, they did very well for themselves in university. Romeo switched to the Fortune aspiration, met Roxie Sharpe (who also switched to Fortune), and they fell in love and got engaged. They are now married and expecting their first child, and Romeo is actually working for the Capps! He really doesn't care about the feud at all. For her part, Roxie is happy to be a kept woman, and she adores Romeo.

Mercutio fought his attraction to Juliette for as long as he could, but eventually gave in to it, and they had a hot fling through the later university years. He was pretty sure that a long-term relationship with her had no chance of surviving, but Juliette threw caution to the wind and proposed, so they decided to go for it no matter what the reaction. Consort was incensed, since he thought after Juliette and Romeo broke up that the whole debacle was over. He threw Juliette out. But Mercutio's family were accepting as long as Mercutio kept the Monty name and worked in the family business, which everyone agreed to. So they had a big wedding with all the Montys and Summerdreams there, plus Hermia and Miranda, and now Juliette is thinking of becoming a professional florist. I have attached Bluewater Village, so I should see if I can get her to meet Florence Delarosa.

Finally, Hermia is still in college, now the Knowledge aspiration. I always see her as too cool for the feud. She brought a townie teen she liked to college with her, and he grew up pretty nice, so now they are engaged and living together while they finish their studies. Miranda is their roommate. She has had relationships with Puck and Benedict, but she is going to switch to Family aspiration and settle down in her junior year. I could definitely see her with Phineaus Furley, one of the Academie La Tour students.
Field Researcher
#9533 Old 14th May 2025 at 7:41 PM
There is a new family in town!

Tim Warren is in military. Because of that the Warrens have moved a lot but they hope to stay here for a while.
Family includes Tim and his wife Claudia. Both are strict and conservative family oriented sims trying to raise a bunch of chaotic kids. They have teen twin boys Edwin and Eric who ACR both rolled as bi. Edwin shares his parents aspiration for a large family but for now it manifests as a general teen hormone explosion. He wants to kiss someone. Anyone.
Eric, on the other hand, has greed for money that will drive him either to greatness or criminal career.
And then there are Emma, the very definition of "girly girl" and Esther, the newborn. Claudia is already pregnant again, and if that cheesecake is any good, well.

(I just wanted an extra household to adopt some dogs from Emily's shelter, lol.)
Mad Poster
#9534 Old 15th May 2025 at 4:45 AM Last edited by Orilon : 15th May 2025 at 5:12 AM.
In the Beginning of Veronaville Plus, I got through all of the toddlers.

Tobea Scott is 1 day away from being a child.

Patrizio Monty is 1 day away from being a child, Isabella Pantalone is 1 day from being a child. Holofernes is 1 day from being a child, Judith is 1 day from being a child. Trinculo is 1 day from being a child, Maria is 1 day from being a child.

Fae Summerdream is 1 day from being a child, Elvin Featherlight is 1 day from being a child. Zephyretta Gossamer is 1 day from being a child, Sprite is 1 day from being a child. I've already noticed a difference from the original Veronaville. In the original Veronaville Oberon Summderdream has red hair. However, his grandparents and parents that I'm playing in the Beginning hood don't have genes for red hair. So Oberon could have blonde or brown hair when he's born in my game.

The next rotation all the toddlers will grow up to child.
Mad Poster
#9535 Old 15th May 2025 at 10:39 PM
In Arundel, some long term relationships are being thrown to the winds, and others becoming more formal.

Frederick and Anna Newman have been through some momentous troubles-he had children outside of marriage with Brenda Go (which Anna never did discover, thankfully), and she has had a long term affair with Daniel Klein, which resulted in their temporary separation earlier.

Frederick had not gotten completely over her betrayal when Daniel showed up one day to visit Anna, and Frederick made sure Daniel knew he was onto them. Anna did behave herself while he was visiting. She did not flirt with Daniel at all-despite her desperate longing to.

Later on that same evening, after Frederick was home from work, Marion Tyler dropped by and Anna caught them kissing. She was stunned. "After all these years of being the 'holier than thou' guy. Frederick, YOU are cheating on ME? You hypocrite! You made me feel like a fool and you're making me a fool in my own house? How DARE you! I want you out, NOW! Take your girlfriend and get out!"

Frederick was surprised. He did not realize that Anna would react this way and he moved out to Marion's house. He's not going to put up with this kind of behavior!

After he'd gone, Anna summoned Daniel and explained to him what had happened. "Now that it appears that my marriage is over, why don't you stop the farce in yours and leave Amy? I've sacrificed a lot for you, Daniel Klein! You should at least do the same for me!" Daniel agreed and moved in that night.
His wife would just have to figure it all out herself. He's not a fool. He's going to get whatever happiness is left in his life.

However, they should both beware of his wife becoming Queen...and having the power to punish both of them for their betrayal. She just might have the last word after all.

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Lab Assistant
#9536 Old 16th May 2025 at 12:57 AM
My new medieval fantasy kingdom has received its first (and maybe only playable) neighboring country: The Sultanate. It is loosely inspired by the Ottoman harem and whatever my brain cooks up and the game allows.
Valide Ayse Sultan bought her son Sultan Murad three slave concubines from the other side of the world (the townie pool) as an ascension gift. His first concubine, Emetullah, and he did vibe fine and she lay with him twice before she became pregnant. Her replacement Perestu is exactly to Murad's taste with her wild red locks of hair and she too became pregnant after two nights with him. Both women gave birth to sons and survived the birth, so both are now out of the sexual relationship pool as I follow the rule one son per mother (unless the Sultan rolls a wish to call the mother back to his bed, which he hasn't yet). Emetullah is fine with that, she was never really into him anyway but a girl does what a girl has to do to survive in this world. She is quite happy to be able to dedicate herself to her son and her own thirst for knowledge from now on, and hopes she won't be called back. Meanwhile Perestu is head over heels in love with the Sultan and would love to be his concubine again...ideally his only concubine, but she is also aware that she has to make her son strong and find alliances to secure his life in the eventual fight for the throne once his father dies. The third concubine, Farya, is currently pregnant and the Valide Sultan's favourite but not the Sultan's. He didn't reject her but he is also not too fond of her as a lover.
Meanwhile the Sultan's only sister Turhan married a pasha but then unfortunately died in childbirth. Ayse, named after her grandmother, will most likely stay within the imperial palace to be raised by her grandmother while her father is going to rule over a province. To secure the Sultan's favor, now that they aren't brothers-in-law anymore, he gifted him a new concubine who is quickly rising in favor and threatens to replace Perestu's status as the ultimate favourite. And that's where my rotation ended for now. Quite a bit of drama for just the first week.
Field Researcher
#9537 Old 16th May 2025 at 8:49 AM
Jodi and Felix McCallisters are experiencing fertility issues. They have been trying for baby for several rotations now and are starting to think about adoption. They have one son, Rupert, who is about to grow into his teen years and their financial situation is getting better. Felix was laid down from his dead end job at bowling alley when Jake Keller sold it to finance his sister's pet shelter but it has been for the best. Felix took his burger flipping skills elsewhere and now works in a culinary career with a lot nicer paycheck and actual promotions. Jodi is unemployed but still running a small home church. She just published a bestseller theology book on her faith and progressive family values.
Felix's sister Geraldine and her family recently moved into a larger apartment few blocks away. Geraldine and her wife Alice both has family aspirations as their first or secondary aspirations but to my surprise they haven't rolled a want to adopt another kid. Their first is half through child age. Money is tight and Geraldine just got fired for writing a good review for a bad movie, but they have space and all baby/toddler objects packed in attic, so they could do it. Geraldine can win any cooking contest and wants to write a book, so there will be some extra money.
Tazama doesn't mind, though, he likes having all the attention on himself at home. Rupert is his best friend, and having a cousin who lives so close by is more than enough, no need for a sibling, if you ask Tazama. And they now have TWO dogs! He will learn how to share! He has no jealously issues! What are you talking about?
Scholar
#9538 Old 16th May 2025 at 2:21 PM
In Veronaville, Tybalt got to missing Puck, took him on a date, and proposed. Puck accepted, so Tybalt moved into the Summerdream house and renounced the Capp name. They had a huge wedding that made my computer stutter, but they had to invite all the families.

That makes Hermia the heiress by default. She graduated college with her beau and they moved in with Consort, but Hermia is not making any plans to have a wedding. I have a feeling she's going to do everything she can to remain an independent woman without upsetting the family. She did get pregnant, though. Consort became a business tycoon and is nearing the end.

Babies! Romeo and Roxie had one, a girl. Mercutio and Juliette had one, a boy. The Tinkers had one, a girl. Bianca and Oberon had the twins, a boy and a girl. Patrizio passed almost immediately after the wedding, so Isabella moved into the mother-in-law suite in Bianca's house and achieved her LTW from having 6 grandchildren. Oberon, I'm sorry to say, also got romantic with her and now has four loves. Oberon is a secret Romance Sim, I think (I don't use secondary aspirations).

Currently at university are Miranda and Hal Capp, Beatrice and Benedick Monty, and Melody Tinker, with Bottom Summerdream set to go during the next rotation. No romances are blooming there yet, but Beatrice has excellent chemistry with Malcolm Landgraab. They met when he dropped by campus to inspect a building he donated to the university. He has moved over to Veronaville from Bluewater and bought an ostentatious house, and the rumor is that, as a single man in possession of a good fortune, he is looking for a wife. He has a lot of young ladies to choose from, but Beatrice seems to be the one who caught his eye.

Veronaville has now reached the spring season, which means it has caught up in the timeline with the Pleasantview I'm playing, so now I plan to rotate back and forth between them until they catch up to Strangetown. Strangetown is now beginning its second winter, so it's much further along.
Inventor
#9539 Old 16th May 2025 at 10:50 PM
Elena Aspir reached the top of the beekeeper career from mts and became Queen of the Bees. I'm now at the third and final tier of this apocalypse challenge. To celebrate, I added in the Point Love Public Beach community lot from mts. I thought that suited Desiderata Valley.

In place of a paranormal career, I had some conditions to be met to lift those restrictions, the final one being to have someone get willingly abducted by aliens (I decided to allow using telescopes after natural science, science and intelligence had been cleared). So I decided to knock that one out while playing kind of a prelude to a mini-challenge I'm gonna play in place of the adventure career to unlock the aspiration rewards. Basically, the idea is that those are alien technology, and a team of four is gonna try and collect them. But first, they needed to locate the aliens by first discovering a star, and then a planet, while living on a rudimentary camp lot with just the basics, and getting all their food by hunting with the hunting spears from mts.
For that, I picked the Picaso couple, plus townies Amaya Wilson Alvin Rusewicz as they're both knowledge sims and hadn't been very involved in things so far. Amaya actually got abducted almost right away while searching for constellations, though for my purposes that didn't count since it had to to be intentional by either searching for ufos or summoning aliens.
Anyway, she did find a star, Alvin found a planet a couple of days later, and then Amaya rolled the want to meet aliens (again) so I had her summon them and so the paranormal restrictions were lifted. Also Alvin and Jessica started arguing which isn't great since they're about to be stuck on a spaceship together pretty soon.

The paranormal restrictions being gone meant that the main household could finally resurrect Soleil who died as a teenager. Both her twin sister Elena and little brother Luca are now adults. Elena's and Soleil's mother Yuliana woke up from her hibernation and greeted the rest of the household. Then Elena summoned the genie, and their other mother Lakshmi made the wish. And apparently I was so caught up in the moment that I completely forgot to take any pictures of the resurrection or the following reunion.

I was surprised to see Soleil had nine nice points, because I was sure all three siblings were very grouchy. And then I realized that her entire personality had in fact been reversed. Now she's super nice, kind of neat, and very shy, serious and lazy. I had been thinking about how she would be affected by suddenly being years behind her twin sister and younger brother and everyone else, and I think with her new personality and general tendencies she has something precocious about her which seems fitting. Elena had a locked want to be her best friend at the time she died that I've kept locked, and now the twins are trying to build a bond in a somewhat staggering way. Not only has several years passed and there's a sudden age difference, they're now much less similar in personality than they used to be. Now they just have being lazy and kind of neat in common. I guess Elena has become the Desiderata Valley version of Nina Caliente - redhead romance sim with a twin sister who's a fortune sim and mostly her opposite personality-wise.

Soleil being back let me take a look at her lifetime want for the first time, and that had me stunned. It was to reach the top of the oceanography career. The career that I had intended for her to lift. The career that her mother worked so hard to lift in her stead, so that they could reach tier three and get her back. And that her brother grew up dreaming of. That was her lifetime want all along. Of course I'll let her fulfill it. Luca is in it now, but he'll be able to reach the top long before she comes close, and then she can take over the title.

Yuliana had been near the end of her lifespan when she got into the hibernation chamber for a chance to see Soleil again. She got a couple of days with her family before it was her time to go. But while in hibernation her lifetime aspiration bar filled up, so she died at peace, following Stella, Thalassa and Zacharias from her generation.
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Mad Poster
#9540 Old Yesterday at 5:46 AM
In Beginning of Veronaville Plus, all the Capp kids are children. I forget the name of the mod, but there is a mod that looks like a pile of phone books that let Sims "look up" the number of other Sims in the hood. I had Consort look up Contessa's number so they can be friends since they both had the want to make a friend after they grew up. I also changed child Contessa's hair from the base game hair Angela Pleasant has to a child hair that looks closer to the one elder Contessa has in the original Veronaville.

Brandon Albion grew up to toddler.

Richard Norman and Anne Anjou grew up to children and I had Anne look up Richard's number to call him to become friends. I couldn't find a child hair close to the one Anne Norman has in the original Veronaville so I just picked one.

Hamlet Jr Dane and Tobea Scott grew up to children and I had Tobea look up Hamlet Jr's number to call him to become friends. I changed her hair to one that looked the closest to the one Tobea Dane has in the original Veronaville.

Patrizio Monty and Isabella Pantalone grew up to children. I had Isabella look up Patrizio's number to call him to become friends. I changed her hair to one I think will be the exact one elder Isabella Monty has in the original Veronaville.

All four girls grew up with the exact same Angela Pleasant hair, and so did Scribonia Capp and Alexas Albion. I am really getting tired of born in game female children growing up to have that hair.
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#9541 Old Yesterday at 12:54 PM Last edited by Booney : Yesterday at 1:32 PM.
Keeping up with Liv Keller-Flores: something terrifying has happened.
Liv was sitting next mummy's bed, hoping for some attention when mummy woke up and started to scream in pain! Cherry got Liv out of the room but Liv knows who hurt mummy. The sister. Lotta.

Cherry says Liv will like Lotta later when they both grow up. She should know, she is a big sister to Lotta as well. And, of course, Emily and Liv herself. But Liv isn't sure.
Cherry also says that Liv will have birthday in next rotation, and that Jake and Emily will come over. And once she is a child Liv can go and visit them and little Grace.
Liv doesn't want to. If this Grace is like Lotta, she would rather not meet her.

Meanwhile, unknown to Liv, her slightly older cousin Caroline Flores has grown into a child. Odds are, Liv and Carrie will meet at school, and their mothers will have to explain some things. Next doors to Flores, Rupert McCallister just turned into a geeky pleasure/knowledge teen and, after a short consultation with ACR randomizer, informed his family that is he is gay. His father patted his back and then went on to call the congregation/family over for birthday dinner and small worship service. Bible quotes just accidentally included the ones talking about obeying ones parents and not being lazy (Rupert has zero - zero! - activity points).
Despite how it started to look like, Jodi got pregnant after all. On less happy news, a burglar stole the mic she uses for her home church worship services, so, uhh, the whole trying for baby interaction got rudely interrupted. Still 4 hours pregnant. Geraldine and Alice already gifted them back baby and toddler things both Rupert and then Tazama used.
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#9542 Old Yesterday at 10:25 PM
First it was the hula. Then the slap dance. The vacation greetings followed. Then Francis Worthington III autonomously learned Tai Chi from the Old Man at the Pagoda. He taught others, and now it's a behavioural staple.

The only thing left to spread in the hood is the Pirate Sea Chanty. And now it's going viral. I am quite amused. What's comes next? Bonfire Dance?
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