The Coopers 2.3

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Welcome back! It’s time for another update on the exciting lives of the Coopers. Just as a lil' reminder, if you have a Tumblr you can also follow this legacy at jayeless-sims, but I tend to feel like the updates are more cohesive here. Either way, if you want to read the whole update now, click on through!

Last time: So many monsters under the bed. So many. Plus, another set of twins were born – Zoe and Rachel – and Melvin continued to prefer Christina to Claire.

Stacey rolled a want to go jogging… but then instead of coming home, she decided to play games on her mobile phone while standing next to the canal. Good move.

smh

Sorry Rachel!

When everyone else was at school or work, Stacey went to Magnolia Blossom Park to try to make MOAR FRIENDS. Here she is regaling Crazy Stacey with a frog story. We learnt that a second trait of Crazy Stacey is “Good”… so that’s encouraging I guess.

She then introduced herself to this guy… but he ran away before she could make him her friend! So she’s still only on 11/12 needed for level 3 of her Friend of the World aspiration.

Look Zoe, I don’t think this is as bad as whatever Rachel had happen.

lol, at least she’s following that old-fashioned advice to “write what you know”!

This interaction was “Share Dreams”.

At 12:23 in the morning?! No thanks, Cecelia.

Rachel becomes the first person to actually play this expensive-ass piano that Melvin wanted to buy.

Woohoo! If she can achieve the next level she’ll actually achieve her childhood aspiration!

So, I hadn’t actually realised that Sims could walk around their own neighbourhood or that this neighbourhood had a community garden. Unfortunately, Stacey found the whole thing boring and there wasn’t even anyone around to talk to :(

I am amused by his hairdo. OK, let’s do this.

So we invited him over. UNFORTUNATELY his mood was “flirty”, and even though Stacey told enough jokes to fill their relationship bar to like three-quarters, he still refused to actually be her friend. smh

Playin’ on the monkey bars~

Melvin can’t say no to a flat-screen TV.

Seeing as Melvin LOVES THE OUTDOORS, I sent him out for a jog. His “fun” bar didn’t fill up at all.

OIC.

ok, this shit is really annoying me. At around 9pm each night recently, Stacey starts to get tired, but instead of just GOING TO BED she brews coffee. And she never just brews ONE cup of coffee either, but 3+, even though no one else is going to drink any because Melvin already went to bed. Then it doesn’t even give her any more energy! Just go to bed Stace!!

LOOK RACHEL, you’re the only fusspot whiny enough to have any issue with these bunk beds. Kindly get over it.

Hmm, I wonder. Melvin to save the day!

ok Rachel, to be fair, this was cute.

wtf Stacey?! Do you have an “old married man with ugly hair” fetish???

omg, Isaias Gunn is OLD!

In fact, suddenly everyone in this town is old! Like, literally every single walkby is grey-haired and old. Why. I get that unplayed Sims in this game age without my intervention but… why is everyone old?

Woohoo, just one more level to go! For that, Stacey will need eight more friends (for a total of twenty) and one BFF.

In pursuit of that BFF, Stacey dropped in on the BFF household just across the street. Unfortunately, Liberty Lee wasn’t home :(

They have a really nice place though, holy shit. I wish I had beer taps in my kitchen.

Anyway, Summer Holiday apparently didn’t mind Stacey barging into her bedroom (?!) and is now friend #13.

We did meet Liberty Lee’s son, though! His name is Kason. He was more interested in this tablet than in Stacey though.

I don’t know why she randomly went to work wearing this instead of her regular outfit. (Actually, I worked it out – it must be a work outfit. Who knew comedians had uniform?) It does look like she’s put on a bit of weight, though…

Melvin occasionally spends some time with his youngest daughters.

Homework homework~

Somehow I don’t think he’s going to progress much further with this aspiration, if the next step is that this house doubles in value…

After two sessions of work he got about 450 Simoleons for this. Better than nothing, I guess. And he’s got to keep training his Programming skill for work somehow :/

When I next opened my save file, I discovered that SOMEONE DIED AT THE NIGHTCLUB.

And poor little Kason Lee is a social butterfly with the Loner trait. This kid’s got a hard life ahead of him, I can tell.

Melvin: EGADS, NO! Not my daughter whose nappy I changed as a baby!!

Basically I didn’t see why this harmless event necessitated three-hour Embarrassed moodlets. For Rachel, sure, but for Melvin, really??

How can the same thing happen to Rachel twice in three days? Anyway, this time she let the other kid get in trouble all by himself.

Uhhhh. Claire, are you sure that’s what your homework is about?

I think this house is developing some routing issues :( For some reason Melvin grabbed this programming textbook from the bookshelf downstairs, then walked aaaaaaaall the way up to his daughters’ bedroom and climbed onto a top bunk to read it.

omfg Zoe. y u do dis

It’s Saturday! Melvin celebrates by going fishing (he even catches a fish this time) and Stacey befriends Brock Riley.

GOLLY GOSH! A whole §5?! Don’t spend it all at once!

Melvin sure can’t be a jealous fellow, for you two to be having this suggestive-looking conversation right next to him…

ya Melvin basically fished all day. And as you can see, the girls gravitated to the monkey bars, because I was making Claire reach level 10 in Motor skill before her birthday tomorrow whether she liked it or not.

Claire’s deepest, darkest secret apparently involves treasure.

The younger twins have just become BFFs, and now Zoe’s reached a new milestone, yay!

stop playing with it then

Ooh, a visitor! It’s Liberty Lee!

Little did I know that this would only be the beginning.

Stacey catches her friend Liberty up on all the latest news… about frogs.

Woohoo! Stacey’s achieved the part of her aspiration that requires her to have a BFF!

The Coopers have literally never met Cassandra Goth before, but she knocks on our front door too. ok.

maybe that explains it.

NOT MASTER ENOUGH, CLAIRE! Two more Motor skill points for you!

This is Izabella Britton. No one in this household knows her either.

It’s not really obvious here, but Stacey’s energy bar is firmly in the red and she still won’t pull herself away from the group, lol.

Claire: Uhm, Mum? D’you think all these strangers are here to scope out a robbery?

At least that’s a familiar face! Welcome in, Tabitha!

lol

Holy shit Christina, that’s a lot of dishes.

Shortly after most of the guests left and Stacey was finally able to collapse into bed, she aged up into an Adult! Funnily enough this means her energy is now at 100% for no apparent reason.

This is either another routing issue or Rachel being a weirdo loner.

I said “most of the guests” because Tabitha didn’t go home. She and Stacey have a grand old time catching up.

Yeehah!!!

One morning, the Coopers awake to find a new house next door. Curious.

Stacey: Geez, this comedy routine I’m writing is just trash! Trash, I say!

Gueeeeeeess what!! It’s Claire and Christina’s birthday, which means it’s time to throw a party at the park!

(By the way, I love that this game lets you throw joint birthday parties.)

Excuse me game. Are you trying to imply that this event will not be a success when it’s only just begun?!

Stop scaring the children, Stacey.

Melvin makes a group meal (veggie burgers), just like our success criteria tells us to do.

Claire is just THAT good.

What do u mean that u can’t just buy cakes from buy mode in this game?!

Luckily, there’s nothing stopping us from buying ALL OF THIS SHIT so we can bake that cake.

Claire is the first twin to enter into adolescence.

Teenage Claire! Given the success she had with her childhood aspiration, I gave her the Bodybuilder one for adulthood, along with the Active trait.

Christina gets horns for her birthday.

Here she is as a teen! She got the Nerd Brain aspiration and the Geek trait.

Harsh, man. Real harsh.

LOL! Pushing around kiddos is fun!

As for the other kiddos, I’m not sure they actually realised there even was a birthday. Or two birthdays.

Wouldja look at that! No dismal failures here, no sirree!

Gotta get fit like immediately!

Only Melvin is so much of a dweeb as to actually read a programming textbook at the park on his daughters’ birthday…

Then my game crashed and we got reset to pre-birthday times. Sad.

This time we held the party at home and got different success criteria and they were hard. So we only got a bronze medal this time. lol spoilers

So Claire aged up (again)…

Claire: *tells a story about pissing one’s pants*
Melvin: *SCANDAL, OUTRAGE*
Liberty Lee: oooooh dear…

Aaaaand it’s the teenage Christina. Again.

I kept their Aspirations and Traits the same obviously.

Autonomous homework! What an exciting life Christina leads!

And that’s all for now! Until next time, guys.