Chapter 13: Making a moveThere have been changes since the last update – rather more of them than Chris and I were expecting.
He went to City Hall to change his name to suit his new skill. The new surname was briefly Armstrong – but then I realised that the one member of the next household will be an astronaut and it felt like too much of a cliché. So back he went to change it again – to Strong.
Over the next few days, he maxed his career and construction started on the new house/fire station. Leilani moved in with a view to becoming Mrs Strong the following weekend. Then I noticed that they weren’t aging.
It turned out that the problem had started on the day Sri died, so I tried playing from an earlier save with various levels of reset – but without success. So eventually Chris moved to Riverview and a new house just across the road from the fire station.
Although he was still a level 8 firefighter, he was to some extent starting again – his first day in the new town was spent at the station upgrading the fire engine and alarm. At least his fire extinguisher kept the upgrade.
After work the next day, he started improving his new appliances and plumbing. This took him to level 10 in both handiness and his career – which meant he had yet another fire engine to upgrade from scratch.
His count of lives saved had gone back to zero when he moved but rescuing the citizens of Riverview took him back to where he’d been within a few days. (Oddly, he was given the service award for rescuing ten Sims at this point, when he’d only saved seven lives in Riverview – maybe the game has some memory of the seven from Twinbrook, even though they’re not showing up in his lifetime wish panel.)
With Leilani lost in cyberspace, Chris needs to find a new bride. Unlike his mother, he can easily afford the fines for making prank calls. So first he called the police and met Nancy Chow.
She seemed OK but rather too keen on telling him off – she wouldn’t settle for lecturing him once and then chatting.
The next evening, he called the fire service and Laura Kemp rushed over to help…
…and then she lectured him. “Of all people, you should know better than pulling a 10-92. I’m going to have to fine you §500. See you at the station…”
Poor Chris. He just wants to be the best firefighter ever and here he is, wasting a colleague’s time.
At least he’s met some NPCs. In fact, he met another that night, when there was an attempted burglary – although I’m not sure that leaping out of bed and beating someone up before they’ve even started on the breaking and entering really counts as a social introduction. Anyway, the burglar was male.
The obvious thing to do is to throw a housewarming party and get to know people better – particularly two of them.
So, who will he choose: Nancy
or Laura?
Chapter 14
(Incidentally, Leilani arrived with level 5 writing – I have no idea how or why but I was planning to ignore it, since writing isn’t a skill that Sims build on their own. I thought NPCs were a safe bet for avoiding forbidden skills. )
