The Narrator was in need of refreshing his memory before returning to this community along the nations west coast, perhaps an indicator that this storyline might be moving forward at a to leisurely pace...
The family that was last visited in Bewickton was the Chitrakaar-Skurchk family, an average sized family of four.
They are Dudleif (age: 67), Udisha (age: 31), Nishit (age: 6 years 8 months) and Ole Christian (age: 2 years, 7 months).
Dudleif was last seen at the Student Union playing a game of “Smash the Gnome” after he had managed to shake off Sølvi Sjanto, his friend Bobbys wife.. and thats where the Narrator puts his finger to the green arrow to release him from his 'frozen in time' state.
Nishit, his oldest son, just finished a bath and is going to bed. His wife Udisha is already asleep, and the youngest, Ole-Christian, has been left downstairs alone, but lucklily Dudleif understands its late and decides to head home.
However.... the Student Union is quite maze like, so the way he has to go to get home isn't immediately intuitive. It almost wears him out going up and down all these stairs...
Udisha actually wakes up from Ole Christians crying the very moment he makes it home.. and the Narrator spots something else that had temporarily escaped his memory. Of course, Udisha is pregnant because of the couples inappropriate woohoo during her sister Leyas visit last summer...
Ole Christian woke up Nishit, too, before passing out. Poor kid.. Udisha had forgotten him downstairs so that he couldn't access his sleeping mat.
Nishit decides to finish a painting, though the Narrator would much rather have him sleep to be rested before school tomorrow...
The parents go to sleep, as Nishit finishes his painting to a value of 43 simoleons. And the Narrator notices there is a bunch of filthy laundry everywhere.. disgusting. They do have laundry machines in their garage, so there is no excuse..
By morning Nishit wakes up to play with his annoying imaginary friend, that he is of course very fond of.. who needs breakfast, when you have such a good friend to talk to?
Besides that, its a beatiful mild, green and rainy february morning for the commuters in the west coast town of Bewickton (in comparison to Lake Onebega in the mountains, and Sprottenham on the east coast that still has snow).
Udisha wakes up to make breakfast, and she is pretty far into her pregnancy now. She is due to give birth to their third child sometime around mid March.
Elsewhere this morning, I find that Udishas parents, Laranya and Deepak, along with her sister Nitya, have chosen to hangout at the fitness centre. “I took my family here to get a good workout” says Deepak (age: 68). “It is important to keep the body strong and the mind sharp, also for artists and painters. Especially now that we are getting older...”
Nitya (age: 21) is on the treadmill, next to Sølvi Sjanto (age: 58). Sølvi is actually older than the Narrator thought she was. It was assumed that she was in her 30s, but it can be a little hard to tell a sims age sometimes...
“Nnnghh!! This is leg day for me!” says Laranya (age: 71).
Udishas brother, Bhavan the firefighter (age: 23) is at home jamming on his guitar. His shift at the fire station hasn't started yet. Udishas other brother, Palash (age: 30), is at work in his business career, hanging out by the water cooler and chatting up his colleagues..
After Udisha has finished her breakfast, the Narrator directs her clean up the house, because its an absolute stinking mess...
Udisha is a very ambitious person, she just has to get in a bit of work, even if she is on pregnancy leave. “I have to keep up to date and keep my skills sharp” she says “I can't fall behind in my career just because I want kids!”
Bhavan is now at the fire station, where he just finished some maintenance on the fire alarm, when his colleague Vemund Rokne comes out again to argue with him. Vemund is jealous of Bhavans popularity and a bit of a hothead...
Nishit goes to visit the Stabell-Jones family after school. They live right next door to his grandparents, Deepak and Laranya. His friend there is Emilia Stabell-Jones (age: 11), almost twice his age. Sometimes its good to have an older friend to keep the bullies away.
It is also nice to have a friend with such an awesome treehouse to play in! Or sleep in, if you didn't get enough sleep the night before, because you have a screaming little brother and you decided to spend the night painting...
And here's another one that didn't get enough sleep the night before.. going to sleep immediately after his shift at the police station.
The Narrator makes a jump to Palashs house, and he looks a little sleepy too... what is it with you guys and staying up at night? :P He lives alone and has no children, so it shouldn't be that hard for him to keep a steady rhythm.. or maybe thats why it is hard for him... it wouldn't surprise the Narrator if he was out at a bar or a night club all night yesterday...
Back at the fire station, Sofia Karlsen, which is the love interest of Palash, just shared some juicy gossip about Vemund.”I heard he likes to run circles around his house naked in the middle of the night” she said, and they both have a laugh at it. I'm not sure if those rumours are true, though, because I haven't seen him do that, but who knows.
Oh, and the fire station in Bewickton has a juice bar.. The Narrator is not so sure if thats a good idea..
“Hahaha! Its a perfect idea!” says Bhavan “Every workplace should have one!” Yeah, well, I'm not convinced... you know, if everyone gets juiced, who is going to drive the fire truck? Bhavan: Oh, don't worry.. we only have one small sip, we don't get juiced when we're on duty!
Alright, if you say so...
Udisha is feeling the back pains from her pregancy...
..but still decides to spend some time teaching Ole Christian to walk.
Back at the fire station, Sofia Karlsen is being her usual self and bragging about her swimming pool. He is amused by her gossip, but doesnt care for her bragging. Braggarts are the most boring and annoying people...
With the old man Dudleif asleep and not doing anything interesting, the Narrator wants to stop by some of his family members, just to see what they are like.
This is Dudleifs mother, Marianne Skurchk (age: 83), with her second oldest son Bill Knekknes-Skurchk (age: 65) and his wife Julienne Knekknes-Skurchk (age: 43). Look at those grumpy faces! I think I can understand why Dudleif doesn't want anything to do with these guys... even if they appear to be well off. Material goods isn't everything, especially not if they have been acquired through illegal means... They walk inside the house, and just as I am about to follow them, something else is going on..
Udisha was just picking up Ole Christian to go to bed when her water broke... Now she has to rush to the hospital.. this baby is in a hurry! It wants out, about two weeks early!
As she is heading out, Nishit comes home.
Nishit: Hi, mom. Where are you going? Udisha: To the hospital, the baby is coming! Dad is upstairs and asleep, can you watch over Ole-Christian for me? Nishit: Oh.. oh, I want to see! Can I come with you!? Udisha: No, I think it is better you stay at home with your brother.
Honestly, I don't think you would want to see your mother giving birth, Nishit...
She picked the police car to go there. She tried to put the sirens on, but couldn't figure out how to work it. She still drove as fast as she could go!
As she enters the hospital door, Dudleif finally wakes up to realize where she has gone. “Time to go to the hospital again!” he thinks running as fast as he can.
They got a baby girl, and named her Madhunisha, meaning “pleasant night” since she was born at night. Weighing in at 3105 grams, she was a little lighter than the average, but the doctors reassured Udisha that was not a huge problem, as long as it was made sure her little baby girl was properly cared for. Madhunisha was born with the traits clumsy and easily impressed, both traits from her father.
Dudleif was afterwards in a real hurry to get home. “I must put Ole-Christian to bed!” he says as he runs by. Udisha has to walk with Madhunisha in her stroller, so she takes her time.
At home Nishit couldn't sleep when Ole Christian kept crying, so he went to finish his homework.
Udisha puts Madhunisha in her new crib and brings Ole-Christian upstairs, and Dudleif takes a bath, before everyone eventually goes to sleep and the month ends.
The toddlers in my towns somehow almost always fail to understand that their head should go on the pillow...
Anyway.... next on the list is Sprottenham (the town, not me!) and the Flansbarne-Jiggens family.
@Sprottenham I really like Dudley/Dudleif . I grew fond of him in a past game, he was a good guy.
Ah the laundry hassle, I know it well! I try to only give it to the responsible ones, and even give the magic hamper too! LOL I still get dirty laundry on the floor!
Yes those imaginary friends have too strong a pull on them don't they, like a sugar addiction, or worse!
Ah great to see Bhavan again!
''.”I heard he likes to run circles around his house naked in the middle of the night” '' hey ow that is a pretty good rumor! I haven't seen that one before! Mine are all boring about some husband flirting with his wife. yep that's it.
hmmm juice bar at the firestation! well let's hope it is just one sip!
oh yes, Dudleifs' family, all the adults are pretty rotten! Those faces!!!
Oh Yay Dudleif didn't miss the birth of his daughter! Madhunisha, I like the meaning of the name! she is a very cute baby!
What's the magic hamper? They do have clothes baskets in all their rooms where they normally switch clothes (bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.)
Well, I kind of made that rumour thing up. It doesn't always say what they talk about when they gossip, but I imagined they said something nasty about that Vemund guy. He always shows up to start an argument with Bhavan. He's such an annoying guy, he deserves to be trash talked.
Poor Agathi is found crying in the bathroom because she is no longer friends with Ramger, after she denied his flirting at the party Baturney held last month...
Yeah, it sucks to lose a friend, but chin up! Give it some time, and I'm sure you can become friends again... Looks like the horror and crime novelist has a soft spot...
..and it looks like Ramger thinks he can make money by playing guitar outside their house in the middle of the night. Sim logic.
When morning comes, and Baturney is in the bath, I switch by the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household. Bodil is of course on her way to school and Gaute is already at work, since he starts his shift so early.
Leya is inside, placing Orinder in the crib in the living room, that was there since their christmas party. “It is so convenient to have an extra crib here” she says, “then I can always keep the baby close to me.”
“And when he grows up, I hope he will be just as fond of music as I am. Its best to start early!” she says as she whips out her guitar to play the blues.
Which brings me to another musician friend of ours, Solvej. Where are you going?
“I'm going to Harbor Park” she says.
Aha.. and you're going to walk all the way over there?
“Yeah, what about it? I like a good walk.”
No, I'm just thinking you might get a little cold... that you might do with some warmer clothing..
“Oh, don't you worry. I've been out in winter weather before.. this is nothing!”
Alright, then.. I'll check back on you once you have made it to the park...
Back in the Jiggens-Flansbarne house Agathi is making sure that Ruben gets his morning milk, before she thinks she can get some more sleep.. but Iselin is crying because she needs her company, so nope...
I locate Solvej, she has now made it to just outside the library. Bet she is gloating now, because the all the snow has melted in record time!
“I knew this would happen.. see, no problem!” she says, as she walks on.. ...and is nearly ran over by this orange car. It manages to sverve around her just in time!
The driver of the car is Anne-Gerd Jørgensen, and in the backseat is Kari Slettemoen, both of them are colleagues of Leya and Solvej. The other passanger, Dimitov Slettemoen is married to Kari, and a colleague of Patrik. I tell Anne-Gerd to watch it, and ask where she could be going in such a hurry.
"We're going to the Youth House of Science” she says. “I found some strange looking beetles in our kitchen yesterday, and I want to take samples of them”. Alright, you go and do that... just try to drive a little more carefully! You almost found yourself guilty of manslaughter...
Solvej walks on and makes it to the park in one piece, while Agathi sits down to write her next chapter on her novel, “The Zombie Kitchen”.
Agathi: In this chapter, Natalie is pushed by an unseen demonic force towards an open ovens door, so that she catches fire!
Say what? An unseen demonic force?
Agathi: Yes! But this is only the beginning! Now don't disturb me, I have to write!
Ok, ok.. I'll leave you alone...
Alright, Solvej, now all of a sudden you got into your car.. where are you going now? Solvej: I'm going home... to my garden. I have to look after my plants now that the snow has melted.
Solvej: Oh, well... they are still frozen... I'm gonna have to look at how I built that greenhouse.. They shouldn't be frozen.. Can you believe that it even snowed inside of it!?
As she enters her home lot, it starts to rain and Patrik comes out. Patrik:Hi darling, lets go have som fun at the disco tonight.. Mmm, and when we get home I'll eat you up with parsley sauce and potatoes!
Solvej: Hahaha, Patrik.. what is that supposed to mean!?
Solvej: This is my favorite part of the year, now that the sun is returning more and more each day, don't you think?
Patrik: Oh, definitely.. perfect time to do some spring cleaning.... in the bedroom!
Riight.. think I'll leave these two alone for a while...
Leya is still playing the blues for Orinder, but I don't think he's enjoying it all that much anymore...
Then it is time for Agathi to go to work. Gaute should be finished working by now, so I check where he is.
He just exited the store, and went around the corner to sit on a bench next to a couple of strangers...
Baturney is home from work, and he has a wish to talk to Gaute, so why not invite him over? “Good idea” he says, before getting his phone out.
And then I get this message... huh, what? Grønnåkerveien 15 (Greenacre road 15).. that's Solvejs home. Did he just buy it to rent it out to them? What? I didn't know my sims could do that...
So this guy, Kabelo Gundersen, is a landlord now.. interesting. Solvej is right in front of him, going shopping, so I guess they just finished the deal..
Well, I just installed a new Money module to NRAAS Story Progression mod, so maybe that explains it.. primarily to increase the bills/taxes sims have to pay, because they just get rich way to easily.... I haven't looked at its settings yet...
Anyway... Gaute has now come over to visit Baturney, and Baturney has sat down to play with one of Rubens toys.. Baturney has always been a little childish. When he was a teenager, he wasn't to interested in the circus animals. He would much rather take on the role of playing as a clown, and thats how he started his career. He eventually took over the role as the circus director when his father, Listoof Flansbarne, retired from the business.
Gaute is really good with children, but he does not have the family oriented trait. So I wonder why? :P While Baturney is sitting in the living room being childish, Gaute functions as a baby sitter and takes care of his children!
“This is how I learned to take care of children” says Gaute. “My mom, Leonora, was always so good to me and my two older siblings. Dole Plains (Dølasletta) was a very good place for us to grow up... and I want every child to experience the same thing.”
Even Agathi with the evil personality trait is a better parent than Baturney...
Gaute and Baturney discuss politics. This year is election year where the citizens of Simbria will cast their votes in october, and politicans, such as Baturney, should already be busy with their election campaign. During the last election in 2018 the “blue block” parties won for their second period, and the citizens of Simbria might want a change of direction come this years election...
2018 Election Results inside spoiler:
While Gaute is at home with Baturney and his kids to discuss politcs, I locate Bodil at Harbor Park, about to do her homework... and everyone keeps thinking about swimming pools... Bodils mother Leya is at work along with Solvej and Agathi.
Gaute has always been a nature and outdoors enthusiast, and thinks politicians should do more to preserve forests and wildlife. He is considering voting for The Greens this year, and wants to know if the Labour Party, which Baturney represents, have any plans for taking care of nature.
“Oh, we have good plans for both nature and animal rights” says Baturney, “but people also need jobs.” It wasn't excactly the answer Gaute had hoped for, and certainly wouldn't convince him to change his vote.”I think I will stick with what I have already decided” Gaute says, though he is still juggling alternatives. His other alternative is to vote for the Central Party, which is mostly an agrarianist party.
Baturney finally understands that he has to feed Iselin, and puts her in her crib to sleep.
Gaute turn off the tv, and goes to pick up Ruben to tickle him, which breaks the tv, so Baturney has to call for a repair man.
I check up on Bodil, and she is going out to visit the Harbor Art Gallery. “I know its almost bedtime, but mommy and daddy isn't at home, and our babysitter is a nobody, so I can do what I want...”
She is a true Chitrakaar, that girl.
Agathi came home from work, dead tired. Both her and Baturney went to sleep.
Gaute is still there, though, being the perfect babysitter for their children!
“This garden gnome is the most beatiful thing I have ever seen!”
Bodils mother, Leya, is putting Orinder in the crib downstairs to draw another sketch.
Patrik, Solvej and Rune hangs out at the Harbor Park, but it is getting late and they are looking tired.
Rune knows its way past his bedtime, so he heads home. Patrik and Solvej wants some romantic time for themselves under the stars...
Anyway, february has now ended, and its time to leave them for now, and start this round of jumping between towns all over again, by returning to Sunset Valley for march...
Alright, this thread has been idle for a month now, so its probably time for an update here as well...
Chapter 14.1 - Sunset Valley, March 2022: Jonathan and Sofies parents, part I.
Person on picture: Kleopatra Motor-Karlsen.
Last month, I had to stop by the Motor-Karlsen family, so that Kleopatra could age up to a teenager, but now we are back at the Kråke-Karlsen household again, where Ingrid is waiting for the new house to built so that she can move out of her parents home...
Person on picture: Ingrid Kråke-Karlsen.
Last month they had gotten the outer walls up on the house, but no wood panelling, inside walls or roof/ceiling, so lets see how far along they are now..
Oh, now its starting to look like something. The house has a roof, finally. the outer walls have wood panelling, and the inner walls are up. Most of the work should be interior now, and quite possibly they will be done by the end of this month. Of course, its not a big house by any means, as it is meant to be only a starter house for young adults, but atleast it is something new and fresh for our young Miss Snobby McSnob!
Jonathan of course, wakes up to read in his daughters bedroom.. even though they have a reading spot in their own!
Morten goes to school while Kathrine and Ingrid have to go to work at their respective workplaces, the hospital and the town hall. Jonathan has the day off and spends it cleaning around the house. He has the neat personality trait which he inherited from his mom. In addition he buys a new bookshelf and a seesaw.
For some reason him and Kathrine have gotten into buying more kids toys recently...
Now speaking of Jonathans mom, I think it is time for the family to pay a visit to Jonathan (and his sister Sofies) parents and their living arrangement...
While Jonathan does his cleaning, I check up on Jarle and Iselin to see how they are doing. They are expecting a new baby, and are as romantic as ever.
Jonathan gets a wish to learn charisma, so he drives off in his fast and fancy car (..or was that furious?) to town to check if there is a course to attend.
While Jonathan attends his course in charisma, this message pops up. Sofie is Jonathans sister and Kleopatras mother. Police has gotten a little stricter lately, it would seem.. I don't think Sofie would be the one to do anything wrong... Now I want to follow her, just to see what she is up too. Currently she is standing outside the Amundsen and co. Cartoon store (nerd hangout). Not the grocery store as the pop-up said...
She goes home, picks up Walter, and then actually goes to grocery store....
As she does so, Jonathan is finished with his course in charisma. All his wishes at the moment are related to Kathrine and Morten, so there isn't much to direct him too. You're free to roam mister, show me what you want to do.
Well, he's not doing anything sensible besides surfing his phone and practicing the school uh.. school slogan shout dance thing.. (yeah, I don't know what you actually call that in english...) even though he never went to university... so I send him off to visit his mom and dad, Lucie and Asgeir Karlsen.
Jonathan always had a good relationship with both of his parents, in spite of their fighting and consequential divorce. Like his sister, he lived with his father ever since Lucie was kicked out, but he would often go fishing with her when he was a child and teenager, which was pretty much his only way of meeting and hanging out with his mom.
This monstrosity of a house is his parents home where he grew up. It wasn't all that much when his parents first moved into town back in the 1970s, but as they excelled in their careers and got wealthier, of course, the house also got bigger and bigger....
The garden in front is Lucies garden, as she was, and perhaps still is, an avid gardener and fisher. I don't know, I haven't had them as the active household in a long time.
Jonathans father Asgeir comes around the corner to let him in. As he doesn't walk out the front door, it looks like he has been hanging out inside Lucies apartment. Yes, she does live there now, but in her own apartment with a back entrance... Their backstory has been mentioned a few times already so I'm hopefully not boring you to much with it...., but their relationship went south after Lucie cheated on Asgeir with Beau Andrews at work... which resulted in fighting in the home, and a divorce where she got kicked out.
Picture: Backside of the house with the main entrance to Lucies apartment.
When they had grandchildren, Asgeir had built an apartment, and offered for her to move back in, given that she lived there. In the beginning he had closed off the rest of to house to her, to avoid any fighting between them. They were still not friends, and would get into physical fights with each other everytime they got near each other.. it was quite difficult to have them reconciliate this relationship! They have remained friends since, but never remarried.
Picture: Backside of the house with Lucies entrance into the backyard (left), and the main backyard entrance (right).
You might not think so, when you look at these old cosy people nowadays, that they used to hate each others guts, but they were quite troublesome... the radical opposite of what I wanted them to be... I wanted to create happy family moments with these guys... They were to be the founding family of my legacy... what a mess it turned out to be..
Another view of their house with the playground area and swimming pool. They may not have had much of a stable family life, but atleast they had money.... If you're going to cry, at least do it in nice surroundings... or well, I don't remember excactly how the quote went, but something like that...
Jonathan shares some gossip with his old man, before he goes inside to the library to read. His father is a writer and a painter, and of course, has a lot of books. Fact: One of these bookshelves is in fact a secret passageway... However, this is from before I had any expansion packs installed, so I had to do it the slightly more cumbersome way being going into build mode and move the bookshelf everytime the passageway was to be used..
Behind the bookshelf is a secret staircase leading down into the basement... Supernatural was the last expansion pack I bought, so if I make this my active household sometime later, I might change the bookshelf to the passageway it was meant to be.
Anyway, I hear the sound of videogames from somewhere in the house, which probably means that his mother is also home.
And yes, she is. This is Lucie, sitting in her apartment section playing video games.
Looks like Jonathan wants to visit his mom. He has gone out in the backyard to enter her apartment section that way. There are no doors on the inside between the main part of the house and her section.
On the first floor of her section is this tiny hallway, a staircase and a bathroom to the right.
On the second floor is a small kitchen and dining area, as well as her living space with a couch and a tv. Well, there should have been a small dining table here with four chairs, but somehow it has disappeared...
The first thing Lucie does when she sees her son again is to walk up to him and brag about her arcade gaming skills..
They stand there for a while and discuss books and writing. Lucie isn't a bookworm, but can't help but be affected by the rest of the familys interest in anything book related...
Then she picks up the book he left on the kitchen bench to put it back into the shelf. Lucie has always been a neat and orderly person.
She has to walk by Asgeir on the way there. They both glance at each other, but neither of them say a word.
Kathrine is finished with her shift at the hospital, and comes over to visit as well. Asgeir hears the doorbell ringing, but can't pull himself away from the tv to react..
Kathrine eventually makes it inside and goes for a drink... Could probably need to wind down a bit after a stressful day at the hospital, with heart transplantations and other surgeries left and right...
Lucie has become a bit of nerd in her older days, and offends Jonathan for what she thinks is a lack of brains in him.. even if he is a top level scientist!
Nice move, mom...
Kathrine has finished her drink and is now feeling a little buzzed, so she runs out to play with the sprinkler...
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Ingrid is finished with her shift at the town hall, and goes to visit her grandparents house as well. I want to see how this family interacts.. Morten attends the boy scouts as his after school activity.
Asgeir hears the doorbell once more, but is still occupied with watching tv. Really, can't you pull your eyes away from that thing? Your son, daughter in law and grand-daughter is visiting! But I guess you were never much of a family man.. huh?
Kathrine takes the opportunity to brag to Lucie about her arcade gaming skills. Mother-in-law is impressed. Jonathan yawns, because he's heard this a thousand times before.
Ingrid the snob finds her way into her grandmothers apartment to check her own appearance in the mirror. The house to the left is the home of Egil and Frida Kråkesen, Kathrines parents, and Ingrids other set of grandparents. We might visit them later.
Ingrid is just like her grandfather Egil, and her aunt Helene. Obsessed with their own appearance and mirrors.
Jonathan and Kathrine is being playful with each other. Mom/Grandma/Mother-in-law Lucie approves.
Lucie is retired from her job as a well reknown surgeon, so when Kathrine starts talking about her job at the hospital, she pays attention with keen interest. Lucie and Kathrine has one thing in common there.
Ingrid has gone to watch the news channel in her grandmas living space. The plaque on the wall is Lucies diploma from the high school in her hometown of Pamtere. Hopefully a town I will get to introduce later. Both Asgeir and Lucie grew up there, before they moved to Sunset Valley.
Kathrine goes for another drink. I'm not sure if I like this...
Lucie goes back to her apartment section. Asgeir and Lucies relationship isn't bad nowadays, but communication between them appears to be at a bare minimum... They prefer to keep to themselves most of the time.. The missing dining table is really visible on this picture (because I kow it was there. :P). I went back to an earlier save, and found it there, so I will put something back here, next time I play...
But I think its good that grandma and grand-daughter get a chance to hangout. The deathfish on the wall is Lucies proudest catch. She had lots and lots more fish in her inventory, but they have been sold to reduce the size of the save file... she sold them because they took up to much space in the freezer...
Lucie wants to play video games again, maybe that is her favorite past time nowadays. To old for fishing like you used to?
Ingrid thinks that Asgeir and Lucie have a very big nice house, but is a bit curious about why Lucie has her own apartment in the same house like she does. She has understood that there has been something going on inbetween her grandparents, but Jonathan has been a bit silent about this part. Even if he has seemed largely unaffected, of course, it was still painful to have his parents fight and divorce like they did...
Lucie pretends not to hear her grand-daughter circling in on the topic of their home situation, so Ingrid instead switches to talk about her job. She really wants to advance and reach the top level of the political career... and perhaps granny has some wise words to share..
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As this update became very long, I choose to end it here, and get back to posting part II of their family visit a little later.
Nothing new happens in this part, its just more of the same.
Chapter 14.1 - Sunset Valley, March 2022: Jonathan and Sofies parents, part II.
Ingrid eventually gets bored of her grandmas video game playing, and goes to play chess with her grandfather instead.
Then Asgeir notices he has a lot in common with Kathrine and wants to get to know her better.. romantically speaking. No, come on man... so your own marriage failed miserably, but leave your sons marriage alone!
As Asgeir is busy talking with Katrhine, Ingrids action turns into solo chess practice.
Asgeir wants to know if Kathrine is as good at cleaning around the house as his ex-wife. Kathrine is not to happy about this question.. "Why on earth would he want to know that?"
Then she, oddly enough, decides to flirt with him. That is not well received, because Asgeir being a more straight forward and pragmatic person has never really been into such...
Morten is now finished with his after school activity, but has no interest in visiting his grandparents.
He was about to go there by my direction, but he turned on his bike and went home instead. "I'm going to invite Kristina for a visit" he tells me. Kristina is the little sister of Inge (Oliver Freddys girlfriend, both currently at university). Morten gets some happiness points when she promises to be over in a few minutes.
At the same time it starts to rain, so everyone at the Karlsen mansion goes inside.
Ingrid wants to take a picture with her dad, to memorize the event of visiting her grandparents home. She chooses to take the picture in the kids section where Jonathan and Sofie used to play when they where children.
And thats when I notice that there used to be a painting on that wall... Asgeir is a painter as well as a writer, and has painted a lot of paintings. I look around the house, and see that all the paintings are actually gone.. (I did find them in an old backed up file, so they will be restored some time later.)
And Ingrid suffers a routing error, and gets transported right back home, but that didn't really happen, so I send her back...
In the meantime, I look up Ranveig, Oliver Freddys mother, to check up on her and see how she is doing. I locate her at the bowling alley in a group of other people, where she just ordered a surprise stew. How are you doing?
Ranveig: Oh, I'm doing.. alright.. but I had this strange dream tonight.. I woke up at home, and thought everything was as usual, except the house was very empty, not even Robert Bråge was there..
Ranveig: And when I walked out the door, I was.. I don't know where I was, but everything looked different..
Ranveig: I turned back and.. my home was no longer my home, but some other building.. and.. I don't know, I was in a completely different place..
Ranveig: Some semi-desert looking town with only brick buildings and surrounded by this wall.. It felt claustrophobic.. like some indescribable darkness loomed over this place...and it was all empty..
Ranveig: I walked around feeling lost and looking for people, but there was nobody there..
Ranveig: And it didn't feel like a dream either, it felt so real, I thought it was actually happening..
Ranveig:I walked around in that strange town for what seemed like hours, until I somehow passed out.. and when I woke up.. again.. I was in my own bed, and it wasn't until then that I realized I had only been dreaming..
Ranveig: I have always had these weird dreams ever since I was little, I don't know.. but most of them don't feel like this... It was.. I don't know.. kind of eerie...
Ranveig: But other than that I'm doing.. I'm doing fine.. thanks for asking..
Back at the Karlsens residence, Ingrid had just returned in the doorway and the sometimes grumpy old Asgeir was now suddenly mad at his son for not visiting more often...
Jonathan apologizes before asking his father how his days has been...
Asgeir: Oh, its good, the usual, you know..
Jonathan knew his father well, and was familiar with his grumpy mood, so that he could sometimes be a little.. argumentative was something he was accustomed too..
Katrhine calls her daughter outside to have their picture taken. She wants a memory of this visit as well.
And then they do the same thing again, this time with Ranveigs parents (Ingmar and Eirin Motorsen) house as a backdrop.. Yup, all the original elders lives on the same street.
Lucie finally shows her face downstairs, and to my surprise, she actually flirts with Asgeir. So there is some romance left between them after all! And Asgeir, the usually unflirty one, even flirts back! Would you look at that!
Of course, it was only a brief flirt, it didn't last very long, but I am very pleased nonetheless!
Lucie goes into the library, to interrupt Jonathans chess practice. She has something on her chest that she wants to deliver. She doesn't dive right in, but circles around the topic somewhat, and comes with a half-hearted apology for how things happened between her and Asgeir back then.. Jonathan is overbearing, and accepts. He has always had a close relationship with his mom, and has a lot of good memories from everytime she would take him fishing when he was a child and a teenager. Thoguh his father wasn't the easiest of people to share a roof with due to his grumpiness, Jonathan will never fully understand why she would cheat on him though, but he never really held any grudges about it...
Then I get a notification from the game that Sofie, Jonathans younger sister, has improved her skills in drum playing to level two. I check her location and find her practicing in the basement at the Blitzkrieg house (the towns rebel hangout).
And Kathrine wants to have her picture taken with Asgeir, her father-in-law. Its important to saviour these family moments when you can, even if your family isn't perfect. Well, whose family is perfect anyway?
And now they are all (except for Ingrid upstairs checking her reflection in the mirror..) gathered in the library This room was also where Jonathan and Kathrine had their first kiss, when they were dating as teenagers... Asgeir was being grumpy again. Jonathan was offended, but Lucie just laughed it off this time..
Lucie tries to reconciliate the relationship... They are "just friends", but there are a few romantic interactions between them, still.. after all these years and with everything that has happened between them...
Asgeir doesn't reject and happily smells the flowers.
Jonathan wants another one for the photo album. "Smile dad, you grumpy old fart!"
Lucie is an over emotinal person, and has to shed a few tears of happiness over her sons visit. (The pictures on table behind Asgeir is Ingrid when she was a toddler).
Asgeir brags to Kathrine about his grandchildren, apparently proud to have snobs in the family...
And speaking of snobs, Ingrid is finally finished admiring her appearance in the mirror and meets up with the rest of the family. Her mom wants to take another picture, but the flash hits them both right in the eyes.
Asgeir brags to Kathrine about his grandchild Walter. Walter is Sofies son.
The rest of the night its just lots more bragging about grandchildren and picture taking, with mixed results...
Kathrine has become especially occupied with the picture taking...
Everyone is starting to get tired, but Kathrine and Lucie still find time to walk over into Lucies apartment for a friendly pillow fight.
Kathrine: Ingrid, just one more picture in this bathroom upstairs...
Ingrid: Ow, the flash mom.. the flash!
Jonathan is feeling the lack of energy now, and he has work tomorrow, so it is time for him to go home...
Kathrine is reading a book, "Illusions" in Jonathans old bedroom. "I will go home after finishing this book", she says, "Its getting late for me too"
Lucie is also getting very tired and goes to sleep in her.. umm, goes all the way up to sleep in the guest room. Not her own bed, but umm.. as long as she is getting a good nights sleep, of course, she can sleep whereever she wants...
Asgeir is still up, drinking coffee, but maybe its bedtime for him soon as well...
He used to spend his nights up writing in his younger days, just like this... Maybe he could be a good mentor for Inge, Oliver Freddys girlfriend, because she aspires to be just like that.. an illustrious writer pulling all nighters, just like Asgeir.. because somehow they think that will fuel their creativity..
Morten has since long gone to sleep in his treehouse...
Kathrine finished reading the book, time to find Ingrid and go back home to get some sleep...
Kathrine: Come along, Ingrid, we're going back home!
"Bye grandpa!" Ingrid says on the way out.
And that ends this visit and seals this update... nighty night.
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If you bothered to go through all that, congratulations! Here's an additional old youtube video of my sims for additional time wasting!
The video begins with a rare and very old video clip of the founder of the Sunset Valley Chess Club, H.K.H. Høigaffel. The excact timing is unsure, but it has estimated to be from 1843.
Then it quickly jumps forward to 1993 and Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother. You can see the teenage Ranveig in the back, as well as her younger siblings, Monica, and one of the twin brothers, either Knut or Eivind. It could be Eivind that later ended up marrying Sofie, because he is the one interested in chess, but I could be wrong about that.
1994 - Frida Kråkesen, Kathrine and Helenes mother is absent minded and burned something on the stove... Frida Kråkesen had two lifetime wishes, the first one being to have a perfect garden..
1995 - Ine Melhus was Asgeirs girlfriend for a while, following his divorce with Lucie, but he dumped her after a while, because she was to childish....
1997 - Kathrines parents dancing in their workout room... notice the mirror in front of the treadmill.
1999 - Asgeir Karlsen as an adult, and Sofie Karlsen as a teenager.
2000 - Three childhood friends. Kathrine is now a young adult. The other two are still teenagers. Excuse the cameraman here, he was still learning...
2001 - Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother, digging through trash cans looking for clues about criminals. She is now retired, but worked in the police career.
2001 - Egil helps Helene with homework.
2002 - Helene ages up to a young adult.
2002- Erin Kennedy had moved in with Mortimer Goth in her older days. This was around the time when Mortimers parents died of old age. Erin died some years later.
2003 - Holly Alto grieves over her recently deceased husband. She died not to long after this, and her grave is placed right next to his. Yeah, this video ends on a sad note..
After Sunset Valley, it is time to return to our friends at university. They are both asleep and dreaming about some.. yellow masked super hero or, I don't know what that is supposed to be.
As they are sleeping, I hear a strange rattling sound from out in the hallway. I see Cody Eisenberg (one of their dorm mates) practicing pool with the kitchen machine on the pool table. He was just about to finish when I saw him, because when Inge and Oliver Freddy are asleep, the game runs on fast mode. Even though there are more sims living in this dorm, the pair are the only ones I can have as active sims. The others I have no impact over, I don't even know all of them.
Such as this guy. I guess he lives there, but I have no idea who he is. Hardly relevant, so lets ignore him.. :P
But I know who Liz Tarry is. My sims aren't awake yet, but she is now up for an early breakfast. Hot dogs, what better way to start the day.. hmm?
I guess she is a bit absent minded, because after eating, she walks up the stairs and stops there as if she forgot why she just did so. Then she walks back down again, possibly hoping to remember what plans she had up there. Oh, I recognize that one. You don't have to be a sim, to do that...
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Inge is the first of my sims to wake up, pondering about the future of her career. "I'm probably going to need a regular job at first, before I can make a living off of my own writing" she thinks.
Oliver Freddy: *purr purr* Tonight I dreamt I was a cat. It was wondeful. Sleeping by the fire place all day, and chasing mice at night... Inge: Hahaa hahaa hahaaa.. don't be silly!
Inge has other thoughts on her mind, as well, as she heads downstairs to watch some television. She would like to have children one day. She hasn't discussed this with Oliver Freddy, though. They are still young, with many years ahead of them, and things might change. But so far, their plan is to finish university, and go back to living in Sunset Valley.
Oliver Freddy has a quick breakfast with waffles, not eating at the same table as Daniel Vaughn, before he heads to the computer to study. I believe Daniel Vaughn to be Liz Tarrys love interest, as she sometimes flirts with him.
As Oliver Freddy sits at the computer to study, and Inge walked downstairs after finishing a shower (in the background inside) Liz walked outside in the still cold spring weather in her sleepwear to find that the path is blocked by a bunch of snowmen... but they should hopefully be melting soon.. Daniel Vaughn is outside, drawing a sketch of the still frosty windows.
Liz Tarry gives up trying to go to wherever she was going, and goes inside to play computer games. Inge is also at the computer, preparing for todays lecture. Yup, its boring, but both of them really want an A for this semesters exam, and that doesn't come without working on it...
Daniel Vaughn finishes his sketch outside, and goes to talk to Liz Tarry. She begins flirting with him, and is clearly smitten.
But Daniel, though he appears to enjoy her flirting, doesn't really look to interested, so the feelings probably aren't mutual... "Silly girl, I've got her around my pinky" he thinks...
Then she goes out in the spring rain for a while to look at those snowmen, and well. .just stands there for quite some time... She is definately acting a little absent minded these days.. poor girl... The snowmen are melting.. just like her heart...
After a while, the snowmen melt away completely, and she finally gets dressed... Oliver Freddy is finished studying on the computer, and goes out to talk to her. They discover that both of them have the good trait in common. Oliver Freddy begins to find Liz attractive, and gets one wish to be naked in a swimming pool, and another to bathe naked with Liz...
While Oliver Freddy is outside chatting up one of his roommates, his girlfriend is inside making pancakes.. "I hope not to burn them this time!" Inge says.
"These pancakes actually turned out quite good" Inge says, and they should as she just reached level 4 in the cooking skill.
Oliver Freddy and Liz stand outside talking for a long time until Liz gets a little absent minded again...
Then its time for Oliver Freddy to go to his lecture, and he runs by this contraption. I'm hoping thats where his lecture is, but he just keeps on running. Todays lecture is just a rabbit hole one.
Inge does some more preparing for her lecture. Her academic results so far have not been on par with her boyfriend, so she has a little more work to do.
After studying for a while, she wants to head over to the wall behind the book store to practice graffiti. She still hasn't acquired her first skill point in it, a wish she has had since before the christmas party in Sunset Valley when she was caught red handed by Ranveig, possibly her future mother-in-law, at the rebel hangout... On her way there, she takes her usual short cut through the bushes...
She isn't to far away from her fist skill point, which she gets and her wish is granted.
She is proud of her doing, though I wouldn't excactly call that a work of art, but hey.. its a start..
Then she runs off to talk about university with Ashley Corono. I don't know who Ashley is, but Inge wants to make more friends, so maybe she will make one here.
Ashley tries to walk away, but Inge follows her to keep talking.
Inge keeps talking all the way until she has to go to her lecture. Lizzie Mund comes to listen. Lizzie was the first one Inge talked to on her first semester, but they haven't had much contact so far this semester.
Inge keeps an eye on Ashley as she leaves. She looks to be more interested in talking to Ashley, then Ashley is in talking to her...
Oliver Freddy was practicing chess out in the rain, but I want him to study more, so I send him off to the library. Their exam is coming up in may already...
After her lecture, Inge immediately wants to head home. University grounds aren't looking to bad now that the rain has stopped.
Her face immediately changes to a smile as soon as she is through the door.
She has a wish to make friends with Debbie Richards, so she invites her over, but Debbie isn't interested in showing up. Instead they talk on the phone for a while.
The phone call gives her a wish to give Debbie a friendly hug. As she hangs up, Oliver Freddy comes home from the library, but she only goes to watch tv, whereas he walks around looking at random pictures around the dorm..
For being boyfriend and girlfriend, they aren't really talking much to each other.. They're relationship started off so nicely when they were teenagers in Sunset Valley.. maybe this isn't meant to last, and they are now slowly slipping away from each other...
Inge after this has a wish to play computer games, so she goes to play Sim City on the computer, having plenty of fun building a city only to bombard it with meteors, tornadoes, alien invasion and a pool ladder shattering earthquake...
Oh, thats a bit scary isn't it... We wouldn't want pool ladders to randomly disappear, now, would we?
Even a game like Sim City can be a bit wicked, depends how you choose to play it...
After randomly watching pictures for a while, Oliver Freddy gets tired and goes to bed.. in his usual fashion wearing outerwear this time..
Inge follows shortly thereafter, and I'm a little surprised both of them went to bed this early, relatively speaking, but I guess they know that their exam is coming up in a short amount of time, and want to get the correct amount of rest. But as usual, them going to bed also means the end of this update, so.. good night. :P
Chapter 14.3 - Bewickton, March 2022 - Lets make paintings and songs about babies and fish...
For some reason, when I returned to to the Chitrakaar-Skurckh family I found Udisha in the bathroom preparing a meal...
The reason becomes clear when I see what her kitchen looks like.. didn't you clean that up last month!?
Udisha:Its hard being pregnant and taking care of a small baby.. you should try it yourself one day!
Ok, ok... well, I can't get pregnant, my body is completely incapable of that, and as for kids, well I don't know..
Things are rarely quiet in this household nowadays, even if she has her old man husband there to help out. Here he is feeding their last born baby girl, Madhunisha, after tucking in Ole Christian.. even though its early morning.. their sleep schedual is already borked...
As Udisha cleans up the kitchen, Nishit gets up and gets ready for school.
And just as he leaves, Kajsa Tangstad, the drummer from the band, "The Bushweeds", goes into labor and gives birth right outside her home.
She becomes the happy parent of a baby boy named Nikolai.
Kajsa lives in this house together with Betty Wills, on the same street as Udishas parents.
She walks out and offers to help Kajsa with taking care of and feeding the baby, though she is a little uncertain about what babies actually eat. "Do we feed him soup, or what do we do?" she asks. Kajsa just looks at her... "No, Betty.. he's not getting soup, atleast not yet. I will breastfeed him, of course...."
"And when he gets a little older, I will teach him to love music just as much as I do."
Oh, parents forcing their ideals onto their children.. he might become just like her, or he might rebel against her wishes and ideals and become a white collar businessman... what a nightmare that would be... :P
The town council was kind enough to buy a crib for Kajsas household, a service they give out to all households that doesn't have one, to ensure the welfare of all children, of course.
Udisha has many irons in the fire.. she is now the mother of three children, an aspiring artist and wants to excel in her career as a business woman.. She loves kids, but at the same time it annoys her that her career is progressing so slowly...
Nonetheless, she wants to teach Ole Christian to walk. She wants him to become as independent as possible as fast as possible, so that she can free up more time for painting and return to work...
Nishit has an excursion day, and I see that Betty Wills is actually his teacher.
And their excursion is, of course, at the local mausoleum and graveyard, which I find really odd, because in all my years at school, we never had such an excursion. Why do sim kids have to learn about death so much? :P
At home, Udisha has decided to take Ole Christian outside for some fresh air, even though her bladder is almost full, and I am worried she is going to wet her pants, but she has it all under control and no accidents happen. :P
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This is a picture of Kajsa "breastfeeding" her baby, just because I think its cute.
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Deepak has taken Udishas younger sister, Nitya, to the University Auditorium. None of his kids has gone to university, so he hopes to encourage her to be the first one. And of course, he just has to play some music in the background to set the mood..
Their mother, Laranya, has no university credits either, but plenty of experience as a hit movie composer, and here she is upstairs rehearsing for her guest lecture that she will hold for the art students.
The University Auditorium is the red building located next to the hospital and right in front of the Medical Students Study Hall.
Udishas youngest brother, Bhavan, is at the fire station keeping his body in shape.
When he leaves his shift, he gets the happy news that he has been promoted to Assistan Fire Chief. Only one rank left to climb, and he will have pretty much by himself fulfilled his life time wish!
Nishit is home from school, but thinks its to noisy at home...
"Bye mom, I'm going fishing!" Udisha: Watch out for traffic on the way, and be home before it gets dark. Nishit: Yes, mom.. see you later!
Nishit goes to the swampier parts of town to go fishing, and thinks its a good idea to hide in the grass. "If the fish can't see I'm here, they will probably be easier to catch". Nishit eventually fulfills his wish of catching a goldfish, his first fish.
Palash, Udishas oldest (and somewhat weird) brother has somehow bribed his way into The 1912, the towns upper class lounge. He must have paid a lot of money to the bouncer getting in looking like that. He's not excactly following the dress code....
He is single, but has Sofia Karlsen as his love interest, and she actually is interested in him too, but he is so odd, he just doesn't get it. His weird actions constantly sabotages any advances that she tries to make... so their relationship is at a standstill.. and now he is out on the town, slow dancing with Christina Østreng, a married woman, instead..
Correction: Palash is not single, he is engaged to Sofia Karlsen. I discovered this when I found them taking pictures outside his home the following afternoon. Though, he was a bit odd at the start of their relationship and it did take him a good while for it to sink in that she was interested in him. Or at least thats what it kind of looked like to me. He certainly had some strange and erratic behaviour, but yeah, now they are actually engaged somehow, so... yay!
Nishit is done fishing, and goes for his homework, still out in the swamp. Just remember what your mother told you, and get home before dark.
The 1912 looks like the place to be this month, and our teacher-by-day, party-animal-by-night Kjersti Jordal is also there, dressed up for the occasion. That outfit is sure to draw some attention, I should think.
And it does, but it appears to be unwanted. "Why can't a girl dress up as she wants to have a bit of fun without being hit on constantly?" Yeah, you can ask....
But there are no hard feelings and she goes on to converse with Andre and his wife. Andre is a celebrity in town, and The 1912 is the best place to hangout for meeting up with celebrities.
As it gets dark and begins to rain, Nishit decides to call it a night and heads back home to finish his last bit of homework.
The old man Dudleif is already tired, and has gone to bed...
Palash is being a bit sensible for once, maybe, and actually decides to leave the lounge and go home as well instead of staying up all night and getting weirder and weirder... As people sometimes can get if they have a bit to much of.. stuff... :P
Nishit has finished his homework, and goes to bed.
It rains a lot in the town of Bewickton. Sometimes quite a lot, and this night was one of those. It is good for Udisha and her family that their home has no basement, because there were a few reports around the town from people with flooded basements.... Poor Bhavan the fireman didn't get much sleep, he had to be out pumping water out of peoples homes all night...
And with the rain hammering on relentlessly outside, everyone in this family was fast asleep.. well, except for the last born Madhunisha, because babies are just annoying like that.
Chitrakaar family tree at plumtreeapp.com. A bit outdated, because on it Nishit is still a toddler and Madhunisha is not added yet. It also lacks Leya and Gautes last child, Orinder. I should update that one shortly once I find/get the right pictures.
Chapter 14.4 – Sprottenham March 2022 – Crime doesn't pay?
Shortly after february had turned to march, Baturney got up from his sleep in the middle of the night for a reason I didn't quite get, because there was nothing special going on that I could see that would wake him up. No burglar on the lot, and both Iselin and Ruben were silently asleep..
"I can hear someone playing ball in our unused bedroom across the hall" he told me. Oh.. of course, Gaute still hadn't left from visiting them..
So he joined him to play for a while, until Gaute figured out it was late and that he should go home to his own family..
Baturney went back to sleep, but it didn't last very long, because now Iselin had woke up and was crying for attention...
The parents had a short discussion about whose turn it was, before Agathi won or lost the discussion, depending on how you view it. :P
Baturney didn't go back to sleep, and simply decided to prepare breakfast.
Ruben woke up and wanted to play with his toys, but a little over halfway there he sat down to cry because it was still a little far to walk for the young one...
"Come on, you can do it, you're almost there..." Baturney said, "I have to watch these pancakes..."
After waking up once more to Iselin crying, Agathi figured that trying to sleep was pointless and went out into the living room to play with Ruben for a while.
And then I get the news that Solvej, Patrik and Rune has moved out of their home at the Millground Farm, but I get no notification about to where they have moved...
And as Agathi goes to eat breakfast and Baturney thinks its time to teach Ruben som toilet skills, I get several notifcations about the investments of the Gudmestad-Klinsmo couple. Robert and Sandra Gudmestad-Klinsmo are the towns head criminals, and all of a sudden they seem to have acquired some mysterious money....
Sykehuse Hellige Milt it is the Sacred Spleen Hospital.
Purchasing the hospital, a rental property and a new car just like that is not looking suspicious at all..
This must have something to do with the earlier incident where they sat parked in their 8-wheeled car-limo thing by the park.... well, I'll leave that for the police to solve, I'm not writing about crime and mysteries.. or am I?
Their peculiar car-limo thing outside of Cliffon Park from an earlier update.
Then finally I get a notification about where to the Rasmussen/Jensen family has moved to.
Their new home is the old Frumpenheimer house at Southfield road 15. What would instigate this move, I wonder?
I take a peak inside to overhear a conversation between Solvej and Patrik revealing that they had been saving up to do this for some time. "I am happy to make this move, as the house felt a little stale over at the Millground farm after Leya and Gaute moved out.." Patrik says.
"And it looks like a perfect spot to build a new and better greenhouse..." Solvej fills in.
Patrik is happy for the new house, their son Rune, his wife Solvej and their soon to be born child, and gives her a bouqet of flowers.
Rune turns to his mom and talks about the new house and that he wants the room upstairs for himself. Rune goes upstairs to check out his new bedroom, while Patrik calls Solvej into the room next door.
Patrik can sometimes be a bit hot headed about Solvej talking to other men, even though she has no intentions behind it beyond friendly chatter. Solvej apologizes and tries to make up for it, but Robert rejects and walks out of the room, still upset.
Solvej shrugs it off as usual and goes for her guitar... So yeah, things weren't quite as harmonious in this household as I had hoped, but they are still together and expecting another child, so they must see something good in each other. Funny thing is, they never took the step to get engaged or married...
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Back at the Jiggens household, Baturney has felt the lack of energy and gone for a nap. Agathi has been sleeping and wakes up, not fully rested, but good enough.
But of course, Baturneys rest didn't last very long, because Iselin was in need of attention. This made Baturney a bit sour, as he went to cook himself a meal.
Agathi didn't get much time to write on her book this month, but was nonetheless pondering ways to inject some action into the storyline. Slowly, but surely, she wanted the villain in her book to become increasingly aggressive and literally have all hell break loose once the book reached its climax. She was a bit of a pantser when it came to writing, though, preferring to let "the book write itself" guided by the characters personalities and motivations.
She knew that her villain was a clever one that didn't want to reveal itself to soon, but when it did, it had to be something grandiously terrible. While Baturney is eating in the kitchen and Agathi goes back into the bedroom to play with Iselin and change her diaper, I go by the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household to figure out what they are doing.
Leya is wearing a different dress than usual, so I wonder if she is pregnant again, but then I realize that this is probably just one of her alternatives for everyday wear. The situation in this household looks harmonic as Orinder is asleep in his crib and Gaute and Leya keep flirting with each other.
Bodil is not at home, she hangs out at The Harbor Park, where Leo just initated a water balloon fight with her.
Baturney wants to invite Leya over for a visit and make friends with Gaute, so he invites the couple over and is happy that they say they will be around shortly.
Leya, the always easily excitable one, is super happy to be invited over, and Gaute just has to do some boxing moves to prove his manhood or something... He does that alot when Leya and another man is present. Leya doesn't pay any attention to this, though...
In fact, as Gaute rushes inside to take care of Iselin (he really likes the baby for some reason, and is super attentive to her needs), Leya begins flirting with Baturney, so it could be that Gaute has a reason to be concerned.
Luckily Baturney is not interested in Leya making any advances, and quickly changes to talk about a movie he saw last week.
Agathi just finished a long, relaxing bath, before getting ready to go to work, and just now she reacts to the door bell being rung.. a little slow today, maybe? :P
She walks into the bedroom to check after Iselin, and finds Gaute there and immediately begins to flirt with him. She can't help but be a little swooned by his ability to take care of children. Gaute sighs and looks away with disgust, before he picks up some dirt from the floor and eats it right in front of her.
"This usually makes the women lose interest" he thinks, but Agathi only becomes more intrigued and wants to do an inkblot test on him.
There is no time for her to perfom that though, because her colleague is honking impatiently outside and she has to go to work.
One hour later, Leyas shift also began. Leya and Agathi are both colleagues at the community theatre, but Leya is at a much higher rank in the career since she is actually interested in music. Agathi only has it as a job to sustain herself while waiting for her career as a horror and cime author to take off. So far it hasn't paid much....
Solvej is also a colleague of both of them, and has gone to work as well. Patrik is at the stadium practicing with the football team. Bodil is still at the Harbor Park playing with Leo.
Rune has been busy baking lots of cookies, and has gone to the Festival Park to sell them.
In the background to the left are Leos parents, Jingguo and Dongmei out playing with their toddler twins Hung and Jiang. Its such a nice and mild spring day in the town of Sprottenham.
Frumpenheimer, the new home of Solvej and Patrik is seen in the background of this picture, and a couple of wild horses is spotted running across their lot. It could be a mother and her foal.
Baturney adhering to his childish nature is outside playing tag with Gaute, until this fair day is abrupted by an incoming hailstorm and its time for everyone to go inside.
Gaute then switches to his swim wear because he is hosting a swim wear party while not being at home.. he also somehow sent an invitation to Agathi that now is at work.
Baturney was super tired and decided to go to sleep, but Gaute wasn't having any of that.
"WAKEY WAKEY! NO SLEEP SUCKER!" he shouted through the megaphone "THIS PARTY HASN'T EVEN STARTED!"
Baturney is a mild mannered man, so he wasn't angry with Gaute, and just calmly went back to sleep. Somehow this fulflilled Baturneys wish of making friends with Gaute, and Gaute walks into the living room and begins to cry!
I have never seen him cry before, and at first I am caught by surprise wondering what could upset him, but he is now crying tears of joy for finally becoming friends with Baturney!
Agathi has returned from work and greets Gaute before she goes to eat by the dining table that is full of stinky, rotten leftover food...
Iselin is in need of care again, and Agathi is quickly on the spot to play with and cuddle the little baby.
But so was Gaute, even though Agathi beat him to it, and she has a really hard time understanding this man, why he would care so much about her daughter, even more than her own father.
Agathi goes to sleep while Gaute goes into the kitchen to do tricks on his ball. Baturney, though he is pretty exhausted now from lack of sleep, decides to clean up all the rotten food from the kitchen and the dining table.
Its getting late now, and Ruben has found his sleeping mat. Agathi makes sure to tuck him in, before going to the soon to be perfectly cleaned up kitchen to play video games...
But as she does so, I get a couple of more messages about the Gudmestad-Klinsmo households dubious investments... this time they have bought the grocery store (Alltidfrisk) and a new rental property... what organized illegal business have they been up to, to suddenly get these money? That could be something to look into for the next update about this usually peaceful coastal town...
Anyway, after having cleaned the entire kitchen Baturney goes to bed and finally gets some well deserved rest... Gaute thinks its late, and heads home to his wife and children, and everyone eventually goes to sleep. Nighty night.
Chapter 14.5 – Sunset Valley April 2022 – Leaving the nest. Birthdays this month (not celebrated because they're not aging up): Jonathan Kråke-Karlsen (44), Walther Motor-Karlsen (5).
Morten had been spending his night in the treehouse, and was the first of the family to wake up on this fair spring morning to have a breakfast of hot dog leftovers from yesterday last month.
Ingrid woke up second, and today was going to be a special day for her. The small first timers home that she was going to move into was finally completed. She was already excited to finally get a place of her own.
Of course, it was far from a palace, only a simple starting point for young adults affordably priced at less than 15000 simoleons. The grass around the house had just recently been sown, so it is still a little patchy looking.
Kathrine was excited when she woke up, because today was Love Day, and everyone would have the day off.
She decided to call her mother-in-law, Lucie, to talk as she wanted to make good friends, but her phone call was interrupted by car horns from outside, so she had to excuse herself and change to her work outfit..
Realizing she didn't get the day off and had to go to work, her mood instantly dropped. She kept her sad face all the way downstairs and out to the car.
She asked her colleague if she really had to work on Love Day, and thats when he realized he had mixed up the dates. Embarassed he excused himself and quickly drove off.
Relieved she didn't have to go to work after all, Kathrine got out her phone again to continue the conversation with Lucie.
Later it was time for Ingrid to move out on her own. Mom Kathrine, of course, wanted her daughter to keep in touch, and in addition to buying her the house, gave her an extra 16500 simoleons to spend if she wanted to buy some new items or furniture for the house. They had decided not to spoil her, but as they were pretty well off, Kathrine thought this was the least they could do...
I'm sure it was an emotional moment for the parents to have their first born leave the nest, because as soon as she was leaving they held each other tight and shared plenty of kisses.
From now on, Ingrid alone was my active household.
Bye bye mom, dad and little brother!
Hello independence and adulthood! You're on your own now..
As she moved in, all her old wishes were cancelled, to give her a fresh start. It took her a while to wish for something new, and the only thing she wanted to do in her new home was to sit down and watch the news channel on tv.
The new house was furnished, but only sparsely with the most basic of things. Plenty of room for Ingrid to personalize as she wants, but she has to want something first.
Back at her parents house, Kathrine was preoccupied with thoughts of her daughters move and kept repeatedly walking out the front door and to the edge of the lot, as if she wanted to go somewhere, before turning back around and getting inside again..
She did this a few times...
Once inside it was clear she had mixed feelings about her daughters move. She was sad that she had left, but also happy for her and had the best wishes for her future.
Jonathan dealt with his emotions the way he always did. By keeping them to himselves and cleaning around the house...
The ice cream truck stopped by Ingrids house. She still had no wishes for anything, so I ordered her outside to buy an ice cream, hoping it would inspire her to wish for something, but it didn't excactly work.
She didn't get a wish for something, until she was paid leave money from her job.
While finishing the ice cream, she thought she wanted to buy something to decorate the walls of her new home, but it had to be a picture that cost atleast 100 simoleons.
She went out shopping and found that she thought looked ok inside the store, but once she was home and hung it up on the wall her reaction was a different one.. "What a cheap ugly picture. I want my home to look more classy than this. Hummph!"
She went out shopping once more as she now wanted to replace the cheap refridgerator that came with the house with one that cost at minimum 600 simoleons.
After cheering by the refridgerator for a while, she admired her own reflection in the bathroom mirror and took a bath before she went for a nap, as she was getting a little tired. When she woke up she figured she wanted to improve her skills in cooking. Now that she was living on her own, she could no longer rely on mom and dad to prepare the meals for her...
So she went to the library to study, and as I paused to take the above picture – while the game is still paused – she turns her head and suddenly I feel like I'm the one being watched.
Creepy...
Anyway, she sat down and read the book until she had gone up one skill point before she headed over to the Art Association. Inspired by her grandfather and his paintings, she wanted to see if she also had any skills with the brush and easel.
The sky had turned dark and it was a little stormier now, so doing anything outside didn't seem very tempting.
Once inside she found her friend Therapist Terje Hågensen looking at a picture that her aunt Sofie had painted in her younger days, before she headed into the room right behind him to locate an unused easel.
While she was in there painting and listening to her favorite Latino music, I wanted to find out what her grandparents were doing.
Grandma Lucie was getting tired and already going to bed. For whatever reason, again, in the guestroom instead of the bed in her own apartment section. At 66 years old it wasn't that long ago since she had become an elder, but as she had spent her entire life working very hard at the hospital, and with the strict upbringing she had with her demanding parents, the loss of a brother at such a young age, and not to mention the fighting and divorce with Asgeir which was a very hard time for everyone in the family, it wasn't surprising that she sometimes felt the need to just rest.
Content warning.
Lucies older brother couldn't take the pressure from their parents, both high ranking medical professionals, and sadly, comitted suicide. In 1977 Lucie moved to Sunset Valley with Asgeir, and has never returned to her hometown. Not even for a visit.
Her grandpa Asgeir was seen out partaking in a demonstration against the clowns in office. Later this autumn the people of Simbria will go to the voting booth, and it is very likely this will result in a replacement of the government as the populace had become increasingly discontent with the current state of affairs.
Meanwhile at the Art Association, Ingrids cousin Kleopatra had joined Therapist Terje in watching the paiting by Sofie, Kleopatras mom. Terje tried to engage in a discussion about politics with Kleopatra, but having recently aged up to a teenager she was still a little to young and found politics to be a bit complicated, so she didn't respond.
Instead her thoughts were preoccuppied with cooking recipes and preparing meals, perhaps inspired by her mom and her career at the Corsican Bistro. (Kleopatras mom, Sofie, has the life time wish of learning all recipes. The Culinary Librarian.) The painting they are watching, called "The Tiny Cloud Woman" was painted by Sofie before she married Eivind and before Kleopatra was born.
Ingrid stops painting once she has fulfilled her goal of acquiring a skill point and is so far happy with temporary results. :P
Then she turns to look in my direction again, while thinking about the money she hopes to make in her political career...
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Its late now, and she wants to go home for the night. On the way out, as the arrogant snob she sometimes is, she walks right past her cousin without greeting her or even looking at her. Kleopatra stares at her as she walks down the hallway towards the exit...
Once home she goes to bed, very pleased with herself and todays accomplishments.
Her parents and brother have also gone to sleep, and that ends this update. Good night.
Chapter 14.6 – Lake Onebega April 2022 – Exam preparations...
Before we start, I slowed down a bit, to check out what they were dreaming.
And this is why I think they have plans of getting married and having babies once they have finished their education. Well, besides Oliver Freddys plans of making it as a scientist, and Inges plans of being a writer and painter.
I am not completely sure though. They keep having these dreams, but I have never seen them discuss it with each other...
Until this morning, at the breakfast table..
And surprisingly, as Inge has been the one usually thinking or dreaming about kids or marriage, Oliver Freddy was the first to make an attempt at the topic by asking a question about kids toys.
After which they just sit there and stare awkwardly at each other for a good while until Oliver Freddy has to go to his lecture...
As their exam is just around the corner, there's going to be a heavy focus on studying, so I'm not giving Inge any leisure time, but have her sit at the computer to study.
Liz Tarry is in the background playing chess. I didn't catch any flirting going on between Liz and Daniel Vaughn for this update, so maybe she has given up. I just caught her walking up and down the stairs many times with her backpack on, as if she wasn't sure where to go or what to do... I don't think she is quite herself yet...
Oliver Freddy has his lecture with the skeleton outside in the hail, but doesn't seem to mind.
Inge keeps on studying and gets the attractive sim moodlet once Jonathan Dirk comes in to play computer games.
Then she goes upstairs to paint, and decides to paint a replica of Sofies painting, "The Tiny Cloud Woman", hanging at the Art Association in Sunset Valley... but at least it improves her academic score.
She didn't get the time to finish the painting before she had to run off for todays lecture with more drawing and painting out in the rain..
Once home again she goes to finish the paiting while her boyfriend stands there thinking about how he wants to go skinny dipping with Liz Tarry...
Inge finishes the painting and sells it for 23 simoleons.
She brags about it to Oliver Freddy while they eat dinner, proud to have made her first money from painting, even if it was just a replica of someone elses work...
Inge still wants to make friends with Debbie Richards, so she makes another attempt to invite her over. She is in disbelief that Debbie would actually agree to come over this time, and can't hide her enthusiasm over the answer.
Making a new friend has been a recurring wish for her since day one of university.. maybe this will be it? Inge feels really good about herself now, also because she has made it on to the principals list for being a good student.
Inge invites her in to her favorite past time, watching tv, and talks to her about vacation plans and painting, before Debbie drops the bomb.
Debbie: So... have you thought about having children?
Inge doesn't respond at first. Sure, she wants to make good friends with Debbie, but this was a bit of a private question to ask just like that...
Debbie doesn't give up, but continues. Debbie: You know.. getting settled with a good man, buying a house, raising children.. that type of stuff?
Inge: Oh, oh, sure.. me and Oliver Freddy would both like to have kids one day.. once we move back to Sunset Valley and get a house of our own...and you?
Debbie: Yeah, me and Robert.. we... we tried a few times, and Robert really wanted children, but.. but.. sadly he passed away before we could make it work.. Inge: Oh... oh.. I'm sorry to hear that...
Debbie: Its alright, I'm fine living alone...
Inge can hear that there is a certain sadness and longing in her voice, however subtle, and tries to change the topic to work and career instead, before trying to impress Debbie by doing tricks with the soft ball.
Debbie is a level 10 rebel, and somehow this increases Inges reputation within the Rebel group.
Oliver Freddy has been outside rehearsing a little more with the skeleton, before going inside to watch Liz Tarry walking up the stairs with her backpack...
He gets the attractive moodlet from being near her and follows her with the eyes as she walks up stairs... but Liz appears to be in her own world and doesn't even notice him...
For some reason I can't explain, Debbie walks upstairs to open this Murphy bed and I wonder if she wants to spend the night there. Oliver Freddy saw her walking up the stairs as well and followed her to talk to this woman that his girlfriend wants to make friends with.
He starts of easy by talking about the most mundane subject of all: the weather, while poor Debbie is still thinking about children...
Debbie goes on to talk about her favorite pop music, but that is not very popular with Oliver Freddy.
Instead he switches to talk madly about working out, but that only makes Debbie annoyed and a little uneasy...
So Oliver Freddy gives up..
Oliver Freddy: To hell with this, I'm going to bed...
Debbie walks downstairs again to where Inge is still watching tv, still shocked at the weird young man upstairs..."Could that really be her boyfriend?" she thinks to herself. "Oh my.."
She goes to unwind by playing video games and hanging out with Inge, but Inge is getting really tired and starts to look more and more like a zombie... Inge really wants to hang out with and make friends with Debbie as well, and does not go to bed even though she usually would long before getting this tired...
..but as she just sits there with her eyes rolling back into her skull and not saying a word, I think its pointless and send her off to bed... you're not making new friends this way, go get some sleep before your exam.. nighty night.
Chapter 14.7 – Sprottenham April 2022 - Babies and umbrellas...
Before the Flansbarne/Jiggens family even wakes up, I am informed that Selma Vaddelmyr, one of Agathis and Leyas colleagues at the theatre, is pregnant. Though she doesn't look very pregnant right now. :P
Agathi and Baturney wake up to Iselin crying, and Baturney begins to question why they even bothered to have children.... right now this doesn't at all feel like the life he wanted...
It's certainly not easy being a parent, and both of them eat their breakfast in complete silence. What a luxury that must have been. :P
Baturney goes to flirt with Agathi and I hope for Agathi to respond by doing something romantic in return, but she is just being her usual self and instead wants to run an inkblot test on Baturney...
Today is Love Day and Baturney wants to take his family to the park, he is just waiting for the weather to clear up... Hanging out during a heavy thunderstorm is not very tempting...
The weather forecast didn't look very promising, so he decided to give Ruben some potty training instead...
While waiting for the weather to improve, I locate Solvej being very pregnant and playing foosball at the Youth House of Science. She is due this month and I expect her to go into labor any minute now...
...but nothing really happens, so I look up Robert the criminal mastermind, and he is speeding around in his brand new sports car...
He stops by the house of the Xie-Luo family (the green house) and goes to ring the doorbell..
The Xie-Luo family consists of Jingguo, a police officer, and Dongmei that works in the military.. Surely, he cannot be friends with this couple?
The Xie-Luo family. They also have three sons, Leo and the twins Jiang and Hung.
Well, it turns out, as he exits, that he actually went in there to buy their house. So now he is the landlord of a police man... what next? Is he going to buy the police station, too? And turn the town into a haven for criminals, maybe? I hope not.. Its pretty peculiar how this man has so much money, because I keep getting notifications about other households in town struggling to pay their bills and acquiring debt... something here is just not right... :P
Anyway, the weather finally cleared up by some magic wave of a hand, or maybe someone upstairs just closed the faucet, I don't know... so that the Jiggens/Flansbarne family finally could make their way to the festival without getting soaked or risking a lightning strike..
This is young Iselins first day out. She is still just a baby, but mom and dad thinks it will to do her good anyway, to get a trip outside to get some fresh air and see a little more than just the ceiling above her crib...
And the same goes for Ruben of course, even if he is a little older, he still needs his parents to actually go somewhere..
Its probably good for mom and dad, too, to go out and do something different and perhaps meet some new people. I never thought Agathi would be the kind to enjoy going for a dance, but why not?
Baturney goes to a play a game of horseshoe with Chansa Beadoux Klinemann. She is married to Jørgen Klinemann and has two daughters, Samira and Celine, but be wary of her.. she can be a little flirtatious. :P
The Klinemann family.
Baturney goes for some face paint, Agathi keeps on dancing and Chansa goes to care for Iselin.
This dancing is very uncharacteristic of Agathi, but hey.. you can't dwell in darkness all the time.
I think by next time I will suggest for the town council to create a little section in the park with cribs for the youngest ones, so that they won't have to lie on the grass... Chansa probably spotted someone she finds hot..
Gaute is being his usual party animal self, doing the smustle dance at "The Elegant Flame".
Leya is also there, discussing aesthetics of umbrellas with the town criminal... He tells her that if she is really interested in umbrellas, he knows where he can get them, lots of them, and really really cheap, too... He tries to talk her into doing business with him, but Leya has never been into anything for the money..
Solvej has now left the Youth House of Science and is now heading for the hospital...(The Youth House of Science is a seperate building behind the Science Center, mostly geared towards high school students, but open for all ages...)
While Solvej is at the hospital giving birth, Baturney and Agathi still hangs out at the park, but is beginning to think it is soon time to head home..
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Solvej was indeed very pregnant, as she left the hospital having given birth to not only one, but two beatiful little girls she decided to name Silvia and Lilian. Sims living in Sprottenham appear to get twins more often than sims elsewhere.. must be something in the water..
Solvej picking up Silvia to put her in the babies crib.
Solvej cuddling Lilian. What do you mean you can't tell the difference?
Newborns need to sleep..
Agathi and Baturney are getting really tired now from being out all day and is heading back home, but Iselin is very happy to ride the stroller.
Ruben enjoys it too, but feels a little more like his parents. :P
They put the young ones to bed, and everyone goes peacefully to sleep. Nighty night.
The first thought on Ingrids mind was of course making money from her political career, but today was Spring Festival Day, so there would be no opportunity to go to work.
She practiced making pancakes for breakfast with her new found cooking skills and they turned out pretty nice. Reading books can sometimes pay off..
Next she donated 250 simoleons to "The Rich" before heading to the park, hoping to spot a raccoon... Ingrid has inherited the good trait from her father, Jonathan, which has inherited it again from his mother, Lucie.
Ingrid lives right next door to the Reppe family, and we will visit them later for Kristina Reppes 13th birthday.
She didn't spot any raccoons at the park, but she quickly found the dance floor where she began flirting with Mikael Bastiansen.
Ranveig Motorsen (Oliver Freddys mother) eventually joins them at the dance floor, and I don't think I have ever seen her dance this lively before, but it pleases me to watch that she can escape her struggles for a while to let loose and have some fun.
Ahmed Mohamed also heads over to the dance floor, not to dance, but to give Ingrid flowers. She is very happy about the flowers, and they too flirt for a while. Ranveigs youngest son, Robert Bråge, is seen in the back left wearing a silver paper crown.
Ingrid doesn't get the hearts for him though, and he leaves after a while to tell a ghost story that no one goes to listen to. Mikael points at him and makes a joke about a marriage being underway, much to Ranveigs amusement. Ingrid wasn't all that entertained by the joke, though..
Though she didn't get the hearts for him, she has the attractive company moodlet, and she is jokingly expressing love for something. And a wise poet once said that a lot of truth is said in jest, but I think it is perhaps to early to conclude about anything... :P The attractive company moodlet could be because of Mikael, or both. I don't really know.
Anyway, they just keep dancing and dancing and dancing, until Ranveig eventually stops and gets a little nervous as she becomes aware that she is surrounded by a bit to many people for her liking... Ranveig is a bit of a loner by nature, something she has been ever since her school days, and prefers most of the time to stay at home watching tv or maintaining her chess skills...
She leaves the dance floor to stand alone in the shade for a while, before she feels content enough to return to the dancing.
Taking it a little slowly in the beginning, before gradually getting more energetic.
Ingrid leaves the dance floor for a while, to admire her own reflection in the mirror.
Ingrid returns and continues conversing with Mikael, while Ranveig leaves to practice more chess...
Ranveig captures and eats an imaginary fly, and once she realizes what she just did, she gets a little anxious and hopes nobody saw that one..
Ingrid keeps on dancing and dancing until a horse walks across the dance floor....
"That was much more interesting and bigger than a raccoon" she thinks and follows it to watch it.
She wants to pet it, but is a little to afraid to get close. This is the first time she has seen a horse... there didn't use to be wild horses in Sunset Valley before, so it must have migrated from somewhere..
After this its just more dancing, before she finally decides to head home, super excited about this day of dancing, flirting and horse spotting. She just had to stop to pick up a washing machine on the way home.. it could be a necessary item to have in ones home, maybe, to enjoy the smell and feeling of clean clothes, or something. :P
Good night.
-- Part II – Kristinas birthday --
A little over halfway through the month it was time for a celebration, when Kristina Reppe, Inges younger sister, would have her last day as a child and make the transition into becoming a teenager...
Kristinas mother, Iselin, wasn't to good with making pancakes for breakfast.. maybe this explains Inges struggles with just the same a bit earlier.
Anyway, Iselin naturally wanted to throw a party for her daughter aging up, so she invited over her all her friends, as well as Ranveig and her sister Monica (because there were no more kids to invite, and they were the closest adult friends of the family).
Two unknown kids (to me) were the first to arrive, and the first known guest was Ranveigs sister, Monica. Typical of the Motorsen family, she came a bit warmly dressed for such a nice spring day...
The second known guest to arrive, was Kleopatra Motor-Karlsen, that had just recently aged up to a teenager herself. Ingrid was not invited, because she doesn't know the family well enough, and Kristinas older sister Inge could not attend because she is at university preparing for her exam...
Then came Ranveig, also in her outerwear, just like her sister, but she quickly changed to her formal wear, even though that wasn't necessary because the invitation said it was fine to come over in casual everyday clothes. :P
Bjørn-Yngve and Morten came shortly thereafter, and went outside to play tag.
Robert Bråge, Ranveigs son had come alongside his mother (there were so many kids, I forgot to get a screenshot of him), and Lise Veronica, the daughter of Monica, was the last to arrive.
Then it was time for the big moment, and Kristina would blow out the candles. Deep breath, and blow! Robert Bråge is now seen standing to the left.
And boom! There you go with fireworks and sparkles, Kristina is now a teenager! She inherited the family oriented trait from one of her grandparents, probably...
Kristina and Kleopatra, the towns freshest teenagers. Kristina displays her new personality trait already, immediately talking about babies...!
Kleopatra is not at all interested in babies. She thinks they're to noisy and smelly to have around the house...
Jarle goes upstairs to play be... juice pong with Monica, and I guess now I see where his oldest daughter got her juice pong skills from, as he throws the first ball right into Monicas mouth..
Blergh!
Later Jarle begins to flirt with Ranveig, which is at first not really popular with anyone..
Kristina goes upstairs to play a regular round of ping pong with Monica. Of course, no juice for the teenagers.
Jarle continues to flirt with Ranveig, and Ranveig eventually responds positively..
While the flirting goes on, laughter is heard from upstairs as some of the kids are there pillow fighting.
Jarle keeps on flirting with Ranveig, now right in front of both his wife and his daughter..
None of them like it very much, and even Monica, Ranveigs sister, shows up to display her disgust.. this makes Jarle leave, though he is still thinking about Ranveig...
Neither Iselin nor Kristina is mad with Ranveig, though. Its not her fault Jarle keeps flirting. Ranveig has shown that she likes it, but she never flirted back. Kristina begins to repeatledy engage Ranveig in a university mascot slogan dance... go gerbitz!
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Kristina goes upstairs to play a game of ping pong with Kleopatra, and it looks like Kleopatra is winning this one, and does a corny victory dance. :P
The flirting commences and everyone has eventually began to ignore it and just let it happen...
Kristina goes for another game of ping pong with Kleopatra. She wants 'vengeance', and it looks like she is getting it this time.
Huzzah! After this Kleopatra decides it was a good party, and goes home, and the rest of the kids leave too, except for the Motorsen sisters, Ranveig and Monica, along with their kids, Robert Bråge and Lise Veronica...
Jarle keeps flirting with Ranveig, but eventually she decides she has had enough and says its probably time for her and her son to leave the party...
"Come along Robert, I think we're going home..."
The birthday child eventually changes into her sleepwear to go to bed, and the party is officially over.. it still takes a while for Monica to take the hint and leave, though...
But eventually she gets the point, and calls her daughter to head back to their own house, where her equally eternally faithful husband is probably waiting for her... Good night!
..but Debbie decides to leave before they wake up, both of them pretty nervous about todays big event...
Liz Tarry is acting weird again, apparently going to class in only her sleepwear. She glances at Daniel Vaughn as she passes by him.. neither of them seem to have any interest in speaking with each other right now...
..or maybe she wasn't going anywhere, because at the breakfast table she is suddenly there again talking about her plans to travel the world, hinting that she would like to have someone travel with her...
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And that's when Inge feels the need to talk about her own plans, of going back to Sunset Valley to live a family life, hinting that Oliver Freddy belongs to her and no one else...
Oliver Freddy and Inge get up to get some last minute studying done before there exam, leaving Liz sitting there alone, staring blankly into the air.. Its not easy to know what goes on in the mind of this girl...
After rehearsing his summary notes, Oliver Freddy finds time for some playtime to keep his mood and motivation up, as well as feeling pleased as the juice keg he ordered arrived just in time to host the party he has been wishing to hold for a few months now....
And then comes the moment for Oliver Freddy, and he has to run for his exam. Good luck!
Inge finds time to start a new painting, as well as fulfilling her wish of going up a level in painting skill.
Oliver Freddy leaves his exam, having passed with a good margin! Of course, he kind of knew that from beforehand, as had been studying pretty hard all semester...
Now he is all free to go, and gets the brilliant idea to practice chess, ignoring Liz Tarry completely, even though he still has a wish to go skinny dipping with her. The interest in chess playing he probably got from his mom. Apple hasn't fallen to far from the tree.. Liz Tarry stands there to stare at him all the while he is practicing.
Inge doesn't get time to finish her painting before its her time to jump into the fire.
Oliver Freddy goes home to get food and invite people to his party tonight, and as always during their exam period, there is a nice rainbow in the sky like a special sign from the clouds above. :P
Inge claps and cheers as she exits her exam, feeling confident that she did really well on this one. And she should have, as she has been working really hard too, even harder than her boyfriend..
- Part II: Let's get this party started...
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She feels so good about her exam, she immedately goes to celebrate by being the first to try out the newly bought juice keg...
Inge sits down to watch tv, as Nicole Lawry was the first party guest to arrive. She was invited because Inge wanted to make friends with her last semester, and because she used to live in this dorm. However, she can't have read the invitation properly, unless that is actually her formal wear... well, I'm not complaining.
She walks in to greet Oliver Freddy (who is just about to order some pizza) and he immediately changes to swim wear, as well.. so they're both a bit insane, then I assume... :P Oliver Freddy immediately gets a wish to talk to Nicole.
Other guests invited to the party was Ayana Yuki, Cody Eisenberg and Matthew Tellmer, because they used to live in their dorm and is a friend of many of the people that currently live there.
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This appears to be the day where everything breaks, because as Inge gets up from watching tv, well it breaks.. so she calls the repair technician to come fix it.. (Earlier I have already cheat-fixed a broken shower and a sink...)
Alright, now.. let's get ret.. I mean, let's get this party started. Inge has the right idea, to go and turn on some music...
People have already started to enjoy their food and drinks, and conveniently a couple of the guests came in carrying this stereo to put it down in their dining room.
Debbie Richards was of course also invited, because of Inges wish to make friends with her. She still hasn't completed that wish..
And here's an uninvited guest, Jennifer Rockefeller, that immediately upon arrival decides to get naked! What the.. ? Alright... well this could be an interesting party...
Debbie Richards goes to dance with Jonathan Dirk and Inge is really happy about the stereo that was carried in. Now we can have music also downstairs!
Omar Bjørkhaug picked up the pizza that Oliver Freddy had just ordered, and I hear another sound of something breaking somewhere in the house... really? Murphy, get out of here, nobody invited you...
Inge goes outside to light a bonfire, while both Daniel Vaughn (behind the cars to the right) and Jennifer Rockefeller (to the left) runs around streaking... Jennifer the uninvited streaker actually spent the majority of the time the party lasted doing just that...
Oliver Freddy plays tag with Ayana Yuki and Jennifer Rockefeller decided to put on her clothes for a short while to warm herself by the fire, but that was only temporary.. it wasn't long before she would run around in the nude again...
The party kept escalating, and someone had brought in another juice keg and placed it in the hallway. Here is Inge helping Cody Eisenberg with drinking upside down.
And of course, she had to go outside repeatedly during the night to put more logs onto the bonfire. Oliver Freddy was the one inviting to the party, but Inge was the one actually acting more like she was hosting it.
I don't know what happened to him here, honestly, but all of a sudden I found him passed out on the parking lot.. Surely playing tag can't be that exhausting...
And I completely lost count on how many times this scene happened, with Jennifer Rockefeller running naked through the hallway...
As the night progressed, word got around campus that a juice keg, streaking and bonfire party was going down at the de Anda hall, and a few more uninvited guests had arrived and conveniently dropped off a juice keg outside by the bonfire..
Even Debbie Richards the university professor eventually found enjoyment in helping the students to blurrify their vision and turn their minds into temporary porridge..
..but of course, late at night when you're having fun, sometimes accidents happen..
Out in the hallway Oliver Freddy was a bit unfortunate with Ayana as well, something which she didn't like very much..
And then I hear a remark about "someone dressing like a harlot" from inside the dining room, followed by the sound of hands to a face...
Ouch..
Then finally Inge goes around to make funny faces and talk to Debbie for a while, but its not enough for them to become friends, though.
The party continues on through the night, and eventually an increasing amount of attendees begin to pass out...
I'm impressed by Inge still standing upright and repeatedly going for the juice keg and putting more logs to the fire... and I think Nicole Lawry is equally impressed as she cheers her on.
So Nicole decides to be a good friend, of course, and help Inge to get a little more juiced, and there is that streaker in the background again...
As Oliver Freddy finds himself inside in an argument with Cody Eisenberg over something completely trivial that seemed really big right then and there and that none of them will remember what was about by tomorrow morning anyway, he gets a phone call...
It was from the police.... People have started to call in complaining about the party, and they are now on their way, so he better shut it down... and of course, Jennifer the streaker just had to show up...
Inge was outside, and just told a funny story to Walter Fullman and immediately became attracted to him as he started laughing, but I think its just the juice working...
After this funny story and feeling pretty juiced Inge decides to go to bed, just in time before the police arrives...
And downstairs the mayhem is still going on, with naked people running around and people passing out left and right... Its just to bad sims can't take some of the couches to run down the stairs as well...
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University professor is still going strong, and the police is now pretty much right at the doorstep...
But the police woman runs straight past Oliver Freddy, which techincally should be the one to blame for this ruckus, and runs straight for Omar Bjørkhaug, that also was seen outside streaking..
She boos and shouts at Jennifer as she runs up the stairs, saying she will come down and talk to her next...
Omar and Jennifer sure got it, but Oliver Freddy was let off pretty easy as he managed to sneak by the police officer and find his way into bed..
So it's good night..
Well, atleast for our friends Inge and Oliver Freddy.. downstairs, even if the police woman had confiscated the juice kegs and told the remaining guests they had to shut it down, it hadn't quieted down just yet, with both Jennifer and Omar still streaking, and Debbie the university professor was really enjoying the sight of naked young meat....
..after which Debbie went upstairs and wanted to sleep in the same bed as Ayana Yuki, but that bed was taken, so she passed out on the floor instead...
Chapter 14.9 – Sprottenham May 2022 – The girl by the Harbour Café..
This is the criminal hideout in Sprottenham, an abandoned peat factory a few kilometers outside of town. Back in the day, peat was the most easily accessible source of energy to heat houses and businesses in the areas around Sprottenham as the wetlands doesn't have much forest. In recent years, the amount of trees in the area has grown, but the area still by definition is comprised mostly wetlands, and doesn't really have anything that can be called a forest. Whatever criminal business Robert is up to, this is old factory is likely the headquarters...
Anyway, back at the Jiggens/Flansbarne household things were by the usual with Baturney and Agathi waking up to Iselin demanding attention.. Agathi found time to take care of her while Baturney got ready for work.
And finally Agathi found some free time to write on her novel, "The Zombie Kitchen" which had been greatly neglected for the past few months.. She handed in a few more chapters and got paid 38 simoleons by the publisher.
In the Gudmestad-Klinsmo household, things are looking fine, with Robert feeding Mark and Sandra getting ready to go to work.
A bit to my surprise she is actually working at the local school as a playground watch. So she is not really a criminal like her husband, atleast not on the surface maybe.. but I guess we should go with "innocent until proven guilty"...
After Sandra has left, Robert plays a bit with Mark, before walking out the door with him.. he seems to be heading towards the Harbor Park, and I wonder what he could be doing there..
There is usually a lovely and peaceful atmosphere of this town, with the soothing sound of waves crashing onshore and seabirds in the distance... usually..
Robert walks inside the Harbor Café where he meets up with this woman called Danicia Tomren, apparently he is doing some kind of business with her..
Robert: This will be your spot tonight, and you take 500 simoleons per client, and give half of it to me. Do we have an agreement?
Danicia:Yes, Mr. Robert, you are a very generous man, Mr. Robert.
Eddie Opsal (café owner): If she's gonna hang around here, I want at least half of what she makes!
Robert: You let her stay, and I'll let you keep your business, how's that for a deal?
Eddie: I want half, or I'll start talking. Robert: 10 % and you get to keep your business. Eddie: 25 and I'll keep silent. Robert: 15, final offer, or your café is going up in smoke.
Eddie: Fine, fine, but only after dark! I don't want no 🐸🐸🐸🐸 hanging around here in broad daylight!
Satisfied with his deal, Robert went back home, and somehow left his baby boy Mark behind... anyway, on to more pleasant matters...
The news ticker notifies me that romance is blooming between Solvej and Patrik, and I suppose its true, because I find them staring deeply into each others eyes at the tattoo shop. :P
Agathi is still at home taking care of her babies. I guess one of the perks of being a writer is to walk around in your underwear all day...
Gaute increased his skill in fishing. Perfect home for an outdoors loving guy like him, to live right next to the park like that. Its almost as good as having your own private fishing spot in the backyard.
Baturney finished his shift at the town hall, and got an invitation to a party over at Odin Borsønns residence. When the richest guy in all of town invites you to a party, you're not turning it down. Its important for a politician like Baturney to keep friends with those that have money....
Dresscode: Formal wear of course, however the Borsønn/Ås family, though quite rich and with a taste for the finer things in life, are surprisingly down to earth people....
At the party Baturney meets one of his many long time friends, Jørgen Klinemann, and they keep discussing their own families. Jørgen Klinemann is married to Chansa Beadoux and has two daughters, Samira and Celine.
Baturney walks upstairs to make funny faces with Frigg Ås (she is Odins wife) and again they keep discussing family. Frigg and Odin has two daughters, Oda and Hermine, and two sons, Tor and Balder.
Baturney goes downstairs for a drink and to repeatedly turn on and off a tv, even though there is no tv in that room, while Frigg is showing her devotion to Odin by handing him flowers.
And then some, before they go upstairs to have some fun, but that is not for us to see.
Agathi finished her shift at work, and got promoted to level 5, and is now a stage worker.
Baturney keeps trying to turn on and off that tv, not realizing that it is actually a window he is pointing the remote at... how much juice did you have? Maybe you should go home? Get some sleep, no?
He goes on to practice some pool, when Edna Ravnås comes in to talk to him about the latest in high heeled fashion.
She finds him again out in the hallway when he is about to leave, and decides to hand him flowers, but he is not to interested..
"Thanks, but no thanks! I appreciate you wanting to give me those flowers, but I have a wife and kids at home, sorry, I can't accept those."
So he left the residence and went back home, just in time to give Ruben breakfast and perhaps get a few minutes of sleep...
Good night, or good morning maybe, whichever you prefer..
Chapter 14.10 - Bewickton April and May 2022 – Sleep, what is sleep?
The Chitrakaar/Skurckh family was having the usual kids struggle. Madhunisha woke up Dudleif early, because she was feeling lonely..
With Dudleif at work, Nishit at school and Udisha still sleeping, I stopped by the festival park to find Dudleifs mother, Marianne Skurckh having just stole a kiss from the kissing booth guy.
Udishas youngest sister Nitya was attending a course in Social Networking at the University Auditorium. Malin Stabell-Jones is there with her father, Asgeir Stabell-Jones (to the left). The only one wise enough to sit was André in the back to the right...
Udisha succesfully taught Ole Christian to walk, and after that everyone just went to bed, so umm, nighty night already.
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Things are stressful in the Chitrakaar-Skurchk household with the two youngest ones constantly needing their care. Both Udisha and Dudleif are pretty worn out, but they are doing their best.
Udisha still finds a little time to make some sketches.
Udisha: This blank wall is really inspiring...
At the fire station Sofia Karlsen was seen checking the fire alarm, before she walked downstairs to talk to Bhavan, the brother of her fiancé.
Or flirt with him, rather.. but Bhavan is of course not interested.. Sofia already has plans to marry his brother, Palash, and Bhavan already has a girlfriend in Beate Curious..
She takes the hint and goes back to maintain the fire alarm.
Udisha wants to potty train Ole Christian, the only essential skill he has left to learn now.
Palash is spending his day at home, moving from chair to chair, testing out his furniture...
Nishit wants to go to the spring festival to get some fresh air.. its to smelly at home. Mom and dad are a bit to lacking in energy to keep everything clean and tidy..
Bhavan just invited his sister to a Spring party, so she picks up Dudleifs car to head over there.
At the park Nishit goes around looking for easter eggs, but doesn't find any.
Palash was also invited to the party, and picks up Bhavans guitar to do some entertainment. Zlem Stabell-Skurckh points at laughs at him. "This is not a slumber party, get dressed, ya goon!"
Udisha misses her job, and didn't really want to party. "I have to prepare some more business plans to present to the office when I get back". Udisha leaves shortly after finishing her planning to go home and get some sleep..
Nishit goes to dance, but unlike the dance floor in Sunset Valley, this isn't excactly packed, so he gets it all to himself.. where is everybody at?
Well, this seems to be the dancing spot, by the toilets. Left to right: Penny Pincher-Peddler, Celina Pincher-Peddler and Asbjørn Gjerdrum. Stupid sims, you're at the wrong spot, this isn't the dance floor. :P
Penny: We're not stupid! This is the perfect spot, right inbetween the food stalls and the toilets! Its the dance floor that's on the wrong spot!
Alright, ok, then... well, it sort of makes sense..
As the sun begins to set, Nishit walks over to play horseshoe with Andre Sjanto.
They're having so much fun with it, they keep playing until long after dark. Nishits grandmother Laranya runs by, heading home from hanging out at the theatre, and throws a remark that he should probably be heading home by now, or he might get transported home by a police car. Nishit isn't worried about this, he gets to ride a police car all the time. He thinks Laranya probably meant that his father would come pick him up later, so he just keeps on playing...
But Dudleif isn't coming to pick him up. Nishits parents are busy with Ole Christian and Madhunisha and desperate for sleep..
I get a notification that Sam Mæle, the bassist of the band "The Bushweeds" increased his skill in guitar playing to level three, so I check where he is, hoping to find him practicing with his band. He is at home in "The Party Kids" household, but he is being a different kind of player, flirting with both Isabell Kolstø (works in the military, not a band member) and Merete Sagmo, the keyboard player.
"I can't help it" he says "I love women, and they're everywhere!"
A bass player that loves women, well that's a new one.... eh? (No, it's not. )
Anyway... just watch it so you're not creating any drama.
Nishit manages to stay out playing almost until morning, long after Andre went home, and walks up to his father to ask him for a bedtime story.
There isn't much of a structure to the sleep schedual in this house, as it is controlled by the two youngest ones, so I can't really say goodnight here. It is already the next morning, and the sun will soon rise for another day...
Chapter 15.1 – June 2022 - Sunset Valley/Lake Onebega
It was finally June, and summer was here! It was a beatiful morning for Sunset Valley, though somehow it was raining from a clear sky...
There were two thoughts on Ingrids mind as she woke up this morning, politics (as usual..) and working out.
"I want to go exercize!" she thought as she went to prepare breakfast. Time to buy a gym membership, then!
While at work she had delivered the new sleek oven she had ordered, – one that cost at least 450 simoleons - a brand new Caravan X-350.
While she is at work, I want to check up on some of her family members.
Even though it is not necessary anymore as the ex-couple has since rekindled, Lucie still prefers to stay in her own apartment section playing video games... Sims are really habitual creatures. I find her preferring to stay there, instead of hanging out with her ex-husband a little endearing, but also a bit sad... how they are both sitting alone in this big, big house of theirs...
Asgeir is downstairs in their library re-reading one of his novels that he wrote in his younger days..."Ménage à trois in the winter gardens". Don't ask me what the book is about, because I have no idea... :P The picture on the table next to Asgeir, is Ingrid as a toddler.
Lucie and Asgeirs daughter, and Ingrids aunt, Sofie (age: 37 years) is at home with Walter (age: 4 years), while Eivind is at work at the Military base, and Kleopatra is at school. And Sofie is doing the excact same thing as her mom (Lucie) does, playing video games. :P
Walter is playing with the peg toy box in the back.
The parents of Kathrine, and Ingrids other grandparents, are outside their home where Frida is flirting with Egil, and calls him her austronaut.
She says she loves it when he puts on his space suit and travels into deep space with his huge rocket.... :P
Ingrid goes to exercize aerobic after work, and reaches level 6 in fitness during her workout.
Robert Bråge, Oliver Freddys littler brother and the son of Ranveig and Gaute, has increased his skill in fishing to level 3. I find him at home, though, sharing gossip with his mom, so I'm guessing he learned it at his after school activity.
After workout, Ingrid thinks about items related to children for some reason, but she is single and currently has no love interest either, though she has been flirting a bit.
Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother, is hanging out at the V.I.P. Club Exclusif, enjoying a drink in her swimsuit, when she feels the need to exclaim that "This town is really cool!". The other two elderly sims are Madison VanWatson and Pauline Wan.
Then Ingrid does the same thing as Baturney did earlier.. grabs a drink and turns on a mysterious tv that is nowhere to be found... at least not in the same room... I can even hear the tv playing the adventure channel.. but the only tv I can see on the lot is upstairs by the treadmills, and that's not playing the adventure channel... does not compute. :P
Ingrid goes to gossip with Holly Bastiansen by the pool, ("Did you know that Therese Longva has LOTS of money? Who would have thought that?") and discovers trait in common (good) and that Ingrid has one incompatiple trait (snob), as well as learning that Holly is a vegetarian and easily impressed.
Ingrid the aspiring politician of course talks about politics and donations, and learns that Holly is rich. "That could come in handy later", she thinks...
They cheer for the university mascot, before Ingrid decides to go home, and on the way she picks up a tumble drier, but she has no other room for it then in her tiny hallway, because her bathroom is already full...
"Maybe its time to make this tiny house a little bigger" she thinks... "I think I'll start looking for a contractor tomorrow..."
"..but now its bedtime! Good night!"
Lake Onebega:
And so its back to the de Anda house.. Inge and Oliver Freddy are sound asleep, all stereos are still blaring, Debbie Richards is still passed out next to the bed where Ayana Yuki is sleeping, and Jennifer Rockefeller is still running naked through the hallway...
Ayana Yuki wakes up and decides to leave, saying it was a great party, while gasping at the sight of Jennifer being naked by the pool table... "That girl is crazy!" she thinks, and I agree...
Walter Fulman and Matthew Tellner woke up from having passed out by the bonfire, both of them saying it was a great party as they are heading back home..
Daniel Vaughn wakes up, and is almost run over by a naked Jennifer, and the sight of her makes him undress too! And Omar Bjørkhaug is also still running around naked.. Screenshots not shown, because I think there's enough naked people now...
Debbie Richards wakes up to make a drawing.. "All these naked bodies makes me inspired!"
Oh, no, there's Jonathan Dirk also running around naked, and Debbie is really enjoying what she sees... "Mmmm, I'd hit that!" she thinks... I think I'll just ignore the idiots running around naked, they have to grow tired at it at one point...
Cody Eisenberg is still out there keeping the fire alive, party 'till the early mornin'..
And yes, people really did enjoy this party, probably the best verdict it could have gotten. Sims all over town will be talking about this for years to come!
At 11:30 its finally time for my sims to wake up, and receive their grades... (drumroll)
Both of them are making their nervous faces, but I already know they did really good...
Which is evident when the results come in..
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Inge spends some time watching the cooking channel. She really likes the cooking channel.. and Oliver Freddy goes to the nearest computer to post spam and troll various internet forums...
Inge walked in on Jonathan Dirk as he was.. letting the water fall...., she looks embarrassed but gets the attractive company moodlet... She apologizes herself, and says it was an accident... right, yeah, accident.. huh? Then why do you keep following him with your eyes like that, hmm...
Inge has had a wish to increase her skills in writing for some time, and now that the semester is over, she finally finds some time to write a little more on her first novel, "Copperheart".
Oliver Freddy spots Liz Tarry randomly walking up and down the stairs and follows her to talk about computers. He still wants to go skinny dipping with her, and gets the attractive company moodlet...
Everyone said it was a super party, yet Oliver Freddys wish to arrange a super party doesn't get fulfilled..
Inge makes a phone call to Debbie to hear how she is doing, but the phone call is cut short, because Debbie is still in bed with a terrible headache....
Inge goes downstairs to watch more TV, Jonathan Dirk follows her and starts talking to her about everything from summer vacation plans, to babies to fishing, but whatever he says, Inge doesn't want to hear it, and their relationship suffers every time he opens his mouth... Inge thinks he's good looking, but oh so stupid, and a terrible conversation partner....
Eventually he gives up and walks away, and Inge goes to finish her first novel, as well as getting another skill point in writing.
She goes back again to watch tv, and when Oliver Freddy joins, she immediately begins talking about children....
Oliver Freddy gets an idea to ask her for a date, because he wants to go bowling, as one last thing to do here before they have to go home..
Inge is very happy to be asked, and off they go.
Its Inges turn first, but it looks like she hasn't bowled before, as she fumbles about a bit..
"Hmm, how do I grab this thing..."
With intense focus, she throws the ball and lands on her face without hitting a single cone, and all of a sudden its time for them to go home...
Oliver Freddy only finds time to point and laugh, before they have to leave..
"Come along now, we have to go home" she says, and gets that cute look on her face she only gets from looking at her boyfriend...
Oliver Freddy is a little disgruntled to have to leave so soon. He was so prepared to show her how its really done. Another time man, there is a bowling alley in Sunset Valley, too... then maybe we can see what you are made of.
Inge gets a little emotional from seeing everyone at their dorm already standing outside waving them goodbye, as they arrive to pick up their suitcases..
And off they go for the summer, bye for now University.
Its really late when they arrive back in Sunset Valley, and the car drove them straight to Inges parents home.
Oliver Freddy parts ways with Inge for now, and goes home to his moms house to greet his little brother, Robert Bråge, before he reads him a bedtime story and he falls asleep.
He walks downstairs to find his mother Ranveig, that just came home from watching a movie at the cinema. No emotional melodramatic scene this time, but rest assured, she has still missed her son when he was away.
She greets her son, before immediately going to bed, and Oliver Freddy grabs the opportunity to make a prank on the computer for his beloved mother to find tomorrow, before also going to sleep..
Inge on the other hand, thought it was a good idea to take her sister out to a pub... Inge thought Kristina had become a big girl, so she brought her up The Prison Warden Pub in the New Town Area. Sure enough, Kristina had aged up and was now a teenager, but she still wasn't old enough to enter the pub, as you had to be 18 years of age to enter...
Inge walked inside and had a chat with Aisha and Haldis Hillestad for a while, but her poor sister had stand outside and wait alongside Otto, the teenage son of Haldis..
Inge and her sister go home after a while, the pub was pretty dull anyway on this monday night.. Kristina goes to bed, and Inge goes into the kitchen to talk to her mom, before they end up watching tv in the living room..
Mom and daughter must have a lot of catching up to do..
Its getting pretty late, but they seem to have no plans of going to bed, and I want to end this update here, so I leave them and say goodnight...
I decided before playing this update to switch from monthly to seasonal updates, once Inge and Oliver Freddy had returned from their second semester at university, in order to speed up the progress a little, so.. umm, I'll see how this works.. also, I intended to post this update several days ago, I just wanted to make an airport lot first.. It was only going to be that one lot, I thought...and it was only going to take an hour or two, I thought... anyway, finally, here is the update...
June:
Baturney wakes up a little late after sleeping in from the party over at the Frigg/Ås household, and young Ruben is still up playing with his toys. The house is full of dirty clothes lying around, so he decides to do some much needed laundry..
Agathi wakes up even later than him, as she was pretty exhausted from coming home from work, and having been kept awake by the two young ones..
At the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household, things are a little hectic this morning, as they have to hurry up to the airport to catch a plane.. they are going to Bewickton again this summer, to attend the wedding of Leyas brother Palash, where he will marry Sofia Karlsen..
Leya: We gotta hurry up and eat, the plane leaves in just two hours!
Gaute: Relax, Leya, we'll make it...
After finishing their meal, they ran out the door, and drove off, leaving their town of Sprottenham behind for now..
The Old Peat Factory lies by the road on the way to the airport..
Warenford Airport lies by the starting point of highway A-15 that runs across the kingdom in an east-west direction. The airport is located "in the middle of nowhere" on the Warenford moores, and serves several towns in the region of North Hazelburn that Sprottenham is a part of.
Gaute: See Leya, we're almost there now.. plenty of time left.. the plane is waiting for us!
Bodil: Is that our plane, mom?
Leya: Yes, that's the one..
The boarding call sounds, they get on board the plane, and off they go! This will be young baby Orinders first flight, possibly to the dismay of the other passengers...:P
Their arrival in Bewickton and the wedding of Palash and Sofia will be covered in the next chapter.
Back in town, Agathi makes sure to feed Iselin, and give Ruben some potty training before sitting down to hand in a few more chapters on her book, "The Zombie Kitchen".
I get notified that Patrik has a new boss on the football team in Jet Rēshingugāru from the Rollcagers household.
So she is not just interested in racing, but apparently also football. She goes to visit him at his house, and he greets her by the door. He talks with her for a while about food, but doesn't let her in..
His wife Solvej eventually comes out to greet her and let her in, though.
Inside she walks over to Patrik to compliment him about their new house.
Agathi has to go to work at the Community Theatre. She hates this job, but has shown no desire to want to quit it just yet. She wants to save up a little more cash, before taking the plunge and becoming a full time author.
Torgeir Dahl-Blankblomst, the son of Daniel and Chansa aged up to a toddler, he is just about a month older than Iselin.
Agathi manages to cram in a little more writing after work, before its bedtime.
July:
Baturney snuggles and plays with Iselin on her last day as a baby. "Happy birthday, daddys little one! Are you ready to become a big girl?"
Agathi has today off, which will be perfect to arrange Iselins birthday party, and Baturney makes the call to invite people over immediately after his shift is done at the town hall.
As well as finishing Rubens potty training just in time for the party to begin.
Agathi and Gunn-Rita Bergersen gather to cheer for the baby as Baturney helps her blow out the candle on her birthday cake.
He puts her down to let the magic happen.
She can't talk yet, so we can't really know what she's thinking, but she is certainly amazed at this change that just happened.
At the same time, the mood is a little different over at the old Peat Factory...
Robert: Just 15 more for each of you, and you might just get supper tonight! I've got customers waiting for their orders, so quicken up!
Ingolf Dybdal: I don't want to be here... I want to go home...
Eilif Sagstad: Trust me, I don't think you'd want to go back home, kid...
Danica Tomren: Mr. Robert was so kind to bring us into this country, and get us these jobs...
Well, I beg to differ.. your "Mr. Robert" is a criminal, and a thug! Exploiting people in crisis... does his wife know about the scope of his operations!?
George Alnuman: I want to find my aunt.. I think she is somewhere in the south...
Back at the Jiggens/Flansbarne household, Iselin is already tired, and Dongmei is the first one to pick her up as a toddler, and put her in her crib.
Then some of the guests sit down to have a bit of cake, and Frigg Ås (the one standing) was kind enough to do the dishes after everyone was done eating.
There is something about Baturney that makes him tired much faster than other sims, and he already wants to go to bed, but he stops his action as he finds this woman, Åshild Magnus, already there in her morning robe...
Åshilds husband follows, and they begin to make out, so they probably had intentions of woohooing in that bed...
Dongmei was already in the bedroom after putting Iselin to bed, and Gunn-Rita had followed Baturney to hand him flowers, which he happily accepts.
Dongmei gives them a look, and she is not particularly happy about this behaviour, as both Baturney and Gunn-Rita are married...
People are starting to leave the party, saying it was an awesome one, but the guy that said it was a boring party and that he was leaving almost as soon as the party began is still there, initiating a water balloon fight with Agathi...
And while Agathi goes into the backyard for a water balloon fight with Odin, Baturney is still in the bedroom, now flirting with the morning robe dressed lady...
Dongmei noticed what they were doing and finds it truely appalling and begins to boo and shout at Åshild, as she enters the kitchen to eat some spicy prawns.
Dongmei keeps booing loudly at her all the way until she leaves, however she was thinking it was an awesome party as well..
Now it is only Odin left, and he sits down to at a plate of those spicy prawns while Agathi shares her financial concerns with him..
They were perhaps a bit to spicy for him, yet he sits down to eat another plate, so he must have really liked the taste nonetheless.
Agathi goes to sleep, but is quickly awoken by Iselin being hungry, and then Odin sees his chance to go to the bedroom to hand her a boquet of flowers, which she rejects..
Disheartened, he finally decides to leave the party as the last one and go home to his own wife and children..
August:
Agathi wakes up and wants to continue writing, she wants to finish her novel, preferrably by the end of this year...
Baturney has already left for work, and she sits down at the kitchen table to write, while Ruben and Iselin play with the dollhouse.
Agathi interrupts her writing to walk over and watch her kids, where she finds great enjoyment in them playing together.
Iselin plays in the toy box, while Agathi goes to prepare a meal on the stove, but then the car honks outside, and its time for her to go to work...
Baturney comes home from work, and picks up Iselin to put her in the crib. She is tired already, maybe she is like her father, getting exhausted quickly.. He spots something cooking on the stove, but the kids have number one priority...
And as he puts Iselin to bed, of course, the inevitable happens... he freaks out, but eventually summons himself enough to call the fire department...
The oven burns to a crisp, and the fire spreads to a nearby counter before the fire woman shows up to put it out.
The rest of his afternoon is spent napping, preparing a salad (he dare not use the oven!), and napping a little more inbetween taking care of Ruben and Iselin..
..before Agathi returns from work and puts Iselin to bed, and everyone can get some much needed sleep..
Chapter 15.3 – Bewickton June 2022 – Palash and Sofias wedding.
Part I: Preparations.
It was june in Bewickton, and in just a few days time Palash and Sofia was getting married..
Palash started his morning the way he always does, with a nice breakfast outside. He does this no matter what the weather.. he is lucky now that it is a nice summers day.. seriously, he does this in winter too, with snow and freezing temperature.. like I said, he is the odd one out of the Chitrakaar family.
After breakfast he wanted to freshen up his looks before the wedding, so he paid a visit to Dreas Salon and tattoo where Eivor Mortensen was more than happy to redesign his sports outfit... because he would need that for the wedding..
Well, this was the first time I sent a sim to the salon, so I didn't know how it worked. I thought I got to choose the outfit, like in CAS, but I guess not...
Both him and Eivor was really happy with the end result, and though it is still very simple, I do think he looks a little bit better.
But this is of course not what he was after, so he rushes home to pick his outfit for the wedding day.. before hushing me out of the room, because he didn't want to reveal it before the special day!
His fiancé Sofia Karlsen was found at the fire station, maintaining the fire alarm again, even though this was her day off..
"I really like hanging out here" she says "I want to show everyone that I'm not all about the money and status! That I have skills and that I am capable too!"
But of course, she also has to prepare for her wedding, so she quickly heads to the library... to read a book about charisma.. "I not only want to look my best.. I want to give a good impression in every possible way" she says as she runs off to drive there in her pink expensive car.
While Sofia is at the library reading, Palash has adopted a little puppy called Yumi. What a cute little bugger!
And of course, after fulfilling her wish of reading the book, she too heads home to plan her wedding dress... and as she steps onto her home lot, she gets an interesting thought for someone that dislikes children..
But then again, the man she has chosen, Palash, is pretty family oriented, and his lifetime wish is to be surrounded by family... so....hmmm... I'm really curious to see if they will have any children! And if so, how many!? They do seem like an odd couple, but I have absolutely no hand in this...
She picks her wedding dress, but like her fiancé, she hushes us out of the room... before going to the mirror to check her looks in one of the bathrooms of her house..
"Oh no! I look terrible! Everyone is going to laugh at me behind my back at my wedding... I'm a monster! I don't want to look at myself..." She does appear to be a bit neurotic about her appearance.. typical of snobs, they always worry about something underneath their bright and glossy surface...
Then another well-known car appears in town.. not sure how they got the airline to accept them bringing their car along, but hey, Simbria Airlines... the customer is always right! No matter what, it seems..
Since their last visit, Leya has been very adamant that they should NOT have a hotel in the downtown area, so they ended up going for one as far on the outskirts of town as they could find...
Gaute: This looks like a pretty dodgy area.. are you sure this is the right way..?
Leya: I'm.. I'm uh.... yes, the Schmoogle app on my phone says it's this way...
Leya was starting to doubt her decision a little... maybe downtown would have been better after all...
They arrive at the hotel and the surroundings brighten and open up a little... Leya was feeling more confident now. Leya: See, I told you.. it looks just like the pictures on the booking website!
It did look a little cozy and old on the inside, but Gaute was most excited that the place actually had its own bar... Leya was not.
Leya: You're NOT going to hang out at the bar! This is a family visit! We are going to my brothers wedding!
They happily inspected their hotel room, before going downstairs again to have dinner. They were all very hungry after their long journey..
Bodil asks Leya for a bedtime story.. Leya has began to wonder if this hotel might be haunted.
It looks cozy at first, but come to think of it, there is a somewhat eerie mood too, lurking in the walls and narrow hallways...
Leya reads a story for Bodil about painting outside the lines, and everyone falls happily asleep...
...and no ghosts were spotted during the night... thank goodness.. :P We all know that ghosts aren't real, so it was probably just Leyas imagination playing tricks on her.... I mean, why would this nice hotel on the outskirts of town be haunted? Nah, no way... Good night.
I've been waiting.. waiting.. waiting for you...
I've got a whole lot of love
I hope you feel the same way too...
Well, speaking of hauntings... they say that animals have a 6th sense, and as I spent the night watching Palash's house in anticipation of the wedding day, a certain ominous music is heard, and his newly adopted dog immediately begins dreaming about something... but nothing is seen on the lot or the surrounding area... so it was probably just the wind, or something...
Palash wakes up this morning thinking about buying kids stuff and throwing a party, before feeding the dog.
Sofia wakes up and immediately puts on her fire fighting outfit, before she goes to clean up some of her old dirty dishes... It's obvious she is used to living alone. :P "It can't look like this now that I will be getting married and Palash will move in with me..." she thinks.
Yumi shows her temperament by snarling at Palash. He reprimands her for it, before giving her a treat, hoping it will set her in a better mood.. or maybe he just ended up reinforcing bad behaviour..
..because afterwards Yumi goes on to chew on one of his dining chairs..
He has his breakfast outside as usual, before he picks up Yumi to head to the Festival Park in time for the wedding..
Leya and her father Deepak is already on the spot, and in front of them stands Kjersti Jordal, the teacher-party animal friend that Gaute made on their last visit...
Dudleif, Laranya, Nitya and Bhavan is also on the spot, all ready for a wedding!
Palash began to feel the nerves, and went into the bathroom there to change into his outfit for the day...
..and everything should be ready for a splendid wedding, except.. oh no! Where is the bride?
There she is running as fast as she can.. imagine being late for your own wedding day... For a while it almost looked like she was going to stand him up... I bet she is nervous, too!
She is happy though, once she finally makes it there. Today is going to be a wonderful day!
People are starting to catch on to what is about to happen, and then...
..Sofia, what!? She just changed to her fire fighting outfit...!
"I want to get married in this, to let the entire town see how skilled and brave I am!"
Well, if that's what you want....
Deepak is so excited for his son, he can't hold it together.
And so the exchange of rings begin, and everyone else start getting emotional, too.
Its a beatiful moment, even if she is not wearing her wedding dress..
Then its time to cut up the wedding cake, and Sofia is really enjoying herself, thinking this is such a wonderful time.
But afterwards both Sofia and Palash is being a little weird, leaving everyone behind to eat their cakes, even sitting at seperate benches.. Maybe the party arrangers should be notified before the next wedding that just putting out chairs aren't enough, some dining tables might be a good idea, too...
While they are sitting in the back eating cake, the band "The Bushweeds" have gone up on stage to provide entertainment for the remainder of the party, and like last time there is still the same problem with people walking up on stage to watch the band. Only two people up front are doing it right...
The stage was changed a bit since last time, by adding doors at the back that one would have to pass to enter the stage... So that they could be locked for anyone but the band members (by use of NRAAS go here door filter), but now, for some reason, the option to lock the doors wasn't there... oh well, at least everyone is enjoying the music... that's what you call an intimate concert..
Sofia walks over to Palash and begins talking about her job as a fire fighter. She appears to be very interested in anything to do with the fire station and her job there. I noticed that she even has a fire hydrant in one of her bedrooms.. Palash enjoys listening to her talk about the fire station. Her enthusiasm there is an admirable quality in his now wife.
..but then she ruins it all with making a statement about how much she dislikes children, and Palash now thinks she is being rude...
"How can you say such a thing about children? They are our future, they are the meaning of life!" he snarls at her as she walks away to use the bathroom... They do love each other, but there is one major issue with their relationship... I am hoping that they will have children, but I have my doubts...
In the meantime Palash goes up to the stage area where Yumi is, to teach her some tricks, but Yumi is a little aggressive and non-cooperative, so it doesn't work out to well...
When Sofia returns from the toilet, they begin flirting and take a romantic picture together. Palash gets a wish to have children with Sofia. Sofia just wants to kiss and woohoo...
The band has since long stopped playing, the music from the speakers has stopped and the party is over, and everyone seemed to have had a really good time. Palash and Sofia has been all caught up with each other and kissing and making out, not paying much attention to any of the other guests.
Until one of the guests makes a blunder...
Sofia: Oh no! Someone just had an accident.. how embarrassing! Palash, lets go home! I'll go and get the dog!
Sofia: Come here, Yumi little! We're going home... to your new home...
Once home in Sofias house, now their house, she turns on the stereo for some romantic music and their kissing and playful activities with each other continue and escalate until she grabs him and...
..walks up to the bedroom where she calls for him to join. This reminds me of when they were dating (before they got engaged..).
She had some struggles initiating romance with him. She had invited him over to her house and tried to woohoo with him a few times, but it always failed....
...but not this time, he joins her and her wish for woohoo finally gets fulfilled.
And once they get going, they're unstoppable now! They had to do it twice in a row!
So... I think its time we leave these two for themselves and let them go on with their procedures for as long as they can.... Good night!
Sweet dreams for the newlyweds.. they slept for well into the day. I suppose woohooing all night can be pretty exhausting.
Meanwhile over at the party kids household, the band "The Bushweeds" was busy rehearsing. Food stand clerk Abel Bo was so impressed by their performance at the wedding, so he had given them a new opportunity to perform at this years summer festival, as well.
Well, everyone was busy, excpet Gerda, the guitarist and front woman... she would rather prepare herself by spending time naked in the jacuzzi.
"I'm already at level 10 of the guitar skill, I don't need to rehearse" she says... So yeah, ok, fair enough.. but playing in sync with your band...? Is that not important..? "I'll wing it" she says. "I am the most important member of the band... I need to be relaxed before the show..."
Ooookay, just don't let being the front figure go to your head, hmm...
At Sofia and Palash's house little Yumi was satisfying her need for destruction by going at the sofa.. and the carpet...
This dog might be a little expensive to keep... and it looks like she knows all about it... "I hope Palash will get a raise soon.. so that I can chew up more stuff..."
You dastardly little dog!
Palash: You can't chew up everything in our house! Bad dog, Yumi! Bad dog!
Sofia finally feels good about her reflection now that she is married...
And she keeps pondering which bed to choose for their next woohoo... :P
Then its time for the band's concert to begin, and people are really getting into it this time, some even dancing up on stage.
The bass player, Sam Mæle, and the rest of the band is very happy with this performance as Gerda goes to speak with Abel Bo to get paid.
He gives them 840 simoleons for the job, and also gives them some feedback. He says that it might be an idea for them to develop some stage personas, to create more of a show, as opposed to just well.. showing up and playing in their everyday wear..
If they want to make it big, perhaps they can't just get by with writing and singing songs, they have to become full-time entertainers. Gerda says she will think about it, and bring it up with her band members to hear what they think. So far they have thought of themselves as just a simple folk-punk-rock band without any glitter and glamour, but they also want to make it big, so maybe.
At the now Chitrakaar-Karlsen household, Palash wants to take Sofia for a date, so he takes her out to the Red Meeting Place. Maybe if they can have a good time, he can convince her to have children...
They are hungry upon entering, so they order each their meal and sit down at... each their table, of course... but atleast they are eating synchronized. Is this a thing for couples in love, or do all sims do this? :P (Oliver Freddy and Inge at university also tends to eat perfectly synchronized.)
After finishing their meal, they sit down at the same table, and Palash, perhaps thinking strategically.. begins by saying he understands that children can be bothersome at times, but he also tries to encourage her to think about all the pleasure it will give to actually create a new life and watch it grow up!
Sofia: Oh, Palash.. I understand that you want children, but I only want you.. I don't know... maybe one day, but I don't want to make that promise...
Palash was happy to hear these words from Sofia. She didn't say yes to children of course, but he saw a glimmer of hope there, and it was as good as anything he wanted to hear...for now...
He wants to put her in the mood for love making, and that's not a very difficult thing to do. All it takes is one flirting action, before they are all over each other. Then they both go to the bar and order drinks for themselves, staying there until closing time and getting a little juiced, before its time to go home.
However, once home Palash seems to have forgotten about the love making, as he goes to nap on the bed, so Sofia might as well just go to sleep, too...
Part II - August:
Palash wakes up early from his napping, and decides to go for a swim. That's one of the perks of marrying a rich girl, you get a swimming pool in the backyard. But his swim doesn't last long, as the water seems to make him nervous, so he gets up and walks inside to do some laundry, when he gets a party invitation from Marianne Skurchk. She is having a pool party, and invites him to welcome him to the neighbourhood.
He wakes up his wife to go, and they get into his uh... they get into his car to drive the few 100 metres it takes to get there...
Once their they run off into each their direction. Palash heads around the house to greet Marianne by the pool, and Sofia gets a phone call from Bjørg Krag-Baker.
Palash realizes he is super tired, though, and heads back home before reaching the pool, while Sofia talks to Bjørg about how she is never going to have children, despite what she says to Palash...
Once he leaves, she ends the phone call to follow him home. "This house should be perfect for having a big family" Palash thinks as he steps onto the home lot and gets a look at their house and the playground outside...
Both of them go upstairs to have more drinks by the juice bar, when Sofia has a confession to make. She enjoys watching Palash in his sleep, and he reacts by looking like he doesn't like it, but secretly he does, because both of them get a small relationship boost from it.
Palash is so tired now, though, he goes to bed, while Sofia goes to check the mailbox as the postman has just dropped off several mysterious presents...
She goes to get them and opens them up to reveal the contents.
Wei Martinesen-Keane sent them a trampoline to congratulate them with the wedding.
Udisha, Palash's sister, sent them a painting, Quiet Backwater by Marcose (custom content).
Pattina Knekknes sent them a tattoo shop decoration (custom content).
Rikard Rikerud sent them another tattoo shop decoration
Leonard Plassen-Johnsen sent them another painting, "The Dark Arcadia" (Supernatural EP).
Laranya, Palash's mother, sent them a football goal!
Asbjørn Gjerdrum sent them a glimmering wand... (Useless in this world based on realism, at least to some extent. Nope, they're not going to learn magic.. not here...)
Julienne Knekknes-Skurchk sent them another tattoo shop decoration..
...amazing what can fit into that mailbox...
Sofia goes inside to have a meal, before she thinks about.. getting naked and decorating her house with all the new pictures and paintings...
She thinks its super funny and exciting to get naked.. (she is still juiced...and juiced people always like to get naked it seems..)
A naked Sofia clapping at the tattoo shop decoration she just hung up on her wall.
She puts on her swimwear to for a swim, and Yumi is getting lonely and wants some company, but she can't follow Sofia into the pool..
Sofia is excited to have Yumi follow her, and gets up from the pool to pet the dog.
Sofia: Oh, you're such a sweet doggy. Come here, sweet Yumi little, come to mama.
As Sofie has picked up Yumi to pet her, I get a notification Merete Sagmo (the keyboard player of "The Bushweeds") is now engaged to Johan Vaahgal. They are hanging out at Dreas Salon and Beauty Parlor where they probably sealed the deal.
Congratulations, I guess... I wouldn't excactly call him good looking, but love is love. :P As long as my sims are happy, that is the most important thing.. I don't want to meddle with the choices they make, however strange.
It's getting late, and Sofia is getting tired, so she goes to bed, when Palash wakes up from his sleep, feeling hungry.. but it's night time, and the summer season ends here, so.. good night.
Chapter 15.5 – Sunset Valley July 2022. Chess, books and family.
Mother and daughter, Iselin and Inge Reppe, are right where we left them off last time. Iselin talks about her own pregnancy, and is a little curious about her daughters plans in that department, too...
They keep talking about kids, future plans, money and science while wathching tv until the clock strikes three and their tv is turned off by the Magical Mr. Overwatch..
Hahah, oh I wish I had caught their reaction when their tv was turned off! :P A simultaneous raising of hands and "Urrrghh!!" from both of them! :P Time to go to bed..
- The Motorsen Family -
In the Motorsen household over at the Mosquito Cove, Ranveig wakes up to look at Oliver Freddys ribbon from high school; "Strongest candidate to take over the world". Besides her completed life time wish of being a chess champion, her sons are her biggest joy and pride in life. She loves them both, with all of her heart and then some, I am sure...
Robert Bråge wakes up to practice some chess outside, and wishes to buy a book in logic. His logic skill is already very high, so he buys the third book in the series, named after the numbers of pi.
After practicing chess for a while, he darts off to the bookstore to buy the book, which he reads on a bench outside.
No doubt is their mother a great inspiration for both Robert Bråge and Oliver Freddy, because Oliver Freddys next wish is to win a ranked game of chess... so while his mother walks upstairs after breakfast to watch the romance channel – an area of life where she hasn't been to successful – Oliver Freddy invites over the next ranked chess player.
The next ranked player is Deng Osman, and he is already booing at Oliver Freddy as they sit down at the chess table, in an attempt to intimidate him before play, perhaps...
The play their game while talking, but it appears they end it without finishing, because I get no notification about who won or lost, and Oliver Freddys wish of winning is not fulfilled.
After Robert Bråge finishes reading the logic book, he finds his grandfather, Ingmar Motorsen outside the store, and goes to the parking lot behind the grocery store to throw ball with him. There are a few traits that run in the Motorsen family..
- Motorsen Family Genetics -
Both of Ranveigs parents, Ingmar and Eirin, have the genius trait. Ingmar in addition has the inappropriate trait and poor Eirin has always struggled with her insanity ever since her childhood years...
The genius trait has been passed on to Ranveig as well as both of her children, which probably explains their chess craze. The insane trait has been passed on to both Ranveig and Oliver Freddy. The inappropriate trait is dormant in Ranveig (she doesn't have it, but can pass it on), but is active in Oliver Freddy (he has it).
- Pool Party -
While Oliver Freddy was playing chess and Robert Bråge was throwing ball, Ranveig got an invitation to a pool party from Mikael Bastiansen. She accepts it as she has no other plans for the rest of the day.
However, Ranveig can thank her father for the loner trait, so she finds the amount of people by the pool a little intimidating. So instead she walks inside to find her mom, Eirin Motorsen, to discuss their favorite tv-shows.
Robert Bråge finds his cousin, Lise Veronica Motor-Notesen, outside the convenience store to talk about cartoons. Lise Veronica is the daughter of Ranveigs sister Monica. With so many mentions of people from their family and their complicated double names, I find it necessary to link to the Motorsen family tree if you need an overview.
- The Reppe Family – The library, books and complicated family relations...
The Reppe family has chosen to hang out at the New Town Library, where they have picked up each their book to read.
Iselin has been at the shelf to pick an autobiography written by Bebe Hart-Bunch; "My crazy parents, Gus and Dorie", Kristina has chosen to read "Attacked by Pumas" by an unknown author (could be Asgeir Karlsen).
Jarle has picked up"The Black Hole Generator" a science fiction book written by Asgeir Karlsen and Inge has chosen to read "Quantum Quanterium" another science fiction book written by Asgeir Karlsen (I think.. he has written so many books, I'm not sure. :P)
Then I get a notification that someone is being extra lazy today. For some reason, Amena Alnuman is late for work. I find her on her bicycle (that she just bought to get in shape) racing by the library and on to the main road, hurry up! Amena is usually very strong willed and determined with her police career... she wants to catch as many criminals and bad guys as she can... It has almost become somewhat of a personal mission for her...She is usually not lazy at all, so something important must have caught her up, to prevent her from going to work..
Amena and her colleagues are cooperating with The Simbrian National Crime Investigation Service (SNCIS) to bust a league of criminals dealing with human trafficking, smuggling of illegal goods and supposedly child labor....
So far their clues are pointing in the direction of a certain small coastal town on the countries east coast...
Anyway, back at the pool party Ranveig has found her way back outside to chill by the pool where she spends the rest of the party, only getting up to switch between different chairs.
Jarle has now sat down to read a book about his main interest, gardening. The library has a splendid view towards the home of the Holm-Fredriksen family and the prison in the background...
Kristina spends the time wisely at the library finishing her last bit of homework, before she goes to the computer to look for a part time job after school. Kristina wants to learn how to cook, but the restaurants in town have no available jobs for a teenager, so she sends in an application for a job at the grocery store to work in the fruits and vegetable department. At least she will be working with food. Sort of..
Kristina finds fellow teenager Margrethe Holm-Fredriksen at the library, and they discuss family, primarily Kristinas family... Margrethe is Oliver Freddys half-sister and daughter of Ranveigs ex, Prison Warden Fredrik Fredriksen.
Ingrid Kråke-Karlsen has finished her shift at the town hall, and has invited three of her best friends, Lisa Bunch, Ahmed Mohamed and Therese Longva out for a game of bowling. but the only one joining her is Lisa Bunch. Ahmed and Therese turned her down, saying she could call them back in three hours. A little detail, but the contractor has already began work on expanding her bathroom, and hence she has had to move her parking lot a little. You can sort of see where the new outer walls are supposed to be.
They stand outside the bowling alley for a while, talking about movies, when Amena is seen on her bike again, this time heading for the beach to relax and watch the sun set after a busy day at the office...
Lisa and Ingrid walk inside for a game of bowling, and I think judging from how the game appeared to go and their reactions that Ingrid ended up being the winner.
And Lisa is a bit of a sore loser..
After playing, Carlos Opsahl decides to entertain them by randomly pulling out a drumkit.. he has spent the afternoon there flirting and kissing with Victoria Andrews (watching to the left) while Ingrid and Lisa played bowling.
The Reppe family has finally left the library to go home, where Inge suddenly has a few angry words to say about the current politicians and how unfriendly their politics are for artists, students and writers and other free thinkers...
Jarle has a more peaceful approach to life, as he tends to his little garden.
Oh, well not everyone of the Reppe family is home. Kristina had decided to pay a visit to the bookstore to browse through the shelves for anything new and interesting, before standing outside the theatre doing the university slogan dance.
Kristina is still young, thinking about many different things and trying to figure out what she wants. One moment, she is interested in food, the next moment gardening and fishing, and now she wants to be like her sister by writing books and going to university and being a rebel... so it is hard to say yet what will become of her, she is all over the place. :P
She does get a bit of a kick now, being out after curfew and possibly being hauled home by the police.. but eventually she caves in and goes home on her own accord before that happens...
Or maybe because she figured she was hungry and wanted mamas food.
Jarle and Inge is still awake upstairs playing ping pong for a while, and Iselin is downstairs reading a book before everyone goes to bed and this month ends. Good night.
I was planning to post both july and august in one update, but to much happened, so it would make it to long, so summer season 2022 will be rounded up come next update.
Chapter 15.6 – Sunset Valley August 2022 – Of snobs and bookworms...
A typical morning in the Motorsen household. Ranveig reminiscing by watching a picture of Oliver Freddy as a toddler and the romance channel blaring from all tv's in the house...
..before she runs off to her job in the journalism career. She goes by taxi and leaves her car behind in case Oliver Freddy would need it. Everything for her beloved son...
Oliver Freddy wants to work out, so he borrows his moms pick up truck to go to the gym downtown, where he puts on his finest clothing to pump iron alongside Kathrine Langerak and Pauline Wan.
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Robert Bråge wants to learn writing, so he bikes off to his moms workplace for a course, and upon completion he immediately gets a wish to write a novel. That's very ambitious for a twelve year old kid!
But he also wants to go for a swim, so heads off to the beach.
Robert Bråge loves the outdoors, just like his father, Gaute.
He is not swimming alone, as Emma Hatch follows him into the water and swims alongside him for a while.
Oliver Freddy has finished his workout, and is now all pumped and ready. It is time to go back for the third semester at university. He calls up his girlfriend Inge and she meets him outside the gym where they drive home to his house to say goodbye and hop into the car that will take them to university.
Ranveig comes out to bid them farewell, but Inge is the one getting the most emotional this time around. She loves her hometown of Sunset Valley, and is always a little sad everytime she has to leave...
Ranveig stands still thinking about her son, as she watches the car drive off. She should be used to it by now, but a mothers heart always belongs with her children, no matter what.
Before she finally gets up on a stone to wave at them from a distance..
Bye bye, Oliver Freddy and Inge... your summer holiday is over now, see you again at University.
Once inside she walks up to her bedroom upstairs to watch the childrens channel on tv, but kids shows these days.. they aren't what they once used to be....
Ranveig: Boo! What is this crap?
So she goes downstairs again, because she wants to upgrade the dishwasher to make a little less noise... and as she turns off the tv, of course, it breaks too, so Ranveig gets to spend some time inside increasing her handiness skill...
Ranveig wants to fix things herself, and doesn't want a repair person from outside snooping around her house...
Margrethe, the teenage friend of Kristina, has also gone swimming, and Robert Bråge has gone really far out now, almost by the buoy.. be careful with that surf boy.. I don't have the Island Paradise EP, so the town council can't employ life guards...
Ranveig gets an invitation to a party over at Xander Clavell's house, but it just makes her look grumpy, so I guess today is stay at home day for Ranveig.. "These parties all the time, urghh, sometimes I just need my own company..."
Over at Ingrids house the expansion of her bathroom has come a long way, and is almost finished. All that's left is wood panelling on the outside and wallpaper and floor tiles on the inside, and then its just to move the counters, the sink etc. and it will be done. :P
Ingrid has also bought a new bookshelf for her home. She is like many others in her family, a bookworm, a trait she could have gotten from either side of the family, because both her grandfather on her fathers side and her grandmother on her mothers side has the trait...
After finishing her dinner Ingrid wants to talk to her uncle Knut, so she goes over to him and her biological aunt Helenes house to pay them a visit. Helene is the sister of Kathrine, Ingrids mother, and Knut is Ranveigs brother. It's a small little happy town where everyone knows everyone... :P
As she heads over there, she drives past another construction site where something else is being built. Something that the town of Sunset Valley has been lacking for many years now, but finally the town council has decided to have one built. Oh.. what could this be? :P No, I'm sorry, its not a high rise... that won't happen in this small town... it's an important public building in case of emergency...
Ingrid rings the doorbell of their house, but it seems her uncle wasn't home, only Helene and their toddler son Anton.
Ingrid walks upstairs to practice chess while waiting for her uncle, but Helene follows her upstairs to talk about.. you guessed it, books..
Helene is an author of primarily childrens books, and used to work at the spa in town, but their world has expanded since last I had this is my active household, and now it seems she has switched to the painters career.
Ingrid walks into her aunts writing den to read a book about pregnancy (interesting choice...), but doesn't even get to open the first page before her aunt follows her to spread some gossip.
The writing den wasn't built for talking, its a very small room, so they walk into the bedroom of Helenes oldest son, Bjørn-Yngve to share the gossip and brag about their skills and belongings, like the snobs that they are.. :P
Ingrid gets a phone call from her father, Jonathan. He asks her how she is doing in her new house, and if she needs more money.. but so far she is doing just fine, she stil haven't spent all of the 16500 simoleons they gave her..
Finally her uncle Knut is home, and he walks upstairs to ask her how her day has been, and her wish to talk to him gets fulfilled.
Helene walks upstairs again to gossip more with her niece, before Ingrid walks downstairs and thinks about going home. Helene has picked up Anton to put him to bed, and it is getting late.
Bjørn-Yngve has also made it home, and Ingrid sits by him in the couch, but he is busy reading "Murder in Pleasantville".
With Anton now asleep in his crib, her aunt comes downstairs again and Ingrid praises a book she just read, and they both discover that they share the bookworm trait, and now Ingrid wants to become best friends with her aunt. :P
They discuss more books and politics for a while, before Ingrid thinks its getting late and heads back home, but not without making a snide remark about her aunts intelligence on the way out!
Ah, you're so sweet and lovely. Safe trip home and good night...:P
"Bonus" video. Another old video I made that wasn't originally made to be shared with anyone... I have estimated this to be around 2005-2007/8 in the story timeline. In this video Oliver Freddy and Ingrid are toddlers and Helene proposes to Knut...
Chapter 16.1 - Part I - Lake Onebega – August 2022
After leaving Sunset Valley behind, Oliver Freddy and Inge is now ready to begin their third semester at university..
It was a beatiful morning in August when they arrived back at the De Anda house by the shoreline of Lake Onebega...
Oliver Freddy gets a wish to buy a laundry machine, which reminds me of the total absence of laundry items at their dorm.. well, not anymore!
Gorr ba bib! Inge is happy for the opportunity to finally do some laundry.. However, their dorm wasn't build to include laundry machines, but lucky for them a couple of new laundromats had just opened in the area, so they would still get the opportunity to enjoy some fresh clean clothes..
Inge also immediately gets a wish to light a bonfire... It was so much fun last semester, wasn't it?
Oliver Freddy finds the post lady, Calista Montgomery, outside and begins talking to her about movies, and asks if they should go to the movies together. However, she isn't really to keen on that...
Tag! You're it, she says and runs off the lot, and for a while Oliver Freddy thinks they are playing tag together before it dawns on him... Haha, she got you there! :P
Inge is still being a couch potato, and has of course gone inside to watch the cooking channel...
Ah, and here comes the other students..
..and this guy, Skip Taylor, already finds Inge attractive even before he has stepped on to the lot! And among the students are some familiar faces too.
It seems that Ayana Yuki is now back to living at their dorm, along with Cody Eisenberg, Jonathan Dirk, Matthew Tellner and Daniel Vaughn. Liz Tarry seems to not have been wanting to return, though.. so maybe she did decide to travel the globe... Shame, I was starting to find her absent minded behaviour and repeatedly walking up and down the stairs for no reason to be quite endearing. I was even starting to like her purple hair and round face.. :P
Ayana Yuki walks inside to play video games, and Inge seems very interested. She is constantly watching her and is happy that she recognizes her as an art student..
Jonathan Dirk sits down alongside them, and immediately begins talking about kids toys, but Inge, though she finds him attractive, displays no interest in him whatsoever, doing her best to keep her eyes on Ayana.
"I don't want to talk to you Jonathan" she says, and Jonathan is clearly disappointed.
"..but I have feelings for you, Inge" he says.
"I know Jonathan, but I'm just not interested..."
"I already have plans to marry my Oliver Freddy..."
"...and we are going to stay together until we die! And nothing can get in the way of that!"
Jonathan: How can you be happy with him? He is always rooting through trash, and he smells like fertilizer!
Inge: Jonathan!! Seriously....
Inge: I don't want to listen to this... LALALALALA!!
I check their relationship bar, it is in the red, and it is getting worse everytime he opens his mouth.. he should really shut up.. :P
Well, after this it was time for Oliver Freddy and Inge to go to the Connors Student Hall to pick up their new stuff for this semester.. finally an opportunity for her to get away from this situation...
Oliver Freddy is already well on his way..
After picking up their new items they go for a game of ping pong.
Their game is going nicely, until Oliver Freddy delivers a really hard and fast ball!
Schmack! Right in her face! Careful there! O_O
It wasn't to bad as she quickly shook it off and they resumed their game. Oliver Freddy ended up winning.. with quite a solid margin...
Inge goes to play ping pong with a couple of other guys and practice pool for a while, before she decides to head back home.
Oliver Freddy wants to keep his straight A streak, and has gone downstairs to study already! I'm impressed, keep that up!
Once home, Inge gets an invitation to a bonfire party by Shannon Arkers that lives over at the Student Union for girls. This makes her very excited as she remembers how wild and crazy last semesters party was...
She heads over there as fast as she can and rings the doorbell, but is a little disappointed when nobody comes to open the door and let her in..
So she decides to go for the university slogan dance right in front of their window. This should impress the girls and let them know she is one of the group and they will let her in, she thinks.
She is finally let inside, and continues doing the university slogan dance for a while, before she walks out into the backyard to light a bonfire, even though its raining.
She spends a good proportion of the evening outside by the bonfire with more university slogan dancing and has great fun doing so, even if nobody else is there...
Back at the Student Hall Oliver Freddy has been doing some research all by himself.. oh, it is clear who is the genius one of these two.
Then he sends an anonymous admirer text to Nicole Lawry. She was pretty hot in that swimsuit at the party last semester....
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As he goes to grab something to eat, he finds Debbie Richards now playing guitar for money. She doesn't sound half bad, but is apparently not very skilled, as a notification pops up after a while that she just made it to level one of guitar..
At the party Inge has finally made it inside to continue the slogan dance, but as she finds the other girls doing the same thing, she immediately begins booing at them...
Inge: That was pathetic! I am much better at it then you!
Then the girls gather upstairs and continue that thing, all individually and at their own pace.
And when Inge spots the other girls doing it, she boos at them again, and points and laughs..
"Hahaha! You suck!"
There doesn't appear to be much camaraderie between Inge and the other girls here for some reason...
"Booo! That was awful!"
Inge begins to think its time to leave, but stops for a while outside to compliment Hanna Germanotta that apparently lives there for her home, but she is not very receptive to the compliment, and immediately begins a fight with Inge where she calls her rude and asks her to leave.
Now I wonder what Inge could have done to come off as rude....
"I'm not making any friends here, time to go home..."
Oliver Freddy has been watching Debbie Richards play guitar for a while, before coming home just a short while before Inge. Both of them are really tired now, so its bedtime before their semester can truely begin again next month...
Chapter 16.1 - Part 2 - Lake Onebega - September 2022.
Next morning Oliver Freddy was the first to wake up, and I caught him for the first time thinking baby thoughts, too...
Inge had woken up to prepare her usual morning waffles. She didn't want to eat the ones already on the counter, because Jonathan Dirk had made them... and Inge knows that she can make better waffles. All those hours of her watching the cooking channel on tv has not been without reward...
Oliver Freddy doesn't care. He thinks waffles is waffles, but he does complain about them once he has finished eating and gets a negative moodlet for uneven cooking.. Inge is very satisfied with her waffles.
Then it is Inges turn to study.. She needs a lot more discipline to get it done compared to her boyfriend..
Oliver Freddy remembers how filthy their dorm had gotten by the end of the previous semesters, and decides to hire a maid. It makes everything tidier, and frees up more time that can be used for studying.. or fun...
Then Inge has to run off to her first lecture in "A taste of graffiti 102". Interesting what they learn as art students...
Oliver Freddys lecture doesn't start until later, so he heads off to the Student Hall again. Last month he saw Cora Sidwell there, a one star celebrity among the students, and now he wants to meet her again. Also, the cars there are the ones that belong to Inge and Oliver Freddy.
Usually my sims will have their cars painted in their favourite colour... and this is when I noticed that Inge and Oliver Freddy actually has the same favourite colour. :P
Well, Cora Sidwell is not to be found, so instead he goes to do some more research on a fish sample he has collected, but his wish of doing research on a scientific sample is not fulfilled, so the sample probably wasn't scientific enough....
He is still happy with his findings, though, which apparently was something very extraordinarily. From the looks of it he should have a bright career in science ahead of him. This will be sure to make his mama proud, as if she wasn't already!
Then it is time for him to run off to his first lecture in "Abstract theory about supernatural phenomena 101." Hmm, that sounds like an interesting topic for a science major...
A pretty shot of Inge running home in the rain after her lecture.
Once home she is making good use of the new tv that Oliver Freddy had bought and placed in their room.
Inge spends the rest of the afternoon practicing to learn the hole in two trick shot on the pool table. She doesn't succeed in learning the trick, though, so her wish to do so is still there.
She plays a little more with her trick soft ball, before finishing the painting she started last semester at a value of 99 simoleons.
The supernatural lecture has inspired Oliver Freddy to want a tattoo, and luckily for him a new beauty parlor and tattoo shop just opened during summer. His new dorm mate Skip Taylor is also curious about the new tattoo shop and joins him in the car, and they immediately become a friend group.
He finds the tattooist outside, and asks him for a tattoo, but he declines, so he asks him again. The tattooist declines again and says that they have closed, but he still asks him to follow him inside...
He appears to give him a tattoo, but he does absolutely nothing and Oliver Freddy is not charged any money.
Confused and tired and without any tattoo, Oliver Freddy decides to go home to his girlfriend, and call it a night. This also gives him some more time to think of what tattoo to get.. maybe a heart with his girlfriends name? Hmm, nah, to risky in case something goes awry down the line... A chess piece to honor his mom? Something related to science or being brave? Maybe the tattooist was smart in not giving him a tattoo.. him going there was a bit of an impulsive act, he had to admit to himself, and tattoos are pretty permanent!
He could really need to sleep on this choice, and decides to go to bed...
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Inge has been sitting up waiting for him while watching the cooking channel, and once he is home and asleep, she decides to clean up some of the leaves from the lawn before joining her sleeping boyfriend..
Nighty night.
As this will be the last update in this thread before the holidays, I am posting a christmas greeting from all of my Sunset Valley sims. All 42 of them! Or 43, counting the one that is still being held inside someones belly.
Merry Christmas from all of them.. or Ooboo Kukla, as I think they would call it. :P
A few more of them lined up from different angles:
Left side.
Center.
Right side.
Far right side.
Far left side.
These pictures is from a very simplified Sunset Valley compared to the one I play in (some buildings I have placed are missing in the background here), because when trying to save while lining them up all up, I encountered my first error 12's.. I will probably never do this again! :P Had I known it would be so time consuming...
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The Narrator was in need of refreshing his memory before returning to this community along the nations west coast, perhaps an indicator that this storyline might be moving forward at a to leisurely pace...
The family that was last visited in Bewickton was the Chitrakaar-Skurchk family, an average sized family of four.
They are Dudleif (age: 67), Udisha (age: 31), Nishit (age: 6 years 8 months) and Ole Christian (age: 2 years, 7 months).
Dudleif was last seen at the Student Union playing a game of “Smash the Gnome” after he had managed to shake off Sølvi Sjanto, his friend Bobbys wife.. and thats where the Narrator puts his finger to the green arrow to release him from his 'frozen in time' state.
Nishit, his oldest son, just finished a bath and is going to bed. His wife Udisha is already asleep, and the youngest, Ole-Christian, has been left downstairs alone, but lucklily Dudleif understands its late and decides to head home.
However.... the Student Union is quite maze like, so the way he has to go to get home isn't immediately intuitive. It almost wears him out going up and down all these stairs...
Udisha actually wakes up from Ole Christians crying the very moment he makes it home.. and the Narrator spots something else that had temporarily escaped his memory. Of course, Udisha is pregnant because of the couples inappropriate woohoo during her sister Leyas visit last summer...
Ole Christian woke up Nishit, too, before passing out. Poor kid.. Udisha had forgotten him downstairs so that he couldn't access his sleeping mat.
Nishit decides to finish a painting, though the Narrator would much rather have him sleep to be rested before school tomorrow...
The parents go to sleep, as Nishit finishes his painting to a value of 43 simoleons. And the Narrator notices there is a bunch of filthy laundry everywhere.. disgusting. They do have laundry machines in their garage, so there is no excuse..
By morning Nishit wakes up to play with his annoying imaginary friend, that he is of course very fond of.. who needs breakfast, when you have such a good friend to talk to?
Besides that, its a beatiful mild, green and rainy february morning for the commuters in the west coast town of Bewickton (in comparison to Lake Onebega in the mountains, and Sprottenham on the east coast that still has snow).
Udisha wakes up to make breakfast, and she is pretty far into her pregnancy now. She is due to give birth to their third child sometime around mid March.
Elsewhere this morning, I find that Udishas parents, Laranya and Deepak, along with her sister Nitya, have chosen to hangout at the fitness centre. “I took my family here to get a good workout” says Deepak (age: 68). “It is important to keep the body strong and the mind sharp, also for artists and painters. Especially now that we are getting older...”
Nitya (age: 21) is on the treadmill, next to Sølvi Sjanto (age: 58). Sølvi is actually older than the Narrator thought she was. It was assumed that she was in her 30s, but it can be a little hard to tell a sims age sometimes...
“Nnnghh!! This is leg day for me!” says Laranya (age: 71).
Udishas brother, Bhavan the firefighter (age: 23) is at home jamming on his guitar. His shift at the fire station hasn't started yet. Udishas other brother, Palash (age: 30), is at work in his business career, hanging out by the water cooler and chatting up his colleagues..
After Udisha has finished her breakfast, the Narrator directs her clean up the house, because its an absolute stinking mess...
Udisha is a very ambitious person, she just has to get in a bit of work, even if she is on pregnancy leave. “I have to keep up to date and keep my skills sharp” she says “I can't fall behind in my career just because I want kids!”
Bhavan is now at the fire station, where he just finished some maintenance on the fire alarm, when his colleague Vemund Rokne comes out again to argue with him. Vemund is jealous of Bhavans popularity and a bit of a hothead...
Nishit goes to visit the Stabell-Jones family after school. They live right next door to his grandparents, Deepak and Laranya. His friend there is Emilia Stabell-Jones (age: 11), almost twice his age. Sometimes its good to have an older friend to keep the bullies away.
It is also nice to have a friend with such an awesome treehouse to play in! Or sleep in, if you didn't get enough sleep the night before, because you have a screaming little brother and you decided to spend the night painting...
And here's another one that didn't get enough sleep the night before.. going to sleep immediately after his shift at the police station.
The Narrator makes a jump to Palashs house, and he looks a little sleepy too... what is it with you guys and staying up at night? :P He lives alone and has no children, so it shouldn't be that hard for him to keep a steady rhythm.. or maybe thats why it is hard for him... it wouldn't surprise the Narrator if he was out at a bar or a night club all night yesterday...
Back at the fire station, Sofia Karlsen, which is the love interest of Palash, just shared some juicy gossip about Vemund.”I heard he likes to run circles around his house naked in the middle of the night” she said, and they both have a laugh at it. I'm not sure if those rumours are true, though, because I haven't seen him do that, but who knows.
Oh, and the fire station in Bewickton has a juice bar.. The Narrator is not so sure if thats a good idea..
“Hahaha! Its a perfect idea!” says Bhavan “Every workplace should have one!” Yeah, well, I'm not convinced... you know, if everyone gets juiced, who is going to drive the fire truck?
Bhavan: Oh, don't worry.. we only have one small sip, we don't get juiced when we're on duty!
Alright, if you say so...
Udisha is feeling the back pains from her pregancy...
..but still decides to spend some time teaching Ole Christian to walk.
Back at the fire station, Sofia Karlsen is being her usual self and bragging about her swimming pool. He is amused by her gossip, but doesnt care for her bragging. Braggarts are the most boring and annoying people...
With the old man Dudleif asleep and not doing anything interesting, the Narrator wants to stop by some of his family members, just to see what they are like.
This is Dudleifs mother, Marianne Skurchk (age: 83), with her second oldest son Bill Knekknes-Skurchk (age: 65) and his wife Julienne Knekknes-Skurchk (age: 43). Look at those grumpy faces! I think I can understand why Dudleif doesn't want anything to do with these guys... even if they appear to be well off. Material goods isn't everything, especially not if they have been acquired through illegal means... They walk inside the house, and just as I am about to follow them, something else is going on..
Udisha was just picking up Ole Christian to go to bed when her water broke... Now she has to rush to the hospital.. this baby is in a hurry! It wants out, about two weeks early!
As she is heading out, Nishit comes home.
Nishit: Hi, mom. Where are you going?
Udisha: To the hospital, the baby is coming! Dad is upstairs and asleep, can you watch over Ole-Christian for me?
Nishit: Oh.. oh, I want to see! Can I come with you!?
Udisha: No, I think it is better you stay at home with your brother.
Honestly, I don't think you would want to see your mother giving birth, Nishit...
She picked the police car to go there. She tried to put the sirens on, but couldn't figure out how to work it. She still drove as fast as she could go!
As she enters the hospital door, Dudleif finally wakes up to realize where she has gone. “Time to go to the hospital again!” he thinks running as fast as he can.
They got a baby girl, and named her Madhunisha, meaning “pleasant night” since she was born at night. Weighing in at 3105 grams, she was a little lighter than the average, but the doctors reassured Udisha that was not a huge problem, as long as it was made sure her little baby girl was properly cared for. Madhunisha was born with the traits clumsy and easily impressed, both traits from her father.
Dudleif was afterwards in a real hurry to get home. “I must put Ole-Christian to bed!” he says as he runs by. Udisha has to walk with Madhunisha in her stroller, so she takes her time.
At home Nishit couldn't sleep when Ole Christian kept crying, so he went to finish his homework.
Udisha puts Madhunisha in her new crib and brings Ole-Christian upstairs, and Dudleif takes a bath, before everyone eventually goes to sleep and the month ends.
The toddlers in my towns somehow almost always fail to understand that their head should go on the pillow...
Anyway.... next on the list is Sprottenham (the town, not me!) and the Flansbarne-Jiggens family.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
@Sprottenham I really like Dudley/Dudleif . I grew fond of him in a past game, he was a good guy.
Ah the laundry hassle, I know it well! I try to only give it to the responsible ones, and even give the magic hamper too! LOL I still get dirty laundry on the floor!
Yes those imaginary friends have too strong a pull on them don't they, like a sugar addiction, or worse!
Ah great to see Bhavan again!
''.”I heard he likes to run circles around his house naked in the middle of the night” '' hey ow that is a pretty good rumor! I haven't seen that one before! Mine are all boring about some husband flirting with his wife. yep that's it.
hmmm juice bar at the firestation! well let's hope it is just one sip!
oh yes, Dudleifs' family, all the adults are pretty rotten! Those faces!!!
Oh Yay Dudleif didn't miss the birth of his daughter! Madhunisha, I like the meaning of the name! she is a very cute baby!
AW cute toddler upside down asleep! Great update!
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What's the magic hamper? They do have clothes baskets in all their rooms where they normally switch clothes (bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.)
Well, I kind of made that rumour thing up. It doesn't always say what they talk about when they gossip, but I imagined they said something nasty about that Vemund guy. He always shows up to start an argument with Bhavan. He's such an annoying guy, he deserves to be trash talked.
Thanks for enjoying the update.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Poor Agathi is found crying in the bathroom because she is no longer friends with Ramger, after she denied his flirting at the party Baturney held last month...
Yeah, it sucks to lose a friend, but chin up! Give it some time, and I'm sure you can become friends again... Looks like the horror and crime novelist has a soft spot...
..and it looks like Ramger thinks he can make money by playing guitar outside their house in the middle of the night. Sim logic.
When morning comes, and Baturney is in the bath, I switch by the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household. Bodil is of course on her way to school and Gaute is already at work, since he starts his shift so early.
Leya is inside, placing Orinder in the crib in the living room, that was there since their christmas party. “It is so convenient to have an extra crib here” she says, “then I can always keep the baby close to me.”
“And when he grows up, I hope he will be just as fond of music as I am. Its best to start early!” she says as she whips out her guitar to play the blues.
Which brings me to another musician friend of ours, Solvej. Where are you going?
“I'm going to Harbor Park” she says.
Aha.. and you're going to walk all the way over there?
“Yeah, what about it? I like a good walk.”
No, I'm just thinking you might get a little cold... that you might do with some warmer clothing..
“Oh, don't you worry. I've been out in winter weather before.. this is nothing!”
Alright, then.. I'll check back on you once you have made it to the park...
Back in the Jiggens-Flansbarne house Agathi is making sure that Ruben gets his morning milk, before she thinks she can get some more sleep.. but Iselin is crying because she needs her company, so nope...
I locate Solvej, she has now made it to just outside the library. Bet she is gloating now, because the all the snow has melted in record time!
“I knew this would happen.. see, no problem!” she says, as she walks on.. ...and is nearly ran over by this orange car. It manages to sverve around her just in time!
The driver of the car is Anne-Gerd Jørgensen, and in the backseat is Kari Slettemoen, both of them are colleagues of Leya and Solvej. The other passanger, Dimitov Slettemoen is married to Kari, and a colleague of Patrik. I tell Anne-Gerd to watch it, and ask where she could be going in such a hurry.
"We're going to the Youth House of Science” she says. “I found some strange looking beetles in our kitchen yesterday, and I want to take samples of them”. Alright, you go and do that... just try to drive a little more carefully! You almost found yourself guilty of manslaughter...
Solvej walks on and makes it to the park in one piece, while Agathi sits down to write her next chapter on her novel, “The Zombie Kitchen”.
Agathi: In this chapter, Natalie is pushed by an unseen demonic force towards an open ovens door, so that she catches fire!
Say what? An unseen demonic force?
Agathi: Yes! But this is only the beginning! Now don't disturb me, I have to write!
Ok, ok.. I'll leave you alone...
Alright, Solvej, now all of a sudden you got into your car.. where are you going now?
Solvej: I'm going home... to my garden. I have to look after my plants now that the snow has melted.
Solvej: Oh, well... they are still frozen... I'm gonna have to look at how I built that greenhouse.. They shouldn't be frozen.. Can you believe that it even snowed inside of it!?
As she enters her home lot, it starts to rain and Patrik comes out.
Patrik:Hi darling, lets go have som fun at the disco tonight.. Mmm, and when we get home I'll eat you up with parsley sauce and potatoes!
Solvej: Hahaha, Patrik.. what is that supposed to mean!?
Solvej: This is my favorite part of the year, now that the sun is returning more and more each day, don't you think?
Patrik: Oh, definitely.. perfect time to do some spring cleaning.... in the bedroom!
Riight.. think I'll leave these two alone for a while...
Leya is still playing the blues for Orinder, but I don't think he's enjoying it all that much anymore...
Then it is time for Agathi to go to work. Gaute should be finished working by now, so I check where he is.
He just exited the store, and went around the corner to sit on a bench next to a couple of strangers...
Baturney is home from work, and he has a wish to talk to Gaute, so why not invite him over? “Good idea” he says, before getting his phone out.
And then I get this message... huh, what? Grønnåkerveien 15 (Greenacre road 15).. that's Solvejs home. Did he just buy it to rent it out to them? What? I didn't know my sims could do that...
So this guy, Kabelo Gundersen, is a landlord now.. interesting. Solvej is right in front of him, going shopping, so I guess they just finished the deal..
Anyway... Gaute has now come over to visit Baturney, and Baturney has sat down to play with one of Rubens toys.. Baturney has always been a little childish. When he was a teenager, he wasn't to interested in the circus animals. He would much rather take on the role of playing as a clown, and thats how he started his career. He eventually took over the role as the circus director when his father, Listoof Flansbarne, retired from the business.
Gaute is really good with children, but he does not have the family oriented trait. So I wonder why? :P While Baturney is sitting in the living room being childish, Gaute functions as a baby sitter and takes care of his children!
“This is how I learned to take care of children” says Gaute. “My mom, Leonora, was always so good to me and my two older siblings. Dole Plains (Dølasletta) was a very good place for us to grow up... and I want every child to experience the same thing.”
Even Agathi with the evil personality trait is a better parent than Baturney...
Gaute and Baturney discuss politics. This year is election year where the citizens of Simbria will cast their votes in october, and politicans, such as Baturney, should already be busy with their election campaign. During the last election in 2018 the “blue block” parties won for their second period, and the citizens of Simbria might want a change of direction come this years election...
2018 Election Results inside spoiler:
While Gaute is at home with Baturney and his kids to discuss politcs, I locate Bodil at Harbor Park, about to do her homework... and everyone keeps thinking about swimming pools... Bodils mother Leya is at work along with Solvej and Agathi.
Gaute has always been a nature and outdoors enthusiast, and thinks politicians should do more to preserve forests and wildlife. He is considering voting for The Greens this year, and wants to know if the Labour Party, which Baturney represents, have any plans for taking care of nature.
“Oh, we have good plans for both nature and animal rights” says Baturney, “but people also need jobs.” It wasn't excactly the answer Gaute had hoped for, and certainly wouldn't convince him to change his vote.”I think I will stick with what I have already decided” Gaute says, though he is still juggling alternatives. His other alternative is to vote for the Central Party, which is mostly an agrarianist party.
Baturney finally understands that he has to feed Iselin, and puts her in her crib to sleep.
Gaute turn off the tv, and goes to pick up Ruben to tickle him, which breaks the tv, so Baturney has to call for a repair man.
I check up on Bodil, and she is going out to visit the Harbor Art Gallery. “I know its almost bedtime, but mommy and daddy isn't at home, and our babysitter is a nobody, so I can do what I want...”
She is a true Chitrakaar, that girl.
Agathi came home from work, dead tired. Both her and Baturney went to sleep.
Gaute is still there, though, being the perfect babysitter for their children!
“This garden gnome is the most beatiful thing I have ever seen!”
Bodils mother, Leya, is putting Orinder in the crib downstairs to draw another sketch.
Patrik, Solvej and Rune hangs out at the Harbor Park, but it is getting late and they are looking tired.
Rune knows its way past his bedtime, so he heads home. Patrik and Solvej wants some romantic time for themselves under the stars...
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Anyway, february has now ended, and its time to leave them for now, and start this round of jumping between towns all over again, by returning to Sunset Valley for march...
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Chapter 14.1 - Sunset Valley, March 2022: Jonathan and Sofies parents, part I.
Person on picture: Kleopatra Motor-Karlsen.
Last month, I had to stop by the Motor-Karlsen family, so that Kleopatra could age up to a teenager, but now we are back at the Kråke-Karlsen household again, where Ingrid is waiting for the new house to built so that she can move out of her parents home...
Person on picture: Ingrid Kråke-Karlsen.
Last month they had gotten the outer walls up on the house, but no wood panelling, inside walls or roof/ceiling, so lets see how far along they are now..
Oh, now its starting to look like something. The house has a roof, finally. the outer walls have wood panelling, and the inner walls are up. Most of the work should be interior now, and quite possibly they will be done by the end of this month. Of course, its not a big house by any means, as it is meant to be only a starter house for young adults, but atleast it is something new and fresh for our young Miss Snobby McSnob!
Jonathan of course, wakes up to read in his daughters bedroom.. even though they have a reading spot in their own!
Morten goes to school while Kathrine and Ingrid have to go to work at their respective workplaces, the hospital and the town hall. Jonathan has the day off and spends it cleaning around the house. He has the neat personality trait which he inherited from his mom. In addition he buys a new bookshelf and a seesaw.
For some reason him and Kathrine have gotten into buying more kids toys recently...
Now speaking of Jonathans mom, I think it is time for the family to pay a visit to Jonathan (and his sister Sofies) parents and their living arrangement...
While Jonathan does his cleaning, I check up on Jarle and Iselin to see how they are doing. They are expecting a new baby, and are as romantic as ever.
Jonathan gets a wish to learn charisma, so he drives off in his fast and fancy car (..or was that furious?) to town to check if there is a course to attend.
While Jonathan attends his course in charisma, this message pops up. Sofie is Jonathans sister and Kleopatras mother. Police has gotten a little stricter lately, it would seem.. I don't think Sofie would be the one to do anything wrong... Now I want to follow her, just to see what she is up too. Currently she is standing outside the Amundsen and co. Cartoon store (nerd hangout). Not the grocery store as the pop-up said...
She goes home, picks up Walter, and then actually goes to grocery store....
As she does so, Jonathan is finished with his course in charisma. All his wishes at the moment are related to Kathrine and Morten, so there isn't much to direct him too. You're free to roam mister, show me what you want to do.
Well, he's not doing anything sensible besides surfing his phone and practicing the school uh.. school slogan shout dance thing.. (yeah, I don't know what you actually call that in english...) even though he never went to university... so I send him off to visit his mom and dad, Lucie and Asgeir Karlsen.
Jonathan always had a good relationship with both of his parents, in spite of their fighting and consequential divorce. Like his sister, he lived with his father ever since Lucie was kicked out, but he would often go fishing with her when he was a child and teenager, which was pretty much his only way of meeting and hanging out with his mom.
This monstrosity of a house is his parents home where he grew up. It wasn't all that much when his parents first moved into town back in the 1970s, but as they excelled in their careers and got wealthier, of course, the house also got bigger and bigger....
The garden in front is Lucies garden, as she was, and perhaps still is, an avid gardener and fisher. I don't know, I haven't had them as the active household in a long time.
Jonathans father Asgeir comes around the corner to let him in. As he doesn't walk out the front door, it looks like he has been hanging out inside Lucies apartment. Yes, she does live there now, but in her own apartment with a back entrance... Their backstory has been mentioned a few times already so I'm hopefully not boring you to much with it...., but their relationship went south after Lucie cheated on Asgeir with Beau Andrews at work... which resulted in fighting in the home, and a divorce where she got kicked out.
Picture: Backside of the house with the main entrance to Lucies apartment.
When they had grandchildren, Asgeir had built an apartment, and offered for her to move back in, given that she lived there. In the beginning he had closed off the rest of to house to her, to avoid any fighting between them. They were still not friends, and would get into physical fights with each other everytime they got near each other.. it was quite difficult to have them reconciliate this relationship! They have remained friends since, but never remarried.
Picture: Backside of the house with Lucies entrance into the backyard (left), and the main backyard entrance (right).
You might not think so, when you look at these old cosy people nowadays, that they used to hate each others guts, but they were quite troublesome... the radical opposite of what I wanted them to be... I wanted to create happy family moments with these guys... They were to be the founding family of my legacy... what a mess it turned out to be..
Another view of their house with the playground area and swimming pool. They may not have had much of a stable family life, but atleast they had money.... If you're going to cry, at least do it in nice surroundings... or well, I don't remember excactly how the quote went, but something like that...
Jonathan shares some gossip with his old man, before he goes inside to the library to read. His father is a writer and a painter, and of course, has a lot of books. Fact: One of these bookshelves is in fact a secret passageway... However, this is from before I had any expansion packs installed, so I had to do it the slightly more cumbersome way being going into build mode and move the bookshelf everytime the passageway was to be used..
Behind the bookshelf is a secret staircase leading down into the basement... Supernatural was the last expansion pack I bought, so if I make this my active household sometime later, I might change the bookshelf to the passageway it was meant to be.
Anyway, I hear the sound of videogames from somewhere in the house, which probably means that his mother is also home.
And yes, she is. This is Lucie, sitting in her apartment section playing video games.
Looks like Jonathan wants to visit his mom. He has gone out in the backyard to enter her apartment section that way. There are no doors on the inside between the main part of the house and her section.
On the first floor of her section is this tiny hallway, a staircase and a bathroom to the right.
On the second floor is a small kitchen and dining area, as well as her living space with a couch and a tv. Well, there should have been a small dining table here with four chairs, but somehow it has disappeared...
The first thing Lucie does when she sees her son again is to walk up to him and brag about her arcade gaming skills..
They stand there for a while and discuss books and writing. Lucie isn't a bookworm, but can't help but be affected by the rest of the familys interest in anything book related...
Then she picks up the book he left on the kitchen bench to put it back into the shelf. Lucie has always been a neat and orderly person.
She has to walk by Asgeir on the way there. They both glance at each other, but neither of them say a word.
Kathrine is finished with her shift at the hospital, and comes over to visit as well. Asgeir hears the doorbell ringing, but can't pull himself away from the tv to react..
Kathrine eventually makes it inside and goes for a drink... Could probably need to wind down a bit after a stressful day at the hospital, with heart transplantations and other surgeries left and right...
Lucie has become a bit of nerd in her older days, and offends Jonathan for what she thinks is a lack of brains in him.. even if he is a top level scientist!
Nice move, mom...
Kathrine has finished her drink and is now feeling a little buzzed, so she runs out to play with the sprinkler...
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Ingrid is finished with her shift at the town hall, and goes to visit her grandparents house as well. I want to see how this family interacts.. Morten attends the boy scouts as his after school activity.
Asgeir hears the doorbell once more, but is still occupied with watching tv. Really, can't you pull your eyes away from that thing? Your son, daughter in law and grand-daughter is visiting! But I guess you were never much of a family man.. huh?
Kathrine takes the opportunity to brag to Lucie about her arcade gaming skills. Mother-in-law is impressed. Jonathan yawns, because he's heard this a thousand times before.
Ingrid the snob finds her way into her grandmothers apartment to check her own appearance in the mirror. The house to the left is the home of Egil and Frida Kråkesen, Kathrines parents, and Ingrids other set of grandparents. We might visit them later.
Ingrid is just like her grandfather Egil, and her aunt Helene. Obsessed with their own appearance and mirrors.
Jonathan and Kathrine is being playful with each other. Mom/Grandma/Mother-in-law Lucie approves.
Lucie is retired from her job as a well reknown surgeon, so when Kathrine starts talking about her job at the hospital, she pays attention with keen interest. Lucie and Kathrine has one thing in common there.
Ingrid has gone to watch the news channel in her grandmas living space. The plaque on the wall is Lucies diploma from the high school in her hometown of Pamtere. Hopefully a town I will get to introduce later. Both Asgeir and Lucie grew up there, before they moved to Sunset Valley.
Kathrine goes for another drink. I'm not sure if I like this...
Lucie goes back to her apartment section. Asgeir and Lucies relationship isn't bad nowadays, but communication between them appears to be at a bare minimum... They prefer to keep to themselves most of the time.. The missing dining table is really visible on this picture (because I kow it was there. :P). I went back to an earlier save, and found it there, so I will put something back here, next time I play...
But I think its good that grandma and grand-daughter get a chance to hangout. The deathfish on the wall is Lucies proudest catch. She had lots and lots more fish in her inventory, but they have been sold to reduce the size of the save file... she sold them because they took up to much space in the freezer...
Lucie wants to play video games again, maybe that is her favorite past time nowadays. To old for fishing like you used to?
Ingrid thinks that Asgeir and Lucie have a very big nice house, but is a bit curious about why Lucie has her own apartment in the same house like she does. She has understood that there has been something going on inbetween her grandparents, but Jonathan has been a bit silent about this part. Even if he has seemed largely unaffected, of course, it was still painful to have his parents fight and divorce like they did...
Lucie pretends not to hear her grand-daughter circling in on the topic of their home situation, so Ingrid instead switches to talk about her job. She really wants to advance and reach the top level of the political career... and perhaps granny has some wise words to share..
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As this update became very long, I choose to end it here, and get back to posting part II of their family visit a little later.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Chapter 14.1 - Sunset Valley, March 2022: Jonathan and Sofies parents, part II.
Ingrid eventually gets bored of her grandmas video game playing, and goes to play chess with her grandfather instead.
Then Asgeir notices he has a lot in common with Kathrine and wants to get to know her better.. romantically speaking. No, come on man... so your own marriage failed miserably, but leave your sons marriage alone!
As Asgeir is busy talking with Katrhine, Ingrids action turns into solo chess practice.
Asgeir wants to know if Kathrine is as good at cleaning around the house as his ex-wife. Kathrine is not to happy about this question.. "Why on earth would he want to know that?"
Then she, oddly enough, decides to flirt with him. That is not well received, because Asgeir being a more straight forward and pragmatic person has never really been into such...
Morten is now finished with his after school activity, but has no interest in visiting his grandparents.
He was about to go there by my direction, but he turned on his bike and went home instead. "I'm going to invite Kristina for a visit" he tells me. Kristina is the little sister of Inge (Oliver Freddys girlfriend, both currently at university). Morten gets some happiness points when she promises to be over in a few minutes.
At the same time it starts to rain, so everyone at the Karlsen mansion goes inside.
Ingrid wants to take a picture with her dad, to memorize the event of visiting her grandparents home. She chooses to take the picture in the kids section where Jonathan and Sofie used to play when they where children.
And thats when I notice that there used to be a painting on that wall... Asgeir is a painter as well as a writer, and has painted a lot of paintings. I look around the house, and see that all the paintings are actually gone.. (I did find them in an old backed up file, so they will be restored some time later.)
And Ingrid suffers a routing error, and gets transported right back home, but that didn't really happen, so I send her back...
In the meantime, I look up Ranveig, Oliver Freddys mother, to check up on her and see how she is doing. I locate her at the bowling alley in a group of other people, where she just ordered a surprise stew. How are you doing?
Ranveig: Oh, I'm doing.. alright.. but I had this strange dream tonight.. I woke up at home, and thought everything was as usual, except the house was very empty, not even Robert Bråge was there..
Ranveig: And when I walked out the door, I was.. I don't know where I was, but everything looked different..
Ranveig: I turned back and.. my home was no longer my home, but some other building.. and.. I don't know, I was in a completely different place..
Ranveig: Some semi-desert looking town with only brick buildings and surrounded by this wall.. It felt claustrophobic.. like some indescribable darkness loomed over this place...and it was all empty..
Ranveig: I walked around feeling lost and looking for people, but there was nobody there..
Ranveig: And it didn't feel like a dream either, it felt so real, I thought it was actually happening..
Ranveig:I walked around in that strange town for what seemed like hours, until I somehow passed out.. and when I woke up.. again.. I was in my own bed, and it wasn't until then that I realized I had only been dreaming..
Ranveig: I have always had these weird dreams ever since I was little, I don't know.. but most of them don't feel like this... It was.. I don't know.. kind of eerie...
Ranveig: But other than that I'm doing.. I'm doing fine.. thanks for asking..
Back at the Karlsens residence, Ingrid had just returned in the doorway and the sometimes grumpy old Asgeir was now suddenly mad at his son for not visiting more often...
Jonathan apologizes before asking his father how his days has been...
Asgeir: Oh, its good, the usual, you know..
Jonathan knew his father well, and was familiar with his grumpy mood, so that he could sometimes be a little.. argumentative was something he was accustomed too..
Katrhine calls her daughter outside to have their picture taken. She wants a memory of this visit as well.
And then they do the same thing again, this time with Ranveigs parents (Ingmar and Eirin Motorsen) house as a backdrop.. Yup, all the original elders lives on the same street.
Lucie finally shows her face downstairs, and to my surprise, she actually flirts with Asgeir. So there is some romance left between them after all! And Asgeir, the usually unflirty one, even flirts back! Would you look at that!
Of course, it was only a brief flirt, it didn't last very long, but I am very pleased nonetheless!
Lucie goes into the library, to interrupt Jonathans chess practice. She has something on her chest that she wants to deliver. She doesn't dive right in, but circles around the topic somewhat, and comes with a half-hearted apology for how things happened between her and Asgeir back then.. Jonathan is overbearing, and accepts. He has always had a close relationship with his mom, and has a lot of good memories from everytime she would take him fishing when he was a child and a teenager. Thoguh his father wasn't the easiest of people to share a roof with due to his grumpiness, Jonathan will never fully understand why she would cheat on him though, but he never really held any grudges about it...
Then I get a notification from the game that Sofie, Jonathans younger sister, has improved her skills in drum playing to level two. I check her location and find her practicing in the basement at the Blitzkrieg house (the towns rebel hangout).
And Kathrine wants to have her picture taken with Asgeir, her father-in-law. Its important to saviour these family moments when you can, even if your family isn't perfect. Well, whose family is perfect anyway?
And now they are all (except for Ingrid upstairs checking her reflection in the mirror..) gathered in the library This room was also where Jonathan and Kathrine had their first kiss, when they were dating as teenagers... Asgeir was being grumpy again. Jonathan was offended, but Lucie just laughed it off this time..
Lucie tries to reconciliate the relationship... They are "just friends", but there are a few romantic interactions between them, still.. after all these years and with everything that has happened between them...
Asgeir doesn't reject and happily smells the flowers.
Jonathan wants another one for the photo album. "Smile dad, you grumpy old fart!"
Lucie is an over emotinal person, and has to shed a few tears of happiness over her sons visit. (The pictures on table behind Asgeir is Ingrid when she was a toddler).
Asgeir brags to Kathrine about his grandchildren, apparently proud to have snobs in the family...
And speaking of snobs, Ingrid is finally finished admiring her appearance in the mirror and meets up with the rest of the family. Her mom wants to take another picture, but the flash hits them both right in the eyes.
Asgeir brags to Kathrine about his grandchild Walter. Walter is Sofies son.
The rest of the night its just lots more bragging about grandchildren and picture taking, with mixed results...
Kathrine has become especially occupied with the picture taking...
Everyone is starting to get tired, but Kathrine and Lucie still find time to walk over into Lucies apartment for a friendly pillow fight.
Kathrine: Ingrid, just one more picture in this bathroom upstairs...
Ingrid: Ow, the flash mom.. the flash!
Jonathan is feeling the lack of energy now, and he has work tomorrow, so it is time for him to go home...
Kathrine is reading a book, "Illusions" in Jonathans old bedroom. "I will go home after finishing this book", she says, "Its getting late for me too"
Lucie is also getting very tired and goes to sleep in her.. umm, goes all the way up to sleep in the guest room. Not her own bed, but umm.. as long as she is getting a good nights sleep, of course, she can sleep whereever she wants...
Asgeir is still up, drinking coffee, but maybe its bedtime for him soon as well...
He used to spend his nights up writing in his younger days, just like this... Maybe he could be a good mentor for Inge, Oliver Freddys girlfriend, because she aspires to be just like that.. an illustrious writer pulling all nighters, just like Asgeir.. because somehow they think that will fuel their creativity..
Morten has since long gone to sleep in his treehouse...
Kathrine finished reading the book, time to find Ingrid and go back home to get some sleep...
Kathrine: Come along, Ingrid, we're going back home!
"Bye grandpa!" Ingrid says on the way out.
And that ends this visit and seals this update... nighty night.
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About the video:
Then it quickly jumps forward to 1993 and Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother. You can see the teenage Ranveig in the back, as well as her younger siblings, Monica, and one of the twin brothers, either Knut or Eivind. It could be Eivind that later ended up marrying Sofie, because he is the one interested in chess, but I could be wrong about that.
1994 - Frida Kråkesen, Kathrine and Helenes mother is absent minded and burned something on the stove... Frida Kråkesen had two lifetime wishes, the first one being to have a perfect garden..
1995 - Ine Melhus was Asgeirs girlfriend for a while, following his divorce with Lucie, but he dumped her after a while, because she was to childish....
1997 - Kathrines parents dancing in their workout room... notice the mirror in front of the treadmill.
1999 - Asgeir Karlsen as an adult, and Sofie Karlsen as a teenager.
2000 - Three childhood friends. Kathrine is now a young adult. The other two are still teenagers. Excuse the cameraman here, he was still learning...
2001 - Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother, digging through trash cans looking for clues about criminals. She is now retired, but worked in the police career.
2001 - Egil helps Helene with homework.
2002 - Helene ages up to a young adult.
2002- Erin Kennedy had moved in with Mortimer Goth in her older days. This was around the time when Mortimers parents died of old age. Erin died some years later.
2003 - Holly Alto grieves over her recently deceased husband. She died not to long after this, and her grave is placed right next to his. Yeah, this video ends on a sad note..
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
In Flames - Wicked Game.
After Sunset Valley, it is time to return to our friends at university. They are both asleep and dreaming about some.. yellow masked super hero or, I don't know what that is supposed to be.
As they are sleeping, I hear a strange rattling sound from out in the hallway. I see Cody Eisenberg (one of their dorm mates) practicing pool with the kitchen machine on the pool table. He was just about to finish when I saw him, because when Inge and Oliver Freddy are asleep, the game runs on fast mode. Even though there are more sims living in this dorm, the pair are the only ones I can have as active sims. The others I have no impact over, I don't even know all of them.
Such as this guy. I guess he lives there, but I have no idea who he is. Hardly relevant, so lets ignore him.. :P
But I know who Liz Tarry is. My sims aren't awake yet, but she is now up for an early breakfast. Hot dogs, what better way to start the day.. hmm?
I guess she is a bit absent minded, because after eating, she walks up the stairs and stops there as if she forgot why she just did so. Then she walks back down again, possibly hoping to remember what plans she had up there. Oh, I recognize that one. You don't have to be a sim, to do that...
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Inge is the first of my sims to wake up, pondering about the future of her career. "I'm probably going to need a regular job at first, before I can make a living off of my own writing" she thinks.
Oliver Freddy: *purr purr* Tonight I dreamt I was a cat. It was wondeful. Sleeping by the fire place all day, and chasing mice at night...
Inge: Hahaa hahaa hahaaa.. don't be silly!
Inge has other thoughts on her mind, as well, as she heads downstairs to watch some television. She would like to have children one day. She hasn't discussed this with Oliver Freddy, though. They are still young, with many years ahead of them, and things might change. But so far, their plan is to finish university, and go back to living in Sunset Valley.
Oliver Freddy has a quick breakfast with waffles, not eating at the same table as Daniel Vaughn, before he heads to the computer to study. I believe Daniel Vaughn to be Liz Tarrys love interest, as she sometimes flirts with him.
As Oliver Freddy sits at the computer to study, and Inge walked downstairs after finishing a shower (in the background inside) Liz walked outside in the still cold spring weather in her sleepwear to find that the path is blocked by a bunch of snowmen... but they should hopefully be melting soon.. Daniel Vaughn is outside, drawing a sketch of the still frosty windows.
Liz Tarry gives up trying to go to wherever she was going, and goes inside to play computer games. Inge is also at the computer, preparing for todays lecture. Yup, its boring, but both of them really want an A for this semesters exam, and that doesn't come without working on it...
Daniel Vaughn finishes his sketch outside, and goes to talk to Liz Tarry. She begins flirting with him, and is clearly smitten.
But Daniel, though he appears to enjoy her flirting, doesn't really look to interested, so the feelings probably aren't mutual... "Silly girl, I've got her around my pinky" he thinks...
Then she goes out in the spring rain for a while to look at those snowmen, and well. .just stands there for quite some time... She is definately acting a little absent minded these days.. poor girl... The snowmen are melting.. just like her heart...
After a while, the snowmen melt away completely, and she finally gets dressed... Oliver Freddy is finished studying on the computer, and goes out to talk to her. They discover that both of them have the good trait in common. Oliver Freddy begins to find Liz attractive, and gets one wish to be naked in a swimming pool, and another to bathe naked with Liz...
While Oliver Freddy is outside chatting up one of his roommates, his girlfriend is inside making pancakes.. "I hope not to burn them this time!" Inge says.
"These pancakes actually turned out quite good" Inge says, and they should as she just reached level 4 in the cooking skill.
Oliver Freddy and Liz stand outside talking for a long time until Liz gets a little absent minded again...
Then its time for Oliver Freddy to go to his lecture, and he runs by this contraption. I'm hoping thats where his lecture is, but he just keeps on running. Todays lecture is just a rabbit hole one.
Inge does some more preparing for her lecture. Her academic results so far have not been on par with her boyfriend, so she has a little more work to do.
After studying for a while, she wants to head over to the wall behind the book store to practice graffiti. She still hasn't acquired her first skill point in it, a wish she has had since before the christmas party in Sunset Valley when she was caught red handed by Ranveig, possibly her future mother-in-law, at the rebel hangout... On her way there, she takes her usual short cut through the bushes...
She isn't to far away from her fist skill point, which she gets and her wish is granted.
She is proud of her doing, though I wouldn't excactly call that a work of art, but hey.. its a start..
Then she runs off to talk about university with Ashley Corono. I don't know who Ashley is, but Inge wants to make more friends, so maybe she will make one here.
Ashley tries to walk away, but Inge follows her to keep talking.
Inge keeps talking all the way until she has to go to her lecture. Lizzie Mund comes to listen. Lizzie was the first one Inge talked to on her first semester, but they haven't had much contact so far this semester.
Inge keeps an eye on Ashley as she leaves. She looks to be more interested in talking to Ashley, then Ashley is in talking to her...
Oliver Freddy was practicing chess out in the rain, but I want him to study more, so I send him off to the library. Their exam is coming up in may already...
After her lecture, Inge immediately wants to head home. University grounds aren't looking to bad now that the rain has stopped.
Her face immediately changes to a smile as soon as she is through the door.
She has a wish to make friends with Debbie Richards, so she invites her over, but Debbie isn't interested in showing up. Instead they talk on the phone for a while.
The phone call gives her a wish to give Debbie a friendly hug. As she hangs up, Oliver Freddy comes home from the library, but she only goes to watch tv, whereas he walks around looking at random pictures around the dorm..
For being boyfriend and girlfriend, they aren't really talking much to each other.. They're relationship started off so nicely when they were teenagers in Sunset Valley.. maybe this isn't meant to last, and they are now slowly slipping away from each other...
Inge after this has a wish to play computer games, so she goes to play Sim City on the computer, having plenty of fun building a city only to bombard it with meteors, tornadoes, alien invasion and a pool ladder shattering earthquake...
Oh, thats a bit scary isn't it... We wouldn't want pool ladders to randomly disappear, now, would we?
Even a game like Sim City can be a bit wicked, depends how you choose to play it...
After randomly watching pictures for a while, Oliver Freddy gets tired and goes to bed.. in his usual fashion wearing outerwear this time..
Inge follows shortly thereafter, and I'm a little surprised both of them went to bed this early, relatively speaking, but I guess they know that their exam is coming up in a short amount of time, and want to get the correct amount of rest. But as usual, them going to bed also means the end of this update, so.. good night. :P
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
For some reason, when I returned to to the Chitrakaar-Skurckh family I found Udisha in the bathroom preparing a meal...
The reason becomes clear when I see what her kitchen looks like.. didn't you clean that up last month!?
Udisha:Its hard being pregnant and taking care of a small baby.. you should try it yourself one day!
Ok, ok... well, I can't get pregnant, my body is completely incapable of that, and as for kids, well I don't know..
Things are rarely quiet in this household nowadays, even if she has her old man husband there to help out. Here he is feeding their last born baby girl, Madhunisha, after tucking in Ole Christian.. even though its early morning.. their sleep schedual is already borked...
As Udisha cleans up the kitchen, Nishit gets up and gets ready for school.
And just as he leaves, Kajsa Tangstad, the drummer from the band, "The Bushweeds", goes into labor and gives birth right outside her home.
She becomes the happy parent of a baby boy named Nikolai.
Kajsa lives in this house together with Betty Wills, on the same street as Udishas parents.
She walks out and offers to help Kajsa with taking care of and feeding the baby, though she is a little uncertain about what babies actually eat. "Do we feed him soup, or what do we do?" she asks. Kajsa just looks at her... "No, Betty.. he's not getting soup, atleast not yet. I will breastfeed him, of course...."
"And when he gets a little older, I will teach him to love music just as much as I do."
Oh, parents forcing their ideals onto their children.. he might become just like her, or he might rebel against her wishes and ideals and become a white collar businessman... what a nightmare that would be... :P
The town council was kind enough to buy a crib for Kajsas household, a service they give out to all households that doesn't have one, to ensure the welfare of all children, of course.
Udisha has many irons in the fire.. she is now the mother of three children, an aspiring artist and wants to excel in her career as a business woman.. She loves kids, but at the same time it annoys her that her career is progressing so slowly...
Nonetheless, she wants to teach Ole Christian to walk. She wants him to become as independent as possible as fast as possible, so that she can free up more time for painting and return to work...
Nishit has an excursion day, and I see that Betty Wills is actually his teacher.
And their excursion is, of course, at the local mausoleum and graveyard, which I find really odd, because in all my years at school, we never had such an excursion. Why do sim kids have to learn about death so much? :P
At home, Udisha has decided to take Ole Christian outside for some fresh air, even though her bladder is almost full, and I am worried she is going to wet her pants, but she has it all under control and no accidents happen. :P
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This is a picture of Kajsa "breastfeeding" her baby, just because I think its cute.
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Deepak has taken Udishas younger sister, Nitya, to the University Auditorium. None of his kids has gone to university, so he hopes to encourage her to be the first one. And of course, he just has to play some music in the background to set the mood..
Their mother, Laranya, has no university credits either, but plenty of experience as a hit movie composer, and here she is upstairs rehearsing for her guest lecture that she will hold for the art students.
The University Auditorium is the red building located next to the hospital and right in front of the Medical Students Study Hall.
Udishas youngest brother, Bhavan, is at the fire station keeping his body in shape.
When he leaves his shift, he gets the happy news that he has been promoted to Assistan Fire Chief. Only one rank left to climb, and he will have pretty much by himself fulfilled his life time wish!
Nishit is home from school, but thinks its to noisy at home...
"Bye mom, I'm going fishing!"
Udisha: Watch out for traffic on the way, and be home before it gets dark.
Nishit: Yes, mom.. see you later!
Nishit goes to the swampier parts of town to go fishing, and thinks its a good idea to hide in the grass. "If the fish can't see I'm here, they will probably be easier to catch". Nishit eventually fulfills his wish of catching a goldfish, his first fish.
Palash, Udishas oldest (and somewhat weird) brother has somehow bribed his way into The 1912, the towns upper class lounge. He must have paid a lot of money to the bouncer getting in looking like that. He's not excactly following the dress code....
He is single, but has Sofia Karlsen as his love interest, and she actually is interested in him too, but he is so odd, he just doesn't get it. His weird actions constantly sabotages any advances that she tries to make... so their relationship is at a standstill.. and now he is out on the town, slow dancing with Christina Østreng, a married woman, instead..
Correction: Palash is not single, he is engaged to Sofia Karlsen. I discovered this when I found them taking pictures outside his home the following afternoon. Though, he was a bit odd at the start of their relationship and it did take him a good while for it to sink in that she was interested in him. Or at least thats what it kind of looked like to me. He certainly had some strange and erratic behaviour, but yeah, now they are actually engaged somehow, so... yay!
Nishit is done fishing, and goes for his homework, still out in the swamp. Just remember what your mother told you, and get home before dark.
The 1912 looks like the place to be this month, and our teacher-by-day, party-animal-by-night Kjersti Jordal is also there, dressed up for the occasion. That outfit is sure to draw some attention, I should think.
And it does, but it appears to be unwanted. "Why can't a girl dress up as she wants to have a bit of fun without being hit on constantly?" Yeah, you can ask....
But there are no hard feelings and she goes on to converse with Andre and his wife. Andre is a celebrity in town, and The 1912 is the best place to hangout for meeting up with celebrities.
As it gets dark and begins to rain, Nishit decides to call it a night and heads back home to finish his last bit of homework.
The old man Dudleif is already tired, and has gone to bed...
Palash is being a bit sensible for once, maybe, and actually decides to leave the lounge and go home as well instead of staying up all night and getting weirder and weirder... As people sometimes can get if they have a bit to much of.. stuff... :P
Nishit has finished his homework, and goes to bed.
It rains a lot in the town of Bewickton. Sometimes quite a lot, and this night was one of those. It is good for Udisha and her family that their home has no basement, because there were a few reports around the town from people with flooded basements.... Poor Bhavan the fireman didn't get much sleep, he had to be out pumping water out of peoples homes all night...
And with the rain hammering on relentlessly outside, everyone in this family was fast asleep.. well, except for the last born Madhunisha, because babies are just annoying like that.
Chitrakaar family tree at plumtreeapp.com. A bit outdated, because on it Nishit is still a toddler and Madhunisha is not added yet. It also lacks Leya and Gautes last child, Orinder. I should update that one shortly once I find/get the right pictures.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Shortly after february had turned to march, Baturney got up from his sleep in the middle of the night for a reason I didn't quite get, because there was nothing special going on that I could see that would wake him up. No burglar on the lot, and both Iselin and Ruben were silently asleep..
"I can hear someone playing ball in our unused bedroom across the hall" he told me. Oh.. of course, Gaute still hadn't left from visiting them..
So he joined him to play for a while, until Gaute figured out it was late and that he should go home to his own family..
Baturney went back to sleep, but it didn't last very long, because now Iselin had woke up and was crying for attention...
The parents had a short discussion about whose turn it was, before Agathi won or lost the discussion, depending on how you view it. :P
Baturney didn't go back to sleep, and simply decided to prepare breakfast.
Ruben woke up and wanted to play with his toys, but a little over halfway there he sat down to cry because it was still a little far to walk for the young one...
"Come on, you can do it, you're almost there..." Baturney said, "I have to watch these pancakes..."
After waking up once more to Iselin crying, Agathi figured that trying to sleep was pointless and went out into the living room to play with Ruben for a while.
And then I get the news that Solvej, Patrik and Rune has moved out of their home at the Millground Farm, but I get no notification about to where they have moved...
And as Agathi goes to eat breakfast and Baturney thinks its time to teach Ruben som toilet skills, I get several notifcations about the investments of the Gudmestad-Klinsmo couple. Robert and Sandra Gudmestad-Klinsmo are the towns head criminals, and all of a sudden they seem to have acquired some mysterious money....
Sykehuse Hellige Milt it is the Sacred Spleen Hospital.
Purchasing the hospital, a rental property and a new car just like that is not looking suspicious at all..
This must have something to do with the earlier incident where they sat parked in their 8-wheeled car-limo thing by the park.... well, I'll leave that for the police to solve, I'm not writing about crime and mysteries.. or am I?
Their peculiar car-limo thing outside of Cliffon Park from an earlier update.
Chapter 11.7 - Autumn part II: October 2021
Then finally I get a notification about where to the Rasmussen/Jensen family has moved to.
Their new home is the old Frumpenheimer house at Southfield road 15. What would instigate this move, I wonder?
I take a peak inside to overhear a conversation between Solvej and Patrik revealing that they had been saving up to do this for some time. "I am happy to make this move, as the house felt a little stale over at the Millground farm after Leya and Gaute moved out.." Patrik says.
"And it looks like a perfect spot to build a new and better greenhouse..." Solvej fills in.
Patrik is happy for the new house, their son Rune, his wife Solvej and their soon to be born child, and gives her a bouqet of flowers.
Rune turns to his mom and talks about the new house and that he wants the room upstairs for himself. Rune goes upstairs to check out his new bedroom, while Patrik calls Solvej into the room next door.
Patrik can sometimes be a bit hot headed about Solvej talking to other men, even though she has no intentions behind it beyond friendly chatter. Solvej apologizes and tries to make up for it, but Robert rejects and walks out of the room, still upset.
Solvej shrugs it off as usual and goes for her guitar... So yeah, things weren't quite as harmonious in this household as I had hoped, but they are still together and expecting another child, so they must see something good in each other. Funny thing is, they never took the step to get engaged or married...
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Back at the Jiggens household, Baturney has felt the lack of energy and gone for a nap. Agathi has been sleeping and wakes up, not fully rested, but good enough.
But of course, Baturneys rest didn't last very long, because Iselin was in need of attention. This made Baturney a bit sour, as he went to cook himself a meal.
Agathi didn't get much time to write on her book this month, but was nonetheless pondering ways to inject some action into the storyline. Slowly, but surely, she wanted the villain in her book to become increasingly aggressive and literally have all hell break loose once the book reached its climax. She was a bit of a pantser when it came to writing, though, preferring to let "the book write itself" guided by the characters personalities and motivations.
She knew that her villain was a clever one that didn't want to reveal itself to soon, but when it did, it had to be something grandiously terrible. While Baturney is eating in the kitchen and Agathi goes back into the bedroom to play with Iselin and change her diaper, I go by the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household to figure out what they are doing.
Leya is wearing a different dress than usual, so I wonder if she is pregnant again, but then I realize that this is probably just one of her alternatives for everyday wear. The situation in this household looks harmonic as Orinder is asleep in his crib and Gaute and Leya keep flirting with each other.
Bodil is not at home, she hangs out at The Harbor Park, where Leo just initated a water balloon fight with her.
Baturney wants to invite Leya over for a visit and make friends with Gaute, so he invites the couple over and is happy that they say they will be around shortly.
Leya, the always easily excitable one, is super happy to be invited over, and Gaute just has to do some boxing moves to prove his manhood or something... He does that alot when Leya and another man is present. Leya doesn't pay any attention to this, though...
In fact, as Gaute rushes inside to take care of Iselin (he really likes the baby for some reason, and is super attentive to her needs), Leya begins flirting with Baturney, so it could be that Gaute has a reason to be concerned.
Luckily Baturney is not interested in Leya making any advances, and quickly changes to talk about a movie he saw last week.
Agathi just finished a long, relaxing bath, before getting ready to go to work, and just now she reacts to the door bell being rung.. a little slow today, maybe? :P
She walks into the bedroom to check after Iselin, and finds Gaute there and immediately begins to flirt with him. She can't help but be a little swooned by his ability to take care of children. Gaute sighs and looks away with disgust, before he picks up some dirt from the floor and eats it right in front of her.
"This usually makes the women lose interest" he thinks, but Agathi only becomes more intrigued and wants to do an inkblot test on him.
There is no time for her to perfom that though, because her colleague is honking impatiently outside and she has to go to work.
One hour later, Leyas shift also began. Leya and Agathi are both colleagues at the community theatre, but Leya is at a much higher rank in the career since she is actually interested in music. Agathi only has it as a job to sustain herself while waiting for her career as a horror and cime author to take off. So far it hasn't paid much....
Solvej is also a colleague of both of them, and has gone to work as well. Patrik is at the stadium practicing with the football team. Bodil is still at the Harbor Park playing with Leo.
Rune has been busy baking lots of cookies, and has gone to the Festival Park to sell them.
In the background to the left are Leos parents, Jingguo and Dongmei out playing with their toddler twins Hung and Jiang. Its such a nice and mild spring day in the town of Sprottenham.
Frumpenheimer, the new home of Solvej and Patrik is seen in the background of this picture, and a couple of wild horses is spotted running across their lot. It could be a mother and her foal.
Baturney adhering to his childish nature is outside playing tag with Gaute, until this fair day is abrupted by an incoming hailstorm and its time for everyone to go inside.
Gaute then switches to his swim wear because he is hosting a swim wear party while not being at home.. he also somehow sent an invitation to Agathi that now is at work.
Baturney was super tired and decided to go to sleep, but Gaute wasn't having any of that.
"WAKEY WAKEY! NO SLEEP SUCKER!" he shouted through the megaphone "THIS PARTY HASN'T EVEN STARTED!"
Baturney is a mild mannered man, so he wasn't angry with Gaute, and just calmly went back to sleep. Somehow this fulflilled Baturneys wish of making friends with Gaute, and Gaute walks into the living room and begins to cry!
I have never seen him cry before, and at first I am caught by surprise wondering what could upset him, but he is now crying tears of joy for finally becoming friends with Baturney!
Agathi has returned from work and greets Gaute before she goes to eat by the dining table that is full of stinky, rotten leftover food...
Iselin is in need of care again, and Agathi is quickly on the spot to play with and cuddle the little baby.
But so was Gaute, even though Agathi beat him to it, and she has a really hard time understanding this man, why he would care so much about her daughter, even more than her own father.
Agathi goes to sleep while Gaute goes into the kitchen to do tricks on his ball. Baturney, though he is pretty exhausted now from lack of sleep, decides to clean up all the rotten food from the kitchen and the dining table.
Its getting late now, and Ruben has found his sleeping mat. Agathi makes sure to tuck him in, before going to the soon to be perfectly cleaned up kitchen to play video games...
But as she does so, I get a couple of more messages about the Gudmestad-Klinsmo households dubious investments... this time they have bought the grocery store (Alltidfrisk) and a new rental property... what organized illegal business have they been up to, to suddenly get these money? That could be something to look into for the next update about this usually peaceful coastal town...
Anyway, after having cleaned the entire kitchen Baturney goes to bed and finally gets some well deserved rest... Gaute thinks its late, and heads home to his wife and children, and everyone eventually goes to sleep. Nighty night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Birthdays this month (not celebrated because they're not aging up): Jonathan Kråke-Karlsen (44), Walther Motor-Karlsen (5).
Morten had been spending his night in the treehouse, and was the first of the family to wake up on this fair spring morning to have a breakfast of hot dog leftovers from yesterday last month.
Ingrid woke up second, and today was going to be a special day for her. The small first timers home that she was going to move into was finally completed. She was already excited to finally get a place of her own.
Of course, it was far from a palace, only a simple starting point for young adults affordably priced at less than 15000 simoleons. The grass around the house had just recently been sown, so it is still a little patchy looking.
Kathrine was excited when she woke up, because today was Love Day, and everyone would have the day off.
She decided to call her mother-in-law, Lucie, to talk as she wanted to make good friends, but her phone call was interrupted by car horns from outside, so she had to excuse herself and change to her work outfit..
Realizing she didn't get the day off and had to go to work, her mood instantly dropped. She kept her sad face all the way downstairs and out to the car.
She asked her colleague if she really had to work on Love Day, and thats when he realized he had mixed up the dates. Embarassed he excused himself and quickly drove off.
Relieved she didn't have to go to work after all, Kathrine got out her phone again to continue the conversation with Lucie.
Later it was time for Ingrid to move out on her own. Mom Kathrine, of course, wanted her daughter to keep in touch, and in addition to buying her the house, gave her an extra 16500 simoleons to spend if she wanted to buy some new items or furniture for the house. They had decided not to spoil her, but as they were pretty well off, Kathrine thought this was the least they could do...
I'm sure it was an emotional moment for the parents to have their first born leave the nest, because as soon as she was leaving they held each other tight and shared plenty of kisses.
From now on, Ingrid alone was my active household.
Bye bye mom, dad and little brother!
Hello independence and adulthood! You're on your own now..
As she moved in, all her old wishes were cancelled, to give her a fresh start. It took her a while to wish for something new, and the only thing she wanted to do in her new home was to sit down and watch the news channel on tv.
The new house was furnished, but only sparsely with the most basic of things. Plenty of room for Ingrid to personalize as she wants, but she has to want something first.
Back at her parents house, Kathrine was preoccupied with thoughts of her daughters move and kept repeatedly walking out the front door and to the edge of the lot, as if she wanted to go somewhere, before turning back around and getting inside again..
She did this a few times...
Once inside it was clear she had mixed feelings about her daughters move. She was sad that she had left, but also happy for her and had the best wishes for her future.
Jonathan dealt with his emotions the way he always did. By keeping them to himselves and cleaning around the house...
The ice cream truck stopped by Ingrids house. She still had no wishes for anything, so I ordered her outside to buy an ice cream, hoping it would inspire her to wish for something, but it didn't excactly work.
She didn't get a wish for something, until she was paid leave money from her job.
While finishing the ice cream, she thought she wanted to buy something to decorate the walls of her new home, but it had to be a picture that cost atleast 100 simoleons.
She went out shopping and found that she thought looked ok inside the store, but once she was home and hung it up on the wall her reaction was a different one.. "What a cheap ugly picture. I want my home to look more classy than this. Hummph!"
She went out shopping once more as she now wanted to replace the cheap refridgerator that came with the house with one that cost at minimum 600 simoleons.
After cheering by the refridgerator for a while, she admired her own reflection in the bathroom mirror and took a bath before she went for a nap, as she was getting a little tired. When she woke up she figured she wanted to improve her skills in cooking. Now that she was living on her own, she could no longer rely on mom and dad to prepare the meals for her...
So she went to the library to study, and as I paused to take the above picture – while the game is still paused – she turns her head and suddenly I feel like I'm the one being watched.
Creepy...
Anyway, she sat down and read the book until she had gone up one skill point before she headed over to the Art Association. Inspired by her grandfather and his paintings, she wanted to see if she also had any skills with the brush and easel.
The sky had turned dark and it was a little stormier now, so doing anything outside didn't seem very tempting.
Once inside she found her friend Therapist Terje Hågensen looking at a picture that her aunt Sofie had painted in her younger days, before she headed into the room right behind him to locate an unused easel.
While she was in there painting and listening to her favorite Latino music, I wanted to find out what her grandparents were doing.
Grandma Lucie was getting tired and already going to bed. For whatever reason, again, in the guestroom instead of the bed in her own apartment section. At 66 years old it wasn't that long ago since she had become an elder, but as she had spent her entire life working very hard at the hospital, and with the strict upbringing she had with her demanding parents, the loss of a brother at such a young age, and not to mention the fighting and divorce with Asgeir which was a very hard time for everyone in the family, it wasn't surprising that she sometimes felt the need to just rest.
Content warning.
Her grandpa Asgeir was seen out partaking in a demonstration against the clowns in office. Later this autumn the people of Simbria will go to the voting booth, and it is very likely this will result in a replacement of the government as the populace had become increasingly discontent with the current state of affairs.
Meanwhile at the Art Association, Ingrids cousin Kleopatra had joined Therapist Terje in watching the paiting by Sofie, Kleopatras mom. Terje tried to engage in a discussion about politics with Kleopatra, but having recently aged up to a teenager she was still a little to young and found politics to be a bit complicated, so she didn't respond.
Instead her thoughts were preoccuppied with cooking recipes and preparing meals, perhaps inspired by her mom and her career at the Corsican Bistro. (Kleopatras mom, Sofie, has the life time wish of learning all recipes. The Culinary Librarian.) The painting they are watching, called "The Tiny Cloud Woman" was painted by Sofie before she married Eivind and before Kleopatra was born.
Ingrid stops painting once she has fulfilled her goal of acquiring a skill point and is so far happy with temporary results. :P
Then she turns to look in my direction again, while thinking about the money she hopes to make in her political career...
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Its late now, and she wants to go home for the night. On the way out, as the arrogant snob she sometimes is, she walks right past her cousin without greeting her or even looking at her. Kleopatra stares at her as she walks down the hallway towards the exit...
Once home she goes to bed, very pleased with herself and todays accomplishments.
Her parents and brother have also gone to sleep, and that ends this update. Good night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Before we start, I slowed down a bit, to check out what they were dreaming.
And this is why I think they have plans of getting married and having babies once they have finished their education. Well, besides Oliver Freddys plans of making it as a scientist, and Inges plans of being a writer and painter.
I am not completely sure though. They keep having these dreams, but I have never seen them discuss it with each other...
Until this morning, at the breakfast table..
And surprisingly, as Inge has been the one usually thinking or dreaming about kids or marriage, Oliver Freddy was the first to make an attempt at the topic by asking a question about kids toys.
After which they just sit there and stare awkwardly at each other for a good while until Oliver Freddy has to go to his lecture...
As their exam is just around the corner, there's going to be a heavy focus on studying, so I'm not giving Inge any leisure time, but have her sit at the computer to study.
Liz Tarry is in the background playing chess. I didn't catch any flirting going on between Liz and Daniel Vaughn for this update, so maybe she has given up. I just caught her walking up and down the stairs many times with her backpack on, as if she wasn't sure where to go or what to do... I don't think she is quite herself yet...
Oliver Freddy has his lecture with the skeleton outside in the hail, but doesn't seem to mind.
Inge keeps on studying and gets the attractive sim moodlet once Jonathan Dirk comes in to play computer games.
Then she goes upstairs to paint, and decides to paint a replica of Sofies painting, "The Tiny Cloud Woman", hanging at the Art Association in Sunset Valley... but at least it improves her academic score.
She didn't get the time to finish the painting before she had to run off for todays lecture with more drawing and painting out in the rain..
Once home again she goes to finish the paiting while her boyfriend stands there thinking about how he wants to go skinny dipping with Liz Tarry...
Inge finishes the painting and sells it for 23 simoleons.
She brags about it to Oliver Freddy while they eat dinner, proud to have made her first money from painting, even if it was just a replica of someone elses work...
Inge still wants to make friends with Debbie Richards, so she makes another attempt to invite her over. She is in disbelief that Debbie would actually agree to come over this time, and can't hide her enthusiasm over the answer.
Making a new friend has been a recurring wish for her since day one of university.. maybe this will be it? Inge feels really good about herself now, also because she has made it on to the principals list for being a good student.
Inge invites her in to her favorite past time, watching tv, and talks to her about vacation plans and painting, before Debbie drops the bomb.
Debbie: So... have you thought about having children?
Inge doesn't respond at first. Sure, she wants to make good friends with Debbie, but this was a bit of a private question to ask just like that...
Debbie doesn't give up, but continues.
Debbie: You know.. getting settled with a good man, buying a house, raising children.. that type of stuff?
Inge: Oh, oh, sure.. me and Oliver Freddy would both like to have kids one day.. once we move back to Sunset Valley and get a house of our own...and you?
Debbie: Yeah, me and Robert.. we... we tried a few times, and Robert really wanted children, but.. but.. sadly he passed away before we could make it work..
Inge: Oh... oh.. I'm sorry to hear that...
Debbie: Its alright, I'm fine living alone...
Inge can hear that there is a certain sadness and longing in her voice, however subtle, and tries to change the topic to work and career instead, before trying to impress Debbie by doing tricks with the soft ball.
Debbie is a level 10 rebel, and somehow this increases Inges reputation within the Rebel group.
Oliver Freddy has been outside rehearsing a little more with the skeleton, before going inside to watch Liz Tarry walking up the stairs with her backpack...
He gets the attractive moodlet from being near her and follows her with the eyes as she walks up stairs... but Liz appears to be in her own world and doesn't even notice him...
For some reason I can't explain, Debbie walks upstairs to open this Murphy bed and I wonder if she wants to spend the night there. Oliver Freddy saw her walking up the stairs as well and followed her to talk to this woman that his girlfriend wants to make friends with.
He starts of easy by talking about the most mundane subject of all: the weather, while poor Debbie is still thinking about children...
Debbie goes on to talk about her favorite pop music, but that is not very popular with Oliver Freddy.
Instead he switches to talk madly about working out, but that only makes Debbie annoyed and a little uneasy...
So Oliver Freddy gives up..
Oliver Freddy: To hell with this, I'm going to bed...
Debbie walks downstairs again to where Inge is still watching tv, still shocked at the weird young man upstairs..."Could that really be her boyfriend?" she thinks to herself. "Oh my.."
She goes to unwind by playing video games and hanging out with Inge, but Inge is getting really tired and starts to look more and more like a zombie... Inge really wants to hang out with and make friends with Debbie as well, and does not go to bed even though she usually would long before getting this tired...
..but as she just sits there with her eyes rolling back into her skull and not saying a word, I think its pointless and send her off to bed... you're not making new friends this way, go get some sleep before your exam.. nighty night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Before the Flansbarne/Jiggens family even wakes up, I am informed that Selma Vaddelmyr, one of Agathis and Leyas colleagues at the theatre, is pregnant. Though she doesn't look very pregnant right now. :P
Agathi and Baturney wake up to Iselin crying, and Baturney begins to question why they even bothered to have children.... right now this doesn't at all feel like the life he wanted...
It's certainly not easy being a parent, and both of them eat their breakfast in complete silence. What a luxury that must have been. :P
Baturney goes to flirt with Agathi and I hope for Agathi to respond by doing something romantic in return, but she is just being her usual self and instead wants to run an inkblot test on Baturney...
Today is Love Day and Baturney wants to take his family to the park, he is just waiting for the weather to clear up... Hanging out during a heavy thunderstorm is not very tempting...
The weather forecast didn't look very promising, so he decided to give Ruben some potty training instead...
While waiting for the weather to improve, I locate Solvej being very pregnant and playing foosball at the Youth House of Science. She is due this month and I expect her to go into labor any minute now...
...but nothing really happens, so I look up Robert the criminal mastermind, and he is speeding around in his brand new sports car...
He stops by the house of the Xie-Luo family (the green house) and goes to ring the doorbell..
The Xie-Luo family consists of Jingguo, a police officer, and Dongmei that works in the military.. Surely, he cannot be friends with this couple?
The Xie-Luo family. They also have three sons, Leo and the twins Jiang and Hung.
Well, it turns out, as he exits, that he actually went in there to buy their house. So now he is the landlord of a police man... what next? Is he going to buy the police station, too? And turn the town into a haven for criminals, maybe? I hope not.. Its pretty peculiar how this man has so much money, because I keep getting notifications about other households in town struggling to pay their bills and acquiring debt... something here is just not right... :P
Anyway, the weather finally cleared up by some magic wave of a hand, or maybe someone upstairs just closed the faucet, I don't know... so that the Jiggens/Flansbarne family finally could make their way to the festival without getting soaked or risking a lightning strike..
This is young Iselins first day out. She is still just a baby, but mom and dad thinks it will to do her good anyway, to get a trip outside to get some fresh air and see a little more than just the ceiling above her crib...
And the same goes for Ruben of course, even if he is a little older, he still needs his parents to actually go somewhere..
Its probably good for mom and dad, too, to go out and do something different and perhaps meet some new people. I never thought Agathi would be the kind to enjoy going for a dance, but why not?
Baturney goes to a play a game of horseshoe with Chansa Beadoux Klinemann. She is married to Jørgen Klinemann and has two daughters, Samira and Celine, but be wary of her.. she can be a little flirtatious. :P
The Klinemann family.
Baturney goes for some face paint, Agathi keeps on dancing and Chansa goes to care for Iselin.
This dancing is very uncharacteristic of Agathi, but hey.. you can't dwell in darkness all the time.
I think by next time I will suggest for the town council to create a little section in the park with cribs for the youngest ones, so that they won't have to lie on the grass... Chansa probably spotted someone she finds hot..
Gaute is being his usual party animal self, doing the smustle dance at "The Elegant Flame".
Leya is also there, discussing aesthetics of umbrellas with the town criminal... He tells her that if she is really interested in umbrellas, he knows where he can get them, lots of them, and really really cheap, too... He tries to talk her into doing business with him, but Leya has never been into anything for the money..
Solvej has now left the Youth House of Science and is now heading for the hospital...(The Youth House of Science is a seperate building behind the Science Center, mostly geared towards high school students, but open for all ages...)
While Solvej is at the hospital giving birth, Baturney and Agathi still hangs out at the park, but is beginning to think it is soon time to head home..
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Solvej was indeed very pregnant, as she left the hospital having given birth to not only one, but two beatiful little girls she decided to name Silvia and Lilian. Sims living in Sprottenham appear to get twins more often than sims elsewhere.. must be something in the water..
Solvej picking up Silvia to put her in the babies crib.
Solvej cuddling Lilian. What do you mean you can't tell the difference?
Newborns need to sleep..
Agathi and Baturney are getting really tired now from being out all day and is heading back home, but Iselin is very happy to ride the stroller.
Ruben enjoys it too, but feels a little more like his parents. :P
They put the young ones to bed, and everyone goes peacefully to sleep. Nighty night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
The first thought on Ingrids mind was of course making money from her political career, but today was Spring Festival Day, so there would be no opportunity to go to work.
She practiced making pancakes for breakfast with her new found cooking skills and they turned out pretty nice. Reading books can sometimes pay off..
Next she donated 250 simoleons to "The Rich" before heading to the park, hoping to spot a raccoon... Ingrid has inherited the good trait from her father, Jonathan, which has inherited it again from his mother, Lucie.
Ingrid lives right next door to the Reppe family, and we will visit them later for Kristina Reppes 13th birthday.
She didn't spot any raccoons at the park, but she quickly found the dance floor where she began flirting with Mikael Bastiansen.
Ranveig Motorsen (Oliver Freddys mother) eventually joins them at the dance floor, and I don't think I have ever seen her dance this lively before, but it pleases me to watch that she can escape her struggles for a while to let loose and have some fun.
Ahmed Mohamed also heads over to the dance floor, not to dance, but to give Ingrid flowers. She is very happy about the flowers, and they too flirt for a while. Ranveigs youngest son, Robert Bråge, is seen in the back left wearing a silver paper crown.
Ingrid doesn't get the hearts for him though, and he leaves after a while to tell a ghost story that no one goes to listen to. Mikael points at him and makes a joke about a marriage being underway, much to Ranveigs amusement. Ingrid wasn't all that entertained by the joke, though..
Though she didn't get the hearts for him, she has the attractive company moodlet, and she is jokingly expressing love for something. And a wise poet once said that a lot of truth is said in jest, but I think it is perhaps to early to conclude about anything... :P The attractive company moodlet could be because of Mikael, or both. I don't really know.
Anyway, they just keep dancing and dancing and dancing, until Ranveig eventually stops and gets a little nervous as she becomes aware that she is surrounded by a bit to many people for her liking... Ranveig is a bit of a loner by nature, something she has been ever since her school days, and prefers most of the time to stay at home watching tv or maintaining her chess skills...
She leaves the dance floor to stand alone in the shade for a while, before she feels content enough to return to the dancing.
Taking it a little slowly in the beginning, before gradually getting more energetic.
Ingrid leaves the dance floor for a while, to admire her own reflection in the mirror.
Ingrid returns and continues conversing with Mikael, while Ranveig leaves to practice more chess...
Ranveig captures and eats an imaginary fly, and once she realizes what she just did, she gets a little anxious and hopes nobody saw that one..
Ingrid keeps on dancing and dancing until a horse walks across the dance floor....
"That was much more interesting and bigger than a raccoon" she thinks and follows it to watch it.
She wants to pet it, but is a little to afraid to get close. This is the first time she has seen a horse... there didn't use to be wild horses in Sunset Valley before, so it must have migrated from somewhere..
After this its just more dancing, before she finally decides to head home, super excited about this day of dancing, flirting and horse spotting. She just had to stop to pick up a washing machine on the way home.. it could be a necessary item to have in ones home, maybe, to enjoy the smell and feeling of clean clothes, or something. :P
Good night.
-- Part II – Kristinas birthday --
A little over halfway through the month it was time for a celebration, when Kristina Reppe, Inges younger sister, would have her last day as a child and make the transition into becoming a teenager...
Kristinas mother, Iselin, wasn't to good with making pancakes for breakfast.. maybe this explains Inges struggles with just the same a bit earlier.
Anyway, Iselin naturally wanted to throw a party for her daughter aging up, so she invited over her all her friends, as well as Ranveig and her sister Monica (because there were no more kids to invite, and they were the closest adult friends of the family).
Two unknown kids (to me) were the first to arrive, and the first known guest was Ranveigs sister, Monica. Typical of the Motorsen family, she came a bit warmly dressed for such a nice spring day...
The second known guest to arrive, was Kleopatra Motor-Karlsen, that had just recently aged up to a teenager herself. Ingrid was not invited, because she doesn't know the family well enough, and Kristinas older sister Inge could not attend because she is at university preparing for her exam...
Then came Ranveig, also in her outerwear, just like her sister, but she quickly changed to her formal wear, even though that wasn't necessary because the invitation said it was fine to come over in casual everyday clothes. :P
Bjørn-Yngve and Morten came shortly thereafter, and went outside to play tag.
Robert Bråge, Ranveigs son had come alongside his mother (there were so many kids, I forgot to get a screenshot of him), and Lise Veronica, the daughter of Monica, was the last to arrive.
Then it was time for the big moment, and Kristina would blow out the candles. Deep breath, and blow! Robert Bråge is now seen standing to the left.
And boom! There you go with fireworks and sparkles, Kristina is now a teenager! She inherited the family oriented trait from one of her grandparents, probably...
Kristina and Kleopatra, the towns freshest teenagers. Kristina displays her new personality trait already, immediately talking about babies...!
Kleopatra is not at all interested in babies. She thinks they're to noisy and smelly to have around the house...
Jarle goes upstairs to play be... juice pong with Monica, and I guess now I see where his oldest daughter got her juice pong skills from, as he throws the first ball right into Monicas mouth..
Blergh!
Later Jarle begins to flirt with Ranveig, which is at first not really popular with anyone..
Kristina goes upstairs to play a regular round of ping pong with Monica. Of course, no juice for the teenagers.
Jarle continues to flirt with Ranveig, and Ranveig eventually responds positively..
While the flirting goes on, laughter is heard from upstairs as some of the kids are there pillow fighting.
Jarle keeps on flirting with Ranveig, now right in front of both his wife and his daughter..
None of them like it very much, and even Monica, Ranveigs sister, shows up to display her disgust.. this makes Jarle leave, though he is still thinking about Ranveig...
Neither Iselin nor Kristina is mad with Ranveig, though. Its not her fault Jarle keeps flirting. Ranveig has shown that she likes it, but she never flirted back. Kristina begins to repeatledy engage Ranveig in a university mascot slogan dance... go gerbitz!
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Kristina goes upstairs to play a game of ping pong with Kleopatra, and it looks like Kleopatra is winning this one, and does a corny victory dance. :P
The flirting commences and everyone has eventually began to ignore it and just let it happen...
Kristina goes for another game of ping pong with Kleopatra. She wants 'vengeance', and it looks like she is getting it this time.
Huzzah! After this Kleopatra decides it was a good party, and goes home, and the rest of the kids leave too, except for the Motorsen sisters, Ranveig and Monica, along with their kids, Robert Bråge and Lise Veronica...
Jarle keeps flirting with Ranveig, but eventually she decides she has had enough and says its probably time for her and her son to leave the party...
"Come along Robert, I think we're going home..."
The birthday child eventually changes into her sleepwear to go to bed, and the party is officially over.. it still takes a while for Monica to take the hint and leave, though...
But eventually she gets the point, and calls her daughter to head back to their own house, where her equally eternally faithful husband is probably waiting for her... Good night!
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Inge and Oliver Freddy were asleep, and Debbie Richards was still downstairs playing video games...
"Snork! Bimba! Arrghh!"
"Yabnewabno! Yobble....yobbledobblesau! Oh wabozoo! Wooopoooooh!!!"
..but Debbie decides to leave before they wake up, both of them pretty nervous about todays big event...
Liz Tarry is acting weird again, apparently going to class in only her sleepwear. She glances at Daniel Vaughn as she passes by him.. neither of them seem to have any interest in speaking with each other right now...
..or maybe she wasn't going anywhere, because at the breakfast table she is suddenly there again talking about her plans to travel the world, hinting that she would like to have someone travel with her...
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And that's when Inge feels the need to talk about her own plans, of going back to Sunset Valley to live a family life, hinting that Oliver Freddy belongs to her and no one else...
Oliver Freddy and Inge get up to get some last minute studying done before there exam, leaving Liz sitting there alone, staring blankly into the air.. Its not easy to know what goes on in the mind of this girl...
After rehearsing his summary notes, Oliver Freddy finds time for some playtime to keep his mood and motivation up, as well as feeling pleased as the juice keg he ordered arrived just in time to host the party he has been wishing to hold for a few months now....
And then comes the moment for Oliver Freddy, and he has to run for his exam. Good luck!
Inge finds time to start a new painting, as well as fulfilling her wish of going up a level in painting skill.
Oliver Freddy leaves his exam, having passed with a good margin! Of course, he kind of knew that from beforehand, as had been studying pretty hard all semester...
Now he is all free to go, and gets the brilliant idea to practice chess, ignoring Liz Tarry completely, even though he still has a wish to go skinny dipping with her. The interest in chess playing he probably got from his mom. Apple hasn't fallen to far from the tree.. Liz Tarry stands there to stare at him all the while he is practicing.
Inge doesn't get time to finish her painting before its her time to jump into the fire.
Oliver Freddy goes home to get food and invite people to his party tonight, and as always during their exam period, there is a nice rainbow in the sky like a special sign from the clouds above. :P
Inge claps and cheers as she exits her exam, feeling confident that she did really well on this one. And she should have, as she has been working really hard too, even harder than her boyfriend..
- Part II: Let's get this party started...
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She feels so good about her exam, she immedately goes to celebrate by being the first to try out the newly bought juice keg...
Inge sits down to watch tv, as Nicole Lawry was the first party guest to arrive. She was invited because Inge wanted to make friends with her last semester, and because she used to live in this dorm. However, she can't have read the invitation properly, unless that is actually her formal wear... well, I'm not complaining.
She walks in to greet Oliver Freddy (who is just about to order some pizza) and he immediately changes to swim wear, as well.. so they're both a bit insane, then I assume... :P Oliver Freddy immediately gets a wish to talk to Nicole.
Other guests invited to the party was Ayana Yuki, Cody Eisenberg and Matthew Tellmer, because they used to live in their dorm and is a friend of many of the people that currently live there.
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This appears to be the day where everything breaks, because as Inge gets up from watching tv, well it breaks.. so she calls the repair technician to come fix it.. (Earlier I have already cheat-fixed a broken shower and a sink...)
Alright, now.. let's get ret.. I mean, let's get this party started. Inge has the right idea, to go and turn on some music...
People have already started to enjoy their food and drinks, and conveniently a couple of the guests came in carrying this stereo to put it down in their dining room.
Debbie Richards was of course also invited, because of Inges wish to make friends with her. She still hasn't completed that wish..
And here's an uninvited guest, Jennifer Rockefeller, that immediately upon arrival decides to get naked! What the.. ? Alright... well this could be an interesting party...
Debbie Richards goes to dance with Jonathan Dirk and Inge is really happy about the stereo that was carried in. Now we can have music also downstairs!
Omar Bjørkhaug picked up the pizza that Oliver Freddy had just ordered, and I hear another sound of something breaking somewhere in the house... really? Murphy, get out of here, nobody invited you...
Inge goes outside to light a bonfire, while both Daniel Vaughn (behind the cars to the right) and Jennifer Rockefeller (to the left) runs around streaking... Jennifer the uninvited streaker actually spent the majority of the time the party lasted doing just that...
Oliver Freddy plays tag with Ayana Yuki and Jennifer Rockefeller decided to put on her clothes for a short while to warm herself by the fire, but that was only temporary.. it wasn't long before she would run around in the nude again...
The party kept escalating, and someone had brought in another juice keg and placed it in the hallway. Here is Inge helping Cody Eisenberg with drinking upside down.
And of course, she had to go outside repeatedly during the night to put more logs onto the bonfire. Oliver Freddy was the one inviting to the party, but Inge was the one actually acting more like she was hosting it.
I don't know what happened to him here, honestly, but all of a sudden I found him passed out on the parking lot.. Surely playing tag can't be that exhausting...
And I completely lost count on how many times this scene happened, with Jennifer Rockefeller running naked through the hallway...
As the night progressed, word got around campus that a juice keg, streaking and bonfire party was going down at the de Anda hall, and a few more uninvited guests had arrived and conveniently dropped off a juice keg outside by the bonfire..
Even Debbie Richards the university professor eventually found enjoyment in helping the students to blurrify their vision and turn their minds into temporary porridge..
..but of course, late at night when you're having fun, sometimes accidents happen..
Out in the hallway Oliver Freddy was a bit unfortunate with Ayana as well, something which she didn't like very much..
And then I hear a remark about "someone dressing like a harlot" from inside the dining room, followed by the sound of hands to a face...
Ouch..
Then finally Inge goes around to make funny faces and talk to Debbie for a while, but its not enough for them to become friends, though.
The party continues on through the night, and eventually an increasing amount of attendees begin to pass out...
I'm impressed by Inge still standing upright and repeatedly going for the juice keg and putting more logs to the fire... and I think Nicole Lawry is equally impressed as she cheers her on.
So Nicole decides to be a good friend, of course, and help Inge to get a little more juiced, and there is that streaker in the background again...
As Oliver Freddy finds himself inside in an argument with Cody Eisenberg over something completely trivial that seemed really big right then and there and that none of them will remember what was about by tomorrow morning anyway, he gets a phone call...
It was from the police.... People have started to call in complaining about the party, and they are now on their way, so he better shut it down... and of course, Jennifer the streaker just had to show up...
Inge was outside, and just told a funny story to Walter Fullman and immediately became attracted to him as he started laughing, but I think its just the juice working...
After this funny story and feeling pretty juiced Inge decides to go to bed, just in time before the police arrives...
And downstairs the mayhem is still going on, with naked people running around and people passing out left and right... Its just to bad sims can't take some of the couches to run down the stairs as well...
>
University professor is still going strong, and the police is now pretty much right at the doorstep...
But the police woman runs straight past Oliver Freddy, which techincally should be the one to blame for this ruckus, and runs straight for Omar Bjørkhaug, that also was seen outside streaking..
She boos and shouts at Jennifer as she runs up the stairs, saying she will come down and talk to her next...
Omar and Jennifer sure got it, but Oliver Freddy was let off pretty easy as he managed to sneak by the police officer and find his way into bed..
So it's good night..
Well, atleast for our friends Inge and Oliver Freddy.. downstairs, even if the police woman had confiscated the juice kegs and told the remaining guests they had to shut it down, it hadn't quieted down just yet, with both Jennifer and Omar still streaking, and Debbie the university professor was really enjoying the sight of naked young meat....
..after which Debbie went upstairs and wanted to sleep in the same bed as Ayana Yuki, but that bed was taken, so she passed out on the floor instead...
What a party this was...
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
This is the criminal hideout in Sprottenham, an abandoned peat factory a few kilometers outside of town. Back in the day, peat was the most easily accessible source of energy to heat houses and businesses in the areas around Sprottenham as the wetlands doesn't have much forest. In recent years, the amount of trees in the area has grown, but the area still by definition is comprised mostly wetlands, and doesn't really have anything that can be called a forest. Whatever criminal business Robert is up to, this is old factory is likely the headquarters...
Anyway, back at the Jiggens/Flansbarne household things were by the usual with Baturney and Agathi waking up to Iselin demanding attention.. Agathi found time to take care of her while Baturney got ready for work.
And finally Agathi found some free time to write on her novel, "The Zombie Kitchen" which had been greatly neglected for the past few months.. She handed in a few more chapters and got paid 38 simoleons by the publisher.
In the Gudmestad-Klinsmo household, things are looking fine, with Robert feeding Mark and Sandra getting ready to go to work.
A bit to my surprise she is actually working at the local school as a playground watch. So she is not really a criminal like her husband, atleast not on the surface maybe.. but I guess we should go with "innocent until proven guilty"...
After Sandra has left, Robert plays a bit with Mark, before walking out the door with him.. he seems to be heading towards the Harbor Park, and I wonder what he could be doing there..
There is usually a lovely and peaceful atmosphere of this town, with the soothing sound of waves crashing onshore and seabirds in the distance... usually..
Robert walks inside the Harbor Café where he meets up with this woman called Danicia Tomren, apparently he is doing some kind of business with her..
Robert: This will be your spot tonight, and you take 500 simoleons per client, and give half of it to me. Do we have an agreement?
Danicia:Yes, Mr. Robert, you are a very generous man, Mr. Robert.
Eddie Opsal (café owner): If she's gonna hang around here, I want at least half of what she makes!
Robert: You let her stay, and I'll let you keep your business, how's that for a deal?
Eddie: I want half, or I'll start talking.
Robert: 10 % and you get to keep your business.
Eddie: 25 and I'll keep silent.
Robert: 15, final offer, or your café is going up in smoke.
Eddie: Fine, fine, but only after dark! I don't want no 🐸🐸🐸🐸 hanging around here in broad daylight!
Satisfied with his deal, Robert went back home, and somehow left his baby boy Mark behind... anyway, on to more pleasant matters...
The news ticker notifies me that romance is blooming between Solvej and Patrik, and I suppose its true, because I find them staring deeply into each others eyes at the tattoo shop. :P
Agathi is still at home taking care of her babies. I guess one of the perks of being a writer is to walk around in your underwear all day...
Gaute increased his skill in fishing. Perfect home for an outdoors loving guy like him, to live right next to the park like that. Its almost as good as having your own private fishing spot in the backyard.
Baturney finished his shift at the town hall, and got an invitation to a party over at Odin Borsønns residence. When the richest guy in all of town invites you to a party, you're not turning it down. Its important for a politician like Baturney to keep friends with those that have money....
Dresscode: Formal wear of course, however the Borsønn/Ås family, though quite rich and with a taste for the finer things in life, are surprisingly down to earth people....
At the party Baturney meets one of his many long time friends, Jørgen Klinemann, and they keep discussing their own families. Jørgen Klinemann is married to Chansa Beadoux and has two daughters, Samira and Celine.
Baturney walks upstairs to make funny faces with Frigg Ås (she is Odins wife) and again they keep discussing family. Frigg and Odin has two daughters, Oda and Hermine, and two sons, Tor and Balder.
Baturney goes downstairs for a drink and to repeatedly turn on and off a tv, even though there is no tv in that room, while Frigg is showing her devotion to Odin by handing him flowers.
And then some, before they go upstairs to have some fun, but that is not for us to see.
Agathi finished her shift at work, and got promoted to level 5, and is now a stage worker.
Baturney keeps trying to turn on and off that tv, not realizing that it is actually a window he is pointing the remote at... how much juice did you have? Maybe you should go home? Get some sleep, no?
He goes on to practice some pool, when Edna Ravnås comes in to talk to him about the latest in high heeled fashion.
She finds him again out in the hallway when he is about to leave, and decides to hand him flowers, but he is not to interested..
"Thanks, but no thanks! I appreciate you wanting to give me those flowers, but I have a wife and kids at home, sorry, I can't accept those."
So he left the residence and went back home, just in time to give Ruben breakfast and perhaps get a few minutes of sleep...
Good night, or good morning maybe, whichever you prefer..
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
The Chitrakaar/Skurckh family was having the usual kids struggle. Madhunisha woke up Dudleif early, because she was feeling lonely..
With Dudleif at work, Nishit at school and Udisha still sleeping, I stopped by the festival park to find Dudleifs mother, Marianne Skurckh having just stole a kiss from the kissing booth guy.
Udishas youngest sister Nitya was attending a course in Social Networking at the University Auditorium. Malin Stabell-Jones is there with her father, Asgeir Stabell-Jones (to the left). The only one wise enough to sit was André in the back to the right...
Udisha succesfully taught Ole Christian to walk, and after that everyone just went to bed, so umm, nighty night already.
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Things are stressful in the Chitrakaar-Skurchk household with the two youngest ones constantly needing their care. Both Udisha and Dudleif are pretty worn out, but they are doing their best.
Udisha still finds a little time to make some sketches.
Udisha: This blank wall is really inspiring...
At the fire station Sofia Karlsen was seen checking the fire alarm, before she walked downstairs to talk to Bhavan, the brother of her fiancé.
Or flirt with him, rather.. but Bhavan is of course not interested.. Sofia already has plans to marry his brother, Palash, and Bhavan already has a girlfriend in Beate Curious..
She takes the hint and goes back to maintain the fire alarm.
Udisha wants to potty train Ole Christian, the only essential skill he has left to learn now.
Palash is spending his day at home, moving from chair to chair, testing out his furniture...
Nishit wants to go to the spring festival to get some fresh air.. its to smelly at home. Mom and dad are a bit to lacking in energy to keep everything clean and tidy..
Bhavan just invited his sister to a Spring party, so she picks up Dudleifs car to head over there.
At the park Nishit goes around looking for easter eggs, but doesn't find any.
Palash was also invited to the party, and picks up Bhavans guitar to do some entertainment. Zlem Stabell-Skurckh points at laughs at him. "This is not a slumber party, get dressed, ya goon!"
Udisha misses her job, and didn't really want to party. "I have to prepare some more business plans to present to the office when I get back". Udisha leaves shortly after finishing her planning to go home and get some sleep..
Nishit goes to dance, but unlike the dance floor in Sunset Valley, this isn't excactly packed, so he gets it all to himself.. where is everybody at?
Well, this seems to be the dancing spot, by the toilets. Left to right: Penny Pincher-Peddler, Celina Pincher-Peddler and Asbjørn Gjerdrum. Stupid sims, you're at the wrong spot, this isn't the dance floor. :P
Penny: We're not stupid! This is the perfect spot, right inbetween the food stalls and the toilets! Its the dance floor that's on the wrong spot!
Alright, ok, then... well, it sort of makes sense..
As the sun begins to set, Nishit walks over to play horseshoe with Andre Sjanto.
They're having so much fun with it, they keep playing until long after dark. Nishits grandmother Laranya runs by, heading home from hanging out at the theatre, and throws a remark that he should probably be heading home by now, or he might get transported home by a police car. Nishit isn't worried about this, he gets to ride a police car all the time. He thinks Laranya probably meant that his father would come pick him up later, so he just keeps on playing...
But Dudleif isn't coming to pick him up. Nishits parents are busy with Ole Christian and Madhunisha and desperate for sleep..
I get a notification that Sam Mæle, the bassist of the band "The Bushweeds" increased his skill in guitar playing to level three, so I check where he is, hoping to find him practicing with his band. He is at home in "The Party Kids" household, but he is being a different kind of player, flirting with both Isabell Kolstø (works in the military, not a band member) and Merete Sagmo, the keyboard player.
"I can't help it" he says "I love women, and they're everywhere!"
A bass player that loves women, well that's a new one.... eh? (No, it's not. )
Anyway... just watch it so you're not creating any drama.
Nishit manages to stay out playing almost until morning, long after Andre went home, and walks up to his father to ask him for a bedtime story.
There isn't much of a structure to the sleep schedual in this house, as it is controlled by the two youngest ones, so I can't really say goodnight here. It is already the next morning, and the sun will soon rise for another day...
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
It was finally June, and summer was here! It was a beatiful morning for Sunset Valley, though somehow it was raining from a clear sky...
There were two thoughts on Ingrids mind as she woke up this morning, politics (as usual..) and working out.
"I want to go exercize!" she thought as she went to prepare breakfast. Time to buy a gym membership, then!
While at work she had delivered the new sleek oven she had ordered, – one that cost at least 450 simoleons - a brand new Caravan X-350.
While she is at work, I want to check up on some of her family members.
Even though it is not necessary anymore as the ex-couple has since rekindled, Lucie still prefers to stay in her own apartment section playing video games... Sims are really habitual creatures. I find her preferring to stay there, instead of hanging out with her ex-husband a little endearing, but also a bit sad... how they are both sitting alone in this big, big house of theirs...
Asgeir is downstairs in their library re-reading one of his novels that he wrote in his younger days..."Ménage à trois in the winter gardens". Don't ask me what the book is about, because I have no idea... :P The picture on the table next to Asgeir, is Ingrid as a toddler.
Lucie and Asgeirs daughter, and Ingrids aunt, Sofie (age: 37 years) is at home with Walter (age: 4 years), while Eivind is at work at the Military base, and Kleopatra is at school. And Sofie is doing the excact same thing as her mom (Lucie) does, playing video games. :P
Walter is playing with the peg toy box in the back.
The parents of Kathrine, and Ingrids other grandparents, are outside their home where Frida is flirting with Egil, and calls him her austronaut.
She says she loves it when he puts on his space suit and travels into deep space with his huge rocket.... :P
Ingrid goes to exercize aerobic after work, and reaches level 6 in fitness during her workout.
Robert Bråge, Oliver Freddys littler brother and the son of Ranveig and Gaute, has increased his skill in fishing to level 3. I find him at home, though, sharing gossip with his mom, so I'm guessing he learned it at his after school activity.
After workout, Ingrid thinks about items related to children for some reason, but she is single and currently has no love interest either, though she has been flirting a bit.
Eirin Motorsen, Ranveigs mother, is hanging out at the V.I.P. Club Exclusif, enjoying a drink in her swimsuit, when she feels the need to exclaim that "This town is really cool!". The other two elderly sims are Madison VanWatson and Pauline Wan.
Then Ingrid does the same thing as Baturney did earlier.. grabs a drink and turns on a mysterious tv that is nowhere to be found... at least not in the same room... I can even hear the tv playing the adventure channel.. but the only tv I can see on the lot is upstairs by the treadmills, and that's not playing the adventure channel... does not compute. :P
Ingrid goes to gossip with Holly Bastiansen by the pool, ("Did you know that Therese Longva has LOTS of money? Who would have thought that?") and discovers trait in common (good) and that Ingrid has one incompatiple trait (snob), as well as learning that Holly is a vegetarian and easily impressed.
Ingrid the aspiring politician of course talks about politics and donations, and learns that Holly is rich. "That could come in handy later", she thinks...
They cheer for the university mascot, before Ingrid decides to go home, and on the way she picks up a tumble drier, but she has no other room for it then in her tiny hallway, because her bathroom is already full...
"Maybe its time to make this tiny house a little bigger" she thinks... "I think I'll start looking for a contractor tomorrow..."
"..but now its bedtime! Good night!"
Lake Onebega:
And so its back to the de Anda house.. Inge and Oliver Freddy are sound asleep, all stereos are still blaring, Debbie Richards is still passed out next to the bed where Ayana Yuki is sleeping, and Jennifer Rockefeller is still running naked through the hallway...
Ayana Yuki wakes up and decides to leave, saying it was a great party, while gasping at the sight of Jennifer being naked by the pool table... "That girl is crazy!" she thinks, and I agree...
Walter Fulman and Matthew Tellner woke up from having passed out by the bonfire, both of them saying it was a great party as they are heading back home..
Daniel Vaughn wakes up, and is almost run over by a naked Jennifer, and the sight of her makes him undress too! And Omar Bjørkhaug is also still running around naked.. Screenshots not shown, because I think there's enough naked people now...
Debbie Richards wakes up to make a drawing.. "All these naked bodies makes me inspired!"
Oh, no, there's Jonathan Dirk also running around naked, and Debbie is really enjoying what she sees... "Mmmm, I'd hit that!" she thinks... I think I'll just ignore the idiots running around naked, they have to grow tired at it at one point...
Cody Eisenberg is still out there keeping the fire alive, party 'till the early mornin'..
And yes, people really did enjoy this party, probably the best verdict it could have gotten. Sims all over town will be talking about this for years to come!
At 11:30 its finally time for my sims to wake up, and receive their grades... (drumroll)
Both of them are making their nervous faces, but I already know they did really good...
Which is evident when the results come in..
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Inge spends some time watching the cooking channel. She really likes the cooking channel.. and Oliver Freddy goes to the nearest computer to post spam and troll various internet forums...
Inge walked in on Jonathan Dirk as he was.. letting the water fall...., she looks embarrassed but gets the attractive company moodlet... She apologizes herself, and says it was an accident... right, yeah, accident.. huh? Then why do you keep following him with your eyes like that, hmm...
Inge has had a wish to increase her skills in writing for some time, and now that the semester is over, she finally finds some time to write a little more on her first novel, "Copperheart".
Oliver Freddy spots Liz Tarry randomly walking up and down the stairs and follows her to talk about computers. He still wants to go skinny dipping with her, and gets the attractive company moodlet...
Everyone said it was a super party, yet Oliver Freddys wish to arrange a super party doesn't get fulfilled..
Inge makes a phone call to Debbie to hear how she is doing, but the phone call is cut short, because Debbie is still in bed with a terrible headache....
Inge goes downstairs to watch more TV, Jonathan Dirk follows her and starts talking to her about everything from summer vacation plans, to babies to fishing, but whatever he says, Inge doesn't want to hear it, and their relationship suffers every time he opens his mouth... Inge thinks he's good looking, but oh so stupid, and a terrible conversation partner....
Eventually he gives up and walks away, and Inge goes to finish her first novel, as well as getting another skill point in writing.
She goes back again to watch tv, and when Oliver Freddy joins, she immediately begins talking about children....
Oliver Freddy gets an idea to ask her for a date, because he wants to go bowling, as one last thing to do here before they have to go home..
Inge is very happy to be asked, and off they go.
Its Inges turn first, but it looks like she hasn't bowled before, as she fumbles about a bit..
"Hmm, how do I grab this thing..."
With intense focus, she throws the ball and lands on her face without hitting a single cone, and all of a sudden its time for them to go home...
Oliver Freddy only finds time to point and laugh, before they have to leave..
"Come along now, we have to go home" she says, and gets that cute look on her face she only gets from looking at her boyfriend...
Oliver Freddy is a little disgruntled to have to leave so soon. He was so prepared to show her how its really done. Another time man, there is a bowling alley in Sunset Valley, too... then maybe we can see what you are made of.
Inge gets a little emotional from seeing everyone at their dorm already standing outside waving them goodbye, as they arrive to pick up their suitcases..
And off they go for the summer, bye for now University.
Its really late when they arrive back in Sunset Valley, and the car drove them straight to Inges parents home.
Oliver Freddy parts ways with Inge for now, and goes home to his moms house to greet his little brother, Robert Bråge, before he reads him a bedtime story and he falls asleep.
He walks downstairs to find his mother Ranveig, that just came home from watching a movie at the cinema. No emotional melodramatic scene this time, but rest assured, she has still missed her son when he was away.
She greets her son, before immediately going to bed, and Oliver Freddy grabs the opportunity to make a prank on the computer for his beloved mother to find tomorrow, before also going to sleep..
Inge on the other hand, thought it was a good idea to take her sister out to a pub... Inge thought Kristina had become a big girl, so she brought her up The Prison Warden Pub in the New Town Area. Sure enough, Kristina had aged up and was now a teenager, but she still wasn't old enough to enter the pub, as you had to be 18 years of age to enter...
Inge walked inside and had a chat with Aisha and Haldis Hillestad for a while, but her poor sister had stand outside and wait alongside Otto, the teenage son of Haldis..
Inge and her sister go home after a while, the pub was pretty dull anyway on this monday night.. Kristina goes to bed, and Inge goes into the kitchen to talk to her mom, before they end up watching tv in the living room..
Mom and daughter must have a lot of catching up to do..
Its getting pretty late, but they seem to have no plans of going to bed, and I want to end this update here, so I leave them and say goodnight...
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
I decided before playing this update to switch from monthly to seasonal updates, once Inge and Oliver Freddy had returned from their second semester at university, in order to speed up the progress a little, so.. umm, I'll see how this works.. also, I intended to post this update several days ago, I just wanted to make an airport lot first.. It was only going to be that one lot, I thought...and it was only going to take an hour or two, I thought... anyway, finally, here is the update...
June:
Baturney wakes up a little late after sleeping in from the party over at the Frigg/Ås household, and young Ruben is still up playing with his toys. The house is full of dirty clothes lying around, so he decides to do some much needed laundry..
Agathi wakes up even later than him, as she was pretty exhausted from coming home from work, and having been kept awake by the two young ones..
At the Chitrakaar-Bråheim household, things are a little hectic this morning, as they have to hurry up to the airport to catch a plane.. they are going to Bewickton again this summer, to attend the wedding of Leyas brother Palash, where he will marry Sofia Karlsen..
Leya: We gotta hurry up and eat, the plane leaves in just two hours!
Gaute: Relax, Leya, we'll make it...
After finishing their meal, they ran out the door, and drove off, leaving their town of Sprottenham behind for now..
The Old Peat Factory lies by the road on the way to the airport..
Warenford Airport lies by the starting point of highway A-15 that runs across the kingdom in an east-west direction. The airport is located "in the middle of nowhere" on the Warenford moores, and serves several towns in the region of North Hazelburn that Sprottenham is a part of.
Gaute: See Leya, we're almost there now.. plenty of time left.. the plane is waiting for us!
Bodil: Is that our plane, mom?
Leya: Yes, that's the one..
The boarding call sounds, they get on board the plane, and off they go! This will be young baby Orinders first flight, possibly to the dismay of the other passengers...:P
Their arrival in Bewickton and the wedding of Palash and Sofia will be covered in the next chapter.
Back in town, Agathi makes sure to feed Iselin, and give Ruben some potty training before sitting down to hand in a few more chapters on her book, "The Zombie Kitchen".
I get notified that Patrik has a new boss on the football team in Jet Rēshingugāru from the Rollcagers household.
So she is not just interested in racing, but apparently also football. She goes to visit him at his house, and he greets her by the door. He talks with her for a while about food, but doesn't let her in..
His wife Solvej eventually comes out to greet her and let her in, though.
Inside she walks over to Patrik to compliment him about their new house.
Agathi has to go to work at the Community Theatre. She hates this job, but has shown no desire to want to quit it just yet. She wants to save up a little more cash, before taking the plunge and becoming a full time author.
Torgeir Dahl-Blankblomst, the son of Daniel and Chansa aged up to a toddler, he is just about a month older than Iselin.
Agathi manages to cram in a little more writing after work, before its bedtime.
July:
Baturney snuggles and plays with Iselin on her last day as a baby. "Happy birthday, daddys little one! Are you ready to become a big girl?"
Agathi has today off, which will be perfect to arrange Iselins birthday party, and Baturney makes the call to invite people over immediately after his shift is done at the town hall.
As well as finishing Rubens potty training just in time for the party to begin.
Agathi and Gunn-Rita Bergersen gather to cheer for the baby as Baturney helps her blow out the candle on her birthday cake.
He puts her down to let the magic happen.
She can't talk yet, so we can't really know what she's thinking, but she is certainly amazed at this change that just happened.
At the same time, the mood is a little different over at the old Peat Factory...
Robert: Just 15 more for each of you, and you might just get supper tonight! I've got customers waiting for their orders, so quicken up!
Ingolf Dybdal: I don't want to be here... I want to go home...
Eilif Sagstad: Trust me, I don't think you'd want to go back home, kid...
Danica Tomren: Mr. Robert was so kind to bring us into this country, and get us these jobs...
Well, I beg to differ.. your "Mr. Robert" is a criminal, and a thug! Exploiting people in crisis... does his wife know about the scope of his operations!?
George Alnuman: I want to find my aunt.. I think she is somewhere in the south...
Back at the Jiggens/Flansbarne household, Iselin is already tired, and Dongmei is the first one to pick her up as a toddler, and put her in her crib.
Then some of the guests sit down to have a bit of cake, and Frigg Ås (the one standing) was kind enough to do the dishes after everyone was done eating.
There is something about Baturney that makes him tired much faster than other sims, and he already wants to go to bed, but he stops his action as he finds this woman, Åshild Magnus, already there in her morning robe...
Åshilds husband follows, and they begin to make out, so they probably had intentions of woohooing in that bed...
Dongmei was already in the bedroom after putting Iselin to bed, and Gunn-Rita had followed Baturney to hand him flowers, which he happily accepts.
Dongmei gives them a look, and she is not particularly happy about this behaviour, as both Baturney and Gunn-Rita are married...
People are starting to leave the party, saying it was an awesome one, but the guy that said it was a boring party and that he was leaving almost as soon as the party began is still there, initiating a water balloon fight with Agathi...
And while Agathi goes into the backyard for a water balloon fight with Odin, Baturney is still in the bedroom, now flirting with the morning robe dressed lady...
Dongmei noticed what they were doing and finds it truely appalling and begins to boo and shout at Åshild, as she enters the kitchen to eat some spicy prawns.
Dongmei keeps booing loudly at her all the way until she leaves, however she was thinking it was an awesome party as well..
Now it is only Odin left, and he sits down to at a plate of those spicy prawns while Agathi shares her financial concerns with him..
They were perhaps a bit to spicy for him, yet he sits down to eat another plate, so he must have really liked the taste nonetheless.
Agathi goes to sleep, but is quickly awoken by Iselin being hungry, and then Odin sees his chance to go to the bedroom to hand her a boquet of flowers, which she rejects..
Disheartened, he finally decides to leave the party as the last one and go home to his own wife and children..
August:
Agathi wakes up and wants to continue writing, she wants to finish her novel, preferrably by the end of this year...
Baturney has already left for work, and she sits down at the kitchen table to write, while Ruben and Iselin play with the dollhouse.
Agathi interrupts her writing to walk over and watch her kids, where she finds great enjoyment in them playing together.
Iselin plays in the toy box, while Agathi goes to prepare a meal on the stove, but then the car honks outside, and its time for her to go to work...
Baturney comes home from work, and picks up Iselin to put her in the crib. She is tired already, maybe she is like her father, getting exhausted quickly.. He spots something cooking on the stove, but the kids have number one priority...
And as he puts Iselin to bed, of course, the inevitable happens... he freaks out, but eventually summons himself enough to call the fire department...
The oven burns to a crisp, and the fire spreads to a nearby counter before the fire woman shows up to put it out.
The rest of his afternoon is spent napping, preparing a salad (he dare not use the oven!), and napping a little more inbetween taking care of Ruben and Iselin..
..before Agathi returns from work and puts Iselin to bed, and everyone can get some much needed sleep..
Good night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Part I: Preparations.
It was june in Bewickton, and in just a few days time Palash and Sofia was getting married..
Palash started his morning the way he always does, with a nice breakfast outside. He does this no matter what the weather.. he is lucky now that it is a nice summers day.. seriously, he does this in winter too, with snow and freezing temperature.. like I said, he is the odd one out of the Chitrakaar family.
After breakfast he wanted to freshen up his looks before the wedding, so he paid a visit to Dreas Salon and tattoo where Eivor Mortensen was more than happy to redesign his sports outfit... because he would need that for the wedding..
Both him and Eivor was really happy with the end result, and though it is still very simple, I do think he looks a little bit better.
But this is of course not what he was after, so he rushes home to pick his outfit for the wedding day.. before hushing me out of the room, because he didn't want to reveal it before the special day!
His fiancé Sofia Karlsen was found at the fire station, maintaining the fire alarm again, even though this was her day off..
"I really like hanging out here" she says "I want to show everyone that I'm not all about the money and status! That I have skills and that I am capable too!"
But of course, she also has to prepare for her wedding, so she quickly heads to the library... to read a book about charisma.. "I not only want to look my best.. I want to give a good impression in every possible way" she says as she runs off to drive there in her pink expensive car.
While Sofia is at the library reading, Palash has adopted a little puppy called Yumi. What a cute little bugger!
And of course, after fulfilling her wish of reading the book, she too heads home to plan her wedding dress... and as she steps onto her home lot, she gets an interesting thought for someone that dislikes children..
But then again, the man she has chosen, Palash, is pretty family oriented, and his lifetime wish is to be surrounded by family... so....hmmm... I'm really curious to see if they will have any children! And if so, how many!? They do seem like an odd couple, but I have absolutely no hand in this...
She picks her wedding dress, but like her fiancé, she hushes us out of the room... before going to the mirror to check her looks in one of the bathrooms of her house..
"Oh no! I look terrible! Everyone is going to laugh at me behind my back at my wedding... I'm a monster! I don't want to look at myself..."
She does appear to be a bit neurotic about her appearance.. typical of snobs, they always worry about something underneath their bright and glossy surface...
Then another well-known car appears in town.. not sure how they got the airline to accept them bringing their car along, but hey, Simbria Airlines... the customer is always right! No matter what, it seems..
Since their last visit, Leya has been very adamant that they should NOT have a hotel in the downtown area, so they ended up going for one as far on the outskirts of town as they could find...
Gaute: This looks like a pretty dodgy area.. are you sure this is the right way..?
Leya: I'm.. I'm uh.... yes, the Schmoogle app on my phone says it's this way...
Leya was starting to doubt her decision a little... maybe downtown would have been better after all...
They arrive at the hotel and the surroundings brighten and open up a little... Leya was feeling more confident now.
Leya: See, I told you.. it looks just like the pictures on the booking website!
It did look a little cozy and old on the inside, but Gaute was most excited that the place actually had its own bar... Leya was not.
Leya: You're NOT going to hang out at the bar! This is a family visit! We are going to my brothers wedding!
They happily inspected their hotel room, before going downstairs again to have dinner. They were all very hungry after their long journey..
Bodil asks Leya for a bedtime story.. Leya has began to wonder if this hotel might be haunted.
It looks cozy at first, but come to think of it, there is a somewhat eerie mood too, lurking in the walls and narrow hallways...
Leya reads a story for Bodil about painting outside the lines, and everyone falls happily asleep...
...and no ghosts were spotted during the night... thank goodness.. :P We all know that ghosts aren't real, so it was probably just Leyas imagination playing tricks on her.... I mean, why would this nice hotel on the outskirts of town be haunted? Nah, no way... Good night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Part II: The wedding.
Greenland Whalefishers - Waiting
I've been waiting.. waiting.. waiting for you...
I've got a whole lot of love
I hope you feel the same way too...
Well, speaking of hauntings... they say that animals have a 6th sense, and as I spent the night watching Palash's house in anticipation of the wedding day, a certain ominous music is heard, and his newly adopted dog immediately begins dreaming about something... but nothing is seen on the lot or the surrounding area... so it was probably just the wind, or something...
Palash wakes up this morning thinking about buying kids stuff and throwing a party, before feeding the dog.
Sofia wakes up and immediately puts on her fire fighting outfit, before she goes to clean up some of her old dirty dishes... It's obvious she is used to living alone. :P "It can't look like this now that I will be getting married and Palash will move in with me..." she thinks.
Yumi shows her temperament by snarling at Palash. He reprimands her for it, before giving her a treat, hoping it will set her in a better mood.. or maybe he just ended up reinforcing bad behaviour..
..because afterwards Yumi goes on to chew on one of his dining chairs..
He has his breakfast outside as usual, before he picks up Yumi to head to the Festival Park in time for the wedding..
Leya and her father Deepak is already on the spot, and in front of them stands Kjersti Jordal, the teacher-party animal friend that Gaute made on their last visit...
Dudleif, Laranya, Nitya and Bhavan is also on the spot, all ready for a wedding!
Palash began to feel the nerves, and went into the bathroom there to change into his outfit for the day...
..and everything should be ready for a splendid wedding, except.. oh no! Where is the bride?
There she is running as fast as she can.. imagine being late for your own wedding day... For a while it almost looked like she was going to stand him up... I bet she is nervous, too!
She is happy though, once she finally makes it there. Today is going to be a wonderful day!
People are starting to catch on to what is about to happen, and then...
..Sofia, what!? She just changed to her fire fighting outfit...!
"I want to get married in this, to let the entire town see how skilled and brave I am!"
Well, if that's what you want....
Deepak is so excited for his son, he can't hold it together.
And so the exchange of rings begin, and everyone else start getting emotional, too.
Its a beatiful moment, even if she is not wearing her wedding dress..
Then its time to cut up the wedding cake, and Sofia is really enjoying herself, thinking this is such a wonderful time.
But afterwards both Sofia and Palash is being a little weird, leaving everyone behind to eat their cakes, even sitting at seperate benches.. Maybe the party arrangers should be notified before the next wedding that just putting out chairs aren't enough, some dining tables might be a good idea, too...
While they are sitting in the back eating cake, the band "The Bushweeds" have gone up on stage to provide entertainment for the remainder of the party, and like last time there is still the same problem with people walking up on stage to watch the band. Only two people up front are doing it right...
The stage was changed a bit since last time, by adding doors at the back that one would have to pass to enter the stage... So that they could be locked for anyone but the band members (by use of NRAAS go here door filter), but now, for some reason, the option to lock the doors wasn't there... oh well, at least everyone is enjoying the music... that's what you call an intimate concert..
Sofia walks over to Palash and begins talking about her job as a fire fighter. She appears to be very interested in anything to do with the fire station and her job there. I noticed that she even has a fire hydrant in one of her bedrooms.. Palash enjoys listening to her talk about the fire station. Her enthusiasm there is an admirable quality in his now wife.
..but then she ruins it all with making a statement about how much she dislikes children, and Palash now thinks she is being rude...
"How can you say such a thing about children? They are our future, they are the meaning of life!" he snarls at her as she walks away to use the bathroom... They do love each other, but there is one major issue with their relationship... I am hoping that they will have children, but I have my doubts...
In the meantime Palash goes up to the stage area where Yumi is, to teach her some tricks, but Yumi is a little aggressive and non-cooperative, so it doesn't work out to well...
When Sofia returns from the toilet, they begin flirting and take a romantic picture together. Palash gets a wish to have children with Sofia. Sofia just wants to kiss and woohoo...
The band has since long stopped playing, the music from the speakers has stopped and the party is over, and everyone seemed to have had a really good time. Palash and Sofia has been all caught up with each other and kissing and making out, not paying much attention to any of the other guests.
Until one of the guests makes a blunder...
Sofia: Oh no! Someone just had an accident.. how embarrassing! Palash, lets go home! I'll go and get the dog!
Sofia: Come here, Yumi little! We're going home... to your new home...
Once home in Sofias house, now their house, she turns on the stereo for some romantic music and their kissing and playful activities with each other continue and escalate until she grabs him and...
..walks up to the bedroom where she calls for him to join. This reminds me of when they were dating (before they got engaged..).
She had some struggles initiating romance with him. She had invited him over to her house and tried to woohoo with him a few times, but it always failed....
...but not this time, he joins her and her wish for woohoo finally gets fulfilled.
And once they get going, they're unstoppable now! They had to do it twice in a row!
So... I think its time we leave these two for themselves and let them go on with their procedures for as long as they can.... Good night!
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Part I - July:
Sweet dreams for the newlyweds.. they slept for well into the day. I suppose woohooing all night can be pretty exhausting.
Meanwhile over at the party kids household, the band "The Bushweeds" was busy rehearsing. Food stand clerk Abel Bo was so impressed by their performance at the wedding, so he had given them a new opportunity to perform at this years summer festival, as well.
Well, everyone was busy, excpet Gerda, the guitarist and front woman... she would rather prepare herself by spending time naked in the jacuzzi.
"I'm already at level 10 of the guitar skill, I don't need to rehearse" she says... So yeah, ok, fair enough.. but playing in sync with your band...? Is that not important..? "I'll wing it" she says. "I am the most important member of the band... I need to be relaxed before the show..."
Ooookay, just don't let being the front figure go to your head, hmm...
At Sofia and Palash's house little Yumi was satisfying her need for destruction by going at the sofa.. and the carpet...
This dog might be a little expensive to keep... and it looks like she knows all about it... "I hope Palash will get a raise soon.. so that I can chew up more stuff..."
You dastardly little dog!
Palash: You can't chew up everything in our house! Bad dog, Yumi! Bad dog!
Sofia finally feels good about her reflection now that she is married...
And she keeps pondering which bed to choose for their next woohoo... :P
Then its time for the band's concert to begin, and people are really getting into it this time, some even dancing up on stage.
The bass player, Sam Mæle, and the rest of the band is very happy with this performance as Gerda goes to speak with Abel Bo to get paid.
He gives them 840 simoleons for the job, and also gives them some feedback. He says that it might be an idea for them to develop some stage personas, to create more of a show, as opposed to just well.. showing up and playing in their everyday wear..
If they want to make it big, perhaps they can't just get by with writing and singing songs, they have to become full-time entertainers. Gerda says she will think about it, and bring it up with her band members to hear what they think. So far they have thought of themselves as just a simple folk-punk-rock band without any glitter and glamour, but they also want to make it big, so maybe.
At the now Chitrakaar-Karlsen household, Palash wants to take Sofia for a date, so he takes her out to the Red Meeting Place. Maybe if they can have a good time, he can convince her to have children...
They are hungry upon entering, so they order each their meal and sit down at... each their table, of course... but atleast they are eating synchronized. Is this a thing for couples in love, or do all sims do this? :P (Oliver Freddy and Inge at university also tends to eat perfectly synchronized.)
After finishing their meal, they sit down at the same table, and Palash, perhaps thinking strategically.. begins by saying he understands that children can be bothersome at times, but he also tries to encourage her to think about all the pleasure it will give to actually create a new life and watch it grow up!
Sofia: Oh, Palash.. I understand that you want children, but I only want you.. I don't know... maybe one day, but I don't want to make that promise...
Palash was happy to hear these words from Sofia. She didn't say yes to children of course, but he saw a glimmer of hope there, and it was as good as anything he wanted to hear...for now...
He wants to put her in the mood for love making, and that's not a very difficult thing to do. All it takes is one flirting action, before they are all over each other. Then they both go to the bar and order drinks for themselves, staying there until closing time and getting a little juiced, before its time to go home.
However, once home Palash seems to have forgotten about the love making, as he goes to nap on the bed, so Sofia might as well just go to sleep, too...
Part II - August:
Palash wakes up early from his napping, and decides to go for a swim. That's one of the perks of marrying a rich girl, you get a swimming pool in the backyard. But his swim doesn't last long, as the water seems to make him nervous, so he gets up and walks inside to do some laundry, when he gets a party invitation from Marianne Skurchk. She is having a pool party, and invites him to welcome him to the neighbourhood.
He wakes up his wife to go, and they get into his uh... they get into his car to drive the few 100 metres it takes to get there...
Once their they run off into each their direction. Palash heads around the house to greet Marianne by the pool, and Sofia gets a phone call from Bjørg Krag-Baker.
Palash realizes he is super tired, though, and heads back home before reaching the pool, while Sofia talks to Bjørg about how she is never going to have children, despite what she says to Palash...
Once he leaves, she ends the phone call to follow him home. "This house should be perfect for having a big family" Palash thinks as he steps onto the home lot and gets a look at their house and the playground outside...
Both of them go upstairs to have more drinks by the juice bar, when Sofia has a confession to make. She enjoys watching Palash in his sleep, and he reacts by looking like he doesn't like it, but secretly he does, because both of them get a small relationship boost from it.
Palash is so tired now, though, he goes to bed, while Sofia goes to check the mailbox as the postman has just dropped off several mysterious presents...
She goes to get them and opens them up to reveal the contents.
Udisha, Palash's sister, sent them a painting, Quiet Backwater by Marcose (custom content).
Pattina Knekknes sent them a tattoo shop decoration (custom content).
Rikard Rikerud sent them another tattoo shop decoration
Leonard Plassen-Johnsen sent them another painting, "The Dark Arcadia" (Supernatural EP).
Laranya, Palash's mother, sent them a football goal!
Asbjørn Gjerdrum sent them a glimmering wand... (Useless in this world based on realism, at least to some extent. Nope, they're not going to learn magic.. not here...)
Julienne Knekknes-Skurchk sent them another tattoo shop decoration..
...amazing what can fit into that mailbox...
Sofia goes inside to have a meal, before she thinks about.. getting naked and decorating her house with all the new pictures and paintings...
She thinks its super funny and exciting to get naked.. (she is still juiced...and juiced people always like to get naked it seems..)
A naked Sofia clapping at the tattoo shop decoration she just hung up on her wall.
She puts on her swimwear to for a swim, and Yumi is getting lonely and wants some company, but she can't follow Sofia into the pool..
Sofia is excited to have Yumi follow her, and gets up from the pool to pet the dog.
Sofia: Oh, you're such a sweet doggy. Come here, sweet Yumi little, come to mama.
As Sofie has picked up Yumi to pet her, I get a notification Merete Sagmo (the keyboard player of "The Bushweeds") is now engaged to Johan Vaahgal. They are hanging out at Dreas Salon and Beauty Parlor where they probably sealed the deal.
Congratulations, I guess... I wouldn't excactly call him good looking, but love is love. :P As long as my sims are happy, that is the most important thing.. I don't want to meddle with the choices they make, however strange.
It's getting late, and Sofia is getting tired, so she goes to bed, when Palash wakes up from his sleep, feeling hungry.. but it's night time, and the summer season ends here, so.. good night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Mother and daughter, Iselin and Inge Reppe, are right where we left them off last time. Iselin talks about her own pregnancy, and is a little curious about her daughters plans in that department, too...
They keep talking about kids, future plans, money and science while wathching tv until the clock strikes three and their tv is turned off by the Magical Mr. Overwatch..
Hahah, oh I wish I had caught their reaction when their tv was turned off! :P A simultaneous raising of hands and "Urrrghh!!" from both of them! :P Time to go to bed..
- The Motorsen Family -
In the Motorsen household over at the Mosquito Cove, Ranveig wakes up to look at Oliver Freddys ribbon from high school; "Strongest candidate to take over the world". Besides her completed life time wish of being a chess champion, her sons are her biggest joy and pride in life. She loves them both, with all of her heart and then some, I am sure...
Robert Bråge wakes up to practice some chess outside, and wishes to buy a book in logic. His logic skill is already very high, so he buys the third book in the series, named after the numbers of pi.
After practicing chess for a while, he darts off to the bookstore to buy the book, which he reads on a bench outside.
No doubt is their mother a great inspiration for both Robert Bråge and Oliver Freddy, because Oliver Freddys next wish is to win a ranked game of chess... so while his mother walks upstairs after breakfast to watch the romance channel – an area of life where she hasn't been to successful – Oliver Freddy invites over the next ranked chess player.
The next ranked player is Deng Osman, and he is already booing at Oliver Freddy as they sit down at the chess table, in an attempt to intimidate him before play, perhaps...
The play their game while talking, but it appears they end it without finishing, because I get no notification about who won or lost, and Oliver Freddys wish of winning is not fulfilled.
After Robert Bråge finishes reading the logic book, he finds his grandfather, Ingmar Motorsen outside the store, and goes to the parking lot behind the grocery store to throw ball with him. There are a few traits that run in the Motorsen family..
- Motorsen Family Genetics -
Both of Ranveigs parents, Ingmar and Eirin, have the genius trait. Ingmar in addition has the inappropriate trait and poor Eirin has always struggled with her insanity ever since her childhood years...
The genius trait has been passed on to Ranveig as well as both of her children, which probably explains their chess craze. The insane trait has been passed on to both Ranveig and Oliver Freddy. The inappropriate trait is dormant in Ranveig (she doesn't have it, but can pass it on), but is active in Oliver Freddy (he has it).
- Pool Party -
While Oliver Freddy was playing chess and Robert Bråge was throwing ball, Ranveig got an invitation to a pool party from Mikael Bastiansen. She accepts it as she has no other plans for the rest of the day.
However, Ranveig can thank her father for the loner trait, so she finds the amount of people by the pool a little intimidating. So instead she walks inside to find her mom, Eirin Motorsen, to discuss their favorite tv-shows.
Robert Bråge finds his cousin, Lise Veronica Motor-Notesen, outside the convenience store to talk about cartoons. Lise Veronica is the daughter of Ranveigs sister Monica. With so many mentions of people from their family and their complicated double names, I find it necessary to link to the Motorsen family tree if you need an overview.
https://theplumtreeapp.com/public/600d7a17f6542d0008498d08
- The Reppe Family – The library, books and complicated family relations...
The Reppe family has chosen to hang out at the New Town Library, where they have picked up each their book to read.
Iselin has been at the shelf to pick an autobiography written by Bebe Hart-Bunch; "My crazy parents, Gus and Dorie", Kristina has chosen to read "Attacked by Pumas" by an unknown author (could be Asgeir Karlsen).
Jarle has picked up"The Black Hole Generator" a science fiction book written by Asgeir Karlsen and Inge has chosen to read "Quantum Quanterium" another science fiction book written by Asgeir Karlsen (I think.. he has written so many books, I'm not sure. :P)
Then I get a notification that someone is being extra lazy today. For some reason, Amena Alnuman is late for work. I find her on her bicycle (that she just bought to get in shape) racing by the library and on to the main road, hurry up! Amena is usually very strong willed and determined with her police career... she wants to catch as many criminals and bad guys as she can... It has almost become somewhat of a personal mission for her...She is usually not lazy at all, so something important must have caught her up, to prevent her from going to work..
Amena and her colleagues are cooperating with The Simbrian National Crime Investigation Service (SNCIS) to bust a league of criminals dealing with human trafficking, smuggling of illegal goods and supposedly child labor....
So far their clues are pointing in the direction of a certain small coastal town on the countries east coast...
Anyway, back at the pool party Ranveig has found her way back outside to chill by the pool where she spends the rest of the party, only getting up to switch between different chairs.
Jarle has now sat down to read a book about his main interest, gardening. The library has a splendid view towards the home of the Holm-Fredriksen family and the prison in the background...
Kristina spends the time wisely at the library finishing her last bit of homework, before she goes to the computer to look for a part time job after school. Kristina wants to learn how to cook, but the restaurants in town have no available jobs for a teenager, so she sends in an application for a job at the grocery store to work in the fruits and vegetable department. At least she will be working with food. Sort of..
Kristina finds fellow teenager Margrethe Holm-Fredriksen at the library, and they discuss family, primarily Kristinas family... Margrethe is Oliver Freddys half-sister and daughter of Ranveigs ex, Prison Warden Fredrik Fredriksen.
Ingrid Kråke-Karlsen has finished her shift at the town hall, and has invited three of her best friends, Lisa Bunch, Ahmed Mohamed and Therese Longva out for a game of bowling. but the only one joining her is Lisa Bunch. Ahmed and Therese turned her down, saying she could call them back in three hours. A little detail, but the contractor has already began work on expanding her bathroom, and hence she has had to move her parking lot a little. You can sort of see where the new outer walls are supposed to be.
They stand outside the bowling alley for a while, talking about movies, when Amena is seen on her bike again, this time heading for the beach to relax and watch the sun set after a busy day at the office...
Lisa and Ingrid walk inside for a game of bowling, and I think judging from how the game appeared to go and their reactions that Ingrid ended up being the winner.
And Lisa is a bit of a sore loser..
After playing, Carlos Opsahl decides to entertain them by randomly pulling out a drumkit.. he has spent the afternoon there flirting and kissing with Victoria Andrews (watching to the left) while Ingrid and Lisa played bowling.
The Reppe family has finally left the library to go home, where Inge suddenly has a few angry words to say about the current politicians and how unfriendly their politics are for artists, students and writers and other free thinkers...
Jarle has a more peaceful approach to life, as he tends to his little garden.
Oh, well not everyone of the Reppe family is home. Kristina had decided to pay a visit to the bookstore to browse through the shelves for anything new and interesting, before standing outside the theatre doing the university slogan dance.
Kristina is still young, thinking about many different things and trying to figure out what she wants. One moment, she is interested in food, the next moment gardening and fishing, and now she wants to be like her sister by writing books and going to university and being a rebel... so it is hard to say yet what will become of her, she is all over the place. :P
She does get a bit of a kick now, being out after curfew and possibly being hauled home by the police.. but eventually she caves in and goes home on her own accord before that happens...
Or maybe because she figured she was hungry and wanted mamas food.
Jarle and Inge is still awake upstairs playing ping pong for a while, and Iselin is downstairs reading a book before everyone goes to bed and this month ends. Good night.
I was planning to post both july and august in one update, but to much happened, so it would make it to long, so summer season 2022 will be rounded up come next update.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
A typical morning in the Motorsen household. Ranveig reminiscing by watching a picture of Oliver Freddy as a toddler and the romance channel blaring from all tv's in the house...
..before she runs off to her job in the journalism career. She goes by taxi and leaves her car behind in case Oliver Freddy would need it. Everything for her beloved son...
Oliver Freddy wants to work out, so he borrows his moms pick up truck to go to the gym downtown, where he puts on his finest clothing to pump iron alongside Kathrine Langerak and Pauline Wan.
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Robert Bråge wants to learn writing, so he bikes off to his moms workplace for a course, and upon completion he immediately gets a wish to write a novel. That's very ambitious for a twelve year old kid!
But he also wants to go for a swim, so heads off to the beach.
Robert Bråge loves the outdoors, just like his father, Gaute.
He is not swimming alone, as Emma Hatch follows him into the water and swims alongside him for a while.
Oliver Freddy has finished his workout, and is now all pumped and ready. It is time to go back for the third semester at university. He calls up his girlfriend Inge and she meets him outside the gym where they drive home to his house to say goodbye and hop into the car that will take them to university.
Ranveig comes out to bid them farewell, but Inge is the one getting the most emotional this time around. She loves her hometown of Sunset Valley, and is always a little sad everytime she has to leave...
Ranveig stands still thinking about her son, as she watches the car drive off. She should be used to it by now, but a mothers heart always belongs with her children, no matter what.
Before she finally gets up on a stone to wave at them from a distance..
Bye bye, Oliver Freddy and Inge... your summer holiday is over now, see you again at University.
Once inside she walks up to her bedroom upstairs to watch the childrens channel on tv, but kids shows these days.. they aren't what they once used to be....
Ranveig: Boo! What is this crap?
So she goes downstairs again, because she wants to upgrade the dishwasher to make a little less noise... and as she turns off the tv, of course, it breaks too, so Ranveig gets to spend some time inside increasing her handiness skill...
Ranveig wants to fix things herself, and doesn't want a repair person from outside snooping around her house...
Margrethe, the teenage friend of Kristina, has also gone swimming, and Robert Bråge has gone really far out now, almost by the buoy.. be careful with that surf boy.. I don't have the Island Paradise EP, so the town council can't employ life guards...
Ranveig gets an invitation to a party over at Xander Clavell's house, but it just makes her look grumpy, so I guess today is stay at home day for Ranveig.. "These parties all the time, urghh, sometimes I just need my own company..."
Over at Ingrids house the expansion of her bathroom has come a long way, and is almost finished. All that's left is wood panelling on the outside and wallpaper and floor tiles on the inside, and then its just to move the counters, the sink etc. and it will be done. :P
Ingrid has also bought a new bookshelf for her home. She is like many others in her family, a bookworm, a trait she could have gotten from either side of the family, because both her grandfather on her fathers side and her grandmother on her mothers side has the trait...
After finishing her dinner Ingrid wants to talk to her uncle Knut, so she goes over to him and her biological aunt Helenes house to pay them a visit. Helene is the sister of Kathrine, Ingrids mother, and Knut is Ranveigs brother. It's a small little happy town where everyone knows everyone... :P
As she heads over there, she drives past another construction site where something else is being built. Something that the town of Sunset Valley has been lacking for many years now, but finally the town council has decided to have one built. Oh.. what could this be? :P No, I'm sorry, its not a high rise... that won't happen in this small town... it's an important public building in case of emergency...
Ingrid rings the doorbell of their house, but it seems her uncle wasn't home, only Helene and their toddler son Anton.
Ingrid walks upstairs to practice chess while waiting for her uncle, but Helene follows her upstairs to talk about.. you guessed it, books..
Helene is an author of primarily childrens books, and used to work at the spa in town, but their world has expanded since last I had this is my active household, and now it seems she has switched to the painters career.
Ingrid walks into her aunts writing den to read a book about pregnancy (interesting choice...), but doesn't even get to open the first page before her aunt follows her to spread some gossip.
The writing den wasn't built for talking, its a very small room, so they walk into the bedroom of Helenes oldest son, Bjørn-Yngve to share the gossip and brag about their skills and belongings, like the snobs that they are.. :P
Ingrid gets a phone call from her father, Jonathan. He asks her how she is doing in her new house, and if she needs more money.. but so far she is doing just fine, she stil haven't spent all of the 16500 simoleons they gave her..
Finally her uncle Knut is home, and he walks upstairs to ask her how her day has been, and her wish to talk to him gets fulfilled.
Helene walks upstairs again to gossip more with her niece, before Ingrid walks downstairs and thinks about going home. Helene has picked up Anton to put him to bed, and it is getting late.
Bjørn-Yngve has also made it home, and Ingrid sits by him in the couch, but he is busy reading "Murder in Pleasantville".
With Anton now asleep in his crib, her aunt comes downstairs again and Ingrid praises a book she just read, and they both discover that they share the bookworm trait, and now Ingrid wants to become best friends with her aunt. :P
They discuss more books and politics for a while, before Ingrid thinks its getting late and heads back home, but not without making a snide remark about her aunts intelligence on the way out!
Ah, you're so sweet and lovely. Safe trip home and good night...:P
"Bonus" video. Another old video I made that wasn't originally made to be shared with anyone... I have estimated this to be around 2005-2007/8 in the story timeline. In this video Oliver Freddy and Ingrid are toddlers and Helene proposes to Knut...
Sunset Valley episode 3.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
After leaving Sunset Valley behind, Oliver Freddy and Inge is now ready to begin their third semester at university..
It was a beatiful morning in August when they arrived back at the De Anda house by the shoreline of Lake Onebega...
Oliver Freddy gets a wish to buy a laundry machine, which reminds me of the total absence of laundry items at their dorm.. well, not anymore!
Gorr ba bib! Inge is happy for the opportunity to finally do some laundry.. However, their dorm wasn't build to include laundry machines, but lucky for them a couple of new laundromats had just opened in the area, so they would still get the opportunity to enjoy some fresh clean clothes..
Inge also immediately gets a wish to light a bonfire... It was so much fun last semester, wasn't it?
Oliver Freddy finds the post lady, Calista Montgomery, outside and begins talking to her about movies, and asks if they should go to the movies together. However, she isn't really to keen on that...
Tag! You're it, she says and runs off the lot, and for a while Oliver Freddy thinks they are playing tag together before it dawns on him... Haha, she got you there! :P
Inge is still being a couch potato, and has of course gone inside to watch the cooking channel...
Ah, and here comes the other students..
..and this guy, Skip Taylor, already finds Inge attractive even before he has stepped on to the lot! And among the students are some familiar faces too.
It seems that Ayana Yuki is now back to living at their dorm, along with Cody Eisenberg, Jonathan Dirk, Matthew Tellner and Daniel Vaughn. Liz Tarry seems to not have been wanting to return, though.. so maybe she did decide to travel the globe... Shame, I was starting to find her absent minded behaviour and repeatedly walking up and down the stairs for no reason to be quite endearing. I was even starting to like her purple hair and round face.. :P
Ayana Yuki walks inside to play video games, and Inge seems very interested. She is constantly watching her and is happy that she recognizes her as an art student..
Jonathan Dirk sits down alongside them, and immediately begins talking about kids toys, but Inge, though she finds him attractive, displays no interest in him whatsoever, doing her best to keep her eyes on Ayana.
"I don't want to talk to you Jonathan" she says, and Jonathan is clearly disappointed.
"..but I have feelings for you, Inge" he says.
"I know Jonathan, but I'm just not interested..."
"I already have plans to marry my Oliver Freddy..."
"...and we are going to stay together until we die! And nothing can get in the way of that!"
Jonathan: How can you be happy with him? He is always rooting through trash, and he smells like fertilizer!
Inge: Jonathan!! Seriously....
Inge: I don't want to listen to this... LALALALALA!!
I check their relationship bar, it is in the red, and it is getting worse everytime he opens his mouth.. he should really shut up.. :P
Well, after this it was time for Oliver Freddy and Inge to go to the Connors Student Hall to pick up their new stuff for this semester.. finally an opportunity for her to get away from this situation...
Oliver Freddy is already well on his way..
After picking up their new items they go for a game of ping pong.
Their game is going nicely, until Oliver Freddy delivers a really hard and fast ball!
Schmack! Right in her face! Careful there! O_O
It wasn't to bad as she quickly shook it off and they resumed their game. Oliver Freddy ended up winning.. with quite a solid margin...
Inge goes to play ping pong with a couple of other guys and practice pool for a while, before she decides to head back home.
Oliver Freddy wants to keep his straight A streak, and has gone downstairs to study already! I'm impressed, keep that up!
Once home, Inge gets an invitation to a bonfire party by Shannon Arkers that lives over at the Student Union for girls. This makes her very excited as she remembers how wild and crazy last semesters party was...
She heads over there as fast as she can and rings the doorbell, but is a little disappointed when nobody comes to open the door and let her in..
So she decides to go for the university slogan dance right in front of their window. This should impress the girls and let them know she is one of the group and they will let her in, she thinks.
She is finally let inside, and continues doing the university slogan dance for a while, before she walks out into the backyard to light a bonfire, even though its raining.
She spends a good proportion of the evening outside by the bonfire with more university slogan dancing and has great fun doing so, even if nobody else is there...
Back at the Student Hall Oliver Freddy has been doing some research all by himself.. oh, it is clear who is the genius one of these two.
Then he sends an anonymous admirer text to Nicole Lawry. She was pretty hot in that swimsuit at the party last semester....
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As he goes to grab something to eat, he finds Debbie Richards now playing guitar for money. She doesn't sound half bad, but is apparently not very skilled, as a notification pops up after a while that she just made it to level one of guitar..
At the party Inge has finally made it inside to continue the slogan dance, but as she finds the other girls doing the same thing, she immediately begins booing at them...
Inge: That was pathetic! I am much better at it then you!
Then the girls gather upstairs and continue that thing, all individually and at their own pace.
And when Inge spots the other girls doing it, she boos at them again, and points and laughs..
"Hahaha! You suck!"
There doesn't appear to be much camaraderie between Inge and the other girls here for some reason...
"Booo! That was awful!"
Inge begins to think its time to leave, but stops for a while outside to compliment Hanna Germanotta that apparently lives there for her home, but she is not very receptive to the compliment, and immediately begins a fight with Inge where she calls her rude and asks her to leave.
Now I wonder what Inge could have done to come off as rude....
"I'm not making any friends here, time to go home..."
Oliver Freddy has been watching Debbie Richards play guitar for a while, before coming home just a short while before Inge. Both of them are really tired now, so its bedtime before their semester can truely begin again next month...
Nighty night.
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton
Next morning Oliver Freddy was the first to wake up, and I caught him for the first time thinking baby thoughts, too...
Inge had woken up to prepare her usual morning waffles. She didn't want to eat the ones already on the counter, because Jonathan Dirk had made them... and Inge knows that she can make better waffles. All those hours of her watching the cooking channel on tv has not been without reward...
Oliver Freddy doesn't care. He thinks waffles is waffles, but he does complain about them once he has finished eating and gets a negative moodlet for uneven cooking.. Inge is very satisfied with her waffles.
Then it is Inges turn to study.. She needs a lot more discipline to get it done compared to her boyfriend..
Oliver Freddy remembers how filthy their dorm had gotten by the end of the previous semesters, and decides to hire a maid. It makes everything tidier, and frees up more time that can be used for studying.. or fun...
Then Inge has to run off to her first lecture in "A taste of graffiti 102". Interesting what they learn as art students...
Oliver Freddys lecture doesn't start until later, so he heads off to the Student Hall again. Last month he saw Cora Sidwell there, a one star celebrity among the students, and now he wants to meet her again. Also, the cars there are the ones that belong to Inge and Oliver Freddy.
Usually my sims will have their cars painted in their favourite colour... and this is when I noticed that Inge and Oliver Freddy actually has the same favourite colour. :P
Well, Cora Sidwell is not to be found, so instead he goes to do some more research on a fish sample he has collected, but his wish of doing research on a scientific sample is not fulfilled, so the sample probably wasn't scientific enough....
He is still happy with his findings, though, which apparently was something very extraordinarily. From the looks of it he should have a bright career in science ahead of him. This will be sure to make his mama proud, as if she wasn't already!
Then it is time for him to run off to his first lecture in "Abstract theory about supernatural phenomena 101." Hmm, that sounds like an interesting topic for a science major...
A pretty shot of Inge running home in the rain after her lecture.
Once home she is making good use of the new tv that Oliver Freddy had bought and placed in their room.
Inge spends the rest of the afternoon practicing to learn the hole in two trick shot on the pool table. She doesn't succeed in learning the trick, though, so her wish to do so is still there.
She plays a little more with her trick soft ball, before finishing the painting she started last semester at a value of 99 simoleons.
The supernatural lecture has inspired Oliver Freddy to want a tattoo, and luckily for him a new beauty parlor and tattoo shop just opened during summer. His new dorm mate Skip Taylor is also curious about the new tattoo shop and joins him in the car, and they immediately become a friend group.
He finds the tattooist outside, and asks him for a tattoo, but he declines, so he asks him again. The tattooist declines again and says that they have closed, but he still asks him to follow him inside...
He appears to give him a tattoo, but he does absolutely nothing and Oliver Freddy is not charged any money.
Confused and tired and without any tattoo, Oliver Freddy decides to go home to his girlfriend, and call it a night. This also gives him some more time to think of what tattoo to get.. maybe a heart with his girlfriends name? Hmm, nah, to risky in case something goes awry down the line... A chess piece to honor his mom? Something related to science or being brave? Maybe the tattooist was smart in not giving him a tattoo.. him going there was a bit of an impulsive act, he had to admit to himself, and tattoos are pretty permanent!
He could really need to sleep on this choice, and decides to go to bed...
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Inge has been sitting up waiting for him while watching the cooking channel, and once he is home and asleep, she decides to clean up some of the leaves from the lawn before joining her sleeping boyfriend..
Nighty night.
As this will be the last update in this thread before the holidays, I am posting a christmas greeting from all of my Sunset Valley sims. All 42 of them! Or 43, counting the one that is still being held inside someones belly.
Merry Christmas from all of them.. or Ooboo Kukla, as I think they would call it. :P
A few more of them lined up from different angles:
Left side.
Center.
Right side.
Far right side.
Far left side.
These pictures is from a very simplified Sunset Valley compared to the one I play in (some buildings I have placed are missing in the background here), because when trying to save while lining them up all up, I encountered my first error 12's.. I will probably never do this again! :P Had I known it would be so time consuming...
Sub blogs: #01 Sunset Valley. #02: Lake Onebega #03: Sprottenham #04: Bewickton