No need for a babysitter, not when I've got teleport functionality at my fingertips! Even if Mary had been hesitant about being around all those people (she actually didn't seem to mind much), Penny would've marched right over to her house and helped pack up the twins to get them all to Una's party.
Those are the words Skye hasn't been able to bring himself to say to Dora and he's convinced that his primary concern is with the implications for his children, and that may be so, but there's definitely a bit of personal fear that she will look at him differently as well. A letter would have been a good idea... Much better than Daytona's! Even if Dora can get him over the hump (so to speak), he won't be quite ready to break out the riding crop. Although she does keep a well-worn copy of the kama sutra down in her trunk that he could potentially find very instructive, he's good at studying. Interestingly, (another bit I cut, this time for space) Skye really wanted to talk to Dora but after one too many frustrating conversations, he replaced that with a want to talk to Daytona instead. Dora beat him to it but I can just imagine the ridiculousness of unwittingly making her their shared confidante. She'd be sure to find some way to turn it to her advantage because that's just second nature but, then again, she might surprise me.
Rhett is feeling somewhat chastened just now after the way things went with Penny (glad you liked that part, it's a favourite of mine, just so, so Rhett; and, after everything that he's done, she simply raises her voice to him once and he's the one who falls out of love!) but no telling how long that'll last. If Skye went on the attack he surely would lash out and I wouldn't put it past him to lead with that. So long as Penny wasn't around to hear it, he still feels bad about that.
On the alien front, Woody actually already is terrified of the possibilities, he won't go near that telescope at night and he refused to sleep in his new room until he had a solid roof overhead. It was different that night at the Makeout Spot with Virgie, holding forth about the stars, because Virgie but, yeah, he's self-conscious enough without being worried that they're somehow already watching him. Skye's enthusiasm and overall positive feelings about being gifted with his children have gone a long way toward ameliorating absolute rage in Penny but she's not giving up the grudge against her absentee "mother" even if for now it manifests as indifference.
Yeah, it boggles my mind that I went as long as I did running parties without a teleporter. Even without teleporting in babies and toddlers, once you get a family with three or four grown children, the upper limit on parties is always smaller than the the number of people who would naturally be there. I've got one family in my main hood with nine children, that intermarried with the Newsons - eight guests at a wedding, birthday, or anniversary party doesn't cut it.
I wasn't thinking that the number of people would be a problem for Mary, since the guest list would be made up mostly of people she already knows and loves (she was raised in a mob scene, after all); but that being in the same room as her mother, Valentine, and a baby Valentine dotes on would be nerve-wracking for her, especially if Junior's there, too. It wouldn't surprise me if this were the first time she's been in the same room with Valentine and her mother at once since she fell in love with him, since the Harts seem to have routinely had plates delivered rather than coming over themselves. I've assumed that her parents were the chief people she wanted to keep the relationship a secret from, between Beulah's short fuse and Homer's sidearm.
The main reason my head went there, though, is that the statistical probability of Mary blowing her triangle sky-high by autonomously flirting with one lover in front of the other, God, and everybody is high, even in a vanilla game. And then she gets hurt and bewildered when the slapping starts. I had to decide that mine was honestly confused about where the line was drawn between "friendly" and "flirting." In yours it would almost have to be a matter of her finally snapping under the strain.
Penny can certainly drag her to a birthday party, but good luck getting her to The Dugout! I'm sure Mary'd prefer a Girl's Night Out at the lake, or fruit stand, or the post office, or the moon, or anywhere else but there, if she can think of a reason to avoid it that Penny will accept. But I suddenly wonder where she stands on the drinking matter. Did she dutifully keep strictly out of her father's project even after she grew up? Or are the Lands of the "special occasion" persuasion, so she has a sense of how much she can drink without bad consequences?
The Kama Sutra? Since Skye'd read all the words and take seriously its purpose as a guide to enlightenment that might not work in quite the way that Dora hoped - but if it gets him into an experimental frame of mind and defuses his distaste for "carnal lusts" with no productive purpose, no doubt she can take it from there.
I...can't imagine that Skye could talk to Daytona about this any more easily than he can Dora, but it is interesting that the impulse arose! Daytona probably won't be at the party, since Rhett will - that, at least, is a drama vector that could be anticipated and avoided - but I bet her interest level in the household just went up.
One of the very first alterations I made, even before my computer could technically handle it, was to the cfg file that controls max allowable visitors. I haven't reinstalled in almost 5 years so it's one of those things I'd be sure to forget if I did need to go through that rigmarole again (well, will need to do when I finally swap out my primary hard drive) until I tried to throw a party. Teleporting is also useful for stubborn guests who have no good reason to refuse, or none that you as the player are willing to accept. Of course, no one was turning down Penny! She could've invited the whole town but since it was Una's party "we" kept it sensible.
There was a rather awkward moment where Mary found herself standing between Val and her parents while holding one of the twins; Annie, in fact. It was a little much for her.
I've got some free time today, I'm going to make some headway on Part Two so I can stop talking around it.
Mary has no intention whatsoever of going to The Dugout but she's young and she's got Dixie, Junior, and Penny who are all frequent patrons to bug her about it (Junior less so because she's now Responsibility to him and that's his free time away from all that). She did steer completely clear of Daddy's hooch, that was just for Daddy (although the other kids found their way to it). The closest she came to even handling it was finalising that sale to Elden Hick. That does mean that if she were ever talked into having a drink, and found a taste for it, she wouldn't know her limits right off.
For Skye and the Kama Sutra, well, to be honest, Dora would be more likely to have The Joy of Sex or some such but since the "Kama Simtra" is an alternative controller item for Chris Hatch and Joker's adult mods that's something I could conceivably work in-game and get a picture of :-) And I wouldn't put it past Dora to have kept only an abridged version, with the best illustrations, even though in her younger, questing, days she actually would have read the best translation she happened across. So she might be able to act as a supplementary resource in a different way than she had in mind, at first.
Of course, if they end up deciding to leave things be and 'agree' on Dora's taking a lover her first thoughts would centre on Valentine (her first sane thoughts...outtakes, you'll see) and that would put her into direct conflict with Daytona, which isn't where anyone should want to be.
I think I see now - Homer and Dora are an easy triple bolt, depending on his turn-ons, and she has been known to stalk him. There are so many reasons for that not to happen here it's not even funny.
Okay, so, maybe a little funny.
If the outtake is Rhett, though, that'd be funny in an even more appalling way...You're not making me any less impatient here.
Those are the words Skye hasn't been able to bring himself to say to Dora and he's convinced that his primary concern is with the implications for his children, and that may be so, but there's definitely a bit of personal fear that she will look at him differently as well. A letter would have been a good idea... Much better than Daytona's! Even if Dora can get him over the hump (so to speak), he won't be quite ready to break out the riding crop. Although she does keep a well-worn copy of the kama sutra down in her trunk that he could potentially find very instructive, he's good at studying. Interestingly, (another bit I cut, this time for space) Skye really wanted to talk to Dora but after one too many frustrating conversations, he replaced that with a want to talk to Daytona instead. Dora beat him to it but I can just imagine the ridiculousness of unwittingly making her their shared confidante. She'd be sure to find some way to turn it to her advantage because that's just second nature but, then again, she might surprise me.
Rhett is feeling somewhat chastened just now after the way things went with Penny (glad you liked that part, it's a favourite of mine, just so, so Rhett; and, after everything that he's done, she simply raises her voice to him once and he's the one who falls out of love!) but no telling how long that'll last. If Skye went on the attack he surely would lash out and I wouldn't put it past him to lead with that. So long as Penny wasn't around to hear it, he still feels bad about that.
On the alien front, Woody actually already is terrified of the possibilities, he won't go near that telescope at night and he refused to sleep in his new room until he had a solid roof overhead. It was different that night at the Makeout Spot with Virgie, holding forth about the stars, because Virgie but, yeah, he's self-conscious enough without being worried that they're somehow already watching him. Skye's enthusiasm and overall positive feelings about being gifted with his children have gone a long way toward ameliorating absolute rage in Penny but she's not giving up the grudge against her absentee "mother" even if for now it manifests as indifference.
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I wasn't thinking that the number of people would be a problem for Mary, since the guest list would be made up mostly of people she already knows and loves (she was raised in a mob scene, after all); but that being in the same room as her mother, Valentine, and a baby Valentine dotes on would be nerve-wracking for her, especially if Junior's there, too. It wouldn't surprise me if this were the first time she's been in the same room with Valentine and her mother at once since she fell in love with him, since the Harts seem to have routinely had plates delivered rather than coming over themselves. I've assumed that her parents were the chief people she wanted to keep the relationship a secret from, between Beulah's short fuse and Homer's sidearm.
The main reason my head went there, though, is that the statistical probability of Mary blowing her triangle sky-high by autonomously flirting with one lover in front of the other, God, and everybody is high, even in a vanilla game. And then she gets hurt and bewildered when the slapping starts. I had to decide that mine was honestly confused about where the line was drawn between "friendly" and "flirting." In yours it would almost have to be a matter of her finally snapping under the strain.
Penny can certainly drag her to a birthday party, but good luck getting her to The Dugout! I'm sure Mary'd prefer a Girl's Night Out at the lake, or fruit stand, or the post office, or the moon, or anywhere else but there, if she can think of a reason to avoid it that Penny will accept. But I suddenly wonder where she stands on the drinking matter. Did she dutifully keep strictly out of her father's project even after she grew up? Or are the Lands of the "special occasion" persuasion, so she has a sense of how much she can drink without bad consequences?
The Kama Sutra? Since Skye'd read all the words and take seriously its purpose as a guide to enlightenment that might not work in quite the way that Dora hoped - but if it gets him into an experimental frame of mind and defuses his distaste for "carnal lusts" with no productive purpose, no doubt she can take it from there.
I...can't imagine that Skye could talk to Daytona about this any more easily than he can Dora, but it is interesting that the impulse arose! Daytona probably won't be at the party, since Rhett will - that, at least, is a drama vector that could be anticipated and avoided - but I bet her interest level in the household just went up.
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There was a rather awkward moment where Mary found herself standing between Val and her parents while holding one of the twins; Annie, in fact. It was a little much for her.
I've got some free time today, I'm going to make some headway on Part Two so I can stop talking around it.
Mary has no intention whatsoever of going to The Dugout but she's young and she's got Dixie, Junior, and Penny who are all frequent patrons to bug her about it (Junior less so because she's now Responsibility to him and that's his free time away from all that). She did steer completely clear of Daddy's hooch, that was just for Daddy (although the other kids found their way to it). The closest she came to even handling it was finalising that sale to Elden Hick. That does mean that if she were ever talked into having a drink, and found a taste for it, she wouldn't know her limits right off.
For Skye and the Kama Sutra, well, to be honest, Dora would be more likely to have The Joy of Sex or some such but since the "Kama Simtra" is an alternative controller item for Chris Hatch and Joker's adult mods that's something I could conceivably work in-game and get a picture of :-) And I wouldn't put it past Dora to have kept only an abridged version, with the best illustrations, even though in her younger, questing, days she actually would have read the best translation she happened across. So she might be able to act as a supplementary resource in a different way than she had in mind, at first.
Of course, if they end up deciding to leave things be and 'agree' on Dora's taking a lover her first thoughts would centre on Valentine (her first sane thoughts...outtakes, you'll see) and that would put her into direct conflict with Daytona, which isn't where anyone should want to be.
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Okay, so, maybe a little funny.
If the outtake is Rhett, though, that'd be funny in an even more appalling way...You're not making me any less impatient here.
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