.:Foundation & Empire:. Generation 1.01
After leaving all the images sitting on my server for over a week, I finally got around to finishing the captioning & actually posting them!
Previously on Foundation & Empire, we saw Laidin move into Mozzie Cove, smuggle stolen goods, live insects & reptiles (Janna the crocodile being one of those) through customs, entrap a foreign national into a marriage of her own convenience, hire a creepy babysitter.
Laidin, Youssef & Ashliegh finally got the keys to their new, & hopefully mouse & mozzie free, home.
Considering the amount of wood in it, they should likely also keep their fingers crossed against termites. And weather damage - those boards would need resealing every six months considering they are directly across the street from the beach.
Out of the frying pan.... =P
So Ashliegh did as all most good children in families who believe in celebrating birthdays do - she blew out the candles of her birthday cake. Unlike 'normal' toddler aged kids, she was then surrounded by pixie dust, forced to spin & suddenly transmographied into a child with the look of being possibly 11ish.
If she wasn't a sim, that could be quite mind breaking.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this image of Daddy-dearest's stats.
I think Laidin might actually sparkle more than bondchick_nett.
-.-
The moment Ashliegh started painting this I knew it was going straight on the wall. It is still hanging on her bedroom wall (she's now middle aged) even if it doesn't have a name. "Harry" was tempting... but it's pink & it seemed to sully the bigfoot's name.
Ideas & suggestions are welcome!
Skilling. Possibly cooking... or maybe gardening. Actually, most likely gardening.
Neither being in the medical field nor surrounded by sparkly pixie/faerie/orbs made it any less uncomfortable explaining the Birds & the Bees to her daughter.
Sometimes, it just helps to tell them the truth & leave the obscure metaphors outside.
Because let's face it; at that age they're only going to pull this incredulous face & tell you to stop being gross & making shit up anyway =P
Oh look! Pretty!
Now, while you're all happily distracted by the amazing beauty of good lighting on ancient slave carvings, I'll tell you that Sim|Egypt apparently let our favourite terrorist back into the country. With an upgraded Visa no less.
Laidin is nothing short of reckless. Any intelligent Australian at least knows never to put their hand into a dark hole in a wall, in a room that hasn't seen the light of day (silly sun decor not included) in more than a month, let alone hundreds of years.
"Oh. Crawly things. Well obviously none of them are poisonous."
You think?
[headdesk]
Laidin idly brushes the bettles, millipedes & spiders off her arm.
There's Brave, & there's stupid.
Bring out the Lonely Planet map!
They're always right!*
Out of the frying pan, into the fire much?
Laidin, I do like you (EA on the other hand....) but what on earth are you doing? Pushing a stone into the middle of jets of fire, streaming menacingly from the floor.....
[snerk]
I told you so!
Also, I adore the shower in a can. It makes me want to set my sims on fire all the time.
[shifty eyes]
She did this one her own though, only moments later. And we'd only bought one of the shower-in-a-can's as I'd thought they were just for hiegene, not safety.
Mind you, the animations for this had me in stitches.
I'm not a nice sim|god, am I. Yes, that full stop is meant to be there; it's rhetorical.
Laidin stops & looks at the Sarcophagus at the end of the corridor. Does it have a mummy in it? Could she try out these awesome scooby mummy snacks?
Awwwww. No undead to come & try to eat your brains curse you.
Laidin's mad. She sticks her hand into a basket that she expects to have an Egyptian Cobra snake in it. They might not be able to spit venom, like their Indian cousins can, but if you're going to stick your hand in their mouth the basket like that it's obvious why they've never needed to develop the trait.
That's better.
Laidin teaches the locals her own language, in thanks for learning some of theirs. ^.^
Mummyfish! Really. Yes, those are bandages!!
[snerk]
This was just pretty.
So I took a photo. Laidin took one with her camera too.
& so ended her solo trip to Egypt.
She was afraid to move, lest the bubbles consume her entirely.
(thanks bondchick_nett)
However Attack Submarine Duck (lol Engram-au), who was not a particularly well loved sponge (no matter what bondchick_nett thinks), had ideas on how to break through the bubble wall & escape to the land of Barth-oom where the towels are always fluffy & the floor tiles & towel rails are heated.
[dreams more]
Laidin & Youssef both manage to attend their daughter's 13th birthday in their work uniforms. Laidin's makes sense. I think she was head of medicene at this point. Sucks that EAxis couldn't come up with something original & just removed the glasses from the mad scientist (or did they just add glasses to the mad scientist? Chicken or Egg - you decide!)
Ashleigh considers...
... & then grows into that bloody WA hair. She possibly also grew into socks & thongs (the shoes, people)
There. Ashleigh as a teen.
& what image would be compelte without a gold statuette of a regal snake?
Laidin & Youssef bond over marshmallow roasting in the firepit in their yard. ♥
This bothered me soooo much.
Sam Sekemoto & Ashleigh were doing really well. They'd bonded & were starting to get flirt interactions... & then, suddenly, she couldn't anymore. Apparently, Sam had grown up into an adult & their love was outlawed.
Days later, Sam got a new girlfriend, knocked her up & married her. Ashleigh was a hole pile of sulkiness, let me assure you.
Laidin got a call from a friend on his death bed & thought she'd do the right thing. She'd worked with him for 'years', so she went to visit him & cheer him up. Instead, he died moments after she arrived & she spent the next few days bawling over it.
Ashleigh takes up vhs-fitness classes to take her mind off being dumped because of her boyfriend deciding he was too grown up for her.
Youssef decides that he'd take his wife & daughter to China, in the hopes of cheering them both up.
It was going to be a big task.
Ashleigh loved it straight away.
It was like walking through a Lonely Planet calendar.
Youssef makes friends with the Martial Arts master by pointing out he's not actually a Westerner.
You'd think they'd change to athletic for their pre-belt practice though.... my sensei went nuts at people who tried to enter the dojo in shoes, let alone touch the equipment, & I have no doubt that Kung Fu shīfu's would too.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T [/Johnny Five]
Youssef was awesomely proud of his white belt. He felt accepted. That he was one with the Universe.
All he had to do now, was cheer his wife up & all was good with the world.
Easier said than done though. Women are from Venus.
Meanwhile, Ashleigh goes & visits the Forbidden City.
It was strangely empty.
There are no trees in many areas of the Emperor's palace so that people couldn't climb the walls & escape/hide/attack.
The 10 metre deep moat that surrounds the Forbidden City is 52 metres wide, built that way because arrows could only fly 50 metres. [/random trivia]
Ashleigh follows in her mother's footsteps & goes in search of hidden doors. Shame she's not got elven blood - she'd get a +5 bonus to her search rolls within 10 feet.
Adventuring gets her wet.
How droll.
If I could just link a sound file, I'd have made a Super Mario joke.
Youssef's sparring partner invokes Street Fighter.
Couldn't help myself but take a pretend photo of the game's Great Wall.
Especially considering the EAxis version lacks smog.
The man who was named after the dog, runs away from the tomb's unopened secret door on Ashleigh's arrival.
KOI!!!
Sorry. Had to. I would love to dig a creek through our yard & fill it with koi. But nooooo. It's hard enough to find someone to look after Shadow for weeks/months at a time when we travel, let alone trust someone to look after a creek full of koi. [sigh]
When we settle down & open the guesthouse I'll just make sure to have a moat. Then, when I travel, the staff have to look after it. [plots]
I'm still trying to work out what skill they're raising when they do this.
Of all the places to lose her bladder, it had to be the shrine. Well done, Ashleigh. Well done.
Indy tries to pretend he's still cool even though he's old hat.
After she passed, he stood there posing for a little while longer. Poor dear.
Ashleigh discovers that beating up a Muk Yan Jong is preferable to beating up Sam Sekamoto.
More smog-free Great Wall ^.^
Luigi lost his hat. -.-
Laidin oversees her daughter learning to fish. Youssef wants 13 perfect bloody fish in bowls in the house (HATE HATE HATE - seriously, I preferred the ts2 have 20 simultaneous loves) so they're all going to work on it.
Apparenlty Chun Li wears pants now. In brown no less.
o.O
"I am one with the Universe. I will not think of Sam. I am one with the Universe. I am."
& so ended their trip to China.
Back home, Ashleigh leaves me gobsmacked.
This is not as innocent as it looks.
[glares]
She went to school on the bus. She entered the rabbit hole & had the "work hard" choice. So I then left her to her studies & concentrated on the sims remaining at home..... only to suddenly find (by accident no less) that she had walked out of class & was wagging.
So basically, I had to check on her every hour to make sure she hadn't walked out on her teachers.
You realise that I have absolutely no sympathy for you, Ashleigh.
If you'd gone to bloody class, you'd know the answers.
There were zero teens in the hood on the growing up of Sam. And none in China. I looked. So I got annoyed, loaded Edit Town & opened CAS.
Meet Kii.
To my delight, the first day of school after putting him in a house with the Harts, he invited Ashleigh home with him. D'awwwww.
Youssef & his garden. He spends most of his spare time out there.
Laidin works hard to keep looking good for her Youssef. She doesn't go to the gym anymore.
"You might be a hunk, but far out Kii you smell awful!"
Ahhhhh! Young love.
Laidin invited over the next ranked chess opponent. He was a jerk & did nothing but insult her & her home. She was happy to ask him to leave the moment she wiped the game floor with him.
How happy is Ashleigh with Kii??
She doesn't even think of Sam anymore.
All together now. Awwwwwwww
This overly enthusiastic photobomb was brought to you by....
..... our aging founder.
With all her visa points, I thought this outfit was rather fetching.
* Except when they're very, very wrong.
In case you are interested, Ashleigh & Kii can be downloaded in .sim form here.