I’d been intending to send Angus back to uni to find a wife for his grandson but the game stuck on the loading screen. After restarting the computer, I sent him off again. And again. Every time, the game froze. Then I tried sending some of the others – after all, they could go to university without completing the opportunity – but they didn’t have any more success. Travel was clearly now impossible. Two female vampires from Angus’ student days were still alive and could maybe be invited to visit – but Debbie Richards and Carol Chen are adults at the start of the game and so were unlikely to be young enough to have a child once cured, even if they did manage to get to Monte Vista. So it was down to Clare and her social networking to find the perfect, if cloney, wife for Les.
Wanda Lawson was waiting outside the subway when he came up for air.
It was love at first sight – hardly surprising when they had compatible star signs and most of their traits were the same. He immediately wished to ask her to join the band. (She couldn't play any instruments either but at least she's a virtuoso.)
He invited her home to get better acquainted and to introduce her to his elderly relatives.
It was going fine until Wanda suddenly announced that she thought Ross was really hot.
Obviously Les had better act fast, before his great-grandfather stole his girlfriend.
They were married the following morning, on Venice Beach…
…and spent the rest of the day jamming.
At one point, they visited the recently installed all-in-one bathroom together, resulting in a shower of hearts and the sound of chimes. Somehow, the absent paparazzi found out and they were disgraced for woohoo in public. Celebrity disgraces seem to be inevitable whatever you do: I find it both amusing and a little irritating that the immortals are constantly being accused of peeing themselves in public when they (a) rarely leave the house and (b) have steel bladders.
After another long day busking in the subway, Leicester became a Legendary Musician.
In a move that must have astonished his fans, he then went to the theatre and started again at the bottom of the music career. While he was there (and in the hope that a prolonged spell in a rabbithole would make an opportunity appear – which it didn’t), he took classes in piano, drums and bass.
The paparazzi, so mysteriously alert to newlyweds woohooing on a deserted beach, somehow failed to notice the celebrity giving birth on the front lawn a few feet away.
And it’s another very different rainboo
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Mona had her first birthday…
… on the same evening that Leicester had his last one.
Thanks to a last-minute flurry of opportunities, he was ready to eat ambrosia soon afterwards.
Leicester County
Traits: artistic, virtuoso, lucky, avant garde, loves the outdoors, excitable (rebel)
Lifetime wish: Street Credible
Career: Band
Skill: Street Art
(He also reached level 10 of guitar and completed Money Maker)
Building: Teatro Fantastico
Property: Restful Mausoleum
Unique lifetime rewards: The Next Big Thing, Fertility Treatment, The Hustler
Unique best friends- Wanda County
- Mona County
- Shayla McDermott (the other band member)
- Terrence Pool (no idea whether he’s related to Gwynedd’s friend Sherita – they’re both paparazzi and werewolves)
- Amos Akins
- Jon Easter
Unique opportunities- Outside Reading
- Commissioned Street Art
- Rock Star Study
- In the End
- Floating in the Sea
- Walking Bass Line
Mona’s name is a bit of a cheat but there aren’t all that many county names for girls. Derry’s too much like Kerry (although I would have considered it for a twin) and Merioneth and Gwynedd seemed altogether too eth-y. Mona was the Roman name for Anglesey and also works as an anglicisation of the Welsh Ynys Môn.
