Thank you for elaborating on what your tentative plans for AH might be, Em.
If you advance 15 years into the future, that'd be so neat.
I can't imagine having so many characters to develop and plan storylines for.
My mind simply doesn't work that way. I so admire your ability to breathe life into your cast and give them DIMENSION.

I look forward to the next episode of Penelope's Journey.

WOW! Awesome abduction captures! For being stunned, you sure managed to snap some great screenshots.
They're all terrific.

Just out of curiousity, what's with all the hot tubs in the middle of the street?
And what does that hourglass timer on the front yard do? I've never seen it before.

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed seeing your alien abduction pics. Great job!

I was caught off guard, but no so much that I couldn't think to hit pause right away. The hot tubs are actually in the neighbors' yard. Do you recognize the pink house across the street. Maybe not, it's pretty blur from that view, but it's one of yours, I think. The lot was too tiny for the hottubs, so I used move objects on to put them in the street so my sims could schmooze and get to know one another. They look like they're in the street in front of this house too, but they're not actually on this lot.

The junk in the yard is part of the insiminator. The hour glass adjusts the ages of sims, I think. I used it to grow up a bunch of my sims.

I don't know how I'm going to manage all of these characters either. I have almost 20 kids in the next generation, I think. I've kind of divided them into 2 groups to make them more managable, so I have a younger set and an older set. Maybe I'll have to focus on one half at a time or maybe I need to pick out a main character or two to focus on and let the other be supporting characters. I should probably try to get rid of some, but I'm just too attached to them all.

I have never seen an alien abduction. That looks rather interesting. I like the screen shots. Thank you!

When I first saw the first picture, I was wondering what that was, then as I scrolled down, I saw. I won't let my Sims stay at the telescope long enough to get abducted.

The only thing I use InSIMenator for is, reset their age, turn aging off, and auto pay bills. Oh, I get them a cell phone too becuase I hate going downtown. I think you use the gnome for that.

Em, no, I didn't notice my little pink Victorian TH. How cool is that! Thank you for using it in your game.
You're right. It has a very tiny lot (1 x 1, I think), so a hot tub is out of the question in that yard.
(I wouldn't even call it a yard. It's what we call a "zero lot" here.)

Abductions are really rather cool to experience, Ed. And nothing bad (unless you consider the possibility of an alien pregnancy bad) really happens to your Sims when they ARE taken up in the spaceship.

Speaking of abductions...
I was thinking of you last night, Em. I witnessed an abduction.
I played the Curious brothers of Strangetown for awhile, as I am using them as Sim models this week.
(The geeky trio will be modeling some sci fi shirts I put together for this weekend's Strangetown Revisited update.)
Anyhoo, I had to play them through til Pascal had his alien baby and Vidcund was abducted and returned to the Curious home. Of course, I had to hurry and get the shots before V started showing with HIS alien baby!
I got only a couple of shots of Vidcund's abduction to share.
I was having so much fun with the three of them, I played them til I almost fell asleep at the puter.
I think I am going to return to them tonight.
(Will be posting the latest screenshots in Sugah's Sim Antics in a bit.)

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I don't know how I'm going to manage all of these characters either. I have almost 20 kids in the next generation, I think.

In a lot of stories there are a few main characters and the rest of the cast are just supporting roles.
I don't blame you if you don't feel you are up to giving ALL 20 kids full story lines EACH. OY VEY!
What an endeavor that would be, Emily!

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I've always let my sims stargaze with the expensive telescope and in all the years I've been playing this is only my second abduction. The other was a teen male, so I had no alien babies result from either abduction. It's kind of scary at first because their need bars go crazy while they're in the spaceship, but once they come back, they're perfectly fine.

I don't know how I end up with these huge casts and long stories. It just keeps building and building as I work on them. I'm just focusing on the older kids for now and then maybe as they grow up I'll start adding in the younger ones. I've been playing around with the age order of some of them, seeing if I can come up with a better fit.

20 kids!! That is definitely a lot to manage. I'm looking forward to seeing the next generation, though. I think that's a really neat idea.

I've only had two or three natural abductions, too. One of them was in my Lakewood legacy challenge. I sent one guy out every single night while he was an adult. Nothing. He grew too old to get alien pregnant, so I started sending out his son in law. Every night. FINALLY, he got abducted, only a few days before his elder birthday. Talk about cutting it close. I had a moment of panic thinking he was going to be too old after I had tried like, 50 sim days to get a sim abducted and pregnant. So, when it happens on it's own, it's really quite surprising. If the sim that got abducted were a male, would you have written it into your story, Em?

All the kids were born back when I was playing TS1. There's so many because I could never resist choosing 'yes' whenever the game would ask if I wanted to have or adopt a baby. That's why there are so many in my mind.

lol That would be an interesting twist to write an alien abduction and birth into the story. A little too sci-fi for AH probably. The gal that got abducted is actually Reese's daughter all grown up. The guy she was joking about it with afterwards is Edward and Alma's son, Jeremy. They're both babies in my regular AH neighborhood.

My other abduction was when I was playing a challenge too. Can you believe the very first time the teen looked through the telescope he got abducted? I bought it hoping that he would get abducted and get the alien abduction scholarship. I didn't think it would actually happen though, especially on the very first night!

I just thought I'd share a little preview of the screenshots I've been taking for Penelope's Journey. I still need to take a bunch more and may need to retake most of the ones I have so far, depending on how picky I decide to be about one little detail.

Ooooh...a sneak preview! Yesss!!!
Thank you for sharing, Em.

Very nice, Em! :)

YEA!!!

I know how hard it is to keep up with stories and challenges Em. I eagerly await your next chapter.

Here are two of my girls that have applied for a reality show in hopes of becoming "SimNation's Next Top Model." They're twin sisters, Joy and Felicity London, born in game with all townie ancestors. They're still teens in my game right now, but I aged them up to enter them in the contest and I had to remove their make up and pull back their hair as required by the application rules for the contest. I need to look up their personalities, because as I remember, they were really opposite. I haven't played them in a long time but I was really interested to see how they'd get along as they grew up, because I had a feeling it might be pretty interesting.

Joy is the older sister, by 5 minutes.



Felicity is the younger.

How fun Em'.

I love the application rules of no make-up! How VERY reality!!

What a neat concept! I wish Joy and Felicity all the best, Em. How fun!

Thanks! I don't know too much about how the contest is going to go, so it will be interesting to find out. Here's a couple of pictures of the girls as teens before their make-unders.