Sims 3: Zodiac Challenge - Chapter 5, The Dragon(s)

 

Back home, Chelsea and Richard have decided on careers!  Richard is a bot builder while Chelsea is an inventor.  They now have a basement lab, and I've moved Hialeah's secret vampire bedroom down there as well.  It's behind a fake bookcase door.

We also have a bookcase of random stuff, including potions made by Richard.  He got a wish to discover all of them, and I saw no reason not to indulge it. 

Richard is tutoring Chelsea on logic.  Apparently, it is logical that they have a baby.

Before that, Chel has some 'sploding to do.  It's part of being an inventor.  She needs the scrap.

Richard gets caught in the blast and so does his ex, Hannah.  She seems to accept his apology.

Until Chel shows up.  Hannah is not happy to meet the woman Richard left her for.  Richard, presumably, is unimpressed with Hannah's reaction.

That evening, Serena mourns herself.  Bunny is just happy to see her youngest son.

Avery, like his grandmother, is thinking about himself.

Meanwhile, Jacob is reading while Haven wants to talk about the robot who is outside painting.  That's RJ-73, Richard's first robot.  The name was randomised, but I've decided it stands for "Richard jr".

I gave RJ-73 the artististic algorithm trait chip, so he was a level 10 painter and just spent all day painting stuff to sell.  I kept this one for Remy's studio.

Chel is pregnant!  She knew yesterday - she was throwing up at the junkyard - but now she's showing a bit.  Hannah's aunt does not look impressed.

Meanwhile, Hialeah is receiving an award for having mastered the architect career path.  Outside, she runs into Hannah.  Hialeah has completely forgotten that Hannah is Richard's ex, and sees her only as an admirer.  Hannah tells her she wants to learn more about Hialeah's career.  I was planning to have Hialeah invite Hannah over, so she could meet the baby and blow up and officially become Richard's nemesis, but she never came over when called.  So she's just going to have to be Richard's nemesis on the basis of being blown up by Chelsea, and then finding out that Chelsea and Richard are expecting.

Feeling unfulfilled over her award - and upset about that - Hialeah goes to see Lola Belle, her on-again/off-again girlfriend.  Hialeah asks to stay the night but is rebuffered.  Presumably, Lola Belle is still not willing to be out about their relationship.  Hialeah tells her they can't keep doing this and leaves.

Hialeah has now joined the sculptor career.  Maybe that will be more fulfilling than architecture.  She thought her life's wish was to design 100 perfect rooms, but it doesn't seem to be any more.

The biggest hold-up with moving the plot forward has been Remy's lifetime wish, which requires mastering the bass, piano, guitar, and drums.  I'll be honest, I made his needs static to get a move on with the piano.  I hoped it would just make him static, but it made everyone static, so all four of them made huge leaps in their skills and careers.  The only one we need now is Remy to get from 8 to 10 on his bass skill.

This picture is from when Chel went into labour.  Hialeah reminisced with Remy over their own childhood.  Presumably, she's referring to the homemade cakes Bunny would make for their birthdays.

I was genuinely surprised that Chelsea and Richard had twins.  Sure, Serena and Jake had two sets of twins - Rosemary and Jasper and Haven and Liberty - but they'd both had fertility treatment.  This was pure random chance.  

The twins are named Guilherme and Sakura because I looked it up and Chel is based on an actress who is of mixed Brazilian and Japanese descent.