Friday, August 30, 2019

Hiatus Notification

Hello to all of my loyal readers over the years.  This is a notice to let you know Fellowship One is going into a hiatus for a bit.  This is a planned hiatus, unlike most of the others that it has fallen into, and does not mean I am abandoning these stories!

I still have every intention of coming back and enjoying these sims again, but I have discovered I am feeling "burned out" of playing the same basic rules and the same style over and over again across the 4 sims 2 neighborhoods that I currently have going. So I am going to to put this blog on hiatus for now, start something new that I hope to keep myself engaged in while I continue to work on Breeze Point and Megalahood.  When I am able to wrap one of them up I will come back to continue on here or in Clovercrest, which is also going on a hiatus.

I hope you can understand an apperciate that I want to be able to continue to make fun, engaging, intereting content for years to come, and to do that I need to give myself some different challenes and ways of playing then I have been recently.  I appreicate your readership over the years and hope to see you again in the future!  In the meantime, look for a new sims 2 challenge coming your way, that I hope to start getting posting on Friday's as well as a new sims 4 challenge posting on Sundays.

Again, I sincerly plan on coming back to these families in the future and hope you will continue reading my other content and blogs. I know many of you love these families and/or helped to create them and I do now want them to disappear!

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Cooprider 1

Year 22-26 (Fall) - Old to New


Cooprider Family:
Celeste Cooprider-Tinker - Female Adult - Family - Become Captain Hero - Libra
Stephen Tinker - Male Adult  - Family - Become Captain Hero - Capricorn
Kricket Cooprider - Female Teen - Popularity - Become Professional Party Guest - Sagittarius

Risto Cooprider - Male Adult - Fortune - Become Chief of Staff - Leo - Biology Major
Donatella Roma - Female Adult - Knowledge - Become Mad Scientist - Leo - Mathematics Major 







Last Time:  Risto and Donatella were at university and graduated with honors after getting engaged.  Siba and then Layce are taken to the hereafter, the family buys a womrat, and we discover Celeste was pregnant but lost the baby. The family got a puppy, Michaell moved to university, and Celeste and Stephen both got jobs in law enforcement.

Kricket is counting down the days until she leaves for university.  She doesn't have a ton of skills, but she should do fine in getting through her university years.  She does wish to be friends with the puppy Bobby, however.


 Celeste and Stephen still have time to have one more baby if Celeste can get pregnant again and keep the baby.  After this round, however, they will be too old for that to happen any longer.  So they get started on this goal with abandon.



 Risto and Donatella, while not in a hurry to start a family specifically, do decide to hop into bed themselves and enjoy being at home and celebrating their engagement and graduation.



 Donatella starts looking for work for both her and Risto on the computer.  Sadly, no jobs in their desired fields have come up, but the family is much less strapped for cash than they once were, so we hold off on taking any old job for now.



 The family, minus Kricket who I believe was at work, sat down for a family dinner.  The dining table is still very small and no upgrades have really been made since Layce and Siba passed on, even though they left some money for the family.



Still not finding either a job in Medical or Science, the young couple of the house sit down and skill together to be sure they are ready when a job does pop up on the computer.



Donatella woke up with an upset stomach right before they held the wedding.  Is it wedding jitters, pregnancy, food poisoning, a miscarriage? Time will tell, but knowing we might have a new baby on the way the wedding is pushed up to the morning.



So guests are invited over, family is teleported via the teleporter so we have a full house of guest and none of the family misses the happy events.



Donatella had bought a wedding dress for this day and stood at the arch waiting for her beloved Risto to join her, and for all the guests to slowly make their way over to the side of the house where chairs were set up.  She practices the kiss.



 Eventually, the guests are mostly seated and the wedding can begin.  Risto's sister Michaell got caught by the chess table before making it all the way around the side of the house so she is "missing" from the seated guests, but she is here.  We see Edmund, Hedwig, Bruce (in the Santa outfit still), I believe that is one of Donatella's brothers, Celeste, Hans, Aquamarine and Mile.  Chloe is also here somewhere as is Stephen.

 The wedding goes off without a hitch and the vows are exchanged.



 Then Risto dips Donatella into a beautiful kiss that I am happy to have caught.


The party was a lot of fun, and we can see from these pictures Luke Potts and Amethyst were in attendance as well. The party was a roof raiser, which shouldn't be a shock to people who know this hood, they all know each other so well by now parties are a ton of fun!

 There was one incident, however, where Stephen and Edmond apparently really don't like each other.  I'm not completely sure what happened between them, but they got into a big fight. Luckily, and very nicely they kept it in the backroom to not affect the party.



 In the middle of everything going on, the puppy, Bobby, grew into an adult dog.  I haven't fully decided if I want to get Bobby a mate, but I probably will, if for no other reason then to keep the baby count down.


With the party done Risto and Donatella are whisked away on their honeymoon to the islands.  The first order of business is to check-in, which Risto does. People whisk their things away to their room and Donatella and Risto head right to the beach and the ocean.


 After swimming and sunbathing a bit they head to a different beach where they can explore the pirate ship.  Nothing of interest really happens on the ship, and Donatella's needs are tanking, telling us that she is pregnant even if we haven't seen a pop.



 The lovely couple wants to learn hot stone massage, so both of them take turns learning it while the other relaxes all their worries in the hot springs nearby.


Back in the room, while Donatella tries very hard to catch up on some sleep Risto heads out to the patio to learn the hula dance.  Apparently this had not yet fully spread throughout the hood yet, but after two couples have come here on their honeymoon recently I'm sure it will now.


 The next day is a bit of a quiet day, they sleep in, eat room service go on some tours, where they made a bad decision on a submarine and didn't get to enjoy it as much as they would have liked, but found hidden places during Parasailing. Then Risto spent some time trying to learn to firedance.  He doesn't tend to burn himself, so he's not doing too bad.


 For their final day on their honeymoon, the couple heads to the secret lot they discovered and find the poor witch doctor trying to electrocute himself.  Risto is quick to offer help, and even though they only have 4 mechanical each, they fix all of the things quickly.


The witch doctor, who had wandered off a bit, thanked them and handed Risto a voodoo doll which he will bring back home with him.


Before they leave, while the witch doctor makes some food, the couple gets a little too comfortable in his home.  Seriously you two, he's in the same room, RIGHT THERE!  Plus, Donatella, you are already pregnant!


The honeymoon complete the couple heads home and Risto has found a job in medicine.  Donatella still hasn't had luck finding a job in science yet, but that's ok because she finally displays a pregnancy bump. The first of a new generation of Cooprider's is on its way.



Kricket makes an appearance in the blog just in time for us to see her off to university.  She got three scholarships to take with her and is headed off for university where we will see her again later.



Bobby was a very stinky dog and begging for someone to give him a bath, so the family did some small updates to the house, including adding a bathtub to bathe the dog in.  Donatella, the only one not working currently, takes on the task, and Bobby was a very good dog.


On the final night in the house, at around 9:30 PM Donatella is up and suddenly hit by horrible pain. Everyone rushes into the room right after this picture was taken, although Celetes and Bobby are already here watching out for her.


 At 9:44 PM on November 27th of year 26 a little baby boy was born to Risto and Donatella Cooprider.  He is given name #58 I believe (US pop name) Aaron. Little Aaron has brown hair like his parents, his mother's skin tone and bluish eyes.


With the birth of this new baby Cooprider, we wrap up the fall and move into winter.  Next season will see Celeste grow into an elder, her wishes for a final new baby out of reach.  She is, however, totally in love with having a grandbaby, and already dotes on him.

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Upton 1

Year 22-26 (Fall) - Money and Forgiveness

Upton Family:
Marshall Upton - Male Elder - Fortune - Earn $100,000 - Aries
Miles Upton - Male Young Adult - Family - Become Captain Hero - Leo - Biology Major

Last Round: Marshall worked on his tinkering hobby making robots to sell for money getting all the way up to silver before the round ended. He also socialized, mostly with the ladies around town. Family Sunday was small with Corky bringing Marshall's daughter Hailey and Miles bringing Aquamarine with him. In university, Miles graduated with honors and then found his intended, Aquamarine, in bed with Hans Schurenjager, who we saw get married to his love the last house. Thus, Miles is angry at Aquamarine and she moved back with her sisters for now.

We start this update with Marshall digging.  I saw in a different blog one way to make a venue work that doesn't involve the "Open Venue" loophole that involved meditating but still allows us to get a good amount of money for Marshall. Still, we need money to buy the stuff to make it work.


He is actually pretty successful, even finding a treasure chest.  Miles, who is now home, went around filling the holes back in after his grandfather was done.


Before buying the community lot, Aquamarine walks by, probably intending to steal the paper as these two are still pretty upset with each other, but I love them, and they are a good match.  ACR might have hurt them RIGHT BEFORE the end of uni, but they are meant to be, so we have Miles go invite her in and they all share breakfast.


Then Miles buys a community lot over in Bluewater, it's small, but it doesn't need to be big.  He plunks down a grill, a tent, some bathrooms that include a showerhead, a poker table and hot tub and sets the price to average. Then he begins selling tickets to come in and hang out.


He stays on the lot, sleeping in the tent, eating hot dogs the visitors cook, and showering in the small bathroom to keep all his needs up.  He also spends time birdwatching when he doesn't feel the need to talk people into paying the entrance fee.  Before long he is already at bronze and then silver badge in sales. He socializes at the poker table, which is always very popular.


Many of our known residents come to visit Marhsall's Place, including a very pregnant Amethyst Rosada, and Bruce is also here frequently as well.


Marshall manages to get himself a game plaque and becomes all shiny when he plays games, which on this lot is frequent as there is a poker table as well as a pool table here.


One day Marshall's daughter comes by the spot and Marshall sells her on paying the fee, I believe he offered it to her for cheap because we didn't yet get the offer for free, and spent some time talking with his only daughter.


Then we walk away from a minute and come back and can't find Marshall.  We have the game center on him and find him "socializing" with Tina Busto.  Tina lost her husband Howie a while ago and is currently single.  They have some fun.


Then Marshall maxes out his nature enthusiasm as well.  Sleeping in a tent all these nights really helps with that hobby plaque. Add in all the bird watching and bug catching he has been doing to keep his fun up when he isn't playing games, and it isn't surprising this happened.


Then Marshall disappears again and I once again find him in the hot tub, but this time it's with someone a lot less appropriate.  Hedwig is Tina's step-daughter, her father was Howie and she is engaged to Charles Profitt. They do not do anything more than a little cuddling though.


Then, I do a very stupid thing.  I accidentally hit the quit button, no big deal, just say cancel I hear you saying.  Yep, that would have been the thing to do, but instead, I accidentally hit the 'No' button.  As in, no don't save what has happened.  *head hits desk* So wipe just about everything that happened out of your mind, although many of the same things occurred.  He maxed gaming, maxed nature, but his daughter did not come by, and he didn't do anything with Tina or Hedwig. Instead, we start getting duplicate townies visiting the lot at the same time.


Those aren't just sims that look the same, a look at their names and the names are also the dame.  The game is starting to act a little crazy, which makes us nervous.  Anyway, the days went by and Marshall got the business to a level 10.  He also reached the $50,000 milestone as well.  So he went home and sold the business, which was worth over $60,000, and thus fulfilled his LTW.


Miles invited Aquamarine over again and this time they had a date.  The date went very well, and they are, before long, back in love again.  Then Miles had to go to work though, so we didn't get a chance to invite Aquamarine to move in.


Aquamarine hung out on the lot and talked with Marshall until at 18:18 the game froze for a second and we see a guest we knew was coming very soon.


Aquamarine was very sad, but grim brought hula dancers, a fancy drink and Marshall, having reached his LTW, was ready and happy to be on his way.  He got the chance to watch his grandson repair his relationship with his love and he knows they will be happy. Marshall died at 6:18 PM on October 5, 24.


Aquamarine hung out for a few more moments mourning her friend, and the only in-law she would have had and then heads home.


Miles comes home and invites Aquamarine back for comfort and of course, she comes, and they move in together.  Aquamarine will be a couple days behind Miles now, but that's ok. Then we see Corky walks onto the lot.  She doesn't just pass by, she walks over to the side of the house and then breaks down.  I guess she really wasn't ready for Marshall to be gone.


With all of the money Marshall had gained, plus the inheritance he left to Miles this family now has plenty of money and so the house is rebuilt.


The couple then heads down to the clothing store, where we have the game crash on us.  I also happen to notice that Miles still only has 4 wishes, instead of the 6 he should have after graduating.  I take a quick peek at SimPE and he shows as graduating with honors like he should, but the wishes didn't update, so I update it quickly, save and try to relaunch the game.  I no longer can get to the neighborhood browser. It's not that a neighborhood won't load, it won't even let me GET to the neighborhood picker.  So I exit out, fiddle around a bit, freak out, remove some of the temp files to force the game to remake them and successfully get back in.  I run the hood checker and start a backup. Back to the clothing store we go and no problems.


I like this black dress on Aquamarine, and since she grew up in that black shirt, I decided to stick with that color.  Miles gets a new outfit too, but it's fairly similar to what he had before just better pants. Back at home, in the newly done dining room, the couple talk.


They haven't updated much furniture yet, but will as time goes on.  They aren't ready to get rid of everything Marshall set up for them with he and Miles first moved here. Then, as they enjoy another date it happened.  A wish on both of their parts, they had been through enough.  Miles went to a knee...


The happy couple finishes their date and head to the bedroom, where we will leave them for fall.  I am very glad these two are back to normal again and hopefully, ACR will be nice to them and let them intact going forward. I love these two, and next round we will hopefully see a wedding.