No, Thanks, I’m Having Cereal

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First, a random sparkly picture of Ves.

Ves

Now, on to business.

Ardra is now 110 years old. I suppose her long age is based on her number of LTH points. Joe-Jon had 100K and lived a couple of days longer than I expected. Dallas had 38K and dropped dead with no almost no warning.  Ardra’s up to approximately 225K now.  So, since all the born-in-family DeCasims are going to have massive LTH points, it seems that longevity will run in the family.

Yet another picture of Ardra at the easel:

Ardra

I think it’s neat that she can paint a picture of Sunset Valley.  I would think it was more neat if she could paint Riverview, since that’s where she lives, but whatever.

Ba’el has been very helpful lately.

Ba’el (and arm of Elisio the Maid)

She completed her third writing skill challenge.  That’s a point for me!

She can write Masterpieces now, which I think pay better than romances.  I’m not sure about that.  Anyway, she took a few days off writing to gain level 7 gardening.  I’m not going to have her pursue gardening for points, as that’s a full time job and needs to go to a younger Sim.  I just wanted her to be able to grow the Life Fruit, since Sev will need to make Ambrosia in order to score all her cooking points.  (Kivas can catch the Death Fish for her.)

Ba’el

Here, Ba’el is seen fertilizing her garden with steaks.  Because she’s just that rich.  (She owns partnerships in the entire town, now, by the way.)

While giving Ba’el a break from studying gardening, I had her do a program on the VR headset.  I think it was the Sci-Fi program, but I’m not sure.  Anyway, we both got a surprise!

Ba’el

She just flew up in the air and starting spinning and flipping!  It lasted several seconds.  I was getting ready to go to map view and try to find a priest to come and cast out whatever demons she’d been possessed with, but then she floated gently down to the ground.

Crazy stuff, man.

I read on the wiki that Sims can get moodlets from the VR toy, but mine never have, and they use it pretty often.   I thought for sure Ba’el would get one after the flying incident, but nope.  Huh.

In other news:

Ves

Ves became an Adult, and also completed all of his athletic skill challenges, which is another point for me.  Now that he’s completed both the skill challenges I set for him, he’s spending his spare time upgrading the household appliances to unbreakable.   I adore Ves.

He’s at level 8 in his career now, but I ran into a little problem.  His superior officer  seems to have died and has not been replaced.  Ves has a big red scowling face for his boss icon in the job performance panel, and no option for “suck up to superior”.  I think this is the result of how I have set up the Awesomemod.  I have the No Silly Bosses (or whatever it’s called) option turned on.  It’s supposed to prevent Sims from outranking their bosses.  (Like, for example, when a Pop Icon has a Music Talent Scout for his boss.)  I thought that the mod was supposed to replace dead bosses, but it doesn’t seem to be happening.  So I shall disable that feature for now.  It isn’t important for my Legacy Family, anyway.  Who cares who their bosses are, as long as they all get promoted!

On the subject of promotions,

Perrin and Eaxis Sim Whose Name I’ve Forgotten

Poor Perrin.  She’s at level 8 in her career, too, but for her it’s been a struggle.  Certainly, she has no time to pursue outside interests, as her brother does.  She can’t even get a solid night’s sleep.  We’ve worked out a system for her reporting, though.  She comes home from work and takes a quick nap. Then she heads into town and becomes acquainted with a random person, as seen here.  As soon as she’s done shaking their hand, she cases their house to see if another family member is home.  If so, she invites herself over for a visit and roots in the garbage can.  Then home to clean up the trash, write a report, and take a bath.  Then, another nap before breakfast and it’s back to work.

Kivas has his rock collection nearly complete, and is also moving up in his fishing skill.  He’s taken a break from rock hunting to round up some rare seeds for his mother to plant for his sister (there is no I in team).

I bought him this:

Hotter Than a $2 Pistol

Every young man’s dream, right?  I should be able to upgrade him to the top-of-the-line car before he graduates high school.

As a side note, I have this car assigned to Kivas exclusively, but the family shares ownership of the Evasions I bought them.  However, they all prefer driving Perrin’s police car and will always take it instead of the Evasions if it’s in the garage.  This is very amusing to me.

Sev started learning to cook, and we ran into some problems.  I was anxious to try out the food replicator I got ages ago and have never used.  No point, since Sev is the first DeCasim to learn to cook. At first it seemed pretty cool.  Sev cooked some mac & cheese, I had her store it, and the rest of the family got the option to replicate it.  According to the pie menu, they could get 20 helpings of mac & cheese out of there before Sev would need to reload it.  Super, right?

Wrong.

Now, I’d read that food would go bad in the food replicator, but I did not expect it to go bad the NEXT SIM DAY!  It didn’t even last as long as leftovers in the cheap fridge!  WTH?  Look!

Yuk

It’s hard to see, but there are green fumes rising from the bowl which Ves has JUST THIS SECOND pulled out of the replicator.

This is very annoying.  How many LTH points did I waste on that thing?

Even worse, Perrin accidentally ate some putrid replicated mac & cheese before we noticed the green fumes.  She was already tired from digging in the trash all night, then she had to wake up in the middle of her nap to puke, and then she was almost completely worn out when it was time to go to work.

That’s when I discovered that Sims can’t call out sick anymore.  Or if they can, I can’t figure out how.

The good news is, they are able to work half days, so I had Perrin take another nap and sent her to work late.

Anyway, after this fiasco, the food replicator is going in the attic until I can get a mod or patch for it.  The DeCasims have been living on a diet of cereal and canned soup all their lives.  It will not hurt them to go back.  Or, if they prefer, they can fight over whatever food Sev has prepared for her cooking goal.

I’ll stick to cereal!

Total score = 23.