Here's what's happening in Em's Sims' Worlds

I finally got the chance to load up my game the other day, so I started working on one of the sets for the next installment of Penelope's Journey. This is the village of Amphidelphos (or Ambidelphos - I have to decide on one spelling and quit alternating between the two.) I still need to figure out what to do with the ground cover and fill in the empty market stalls on the right (but they might not show up in the shots anyway), but I'm really happy with how it looks so far. It might even be better than I pictured it in my head.

That looks like an interesting story.

If you're thinking about filling the market stalls, you might be interested in these. You can put objects right next to each other and at different heights. If that doesn't work out for you, I have something else you could use.

It looks FANTASTIC, Em. I really like how the scene takes me back in time straight away.
You've done a fabulous job setting the stage for your story. I love it!

Thank you for sharing.

The first few pages are on my site. The link is in my signature, if you want to read it.

Those are awesome, Ed! That's so cool how you can place things at different angles with those OMSPs. I'm going to have to snag those. And now that someone has finally made a magisplay tray that doesn't require OFB I'm going to be able to do a lot with OMSPs. My problem isn't fitting more things into the marketstalls, it's deciding what to fill them with. I have one with barrels and sacks, like a dried goods stand and the other is pottery. I'm not sure what to do with the others. I was thinking rugs or fabrics, if I could find the right downloads. That OMSP set might help a lot with that. What else did you have for me to look at?

Thanks, Sugah. That's what I was going for. It would totally ruin the story if it didn't take you back in time.

You're welcome, Em.

I couldn't live without my OMSPs, btw.

I'm so far behind on all this.....

Windkeeper made these shelves at different heights. Plus you can turn them invisible. They can go from floor to ceiling. I can't remember the EP requirement on them off hand. They're almost similar to the ones that I gave you the link for.

I think they're called, Hidden Shelves.

OMG, Em, I'm so sorry! I could have sworn I had commented on this before, my deepest apologies...

I think the whole lot looks freaking AMAZING! You definitely have an eye for details!

That's odd...I thought I commented, too.

I really like the set, Em. It looks very authentic. I love the vendor stalls - very nice.

Thanks so much. I really need to get back and finish that lot, but I think I might make myself wait until I do the next episode of AH.

I don't know HOW I missed this thread Em.

That's an awesome looking lot M'Lady!

Thanks, Hunter. Sugah sent me the link to some neat objects I could use on this lot. I just hope they aren't categorized for community lots. I'll have to check them out the next time I get the chance.

Right now I'm trying the Prosperity Challenge that Ari brought up. I rolled a 2 to start with, so I only have 2 families, which is good because it's easy to manage, but bad because there aren't many sims for potential mates. When I start feeling short of sims I might go ahead and add another random family to the mix or 2, depending on what I feel I need.

I did everything random. I used 2 random sim generators to come up the the family members, their ages, genders, aspirations, signs, names, etc. I kept them pretty much as they were in CAS, using the first sim that popped up each time, changing the ages and genders as necessary. I gave a few of them some minor plastic surgery to get rid of some of the Maxis fugliness and gave the ladies a little make up to pretty them up, but for the most part I kept clothes, hair, and everything else as it was.

Here's my first family, the Robertsons. For this family I rolled 4 adults, 2 men and 2 women. I was tempted to make them all single and let them pair up on their own or as two married couples, but since the rules said no roommates, and since my random guys kind of resembled each other, I made the family a pair of brothers and their wives.



Left to right is Keshawn (Sagittarius, Romance) and his wife Lexie (Aries, Knowledge), Brody (Pisces, Knowledge) and his wife Madeleine (Cancer, Popularity).

Here's a few close-ups. Keshawn and Lexie (she's making an odd face in this pic, I know)



Brody and Madeleine, acting romantic. They have tried for baby, but since she hasn't shown any signs of being pregnant yet, I don't think it was successful. I'm letting ACR determine when and if they woohoo or try for baby. These couples may end up with tons of kids or none. I'm leaving it all up to them.



This is their dinky started house. They'll have to work and save up to spruce it up better.



At first they all had two different jobs that they wanted, so I checked to see which ones were available. Brody found a job as a test subject right away and Lexie took a job as a playground monitor. She got fired the first day after a bad chance card though.



Keshawn tried to cheer her up with a backrub, but she wasn't having it.



Madeleine wanted to be in sports or journalism, so I thought sports journalist! She finally found a journalism opening on Wednesday, the last day that I played them. Keshawn wanted to be in dance or a slacker, neither one has shown up and he's lost the wants, so he's still unemployed.

My second family is the Averys. An elderly woman, teen girl, three kids, and two toddlers.



Dalia is the kids' granny. She's a romance sim and a Libra. Like Ari, I've got a granny who's looking for some action too, but mine isn't so great by day either, she's a lazy slob. lol Jasmyn is the teenager, the oldest sister. She's a Virgo and Popularity sim. The kids left to right are Ethan (Pisces), Elyssa (Virgo) (her random name was Jasmyn too at first, so obviously I had to pick another random name for her.) and Milo (Pisces). The toddlers are Evan (Sagittarius) and Allen (Gemini) (Allen's name was originally Shemar, but I didn't like it, so I rerolled. Allen fits with the other names better, I think.) The mother, Arlene is just a placeholder. I also made a father for the kids that I had to delete in CAS and generated the kids by the make a baby option.

I changed Arlene's skintone for variety. She started out with the darkest tone. I also changed Dalia's clothes, because with that hair, they hurt my eyes.



I was said to have to dispose of Arlene and the kids' father, but those were the rules. Arlene got flattened by a satellite. It was sad, but at least they got almost $2000 from selling it, which they desperately need with a large family with no adults.



Here's their sorry little house. Granny had to sell most of her belongings to raise the money to house her orphaned grandchildren.



As a lazy, sloppy sim, Dalia has fears of changing dirty diapers. She looks at a stiny baby and thinks, why did his mother have to die? What have I taken on?



Taking care of twin toddlers is a taxing job and Dalia's needs suffer. A family of 7 with only one bathroom isn't the best situation either.



You're my granddaughter, Elyssa.



Jasmyn is very helpful around the house and with the kids.



She stays up late, long after everyone else is in bed, watching the twins, wishing Granny had a TV.



After Elyssa tries to turn on the radio right after the toddlers got put to bed, I had to do a little renovating to separate the toddler beds from the living room and added a tiny half bath.



I have more, but this is taking too long to post. I'll add it later. I'm really liking my Avery family. They're a lot of fun so far.

It looks like a nightmare to me!!!

I'm such a Sims wuss. I play couples only mostly. I rarely have children because it may scare me off from really having children.

It's a neat challenge and I commend anyone participating in it!

I love it, Em! I'm using those same two houses, by the way. You'll meet the families that live in them later.

You got a couple of interesting mixes there. 2 married couples and a grandma with a bunch of kids. Neat! It will be interesting watching where these families end up. Poor Jasmyn really has her hands full with all the younger sibs and her lazy, prowling grandma, lol! I imagine they're squeezed tighter than sardines in that house. Not very good job opportunities for teens and elders, either. I had an idea, though. I rolled up a 7th familiy and ended up with a teen and her three young siblings (two were toddlers). They have less than $1,000. She can't even earn enough to hire a nanny with the piddly teen jobs. BUT, I'm going to have them get a dog and then send it out to work. Dogs (and cats) at the top of their career track can earn over $700 a day. That'll certainly do it.

I love Lexie's face in that pic. I like leaving my sims to their own choices via ACR to see what happens. I had forgotten about the no roommate rules for the challenge. I'm glad I didn't accidentally make anyone roommates. Glad you jumped in!

Oh, that's nothing, Nina. Check out Ari's Adventures. I think she has a single man with 7 children and toddlers! Real life babies are way harder. After I had my baby I felt bad because I realized I was making my sims neglect theirs. I would cancel the feed option because I thought they couldn't possibly need to feed that sim baby so much and I'd left them alone in their cribs for long periods of time, probably crying since I always have the sound off. Oh well, they still turned out ok, I guess. lol

That's neat that we're using the same houses, Ari. It will be interesting to see how they compare as the challenge goes along. I'm a little too lazy with building and decorating, so they might be cramped for awhile, even if they can get the money to expand. There's a decent sized yard, so the kids tend to play outside a lot, which is good. Putting the pets to work is a good idea! One of my random family generators even gives random pets in the family, so maybe I'll have to take advantage of that if I roll another family. The Avery kids all want a pet, so maybe I'll have to try that strategy, if their house isn't too crowded already.

When I left off, Jasmyn stayed up until 3 am to put the toddlers to bed before going to sleep herself. Granny Dalia got up early to take advantage of the free bathroom, made breakfast and started taking over watching the toddlers while the kids were all off to school.





By the time Jasmyn comes home the twins are napping and Granny is off to work caddying at the golf course to make a few extra bucks. She makes sure the kids do their homework.



The kids are really helpful around the house. So it stays in decent shape.





Dalia isn't in a good mood when she comes home from work. Taking care of all these kids and trying to work 3 hours a day is pretty hard on the old lady.



Jasmyn is a good big sister though and spends time with her siblings when Granny isn't in the mood.





Here's some cute pictures of the kids. Milo, who I think is a total cutie. I have in my mind that he's the second oldest, so I might try to age him a little earlier than the others.





Milo and Ethan.



The kids talking about their mom. It's nice that they remember her.



The toddlers are having a rough time though while Dalia is at work and Jasmyn is trying to hard to keep up with them.



She doesn't get one of them to bed in time and he passes out on the front porch. Jasmyn is beside herself with worry.



Uh oh, due to poor job performance and going to work in a bad mood both days, Dalia is fired from the golf course. Now what are they going to do?



But the good news is that the toddlers are finally children! Life is going to be much easier now.



It's time to start thinking about social lives. Since there are no other teenage sims living in the neighborhood. I have the girls greet the paperboy.



Elyssa: Hey, I saw him first!



Jasmyn: He's all yours. Yuck!



Elyssa realizes her sister was right about the paperboy. What a bore!



With all the kids at school and no job to go to, Dalia has the day to herself. What will she do? Maybe get a makeover and do something about those eyebrows? No, I leave the room for a few minutes and when I come back it's 2 pm, Jasmyn is home from school and Dalia is still sitting on the couch where I left her. lol

Ari and Em -

You Ladies have so much experience with challenges!

I would like to propose that you guys come up with one for the forum sometime! No pressure - you guys just seem to have a grasp of how they're done and I'm not on that train yet.

Reading your adventures in this challenge is very entertaining!

LOL. Funny stuff, Em. The boys sure turned out cute! The girls and the paperboy cracked me up.

I can't believe I didn't comment on this.

Dalia NEEDS to do something with her eyebrows!

We just take challenges we find online and pick and choose the parts we like and ignore the rules we don't. That's all there is too it. ;)

Yeah, I'm surprised at how good looking my random sims turned out. I got pretty lucky, I guess. I thought about using downloaded sims, but the random ones worked for me, so I didn't have too. Dalia was the last sim I made and by that time I was tired of being in CAS and I didn't even look at her all that closely. Those eyebrows do bug me though everytime I make her click on something and her icon comes up, there they are. lol Now that there's no little, little ones to take over, I think it's makeover time!

Em, I'm so glad you've joined Ari and are sharing your challenge experience.
I can't remember the last time I jumped in on one. Sheesh, I can't even remember the last time I loaded up my game to play. Maybe I will today...

I enjoyed seeing your families and looking at all your screenshots. Am so glad you're having fun with it.
Thank you for sharing, m'dear.

Brody is also replused by Dalia's eyebrows. Or maybe it's that she's unemployed that's putting him off. He didn't have any chemistry with his wife either, until she got a job.



He still goes on about how grossed out he is by her, even when they aren't in the same room anymore.



Dalia and Keshawn seem to get along ok though.



She hovers over him as he makes grilled cheese sandwiches. Keshawn and his wife Lexie both got grilled cheese as a random secondary aspiration.



"Ok, Dalia, it's time to go home." I'm sure she's hanging around there to get away from her house full of kids.



Madeleine is appalled to accidentally walk in on Keshawn and Lexie. That's the risk of having two adult couples in the same house. Actually she was freaked out about seeing her husband in the bath and just happened to walk out into their room while they were getting intimate.



Brody and Lexie are having an open discussion. I'm not sure if that's appropriate conversation, considering Lexie is married to Brody's brother.



When I left off, both Madeleine and Lexie were pregnant. So next time I play this household there will be some new babies in the family. I'm going to have to do some remodeling, so they have a place to put a couple of cribs.

LOL! That cracked me up that Brody kept getting the heebies about Dalia! Don't you just love it they way sims just openly discuss woohoo like it's perfectly normal to do so? I've had that happen a lot of times. With all age groups. It always makes me laugh.

That was fun - looking forward to some new babies!

You Ladies Crack me up!

This is funny Em.

I agree with Ari and can not wait to see the new Babies.

As for Brody - I'm with him!!! Dalia's eyebrows creep me out too!!!

HOW FUN! Em, I can't believe I ever missed that when a Sim is turned off by another, he/she does the "thumbs down" thing! That was a great little capture there.
I agree with the ladies. It's a hoot that Brody kept reliving how icky he thought Dalia was, even after she left.
Those ARE some hideous eyebrows. I must concur.

Looking forward to seeing the next generation. Thank you for sharing your Sims adventures with us.
I enjoyed seeing all of your screenshots and reading your witty comments.

It's fun having two pregnant sims in the same house. The ladies wake up early in the morning, rushing to the bathroom with their bladders full. Then head to the kitchen to raid the fridge. Madeleine looks disappointed at the choice of food. Guess they were out of whatever she was craving.



Before she can get breakfast, she goes into labor.



But where's her husband? Here's the proud papa, headed off to work as his wife is having a baby. Brody really should have been a wealth sim.



It's a girl! Welcome to the family, Macie Robertson.



Madeleine passes the baby off to Keshawn and heads out to catch her carpool. Hold on, I don't think you need to go to work just after having a baby, especially when your hunger and energy are both in the red. Nope, you're staying home and getting some rest!



See? And you thought you could make it through a whole workday. She couldn't even make it through breakfast.



Lexie isn't fairing much better and both ladies take turns passing out at the table.



Dalia and Jasmyn walk by the house daily and usually the Robertsons invite one or both in. Keshawn rolled a want for Dalia to eat one of his grilled cheese sandwiches, so I called her to the meal. Then as soon as she did, he rolled the want to flirt with her . . . I guess eating his grilled cheese sandwiches is the way to his heart. Too bad they were going bad just as Dalia and Lexie started to eat.



Dalia: I know my eyes aren't what they used to be, but are there green fumes coming off of this grilled cheese?



Lexie: (thinking) I know I shouldn't be eating this, but I'm just so hungry.



Even though she just had a baby a few hours ago and she's not even a family sim, Madeleine is thinking about adoption. Both she and her husband Brody are becoming close friends with Jasmyn Avery, so I'm going to pretend that they wish they could adopt her.



Lexie also gives birth in the kitchen while preparing grilled cheese . . . imagine that.



Everyone freaks out. Madeleine will know what to do!



Madeleine acts as shocked as everyone else and Dalia just looks bored with the goings on. Not more babies.



Lexie: (as everyone walks out of the room) Look at my baby boy! Nathan Robertson



I wanted to keep playing until they were toddlers, but I had to quit and when I went back I decided to catch up the Averys. I'd already played the Robertsons up to their second week and they all had their own pop-up message about what a great week they'd had.

At the Avery's Dalia gets her makeover. Doesn't she look better now? She seems less than thrilled.



She's becoming enamored with Keshawn and wants to flirt, kiss, and be best friends with him. She tries to flirt, but he's not interested. With a pretty, young wife at home (even though he is a romance sim) I can't blame him. I'm not going to pursue it. Actually the next time I play I'm going to make another family or two. Dalia needs some singles to flirt with and Jasmyn really needs some teens to hang out with. Dalia can find some service sims to befriend, but the only other teen in the neighborhood is the paper boy. Jasmyn only has the adults or little kids to hang out with.



Dalia: So what about woohoo?
Keshawn: Uh, no. I'm not discussing that with you.



These kids love to gossip. About their granny . . .



their big sister . . .



their little brother . . .



Jasmyn: Hmmm, I know I was furious about something, but I can't remember what now.



The kids are all doing well, they're either in platinum or gold aspiration and are keeping up on their studies, all except Allen who is struggling. Dalia isn't doing too well. It's hard to keep her needs up. I'm glad she's the only high maintenance one in the household. Dalia: Oh, all of these kids!

Em - YOU ARE HILARIOUS!!

Poor Dalia!!! I frequently ask Keshawn about discussing WooHoo.

I LOVE this thread!