Lucy's Valley: Week Three - Fennel
[Before getting started on this entry, I'm going to talk about WRITING.] Writing is important to me, and I have the feeling it is important to a number of you too. Writing can be incredibly rewarding or utterly frustrating. I've been struggling with how to make a series work for, well, a long time. I finally came up with a solution that I thought could work, but then I started second-guessing myself and managed to convince myself that I SUCK and it would never be decent.
Enter the Writing Friend. If you are a writer, and you don't have a Writing Friend, you are missing out. Preferably the Writing Friend should be someone that is familiar with your work (so you can talk style over content, when that is needed), who likes IT and YOU, but who will be completely honest and say, "sweetie, that is a bad choice." I summoned my Writing Friend last night, and she helped me work through my dilemma (skyping until midnight, heh) and BLISS. I now know what I'm going to do, and the feeling of being happy with the direction your story is going? Nothing compares. So, yes. If you're a writer and don't have a Writing Friend, try to find one. I'll be your Writing Friend, if you want, just PM me for AIM/Skype info. :D
I don't know if it is because Taliesin and Andi are BFF (complete with little gold happy faces), or because the number of kids in this neighborhood is limited, but she tries to come home with him every afternoon. Which is ADORABLE.
She even stays past 7pm, which could be a glitch, or a product of having a vampire father who thinks night is the best time. XD
Taliesin sharing his ~love of music~ with Nydia. They share that as a OTH. :3
FIRST TEEN WOOOOOOO!
Taliesin is a Pleasure/Fortune sim, who likes black hair and glasses, but doesn't want another generation of solely brown-haired Fennels. XD
While Entertainment might not SEEM in line with his namesake's life of music and magic, it is the closest thing! While they'll THINK he's doing "tricks", he'll actually be doing real magic, muahahahha.
Taliesin: Hey, there, internet. How YOU doin'?
Birthday gift! Or, since he rolled the 'be a good warlock' gene at birth, coming in to his inheritance. XD
OMG LOOK AT HIS EARS AND HOW THEY POKE THROUGH THE HAT. HEEEEEEE
Happy giddy teenage boy.
SOOPER SRS MUSICIAN.
Paddie: I'm riding my broom to the store! :D
You mean the store that is RIGHT THERE?
Paddie: Don't tell me that if you had the option to ride a magic broomstick, you'd choose not to, simply because of distance.
Hon, cold. And you can only wear so many pairs of woolen underoos.
Groceries are purchased from Robynne's shop, with Buzz manning the till and Robynne standing around creepily.
Child!Nydia. :D
YOU TWO HAVE REACHED YOUR QUOTA ON CHILDREN. I WILL NOT HAVE A POPULATION EXPLOSION.
Spoiler alert: yes, I will, because my OTHER sims don't listen to me.
:3 :3 :3
(I had really good friendships with my brothers [though our ages are reversed from Taliesin and Nydia, with me being oldest], so it makes me happy when my sims do the same.)
Pause for a moment of EEEE I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS WANT BEFORE! And when you've been playing this game pretty much exclusively (except for detours to beat the various and assorted LEGO games and to build cities in Pharaoh) for five years, it is exciting. XD
WOOOOOOO.
...he totally knows he's gorgeous, doesn't he?
Knox and Lilly's son Spinifex trotted home after Nydia. :D
Eeeee the game tags them as family!
GUYS, NOT BY THE LEADED GLASS DOOR. My parents used to make those and they're HARD. AND DIFFICULT. AND EXPENSIVE.
Awwww. ~Cousins~. Even if they look nothing alike. XD
Mag (alleliua) and Taliesin have two bolts. :D
Prettyyyyy~
I need to make more teenaged townies, so that my sims don't ALL date alleliua sims. I tend to forget about making teens, so I go OHCRAP and make an entire household of teen townies...but I make households based on creators, once I've collected enough sims, so I basically condemn myself. >__>
Nydia: I painted this. You're welcome.
Impressive for an eight-year-old!
YESSSSS. Now he and Paddie can open a flower/magic shop!
:D :D :D
And we've arrived! It is a gutted and slightly altered (for price *cough*) 1x1 shop made by...rats. I've forgotten. I'll edit this post accordingly after I reload the game and check in the lot description.
Upstairs: magic stuff!
Downstairs: flowers of many kinds!
And since Nydia can't really be involved in the shop things, she brought along the chess table to work on her logic skill.
Guys, I get that you love each other, but you have a business to run.
Robynne, being a plant, is probably making sure that Paddie and Myron are running this shop in a plant-friendly way. Since none of the flowers are sentient, we don't have to worry. XD
Ann (alleliua) is the first customer to buy things.
Laithwen, also alleliua.
Myron: Here, have a pile of stuff magically jammed into a timelord gift box since I can't restock with things in my own inventory.
Someone should totally make a default replacement for the gift box that looks like a tiny square TARDIS. >__>
Sun. (alleliua) I tend to flood a hood with around 8 sims from the same creator, use them up, and then move on. >___>
Taliesin: Ditto what Dad said. Only magic stuff, not flowers.
Tia (alleliua): Where is the giant magic chair that I can somehow sense??
With a rank three business and motives about to start screaming, the Fennel family heads home.
GENIE LAMP??
GENIE LAMP! My personal rule is ONE wish for money allowed per lamp. After all, it IS magic, but I don't want things to be TOO easy.
Mag's over for another date. :3
ROBBER ROBBER ROBBER
Hah! You go, Paddie!
lololololol
Awww, that's sweet....but this is a two-part study, and with the decorative walls hidden...
Not so sweet. :|
While Taliesin isn't going to uni, since there isn't one, I let him apply for scholarships. AND LOOK AT THIS ONE. THIS IS ANOTHER I HAVEN'T SEEN.
Achievement unlocked: star-speckled skin.
The lot doesn't look any different, but it is cute with a light dusting of snow.
The family taxes are $2,000, and they contributed an additional $3,000 for their Level 3 business, bringing the total town funds to $47,650.
STATS:
Playables: 18
Sim Multiplier (SM): 2
Population: 36
Households: 5
Community lots: 3 (Gorgeous Grown Things L6 [Cuevas], Second Hand Store [npc], Glade L3 [Fennel])
Utilities: unlocked, with requirements
Townies: unlocked
CAS points: 2
Career slots: 2 (education, filled, law enforcement, open)
Careers unlocked: Politics, Law
Home Businesses: 0
Enter the Writing Friend. If you are a writer, and you don't have a Writing Friend, you are missing out. Preferably the Writing Friend should be someone that is familiar with your work (so you can talk style over content, when that is needed), who likes IT and YOU, but who will be completely honest and say, "sweetie, that is a bad choice." I summoned my Writing Friend last night, and she helped me work through my dilemma (skyping until midnight, heh) and BLISS. I now know what I'm going to do, and the feeling of being happy with the direction your story is going? Nothing compares. So, yes. If you're a writer and don't have a Writing Friend, try to find one. I'll be your Writing Friend, if you want, just PM me for AIM/Skype info. :D
I don't know if it is because Taliesin and Andi are BFF (complete with little gold happy faces), or because the number of kids in this neighborhood is limited, but she tries to come home with him every afternoon. Which is ADORABLE.
She even stays past 7pm, which could be a glitch, or a product of having a vampire father who thinks night is the best time. XD
Taliesin sharing his ~love of music~ with Nydia. They share that as a OTH. :3
FIRST TEEN WOOOOOOO!
Taliesin is a Pleasure/Fortune sim, who likes black hair and glasses, but doesn't want another generation of solely brown-haired Fennels. XD
While Entertainment might not SEEM in line with his namesake's life of music and magic, it is the closest thing! While they'll THINK he's doing "tricks", he'll actually be doing real magic, muahahahha.
Taliesin: Hey, there, internet. How YOU doin'?
Birthday gift! Or, since he rolled the 'be a good warlock' gene at birth, coming in to his inheritance. XD
OMG LOOK AT HIS EARS AND HOW THEY POKE THROUGH THE HAT. HEEEEEEE
Happy giddy teenage boy.
SOOPER SRS MUSICIAN.
Paddie: I'm riding my broom to the store! :D
You mean the store that is RIGHT THERE?
Paddie: Don't tell me that if you had the option to ride a magic broomstick, you'd choose not to, simply because of distance.
Hon, cold. And you can only wear so many pairs of woolen underoos.
Groceries are purchased from Robynne's shop, with Buzz manning the till and Robynne standing around creepily.
Child!Nydia. :D
YOU TWO HAVE REACHED YOUR QUOTA ON CHILDREN. I WILL NOT HAVE A POPULATION EXPLOSION.
Spoiler alert: yes, I will, because my OTHER sims don't listen to me.
:3 :3 :3
(I had really good friendships with my brothers [though our ages are reversed from Taliesin and Nydia, with me being oldest], so it makes me happy when my sims do the same.)
Pause for a moment of EEEE I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS WANT BEFORE! And when you've been playing this game pretty much exclusively (except for detours to beat the various and assorted LEGO games and to build cities in Pharaoh) for five years, it is exciting. XD
WOOOOOOO.
...he totally knows he's gorgeous, doesn't he?
Knox and Lilly's son Spinifex trotted home after Nydia. :D
Eeeee the game tags them as family!
GUYS, NOT BY THE LEADED GLASS DOOR. My parents used to make those and they're HARD. AND DIFFICULT. AND EXPENSIVE.
Awwww. ~Cousins~. Even if they look nothing alike. XD
Mag (alleliua) and Taliesin have two bolts. :D
Prettyyyyy~
I need to make more teenaged townies, so that my sims don't ALL date alleliua sims. I tend to forget about making teens, so I go OHCRAP and make an entire household of teen townies...but I make households based on creators, once I've collected enough sims, so I basically condemn myself. >__>
Nydia: I painted this. You're welcome.
Impressive for an eight-year-old!
YESSSSS. Now he and Paddie can open a flower/magic shop!
:D :D :D
And we've arrived! It is a gutted and slightly altered (for price *cough*) 1x1 shop made by...rats. I've forgotten. I'll edit this post accordingly after I reload the game and check in the lot description.
Upstairs: magic stuff!
Downstairs: flowers of many kinds!
And since Nydia can't really be involved in the shop things, she brought along the chess table to work on her logic skill.
Guys, I get that you love each other, but you have a business to run.
Robynne, being a plant, is probably making sure that Paddie and Myron are running this shop in a plant-friendly way. Since none of the flowers are sentient, we don't have to worry. XD
Ann (alleliua) is the first customer to buy things.
Laithwen, also alleliua.
Myron: Here, have a pile of stuff magically jammed into a timelord gift box since I can't restock with things in my own inventory.
Someone should totally make a default replacement for the gift box that looks like a tiny square TARDIS. >__>
Sun. (alleliua) I tend to flood a hood with around 8 sims from the same creator, use them up, and then move on. >___>
Taliesin: Ditto what Dad said. Only magic stuff, not flowers.
Tia (alleliua): Where is the giant magic chair that I can somehow sense??
With a rank three business and motives about to start screaming, the Fennel family heads home.
GENIE LAMP??
GENIE LAMP! My personal rule is ONE wish for money allowed per lamp. After all, it IS magic, but I don't want things to be TOO easy.
Mag's over for another date. :3
ROBBER ROBBER ROBBER
Hah! You go, Paddie!
lololololol
Awww, that's sweet....but this is a two-part study, and with the decorative walls hidden...
Not so sweet. :|
While Taliesin isn't going to uni, since there isn't one, I let him apply for scholarships. AND LOOK AT THIS ONE. THIS IS ANOTHER I HAVEN'T SEEN.
Achievement unlocked: star-speckled skin.
The lot doesn't look any different, but it is cute with a light dusting of snow.
The family taxes are $2,000, and they contributed an additional $3,000 for their Level 3 business, bringing the total town funds to $47,650.
STATS:
Playables: 18
Sim Multiplier (SM): 2
Population: 36
Households: 5
Community lots: 3 (Gorgeous Grown Things L6 [Cuevas], Second Hand Store [npc], Glade L3 [Fennel])
Utilities: unlocked, with requirements
Townies: unlocked
CAS points: 2
Career slots: 2 (education, filled, law enforcement, open)
Careers unlocked: Politics, Law
Home Businesses: 0