CHAPTER TWENTY-NINEI really need to slow down my playing. I still haven't written about Tatiana's wedding and meanwhile, in the game, generation four is already almost a teenager! Part of it is that I need to do a lot of sorting to keep the screenshots in line, but leaving a backlog will allow me to get some of the story done while I'm away in November.
I've started my preparations for National Novel Writing Month in November (I need to write 50,000 words in one month), and I'm going for my fourth win this year. I'm bouncing around a couple of ideas in my head, but I'm afraid that I might not be able to top the story I wrote last year. When I finally finish that one I might just try to publish it, though most likely under one of my pen names (I have a bunch).
Anyway, once I got some proper clothes for Brent, I decided to change his hairstyle. I'm not disappointed.
I sent him to the art studio to begin learning how to paint, since Christopher is dying very soon. I just hope that Brent lives long enough to paint Tatiana once she hits elder. She seems to have a lot of painting disasters following her.
Beatrix is in the basement quite a bit nowadays. She loves to transform gems and make nectar when she isn't cooking or watching television. One of the joys of already having future SuperMax skills planned is that I know just what everyone can do if I need something to occupy their time.
This is why Beatrix prefers eating in the kitchen. It's always pretty crowded nowadays, even though I made sure to build the dining room with a large amount of space. In my first dynasty I made the dining room too small, and mealtime was an absolute madhouse with eight sims clambering to get at the autumn salad.
When Tatiana woke up the next morning, I had her plan the wedding. I managed to coordinate Brent's tuxedo with her wedding dress, so it's going to be fabulous.
In a rare time at not rolling her eyes at my love of sims, my mom actually gave me pointers on throwing the wedding. If I could ever legally get married where I live, I'd trust my mom to plan the wedding.
I decided to shake things up a little bit, so instead of getting married in the barn I put up another wedding area in the backyard (NOTE: do not use the benches as seating for a wedding, they don't register as seating). Don't worry, the one in the barn is still there! This one got torn down afterwards.
I locked all of the doors going into the house or the barn to keep people out (which was probably a very bad idea in hindsight...), and then realized that I had completely forgotten that Tatiana had to go to her high school graduation. Whoops!
She was Valedictorian, and was also voted Most Artistic. Way to go, Tatiana!
I put the awards in her museum room, and her diploma over her young adult photograph.
There was barely any time to get everyone in their formal wear before the guests started showing up. I had to stick Victoria in her old maternity formal wear because my mom said that it was extremely insensitive for the mother to wear her old wedding dress to her daughter's wedding. Apparently my maternal grandmother tried to do just that at my mom's wedding, so I changed Victoria.
Childhood friend Randal Mora was the first to arrive. He turned out to be a paperboy, while Brent was a babysitter. Maybe I should make it a theme where the heir marries an NPC of some sort...? It would be a fun way to get different hidden traits into the family. I really want someone in the house to be a pyromaniac.
Victoria: You worry me.
Everything after that was nothing but pure chaos. Many of the guests kept trying to go into the hot tub, some ran into the garden to play in the sprinklers, and the "get married" command kept canceling itself out. All this needed was a shirtless Billy to seal the deal.
At long last, I managed to corral everyone back to the arch for the wedding, and from there on it was a wonderful ceremony.
Welcome to the family, Brent. Watch out for broken plumbing.
That point on was one big party. There was nectar, cake, food, and dancing. A lot of dancing.
Tatiana is a stunning bride, just like her mother and grandmother, and meanwhile outside of the computer screen my mom was having a conniption over the fact that the dress wasn't white. Love you, mom!
Tatiana rolled a wish to travel to Egypt, so as soon as the party was over she, Brent, and Christopher would be leaving. Grandmother Beatrix finished off the wedding with a spectacular show.
We're almost halfway there!
