The Scheiler Uglacy - Generation 7.20!
Hi Peeeeeeeeeeepz! It's Raelynn! Wow, Christmas totally happened! :O Let's visit the Scheilers again. I thought this was supposed to be a Halloween update, but school has been... yes. Very.
I'm sure you've noticed that MK'la's started posting the Uni updates. If you haven't, you need to go and read them right now! This update is going on at the same time as the oldest three heirs/ambassadors are getting their college decrees. While Artsy Mack's being a serial dater, Pyson is tempted by dark forces of temptation, and Tex Toro's taking life and love seriously like Friday adviced him to, Anakin and the twin girls are busy coming of age.
The Branch kids were home from a successful vacation. The goal had been to get enough fun-reserves to be able to do homework and finish the semester, so that had worked for them. But poor Mandy had sunk into v low aspiration because she couldn't fulfill any of her wants.
Finch was exhausted from being shot out of cannons all day. Poor Finch, he wasn't even sold to the circus for not doing homework. Because being a human cannonball is what happens to children who don't take school seriously. (At least that's what our Grandma in Oklahoma has always told my siblings and me.)
Anakin bonded with his mom and reminded her that she loved him and that he deserved to he heir despite his immature behaviors. Yeah, this was another day, that's why he's in his PJs. They came home, did homework, ate and went to bed, and yä'll seen that before.
Wendy reconnected with the cats.
And then it was weekend for realz! The kids were out again, and what's this? Wendy got put in the trunk??!
Oh my gosh, where had they gone?
Ooh, it was the haunted Pumpkin Patch! :D The signs said to stay out, but they also said to come trick or treat, so who knows.
While the kids built up their courage, a vaguely familiar person was observed slinking along the wall in the back.
Leo still wasn't over the fact that Edie had trashed him violently a decade earlier. Some people really can hold grudges as they get old. And now it was Wendy who wanted to study while she was on vacation, who isn't even a Knowledge Sim.
I ship it. They're both sore-asses who get into fights with people.
Tynice thought the nervous sketchy guy was hawt, but Tynice was pregnant and hormones made her legally insane. So don't hold it against her.
Fresco really wanted to hear about everything that happened when Rigel was part of a ghost hunter team with Bibi, Jimbi, Rumor and Edward Cullen. Oh, and Istvan was there. They all faught the (not really) Reverend Trask (One of him, anyway. He's actually three or four different people who all descend from each other and inherit the same face.) and saved the souls of the Sparks family. The same Sparkses now haunt a farm on Isla Tropicana, but this is a different reality so they're not living with the vengeful spirit of Mr. Trask there. Also they died from different reasons.
The weird boy was looking at the Black Well, and seemingly assessing it. Maybe he needed the dark water for something.
Anakin: Maybe we can only Trick and Treat between this sign and the one that tells us to stay away.
Rigel: I've heard very bad things about your brother.
Mandy: If it was Dino who said them he's probably exaggerating.
Lark: That guy is acting suspish.
Mandy: Yeah.
HERE LYES JASON MACGUIRE
Rigel seemed like a nice guy even if he had red eyes, and Lark wanted to know her extendid family better since she was staying put.
Mandy told her to talk to the hand, because she knew Lark was trying to get between her and Wendy, and make Wendy stay. Plus Mandy had low Aspiration and wasn't in the mood to be nice about her feelings.
So she hung out with Anakin instead, because he was becoming kind of a really decent bloke.
Ooh, look this stone is in Latin! The person buried there must have been from a family of botanists. I think they're the only people who speak that since the Romans became Italian.
The Green Reaper appeared and gave Jose a well earned fright.
And that looks like Henry Atherton.
Green Reaper: Alas, he had so few screws left.
Wendy mingled with an old lady. Yeah, okay.
Samantha: I am an educator of young children and your behavior towards the living is detrimental to their mental self-care!
That's just Joe in the circle. I marked him so you wouldn't suddenly notice him and be scared, for the sake of your mental health.
Samantha: I know your reputation well, Willie Loomis. (LOL yeah, that's his name. I didn't give it to him.) There are no valuables buried with the people resting here. You'll not disturb their rest!
Willie: I WASN'T GOING TO!
Willie: No one except Mr. Barnabas has the right to boss me around and mess with me. And I've got money so I don't need to rob a stiff!
Green Reaper: Heed her warning well, young William. This is the grave of Dirty Durgan!
Willie: What? For real?? Jason said he was buried deep in a forest somewhere, that no one would stumble upon.
Green Reaper: His was, but his grave does not stay in a single location. It can be found in many places.
Willie: Right. Barnabas' dead girlfriend is a bit like that too.
Lark suggested that Mandy's Assignment after Isla Tropicana should be to their ancestors' planet. Mandy thought that sounded grooovy.
Vilandra is so pretty, and that angry dead-skull is so appropriate to be in a portrait with her.
Willie: GAHASP! It wasn't me who did it, I prommise! Whatever it was!
But then Lark needed to prove that she was Queen of the town.
Willie: So, the museum employees started sneezing from all the dust in that storage room in the attic. And they dropped the statue!
Fresco: What?! The 9890-year-old statue of Empress Liminerfitanity of Nauboria?!
Willie: Yeh! The priceless work of art tumblrd down two flights of marble stairs and crashed into a huge support column. It broke into a million pieces, and is lost to us forever.
Fresco: Oh no, how tragic!
Willie: Right? But you see, there was something hidden within the statue! Among the rubble and dust, the curators found her legendary crown, which had not been seen by human eyes, or any eyes, for almost ten thousand years! It was only known from ancient scripts.
Fresco: Wow!
Willie: I know!? And that's not all they found. There was also a large diamond, cut into the shape of an acorn - Nauboria's ancient symbol. It was discovered to be another long lost artifact of the ancient world, and one which was only thought to be mythological! And in hindsight of that, the loss of that statue was not so sad anymore. It was a fairly ugly old thing, I mean the empress was no looker, and diamonds and jewels are eternally beautiful. *sigh*
Fresco: My name's Fresco. When I was born, my parents first called me Spike Stover, but everyone kept messing me up with one of my brothers whose name's Skip. So when I was 7 years old, I was renamed to Osvaldo Fresco, and it has always felt more like ME. I tried to go by "Valdo" for a bit, since that's kind of Spanish sounding, but the Elders had a sort of feeling that I should claim Fresco as my name, because it's connected to ancient mysteries of beauty and decay. And we're trying to make people embrace the beauty of decay, and the decay of beauty.
Fresco: This is the grave of the Fireflies. T_T
Ethel: You are very sensitive for someone so young.
Leona: Your brother is soo dead, LOL.
Mandy: Hey, stop saying stuff like that. It's not making anyone like you, or think you're cool.
Leona: Make sure to bury him here, so I can pay my respects on my way to the Halloween party. Also, while you're at it: That's Eisley Jean under the shrub. Could you be bothered to shovel some dirt over her too?
Fresco: Hey, Ethel? You look very pretty in the soft glow of the fireflies. I'm almost an adult now, and if it doesn't work out between you and Uncle Monty...?
Ethel: We'll see when the time comes.
A huge flying fox bat loved to come and hang around in the skies above the pumpkin patch. The regulars had named him Bruce.
Zizzy Zandie came over to see if Simpon was present, because he seemed to like the spooky lots for some reason. Quincy also came by.
Quincy: I'm so disappointed that we never get the Dino Park opened!
Leona: What do you mean she's not dead?! I'm standing on her freaking lungs!
Goth of Christmas Past: That's not very Christmas Spirit of you. There will be coal in your stocking, and chains chains around your feet.
Meanwhile, Mandy got to know her not-ancestor. They had a lot in common, they discovered.
Tippy was patrolling to see that her descendents and other community members weren't acting agressively out of character. None of Geri's subjects in Nebraska had read about what she did to Marissa, but a lot of people in Arenanueva did.
Lark worked on turning Fresco into her own loyal subject, since he was staying around with her.
Mandy spent quality Wolf Times with Zandie. I guess Anakin and Wendy were asleep inthe tents.
Willie didn't do mornings.
Ohai, Storm! Good to see you! Come hangout with the pack.
Oi! Just because you're not heirs, you still need to respect Queen Liranda, capish?
Aww, look how lovely the neighbourhood looks in the sunrise! It makes me want to like mornings, but I just don't have it in me.
The Goth of Christmas past was sad to hear that Mary Elixzabeth's sisters grew up in snowdrifts outside a barn.
A lot of the siblings were suddenly present! It made Willie happy he didn't have siblings, because if he'd had any then his mother would probably have preferred them to him. And they'd get nicer Christmas presents, etc.
Skip had been on a secret assignment for a couple of years, and Storm was happy to see the brother she had once raised.
Wendy had woken up, and Lark was keeping her occupied.
Fresco breathed in the fresh country air. He's plenty ugly, and the Community expects great things from him.
Skip couldn't tell Mandy if his assignment had anything to do with Aliens, but he couldn't tell her for sure it had nothing to do with Aliens either. I mean, he would kind of be an expert on them?
I hope it wasn't Malcolm who made Zandie faint in horror.
Willie: GASP! You're not haunting me, are you?
Green Reaper: Not just you in singular.
Willie: Whatever they're saying, it wasn't me who did it. I-it was Jason! He made me do it! I-i-i mean, he DID IT!
Green Reaper: Jaspon is dead, he lieth beneath that gravestone over there.
Willie: HE DID IT BEFORE HE DIED, I PROMISE!
Aww, that's nice of Mare Elizabeth! I didn't get Storm to take the job, though. She could have an LTW for another career, and I wanted her to wait for that one. Because there's a lot of work involved in lifing eco-friendly in tune with nature.
Lark wished her name was Daisy. It sounded old fashioned, quaint and very lovely. Deep down Lark kind of wanted to be lovely.
Zandie was in luck, because Simon actually showed up. I don't know what she sees in someone so freaking average, but that's her choice.
She snuck off with him into the pokey brambles, just so people wouldn't pay attention to her affection for him. Yeah, I've done the same with Trey. In the beginning, a lot of my friends didn't understand what I saw in him either. I used to date Logan, who's very handsome on the outside, and everyone was like "How did she score THAT?! She's so dumb and gets Ds on tests, and he's an A student. He can have anyone." But Logan dated Amber - my second best friend at the time - behind my back for three of the five months we were together! He also changed her for the worst, so I lost a friend too! I would probably have been able to forgive her eventually, but she's become incredibly unsufferable while she's been with that atrocity of a boy. After that I haven't been able to look at his face without seeing an ugly barbarian! Trey's kind of average looking, and could probably drop a few pounds without becoming malnourished, but to me he's beautiful, y'all know what I'm saying?
Zandie had a feeling that she somehow made Simon happy, and he was making her happy too.
Later on, Mandy and Storm made themself known to their aunt SPirella. Spirri was spending most of her time in the 60s and early 70s as a time traveller, and wasn't much in contact with her family. That's why Milly had instructed anyone who accounted the waywaerd sister to inform her of their heritage and make sure she didn't accidentally breed with family.
Skip Squeemril: Yeah, my current mission may include playing the violon in a symphantic orchestra. But I'm not at liberaty to deliberate that at the current moment.
Willie didn't like having stuff thrown in his face, Anakin found out.
Lark had to remind Wendy who was the boss of them.
Wendy: Yeah, it's true! I'm part Alien. Most of my family are teal-coloured, but my Mom, one of my sisters, one of my brothers and me are... uh, white?
Willie didn't mind having water balloons thrown at him, Wendy discovered.
Willie: Ow. My bum is still blue and green since my last dispute with Mr. Collins.
Rowland: I always think it's kind of hard to look at people who are so ordinary, because I can hardly tell what they even look like.
Shea Johnston: So when you look at me, you kind of see me with no real face? Or do my features kind of kaleidoscope? Or something?
Rowland: It's kind of like I can see them clearly while I'm looking, and then I immediately forget what I saw. And next time I see them, I don't recognise who they are. But I don't have that problem with you, actually. You've got those funky ears and nose.
Shea: ...>:(
Ghost Spotting is not for everyone.
After he woke up, Xansie put her flirtings on him again.
She knew then that he was the right dude for her.
Vanessa talked about not dumping barrels of toxic waste.
Zandie took that job, because she didn't have any preference. (She just wants to max all the Skills.) The Ecologists need a bit of cash so they can build proper sleeping cabins and buy more crafting equipment.
Lark: Definitely send us lots of pictures and TikTaks from Omnichrobulon when you go on your Forever Quest, Mandy!
Manby: If the graves that are here are actually somewhere else too, maybe they're lost tombs like Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. The stuff written on the stones is impossible to read. There could be famous lost treasures, like that guy told Fresco about.
Zandie: Yeah, but no one will ever know. Not without digging them up anyway, and that would be horribly disrespectful if they're just someone's sweet old grandparents from Minnesota, or a poor little boy who was put in a mass grave in Dickens' London. But if Cleopatra's in there, that would be a great loss to archieology.
Willie: HiiiiiIIi did someone say "treasures?" Archeology is my humongous passion.
Lark: Yeah, we think Cleopatra is buried just outside! It's the discovery of all ages!
She was just saying that to mess with his head, because he struck her as gullible like that.
Outside they saw Dino, who was crying over someone who may or may not be a team-mate from a secret mission, who was killed on a perilous adventure and buried in a travelling grave.
Willie was looking like he was really upset about something.
Relative spotted: It was Bibijimjim! :)
Hank wasn't used to going to attractions that had real wolferdiggers. In Texas they're all animatronical or just actors in suits.
Oh no, he peed on the grave of... Adigsail R. Arikjec? Willie quickly mopped it up (that was nice of him) because the ghosts can get vengeful from something like that. And they'd probably take it out on Hank instead of the big scary Wolfer. Willie might or might not have had experience with disturbing the graves of sleeping gouls.
Mandy picked a lot of pumpkins for her family to use as lanterns when it got to Halloween.
I wonder: If she puts them in the fridge, and I extract the lot with the safe method and clean if of Sim references and all before putting it in a new hood, will the pumkins be in the fridge? That would be so neat, like continuity and all. Because this hood got borked, as you probably remember.
Friday was happily surprised to see his GreatX Grandchildren. But he warned Lark to be careful not to slam Anakin's head into Ufh B. Náles' gravestone, because Anakin would not be happy about sporting a neckbrace again when he was going suntanning on Isla Tropicana.
But Friday was actually there on a secret meeting. He was "randomly" running into Dr. Hoffman there, with witnesses and stuff, so people wouldn't suspect that they actually knew each other already. Spies do stuff like that to confuse other spies.
Friday: Doctor Hoffman, I'm so happy you could help us with this important experiment!
(He said that when no one else was listning, after having checked the bathrooms.)
Rylee's awfully pretty, I'm just saying. Sometimes I miss playing pretty Sims again!
But it was time to leave.
Before going home, they stopped at San Miguel to see if they could finally get a glimpse of one of the ghosts. In order in most to least wanted: 1 - Vince the awful headmaster. 2 - Moriarty. 3 - Erika Jalapayan, Studs' dead gardener.
Dolores Throttlewood was stepping on the ghosts' flowers, to make them upset and want to come out. Such behavoir is very disrespectful and can lead to you needing a licensed exorcist. (Yeah, you can really get a license for that. But I wouldn't actually recommend that you try obtaining one and set up business. First you actually need to be an ordained Catholic Priest. Then you need to have a lot of extra studies, and the license is apparently given to very few people. They take those things very seriously, and it's considered dangerous work. Of course there are a lot of unlicensed exorcists who aren't even Catholic, but would you really want to be possessed by the spirit of a governess executed for witchcraft, who made you stab your own eyes out with pruning shears before drinking a gallon of bleach? That's the sort of occupational hazards they face, and that's way worse than getting your manager to come talk to Karen again.)
Holly was there again! Maybe she was hoping to see Des there, like the other day.
Dolores thought Willie was extremely hot, compared to her husband who's bald.
Willie tempted fate by standing on Moriarty. Yeah, he's going to get a higher fence when we kill him again for the new hood.
Willie: I TOLD JASON TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE BUT HE WOULDN'T LISTEN!
To understand what Willie's talking about, go watch Dark Shadows. You can find it on Youtube and DailyMotion. Start at episode 210, and give it some time to get really crazy.
Willie: I dropped out of school when I was 8. That's all the education any kid needs.
People got judgemental when Mandy performed her transformation to an audience.
She gave them a howl as a bonus act.
Well, look at that! :D
Rumor Kreatura came to socialise with other nocturnal people. She told them about the new cryptid that had been spotted. It looked like a cross between a wolf and a wild boar.
Rumor: Based on the description, I think it must be a Shunka Wara'kin. Just google pictures of it and you'll see what I mean.
(Warning: There are pictures of one, but don't look at them in a dark room or right before bedtime. It's really creepy looking.)
Simon: It can't be worse than the Swamper Husk. I hope.
Rumor: Totally it can.
UGH NO. R E L A T I V E.
Suddenly Anakin came walking with determinatition.
Anakin: Bro, you can't beat me up while only one of us is legally an adult, so I just want to use this opportunity to say that I appologise for the bratty way I acted towards you when we were kids. I'm sorry you had to move out of the house because of me. The person I was then is gone, because that was almost seven years ago, and in seven years all the cells in your body are replaced. At least in people under 30. So yeh, I'm another guy now, not that snotty kid in the neck brace.
Rumor: Either he means it, or he wins an award for acting.
Wendy: Yeah, he was replaced for a part as a walking trash can that had one line, in a school play once. So I think he's honest.
Dino: If I had stayed at home, I wouldn't have had the unique experiences I have now. So I guess you're forgiven, because living outdoors may or may not have been very useful in my classified line of work.
Harry: Yay, not enemies anymore! This is going to tick off Leona SO MUCH! :D
He likes it when stuff happens that annoy Leona.
Storm: I feel the itch to howl!
Storm: GARRRRRRRROOOOUUU!
Oh, guess who's scared of howling.
Willie: I ONLY TRIED TO DIG UP ONE OLD LADY, I PROMISE! THE REST OF THEM WAS JASON!
(Seriously. Watch Dark Shadows. It's the craziest and most wonderful show ever made by human beings.)
(And it's a lot of fun to watch Willie suffer, because in the beginning he's such a twerp.)
Harry: Are you okay? Want me to call Doc Hoffman to come and take you home.
Willie: No thanks, I'm worried she'll take me to her other home. The one where she works as a headshrink. Actually, it's pretty nice there. The walls are so soft and comfy.
Dino knew a few of Harry's dirty secrets.
Fresco: One of these times we'll see a ghost. I'm sure.
Then the sun came up, and Lark dared Wendy to throw a water balloon at someone.
And then vacation was over. I feel it, because I'm back in school again.
Rilly got her second LTW. :) She can stay in that career for a while. (After this she rolled "Become a Criminal Mastermind," and I'm sure that's just because she wants to take down a crime syndicate from within, but it's gonna re-roll when I make her in a new hood. So let's see what she rolls there.)
PQ became a fake knight. :-/
Lark: LOLOLOL cheats on everyone LOLMAO!
Milly: There are very few gentlemanly men in your generation. Maybe you should try a little time-travel to meet someone with better upbringing. Edwardian boys are quite charming.
Lark: I want a 60s' greaser.
Milly: Oh no, you don't! The 60s' kids are the Boomers. And they were the ones who made morals and good manners square in the first place, those hypocrites.
Um, which one's the Knowledge kid again?
The backstory's actually that Mandy was in very low green Asp, and she wanted to win a game against Fresco. He was a lot better than her at SSX, though. Yeh, I forgot that chess would have counted, because she'd have won in that. x(
She got a few points from spending the night fishing with her dad, though. At least that was wholesome.
Anakin: You see, Willie... I'm growing up in a couple of days, and then I'm off to the tropical island where my family's ancestral home is. Do they have opportunities for archeology? No, it's not that you're rude. I just think that's a bit of a weird question. Like mate, it's in California, a few miles outside San Francisco. There's this museum thing that has dead people buried on the premises. You like go and search for their graves, as part of the experience. And a mysterious forest. But that's all, seriously. Yeah, I'm sorry you never got to go to California with Jason.
Once Willie hung up, Rilly started repairing her relationships.
This is Renfield. He's hunting for flies. If he starts using them to bait traps for spiders, people will have reason to be worried.
Seeing Buffy again, made Rilly remember school. *shrug* Hey cool, that's Moxie!
BTW, the middle twins were doing good in their lives.
Yeah, remember their dear friend the water sprinkler, because something terrible happens to it in the next update!
Milly: ANAKIN IS LEAVING US BOOOHOOOHOOOOOOOoooo..!
Photon Qunder: OUR LITTLE BOY!!!! It's just like yesterday he fell off the merry go round and fractured his spine!
Fresco still thought his parents were max cringe when they acted like that.
And they were still at it next morning! O_O
Fresco: I don't think any of our friends have parents who behave like this.
Wendy: Yeah, I'll try not to guilt trip my own kids that much, if I have any and they're chosen to come over here.
And now the proud Ancestors had arrived!
Mandy had sunk into red, because all she thought about was howling and biting. Milly was wondering if she needed to see a canine psychologist.
PQ came home from work all knackered, and only had energy left to barely remove his suit of armour before he collapsed into bed.
The twins didn't want an extra day at school, and having to do homework for that. Nah, let the adventure begin!
Ooops, Ian needed to swim! Or a bigger shirt.
Hooray! :D They grew up with p good fashion sense, and you'll see their official portraits at the end of the update.
Oh gosh, I forgot to take an adult portrait of Anakin!? Well, too late for that now! D:
Suddenly it dawned on Lark that her twin brother was leaving. She felt conflicting emotions.
Millie: We should make a MeTube channel (that's like their alternate reality video network) and keep them posted on what's happening here. That way our grandchildren won't come to strangers. And I'll advise the kids to post from the Island too!
Swimming was one of the few things that kept Mandy's thoughts away from the very real risk of growing up in low Aspiration. Having a mental breakdown right before starting her life's great adventure would be so stinky. :( But she wouldn't be the first it happened to. Liranda and Zarinda lost all their marbles when they turned 20, and Liranda had a disturbing crush on her step-father Garrett before she started beating him into submission.
Anakin had developed a weird desire to be best friends with Willie the creeper. It was a short notice to build a friendship, but a few extra points would be good to take along, he thought.
He invited Willie over, but that was a not good idea.
No worries, Sam! Ian is slim again!
It was kind of embarrassing to have Willie standing outside begging. Anakin tried to distract him with a game of red hands, but they didn't become best friends or anything. Rilly was kind of happy that Anakin was going off to Uni now, because if that was the kind of friends he was brining hoom now.
Yass, promotion for Finch!
PQ didn't want Anakin's last game of Red Hands in his childhood home to have been with Willie. He wanted to leave him with a meaningful memory.
Anakin: NTW, watch out for Grandmother Ottomas. She's rounding up all the ugly children in town in ccase they belonge to her son.
PQ: I hope Peter doesn't have unlicensed offspring. He's sprogged enough.
Then Anakin handed in his uni application.
Millie: I'm not ready for this moment! Hold me!
PQ: Fresco's not here to be offended!
Well, then!
Liranda and Ian were holding each other too, but that was out of happiness. They were going home with another member added to their family.
And here's the taxi! :O See you in Isla Tropicana, Anakin!
Anyway, this is how Lark got made over.
That's all for now! The last regular update's going to be a humongo one, and I don't know how long it will take me to write it! Hopefully I'll get it posted while it's still January! I've got a bonus update too, but that's a major flashback to way earlier times! It just never got posted! Anywhoooo, TTFN and Narrator out!