SimCity Orphanage
The Larsons are perhaps the hardest premades for me to get into. So. This time, they run the orphanage downtown. Jodie here is working in politics.
And here are some of the kids. Yes, just some. Sixteen total teen and child townies have been rescued from the streets of SimCity.
Elbert, the red-head, is too miserable to play don't wake the llama with Marsha, Little Orlando, and Chloe, so he has to smustle after school. Brittany and Chandler, the other two children, are probably playing water balloons outside.
Misty and Ricky are both romancers with red aspiration. A date perks them up, but Ricky still doesn't do enough homework and looses his job. Thanks harder grades! Some of them--like Ricky and Meadow, don't have the skill points to get better grades.
Being fortune sims, Jodie and Jason are career oriented. Jodie's secondary is popularity, Jason's is family. He's in athletics until he finds an opening in police.
Painting, Brittany and Elbert. Elbert is also struggling with grades.
Meadow wanted to be friends with Vivian, which got her out of red aspiration but didn't get her homework done in time to save her job.
Vivian is one of two female knowledge teens, her aspiration is dandy and she has decent grades. She'd like more skill points more than being friends with Meadow.
And there is the other, Louise, who probably doesn't get on with Jodie because only one of them can use the piano at a time.
The Crystal Ball suggests this gentleman for Jodie. She thinks Andrew is kind of cute but refuses to roll wants for him. Still, promotions require friends so I get her to work.
And First Kisses quickly become the theme of the evening. Nicole has no objection to not being the first romancer to kiss Ricky, so long as she gets to kiss. Alvin and Meadow, being family sims, are more exclusive. And Marissa is Jason's Crystal Ball pick.
Jason Starts Saturday by finding his dream police job and wanting to learn Physiology.
With that accomplished, he loads the children; Brittany, Chandler, Chloe, Elbert, Marsha, and Little Orlando in the minivan and heads out.
The kids get nice new FakePeeps brand outfits--It's Winter after all and maybe they'll have real homes by Christmas. Jason chats up someone he's pegged as a potential adoptive parent and assures her the kids get all their well-child check-ups.
Then Jason herds the kids home, a nice rainbow of bright new outfits and tidy hair. Jodie can put the girls in braids in a matter of seconds. (Elbert has the redder hair, Chandler's the strawberry blond.)
Jason didn't forget the teens, either. They can fix their own hair, and the girls got Hedgekat dresses--that's Vivian there, and I'm not sure who made the boys clothes.
Alvin and Meadow. The butler is not particularly reliable at serving food, so others often do it.
And a relationship that makes no sense whatsoever: Bernard is a popularity sim, Louise is a knowledge sim. Their turn-ons don't match. Yet they have two bolts. So there they are, being cute together. Bernard's been stalking her when their schedules allow all week.
Why, Big Orlando, why? Feeling left out of the update?
Jodie gets in on the First Kiss action after inviting Andrew and his son around. I don't think Jodie'd like Riverblossom Hills--too small--but I think Andrew would be up for moving to the city.
Fortunately, no chimes. Big Orlando's not particularly distraught and rings up for the scholarship.
(I thought I had a Jacob making faces at Jodie and Andrew's PDA, but I can't find it.) Jodie had a bad chat with Jacob and Jacob doesn't care for his prospective step-mother. Maybe Jules is right about the sort of woman who goes after a man with kids.
And that's Saturday, and a wrap on the Orphanage's first week. Not sure what'll be up next, most likely something university.
Is it bad that when I couldn't remember Louise's name I fired up SimPE because that's faster than loading my game? (In Louise's favor, it's the sims who take care of themselves and their business whose names are slippery in a household this big. Like, Louise, Bernard, and, um . . . Randy. Did he even make a picture?)