Romance and Rebuild
So, now that I had an abduction and a few platinum graves under my belt I felt a bit invincible and decided to have a try at that Romancing Social Bunnies two-pointer. Now that Prometheus and Epimetheus were teens, weren't employed, and didn't have anything too terribly important to do on the long arid weekend ahead I decided to stick one in the skills room and the other in Cronus' apartment suite and decided to just let their social drain away. It took forever and I learned a few things.
First, Social does not drain when a Sim is sleeping. Second, a Sim will skill build until their Mood bar goes into the red and it is a great way to keep a Sim busy. Third, keep a Sim's needs high enough and Social can be fully in the red while a Sim's Mood is still green.
I believe Prometheus' bunny materialized first. He was doing Yoga up in Cronus' little apartment when all of a sudden a Blue Social Bunny fell out of the sky. (Literally.) Epimetheus' took a little longer to appear because he had gotten tired and I had him sleep a bit and his Social did not drain while he was sleeping. He also wasn't the least bit interested in skill building because he was tired and his Social was low. I had him go upstairs and sit in a chair for roughly a half hour in Sim time when finally his bunny appeared...
It looks like the Blue Bunny is saying "Yes!" I know I was. They immediately began, erm, kissing?
I guess that is what passes for kissing in the Social Bunny world anyway.
It was at this point that I began panicking a bit. First off I had heard horror stories of reproducing Social Bunnies swarming lots and permanately bugging them. I also just then remembered hearing something about the social worker coming if a child's social goes completely in the red. Though maybe that is only with toddlers and babies.
Anyway, I seperated the twins and since there is a phone on every floor planned on having them three-way with another Sim. That didn't work as the clock had just ticked past midnight. Then it dawned on me. Social bunnies are there for a reason. I ended up not getting any more romance pics or pics of my Sims picking on the social bunnies, sorry. I had kinda forgotten about the camera as in my mind this was nearly an emergency situation. I hadn't yet discovered the energizer or anything, or I would have used that. Ugh even blogging about my days of general Sim ignorance is agonizing.
Meanwhile, Cronus' pregnancy was progressing nicely. He was the first male Sim I had ever seen pregnant and he looked just this side of obscene in my opinion.
Poor Cronus, looks like it's time to have "The Talk" with Jan about the birds and the bees and where babies come from. Though I'm not sure how he is going to factor in a man getting pregnant via alien abduction.
I had read in the Sims 2 Game Guide that an alien baby is born with his or her father's eyes. That didn't quite prepare me though for the babies eye color. Perhaps they should have said they inherited it genectically from their father.
He has Pao's eyes! I'm glad I kinda miss Pao. And, yes the baby is a he. I, kinda meanly, named him Hephaestus after the scarred smith of the gods.
Actually, aside from his skin color he is a perfectly normal, neigh boringly normal baby. At least he's cute.
Also at this time I discovered that Cronus now had tons of free time so I got him an easel to pass the time. He maxed his creativity and starting gettings wants to Sell A Masterpiece. It became an excellent and actually semi-easy way to keep Cronus' aspiration up.
Finally it was time for Jan to become a teen. It was kinda nice having another female in the house. Since Gaia died it's just been Aphrodite and there just isn't a lot of decent male clothing and hair styles to choose from to lend variety to the game.
I ended up rolling Knowledge, yay! I think she looks pretty cute. Nicer then my twins anyway who have this weird cheek/lip/frog-eyelid thing going. It isn't as bad with Epimetheus at least. Gotta have a handsome Romance Sim.
It was at this point that I was finally ready to rebuild. I had read a few building tutorials and I thought that maybe I was ready to give it a whirl. So here are some before pics. Mostly they are from my camera angles but they don't include the third floor for whatever reason. I don't think I had an angle set for it, I just went to the second floor and then pressed Page Up or something.
Camera angle one. The living room in the front, kitchen in the back, stair well at the left, with the downstairs bathroom behind it and the nursery behind that, master bedroom to the right.
Camera angle two. The same as above rotated to show the pool, the general use hot tub and the special little romance area for Epimetheus' future use complete with Love Tub and Cool Shades.
Camera angle three. Second floor with common skills room bathroom to the left and Prometheus' bedroom to the back left while Epimetheus' is to the back right. There is also a door in each of their bedrooms leading out to a balcony where I keep the easels.
Here I don't show the third floor for whatever reason, just think of the second floor with different colors and a kitchen area with dartboard instead of a skills room and you've got the drift of it.
The stair well leading up to...
The roof. Yeah, isn't this the most horridly designed house you've ever seen? You can say it, I'm aware of it.
The house afterwards. All one story because stairs are a pain and with proper use of camera angles, one story isn't that bad. Looking back at this from the vantage of sixth generation I can honestly say that this house could well last me until the end of the challenge.
If I do go through another rebuild it will probably only be to expand what I have now so that I have room to make certain rooms bigger. (Namely the nursery and skills room.) If I ever did loose my sanity and tear everything down I would most likely try and aim for six camera angles instead of using all nine, move the house farther back from the sidewalk and go for more of a "C" shape then the current "L" one. But that is all small potatoes. This house is a huge improvement. And, I am still very happy with it.
Just look at all the room in the dining room/kitchen! Like I said, huge compared to my last house, but in hindsight the dining room should have been made narrower and longer. You can tell once I got to the kitchen I kinda started running low on funds. I ended up having to take apart the chapel too just to finish paying for walls and doors for the bedroom wing.
"This is for first generation spouses not second! I did not sign up for this! Just relax... distance yourself... put yourself in another place where grass carpet dosen't matter..."
Next Time...
-It's time for Hephaestus to become a toddler, then a child (kids sure do grow up fast around here)
-It's also time for Jan to get in that First Kiss
-Aphrodite becomes an Elder
-The twins become adults and room needs to be made for fourth generation
Till then.
Posted by Bitsy at 05:40 PM Comments
I'm so glad that you're back to updating! Great job. Your house looks like it's a lot better than the last one. I can't wait to see more!
Posted by: Jessica on March 27, 2005 08:46 PM
Thanks! That's a big compliment coming from you, I've seen your houses. *drools* Your skill in building them is absolutely out of this world. Do you offer any for download anywhere? I'm really behind on reading everyone's blogs but expect me to drop by Paloma City really soon. :)
Posted by: Bitsy on March 28, 2005 07:56 AM
Aww, thanks Bitsy! I'm glad you think that. It'll definitely help when I'm an architect. ;-) I guess I could build some and put them up for download. They'd be simple, but that's exactly what we Legacy Challengers need, right? I'll put some though into that and experiment a little. I'll let you know if I decided to do it! Well, there's a lot going on over at Paloma City, but I won't ruin the surprise. Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Jessica on March 28, 2005 02:50 PM
i think this is great im a sim lover my self and many of my sim men have been pregnate before and i think it should be a naturale way of life why is it a woman can get pregnate in real life but a man can not !!!
Posted by: Marissa on December 29, 2008 01:46 PM
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