Longhollow, Ben & Jill Long, Week 6
Whut? No nekkid? No pottymouth? Why, nope, there isn't!
...Well, no pottymouth in English, anyway...
This week started much like the previous week, with a naked Jill plugging away at making pet bricks until finally:
So she finished up her last pet brick and then started in on fire trucks, until her comfort tanked and she headed off to take a bubble bath. When Joy came home from school, she brought Alvin Futa home with her. Once she put a fussing Rudolph down for a nap, they had a chat:
Which, judging from Alvin's face, was a confusing chat. They still managed to become friends, though. Later, Joy toddlerized Rudolph:
And he's pretty cute, actually, in a he-doesn't-look-much-like-his-parents sort of way. Doesn't even have The Nose, more like a less-Long version of it. But, like his full siblings, he's an Aries with points as follows:
Neat: 8
Outgoing: 7
Active: 4
Playful: 4
Nice: 3
And since he made a beeline for the block-sorting toy like his alien half-brother, he immediately discovered his One True Hobby:
The next few days were filled with mundane. Kirby got an A+:
Joy pulled interesting faces while working on potty-training Rudolph:
"It's so boring!"
Well, get used to it, honey. You're the one who wants nine kids.
"But I want them to be babies all the time! 'Cuz they're cute then. This is just...boring."
Oh, yeah, you're gonna be a great mom. I can tell.
"Really? Wow, thanks!"
Everyone, please remember that Joy is blonde, OK?
And, um, Ben up and killed Abhijeet Deppiesse:
"Um...Ooops?"
Way to go, beloved.
"Hey, I was really hungry!"
Yeah, whatever. Just go bury him under the willow tree, will ya?
"But...I could compost him!"
No, that would be gross. Bury. Now. Go.
"All right, all right..."
Rudolph did adorable toddler things:
And got potty-trained:
And doesn't he look thrilled about it? And, apparently, even uber-grouchy, uber-serious alien kids will autonomously play peek-a-boo with their adorable little half-siblings:
...even though it looks more like he's trying to scare the poor kid to death...
"Sree asifs fun diwo," he sagely observed.
Well, at least I understood one word in there.
"Osmaf," Kirby answered, rolling his eyes and pulling a pitying and impatient look.
You're calling me an idiot again, aren't you?
"Wodyns," he answered with a shrug.
Yeah, whatever. Keep working on the Simlish, kiddo, 'K?
"'K," he answered with a grin that I'd swear was as cheeky as one of Rupert's. Damn cheeky aliens.
Ben harvested his first crop of the season. All 15 plants were thriving, so he netted a cool $3060. Which is good because a chunk of money is going to be leaving them very soon. Because, on Thursday evening, Joy rolled over into independent teenhood, soooo...It was time to invite over Orlando Bertino and:
"Yay, my ring, my ring! Isn't it pretty? And sparkly? And pretty? And...OMG! I like totally have to go pick out my dress now!"
Orlando...honey....darling...DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE GETTING YOURSELF INTO???!!! Oh, right. He can't hear me...
A little later, Abhijeet's ghost showed up, scared Orlando, and made him have a bit of an accident:
Luckily for him, Joy was busy picking out her dress, so she wasn't around to witness this rather embarrassing little incident, and he crept away before she could figure it out. As if she'd, you know, be able to figure it out.
So the next day, Friday, was Joy's big day. But before that, Rudolph aged up:
And he still doesn't look much like anyone. Not even the mailman. Hmpf!
And then...Well, it's been ages since I did an actual wedding party, so Joy being a Family Sim and all, I decided to do one. At home, of course, since there are no community lots yet. So the whole household was there. And all of Joy's friends -- and she's racked up quite a few, with that Popularity secondary -- were invited (or teleported in if they refused to show up). Rupert and Mary were teleported in, which was an opportunity for Mary to meet her future in-laws:
Unfortunately the animations for the actual wedding got a little screwed up, and since the father of the bride is a vampire, it had to happen at night so not many pics. But I assure you that all the typical things happened:
And some atypical things:
Yup, one of Joy's friends is Marsha Bruenig. Who took it upon herself to flirt with Rupert. So, he's going to have some fences to mend now... Either that, or they'll split up. But even with that little wrinkle, the party was still a success:
And the limo arrived right on time to take the newlyweds off to their honeymoon:
Leaving Jill to clean up the mess before bed and Ben to tend to his weed...in his formals:
When the newlyweds got home, they promptly moved out to their own place, bringing us up to three households, WOO!:
And life returned to "normal" in Ben Long's house.
Jill made English muffins for Saturday-morning breakfast for her and the boys:
Both boys practiced their voyeur skills:
Sandy Bruty dropped by and she and Jill had a gossip/joke/chat-fest. Ben came up as the gossip subject:
Naughty old biddies!
The boys played together, all initiated by not-uber-serious Rudolph:
And in the course of playing catch, Kirby discovered his One True Hobby:
Of course, being uber-mean, his idea of "playing catch" is, instead, confusing catch with dodgeball. So, Rudolph wisely switched to telling jokes instead, and he and Kirby made best friends:
Rupert called to talk to Rudolph, which was sweet of the little bastard and seemed to make Rudolph's day:
And then 6PM rolled around and it was time for Kirby to grow up. Seems like he was just born yesterday. Time flies. *nostalgic sigh* He rolled Popularity/Grilled Cheese as his aspirations, which will be "fun" with his zero nice points and zero playful points. His friends Chandler Platz and Gallagher Newson aged up with him. He's straight with an ideal family size of two. And his LTW is to Become the Law, so he'll be college-bound, assuming that he keeps his grades up. And after his "teen makeover," he looks like this:
Jill made linguine with bright green pesto in honor of his birthday:
Congratulations, dearheart!
"Thank you," he answered
Oh, so you figured out the Simlish thing, huh?
"A long time ago," he answered. "But I'll only use it when I'm OK with you knowing what I'm thinking."
Great. Uber-mean, uber-serious, and secretive. Too bad he doesn't want to join the SCIA... But then, I guess being a lawyer will suit him just as well...
Later...Well, Jill still thinks that Ben's Undeadness is hot:
And he keeps rolling wants for her to be vampirated, maybe because he doesn't want her to die, but the only way that's going to happen, according to my rules, is if the aliens do it, and she doesn't seem inclined to visit them anymore.
Or, um...not....
But even so, the aliens won't experiment on elders, so I'm afraid that Ben is out of luck. :( But I'm not going to tell him that and dash his hopes.
While Jill was away, Kirby discovered that Ben is good with talking about grilled cheese:
Which is a good thing because probably no one else in the household would be. He also rolled a want to sneak out with Chandler Platz, so he'll be having an adventure later on. See? Told you he was secretive...
And Kirby might be mean, but Rudolph seems to be able to persuade him to do just about anything:
And he apparently has a magical alien ability to swing kids around without actually holding on to them? Whatever! Meanwhile, Jill came back to Earth...and nothing happened. After that, Kirby discovered that he likes to punch people, even his elderly...um, stepmother, I guess she would be:
He also likes...
...um, getting affectionate with a block of wood???? Yeah, real serious there, kid.
"Jist kugh," he snarled.
And, yeah, I kinda know what that means...
Later, Chandler arrived with some classy wheels for his and Kirby's sneak-out:
And Kirby made it out with Parent of the Year Ben, who was engrossed in painting, noticing:
See? Sneaky! Especially because he immediately rolled a want to sneak out with Chandler again. And he successfully snuck back in, too:
With enough time for a shower and some online chatting:
...and a quick grilled cheese before it was time for school. Which was also Rudolph's first day of school, so here he is heading off to conquer the educational system:
And that's all we've got for the week! I need some food now!
Next time: We're back to Rupert, where among other things we'll find out if he and Mary patch things up or split up. Also, a spawn is born, making Ben a grandpa.