Saturday, June 30, 2018

1.01 Maybe a little bit lucky




This is one of my favorite sims. She lost her default skin somewhere along the way and keeps glitching out to this ashy mess. She is Misept Sol, the older sister, and I totally forget her traits.



So I fix her up as best I can.

Turns out she's flirty.



And their signs are compatible!

#10 Wish of the day → Become Good friends with someone. Aww...!



He may be tired, but it seems like he'd go home with her in a heartbeat.



She sits down to eat so I send him to sit next to her (following the friendship wish)
“I have an idea!”

“...Okay, let's hear it.”



“Since I quit my job in politics even though it was kind of interesting, what if I did something a bit different?”



“For example, I could become a fishersim.”

He can't tell if she's being polite or agreeing when she nods, her mouth full of food. It's either really great food, she was starving, or she's a really good listener.



“But really I'm trying to decifer the best way to get you to come back to my place.”

(My imagination, but why is he talking to her about all this stuff?) At least he's honest!



She carries on as if he hadn't said anything at all.

Wish #11 Become good friends with Sephut.



But they like similar viral videos, and he learns about her hatred for cheap party decorations...



And they are able to talk more.

#12 Kiss Sephut for the first time.



I invite her over so they can talk more privately (I think I can do that, they don't wish to invite each other, do they? But the friendship wish or the romance one could be accomplished more if he invites her to stay over...)

“How do you like my little place? I'm new in town and it's a bit small, but I put a substantial downpayment on it.”



Eventually, she's flirting with him. If he was lost in a sea of stars and she was here on the ground, she'd still be able to pick him out of the sky and know it was him, she thinks. He stands out.



“Like a rare species of endangered butterfly.”

Aww. Well that's pretty flattering.



So he offers a thank you massage.

(Some of this was autonomous, I don't recall which parts because I basically used the kiss wish as an excuse to do other romantic interactions first (I don't think they can wish for most of these, which is my reasoning)



He gives her a super great 'Will-you-be-my-girlfriend' massage, he's dated before and usually a girl would want to be asked around this time.



But it's late, and she suggests they get some rest instead.

End of Day Tally; 7581 LTHpts, 513 Simoleans in the bank.



He dreams mundane dreams...



And he wakes up wondering if he's just addicted to falling in love. He can't see settling down, getting married. Why do sims DO that?



Is Sephut the kind of woman... who could change his mind?



'Nah... I'll never change my mind about this.' He thinks.



Conscientious that she's in someone else's home, Sephut stays behind to make the bed while he freshens up for the morning.



And then he comes outside to stare at her.

'That @ss is money right there'

xD

Or there's the wholesome interpretation; 'If I had someone like this at home every morning, helping to take care of the place, I could just focus on going out and making money.'

(but I'm pretty sure he's having some flashback to his gangbanger days) Unnecessary note: I enjoyed the second urban dictionary definition of Gangbanger better than the first. Something about 'an idiot on the street making their ethnicity look bad and hurting innocent people.' Not that I think he was like that.



#1 Wish of the day. Talk to someone.

“Have you ever thought about getting engaged to someone that you care about?” (This is the get to know interaction!)



“Or have you been in love?”

She's not sure, love is complicated. How does someone know that what they're feeling is real?



(points for friendship wish, they're good friends!)



And then it's honesty and next wish time.

“Because I'm not sure if I know much about love, or if this is what it feels like in the first moments...”



“Or if it's not, but...”

Turns out that she is an amazing kisser. Maybe he feels that his time in Lucky Palms will be at least a little bit fortunate?



Especially when she pulls him in for another one. “Aren't you overthinking this a bit?”




“I've got to work soon, but I really hope you'll come over again.”



Additional picture because I love the ochre color of his eyes. Is that what his dad had? Also, they're not the same color but his mom had gray-blue eyes and Misept has medium to deep blue. Is that why he liked her right away? She felt like home?

...Now I'm the one overthinking their relationship!



He has no more wishes pertaining to Sephut, so I don't initiate anything more. She keeps firting with him though.

“I keep thinking that you and I are going to be the best of friends.”



“I don't know I think you're way too pretty to just be friends with.”



“Does membership to that club come with any particular ...benefits?”

(That eyebrow!)



But his carpool arrives and he has to leave before he can get any answer from her. Instead of friends, they are 'Romantic Interests'. She heads out too, she has kids to teach.

And his Lifetime Happiness Points are up to 9,100. Not a bad start to the day. Bills take 347 out of his 513 simoleon bank though!



Everet rolls no wishes that morning AT ALL. Maybe the 'Fulfilled' Moodlet has something to do with this?

Finally he rolls these;
#2 Buy a TV (He got paid, so I lock it in)
#3 Buy a Horseshoe court (ughhh no we can't keep spending at least the tv has athletic and cooking uses)



To help his career along, I have him suck up to the boss a bit, which gives him a 'Sellout' Moodlet as a rebellious sim. Negative hit for two hours.

Then he meets this chick after work, Marisol Loera.



They just get to chatting when this guy, Ariel Hudson, comes running up out of nowhere and gives her the stink eye. But, she's not dating anyone, so...?



And he ends up playing kicky bag with Ariel buried in a half-pile of sand.



And when I think he's driving home from work he stops randomly outside this guy''s house to play kicky bag with him, too. Ezekiel Reid.



They play for about four hours. Just like college probably, if Everet had gone to a place like that instead of a place like this.



He's interrupted by a call.



Amos Ananya wants to hang out. (I choose the option 'sure, come over!')



And he arrives home shortly thereafter, still not having once wished to serve food at the buffet.



And how's that for a tv, ya filthy animal!? (I trade the buffet for it, but it's still the cheapest one that he can still use to learn)

Then the following wishes pop up, one after the other;
#3 Play a game with Amos
#4 Play Hopscotch
#5 Sing Karaoke



Then, ignoring the friend he's just invited over, he showers and heads right to bed.

End of Day he has 134 Simoleons to his name and over 10k LTHpts (I get him the 'no bills' reward)



The next morning he wakes up at 3:45 am feeling well rested. He makes pasta with pesto, does the dishes, cleans the toilet, and sits down to read a book.



And... picks up the trash! (Maybe I am the one who is lucky)



Wish #1 Learn the Gardening Skill

He has the day off as it's Leisure Day, so I send him to the grocery store to buy a few things to plant, not noticing this awesome park (which I am internally calling Protest Park) has free fruit literally hanging all over it.



So go harvest, too! (I resell some things he gathers to make up for buying the previous fruit in the first place)



This crazy chick is here, playing with her puppy. We don't have time for that, and his new wishes rolled while gardening are;

#2 Throw a pool Party (No: location parties are weird and have no money for supplies)
#3 Get pumped (He reached level four of athletic already by playing so much golf and kicky bag. I lock it in.)
#4 Buy 100 simoleons worth of furniture (Okay, locked in but confusing What can be bought for that much that isn't a useless plant?)



#5 Start a Protest. (yes! Sounds fun!) Since there's no such wish as 'Don't suck at protesting', I'm gonna use the gray area to control him for a while. This is now dubbed Protest Park by me after all.

Being a born salesman and negotiator type sim Everet chooses low working wages as a cause, it's one of the more difficult ones, but if successful will raise everyone's wages by a bit. A very, very worthy cause!



He invites friends over to the park first. Love the group conversation interaction. I wonder if that was in an update sometime. He called Amos, first, then Sephut.



And his boss Jaycen (just for irony sake, although he's a friend now too). At the right moment, Everet announces what he's planning.



Amos: “This is what you want to do on leisure day?”

“Yeah, think about it, people will be outside, maybe we can sway things in the right way so there's a favorable decision about wages.”



Amos leaves, but to his credit he doesn't laugh it off. No work should ever be done on Leisure day! I can only assume he has a pool party somewhere.



Jaycen, the newly coined town gigolo, makes good use of Everet announcing his protest to people at the other side of the park and makes a move on Sephut.



Being flirty, she accepts his flowers.



Everet hasn't noticed, he's talking to that girl from work, Marisol.

“If it's too hot out, you can use this like a parasol too, but I think we need your support, Marisol!”



Here's the 100+ Simoleon piece of furniture he wished for.



This bird is a part of the boss' playboy persona, unexpectedly.



But it seems to work for Sephut, who so far has no interest in protesting even though she was invited here specifically for this purpose!



He accepts flowers from her, ignoring that they are white (for friendship),



And promptly gets confused when she rejects his flirtations advances.



Meanwhile, Everet learns how best to use his charisma to strike up any crowd into a wage-increasing frenzy!


So I'll cover the protest next time (it's day 5 if anyone cares to count)



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Don't know how Sephut really feels about him yet, but at least she has standards. Being florty I was surprised she rejected Jaycen!

For those that are curious about this challenge, it's basically played by following the whims of sims and only being able to direct them to fulfill their whims.