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Barrie Cove: Autumn 1
- 1. Welcome back tomy prosperity/challenge ‘hood! Last time you met the families and saw their first day in the Cove, now let’s see what they get up to in Autumn.
- 2. First up isthe Pendragon household, where Marcus is digging again. I’m really not sure what you expected to see – these guys need money for a business!
- 3. All in all,it was a pretty successful morning dig, if you ask me.
- 4. And while Marcuswas doing that, I was tearing my hair out over the bathroom situation. With two playful kids, a playful toddler, and a stinky digging father, one bathroom is not going to be enough. But I can’t figure out where to put a second one in the floorplan. Eh, I’ll figure it out.
- 5. That evening, Sophiestarted showing her pregnancy. Here’s hoping it’s a girl!
- 6. No one appearedto be excited by the prospect of a new sibling. Everyone except Jacob was outside.
- 7. “Lucas, bro, notcool. You aimed that ball for my head!”
- 8. “Sorry, Christian. Itwas an accident, I swear!” Like hell it was. Lucas did it every time, and Christian complained every time, but still continued to play with him.
- 9. Christian did eventuallyget bored of being used for target practise, and turned his attention to Jacob. Christian seems to be good with kids, I like it!
- 10. The next day,Marcus opened up Shenanigans, a venue-in-progress. Technically, the business is in Sophie’s name, as she’s the matriarch, but since she’s pregnant and at home with Jacob, Marcus is running it. Unfortunately, not much happened on that first day of business. Maybe it had something to do with the fact there is NOTHING inside except a stereo.
- 11. Still, it earnedenough for a cake.
- 12. The whole family,and Tina Traveller from the sim bin, gathered to watch Jacob wiggle into childhood. I think he only managed to learn one toddler skill, but that’s fine.
- 13. And here heis, pink pyjamas and all! I’m not sure which parts of him are from which parent, other than the nose.
- 14. The next day,and the very chilled out looking headmaster shows up. I’ve decided every Pendragon child needs to attend private school. Also, why is the headmaster always male, out of curiosity?
- 15. “A bathroom! Excellentstuff!” He seems easily impressed to me.
- 16. The twins hadbeen sent outside so they wouldn’t get in the way, and they were more than happy to follow that command. Not entirely sure what’s going on with Lucas’s arm there, though.
- 17. “Mr Pendragon, youare aware that you need to have children in order to admit them to a school, right?” “Yes. I have three boys.” “I haven’t seen a single child since arriving.”
- 18. Well, he mightbe about to witness the birth of one. Seriously, why do headmasters always seem to come over when my sims go into labour?
- 19. Christian took itupon himself to distract the headmaster while Sophie delivered the baby. “Those are some groovy glasses, mister!”
- 20. Eventually, Sophie broughtanother little boy into the family. This is Francis Pendragon. And to celebrate, the headmaster admitted the boys to private school.
- 21. Christian decided tocelebrate with some tub-pirating, of course. I really need to sort out the bathroom issue. And I will still be saying that in the Winter rotation – you’ve been warned.
- 22. At some point,Sophie popped into another pregnancy. With four boys already, let’s hope this one is a girl!
- 23. The next daywas a Saturday, but Marcus needed to open the business. So to give Sophie a break, the boys came too. They make it look a lot more fun to be there than it is – it’s a sales tactic.
- 24. And it seemsto be working! With the ranks going up, and the money perks, Marcus was able to give the customers of Shenanigans some things to do. To celebrate, he beat Lucas at rock, paper, scissors a few times.
- 25. Christian, meanwhile, wasworking as bingo myshuno caller. “Guys, look! I look like that Belladonna statue!”
- 26. With the moneyfrom a successful day of business, I added a playground so that the kids might play on that, rather than in the bathtub. The twins are already proving that the playground was a waste of money.
- 27. Not even Jacobwas interested, and the twins are always leaving him out of their games.
- 28. It’s alright though,because Jacob got to bond with Marcus instead.
- 29. And right atthe end of the rotation, we get to see what Francis looks like!
- 30. He’s freaking adorable,and looks slightly more like Jacob than the twins. Francis has a personality of 7/3/10/10/4 – another playful sim! That’s it for the Pendragons, let’s check in on the O’Neill family.
- 31. The first dayof Autumn brought a wedding for the O’Neill family. I decided to make the effort for these two Family sims. Plus they both rolled wants to throw a wedding party.
- 34. Only one guestdidn’t make it to view the wedding. “Is that a cake I spy?!”
- 35. It was acake Sophie could spy! Only her smelly husband was burping near it. What a beautiful wedding, right?
- 36. I wasn’t reallysurprised by Steven being a delicate cake feeder rather than a cake shover, but I was still slightly disappointed. I like watching the cake shovers.
- 37. Everyone who isanyone in Barrie Cove was at the wedding ,including Damien and Ichelle. Lots of the women heart-farted Damien, but he ignored them, which was kind of sweet.
- 38. After the partyended, Steven headed off to work. He’s the only one in the house with an (achievable) career LTW, and funnily enough, Law Enforcement was the first job in the paper. It was meant to be!
- 40. The next morning,and the heir is on their way! Are you as excited to meet this baby as I am? I’m more excited to see if I fixed Steven’s busted face properly.
- 41. In my legacyfamilies, everyone is loaded and there’s no need to repair anything – I can just replace it. This makes quite a change! I was holding my breath the entire time, though I don’t really know why. Claire’s already pregnant with the heir, so I guess Steven could be kind of redundant now.
- 42. Speaking of beingpregnant, it wasn’t long before Claire popped again. “Grandbaby! I approve! We can be best friends now!”
- 43. Oh…apparently nothing interestinghappened for 24 hours or so. It was just Steven skilling and keeping two elders and a pregnant sim alive. Anyway. Baby time!
- 44. It’s a boy!That’s the second boy this rotation! His name is George.
- 45. “Oh, look athim, Rebecca! He’s so precious!” “Can’t look. Eating.”
- 46. Autumn ends forthese guys with Steven working out. I’d forgotten sims could work out using the TV, and it still amuses me as much as it did when I first got the game! Anyway, let’s check in on the Rowells, the last family in the rotation.
- 47. Well, they’re busy. Can’tget married without a baby bump!
- 48. Ichelle then torchedthe kitchen, and she supposedly has cooking points! And because there’s no fire alarm, it took a little bit of persuading for Ichelle to turn her back on the flames and call the fire brigade.
- 49. “Oh nuts, I’mgoing to singe my ‘stache, aren’t I?”
- 50. The fireman didhis job well and save the kitchen (and Ichelle) before anything got too badly burnt.
- 51. Ichelle is groundedfrom cooking for a little bit now. Stick to safe foods, like lunchmeat sandwiches!
- 52. At some point,I got bored and had Damien throw a party. I don’t know how much fun you can have with an old woman, a pregnant lady and a random townie, but Damien seemed to have a good time.
- 53. Pretty sure Sophie’sjust using Damien for his bathtub, though.
- 54. Dawn arrives, andso does a baby bump! Marriage is now acceptable, but I think we can wait a bit longer.
- 55. I’m pretty sureit said in the rules that the trailer had to have two doors, but Damien and Ichelle were being stupid and walking the long way round every time. So I moved the door, and now the trailer only has one entrance. Just to save my sanity.
- 56. I don’t thinka pregnant lady should be doing that. But this is a trailer park challenge and anything goes, I guess.
- 57. In the shorttime they’ve had that keg, Damien and Ichelle have made a good effort at littering the place with cups. It’s kind of impressive, really.
- 58. Ichelle popped again,and Damien decided it was time to ask her an important question. Plus he wasn’t rolling the fear, that was a big plus, too.
- 59. “You want meto be your wife?” “Of course! You’re perfect for me in every way!” “Of course I’ll marry you!”
- 60. Nothing screams romancequite like a poorly decorated trailer littered with red cups, does it?
- 61. The wedding washeld pretty quickly, because I’m not so great at timing these things. Also, who came dressed as Santa?!
- 63. You know yourmarriage is right when even Santa agrees with it!
- 64. Of course, thencame the compulsory part of the party where guests stand outside bathrooms and complain. There is more than one bathroom. Apparently none of them knew that.
- 65. “Yeah, yeah, thanksfor coming. I’m busy, go away!” Damien was in such a good mood post-wedding that he started digging up stuff for the yard sale in the summer. Screw entertaining the guests!
- 66. The next morning,Ichelle went into labour in one of the most stereotypical places possible – the bathroom. Coincidentally, it’s the bathroom her wedding guests couldn’t find the day before.
- 67. It wasn’t longbefore a little boy was born! That’s three in a row now, game! Anyway, this is Cooper.
- 68. Damien did nottake Cooper’s arrival very well. Marriage is one thing, but babies? A step too far.
- 69. He got overit pretty quickly, though, other than the aspiration drop. Damien actually makes a really good father!
- 70. That night, Damienwas asleep and I thought “Why not try for an illegitimate kid as the next pregnancy?” So Ichelle called up one of her friends, squeezed his butt, and what do you know, they fell in love instantly.
- 71. Who knew havinga truck would be so useful! And with that, kid two is on the way.
- 72. The best partis, Damien doesn’t suspect a thing and won’t get an aspiration drop when it arrives. All of the Rowell kids should be illegitimate, it just works out better for Damien!
- 73. It isn’t longbefore Cooper’s birthday arrives. I’m really curious about how Damien and Ichelle’s genes will mesh.
- 74. Well. There’s nodenying who his father is, is there? And Cooper appeared to forget where he lives, and grew up in a suit.
- 75. Now Damien isfound with his mini-me a lot of the time, and it’s adorable. All of that aspiration failure for no reason! Also, Cooper’s got a personality of 5/10/4/3/3 if you were curious.
- 76. Autumn finished forthe Rowells with Ichelle popping into her second pregnancy. These guys were by far my favourite to play this rotation.
- 77. That’s all forthis time! See you soon for Winter mishaps!