Showing posts with label emmy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emmy. Show all posts

Friday, 9 January 2009

Everywhere

Round 10: Days 46-50
Last update: Pascal/Emmy


It hasn't even been a day since Emmy moved in with her son Pascal and the poor guy has already had enough her nagging.

Most of the nagging is related to his housekeeping skills. Emmy should really be nagging her sloppy daughters about that - Pascal is actually really neat! The roaches were all he needed to learn to make sure all his trash goes in the bin.

Despite the spotless kitchen, Emmy still insists on doing an inspection every morning after Pascal heads off to work.

Pascal just avoids her as much as possible, heading right into the shopping district after the carpool drops him off at home.

He does do some shopping but he's always got an eye on any cute girls who might walk by. He should probably make sure they're into guys before he hits on them though.

H&M isn't really a pick-up joint but he does convince one lovely shopper to join him for a drink at the new bar up the road.

Ashlea and Pascal have a heap of fun together at the Ball & Biscuit.

A whole heap of fun!

He invites Ashlea back to his apartment, hoping against hope that Emmy has left for work by the time they get there.

Luckily, she has so Ashlea and Pascal can get down to business.

When Emmy gets home from work, she begins to wonder if this is perhaps not the right apartment complex for her. People passed out on the floor in the lobby! She never had to deal with this at Twilight.

The next morning, Pascal is able to usher Ashlea out the door before Emmy wakes up.

Unfortunately, Emmy was already awake and heard voices. She's not happy about her son bringing strange women back to his apartment and spending the night with them. Pascal doesn't care.

Emmy probably wouldn't have approved of the girl Pascal invited over after Emmy went to work that evening. He never did get to woohoo with Virginia.

Now was his chance.

Pascal makes sure Virginia leaves well before Emmy gets home. He doesn't want a repeat of this morning's theatrics.

Emmy was getting used to Greg Morena passing out half-naked but that didn't mean she liked it!

The other tenants are beginning to notice the problem too.

Pascal's apartment was definitely not big enough for both him and Emmy. Every time he wanted to use his computer, Emmy was on it.

He ended up spending many evenings at the Ball & Biscuit.

There was something about this bar that seemed to attract the pretty girls, so Pascal usually found a companion for the evening there.

He was always careful to make sure Emmy was sound asleep before he brought the girls inside though.

Pascal couldn't control when his girlfriends would drop by unannounced though. One afternoon, he was surprised by Estelle.

He wasn't quite sure how to explain her presence to Emmy.

Estelle is so wholesome looking though, that she quickly charms Emmy, who (thankfully) goes back inside to get ready for work.

Rather than follow her, Pascal and Estelle made use of the complex's hot tub.

One good thing about living with his mother was when her friends would drop by. They all loved Pascal and frequently set him up on blind dates with different women, which was always went well (surprisingly).

He liked Bethany the masseuse a lot (3 bolts!).

He didn't even notice Emmy watching them behind him.

Assuming his mother had left for work, Pascal and Bethany retired to the bedroom.

But no, Emmy wasn't at work. She was right outside the apartment and in fact, had just died, aged 78. R.I.P. Emmy.

Pascal will finally be able to have an actual private life but he can't pretend he's not sad about losing his mother.

Random pic: Whatever happened to Greg Morena?

Yes, he died. I have no idea why but for some reason, he wouldn't go into his apartment, so therefore he wouldn't eat. He died of starvation. A girl has moved into his apartment now though, so that should make Pascal happy.

Notes:

  • Pascal has a secondary aspiration now. I roll for those too (I'll change that next round) and he rolled Family. So I might start looking for someone for him to settle down with next time.

Monday, 29 December 2008

A place called home

Round 10: Days 46-50


Vivienne has graduated from Suffolk University and has moved into her fiancé Joseph's townhouse in her hometown of Sullivan.

When she returned home from college, Vivienne was eager to find employment in her chosen field of journalism. She couldn't find a single position though and took a bit part in a soap opera instead.

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

Pounding

Round 10: Days 46-50

Leontine has graduated college and moved into boyfriend Brandon's family farm.

While Leontine is tending the apple trees one afternoon, Brandon surprises her with a proposal.

Saturday, 13 December 2008

It's a hectic world

Round 9: Days 41-45

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.

Shake some action

Round 9: Days 41-45
Last update: Nelson and Gina/Emmy
Next updates: Gina/Emmy


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.