Chapter 2: The longest weekNext day early in the morning I managed to cook my first breakfast. Pankakes. And also we managed to assemble all household together to eat it. This was indeed a remarcable acomplishement as the remaining of the week each of we had diferent schedule and never meet again at breakfast.
There was a lot of things to do this first week. I had to train my alchemy skill and also my witchcraft...
Also i had to work on my cooking. One day i had a call to share my cooking tricks with a cook of the Bistro... I think I've seen her in the house in front of ours but didn't befriend her before.
Other day, i met a zombie. Fortunatelly i trained hard all the week, so i was able to heal the zombie curse with my sun spell. The sim was very gratefull and i added her to my list of contacts.
I also improved the furniture with magic rituals. The WC and showers with autoclean, the kitchen with improved cooking, the dishwasher, the television, the radio, ...
Soon I maxed both spellcraft and alchemy, so i moved to the gypsy wagon to enrol as fortuneteller. The next phase of the plan was about to start.
Of course, i wouldn't accomplished it without the help of Carl. Hopefully he was a loner and had no friends in the town, so when he changed his surname to Shipton and dressed in smoking noone noticed he was the same Carl as the owner of the Ratcliff County Club. He also inscribed as self-employed photographer in the townhall. That was a very clever cover, as he was able to wander up and down all day taking shoots of every inch of the town.
Each morning, he goes to the store to get ingredients and recipes for my alchemy training. Most of what he buys is of no use for us, so we resell it in the black market just to keep busy the shop clerk. The clerk don't know, but we already bought all the shares of the Aleister's Elixir and Sundies.
He also was instructed to get any special seed he found. With a little magic we did the first day, Carl become bookworm (to read skill books fast), Gatherer and Green Thumb (to improve gardening and ingredient's search), Photographer's Eye (to improve photography) and loves outdoor (as most of the time he is wandering town or working in the garden).
So with Carl all day up and down, we will need a reliable transport system. My first thought was to enroll in the politics to promote the expansion of subway it but Carl told me there was a faster way to accomplish it, if we get the cash...
So we worked few nigths with the midas touch elixir and finally we got enought simoleons to build a subway line from the beach to the uptown cementery, with a stop in the Library and conected with the one at Central Park.
Once at home, Carl analyze all the seeds he got that day. This way we can plant exactly the seeds we need and don't waste time and fertilizers. This first week we focused on some worlfbane, red valerian and mandrake root to make elixirs, and one single seed of fruit of life to start the cloning mechanisms. We stored many seeds of death flowers and flaming fruits for a later use. Plasma fruit and money tree seeds we sell on the blackmarket because they don't fit our plans.
So yes, this may seem incredible but Carl was able to learn Science 10, Gardening 10, Photography 10 and Handiness 7 in less than a week. Photo and garden by using the skill a lot and Science and Handiness reading books at nigth before going to sleep.
Meanwhile, the rest of the household keep working on the arts. There was Emily, a brave, flirty, rebel, natural cook, artistic painter. Her lifetime wish is to max painting and guitar, so she was producing small paintings all the week...
Except for one day, that she was sick of being in the house all the time, so she decided to walk up to the new cementery and maybe playing the guitar in the subway. But guess what? Just that same day at that same hour, a meteor also decided to land in the cementery. She returned home and never went out the remaining of the week. Now her painting skill is at 10 and each day works on a portraint of myself. We have 9 more days until my birthday so i hope she will be able to make a masterpiece.
I've already told about the other artist, James. He is a savvy sculptor, dog person, friendly, angler, who like outdoors. He went to the townhall to change his self-employed fisher job by a self-employed sculptor and keep making ice sculptures with my help.
He usually can make up to 4 each day if he don't eat and don't sleep and don't go to the bathroom so I cast him enchants and throw an invigorating elixir every now and then. The first day of the second week his account of ice sculptures was 19 so I will start to pose for him very soon.
There is another resident at the house. Callie cat, the cat of Carl. She usually pursue pests in the garden and get some fish for Carl to use as fertilizer but she also helped me with an opportunity to get a philosopher's stone. First i had to bring some bugs to the Science building so here Callie was very helpfull.
Then I was asked to bring some plants to the Arboretum. Here the help was from Carl, but we needed to make a little magic to open the door and enter the building.
And finally i must cut some gems and melt some metals
And finally, we have Junior Douglas. A Heavy Sleeper, Party Animal with Good Sense of Humor. His lifetime wish was to be a Renaissance Sim, and he is near to achieve it as teenager. He was able to get A grade at school without doing his homework every day, and improved photography up to 8 by shooting at buildings and sims he met while returning home from school. Once in the house, he usually paint near Emily until suppertime.
First day of second week was his birthday, so we prepared a party and he invited all his friends from school. Some of them are already teens, as Wednesday Adams, Betsy Williams or Smaull Thyme and others like Pietro Gepeto and Pugsley Adams will become teens one day later.
The first stage is almost completed but all was faster than expected. I can't believe Carl was able to almost max 4 skills in one week by simply reading books, shooting photos and working in the garden. Maybe he is diferent from other sims. As i don't know what will bring the future, I will store some adn samples of Carl.
