Today's episode is brought to you by the letter C, and the number -1...
Things are rather slow during Animal's childhood...
Swede works on her wish to be best friends with Hannah Jones...
Hannah doesn't look like she has the same desire to be best friends, but Swede is persistent and knows she'll get her way...and she does indeed.
Anne joined the science career and listened to logic tabcasts while working and gardening...
...this was the main reason why, of course. Neither Anne nor Oliver got to pick their teen traits and I didn't want that to happen with Animal so as soon as she reached level 5, she sat that boy down for a spot of tutoring.
In other areas, Anne's chugging along quite nicely - she's now level 2 in the science career, a level 8 gardener, level 6 in logic, and I believe level 5 in both fishing and handiness. The special garden now contains one money tree, 2 flamefruit bushes, 2 plasma fruit bushes, 2 or 3 "unknown" plants that could only be deathflowers...and one lifefruit bush. I wish more of the seeds were lifefruit but for now, one bush is all they need. None of the plants are harvestable just yet, but should be by ambrosia time. She also planted a couple more special seeds, in addition to 3 egg and 3 cheese plants each for completing the Uncommonly Good opp.
Oliver continued sculpting and listening to photography tabcasts by day, and fishing by night (or early morning as the case may be)...
The Hensons now have a stocked pond of deathfish and Oliver has another 15 in his inventory. Between that and Anne's progress in gardening, I'm hopeful we'll get an omni plant or 5 with deathfish at some point. Oliver may be able to change his clothes soon (and perhaps work on the celebrity opp of working out for 4 hours...).
Oliver ended up maxing out photography (in addition to fishing) and the family already had a camera from the consignment store so we have photos now too. Unfortunately I'm not sure if they'll be able to get much else out of the store, much less sell anything as I've seemed to have caught the bug where buy/browse doesn't work (if the clerk is clicked on, the sim will talk to him but nothing happens; if the register is picked, the action immediately cancels out). I'll try sending Oliver there since he was the last one to use it successfully to see if there's any consignments that he personally needs to stop, but otherwise I may need to ask for a special dispensation - gen. 2 can get by without it, but gens. 3 and 4 depend on it for the most part. Then again, I may have to have an alternate plan regardless since replacing the register through "edit town" might not work anyway.
Billy paints, goes mining, gets his hat back...
A couple of small paintings later, he finally maxed out painting and *cue the music* his LTW!! Yay!!! Seriously, I was very happy for Billy, and not just because I was finally able to get the moodlet manager, and the collection helper not too long after that. After he hit his LTW, I had him drill holes for the most part (none of them have glowed yet though, dang - I did get a couple of soulpeace gems and a little Mr. Mysterious gnome whose given name of Diego I've kept), and had him read the paper. He also discovered the broken consignment store while attempting to sell a surplus of fish, produce and paintings, so like I said earlier, Oliver will be the next one to go to see if there's anything he personally consigned he can cancel.
Finally, some big news for Swedish Chef...
...may not look like much, but this is the Kelvin Minus One fridge, the penultimate gift for getting her final promotion to 5-Star Chef. I'll probably recolor it soon. Shortly after this in anticipation of Animal's teen birthday, I did a little remodeling and put a fence in - I'll have to tweak it a bit though since Swede puts the finished group meals on the empty counter inside the fence, so unless I move the plate, everyone does the "I can't get there!" dance. Eventually I plan to put a fire pole leading from the yet-to-be-built second floor into the kitchen just for Swede so I'll have to tweak it anyway.
Swede also firms up her friend requirements...
...poor Dayna - I'm not so sure speaking madness is the best way to rekindle friendships Swede, I need to be careful with letting her start her own interactions. But, there were plus signs after this interaction so what do I know. Best friend status rekindled.
Wow, are you excited, Swede?!?
How about you Oliver, excited?!??
Billy, how about you, just how excited are you today?!?!?!???
Um, okay, looking a little smug there, aren't we Billy...
Hey Animal, are you excited too? Why is everyone so excited??
Oh...you look a little diabolical there Animal. I see it's your birthday, but it's not like you're gaining the Evil trait so I'd cut that out.
It's your teen birthday Animal!
Dude, Animal, enough with that face...
Billy, you're so not helping...
...besides, Animal's not the one with an alien trying to escape from his ribcage...by the way, it's your birthday too, and you won't be a teenager. You should thank me for not getting you a cake.
Yay, much better Animal!
That's how it's done Billy, that's how it's done.
Er, Animal, I thought we said no Evil trait? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not for you...
Oh, it's just the eyebrows then. Well, that can be fixed. He got the party animal trait.
Everyday
Formal \m/ \m/
Sleepwear
Athletic
Swimwear
So, I may put the sunglasses on him for his everyday and formal as his eyes look too small for his face. I hope his face thins out a bit. He got Billy's eyes for sure, but I don't know where the extra weight came from - then again, Swede is a bit erm, large up top, so maybe the game compensated for that? I may put a slightly less evil version of the eyebrows he aged up with too, he needs more of an edge to him. I'm glad his favorite color is red though, makes my planned color scheme a bit easier to work with - now that I've said that, I'm sure gen. 3 will have hot pink as his/her favorite color, which would be problematic.
That's about it for this episode - Animal will spend his first day as a teen getting his painting up to level 7 in order to try and paint Billy's portrait before he ages up to elder later in the day, and Swede will try to talk to her natural cook friends (scratch that, make that one friend - Mags Newbie RIP) and watch the cooking channel to see about getting a crepe recipe without traveling. If she can't, no biggie - she'll either take the following Sunday off from work to cook at the neighborhood park or go dancing at The Grind for 3 hours. Oh, and also reading the ambrosia recipe of course, but she'll probably do that while waiting for her museum pieces to be done after she ages up (also the following Sunday). As for Animal's IF, I don't think it's going to happen since he didn't get much playtime as a toddler and even less as a child - gen. 4 would be ideal, though gen. 3 will have more time as a toddler than Animal did. So, I'd like Animal to continue getting to know a certain Lakeisha Stokes better - they met as a child when I let him play at her house (and is therefore not a babysitter or newspaper girl), she's only a little bit older than he is, and is gorgeous as a teen...we'll see.
Latest Stats
Swedish Chef Henson - Natural Cook, Insane, Friendly, Ambitious, Workaholic
Supermax: Cooking (done)Career: Culinary (done)LTW: Culinary Librarian (done)Lifetime rewards: Food replicator, Legendary Host, No Bills Ever
Best Friends: Billy (Caspian) Henson, Odin Crosby, Oliver Henson, Dayna Artis, Hannah Jones, Anne HensonOpportunities: 5/6 (The Dish Showdown; Fresh Cookies for Sale; Memorable Meals; Spying on the Cuisine; Borrowing Ingredients)
Properties/Buildings: Swede's Spork-n-Fork (formerly Hogan's Deep Fried Diner);
Art: YA (painting); Adult (painting, sculpture, photo)
Animal Henson - Artistic, Virtuoso, Perfectionist, Party Animal
Supermax: Painting 6/10 (0/3 challenges)
Career: Depends what happens with the consignment store
LTW: Master of the Arts (ended up rolling it as a child)
Lifetime rewards: nothing yet - making a beeline for Extra Creative
Best Friends: Just Anne, who won't count even if she's somehow still around
Opportunities: Nada - saving the school-related ones for future gens that will likely have more difficulty getting them
Properties/Buildings: Zilch
Art: Toddler (painting, sculpture); Child (painting, sculpture, photo)
