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Happy New Year! Let´s see, what the future holds.

Arielle had this little guy in her inventory, probably from when she went diving in Isla Paradiso.

Arielle does an audition for a gig. Kisa is having a picnic at the location but decides to go home.

Arielle: Pity, I´m a bit peckish.

She plays for tips instead.

The Proprietor who engaged her is more interested in his romance novel though.

It´s fullmoon and Liam is not tired for some reason, so he goes to meet his ancestor.

Who promptly faints.

Liam: Was it something I said?

Nah, just the other ghosts.

There are a lot out tonight.

Nathan enjoys the trampolin.

 

This town has a nectary. I let her alone for just a minute.

Arielle: I have my first gig this evening.

OK, whatever.

I send the family for moral support.

Wigbald showed up on his own. It´s nice that he sees his daughter´s first show.

Especially, because I got the message, that he died, just a few days later.

Connie reached level ten of the criminal career and her lifetime wish… not. She spent a lot of time outside the household and the game in it´s infinite wisdom decided to put her in the thief branch instead of the evil branch. So she´s a master thief now, not the empress of evil. I kind of never realised. (Bad simmer!).

So I changed her lifetime wish with her points to living in the lap of luxery, sold a few things, and voilá…

I mean, she technically did reach her goal, right?

I like Cake Island.

 

It´s Liam´s young adult birthday!

 

 

Liam: … I can´t eat cake like this.

Better?

Liam: Yes. Thanks.

Crystal: That´s a nice table.

Liam rolls no sense of humour. Now he can really bore people to death. Well, sleep.

The cats still love Miles.

So I bought a cowplant.

It makes me nervous.

Very.

Will you stop it!

… I think, I will have to sell it again.

Graduation!

Crystal: What am I doing here?

No clue.

Those two have problems. Their low needs doesn´t make it better.

A sunlight charm helps.

This is a cute picture, methinks.

 

 

Liam wants to become a master magician like Nathan.

Arielle works on her singer career. She´s pretty good already.

Liam has to work a bit more.

Another birthday! Crystal becomes a teen.

This nice young woman heartfarted Liam. She was a face one, so I changed her face and hair a bit and made her a werewolf.

They have a nice chat.

Depite that, the first thing she does after that party is marrying another guy and having a child with him.

Speaking of… Kisa! Are you… PREGNANT??

Kisa: Jepp.

But… but you already had one! (*checks storyprogression settings*)

Kisa: Don´t care. I want another one.

Argh.

Well, um, birthday!

Nice hat.

Crystal: …

Looks better, but she´s an Isolde clone. Liam is a clone of Randolph, btw. It´s not so obvious, because of his different complexion.

Kisa, do you want to give birth here??

Kisa: Nah, I´m going to the hospital. Nice party!

It´s a little girl named Marina. Which I found hilarious, because her dad is Theodor Medina from Isla Paradiso.

Arielle wants to learn martial arts. This looks promising.

Arielle: Hyah!

Some horses show up. The grey one seems to want a trough.

So I provide one. Also a salt lick.

Stupid horse then just walks away and stands at the other end of the lot.

Arielle has a failed sing-a-gram with Kisa. Gabby and Miles show up as well.

Creepy vampire Miles.

Gabby: Awww, but he´s still my littel cutie-pie.

Whatever you say.

Arielle meets Shaoran. I don´t know, what they are talking about, there was no fire recently.

They bond over their mutual clumsiness.

Randolph takes the kids to the summer festival.

Crystal thinks, that´s a marvelous idea of him.

Liam seems bored.

But he finds some random kid to play football with.

Cute elder Randolph.

I gave Arielle our motive mobile, because her needs drop like crazy otherwise. It fills all of them up, apart from hydration. I call that bad programming, EA.

And what is this supposed to be?

Arielle: This car has a really good all-round-vision.

… right.

At least I can improve the paint job.

As this town doesn´t come with inhabitants, I dropped some random families from other towns in it, including the Ziggfields from Midnight Hollow. So Arielle meets Iman Alia.

I gave her a tiny makeover, mostly reducing her heavy make-up.

Arielle got invited to a pool party. Of course, there´s no pool. In the backround we have Beverly, David Ziggfield, some unknown face one, and Kisa with her new husband, Theodor Medina, whom I brought over from Isla Paradieso.

Beverly is her usual self.

 

The only person Beverly ever really got along with, is her husband Wigbald. Which is kind of cute with her being evil and him being good.

Arielle has a much better conversation with David. They both love music.

Back at home there´s a fridge crisis.

Catherine: Liam is in the way!

Liam: I´m in the way…

Crystal: Ghost don´t have that problem.

The actual problem is the refrigerator glitching every other day. I have to replace it nearly every sim-week.

Did I ever mention, that Crystal is a djinn? ´Cause she is!

Before I moved Miles and Gabby out, I fished out all of Gabby´s selfies out of her camera. I think, she´s got an addiction.

 

So this is chapter 100. Yay me, I guess.

I was totally fed up with Isla Paradiso and EA-worlds in general, so I downloaded a world from the exchange. This is Cake Island II by Rflong7.

It´s pretty awesome. I have been playing with create-a-world, and actually have one working world, but this really made me ponder about my effort.

Every lot is custom made. I especially like this little pond/swimming pool.

Here we are. There´s a godzilla right next door.

Everyone is behaving like usual, though.

So this is part two of my plan for Miles.

I love how gentle sim vampires are with their lovers, compared to how they treat aquaintances. Although poor Miles looks frightened.

Gabby: You sure about this?

Miles: Y-yes…

Gabby: Here we go!

 

Seems to hurt.

 

 

Miles: Guh.

Gabby: Yummy!

Miles: And now we wait?

Gabby: Yes!

Miles: Okay, in the meantime, let´s make out!

Gabby: Totally.

I built a lot just around the corner for the ghosts.

Everyone is present and activ on this fullmoon night.

 

Occasionaly my sims bake autonomously something they can´t eat, like a birthday or wedding cake. They are pretty angry when that happens.

Miles seems to be increasingly wary of the sun.

I could not not take this shot.

This is a cake with no limitations. Isolde made it.

Arielle: It´s really tasty, but I´m not that sure about the flames.

I made a point to feed Miles only really nice food during his transformation days.

Liam: That´s an excellent idea!

He has to resort to juice packages in the future, after all.

Gabby: They are totally tasty.

You are not very convincing, you know.

It´s time!

 

 

 

 

So?

Ah.

Miles: I´m feeling pretty well, actually.

Vampire Miles looks a bit creepy. I moved him and Gabby out that night, not because of creepyness, but because I needed the room.

Have a happy undead life out in story-progression land!

Last time little Crystal was born. Her Grandpa loves her.

It´s a bit sad, that she isn´t green like her mom.

Liam loves to do ballet. He also does the ballet club at school.

This baby doesn´t lack attention.

Gabby wins.

But sim babies are boring, let´s age her up!

Crystal: Nah, I´m good.

No breast feeding in the Sims 3.

I seriously considered buying Sims 4, the base game was really cheap at cyber monday. But NO TODDLERS. No.

Arielle is totally smitten with the little girl.

Randolph drew this. Never seen it before.

Learning to walk.

Learning to fly.

Grandma helps with the xylophone.

Arielle grows up to young adult and I totally have no photos of her.

She rolls proper. Her lifetime wish is vocal legend.

There are so many things wrong in this picture, and I don´t think, it´s the lack of an umbrella.

I always forget, that the toddlers can ride these things until some adult rolls the wish.

Gabby finally got her grandchild and she´s making the most out of it.

Arielle tries to swim to her graduation, and when I cancel the action, she graduates in the middle of nowhere.

She wished for an aquarium and takes good care of the fishes.

A mermaid with an aquarium. Is that weird or cute?

Her first Sing-A-Gram!

Liam talks to this random stranger and has the option to „show“ something. He shows a pirouette! RS seems thrilled.

It´s already time for him to become a teenager. He rolls easily impressed.

What´s wrong?

Liam: I didn´t get a cake!

Sorry about that. But your dad made these nice cupcakes. With a cherry on top!

Liam: Ah, you´re right!

So this guy steadily refuses to die. He´s well over 200 days now, with my normal lifespan set to 128. So I decided to fulfill a wish, that I actually never locked in. First step is this.

 

Hi, there, young Miles!

Step two will take place, when we move. And we will move soon, because Isla Paradiso is driving me insane.

But as long as we are here, Arielle can do some diving.

At night, because bad time management.

She catches some interesting fishes and finds some treasure.

Then she swims in a cave and ends up at some beach. Okay, enough of that.

Crystal ages up as well. She rolls animal lover.

Last time Connie and Randolph got married.

Connie: Why do I have a toddler at my age?

Yeah, sorry, I guess, that´s my fault.

Arielle ages up at full moon. I can´t remember, why she´s in costume. It´s probably halloween. I do remember, that I was afraid, it would mess up her aging.

Added zombie.

Lovely outfit. She rolls green thumb.

Hi, Fiona!

Liam, you look a bit demonic here.

Liam: Hehehe.

Arielle got her makeover.

She seems to be a good mix of her parents.

Unicorn interlude.

Randolph is in the vicinity and offers refreshments.

 

So, Arielle´s tail is blue.

Totally blue.

The scales on her land legs are pink.

I could change it, but I think, it´s funny.

It´s Liam´s birthday!

Oops.

Yeah, the toddler is crying. Never mind the FIRE in the living room.

Randoph channels his mum, and puts it out.

Beverly thinks a party with a fire sucks, and leaves, just as the fire brigade pulls up and fines us for a false alarm.

Wigbald comes late and brings a pie.

He´s an elder now, but still looking fierce.

I bought another cake, but it kind of didn´t work, so Liam takes a little nap and ages up in the middle of the night instead.

He rolls daredevil.

Oh, my. That´s a cute one.

He picked the coat himself. Who am I to change it?

Liam: Pink suits me.

I got the message, that Kym married some Jaron Weissweiler. My game is a bit wonky when it comes to distinguish between male and female names, so I send Randolph to explore.

Nope, my straigt-as-a-ruler Kym married a guy. That´s actually the first autonomous gay marriage in my game, so I got pretty excited.

I give him a little makeover. So this is the love of Kym´s golden years. He´s good, family oriented, artistic, nursering and an angler. They live in a little house with an orange tabby kitten.

They are so cute, I saved them to the library. Some day, when I´m feeling brave, I may start a story based legacy with them.

Randolph: Uhm, this is getting a bit awkward. Can I go home now?

Sure, sweetie.

Only two days later I got the notification, that Kym died. That mad me sad.

Isolde isn´t feeling so well.

She discovers that she´s pregnant, while Miles and Gabby are having a little tiff outside.

I don´t think I had combined pregnancy book reading since Violetta and Paul.

Isolde, aren´t you cold?

Isolde: Nope. I´m a djinn!

Oh, okay.

She has to be the happiest pregnant sim ever, alway cooing over her belly.

Randolph is pretty fit for his age.

It´s a snowflake party.

Isolde: I think, I´m getting the baby now.

Sure, go ahead.

Isolde: This hurts quite a bit!

Connie: Aaaaahhhh!

Kisa: Is she done yet?

Here we have little Crystal. She rolls good and loves the heat. Liam doesn´t seem to be thrilled.

Liam: I bet, she´ll scream at night.

Quite possible.

It´s still enough time for presents.

 

Miles gives his granddaughter her first bottle. I never thought, he will live to see her, but he´s stubborn that way.

Little Liam is a witch.

I´ve never seen Randolph do that. But he never played much with the toys from the chest, if I remember correctly.

Connie has her elder birthday.

Looking good!

Wigbald and Beverly prefer to play in the sprinklers and then eat each other instead of cake.

Isolde´s sister Mary is artistic – she starts a nice picure on the drawing table. Finish it, please?

Mary: Mh-mh.

Mary: Ooooh, kitten!

No, no, no, you are not finished yet!

Mary: Make me!

Don´t give me that Jeannie crap! I can add you to the household and really make you, any time!

Mary: Meh.

Then she leaves. There´s no one really drawing at the moment, so the picture can wait until the next party.

No party for Randolph, though. I kinda forgot.

Randolph: Ah, that´s alright. Look, still five fingers!

That´s nice.

Miles only works on mondays and didn´t sleep enough before his insane-hours-shift. He comes home and doesn´t make it to the bed.

Randolph and Connie visit the resort. For one reason or the other, Randoph decides to fire blast this random woman.

RW: Aaah! You are so hot!

Randolph: No, you are hot. Literally.

I make him kill the fire with an ice blast.

I thought, it would be a nice idea for those two to have a wedding at the resort. It got dark somehow.

They have one of the most random wedding audiences I´ve ever seen. They didn´t bother with a formal outfit themselves.

Cute elder couple is cute.

 

 

The wohoo in that tower thingie.

And spend the rest of their time at the resort smooching each other.

This is nothing sim related, apart from putting my simself in my place, because I do not want to show my face on the internet, and she´s prettier than me. I downloaded gimp and spent an hour of confused clicking creating this masterpiece. The picure itself is crap, because the lighting was really bad. And real me wasn´t gazing adoringly at Dan´s chin.

Anyway.

This sunday I went to Berlin to watch THE AMAZING TOUR IS NOT ON FIRE which was created by the youtubers Dan and Phil. It was amazing and fun, and I would totally do it again, even if the majority of the audience were screaming teenagers and I´m 39. But I figure, if I´m playing the sims, I can also watch cute british youtubers. Right? Right.

That´s all.

Last time Fiona died. The only one who has the mourning moodlet, is Randolph, even though the whole family saw her die.

Randolph: I wish, mom could have seen her grandchild.

Yes, I´m sorry about that.

Hi, Kisa! Looking good!

Another one in mourning. You know, it would help, if you actually married someone not-elder stage.

Rowan: *sob*

A successful good-night story. That´s all.

Never mind Catherine wearing her outerwear.

Isla Paradiso is so pretty.

Why are my evil sims always so good with children?

Connie: You have to corrupt them early.

Sure.

Birthday for little Liam.

I´m sure, the blond is from his great-granddad. Yes.

Another werwolf-wannabe. I still don´t have one.

Matteo Torres seems to have issues with the house.

But is comforted by cake.

Catherine: Cake is good for the soul.

I´m totally with you.

While waiting in line to wash his plate, Matteo turns into a zombie.

Randolph: *Gasp*

Relax, he won´t do anything.

Randolph: No! I think Cathy´s arm needs to be amputated!

He washed his plate, then shuffled away before Randolph could shoot him with the sunlight charm. At least he had fun.

Hi, Beverly!

Full moon is hard for my little coward Violetta.

Hey, you´re up again. We´ve come a long way, haven´t we?

Violetta: Indeed. Is this Isla Paradiso?

Yes!

Violetta: Beware the lag.

Too late for that.

Liam is learning all his toddler skills.

He´s a studious one.

Randolph has nearly reached his Lifetimewish.

Random Lady: What have you done to me? You son of a Llama!

RL: Goodbye, cruel world!

RL: Revenge!

RL: … just one moment… *huff*

RL: I hate you! (But you are kinda cute)!

Randolph: Same!

He heals her, but I somehow didn´t take a photo of that.

Instead his next victim!

 

And healing!

And ka-ching! Finally!

Arielle grows up without a party. She rolls eco-friendly, which kind of fits.

And her first thought as a child is to go swimming. Her scales are blue now for some reason.

The school is on the main island. Children get on the bus, but then they kind of teleport to the school. On the way home, they take a taxi boat.

This is Palmira Medina. She looks fierce.

Beverly and Wigbald moved out. I have to say, mermaids are a total pain in the behind. Their needs drop faster than anyone elses, they are always hungry and dehydrated, even kelp fills up only half of the hunger bar. (Wheras slob Beverly licking a plate makes it full. I call that really bad programming, but, well, sims.) They insist on swimming EVERYWHERE, and even when I learned how to make them use a boat (by clicking on the water near the nearest beach to the destination and choosing `boat here´), it´s just annoying. They are beautiful to watch, but are just too high maintenance for me to enjoy.

Connie moved in.

She has a pretty smile. Both her and Randolph are near elder stage now, so…

 

This is the most hideous pregnancy outfit so far. I think, the game mixed up her work outfit with some random pregnancy clothes.

That´s her everyday. Much better.

Every now and then a family member tries to charm the snake. Gabby is pretty good.

Isolde eats her dinner on the toilet. Miles has to vomit, because he ate something bad, but he patiently waits, until she´s done. Why she chose the toilet over the many, many chairs in the house is anyones guess.

Training someone on the ballet bar looks weird.

I got the notification that Fiona will die soon, so Randolph invites her over. She´s civil to Miles, for a change.

Pretty Fiona. I will miss you!

And she always loved her only child.

I then let my sims run wild and just watched.

Something really weird is happening. One sim after another comes and joins a circle around Fiona. They tend to do that around Miles because he´s irresistable, but he´s not part of the discussion yet.

There he is.

Now Connie, who starts a fight.

And Arielle.

The only one missing is Isolde, and she´s at work.

It goes on until the evening.

Then Fiona complains, that she´s hungry, downs three drinks from the bar and dies.

 

Grim has routing issues again and so Fiona is just hovering around for a while.

But I don´t think, she would have begged for her life.

Grimmy stays around for a bit.

The next morning it is time for giving birth.

You alright, Connie?

Connie: Just thinking.

Connie: I´m having so much fun! Not!

And here we have little Liam. He rolls absent-minded and clumsy. Poor guy.

Goodbye Fiona. You get two pictures, because I couldn´t decide.

Last time Catherine and Isolde and Beverly and Wigbald got married.

Looks like one of the couples had a bit too much fun in their wedding night.

Beverly: Totally not your business. Ugh.

Beverly then decides to rest a bit. Normally my pregnant sims make a beeline for the rocking chair. That´s actually an acturate sign that they are pregnant, even if there were no chimes.

Beverly: I´m not like everybody else.

Indeed, you are not.

Wigbald really loves the ballet bar. He still looks ridiculous. Perhaps it´s the clothes.

Beverly: Oh, hey, I´m pregnant!

Wigbald: May I touch your belly?

Wigbald explores some of the underwater sites.

They look beautiful, but for some reason most of my pictures come out blurry.

I´m so jealous right now.

Really.

In the backround you can see the mist of the undiscovered islands. In the tips for making Isla Paradiso run better, it was suggested to cheat them in the open, but I wanted to try to do the quest.

This is on free will, even though they hate each other.

Randolph: I luv babies!

Beverly: Must be hormones.

Baby incoming!

It´s a girl. I just had to call her Arielle.

She rolls neurotic and clumsy.

Sim babies are boring, on to the cake!

Connie: Randolph, dear, can you restrain yourself a bit in public?

She´s got her mum´s hair, and her dad´s strong jaw. Ain´t she cute?

Kym showed up again in costume. Don´t know, what´s up with that.

Fiona actually doesn´t live in the house anymore – she suddenly rolled the wish to move in with Eddy, which I thought was pretty cute. And I could use the space, so…

Playing in ocean mermaid toddler spam.

 

 

 

Her dad wanted to teach her to walk.

I like Wigbald. He´s a very restrained diva and get´s along with pretty much everyone.

Learning to talk isn´t such a success.

Randolph helps out.

Doesn´t look much better.

I bought Aurora Skies.

I don´t know, if Arielle is particulary stubborn, or if it is a glitch.

She just sits there, doing nothing. I tested it in another game, and the toddlers actually learned something.

Randolph rescues a kitten, that is stuck up some stairs.

Of course, the counter for his LTW of mystic healer reset with the move. So we start again.

Hi, Fiona!

 

Kisa is there, as well.

One island was discovered. It wasn´t very exciting, so I cheated the others out of the mist. The save is already getting wonky, and it helped a bit.

She talks!

Randolph, where are you looking? You don´t even like her!

Randolph: Doesn´t mean, I can´t appreciate a fine…

Stop right there!

I think, this is the bachelor party for Randolph.

Eddy: Fi, can we go home? There are so many people here.

Fiona: Not before I had some drinks. We don´t have a bar at home.

Ah, yes. The dancers chose the smallest room of the house. The bachelor went to bed.

This is the walking stick, Paul brought with him, when he moved in. It was inherited from inventory to inventory, the last one to use it was Miles. It totally glitched out of control and is now fused to the kitchen floor.

Randolph works for his LTW by throwing random elixirs at random people and than healing them.

It´s all for the greater good. Or something.

Afterwards, the people feel much better. Really.