Choosing Octavius as the next spouse was probably another mistake. He’s nice-looking, youngish and has good traits – but one of them is natural cook. He quickly showed that he was keen to finish off half-made dishes and was rapidly building his cooking skill. And, as a ghost, he would be perfectly capable of reaching that bowl of half-made ambrosia in the loft. On the next Ambrosia Day, I sent Octavius out fishing and retrieved the bowl. By now they had three replicators, although one was only half upgraded. Nevertheless, I told Kerry to load all three and then to finish cooking the ambrosia and eat it.
In my normal-speed dynasties, I’ve kept an eye on the immortals and fed them ambrosia individually when their age bars were getting full. This time, with ambrosia needed every fifth day, I’m keeping them all on the same schedule, with non-immortals kept busy or off the lot until they’ve finished topping up their immortality. So far, it’s working pretty well. Ross (yes, the supposedly lucky one) has had to use one deathflower, even though he was only 26 days old and should have been OK for at least another day, but everyone else has been fine.
Bettie nearly lived long enough to see her grandchild. Shortly before Gwynedd was due to go into labour, her gazing at Clare’s painting certificate was rudely interrupted.
The labour pains hit while Gwynedd was sculpting, of course.
In a complete break with tradition, she insisted on having the baby in hospital. I suppose I could have locked her in the house but I wasn’t that fussed.
And he’s pink! Welcome to the dynasty, Leicester.
Gwynedd and Octavius had a private wedding the following morning.
I hadn’t noticed until then that ghosts don’t cast a shadow. Logical enough, I suppose, but it looks rather odd when hugging and kissing with a normal Sim
.
That evening, Gwynedd had her adult birthday and, minutes later, became an Ice Personality by carving her first masterpiece.
Leicester became a toddler.
I love that every (potential) immortal so far has a different hair colour, although they’re all dark.
Leicester was universally adored. He was constantly pursued by a line of foot-tapping elders, all keen to attend to his every need.
He was taught his toddler skills by the time-honoured, adult-intensive methods and then turned to other things. Musical skills are technically free in this dynasty. Clare keeps rolling wishes to learn the guitar but, quite frankly, she’s far too busy, so Leicester’s likely to have a monopoly. He started off by reaching level 3 in the xylophone skill…
…but still somehow had plenty of free time to play with other toys.
Meanwhile, his mother, who had been shamefully neglected in recent screenshots, finished her supermax.
She’d maxed the sculpting career some time before, so now went into business, purely for the opportunities. She didn’t get any but she did make some new friends – and, after a worrying pause, the sculpting and celebrity ops started appearing again.
Ross won the fight to take Leicester to his next birthday cake.
Ambrosia Day arrived again – with a minor disaster. Ross was on his way to replicate the first plateful when he stopped and looked blank. I tried to get him to carry on but found that he could no longer interact with the replicator. In fact, all three had suddenly lost their memories.
Clare gave Kerry one of the deathfish from her inventory and Kerry refilled the replicators, then carried on cooking and ate the original plateful herself. Everyone else successfully ate replicated copies, while Octavius, who had been messing around learning various skills, felt a sudden compulsion to concentrate full-time on fishing, aided by potent invigorating elixirs.
Les aged up again…
…and started working on his supermax.
Gwynedd had her final birthday.
After all of the recent crises, it was quite a surprise to find that all of her requirements apart from her final portrait were already in place. Less than a day later, she was ready to eat ambrosia for the first time.
Gwynedd County
Traits: artistic, couch potato, perfectionist, savvy sculptor, avant garde
Lifetime wish: Living in the Lap of Luxury
Career: Sculptor
Skill: Sculpting
Building: Slanciato Spa
Property: Sunbather’s Retreat
Unique lifetime rewards: Artisan Crafter, Dirt Defiant, Speedy Cleaner
Unique best friends- Octavius County
- Leicester County
- Angus County
- Sherita Pool
- Wade Coffey*
- Cora Wade*
*Was the game beginning to run short of names? She also had a boss called Devon Something-or-other.
Unique opportunities- A Fishy Science Project
- Sims on Ice
- Larger Than Necessary Doorstop
- Authorised Biography
- An Old Ruse**
- Business Model
**Only four wooden sculptures were needed this time but Bettie’s preparatory work was still useful - Gwynedd was able to sell almost everything she sculpted.
