Dayes of Our Lives

A couple of days after we last saw her, Mona started to feel awfully peculiar…

Go Go Gadget Laser Eyes!

To the Batmobile!

Life is like a hurricane, it’s a duck blur…

Oh no, wait a minute.  This is the cartoon character you’re looking for.

Anyway, naming hilarity aside, the other reason I made Mona a vampire was because they, like mummies, get a much longer lifespan and this might possibly give her a chance to fulfil her LTW.  Maybe.

Trying to do a whole bunch of professions at once continues to be a complete nightmare and one I really do not recommend.  Pollo won’t do anything I ask him unless I watch him like a hawk, and even then sometimes he’ll find an excuse.  Take this shot.  He was meant to be interviewing Brady, but no, he had to do the ‘I’m stuck’ wavy dance for no good reason.

And then GaGa just stands around, waiting for textures to load when I try and send her to emergencies.  On that note – has anyone else noticed major lag in texture loading times since the latest patch?  It’s ridiculous.

Occasionally she does get out on a job and sometimes uses this nifty fire hose…

…or wanders about casually in the flames.

Remember how, several chapters ago, all the Dayes were unhappy?  Things haven’t changed much.  Micromanaging so many sims, especially in the professions, is hard, and several of them at any one time will be in yellow, red or orange.  They end up going to work and school exhausted or hungry and then half the time I forget to moodlet manage them (and of course, I can’t moodlet manage the girls).  SIGH.

Oh, and if I don’t obsessively watch GaGa, she misses a job and loses performance.  Pollo is still mardy because he can’t get promotion (it seems to be pretty hard for Private Eyes) and my two cops rarely get any reports written.  Why didn’t I just do one profession and stick the others into business or some other dull career I haven’t done yet?

Still, someone is doing OK at their job.  I gave Mona the observant trait so she can discover three of her clients’ traits immediately, and then she’s been making over the house accordingly.  This guy is called Richie Striker, so we took a punt that his name was as much of a giveaway as the other Twinbrook and Bridgeport residents’ and installed a load of sports stuff in his makeover.  He loved it and gave us our first perfect score.  Oh well, one down, ninety-nine to go.

Mona is taking to getting thirsty sometimes but it’s pretty easy to deal with when you have plasma packs in the fridge – they just appear there like juice does.

Now she’s a vampire, I let her and Pepperoni fulfil a want they’d both had for ages and conceive the final (probably) member of Gen 8.

She then went back to the drawing-board (eyethangyew) and got herself promoted to level 10.  Whoop!

Speaking of Gen 8, the girls don’t have much of interest to do right now, other than for some reason dream of heartbreak.

They’re both painting a lot right now as I can’t think of much else for them to do given their destinies are all about drinking, sculpting and having babies, none of which are kid friendly activities.

Mona shouldn’t look so fed up, given she’s just had a volcanic clay treatment at the spa.  However, she’s walking around with another two day ‘publicly disgraced’ moodlet for, get this, woohooing ‘with an occult’.  I can’t believe how judgemental the sims are!

She’s also got bad moodlets for being outside, being tired and being thirsty, but I can’t send her home to deal with any of that yet…

…because she has to get us a key to the city.  With Mozzy’s key to Twinbrook and now this one, we’re raking them in.  At this point, when I saw Gar Goyle, I remembered that I’d populated the town with a few familiar faces…

Bellamy Heart (from The Heart Legacy) was very excited…

…as was a certain someone.

SimRad: ‘Yes!  Another point!’

The poor girl was not only in the red for lots of things, the townies that were cheering her seconds before, took to booing her as they remembered she’d woohooed WITH AN OCCULT.  So she then got a negative moodlet for being recognised to add to her troubles.  She was also very thirsty at this point.

Seeing as it was my fault she was in this mess, I got her to drink from me to at least sate her thirst.

Pepperoni: Why am I in this outfit?

I dunno, I guess you’re at that stage in your career where you wear other people’s work outfits or something.  Now go and moodlet manage your poor wife, who’s collapsed from tiredness.

I feel so sorry for her.

No sooner had we moodlet managed her back to health when she a) went into labour and b) got another negative celebrity pop-up saying she was caught biting someone.  Poor, poor Mona.

Anyway, this is Puddle Daye.  For some reason I was actually able to choose one of his traits (I’d had no hope for that).  The game locked in excitable and I gave him artistic, both of which I think Bramble has.  Yeah, Gen 8 aren’t going for diversity, really.  BUT, I looked at his status using Twallan’s Master Controller and it turns out he is not only a ghost, he’s also a vampire!  Yes!

Join us next time to see if I can get any way towards bringing the mess that is Generation 7 back on the rails and to see if I can stop neglecting Gen 8…