Chapter 2. Part 8.In this ordinary episode: Phoebe checks her phone, Rosalind thinks about stationery, and Janelle is involved in a workplace scandal.
High School, week two is upon us! Yes! Eventually! But first! A trip to The Solar Flair! (I might have changed the name.)
While selecting potential venues for those weekend parties, I noticed this lot's type was "generic". That's because I've played here once or twice in the distant past, but the NAPs include "sharing is caring", and a lot of the necessary items for functioning have been, no, not stolen, reappropriated.
The reason the Solar Flair is here at all, not Oasis Springs, is 1. because of the view and 2. because I often revamp the Oasis Springs high street with Chez Llama, bowling alleys etc. In StrangerVille, this is a bar not a lounge because the StrangerVille mystery sends a sim to a bar a few times, and a sim can now go here and meet army people and so on. I was just in the neighbourhood to fix this up, and then go back home.
In all the festivals, partying and Starlight Accolades (in that order), apparently we arrived at 7:50am, Monday morning having not done any cheer leading practice. And I feel it's somewhat important to stay on schedule and for the twins to get their promotions today.
The practice just before school only took them to 75%, and not wanting to leave anything to chance and knowing that "complete" was very close the practice mats were moved outside the front of the house so they could finish as soon as they came home from school. Ros and Phoebe were duly promoted to captain of the cheer squad (co-captains?) and promptly signed up for new activities, because a supersim can complete two on normal lifespan. And if they can, they should. This is something Maxine could have done but I didn't plan properly.
Janelle returned from work at 5pm Monday with a promotion.
And so did Herbert.
Rosalind, left, lazy, straight black hair (the one who had a brief fling with another Landgraab but is now enamoured with Kyle Kyleson), is on the computer team. Phoebe, right, frizzy brunette who dumped Riku, is on the chess team. This is a Tuesday in autumn, a more romantic word than fall.
Chess and computer schedules are in sync, so Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. It's next level planning. It takes 4 days to get 2 promotions. Here they are on Thursday, getting simultaneous promotions.
This means if all goes well and they don't forget to practice, they'll be done on Tuesday week 3. This leaves three whole days in their last week to try get to the top of drama club. It would be nice to pick up a drama trophy. (From past experience they seem to keep their progress, so hopefully, fingers crossed, they'll start at level 3.)
Thursday, as you see top right, was also Harvestfest. A beautiful cozy day with a grand meal, and a dusting of snow.
And a rainbow!
The girls also did another project session. These have happened on Thursday evening because there's no after school activities to worry about. Ros doesn't have the rocket science her sister does, and that's not fair.
Liker her sister, Rosalind maxed rocket science. It's worth saying Ros is the slightly
less skilled of the twins. Maybe that's the lazy trait, maybe it's just how it's impossible to be completely even in how one manages them. During this week they were doing relentless skill classes for the certificate they can no longer get, and under similar conditions Phoebe did seem to get a little more skill per class.
On Friday, the twins both aced their exams and again are both said be on the way to valedictorian.
Janelle got promoted to CEO and Herbert promoted to Wardrobe Wiz. They were in step, at the same level of each career, but Herbs fell behind by one. He had the required level 6 painting skill, but there seemed to be some glitch and the game wasn't fully convinced of his skill. But restarting fixed it.
That is her sleepwear outfit, and she
wasn't wearing it when she left. Um?!?!?!
We've seen a lot more of Ros this week, so here's Phoebe (and Janelle) to bring the dear readers up-to-date on super-alien-sim progress.
That displays 37 traits, but is cutting off the two regular CAS traits all teen sims have, taking the total to 39 as of Friday evening. Both twins have Chopstick Savvy, neither twin has Spice Hound.
Janelle and Herbert have been dealing with burnout and brain fog, and this is the double-soothing solution. The hot tub is fully upgraded with aromatherapy (which can solve a variety of negative moodlets), and there's incense. For destressing, this is very effective.
Other stuff that's happened? Um. Ros made a small effort to get rid of her lazy trait with some laps in the heated pool. No luck.
There was also a bit of illness going around this autumn. Phoebe and Jenelle definitely had it. In this house we go to the science room to decontaminate.
There are potions of immortality here, of slimify, need fixers. You can even clone a soul scrap. Maybe if you clone 10 scraps you should be able to reassemble a whole soul! Thoughts for the devs? Yeah? No?
This room was built as a rocket bunker, and is underneath the fountain. It's very easy to return it to active rocket service. No, I'm not hinting. This is not the Particular Purpose of the skill classes -- besides, the girls maxed rocket science with projects. That's not what they were learning.
