Moments after he got the news that Lynn had died, Richmond felt old age sparkles hit. The thought of birthday presents cheered him right up.
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Now that she’s big enough to use the science station, Augusta has gravitated towards activities involving explosions and toxic fumes. She’s decided she wants to be a scientific specialist. Since she already has points in the gardening and handiness skills, that will probably mean a future as a mad scientist.
That’s a whole screenshot without a birthday, which means it’s time for Austin to become a young adult.
He rounds off a set of completely unhelpful traits by becoming a night owl (although as a night owl myself, I see his point about horrible no good very bad mornings). Since his traits don’t suggest a LTW, I gave him Living in the Lap of Luxury, which completed after an hour or two of Richmond playing for tips in the subway.
Austin’s had a change of hair to balance out his oddly-shaped head, and has kept his silly beard.
I’m trying to max a career with everybody (although Lynn only got to level 8 of the rock career, having moved in on her adult birthday and then spent half her working life on maternity leave). I didn’t have a clue what to do with Austin: his night owl trait ruled out most of the rabbit holes, and he didn’t seem suited to many of the professions either. He could have been a gardener, but playing a scientist and a gardener in the same house seemed too repetitive, so instead I had a total brain fart and forgot he can’t stand art, and signed him up as an architect. Sorry about that, Austin.
Richmond has long finished his career (Band) and maxed about eight skills, so I pretty much leave him to do whatever he wants. That means he does one of two things:
Austin wanted a girlfriend, so I decided to try and find him one. All the human original townies are long dead, but the vampires and fairies are still going strong. A quick poke around the neighbourhood revealed that Holly Alto and River McIrish were still alive. Holly once woohooed with his grandmother, and was an ex-girlfriend of Hank’s, so that would just be creepy – so River it is!
As if it wasn’t bad enough that I’m making him paint for a living, I’m also forcing him to go and talk to a woman who hangs out in art galleries. Still, they seemed to hit it off despite that.
(With sincere apologies to Augusta, who is the rightful owner of the sheets they chose to abuse. Ew.)
Speaking of Augusta:
She’s become an animal lover and is gorgeous, which confirms what I pretty much knew – behold the gen 3 heir:
She went off the join the science career and kept wanting to tell people all about it:
Austin asked River to marry him.
And I sent Augusta out to shop for original townie husbands. The choices seem to be Leighton Sekemoto or Miraj Alvi. Stiles McGraw is technically also an eligible bachelor, but I keep getting warnings that he’s going to die.
Or there’s always Arlo Bunch.
Sam Sekemoto is also alive, but he’s got a girlfriend already:
I have no idea whether she was attracted to the bald head or the blood-red wings, but Helena took one look at him and got a wish to kiss him. Augusta felt that dating her brother-in-law’s father could get a bit awkward, so Miraj seemed like the sensible choice. Somebody please reassure me that he can’t pass on VJ’s hair – I think I’m safe, but sim genetics make my brain hurt.
His LTW is Surrounded by Family, aka Mass Toddlerspam. I’d been planning for two kids at most this generation, but clearly that’s not going to happen now.
As it’s rather incompatible with Augusta’s job-related LTW, the plan is for Augusta to max the science career first, then go for multiple births – hopefully more successfully than in my domination dynasty. If necessary, I’ll get Miraj to adopt a kid or two, so that he gets to have the paternity leave, or get Augusta to plant a forbidden fruit and let Miraj harvest it. In the meantime, since he’s so desperate to be around horrifying numbers of kids, he’s joined the Education career.
Speaking of nooboos:
Alas, as one life begins, another ends. Richmond died doing what he loved best: playing his bass in the hallway and making goofy faces.
