TS3→All-the-Things 13: Not Really Romantic

This completionist challenge is like a mix between the Ultimate Sim Challenge and a Lepacy. I will be completing all of the lifetime wishes, skills, collections, etc with one sim while adding expansions in the order they originally released.

Chapter 1

As mentioned in the last chapter, I went back to Starlight Shores to play with the family until their birthdays. The reasons I didn’t just bring Rayven there are confusing so I won’t bore you.

Little Brent needed to learn to walk.

And talk.

And play instruments?

He was kinda the center of attention.

Which is probably why Irma was acting up.

I have no idea why she decided to go all the way upstairs to stand in the corner but her sadly looking through the glass broke my heart and made me laugh at the same time.

Don’t worry, she did still get some attention.

I don’t think she held it against Brent that he got so much more attention.

Plus, it’s not like the dads were always with him.

And Judd had the whole pregnancy thing to deal with.

How about a little stroll?

And some spring rider fun.

One last time before your birthday.

Actually, it was Irma’s turn first.

Then, Judd’s water broke when he picked up Brent for his turn.

I really don’t think that’s a good idea in your condition.

Umm… so let’s continue?

And there he is all childified.

Once again, Judd rushed out of the hospital leaving Brannon in the dust. Anyway, this time it’s a non-blue girl. She rolled the active and artistic traits which I thought was a perfect blend of her fathers’.

Time to move! This is when I realized I’d accidentally deleted the file for Irma’s prom pic.

And then they were off to Lucky Palms. As mentioned in the previous chapter, I spent about a week in real-time setting up the neighborhood. Which, as you can imagine, means there are a lot of extra or renovated lots. I actually made a page with all of the lots for anyone who sees one they think is cool.

Lucky Palms Lot Credits

We just got the baby swing.

And I had to add a mod stopping them from autonomously speeding it up. I also got one that doesn’t increase all their needs while in it because it’s weird and cheaty.

Also, it says Belinda above but I changed her name to Bindy. That’s some view from the widow, eh?

While Brannon was with Bindy, the others went to the highway diner.

Home sweet home? I hadn’t done any decorating of the houses yet.

First, I had to go back to Hidden Springs and bring Rayven along as well.

As per usual, new town means new traits.

And a new house… which I hadn’t finished decorating yet.

I decided to split up the households because the inventory thing was really annoying. I’d put all of her stuff in chests but missed a few gnomes which Judd tried to pass to her.

Bribe? WTF? They have full friendship!

I had to temporarily add him to the household so I could pull them from his inventory, sheesh!

She showed off her newly gained guitar skills. Judd didn’t seem impressed.

Back in the still undecorated living room, Dusty gets a new lease on life thanks to the potion that was at the house in Starlight Shores. I realized later that I could have let him age to elder and it would have aged him back down so it wasn’t as urgent as I’d thought.

Rayven’s first stop was to check out the new consignment shop… and its’ owner.

*cough* And then I remembered to give her that makeover… and give her back the weight I took off trying to get through the tunnel adventure. No idea why his clothing changed after I left CAS.

Yay?

She had to woohoo in 5 different places with 5 different sims.

But at least her first time was memorable. I feel like she was kinda stumbling through it all not really sure how romance and all that worked or how to choose a partner.

At first, I just picked sims that were single and non-committal.

I also gave her all of the romance bonus traits so with her charisma bonuses she was able to romance most of them really fast.

They woohoo’ed in the stadium but it didn’t show anything, unfortunately. The place they were just talking is the little bar to the right.

Not the best timing screenshot-wise.

Third woohoo was at the ultimate show venue which is also her workplace. She was working in the music career now if you were wondering. I put that Ford skydiving thing on the lot myself.

With all of those bonus traits, she has high attraction with almost everyone she meets, which is why I don’t like them. But, they were helpful here.

Hospital woohoo? Sure, whatever.

Lucky number 5 at the movie theatre.

Poor Brent was so confused. Umm… yea, one of her future loves will have to die thanks for reminding me. But, I think I’m going to do that in Sunlit Tides since she’ll be all evil there.

So, now that she was a Master Romancer she needed to be a Heartbreaker. I’d forgotten to do the relationship thing with the first 5 and did go back and do that with some of them. Then I romanced a few service sims.

Probably not the best idea to try to mooch off of him now. Anyway, I really didn’t take any pics of the 10 sims for the Heartbreaker lifetime wish. I thought I’d enjoy it more but she had to break up with each of them in order to pursue the next and it kinda sucked.

She finished it while on vacation in Barnacle Bay because I had such a hard time balancing her many romances with the rest of the family. I’ll have to go back in the next chapter and show you what they were all up to in the meantime.

While there, she also maxed her guitar skill and completed all of the skill challenges. With max guitar skill she completed both the Golden Tongue, Golden Fingers and Master of the Arts lifetime wishes.

She’s now working on the Rockstar lifetime wish and I’m very happy to leave the romance wishes behind me. I don’t think that kid appreciates her music.

A couple more shots from Barnacle Bay since they’d make no sense in the next chapter. While there I paused travel so she had to pay bills which she could barely afford. I have a mod for higher bills so they’re like $20,000.

I’d messed around compressing store files and the game didn’t recognize all of the decor there which I didn’t feel like fixing. Seriously, why fishes?

She did bring the pets along with her. Did you know they can share this autofeeder?

So cute.

A few quick screenshots that didn’t fit into the chapter. No idea what was wrong with this guy, he went back to normal after he started walking. I don’t have a height mod at the moment but now I want one!