The MacAvoy ISBI - Generation 5.5!
Hi! It's been a while. :/ I've got some other, uh... stuff coming up soon, but I've had the pictures for this update suffering in Imgur fivever. What better time to post them than right away?
Last time, Elena spent her toddlerhood skilling up for her future in a sinister cult. Danny won heirship on walkover, because he was the only kid in the generation the cult (The Temple of the Secret Enigma) didn't have any interest in recruiting. Sadie's just trying to save her children's lives, okay??? Danny appears to have the famous single nice-point that has cursed the family since... I don't even know. Sean got his 13-year-old self engaged to get married between updates. Twice. He's been found worthy of becoming a Starbloom, whether that's an honour or not. Lora had the flu. There was a PSA. Sadie was most definitely not favouring Elena over her brothers. Carter was the best dad this family's seen since Elliott (who was controllable). There were cats. Lots of cats. Sadie built two sentry-bots named Vader and Roger, to terrorize local vandals. The boys had terrible grades, Elena didn't. Chazza told Sean about his brother and his (ex)girlfriend, and got fried by the bots. Emerald the cat died. :( The school had to invent new grades to describe how terribly Sean was doing. Danny learned how to do homework right before he was set to become a teenager. TigerAnne lied and said she would post the next update in a few days.
Here's where we left off last time, at Danny's birthday party.
Ellie: It's a shame that kid's heir instead of Stephen!
And with that, Danny started transitioning into a moody hormone monster of puberty.
Who has terrible taste.
But look at this! He grew up well!
He's still going to bring chaos back. Somehow.
At last he had the hard-earned wisdom he needed to solve his fruit-based maths problems.
Since Danny seems well on his way to being a loser heir like Andrew Dimwit (who wasn't really heir, by sammyfrog) and the great Frey Almassy (by raemia), or Ryan, goodness forbid, he got the most emo sweater I currently had in my downloads.
TigerAnne would also like to extend a middle finger in salute to all the little gnats that think her blood tastes like crack.
Elena was practicing her musical skills. When you want to recruit followers to your radical ideology, being a hip and overly serious indie-singer gives you a significant advantage.
Oh blissful bliss, a chance-card... :C Carter chose to cut expenses, because he's trying to get more good players, not less.
Yessssss! :D
Sadie: He's gonna change his name to Tempest. Pfffffffff!
Lora: At least people will remember it, LOL!
Danny: Elena sounds nothing like Alanis Morrisette!
She looks a bit "Atherton," with those green eyes and tanned skin.
Down at Lucky's, there was a Weedy-sighting. Hiya, Weedy! Long time, no see.
It's not as if Sadie wanted a memento of her favourite child. Not at all.
In any case, all the other pathetic creatures where on the same outing. They were just busy being abnormal outside on the pavement.
Sadie has one nice-point, Weedy has none. They're BFFFF material.
Back home, Lora continued to be the Only Sane Relative. I really hope she lasts out the rest of the legacy. She had over 200 days before elderhood when I released her.
Sadie: Vegetables and potatos will give you the proteins your brains need, to function on an educational day at school.
Your Dad is getting old, boys. Don't make him sad.
I built a sauna by the pool Their yard is so empty, and they have more than enough money to spend on habitat enrichment.
Stephen grew a few braincells, and discovered the secret of how food keeps you from starving.
Carlisle: Duuuuuurr?
I have plans for you, Dr. Cullen. Just you wait...
Danny: I got a D. :C
Sean: I got an H! It's not even possible!
Stephen: I totally got an A-pluss, and now I'm hiding the evidence so it doesn't look like I sold out to mainstream education!
Elena: Hi, Sean! Mrs. Faulkner said my essay was the best she's ever read by a kid my age! I wrote about how social media is dividing people into isolated groups, based on self-imposed identity markers.
Sean: I had an assignment about sustainable future colonies in space, and I wrote a great Star-Trek fanfic. Mrs. Hawkesworth is going to love it!!!
Probably not, because it was Wesley Crusher PoV.
Sean: How could Mr. Binkley give me such a bad grade on the science test? My illustrations were amazing!
Elena: Maybe stop blubbering, and come play chess with me? I need to practice conquering strategies.
Elena: See? You look smarter already. Although I think you'll still fail the space colony assignment.
Sean: I'm proud of you for rejecting mainstream knowledge.
Ian Dimwit (who's son of sammyfrog's black widow Ursula) made another walk-by.
Sadie thought he was teh secksy. The two of them sort of deserve each other.
But she's still married to Carter, for now. She won't outlast him by as much as her mother oulasted Fred (and still does), but she'll see him go before she's even close to elderhood.
I have no idea who this is inside the dustcloud.
Elena: I DESPAIR AT THE STATE OF THIS FAMILY!
Sadie: It's been much worse than this before. Come sit down with mommy and have some paella. :)
The event camera picked up something going on outside. It was Kimberly Dimwit (Ian's daughter with an adult Chaz, in canon) who was the victim this time.
I can't remember how Chazza and Kim are related in my game, where Chaz is a teenager. I think Kim is maybe her aunt.
Roger: Serves you well! Roger Roger!
Vader: MY. TURN. NOW. HUUUUUHHHHH!!!
Kim: Aw man, this is gonna suck. It's karma for what I did to my husband, isn't it?
Read the Dimwit ISBI to find out exactly how nice Kimberly is. :)
Kim: OWWWWWW! STOP! I will be good now!
Let's see if she can help herself.
The Grim Reaper came for sweet little Ellie. :(
But she looked perfectly at peace and ready to go. It was probably the idea of endless kibble of any flavour she can imagine, and the thought of seeing her old pals again, that made her final earthly moments so happy.
Sean held a wake for her by burning whatever he was cooking.
Yes, please! Maybe he can grow up well into adulthood as well.
Harriet: I'm getting too fat for these vole-tunnels!
Sean brought his fiancée home from school. Yes, the Starblooms will continue. Yes, I will try to improve the quality.
Bailey can't be sane. No way.
I thought I was finally going to succeed in breeding two of the cats. Harriet and Marshall would have made some interesting kittens. She didn't get pregnant, though.
Sadie: Hi, long lost twin sister. How are you?
Sadie: The kids? Eeehhhhh... they're working really hard on their skills. So hard it's almost hurting their school effort, so I've had to ask them to slow down a bit.
Sadie: You know how hard it can be to stay on the straight and narrow. BTW, come over later. I have a pressie for you.
And *POP* went Carter's youth. Poor Carter, he hasn't been too crazy.
Lillian I'm warning you because you seem like a decent person, Daniel. The family your siblings have gotten mixed up with are completely insane and unpredictable. Don't keep in touch with them when they leave!
Danny: OK. :) Is it true that you're a time-traveller? Have you seen Nirvana live???
Ginny still hates Draco, BTW.
(Yes, I'm planning on playing them again.)
After a decent make-over, Carter actually looks rather dignified. He could probably use a nicer sweater, though.
If Lora wasn't so sorely needed around the house, I'd just let her elope. On the other hand, I'm curious to see if they can manage to become romantic on their own, like Elliott and Brandi did. So far they're only hearting all over each other, they're not in love.
Sadie can't wait to get rid of 50% of her children, and replace them with kittens.
This is a picture of Sean and Stephen chucking a ball back and forth.
Elena: I can't leave you here to take care of a family and yourself, without getting you a little smarter first.
Andrina: ...but when I looked into the crystal ball, I only saw this white place, and lots of people in horrible clothes. It was like I picked up a Second Life video, or something.
Lillian: No, you can't trust crystal balls. They're much too inaccurate.
Sadie: I'm sure crystal ball reading can be a usefull skill to have though.
Sadie: You'll need a proper teacher, someone more skilled than Maikana.
Andrina: My Mom knows McGonagall, I could ask her for her number.
Carter seems eager to prove that he isn't going senile yet.
They're an old, married couple now, however.
Since she's now married to a senior citizen, Sadie decided to have a midlife crisis to keep him company. Like her new look?
I wonder who Chicken Man's best friend is. A certain tall baby comes to mind.
OK, this is THE defining moment in Lora's career. She could become Captain Hero, and have her LTW come true, and she could get demoted back to the stone age. Anyway, she's blowing that whistle.
Whooooooooo!
By the way, Daniel is apparently getting top grades now. Maybe there is hope for him, and he'll be more like Pip was in the Dimwits.
Danny: MOOOOM! Daad! I got a not horrible grade!
Sadie: MMMMMMMPPPFFFFMMMKAY.
Carter: Oh Sadie!
I don't think there's any much hope of Stephen not growing up miserably now. He'll be a nice, morose husband for Lily.
Elena grew up alone in the garage, so she could have a traumatic memory to write a song about.
She rolled Romance, and likes guys with full face make-up and no jobs.
TigerAnne????????
Ohai. I was wondering where you were.
Can I make Elena over, please???
Sure. Just keep it reasonably normal for now.
So. Here's teenaged Elena. She's got the angsting almost down already.
And I think we have the explaination for Danny's suddenly good grades.
I caved, and let Sadie adopt the grey kitten with the blue eyes. Despite half of their current cats having a disposition towards violence, there really hasn't been that much fighting between them, so I thought I'd take my chances.
Okay, this is definitely the cemetary. I decided to decorate the graves a bit, and I was sure I had taken a picture of the pet graves too, but I can't find it. Anyway, I think that's Fred's grave with the angel statue. Lora definitely hasn't forgotten him yet. On the far left, I believe, is Billy Pool. Next to her, with a single candle burning for him, is Nathan. The third grave is Donna, I think. A lot of graves are missing, because the neighbourhood is FUBAR.
I think I'd make that face too, if I had just moved into this family.
Nyaaawwwww.
Sadie has reached Perma Plat, so she won't be upset that this family won't have any more puppies to cause problems. Nah, they should totally have a dog, to mess things up.
Piper: You should have listened to Chaz. Lily's not who she says she is.
Stephen: She's the love of my life, she's going to save me, and she has a tragic backstory! Don't trash-talk her again! We have bots.
Sadie's nice-point gets lonely and bored sometimes, and then it likes to go out and play ball with someone smaller.
Sean: BAAAAAAW HAAAAAAW I DON'T LIKE BEING STUPID!
Virginia:
Ooh, we called it off again last night
But ooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you
Virginia:
We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
Virginia:
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together
Like, ever...
Then she stood like that for a few seconds. Not sure what she was doing, exactly.
And then Piper took the mike...
Piper:
Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
Piper:
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She's got Bette Davis eyes
Piper:
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
OWWW MY NECK!
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes
Poor old Carter. It's too late for half of his kids to succeed in school now.
Sadie: I can't believe Stephen is turning 20 so soon! Mom, I feel so old!
Yes, good! If he's not bored to death, he may do a single homework assignment, and go from a straight F to a D-.
Sadie's midlife crisis continues, and she's gotten another new style. She's also exercising, so she can be a fitness blogger and lie about her age by about 30 years.
It's never too late to become an internet pop-star either, when you're frozen (including mentally) in your early 20s.
Speaking of popstars, here's Wesley. He's her brother. I had forgotten he existed. So had Sadie.
Take the robot, Lora. We don't want you fired now!
I'm sure I can find something they could do with the money.
It's nice of Bailey to help the boys do their homework.
Stephen: So now that I'm going to be of age, I'd like you to call me by my real name. I'm Tempest.
Are you kidding??? He grew up WELL?
OK, Narrator. What do you want to do with him?
Awww, he looks like a queen of Naboo.
Don't tell them you've watched the prequels!
I've only watched Backstroke of the West, which is probably the best of them all.
And look who we have here...
Sadie invited Alice over, to give her and the Starblooms their very own sentry-bot. I kind of forgot that she doesn't live with them anymore. She and Ben moved in with Laurelin.
And it's a very good thing for her and Ryan to not live in the same house. He should have been Romance Aspiration, not Knowledge.
Sadie: Alice, I lied. Sean and Stephen were total losers in school. But I've made sure they won't die in despair.
She's really pleased with herself.
Stop checking out his ass, Sadie. You're both married.
Sadie: Here, take this. It will remind you of me, and keep enemies scared.
Sean's not much younger than Stephen. They were toddlers together for a day, I think.
Om nom.
Lora: Ryan, what ever happened to your TV show?
Ryan: Huh, what?
Lora: The one you were in! You know, where you played a guy who exploded.
Ryan: What??? That was in my real life! This is offensive! >:C
Lee: I remember that show too! It had vending machines that ate people.
Ryan: ZOMG I'M OUT OF HERE. I need self-care time now!
A relaxing naked hot-tubbing will probably do him good.
Poor Alice. The fail that cost her the heirship returned the moment she came back home.
Oh wow... She has red eyes. D: I... wonder if maybe Stephen should take her along. Lily would probably love a pet like this.
Or are they brown? I really can't tell for sure.
I think they're brown. Anyway, she seems to be an instant darling. How many grey cats have this family had now?
Sadie can barely wait to become a crazy cat-woman now. It's tempting to send Marshall and Harriet away with one of the kids, so they can be immortal, and maybe even have kittens at some point. Sadie would just adopt a new bunch.
Daniel is one of those Sims who wind up the clock.
As miserable as this generation has been, and as few nicepoints as some of them have, they have gotten along boringly well!
Then time came for Sean to grow up.
Everyone except Sadie was ecstatic.
Even super-heros have to go to family birthdays.
So, here he is. He's got no upper lip, and looks a bit like Henry Atherton.
Yes, Sean. I think they do remember at least one of the times you peed yourself. Well, maybe not Elena. She's too young.
OK, so this is where the Macs have to take a little break. Sean and uh... Tempest need to leave the house now, and join up with their respective in-laws. Elena is staying until she grows up. But before we can visit the Starblooms and Nightinwolves again, we have to pay a visit to a, let's say... alternative dimention. And no, not the Edgarcy.
This is a hint! :D