I do like 'em. Unfortunately the small version doesn't have the double volume entrance hall. The first floor is good design because there are doors linking all the principle rooms and it makes it easy to get around.
The bills for the house were quite high for a single sim, and that made expanding and furnishing quite hard early on. And there wasn't enough money to even add a staircase or walls upstairs, so it's not like we were getting much value from it.
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Part 3
So where the house was left was the point the money ran out. To do a high pitched roof would require an inaccessible 3rd floor and there was no budget for more walls. So the flat roof stayed. There were always more pressing things like chess tables or jungle gyms.
So we've got the science shower! Yes! That's sitting in a space allocated for stairs to the basement level. The bed is what's now the Inspiration room. This is the front of the house that faces the road. And judging by the smaller Lump in the bed, that's Allie, so Vlad is still dead. I didn't take many pictures of the weird children because the features really only show as teenagers. Sometimes I've played the entire two weeks of childhood without even changing the outfit the dear kid aged up wearing.
That's also a really cool picture because that Christin Matsuura still stalks the house regularly. So it's fun to see her here. I've thought of curing her and using her in the family that she
so wants to be a part of. But she's mean / insider / dance machine. Appropriately enough for a vampire, she's an entertainer and works at night.
That's Allie as a child, politely enquiring of Vlad when he'll cease to be dead. The progress toward ambrosia was coming along well, the cooking and gardening isn't hard to level, and our lovely alien (but not really) gal, Horrible Skiing, always intended getting the death flower for the sake of serums. The fishing was the headache. She and Allie bounced around numerous parks in the quest for angelfish, and I was looking up the forums to see what I was doing wrong. I had all the bait I could wish for from gardening, but the angelfish wouldn't bite. I think HS got to level 6 or 7 in fishing before getting an angelfish.
I've played a lot on Oasis Springs and fished many times behind Nookstone, so mum and daughter duly went there. Somehow I don't have a picture of actually reviving Vlad from the dead. It glitched though. Vlad came back to life as expected, but the plate wasn't empty. So I kept it! I don't know if there is only one bite left, but that plate of ambrosia still exists glowing to itself in the basement in a sealed room. Just in case. To make the vampire cure required a bar, and there wasn't enough money to build the bar I'd actually want so we had to make do with a temporary one.
We're in the "drawing room" here, still trying to work out where everything should go. It's always good to group skills together that use the same mood, and the idea is to have mixology and music in here.
On the other side of the hallway is the library. Vlad was put to work painting and joined the painter career. When HS finished the science career she was immediately put into the business career. This was purely for some of the rewards. I like the desk and the chairs you can unlock in business, especially for matching the chess table. Imposing, serious chairs. So the beds are still downstairs at this point. The painting stuff obviously moves out of the library (to where the beds are in the first picture), and the library becomes a "focus" room for chess and school projects.
Allie decided to draw on the cover of her homework book.
I imagine mum saying to her, "but's that not normal sweetie", and sweetie in a state of fragile Emotion replying, "no it's not!" before crying some existential tears. Why does mum not have a real name? Why was a dead vampire resurrected? Why does everyone in the house look strange? Why do I look strange? (spoiler, she really does.) Why is the sky blue? -- All the big questions of life.
Naturally, as soon as Vlad became human the bed and the woohoo bush were put to good use. We want a weird kid with Vlad, that's the whole point. Thus our pregnant pointy narrow founder visited the hospital again.
Income was now fairly good, and the pointy couple had fully moved upstairs by the time Vlad's son, Nick, emerged from the bassinet as a toddler.
The doors behind lead to the bedrooms. It was only with Nick's arrival that we really had no more space downstairs and had to take the plunge of spending thousands on moving the bedrooms up. Most babies have been on the first floor landing outside the bedrooms. Allie was upset by Nicks arrival. She got the "I didn't want this sibling" moodlet.
Mum with baby #2. Toddlers do kinda tend to look the same, and yet even as a toddler Nick's face was unusually angular.
Very promising stuff indeed. So we now have two strange kids, and the question is how strange will the children be when the descendants of Allie and Nick can produce an heir that unites the family once more.
I'll end this update with Nick adventuring downstairs because that's cute. Also it's recognizably the same entrance hall you might have seen me post
here of Grim's amazing comic timing.
Next time: teenage CAS picture of Allie the first pointy child (or is she?) (that's the best hype, aren't you hyped? I'm hyped), Vlad tries some new looks, and Scenes of Domesticity
