Gilbert Immortal Dynasty: Union Cove

[kent91blaze]

I just read your dynasty.  It's so wonderful and interesting.  Congratz on your second immortal, too!

Kent

[Sunnysabjes]

Poor Jasmine. In my second try I had generation two fall in love with a boy. He kept throwing wishes to be with him. When that dynasty failed that boy showed up again, but this time my heir was a female and they are married But I never like it to break off a romantic interest because of the dynasty, it seems so unfair.
Congratulations on all the birthdays. You have a house full of gray people now. I loved Terry's explosions. How do you get sims to blow stuff up? I'd love to try it one day.

[Rhoxi]

Thanks, Kent!

And Sunny, that's so sweet! He couldn't be in the previous dynasty, but you put him in the next one. Very cool. The explosions are from the inventing skill. I think the option to detonate comes when you reach level 5 of the skill? Not quite sure.

[ratchie]

Congratulations on immortality Terry I will be sad when Herbert leaves us.

Rachel

[Rhoxi]

Terry and Herbert had always intended to return to Egypt, but between this, that, and the other dynasty requirements they'd just never had time. So they packed their bags, headed out, and took the whole family with them.

Jasmine toured the country, taking pictures of all the most important land marks.



Miya learned Sennet from a local, completing an opportunity she'd been holding onto for a long time.



Josie fished up some of the local specimens.



And by some strange twist of fate, Terry and Herbert somehow managed to convince Fred to join them for some tomb raiding. After all, tomb raiding was safe as houses these days. What could possibly go wrong?



How about fire traps?







Scary tomb monsters.



And mummies, mummies, mummies!



For daredevil Terry, it was all fun and games.



But for poor Fred, it was about as much as he could handle.



Well, at least he got in a good punch or two.





Before finally passing out.





Well, at least they all made it to the soul peace statute all in one piece. Man, the crazy things this family is willing to do just so Jasmine can snap a picture for her travel photo collection.





Thanks again, Egypt. Now we'll always have one last adventure to remember.

[kent91blaze]

Lovely update and Fred is such a funny character!

Kent

[Sunnysabjes]

Jasmine made some nice pictures! Maybe Fred is turning into a bit of a daredevil

[Rhoxi]

It occurs to me that it's been awhile since I've spent some time on Miya and Josie.

Josie, poor thing, is still trying to complete her lifetime wish. She needs one more mixology point. I guess I've been having her go fishing too often. So she spends her Elder days up on the new rooftop lounge mixing away.



Sometimes her sister and good friend Miya helps her out by ordering a drink.



Miya, as you may have noticed, long since achieved her lifetime wish of World-Renown Surgeon. She enjoys holding free medical clinics for the public and trying to push off some more of her experimental pills.



"It's okay. You can trust me; I'm a doctor."

"Hm, what seems to be the problem here?"



"Ah, Llama Tail! I recommend yet another pill."

"And what about you ma'am?"



"Symptoms include a burning sensation when out in the sun? Ah, yes, you're obviously suffering from vampirism. Unfortunately I don't have a pill for that. Just try staying out of the sunlight."

Even at home, poor Fred isn't safe from the terrors of the supernatural.



Despite his love for Thea, he doesn't seem to be able to handle being around her very well.





The family also lost their first gnome.



And last but not least, Jasmine aged up to a young adult.



Everyday wear:



Formal wear:



Unfortunately, her hair style is only available for formal and everyday, so for her other outfits she uses a different one.



I thought the little bun with the flowers seemed something appropriately goofy for an insane girl.

[ratchie]

Jasmine does not look impressed with the hairstyle. Poor Fred would hate it at the Simself's house our ghosts come out at all times of the day and night.
Now that Jasmin is a young adult we get the excitment of spouse hunting yay.

Rachel

[Sunnysabjes]

I know how you feel I had that with one of my sims too. Even though she doesn't seem to happy, it still looks nice on her!

[Rhoxi]

Actually, I think Jasmine really loves the buns and flowers hair-do. After all, she almost always chooses to wear those outfits. Anyways!

The family proudly attended Jasmine's graduation.





She was Valedictorian and, like her Insane Aunt Josie, was voted Most Likely to Offend Others.

Jasmine: "Hey, I find that highly offensive!"



Jasmine: "This is totally your fault, Aunt Josie! Clearly, I should have been voted Most Likely to have Flowers in Hair."

So, Jasmine aged up to Young Adult and insisted on taking a trip to China in order to take the last few pictures needed to supermax Photography and complete her LTW of World-Class Gallery. They took a smaller trip this time, instead of bringing the whole family. After all, Fred was far too traumatized from the trip to Egypt, and somebody needed to stay home and keep him company. So it was just Jasmine, Terry, and Herbert.

Herbert is now pushing 90, so Terry and Herbert spend lots of time together.



This was also an excellent opportunity for Jasmine to capture a picture of "Lovers in China"--totally by coincidence, of course.

Now there's only one more picture to get for the Travel collection and to supermax photography. Run, girl, run!



Jasmine makes the long trek up to Dragon Cove and gets her last picture. I'm pleasantly surprised how easy photography was to supermax. After taking enough pictures of China to get her world-class collection, Jasmine began to go hunting for something for something other than an awesome shot or the perfect lighting.

She began to search for a potential mate. Jasmine headed to the Academy to scope out the prospects.



Ew, why is everyone in China old? Come on guys, it's called story progression. Why didn't anyone here get to makin' babies? Well, at least they're staying fit in their old age.

Hm, wait. Who's this over here?



Apparently the one person in China who is neither a merchant or old is . . . a Frenchman on vacation! And, is it just me, or does this guy totally look like a non-shrimpy Fred?

Jasmine: "Ah, well hello, mon cheri! I am looking for a husband. We need to hear some wedding bells soon, yes?"



Jasmine: "Oh wait, what is this awful trait you have?"



Jasmine: "Couchpotatoe! Well, hm, I suppose that might be something that we can work around. We'll see. So, baby, maybe if you're lucky I'll call you up and take you out to dinner sometime, eh?"



Jasmine: "Okay, well I've got my photos, and I've talked to the only non-Elder male in all of China. Mooooom, Daaaaad, take me home! You know, so I can go back to being surrounded by my usual bunch of Elders . . . and scope out the local hotties."

[Juxtaposition]

Your Dynasty is very funny so far, every time Fred faints I'm laughing out loud.

*Fingers Crossed* that the blue genetics continue into the next generation!

[Sunnysabjes]

Good luck with your spouse hunting! It a big challenge to find a nice sim with good traits... But if it's Jasmine I think she'll be okay.

[Rhoxi]

The Man Hunt

Jasmine returned home from China and proudly began to display her photography in order to achieve her lifetime wish.



Jasmine: "Wait, what do you mean this isn't a world class gallery?"

*checks LTW requirements*

Jasmine: "Yup, I've met all these requirements. Sigh. Buggy lifetime wish! Fine!"

*changes LTW to Visionary*

Oh well, at least all those photographs she took sky rocketed her to the top of her photography career. Time to learn painting, Jasmine!

Jasmine: You wanna know what I think about that?"



Jasmine: *choke, hack, cough*

No time for that now, missy. Herbert is getting old. I think it'd be nice if he got to see his grandchild before he died, don't you?

Let the man hunt BEGIN!

Jasmine decides to scope out her Aunt Miya's latest vaccination clinic for potential spouses.



Jasmine: "Oo, a photographer. With violet eyes!"

Jasmine: "Hm, this doctor isn't too bad looking."



Fred even threw a party of eligible young bachelors to let Jasmine scope out her prospects.

Jasmine: "Well, hello. Nice to meet you. I'm insane."



Jasmine: "Hm, some mighty thin lips on the red head. Not sure how I feel about that."



Jasmine even took to knocking on the doors of random strangers.

Jasmine: "Hello, excuse me? Any young eligible bachelors here?"



And of course, there's still that handsome young Fred-look-alike she met in China.



So, who struck Jasmine's fancy? Who did she instantly throw up smoochie wishes for?

Ding, ding, ding!



Congratulations, eligible bachelor #2! You've won an excellent--oh what, wait?



Looks like somebody isn't a bachelor.

[Rhoxi]

As a side note, I couldn't get the lifetime wish for World-Class Gallery to complete--in case anyone is thinking of using the wish in their dynasty.

I had ten of each location, each photograph registered as being taken from the location (sometimes the photographs won't say Location: Al Simhara, even though it's a photo of a freakin' pyramid), all were taken by Jasmine and registered as such, and they totaled well over the needed amount of money. I even tried putting all the photos back in her inventory, then hanging them anew. But nope! It wouldn't complete.

Fortunately, the Immortal Dynasty rules specify that the Change Lifetime Wish reward is okay for even immortal sims, so I just switched her wish to Visionary. It means getting another skill to level 10, and it locks out painting as a potential supermax--but really it's not too bad.

On the other hand, photography was a lot of fun and very easy to supermax. It's a little bit buggy, though. I had to take about 70ish pictures of stranger before the game would give me credit for the challenge to take pictures of what, 60 strangers? I'm not sure what that was all about.