A week with the Monty's
To the Uberhood! Last time I played some of the Capps over in Veronaville, this time I'm playing their rival family, the Monty's.
Isabella's LTW is to have five level 10 businesses. I doubt I'll manage it, but Mercutio also has that LTW, so I'm going to try and pass the businesses on to him when she goes. So, here's her first business. It's an empty premade store in Bluewater Village.
I've decided Little n' Local is going to be a garden centre! "Local" will refer to the homegrown produce that will be sold there.
The store's barely open an hour and already the reviewer is throwing awards at Isabella.
Then later on I send Romeo and Mercutio there. I have a mod that give scholarships for talent badges, so they might as well try and earn them.
Romeo: Go on lady, buy a gnome. You can call him Gnomeo, to remind you of me.
Mercutio's trying for the gardening badge and spends the entire time fertilizing and planting.
Rose: I declare this gardening store to be plantsim approved.
Malcolm: I hear your sales are going uppretty fast, congratulations. If you ever need any business advice, call me.
Isabella: Why, that's so nice of you, Mr Landgraab.
Malcolm: So I can give you really bad advice.
With Mercutio at school, it falls to Patrizio to manage the garden. He's retired and he has a shitty LTW (raise 20 puppies or kittens) so I'm afraid I don't do much else with him.
Mercutio: Look, look, I got an A+
Isabella: That's nice, could you move, sweetie? Grammy's watching her stories.
Soooo I heard Tybalt and Mercutio have decent chemistry and the crystal ball confirmed it. Only silly me left the two of them alone, unsupervised to go and check on everyone else and when I came back, Tybalt was trying to rip Mercutio's head off.
Tybalt: I'M GONNA MOUNT IT ON MY WALL.
Mercutio: I have no idea why I'm suddenly compelled to apologise to you, but I'm soooooo sorry if I bruised your knuckles with my face.
Lucky chance card for Mercutio.
Headmaster: Wait, isn't this guy already in my school?
Patrizio: Doesn't this kid have a home to go to?
Mercutio is now a fab cook and he and Romeo got into private school.
Romeo: That's right, I'm gonna fuck your shit up at school now!
Tybalt: GASP!
Back at the store, Patrizio's gardening results in a bronze badge.
Back home, Isabella has her own way of congratulating him.
Now Romeo also has a horrid LTW - he wants to woohoo with twenty different sims. If he were anyone else, I'd get right to it, but he's Romeo. From Romeo and Juliet. It's what, the most famous love story of all time! So I think I'm going to have him change aspirations in college. Buuuut just in case I change my mind, I had him try and chat up cashiers.
Romeo: Hi! Wow! Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?
Cashier: No, but I scraped my knees climbing out of hell. Oh wait, I work retail. I'm still there.
Isabella: I already told you, it's a legal move! Stop double-checking it all the time!
She may not care about their grades, but Isabella is a doting grandmother, tucking the boys in every night.
Patrizio: Oooh, ooh, can I tell you about grilled cheese!?
Isabella: What? No!
I've never had a sim use Rally Forth before, so I made Isabella do it, just out of curiosity. Poor old girl, her needs dropped like a stone. I won't be doing that again in a hurry.
Romeo: Have you heard about Violet Jocque? She's got an adult boyfriend!
Lilith: Oh my God, no way! And my parents think I'M trouble!
Romeo: You know that maid your dad's doing? Turns out she's seeing Don Lothario too.
Lilith: Ha! And he has the nerve to judge me-wait, WHAT!?
Isabella and Patrizio have made it their personal mission to have sex on all the sofas before they ever do it in their bed.
Gilbert Jacquet: Ohmygosh, customers!
Yup! So the last cake a playable brought from here couldn't actually be eaten, but I am forever hopeful and had Isabella buy another one.
And I had Patrizio buy a new TV and a stereo from Malcolm Landgraab's electronics store.
Sort-of-success! The cookies had to be baked again, but they could be served and eaten.
And after three days of phone harassment, Tybalt agrees to a visit complete with air kisses.
Mercutio: Ooooooh, he's so fiiiiiine.
Tybalt: What the fuck are you doing!?
Mercutio: What!? I was just saying you're a fine piece of ass!
Isabella: I HAVE NO COUNTERS AND CANNOT COOK THIS ALREADY COOKED CAKE.
Aww dammit. Well, at least the cookies worked.
I decided to make an effort on Patrizio's LTW and had him adopt this kitty. Her name's Luna and she's gonna be a kitten incubator!
Lilith: GODDAMIT ROMEO IT TOOK AGES TO STYLE MY HAIR THIS MORNING!
Romeo: You're kidding, right? What d'ya style it with, a knife and fork!?
Tybalt: I SAID STOP CHECKING OUT MY ASS!
Romeo: I'LL JUST KICK IT INSTEAD THEN!
(I got Mercutio and Romeo mixed up there for a moment, oops!)
Isabella: Oh no, Mercutio might get hurt!
Romeo: Oh no, Tybalt might get hurt! And then I won't be able to kill him myself!
But despite that little setback, I was able to drag up their relationship enough for a first kiss!
And just in time too, because Mercutio is off to college.
Meanwhile, I had Romeo pull a sickie. It feels like he's always at work just when I want to do something.
And today I wanted him to make friends with that cashier.
Romeo: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Cashier: I dunno, you might have a fight on your hands when your girlfriend finds out what you're up to.
Sofa sex was getting a bit uncomfy, so the elders moved to their bedroom.
New kitty! This one is Artemis. I'm hoping he and Luna will get along as well as the kitties I named them after.
The reporter is still impressed with the store.
Goddammit Romeo, your grandparents are celebrity chefs and you can't cook anything more difficult than a peanut butter sarnie!?
Romeo: My grandparents recipes are protected by patent or copyright or something, I'm not allowed to share them.
I invited over the rest of the Monty clan for the day.
Isabella: Have I told you about my award-winning milkshakes?
Bianca: Yes, we already know it brought all the boys to the yard.
Isabella: You're damn right it did!
Artemis: Hey, this is my spraying territory, do you mind?
Skunk: *poot*
Artemis: I take it back, it's all yours.
And to round up the week, have a picture of Romeo regretting asking Lilith to play punch-u.
Romeo: What the hell!? I'm not your sister, you're not supposed to punch me that hard!
Lilith: That's for my hair.
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Well Patrizio was kind of dull, and they all have terrible LTWs, but I liked these guys and I'm looking forward to playing them again. I'm especially looking forward to seeing if Tybalt and Mercutio's relationship can outshine Romeo and Juliet's! XD Their house is growing on me too, I thought it was horrible at first, but with some connecting arches and a proper dining room, it looks much nicer but isn't drastically different. I'm almost tempted to take makeover shots of it.
I realised I've now played households from every hood except for Riverblossom Hills. Time to change that. Next time, I will be playing the O'Mackey household. Until then!
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