The Coopers 4.2

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Hello again! I know it’s been a little longer between updates this time (not that much longer, just a little) – with school back in session I have less time to play. Hopefully I will be able to get 4.3 out on schedule, but I haven’t finished playing it yet, so we’ll see!

Last time: Britta and Morgan’s firstborn, Arnold, became an Inquisitive toddler and started to learn All The Things. tbh the update revolved around him mostly. Then Morgan gave birth to another boy, Josh!

I tried putting Arnold to bed, but he was really determined to meet his new brother instead. From the floor.

Julian: omg… too many drinks :(

You’re the one wasting household funds making this shit; I got no sympathy.

I’d’ve thought it was more, but I’ll take it, lol. I guess it’s not counting all the time lost when my game crashed.

Yup, Stacey is definitely a less destructive ghost in this house with all the toddler toys.

Josh became a toddler! He got the Angelic trait.

He’s cute. I guess all toddlers are cute.

Happy lil’ family ♥

And part two.

Gotta build up that Movement skill quickly so Josh can climb stairs in an emergency.

Britta is probably the angriest person in the house about any minor accidents (Claire being a close second). Luckily it’s like water off Josh’s back.

Exciting!

Being a Clumsy Sim, Britta is THE BEST at doing dishes.

Britta: Here we are, Arnie—it’s your birthday!
Arnold: I no wanna be ooooooold DX

Arnold: Oh, that wasn’t so bad.
Britta: Yeah whatever. I’ve got a better kid to look after now, BYE

So here's the child Arnold. He rolled the Rambunctious Scamp aspiration and the trait Loves the Outdoors (just like his great-grandpa Melvin!).

The trait is a lie, though. Really he loves dollhouses.

I had to force him to do this. He kept jumping off and running inside after like, ten seconds.

wtf game.

(Josh got to about 240% of the way to the next skill point when he got reset to 99%. Gahhhh)

y u gotta do this to me, Arnold

Britta: Arnold, you can’t just make messes like that, it’s very rude.
Arnold: Ohhhhh. Sorry mum, I didn’t know.

Britta: clean it right away too please
Arnold: Aye aye, cap’n!

Britta: This must be what they call… parenting!

tbh Britta I think Arnold was being sarcastic but ok

He’s gonna get old! What a relief then that, just in time…

…he achieved his aspiration!

Julian: Ahh, the sweet scent of success.

Yeah, or the kind of gross smell of a poorly-ventilated underground bathroom. Either way Jules, WELL DONE!

His new aspiration is Nerd Brain.

Yeah, too bad he should already be at level 3 by now, but whatever… *not bitter*

The nursery upstairs was so packed that there was no room for Arnold to have a bed… so here’s a new kids’ room, underground!

Morgan achieves the only promotion of her entire athletic career… just in time to quit and get a new career!

Since Morgan is such a do-gooder and well-respected insider, she joins the field of politics. Her chosen organisation is World United, because… uh, because I had to choose one of them, and that was the one.

After this I played like, the same 12-hour period six times in a row and still haven’t got it to stick yet. smh

In each and every one of these six attempts to play the game, Joshy had a nightmare.

JULIAN GOT THIS INVITATION ON ALL SIX PLAY-THROUGHS TOO

In five of the six play-throughs, Josh ran to Britta’s room and woke her up by crying. (On the first play-through, Julian stopped him from doing that, but on every other play-through he was too far away to reach him in time…)

GUESS WHO’S BACK
BACK AGAIN
MONSTER’S BACK
TELL A FRIEND

(…on two of the six play-throughs, anyway.)

Britta, the fourth fucking time she was woken up by Josh: Dear God, why hast thou forsaken me??

Josh didn’t even wait for Britta to get out of bed before he waddled off to try to wake up Claire.

Josh: But mama I HAD to wake you up cos I had BAD DREAM!! OF LADYBUG!!!

Britta: You wake me up again, I’m telling the cops we’ve got a dangerous criminal in here and shipping you off to jail. Understand?!

Of course, then my game crashed so he did wake her up again. And again.

?!?

Somewhere approaching dawn on this hellish twilight zone of an evening, I discovered an abandoned toddler standing outside the Coopers’ house alone.

WHY?? WHY ARE YOU HERE? A portent of emerging doom?

Before a schoolday that never comes, Arnold makes a big mess outside because he’s a lil’ shit.

My game crashed again so we get returned to the night before.

THE TODDLER IS STILL HERE.

I fucking hate everything.

I refused to wake up any of the adults to deal with this NONSENSE so Arnold had to sleep on the couch. There are no monsters under the couch.

Arnold asked Claire for some life advice.

idk why Claire only has one possible response but anyways

Luckily for anyone Arnold had been going to emotionally scar but very politely, my game crashed again and this didn’t happen. LOL

At this point, I got fed up. The Coopers moved into their own house in a parallel universe (brand-new save). As an added bonus for Claire, when I used the money cheat to give the Coopers the §143,900 in household funds they’d had in the old save, Claire achieved her second aspiration!

Apparently that made her this… no offence to Claire but I beg to differ.

The actual gravestones came across in the move, but Stacey and Melvin’s souls appear to have moved on to the netherworld. RIP you two

The first we knew of any welcome wagon was this guy doing sit-ups on the front verandah.

Mrs Bjergsen over here didn’t even wait for an invitation and just waltzed right in through the back door

I’d say at least we can know for sure that she’s not a vampire, except that I disabled the Vampires GP for this new save (along with Get To Work, Dine Out and the Spooky Party SP) so we already knew for sure that she wasn’t a vampire…

Unfortunately MY GAME KEPT ON CRASHING so I started to wonder to myself, “Hmmm… what if it’s the house?” I moved them to this lot elsewhere in Windenburg, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW. The crashing stopped. I guess technically I could try moving them to a one-storey house in the old save, but I really wanted those vampires to stay gone, so I kept going with this one.

It’s basically another incarnation of my “Sprita house”. Unlike the version in Willow Creek, this one has four bedrooms, and a bit more land around it. The little fenced area at the front is designed to be a little graveyard, except obviously we have no ghosts now so it will have to lie in wait.

Look who’s in our welcome wagon today – it’s Siobhan Fyres!

Morgan: Whoaaaa, you mean you have a sister ALSO named Morgan Fyres? And she looks like me, just a little younger? What a coincidink! Who’d have thought?!

Josh: if EA no give me dog, I will be dog! DOG DESTROY BOOKCASE!

y u gotta act this way, Joshy?!

why is there no “stop destroying the bookcase you little bugger” option?

Britta: If I teach you how to talk, will you express your needs verbally and not destroy the bookcase?
Josh: Um… :(

omg!

Morgan drops in to visit her alternate-universe parents, the Fyres! mostly because she had a work from home task to discuss neighbourhood changes with two neighbours

It seems a residual memory crept into Morgan’s mind, for she walked right around their house to knock on the back door.

Moira and Dominic appeared moderately alarmed by this young woman who looked just like their teenage daughter.

Morgan was at least able to discuss some neighbourhood changes though, and head home.

Arnold had a blast after he got home from school.

I almost forgot about this due to the sheer number of times my game crashed (and due to the weeks that had passed) since I saw the warning. Julian’s getting old!!

And it’s Britta’s birthday too! She’s entering middle age!

Julian sang a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday”.

She’s still cute.

WHY DOES HE HAVE TO DO THIS ALL THE GODDAMN TIME, OMG

Morgan makes him clean that shit right up. Don’t look so sad Morgs, you’re teaching him ~responsibility~!

Britta hasn’t lost any of her silliness in her middle age. But wait – let’s zoom in on that toddler back there…

HE DOES THIS EVERY TIME HE EATS. Sometimes he’s so sad that he outright refuses to eat, even though the cause of his sadness is that he hasn’t eaten! Whyyyyyyyy

Arnold got a school project, so Grandma Claire does the right thing and helps him get through it.

Volcano complete!

I tried instructing Josh to eat this half-a-sandwich he didn’t want to finish the other day. He left it here.

Then walked into the living room.

THEN PRODUCED ANOTHER SANDWICH OUT OF THIN AIR AND ATE THAT.

???

idk why they called Arnold’s grandpa about this instead of his parents, but anyway.

And on that abrupt note, we end! I’ve only played like, half the next update at this time so hopefully I can finish it up sooner rather than later. Thanks for reading!