Azure Skies: Chapter 6

Maybe time for a little recap at the start of this chapter:

Our founder, Amy Azure, has had six children by three different fathers. There was Braydon Azure Frost (the only boy), twins Olivia and Ophelia Azure Ha (half alien), Octavia Azure Ha (half alien), and twins Neelah and Aleesha Azure Acharya. And of course their dog, Blue. So far Braydon has moved out, Olivia and Ophelia are young adults, Octavia is a child, and Neelah and Aleesha are toddlers. Aleesha is slated to be our heir as she has Amy’s blue skin, a requirement for one of the bonuses I’m attempting.

A lot is gonna happen in this episode as I played a long time with few screenshots. I tend to forget when I have so many sims in the house, lol. Onward!

Ophelia is now dating Frankie Bheeda, Jesminder and Arun’s son. Ophelia has the Big Happy Family aspiration, so she needs to have a family of her own. I’m not moving Frankie in because I don’t have the space.

Olivia just has to complete the Bodybuilder aspiration before I move her out. So I’m working her to death on the workout machines. After a few days she moves out.

Then Ophelia got pregnant by Frankie and had baby Jasmine! I’m awful at coming up with names so I decided to name her after her grandmother Jesminder.

At some point Amy woohooed with ghost Neelesh. He can’t die again, right? And I got that achievement “What would it be like?” which always cracks me up.

Amy is finishing up her requirement of eating all the food stall recipes at this very popular Moroccan food stall.

Amy and Ophelia posed for their portraits. Then we had a bunch of birthdays! First Octavia became a teen:

Then Neelah and Aleesha became children:

And Jasmine became a toddler:

I put the money trees back out and saved up a while to renovate the house:

I used some pre-built rooms and some gallery rooms. I did the outside of the house myself which is probably why it makes no sense lol. I hung all the portraits so far in the dining room:

Then they adopted a male puppy named Archimedes:

Isn’t he precious?? Quickly he grew up:

For now there’s no room for a puppy, but once there is these two will be having Aleesha’s companion! I can’t wait to see what he/she looks like.

Jasmine became a child.

And it’s already Harvestfest again! I’ve never seen them around a tree like that before. We did considerably better on the gnomes this year although Octavia had to beg for forgiveness as seen here.

Everyone ate a grand meal together.

And I had a great time rearranging the lawn ornament collection after the holiday ended.

Then Amy became an elder! I’m sad that her hair isn’t blue anymore and that she’ll soon no longer be with us. She only has a few food stall recipes to go to finish all her requirements, and we do need the space, but I get attached to my founders, ya know? That’s all for now!

Azure Skies: Chapter 5

I decided to include pets in the family portraits because why not, and I got this super cute shot of Blue! I’ve been feeding her an age down treat every time she becomes an elder this whole time. My plan is to adopt a male dog and have them breed once the next heir is a child/teen, that way she and the dog grow up together :).

So, HarvestFest is going well….

After a while with the money trees, I finally was able to buy Brindleton Pawspital! I eventually put the money trees in their inventory since cash was piling up and I didn’t want it to get too easy. Although now that I think about it, maybe I should just keep going and get them a vault? I do need to renovate the house sometime soon though…

I changed the vet clinic up just a little, expanding the office and putting in a cooler in case Amy gets hungry.

Octavia became a child! At some point I got Amy pregnant again by an elder named Neelesh Acharya. I accidentally woohooed him to death and thought I got a screenshot but evidently not.

Aren’t you cold??

Amy had twin girls this time, and I named them both after their father. This is Neelah

And this is Aleesha! Finally a blue skinned baby! So, we have our heir.

Just having Amy run the vet clinic long enough to finish up the vet skill.

Olivia will be moving out as soon as she completes the Bodybuilder aspiration (the twins became young adults, maybe I lost those screenshots to?). This is the face she made for her portrait lol.

I’m having Ophelia max the DJ Mixing skill since it isn’t tied to any aspirations. This is a shot of Blue tapping her paw to the beat!

Neelesh is the most helpful ghost ever, except for how after this he went around the house and broke EVERYTHING, lol

And then the babies became toddlers!

Amy now has both the Chopstick Savvy and Spice Hound traits. In addition to going to the festivals a lot to learn all the food truck dishes, I’ve also been having her make them at home. You don’t get a notification or anything when you get one of those traits, but now she gets confident whenever she eats spicy or chopstick food.

I’m working on getting Ophelia a husband to have babies with. Since she’s not the heir, I could have her husband move in, but I probably won’t just for space considerations. Between Aleesha’s line, Ophelia’s line, and the dogs, it’s going to be a very full house. Wish me luck!

Azure Skies: Chapter 4

Starting off with Amy awkwardly throwing a simoleon into the well to no effect.

We had three birthdays on one day, so Amy made a cake out of everyone’s favorite fruit in this house, strawberries! First Olivia became a child

then Ophelia

and finally Braydon became a teen.

He aged up with the mean trait, which will come into play later on.

The girls became partners in crime, wreaking havoc on their school together!

We finally got our money tree! It takes a while to grow to the point of sprouting money, but we’re well on our way to Brindleton Pawspital.

I decided to get Amy pregnant by Dawson Ha one more time. This turned out to be a mistake, but I did get a cool pre-woohoo shot from inside the rocket ship.

Just after getting it on with an alien in a rocket ship, Amy got abducted.

And after a few days, little Octavia was born! She unfortunately also has the alien blue skin, not Amy’s. I think the alien skin tone might be more dominant than the human one. If I had realized that I would have gotten her pregnant by a human. Also she has the fertile trait and got a fertility massage, but still had only one baby. *sigh*

Amy finally won a karaoke contest!

Braydon kept destroying the girls’ doll house and I had to wait until noon the next day to have someone repair it. I was considering locking him out of their room, but ultimately decided to just move him out after he finished his aspiration as a teen anyway (The Curator).

Brayon aged up and I moved him out immediately, but not before getting his portrait painted by Amy and farming his aspiration points for one more money tree seed!

Now we’re going!
Then we had three more birthdays the same day. First Olivia

Then Ophelia

Ophelia aged up with the Big Happy Family aspiration, so it’s too bad she’s not heir. It’s going to be a full house, that’s for sure! Then Octavia became a toddler!

I also decided to update Amy’s look since she’s almost an elder but I’m planning on giving her a potion of youth as she’s not done with everything I want her to do yet.

I’ve done the three required pregnancies, but I don’t have a female heir with Amy’s blue skin. I decided at the start to play for points, so I’m going to have her have more children until I get the desired heir. Plus, then I’ll have more sims to finish more aspirations and skills, right?

Bachelor in Newcrest: Chapter 2

This week on Bachelor in Newcrest, we can see Don is getting back to one of his favorite pastimes: lifting weights! GTL! Oh wait, wrong show…

I decided that we would have our first elimination after a round of Don’t Wake the Lama and the one with the lowest relationship bar was…

…Shelly! Here we see Katrina, who evidently got sick, saying her goodbyes.

Al-Ly came back as a ghost in her cold weather outfit to eat some of our food.

Tensions are on the rise as there are only two contestants remaining. Kaylynn and Don sneaked away by the trashcan outside to have a private chat.

I mean, I guess you can’t die again, right?

Don hasn’t gotten a proper night sleep in some time and drinks coffee to compensate…

…and he peed himself. Probably from all that coffee lol.

Katrina and Kaylynn hanging out in the living room. Strategizing?

That night Kaylynn got abducted by aliens as she was coming out to mourn Al-Ly. Alien grave, alien abduction. Coincidence? Probably lol. I really wish Don would have gotten abducted because I love alien babies in this game!

Oh Katrina. You guys haven’t even cleaned the ground!

I ended up moving the graves to a less accessible location because the sims kept autonomously going to mourn and then getting sad. This way, they almost always get distracted by something else on their way.

And I leave you with this shot of Kaylynn definitely conspiring with ghost Nina. They’re totally in on something.

Tune in next time for the exciting conclusion of Bachelor in Newcrest!

Azure Skies: Chapter 3

Welcome to my wordpress blog! You can find the beginning of this challenge over on http://boolprop.net at http://www.boolprop.net/viewtopic.php?f=247&t=4930.

As promised last time, Amy got pregnant by Dawson Ha, the blue alien.

Look at that face.

I put the refrigerator in the family inventory so I wouldn’t forget to have Amy eat strawberries. This meant that Braydon had to also eat nothing but strawberries, but he survived.

As he came out of the house to react to his first snow, I wanted to point out that there are no Santa hats for kids in this game. This elf hat is the closest I could get, unfortunately.

I tried having Amy feed Blue a poop randomizer treat to see if I could get some gold bars. I did get some gold poops, but it wasn’t worth the anguish that seeing Blue sick caused me, so I had Amy cure him. I assume the chances of getting the gold bars are pretty low anyway. Back to the original plan of getting a money tree! Also we aren’t doing too bad with the birds of paradise plants.

All those strawberries paid off and Amy had twin girls! I named them Olivia and Ophelia. They have blue skin, but unfortunately I think it’s their dad’s blue skin not their mom’s. One more pregnancy to go!

The flamingo army grows! I decided to also keep all the gnomes that show up on HarvestFest. So many lawn ornaments!

Amy went to the Humor & Hijinks festival, the last one she needed to attend! She joined the jokesters and they won!

At the next Spice Festival, Amy won the spicy food eating contest!

Clement Frost asked to come over on WinterFest and was still there when the new Father Winter came down the chimney. I’m seeing double!

This is Olivia as a toddler.

And this is Ophelia as a toddler! I think they’re both super cute.

I’ll try again with the strawberries for the third pregnancy and maybe also a fertility massage, but if I don’t get a girl with Amy’s blue skin I might call the alien blue good enough! Definitely waiting for the twins to become children though. Until next time!

Bachelor in Newcrest: Chapter 1

Welcome to my wordpress! I had previously just posted the updates for my sims challenges to the boolprop.net forums, but I got frustrated with image hosting and decided to try a blog. The introduction to this particular challenge can be found here: http://boolprop.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=4961. On to the update!

To start off the actual challenge, we have Nina using a bush to pee in when the house has several brand new toilets in it. Typical sims, am I right?

Once she got inside, she lit the fireplace. Foreshadowing? Foreshadowing.

Some of the other contestant thought it prudent to dance for several hours…

…while Katrina watched TV for most of the day.

At least someone has the sense to use an actual toilet around here.

Working out was a popular activity since the house has two full gyms.

All those double beds made for some awkward moments of sims trying to get into an already occupied bed and failing since no one really knows each other yet…


Don ended up sleeping in the bathtub

Then, on the second night…

Nina started a fire making hotdogs on the grill.

Everyone freaked out for a minute, then ran away to stand at the front of the lot and let the fire burn. I decided not to intervene since it could turn out interestingly. The fire burned…

…and burned…

…and even made it all the way back into the house before snuffing itself out.

Meanwhile, the sims all stood there doing nothing, peeing themselves and passing out for nearly two sim days.

Then, tragedy struck. First went Nina…

Then Al-Ly (who the grim reaper was stuck on for quite some time)

By then everyone headed back inside, but sims are bad at taking care of themselves, so down went Dina…

…and Cassandra.

Half of our contestants gone, just like that! Luckily Don survived otherwise this would have been an epic failure. I continued to let them do their own thing and held off on any eliminations until they weren’t sad anymore. One last shot of Katrina really testing my patience…

…and that’s all for this update! Stay tuned to see which of our three remaining contestants, Katrina, Kaylynn and Shelly, will win Don’s heart!