Chapter Two //
Baby StepsHey! I’m back from Wonder Watcher Camp! I know lots of things about skill crunching and club mongering, and I’m ready to get this dynasty a-rolling!
Dina: I’ve been standing here, with this fridge half open, for over two weeks. What’s Gaia going to say about the power bill?
Let me tell you a little something-something. It’s not a power bill. It’s taxes. Its not how many lights are on, its how much money the lights are worth, ok? Besides, while a Watched sim may feel the passing of time if I’m Watching another ‘verse, time doesn’t actually pass here. Dina: Far out.
Let’s pull up the club, start a gather— Whoa!Gaia: Is there a problem, sorceress—
Good Gourds! You know I’m a Watcher!
Gaia: I was asking you a question.
We don’t have a club. I could have sworn we had a club. There’s Don’s club. I must have forgotten to make one. That’s easily fixed. Some people went entire dynasties without clubs. You’ll be fine, missing five or so days. Gaia: All is well, now?
Well enough. Go back upstairs and get some Writing on. We need points, for boosts and things. And you need to beat an aspiration to get Connections and kick butt at your career. Gaia: Not more poems!
(forgot to take this picture, will put one in soon)
Thank you for all the masterpieces, Katrina, Your daughter can finish up her aspiration now that we’ve got money for the rocket.Katrina: When do I get to be done with MY aspiration?
Soon, soon enough. We have to take a trip to get Don started on his fitness aspiration, and we should probably do that for all of you, really. Katrina: So we can live long slave lives for you?
So you have time to enjoy your life before it’s over. Katrina: We’ll see about that, won’t we?
When Gaia finishes her book, it’s party time, ok? We have two missions for you tonight. Mix some drinks, and help Don make sure we get gold. Dina: How many parties are we doing?
Probably one, but maybe two.
Add them to your club, go for a roll, give them a new look, and send them on their way, huh?
Don: Most of them want kids, so they actually appreciate what I’m doing. ‘Mortimer’s too gloomy’, Bella says. ‘Bjorn spends all his time in the Gardening Club with Moira’, Clara says. The makeovers are an excuse as to why they were gone all day. When the baby comes, it's their bridge to cross.
This picture will replaced with a more attractive collage soon, I just really want to get this chapter up, missing screenshots and allI feel slightly better about all these married women now. Don: I never said any of this makes it right. I just said they wanted to be pregnant as much we want them to, but for different reasons.
Gold Dinner Party Accomplished!Dina will be fine after a shower, don’t worry about her pouty face too much
Gaia Diua, you just maxed Writing! Only like, a ton of things to check off before you can have ambrosia, and then seven more generations!Gaia: Do not speak of my obstacles as such, you make it sound so, tedious, and quite insurmountable.
How do you feel?Gaia: If I have to write another couplet, it will not end well.
We’ll switch to a different genre, after this book. Hey Don! Nine babies already! And you haven't visited Summer, Liberty or Zoe yet, or even half the YA ladies in Windenburg!(I've just been adding them straight to his club from the menu, now he has to actually meet ladies)
Don: Well that’s cool.
Do you want to meet them?Don: Can we wait for them to leave their cradles? That's a lot of diapers that I’m not ready to handle.
Gaia! You have enough points! Now you can work while you grind out those bestsellers and wait for your royalties.Gaia: That is good? Are we celebrating now?
We totally can, if you want. I was hoping to wait till Don’s first crop leave the cradle? I want to meet them, and help them look adorable.Gaia: That is fine by me, sor— ahem, Watcher.
Oh, squid, tell me I didn’t!
Gaia: What seems to be the problem now?
I had you start the Writer career earlier, it seems, and now you aren’t going to get any of the benefits from being Connected. I’ve wasted a lot of your time. Gaia: I will be able to acquire 9 promotions in 30 days, I think. Nina is a well-trained masseuse, is she not?
Yeah, she is, and the club vibe still works at work, and if I watch the clock, you can get a massage every day before work. This will be fine. Your second aspiration is mostly waiting, anyway. You can’t rush plants, you know.Gaia: I am going to go practice ‘yoga’. You expressed a wish that this, wellness skill, be the third skill for each of my immortal descendants?
Yeah, it means I can just send you up to the roof to meditate when I don’t need you in my hair, without waiting for you all to learn it, and I also don’t have to bring in anyone with masseuse skills once Nina moves on.
Somebody’s about to have a baby. Is it Mila, or Madeline’s second one already?Don: If I knew, I don’t think there’s a way for me to tell you. Just, uh, keep an ear out for ringing phones? We’ve missed most of the momma calls.
I will. We’ll check on Mila, give her a nice massage from Nina, and let her go home, if it is her that’s in labor. Okay?Don: Yeah, whatever, you make the plans, I’m just going to keep freaking out, okay?
Cute! But, I said massage. Let’s go, let's go, pregnant lady trying to have your baby, here.
Thank you, Nina.Nina: Hey, Watcher? I may not like you, but this is a pregnant woman in discomfort for the benefit of some ‘goddess’s’ dynasty. This is the least I can do for her.
Point taken. Madeline and Mila have both called. You have eleven children, now, five boys, and seven girls. 
Don: That’s nice, it might be time for round two, then?
Oh, why not?
Dinaaaa! You maxed both Cooking skills, and Mixology, and you’re not even an adult.Dina: What’s next, Watcher?
Well, just promotions, and finishing your aspirations, for now. Gaia still needs to get the garden ready, and we haven’t done any fishing yet.
Nina. You're done with this chess table. Forever. What would you like to do next?Nina: Anything else, Watcher.
Serial Romantic isn’t intensive, and all the Clients are Romantic. Wanna break some hearts, and skill up your Mischief for the next aspiration?Nina: I’d love to *sinister laugh*
I know you're not too happy right now, but the next time you go to work, you’re guaranteed a promotion.Gaia: Who stopped the Gathering while I was at work? I stopped feeling inspired, and became incredibly tense!
Blame Don. He was firing up his club for some baby-making and I clicked the wrong thing.Gaia: Someone get me a massage, or there will be murder tonight!
A Word From the Editor:Gaia: 7 Days to Adult
Pollinator Babies: 11
Dina: Mixology [10], HCooking [10], GCooking [10], Master Chef [2/ 4], Master Mixologist [2/4] (Needs to reach level 4 of her career, and needs to join the mixology branch to continue)
Ambrosia Ingredients: Lily [X], Snapdragon [X], Orchid [-], Apple [X], Cherry [-], Pomegranate [-], Death Flower [-], Angelfish [-], Potions of Youth [11]
Gaia; Writing [10], Gardening [4], Bestselling Author [3/4], Freelance Botanist [1/4] (3 bestsellers and approx. 16.5k simoleons in royalties to go)
Katrina: Painting [10], Photography [-], Painter Extraordinaire [3/4] (one more masterpiece to go)
