Literally Seven Heroes 3.5: A Rose By Any Other NameElizabeth: Esme says there’s more to this flower arranging than meets the eye. Something about secret powers. I’ll just see what she’s talking about while she’s out and about.
Esme: This is for you!
Racoon: Well! How lovely of you. Could I trouble you to take the lid off for me? It’s the paws, you see.
Esme: What do you think? It’s my 70th arrangement!
Racoon: It’s a masterpiece although…is it me or is it a little faded?
Esme: Watcher!
Watcher: Mea culpa. The flowers last for ever in your pocket. Who knew they’d have a shelf life when you put them in water?
Esme: Blessings on you, Mara of the Acoma!
Darwi: Blessings, Mara.
Elizabeth: May you be as strong as you need to be and always loved.
Random Stranger: Blessings!
Mara: Thank you all
Darwi: Come on, baby turtles!
Elizabeth: Oh, I wish Mara had skipped school to see this!
Esme: Darwi! You have done well here. Sulani is truly looked after.
Elizabeth: I didn’t see any litter or seagulls on our way here.
Darwi: Those seagulls would’ve gobbled these little ones up if they were here.
Esme: I feel…unneeded! I’ll knit some baby onesies. They’ll come in but…life seems a little purposeless. Maybe I’ll read a book. What’s this one on? Archaeology? Hmm! I bet those pictures don’t tell the half of it!
Mara: I love all my posters. I’ve got 8 different ones. Granny says she’ll help me find all the others too.
Grim: Ah! Elizabeth Best. We meet again. Now – who is this? Another of your elderly keep fit class?
Elizabeth: She overdid it, Grim. Just like the last one. I got to know her through work. I’m really very sad.
Grim: Again. I understand she controlled and manipulated all her family. Emotional abuse is a terrible thing. Difficult to prosecute. And yet…?
Elizabeth: And yet.
Grim: Tell me, Elizabeth, how are you keeping track?
Elizabeth: I’ve got a little list.
Grim: Until we meet again?
Elizabeth: Yes.
Elizabeth: Argh! Who upgraded this loo to a compost toilet?
Darwi: Did you do an Instant Upgrade?
Elizabeth: But I thought….
Esme: Infernal thing! It keeps talking to me!
Elizabeth: It’s a city luxury, we had to have it.
Darwi: Artificial intelligence? Abomination!
Esme: This is how you do the perfect cast – just like Goofy in that movie he made.
Mara: I got one, I got one! I do hope this will cheer everyone up.
Esme: It was a hard thing to have someone die in our house.
Mara: Mummy sent me off to fish but I was still very upset. I wrote it all down in my journal.
Esme: You’ve been doing a good job, Mara of the Acoma, consoling us all.
Darwi: Come on, Esme.
Esme : You don’t want a photo of me!
Darwi: You did it in the kitchen. Look, I’ve got a lovely backdrop now. What do you want? Flashy lights, a city skyline, a woodland….
Esme: A woodland would suit me, I think. OK, where do you want me?
Darwi: That’s perfect – outstanding, even!
Elizabeth: Top of my career and a new outfit. I’d prefer it in pink but I think Esme would prefer me not to wear this sort of outfit at all. I’ll miss the excitement…and there’s still those 5 people I just couldn’t bring to justice. But time for a change. I think I feel the need for a workout.
Elizabeth: So – bringing her out here was a good idea, so the others didn’t witness the death. I bet they’ll still be sad though.
Grim: You’re getting cold, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: No – we’re halfway through Spring.
Grim: I mean…never mind. Now then, let’s just check the records…luring people into gambling debt with free offers…not illegal.
Elizabeth: One widow lost all her pension and lives in fear of the bailiffs.
Grim: Are there not restrictions they can put in place?
Elizabeth: It’s an addiction and these people capitalize on it.
Grim: Once again, Elizabeth, it’s been….real!
Grim: Ahmed Tinker. The Tinker family are well-known in Evergreen Harbour. What went wrong?
Elizabeth: The paper trail isn’t there but everyone knows he’s been charging people to dispose of their toxic waste and then just dumping it in the ocean. All the hard work we did there would come to nothing if he was allowed to continue.
Grim: We’re a little off your home turf here, aren’t we?
Elizabeth: I’m trying to spare the family sadness.
Grim: Is it working?
Elizabeth: They’re too nice. They make friends with everyone!
Elizabeth: So if you say “sorry”?
Mara: It makes everything OK
Elizabeth: No, you still have to make amends but it’s a start. Well done for learning that.
Mara: Why are you wearing a robo-arm?
Elizabeth: It speeds up my tinkering. I need to take it off before work.
Elizabeth: Watcher!
Watcher: Congrats on your promotion!
Elizabeth: But what did you forget?
Watcher: Erm…it’s raining?
Elizabeth: You left my roboarm on and my work clothes are a full-body dress.
Watcher: Ah! I thought those peach knickers were an unusual fashion choice. Sorry.
Mara: Snore
Elizabeth: Goodnight sweetheart. Sweet dreams. It’s your birthday tomorrow.
Progress: Day 133 (Spring 3)Total Projects Completed 9 by 2 Heroes
Esme WeatherwaxCompleted Projects: 5
- Max Flower Arranging skill and give away 70 flower arrangements
- Complete the Lady or Lord of the Knits aspiration and give away 70 knitted objects.
- Make and give away 74/70 canned goods from own grown ingredients (22 types made)
- Grow 7 perfect fruits, 7 perfect herbs, and 7 perfect vegetables
- Assemble a natural history museum containing 7 collections of 7 unique items each: crystals, fish, fossils, frogs, insects, metals, shells
: none
Darwi Odrade Completed Projects: 4
- Make Evergreen Harbor the best that it can be by passing the Green Initiative and Modern Development Initiative in each neighborhood and ensuring that the town has a maker space, market space, and community garden
- Max Mixology aspiration and prepare 7 excellent meals, 7 excellent gourmet meals, and 7 excellent drinks.
- Clean up Sulani and max conservationist career – level 10
- Nurture 7 topnotch toddlers and send them to good homes when they become children
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- Complete Distinguished Degree in Psychology (8/12 modules done, 4 in progress) and counsel 7 angry, 7 sad, and 7 tense Sims, putting them in a happy, inspired, confident, or focused mood
- Assemble an art museum containing 2/7 masterpieces, 6/7 excellent wood carvings and 1/7 excellent photographs
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- Max Secret Agent career (done) and witness the deaths of 4/7 evil Sims
- Make Sim world safer by performing 16/70 upgrades on plumbing and electrical items on community lots
- Max Personal Trainer branch (level 4) of Athletics and mentor 7 Sims in fitness
- Create 7 Simbots and give them to 7 elders
– Child
Chosen Traits: (Independent) Outgoing
Requirements 6/7:
Earn 7 scouting badges; Find 7 collectibles; Catch 7 fish of different species; Complete 7 emotional whims; Make 7 objects (drawings); Reach level 7 of an adult skill (logic)
Esme’s and Darwi’s original characters would never have had anything to do with computers or AI for differing reasons. Trying to remain true to that does restrict which projects they can undertake so I might bend my restrictions…
