The Antikvas 2.2

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I do actually have a few updates backlogged and ready for posting... I just missed last week despite this. (Remembering that for VDSL purposes, I'm supposed to be updating once a week.) Oh well... new update now :D

Warnings: graphical glitches, sim!child neglect, poverty and unpretty décor, copious amounts of WooHoo

It's the start of a new Sim-week, and therefore the start of a new Sim-challenge. As I rolled 2, 6 (as seen above), my new challenge is:

We Went to See the Wizard: your house and land has been obliterated by a tornado, and the insurance company are gypping you on your claim. Delete/bulldoze everything on your lot (you may keep sim-painted paintings, and aspiration/career rewards in a sims inventory before doing this) and flatten it to remove any and all landscaping. Its time to build a whole new house, afresh with the money remaining.

Bye bye, house :(



~blank~



I took advantage of the challenge to expand the house, but this only made my budget stretch even less far than it would have otherwise.



I like to call this décor "utilitarian".



There are so few fun objects in here (i.e. exactly zero) that Marianne resorts to reading the newspaper outside. Only my graphics card decided that the newspaper is also invisible, so really, Marianne is PRETENDING to read the newspaper.

But at least she's not forcing burnt grilled cheese down her throat any more.



Marianne: Oh, hey Renzo.



Marianne: Yeah, you'll never believe this, but a freak tornado blew away my house and I had to build a new one. And the new house is really shitty, and I have exactly 13 simoleons left to my name. FML



MORE BABIES!



This, I believe, is Astrid.



Astrid promptly gets dumped on the floor, because there is another...



Sigrid! Who, uh, does actually have a face. Honest. Marianne didn't mistake it for a grilled cheese sandwich, no sirree.



Eirik you little shit get out of the toilet



CUTE!! Unfortunately, no one was there to witness it :\



Ahahahahah wish you hadn't played with the toilet now, don't you >:D



Astrid's birthday is today, too.

And by the way, just as a warning, they are too poor to own any lights. So, it is not my fault that all these nighttime pictures will be dark.



Astrid!



All right, now this might take some explanation. So Marianne is now the poverty-stricken mother of three children and a harsh winter is coming on, you may be thinking, so why is she faffing about with men? Now the thing is, Marianne's entry-level job in crime pays like shit. Literally less than 200 simoleons per day, not that she ever goes because (a) she cannot afford a nanny on that kind of wage, and (b) she has a few vacation days stored up from her pregnancies. Anyway, because she never goes to work her prospects for promotion are pretty much nil. SO, I decided to take a leaf out of the book of challenge (6,6) and use dates as a way of raising some extra cash. 55 simoleons per dream date, plus extra gifts IF I AM LUCKY, is actually quite a big deal when I'm otherwise trying to get these guys to survive on 200 simoleons a day MOST days of the week. -_-;

Of course I could just ask one of her townie lovers to move in and give us monies, but where would the challenge be in that :P



Although yeah, Marianne does have to work pretty hard for her $55 per date :(







AND THE WHININESS OF THESE THREE WAS NOT HELPING



All three children were wailing throughout this -_-;

(In my first draft of this update, the word "wailing" read "whaling". Now that would have been interesting. But no, none of these children are Japanese sailors in the Southern Ocean, so that wasn't happening. If it had, at least they'd have been out of the house and NOT WHINING :P)



SEE MARIANNE IS A GOOD MOTHER. She takes a break from dating to feed the baby! Ignore the stink cloud.



... well at least now he'll be quiet



omgggg Trebuchet you JUST DID. Give poor Marianne a break :(



Welllll, at least we got our $55



You are shitting me. So you can't reach the fridge to get Astrid a bottle because YOU PUT SIGRID THERE? And now Sigrid is ASLEEP so she's IMMOVABLE?? *moveobjects on*



Eirik: Teddy, it's YOUR fault the tornado hit our house and now we're poor and I don't get to sleep in a bed because mummy needs it to entertain men! ALL YOUR FAULT!!! D:<



It is actually Sigrid's birthday too, I just had nowhere to put the second cake earlier...



Sigrid looks permanently surprised.



Astrid and Sigrid immediately had a huggle-fest, once they were both the same age. Cuteness!



This is Renzo. I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of him PRIOR to this, but at least my exposition saves the day.



Marianne and Renzo take some time out from romancing to much on delicious, non-burnt, grilled cheese.



I had to buy this couch expressly for the purpose of WooHoo because Eirik had already claimed the bed. $150 gone, but I intend to sell the couch after >:P



Renzo: That was great, baby... let's go again ;)

Fuck you guys have no conception of how EXHAUSTED Marianne is. Her energy bar was seriously in the red but she needs the money and the money demands DREAM DATES :(

(picture overwritten by Tinypic)

Are you happy now, Renzo??



Yeah well if you're THAT excited give us a fkn karaoke machine or something!



Who knew that having sex on a couch reduced its resale value :(



OMFG is THAT why I'm always getting popups about Astrid being starving?? YOU LITTLE BITCH, SIGRID!

(BTW I was getting a bit sick of these über-glitchy pictures so I drew Sigrid a body :})



Hey hey hey, wait Marianne! Just because Sigrid is a little bitch does not mean you should starve her to death :/



See ~good parenting~. Eirik is being taught how to do homework!



Ermmmm and I think we can ignore the sobbing, stinky child. I said ~good parenting~!



See, she is totally content with life



By the way, when I said a harsh winter was coming on, I meant it. This blizzard has lasted 12 hours so far. -_-;



Anyway, Marianne's not one to let a little blizzard interfere with saving her family from abject poverty (moving them up into the only moderately poverty-stricken socio-economic bracket).



Although, they do quickly move to somewhere warmer than the great outdoors :P



And the youngins join them because they clearly think whinging about being stinky is more important than buying a bath in which to wash them, or something.



Wooooot another successful mission to earn $55. And LOL at the reputation thingy. Remember what she got this reputation for, game! :|



Borris is actually rather affectionate to his offspring, only he has terrible timing because SIGRID IS REALLY, TRULY STARVING YOU FOOL



Astrid grew up, and not very well it must be said



Cute, but she has to keep that not-so-cute hair for now because we can't afford a mirror and without a mirror I can't change it



Sigrid grew up too! With rebel hair and cowboy boots!



She is also really cute :D



Yep, there's our $55 reward from Borris ^_^ (I tell you, this is no way for a Sim to get rich!)



SIGRID SMASH!!
Yeah, she's pissed that she grew up in negative aspiration. Oh well~~~



Oh what a good idea, Eirik, let's play tag on the road -__-;



Sigrid: EXCUSE ME I CAN'T CHASE HIM THERE'S A BUS IN MY WAY



With the kids at school, Marianne invites Borris around for another date!







Well, that's another $55 in the pot, I'd say.



Eirik: O___O
Me: What's up, Eirik?
Eirik: My report card... it... shocks me.
Me: What, just because you got an A+? Well I guess that means you won't want to cheer about it, then...



Astrid decides to make friends with some kid at school - Janine Rose!



For some reason Janine is a big meanie to Sigrid, though :\

The end!
... for now ;)


Credits for sims:
simpurity for Marianne
stakeit_uk for Borris Darwin
katu_sims for Trebuchet Dork
simmericangirl for Renzo Payton

Comments

[shaz-a-fraz.livejournal.com]

This has to be the most miserable sims family I've ever seen, haha. But it's really amusing for some reason. Poor Marianne, having to sell her body. I really felt it for her and the kids. =| LOL JK I was laughing through the whole thing. :D

[jayeless_archive]

Hahaha, I'm glad you were entertained! :D And Marianne on dates is so annoying, because she rolls "Play with X" and "Talk to X" wants at the start, but once those are gone doesn't roll any more date-wants and only wants grilled cheese :| It makes it harder to get up to the "Dream Date" level.

[jessalie_aranya]

OUCH. Bad challenge is bad. I rolled the lose all money to internet scam, but at least everyone had high paying jobs. *huggles teh kidlets*

[jayeless_archive]

Lose all money to internet would have pissed me off so much. It'd be a bit hard to explain too, since they're not exactly rich enough to own a computer :P But yeah, they usually had about $100 on hand at this point while saving up for each little extra addition (like a couch or another bed), and losing that would have set me back two dates' worth of money :'(

Things were tight.