Round 9 Summary

Births: 2 (Magdalena Novak, Araminta Romilly)

Deaths: 6 (Nathaniel Kirby, Joanne Kirby, Nelson Clarke, Chiara Moretti, Vincenzo Moretti, Kristina Novak)

Engagements: 1 (Joseph and Vivienne Carmody)

Marriages: 0

Break-ups: 0

Graduations: 0

New residents: 0

Total population: 41 (18 male, 23 female)
Babies: 2
Toddlers: 2
Children: 8
Teens: 2
Adults: 21
Elders: 3

Twinstar

Round 9: College

(Georgette, Vivienne and Leontine)

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Vivienne was really eager to graduate in her Junior and Senior years of university. Even her socialising was done with her grades in mind.

Much of Leontine's social life was still being spent fielding phone calls (several times daily) from ex-boyfriend Charlton. Leontine is beginning to worry this would never end. Charlton knows about Brandon, Leontine knows about Aphrodite. There's no reason for them to have to speak as often as this.

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Sleep startles

Round 9: College

(Collette and Charlton)

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As soon as Collette and Charlton arrived at their dorm, they started making friends and doing their coursework immediately. They were determined to succeed at Suffolk.

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First to finish, last to start

Round 9: Days 41-45

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The Gottlieb twins Adam and Hanna, appear to get on a little better than Athena and Linnea.


They're always together, joking around or playing.

Isaac and Petra still seem to be in love.

Lately though, he's been spending his days at Be Real Nightclub. For a night time venue, it's pretty busy during the day.



He didn't go there looking for someone like Mackenzie but they seemed to go from initial flirting to full-on making out before Isaac knew what was happening.

Raffaella sees all this happening and stops smustling for ten seconds to go and say hello to Mackenzie and find out what's going on. Isaac's not too keen for Raffaella to know what's going on (she is good friends with Isaac and went to college with his wife, so she knows her quite well too). The second Raff's back is turned, he and Mackenzie sneak out of the club.

Before they know it, they're on Isaac's bed.

When he hears his wife and kids coming home from work and school, Isaac quickly ushers Mackenzie out the back door. Petra is none the wiser.

He feels guilty though and lavishes attention on Petra for the rest of the week.

Notes:

• Isaac has no idea about any of Petra's affairs. She's very sneaky.
• Mackenzie actually initiated the flirting. I was surprised that he accepted but then I remembered he was pleasure/romance, so I went with it.

Hoodoo voodoo

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Over at the Lane household, Floyd has been left in charge of Athena and Linnea while his girlfriend Drusilla is at work. Unsurprisingly, he's not as quick as Drusilla to stop the twins fighting.

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Strange currencies

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Since Steffi's death, Anton has become a lot closer to his daughter Mina. They always make time to share at least one meal together every day.

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Jackson Cannery

Round 9: Days 41-45

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On Saturday morning, Elias leaves Nathalie in their new apartment to set up and watch the kids.

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Gold soundz

Round 9: Days 41-45

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After dating for a while, Joseph and Vivienne have decided to become an official couple.

Mere seconds later, Joseph is tackled from behind by the bully landlord, Claudius Atkins.

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Broken

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Last time we visited the Bentons, Stan and Xanthia had just conceived their first baby. Since then, Xanthia has been suffering from the worst case of morning sickness Sullivan has seen in a while. She'd throw up, eat some breakfast, and then throw up again.

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Last goodbye

Round 9: Days 41-45

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At Kristina and Alexandra's townhouse, Kristina has once again had to prepare a meal for the headmaster. Alexandra would really like to attend the private school her older siblings Justina and Lukas went to. Anyway, looks like Icarus Quincy enjoyed the steak!

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C'mere

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Raffaella and Lukas have moved out of their rented townhouse and bought this enormous house. It's on Queen's Bay Road, just up the street from the house Raffaella grew up in.

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Misunderstood

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Over at the Nihills, Cedric is attempting to instill some of his love of music in his youngest son Ben.

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It's a hectic world

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Pascal is now living in an apartment downtown, in the same complex the Clarkes used to live in.

It's nice enough but the decoration leaves something to be desired. Carpet in a bathroom? The kitchen is also carpeted, for some odd reason.

The first task is job hunting. The task doesn't take very long because Pascal finds a job in the athletic track straight away. He starts out as a Minor Leaguer.

Geez, no wonder Emmy was worried about him. He's got 3 cooking skill points and still chooses to eat TV dinners.

He's also managed to get a cockroach infestation in his apartment (a first for me). If he'd put the garbage in the bin, instead of just next to the bin, this wouldn't have happened.



To celebrate his promotion, he goes out on the town for the evening and meets Virginia.

She ends up cutting their date short and Pascal is left alone at the bar.

Pascal can't quite remember this one's name or where he met her...

...but she becomes his third woohoo, which is pretty good for such a shy Sim (his first two were Petra and Kristina.

He gets home from work the next day to discover his mother has let herself in and made herself at home. She tells him she's not happy with how he's been taking care of himself and that she'll be moving in to make sure he does it properly from now on.

Pascal accepts his mother's hug but is really not looking forward to this turn of events.

Monday

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Chiara and Vincenzo wanted to do something nice for their grandkids so they took Arianna, Caterina, Filippo and Augustin to Central Park.

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Shake some action

Round 9: Days 41-45

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Emmy is the latest resident at Twilight Senior Living Complex.

She's not sure how she'll like it here. She only vaguely knows Gina and has never met Nelson. Amazingly, given how often she drops by on everyone uninvited.

She's on the phone to Pascal here and she looks a little concerned. He's just moved into his first apartment and is all alone. He's the baby of the family.

Emmy's good friend Vincenzo drops by the next day. I made it a point to make Emmy friends with all the influential people in Sullivan (as a Criminal Mastermind) and the Mayor's husband would be pretty influential.

Not sure what Nelson was trying to do here. Nothing romantic because Gina was right there and didn't get upset. Whatever it was, Emmy didn't have a great first impression of Nelson.

She consents to a game of Mahjong anyway.

Meanwhile, at the Clarkes, Nelson rushes outside when he sees Floyd Lane, his daughter Drusilla's live-in boyfriend, pass by. They've never met, so he's not going to give up this opportunity. Weirdly though, considering it's 11:30 in the morning, Floyd tells Nelson it's getting late and he should head home. Right then.

Looks like Nelson's time has run out though and he never will get a chance to interrogate Floyd.

Gina was really upset - much more upset than any other grieving spouse I've seen. She sobbed for ages.

Best friend Noelle feels it's best if she stays a while to make sure Gina is okay and that she eats something. Similar to what I did with Emmy, I tried to make the Clarkes friends with all the Bohemian social group townies.

She's a good friend. Kind of a homewrecker but a good friend.

Finally, a funny:
You'll need to click that to read it (and I just realised I forgot to crop it, so you can see my lovely messy desktop in the background). I'd never seen that memory before and thought it was quite apt for Galen!

Notes:

• I confess that I skipped through much of this session. I played Emmy for 2 days and then aged her 3. Then I went to the Clarkes, aged them up 2 days and played them for 3. The whole old folks' home thing is not working for me - it's not making them any more interesting. Next rotation, I'll probably move Gina and Emmy in with their Romance Sim sons and they can make nuisances of themselves in their apartments. I'm going to go back to keeping the oldies with their families, as I've done in previous hoods.