Round 5: Jackson-Moran
Last time in the Jackson-Moran household, the two youngest brothers had their childhood birthdays. Teenaged April had her first woohoo with her long-time girlfriend. Tracey is at 16 BFs for her IW, and still can't find a job in the Journalism track for her LTW. Teenaged Dixon found a girl that he has 3 bolts with, but decided to stay with long-time playable girlfriend, Sasha Wilcox, anyway. And lastly, Robin is very close to reaching the top of the Entertainment track and achieving his LTW.
This family actually rolled a minor and a major ROS for round 5. They have to adopt a new large pet, and Robin has to become a good witch for 2 rounds! That ought to add some variety to this hood!
So, the first thing the family did this round was adopt a new large dog, named Petunia. She's very rambunctious and is very hard to keep under control!
But she's a pretty dog, nonetheless.
I was hoping for puppies this round, but Harley does not like Petunia at all. I guess she's just too much for him to handle. He's a very calm doggy.
The three teens are all heading to Uni this round, so they made some time to spend with their significant others before taking that taxi outta here. Luke won't be separated from his townie flame, Darcy Nolan, for very long because she's coming to Uni too. I've decided that anyone that is in a relationship with or has at least BF status with a playable, will grow up with that playable. If they end up marrying into the hood, great. If not, I'll set them somewhere and keep their ages in sync with the playable sims, but I won't update on them or really play them too much. Non-playable playables, I think some people call it.
Dixon, on the other hand, won't be seeing his long time girlfriend, Sasha Wilcox, for quite a while. She won't be going to Uni until next round, but Dixon's three bolter will be going with him. We will have to see if he stays true to Sasha or if he moves on to older women!
For now though, he has a fear of breaking up with Sasha. So they have one last woohoo before he heads off to Uni. They do make a cute couple, I'd hate to see them break up!
The teenagers aren't the only ones with raging hormones this round. Robin and Tracey spent a lot of time woohoo'ing thanks to ACR, but I think and pray that they are done having children. Tracey's not too far away from elderhood, and they no longer Try for Baby.
Tracey's still working on that IW of having 30 best friends, but the stupid wishing well keeps popping out sims that she's already best friends with. So she went from 16 best friends last round to 20 this round. Only 4 new best friends. Stupid wishing well.
Since it's spring this round, Robin takes some time to clean up their garden and plant some crops. But they always get neglected in this family so I'm sure they'll all die.
He also became a good witch, per the ROS. He looks good all sparkly!
The house got an update and an upstairs with a secret lair for Robin and his witchly goods. He spends a lot of time studying the Light arts, and knows quite a few spells already.
He can also make a couple of items and tons of reagents, so the cauldron is always going too.
The teens spent one or two of the days of this round still at home, and they had some visitors one afternoon. Adrianna Wilcox and Hannah Merrick came over, but both girls are way too young for these teens. They'll have to wait for the younger Moran boys to age up. I believe Jeremy is one day off from Hannah, so maybe we'll see a romance between them next round?
Time for the teens to apply to college! April has a ton of skills, but none of them over 7, so she didn't get many scholarships. Dixon actually got the most money from scholarships.
Before the teens move out, Tracey comes home with a promotion to Senior Officer. She still can't find a job in the Journalism career track for her LTW and she's running out of time! She continues to climb the Military ladder anyway.
It was finally time for the teens to move to Uni, and thank goodness. I'm so sick of Dixon and Luke fighting all the time! I'm not sure yet how the living arrangements are going to be at Uni, but I think I'll try to keep these two in separate households!
And away they go! Tracey actually ran out to say goodbye to each of them when their taxi's came. She's gonna miss her three oldest kids!
But with them gone, she has a lot more time to spend with her youngest boys, Jeremy and Seth.
Robin starts practicing spell casting.
He decides to practice on his lovely wife, but the spell fails. He eventually got it right and put her in a very good mood with a flick of his wand.
And thanks to the mood boost, Tracey comes home with another promotion. This time to Commander!
The house is noticeably quieter without the three oldest Jackson kids. A lot of their time is spent skilling, and other than Robin's witchcraft, the house got a little boring!
Seth is just happy that he can finally have a turn at darts. The older boys were always hogging it.
Petunia tries to keep things lively and loud. She loves chasing that RC race car!
This is just a random picture of two townies falling in love. I always think that's so cute when they do it on their own.
Harley misses the older kids. He sits on Dixon's old bed for hours, like he's just waiting for Dixon to come home. So sad!
Tracey gets a chance card right and gains membership to some secret hobby lot.
And then she comes home with a promotion to Astronaut! She's nearly at the top of the career! And being an astronaut is pretty cool anyway.
Petunia took a job in the Service career and got a chance card right on her very first day. She earned a promotion to Therapy Pet! Good job Petunia!
And there it is.
So remember how Robin was practicing his spell casting? Well it started raining one day and Robin cast a spell to make the rain go away and the sun to come out. Little did he know a tree had been struck by lightning and caught on fire. Well, without the rain to put out the fire, it raged out of control. Tracey ran to call the fire department and Robin went out to cast spells to put the fire out. He was successful on all the fires, but unfortunately he got caught in the very last one and some glitch was preventing any of my other sims of putting it out.
So...he died. You can see the smoke from his burning corpse if you look hard enough! Tracey pleads for his life of course. He's too young to die!
She plays a game with the Grim Reaper......cue the suspense....
And wins! Go Tracey! Thatta girl!
So Robin gets to come back to life, and the happy couple are reunited. I'm so glad he didn't die!
That's it for the drama of this update. But Jeremy, the 2nd generation Jackson heir, had his teen birthday. He definitely inherited his mother's nose and it doesn't suit him as well as it suits her. Maybe he'll get plastic surgery one day. Anyway, he chose Knowledge as his aspiration and his LTW is to reach the top of the Oceanography career. He likes mechanically-minded girls who wear fancy clothes, but hates them to wear any makeup. Hannah Merrick is his same age, but Holly Scott is only 2 simdays younger than him. I wonder which one he'll choose to date? Maybe neither of them, but I hope he has chemistry with one of them. I like my playables to marry each other!
Robin was one promotion away from earning his LTW, and then he failed this chance card. I was terrified that he was going to be fired, but he just had to pay a fine. Whew, that would have really pissed me off!
Luckily, he came home with that final promotion to Prestidigitator and achieved his LTW. Great job Robin, it's about time!
And here's the family at the end of the round, minus their two dogs. It feels so empty without the three older kids! That's it for this round, thanks for reading! The Scott family is up next!