Meeting the new neighbors

I've been asked to introduce to some of the other households that moved in about the time that we did.

Here are the housemates from house one.

This is Susie, talking to Sierra. I've been told Sierra was hit hard by the great failure of Store content - I have no idea what that means.  Susie is quite cute, I must introduce myself sometime.

Christi, one of Suzie's housemates.

Angelo is another.

Jerod is the final housemate of that house. He seems a bit confused by life. He is a couch potato but he wants to be a doctor, one of the most active professions that I know.


Here are the people living in the house on the other side of us.

Marta Tomasi meeting Ripley. There is something odd about the two of them meeting like this, I need to think about what it might be.

Rachel, a very bright chick. Lots of potential here.

Tyler, a happy-go-lucky sort of a fellow. 

Wyatt rounds out this household.

Finally the third recent set of arrivals

Bettina and Christian

Mick Lessen

Sierra lives with this group.

Sierra and a couple of other girls have been checking out Thomas Leman. He thinks he's hot with that bad boy outfit. I'll have to show him, but I better work on my charisma. I'll charm every one of his girls.

Good thing it's a big house

Hello, my name is Phillip. I moved into Sunset Valley, and got a good deal on a house. But it's only a great deal because I have 5 housemates.

This is me with Ripley. Ripley is into arts. She wants to play music and paint.

I've been told I look a lot like my dad. Odd since I have no memory of having a dad at all.

This is Benjamin and Macy.  Benjamin is hoping to be a spy someday.    Can't remember offhand what Macy wants from life.

Sorry about the quality of the picture here. Kacyn was just getting home from the graveyard.  What a chef wanna-be was doing in a graveyard at night was a bit of a mystery.

This guy is Clover.  His want is to have  a perfect garden.  He has elf blood so plants should really respond to him.

As for me, I want romance.  Lots and lots of it. My relationship with Ripley is a good start in the right direction.  I've heard about my competition already.  Some guy called Thomas Leman is the town Casanova.  He better watch out, I'm after his title.

Damn, they beat me to first kiss.  And I thought I was fast.

This guy is living on his own at the moment.  His name is Jon.  His new house had a pipeline burst when he moved in.  Poor guy had to spend most of his first day in town fixing the plumbing.

First day in town and there was a huge protest at city hall.  I think there are too many jellyfish in town lakes.  Do jellyfish prevent other fish from showing up?

Since I need to rebuild

I've tried a few tricks but there is no store content yet.  I have one more trick up my sleeve but after that I will proceed onward without store content.

In the meantime dear followers, I will restart a game and was wondering if anyone had particular Sims they wanted put into town. 

Technical difficulties

I had restarted a Riverview game.  I had houses with Sims, they had jobs, the first few had romance.

And then my machine wanted to do an update to the software that drives the virtual machine that runs Sims 3.  This was a critical mistake, my store content can no longer be found by the game.  This includes Riverview, all the downloaded clothes and hair etc.  I can see all the files in the correct areas but the game can't access them.

So I may try asking the tech support of the virtual machine people what change they may have made to accessing files that is so crucial.  I may have to reinstall Sims 3.

Jerod, Marta, Rebecca and Jared

Hugo Hawke, post a little tweaking.

 

Marta and Jerod's little girl Lacie with one of her new friends, Andrew Grant.

 

Marta set dinner on fire but since she's brave and he's a daredevil, they had no problems coping with the blaze.

Time for Lacie to age up to teen.

 

Lacie Tomasi - ready for anything.

 

Lacie brought home from school one of her old friends, Cecil Thorpe-Townsend.

I had them romance briefly and she wanted her first kiss from him.  I tried but life was against Lacie and Cecil this day.  First he had to go to work, then she got busted for curfew when over at his house.

 

Cecil's little brother Abel is also a teen.  One hopes he'll grow into that nose.  

 

Little Jasper learning to talk from his daddy Jared.

I think I'm going to start this neighborhood over.  I have a bunch of new Sims that I dropped into the hood part way through that I'd rather have start fresh.  And I'm hoping that using Twallan's Story Progression mod from the start will keep the neighborhood in better balance.  So the question is, are there any of the born in games in this lot you want?  I can age them up to young adult if anyone is interested in a look

Zayne + Thomas - Derrick and Clayton

Sam + Kathryn - Andrew and Sterling

Jerod + Marta - Lacie

Jon + Meadow - Jeanine and ???

AJ + Malcolm - Malcolm and Micheal (will post pics if anyone is interested)

Celia + William - Byron, Jeana and Camille

Tyler + Rachel - Cecil and Abel

Rebecca + Jared - Jasper

Grandpa + Teresa - Doug, Jeffry and Donna

I think that's the full list of our Sims that actually produced any children.  I must admit that on neighborhood reset, I'm likely to start Zayne and Thomas together cause damn I like them as a couple.

Sam and Jon

 

Sterling Grant, second son of Sam and Kathryn.

 

Sam teaching Andrew to walk.

 

Then Andrew had his birthday.  Hmm, are we getting tired of Grant boys? They look very similar.

 

Then I went to visit Jon, Meadow and their two little ones.  Meadow is teaching the younger one to walk.

 

While Jon teaches the older one to talk.  I can never remember the names of the girls.  They are not horribly weird but not common and not the normal spellings.

 

This is Christi, a Sim newly arrived in the neighborhood.  

 

This is Angelo, a new guy in town.

 

And Suzie, I think she's on the lookout for the nearest party.  They all came out while Jon was playing his guitar for tips.  Guitar music brings in the crowds.

Celebrations and sadness Zayne and Thomas, Celia and Christian

Next it is the turn of the Hunter Leman family.

 

Clayton Hunter Leman, the second son of Thomas and Zayne.  Much as his big brother, he is a very cute little fellow.  Clayton had pink hair at first but the tips of Zayne's hair are black and now that's what he has.

Clayton got a new playmate when Marta decided to come and help him with music.

Both Zayne and Thomas are quite dedicated as parents.  They will usually want to teach toddler skills soon after I arrive at the house.

 

Zayne gives Thomas a few cooking tips.  Since he burnt their breakfast, he can't complain about the tips.

The adorable Leman toddlers until...

Celebration 1 - Derrick has his birthday.  He is taking after his dad.

Now we move from the Leman house to Celia and Christian.  They had twin girls, Jeana and Vickie then a third baby called Camille while I was visiting other households.  Alas, tragedy struck and Vickie has died.  

Toddler Jeana

While I was visiting, it was time for Christian, Byron and Camille to have birthdays.

Byron went first

Then Camille grew to toddler

and at some point Christian officially became an adult, but he was thinking about other things

 

Namely asking Celia to marry him.

 

She accepted very willingly.

 

They exchanged rings at a small party.

 

Mostly their coworkers were in attendance.

 

Finally the Montgomery family indulges in some synchronized toddler training.