Golden Sims 5: The Formal Frontier
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kd7sovWhen last we saw him, Felix had just headed off to college.
So let's see how he's settling in, shall we?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Felix, what are you wearing? Go get some other clothes, stat! Something that fits your personality!
At least he seems happy about how his teen years went. (I'm pretty sure that's what the blue hourglass, as opposed to a red one, means. Though it could be something about the Red Orbs of Jalbador...)
There, that shirt looks better, don't you think?
Annoyingly, although you can buy outerwear at a clothing shop, it seems the only way to change what outerwear is assigned to you is at a dresser. Anything else, the changing booths work fine. Not outerwear.
Clothing is owned, in Sims 2, by the household, rather than individual Sims. So I decided to have Felix buy some stuff in preparation for Jenna to show up. It was interesting - I let my Felix headvoice handle that part, so it was an intriguing balance of "what does Felix want her to wear" vs. "what does Felix think she's likely to be willing to wear".
(Yeah, Piers is still there, too.) No, Piers, it's night. Time to sleep. Sleep. Not look out the window at the snow.
And look, they even get to meet sometimes. (No, Piers, you're not going to ask Felix on a date. I've got romance Plans for him.)
This is a thing that confuses me. You see that little snowflake in the relationship-improvement symbol? That's the winter enhancement thing, like fall had the leaves circling progress bars. But the wiki tells me that's supposed to be for in-family relationships, and neither of these guys appears on the other's family tree. They don't even have the same last name!
Uh... wow, Felix. I never would have expected you to start up talking about shoes. Hidden depths or something, right?
Not wanting to lose touch with his sweetheart, Felix invited Sheba over. But it turns out young adults and teens can't do romantic interactions together. Sigh.
She does seem to have fun at their piano, though!
Plus she gets to meet Piers! (And some of the dormies are silhouettes. I'unno.)
I'm not certain, but I think this is actually recursive - that some other Sims started dancing to Sheba's piano playing, and then kept going when she stopped, so she was able to join later. And make really rather creepy facial expressions.
"Take care of yourself, all right, kid? I wanna see you as a student here before too long."
"All right. Miss you!"
*sniff* "She may miss me, but she doesn't love me any more."
And so Piers, like an insensitive clod, decided to go and fall in love. With... Debbie's shadow, or something. Transparent silhouette thing. Hopefully this glitch is self-correcting.
...But I'm sure that Jenna and the other 'Zoons have crossed your mind;
How had college hit the family Felix left behind?
Well, Jenna got demoted. From a Chance Card, not anything to do with performance. (I think it was just a bad day; the picture I took just before this one was of Grandma Jerra getting fired.)
I don't remember the exact sequence of events here, but both Jenna and her mother were up in the wee hours the next morning. Mom went out to catch fireflies (I don't think she got any)...
...while Jenna took the car out for a couple of errands.
First I wanted to change up her outerwear, too. What can I say? I like this look. Kind of an Arrietty vibe.
Then, though I didn't take any pictures of it, she went to get some groceries.
...aand promptly decided to "Stuff Face" when she got home, instead of making any actual meal. I'm not sure of the exact effects of this, but if nothing else it probably reduces food-stocks more quickly. And it's hard to cancel.
Sigh.
Somewhere around this point, I decided to use another genie wish. Jenna had some interesting faces during the interaction (though unfortunately I hadn't yet noticed the option to set the camera on high quality...)
Success! Two perma-platinum Sims! (I'm not sure what effect this has on their Lifetime Aspiration Meter, which is supposed to realign itself every so often based on the current level of the Aspiration Meter, but it doesn't seem to do any harm.)
And then it was winter. The tree went dormant. (Will, the dad, got to pick oranges from it once. They didn't sell for a whole lot.)
So far I haven't set up any particularly abnormal season orders, but I could. If I wanted to, I could make a sub-neighborhood where it was always spring. Possibly call it Shangri-La.
Jan got promoted again! Yippee!
With winter comes snow, and what's the best way to deal with snow?
Snowball fight!
Whuh-oh. Jenna's getting cold. I thought the outerwear was supposed to help with that. (Oh, well. Sims tend to overheat a bit every time they get in the shower, so it's probably an imperfect system anyway.)
Would you look at that. Perma-platinum number 3, and also pregnant! I guess the nest felt kind of empty without Felix.
You might notice the crib and bed and so on in the background; I like to be prepared for baby before s/he shows up. And from my very first (pre-Golden Sims) family I learned that putting the crib where both parents sleep is a recipe for bad mood, whereas the Vales taught me that having the mother camp on a couch is a recipe for tired mother.
Eesh, Jenna. What are you trying to do, cut your fingers off? That's no way to hold a knife! I thought you dealt with food at your job!
Pregnancy, in Sims-world, is very short (only three days). And, apparently, fairly traumatic for the bystanders.
Aww. Lookit little Emma. Isn't she adorable? Jenna sure thinks so.
(Emma's name, incidentally, comes from a ficlet thing I never actually got around to writing where Isaac and Jenna turn out to have a Water-Adept daughter based on the early image of Karis. She, in turn, was named for the love interest in the Jekyll&Hyde musical.)
"Hiya! I'm your new big sister!"
"Cooo."
Awwwww.
You know who we haven't seen for a while?
Ivan's family. (And Sheba's, but she's really close to hitting adulthood and I want her to be available for interacting before I pack her up for college.)
A family joined in literacy. Ivan's reading something sci-fi, I believe, and... I have no idea what kind of romance Lady Layana's got there. Sim French, I guess.
The call of the barre is strong. Sometimes Lady Layana will, left to her own devices, spend hours on it. Sometimes Ivan will bring home a friend who will head straight there.
Ah, excellent! Ivan and Lady Layana are now best friends!
It's good to be friends with your family.
Whee! Fall rainshowers produce puddles. And these puddles, unlike the ones from a broken shower or a water balloon, evaporate on their own. But they're also good for something...
Splashing in!
Fun for the whole family!
I kinda love this look of awe on Lord's face as he watches the stars.
This is something I was wanting to show last time I covered the Vales, but I didn't manage to get a picture. Look, Matthew can say "mom"! Look how pleased Dora is!
And now he's learned to talk!
Apparently there's no mechanical advantage to learning this, like there is for walking or toilet-training, but it's nice all the same.
Speaking of walking, this is what the training for it looks like. The teacher (usually, but not necessarily, a parent) sets the toddler down, stands him up on his feet, then backs up a little way and gestures "come over here". Then the toddler either sits back down or lurches over and throws himself into her arms.
Responsible child-minding at its finest. Yes.
*peers*
It's hard, working the night shift. It's hard and nobody understands.
But occasionally, someone appreciates. (Even if you then have to ask him what he's doing out of bed at two in the morning. Disliking Grandpa, apparently.)
So I was thinking of giving them a phone or a chess board or something, but it turned out they were out of food. So Grandma Jerra went to the grocery store.
The clerk seemed a little weirded out by this old lady buying groceries in her nightgown.
Especially when she then turned around and started rapping. With a tip jar.
My, what big teeth you have! It's a vampire! Watch out, Grandma!
I think she thinks you look tasty!
Okay, someone contributed to your tip jar. Maybe you should back away from the vampire now? It doesn't seem like anyone else is even interested in you.
Oooor maybe I'm just looking in the wrong direction. Fine. As you were, then.
"The SimPresident, huh? Sounds tasty..."
In any case, Grandma did make it home with the grocieres (and five Simoelons from Sheba). Whereupon I learned that it is possible to do TV Dinners without burning them. (Apparently you put them in the oven and then you have to stand around for a while waiting for them, and it's easy to get distracted. My Legacy Sim sent herself into aspiration failure by setting the oven on fire with a TV dinner. But you can see that when I make that report.)
Wow, Kay. That newspaper's almost as big as you are!
And then, having confirmed that vampires are present in my copy of the game, I did one more thing...
Family bonding time! (No, this is not the thing.) Well, sorta. Jan is studying parenting (which should let her figure out what Emma needs without having to try everything), Jenna's working out at the radio, and Will is dancing at the radio. But the're in the same room, doing vaguely related things! That counts, right?
Yay, Jan!
So anyway. The one thing. Jenna took a nap during the day, and then after work she took her car downtown, to...
The Crypt O' Night Club. Where she promptly headed for the bar, and apparently objected to the fact that she's under drinking age. Sorry, kid, them's the breaks. Try again once you hit college.
(Spoiler: drinking age isn't actually a thing in Sims. She's got something against the counter itself, I'unno what.)
And then, lo and behold, a vampire appeared! The same one Grandma Jerra met, even. Jenna was interested and headed over to talk to her.
But for some reason the vampire disappeared very soon, so Jenna went over to go work the DJ table. Which earned her a moderately decent 15 smoles every couple of minutes. (Possibly per Sim-hour? I'm not sure.)
But she came back, and they seemed to hit it off pretty well. Right up until 7:00 in the morning (that would be why Jenna had that nap before work).
Seven, you see, is when the sun comes up. So the Contessa had to hightail it off home, trailing smoke. Which is hard to see in the picture, but trust me, it's there.
So the stage is set for Jenna to become a vampire. I'm still not entirely sure I want to do this, but the option is now available.
And then I did some more with the Jerras, including aging Kay up, but the game locked up and I couldn't save. Rrr.
So let's see how he's settling in, shall we?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Felix, what are you wearing? Go get some other clothes, stat! Something that fits your personality!
At least he seems happy about how his teen years went. (I'm pretty sure that's what the blue hourglass, as opposed to a red one, means. Though it could be something about the Red Orbs of Jalbador...)
There, that shirt looks better, don't you think?
Annoyingly, although you can buy outerwear at a clothing shop, it seems the only way to change what outerwear is assigned to you is at a dresser. Anything else, the changing booths work fine. Not outerwear.
Clothing is owned, in Sims 2, by the household, rather than individual Sims. So I decided to have Felix buy some stuff in preparation for Jenna to show up. It was interesting - I let my Felix headvoice handle that part, so it was an intriguing balance of "what does Felix want her to wear" vs. "what does Felix think she's likely to be willing to wear".
(Yeah, Piers is still there, too.) No, Piers, it's night. Time to sleep. Sleep. Not look out the window at the snow.
And look, they even get to meet sometimes. (No, Piers, you're not going to ask Felix on a date. I've got romance Plans for him.)
This is a thing that confuses me. You see that little snowflake in the relationship-improvement symbol? That's the winter enhancement thing, like fall had the leaves circling progress bars. But the wiki tells me that's supposed to be for in-family relationships, and neither of these guys appears on the other's family tree. They don't even have the same last name!
Uh... wow, Felix. I never would have expected you to start up talking about shoes. Hidden depths or something, right?
Not wanting to lose touch with his sweetheart, Felix invited Sheba over. But it turns out young adults and teens can't do romantic interactions together. Sigh.
She does seem to have fun at their piano, though!
Plus she gets to meet Piers! (And some of the dormies are silhouettes. I'unno.)
I'm not certain, but I think this is actually recursive - that some other Sims started dancing to Sheba's piano playing, and then kept going when she stopped, so she was able to join later. And make really rather creepy facial expressions.
"Take care of yourself, all right, kid? I wanna see you as a student here before too long."
"All right. Miss you!"
*sniff* "She may miss me, but she doesn't love me any more."
And so Piers, like an insensitive clod, decided to go and fall in love. With... Debbie's shadow, or something. Transparent silhouette thing. Hopefully this glitch is self-correcting.
...But I'm sure that Jenna and the other 'Zoons have crossed your mind;
How had college hit the family Felix left behind?
Well, Jenna got demoted. From a Chance Card, not anything to do with performance. (I think it was just a bad day; the picture I took just before this one was of Grandma Jerra getting fired.)
I don't remember the exact sequence of events here, but both Jenna and her mother were up in the wee hours the next morning. Mom went out to catch fireflies (I don't think she got any)...
...while Jenna took the car out for a couple of errands.
First I wanted to change up her outerwear, too. What can I say? I like this look. Kind of an Arrietty vibe.
Then, though I didn't take any pictures of it, she went to get some groceries.
...aand promptly decided to "Stuff Face" when she got home, instead of making any actual meal. I'm not sure of the exact effects of this, but if nothing else it probably reduces food-stocks more quickly. And it's hard to cancel.
Sigh.
Somewhere around this point, I decided to use another genie wish. Jenna had some interesting faces during the interaction (though unfortunately I hadn't yet noticed the option to set the camera on high quality...)
Success! Two perma-platinum Sims! (I'm not sure what effect this has on their Lifetime Aspiration Meter, which is supposed to realign itself every so often based on the current level of the Aspiration Meter, but it doesn't seem to do any harm.)
And then it was winter. The tree went dormant. (Will, the dad, got to pick oranges from it once. They didn't sell for a whole lot.)
So far I haven't set up any particularly abnormal season orders, but I could. If I wanted to, I could make a sub-neighborhood where it was always spring. Possibly call it Shangri-La.
Jan got promoted again! Yippee!
With winter comes snow, and what's the best way to deal with snow?
Snowball fight!
Whuh-oh. Jenna's getting cold. I thought the outerwear was supposed to help with that. (Oh, well. Sims tend to overheat a bit every time they get in the shower, so it's probably an imperfect system anyway.)
Would you look at that. Perma-platinum number 3, and also pregnant! I guess the nest felt kind of empty without Felix.
You might notice the crib and bed and so on in the background; I like to be prepared for baby before s/he shows up. And from my very first (pre-Golden Sims) family I learned that putting the crib where both parents sleep is a recipe for bad mood, whereas the Vales taught me that having the mother camp on a couch is a recipe for tired mother.
Eesh, Jenna. What are you trying to do, cut your fingers off? That's no way to hold a knife! I thought you dealt with food at your job!
Pregnancy, in Sims-world, is very short (only three days). And, apparently, fairly traumatic for the bystanders.
Aww. Lookit little Emma. Isn't she adorable? Jenna sure thinks so.
(Emma's name, incidentally, comes from a ficlet thing I never actually got around to writing where Isaac and Jenna turn out to have a Water-Adept daughter based on the early image of Karis. She, in turn, was named for the love interest in the Jekyll&Hyde musical.)
"Hiya! I'm your new big sister!"
"Cooo."
Awwwww.
You know who we haven't seen for a while?
Ivan's family. (And Sheba's, but she's really close to hitting adulthood and I want her to be available for interacting before I pack her up for college.)
A family joined in literacy. Ivan's reading something sci-fi, I believe, and... I have no idea what kind of romance Lady Layana's got there. Sim French, I guess.
The call of the barre is strong. Sometimes Lady Layana will, left to her own devices, spend hours on it. Sometimes Ivan will bring home a friend who will head straight there.
Ah, excellent! Ivan and Lady Layana are now best friends!
It's good to be friends with your family.
Whee! Fall rainshowers produce puddles. And these puddles, unlike the ones from a broken shower or a water balloon, evaporate on their own. But they're also good for something...
Splashing in!
Fun for the whole family!
I kinda love this look of awe on Lord's face as he watches the stars.
This is something I was wanting to show last time I covered the Vales, but I didn't manage to get a picture. Look, Matthew can say "mom"! Look how pleased Dora is!
And now he's learned to talk!
Apparently there's no mechanical advantage to learning this, like there is for walking or toilet-training, but it's nice all the same.
Speaking of walking, this is what the training for it looks like. The teacher (usually, but not necessarily, a parent) sets the toddler down, stands him up on his feet, then backs up a little way and gestures "come over here". Then the toddler either sits back down or lurches over and throws himself into her arms.
Responsible child-minding at its finest. Yes.
*peers*
It's hard, working the night shift. It's hard and nobody understands.
But occasionally, someone appreciates. (Even if you then have to ask him what he's doing out of bed at two in the morning. Disliking Grandpa, apparently.)
So I was thinking of giving them a phone or a chess board or something, but it turned out they were out of food. So Grandma Jerra went to the grocery store.
The clerk seemed a little weirded out by this old lady buying groceries in her nightgown.
Especially when she then turned around and started rapping. With a tip jar.
My, what big teeth you have! It's a vampire! Watch out, Grandma!
I think she thinks you look tasty!
Okay, someone contributed to your tip jar. Maybe you should back away from the vampire now? It doesn't seem like anyone else is even interested in you.
Oooor maybe I'm just looking in the wrong direction. Fine. As you were, then.
"The SimPresident, huh? Sounds tasty..."
In any case, Grandma did make it home with the grocieres (and five Simoelons from Sheba). Whereupon I learned that it is possible to do TV Dinners without burning them. (Apparently you put them in the oven and then you have to stand around for a while waiting for them, and it's easy to get distracted. My Legacy Sim sent herself into aspiration failure by setting the oven on fire with a TV dinner. But you can see that when I make that report.)
Wow, Kay. That newspaper's almost as big as you are!
And then, having confirmed that vampires are present in my copy of the game, I did one more thing...
Family bonding time! (No, this is not the thing.) Well, sorta. Jan is studying parenting (which should let her figure out what Emma needs without having to try everything), Jenna's working out at the radio, and Will is dancing at the radio. But the're in the same room, doing vaguely related things! That counts, right?
Yay, Jan!
So anyway. The one thing. Jenna took a nap during the day, and then after work she took her car downtown, to...
The Crypt O' Night Club. Where she promptly headed for the bar, and apparently objected to the fact that she's under drinking age. Sorry, kid, them's the breaks. Try again once you hit college.
(Spoiler: drinking age isn't actually a thing in Sims. She's got something against the counter itself, I'unno what.)
And then, lo and behold, a vampire appeared! The same one Grandma Jerra met, even. Jenna was interested and headed over to talk to her.
But for some reason the vampire disappeared very soon, so Jenna went over to go work the DJ table. Which earned her a moderately decent 15 smoles every couple of minutes. (Possibly per Sim-hour? I'm not sure.)
But she came back, and they seemed to hit it off pretty well. Right up until 7:00 in the morning (that would be why Jenna had that nap before work).
Seven, you see, is when the sun comes up. So the Contessa had to hightail it off home, trailing smoke. Which is hard to see in the picture, but trust me, it's there.
So the stage is set for Jenna to become a vampire. I'm still not entirely sure I want to do this, but the option is now available.
And then I did some more with the Jerras, including aging Kay up, but the game locked up and I couldn't save. Rrr.
