House 4: Guitar - Part 2

I'm starting this chapter with Kilka's child birthday. There was no party for her this time, just her parents cheering on. Her brother was sleeping in his crib.

Kilka is now an ambitious girl.

Let's not forget the obligatory picture with a slice of cake in her hand. She's a mini Paraná, which in turn is a mini Lillie. I love how the nose plays with the rest of her face, plus her random blonde hair with her skin. Cute kid who is going to become a beautiful woman (she's already a young adult in the game.)

Although there was no celebration, she enjoyed a family moment eating cake together with her parents. 

During her childhood, Kilka became good friends with the toy that had mysteriously arrived in the mail. For this reason, I let it come out to play with the girl.

Seeing her friend Ruca transform into a kind of living doll, Kilka wondered if there was any way to monetize this. She could win a lot of money!

From that moment on, Kilka and Ruca became inseparable.

Playing different games throughout the house and just enjoying themselves.

I planned to turn an invisible friend into a real sim in the previous generation, since that household was the one in charge of the logic skill. But, neither Paraná nor Aguapey received these dolls. The one time that I wasn't going to get rid of them, it's the time that the game decided not to send them.

So when Paraná left her childhood home, she brought some special potions with her. When her daughter told her about her best friend being invisible, she didn't hesitate to give her one of those potions.

Kilka held her breath as she watched Ruca transform into a real sim. 

For a moment I thought about modifying Ruca a bit, but in the end I left her pudding face intact because she'll not be taking part in the heirs' gene pool. I don't dislike face ones per se, they're are pleasant to watch if a little bland, and bland people exist in real world, so... What I really hate it's that they're the only type of sim the game generates.

Despite her traits (Insane, Can't Stand Art, Frugal), Ruca's a well mannered child. She likes to read quietly along with her new mother. She also autonomously helps around the house, and takes care of Pelque.

Speaking of Pelque, a screenshot of him before aging up. He was lucky to play with both the pegbox and xylophone.

After his birthday. His third trait is Good Sense of Humor. I'm grooming him for the next household skill. Being green really suits him. 

He wasn't very impressed with the girls ignoring his birthday. How can homework be more interesting that eating cake? By their faces, it's not.

Who also had a birthday is Paraná, she's now a full adult with responsibilities, the game informed her, as if having three kids at home and a job wasn't enough responsibility. One of the Pertridge girl (for some reason I can never remember who is who) laughed at her. Or maybe at the silliness of the game. 

Instead of going home, Paraná watched the townies' dramas for a little while. Liam O'Dourke and Maya Abbot were in an endless flirting/no flirting circle. It was amusing to see. When one of them began to flirt, the other rejected the first, and in the next action the roles would change. I captured only a few of these failed flirting attempts, but they continued doing this for a couple of hours.

Paraná used her high leveled handiness to upgrade the appliances and plumbing around the house, thus maxing the skill.

The family threw another party, this time to celebrate the girls' teen birthdays, inviting a few classmates, although there were some adults who sneaked in. Playing the guitar made the party a success.

The first to age was Kilka, she's now Athletic because she's going to do the Professional Sport career. At first I had decided on another trait and career, since I was thinking of using her as a back up for supermaxing guitar, but Ken was doing really well with the skill by this time and I was sure he could do it. Which I was right, where I'm in game right now I only need one more opp to supermax it. 

Ruca followed her best friend in aging up. Her new trait is Genius and her future career is Medical.

One of the guest and co-worker of both Paraná and Ken, Ryan Anderson, was kind enough to provide music with his guitar. The only problem? He played the guitar all night long. I had to reset him the next morning when it became obvious he wasn't going to stop at any time soon.

When I made Ruca real, I did it with the intention of her becoming a sister to Kilka and Pelque. During the girls' childhood, I mentally referred to her as twins. They, for their part, had different ideas. 

Ruca autonomously started flirting with Kilka, who accepted her advances with gusto. Obviously, I immediately followed their wishes. This is the first couple in this story that I didn't push together, which makes me very happy because I generally like my sims deciding for themselves.

Here are a couple more screenshots of them being cute together. And a first kiss.

And to give Ken a bit of a place in this update and to close it, here is him aging to adult in the middle of a guitar session and with his sixth opportunity call ringing on his cellphone.

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House 4: Guitar - Part 1

Hidden Springs is the town chosen for this generation. This time I wanted to build Paraná's new house. I tried to go with the style of the town and I'm not completely sure I succeeded, but I like the way it looks. 

I brought Iguazú's and Lillie's tombstone from Barnacle Bay (for genetics purposes) and put them in the Graveyard because I don't want to deal with ghosts just yet.

This house's skill, as I already mentioned in the previous update, is guitar. I haven't added any expansion since I activated Ambitions and Generations on the first day of the project so I think this will help complete the Guitar Star challenge. Fewer expansions generally result in more opportunities.

Paraná ordered a pizza and waited while playing the guitar. That's productivity, people. I chose Ken Woodard as her spouse because we're in Hidden Springs and that means greenboos. Luckily, they agreed with me if the hearts flying in their heads are to be trusted.

Paraná explained to him why she had called him to her home and he seemed happy about that. I guess the prospect of a real house after living in an invisible one with about 20 sims looks like a very good bargain.

I gave him a Rock Star look because that's exactly what he'll be doing for a living. He's also the one in charge of supermaxing this house's skill. I know you can, Ken, I have faith in you!

They don't need much prompt from me to interact with each other, just one romantic action and they can be like this for hours. So far, I'm having luck with the couples that I chose for my heirs, they all seems to be into each other.

Because she'll be working in a rabbithole career, Paraná immediately became pregnant. I like to avoid the maternity leaves as much as possible, I generally have my sims start or complete their careers before getting pregnant.

The imminent arrival of their first child made both Paraná and Ken have the wish to marry. They had a private wedding at Hidden Gardens and Paraná was the first sim to have a sort of wedding dress in this story. I admit I'm being a bit lazy about this type of things.

They spent their wedding evening at the Library reading about pregnancy. I think the panic over the arrival of the nooboo was stronger than anything else. At least they spent the night together.

As soon as he reached level 5 of Guitar, Ken started playing for tips.

Like her husband, Paraná enjoyed the outdoors while playing but in her home's backyard.

It was at one of those sessions that she went into labor. Kilka Skiillo is the first kid of gen 4, her traits are Virtuoso and Friendly. 

While Kilka has a nursery in the first floor, I put a crib in the room where the stairs are since her parents' room is on the opposite side of the house on the ground floor. I didn't design the house very well.

Ken is very proud to be a daddy. Despite having no traits, he attends to his daughter's needs automatically. 

One day before Kilka's first birthday, Ken and Paraná looked for their second child. This time I wanted the children to be close in age so I can choose the heir among them. Meanwhile, I gave them traits that can be used in a couple of careers.

As this house's skill is guitar, I thought about throwing a few parties. The first one was to celebrate Kilka's toddler birthday. Ken played the guitar and Paraná declined a couple of unwelcome advances.

The game reported that the party was a great failure because no one aged up, but Ken's wish to throw a great party was fulfilled and he had the moodlet to prove it. Aside from the fact that, at the time Kilka grew up, there were still a few guests in the different parts of the house enjoying themselves.

Kilka is the first sim to have a genetic variation. The blond hair it's nowhere in the family tree but it looks good with her tan skin.

That evening, her mother gave her the news that she was going to have a little brother or sister. Not the best birthday present for a toddler, although Kilka was more interested in playing with the mysterious gift that had arrived in the mail the day after she was born.

The one who was very happy with the arrival of the new member of the house and being a father again was Ken. He dotted on his wife at every opportunity that he could.

Kilka was the first toddler to play with the xylophone. Although I doubt that putting the stick in her eye is the proper way to make music.

Sometimes she would play alone with her new toy, other times her mother would join in. On one of those, she was interrupted by Paraná going into labor. Kilka wasn't impressed.

It's a greenboo! And a totally surprise because Paraná stuffed herself with watermelons from the moment the baby was conceived. I wanted this generation to be all girls, but well. 

Pelque is a Virtuoso who Loves the Outdoors, just like his mother.

Nothing really important happened the next few days. In addition to teaching her daughter their skills, Paraná and Ken spent several hours on the guitar and the woman joined the music career.

I dedicated myself to send Ken to different parts of town in search of the community lot that would attract the most sims. This lot turned out to be the diner. Although this screenshot doesn't show it, generally Ken plays for about 15 sims, sometimes more.

For Pelque's toddler birthday his parents didn't throw a party because both of them had to work. It was a quiet affair with just the family members.

Besides his skin tone, Pelque inherited his father's hair color. The rest, like his sister, it's all her mother. Lillie's factures are really strong, both her children and grandchildren look like her.

I love how his favorite color, pink, goes with his coloring, such nice contrast. I think this was the moment I was sure he was the heir. I had thought of it when he was born because a colorful heir is always great in my book, but I think seeing him dressed in pink was the decisive factor.

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