The Orphanage - part 02

You know, if there is something that I'm learning with this challenge is that I don't know anymore how to play this game. I need more practice.

If there is something that Olinda is learning with this challenge is that life in a house alone with seven kids is a hell.



There are 3 bathrooms in this 3 store small building but all children use the same one.

She is very dedicated, she cooks 3 meals a day but there is a small problem...



Nobody seems to be interested. They are all busy eating burned cakes cooked in the kids-oven.



Apparently is a very special delicacy.



The kids spend a lot of time playing...



(this is the 3rd floor, it suppose to be Olinda's room but she barely uses this bed, she sleeps a lot in the couch)

...specially with the dartboard, that, I suspect, have a high advertising level.



This room is small because it suppose to be just the access to the stairway. To our lucky, it was the place that the children elected to leave their homeworks.



After 2 and 1/2 days this is the score:

- they don't really eat the meals properly
- they sleep everywhere, not twice in the same bed
- they spend most of the time playing because they need to raise the fun-motivemeter (specially Julia, who, I suppose because she is very playful, returns from school with the fun bar completely red)
- they are having problems in make the homework because they are not in the mood
- the house is quickly decaying because Olinda is not exactly a good house keeper...

Look at this bathtub:



... and the homeworks are piling up.



I was expecting more adventure so far, some fires, I don't know...
Hm. I don't think we are having much fun.
Stay tuned...

The Orphanage - part 01

(just as a note, I destroyed Desiderata trying to make editions that I don't really know how to make anymore. It worked so well before I install FT but it seems is not that simple anymore. RIP Desiderata, I was having fun.)

You know, I had this funny idea. I was playing the EAxis default sims, specially the Goths, my fav ones and since Alexander reach the teenager years I thought, why don't I add some of my fav sims as children, play with them till they reach the teen-age and then send them to UNI, etc? Sounded like a plan. I thought in add them with families and play all families (I'm playing the very confusing family of ... how are they called? You know, the girl who have two boys, the husband is dead and she is pregnant - a lot of people think she kill the guy in that small pool in the backyard) but then, it hit me: lotsd of my old sims are orphans, they have no families. So why not create a family with a responsible adult and seven children? Sounded like a very good plan.

Please, meet the Orphans: due to some game details, I made them as adult first because I didn't wanted to have to make them all family related. So I made them adult and shrunk them into kids.



Here they are. Some of you must know almost all of them. I downloaded Olinda at MTS2 but the "kids" are all old friends. Elena never was in one of my stories before but I used her a lot as a model to my uploaded stuff, there is a nice shot of her dressed as a bride here at Koinup. Matt and Mello are an obvious anime couple (Matt was made using Eduard), Angelo and Eugene are well know for some of you from my Butterflies stories, Oreus was made using another sim I made, Oriya (Oreus is a char in another story that I'm writing but it's too complicate to translate to english), Julia is originally daughter of Bella and Mortimer Goth and a character in the Butterflies story). If this project goes well I have a second group to be adopted after this first one.

Let's see.

First let's take a look on them in their kids age.



Angelo redefines the word "adorable". I wanted to cover him with kisses. Poor Angelo, he never had a family, not even once. I'm an evil storyteller. But he have Eugene (sometimes).



Eugene looks handsome even if he is (let's say?)... 12. Only him will look this good at this age.



Poor Matt (former-Eduard). I remembered this "geometry issue". I remember when he born in my game that I thought he looked weird. He still is a weird kid but at least now I know he will be gorgious when he grows up.



Mello lost his long locks. And he looks weird and scary. I don't remember anymore about his history in my game, I think I modeled this sim. I don't recall to ever had seen him as a child. This is him as an adult:



Next.



Oreus is a surprise. First because his hair have a child's mesh. I didn't know that (I have too many hairs). Second because he looks very similar to what he will look like when adult. Cute. I love him <3



Julia looks like some EAxis default sim but I remember she was adorable, she conquered me at a first sight. I found an old pic of her as a teenager so you can take a look:



This was way before I added gazillions of downloads in my game, specially the default skins replacement.



Elena looks like herself even as a child. Well, I didn't removed the makeup (I was too lazy) so you can blame that.



And finally, Olinda, the victim. The only adult in a house filled with sim-bratty-children. She is a family sim and I plan to marry her with someone when the "experience" is over. Maybe after a second group of children. She deserves to have a family of her own (also her LTW is marry 6 grandchildren or something like this so I really need to give her a big family).

Now the rules:

1. Only the adult sim is playable.
2. You can only send a kid sim do one thing: homework, because I don't have that useful hack that automatically send the children to do homework.
3. There is a mini-oven in the house, so the kids can cook that small cake and don't starve to death.
4. There is also bookcases, the wooden picture frame (how is that called in english) to make paintings, there are 3 bathrooms (is a small building), one bed to each sim, a kitchen with almost the basic-cheap needs (no food processors), some bears, some toy boxes, that small table that came with FT, a medium TV. I think they will be fine.
5. The adult sim must cook, clean the house, can't have a job and have a limited budget of 20,000 simoleons.
6. No nannies, no maids, no repair man, you are on your own.
7. Nobody have skills yet.
8. No hack interference allowed.

Well, I hope the social services don't take all my children.
Stay tuned...

My bailarinos - part 02 - Jubei Abeni - pic intense

Jubei Abeni is a 27 years old bailarino who knows that he have no much talent but he compensates that being very dedicated to dance.



I downloaded Jubei at MTS2 and his name is actually Jubei. I downloaded him to be paired with Olinda (also downloaded at MTS2), the orphanage maintainer. I know I put both in a troubled situation because initially I had planned that Olinda would not marry until the children become teen and then leave to Uni but I'm enjoying so much to play the orphanage that I decided to release Olinda to marry, putting other person in her place and keep the orphanage working with a second generation. But I will talk more about that in my next orphanage update.

Jubei bought a house at Downtown so he could propose to Olinda. He wants kids, as Olinda also wants (Olinda is a family sims and Jubei is a knowledge sim with family as secondary aspiration).



It's a pretty yellow house and Olinda didn't saw yet.

Jubei had a lovely bachelor's party when he moved from the house that he was sharing with his singles friends to his new future love nest.



These are Jubei's best friends:



We have here: Anton, who I fixed the skin removing the eyebags, Kalyam and Jubei.



And here we have Michel, who some of you know from Butterflies, Klaus, the Ice King, the adorable Kazui who is Patrick's younger brother in this installment and Tora (modeled after the jrock guitarist from the band Alice Nine, who is, IMO, the most beautiful japanese man I ever saw in my life so I just had to simmify him), who actually already found the love of his live, the sweet Mai.



Just for reference, this is Mai:



I setted the Singles gender bias because I expected that they have a lot of initiative in find their mates and they actually didn't disappointed me but things didn't happen as I expected. I thought that Kazui would think that Klaus, the Ice King was very interesting but then Klaus went to a blind date with Kato, promoted by the gypsy and felt in love with him. Then Michel decided by himself to hit Kazuo and they quickly became lovers and are happy. Tora found Mai in another blind date, promoted by the Crystal Ball and Anton and Kalyam are still singles (and Kato, the greedy doll, is already interested in Kalyam but I'm not going to encourage him and Kalyam is hetero, he have no chance).

The happy Jubei, now proudly owning his own house (and a mortgage that he will take at least 20 sims-years to pay me) invited Olinda to a picnic in one of the beautiful parks at Downtown to propose her.



It was a lovely afternoon with sun and small rain. He had to act quickly and we had to leave because the rain became a storm.



Of course she said yes. She had that want locked since the orphanage kids were kids.



I love this hug. Why don't we have this hug as a regular interaction? Why nobody ever hacked this hug to have as a regular interaction?

Jubei returned to his job and his rehearsals with renovated dedication. He wants to be promoted on his career to get a better incoming and decorate his house that doesn't have much furniture (and he really have to pay me the mortgage!)



He expect that Stephan at least chose him to some duets or some trios since he is good in group choreographies (he is not so good yet in pas de deux, unfortunately).



But before make his dreams come true, I need to play the orphanage again what it will take some time to happen.

Next: Stella Terrano, the uni alien girl who dreams with pink tutus and is in love with an impossible guy.
(I could swear that I had a picture of her)

And: Samantha Hayden, who is a very talented bailarina but is definitely dating the wrong guy.



I didn't do that! He called her!!
Stay tuned...