The Spritas 2.5
Last time, there were five kids. I don't really remember any more than that, so you should read it if you want the details. ;D
Zoe has brought home from school a friend named Zeke Rose. (That is, from simmericangirl's Rose Legacy.)
Zoe: Have I ever told you that my dad started a fire once?
Cedric: *ignores*
I don't want to downplay Donna's achievement, but what's the betting Zoe helped her with this?
Zoe: Can you believe there was actually an uproar when Pluto was reclassified a dwarf planet?
Zoe: I mean, compared to all the other planets, Pluto was like a bug!
Zoe: Well, okay, okay, maybe a bird. But the fact remains, there were other non-planetary objects in the solar system bigger than Pluto. It's only fair enough it was reclassified!
Zeke: Ohhhhhh... um, okay.
Meanwhile, Jamie works out. Even though he thinks it's boring.
Cedric was dangerously close to red aspiration, and the only want I could really fulfil was "Reach Body Level 8". Since Jamie was hogging the exercise bike, however, Cedric had to work out in front of the TV.
Donna: Oh, what? I won the science fair and I only got a B+!
Not you, too. Can't you work out for yourself what's fun?
She can! :D
Jamie: Ugggghhhhh I'm not feeling so goooood but I refuse to get offfffff...
Jamie, if you end up meeting an untimely end due to starvation, don't blame me.
Zeke: I really am glad you're one of those generation two legacy girls. Later generations tend to live in houses infested by ghosts, and I REALLY HATE GHOSTS! *nervous*
Then they go out so Zoe can push Zeke on the swing.
OMG! What is this? HAS JAMIE WORKED OUT HOW TO FIX HIS BOTTOMED-OUT FUN BAR?!
Adric: JAMIE JAMIE JAMIE READ ME A STORY
Adric (to self): Why's he so obsessed with that dumb glowing box? I am much cuter than the glowing box!
Zoe (to self): Doing this homework makes me much better than my twin brother. I don't think he's done his homework since grade five!
If this results in more babies, I promise you two that you'll pay. (Don't worry, it didn't!)
Adric: ZOE ZOE ZOE I WANT ATTENTION
Zoe: *gives attention*
Zoe: Hmm... I'm feeling kind of funny...
Yeah, this would be why. Toddlers don't go in your torso, Zoe.
Adric: JAMIE READ ME A STORY
Jamie: Okay, okay, I'll read you a story!
Cedric, surely you can deal with this yourself?! There are seven Sims in this house, I can't tell you what to do all the time.
Cedric: I think I'll just feed the baby...
OH WOW. I WONDER WHY THIS HAPPENED, CEDRIC.
Cedric: Hmm... I think the baby needs another meal!
Cedric: WAIT A MINUTE I JUST PEED MYSELF T_T
Cedric: WAAAAH I'M A TERRIBLE ROLE MODEL FOR MY KIDS
Cedric: And I'm starving. :|
And what would you eat when starving but a filling bowl of cereal?
Cedric: I can't eat all this cereal. I'm too much of a failure. :(
Me: Cedric, do you want to starve?
Harry (thinking): I wonder if Jamie will move me from here...
No, but Cedric will!
Oh, wait. Sorry, Harry, you're not getting moved. He just wanted to feed you again.
8am rolls around and it's time for school again!
Jamie: I can't go! I have this toddler to care for!
Put the toddler down and go to school, Jamie...
Cedric: Help! I'm a failure as a Knowledge Sim!
Cedric: *worry worry*
No, the children are not neglected in this house. Why do you ask?
I mean, seriously, his hunger bar was in the green and he has toys in the nursery. He just wants to make us look bad.
Damn it, Jamie, why can't you just do your homework like your sisters?
Zoe brings Trebuchet Dork (katu_sims) home from school. He immediately starts bitching about the state of the house.
Cleaning ninja to the rescue!
Zoe: Yessss! I'm bored! :D
Zoe: I'm really sorry about the state of the house... I know it's terrible...
Trebuchet: Yes, it is. But that's okay.
Trebuchet: Maybe you should be on one of those TV shows... you know, Radical Home Improvements or something?
Zoe (to self): OMG, he doesn't hate me about the house? YES!
Jamie, meanwhile, brought Penny Rose (simmericangirl) home from school.
Zoe: HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE SOFT DRINKS?!
Trebuchet: Whoa, whoa! When did I ever say that? I LOVE soft drinks!
Trebuchet: It's just that milkshakes are so much better...
Zoe: Hmm, I guess you have a point there.
Donna finally got an A+!
She cheers about it to the fridge. Aww. Poor Donna.
Meanwhile, the relationship between Trebuchet and Zoe seems to have hit a stumbling block.
Trebuchet: I really don't like the stars and the moon. Too boring.
Zoe: HOW DARE HE SAY THAT?!
Um, Trebuchet? What are you doing? And how are you doing it?
Finally, Trebuchet and Zoe resort to a long, non-glitchy game of chess.
Cedric waits until three minutes before work to cook lunch.
He makes sure to put the food on the stove before he leaves, though. Damn you, Cedric.
Jamie and Penny take possession of the swing!
Then they progress from swinging to throwing a football.
Unfortunately, Penny is wise to Jamie's throwing-the-football-really-hard tricks and makes sure to get the first shot in.
It's Adric's birthday!
He's pretty cute! The darker hair suits him.
And then it's Harry's birthday!
He's kind of funny-looking, but it could well be the hair. (Seriously, balding toddlers? Whose bright idea was that?) Or the fact that I am really sick of toddlers. One or the other.
Adric: Hey Trebuchet, you look like you listen to weirdo music! Haha!
Ugh. I don't know how many times I've faced this hobby chance card, but I ALWAYS GET IT WRONG.
...except for this time! Maybe Cedric will feel a little less of a failure now?
Harry: Why are you ignoring me?? It's not my fault I'm the fifth-born!
Adric: OH MAN I LOVE TOYS TOYS TOYS YAY!!
Trebuchet: Toys are boring. >:(
Zoe hangs out with her old friends, the stars.
Adric: Hey Penny, you know spacemen?!
Penny (to self): Oh God oh no why is this kid talking to me??
Penny: Ummmm... so... you're from another planet, are you?
Adric: Nope! Only my daddy! =)
Well... what do you think you should do when you're starving, Trebuchet?
Trebuchet: Sit on a bench? :D
Me: Uh. No.
Adric: WHEE SWING
Harry: I'm bored of blocks! I want some attention! *lip quiver*
Tragically, everyone else is too busy to pay attention to Harry, since he only ever whines at me. As proof of this, have a shot of Adric and Donna making friends by playing Mary Mack on the carpet.
Jamie: HELL NO! I'm not getting out of bed! You'll only make me go to school again!
...
Me: Jamie, I know how distraught you'll be to hear this news, but it's actually Saturday today...
Jamie: Oh. Well, then I guess I can get up.
Me: Great. NOW POTTY-TRAIN THE TODDLER AS PUNISHMENT FOR DEFYING ME.
Donna: I can't believe how fascinating these blocks seemed when I was younger... o_O
Yes... Zoe's getting a job.
She chose an amazing job in which she gets weekends off. She's in the ~intelligence~ career! (Science didn't come up, OK. Nor did Architecture, her LTW career.)
Yeah. I have to say that Harry is the most neglected of all the children. At this point in time, his aspiration meter was firmly in the red.
Jamie decides to subject Adric to the same boring story to which he was entreated as a kid. You know the one. Fred the teddy bear xylophone player plays with cars and goes to the toilet? That one.
Cedric: I AM SO BOOOOOOORED
Why do Sims exercise on the bike when it doesn't actually fix their boredom? And then later, they bitch about how they're even MORE bored, plus stinky and exhausted and hungry and probably in red aspiration! Grr!
PLEASE DONNA YOU ARE NOT EVEN HUNGRY
Adric: Zoe, Zoe, will you please play football with me??
Zoe: Not now. I'm trying to solve this puzzle.
Well, if you don't like the radio, then don't listen to it.
By which I did not mean "turn it off when other people are listening to it".
Much better. Although I'm not sure whether I should condone violence against teddy bears.
See? That's a much better way to treat the teddy bear!
Cedric got so obsessed with the exercise bike that he got into the fitness club. He doesn't even have any enthusiasm at all for his OTH.
Cedric: So... bored... must... spy on... neighbours...
You are one bad ass, Cedric. Spying on those rose bushes as you do.
STEWART? You're spying on STEWART? What exciting things is Stewart doing? He eats grilled cheese and paints all day long!
Well... whatever Stewart was doing, he really didn't want anyone else to know about it. He came running to slap Cedric around.
Oh sorry, strangle Cedric. I guess he really doesn't want anyone else to know.
Cedric: Being strangled is so boring! :D
Stewart: You are a very bad man!
Stewart: And that little alien son of yours, too!
Cedric: Yeah, I guess he has a point there.
Why all the Adric hate? He wasn't even in the bathroom!
Cedric: I AM STILL BOOOOOOOOOOOOORED
Cedric: SERIOUSLY, FIX IT
Cedric, if you don't STFU and learn to take care of yourself, I'll ensure you can never be bored again.
Cedric: Oh, um... I think I might practice painting? Yeah.
>:D
Zoe has taken on a kind of surrogate mother role to the little ones.
She takes a break out of her busy schedule to "admire" her brother.
Oh no! Did Zoe's beloved science teacher resign? :(
Zoe: Why do I have to do this?
Learning how to use the potty finally dragged Harry out of the red, though.
Jamie takes after his dad, and uses the exercise bike despite being exhausted, hungry, and busting for the toilet.
Donna, there is no wall there.
What is so terrible about that light?!
Donna actually went outside to greet Times New Roman Dork.
Roman made a mad dash for the chess table, where Zoe was already playing.
He loves science, too.
Sarah gets to work painting her portrait!
Adric's ~one true hobby~ is music and dance, but he refuses to dance for very long.
He's so adorable when he does, though.
Zoe is invited to a second club! Also, notice that the gaming hobby leader is a red-eyed blond-haired zombie. Hmmm.
Every time I catch up with Harry, he is making this face.
Zoe is an extremely good big sister. She's always playing games with her younger siblings.
Cedric seems to be glitched, and he can't get a promotion even though he has the required skill points, friends and work performance level. Maybe his bosses know how incompetent he is at caring for himself. Maybe they figure they shouldn't entrust other people's lives to him. I don't know. But I made him study EXTRA skills in the hope he'd get promoted faster. (Also, he wanted to do it!)
But he really is incompetent. I told him to go to bed after studying, but instead of just going, he did the "OMG so tired" animation. Once, twice, three times, half a dozen times, a baker's dozen times, more... he did this for hours. I began to wonder whether he'd ever make it to bed. And that is the dodgy "cliffhanger" ending I'll leave you all on tonight.
Zoe has brought home from school a friend named Zeke Rose. (That is, from simmericangirl's Rose Legacy.)
Zoe: Have I ever told you that my dad started a fire once?
Cedric: *ignores*
I don't want to downplay Donna's achievement, but what's the betting Zoe helped her with this?
Zoe: Can you believe there was actually an uproar when Pluto was reclassified a dwarf planet?
Zoe: I mean, compared to all the other planets, Pluto was like a bug!
Zoe: Well, okay, okay, maybe a bird. But the fact remains, there were other non-planetary objects in the solar system bigger than Pluto. It's only fair enough it was reclassified!
Zeke: Ohhhhhh... um, okay.
Meanwhile, Jamie works out. Even though he thinks it's boring.
Cedric was dangerously close to red aspiration, and the only want I could really fulfil was "Reach Body Level 8". Since Jamie was hogging the exercise bike, however, Cedric had to work out in front of the TV.
Donna: Oh, what? I won the science fair and I only got a B+!
Not you, too. Can't you work out for yourself what's fun?
She can! :D
Jamie: Ugggghhhhh I'm not feeling so goooood but I refuse to get offfffff...
Jamie, if you end up meeting an untimely end due to starvation, don't blame me.
Zeke: I really am glad you're one of those generation two legacy girls. Later generations tend to live in houses infested by ghosts, and I REALLY HATE GHOSTS! *nervous*
Then they go out so Zoe can push Zeke on the swing.
OMG! What is this? HAS JAMIE WORKED OUT HOW TO FIX HIS BOTTOMED-OUT FUN BAR?!
Adric: JAMIE JAMIE JAMIE READ ME A STORY
Adric (to self): Why's he so obsessed with that dumb glowing box? I am much cuter than the glowing box!
Zoe (to self): Doing this homework makes me much better than my twin brother. I don't think he's done his homework since grade five!
If this results in more babies, I promise you two that you'll pay. (Don't worry, it didn't!)
Adric: ZOE ZOE ZOE I WANT ATTENTION
Zoe: *gives attention*
Zoe: Hmm... I'm feeling kind of funny...
Yeah, this would be why. Toddlers don't go in your torso, Zoe.
Adric: JAMIE READ ME A STORY
Jamie: Okay, okay, I'll read you a story!
Cedric, surely you can deal with this yourself?! There are seven Sims in this house, I can't tell you what to do all the time.
Cedric: I think I'll just feed the baby...
OH WOW. I WONDER WHY THIS HAPPENED, CEDRIC.
Cedric: Hmm... I think the baby needs another meal!
Cedric: WAIT A MINUTE I JUST PEED MYSELF T_T
Cedric: WAAAAH I'M A TERRIBLE ROLE MODEL FOR MY KIDS
Cedric: And I'm starving. :|
And what would you eat when starving but a filling bowl of cereal?
Cedric: I can't eat all this cereal. I'm too much of a failure. :(
Me: Cedric, do you want to starve?
Harry (thinking): I wonder if Jamie will move me from here...
No, but Cedric will!
Oh, wait. Sorry, Harry, you're not getting moved. He just wanted to feed you again.
8am rolls around and it's time for school again!
Jamie: I can't go! I have this toddler to care for!
Put the toddler down and go to school, Jamie...
Cedric: Help! I'm a failure as a Knowledge Sim!
Cedric: *worry worry*
No, the children are not neglected in this house. Why do you ask?
I mean, seriously, his hunger bar was in the green and he has toys in the nursery. He just wants to make us look bad.
Damn it, Jamie, why can't you just do your homework like your sisters?
Zoe brings Trebuchet Dork (katu_sims) home from school. He immediately starts bitching about the state of the house.
Cleaning ninja to the rescue!
Zoe: Yessss! I'm bored! :D
Zoe: I'm really sorry about the state of the house... I know it's terrible...
Trebuchet: Yes, it is. But that's okay.
Trebuchet: Maybe you should be on one of those TV shows... you know, Radical Home Improvements or something?
Zoe (to self): OMG, he doesn't hate me about the house? YES!
Jamie, meanwhile, brought Penny Rose (simmericangirl) home from school.
Zoe: HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE SOFT DRINKS?!
Trebuchet: Whoa, whoa! When did I ever say that? I LOVE soft drinks!
Trebuchet: It's just that milkshakes are so much better...
Zoe: Hmm, I guess you have a point there.
Donna finally got an A+!
She cheers about it to the fridge. Aww. Poor Donna.
Meanwhile, the relationship between Trebuchet and Zoe seems to have hit a stumbling block.
Trebuchet: I really don't like the stars and the moon. Too boring.
Zoe: HOW DARE HE SAY THAT?!
Um, Trebuchet? What are you doing? And how are you doing it?
Finally, Trebuchet and Zoe resort to a long, non-glitchy game of chess.
Cedric waits until three minutes before work to cook lunch.
He makes sure to put the food on the stove before he leaves, though. Damn you, Cedric.
Jamie and Penny take possession of the swing!
Then they progress from swinging to throwing a football.
Unfortunately, Penny is wise to Jamie's throwing-the-football-really-hard tricks and makes sure to get the first shot in.
It's Adric's birthday!
He's pretty cute! The darker hair suits him.
And then it's Harry's birthday!
He's kind of funny-looking, but it could well be the hair. (Seriously, balding toddlers? Whose bright idea was that?) Or the fact that I am really sick of toddlers. One or the other.
Adric: Hey Trebuchet, you look like you listen to weirdo music! Haha!
Ugh. I don't know how many times I've faced this hobby chance card, but I ALWAYS GET IT WRONG.
...except for this time! Maybe Cedric will feel a little less of a failure now?
Harry: Why are you ignoring me?? It's not my fault I'm the fifth-born!
Adric: OH MAN I LOVE TOYS TOYS TOYS YAY!!
Trebuchet: Toys are boring. >:(
Zoe hangs out with her old friends, the stars.
Adric: Hey Penny, you know spacemen?!
Penny (to self): Oh God oh no why is this kid talking to me??
Penny: Ummmm... so... you're from another planet, are you?
Adric: Nope! Only my daddy! =)
Well... what do you think you should do when you're starving, Trebuchet?
Trebuchet: Sit on a bench? :D
Me: Uh. No.
Adric: WHEE SWING
Harry: I'm bored of blocks! I want some attention! *lip quiver*
Tragically, everyone else is too busy to pay attention to Harry, since he only ever whines at me. As proof of this, have a shot of Adric and Donna making friends by playing Mary Mack on the carpet.
Jamie: HELL NO! I'm not getting out of bed! You'll only make me go to school again!
...
Me: Jamie, I know how distraught you'll be to hear this news, but it's actually Saturday today...
Jamie: Oh. Well, then I guess I can get up.
Me: Great. NOW POTTY-TRAIN THE TODDLER AS PUNISHMENT FOR DEFYING ME.
Donna: I can't believe how fascinating these blocks seemed when I was younger... o_O
Yes... Zoe's getting a job.
She chose an amazing job in which she gets weekends off. She's in the ~intelligence~ career! (Science didn't come up, OK. Nor did Architecture, her LTW career.)
Yeah. I have to say that Harry is the most neglected of all the children. At this point in time, his aspiration meter was firmly in the red.
Jamie decides to subject Adric to the same boring story to which he was entreated as a kid. You know the one. Fred the teddy bear xylophone player plays with cars and goes to the toilet? That one.
Cedric: I AM SO BOOOOOOORED
Why do Sims exercise on the bike when it doesn't actually fix their boredom? And then later, they bitch about how they're even MORE bored, plus stinky and exhausted and hungry and probably in red aspiration! Grr!
PLEASE DONNA YOU ARE NOT EVEN HUNGRY
Adric: Zoe, Zoe, will you please play football with me??
Zoe: Not now. I'm trying to solve this puzzle.
Well, if you don't like the radio, then don't listen to it.
By which I did not mean "turn it off when other people are listening to it".
Much better. Although I'm not sure whether I should condone violence against teddy bears.
See? That's a much better way to treat the teddy bear!
Cedric got so obsessed with the exercise bike that he got into the fitness club. He doesn't even have any enthusiasm at all for his OTH.
Cedric: So... bored... must... spy on... neighbours...
You are one bad ass, Cedric. Spying on those rose bushes as you do.
STEWART? You're spying on STEWART? What exciting things is Stewart doing? He eats grilled cheese and paints all day long!
Well... whatever Stewart was doing, he really didn't want anyone else to know about it. He came running to slap Cedric around.
Oh sorry, strangle Cedric. I guess he really doesn't want anyone else to know.
Cedric: Being strangled is so boring! :D
Stewart: You are a very bad man!
Stewart: And that little alien son of yours, too!
Cedric: Yeah, I guess he has a point there.
Why all the Adric hate? He wasn't even in the bathroom!
Cedric: I AM STILL BOOOOOOOOOOOOORED
Cedric: SERIOUSLY, FIX IT
Cedric, if you don't STFU and learn to take care of yourself, I'll ensure you can never be bored again.
Cedric: Oh, um... I think I might practice painting? Yeah.
>:D
Zoe has taken on a kind of surrogate mother role to the little ones.
She takes a break out of her busy schedule to "admire" her brother.
Oh no! Did Zoe's beloved science teacher resign? :(
Zoe: Why do I have to do this?
Learning how to use the potty finally dragged Harry out of the red, though.
Jamie takes after his dad, and uses the exercise bike despite being exhausted, hungry, and busting for the toilet.
Donna, there is no wall there.
What is so terrible about that light?!
Donna actually went outside to greet Times New Roman Dork.
Roman made a mad dash for the chess table, where Zoe was already playing.
He loves science, too.
Sarah gets to work painting her portrait!
Adric's ~one true hobby~ is music and dance, but he refuses to dance for very long.
He's so adorable when he does, though.
Zoe is invited to a second club! Also, notice that the gaming hobby leader is a red-eyed blond-haired zombie. Hmmm.
Every time I catch up with Harry, he is making this face.
Zoe is an extremely good big sister. She's always playing games with her younger siblings.
Cedric seems to be glitched, and he can't get a promotion even though he has the required skill points, friends and work performance level. Maybe his bosses know how incompetent he is at caring for himself. Maybe they figure they shouldn't entrust other people's lives to him. I don't know. But I made him study EXTRA skills in the hope he'd get promoted faster. (Also, he wanted to do it!)
But he really is incompetent. I told him to go to bed after studying, but instead of just going, he did the "OMG so tired" animation. Once, twice, three times, half a dozen times, a baker's dozen times, more... he did this for hours. I began to wonder whether he'd ever make it to bed. And that is the dodgy "cliffhanger" ending I'll leave you all on tonight.