Generation 7e: The Eighth Heir, Fab Abs, and the Sixth ImmortalWelcome back. Thank you reading this odd tale up to now.
I’m the Watcher (or Watchette, as the mischief-maker Seimei liked to call me in his youthful impudence) and I’ll be with you until Nanami takes over in a bit.
It’s Sunday evening. In the barrage of news surrounding Nanami’s love life, marriage, and pregnancy, I realized with a start that her father Koetsu becomes an elder in four days. It’s a good time for him to start cementing his relationships (weird expression, isn’t it?). A stranger walks up the Nishijima driveway and almost vomits on Nanami as she leaves for work. As a start, then, Koetsu befriends the stranger. This woman, Rosemary Muller, not only recovers but also becomes Koetsu’s best friend. Normally, he should avoid befriending a homeless townie, but I wanted to test his “befriending” skills.
The only things standing in the way between Koetsu and Ambrosia is the dynasty requirement for one unique best friend and five good friends. Judging by his rapport with Rosemary, Koetsu will be fine. Let’s hope Rosemary won’t get culled in the next four days. Hmmmm…should Koetsu ask her to be his girlfriend, just to make sure? Are we seriously that desperate? Absolutlely!
But alas, after a first kiss, Koetsu abandons his new-found love to go fishing. He might have a screw loose.
Thanks to
@FrancescaFiori’s timely tip, a closet awaits to ambush Chad. It’s quite huge and, yes, it does look dreadfully ridiculous sitting on the porch next to the front door. But after Chad, it will go into the family inventory. Oooh, we can’t wait to see you again, Chad! If only you could move in!
Meanwhile, with help from Connections, Negotiate a Bonus, an Essence of Playfulness, and working hard, Nanami gets promoted from Level 4 Entertainer to Level 5 Comedian. That’s enough to satisfy the Joke Star aspiration, so she quits and becomes a Level 4 Detective. (I might have a screw loose, too!) Now the very pregnant Nanami is striving to complete Joke Star before she starts her new job the day after tomorrow (Tuesday).
She makes time to invite Chad over the next morning (Monday) to give him a makeover. I’m a fashion fugitive myself, but even I must say that Chad looks smart and snazzy now, instead of looking like he got dressed blindfolded. He is now a bona-fide dreamboat and, as an extra bonus, he matches the sofa!
Next up, we need to encourage him to work out, lol.
Hi all, Nanami here! As you can see from the first photo, Chad and I are crazy about each other. You would never guess Chad has the Mean trait although, because of his Neat trait, he complains loudly when the house is in disarray. I’m in my third trimester now and I’m huge as!
Awww, don’t we look sweet together?
Incidentally, based on Chad’s work schedule, we know that he’s Level 9 in the Author career. I wonder if he would reach Level 10 if The Founder keeps mentoring him in Writing? His salary makes no difference to the household, but a promotion would mean he’d have an extra day off to spend with his future son and me.
The reason I’m in my workout clothes today is that, ever since Chad’s arrival this morning, I’ve been working out now and then, hoping to entice him to work out, too. So far, he’s only done push-ups. Left to his own devices later, though, he’s wanders over to the gym room and starts boxing. (Well not completely autonomously. Chad and I might have formed a two-person club with “Work out” and “Practice yoga” as two of its four activities.)
Anyway, Watchette rushes The Founder over to mentor him. Below, you can see Chad’s “Before” shot. I fervently hope we can eventually show you an “After” shot. Who is “we”, you ask? Watchette tries to pretend she’s disinterested but who is she kidding? Watchette is also heavily invested in Chad’s makeover; her interest is crucial since only she can arrange Chad’s mentoring.
I’m only one comedy routine performance away from maxing Joke Star. Due to the extra mood boosts from my recent marriage and pregnancy, I’ve been spacing out the three required performances so I can run to a mirror and calm down after each performance. Here you see me in front of the mirror, doing the “Try to calm down” interaction.
I conceived around noon on Friday, so I imagine the baby will arrive tomorrow afternoon. I don’t start work until Tuesday, so the timing’s perfect.
After I’m back to writing a comedy book, Watchette checks back at the gym room. To our surprise, Chad is now on the workout machine. When she sends over The Founder again to mentor him, the rest of the fam comes along. Oddly, Seimei and Koetsu can’t mentor him. I’m not even going to try with Naomi—she’s in a category of weirdness all her own and might start stalking him (again). Perhaps the gym room needs to be enlarged….just saying.
I’ve completed Joke Star, which is my second and last aspiration!
Watchette: Terrific job, Nanami! Your remaining dynasty requirements are three more museum items, maxing a unique career, the friendship requirement, and reaching elderhood. I thought I'd accomplished so much already, Watchette, but I still have a long way to go.
Watchette: You’ve made great progress, girl! You’ve only been a young adult for a few days.Do you mind if I just bask in the fleeting glory of today’s achievement?
Watchette: Be my guest! You deserve it.
Meanwhile, Gen2 Satoshi’s generously agreed to collect Space prints using the telescope, so I can hang them up at work on Tuesday.
Compared to the Math Diagrams, I prefer Space prints because (1) they offer a guaranteed +7 Focused boost, and (2) they’re easier to collect. While Grandpa Satoshi uses the telescope, the prints he finds just stack up in his inventory. For math diagrams, Watchette needs to repeatedly tell the painting sim to paint another one.
In the afternoon, the hospital trip was very bizarre. Chad accompanies me there from home, displaying a panicked face with a “heart” thought bubble. But he mysteriously disappears while I’m checking into the hospital. When the baby is born, the naming menu appears followed by a loading screen as we are immediately whisked back home. Not really a point in going to the hospital to give birth, except that my baby, who I haven’t even seen yet, received a birth certificate.
Folks, I’m very pleased to introduce the eighth-generation heir of the Nishijima Dynasty, Takao.
I’m so disappointed that Takao didn’t inherit my skin tone, but he is a healthy and happy baby! Now, I can only hope he grows up to be as handsome as his father!
The massage table comes out of hiding because Koetsu comes home stressed from work today and has a whim to hire a message therapist. One never came but he wants to give a massage to Desirae Caliente, his house guest and second Good Friend. Tomorrow Koetsu becomes an elder. He already has a BFF and two good friends, needing only three more good friends to qualify for ambrosia.
FYI: After trying to revise Koetsu’s awful Painter outfit, I learned the closet cannot be used for work uniforms. *weeps
It’s early Tuesday morning. I continue to write comedy books as my museum items. Watchette would like their total value to be at least $10,000 so I’ve submitted seven books so far. My darling Chad is jogging over to say good morning. Yesterday, Chad visited the gym room a total of four times and each time Watchette immediately sent someone over to mentor him. He still lacks the muscle definition of even the elderly Seimei, but Chad is an extremely good-lucking sim and I strongly hope that Takao will take after Chad rather than, say, my father. (Sorry, Dad!)
My first day on the job as a Detective! I’m sent to a crime scene where, because I don’t know any better, I gather 11 pieces of evidence, take 9 crime photos, and interview two ghostly witnesses. Upon returning to the station, I finally succeed in using the chemical analyzer to analyze my evidence after two failed attempts (what? I’d only needed 3 pieces of evidence today?). My Logic is maxed so I wonder how to improve my success rate on this machine.
Please note that I’ve plastered the walls of this room and two other rooms with space prints. I feel prepared to ace this career, thanks to all the helpful information on the Detective career guide by
@Carl!
After filing the crime evidence so a senior investigator can take over the case (hmmph!), I proceed to the Booking Station, where I take fingerprints and mugshots of two prisoners. I only search one prisoner instead of two, because I didn’t know how to do that with the first prisoner. I just have enough time to talk with the Chief before my shift ends. I’m very close to the right edge of the performance bar. Since I need to solve a case for each promotion and I won’t handle my own case until tomorrow, today’s performance only affects my salary. The fam is stinking rich so it doesn’t matter, but I made $546 today. For a household just starting out, that would be great coin!
Back at home to see my baby! Takao is unhappy when I try to feed him, which is a good sign that the family looked after his needs well in my absence. I’d previously thought all babies look the same, but Takao seem especially cute. I wonder if Takao will inherit my ability to do the alien handshake and other special actions?
Chad comes over as soon as I convene our Club and heads straight for a yoga mat. What did you just ask me? Of course not; this is not some cheap ploy to arrange for a handsome hunk who is always half-dressed to both serve as my own eye candy and entertain the readers. Watchette and I are making huge professional and personal sacrifices for the advancement of sim science, attempting to gauge the fitness potential of a townie who cannot be directly controlled. Still a little thick around the waist, but not too bad. Not too bad at all. *gazes intently with "scientific interest"
The massage therapist Koetsu requested yesterday just arrives today. Koetsu will age up to an elder after midnight tonight, so his priority is making those last two good friends. What about the massage therapist? He is nowhere in sight, but Koetsu learns he can ask for a massage by clicking on the massage table. Too cool! Koetsu decides to ask for the Deep Stone Massage. Um, that massage table really needs to be cleaned.
Meanwhile, Chad and I are renewing our vows.
Our household has control over five or six clubs. We only use one constantly—our core club consists of the whole household. We switch the club, depending on which club we want to build perk points for. But the other clubs are important, too. If a pollinator lives with us, he’ll have his own club to facilitate his various “activities.” A child sim runs their own club when working on the Social Butterfly aspiration. An adult working on dynasty friendship requirements usually forms a separate club. And in my case, since Chad can’t live with us, I’ve formed a club with Chad so that he’ll spend more time with Takao and I; this club also lets me “encourage” him to engage in desirable activities.
Nice! Koetsu and the massage therapist, named Nicholas Herring, become good friends! Hiring services might be a great dynasty strategy if your world is running out of sims to befriend! Our world, on the other hand, seems sufficiently populated for me and Takao to later complete our dynasty friendship requirements.
Koetsu is already friends with a little girl named Jennifer Caliente so he adds her to his club and starts a club gathering. Here’s a shot of Koetsu with Jennifer soon after they become good friends. I can’t really explain why Dad’s in a speedo, but no worries about any possibly inappropriate behavior. Jennifer is Dad’s insane daughter with his girlfriend Desirae Caliente.
Good job on completing all your dynasty requirements, Dad!
It’s 1:24 a.m. and Koetsu’s age bar says he has “0 days to age up” to elder. According to Dynasty Regulations, Koetsu is permitted to age up now so he throws a small birthday party for family and a few friends.
My darling Chad is conspicuously absent from the party. I soon find him on the treadmill and decide to mentor him.
Sim scientists the world over, rejoice!!! Our experiment is showing very positive results. Chad had mostly been doing yoga today and only entered the gym this one time.
This project is definitely worth continuing! We will need, of course, to proceed with rigorous investigations!
But forgive me, I digress! Tonight is the night to congratulate Dad on his immortality, not to savor the sight of my husband’s new abs. *blushes for having gotten so carried away
Erm, score one point for the advancement of Sim science?! *pulls out the opera glasses for the sake of science
Chad, my darling, I think even
@Playalot might approve!
And to close this chapter, here’s a shot of the real hero of this chapter. Behold, Koetsu “enjoying” his first plate of ambrosia. Dad, you exerted supreme, unrelenting efforts to produce superior museum items and now the entire Nishijima household and extended circle of friends join you in celebrating the emergence of the Nishijima Dynasty’s sixth immortal! Congratulations, Dad! We're all so proud of you!
Once the eighth-generation Takao has aged up to a child, the next chapter will focus on Takao’s daily life.
Watchette and Nanami both promise to stop obsessing over Chad’s abs….maybe.
Thanks to a three-day weekend, a lot of chapters could be completed. I'm dying to see Takao age up to child.
Thanks for reading!
