Sunday, 4 May 2025

Aspir Family- Round 2

 
Here we are back in Desiderata Valley for round 2 in the early hours of Monday morning and we've just caught Luis getting abducted by aliens!

Of course Luis can't get alien pregnant as he's a 94 year old elder, but he had a good adventure and went to sleep as the rest of the family were waking up.
Here's Luis' Grand daughter Pauline greeting her good friend Justus Landry before she goes to school.

Pauline's parents are of course Elizabeth and Victor, they both wish to become Head of the SCIA but have yet to find their jobs so Elizabeth has just become a Senior Manager in the Business career while Victor is a Medical Specialist.

They got home in time to see their twin sons celebrate their kid birthdays. Toddler years done! whew.

The next day Luis made his 10th best friend. Luis' LTW is to be a City Planner (even though he's a retired City Planner!) so it won't happen but he always seems to be in a happy mood regardless. 

After school the twins had brought home Barty Bell. Pauline was fresh from the shower,

when suddenly she stood up and twirled into her teenage birthday.
Pauline rolled Family and wishes to reach the top of the Dance career which is hilarious as she is unbelievably lazy. :D

She did however roll a wish for a college grant and was given one for her A+ which made her Mum happy.

As fun as her young bedroom was it was time for a change,

She got a more grown up room and a good night's sleep but awoke to find her Mother in her room on the pc, it is the only one in the house to be fair.

It seems everyone else had been up for a while as Luis had just fulfilled his grandson Rafael's wish to have homework help whilst Victor finished helping Alejandro with his.

The staircase I'd added into the middle hallway to make room for the twins bedroom.

Thursday came around and Luis met Christian Love who listened happily to Luis talk about his grandchildren.

When Pauline came home from school Luis offered to take her to the shops,

They went downtown so Pauline could buy herself a mobile phone then went back to the valley to a clothing store,

Pauline met Rick Contrary at the Frippery Frock and socialised a while. She really wants her first kiss of course but Rick is not of any attraction to her.

Back home saw Victor and Elizabeth being greeted by the twins after work. Elizabeth is the President of the company while Victor is a Surgeon.

Luis had made Baked Alaska to impress the private school Headmaster when he came over later for dinner, the whole evening was a success and Luis' 3 Grandchildren were accepted.


After the Head's visit the adults went outside to skill whilst Luis tried (in vain) to get abducted again.

On Friday just as her mother was out of earshot Pauline declared her crush for Justus.

She left for school in style in the birthday present her Grandfather had given her... the car he spent most of last round restoring.

Luis is an excellent babysitter and is always home for the kids and today is a good day as the twins are celebrating their first A+'s.

Justus snuck by a little later and Pauline and he shared their first kiss.

Luis was too busy searching the skies for aliens to notice.

But as his hobby is tinkering he began to work on the old model railroad he'd started.

By the end of the night Luis had added not only a mountain but buildings and lights.

Saturday came around and for once the whole family were at home.

They went for the day to Greave's Greener Gardens.

They played, ate, fished and made lots of new acquaintances before it got dark and they got too tired to stay.

After a refreshing nap Luis had added lots of signs to his railway

Elizabeth had earned a silver badge in sewing.

and Victor made a best friend while Luis served up some of his earlier catch.

As night came around again Luis had one big gap left on his railroad....

As he was working on that Pauline set about earning some body skills.

While she got fitter Luis finished his model railway by adding the huge lake. He's close to being in the zone in Tinkering now.

On Sunday morning a miracle happened after almost 2 weeks of searching and the Intelligence career came along!
With his skills Victor will start as a Rookie Field Agent while Elizabeth is a Gumshoe.

Alejandro has Barty Bell over to play,

and Rafael invited Kerie.

Luis asked his cousin Natasha Una over and she brought her husband Jonathan to meet the family.

Pauline came home after reaching overachiever status.

She bagged another scholarship and later made the call to leave. Her beloved Grandpa (now 101 days old!) was the only one to wave her off as her twin brothers were asleep as well as her parents. Elizabeth did get up just after only to find the taxi had just left before she could say goodbye.

and here is Pauline in her new dorm with her crush Justus who joined her (he showing off his biceps and oh no! he's a romance Sim... grr.) The tie-dye guy is Daniel Bell and so we'll be back quite soon to play his first round.

Summary- well I thought I had it all sorted for Pauline but who knows now with a Romance boyfriend, thankfully there are 4 years of college to get through so plenty of time for Pauline to find that special someone.
Back at the home lot I was happy to finally get Elizabeth and Victor their LTW careers as they will both be elders quite soon next time.
The twins didn't get a lot of 'airtime' as they were just happy skilling and playing with their friends.
Luis is quite the stalwart at 101! I wonder how long he'll live but we know it'll at least be until round 3. ;)


Monday, 21 April 2025

Stats for Round 1.

 The Stats for round 1 are-

Total number of Sims - 276 current living Sims.

6 Deaths (which would have totalled 282 Sims)

36 extra Sims joined the round (either 'grow up's, YA's, Adults or Seniors).

There were 33 babies born, 7 sets of twins included.

A breakdown of Aspirations- (I always roll a dice to pick Aspiration on teenage birthdays).

Knowledge- 57 Sims

Family-  55 Sims

Fortune- 49 Sims

Popularity- 44 Sims

Romance- 26 Sims

Pleasure- 5 Sims

Grilled Cheese- 1 Sim

There was only one loss of name and that was when Sam Thomas married Jimmy Phoenix resulting in the loss of the Thomas name. Johnny Smith married and took Ophelia Nigmos' name of course but there are still lots of Smiths remaining. Alexandra O'Mackey is now Picaso but again still Gabe, Patricia and Jules are O'Mackey's.

Technically Kristen 'Loste' is now Kristen Graham but she was originally listed as Kristen Singles and again there are still 'Singles' in Chloe, Lola and Erin but I suppose to be true I should say 2 lost names.

Having said that then I will play the 'Singles' girls next round as their 'true' names in Chloe & Lola Curious and Erin as Beaker.

I will also mix up my aspiration list for dice rolls for the next round as I have few Pleasure Sims and only one Grilled Cheese but of course there are 39 either babies/toddlers or children existing and quite a few pregnant sims this round due to give birth next, so lots of scope to broaden that list through new dice rolls!

Zoe Zimmerman- Senior Year

 
Here we are for the final household in the round in the Tri-Fruhm Sorority house at La Fiesta Tech University which is in Veronaville for this particular Sim and her housemates.

Living here are Jasmine Rai, Zoe Zimmerman and Allyn McCarthy (who pledged and moved in during DJ Verse's round).

The Sisters' decide to go off lot and let their hair down at the Crypt O' Nightclub where Zoe took over the DJ booth.

They had a great evening and only left because Allyn was stinking so much everyone was starting to make comments. 

The first thing Family Sim Allyn did after her shower was to bring home a desk (not needed so it went into her backpack).

Popularity Sim Zoe really wishes to become The Law one day, but also loves to Tinker and so easily fixed the leaky shower.

Later that night a Burglar came onto Campus...

The girls didn't have an alarm but they all woke up and Allyn rushed to call the emergency services...

Sadly the cop was too slow to catch the burglar (they passed each other on the stairs) and the girls lost 2 valuable paintings.

As they were all awake they each did an assignment for class.

Zoe's first job after that was to fix the faulty pc.

She wished to have someone new pledge and her friend Kay Lam readily agreed,

She worked on Zoe's term paper until it got to 90% then Zoe joined in and got double the reward. :)

With her college bar now being full Zoe could spend the rest of the semester working on skills and friendships.

The next morning Kay had done enough pledging and was invited to move in.
Kay Lam is a Knowledge Sim who wishes to max her skills.
The beauty of moving in an existing student is that they have a full college bar and it seems good moods so until their first exam they can pretty much skill away without really needing anything.

Their first exams over with for Senior Year Zoe and Jasmine plan to celebrate with a party,

The guests start arriving, it's not a Toga party but it seems either this particular YA is wearing a toga as everyday or she has still got it on from whoever last threw a toga party, Guy Wrightley I think it was.

Allyn disappeared to get free pizza for everyone.

The party was a great success and Jasmine got her woohoo wish with her college sweetheart Gavin.

Zoe wanted another outing so they all left for the Lulu Lounge.

Allyn got electrocuted but ran out of shot to the restroom before I noticed then I saw Bianca Monty getting zapped.

It was Knowledge Sim Kay who really wished to be struck by lightning though it didn't feel so good at the time...

She did get a nice mood boost though but they had to quickly leave so she and Allyn could repair their terrible moods.

Poor Allyn's was so bad when she got home that she got her 'sack baby' out to give it a cuddle.
What this Family sim really wants is to fall in love with Shaun Lawson from the secret society, but ever since he came by and got overheated in their hot tub he leaves as soon as he is called over.

She did do some gardening to earn her Silver badge which brought her mood up a little.

Zoe visited the secret society and found Shaun Lawson, he of her housemate Allyn's hearts desire. :D

She offered to give him a makeover- blonde hair is a turn on of Allyn's but his overheated face still remained.

So Zoe stayed a while, did an assignment, worked on her cleaning skill and made breakfast for everyone,

then Shaun finally 'cooled' down.

Back at the home lot Allyn was thrilled that he could finally come over and stay for more than 10 seconds.

She was a little too keen and he rejected her first kiss.

A possible factor being that the evil witch had just flown in and left cockroaches on the lot which Kay was spraying at the time of said attempted kiss.

However a few romantic gestures later they were madly in love with each other. Now Allyn is a very happy sim!

Jasmine graduated with a 4.0 in History.

She threw a great party, invited all the old guard (Monica, Sarah, Jessie and DJ) as well as her old house mate Gunnar and lots of new friends.

Here she is celebrating her final snapshot from college with her crush Gavin.

Her fellow Sisters' (Kay had left for class) just had time to rush out to wave her goodbye as she left for Downtown Veronaville.

The first thing Allyn did was rush off campus and bring back yet another desk... obsessed! Maybe it's a hint for a new pledge?

Not long after Zoe too graduated with a 4.0 GPA in History.

She had a rockin' party and celebrated her final snapshot with the already graduated Almeric Davis.

As excited as she was to be leaving college (finally!) she couldn't help one last look back at the Sorority House.

and this is her new home in Downtown Veronaville, she is a neighbour to her good friend Jasmine, their houses are practically identical and we will see them for sure over the course of the next round until their turns come around again! 


Summary-
It feels good to a), finally graduate the Sims that I have rarely played and never graduated and b), to finish the round! 
I will follow with a small post on stats then begin Round 2 back at the beginning of the alphabet! :)