"OMG! I totally love to paint!""Me too!"
"Hey, I love grilled salmon! Isn't this totally new house awesome?"
"... Haven't we done this already?"
Leave it to Todd to be a douche about it.
The differences are few between the borked game and the new one. Todd, for example, is all into upping his athleticism:
With varying degrees of success. Todd's enthusiasm for athleticism will continue to reveal itself in delightful ways. And not all of them result in him taking a dive on a treadmill.Of course, our two artistic Sims, Tomas and Blair, have a lot of catching up to do:
Many of which are gorgeous:
Some a bit disturbing...
Even Eli got into the game. Admittedly, I've dropped the ball on this one. Eli needs to have some painting skill in order to write children's books and I forgot about that in recent sessions. I'm going to have to get him back on the easel.Of course, relationships have to be rebuilt, too:
And, of course, the hot tub was purchased as soon as possible.
Yes, Todd likes to work out while his housemates are trying to relax. Because he's a douche like that.
Maybe Blair decides to make out with Eli to tork Todd off in retaliation. Although, given her 'No Jealousy' benefit it's rather pointless. Currently.Things happen to change this... you'll see soon enough.
Here's Eli and Tomas skinny dipping together (before I figured out how to get rid of that stupid censor bar.) This is just how they roll. I guess when you live in a house together and you're woo-hooing with the same chick it's totally fine to just hang out naked in hot bubbly water together.
There are three piles of "clothing" at the side of the hot tub which tells us that three of the four soakers in this picture are 'going commando.'
Tomas would like to prove that he's one of them. We'll just stop it there. It's not like there's anything to see. He's all smooth like a Ken doll down there. Times like this I'm... kind of grateful for that.
I decided to not mess around this time and got Eli into the kitchen in the hopes that he would contribute to a household that would not result in fiery death via angry stove. These pictures also show the new stove, the awesome stove, the stove that would not be Death Stove: The Stove That Kills People With Fire. They did have to start out with Cheapy McBurningDeath Stove so I kept Eli working at meals to avoid the unpleasant scenes of before.Not that everyone else didn't tempt fate on their own. Still, unfortunate flaming demises were avoided.
Chess remains one of the best relationship builders around. Like Eli's outfit? That's one of the changes. Instead of Politics, he wanted to be a Journalist. So I let him. I had been gearing him towards being an author before the game went kaput and journalism allows to work on his writing and benefit from it in more ways than one.
Investigative Reporter: Elijah Clarke! Luckily, he got promoted and stopped looking too much like Todd in his Professional Snoop garb.
And they got robbed again! Which always results in good times because Blair loves to kick some ass!
Kapow bitch! Take a gander at that note in the top corner... as Blair is jumping on him to dispense with Justice: Foster Home Style (except without the coat hanger brandings) he's thinking she's pretty okay.
Not for long. Blair's charms could be astounding enough to make people love her despite getting their ass beaten. It wouldn't surprise me.This robber, however, got away with something more than just a bruised ego and behind.
The son of a bitch stole their stove!!
Which is why they had to get the kick ass new one. Having money helped, too.
On a sojourn to Egypt, Tomas picked this little number up. Yes, he is skilling up in snake charming. Really, I just wanted to see what it looked like. Tomas spends so much time at the house painting, sculpting and inventing that he gets a little stir crazy after a bit. So I send him out to parks or community lots or the Riverview wilderness where he gets bored and decides to try to charm snakes.Tomas really is eccentric.
So, let me talk about the gnomes. Todd's done the same case three times and the result of each was that he got a Mysterious Mr. Gnome of his own. In the wee hours of the night, the gnomes like to do things. Like get on the furniture or turn on the stereo or what-have-you. Todd has given each of his gnomes a name: Moose, Zeus and Shorty.
On a complete and total fluke (and I mean it because he shouldn't have been able to do this until level 8) Tomas invented a gnome on his Inventin' Bench.
It's name is Tea.
We'll end it on this image of Todd getting his party on at a Swimwear Bash. Imagine that happening on the show. I can't.
Anyway, we're well on our way with the reboot... things progressing past the point of where the game before went all wrong. So we'll explore more shenanigans next time.
Until then!
