The Frohman Dynasty. Final Chapter: Immortality Explained [FAILED]

[MissPlumbBob]

This is truly hilarious! I laughed so hard from beginning to end.

I will be reading from now on... You have me hooked!

[Orange Iguana]

Things have slowed down here in the Frohman household now that everyone is settled in. Agnes decided to do her only renovation in her entire career by making David a chinese-themed house that's meant to be expandable. The lack of any landscaping whatsoever shows that Agnes is not meant for this profession... not that she cares.


Bebe is hard at work using a chainsaw on big blocks of ice. She's afraid of technology but she isn't afraid to use a chainsaw. The Frohmans should be scared but as long as there are no radios, computers, or TVs in the house, Bebe won't feel the urge to take that sculpting chainsaw and carve some technology to pieces.


David is busy snapping photographs of people doing some things. He'd make a good paparazzi but changing careers would mean he wasted a lot of time telling Gunther Goth he was totally awesome. While working on that, he went down to the library and purchased the diner plus that pond across the street from his house. It's a shame that Agnes's discount doesn't apply here, I could have had enough money for the best playground Sunset Valley has ever seen. Instead they'll just have to settle for picnic tables, a place to put their screaming toddlers, and a bathroom containing a shower... you know, just in case the Altos and the Landgraabs don't want to walk 10 feet to their house and take a bubble bath.


Agnes? Why she had her adult birthday which means we need to hurry up with that portrait, photograph, and maybe a sculpture of her. After all, we do have to have a dedicated "Spouses That Made This Possible" section of the museum. Even if it means taking a photograph of her shaking hands with Grim.

[Orange Iguana]

Many days later, at least because I didn't count how many days it took, Agnes and Bebe have done enough skilling and ice sculpting to have everything for their museum entries ready to go. Bebe managed to resist the urge to carve up that stereo I bought for the living room. Agnes took photos of Nick Alto's car to remind of her of what she used to have, even though she's a bike person. As for David... he watched TV after getting his photography and gardening to 10, must have been a good football game too because that commentator was going "FOO FOOOOOOOOOO" a lot.


During all the sculpting and painting, Agnes got pretty sick of her black dress and hightailed it over to the dresser and mirror. She somehow manages to pick an even more boring color scheme than what she had now. Clearly, the citizens of Sunset Valley dodged a bullet when David married Agnes before she even got a chance to give someone a makeover.


With David's Young Adult entry, plus Agnes and Bebe's general entries ready to go, the household can finally settle down.


David: Agnes the time has come to do something every family must do.
Agnes: ...I'll be right back.



Agnes: Why would you purchase a bar and only stock it with fruit punch and root beer?
David: "They" wouldn't like it if it had alcohol. It would get this story shut down for having inappropriate adult jokes in a family friendly story.
Agnes: What are you talking about?
David: Too complicated to explain. Let's just have a baby. I'll let you teach him to prank me every day for making you do nothing but paint and sculpt for the past... 2 weeks?
Agnes: Deal.


David's Immortality Progress
Italicized = Complete

Supermax: Handiness [Level 10, no challenges complete]
Career: Business [Level 8]
Lifetime Wish: Swimming in Cash
6 Unique Opportunities (Black Ops): Making Coffee the Executive Way, Merging Towards Overtime, Hospital Delivery, Seeking More Favorable Taxes, Making Nice with the Newsies
Real Estate: Hogan's Deep Fried Diner, Summer Hill Springs (Level 3)
Portraits: Young Adult
3 Unique Lifetime Rewards: Motive Mobile, No Bills Ever, Speedy Cleaner
Best Friends: Nick Alto, Gunther Goth, Bebe Hart, Iliana Langerak, Victoria Andrews, Iqbal Alvi
Traits: Ambitious, Virtuoso, Neat, Photographer's Eye, Handy

[Orange Iguana]

[Author's note: My game doesn't play the lullaby sound when a baby attempt is successful for some reason.]

After many, many woohoo sessions, all fueled by the thought of seeing David sit on whoopee cushions and having water sprayed in his face whenever he uses a sink, Agnes felt nauseated. It appears that she has become pregnant with what David hopes will be the second immortal. However, Agnes has no idea what David's true intentions really are. To her, David is just a narcissist that wants paintings, sculptures, and photographs of himself left behind so that when he dies, people will remember him.


She did do a good job painting his young adult portrait, it's quite the masterpiece. The pose on the photograph is totally awesome, like David wanted, and the sculpture will never, ever melt. How Bebe managed to pull that off, we'll never know.


Checking up on Bebe... uh-oh, she found the stereo, nothing will stop her technophobic rampage now! The Frohman's are doomed to live in a world without electronics! They're just lucky Bebe decided not to use the ice sculpting chainsaw.


David attempted to calm Bebe down but she has every right to be mad, David said the Frohmans were Amish!. Immediately after repairing the stereo for the third time, David went to unclog one of the toilets and... forgets it's his own birthday and ages up right there. Maybe he should throw a party when it comes time to age up to elder.


While David is busy trying to calm Bebe down as she keeps destroying the stereo, Agnes decides to take up fishing in order to kill some time and relax during her pregnancy. After all, what else is she going to do when she isn't being forced to paint or sculpt?


Eventually, while driving home from a Deathfish fishing trip, Agnes goes into labor and rushed to the hospital in the Motive... on second thought, let's not call it that, the Motive Mobile will now be known as "The Never Need to Eat, Pee, Sleep, Socialize, Shower, or Have Fun Ever Again Vehicle." Agnes rushed to the hospital in The Never Need to Eat, Pee, Sleep, Socialize, Shower, or Have Fun Ever again Vehicle and...

What will David and Agnes name the baby? Will it be a boy or a girl? Will the young sim be the prankster Agnes wants? Will Bebe ever calm down and stop breaking the stereo?

[MoonsAreBlue]

Nice update. And no, I don't think Bebe will ever calm down, haha.

[Orange Iguana]

Agnes: You're going to regret having this baby, David.
Doctor: Congratulations! It's a boy! A healthy baby boy. What do you want to name him?
David: Ethan.
Agnes: No, I want to name him Junior. That's the perfect name for a problem child.
David: Junior can be his middle name. If you're going to teach this baby to make my life miserable, I get to name him.
Doctor: Are you sure I should be letting you two keep this child?
David: We'll be fine, she's just a little tired.
Agnes: I came here in the Motive Mo--
David: Ah ah ah, we agreed that it would be called The Never Need to Eat, Pee, Sleep, Socialize, Shower, or Have Fun Ever Again Vehicle.


While on their way home--oh no... it's gotten worse. Bebe figured out that if she just moves the stereo to the side, she can destroy the TV! Something has to be done!


David: Alright, enough is enough. This is what, the 10th time I've repaired some electrical thing you've broken on purpose?
Bebe: You said you were Amish! Things were going fine until you decided to buy a TV and a stereo.
David: You had no problems using a chainsaw.
Bebe: That's different.


David: Ok look, I can fix this. I want you to repeat after me. "I'm so happy..."
Bebe: "I'm so happy..."
David: "That I no longer want to be a technophobe."
Bebe: "That I no longer want to be a technophobe."
David: "I want to be an artistic, savvy sculptor, natural cook, perfectionist, who is good."
Bebe: "I want to be an artistic, savvy sculptor, natural cook, perfectionist, who is good.""
David: And that's that, you just bought a midlife crisis. It didn't work on me because I'm not a technophobe. I have to say "I'm so happy" and follow up with a part of myself that's true.
Bebe: Hey, I no longer have the urge to break that TV, in fact, I want to see that gardening woman get eaten by the cow plant.


David decided throw Ethan a birthday party since he did mess up by not throwing a birthday party for himself. Turns out it never really mattered as none of the guests seemed to care that the birthday party was for a baby.


Oh yeah, he'll make a fine painter when he grows up.

Italicized = Completed
David's Immortality Progress
Supermax: Handiness (needs Tinkerer)
Career: Business (Chairman of the Board)
Lifetime Wish: Swimming in Cash
6 Unique Opportunities (Black Ops): Making Coffee the Executive Way, Merging Towards Overtime, Hospital Delivery, Seeking More Favorable Taxes, Making Nice with the Newsies, De-Worming
Real Estate: Hogan's Deep Fried Diner, Summer Hill Springs (Level 3)
Portraits: Young Adult, Adult
3 Unique Lifetime Rewards: Motive Mobile, No Bills Ever, Speedy Cleaner
Best Friends: Nick Alto, Gunther Goth, Bebe Hart, Iliana Langerak, Victoria Andrews, Iqbal Alvi
Traits: Ambitious, Virtuoso, Neat, Photographer's Eye, Handy
Ethan's Immortality Progress
Supermax: Painting
Career: You'll see
Lifetime Wish: Too young to have a LTW
6 Unique Opportunities (Black Ops): I'm not sure a toddler knows what the term "black ops" means yet
Real Estate: Like they're really going to let a toddler buy property
Portraits: Soon
3 Unique Lifetime Rewards: First, we have to teach him how to say "I'm so happy..."
Best Friends: We'll worry about that when he's a child.
Traits: Artistic, Virtuoso

[Orange Iguana]

It seemed a little strange to give birth to a baby with green hair so Agnes decided to give Ethan a little makeover... and by makeover, I mean carry Ethan to the dresser and mirror and have him dress himself. To be fair, her past career as a stylist did allow her to get a wig for free so that the little toddler has hair.


While the party was still going, Ethan pulled out a doll that David received in the mail and started to play with it. Wait a minute, something's not right about that doll. Didn't an older David Frohman travel through time to warn him about imaginary friends? If Ethan keeps playing with that doll...


David: Sorry kid, hate to have to do this.


David: I got somewhere special for you.






When David got back home, he decided to get to potty training Ethan as quickly as possible. He figured that the way he was trained should work on his son.
David: First I place you on the toilet, then you go. You climb off, I pick you up, put you back on the toilet 3 more times, boom, potty trained.

According to pregnancy books, this plan is incredibly stupid and will never work. Ethan is a Frohman, however, and Frohmans have a natural tendency to defy logic. Next up on the list, teaching him to talk.


David: Don't prank daddy
Ethan: Prank daddy
David: Don't prank daddy
Ethan: Prank daddy
David: Paint pictures when older
Ethan: Paint now
David: Paint pictures when older
Ethan: Paint now
David: I give up...



Since David didn't have any luck teaching Ethan to talk, Agnes decided to give it a try.

Agnes: Prank daddy
Ethan: Don't prank daddy
Agnes: Program screamer in daddy's computer
Ethan: Screamer! Comptuer!
Agnes: Rig faucet to spray water in daddy's face
Ethan: Faucet! Water!
Agnes: Make daddy sit on funny noise
Ethan: Funny noise!
Agnes: Perfect
Ethan: Perfect!

[ratchie]

Good job on getting rid of the IF they are nothing but trouble. Ethan is cute.

Rachel

[Orange Iguana]

After finally becoming a power broker, David receives an e-mail.

"Dear Mr. Frohman

Your long lost brother has died from falling off the top of a tower and saying 'buddha'. We are very sorry for your loss but he did leave you $33,311. The money has been wired into your account."

Long Lost Frohman Relative Death Count: 1


The next day was Agnes's birthday. She insisted that a party be thrown since after all, this is the last birthday she'll ever have. You know what, wish granted. David threw a party for her since she did paint a bunch of portraits, and she did play "backup sculptor," and she did take a photo of David at every life stage, and she did get married only to have her car sold immediately, and she did give birth to Ethan. Like a true Frohman, only the family members cared about Agnes's birthday. Well, Nick did celebrate immediately after insulting Agnes.


In fact.... the party guests started to care once Agnes hurt her spine turning into an elder. David's friends are jerks. Considering that most of them are vampires, they weren't thrilled that the cake had no plasma in it either.


Two days later, it was Ethan's birthday and to celebrate, David demonstrated just how bad of a parent he really is and let the toddler watch Terror TV.


Just kidding, David threw another party and in true Frohman fashion, you guessed it, only the family members cared.


He's still going to be one heck of a painter, I mean look at those eyes. Those are Frohman painter eyes.

David's Immortality Progress -- Won't bother listing. He only needs his elder portrait and one more unique upgrade to supermax handiness.
Ethan's Immortality Progress
Italicized = Completed
Supermax: Painting (Skill level zero because no books were read. I have a good reason for not doing this)
Career: Too young for a career
Lifetime Wish: Let's see if we can get it to pop up and not wait for him to become a YA.
6 Unique Opportunities (Black Ops): He just became a child, give him time.
Real Estate: Soon
Portraits: Toddler
3 Unique Lifetime Rewards: He just isn't happy enough
Best Friends: That's what school is for
Traits: Artistic, Virtuoso, Ambitious

[Sportsfan]

2 questions: how are you going to make him immortal if nobody has gardening, fishing, or cooking skill yet (or maybe I missed that part)? And why didn't you read him the painting books?

[Orange Iguana]

2 questions: how are you going to make him immortal if nobody has gardening, fishing, or cooking skill yet (or maybe I missed that part)? And why didn't you read him the painting books?

1. Bebe has max cooking, Agnes has maxed gardening (was reading a gardening skill book in an early chapter) and fishing (caught deathfish during pregnancy). I also did the "store ambrosia in the food replicator" trick with the food replicator that Agnes bought. There's also 2 death flowers laying on the floor in the master bedroom. David doesn't qualify for immortality yet so he can't hold on to them.

2. Ethan's going to be an Architect. If you don't level painting at all until he gets the job, get him Entrepreneurial Mindset, and level painting to 10 by only doing Research Architectual Design on a draft table, he'll max out his career in a couple days without doing a single renovation. As long as Ethan doesn't retire, I'll have the 40% discount on build/buy mode for the rest of the dynasty.

[Sportsfan]

Oh okay. I guess I hadn't been following too much until now.
Smart idea with the architecture designer. I might do that too.

[Orange Iguana]

The first order of business when someone ages and gets some new threads is to send them to the mirror and the dresser to give the sim a more fitting look. Agnes decided not to do this as she was fine the way she was. Ethan's favorite color is red so he gets a red shirt. A different favorite color might be a better idea since immortals don't make very good redshirts.


During the party, David receieves a letter in the mail.

"Dear Mr. Frohman,

Your long lost sister got into a fight with The Ridiculous SimHulk and lost. We are very sorry for your loss but she did leave you $33,106. Here is the check."

Long Lost Frohman Relative Death Count: 2


Now that Ethan is old enough to prank people, he went to the bathroom to make Agnes proud. Why not start small by putting some hair dye in David's shampoo?

[Screenshot of David with pink hair. My apologies, but this story doesn't use imageshack anymore at least.]
David: What's this? Ah! My hair! It's pink! AGNES!!!!

[Screenshot of David washing the pink dye off. Imageshack strikes again.]
David: I know how to put a stop to this.


David: Son, I know that Agnes taught you to do mean things to me.
Ethan: She said she'd give me candy and ice cream whenever something bad happened to you.
David: I know, she told me she would do that before she gave birth to you. Now to fix this, you are banned from painting any pictures in this house until you become a young adult.
Ethan: WHAT?
David: If you do one more mean thing to me, you'll be banned from painting for life. I know you're an artistic guy and you have to express yourself, but this is the only way.
Ethan: No no no, don't do that, I'll be mean to Agnes instead, I swear.
David: When you become a teen, I'll show you the real reason I'm doing this. You're too young to keep secrets. You can always play the guitar to pass the time.
Ethan: But it's too heavy.
David: I can fix that.


David: WORK IT! Come on! Only 298 to go!
Ethan: Must... lift... guitar...
David: Keep going! Woo!


Agnes: Am I hearing this correctly? Did you really ban Ethan from painting until young adulthood just because of one prank?
David: I can be pretty harsh, you know.
Agnes: You did this to foil my plan of making you suffer didn't you?
David: Yep.
Agnes: Well then, you can forget about me painting you as an old man and Ethan growing up.
David: Already have that taken care of.


Bebe: Ok now Ethan, say fuzzy pickles so that I can paint your portrait.
Ethan: Fuzzy pickles

[Sportsfan]

Are you just giving them money then?

[Orange Iguana]

When my immortals accomplish their 3 unique LTRs, I just spend the leftover happiness points on inheritences.