Yearly Apocalypse Challenge - February 24th Update!!
AjiDivine:
The house was full of life and people. The Yearly-Tenniman family was growing up. There were school mates and friends dropping by nearly everyday. The children all learned that it was their fate to help rebuild their civilization.
The triplets grow into teens and they are a good looking bunch.
Anise can't believe that her younger sisters where now teenagers. She gathered them all for a family photo of the Yearly-Tenniman girls. You can really see how much they look like their mom.
Jasper and Yates were very proud of all of their children and they were determined to spend time with each of them. You could find them playing kicky ball or chess almost any time of the day. Jasper was especially keen on spending time with them, because she knew that soon her time with them was coming to an end. She might not have reached her lifetime goal, but she definitely did enjoy her family life.
Basil grew up into an adult. He was a bit miffed that he wasn't allowed to go to university. He worked in the medical field as a teenager and now was able to start some hands on training to become a doctor. He was determined to make it safe to take a shower and get some form of birth control. He didn't want to have as many kids as his parents did.
When Death came for her, Jasper tried to turn back time. She wasn't going without a fight, but in the end she accepted her fate. No hula dancers and pina colada for Jasper.
Basil tried to keep his younger sisters from falling apart when they saw that their mother was no longer alive. What could he do with crying girls? He was completely at a loss. Yates had taken to bed and wouldn't get up for almost two days.
Ginger was finding it hard to deal with her mothers death. She cried all the time. Rosemary tried to console her whenever she saw her breakdown. So she hides away in the bathroom to cry alone.
Yates told Basil that he and Jasper had decided that he would be the heir. They had wanted to tell him together, but unfortunately time had gotten past them. He told Basil that he would have to marry soon and start a family. Basil was sort of stunned, but he had felt that he would be chosen as heir. He knew that none of the triplets were ready and Anise didn't really want the responsibility.
Basil told his dad that he was proud to be the heir and would do his best to carry on. He was worried that the house would be to crowded for a wife and babies, but he knew it must be done. So he called the one woman he had a crush on, Ms. Winters.
Dill was doing a bit of wooing of his own. He hoped that his sister Anise would reach the top of the military career soon, so when he was growing up he might be able to either go to university or move out and get married.
Anise grows into adulthood. She is very beautiful young lady. She knows she has a big responsibility to help finish raising her younger siblings.
Being in the ROTC in highschool helps promotes her to a Junior Officer position in the military. She knows a lot rides on her doing well in this career. People would be able to do more traveling, date and go to university. She hopes to move out one day, especially since she won't be the heir.
Ms. Winters and others join the family for dinner. Basil does his best to serve a tasty meal with the hopes of impressing Ms. Winters, whose first name is Mina.
Yates was missing Jasper a lot, but he had his daughters to talk to and to play games with. He was so happy to have all of his children with him, because it made him feel less lonely. When they were at school he waited for the bus to pull up and bring them home, but usually one or two them would have to work. Yes, all teenagers were required to find work....well, Dill was having a time of it finding a job in oceanography.
Basil had asked Mina to move in and she accepted. Yates felt this was the best way for them to get to know each other, since they could not go out on dates. Soon they were falling in love with each other. He hasn't popped the question yet, but soon he will.
Astral Faery:
Mina is beautiful! I can't wait to see what the next generation looks like.
I started playing this challenge again, and I tell you the medical thing was really driving me nuts. For two entire generations all the sims did nothing but wave at me and complain because they wanted a shower - especially the children! I couldn't even get them to do their homework because of it and they were always cranky. I ended up cheating and buying a shower just to get their hygeine up enough to cooperate, then I would sell it so no one else could use it. It's much worse than the food restriction, in my opinion. I learned to live with that one.
AjiDivine:
Asral: I wished I had done the medical career first, because now I have a house full of people waving at me and complaining about taking a bath. That's why I had Basil look for a job as soon as he became a teen. It was pretty easy to deal with the one meal a day when Jasper was single, but I was afraid to try it with children involved.
I can hardly wait to see how generation 2 will look.
Astral Faery:
How did Basil manage to keep his job if he can't go to school and maintain passing grades? I had a teen with a job once, and he got fired because he was failing school (because he wasn't allowed to go).
The food restriction isn't terribly difficult, if you plan carefully. Sims will always eat at work or school if their hunger is half or below, so there's a free meal. Adults and teens can meditate to freeze their stats, assuming they have enough logic to do so. I usually prepared my one meal between 3-5 pm, having any sims who didn't work that day meditate, if necessary. I made sure I sent all visitors home before they cooked, so they had more. And I even made them share plates, like if two sims had finished an entire plate, and they were still a little hungry and food was left over, then they would share a plate to make sure they got nice and full. I even counted how many bites it took to finish a hamburger! About 14, lol.
Weekends can be kind of tricky, especially for the kids. My family was much smaller than yours, though. I initially only had one child, then when she grew up she married and had one child. The restrictions are taking a little longer, but until culinary was lifted, it helped stretch that food out.
AjiDivine:
Well, I ummm cheated...I could not figure out how to keep him from going to school (if I wasn't paying attention he went to school).....so I used Simlogical school changer and chose no school. But thankfully Yates completed the education career and he was able to go to highschool for a while....thus enabling him to keep his job.
I was scared not complete culinary first. It seems my married sims would roll have a baby so often and I tend to like large families.....so I usually accomodate them. And since there is suppose to be no birth control in the challenge I figured I would have a big family. I guess a smaller family would have helped make food stretch farther.
I found it difficult to time her first pregnancy with her off days....thankfully top of career days off worked. Now I think timing Basil and Mina's pregnancy's are gonna be tough.
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