Week 9

Last week we had our first Togetherness Tuesday. Agrimony spent most of the week meditating after finally getting into platinum due to some private time with Glen, but she was allowed to attend Burdock's coming of age party. Burdock somehow managed to grow-up well despite the lack of dates. We met Betony's future husband who is perfect for a lot of jobs. He'll probably be moving in on Tuesday. Glen became quite a handsome elderly man in really sharp cloths and the cat ghosts drove everyone nuts. There was a massive rearranging of furniture in the household to accommodate the increase in ghost traffic and the new grave of the sadly departed Sake, who chose to die an hour later than normal, right in near the front door.

The people (as in all of you who chose to vote) have spoken and Betony and Joe will be pursuing careers in Adventure and Gamer, providing they can find an opening in the paper. It was a close vote at the end with the final score being 3 Military/Education, 4 Gamer/Adventure.

Day 58 - Monday (Winter)
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With Burdock monopolizing the computer all day long, Glen has to work on his creative skills in the wee hours of the morning, but he's not complaining, he doesn't need that much sleep anymore anyway.

Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks that Burdock turned out quite well!

Poor Betony, pimply, working out while a lazy person watches, and dressed in one of the biggest fashion mistakes ever made.

Agrimony at 67 days old and counting....

This poor girl has the absolute worst case of acne I've ever seen on a sim, poor kiddo!

"Red Hands again? Don't you think we're getting a little old for this?"

Day 59 - Tuesday (Winter)
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Morning coffee and paper, it almost looks like a normal house, doesn't it?

"Soon I will have access to that luscious young body!"

Hold your horses buddy, you have to wait till she's legal and then convince her she loves you.

Welcome to the family Joe!

"Enjoy it while you can, because as soon as she's legal she's all mine buster!"

Many hours later.... I'm trying to create my first simsicle!

Basically it was a normal Togetherness Tuesday which meant I was too busy restoring relationships to keep up with photo taking!

Day 60 - Wednesday (Winter)
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Yesterday was so busy with the friendship making that I never properly introduced the future spouse of Betony...

Joe Andrews
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Become Captain Hero
Neat-4, Outgoing-4, Active-4, Playful-7, Nice-6
Aquarius

Joe only brought $3,000 to the family, but has a nice skill set. I carefully shared out his inventory items between the family for now since I'm still not quite sure what the approved method of disposal is. He's currently a Coach, but it's not a job he'll be keeping.

At least this is one item that it's easy to get rid of. Joe is now all set for Betony. His new turn-ons are Black Hair and Fitness and he's turned off by Make-Up. Perfect!

And this was the rest of Wednesday, skilling and random townies to keep up the friend count.

This is the one thing I hate about the Witch's Hut, most of the sims seem to have problems with remembering to put a coat on when they go outside.

It's the one benefit of living in a perpetual Winter Wonderland. That tower in the background is where I'm testing out building ideas for future attempts at the apocalypse, btw.

The other two fools are too busy to even notice that poor Betony is now an ice statue. I'm sorry dear, I'll get you into a hot bath right away.

Well, maybe not right away, I had to see it at least once! (It's battery operated, that's why it still works!)

Day 61 - Thursday (Winter)
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I'm not actively trying to kill Glen you understand, but he's about half a skill point from Maxing Creativity and he does have nine Mech... doesn't matter anyway since the operation was a success.

And just where do you think you're going Burdock?
"To work, I got a job this morning as a Noob!"

Hooray! Free phone lines, here we come! I did and didn't cheat for this. You see, the newspaper was glitched, he'd pick it up to find a job and then put it down. So I had him look on the computer, but only at the first job, and then I demoted him down to starting position. I think it should still be valid since it was to overcome a glitch!

Apparently this particular snowman offended Glen somehow, or it could be because some idiot decided to block access to the pet house.

Poor Burdock, an apocalypse is hard on some types of sims, and he's one of them. No dates is just something he doesn't comprehend.

Even Sassy is getting a bit annoyed by our growing crowd of snowmen.

Day 62 - Friday (Winter)
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At least all that junk that Joe brought with him is useful for buying friendship!

The newspapers are still glitched, so I guess I'll keep using the first job on the computer and demoting them methodology.

Day 63 - Saturday (Winter)
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"Yay, playing in the bathtub is SOOOO much fun...."

Blast! Luckily for me, Gamer was once again the only job available today so I'll have Joe try his hand at it instead.

Don't be so hard on yourself Burdock, it's my fault, not yours.

Growing up is not always hard to do, sometimes it's much easier than staying young!

Betony Leaf
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Become Captain Hero
Neat-2, Outgoing-7, Active-10, Playful-10, Nice-6
Sagittarius

Let the romancing begin!
(One little romantic action was all it took!)

"Wow! Shiney!"

Betony proposed marriage though, after all, this is the Leafs story.

"I know I'm rushing things a bit, but I have been waiting for you for awhile now..."

Betony may be on Cloud 9, but poor Burdock's life is in the dumps. He got fired, he's not allowed to date, he's never had a Woohoo and he's so desperate for a chance at the ladies that he's smustling in the kitchen with a piece of jail bait.

Day 64 - Sunday (Winter)
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Oops! I think I forgot to feed someone!

Looks like that first Woohoo was successful though!

Betony seems to be spending most of her time in the kitchen. Every time she eats it all comes back up, so she's constantly hungry.

Joe has issues with looking directly at the camera, but at least he's got no problems with promotions! Of course, this is NOT the career he signed on for, and he's lacking in the skills required, but he doesn't have much else to do anyway.

I guess we'll leave off with a shot of the Incredibly Purple Grape Girl!

Summary: Well, it was really slow for awhile there, but then Joe moved in. Soon afterwards Burdock got a job in the Gamer track only to be fired a few days later. Luckily for the Leaf family the Gamer community had already put an ad in the paper and Joe took the job on. Betony finally became an adult on Saturday. She quickly flirted, fell in love, got engaged, got married and got bedded! We soon discovered that Joe is quite proficient at procreation!

Mob Payout: $1350
Household Cash: $94,652