Chapter 98-- Making New Homes in AP
Everyone looks around at their new living room in Reeses House.
Since AP is a ranching town in the mid-west, the cardinal themed wallpaper and matching area rugs seem fitting for a place that focuses on pets and wildlife, so they decide to keep it as is.
The original layout was of course done by their family architect MrsFlynn and the furnishings and decorating were completed by me, their Watcher, Dee.
But that was before I realized this house was actually built in AP and it would be perfect to use it there for the main Frio family home.
With Carly and Des' both loving the color orange, the black and white Master with pops of red, just isn't their style.
And they don't need the kid's room with the double bunk beds just yet.
So they make a few changes in the kitchen, adding their large dining table and chairs, and the top of the line refrigerator Founder Jared earned from his Culinary Career.
It keeps everything fresh and tasty, especially all the wonderful meals stored in the two replicators that have been handed down for generations.
They keep the nursery as is since Torre and Lucy got married in Riverview and we're hoping for the next generation sooner than in the last few towns.
Carly and Des get their orange bedroom back and Lucy and Torre opt for the grey double bed in the 2nd Master on the main floor.
The basement lay out was perfect but unfurnished so we just placed some of their stuff.
Lots and lots of stuff!
Carly's music studio in the back right with the Time Machine, Transporter, and the Body Sculptor, which we've never used!
Two more Masters are made with attached baths with Karlie Jo and Kraig using Grandma Sasha's four poster bed that they'd had in RV, and was originally Rae and Sam's in MF.
And Matt and Sofie keeping the Hover Bed that was Nana Jo's favorite.
But Matt and Sofie don't even sleep in their room one night!
As they were moving into Reeses House, they saw this property across the street.
They called the realtor and found out it was an original furnished AP home that had never been occupied.
It's called the Lexington and is a 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with a 2nd story on the right side and a detached barn/garage on the left side of the property.
And it has a lovely pond with a cute fountain in the front yard.
It sounded perfect for them so they bought it on the spot and moved in right away.
Here's the main floor with an open concept entry/living/dining and kitchen.
And a master on the right side with attached bath and nursery across the small hallway.
The 2nd floor has 2 more bedrooms with double beds and an open area for exercise and recreation, along with a 2nd full bath.
With Matt and Sofia moved in across the road at 1006 Pomona Promenade, Karlie Jo wastes no time on an important task for an old friend.
She carefully removes her special doll out of her back pack and places her on the floor.
She still has a hard time thinking of Pat as a she, since she'd always thought of her as a boy for so many years.
But she's coming around to the idea, especially since she didn't have to pick between her special best friend and Kraig.
Now she gets to love both of them if the traveling didn't injure her friend.
And Pat pops into YA size!
Karlie Jo is relieved and quickly heads off to the closest bedroom to chat with Pat as she doesn't need to have an audience thinking she's crazy as well as Unstable.
But I notice that their relationship has gone from 'Old friends' back to 'acquaintances', and Karlie Jo even has to introduce herself to Pat!
Karlie Jo *thinking* Silly Pat, but I'll play along, after all she's waited for this a long time.*
They quickly become friends again with Karlie Jo's charisma level being maxed and most of the challenges completed, except for Comedian as I forget about telling jokes.
Then the real fun begins as Pat smacks her with a pillow and they play just like old times, because who doesn't like a good pillow fight!
Then they chat a bit and Karlie Jo hugs her close and whispers, "I've got the potion my dear friend. Are you ready?!"
Pat takes the potion and looks down at it thoughtfully, *thinking *I wonder what she means?*
Karlie Jo is a bit embarrassed as Pat is acting oddly and doesn't seem all that excited about the potion.
But Pat trusts her new friend and drinks it down quickly and begins to sparkle.
It doesn't hurt, just tingles a bit, and she starts feeling different.
Little by little parts of her are changing and her lungs expand with her first breathe as a real Sim.
Pat *excitedly* "Oh it made me REAL! I have to ask, who was that dashing man with the turquoise hair? He's dreamy!"
Karlie Jo is so shocked she stutters: "Thaa..tt's my DAD Pat and you know it! Are you inappropriate or something? 'Cause that's just wrong! Way wrong!"
Pat *confused* "But how would I know that? I just got here a few minutes ago and we just met. Wow, it's just so much to take in! First I was a little doll tucked away in a dark place, then I was a big doll, then you introduced yourself to me and we became best friends so fast. And you gave me that potion and now I'm a REAL Sim!"
Karlie Jo *with a smirk* "Okay Pat, enough is enough. It was a funny joke, but I know you're messing with me."
But as Pat continues talking to her Karlie Jo realizes that not only is her hair different so is her personality.
Pat's not asked to play with toys or scared her even once!
And as much as she hates to admit it, Karlie Jo realizes that Pat wasn't joking.
This AP Pat** is actually a new best friend, not her old friend that she had her entire life in Riverview!!!
She's sad about that and knows she has to fix it.
But that will be a task for another game in an alternate timeline.***
But old friend or new, it's makeover and bio time.
Everyone meet AP Pat Frio---YA IF Made Real (IFMR)
LTW: Initially Firefighter Super Hero but changed to Perfect Garden (1 of her 5 choices)Traits: Brave, No Sense of Humor, Green Thumb, Charismatic, and Perceptive
Skills: none---since she'd only been around for a few hours that's to be expected
Fav's: Roots music, Pancakes, and Black
RI: None, she's not met anyone yet but was attracted to Des! (NOT)
Her hair is actually a dark green which I wasn't thrilled with but in this style it's quite pretty. And I love her turquoise eyes. Maybe that's why she liked Des?
Here's one of her everyday outfits.
I let her use some black but with pops of turquoise to match her eyes and I think this Pat is quite lovely.
Karlie Jo agrees with me as she says: "Wow, Pat, those braids didn't do much for you, but you're a stunner now!"
After Karlie Jo leaves to work on one of her cases, Pat changes into a cooler everyday outfit and then starts earning her keep in her new home.
Just look at her happy face as she picks up dirty laundry!
I'm sure she'll think it's same old, same old before too long, but that's not today.
Today everything is new and wonderful as she experiences it all for the very first time!
And Jared christens the new house with his presence the very first evening.
Dee: "There are no teenage girls in that bedroom Jared. It's the nursery and quite empty at the moment."
Jared: "That's okay Watcher, I was actually heading for that new rocker."
And matching his actions to his words, he floats on through the door and settles down in the chair.
Jared: "Oh, I like this one! It's nicely padded and quite comfortable."
Dee: "I added it to this house before we decided to use it as the Frio home here in Appaloosa Plains. It was color coordinated to the room so I left it and placed the other four rockers around the lot. Two in the living room and 2 in the backyard. So now there's enough for all five you."
Jared: "With all the money we've got, you could buy a zillion rockers." *laughing mockingly* "Appaloosa Plains, huh, that sounds like a pretty dead country town to me!"
Dee: "Now none of that Jared, Sunset Valley was a nice busy, bustling town, but you know it couldn't hold a candle to Bridgeport for parties and nightlife."
Jared: "Yeah and I was stuck on a lot as a ghost and missed all of that!"
Dee: "Rae was a well known musician and celebrity in Bridgeport and she hosted her fair share of big parties. We had one for almost every birthday and they were packed with musical celebrities. Sims danced the night away and the music played into the wee hours."
Jared *thinking back* "Yeah, those were pretty good days. I'd forgotten about all those celebrity parties. The old memory just isn't what it used to be."
Dee: "We'll have plenty of parties here too. Just like in all of the other towns, there will be next generation birthdays soon enough."
Jared *glancing at the empty crib* "But not yet."
Dee *laughing* "We've only been here a day. Matt and Sofia didn't even move their stuff in. They bought the furnished house across the road and just unpacked their clothes over there."
Jared *smirking* "Yeah, I saw them leaving before the dust even settled here. And I saw that new girl too. She's not hard on the eyes, that's for sure!"
Dee *sternly* "You be nice to Pat, she just became real and doesn't need you messing with her."
Jared *whistling and rocking and not commenting on my warning at all.*
And Sam shows up too. Out in the living room, far away from ghostly, ghastly Jared!
Dee: "Welcome to Appaloosa Plains Sam!"
Sam: "Oh, what a nice name for a town! It sounds wonderful! With a name like that I'm assuming horses are around?"
Dee: "Yes, this town centers around pets, including horses, and has lots of wildlife. Most of the neighbors have a pet. If anyone in the family pops a wish for a dog or cat, I'd probably grant it. The lot doesn't have a lot of room for a horse, but you never know. If someone got the Equestrian trait, I just might grant that wish too."
Torre heads into town to check out the local gym.
And with that frown on his face, I'm thinking that his encounter with this local resident wasn't very pleasant.
Teen Cruz Martingale *looking at them out of the corner of his eye* Oops, looks like Mom's stepped in it again! And with the new celebrity family too. Keep walking Cruz, keep walking.*
But back at the house very pleasant news has been announced!
Lucy's expecting!
Kraig and Carly are on hand to offer their congratulations.
Carly's looking quite thoughtful and I'm thinking she's probably feeling that Torre should be the first one talking to the baby.
But Kraig's enthusiasm for the baby-to-be is obvious as he talks to Lucy's tummy.
Kraig *in a soft voice* "Well, hello there little one, it's Uncle Kraig! I'll take you for rides on the fire engine when you're older. Won't that be fun?"
Lucy and Kraig have had their differences, but they seem to be mending some fences now.
Matt and Sofia already found a place of their own, right across the street.
Karlie Jo made Pat real, but it's not quite the same Pat.
With space in the house, Torre and Lucy have already started on the next gen and are expecting! They both want a girl so fingers crossed everyone.
And we get news from Matt and Sofie that they are expecting too!
I'm so excited, nooboos by the end of the first week in Riverview. What a great start.
Join us for Chapter 99-- Making Friends, A Wedding, and Nooboos
Coming soon.
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Below is information that doesn't really pertain to the TJ story but I wanted to share.
It is quite long. You have been warned!
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**Author's note and caution:
From research and experience, I found out that once IF dolls have their birthday, when their Sim becomes a child and they grow to child size as well, the game generates an IF Sim persona for them that is specific to that town.
Jumping towns with the IF doll in inventory allows you to bring the doll but that IF Sim persona stays attached to the previous town.
Since Nraas Traveler uses EA game mechanics it doesn't change that, just makes your game more stable and allows for traveling back to that town as a vacation town, if you so choose. I did it once with Claire and Jared going back to SV from MF just to see if it worked and it does. But everyone rapidly ages up when you get there, so I've never done it again.
When the IF doll is taken out for the first time in the new town and grows to it's doll Sim version, a new IF Sim persona is generated specifically for that town and can have different traits and looks.
So IF dolls are like Genies in that they are specific to the town they first appear in.
You can travel with the lamp or IF doll in your inventory, but when you get to the new town it will generate as a different one altogether.
To both Pollyanna's, Karlie Jo's and my sadness.
The above information is true to the best of my knowledge and experience.
If anyone has additional information about IF dolls or genies or any other Sim lifeforms or has had a different experience please share it so I can take note and not be blindsided by player error once again.
***Author's 2nd note:
No IF dolls or IFMR were harmed in game play.
I was shocked when I realized it wasn't the same Pat, so much so that I had to go back to the last Riverview save and confirm my suspicions.
I moved Karlie Jo and Kraig out to yet another empty lot.
Ahem, before I remembered to take the IF potion out of inventory.
So I purchased the logic potion table and made her work for days to get the potion!
Long story even longer, potion was made, Pat came out, and took it and became real.
She seems to have the same face shape and turquoise eyes as the AP Pat, but I think all IFMR have a very basic sim face. But her skin tone is darker and her hair color and style as well as all her traits were different.
The style was that upswept one she had as a teen when she went to Prom which is a glitch by the way. Sometimes IF Sims personas become 'real' in game prior to the potion but when you go back into the game again, they are back in proper doll form, which is what RV Pat did, sneaking out as real and going to Prom!
I hadn't ever had that happen before so I was pretty shocked when it did.
And RV IFMR Pat's hair was no longer that platinum blonde color but dark brown and burgundy red, and I believe that part's a glitch as well, as I've never seen an IFMR with that hair color. It's usually a very deep burgundy, purple, blue, or green with brown or black roots and/or highlights, from all the IFMR that I've been playing.
I was heartbroken at the thought of RV Pat becoming real finally but never getting to live her Sim life. I do get attached to my Sims!
So I sent her, along with Karlie Jo and Kraig, to Moonlight Falls (MF), where they can meet and socialize with Super Naturals to their hearts' content. Both of them.
RV Pat Frio (now living in MF)---young adult IFMR
LTW: Alchemy Artisan (just like Karlie Jo)
Traits: Snob, Klepto, Childish, Supernatural Fan, and UNSTABLE--so like Karlie Jo!
Skills: Guitar—1, Logic—2, Painting—1
Fav’s: Indie, Fried PB&J sandwiches, and Spice Brown
UPDATE:
And MF Pat is enjoying Sim life in her own game!
She met and married Gladsten Farmwell and they currently have four children, all with IF genes!
Their oldest, a daughter Patti Jo, has Pat's hair color and is currently a teen and is BF with Kyle Bagley, Karlie Jo's and Kraig's oldest child and his IFMR, Becki (aka Boinky).
Their twins, Caleb, who has Pat's red hair and turquoise eyes, and Claire, who has Gladsten's black hair and Pat's turquoise eyes, are children.
And youngest son, Gunnar, just became a toddler.
He's the only Farmwell child that got an IF in the mail, and it's name is Fluffs!
Before he aged up we changed her name to Felicity and hope to make these two a couple.
MF is full of IFMR from two of my older game saves, along with a couple from MrsFlynn that has a male IFMR spouse, their half and full blood children as well as my newest IFMR, Kyle's Becki, along with the two below.
My older game save from 2014 actually had two IFMR, Patches(M) and Bobo(F) Wolfe that married and had twin daughters, Pumpkin and Peaches. When I went into that save, I found out that the twins, who were children, both had BF Imaginary Friends. So they worked real hard and made them both real! Pumpkin's IFMR was Jelly Bean and Peaches' IFMR was Lucky.
Once they were saved to my library, they were placed in MF and given 'real' names.
Patches is now Pax, Bobo is Bobbie, Pumpkin is Piper, Peaches is Paige, Jelly Bean is Kellie Jean, and Lucky is Luci. The four girls all just turned teen.
MrsFlynn's Sims, Gabrielle (Monroe) and spouse Kenu Jones Winston (her IFMR aka Cuddles) are the proud parents of a son, Kjay, who is a teen and has his mother's magenta hair.
Their daughter, Brie, is a child who also inherited her mothers' magenta hair, which I believe is a custom hair color, and works beautifully in my IF game!
The other two couples that have IFMR are spare sibling twins Audra and Heath Frio from my SV town jump!
But this time they became romantically involved with their IFMR.
Audra and Hawk (Hesper) married and have a son, Alexander, who has the Frio/Ursine auburn hair. He just became a teen and is BF with Pat's daughter, Patti Jo. I have high hopes for them as a couple!
Heath and his IFMR spouse, Cosmae (Cosmo), have two children.
A daughter, Sara, who has her mother's dark green hair, and just became a teen.
And a toddler son, Nicholas, who also has his mother's dark green hair.
So Moonlight Falls is alive and thriving with IFMR and their progeny!
