Chapter III – More Parties than I care to count.Good morning/evening/afternoon friends, neighbours and fellow simmers.
When we last left the Immortal Dynasty household of Oasis Springs, Adam wasn’t doing too well, while Noah was working relentlessly towards his goal of becoming the most rambunctious of scamps, and achieving an “A” in school.
He was, however, introduced to miss Olivia Spencer-Kim-Lewis, who became his sole childhood friend on account of the fact that all that skilling left little time for socializing.
Is it wrong of me to want to set him up with a spouse as soon as possible? Child brides? Arranged marriages? I mean, it seems unethical...
Then again, this is sims we're talking about.
Adam, meanwhile, was focusing his attention on becoming the top socialite in Oasis Springs. He was going to top the Mixology Branch of the Culinary Career, and would need, at some point, twelve friends in order to advance in the career. Notwithstanding the 6 good friends and one unique BFF who, due to the tendency of this game to spawn adult townies rather than young adult townies, had yet to be secured.
Becoming both a Master Chef and a Master Mixologist has a lot to do with the number and the quality of the parties one throws. Adam decided to start his career as a Party Sim Extraordinaire with a Dinner Party.
Due to the fact that Whirligig lives in the Southern Hemisphere where summer is fast approaching, and due also to the fact that Whirligig insisted on playing the Sims 4 on a very hot November evening, this party took several attempts. This was because Heidi, her laptop, was profusely protesting the task of running a game on a hot evening and kept shutting down.
However, despite technical setbacks, the fourth dinner party was nearly as successful as the first three, and a gold medal dinner was finally achieved (and SAVED!).
The next party required a bit of work to be done beforehand. See, they have a lovely relationship and a lovely house (actually, the house is a bit of a work in progress) and a beautiful son, but Adam and Nevaeh are not yet married! So just before Nevaeh leaves for work one morning, Adam catches her by surprise.
How romantic?
Adam, of course, intends to self-cater the wedding so once he has the house to himself he prepares everything for the evening festivities.
And Noah fancies he’ll be the one providing the entertainment for the evening. Let’s not tell him they’ve hired a violinist, mmkay? I don’t think he’s quite ready to perform in public.
I don’t suppose Nevaeh’s ever heard “Marry in black; you’ll wish yourself back.”
Irrespective of the colour of the dress, Adam and Nevaeh were hitched without a hitch (ha ha) and the party continued.
Drinks were enjoyed.
And for their wedding dinner, there was chili (the height of class!)
And a gold medal was achieved for the wedding party!
Now before the next party can happen, Noah has a lot of work to do get his grades up to scratch and to finish that aspiration. Olivia, now a teen, helps him out with mental, and he spends a few more hours practicing the violin.
His efforts are successful. Now to focus on the motor skill!
A few more hours playing keyboard commander, and then a few hours on the monkey bars.
Success!
Now for more parties!
Ignore the bright red plumbob – the kid was a bit tired, but I was gunning for a hat trick. I only wanted to have one birthday party, but that was not meant to be.
I learned two important lessons. Dinner parties and Weddings and Dates don’t require you to complete ALL the mini-goals to get a gold – you can usually leave one or two and still get a gold medal for the event. Birthday parties, however, do require you to complete all the tasks, and one task in particular is incredibly challenging.
That would be “Compliment the birthday sim x4”. The main problem is, as far as I can tell, only two socials count towards this. One being the “Give Heartfelt Compliment” triggered by the happy emotion. This option is also on a bit of a timer – I don’t know how else to put it. It, like the “Get to Know” interaction, can’t be repeated several times immediately. So Adam gave Noah a heartfelt compliment, and then even though Adam was still “Happy” he couldn’t compliment Noah again.
The other interaction that works for this one is “Compliment appearance” – which is a romantic social. The only controllable sims I had in the household were Adam and Nevaeh, neither of whom could perform romantic socials with Noah, for obvious reasons. Thus, I was stuck on silver for this event.
So, after Noah’s party finished at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon, Adam went straight for the phone for a second shot at the gold medal birthday party.
He also got lucky and rolled the mini-goal of obtaining 4 compliments, though at this point I was too late to realize that Nevaeh could compliment him so once again, I got a silver medal.
(Also, so concerned was I with party scores that I didn’t snap a good picture of Noah post-teen transition. That’s about the best one I’ve got – never fear, though, for I am sure there will be more next update).
“You know what they say,” Neveah says at breakfast the next morning (The Harsher family really likes their chili, okay?), “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”
So Adam picks up the phone, calls up the usual suspects, and plans a birthday party for his wife first thing Sunday morning, as she hasn’t auto-aged-up yet.
“I wish to receive four compliments today.”
Nevaeh, no!
But this time Adam has things in the bag. Three “Compliment appearance”s later, and we finally have our gold medal birthday party! About time!
And as that leaves us more or less where I’m up to in the game, and at the maximum of 25 images in a post, here is where I will leave you with a picture of Adam fumbling one of many mixology drinks.
Next time, angelfish and more about Noah as a teen.