Lucy (Burb) Tellerman
Fortune/Knowledge - Wants to be a Space Pirate |
Komie Tellerman
Komie is perm plat, and is currently studying to get TOC in the Adventure field. ASimWen failed to get his beginning wishes.
Walter Tellerman
Family - Wants to raise 20 puppies or kittens |
Arthur Tellerman
Romance - Become a Celebrity Chef |
Let's get caught up. What happened last round? The Tellermans gained a new elderly dog named Alabama. Looks like she might have her Grim party this round. It has been a while since we have seen Grim. Both Lucy and Komie reached the top of their careers, making Komie perm plat, Lucy was already there. As already mentioned, Lucy became a witch just for fun, and both Wally and Art aged up to teen without much fan fare. Wally met up with Emma Copur (Don and Ivy's daughter) when he went out to buy his cell phone. If you remember (or you may not! haha!) Wally and Emma's sister Gale dated quite a bit on the Lothario lot this round. Art's growing up happened toward the end of the week, and his couple of days o teen-ager hood were spent studying physiology and maxing body skill points. wish fulfilled.
Lets get on with this round 7!
The first one to win a wish was Lucy.
WooHoo in closet |
WooHoo in bed.... |
Then we move onto Komie who wanted to gain a skill point. He sat down to read up on mechanical and when won, rolled for three more points. It was enough to skill up to win TOC in Adventure, which was locked in.
Next up is the boys Walter (AKA Wally) and Arthur (AKA Art). After getting home from school the boys did their homework, then Wally fullfilled "get a skill point". This really shook up his wishes, lost everything he felt for Gale. He wanted to serve food, talk about hobbies, get a bird cage and dance with someone. heh. He called up Gale to help him out with the new wishes.
Wally was really glad to see Gale. teehee!
Finally got around to talking about hobbies fulfilling that wish, then headed inside to serve up dinner for everyone.
Another wish fulfilled. This inturn made Wally spin up all kinds of food wishes. Win a contest. Get the hobby plaque, eat spaghetti, and buy a food processor. All wishes fulfilled for Monday.
Art wanted to fall in love with Minnie Pleasant so he called her up for a date, at home.
Art and Minnie fell in love in the back yard, fulfilling that wish for him. It was easy to win five wishes during the date. However he rolled fall in love with 3 Sims. We'll see.
During all the raging teen-age hormones...Lucy aged up. She felt bewildered. She was now an elder the same time as her parents.
She celebrated by spinning up a wish to cast a spell.
Buh-bye Minnie. Off you go, back home. Luckily the date had just ended. ASimWen has decided since having a witch in the neighborhood was special, every time a witchy wish was rolled to cast a spell, it would be done!
Tuesday
Lucy was not showing any wishes to cast a spell, but her woohoo wishes are locked in. Komie was around to help her out with that! When the woohoo was completed, Lucy threw "cast a spell" Oh goodie! ASimWen kept an eye out for a good opportunity. In the mean time...
Grim showed up to take elderly doggo Alabama. She was right in the middle of being bathed by Lucy and hopped out of the tub to meet Grim. Komie came in to see the spectacle.
Wow. A spell could be done to clean up water. Who knew?
***POOF*** |
The water cleaned up, the phone rang with an outing for Lucy. Strange, Vivan Kearney the Infallibly Good Witch piled out of the car at the outing destination, but she was not included in the outing. Note Frank Dreamer was included in the outing. The outing was a failure, Lucy apparently wasn't any fun.
The boys wishes this day -
Wally - Talk about hobbies, serve food, wash doggie Alabama, and dance with someone.
Wally invited his love Gale Lothario over and talked about hobbies and danced for a bit. Then the food related wishes started coming which included win a cooking contest. Off the kids went to Sue's kitchen, where everyone except the bar tend made Chocoloate Mousse. Note Gale partook in the contest.
A wish to eat Chocolate Mousse was also fulfilled. All in all it was a good outing, and Wally got his wishes for the day in.
Arthur - Make out with 3 Sims, fall in love with 3 Sims, buy a guitar and a drum kit.
Took the easy way out an immediately purchased the guitar and the drum kit, both were stowed in Art's backpack. Then magically the phone rang and it was Minnie asking him on a date. Heck yeah!
Off to Games of Glory where the rest of the wishes were easily won during the date. Go you, Art!
Looks like Minnie was caught red handed by Albert Goth! Oh my...remember he came home on the bus with Minnie just a couple of lots ago and the two dated.
Upon taking Minnie back to his house...
Art was found out by Margaret Caliente. teehee! Hmmn. Looks like Art has a thing for redheads.
Yup.
Haha oh my Wally and Minnie watch the jealous slap fest from the sidelines.
Wednesday
So far Komie hasn't gotten much screen time. He had been skilling up so he can get TOC for his job in Adventure. During all the kids dating and such, ASimWen did not see Komie sneak outside in the middle of winter and sit at the chess board for hours, nearly freezing solid. He went into needs failure...had to get him back inside and get warmed up. Made some hot chocolate.
Lucy - As usual, a woohoo wish was locked in. Done.
Wally - Get a puppy, win Culinary Hobby Plaque, talk about hobbies, and serve food
Art - Make out with 3 Sims, resurrect Alabama, go to Uni, and ask Sim on date. (locked in)
Needless to say, it was easy for Art to call up Minnie and have her over for a date. Wishes done.
Wally in the mean time...
Called up Gale and talked all about his hobbies...
And cooked up dinner for everyone, serving the food for everyone, (which was great for Art and Minnie's date) fulfilling another wish. It is odd he keeps rolling all the food related wishes when it is his brother who wants to be a celebrity chef. Well I guess it isn't, he is a Family Sim after all. heh Wally topped off the evening calling up Sammy Dreamer whom he harbored a wish to make friends with. It was all in all a good day.
Thursday
Both Komie and Lucy go to work today after being off Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Komie should be getting a promotion.
New LTW - Become Hand of Poseidon |
Wally's wishes - Get a puppy, get the Culinary Hobby Plaque, win a cooking contest, and be BFs with Sammy.
As was usual, Wally invited Gale over after school to talk about his hobbies as his wishes flipped when he came home from school. All the usual, serve food, ect. He managed to catch Albert Goth in the act of knocking over the trash can and told him to go away! Both Albert and Margaret Caliente had made it a habit to steal the newspaper and kick the trashcan.
Art's wishes - Classic dance with Minnie, make out with three Sims, go to Uni, and see rain.
Alright so this picture does not have great asthetics. Art had called out for a puppy, to fulfill the wish he harbored. While in the bathroom he received $5,000 apsiration points...as did Wally in the foreground. Wally was not actively showing the wish, it was hidden. Niiiiice!
The puppy is Rupert NPC. He will be getting a mate from the pet store.
STRANGE -
Minnie Pleasant's dad Neil Leong just walked into the house and started blogging on the computer. No one invited him in. Sammy Dreamer started doing it as well after he became friends with Wally. WEIRD.
Friday
Wally - Be BF with Sammy Dreamer, appreciate and tell dirty joke to Gale, and be friends with Bertha Wilkie.
Art - Win a dance contest, make out with 3 Sims, go to Uni, and get an MP3 player.
The boys decided to break from the norm of inviting girls over right away. Art wanted to see if he could win a dance contest over at My Muse, but unfortunately he did not have a membership card to get in. However is brother Wally did. (ASimWen doesn't remember this at all). The boys headed over.
While Art registered for the contest, Wally sat down to tickle the ivories.
Art's wish to win the contest was locked in. Demi Love the beat cop won. So sad. Art was really disappointed. However, he did roll up a wish to ask a Sim out on a date, so the boys headed back home.
Art called Margaret Caliente. It appeared she was no longer angry with him, and came right over for the date. Five wishes easily won for Art..while Wally got on the phone and yakked it up with Bertha Wilkie, making a new friend. It was the only wish he had fulfilled that day, but it was a big one....3,500 points so he went right into platinum.
Ha look. The kids are gossiping about Albert Goth...perhaps about how jealous he got when he found Minnie and Art dating at Games of Glory....Art is telling Margaret all about it....not like she didn't know already or anything.
Lucy had gotten demoted to Headliner earlier in the day, and came home with her tail between her legs. ASimWen sent her right back to work, promoting up again and collecting that bonus again. Good going!
Saturday
It was now Spring which means the wishes should look a little different. Oh yes.
Wally - Flirt, serve food, talk about hobbies, and ask Sim on a date. Woo.
Sammy Dreamer once again walked into the house like he lived there and got on the computer to play. Since Wally had wished on and off to be BF with Sammy, he seized the opportunity of Sam's visit to talk about his hobbies, to have it replace with "go steady". Yup, spring wishes. So he will be calling up Gale for a date.
Art sat up all nigh studying cleaning, so he did not have the benefit of getting his wishes shook up by sleep. He is wishing for University, win a dance contest, get an MP3 player, and buy a guitar.
It was lucky then that Lucy suggested a family outing to the ice skating rink. Off they went.
Lucy got a few Sims interested in Tai-Chi, whel Komie and the boys skated. This was just the ticket to shake up Art's wishes. He now wanted to ask a Sim on a date. The boys discovered through skating that their hidden hobby was fitness.
In no time it was back home so the boys could get on with dating.
5 Wishes Done |
Five Wishes Done |
Nice Bonus!!! |
He came home a happy camper!
Wally was called right back out on a date with Gale. She must love him or sumpin'.
ASimWen did a double take at the patrons in the restaurant....
Two countesses???? Oh yes...the blonde is Countess Kari Oldie, a playable vamp. She is married to Grass Oldie, stepson of Cora.
Sunday
The difference in the boys could be seen on this morning. Wally drug out of bed like bus no.5 hit him, and Art was full of energy.
Wishes:
Wally - Flirt, ask Sim on Date, serve food, and talk about hobbies.
Art - Meet someone new. University, buy a guitar, and make out with three Sims. He is keeping the University wish on a regular basis. He will go. I am beginning to think that the frequency that Uni rolls might be connected to how much a Sim skills. Art is nearly maxed out.
Wally called Gale for a date....five wishes in, easy peasy. He then hit the treadmill to get rid of that belly, and work on his fitness hobby.
Art hopped on the computer and chatted up someone new, fulfilling "meet someone new", then rolled make friends with Mary (Pleasant) Caleinte, and Don Lothario. Art talked up Mary on the phone until they were friends, then invited Don over for face to face.
Apparently Don held the wish to make a friend as well.
Komie played chess right up to the gaming hobby plaque. Woo.
Art has done really well with his scholarships.
He called for the taxi Monday morning. Wally saw him off. Wally threw wishes for University, but not as much as Art, who kept it nearly all the time.
And this is the end of the visit with the (Burb) Tellermans. It has been a lot of fun playing Art and Wally and their girlfriends Minnie/Margaret and Gale. It will be interesting to see how Art handles school.
FUN PIC
This is a fun pic. ASimWen was thrilled to see the green sparkles.
Well, next lot is Alexander and Daisy Goth. What fun! We will see Albert and Fred Goth!
Keep on Simmin'!, but family time comes first.
~ASimWen
Maybe to make it harder on yourself make have a date as one wish and the other wishes on the date don't count.
ReplyDeleteWoo that is a good idea!
DeleteWhat peachy suggested is what I do. Wishes made on dates do not count. The date does, but nothing that happens on the date does. It does make it hard some days, but keeps me from using "dating" as a guaranteed wished fulfillment, and causes me to try and reach other wishes a lot more often. :) It's super fun to do though. I liked this family, they did a good job, and interesting observation with the college wish possibly tied to the number of skill points, or skilling done. Could be the case.
ReplyDeleteAfter Peachy's suggestion, I considered not using date wishes toward the 5 daily, but decided against it. If not counted, it would be possible to get a Sim up to an enormous wish count in one day, best scenario. That would make the aspiration bar fill up at a faster rate than ever. If the player does not have the MOD that stops the Sim from going Platinum when the bar fills up, then you have a perm plat Sim as a teen ager, possibly without fulfilling the LTW, and a long lived Elder Sim. When it comes to fulfilling wishes, I endeavor to stick to wishes worth 250-500 points to keep the aspiration pool low. Dating does that and dates are not normally done unless the Sim is showing a wish for it. If the Sim doesn't have the 50 Dream Date LTW, then the date is usually ended when the 5 wishes are done. This ensures that my game play isn't stuck trying to work in all the wishes and can do other fun things.
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That makes a lot of sense. I still haven't decided what to do for sims who get to platinum, but I am also not really striving to get them to their LTW unless they just make the right kind of wishes. College too, I decided it would be interesting to see who makes it through, if they go, and who doesn't. :D So if they don't wish for a skill, or to do homework, for the most part they don't do it. Now, there are a FEW exceptions like, if they wish to get on the Dean's List or something then I consider that to be a desire to get the skills needed to get good grades, but otherwise. We will see what happens. :)
DeleteHi ASimWen! I'm Keika. I'm technically in retirement from publishing sims stuff, but I just wanted to drop in and say thank you for the blog! It inspired me to try playing Wishes style, oh, five or six years ago, and after trial and error with my own ruleset, it's my absolute favorite way to play TS2 nowadays! It's a much more hands-off approach with a lot more variety, and I love it. And I wouldn't have it without your blog, so thank you!
ReplyDeleteI chose this particular post to comment (rather than waiting until the end!) because I saw this discussion on date wishes, aspiration points, and elder lifespans. I had the same problem, and ended up getting a mod that allows you to neutralize the red/green/gold/platinum/etc lifespan bonuses on elders. That way, the state of their aspiration meter on their elder birthday doesn't matter to how long they live. It takes some tweaking in SimPE to put it at exactly how you want it, but it's one of my must-have mods now, and based on what was said here, I thought you might be at the very least interested. Here's the link--it's the "Age Group Tweak" mod near the bottom of the page.
http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Aging.htm
Thanks again for the blog and the inspiration, and I hope you keep on having a great time with your sims! I know I'm enjoying reading them--was so stoked to see that you'd picked up again last year!
Hi Keika! Thanks for dropping by. Wow that is thought provoking! I do enjoy playing the game to see how many wishes I can fulfill and not move the meter (much). That in itself is a challenge! I will have to think about this MOD. I glad you are enjoying the wishes way of playing. I know I do! BTW...I need to get back to it..... TTYL!
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