2.05 – Mid Life Stupid

Last time, Fiyero aged up into a Technophobic child, and the simselves ignored him at his birthday party.

Renaming our new Business building and Bookstore 🙂

Fiyero went on a field trip today. With Tomahawk…who is apparently working in education now? I could have sworn he was in the music career.

Yay, 30 paintings done. Now maybe she’ll paint a bit fast and we can check out more of the bigger ones. And get some traction in her career.

Heather has another RI. I think that’s about 6 all up. Hidden Flirty trait?

Dammit, Bastille, you’re blocking the fireplace!

Chance has a wish to be best friends with Shane Schofield, so he’s fulfilling that on his day off.
I do allow my sims time for non-skilling fun!

Oops, I forgot about Chance’s birthday. He’s now an adult.

*sigh* and he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course.

Dammit, and his first midlife crisis wish (when Jess walked into the room he was in) is to divorce Jess! No Chance!

Aw, and Jess rolled this wish when she walked in the same room as him 🙂

Fiyero does his homework in the morning right before school. Sounds about right 😉

Gee, way to be creepy Chance, sleeping with your eyes open. And look, Jess is dreaming about you.

And now he rolls this wish. I can’t grant it, but good to know the divorce thing was a fleeting fancy.

My simself is dating another elder male. At least she’s sticking to her own age group. Buck Broke wouldn’t have been my first pick, but hey.

This MLC wish we can fulfil! When Bruce gets up, he’ll train Chance. Haha, poor Chance.

Hey, this painting is new. Boring, but a masterpiece, so *sells*

Wow, training does help level skill – Chance got to L3 within one basic workout.

And now he’s rolled another MLC wish. No problems, we can do that one, too. But have a bath first.

Jess is this close to maxing gardening and completing her LTW!

And done! Yay!

It’s 9pm, but there’s still someone at the Salon, so Chance can get his makeover.

He hates it (I think it’s the shoes ;)), but it fulfils his wish.

And then he rolls the want to flirt with his stylist.

It’s Jess’ birthday the day after Chance’s. She’s stinky and stir crazy, but whatever. No midlife crisis.

And flirting wish is completed. Now Chance will make himself back over, then leave.

I gave Chance a similar outfit, but with a different shirt. And shoes – even if they are slip on ones.

Hahahah! Child-hating Heather had a bit of an oopsie.

Phoenix loves the trampoline, whenever she gets a chance. Bruce, on the other hand, loves skilling even when he’s maxed the skill. Athletics or fishing, he always does one.
This is my (terrible) attempt at taking a photo of Phoenix doing backflips. That’s how much time she’s spent on the trampoline.

Uhm, what? She’s not in a bad mood! Two negative moodlets, which do not even come close to putting her in a bad mood. Strange game.

Fiyero has wished to preside over royal court, so sure.

And then our little prince heads off to school in his formal prince outfit. I love the mod to unlock the costumes. The prince and princess costumes make awesome formal outfits.

Heather now has another boytoy – she’s taking Jess’ leftovers.

New MLC wish. Sorry Chance, no can do, not until you max handiness.

Bruce is skating??

So he is. That’s cool that we have a skating pond on the lot.

I missed the popup, but Fiyero made it on the honour roll!

And, as a reward, Bruce takes his grandson fishing in the big river.

Starla moved out of the simself house.

Chance has now rolled this MLC wish. No, hun, you need this for your LTW. (he seems to be rolling tons of wishes – I’ve had so many MLC that pass with two or three wishes rolled. He’s had his MLC for one day and rolled 6!)

Jess’ first harvest from her cheese and eggplants is in, so Phoenix can now make cheesy things in the woodfired pizza oven 🙂

Cool painting, Jess! We’ll definitely keep that when it’s finished.

Wait, what? Chance is now L9 of his career? When he finished work, he got a promotion then a demotion in the same moment, so he was still at L7 (thus I didn’t bother to screenshot). Three hours later he’s L9…

Oh well, bonus. Chance now needs logic, so onto the chessboard he goes!

The finished zebra painting is hung on the wall in the reading area.

*sigh* I hate MLC. If it’s still there in the morning, we’ll try to fulfil it.

Shots of Bruce and Phoenix’s stats, since they both have full lifebars.

Since it’s easier to find legacy sims for the Science career, we’ll start Fiyero on inventing. In less than a sim hour, he’s at L1!

Father and son skilling on a Saturday morning.

Fiyero’s first invention is a Dog Toy.

Phoenix broke a stone sculpture! Hopefully it’s Fluorite.

Yep! Awesome *adds to rock collection*

Oh no! Good thing I took the shots of their stats!

She begged, but Grim wasn’t having any of it. And so we have our first death of the challenge/legacy. RIP Phoenix, you were an awesome founding spouse.

Jess and Bruce are both grief stricken. Chance is at work and I just sent Fiyero to the junkyard to collect scrap.

And Bruce sudden wants to redeem festival tickets. Random much? Not really, he just received Phoenix’s tickets from her inventory. But okay, go off to the festival.

Since it’s currently winter, Phoenix’s ashes will remain inside, in the kitchen next to a book. Representative of her personality 🙂

I also added some more simselves to town. From L-R we have Sam (Griffindork7), who writes the Langurd Legacy, Raelindolin, who wrote the Bathory Villain Legacy and the Legend of Someone, and Tam (autumnrein), writer of the Winters ISBI.

I downloaded some new Riverview community lots, including a bigger library! This is the new junkyard; not too different from Grady’s.

Aw, I wanted Bruce to buy a gnome; too bad they’re five HUNDRED tickets each. Why so much?? He bought a water balloon arena instead.

Can you tell by Jess’ wish what I got? University Life! I’ve been playing around with it in another save, seems fun; though I’m sure I’ll get bored of actually going to University after a few times.

I have not seen this moodlet before, cute!

Now this is a MLC wish I like; easy to fulfil!

And done. This is Edward Danevbie, Luna’s son with Tremayne MacKay, who was the sim who kept aging into pigtails in previous chapters.

Chance is collecting scrap, as he wished to do.

And my camera zooms back home. Joy, the University Mascot is here. I already know I need to DL a mod to get rid of that guy.

No Bruce, you’re at the end of your lifebar. No university for you.

OMG OMG! He’s making the fireplace fireproof but now he’s on fire!

Thankfully, Chance was right there and was able to put him out.

Between Jess and Chance, we got the fire put out with no harm done.

Then Chance rolls this wish. Yes, that would be great, you can definitely do that!

Also, since Jess mastered painting in the previous chapter, we can now use any floor or wall covering. So we have a wooden floor in the main area, and the bedrooms have carpet. You’ll see the wall coverings as we go along.
Bruce is watching the fire to make sure it doesn’t get out of control again.

Maybe it’s her traits, but Jess seems to paint an awful lot of lanscapes. Though they are pretty.

Having seen someone in the Vinson Epic Legacy family burn to death because they had no shower to put themselves out, I’m keeping a close eye on Fiyero.

Naw, he wishes to become best friends with his dad. We can do that.

This is the cute little consignment lot I found on the exchange; it fits into that long narrow lot in the middle of Riverview. It has a playground and consignment lot together.

And look what we found for sale. It’s a legit way of getting the gnome in the game, totally not cheating, right?

Chance is helping Fiyero with his homework…at least he’s trying to help. Poor Fiyero looks even more confused.

They’re mourning almost in sync.

Fiyero wants to pillow fight with someone – who better than dad?

Interesting, I haven’t seen the ‘worship’ interaction before.

It’s the same animation as when excitable sims get excited, I think.

I was busy following Jess around (collecting gems) while the others slept, so I almost missed this. Our first haunting! The moodlet for Phoenix’s death isn’t even gone and she’s come back to visit…in the rocking chair, of course.

 

Good place to end things, I think. Next chapter, Fiyero becomes a teen!