Othello Windling Gets Abducted
When last we left the Windlings fourth generation, second bloodline was well under way with five children already under Owain and Adriana's belt. Ishtar, now a teen, and her younger siblings Iago, Othello, Opal and Demetrius were causing plenty of trouble in Windling Gables to keep their parents, and Mercury the family zombie, very busy. Here Demetrius manages to come in at a crucial moment to proclaim that he got an A+.
"At least nothing was burning this time, or got burnt. Good job, kiddo!"
With all of the kids in private school they didn't take as big of a needs hit, so they got more done in the evenings. They spent less time sleeping...
"And, less time eating dad's burnt Chili con Carne!"
And, of course, less time blowing bubbles when they first got home from school. Which was good because the shrieks and giggles get grating after awhile.
"Whee!"
Just as I adopted a kid a day eight days ago now one was becoming a teen every night. Next up was Iago. I rolled Knowledge.
"Skills room, here I come!"
Meanwhile the rest of the kids still had homework to do, skill scholarships to work towards and of course a nap to look forward to before sending them off to school again.
"Legacy kids lead such boring lives."
Some of you may be observant and remember what this used to be. This used to be a candelabra, an iron candle stick thing with lots of lit white candles in it. Why, after a ghost decided to haunt it and cause it to explode in a fit of ghostly rage, did it become a pile of electronics?
"Who you gonna call?"
Iago brought home a friend right away, I was really getting lucky so far and the teens were easily picking up that dance scholarship, normally one of the more tricky ones to get.
"So, if a ghost is able to take iron and wax and cotton string and fire and with his ghostly rage cause it to explode into bits of plastic and a chip board, what other powers might these ghostly beings possess?"
The next night Othello became a teen and I rolled Popularity.
"Good thing I have so many siblings I can befriend."
The night after that Opal became a teen. I don't know what I rolled then, all I know is I must have re-rolled her in college because she became Knowledge, but I didn't max her skills when she was a teen.
"I have no idea what aspiration I am right now."
Meanwhile Adriana was still working on skills for her job. Here is one of the rare moments she was able to snatch the scanning gun away from the kids to work on her Cleaning skill.
"Now, who used this counter last?" "That would be me, sweet pea."
Of course, the only reason the scan gun was up for grabs was because most of the kids were now teens, so they spent their nights from 7PM to 4AM scanning the stars, supposedly to work on that logic scholarship, though getting nabbed by little green men would have been sweet too.
"No it wouldn't be! Let's just hope those little green men don't bite tonight!"
Another Saturday, another family portrait. Heh, I must have missed it but Demetrius, as you can see, also became a teen and I rolled Family.
Fourth generation, second bloodline: From left to right are Mercury, Demetrius, Ishtar, Owain, Adriana, Iago, Opal and Othello.
I was being sloppy when I sent all the teens back to work and before I knew it I heard the pass out song. Sure enough, Othello had slipped into green and I had him put on a thinking cap anyway. Whoops.
"Fatherhood: Having children. Raising them. Teaching them everything you know. Then laughing at them when they screw up anyway."
I managed to get his aspiration back up and then he and Demetrius headed out to the obstacle course to work on earning that body scholarship.
"Feel the burn!"
"Oof!"
So, yeah, you know how I was so suprised to hear people actually got up and walked away from their game and left it playing? Well, I just forgot to hit pause, you see, and I went to go and make a sandwich and get a drink. When I got back it was to find my Sims like this. Which can only mean one thing.
"Alright, which one of you rag muffians got abducted?"
"And, more importantly, which one of you picked up a social bunny along the way?"
Well one mystery was solved right off, between Othello having a sob fest over the chess table and his thought bubble, his memories confirmed it. He had been abducted by aliens.
"It was awful, simply awful."
The social bunny, it turned out, belonged to Demetrius. I took advantage of the social bunny's services and had Demetrius get a hug from him, the poor guy looked like he needed it.
"It was just so terrifying, Mr. Social Bunny! He was sucked up in a space ship and the rest of us just stood around and did nothing, for hours!"
After building his social to the point where the social bunny hopped back to his bunny warren in the sky I had Demetrius cook breakfast. Of course, Robi chose that moment to haunt the microwave. If he wasn't messing up in the kitchen in life, he was messing other people up in death. So Demetrius stopped right where he was to complete the cooking interaction even though the stove was on the other side of the room.
"That's odd, it doesn't look like the frying pan is here..."
I forgot some point earns and losses from a while back so I'm tacking them on here, sorry.
Points Earned: One point for having one Platinum grave for every aspiration (Zeus, Minerva, Gemini, Elissa, Robi). Three points for Elissa graduating Summa Cum Laude with §20,000 and 15 friends.
Points Lost: One point for College Penalty (George, Alon, Michelle, Owain, Adriana).
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