#9003
3rd Sep 2024 at 2:45 PM
Last edited by AndrewGloria : 3rd Sep 2024 at
3:14 PM.
After a 10 year hiatus I have resumed playing Pleasantview where I left off. It feels a bit funny, as I was still quite a rookie player ten years ago. (Maybe I still am!) I also have different mods some of which rather change the dynamics of the game. (I'm thinking especially of the "No Jealousy" mod that Andrew and Julian told me to get!) I've started off by playing the Goths, where Bella had turned up again. She remarried Mortimer two days after her return. The extra day was to give her time to choose and to buy a wedding dress. Somewhat to my disappointment, the game considered the wedding party a disaster. It's the first time that's happened to me and my Sims, and I'm not sure what we did wrong. It was doing OK until about 40 minutes before the end. I then, to try to save things, I started Mortimer and Bella on a date, but it was too late to make a difference. Probably we should have drunk more toasts.
Now I'm used to playing our Veronaville, with its dozens of CAS Sims (including CAS townies) and in contrast Pleasantview felt a bit restrictive, with the same pre-mades turning up all the time. So I'm starting to do in Pleasantview what I've been doing for a while in Veronaville: when good-looking Sims generate in CAS while I'm "rolling the pacifier", I save some of them to the game. Hence Babs and Babette Nunney ---
Babs Nunney and her teenage daughter Babette arrived in Pleasantview looking for somewhere to live. They found a small house at the end of Oak Street, but the house was really tiny. It had no bed, no dining table, no telephone, and no counters to prepare food. Babs had a bit of money left out of her starting ยง20,000, so she set about furnishing the house a bit more adequately. She added kitchen counters, and a telephone, but there was only room for one bed, and a single one at that. So she bought a good quality single bed, so that she and Babette could sleep in in "shifts". Since there was no room in the house, Babs put an outdoor dining table in the garden.
Around 10 o'clock local papergirl Amy Jones brought the morning paper. Babette hung out with her till lunchtime. A little later in the morning Bella Goth came by in her new orange outfit. Unfortunately her top was the same design as Babs's blue one.
Just after midday, Darren Dreamer, John Burb, and a very pregnant Brandi Broke came to welcome Babs and Babette to the district. Babs made up lunch meat sandwiches for everyone. Babette, Darren and John ate theirs in the kitchen while Babs, Amy, Bella and Brandi ate in the garden. While she was eating lunch, Babs spotted Marissa Bendett passing in the street; she left her half-eaten food to go and greet her. Brandi is clearly eating for two. When she'd finished her own sandwich, she ate Babs's. Although it was still just late afternoon, Babette went to bed, so Babs could get the bed later. Babs placed a second dining table in the garden, and, feeling hungry again, she made mac and cheese which everybody ate.
Then, keen to make new friends, Babette went out with Amy Jones to Young Pleasantview, a youth club near where the Brokes live. The first thing she saw when she arrived was Dustin making out with Angela for the first time. She then played pinball with Ivy Copur, but the two of them really didn't hit it off. She did a little better with Lilith. Just before she left for home she met young Charlie Spence who lives with his family near the Dreamers.
When she got back home, Babette took a shower in the garden shower at the back of the house. (I had replaced the base game shower with the CC communal beach shower, so they change into swimwear rather than stripping naked.) She couldn't go to bed, because her mum was in it, so she spent the next few hours writing up her diary.
At this stage Babs got the builders in to enlarge the house to allow for a second bed -- a double one. Despite the extra space, the house still looks and feels very small.
Eating still has to be done in the garden, so on Tuesday morning Babs and Babette breakfasted together in the early morning sunlight. Babette went to school, and an hour later Babs went to first day at her fashion job. She's a starting-level shop assistant.
At 1 o'clock Babette came home from school. She brought a new friend with her, a boy called Orlando Centowski. Babette did some of her homework, but then spent most of the afternoon playing kicky-bag with Orlando, stopping only when she was too tired to continue.
Around that time Dina Caliente happened to be passing in the street, so Babette paused playing and greeted her. By the time Babs came home at 5 o'clock, Babette and Orlando were firmly established as friends. Babs found she got on well with her daughter's new friend too. Babette went to bed to recover while her mum cooked the dinner.
In the late evening after Orlando and Dina had left, Babs called her new friend Helen Strachan. Meanwhile Babette squatted down between the two beds and finished her homework. She found it heavy going, and she thinks in future she'll ask Babs for some help. Finally they both went to bed. They now have a wardrobe between the beds, but unfortunately it blocks virtually all the light from the window behind it. Babs is thinking of getting the builders in again to move the window.
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I think I'll take the bull by the horns and play the Brokes next. After ten years pregnancy (!) Brandi's baby must be due now. I hope that by now I'm I'm a good enough player to handle the birth without killing either the mother or the baby. "Dustin, I'll be relying on you to help me!"
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