Prom night is here! Wren had done a great deal of fussing with her hair and selecting the right clothes and jewelry. Binky had a simpler time of it, both in the matter of outfit and the fact that he was still new enough at the school that he didn't have a reputation to uphold. He mainly fretted over whether he knew the newest dance, the Rubber-Duckie, well enough to dance in public. They both had a great time, and Wren was crowned prom queen to great applause.
Elayna celebrated the night in her own way by growing up. Her attendants were Marcie and Adam, since Katie and Everett took advantage of the kids' being at prom to have a nice dinner date.
Pansy was now fully trained, and with Elayna grown it was time to send Ecru on to a new home. Katie took Pansy and Everett rode Ecru down to the Equestrian center. Ecru sold for a respectable $6,072, and Pansy for a near record $12,939! Only her half-sister Equinox had brought in more. "That's the last of our fairy horses," said Everett. "Although if Lucky Palms is looking for interesting-looking showy, mounts . . ." Katie laughed. "They said they want stripes, and Electrum can give them those. You weren't expecting me to sell him at this stage of the game for a rainbow-polka-dotted stallion, were you?"
Prom was done, the last mare sold and the thirtieth foal ready for saddle training. Everett called the moving crew and the Sparrows set out for Lucky Palms: one woman, two genies, and one ex-imaginary friend, with two horses and a flat-coated retriever in tow.
Updated the uploaded horses on page 1 with Ember and Pansy. (And I really cannot type tonight, so apologies for any typos I missed.) Next episode, the family arrives in Lucky Palms and get a new home and a new mare - who has her own set of stripes.
Absolutely! I'd appreciate an acknowledgement, but certainly you can pull any of the horses you like. Makes it more fun to know there are other family members out there!
(Is that Flutterby and her baby in your sig? I've still got Flutterby Fly, but never had the book with the baby in it.)
I'll give you all the credit for the use of your horses don't worry! And yep that sure is Flutterby! Her filly is from the book Glitterby Baby! One of my personal faves in my Serendipity book collection!
Stumbled across your story this morning and got so sucked in I was late for work. I've enjoyed every second of it and also the trip down memory lane. My pc hasn't been able to handle sims 3 for a long time and I'd forgotten a lot of the features in the game. Thank you for a most enjoyable day and my kiddies forgive you for the late dinner
Thanks for the kind words, and I appreciate your kiddies forgiving me, @Thursday10pm ! Now to open a new chapter for the Sparrows:
Lucky Palms was a bit of a shock. Always before, Katie and her family had lived in farming or forest lands - and this was anything but. Everett heartily approved of it, however. "A perfect land for genies," he exclaimed. "Oases and desert cliffs!" While the teens helped Katie and Marcie set the house to rights, Everett saddled up Elayna and went for an exploratory ride. Straight out from the new lot were stony bluffs and sand in three directions; the fourth followed the road to the oasis around which the town was centered. The local Equestrian Center was right next door, and on the far side was a confectionary-colored playground.
The new stable was looked more like a fortress, built of white stone and squared off. The high ceiling allowed heat to rise, as well as providing loft space for storage. The house was also white stone and square, although the kids agreed the flat roof made it look unfinished.
Wren took a short break from unpacking to bring in the new mare, leased from the entertainment company that wanted Electrum's foals. She had stripes of her own and went by the name of Quagga. Katie was a bit skeptical when she saw her and gave her a careful going-over. "Some brindle horses have a skin disease called Incontinentia Pigmenti", she explained to her daughter. "It causes skin disease under the stripes and frequently causes tooth problems as well. I'll want her tested before breeding to her; I don't want to risk an unhealthy foal. Unfortunately, the other brindles don't generally pass the color on." Katie placed a quick call to the vet, to schedule a checkup for the mare and a general introduction, then resumed unpacking the gnomes. She favored the newest, which she had found in the time machine at the end of one trip, with a pat on the head as she set him out.
Everett, meanwhile had found a lovely lake hidden behind the bluffs. Clearly there was much to be explored around the new house.
Interior shots: living room, and the upstairs bedrooms: Binky, Wren, Marcie and the master bedroom. (Don't know why I don't have the rest of the ground floor)
Once everything was in place and the horses were settled, Katie and Everett went out to eat and start meeting the local folks. On the terrace after dinner, they met Darren Dreamer and his date. They warned the new arrivals that although the desert was usually very dry, the rainy 'season' ('Rainy week, more like,' said Darren.) was due to start any time.
Sure enough, by the next evening, the scattered plugs of sod were sodden.
In the morning, while the rain was less vigorous, Marcie left for the University. She had spent a lot of time since her creation pondering her goals and decided that a technology degree would be a good start. Everett and Katie got up to see her off.
The Simbot had arranged to rent a neat little house right off the central square. She unpacked her few things, and went to the Introductory Meet and Greet.
She was given a mysterious blue disk, and one of her classmates offered to show her how it was used. Afterwards they got to talking,and Marcie explained that Simbots did not swim much, due to shorting out if they got wet.
Bright and early on Monday morning, Marcie showed up for her first class.
Lectures were interesting, she thought, and while others found them less so, only the very brave (or truly exhausted) slept in them: the professor was a vampire!
Cars were not permitted on campus, so Marcie biked everywhere she went. There was much hanging out at the comic store; the technology-studying crowd that hung out there were not bothered by her unusual form.
Back at the new ranch, Wren and Elayna were training each other. Wren entered the pale mare in a Beginners Race and won! Everett texted Marcie a picture of the wild horse herd and unicorn he'd spotted downtown. Katie was taking Adam down to the dog park to swim, and she texted a picture of that as well. All to help Marcie study her Social Media, of course!
Later in the week Marcie reported to the library to practice giving her own lecture on the project she'd been assigned. With the whole class presenting at once, the library became unusable for anyone hoping to study! But the professor was pleased, setting the day on an upward trend. After that Marcie attended at party at a nearby frat house, and met a very attractive young man who wasn't at all put off by her robotness.
The next day brought more classes, with chess matches during the breaks. The week ended with Marcie passing all of her first set of classes with flying colors and gaining an admirer, if not yet an actual boyfriend.
[Yes, that's actually the Business major that gives presentations, I accidentally entered her in the wrong one.]
Over the weekend, Marcie woke with the strange sensation of being watched. Looking out the window, she saw an alien staring back at her. Realizing he'd been spotted, he fled - on a bicycle. (No cars allowed on campus except moving trucks, and this apparently applied to aliens as well.) Eventually he abandoned the bike in a bush and fled down a footpath until Marcie lost him.
On Monday classes resumed, and Marcie worked hard on her presentations the following day. She faced a slight handicap in that a lot of people seemed offended or even disgusted by her metal form, which she couldn't figure out. This was not at all a problem at the comic store, where the self-declared nerds found her fascinating. She had a different professor this time, one who was not a vampire. His lectures were more interesting but more people dared to sleep!
And then came the exams, which Marcie dashed through, achieving her dream of perfect GPA and graduating with a technology degree! But she was unable to rent robes, because they were afraid she might smoke them up or even burn them with her exhaust pipes. So she graduated naked, as usual.
Although Katie was her creator, Elliot seemed to take the most interest in Marcie, and called her at least twice a week while she was at college. He was the one who told her about the wild horse herd, and the palomino unicorn who claimed the local desert as his own. Elayna sold on the day before Marcie's exams. Everett texted her a last photo, before the mare left for a respectable $12,326.
Before leaving, Marcie headed out to a post-graduation party - one last fling before hitting the real world. One of her acquaintances dared her to kiss the host. Considering how many people had an aversion to Simbots, Marcie had never kissed anyone before, but it was a dare, and after all she might never see the guy again, as he didn't live in Lucky Palms, so she took her chance. . . and Mahmoud kissed her back!
Before things got too interesting, however, the moving van showed up and Marcie headed home, with an addition to the family collection of gnomes. While loading the boxes on the truck, the one containing her school books fell over and spilled out a gnome in cap-and-gown! As soon as she'd greeted everyone at home, she turned him out with the crew. For some reason the Magical Mr.s were all gathered around a light pole staring at it. With a shrug she dropped hers off and went to call Mahmoud. As soon as she hung up, she got a call offering her a job as a game designer! Although she'd start by testing the buttons on the controllers.
The front yard was still pretty bare, although the actual pastures had been tended carefully enough to establish a decent lawn. Which didn't stop the horses from coming out front and complaining.
Katie and Everett went out for a movie and dinner that afternoon. Marcie realized she was low on scrap and went out to harvest some at the junkyard. Meanwhile Binky and Wren decided to be a bit more than just friends.
A week later, Marcie invited Mahmoud to visit, and gave him the grand tour, including the attic loft. Then they went out dancing, and to look at the stars.
Everett took Adam to a dog show, where the glossy canine strutted his stuff. Katie explored the downtown park, where she met a mime, and a toddler apparently being babysat by a dog. Quagga kept with family tradition and foaled in the middle of the night. Zipper had a lot of stripes on one side, and a big white patch on the other.
S'okay, it's next weekend. I'm now over 1000 photos for this story!
Adam was worn out from playing with the new foal, and sleeping hard.
Binky went to his new job at the Mausoleum and encountered a schoolmate named Piper. She had just located a tiny kitten, with no houses anywhere around the graveyard. After a bit of discussion, she took it on home, as Binky pointed out it didn't really fit the ambiance of the cemetery.
At home, Everett was admiring the electronic fish in the window prior to doing chores. So real-looking!
By nightfall, all the horses were tucked into their stalls.
Next morning a new mare was dropped off. Marabella, a Morgan, was a prize mare in the Casino-sponsored live horse act put on at the stadium. The Casino managers hoped for a fancy-marked foal to follow in mama's hoofsteps.
While all the humans (and genies) and animals were doing quite well, Marcie was having problems. Over and over she was shorting out, and as often as Katie repaired her, she'd short out again almost immediately. She actually lost her first job as a Games Programmer over it! Finally Katie and Everett decided that perhaps an expert touch was needed, and called a repair shop. They assured the Sparrows that they had an expert in Simbot repair and would send her right out. The gawping that the repairwoman did on arrival wasn't terribly reassuring, but perhaps her customers usually brought their faulty 'bots in to the shop? But she also didn't know the correct names for some of her tools. "I'm getting a bad feeling about this," murmured Katie to her husband. Then ZZZAAPP! In a shower of gold and blue sparks the repairwoman collapsed on the floor! The Grim Reaper materialized in front of their eyes and raised a ghost from the corpse before sealing the body in an urn. The sparking and twitching ghost floated off through the wall, and after a long moment of staring at each other, Katie started repairing Marcie again, while Everett pulled out his phone to inform the repair shop why their technician wouldn't be reporting back that day.
Fortunately, since Binky had that part-time job at the graveyard, they didn't have to figure out what to do with the urn. He took it in to the mausoleum and left it until repairwoman's family called for it. But, apparently the discharge or something the woman had twiddled seemed to have done the trick, as Marcie had no more problems with short-circuiting and was able to get her old job back.
Meanwhile, Zipper was growing nicely and really loving Adam and the other horses. He met Marabella, who taught him to roll under his mother's watchful eye.
The family added a pool in the front portion of the yard, starting to landscape the non-horse areas of the property.
Wren had improved her riding enough to enter a race. Electrum hadn't run for a while, but his experience and her enthusiasm combined to give a winning performance.
Everett aided Binky with his homework on a night off, then sat down to read the paper. He was a bit startled to read that Everett and Katie Sparrow were announcing the arrival of a new baby boy. "Dear, is there something you forgot to tell me?"
Katie blinked at the printed announcement, then laughed. "The only babies around here have four legs, honey, I swear!"
The rainy season was rolling back around, leading to improved weather for work and planting. Katie took Electrum out for some long rides, considering getting him back into shape to run some International-level races. Zipper played so hard that they found the foal collapsed in the tack room for a nap. And more landscaping was down around the house, as the grass planted out front slowly spread.
And the horses grazed with the rain pattering on their backs.
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Elayna celebrated the night in her own way by growing up. Her attendants were Marcie and Adam, since Katie and Everett took advantage of the kids' being at prom to have a nice dinner date.
Pansy was now fully trained, and with Elayna grown it was time to send Ecru on to a new home. Katie took Pansy and Everett rode Ecru down to the Equestrian center. Ecru sold for a respectable $6,072, and Pansy for a near record $12,939! Only her half-sister Equinox had brought in more. "That's the last of our fairy horses," said Everett. "Although if Lucky Palms is looking for interesting-looking showy, mounts . . ." Katie laughed. "They said they want stripes, and Electrum can give them those. You weren't expecting me to sell him at this stage of the game for a rainbow-polka-dotted stallion, were you?"
Prom was done, the last mare sold and the thirtieth foal ready for saddle training. Everett called the moving crew and the Sparrows set out for Lucky Palms: one woman, two genies, and one ex-imaginary friend, with two horses and a flat-coated retriever in tow.
Updated the uploaded horses on page 1 with Ember and Pansy. (And I really cannot type tonight, so apologies for any typos I missed.) Next episode, the family arrives in Lucky Palms and get a new home and a new mare - who has her own set of stripes.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
I'll give you all the credit for the use of your horses don't worry! And yep that sure is Flutterby! Her filly is from the book Glitterby Baby! One of my personal faves in my Serendipity book collection!
Lucky Palms was a bit of a shock. Always before, Katie and her family had lived in farming or forest lands - and this was anything but. Everett heartily approved of it, however. "A perfect land for genies," he exclaimed. "Oases and desert cliffs!" While the teens helped Katie and Marcie set the house to rights, Everett saddled up Elayna and went for an exploratory ride. Straight out from the new lot were stony bluffs and sand in three directions; the fourth followed the road to the oasis around which the town was centered. The local Equestrian Center was right next door, and on the far side was a confectionary-colored playground.
The new stable was looked more like a fortress, built of white stone and squared off. The high ceiling allowed heat to rise, as well as providing loft space for storage. The house was also white stone and square, although the kids agreed the flat roof made it look unfinished.
Wren took a short break from unpacking to bring in the new mare, leased from the entertainment company that wanted Electrum's foals. She had stripes of her own and went by the name of Quagga. Katie was a bit skeptical when she saw her and gave her a careful going-over. "Some brindle horses have a skin disease called Incontinentia Pigmenti", she explained to her daughter. "It causes skin disease under the stripes and frequently causes tooth problems as well. I'll want her tested before breeding to her; I don't want to risk an unhealthy foal. Unfortunately, the other brindles don't generally pass the color on." Katie placed a quick call to the vet, to schedule a checkup for the mare and a general introduction, then resumed unpacking the gnomes. She favored the newest, which she had found in the time machine at the end of one trip, with a pat on the head as she set him out.
Everett, meanwhile had found a lovely lake hidden behind the bluffs. Clearly there was much to be explored around the new house.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
Once everything was in place and the horses were settled, Katie and Everett went out to eat and start meeting the local folks. On the terrace after dinner, they met Darren Dreamer and his date. They warned the new arrivals that although the desert was usually very dry, the rainy 'season' ('Rainy week, more like,' said Darren.) was due to start any time.
Sure enough, by the next evening, the scattered plugs of sod were sodden.
In the morning, while the rain was less vigorous, Marcie left for the University. She had spent a lot of time since her creation pondering her goals and decided that a technology degree would be a good start. Everett and Katie got up to see her off.
The Simbot had arranged to rent a neat little house right off the central square. She unpacked her few things, and went to the Introductory Meet and Greet.
She was given a mysterious blue disk, and one of her classmates offered to show her how it was used. Afterwards they got to talking,and Marcie explained that Simbots did not swim much, due to shorting out if they got wet.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
Lectures were interesting, she thought, and while others found them less so, only the very brave (or truly exhausted) slept in them: the professor was a vampire!
Cars were not permitted on campus, so Marcie biked everywhere she went. There was much hanging out at the comic store; the technology-studying crowd that hung out there were not bothered by her unusual form.
Back at the new ranch, Wren and Elayna were training each other. Wren entered the pale mare in a Beginners Race and won! Everett texted Marcie a picture of the wild horse herd and unicorn he'd spotted downtown. Katie was taking Adam down to the dog park to swim, and she texted a picture of that as well. All to help Marcie study her Social Media, of course!
Later in the week Marcie reported to the library to practice giving her own lecture on the project she'd been assigned. With the whole class presenting at once, the library became unusable for anyone hoping to study! But the professor was pleased, setting the day on an upward trend. After that Marcie attended at party at a nearby frat house, and met a very attractive young man who wasn't at all put off by her robotness.
The next day brought more classes, with chess matches during the breaks. The week ended with Marcie passing all of her first set of classes with flying colors and gaining an admirer, if not yet an actual boyfriend.
[Yes, that's actually the Business major that gives presentations, I accidentally entered her in the wrong one.]
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
On Monday classes resumed, and Marcie worked hard on her presentations the following day. She faced a slight handicap in that a lot of people seemed offended or even disgusted by her metal form, which she couldn't figure out. This was not at all a problem at the comic store, where the self-declared nerds found her fascinating. She had a different professor this time, one who was not a vampire. His lectures were more interesting but more people dared to sleep!
And then came the exams, which Marcie dashed through, achieving her dream of perfect GPA and graduating with a technology degree! But she was unable to rent robes, because they were afraid she might smoke them up or even burn them with her exhaust pipes.
Although Katie was her creator, Elliot seemed to take the most interest in Marcie, and called her at least twice a week while she was at college. He was the one who told her about the wild horse herd, and the palomino unicorn who claimed the local desert as his own. Elayna sold on the day before Marcie's exams. Everett texted her a last photo, before the mare left for a respectable $12,326.
Time to pack up and go home!
I really need to get updating on my 50 Foals Challenge before I forget what all the pictures mean.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
Before things got too interesting, however, the moving van showed up and Marcie headed home, with an addition to the family collection of gnomes. While loading the boxes on the truck, the one containing her school books fell over and spilled out a gnome in cap-and-gown! As soon as she'd greeted everyone at home, she turned him out with the crew. For some reason the Magical Mr.s were all gathered around a light pole staring at it. With a shrug she dropped hers off and went to call Mahmoud. As soon as she hung up, she got a call offering her a job as a game designer! Although she'd start by testing the buttons on the controllers.
The front yard was still pretty bare, although the actual pastures had been tended carefully enough to establish a decent lawn. Which didn't stop the horses from coming out front and complaining.
Katie and Everett went out for a movie and dinner that afternoon. Marcie realized she was low on scrap and went out to harvest some at the junkyard. Meanwhile Binky and Wren decided to be a bit more than just friends.
A week later, Marcie invited Mahmoud to visit, and gave him the grand tour, including the attic loft. Then they went out dancing, and to look at the stars.
Everett took Adam to a dog show, where the glossy canine strutted his stuff. Katie explored the downtown park, where she met a mime, and a toddler apparently being babysat by a dog. Quagga kept with family tradition and foaled in the middle of the night. Zipper had a lot of stripes on one side, and a big white patch on the other.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
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Adam was worn out from playing with the new foal, and sleeping hard.
Binky went to his new job at the Mausoleum and encountered a schoolmate named Piper. She had just located a tiny kitten, with no houses anywhere around the graveyard. After a bit of discussion, she took it on home, as Binky pointed out it didn't really fit the ambiance of the cemetery.
At home, Everett was admiring the electronic fish in the window prior to doing chores. So real-looking!
By nightfall, all the horses were tucked into their stalls.
Next morning a new mare was dropped off. Marabella, a Morgan, was a prize mare in the Casino-sponsored live horse act put on at the stadium. The Casino managers hoped for a fancy-marked foal to follow in mama's hoofsteps.
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Fortunately, since Binky had that part-time job at the graveyard, they didn't have to figure out what to do with the urn. He took it in to the mausoleum and left it until repairwoman's family called for it. But, apparently the discharge or something the woman had twiddled seemed to have done the trick, as Marcie had no more problems with short-circuiting and was able to get her old job back.
Meanwhile, Zipper was growing nicely and really loving Adam and the other horses. He met Marabella, who taught him to roll under his mother's watchful eye.
The family added a pool in the front portion of the yard, starting to landscape the non-horse areas of the property.
Wren had improved her riding enough to enter a race. Electrum hadn't run for a while, but his experience and her enthusiasm combined to give a winning performance.
Everett aided Binky with his homework on a night off, then sat down to read the paper. He was a bit startled to read that Everett and Katie Sparrow were announcing the arrival of a new baby boy. "Dear, is there something you forgot to tell me?"
Katie blinked at the printed announcement, then laughed. "The only babies around here have four legs, honey, I swear!"
The rainy season was rolling back around, leading to improved weather for work and planting. Katie took Electrum out for some long rides, considering getting him back into shape to run some International-level races. Zipper played so hard that they found the foal collapsed in the tack room for a nap. And more landscaping was down around the house, as the grass planted out front slowly spread.
And the horses grazed with the rain pattering on their backs.
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1