2. First of all, I broke my own rule.
Winter had arrived, I didnât want everyone to freeze, so I closed up the house with
walls, regardless of how many tiles it took. So I broke the middle-of-nowhere
handicap, but only for this instance, and for a very good reason.
The house is *finally* getting bigger, and Iâm not planning to break the handicap
again.
Now letâs go on with the update.
3. Letâs start with this!
Theda, the youngest of the Boon brood, is about to hit childhood! Which is definitely
interesting, as she has different genetics to her siblingsâŠ
4. Theda has a nose in the middle of her face.
And as she gets older, Iâm pretty sure sheâs going to be able to see less and less with
each birthday. Or maybe, her brain will block the nose out of her vision, the same way
our brains block our noses out of our vision.
Oh, and I forgot to mention it in the last update â Thedaâs personality: 2/10/8/3/3
A naked hottubber and finger gunner, when she gets older!
5. Once Theda had grown up, Lucinda went outside to her workbench. She got a gold
talent badge that evening, and work began on a servo.
Iâm so excited!
6. Oscar, meanwhile, decided to play chess on his own, and made many expressions of
pain while he did so.
âThis is such hard work!â
He should probably find someone to play with. Trouble is, no one really pays him any
attention.
7. Inside, Orca took it upon herself to become best friends with her younger sister.
Further proof that she is awesome.
9. âIâm not!â
Unfortunately, itâs too late for you to have a say in it.
By the way, I found out, since declaring Rob is a knowledge sim, that he is actually a
pleasure sim. So heâs going to hate this.
11. Itâs not long before the aliens dump Rob lovingly on the kerb of his house, while his
entire family watches.
And a stray digs up the yard, because it knows no one will stop it.
12. What? No lullaby?!
âTake that for staring at us every night! A probing with no green baby! Mwhahaha!â
Iâm so frustrated right now.
13. That night was also the beginning of the big freeze. Meaning, everyone in the family
after this point will have gotten so cold they change colour at some point.
âJeez, Iâm a little chilly.â
14. âAnd thatâs the story of how Daddy went to space. The end.â
âThatâs great, Dad, but I asked you to read Cinderella.â
15. PANIC.
I was convinced Thedaâs chilled state meant I was going to lose her to the social
worker. In my last OWBC, the social worker took a heat-stroked kid as soon as his skin
changed colourâŠ
16. I made Theda drink hot chocolate â which used up one of the valuable limited
purchases we get from Buy mode â and she was okay. Luckily.
17. A porch picture must indicate a party!
Itâs the Winter Party, and everyoneâs invited! See, thereâs Ani-Mei!
----------------Ani-Mei writes Altered Fates: An Alternate Universe Legacy, among other things.
18. Because we bought the hot chocolate maker, Lucinda cannot have a cake for her
birthday. Which is a bit miserable, but thatâs the way it goes.
The winter party was thrown to coincide with her birthday, by the way.
19. Lucinda didnât grow up very well â not enough cheese, I guess. But look, she makes
quite a pretty elder, if you ask me!
20. Once the guests had gone, the kids decide to hang out in the house.
The girls hung out with each other, Oscar hung out with the kitchen cabinets. Heâs
possibly the craziest of the people living here.
21. The next day, the servo is complete! I donât remember the last time I played a servo!
22. Rob initiated the robot, as he had the most skills, oddly enough â possibly from his
late nights with the telescope, or just from being a townie.
Anyway, the servo was initialised as female, because I donât think Iâve ever had a
female servo, and named Eva.
23. Oscarâs missing out on someone to play chess with!
Also, I would have thought sitting in the snow would have set Eva off, because snow is
essentially water. But apparently not.
24. And despite the fact Eva is a robot clone of her husband, Lucinda did not hit off with
her straight away.
They did, however, become best friends. Eventually.
25. I also remembered that Lucinda needs to write a novel if Iâm going to complete the
Family Scrapbook bonus, and she set about it straightaway.
I suppose it will be a nonsensical story involving a cyclops, the ghost of a thief, many
children, a quest for aliens and a robot.
26. âUgh! I canât get over there to pull these weeds!â
Iâm really going to have to do something about it. This is really beginning to annoy me.
27. This is just to show you that Iâve sent Orca to college now, which is exciting. Iâll be able
to control her for the first time, in a limited sort of way.
28. I have no idea why she grew up in that dress, but sheâs not keeping it!
And I can finally check her personality: 4/8/4/3/6
29. Back at the home lot, and Lucindaâs receiving some bad news about her novel. In
short, in sucked and hardly anyone bought it.
But it didnât have to be a bestseller, so itâs fine.
30. Theda nearly froze to death â or to the social worker â for a second time. She likes to
keep me on my toes, and absolutely terrified of losing her.
31. âAAArgh! I canât take it anymore!â
Those weeds are really getting on my nerves. But this is a convenient moment to
reveal Oscarâs personality, which apparently I forgot about until now: 10/7/2/3/8
Heâs a neat freak, hence why these weeds are seriously upsetting him.
32. A pop-up informed me Thedaâs grades are slipping, and I set about getting her up to
speed straightaway.
It seems the game is desperate to drag Theda into the adoption pool, for some
reason.
33. Rob is still trying to get me an alien baby, by the way. Iâm pretty sure it should be
easier, with the first abduction already done, but no luck yet. Oscar, meanwhile, came
outside to kick the bin over.
âNo one remembers me! I get no attention!â
34. âIâll give you attention!â
Eva never sleeps, so sheâs ready for socialising round the clock! By the end of the
evening, Eva and Oscar were best friends.
Iâm now slightly worried that Oscar will fall in love with the servo when he is older.
35. âTheda! Wake up, I want to read to you!â
Oscar is very desperate for some attention.
36. âLook, Mum! I got an A*!â
Well, it didnât take long to get Thedaâs grades up.
37. Robots are supposed to make lives easier, and take care of the chores that no one
wants to do.
Instead, Eva spends a lot of time browsing the internet. I donât even know what
websites would interest a robot.
38. Wherefore art thou Gnomeo?
There, the purpose of the gnomeâs name has been fulfilled!
In all serious, why wonât anyone bring him home? ï
39. A new day, and time to see what Oscar is like at business!
40. Theda came too, just to stand around and look cute.
And sing, apparently.
41. âHmm. Do I want to give my hard earned cash to my own sims?â
43. âHey, are you going to use the facilities, or just loiter?â
I think Theda would make a good bouncer at a nightclub door. She has enough mean
points to kick sims out, afterall.
44. Back at the home lot, Oscar took a moment to congratulate his little sister.
âWhat for?â
âFor not getting taken away by the social worker despite your efforts to!â
âThanks!â
45. How many people can you cram on a porch without it being awkward?
Itâs time for the Spring party!
46. And while Spring is all about romance and new life, I didnât expect romance to bloom
at the party.
Bianca and Komei Tellerman probably met when she was at Fort Chaos learning sales
during her teen years, and Iâve not played her at uni yet.
So this is purely ACR.
47. Well, apparently they like each other quite a bit. Weâll see how that develops when I
actually play Bianca at uni.
48. âCan I have one, Orca?â
*crunch* âNo.â
Eva probably doesnât need cookies anyway.
49. And hereâs the reason for the spring party, Thedaâs birthday!
Not that the family need reasons to party, I just like having them coincide with family
events.
50. Well, sheâs certainly interesting genetics-wise. Probably canât see much through her
nose, though.
Sheâs quite pretty, if you ask me. If she had two eyes, sheâd be gorgeous.
Anyway, she rolled Fortune.
51. The party continued late into the night, with fun for everyone!
Oscar found someone to talk to!
53. And Lucinda and Rob found somewhere to woohoo!
Though Lucinda was left with the memory of being caught cheatingâŠby Amin. His
ghost apparently caught her cheating.
54. The party ended with Oscar getting into the cab for college.
Which is an excellent time to hold the heir poll! Iâve listed all the options after this slide
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55. Bianca Boon
Knowledge
10/9/2/3/3
Biancaâs the awesome eldest, with a talent for sales. Sheâs well-liked by most people,
and apparently, very well-liked by Komei Tellerman. She takes mostly after her mother
in looks.
56. Orca Boon
Knowledge
4/8/4/3/6
Bad Apple
Orca was named on a whim, and has lived up to her unique name. She hasnât really
caused any problems, and I think sheâs gained several logic points from her night on
the chess board, which is pretty neat. Sheâs a good blend of her mother and her father.
57. Oscar Boon
Pleasure
10/7/2/3/8
Oscarâs the youngest of Aminâs children, and possibly the most ignored child of the
generation. He spent lots of time playing chess, and not much else. Heâs pretty good at
sales, but not very interesting genetics-wise â he looks almost completely like his
mother.
58. Theda Boon
Fortune
2/10/8/3/3
Thedaâs the got a different dad to her siblings, but that doesnât mean they love her any
less! She spent her childhood trying to get away from family via the social worker,
without success. When she grows up, sheâll be a finger-gunning naked-hottubber,
which will be interesting!