Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 2: Toyonaga

At the end of last season, a lullaby was heard.  This season began by letting me know exactly who heard that lullaby.

Christy took care of beginning Marcus’ toddler training.

Delphinia headed down to Dance Fever.  She decided that she needed something to draw people in, so placed a poker table as well as a small bathroom and was able to up the price to $13.

Her father, wanting her business to be a success, came in and settled down at the poker table.

And he stayed.

And stayed.  While waiting for customers, Delphinia dug for treasures.  She found three maps, but decided to keep them instead of selling them.

Still low on money, she couldn’t afford to add a sunlamp to the building, and was far too stubborn to just go home and come back later.

She thought she could handle the lack of sunlight, dawn was only minutes away.

Luckily she collapsed outside, and the sun revived her.

After she revived, she actually had some patrons that wanted to actually dance.

Later that night, it was a night for green skinned people.

She also, finally got her gold sales badge and closed Dance Fever down.

When she reopened it, she charged $99 an hour.

And, paying that amount, she actually had people that came to learn to dance.

Finally, after many days and nights away, Dance Fever reached level 5 and Delphinia headed home with enough money to completely decorate the house and pay the taxes.  It was decided that for now, the nursery could handle both Marcus and the new baby.

Delphinia also had time to talk to Marcus and become his best friend.

Christy had learned how to make toys before ever meeting Delphinia and used that ability for Marcus.

He was very thankful for that ability.

Delphinia started looking for a job in the Dance career.  She finally found one after three days of looking, although it would not start until spring was over.

Delphinia invited her family over on Sunday (yes, Raebeth, the idea came from you)

Even though there was still snow on the ground, the plantsims enjoyed the water walker.

Marcus was so overcome by the many people around that he didn’t manage to get back to his blanket before falling asleep.

Delphinia was very surprised when she started throwing up.  She obviously hadn’t been listening very hard the last time she and her wife woohoo’d because she didn’t remember hearing the lullaby, but she hadn’t eaten anything *to* throw up.

When Christy went into labor, she thought it was an artistic moment, although Christy probably did not agree.

The little black haired brown eyed, brown skinned girl was handed over to Delphinia.

So her twin brother could be delivered.  Delphinia wanted the girl to be named something to do with flowers, just like the rest of her family.  Christy had recently been researching her family and found that their name came from Japan, and I had just been reading Naruto fanfic.  Therefore, the little girl is Sakura (Cherry Blossom) and the boy is Sasuke (Help Blossom?  That’s what Behind the name says).

With Christy still reeling from the birth, Delphinia put Sakura down.

So she herself could pop.

The house, which had seemed so big, was suddenly much smaller, as they had to place the cribs in the dining room and the change table in the living room, just so they’d have enough room.

Marcus thought he could help by heading outside and playing on his Twirl, Spin and Wobble.

He helped infinitely more by growing up.

They managed to build and decorate an upstairs, although Marcus’ bed is pretty much the only thing up there at the moment.  He agreed to leave his toys in the nursery so that his brother and sister can use them.

Marcus headed off to school in the morning.  He hoped to make a new friend at school, but wasn’t too worried about it.  He knew that the twins would be growing up into toddlers, who would be able to play with him after he got home that night.

Exhausted after a long day at school (and having gotten up very early because he was so excited) Marcus took a nap when he got home, and almost missed the twins birthday.  Luckily his moms woke him up so he’d be sure not to miss it.

Sakura popped into childhood just like she was supposed to.

Sasuke refused because he had  a dirty diaper, and had to be changed before he agreed to age up.

(I apologize for the awful twin pictures, I have *no* full on faces from them).

While he was up, Christy took on teaching Marcus to study.

Both parents worked on the toddlers skills.

Delphinia had just become best friends with Sakura, when she felt a pain.

Sakura wanted to know what was going on, and Sasuke woke up from the cries as Delphinia went into labor.

And yet another little girl was born.  This one they named Hana which was Japanese for flower (and is yet another name from Naruto).

That’s the end of this season!  Back to the Hawkings in summer (and I can’t wait, because the baby does not have the same parent as either of the others, so I want to see it!)

Stats:

Sims: 29 (+3)

Households: 6

Community Lots: 5

SM: 3

Population: 87

Dance Fever: level 5

Jobs: Dance – Delphinia

Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 2: Beauregarde

The season started with a party and some very interesting canoodling.  I obviously need to check the jealousy section of ACR.  I think I have it set to engagement, and since Talia and Michelle aren’t engaged, Michelle didn’t seem to mind this.

Of course, at least the no jealousy meant that there was no distraction to the actual birthday they were there to celebrate.

And Donnatella turned out cute.

Abe managed to talk to Daisy about a restaurant.  At the moment, the Deppiesses were the only family that had a chance to run one successfully.  They’d already proved they could run stores, and didn’t that annoy the man, but they had enough adults to run it… if they had one that could cook well enough.

The party ended without any drama.

For some reason Demi was the one everyone wanted.  She wasted no time telling this man that she wasn’t interested in kissing him.

Nor this one.

Thankfully he took well to the info that she was married and didn’t try again.

Donnatella grew surrounded by snapdragons.  She easily learned her skills.

Played with her bunny head.

And made friends.

With Donna growing so well, Demi was able to come to the store to help with restocking and sales.  They were able to expand the grocery with more freezer and produce cases.

At one point it got so busy they both had to work the cash registers just to keep up with demand.

But they always had each other to keep their aspirations up.

Back at home Demi decided to do something different and try to recreate a famous painting she had studied in college.

And the two of them decided it was time to expand their family.

It wasn’t long until Demi was rushing to the bathroom every time she turned around.

And one last trip to the loo before she started showing and her morning sickness was over.

Donna was continuing to be cute until it was time for her to grow up.

There was no birthday party this time, as Donna jumped into childhood.

And a quick makeover ends our season.

Next up: Toyonaga

Stats:

Sims: 26

Households: 6

Community Lots: 5

SM: 3

Population: 78

Abe’s Grocery: level 7

Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 2: DaVinci

I am Talia DaVinci!  Famous artiste!

This is Michelle Tse, the world famous artiste’s favorite muse and source of inspiration.

Perhaps… too much inspiration has been happening?

Things could have become very intriguing with both of us pregnant at the same time.

However, I did not even have time to get a picture with both of us and our bumps, much less be able to paint it.

A newboo, a beautiful little boy with my skin and my hair and Michelle’s beautiful eyes.  Perhaps he can be a different sort of inspiration?  I named him Leonardo of course.

Michelle was always willing to be my inspiration, no matter what state our bodies were in.

But an unpottytrained baby was no inspiration to either of us!

Michelle was far too pregnant to go to work, but do you think that stopped her?  Of course not.  When they wouldn’t send the car pool she walked to work, still dressed in her pajamas.

At least they drove her back, and she brought a friend home from work with her.

He was just in time, I had invited all of the families on our street that I knew.  I hadn’t realized I didn’t know the Toyonagas from across the street, I would have to fix that.

Everyone gathered around to witness Leonardo’s first birthday.  I was not at all surprised that Dr. Carl did not use a noisemaker.  I was far more surprised that he was there at all.

Leonardo was such a darling.

Most of the females joined me to hang out.  I was surprised to find that I didn’t even look twice at Demi, and tried to ignore Iris.  I was a … committed woman I guess.  This is also when I found out LaShawn had moved out of the Hawking place with her two children.  I hadn’t invited her because I thought when I invited the Hawking household she would come.  There was no divorce, because she and Dr. Carl had never married.  I wondered what Michelle thought of that.

Dr. Hawking and Abe were more than happy to settle down with little Leo and talk about space crafts while us girls had our time together.

After everyone left, I went to get Leo a bottle, only to have him grab one off the floor!  He made himself sick!  Poor baby.

I thought Michelle had made herself sick as well, when she started crying out and bending over, but she was just in labor.

Baby Rachael was almost the complete opposite of her brother.  They both had my skin, but Rachael had my eyes and Michelle’s hair.  Perfect!

I taught my little Leo how to say Mama for me and Mommy for Michelle.

I loved my little muses, but they didn’t leave me a lot of time to paint.

Especially when Michelle decided we should buy this place.  La Boheme was just a little clothing store with not much in it, but there were some people that desperately needed new clothes.  Iris told me that her sister, Daisy, had to wear a dress made out of leaves! because they couldn’t find anything at the house for her to wear.

I was happy for the extra money, we had taxes to pay and the house really wasn’t big enough for the kids, but… my art!

Little Leo finally had all of his toddler skills, and the store was closed, so I was finally able to find some time to paint, but not nearly as much as I wished.

And then it was Rachael’s birthday.  (I had wanted to name her Rafael, but Michelle had objected, and Demi already named her daughter Donnatella.  Maybe, if we have any more I’ll name them after real muses…)

Oh, little Rachael is just so adorable.  Look at her mommy’s hair!  And her mama’s eyes.

Being a mom is a type of inspiration of it’s own… but I miss my easel!

Next up: Beauregarde

Stats:

Sims: 26 (+2)

Households: 6

Community Lots: 5

SM: 3

Population: 78

La Boheme Clothing: level 3

Michelle: lvl 5 Business

Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 2: Willow

Rose and Talin Deppiesse had a long discussion about possibilities.  They knew that their plantsim biologies made certain things easier for them than for other normal humans.  With three adult plantsims around the triplets should be easier to raise.  However, Rose’s wish to have ten children would be a bit more difficult.  She had already been a bit old when she had the twins.  Perhaps plantbabies would help complete the want?

Iris had gotten into her head that she wanted to open a store herself.  One that sold the snapdragons that she made on her flower arrangement table.  Thinking about it though, it was obvious that she wouldn’t be able to run it all herself, not and keep up with the demand of making the bouquets.

With all that in mind, Rose decided it was a perfect time to add to the family.

And spored Daisy.

Iris, as always, was willing to help out and taught her newest sister her nursery rhyme before the triplets became toddlers.

A time which came very soon.  Iris brought Amarylis, Talin brought Aster, and Rose brought Sage to the cakes, while Daisy, Peony and Poppy stood by watching.

Daisy wasn’t actually very interested, nor was Peony, but Poppy stayed around… probably for the cake.

Here is Amarylis.

Aster.

And Sage.

Toddler skilling was a joint effort, especially since the garden still needed to be taken care of.

Peony and Poppy often were left to their own devices.  At least Poppy was mature enough to realize that the glowy eyed wolf was not the best friend to have.

And Peony was more than willing to ask for attention when she needed it.

Daisy was always willing to play at the table, especially if there was another toddler around to be friends with.

But everyone knew she wasn’t going to be a toddler for long.

Those that were awake came to see her grow up.

It didn’t make the house significantly quieter.

Especially when there were fights over bottles.

Not that it was Amarylis’ in the first place, she’d found it on the floor.

Sage didn’t care, though.  He wanted it now!

Is it any wonder some of them decided to head down to Snap-Pop, the new store?

Since this was Iris’ store, Talin decided to pass on all of the non money perks he had.  It took a very long time to pass the five of them on.

But finally it was ready to open.  Daisy was behind the counter learning to use the cash register while the business was still low level, while Talin sold things and Iris created more as fast as she could.

The business owners of Eagle Valley had made a decision.  Tourists were fair game, but people who lived in their little area were not.  They could buy if they wished and basic sells were fine, but they wouldn’t be dazzled into buying.

Daisy did get to try her hand at selling, especially if there were any cute guys around.

Rose was determined not to be involved in the businesses her husband and daughter ran, but she wasn’t against leaving the chaos of their home to come over for a date to get his aspiration up.

And the couch was there for a reason, was it not?

Once the business reached level 5, they headed back home.  Delphinia came over to see her family.

Her own land didn’t include a pond, and she had missed fishing.  It also gave her a chance to spend time with her new stepsister and half-sister.

Like her, Daisy wasn’t planning on just living off of sunlight and water.  She wanted to become an oceanographer and had heard that she could get a job in that career if she had a gold fishing badge.

Poppy spent time at the play table with her little sisters while Peony was out with their big sisters.

Rose and Talin decided the triplets were old enough to have more little siblings. There were only nine of them in the house, after all, there was room for three more.  However, as hard as they tried, through try for baby or ACR, no lullaby was heard.

Next up: DaVinci

Stats:

Sims: 24

Households: 6

Community Lots: 4

SM: 2

Population: 48

Fish Rodeo: Level 10

Snap-Pop: Level 5

I did give in and get the larger household hack, but only the one that let you have 12, not the one that allows 50.  They tried at least 6 times between me trying and ACR trying.  No luck.

Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 2: Hawking

 

I, there in the middle, am Dr. Carl Hawking.  To the far left is Galilei and Edwin, my middle children.  On my right is my companion LaShawn Cameron, carrying Marie and my daughter Tesla carrying Kepler.  If their skin is what is considered normal around here than they carry LaShawn’s last name.  If their skin is extraordinary, than I carried them myself and their last name is, of course, Hawking.

The aliens gave me this marvelous elixir.

Drinking it seemed to rejuvenate me.  I was sure I would still be capable of carrying alien children, something, I must admit, I had not been sure was possible any more due to my advanced age.

LaShawn and I discussed her moving out so there would be room for new additions.  She was worried about the money issue, afraid that without her there to work on cars the four of us would starve.  I admit, I have never doubted her dedication to my children, even those that were not hers.

I assured her that the books I had been writing were bringing in enough money that I should be able to keep the family afloat.  I had also recently found a magazine that would be willing to buy articles from me.

In fact, I had just recently maxed my creativity skill, thus assuring best selling books about my encounters with aliens.  The only problem was they kept misclassifying the books as fiction!

Edwin brought this child home from school.  I admit to being a bit confused.  Her parents were both green.  Her older sisters were green.  I did not see why being born by woohoo would ensure that she was not green.

After the flower child left, I could not be bothered to remember her name, it was time for Marie’s birthday.

I was very surprised that there were sparkles at Marie’s birthday.  I had assumed those were just around for alien children’s birth.

And Marie was certainly no alien.

Unlike Kepler who decided to sink into the floorboards and allow no one to pick him up.

Eventually LaShawn was able to convince him to come back to the surface.

Just in time for his birthday.  Kepler proved his intellectual superiority even as a baby, already considering his good report cards.

And of course, he was covered by sparkles as he aged up.

Gally decided to be the one to call up our neighbors to inform those that didn’t know that we had new family members.  I don’t believe any had been around since the newest children were born.

Kepler did have some habits I did not approve of.  His interest in the spoiled bottle instead of the glowing one was one such habit.

And I can not prove he had anything to do with this pile of fuming garbage, but I do not know where else it could have come from.  I would think he did it to be evil or mean, but truthfully, all of my alien children are completely… *shudders* … nice.

LaShawn did *not* appreciate the roaches that the garbage brought into the nursery.  Nor did I.

Especially when family members began to get sick because of them.  I had not been aware that alien children could get human sicknesses.

But it was obvious that they could.

LaShawn had an old family recipe she swore would make us all better.  Normally, I prefer scientifically proven and created medicines, but there is no pharmacy or doctor around here, as obvious by the fact that all of our children were born at home.  Since a doctor was not available, we tried this soup.  It seemed to work.

The children seemed to be getting along well, but they did have their own little cliques.

Tesla was working on her charisma.  She still wished to become an entertainer and believed charisma skill would help her there.  I tried to inform her that she would most likely end up as part of a sideshow if she continued in that direction, but she would not listen to me.

She also continued her relationship with that girl.

I continued my relationship with the aliens, of course.

Edwin rushed upstairs when he’d heard I’d been abducted.  I am not quite sure what he saw, but it did seem to shock him quite a bit.

The others gathered at the street to welcome me back.  I simply do not understand why my children do not seem excited by the alien spaceship that brought me home.

LaShawn informed me that it wouldn’t do for this child to not have a sibling close to its own age.  I reminded her that she was planning on leaving at the end of the season.  She wanted a child anyway.

Our children were exceptional.  Edwin would make a good scientist with his wish to keep everything orderly.  He would go around and make the beds of others if given the chance.

Marie would happily play with her bunny for hours.

She only removed herself from it when it was time for her to grow up.

Tesla made it in there to watch.

Surprisingly the two were not friends.  Tesla had spent more time with Kepler than Marie, but more with her girlfriend or mirror than any of the younger children.

She did seem to realize this was a problem, and willingly taught Marie how to play chess, making friends with her in the process.

I must admit, my own condition and her interest in other things was concerning to me.  If LaShawn did leave soon, it would be up to Tesla to take on a good amount of the child care, although Gally would be a teen soon.

LaShawn and I had another conversation.  She was pregnant as well and knew that two new children would fill this house to bursting.

It was time for her to leave.

I was… surprisingly discontent as I watched Edwin and Marie get into the taxi.  I knew they were only moving down the street, but it suddenly seemed a long distance away.

Kepler watched Gally do her homework and, as his thought bubble as a baby showed, was very interested.

He grew into a child then and there.

The first thing he wished was to learn to do homework.  Since Marie had left her homework behind, I used it to teach him.

LaShawn and Tesla had both wished for these stations, and we had just enough money to buy them after selling the latest car.  Tesla, it seems, was able to work on the engine, but not the body of the cars, so we needed another way to earn some money.  Robots would be useful in the house as well.

While working on that, Gally and Kepler were getting to know each other better over the chess table.  I wondered how they would feel about their newest sibling.  I knew that Tesla was hoping for another with purple skin, while Gally and Kepler wanted another that looked like them, but had yet to tell them that this set of aliens was different yet again.

Next up: Willow

Stats:

Playable Sims: 23

Households: 6

SM: 2

Population: 46

Community Lots: 3

Eagle Valley BaCC Spring 1: Willow

Welcome Back to Eagle Valley!

This is Rose Willow.  She came to Eagle Valley to get away from it all, to go back to nature and live off the land.

She was *not* expecting to see *that* monstrosity.  This was supposed to be an untouched wilderness.  That, is not an untouched wilderness.

This was more like it.  Perhaps she could put up a screen of trees so that she didn’t have to see that other thing.

Visitors came by.  They said they’d always used this lake to fish on and she couldn’t turn them down.  Besides, she thought Talin was cute.

That, the man that is, was the person who owned the *building* he called an observatory.  He was not a very nice man.

But Sarah did not take any flack from him.

Turns out he was a bit of a sissy.  Obviously he’d never been around a strong woman before.

She could more than hold her own.

Meanwhile, Rose, who came here to live off the land, could only catch a boot.

She ended up having to make dinner out of the provisions she had brought, nothing she had grown or caught herself.

The conversation about kissing with Talin made up for it.

The next morning, Spring showed it wasn’t quite ready yet, and the pond froze over.

(in other words, I didn’t realize I had to reset the seasons when putting in a new lot of I wanted to keep the seasons synced up)

It even started to snow as she placed more crops into the ground.

Talin came over for a date.  Rose had planned on living by herself, but was finding it very difficult to keep up with all of the chores.  She’d done nothing but weed, spray and water her plants for the past day, she hadn’t even had time to fish.

When he told her he loved her, she thought very carefully about how she would answer.  This had the potential to change all of her plans.

But didn’t she come here to start anew?  To take chances?  She was living off of the land!  What did *plans* have to do with that?

Later that day, there was a forest fire!  The plants were full of bugs!  It was just too much!

Talin had left a telescope.  This told her he really understood.  He didn’t leave her something useless or something that needed electricity to run, but something that could help her understand the natural world better.

That night a burglar snuck onto her lot.  It’s not like she had a lot, and everything she owned was precious and necessary.

The awful burglar took her new telescope before she even had the chance to use it.  Then, to add insult to injury, she took the roses Talin had left with it and the boot she had hung on the wall as a reminder that things didn’t always go as planned.

Rose cried as she realized that the burglar took nothing that could be replaced, but instead the things that held memories inside them.

As she looked over her farm, she made her decision.

Thanks for reading!  Back to Hawking next.

Stats:

Sims: 3 (+1)

Sim Multiplyer: 1

Population: 3

Eagle Valley BACC Spring 1: Hawking

Welcome back!  It’s been a long time hasn’t it?  A whole 3 hours I think!  But when you’re dealing with just one sim, it goes quickly.

I was taken into the alien ship to meet with their leaders, but they wouldn’t allow me to take any pictures.

As they left to go home, they promised they had left me a gift.

I don’t know where they left the gift, but my behind did not appreciate when they tossed me out.

I went back up to my telescope, hoping that they had left me a notice in the stars or were coming back to talk to me again.  I still had not managed to find my gift.  Surely a gift from aliens would be a great thing for the world, not to mention for my own reputation.

I believe I figured it out.

I admit, I did not take well to being pregnant.

I was hungry, but had nothing left in the refrigerator.  And I certainly did not have anything to feed to an alien baby.  What did alien babies even eat?

Surely, an alien child would be someone on my own intellectual level and I will finally have someone to talk to.

Oh aliens!  How does it come out?

Well, you are surprisingly human like.  I believe I will call you Tesla.  He was an exceptional individual and it sounds vaguely femalish.

Is…is she eating my neck?

She drinks this strange green drink while surrounded by green stink.  I would think it would be purple, considering her coloring.

My telescope!  I must save my telescope!

I rushed up as quickly as I could.  The rain had already put it out, but I used the fire extinguisher just in case.  I could not lose my telescope.

A child of her brilliance should not be making such a heinous stink.

She grew up quite quickly.

The sparkles were quite interesting.  I tried to capture some of them for analysis, but they vanished as she landed from her flight.

Tesla was tired so I headed back up to my telescope.  Now I’m glowing as well.

Tesla was trying to reach for the stars.

She’s eating my neck, isn’t she?

Next up, back to nature with Rose Willow

Sims: 2 (+1)

Sim Multiplyer: 1

Population: 2