The Seven Seas - An Oceanic Life States Dynasty - RETURNED (3/20)

[Lisa46]

Just figured something out.

"- A baby concieved in the shower has 25% chance to get this trait."

Found this on the hydrophobic entry on Snooty Sims. So much has been explained! 

[Malley]

I had no idea that influenced that trait...interesting...

[Lisa46]

I had no idea that influenced that trait...interesting...

Me neither, and I thought it was really cool! I was having my sims try for baby in the shower but I think I'll change that now.






Get a job, Atlantico.



Atlantico: I don't want to!
It just seemed so appropriate to make this guy a police officer. By the way, on this birthday he gained the snob trait (duh) and decided he wanted physical perfection. Good thing he's already almost maxed martial arts.
At graduation, the kids see one more green townie!



...yeah, I'm just going to stick with Carmella.

Blah blah blah, Southern starts wooing townies,


...and Marigold Maldano gets a spring in her step.

Southern stops in the bathroom and notices how far poor Bailey has fallen.

I actually feel really sorry about this.

Then he goes home to clean the sink. Good job, Southern. That's totally how you do it.



Wait, who's that?




Wilhemina Wolff is so pretty with a makeover, isn't she? I love her!

Tico buys the motive mobile, Pacifica spars with him a million times...
In his downtime/while fatigued he meditates...
He breaks blocks so much that he maxes martial arts after popping that wish... (1/5)
He spars more and gets that challenge to register... (1/6)

This week is so boring, guys. Really. So I need to do something else.





Tico: Wilhemina, will you marry me?
Wilhemina: It's so shiny! You're an amazing person!
That's right guys. She's easily impressed. I couldn't have planned this better, considering the fact that I didn't.
And it turns out that she has only four traits, plus a fifth from university. When did she go to university? Also, what is it with dropped traits in this town? Stupid townies.
Lifetime Wish: HOORAY! YES! SCORE! SWEET!
Wilhemina: Swimming in Cash.
Also, since when did easily impressed give me that? This seems very random. It'll be her Ambitious and Frugal traits, I guess? Anyway, that's great! Another motive mobile for this family! Just as soon as you drink a wish enhancer.

Southern goes to visit Marigold and sees this:



In the meantime, Wilhemina has a question for Jules...



No! That is not it! Here we go:



Wilhemina: Can I have your son for the rest of my life?
Jules: Hmmm...
Wilhemina: Say yes, say yes cause I need to know.
Wilhemina: You didn't say I'll never get your blessing till the day I die, good luck my friend cause the answer is yes!
*sigh* We don't have Showtime installed. You can't be a singer.

More random skilling. Tico gets that board challenge at the very end of this week (2/6), and he also pops the meditate for 24 hours wish. (2/5)

And a spoiler for next week - he has wished to marry Wilhemina. (3/5)

BONUS ROUND
What Wilhemina and Tico want for their wedding



Tico: Bells ringing...
Wilhemina: No plates...



Tico: Shell...
Wilhemina: Shell...



Tico: and Wilhemina.
Awww.
Wilhemina: and the sea monster.
*facepalm*

One more thing:



Evidently Southern was a rainbow! Yay!

[Brooke.]

Ah, you make me laugh so much! Great job with Wilhemina, I usually ignore the Wolff family  Your sims really hate on poor Bailey.

[KRae]

I just caught up on this. I love the humorous way you express the fun and frustrations of the Life States Dynasty.

[Lisa46]

Yeah, Jules started the game as her enemy and I don't like her much either so that was bad. Then Jules kept popping wishes to be mean to her.

[Lisa46]

Week Nine

We begin by mentioning the fact that Jules traveled to get nectar supplies already, and thank god because he and Cerulean are supposedly on a free vacation. The thing is, neither of them ever left. Don't you love glitches? Well, I certainly don't. *throws plates at computer*

Wilhemina gets married to our heir. It was a private wedding because I'm boring and I can't handle pathing issues. I just can't do it.




Of course Shell is there.


Pacifica is breaking the laws of physics. How is this picture even possible?


Southern is so cute with Marigold, and I can't bring myself to break them up. I decide to have them try for baby one more time.




Dave Maldano: Ewww! Get a room, mom and dad!
Ivy Maldano: I am really adorable!

She really is adorable, isn't she? (Actually she's kind of ugly later on but she's pretty now so...)
Southern's first proposal doesn't work. Marigold's insane.



I can't marry them while she's pregnant anyway.



Y'know, Atlantico, you're going to have to get used to your wife changing into a werewolf sometime.



Pacifica MacDuff: What's that noise?



Oh. No.



Atlantico: That was terrifying. Do I look ok after that disaster? Like a tragic hero, am I right?
...no response.



Cerulean, stop with the autonomous smustle dancing. What the heck is smustle dancing anyway?

Back to Tico. When we left off, his requirements stood like this:
0/1, 0/2, 0/3, 1/4, 3/5, 2/6, 0/7
He wished to master athletics while running on the treadmill.
He completed an opp for his career... (1/3) Got the athletic certificate (1/2)... Got the treadmill challenge... (3/6) Got the jogging challenge... (4/6) And what does that give him? An athletics certificate. (1/2)
Last of all, he buys the two travel rewards because they seem to fit his character and who else will use them? No one's traveling anymore. Last he buys magic hands. (4/4)
He then tosses a potent friendship at a mermaid named Fawn Goldfellow. (1/1)
She's gorgeous.



Then I realize - she could be a spouse! So at first I think about using another potent friendship but then I realize that Atlantico is best friends with his partner, Julie Puddingface. (Ha ha.)

Cerulean gets set on fire by Jules. Magic hands was a baaad idea.



End of the week, guys! Now let's check requirements.
1/1, 1/2, 2/3, 4/4, 4/5, 5/6, 7/7
(His mausoleum is all rocks from board breaking. Forgot to mention those.)



We  just need two ops, one more challenge, a career reward, and one more wish! I already know what it's going to be too. I just ain't telling!
Tico: I wish to be Super-Ocean. (2 million points.)
*facepalm for the 1 millionth time*

And one episode "who knows, who cares" of just for the heck of it... Wilhemina has another song for you.

"Why are all the townies dy-ing? To lose one original townie one can certainly excuse, but what about to lose two or three or four or SEVEN!"

...sorry. I'm kind of obsessed with musicals.

[Malley]

Atlantico: That was terrifying. Do I look ok after that disaster? Like a tragic hero, am I right?

Too funny!

[Lisa46]

Too funny!

Thank you! I'm glad that my humor is, y'know, actually funny. It doesn't sound that way to me most of the time.

[Lisa46]

Author's Note: Because weeks 10 and 11 have hardly any pictures (literally nothing happened), I decided to post them in rapid succesion. Chapter 11 will probably be up later today but for now - Week 10

Tico works out on the treadmill. Then he bench presses. Then he jogs. Then he goes to work and gets a new police car.



Then I kill my simself because guys, this is SO BORING. I mean, I've come to expect such things from dynasties but since Southern and Pacifica have moved out and I locked up the 1st generation...

Cerulean: *banging on the wall of her cell* At least mention them in more than passing!
Alright, ok! I would've in a minute...
Southern finally gets Marigold to accept his proposal. *sigh* insane sims.



He marries her. Pacifica moves out with him after becoming a professional author in level five medical career. Southern will have a great life at level three science with his twin children Ivy and Dave and his baby daughter Janette.

Atlantico finally completes these stupid skill challenges and my feelings on Martial Arts, you ask? NEVER AGAIN. It's just not happening. *goes to redo Supermaxes*

Atlantico: She's gone! *whooping ensues* In the meantime...

The new wing (for my beautiful children that will soon come) is furnished.



Carmella Hai gets young again. (When was the last time that happened? It was so, so long ago...)



And, of course, I aged up! Most important thing in this update, I assure you.



I'm back! So... what's left? Well, two opportunities - which he gets. And a wish. I wait - and up pops Work Out for 12 Hours. Perfect. Now finish your meditation!
Tico: How much more?
Well...
Tico: Tell me now.
120 hours?
*plates begin to crash*

Requirements?
1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 5/6, 7/7
Almost done. One challenge left! 

Edited to add one short author's note: Wilhemina was singing "Why are all the dysquiths dying?" from A Gentleman's guide to Love and Murder. Because she is a dramatic sim, I thought that being a singer would be appropriate.

[Brooke.]

I enjoyed Martial Arts but meditation just about killed me. Congratulations on another heir's reqirements.

[Malley]

Yay!  A double post!  I think you have the right idea with putting the previous generations away in a cell separate room.  I feel bad that I continuously ignore the previous generations while working on the current heir and I seriously think that it might be easier to put them in a nice little room and leave them to their own devices...hmm...

[Lisa46]

Yay!  A double post!  I think you have the right idea with putting the previous generations away in a cell separate room.  I feel bad that I continuously ignore the previous generations while working on the current heir and I seriously think that it might be easier to put them in a nice little room and leave them to their own devices...hmm...

I do feel bad about it, but I can't control everyone right? It makes my play go a lot faster - I'm actually just about to get gen 4 as a YA!

I enjoyed Martial Arts but meditation just about killed me. Congratulations on another heir's reqirements.

Thanks, and since I've never done martial arts much I didn't realize how long it would take. Week 11 literally had nothing interesting. I gave Tico a drive in his motive mobile then had him meditate. It was really boring.

[Lisa46]

Week 11

WARNING: Clinical testing is not set on the benifits of reading this, and your brain may die after reading this. It is very short and boring. Side effects may include uncontrollable bleeding, ulcers, and the desire to never do a dynasty as long as you shall live.

Meditation happens all week. Boring!

Try for baby now!



Wilhemina: That was great!
Tico: I know, just like everything I do, because I am super-ocean.
*sigh*

Saturday...
Wilhemina: This hurts so bad!



And two hours later...



Caribbean comes into the world a perceptive artistic werewolf rainboo.
And my reaction was something like this:
...did that really just happen? SAVE SAVE SAVE! Don't you dare crash! If you crash I will throw you at the wall computer!

This is amazing! And a male so he can marry Fawn if she's still a mermaid! He couldn't be any more perfect if he tried. Only one baby? Who cares? Caribbean is the perfect heir!

[KRae]

Every time you write super-ocean, I laugh. About smustle dancing - you must not have lived through the disco era. About magic hands - I used it once, never again. You can take away a wand, but not hands.