Week 2: McKim/Mead
Don't think I don't see you there, Amy Tang!
When we last saw our boys, Milo was playing jazz piano at his very own bar, and temporary housemate Jasper was looking for love around every corner, with varying degrees of success.
Oh, and also, remember when I thought it would be so brilliant to pair up Milo and Lucy Snowe?
'Twill not be so. Apparently, the very thought of Lucy turns Milo's stomach, and Lucy turns her nose up at Milo's physique, despite his 9 body points. Milo is all, "Weeelll, fuck you very much, too."
It turns out, Milo's got his eye on random townie Brittany. [As an aside: with all the noregen mods, I've been getting the usual dozen or so crazy hobby-lot townies spawning and two business reviewers; but then I have a couple who, like Brittany here, don't seem to have spawned for anything particular, unless I've missed it. I'm not really concerned since it's only two so far, but still, curious.] She seems to like him well enough, too. But even though Milo is a popularity/romance sim, he isn't rolling many wants for romancin' at the moment. His LTW is to own 5 top-level businesses, and that seems to be what's getting most of his attention for now. Sorry, Brittany!
Jasper, of course, is a different story. He seems to do all right with Virginia Snowe; but then again, she's engaged, and pregnant, and it kind of looks like she might just be humoring him.
After facing a few nights of nothing but negative 'Will I Woohoo?'s, Jasper stays up late, practicing his best lines in the mirror.
Ever have a roommate who just was on a totally different schedule than you? Jasper tries to be cool about it, and he does remember to pitch in to keep things clean; but it's tough when the only kitchen is also Milo's bedroom. It is a good thing Milo isn't interested in dating right now.
That's why Jasper's perfectly happy to sleep in the shed. In spite of its shortcomings, Jasper appreciates that he has a place to go whenever he wants to just jam out. In his jammies.
Awesome-faced townie shows up at the bar, and in a misguided attempt to appeal to her sophisticated tastes, Jasper puts on a pair of Milo's old glasses. It does not go over as well as he'd hoped.
Jasper: "Ingmar Bergman? I loved her in Casablanca!"
Unfortunately, she, too, seems to be hung up on redheads.
But I love her awesome face! I want her to be playable! Oh, but I also want elf babies... Jasper, you have got to get better at this!
Oh. Um, I might have SimBlendered their relationship a bit just to see how casual woohoo on a public bench would go and then forgot to quit without saving... But the answer is, it didn't go. I think they just made out since they didn't have enough privacy to woohoo. Never mind; after some more mirror practice, Jasper's at it again, this time with his old crush, Millie Mole.
I don't know if it's his added charisma points or his sweet, sweet dance moves, but this time, something is different. He asks her on a date, and she says yes!
I think she's surprised by how charming she suddenly finds him.
And darling Jasper is so very happy.
Milo... doesn't need to know about this.
... On the other hand, I'm sure he'd be glad to see Jasper's been building customer loyalty!
Millie wanders back down to the bar feeling pretty pleased with herself.
And wonder of wonders, customers start autonomously ordering drinks! Finally! All of those hours of Jasper standing behind the bar, staring blankly at townies sitting motionless on their barstools... At last, the bar is a bar!
Yay! They also make it to a level 4 business that night. Jasper is stoked!
His morning sidewalk yoga is extra jubilant!
The music section is totally engrossing!
Milo is so caught up in his enthusiasm for his business's progress that he wasn't really listening to what Jasper was trying to tell him at the breakfast table. It seems one night with Millie has reminded Jasper that this was never meant to be a permanent situation, and the place is a little cramped when you've got two eligible bachelors to consider.
It was great to have an old friend to crash with when he first came to this new place, but it's time for Jasper to quit freeloading and see if he can make it on his own. Or at least, almost on his own...
Having rid himself of one stray, Milo finds another in the form of a cat from the alley behind the bar.
Milo calls him Yardbird.
Yardbird HATES dumpsters. They remind him of his troubled kittenhood. He hates his troubled kittenhood.
All dumpsters shall know his pain, because now, it will be their pain, too!
Yardbird settles in to the bar as if he owned the place, and the customers are quick to dote upon him. With Jasper gone, Milo's hired the garden club townie, Skylar, to look after the bar.
With Yardbird's help.
It does knock his business back down to level 3, since he's losing a starred customer; but on the plus side, it definitely gives him more time to smustle!
And that's week 2 for the McKim household. Slightly out of sync with the other lots' seasons, but that should be fixed for next round. Thanks once again to Pooklet, MissTiikeri, and Timesynth Azrael for Virginia, Jasper, and townie Cal.
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