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.

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

 

In the present, everyone has moved into a bigger house.  Richard and his new wife, Chelsea, go and build a snowman together.

Since Hialeah designed the new house, she was able to build herself a secret vampire sleeping lair.  Her great-great-grandfather, Jake, seems a little surprised that his descendant is an immortal vampire.

Hialeah also got to meet her great-grandmother, Haven, so that was nice for her.

The new house is built into the side of a cliff - because there were limited areas to build a new house in the city - so I've put Hialeah's bedroom, office, and vampiric lair in that area.  There's limited light because there's a massive cliff right next to the window.  And then I put giant curtains over it, to make her even more vampire-y.

It's been a while since I played, so just to remind us all of where I am:  Richard and Hialeah are my twin Dragon heirs for this zodiac challenge (not actually twins, Richard is 12 years younger than Hialeah).  Richard needs to finish two more degrees, so basically earn his PhD.  Hialeah must also achieve professional success.  Currently, she's an architect, but she's eventually going to become leader of the free world.  No hurry, she's an immortal vampire.  They both need to attain a personal nemesis, and I know who that will be but I haven't revealed it yet.  Also living with them is Remy, the second eldest (the third and youngest siblings, Dan and Saoirse, stayed behind).  Remy's goal is to be a master musician, and I'm going to work on achieving that for him too.  He needs to master three more instruments and reach the highest level of success with his band. 

Hey, remember Richard's ex, Hannah?  Her aunt came over and met Chelsea.  She did not seem impressed at Chelsea introducing herself as Richard's wife and talking about how happy she is in the new house.

Chelsea herself doesn't have much of a role in the present, which is probably quite depressing.  I mean, what's the point in studying anything or working at anything when you're from several hundred years in the future?

Still, she's with Richard, so that's something.  This isn't the new house, this is from when they went to uni so Chelsea can complete a bachelors and Richard can complete a Masters.  I first moved them into shared accommodation, where this picture was taken, then moved them back home then back to uni so they could live in a cute little house I built.

See how cute it is?  It's based on that house in the very first sims game where all my original characters lived.  We decorated it with all the gifts Richard's thirsty fans keep sending.  Weirdly, despite being married to him, Chelsea is not famous at all, and we're all okay with that.  If you've come from the future, it's probably best to keep a low profile.

First day, at the student union!

Building a snowman!  We have a massive wall around the garden both to keep out the thirsty fans and the occasional zombie attacks and to main the family secrets.  In this world, the family secrets include Richard being a werewolf, Chelsea being from the future, and the bot-building and chemistry stuff that's happening in the garden shed.  In the homeworld, we can add Hialeah's being a vampire and Bunny's escape from Jenna, though since both are dead now, that one probably doesn't matter much.

...and, Richard has graduated!  His skills are so high that he basically already has 3/4 of any degree he might want to do, so he was able to finish quite quickly.  Chelsea's skills are lower, so she'll be finishing off her bachelors when he returns for his PhD.  But first...back to the city!