2. Welcome back to the OWBC and thanks for tuning in! Last
time, kids were born, G was finally abducted, Boom tried
to break the Beyond Cheesy rules, and Orchid was
discovered to be a creepy-smiler.
Let’s start with a quick recap of the participants in this
challenge….
3. Delano, our founder’s half-sibling, is the “spare” that’s
being played along with the main family.
5. They have one kid, a boy. His name is Logan.
I remember now, I had just finally seen the X-Men movies
when he was born, thus the name. I’ll try not to forget
again.
6. Over in the main house, we have Janna, the founder, who
is also keeping in Base Game rules and stealing back
Grilled, our gnome.
7. She’s married to G, an awesome BV townie. He was
impregnated by aliens the last update, so we get to add
another baby to the household.
Sorry about the old pictures… I just realized that I don’t
have many face shots of the parents. My whole storytelling
folder is filled with pictures of….
8. Boom! <3
Boomerang is the eldest child of Janna and G, and this
generation’s Bad Apple. She hasn’t been too much trouble
so far. She’s maxed two skills already, even. She’s awesome.
9. Next in line is Orchid, our nine-nice-points little sister,
although I think of her as the older a lot, since she’s the one
that takes care of Boom. You know, making sure she eats
and stuff.
10. Next is October, the eldest of a set of twins. He’s the one I
think of as a Greek god. It’s the combination of his skin
tone and full lips, I think.
11. And here’s his twin, Ohme, the only kid who got G’s blue
eyes. He was the youngest until….
12. This happened! Yes, G, you’re pregnant. I am so excited for
the little green nooboo to make its appearance.
13. I also thought I’d finally give a tour of the house, which
was just upgraded. Marvel at my building skills. *rolls
eyes*
So on the main floor we have the main room, kitchen,
dining room, the master bedroom and bathroom, the
nursery, another bathroom, a room for the skilling objects
and yet another bathroom.
14. Then on the top floor there’s one more bathroom, a
landing/main room, and the kid’s room. It looks like two
separate rooms, but there actually isn’t a wall dividing
them.
15. Where were we? Oh yeah, G got pregnant.
Male sims seem strangely calm about this. If I was a guy
and suddenly seemed pregnant I’d probably run around
screaming. Or at least go and see a doctor.
16. Boom and Orchid get along great and I think Boom enjoys
having someone her age in the house now. This is good for
me, since I need someone to do Boom’s homework.
20. Oh, look, someone brought Logan home. Also known as a
visitor I won’t kick off the lot immediately.
21. This is where I took a bit of a risk. G’s Super Fertility benefit
from being a Family sim was ticked off long ago, and there’s
just enough room in the house for twins. It was with a lot
of moaning and praying that I clicked the “original” button
instead of “pick”.
22. Whew, just one.
Meet baby Starla! I was in love with this kid the moment I
saw her. She looks like she got a great mix from both of her
dads….
23. Boom adores Starla. The first thing she did after school was
high-tail it to the nursery, pick her up, and feed her a
bottle.
24. But she had to put her half-sister down to come see the
twins grow up.
(Oops, guess I better feed Albino.)
26. Ohme grew up nicely as well. He’s far from ugly, but with a
brother like October, I fear the girls won’t pay him much
attention.
Ohme rolled Pleasure.
(I find it amusing that the twins grew up in recolors of the
same outfit.)
27. This is a common sight in the house (along with the Chest
Pound). Everyone loves playing Rock Paper Scissors.
28. But Boom abruptly stopped the game to feed Starla again.
Love you, Boom.
29. Then Orchid came over to play with Starla. Everyone in the
house adores her.
30. “Hey, guys, thanks for making me get up to feed the baby.
Love you too!”
…Unless it’s the middle of the night.
32. Two seconds later and October and Orchid are standing
around the empty crib. I’m not too worried about Starla
getting ignored since she’s the youngest.
33. The DJ booth is the other item of interest. I see G and
Janna have passed down the slap dance. This is good, it
wouldn’t be college if there wasn’t slap dancing, and the
kids will be heading off soon.
34. October is friends with his sisters now, no longer rejecting
almost every interaction they queue up. Or maybe he’s just
behaving because his mom’s standing right there.
36. In we go to another life stage where she’ll be swarmed
around and almost loved to death.
37. Aww, she’s such a cutie!
Starla’s a Sagittarius.
1 sloppy
6 outgoing
10 active
10 playful
8 nice
38. Oh, look, another game of Rock Paper Scissors. Seems
Orchid is better at beating Ohme than she is at beating
Boom.
39. I guess I should mention that we have a cowplant now. I
don’t have much for Janna and G to do, so I had them get
jobs to earn some career rewards.
40. I came over one evening, too, and got to know the
generation 1 kids.
41. Starla grew up to a child. I don’t have many toddler pictures
because most of my time was spent trying to make sure her
needs were taken care of instead of just being played Peek-
a-Boo with for hours on end.
42. “Aw, come on! What idiot put a trash can in front of the
fridge?!”
Yeah, nice try, Boom, I saw you going for it. I put out some
grilled cheese for her but I guess she wasn’t hungry
because she didn’t eat it.
43. “Hi~! It’s a beautiful morning, isn’t it, half-siblings?”
44. “Especially since there’s carpet.”
Orchid, with her nine nice points, cried right after Starla
shocked her.
Starla herself is looking quite evil for someone with eight
nice points.
47. This is Arachane Brock. She’s a childhood friend of October’s
who grew up with him. I just installed ACR, so I decided that
they could choose if they wanted anything to do with each
other.
48. Oh, a nice game of Rock Paper Scissors. That’s the way to
win a girl over.
49. Ooh, I like her! If you want her, October, she’s yours!
(October rolled Grilled Cheese as his secondary aspiration,
by the way.)
50. I didn’t really see anything special in Ohme when he was a
child, but he’s really growing on me now. He’s become
Boom’s unofficial “guardian”, almost.
51. It’s also Janna and G’s birthdays today. (Geez, never a dull
moment in an OWBC household.)
Starla: *covers eyes* Ewww, my daddy’s old!
52. Ohhh, lookie here. Seems she’s not going to wait for you to
pull a move, October.
53. Boom, I’m afraid, isn’t doing so well. She ran outside in
between growing-ups to kick over the bin. I’m sorry, Boom, I
just can’t figure out what you Want!
54. She did this a bit ago at my simself’s wedding as well. I was
using myself as a guinea pig to get used to ACR before I
loaded any of my challenge houses….
55. “You better wipe that smile off your face RIGHT NOW, Asher.
I’m enough pain that I’m not even worried about the
person-person plus in my picture!”
They’re both Family sims.... So, ACR is working well for
them.
57. And I had triplets a few hours after. (I headdesked, I think.)
Their names are Luke, Hope, and Charity.
58. Then I was knocked up again a few hours later. You guys are
freaking rabbits in human form.
Anyway, that’s when I quit, rubbing the red mark on my
forehead.
59. Back to things that actually matter, Janna grew up in midst
of all the commotion. And there’s Orchid, telling a dirty
joke mere feet from her mother and her little sister. Suave.
60. Another reason Ohme is growing on me--- with his 10 neat
points he autonomously cleans things! This is like the first
time the house has been cleaned EVER.
61. Boom doesn’t appear to be feeling so great. I don’t know
how low her aspiration is, but it can’t be good. *worries*
62. I had Ohme try lots of different interactions with her,
including letting himself get whapped with a pillow, in hope
that I’d see some aspiration points flying, but no such luck.
63. She still seems to be functioning, and even cleaned the
nasty shower.
64. It doesn’t surprise me that Starla is good at lying. She’s cute
enough to get away with anything, or get anything she asks
for.
65. Now that she’s old and has nothing to do, I finally set Janna
to work on her novel for the family scrapbook bonus. She
still has brown hair since her hair doesn’t come in white. G’s
didn’t either, so they get to keep their hair colors.
71. Boom prefers the double bed, so G often gets stuck sleeping
in the princess bed. I only mention this because my little
brothers found it hilarious when they saw him climb in it.
72. I hadn’t realized the synth was broken, but then I had it
repaired and Boom went back to playing around with it. I
was hoping for some aspiration points here, since she’s
maxed creativity and must have pretty high Music & Dance
enthusiasm, but it unfortunately didn’t help.
74. Well, I just got the two-day pop-up for Boom, so it’s off to
college the kids go. At this point, I don’t see how to prevent
Boom from growing up badly. :(
79. Now that Boom’s a young adult, I can click on her, but I can’t
view her wants panel or her needs. I did get to see her
personality, though. She’s an Aquarius.
2 sloppy
7 outgoing
5 active
7 playful
6 nice
80. While Boom is drooling on the sidewalk, I should mention
that Roxanne, our supposed placeholder, isn’t going to be in
the house. She was glitching so that no one could invite her
over so she could meet the gen 1 kids so she could pledge
them in, so I had to move her out, then move them in.
That was a lot of “so”s in one sentence.
81. My simself’s husband called a few hours after her
breakdown for Boom. I like to think that he was checking up
on her to see if she was okay.
82. Oh yeah, I should mention that I brought Arachane to
college with my gen 1 kids. I checked all their tokens before
they left to see if they had a “The One” yet. October had
Archane as his, and I like to let my sims choose who they
want, so here she is.
Archane rolled Family. (Yes, I had to fix the “Grow Up”
aspiration glitch again….)
83. “Oh, yes, you’re such a good little baby!”
It was around here that I heard the “falling in love” music….
84. It’s Arachane and October, in the hot tub.
Gee, you two waited a while.
85. Yeah, you can probably guess what just happened.
I don’t really care what my sims wear, but the matching
wetsuits seem kind of strange, so that’s going to change.
86. Gah, Logan! *cancels interaction*
I know you aren’t used to eating only Grilled Cheese, all day,
every day, but that’s how things roll here. Look, there are
some plates of it on the floor from someone’s inventory.
Logan, by the way, is Stella and Delano’s son.
92. In hopes of seeing more aspiration points flying, I had
October call the Matchmaker and I sent Boom to get a
blind date. Because I’m doing the Nightlife bonus, every
heir needs to see a Matchmaker date through to
completion. I don’t know who the heir is yet but I might as
well have them all do it and maybe I’ll get a spouse out of
it.
93. Is that Mr. Big? I didn’t know you cared about how much
money the guy that you’re dating has, Boom.
94. The date ended as good. This Mr. Big has a weird slopey
nose, but I don’t care. If Boom wants him, she can have
him. I at least owe her that much.
95. It’s really helpful to have a neat sim in the house. It was
Delano last time we were here that made the beds and it
looks like Ohme has stepped up to fill the bill.
103. Now it’s Orchid’s turn for a blind date. I paid full price,
since I think this sweetie deserves it after looking after her
sister all those years before.
104. She was dropped Jimmy Phoenix.
Yeah, he’s not impressing me.
105. You rejected the end-of-date hug? You are definitely not
going to be Orchid’s spouse.
This brings us to the end of the update. The heir poll is up
now on BoolProp. Here’s a review of your choices….
106. Boomerang
Boom’s the eldest and this generation’s Bad Apple. She’s a Family sim and her LTW is to
Graduate 3 children from college. I really, really love this kid.
Aquarius
2 sloppy
7 outgoing
5 active
7 playful
6 nice
107. Orchid
Orchid is the second child and is a very kind soul. She loves to tickle and hug other sims and
was the one who looked after Boom when they were kids. She’s a Popularity/Knowledge sim
and wants to become The Law, but I can’t see her being very strict. She’s one of the sweetest
sims in my game.
Aquarius
1 sloppy 7 playful
5 outgoing 9 nice
5 active
108. October
Next in line is October. He’s a Family/Grilled Cheese sim and he wants to marry off 6
children. If he’s heir, I’ll have to try to sneak in his Matchmaker date behind Arachane’s
back.
Aries
6 net
9 outgoing
8 active
7 playful
5 nice
109. Ohme
And last, but not least, is Ohme, October’s twin brother. Ohme is a Pleasure/Family sim and
wants to become a game designer. He didn’t stand out much as a kid, but now that he’s
older, I’ve seen him start to get a personality. He really cares about his family, particularly his
sisters, and keeps everything clean. I really like this one too.
Virgo
10 neat 7 playful
3 shy 6 nice
5 active
110. I don’t think you’re going to get much applause out of that,
Charles.
And that’s it! Don’t forget to go vote– I’m glad it’s not my
choice, I love all these kids.
Thanks for reading!