Vampire Rivalry: Knowledge vs. Nature vs. Popularity (Einstein week 1 Final)

[FrancescaFiori]

Looking good! Saya is so adorable. They make a wonderful couple.
Sunlight is so stressful to a baby vampire, especially one with a passion for gardening! Here's hoping she can develop a tolerance for it soon!
There's something so charming about the steps leading down into the ground. Nice to keep it simple in the beginning.
I find each of your other founders equally fascinating in her own way, so I'll be happy no matter which one comes next.

[Shewolf13]

Saya is lovely! Can't wait to see the nooboos!

[LazyKatie]

Looking good! Saya is so adorable. They make a wonderful couple.
Sunlight is so stressful to a baby vampire, especially one with a passion for gardening! Here's hoping she can develop a tolerance for it soon!
There's something so charming about the steps leading down into the ground. Nice to keep it simple in the beginning.
I find each of your other founders equally fascinating in her own way, so I'll be happy no matter which one comes next.

Yeah Saya is p good looking for a townie. And her party outfit is much better than the one she wore when they 1st met.
Yeah I'm hoping she'll get to master vamp relatively quickly.
I like having large basements, and I figure having big empty basements to start with is fitting for vamps.
Thanks, I don't really have a favorite of them either. My gf wants to see Gina next, so at the moment that's probably who's going 2nd.

Saya is lovely! Can't wait to see the nooboos!

Agreed!

[LazyKatie]

Moonshine - Week 1 Pt. 3

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Nap time!

Spoiler: You should know the drill by now (click to show/hide)

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Followed by some meditation, and then more napping.

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At work, she and Marcus gossip about their co-workers. She then gets a metal from gardening buddy Moira.

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Hip bump! Moira is quickly becoming her favorite co-worker.

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She chats up the invention bot.

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She feels so at peace meditating in the garden.

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She gets pretty thirsty, but thankfully a lab tech named Chaz Campbell, is kind enough to let her drink from him. He turns out to have especially tasty plasma.

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At the end of her shift, she got promoted! She went ahead and hung up the poster she got.

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She then took her gf to the nightclub, where she successfully proposed!

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Not one to dawdle, she immediately elopes with her. With her now part of the household, we can check out Saya's stats. She has the serial romantic aspiration, with the cat lover, jealous, and snob traits, and she's also chopstick savvy. She's unemployed with level 4 singing and level 3 video gaming. She's a prime vamp with the withered stomach, sloppy drinker, and fitful sleep weaknesses, and the vampiric allure, garlic immunity, vampire creation, and eternally welcome powers.

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Lily's hippie influences have really rubbed off on her wife, who gets a makeover to reflect this.

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The newlyweds try for a baby in the closet. Raj you voyeur!

Vlad gave Lily another call right after to tell her about vamp ranks, and this got her to vamp lore level 3, so now she can order plasma packs. Nice!

Sadly Saya is not pregnant.

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So they try again in the bush this time!

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It worked! Saya then decides to get a job in the social media career.

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Meditating together.

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Candy finished the transformation.

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Lily meets Gina, but stops talking to her once she learns she works for The Man.

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With the money Saya brought in, the newlyweds decide to buy a computer.

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Saya makes a social media profile while Lily finishes watering the garden.

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Lily buys and consumes some plasma packs.

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How the h*ck did you get there, Lily.

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I think it's cute when they meditate together. Since I'm about out of screenies, Imma end it here.

[FrancescaFiori]

I love Saya's makeover! She's even cuter than she was before. Congrats to the lovely couple on the marriage and the incoming baby! The nightclub is so convenient with multiple try-for-baby locations.

Loved the hip bump with Moira. It's so nice to have a friend at work. Also love the super-expensive computer on the tiny, tiny kiddo desk. Adorable!

[LazyKatie]

I love Saya's makeover! She's even cuter than she was before. Congrats to the lovely couple on the marriage and the incoming baby! The nightclub is so convenient with multiple try-for-baby locations.

Loved the hip bump with Moira. It's so nice to have a friend at work. Also love the super-expensive computer on the tiny, tiny kiddo desk. Adorable!

Thanks. Gotta love GT and its woohoo closets and bushes. And yeah, I've def decided Moira is gonna be the go-to work buddy for Lily. I like the 1 square desks from CL and MFPS because they save space. And I figured I might as well buy that computer since I could afford it. Should I end up adding a 2nd PC I'll probably pick a cheaper but still decent one, such as the CL one.

I've now updated to the latest patch btw. Hopefully it doesn't have any major bugs, but I think if it did someone would have noticed by now. Being able to properly hire known sims for party roles like mixologist and stuff should be nice for when parties get thrown.

[LazyKatie]

Moonshine - Week 1 Pt. 4

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You too Geeta?! Did the game make you and Jacques retire or something?

Spoiler: story inside (click to show/hide)

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The lovebirds take pics of each other and update the family portrait gallery.

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Some wallpaper and flooring, in addition to a bookshelf and some seating, get added. Since waiting for the plants in FH to grow takes forever, Lily's gonna level vamp lore so she can buy the seeds instead. She'll have to level it to unlock plasma fruit recipes anyway.

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Lily gets to studying, and manages to get some more power points, which she spends on occult disciple. After she buys occult master, she's gonna hold off on spending her pp, so she can buy sunlight immunity upon achieving the requisite rank. She also has her 3rd breakthrough from her reading.

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A mirror gets bought as well, mainly to conduct appearance changes. Nancy Landgraab then calls Lily to offer some free earbuds that she accepts.

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After arriving at the lab, Lily chatted with Marcus a bit and became his friend.

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After getting a crystal from Moira, she was ready to invent the SimRay. She names it Lily Beam.

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She then takes a thoughtful shower to get clean, and has her 4th breakthrough! She's on a h*cking roll, dang.

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Lily makes Chaz a test subject for Lily Beam's freeze function.

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Once Lily's maxed the day's job performance, I switch control to Saya, who's become thirsty, and needs a victim. Since she's no guilty drinker, she isn't worried about things like getting permission. She decides a Sim that lives alone, such as Johnny Zest in this case, would be an excellent target, as it'd leave no witnesses, and thus cause no relationship hit.

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She finds him alone, just as planned, watching TV. She immediately compels him for a deep drink.

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She then meditates back the energy she'd lost from being in the sun while heading to the front door, and then breaking in.

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Being a sloppy drinker, just one sim isn't enough for her to be satisfied, so she decides she'll snack on Diego Lobo next, who has the bonus of living in an apartment meaning Saya needn't expose herself to the sun when visiting, only to sadly find him not home.

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Why aren't you at work, Moira? I saw you there not even 2 sim hours ago!

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Lily decides to update her status on Diego's PC while waiting for the man himself to get home.

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Thankfully the wait isn't long. She then goes home.

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Once home, I have her level vamp lore. It's a useful skill for any vamp to be honest, may as well have her level it while waiting for her wife to get home. It'll help her gain points and reach the next rank for sun immunity too, since leveling it gives vamp exp.

When Lily got home Don, who I didn't even know she'd met, invited her to dinner at L'Attente Bistro, though I had her decline because lolvampseatingdinner and because the sun was still out.

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It was back to leveling VL until night fell, when she took a quick break to harvest her botanical namesake and add it to the garden. Then it was VL levelling again, which got her enough PP for occult master.

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Lily soon got to level 8 VL, allowing her to buy plasma fruit, wolfsbane, and sixam mosquito trap seeds, so she immediately bought some and added them to the garden. Doing this got her gardening skill to level 2. Vlad also called and offered to come over and give training to Lily at this time, and she accepted.

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Saya hit the 2nd trimester.

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Look at 'em read together. So cute. Lily soon becomes a prime vampire, but takes no powers since she's saving up. She does take fitful sleep though since she never sleeps anyway.

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Lily then hits VL 9, and so to go with the recipes she learned, a kitchen is built.

Imma end it here, until next time, people!

[dontmindme]

Wow, good luck with doing three vampire lines, one is almost too much for me, lol. Um, I know you said that you wanted your lines to have an additional aspiration complete, is that the teen requirement aspiration? I'm just asking because founders don't have to complete the additional aspiration, only heirs do. Founders are just responsible for the Vampire aspiration, and having the founders complete an additional one means three unique aspirations the heirs can't complete.

Anywho, Saya is super gorgeous and I hope she passes on a lot of herself into Gen 2. And yes, single men home alone make the best snacks. Good luck and can't wait to meet the next two founders!

[LazyKatie]

Wow, good luck with doing three vampire lines, one is almost too much for me, lol. Um, I know you said that you wanted your lines to have an additional aspiration complete, is that the teen requirement aspiration? I'm just asking because founders don't have to complete the additional aspiration, only heirs do. Founders are just responsible for the Vampire aspiration, and having the founders complete an additional one means three unique aspirations the heirs can't complete.

Anywho, Saya is super gorgeous and I hope she passes on a lot of herself into Gen 2. And yes, single men home alone make the best snacks. Good luck and can't wait to meet the next two founders!

Yeah, I mean the teen requirement one. I don't think having the founder complete an additional aspiration bars future heirs from doing so though, does it?

I'm excited to begin playing the next 2 myself.

[dontmindme]

Any aspiration completed beyond the Vampire aspirations has to be unique. So if a Founder completes Freelance Botanist, for example, no heir can complete it as a unique aspiration in any of the three bloodlines. If a Founder maxes a particular skill, no one in their bloodline can claim it as a unique skill. So if a Founder maxes Gardening, none of her heirs can max Gardening for their teen requirements. Hope that helps!

[LazyKatie]

Any aspiration completed beyond the Vampire aspirations has to be unique. So if a Founder completes Freelance Botanist, for example, no heir can complete it as a unique aspiration in any of the three bloodlines. If a Founder maxes a particular skill, no one in their bloodline can claim it as a unique skill. So if a Founder maxes Gardening, none of her heirs can max Gardening for their teen requirements. Hope that helps!

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. I just checked over the rules again and from what I understand only aspirations an heir completes as part of their moving out requirements are unable to be completed by any other heirs. Likewise with skills, only the ones an heir maxes as part of moving out reqs can't be maxed by later heirs, and the player themselves decides which skills are the ones maxed for the moving out reqs. So I could have an heir max gardening, then cooking, then painting, but if I designate cooking and painting as the skills maxed for moving out then gardening is still fair game for later heirs.

@MarianT Do I have it right?

[dontmindme]

The rules state: The heir must achieve a unique aspiration other than Mansion Baron or Animal Lover. He or she may not switch aspirations until that aspiration has been achieved. No heir in any other bloodline may achieve this aspiration.

The second sentence says that no other heir may use this aspiration for their requirements. So, you can designate 'open' aspirations, that is, aspirations anyone can complete at any time, but unique aspirations have to remain as such. For example, I am playing with the Alien line. I designated that the aspiration Nerd Brain would be open for any heir to complete as it involves rockets and Aliens have to build rockets anyway. That means that no heir period can use Nerd Brain as their unique aspiration. Nerd Brain has been removed from the pool of potential moving out requirements. Another example: Gen 2 completes Computer Whiz, now that aspiration has been removed from the move out pool because someone has already completed it. The aspiration can still be used for farming points but it cannot be completed by anyone else because that removes its uniqueness.

The heir must max two skills (excluding photography and dancing) unique in that bloodline. For example, you may have one sim in each bloodline max painting, cooking, etc. Heirs may work on other skills but not max ones that have already been claimed.

Again, you can designate 'open' skills that anyone can learn but the maxes must be unique. For example, I have a Founder max Charisma. Charisma cannot now be claimed by any of the founder's heirs for the unique skill requirement. If your heir maxes skills that are not part of their moving out requirements, those skills become 'open' and cannot count for future heirs down the bloodline. So for your example, if you max those three skills but count only two, the remaining skill cannot be used by a future heir of that bloodline because it is not a unique max. That's why you see people keeping track of which other skills their sims have maxed.

I am all for waiting for MarianT's call, though. It is a needed clarification.

[LazyKatie]

I'm aware, but do note that it specifically says heirs. Lily completing freelance botanist shouldn't stop heirs from using it as their aspiration.

[LazyKatie]

Moonshine - Week 1 Pt. 5

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After watering the garden, Lily immediately gets to making an 8 serving plasma fruit salad. She'll be eating this whenever she gets thirsty at home. Maybe make some at work too really.

Spoiler: open me! (click to show/hide)

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Once done, she eats one and puts the rest in the fridge.

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It's at this point that Lily decides it's time to hire a butler, buying the cheapest bed available for them.

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She immediately relieves the new butler, Saya Ikeda (did she have to have the same name as her wife?), of gardening duties, since Lily doesn't want anyone else touching her garden.

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She also decides to turn Ms. Ikeda to keep her from filling the fridge with silly human food.

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She then learned how to make a sunlight reversal cocktail, and immediately began doing so. Finally she could tend her garden and enjoy the outdoors during the day! This would change everything. Constantly buying the ingredients and then making the cocktail would get expensive though, so sunlight immunity would still be preferred. She'd get there soon though, she was sure of it.

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Meanwhile Saya began her 1st day of work. She chose to do so from home, and got the tasks of leveling her charisma and writing skills. She decided to focus on the latter 1st, and began writing a kids' book.

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Lily used her newfound daywalking abilities to water her garden.

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She even bought a lawn chair so she could read in the great outdoors!

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At the lab, Lily meets a cute townie named Quinn Rucker, who also loves the outdoors, and offers The Gift to her, something she accepts, thinking she could be a great spouse for her at the moment unborn daughter once she becomes an adult.

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She befriends the invention bot.

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Saya decides to drink from Penny Pizzazz today.

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Lily gets a promotion, and places the lamp she got. Saya continues to write, and soon hits level 2.

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Lily needs a shower, so one is added to the house. Saya meanwhile updates her status several times to level charisma to 2. A thoughtful shower gives Lily her 5th breakthrough.

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Lily began to train Moira, but then got a call from Yuki inviting her to a party at the Chalet. She accepted, and took Saya along. Yuki surprisingly hasn't finished turning, despite being the 1st sim Lily turned, with her sis and Moira, who got turned later, having finished already.

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Thankfully, she finally did so not long after arriving.

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Candy shows up, so Lily trains her.

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Saya hits the 3rd trimester, and Lily takes family leave.

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Saya and Yuki became friends.

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Lily trains Yuki, completing milestone 3 of the vamp family aspiration.

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Lily gets some mosquito trap seeds and a high quality plasma pack from The League. The seeds came at an excellent time, since Lily has switched back to the botanist aspiration and needs to plant 3 things. Also, for some reason, the game is saying a vampire is breaking in. Can break-ins seriously happen on lots inhabited solely by vamps? That's plain dumb and should be patched. Thankfully it soon stops saying that. Must've been a bug, at least I hope.

Saya hits master vamp and takes the 1st 2 levels of sun resistance, in addition to nightmarish sleep. She needs 2 more PP to get sun immunity.

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Saya gets thirsty and snacks on the other Saya.

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Due to low funds, the PC is sold and replaced with the 2nd best one, which costs a lot less.

Saya is promoted and works from home again. Today's tasks are doing mischief on 5 different sims, and eating food at the spice festival.

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After doing mischief on Lily, Saya Ikeda, and Yuki, Saya went to the Bheedas to make them her last 2 targets, since they lived in an apartment and were both home.

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Once back home, Lily hit breakthrough no. 6 while studying the ultimate vamp tome.

And that's where I'll end it, since I hit the SS cap. I had hoped to get to the kid's birth this update, but oh well.

[LazyKatie]

Since we've hit 2 pages, I've added a chapter index to the OP so you guys can quickly jump to a given update.