In this brilliant episode, Dennis Kim is literally a money grabber.
Also, we're now with Scarlet and house #3.
Okay, not brilliant as in "more shiny than average". Adjust your screen brightness, look after your eyes. Okay? Cool.
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Keen viewers will notice the potion being duplicated is a vampire cure.
Having a second one lying around might be useful, that's all. There are a lot of vampires about. One thing this house has over a Tiny House is
space. Room for a bar, for example. Aidan also already knows the cure, so it's also less hassle to sort out Scarlet's future husband here than at that humble* abode.
*or is it?
Ava is a straight A student, has all 5 positive character traits, and has no reason to stay longer as a teen. She bakes her own cake.
A palace can be lonely like that.
And for a moment, you dear reader, had a twinge of Emotion toward
a Landgraab. Yeah. Wow. This is Deep Sims.
Said Landgraab exhales in a dignified way towards small ritual fires placed on food. No one ever questions this. Humans are weird.
Yes, dignified. That's what I said. Pure class.
And classy Miss Landgraab rolled "ambitious".
An ambitious good snob.
The first ambition I have for Ava is for her not to die while we visit the lives of her near relatives. She's now an immortal young adult, and we'll get back to her one day.
With that done, it's time to reveal that you read correctly, and Dennis Kim is to be the next Original Townie Dynasty member. Can you think of a more useless male sim? One who adds less enjoyment to you life? One who dies sooner? Okay I didn't think you'd have a name in mind, but on we go. If I don't play Dennis now I never will.
On a rather bracing Tuesday evening, week 17, Winterfest Eve, we visit the Spencer-Kim-Lewis house. Only Dennis is actually alive, though the ghost of Olivia was floating about.
Aidan did the decent thing and dedeathified her.
~So, Dennis. This is awkward. Remember Kari? She made you the repulsive vampire you are, but-hey-it-gives-you-personality? Right. Good. So she has a beautiful daughter Scarlet who is more than you'll ever be. Like, she's actually good at stuff. Well, everything really. Right. So she's my aunt, and on Winterfest she's going magically appear in the snow at a small house. Oh, yes, she's a Father Winter's Baby, so she's cooler than you in every sense. Forgot to mention that. But she'll totally marry you if you let her in? Right. Welcome to the household.
Oh, she's also a global superstar. She'll have to talk first because you're insignificant.
With that motivation, our hero Denis made a Grab For Money as soon as he could.
And he divested himself of the one thing that made him interesting. By sheer luck* there was a vampire cure potion just lying around. (This just doesn't happen in real life. Seriously, it doesn't.) Would Scarlet like a vampire? He didn't want to take that chance.
*actually not. Aidan made it. You can totally tell sims to do things if you click on them. I'm learning.
... and became immortal. It's just easier to do it here.
Dennis split from the household, taking the money he yanked off the trees, and bought an incomplete Tiny House. For about $116k. That's normal right?
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Dennis stands outside his new purchase in Windenburg. This is the Fyres lot. 64x64 with a 64 tile house. There are still two -- TWO -- living Fyres, probably both vampires, who had the 40x30 Tudor house plopped down for them in the same neighborhood.
I tried other layouts. I did. I promise. But combining kitchen / dining space, actually wasted space and felt less posh. So I am unoriginal and using what is essentially the same plan as the one on the building thread that some of y'all might have seen. I have moved the central living / bedroom forward, to get as much of an (admittedly small) neoclassical facade as possible. The basic premise is that this is as posh as I can make it.
As a hat-tip to Scarlet, there's a red / white theme in the main room.
The pool is about 2.5x the size of the house.
I've put down arches and a wedding arch in the blizzard. This is a mistake because as the snow melts I'm going to see that it doesn't fit with the lawn and gravel paths I've got there. There was a fountain. After a wedding the fountain or something will return.
Dennis getting a present in the kid's room.
There will only be one kid. In this neat pyramid of a dynasty, Kari started, had two kids. Those two kids (Aidan and Scarlet) between them will have three kids. And of those three, we already have Hobart and Ava. Just the one child for Scarlet and Dennis, but I have a hunch we might get a rather handsome sim.
Day 1 tiny home: upgrade the bed.
And test the bed.
I had thoughts of delaying the nooboo for a while, but the timing is nice now. And it's Winterfest. This way, the nooboo hatches at the start of spring. And I'd rather have a toddler in spring and summer than get caught out and end up with managing a mini-sim in a blizzard like this.
Different angle of the house:
Note the front door and windows have already changed. Luckily Scarlet had her laptop from university in her inventory. Scarlet is pregnant. I'm thinking of leaving it to chance whether it's a boy or girl. A part of me really hopes for a girl with an Asian eye shape. It's a quick visit to Nookstone or Chateau Peak to get carrots and strawberries. I'm easily persuaded.
If you don't have a fireplace, he'll still come, but... shame. Poor man.
Three adults in the kitchen, which is about two tiles. Always space for a cork board though!
This is the house, sans snow, as it was when they moved in.
Scarlet has signed up for the detective career just to get one more level. She starts at 3, and level 4 unlocks the gate for the fencing around the basketball court. After that she might quit. Despite not managing her though the last two days of term (thanks slacker, juiced brother) she had done all her coursework and has graduated with a Distinguished Degree in Communication with Honours.
The garden is most definitely incomplete. I'll probably paint grass stripes, and put in some formal beds. If it looks good.
