Generation 1. Shae Berra
Oh, how time flies! My last Shae Berra update was at the end of September, in Week 3. My last save is from early October, at Wednesday of week 5. I do have some notes to go with the screenshots from the time in between, so I’ll do my best to get caught up with the story before I start playing again.
1.12 'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again
On Friday of Week 3 Sawyer was promoted to Stem Researcher (Level 6) and Shae was promoted to Community Manager (Level 5, Public Relations branch of Social Media career).
When Isaac was promoted to Canvas Creator (Level 5 Artist), he was so excited that as soon as he got home, he changed into his Police Chief uniform and started dancing in the street.
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Sawyer invited Mariko over, asked her on a date (at home) and then Tried for Baby several times; he only got a bronze on the date because MJ (the Watcher) got distracted with Aavelee and Brandt (the toddlers), but if he gets a son or another daughter from the date, he won't care about just getting a bronze.
On Sunday, Tetsu invited Fabiana over, tried for baby 4 times, then gave her a makeover.
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Shae was very sad about the death of some guy she barely knew, but Isaac knew how to cheer her up. She wanted another baby too, and the timing was perfect. Getting pregnant today meant the new baby would age up to toddler just after the twins aged up to child. So he took her upstairs to try for baby. But no baby resulted, and Shae was just too sad to even try again.
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Isaac took her outside to renew his vows with her, thinking that would cheer her up, but she was too sad even for that. He convinced her to drink a moodlet solver so he could remind her that she is, and always will be, his one and only love. Just before the ceremony was over, Shae got another call that yet another person she barely knew had died, and the sad moodlet returned. Fortunately, she was happy enough from her moodlet solver and renewing her vows that she was able to overcome the sadness.
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Sawyer got another work task of being eaten by a cowplant. He wasn’t able to fulfill this the first time he got it because he didn’t yet have a mature cowplant. This time, he got focused and ate the cake.
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And that’s how the Berra Sharebears got their first Cowplant Essence.
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Isaac caught Sawyer complaining about the absolute grossness of being covered in cowplant goo, and smirked, “Suck it up he-man, can’t be that bad!” To which Sawyer retorted, “Oh yeah? Let’s see you do it!” Isaac's squeamish trait had him turning green at the thought, but he was not to be outdone by a Secondary Spouse. “No problem, Dude! It’s just a piece of cake!” And he went for it before he could think twice and change his mind.
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He knew immediately that this was the most disgusting thing he’d ever done, and something he would never do again. But at least he got an Essense of Energy for his trouble.
The morning after the cowplant incident, Sawyer got this feedback: “Sawyer’s boss was happy with the work he did from home, and he made $10.” Ten bucks. For being swallowed by a cowplant and puked back up covered in disgusting goo. So not worth it. But then Sawyer had an idea, and went to find Shae. “Hey Shae, you remember that guy from the bar? The one that slapped you? I have an idea.”
Shae couldn’t invite Matias over because he was in Selvadorado, so she thought she’d run over there, invite him to join Sharebears, and come right back. But she accidentally took the whole family. The twins were so excited they forgot they were quarelling and hugged each other.
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Shae stuck to the plan, invited Matias over, chatted him up as if the slap never happened, and invited him to join the Sharebears Club. He tried to play it cool but was really overjoyed about being asked.
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Shae promptly brought the family home and immediately started a gathering. But Matias didn’t show up.
When the Humor and Hijinks Festival started, Shae decided to go because she had a work task to be mischievious to 5 sims there. When she initiated the travel, she had the option to take Matias along. She did, but it was raining, she was sad from the deaths of people she barely knew, she wasn’t amused by the random guy who showed up naked, and most of the people around her were angry.
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She’d had enough really quickly, so she took went home, taking Matias with her. Sawyer and Matias remembered each other very well, and not at all fondly.
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But Sawyer was on a mission. He turned on the charm and in no time he had Matias eager to get a look at that cowplant Sawyer was telling him about.
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Sawyer easily lured him to the recent greenhouse addition and told him, “The best part about these plants is the unbelievable cake. It’s the best you’ve ever had, you can count on that! But I’d appreciate you not eating these pieces. I’m saving them for some friends that are coming over later.”
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Matias didn’t notice when Sawyer locked the door. But eventually, he realized he was locked in, and he was none too happy. That’s when he decided to eat the cake Sawyer was saving for friends.
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What a surprise it was to discover he wasn’t the one doing the eating!
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Matias thought he’d escape when Sawyer came in to gloat, but he quickly realized that Sawyer could come and go without unlocking the door. Sawyer seemed really pleased about the whole eaten-by-a-cow-plant thing, and when Matias learned he’d helped out the Sharebears by providing Essence of Anger, that made it so much worse.
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Over the next couple of days, Matias made friends with the cowplants.
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He also peed himself and passed out several times, but even after two days with no food, he didn’t go for the cake.
Meanwhile, Sawyer maxed gardening, but needed to catch 5 more fish to complete Angling Ace, and he hadn’t even started Freelance Botanist yet. One of cowplants died, so Sawyer fed the other. He thought that by the time it produced another piece of cake Matias would be so hungry he'd jump on it.
Tetsu finished the Bestselling Author Aspiration with the 20th book in his Castle series, The Titanium Castle. He achieved the required royalties that same day, and that gave him enough satisfaction points to purchase Connections. He then joined the writer career, knowing that he would be meeting the career writing requirements by writing the Book of Life several times. He decided to tackle the Painter Extraordinaire aspiration next to get the point for one sim completing two creative aspirations.
With the help of mentor Darsh Savalani, Isaac maxed Fitness and completed the Bodybuilder aspiration.
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Next Isaac tackled Fabulously Wealthy. He sold all the paintings that were ready to sell, and had just over $165k of the $200k needed to finish the aspiration. So the painters kept painting. Even the rainy weather didn’t stop the painters.
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Still, Matias refused to take the cake.
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Isaac completed Fabulously Wealthy, and then he and Shae both quickly completed Mansion Baron. Shae went for Painter Extraordinaire next, while Isaac opted for The Curator. Carlyle was born, but there was no picture to commemorate the event. Everyone was on edge and going stir-crazy, unable to leave the lot for fear Matias would escape. Finally, on Thursday evening, Sawyer put the cowplants in household inventory, and turned the greenhouse addition, where Matias was staying, into an indoor pool. All except the one square that Matias was standing on.
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When Matias jumped into the water, Sawyer removed that one square. At 10:30 that night, Matias was treading water right where he'd jumped in. At 7:40 am Friday morning, Matias was still treading water in the same spot.
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The twins worked on finishing up their skilling so they’d get Top-Notch Toddler. Sawyer and Shae worked on their work tasks. When he was finished, Sawyer started practicing yoga. Nanny didn’t help with Carlyle at all, no matter how much he cried. But the twins were able to get her to read books to them, to finish their imagination skilling, and then they watched her watch TV to finish their thinking skills.
As 2:45 pm, Matias finally started showing signs of fatigue. Finally, at 4:01pm, after four days locked in the greenhouse, Matias started going down. Time of death, 4:32pm. Time of phone calls to all four adults in the household to tell them of Matias’ death, 4:33pm. And so, after waiting so impatiently for Grim to come for Matias, all the adults were now terribly sad. But it was birthday time for the twins, so it was moodlet solvers to the rescue.
Because Shae was struggling to complete her work tasks for the day, Sawyer baked the cakes for the twins’ birthday. Strawberry for Aavelee, Zombie cake for Brandt. Aavelee aged up with the Creative trait and the Rambunctious Scamp aspiration.
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Brandt aged up with the Genius trait and the Social Butterfly aspiration.
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Aavelee went to the mirror to initiate makeovers while Brandt went to clean up the mess he made in the nursery as a toddler. So nice of mom to save it for him. Shae brought them into the Sharebear club, and they Rallied the Troops for the first time.
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