Chapter 2. Part 5.You've seen them as teens, but how did we get there. With trepidation. I was a Nervous Subject.
As mentioned previously, teeth were falling out all over the place, and I was somewhat worried about the aging up glitch. I know the whole tooth thing was briefly patched out while it was a problem, and it's back and therefore presuambly fixed. And yet I've seen recent posts that still seem to suggest a problem. (But maybe they had mods, and I'm rather vanilla.) I even thought of spending some of Janelle's satisfaction points on a potion to wipe out all negative moodlets, but the sore teeth remained. I even went into cas to check the tooth status. I made backup saves.
After achieving very little, here we go...
Phoebe aged up first. Hopefully bug free, hopefully neither sim morphs into someone different as a young adult. She's randomly rolled Book Worm. That's fine. She's a whisker below a 3-star celebrity. I haven't been streamiong or recording videos with the children, so this fame is purely down to refelected fame from mum and dad, and maybe the celebrity home lot trait. That's 2:14pm, by 4:40pm she's a global superstar.
Ros was next, and this carefully framed screenshot shows her tooth gap.
She too is a fraction under 3-stars. Full disclosure, she initially rolled "evil" which isn't a bad fit considering her toddler stage. She was a lovely infant, then switched roles with her sister. As you see, I didn't keep evil, and she re-rolled, and got... paranoid. I hesitated for a while about that, and decided it was fine. I'm not sure how to overcome this paranoia -- maybe a StrangerVille future for our Ros isn't a bad move? Rosalind. Roswell. It fits. Regardless, she is a more reserved, suspicious sim. And lazy.
But lazy might change, because both girls have ended up as cheerleaders.
I apologise. That's just awful. lol. They'll get to CAS soon.
In this save I've done the other three HSY after school activities already, so I signed Phoebe up immediately after blowing out her candles. Then when it came to Rosalind's turn to look for an after school thing, nothing else had the same schedule. So for ease of management, she got signed up for cheerleading too. And she's lazy, and doesn't like it.
As promised, at 4:40pm Phoebe's a 5-star celebrity. Only two and a half hours before, she was still a child. How time flies.
Ros had finished her cheer practice before she got to use the drone, so she started painting for a bit of fame. Soon she also donated some violins, and was also a global superstar. I wanted to get this wrapped up before heading out to Mt Komorebi. The Festival of Snow had started, and that's a fun easy few satisfaction points that I like picking up. I like eating the food and wearing the unique costumes.
... and swam in the river for an hour which completed stage one of that aspiration.
Paparazzi are ever-present.
Phoebe and Ros are also greeting sims when they can for Friend of the World. They can instantly befriend anyone with a normal friendly greeting, but they also have the "instant-besties" option through fame. I feel it's worth using these powers to complete that aspiration.
It was upon returning from this (very fast, very realistic) holiday in Mt Komorebi that Herbert was abducted in the early hours of Sunday. But good news! He's back! It was sunrise by the time he returned. We'll be keeping a close eye on him for signs of pregnancy.
The twins finally went to cas. The family portrait on the wall put Ros and Herbert next to each other, and that top she's wearing is maybe a little bit of dad's style.
After that homework, Phoebe lacked Fun. She hoped to provide herself with Fun through the meduim of chess. Fun was not forthcoming from chess in large quantities, but it was a chance for a scenic pic of my favourite lounge and a glance at how we're doing with traits.
Savant? Check. Shameless? Check. Carefree? Check. I normally never take carefree because I'd rather do the Beach Life aspiration for exactly the safe effect, but aliens can't tan. I suppose one could say "but these aliens have human skin" and still do that aspiration, but both kids have satisfaction points to burn and dropping 3000 on Carefree or Great Kisser is a mere nothing. (Rosalind doesn't have that.)
But where is Ros while her sister is playing chess? She's trimming her bonsai. But... wow... Father Winter decided to visit. It's summer in the desert, I get that, but it's not the first picture one has of Father Winter. Anywho, he looks relaxed!
If this household keeps up the Father Winter's Baby trait, maybe he's the one? :/ He looks fun. Gerard Regan.
The Starlight Accolades in this save is a family reunion.
Everyone, with the exception of the host, is related. Unfortunately the men were standing outside, or at the bar. Kash was there, Zach Ward (yes, that Ward), Frank Kinney (husband of the woman on the far right) (but these are all foreign to you, ha!), and obviously Herbert. He's in the first pic -- sparkly black jacket -- with his daughters. Alistair didn't show up at all. Bad form. We are disappointment.
None of my current family won anything (Ros did submit a few videos, but none were nominated so we weren't expecting anything). Phoebe evidently passed the time at the bar ordering caviar crackers.
No sooner had it finished than Phoebe and Ros were in Copperdale with other teens, in a group called Quick Woohoo, expressly for the purpose of getting past the cuddle carts goal as soon as possible.
I think that group might have made an apearance with Maxine's story, so hopefully this won't draw too many comments from the gallery. Besides, its by no means the most scandalous thing in this picture. The kid talking to Ros in the bue shirt with Tintin hair (sorry dude, that's what I think of)... is a Landgraab. Look, there's a lot of Landgraabs and they have a lot of kids. Many houses of them. I don't know where he fits in. And they're not super-close relatives. Maybe. I should probably check.
I'll wrap this up here. It only covers two days, and the next day is obviously first day at high school.
