Well, hello there! Being cautious, washing hands, wearing masks? It's a lot, isn't it? Take a load off with this chapter. Sorry these breaks are so long. Things have been, well, intense for me. But I have a little time now, so let's see what I can get through. When we left off, Olympia had assumed her role as the second generation torch holder, and Roman and Asia had both, sadly, passed on from old age. Olympia packed up herself, her new husband Aleki (owner of the world's stupidest mustache), and her useless mother, Miko, to a new lot in Sulani. Let's see what they've made of the place, and whether the cute little fellow peeing on Olympia's feet above makes a notable appearance. Read on...
It's still the middle of the night, but I plopped a nice-ish house down. It's impossible to see in this lighting, so we'll just hop into Build mode to take a peek.
So I wanted to go for a repurposed-beach-hut look, like a little village of huts was assembled and then turned into the Atlas estate. I'm not sure it's really working, and it's a bit annoying to have it so spread out, but I really like the idea of it, so we'll stick around at least for this generation. There's a little graveyard and a playground out front on dry land, plus a luxurious pond because I like it, but the rest of the action takes place in the huts.
This is the back view, by the way. We'll see those middle parts more in a minute. The open water space back here is to put a boat and/or jetski in eventually.
The far right hut houses most of the day-to-day activity areas. From top left moving clockwise, we have a focus room, a gym, laundry/utility room, living room, hall and tiny bathroom, and an inspiration room. There's two doors out to the network of bridges. None of this is fully furnished yet, by the way. I just put down the essentials plus a precious few decorations in a few rooms. The theme for the house is "eccentric collector of wooden flooring" since I ended up using a different plank for almost every room in the house. Lol, very realistic, well done me, etc.
The middle area houses the dine-in kitchen near the shore, a swimming area in the middle, and our patio in the back with a few activities. The patio table, kiddie pool, and hot tub are under cover. Amazingly, no one has made use of the bar yet, so I've just made a mental note just now to check if it's too close to the edge. It would be pretty surprising if sims on freewill had just ignored it this long. The kitchen serves as a connection point for two of the bridges and also has arches that face towards the shore plus large windows in the back of it for a very open feel.
The last hut houses the living quarters. From top left, clockwise again, we have the kids' bedroom, two bathrooms, hallway, the toddler nursery, the baby nursery, two master bedrooms, and the playroom. Olympia and Aleki's bedroom is the red one, and Miko is in the blue one. This area only has one door to the bridges.
Olympia makes good use of her new Sulani address to apply for a local conservationist job, and she then jumps into the house to get started on her first work from home assignment. Remember she's fairly newly pregnant? You can just see a bit of belly on her. She'll have to do a bit of job hopping for her Renaissance Sim aspiration eventually, but I'd like her to come back to conservationist. With living in Sulani and being a vegetarian, it seems to fit her. Anyway, she dove right into this new residence and life. What are the freewill sims doing with this well-appointed space?
Whatever this is. Maybe it's better if we don't ask.
While she is a vegetarian, Olympia the glutton is not about the ascetic life. She fulfills her "get leftovers" command by removing the macarons that Miko made last chapter and then enjoying the ever-loving hell out of them. I wish one thing in my life made me as happy as these macarons are making Olympia.
Of course, despite the well-stocked fridge, the peanut gallery decides to break in the new kitchen.
And not just Aleki, either.
Olympia: "Geez, Mom! I'm cooking you guys some fresh food. Do you mind?"
Miko: "No, it's fine. I'll wait my turn for the stove."
I think Aleki didn't even eat the salad he made. He went back to sleep in the hot tub despite nearly full energy. He does this because of his lazy trait, which also makes him abandon his clothes whenever he changes despite there being multiple hampers within range. This will prove to be his absolute favorite place on the lot, so we clean up a lot of clothes piles out here.
Pretty soon it was time to celebrate Miko's elder birthday. I can't believe she was so far behind Roman, but she was pregnant three times and I didn't give him a potion of youth, so he went pretty quick once he aged up.
Aww, Olympia's cheering on her mom.
Olympia: "No, I'm cheering on her new arthritis. Hopefully it'll slow down the stupidity a bit."
I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
The welcome wagon came by later.
Mele: "Does this place give you kind of a weird vibe?"
Oliana: "Deep foreboding mixed with exasperation?"
Mele: "Yes, exactly!"
Oliana: "Heard they're an ISBI."
Mele: "Well, that explains it. Guess we'll probably be running in to put out a lot of fires, then."
Oliana: "And that's why I have no qualms about stealing their breakfast."
Ah yes, crying, naked, in a waterfall to clean up after bladder failing due to trying to work from home in your second trimester. How every woman dreams of spending her first pregnancy.
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After that miserable into to the conservationist career, Olympia is able to actually get some work done. She's mostly trying to survey the algae blooms that are really heckin hard to see at night, but she spent all day trying to take care of her needs.
Back home the next morning, it's Winterfest, so the family celebrates with a traditional tofurkey breakfast next to their technicolor tree. We'll probably get a real one once there are kids, but with relatively few skills to her name as a new torch holder and heavily pregnant to boot, Olympia is struggling too much with keeping up the house to bother trimming a tree.
She still got everyone to open presents, though. I played this at the beginning of this year and I remember absolutely none of the details, though, so no little funny notes about who got what.
Aleki, just because your pregnant wife needs a nap doesn't mean you do, too. I mean, that's literally what you've been doing all day.
Aleki: "Shhhhhh."
Aleki: "Do I get a gift, Father Winter?"
FW: "Are you going to ask me for one?"
Aleki: "I don't know how!"
FW: "Too bad for you."
Sucks to be on freewill for Winterfest.
Olympia, however, got a very nice gift and a good conversation out of Father Winter because she's been good and knows how to use her words.
The ghosts made their first appearance at the new house that night, and they spent the whole night rummaging in the sand and building sand castles. They never attempted to leave the graveyard, which is a little worrying.
You guys are stuck in there, aren't you?
Georgia: "Yeah, we are."
Despite there being a gate on the two-feet-high fence that you could easily float through?
Roman: "Ironically, the two smartest sims in the family cannot figure out how to use a gate now."
Georgia: "It's the first memory you lose in the River Styx."
Nanny Gandhi wanted to come by, and he is delighted that one of the children he sorta helped raise is now about to have her first child. I bet he's looking forward to the income again. Especially since he never did much childrearing, preferring instead to watch TV with the toddlers.
Soon after, Olympia goes into labor. I meant to have her give birth at the hospital so I could get a birth certificate, but I forgot.
All alone, she gave birth to a baby girl who, in the spirit of their new abode, is named Tahiti.
+5
Olympia then immediately jetted off to Mua Pel'em to keep working on her job, and she wound up taking this amazing selfie at the volcano.
Olympia: "#FieryRedhead #SmokinHot #OwThatsReallyWarm #IShouldProbablyLeave #JustOneMoreSelfie."
Sigh.
Her pics did make for an absolutely amazing gallery wall back home, though. I added one more of her from the house to make the display even.
It was this pic right here, in fact.
Olympia: "#CoolbythePool but still #SmokinHot."
I'm going to take your pound key away. Anyway, does her outfit look a little different? The sweater dress just wasn't working for tropical life when it was still this hot in the middle of winter.
Olympia: "#Smok--"
Let me stop you right there before we both do something we regret.
So here's Olympia's new everyday look. Very cute, and still in her mostly-covered up yellow and black style.
I gave everyone else makeovers too and redid any of their outfits that seemed too warm to me.
Aleki only got a slight tweak. He rolled up his pants to wade in the water and put on sandals.
Then, with a new baby in the house, I felt it was time for another pet for the kids to grow up with. Not that any of the first batch ever got that close to Asia, but Olympia did imitate her that one time when she was a toddler, so I guess that kinda counts? Anyway, I decided to get a dog this time. Unfortunately, all three of the first dogs the adoption worker brought over were straight jerks.
Every single one growled at her cautious introduction, so I decided to try again with my second string choices.
I was really hoping this floofy boof in the foreground would be our new pet, but she was also a grade-A asshole. The dachshund had a miserable personality. That left one candidate...
And the male Weimaraner puppy took a liking to Olympia. Hurray!
Welcome to the family, Cyprus! But Olympia, could we get a look at the little guy, please?
Oh. Oh my. Actually, you know what? Go ahead and put him back in your hair.
This picture symbolizes how Cyprus will walk alongside Olympia on her journey as torch holder. Or it symbolizes all the times she had to carry him down the decks stairs so he could go potty on the beach. Having a puppy in a house on stilts is . . . not great.
Still, he's so darn cute (as long as you don't zoom in on those eyes - yikes!) that even Aleki and his stupid unnecessary water glass can be bothered to come watch.
Once Tahiti and the puppy were taken care of, Olympia heads off for her now-nightly ritual of doing her work from home tasks at Mua Pel'am by moonlight. It is significantly easier to find algae when the moon is full! Olympia is zooming up the ranks but I don't remember where she is at this point. She's doing well, though, considering all she has to handle.
The next day...
Ah, it's a random miserable local in swim trunks and a random miserable local in a two-piece, the latter of whom Miko might--
Miko: "Or might not!"
Ahem, yes, who Miko might or might not have peed on at the wedding.
Miko: "Literally pics or it didn't happen."
Anyway, they apparently feel terrible because they spent the whole time grimacing.
Olympia: "You guys do realize it's like minus 5 degrees right now somehow, right? Just because we're on a beach doesn't mean you can't put on a jacket."
Local: "This would displease the island spirits. We will continue in our holy shivering."
Back home, Tahiti popped out of her crib the second we landed back on the lot, and I missed a good pic. Luckily, Olympia raced in just in time to keep her daughter from starting her life as a non-object by wetting herself.
Here's Tahiti in CAS. I love this hair on her - I think she has Olympia's curls in her baby-fine hair, but will probably grow into more of Aleki's waves. She is an inquisitive toddler, which hopefully might help her get some of her skills. She's absolutely adorable, and I see both of her parents in her so I'm quite pleased.
Miko: "I think she takes after me quite a bit, actually."
Behaviorally? Absolutely.
And where is the father in all this? Napping in the hot tub, ho hum.
For the closest the three of them can get to quality family time, Olympia took Tahiti "swimming" in the kiddie pool while Aleki naps in the background.
This kid is unfairly photogenic.
I mean...seriously.
We're trying to keep Olympia and Aleki's kids vegetarian, so Tahiti has a PB&J for her first solid food.
Olympia let Tahiti out of the high chair and tried to make it to bed, but she didn't quite get there.
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While Olympia works on her needs, the idiots are in charge of childcare. How does that go?
Tahiti: "Nighty-night! Story!"
Aleki: "Mm, sorry kiddo, I've been out of the hot tub for like five minutes and that is TOO LONG."
Miko: "We established several chapters ago that I can't read."
Aleki: "Yeah, looks like you're on your own for this one, sweetie. Goodnight!"
So Tahiti stumbles back to put herself to bed with her absolute lack of movement skill along the rail-less walkways over open water in the dark minus any semblance of supervision. Seems safe.
Looks like Olympia only made it to a nap when she got up from passing out. How
kind of Aleki to keep her company. *the biggest of eyerolls* Technically he has a job as a painter, by the way, but he never touches the easel so I don't expect him to get anywhere in it. What he does most of the day when Olympia's out working, well . . . I would say it's a complete mystery but I think I can probably take a pretty good guess.
The next morning dawns with another potty training session. I'm hoping to get Tahiti the happy toddler trait.
And then she's still tired because she got up at some point in the night and wandered around, so she finally gets her bedtime story at like 8 am.
Meanwhile Miko continues to be absolutely uninvolved with anything even remotely productive.
Miko: "I made tea. Does that count?"
Are you going to leave it to spoil after drinking only one cup?
Miko: "Of course."
Then no. No, it does not count.
And Aleki found a new past-time for when he's not napping in bed or napping in the hot tub. So far, Olympia is very alone in this whole endeavor.
And yet, somehow, she still has a whim to have another child, plus we need more for the heir poll, so she jumps Aleki in his favorite location for a very steamy shot.
Olympia: "Steamy or #SmokinHot?"
Why don't you just focus on your husband.
Olympia: "Guess what? I got out to take my pregnancy test and, unsurprisingly, still found you here, so now I can tell you we're expecting baby number 2!"
Aleki: "That's amazing! I can't wait! Is there anything I can do?"
Olympia: "What? Really? I mean, that's fantastic! Wow. Yeah! I could really use some help with Tahiti. You think you could lend a hand, especially now that I'm pregnant again?"
Aleki: "I'll get right on that . . . next chapter. For now, a nap."
Well, he's right. We have reached the end of the chapter. Check back next time to see baby #2, see Tahiti grow up, watch Olympia hopefully continue to progress in her career and eventually her aspiration, see Cyprus grow up, and all the uselessness that Aleki and Miko can manage, hopefully while earning points along the way since we lost a few this time. Thanks for reading and check in with me at
Boolprop in the meantime! Bye!
Current Score: 70
Self Wetting : -5 (x4) -20
Pass Out : -5 (x5) -25
Failing School : -5
Negative Traits Earned by NTHs : -5
Accidental Deaths : -10 (x1) -10
Fires : -10 (x2) -20
Social Worker Visit : -15
Single Birth : +5 (x4) +20
Twins : +10
Triplets : +15
Any sim in the household completing Any Aspiration Milestones (Child and Adult): +5 (x5) +25
Any sim in the household completing Aspirations (Child and Adult) : +10 (x2) +20
Toddler Skills maxed by NTH toddlers : +5
Skills (Child and Adult) maxed by NTH family members : +10
NTH children (Child and Teen) earning an A in school : +5 (x6) +25
Positive Traits Earned by NTHs : +5 (x6) +30
NTH sims reaching the top of a career (Teen and YA/A/E) : +10
Randomizing every trait and aspiration for an entire generation : +10 (x1) +10
Not using spares' Satisfaction Reward points for an entire generation : +10 (x1) +10
Every 100,000 simoleons earned : +20
Immortalizing the Torch-Holder : +5 (x1) +5
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