The Ouroboros Round Robin - Generation 10 Part 1
A huge THANK YOU to bondchick_nett, who kicked off the whole thing about a year ago, for letting me fill in for favoritebean , who was unable to continue due to having a baby. For those who need to catch up (this is generation 10 after all, though this is by no means the end as there are 5 more generations still to come afterwards), go check out the complete list of updates at Nett's comm.
The generation 10 heiress is Joplin Ouroboros, surrepticiously stolen from the journal of iliketoplaygod and unceremoniously deposited in Sector ZZ Plural Z Alpha (and if you can't figure out the naming theme for this generation from that, you are obviously not a Douglas Adams fan).
Joplin: What does it mean?
engram_au : What does what mean?
Joplin: The Z.
engram_au : Which one?
Joplin: Any of them.
Joplin starts off by absolutely shocking me and not starting off by bird watching.
I panic, exit to desktop and check that Free Time is still installed. Since it is, I come back into the game and decide to solve Joplin's routing problems and grant her access to the easel. If she's going to start off by painting rather than bird watching then there is no way in hell that I am denying her that pleasure.
That's better!
Since I like to punish myself needlessly, I didn't give her any skill points. Nett told me I could give her extra moneys to buy extra crap for the house so I got her this watermelon chair.
Here she is, looking at a shocking picture of a turkey being stuffed. Old and tired joke is old and tired.
Rod Humble creepered by and dropped off a PC, which is a good thing because it gives us extra options for finding a job and making money.
This is her humble abode, which is scenically situated in Simville aka Sector ZZ Plural Z Alpha (I highly recommend it for the lazy legacy player who can't be stuffed to build a whole hood themselves. It's full of reasonably sized starter lots. By that I mean they're not 1x2 mini lots but proper-sized 3x3 or similar so you have the room to put in a garden and pool and extend the house if need be).
And if you look closely, that is Jefferson Jethro Happypants covering his face as he tries to sneak past. So of course I sent Joplin out to greet him.
engram_au: What's the matter with you? You're supposed to like people whose hair isn't black.
Joplin: He's not wearing glasses and he has a job! He's gross!
Alrighty then!
Joplin: I don't like you, you employed smug non-glasses wearing blond man!
Jefferson Jethro: O_O
Joplin: Men like you, successful and with 20/20 vision ought to be ashamed of yourselfs.
Jefferson Jethro: I think I'm in love O_o *eyetwitch*
engram_au : *Carefully stays away from the obvious pocket rocket joke*
Oh, look! Welcome wagon. It's Darla and Helokii!
And Barret Lackadaisy!
Sorry about the awkward framing but I was originally going to crop the images at a ratio of 1:1 but ended up going with 4:3 and thus some of the framing is off in some images.
This is when the hug fest / love in started. For a moment I was afraid that I had the Super Duper Hug Bug and then I worked out that I had simply made these guys parts of the AL social groups so they did the usual social group stuff and there was hugging all over the place.
I had Joplin check out Helokii and it turned out she liked him. To the tune of 3 bolts, actually.
But I am not easily swayed by potential true love staring me in the face so I held off on making any romantic overtures towards Helokii.
The bird you should be checking out is behind you, Helokii.
Joplin Ouroboros, making friends and influencing people. And pissing them off.
The route fail continues.
Hmmm, Barret appears to have the hots for Darla.
Social group townies = networking.
For the record, Berangaria never called :(
Darla: This wall is in my way of admiring the coat rack inside.
Maybe if you stepped through the door and into the house you would be able to see it better?
Jefferson Jethro: This teeny tiny edging that a 6 month old could successfully roll over is in my way of getting to the flowers.
engram_au : *facepalm*
I guess Joplin wasn't going to listen to me and wait and see if a better prospect was just around the corner, at the nearest community lot.
I checked and this was autonomous game behaviour and not ACR-induced as there was no (ACR) text after the Kiss Lightly in the queue.
I... don't even know what to say.
This was going to be my teaser images until I got the other one. Because it's that bizarre that I figured it had to be used unless I got a better pic.
More non-ACR romantic autonomy.
Please note Jefferson Jethro stalking them. He and Joplin have negative chemistry so there is no reason for this other than Jefferson Jethro being a weird little man.
Helokii came in to eat Joplin's bruschetta while we ignored the Gypsy Matchmaker who had arrived outside.
I figured that if Joplin didn't meet anyone else while out and about there was always Helokii to fall back on.
Why yes, I was absolutely positively reluctant to marry in one of my own sims who happened to be in the welcome wagon. I had made over 40 of other people's sims into townies and downtownies in this hood and I was damned if Joplin wasn't going to meet at least some of them.
Darla and Barret seemed to be getting along VERY well, flirting all over the place. Joplin the germaphobe was most distressed at being unable to reach the sink to wash the dishes.
And this is why I stay away from 3 bolt pairings - the stalking drives me insane!
OK, so Darla and Barret are getting along EXTREMELY well.
Sigh...
With all that kissing going on Jefferson Jethro was feeling rather left out and went off to watch a western on TV.
[Insert inane comment about Sims 2 sims playing Sims 3 here]
It's her favourite game, actually. She doesn't play any other game on the computer but this one.
Cupcake shower curtain with killer cupcakes with robotic spider legs is delicious!
And Joplin isn't too bad look, either. She was getting herself ready for a trip to a community lot.
You stay classy Poppy Kohler-Wielle!
She met Amaranta by brilliantcat and told her a joke. In fact, she autonomously told a joke to about 4 or 5 sims. I was gobsmacked.
Fun fact: that arm on the left belongs to Lark Francette Happypants, whose name happens to be Adrian in this hood. Why? I was trying to find Adrian Wotcher in CAS but all the thumbnails got scrambled and I couldn't identify him. So I switched to female sims, whose thumbnails were less scrambled, and managed to find Lark Francette. But I forgot to change her name so she is now Adrian Laurie. And you absolutely needed to know all that.
Helokii then turned up, did a drive-by flirt and promptly left before Joplin could tell him a joke. She just stared after him forlornly, with Tell Joke in her action queue.
I then sent Joplin to get some food since she was hungry, the lot hung as if in preparation for the evil witch to appear and then crashed.
At which point I realised that if this kept happening there was no way Joplin was going to meet another guy to make her forget Helokii and his 3 bolts. So I decided to give in and let her have him.
Also, I thought that this hood was mostly CC free and I had actually installed the little bit of CC that came with the hood before putting the hood in. Yet it's still missing walls and floors and I have stairs flashing blue in hood view.
But first she had to learn to sew.
And then it all just fell into place and she even got a job in the career of her choice (she wants to become a City Planner).
Joplin totally rocks the hard hat look.
This is not career related so we just take a stab at it without caring.
I should have known that would not work out for the best. Joplin has 1 nice point so it would have been more true to just fix the thing behind the co-worker's back and snicker at her. And now Joplin's gone and lost some of her practically non-existent nature enthusiasm!
Go Joplin!
Jogging in a ballet outfit, Darla?
I was feeling a bit dejected by this point. The only townies doing walk-bys were Darla and Barret, with Jefferson Jethro stalking Joplin with nightly phone calls. Even Helokii didn't walk past the house, just Darla and Barret. And I didn't want to risk going to a community lot in case the game crashed again. I later got a hack to stop the stop witches from doing the grand entrance on community lots so that should hopefully fix it. I just haven't been brave enough to try it out yet.
So I gave in and had Joplin invite Helokii over for a cuppa tea.
She immediately went to relax while he went to admire the stack of books on the bedside table.
Take 2, with much the same result.
Take 3.
Joplin: For fuck's sake why won't you sleep with me?!?!?!?!
Though I can see why Helokii would be reluctant. That is not the momentary weird eye glitch. That is how her eyes looked the entire time the kiss lasted.
Joplin: I kissed a boy!
Helokii: I made a friend!
And this is why men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
Joplin: How do you think it's going?
It's going pretty good except for that freaky eye thing but he can't see that since you either do it behind his head while you're hugging or while he has his eyes closed when you're kissing. Ask him to move in.
Joplin: *eyeglitch*
Helokii: *is oblivious to the weirdness*
At least he didn't reject her.
Welcome to the legacy, Helokii Glistuk!
Joplin: My boyfriend is in the way of me jumping his bones!
This was when I realised that I had managed to totally fail while decorating the bedroom and had managed to place a bedside table on the quartertile, so it was blocking access to the other side of the bed.
Helokii: Now that we've rearranged the furniture, do you think we could do some more kissing?
Joplin: Things here in Sector ZZ Plural Z Alpha are kind of similar to how they were back home...
Helokii: That's because we came through the Star Gate several generations ago and somehow managed to keep the old customs and language going over hundreds of years and absolutely failed to institute any change, in fact somehow mirroring the culture of the old homeworld.
Stop mixing genres and fandoms!
I have no idea what Joplin said to him but he's looking like he wants to run away before she gets her hands on him any more than she's already done.
That is the face of a man who's just been introduced to new and mind-blowing things.
And that is the face of a woman showing way too many teeth, which might account for the vast majority of the shock on Helokii's face.
LOL
I love those little purple dudes <3
Let's see if we can get some extra Nature enthusiasm.
Gee, thanks! Not that she doesn't already have that particular secret lot or anything...
While trying to get Joplin pregnant, I had them explore the closet woo hoo option.
The door kept sliding and banging XD
It was quite effective, though :)
Jefferson Jethro continues to be a bit pathetic and stalks Joplin on a regular basis.
She doesn't want you. Give it up, mate.
W00t!
Joplin celebrates her promotion by cleaning the counters.
First pop!
Though a bit scary. You carrying octuplets in there?
That's better!
Joplin managed to roll Grilled Cheese for her secondary aspiration.
Oh year, and Helokii is a Family sim with aspirations to have a Golden Anniversary. And he's a Cancer, though I probably tweaked the personality a bit from the default setting because I was making to many townies that I wanted them to have a variety of character traits so I changed one or two dimensions for most of them.
Her fun was getting low so I had her fill the fish tank which had been empty until now.
I didn't know that 2 sims could interact with a fishtank at the same time!!!
They were at it for hours. Though it was mostly Helokii stalking Joplin as he'd look into the tank then stand up, over and over, while she was actually interacting with the fish.
Since they were having so much fun with the fishtank I decided to make them get engaged and married right then and there.
I really feel quite bad about marrying in my own sim since I had the best intentions of introducing someone else's sim into the family.
Engagement and wedding party for two <3
Jefferson Jethro still calls every night.
Pop deux, with dust.
My 3 year old daughter chose the nursery deco.
Can you tell?
I managed to miss taking a picture of Joplin going into labour so have a Helokii panicking pic.
Meet Ford Ouroboros. He has inherited his mother's skintone and eyes and his father's brow hair.
And he immediately got abandoned in favour ot stalking and bed-making.
I had them put Ford into the baby dangle toy thingo since it was 11 pm and both Joplin and Helokii had got out of bed for the birth.
You have got to be kidding me!
1. You met your 3 bolt lover, with whom you fell in love and later married.
2. You found a job in your dream career and managed to get 2 promotions.
3. You earned a bunch of hobby points and got membership to a secret lot. Twice.
4. You actually managed to make 2 or 3 new friends and earned several skill points.
5. And you had a gorgeous little baby boy.
HOW IS THIS A SO-SO WEEK, I ASK YOU???!!!