A week with the Caliente family
This went straight into content violation over on Tumblr before it even made it out of Drafts. Let's see how well it goes on LJ!
I was pretty sure Michael’s urn was on the lot, but for some reason, it just refused to spawn. Good thing I have more than one mod for that.
There wasn’t a regular Welcome Wagon, but Brandi and Mary-Sue walked past, so I had Nina greet them.
Mortimer asked the twins if they’d like to come Downtown, and as the lot had loaded in the afternoon, their motives were high enough for me to agree to it. It was a decision I thought I might regret when Dina ACR hugged Mortimer right in front of Bella. (And I apologise for the noobie mistake of capping the name popup, they took me by surprise and I didn’t notice it until afterwards.)
Nina: Just stay away from my hot doctor, sis.
I tried to distract Dina with poker, but the action kept dropping out of her queue. I couldn’t work out why, the chairs were fine, so did I have a mod conflict? I was getting ready to 50-50 my downloads when I thought to see if it worked for Nina, and then I spotted this in her thought bubbled and belated remembered you have to pay to play poker. Oops.
Dina: Money can be exchanged for goods and poker.
And thus it was duly exchanged.
Nina: Do you think they’ll ever solve the mystery of what happened to Bella Goth?
Bella: No need, I’m right here.
Dina: It’s a puzzle, all right.
Mary-Sue: So as Fortune Sims, we call all agree money is-
Brandi: Um, I’m not a Fortune sim, I’m Broke. The clue’s literally in the name.
Mary-Sue: Sounds to me all the more reason to become one of us.
Then they got into a huge splash fight.
Michael’s freshly spawned urn. I’m keeping a close eye on it because when I last checked on it, it had somehow been replaced with a jar of fireflies.
Nina had some spare time the next morning so I sent her for a jog to see if Fitness was her OTH. Turned out to be Sport, which is appropriate too.
Oh, Dina has an annoying LTW, which is to have 6 pets reach the top of their career path, but they can’t actually afford to adopt a pet and she never rolls any job wants. So I gave her the ‘give financial advice’ aspiration reward and let her scam people over the internet.
Darren: Yowza.
Dina: I should’ve charged him to look, shouldn’t I?
Darren: Hey internet, guess what I saw today.
Meanwhile, Nina’s LTW is to be a Celebrity Chef and she needed a creativity point, so I sent them to the coffee shop, where Dina was enchanted by the human statue.
Dina: Do you think it’s real silver?
Thankfully Don’t Wake The Llama is free, so she was able to play that while Nina read poetry.
Nina: There was a young lady from Ealing, who had a peculiar feeling-
That’s quite enough of that, thank you.
Cassandra: I’m wearing beige.
Yes, I noticed.
Cassandra: UNDO IT.
The twins hit the bar, but as they already have a bar at home, I cut them off after one drink each.
Back home, Don was walking by, so I asked Nina to greet him. She very happily obliged.
You two are gonna get caught if you’re not careful.
Don and Nina: *slobbery makeout right in front of the house*
Fine, be that way.
Then I spotted Daniel Pleasant walking by and because I’m a horrible person, I had Nina greet him too.
And then this happened. I should probably put a stop to it right?
Lol, yeah, right.
Brandi: Um, hello, I can’t get in the hot tub.
I don’t think you want to get in the hot tub.
Brandi: Sweet, free porno.
Then immediately after screwing Dina in the hot tub, Don goes and heartfarts all over her sister. Ew.
Nina! Are those female-presenting nipples!? On my blog!? Are you trying to get me banned!?
Nina: Better?
Yes. Wait! NO!
(Happily Dina was asleep, so they got away with it.)
Brandi: While you two fine gentlemen are here, I have an idea.
You’re not a Romance sim either.
Brandi: Not that kind of idea.
I hope you’re proud of yourself.
Dina: Very.
I sent Nina to the gym the next day, but I couldn’t remember if the treadmill raises Fitness or Sport, oops.
Albany was another victim of the CC purge, but the Gussy Up plugin wouldn’t let me fix him. I dunno if it’s because his hat’s jewellery or because he hadn’t brought a ticket for the lot or what. Guess he’s stuck with it for now then.
Hot tub party that evening.
I’m pretty sure I have noeatcrap, but Dina’s a slob and doesn’t care anyway.
Finally they Nina earned enough for Dina to adopt the first of her many pets.
Except my dumb ass thought the money had been deducted over the phone, so I brought a pet bed and toy and food bowl, and then they didn’t have enough for the puppy. OOPS.
Adoption Lady: Let’s see how you manage without this!
Dina was too busy inhaling the puppy to even notice.
Nina: That’s deeply inappropriate. Here’s my phone number.
Back home, Dina’s still in love with the puppy (who’s name is Maxx, btw) and still hasn’t bothered to care about her missing bed. She just hopped into Nina’s when she was tired.
Honestly, Nina was more bothered by the whole thing than Dina.
Nina: You want me to share with my sister!? How could you! She steals the covers!
Secret Sue: Heard you like Cuisine.
Actually Dina’s OTH is Nature, but she rolls constant wants to level up her cooking skill and autonomously blogs about food. I guess she’s just very supportive of Nina’s LTW.
Nina meets Maxx and falls in love too.
Nina: OK, I admit it, he’s worth putting up with my sister in my bed.
Still, they can’t play musical beds forever, so I sent Nina out to the library to get the two logic points she needs for a promotion.
Back home, it snowed. Dina was thrilled.
I was less thrilled. I realised I’d forgot to put floor under the stairs on the upper landing, but that just moved the snow outside Nina’s bedroom door. They’ll just have to put up with it, I can’t figure out how to seasons-proof it any better.
Nina brought this townie home from work and he immediately tried to suck up to me by autonomously doing all the gardening. So he can stay, but nobody’s allowed to get attached to him.
Dina: Yarr!
Then this dog showed up outside and I ordered her to stop plundering and go make friends because free pet!
Oh hey, it’s Michael! Hi Michael! You know you’re a Knowledge sim, right?
Michael: BABIES.
Then he jump-scared Nina on the stairs.
And by the bookcase. And yes Nina, we can all see that pee.
Nina: Dina! Come and deal with your husband!
Dina: *obviously Naturing with Geoff Rutherford*
Michael: BOO!
Dina: Bird, bird, dead husband, bird-
Geoff: What was that?
Dina: Bird! Right there!
Geoff: Oh yeah, so it is!
Michael: I could’ve had a Family secondary if they hadn’t killed me off before that EP was released.
After that, Nina doesn’t object to sharing a bed with her sister any more.
And the week ends with Michael giving Maxx the stink-eye. Michael, he’s a puppy, how could you!?
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