Generation 7b: Skillaxin’ with NanamiHey, my name is Nanami. Want to hang out with me for a little while? I’m only this cute for 13 days, so you really don’t want to miss out!
Because I age up on a weekend, I spend all day Sunday skilling before school starts on Monday.
Play three games of chess with Grandpa Seimei (Gen5) while Grandpa Satoshi (Gen2) mentors me. Check!
Be read to for two hours. Check! (Thanks, Mom!)
Do homework while Focused. Check!
Check, check, check.
By Tuesday afternoon, I’m almost done with Whiz Kid.
By Tuesday evening, I finish Rambunctious Scamp. I’m totally in love with Grandpa Satoshi’s computer, which I’m using to play Key Commander. Do you think it’s alien technology?
Also, note that Watchette finally gave me a makeover from that awful pink Tee with matching glasses. And by the way, have you noticed that my eyes are turquoise? Watchette says my eye color is unusual, especially since Dad’s eyes are grey and Mom’s eyes are light brown.
Meanwhile, down at the beach:
Naomi: It’s really great to have you in the family, Brooke. And since we’re both mixologists, we even work at the same place.
Brooke: Yes. And I’m so glad Watchette gave us each a portable bar. Now, I can just set it up and do my daily task without getting pushed off the bar by another family member. Even so, whenever I take out the bar, one of the Nishijima men immediately rush over and try to push me aside to make drinks.
Naomi: I know, I know. It’s soooo annoying. By the way, what are those turquoise marks around your eyes, Brooke?
Brooke: Oh, these? They are slave tattoos worn by the Dalish elves.
Naomi: Seriously? Hmmm, I didn’t know you appeared in Dragon Age: Inquisition too. Do you know Solas?
Brooke: Know him? Are you kidding me? He’s my former…. *looks around Can we continue this convo somewhere private?
I hear that Grandpa Seimei was a real looker when he was a child, but he ain’t got nothing on me. You know what the boys at school call me? H.B.!
W: What’s that stand for? Hamster Breath?No, no, no! You’re just being mean! H.B. stands for Heart Breaker!
W: Well, I must admit that you are intolerably adorable. Although, as your Watchette, I might be just a little biased. I’d even go so far as to say that you’re the cutest little girl I’ve ever played!Thanks, Watchette. I can almost forgive you.
I spy The Founder, Gen2 Satoshi, an Gen4 Minoru whispering in the bathroom. Why are they talking in there when we have such a huge house? Soon after, the three of them walk out smiling weirdly. Should we be worried about them, or is that just an old geezer thing?
Here I am with Dad in the Inspired Studio. Just between you and me, Watchette has been very unhappy with Dad. Seems he’s the only dynasty heir with both the Marketable and Creative Visionary traits, so he’s been making paintings for the dynasty museum but 90% of his paintings so far have been really poor quality. His last Excellent painting only sold for $1,222. If I were tall enough to paint on that easel, I bet even I could do better than that!
Anyway, when I go to drink an Essence of Focus this morning, I mysteriously elevate and hover until I’ve downed the essence.
And then it’s off to school for me!
When I start working on Artistic Prodigy, Watchette splits the Inspired Studio in two, using a transparent fence with lockable door. The Studio is already set up so only The Founder (who’s an author), my painter Dad, and I can access it. But Watchette got fed up with The Founder constantly running to start a painting whenever one of the four easels became empty. Hello! Can’t you see Dad’s trying to paint his museum pieces? Lol, the Watchette just scraps The Founder’s paintings and has him do something else. Well, with the fence, no one has access to the easels except Dad, since I’m too young to paint yet.
By the way, Watchette thought that the painting skill might have been nerfed but is happy to announce that painting prices are almost back to normal after she did all kinds of things to fix her computer. That’s a relief!
W: Get a load of your Dad in his Level 9 Painter of the Real outfit. It’s basically just that T-shirt the homeless people at parks wear with a pair of swim trunks. I’d never realized how awful the Painter career outfits were…
After completing Artistic Prodigy, I go to the Confident area of our home. It’s too late to go out and make friends, so I just start leveling Social. Haha, the Three Stooges make another appearance. This time they feed the need, for some unknown reason, to stand between me and my mirror. I ignore them and continue talking to myself, anyway. Don’t they have anything better to do?
W: Uh….no. The elders are really getting on my nerves lately. I need to find better ways to keep them busy, um, I mean, happy. Yesterday, though, everyone except your Dad was late for work.Maybe you can buy them a foosball table? Didn’t you say that
@grimsoul discovered that a foosball table falls into both the Pub Games and Physical Games activities?
W: Oh right! Great idea, Nanami!!No problem, Watchette. I live to please you.
Grandpa Seimei is at work, Dad is painting, and the remaining dynasty folks start obsessing over foosball. According to Watchette, foosball is great because it makes the elders easy to track; on the other hand, there’s no household increase in angelfish, ambrosia, or reward points.
Watchette, if me and Gen8 do all our requirements on time, how many ambrosia servings does the household still need?
W: I guess I could calculate a minimum quantity by counting the days until Gen8 is born and adding that to the days Gen8 takes to age up to elder, then dividing by the number of immortals. But you know what?What?
W: I’m too lazy. But you’re right—it’s better to have ballpark figures for how many more angelfish and Potions of Youth we’ll need. Okay let’s see…
If everything goes perfectly (which it won’t), we’d need about 70 more servings of ambrosia. So maybe count on needing to prepare at least 84 more servings? Gah, I’m going to lay down…all that math gave me a migraine. Watchette, if you ask me, sell off that foosball table and chain the ole geezers to those fishing signs.
We’ll need to think about it. Hey Nanami, wanna peek at our supply of ambrosia and Potions of Youth?
What’s all that stuff on the floor?
W: Oh, those are unidentified herbs from Granite Falls and a Book of Life that The Founder wrote for the Gen8 heir.Why are the herbs scattered all over the floor?
W: Sometimes a household member doesn't have enough time to iidentify all 10 plants for the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration during our vacation, so we come home and I store any leftover unidentified plants here. It’s pretty handy except that they’re unidentified so I can’t organize them better, haha.Looks like we have almost enough Potions of Youth already.
W: Yeah, and maybe we can all stop fishing for angelfish.Watchette, did you say “we”? Do you fish for angelfish, too?
W: Never. That’s just a figure of speech.…Oh. (So Watchette was just lying?)
W: Anyway, I’m really glad you asked about the ambrosia supply. It’s good to know that we’ve got a pretty hefty reserve already. We can’t add any more spares to the household, though, so we’ll have to be careful with reward points. *Runs off to see what aspirations she can get Brooke to complete.
The elders seem to be enjoying foosball. Looks like Minoru and Satoshi lost that session.
W: If only it refilled Hygiene, too…. Lol, The Founder has a two-hour Angry 1+ moodlet because his team lost at foosball. It’s called the “Sore Loser” moodlet, hahahaha.
It’s 3 o’clock, which means Grandpa Minoru (Gen4), Dad (Gen6), and I return home from work or school. It’s a super important day for Dad today, because he got his Level 10 promotion for the Painter of the Real career this afternoon. But, you know, if he hadn’t told me, I would never have guessed because his new work outfit is seriously….what is the word I’m looking for?
W: Pathetic? A fashion disaster? Lame? Hey, Koetsu! Hurry up and finish your museum items so you can quit that job.Koetsu: After all this work? Why?
W: Finishing up the last few generations of a dynasty is hard enough without having to look at you dressed like that!Koetsu: It’s not like I chose this outfit, you know. Watchette? Hey, Watchette! Don’t just walk off while I’m still talking to you!
Nanami: Dad, do you mind helping me with my extra credit?
Koetsu: Of course not, sweetheart.
Nanami: Um, Dad, can I ask you a favor?
Koetsu: Sure, cutie pie, what is it?
Nanami: If we go out and you’re wearing your Painter uniform and we run into any of my friends, can I just say that you’re my neighbor?
Koetsu: (speechless)
So here I am at Desert Bloom Park with the whole family, including my “neighbor” who forgot to change out of his Level 10 Painter uniform. I just made my third child friend and completed Social Butterfly, my last remaining childhood aspiration. So what shall I do for the next seven days until I age up into a teen?
Like the other dynasty heirs, I guess—max Logic with the help of family mentoring and then max Charisma. I can do it! And now I believe we need to skedaddle home so the elders can eat their ambrosia.
I present to you the five Nishijima immortals, eating their ambrosia. Dad is still a young adult, so he won't be joining them for a while...
And here I am again, leaving for school. In the first shot you saw of me like this, I was leaving for my first day of school. Since then, I’ve completed all four childhood aspirations and maxed Logic and Charisma. So sure, this photo may look like the same shot, but I’m a very different person now! I’m feeling very confident about the future and pretty sure I’ll be able to handle the dynasty requirements, with everyone's support.
In five days, I’ll turn into a tantalizing teenager! Not much will be going on between now and then—I’ll continue leveling a few skills and see if I can make some friends, while Dad focuses on painting his museum contributions.
Let’s meet up again right before my teen birthday, okay?
