Ahh... plying me with Nightlife again, eh?

It won't work! I am strong! I can resist!

Especially since you bounced your CDs off the wall...

Greg wrote:

Ahh... plying me with Nightlife again, eh? It won't work! I am strong! I can resist!

Hardly any, really! Just the car and the dating. And the bowling alley. Oh, and the holding hands at the table... *8)

And the slow-dancing.

oh, I the slow dancing. And the way they bring flowers for their spouse. And the Pleasure Aspiration (did that come with NightLife?)

The new cheats and build tools....

ok I stop.

I remain unswayed. I am a paragon of obstinateness.

Greg wrote:

I remain unswayed. I am a paragon of obstinateness.

It's not like you've exactly run out of things to do with mere Uni... *8)

The Townie Project
Part 21: Remington is fed up

As we saw earlier, former pizza man Remington London has escaped some of the turmoil of having three Romance sims in one house by finding outside interests.


Remington and Ivy out for a spin.
Just pulling into The Place, actually; that's the Danverses' down the hill, and Ransom Zoom behind them on the sidewalk. Being able to see multiple lots at once is great.

But with Melissa (who would be jealous) and Arcadia (who he despises) both around most of the time, Casa Townie offers little chance to really get comfortable with Ivy. So Remington makes a Big Decision.


Neighborhood One Magical Building Faeries dot com.
The Project's first dropout.


"Yeah, like you'll really miss me, y'ol' floozy."
Actually Arcadia is still pretty fond of Remington, much as he can't stand her.

The Townie Project
Part 22: A painful goodbye

Various former Townies gathered around to say so long.


Arcadia is easily distracted.
So is everyone else, in fact; the directions of the gazes here is pretty funny.


"Couldn't even wait until I was out of sight, could they?"
The flirting was autonomous, too; and narratively perfect.


"Wurra wurra wurra..."
Note Christy Stratton playing the punching game with Damion Cormier in the twilight by the driveway; entirely their own idea. Silly sims.


"I am so out of here."

The Townie Project
Part 23: A joyful hello

On the trip to the bus stop, the night turned symbolically into day.


"Yes, freedom!"
Actually he's saying "Yes, a telephone pole!", but that doesn't make quite as much narrative sense.

Remington called Ivy, and when she walked over he popped the question.


"Yes, I would love to shack up with you, darling."
Welcome Ivy, here's your plumb bob. (Ivy is a knowledge sim with like 6,000 or something Simoleons. Could be worse.)

The Magical Building Faeries quickly put together a cozy little house for them.


With space reserved for a driveway and garage off to the left.
I really like building houses, although I don't think I'm very good at it.

Will Remington and Ivy get along? Will he be able to control his Romance impulses? Will they produce children and grandchildren and interesting stories? Will the Townie Project enlist someone new to replace Remington? Who knows!

And although I've moved in yet another townie, the game still doesn't seem to be generating new ones; very odd! At least my creating a Downtown has resulted in a bunch of new Downtownies to play with; so we won't get bored...

I believe it regenerates Townies after you have "used up" most of the original ones - 23 of them I think.

But you can use Boolprop to make some new ones if you feel you need more. It still uses the templates so some of them look... gruummph. OFB adds more still, if you get that.

The Townie Project
Part 24: Teenagers

Rose and Dawn Raptor (the twin daughters of CAS Sim Sally Raptor and Townie fireman Mitch Lawson, now living with their dad in Casa Townie) had a happy if chaotic childhood.


"Ay fleego fla, fla, fla..."

But time changes all things (at least as long as aging is on).


Happy Birthdays!
Birthdays always seem to happen in pajamas. There were other people gathered around cheering, too; they just didn't make it into the shot.

The girls headed for the mirror as soon as they finished their cake.


Rose went for a demure look.
With husband-catching in mind; Rose is Family like her dad.


Dawn for something a bit more exotic.
With generalized lover-catching in mind; Dawn is Romance like her mom.

The Townie Project
Part 25: Teenagers in day clothes

The end results:


The romantic sk8er-gurl look.
I don't think I changed her hair or outfit at all, just the makeup. That's her father sleeping off all the excitement in the background there. I know just how he feels.


The future matriarch.
Kind of seventies, but hey.

As that last snapshot hints, the Casaites had a couple of nice (if small) basement rooms put in for the girls.


Rose gets settled in.
"Oh joy, the basement! Well, at least it's better than a bed in dad's room..."


Dawn gets some pointers from one of the resident Romance women.
Melissa tells a funny story about her first woohoo. If I were Mitch, I'd be sort of uncomfortable here.

The Townie Project
Part 26: Dawn goes downtown

Impatient to get to know some other teens and begin her life of romance, Dawn took the Casa car downtown.


"Gak, minivans are not cool."
Nice that teenage Sims know how to drive instinctually.


At the boutique.
I forget exactly why I had her go there.


"For sure I like what I see!"
Dawn's first nibble. Does this mean I've made yet another gynophile Romance Sim? Time will tell.

At the store, Dawn ran into her older sister Gina.


"Hey, stranger!"
This may have been their first meeting. I really have to get Gina (and Eleanor) to know Rose and Dawn better.

And various neighbors.


Hanging out
Let's see; clockwise from 11 o'clock, thta's Dawn Raptor, Jan and Jen Danvers (another pair of twins), that elegant young lady that was admiring Dawn, and the mail boy.

She had a good time, but nothing satisfyingly Romantic came of it. This love game, she thought, is harder than it looks.

The Townie Project
Part 27: Rose hooks a man

Back at the Casa, Rose was having more success in the love department than her sister.


Best friends
That's Aaron Almassizadeh, Taylor and Candice's oldest. I forget where they met; maybe he just walked by.


And more than friends.
Do they know that his father and her big sister were lovers back in college? Will this freak them out?

Meanwhile, Dawn went out again, with maybe a bit more success.


Hubba hubba!
That's Nicole Thompson, long-suffering part-time cashier at The Place. She and Dawn talked for hours that evening.

The Townie Project
Part 28: The progress of love


Rose loves Aaron.
And, slightly earlier, Aaron loves Rose. Awww!


Rose celebrates.
"I'm in love with a wonderful guy!"

Her sister was more interested in filling up pages in her little black book, and so didn't make all that much progress with any particular person.


"So, handsome stranger, how are your grades?"
I'm not sure who this is. Some guy.

Although Nicole was around alot.


Air kiss!
Dawn's aspiration was getting sort of low by this time, poor thing. Sweet simteen, and never been kissed.