There's perhaps more updating here than I realized. Anywho. So don't expect to see any spellcasters here or a glorious house with stained glass windows in a double volume library with thick carpets any time soon. My imagination has run away with itself.
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So Kyle, to rescue his bloodline, is trying to be abducted. He can't teleport to the wormhole device in the roof, but it was literally brought down to his level.
There's very little story purpose for this picture of Aili, but hey, it's Red Goth 2, and she's great. And my plan is that she must be immortal if there's a potion for that. Absolutely.
And she overtook Wayne in the fame race, and became our 4th global superstar. Yes, she's still a teen.
Kait's tile on the Walk of Fame had been defaced, which is frowned upon.
Maxie, had been an elder for a while and she curled up next to the fireplace and passed away.
Then one of those never ending storms rolled in, and I love the atmosphere of it, and how the house looks in the light.
That satisfies my curiosity as to what Kait looks like as a brunette. Or burnt. They still go out in the storm to use the diving platform. Because that's a club activity. And I haven't changed it. I run out of ideas for club activities (so do you, you never say so, it's fine). And Krispy Kait adds such excitement. Will we have another unplanned death? (No, we won't.) (But for a moment, you saw Krispy Kait, and your heart fluttered -- Fluttered, I say -- at the thought of her Peril.
Our teenage wonders (but not you, Wayne) eat lobster thermidor. As you do, as an average teen, after drama club. Personally, I'm not a fan of crawly seafood. It reminds me of Tennyson's
Charge of the Light Brigade*.
*this is untrue, I'm sorry. Sometimes the things we want to be true, aren't. And you find Solace. In cheese. Obviously.
Back the reality of Sims, Wayne is at the lab. That's the satellite dish made by Persephone that has stood for probably two centuries.
And the lab's garden. The gardening update that rolled out with Seasons made the plants at the lab basically useless because the sims cannot be on the lot at 5am. But I understand the good reasons for the change, and sometimes there's collateral damage. This is it.
And of course one of the inmates at the lab was an elder who died on Kyle's first day. Well, I was supposed to "gossip about co-workers" with you, but... guess not.
The interactions with the satellite had the right effect straight away. Kyle is abducted during the never-ending storm.
And that's him returning. If you're wondering, he didn't get pregnant. [insert non-threatening grumbling noises of annoyance] The scene was staged using the [TAB] camera, and I was repeatedly taking screenshots in the hope there'd be a lightning strike with the UFO in the same picture.
Literally a 10th of a second after the UFO flies away, there was lightning. I caught the fading effects of the strike. It's so gorgeously, deeply atmospheric that this is also the current house picture on the first page of this utterly silly story.
I think it helps having the previous shot for comparison. The highlighted, wild, racing clouds.
Kyle looks upset, maybe that he's not pregnant, and there's a birthday cake ready to go. This is the last we see of Red Goth 2 as a teen.
Wayne and his big mouth aged up at the same time. Not long after, he did something trivially famous to reach level three fame, and then donated his way to becoming our 5th global superstar. This is his happy face at that moment. Through the window, Yesenia and Aili are hanging out with tourists and paparazzi. It's hardly worth chasing the Enduring Fame trait for Kait or Yesenia, but definitely for Aili. (And probably Wayne too. But so far, no one wants his picture. Not making that up.)
I'll finish with Goths 1 & 2. Heatwave, symmetry.
