A week with Malcolm Landgraab
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randomsushiHello everyone, welcome back to the uberhood! We visited the Jocque family last time, where I tried to find Violet a love interest her own age. I failed miserably, but while Violet was on a terrible date, Malcolm was getting his first kiss. So time to see how he feels about that.
Also, I've been playing around with the sizing of pop-ups, but I'm not entirely sure if I like it. Please feel free to complain if they're too big.
Malcom disappoints me at once. I was hoping he'd want five top-level businesses, but nope, he wants to be a criminal mastermind. Join the club, Malcolm. Anyway, the job doesn't appear that day, so he can concentrate on working on his legit businesses, which are obviously now a front for money laundering.
I also got him a butler, because he seems like the kind of guy who'd have a butler.
To the electronics store! I recognise Cute Braids Reporter from the Jacquet's bakery, so Malcolm sucks up to her for a bit.
The business quickly hits rank 2.
This lady looked a bit lost, so I had Malcolm ask if she wanted help and she admitted she was only window shopping. He was furious about this.
Malcolm: Do you think the plush carpeting you're stomping dirt all over and those shiny lights you're basking under paid for themselves?! You're using my facilities and NOT SHOPPING?! THAT'S JUST LIKE STEALING, YOUNG LADY!
Townie: I'm sorry! I'll go buy something at once!
Wow, looks like it worked too!
Cute Braids Reporter likes his sales technique.
I was going to delete this picture, but as the week went on, I realised I was going to need it as proof that once upon a time, the butler did stuff like cook.
Swimming with Checo Ramirez.
Swimming turned out to be quite the workout. That should get you all the ladies, Malcolm!
He only has one bolt with Cairistiona, So I send him down to the nightclub to see if his hunky new bod can get him a girlfriend with at least two.
Milosz: You know you want in this club, lady. The boss is looking for hot young women!
Townie: Oooh, really?
Milosz: Yeah, which means the other guys here are gonna need some homelier-looking ladies like yourself to hang out with!
Townie: I wish to make a complaint! Your doorman over there insulted me!
Malcolm: Don't care, there's a hole in my ceiling.
Malcolm: All my patrons are hungry. I should make them some food if I want them to stay longer.
Or you could take out the food that's already cooking?
Malcolm: Oh. Yeah. That would've been a better idea.
Cyd Roseland decides to check the place out again.
Malcolm gives sales a go too and soon gets a silver badge.
Also, everyone fancies Elizabeth Aspir. I'm looking forward to going to her house and seeing how many guys are lusting after her.
Oh, by the way, Malcolm is a terrible cook.
Cyd: FIRE FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Townie: I DON'T WANT TO DIE IN THIS SHIRT!
Turns out customers don't like it when you torch the premises. Imagine that!
Doesn't take long to get back up to rank two though.
Looks like John and Jen got Lucy to look after the twins for the night.
Malcolm wants to branch out into selling flowers, so I buy him a bench.
So I'm trying to get him to work in all parts of the businesses so that when they get to higher levels, he can take over a job if need be without pissing off all the customers. So far, he's not doing that great at the cash register.
But he does get a restocking badge.
I have no idea what Puck's complaining about.
Finally, a cash register badge.
To the nightclub! Oh hey, it's Cute Braids Reporter again. And she looks mad.
CBR: I heard there was a fire here the other night and you had to put it out yourself. Can't say I'm overly impressed with that.
Malcolm: I can assure you madam, that there are plenty of smoke alarms and fire exits now in place and such a thing will never happen again.
CBR: Oh, well that's all right then.
Malcolm: Remember, if you must insult them, try to be subtle.
Milosz: Hey, that's a terrible shirt! Looks great on you though! Come on in!
Townie: Um... thanks. I think.
Malcolm. Excellent.
The club reaches rank 3.
Malcolm: Hi-
Oberon Summerdream: TALK TO THE HAND.
Oberon: ALSO I HATE THAT BLACK SPLODGE.
Malcolm: Congratulations, when's the baby?
Customer: Um, I'm a man.
Malcolm: Ooh, an alien baby. Fascinating.
Customer: ...An elder man.
Malcolm: Oh. Oh look, pinball machines!
Customer: Help, I can't find a counter on which to prepare this giant turkey.
GOOD.
Malcolm's been working pretty much non-stop the last few days, returning home only to eat and shower, so I decided to send him to an art gallery.
Malcolm: HAW HAW HAW, SHE'S GOT NO ARMS!
Pleb.
Back to work! This time he's at the electronics store again, which goes up a rank just as Isabel gets herself a silver badge.
Blue Reporter shows up this time and gives the store another good review.
Oh, and a Best of the Best award. That makes two awards for this place.
I'm almost beginning to regret putting in that hack that stops playables from spending all their cash in stores. Sure, they really would spend all their money on crap, but it would be fun to see what they've spent in on. I'm gonna guess that PT here is buying a pinball machine for Johnny.
Rank five now.
Malcolm: Hey, remember how I wanted to branch out into flowers? Let's move on with that plan.
Malcolm closes the shop for a quick shower, so the staff goof off for a little while around the pinball machine.
Isabel: So I hear your milkshape brought the boss to the yard.
When they reopen, Malcolm gets a gold sales badge.
Malcolm: My electronics store is doing great! You know what would be even better though? Home-made electronics!
Malcolm: Also toys.
I sent Malcolm home to rest, which is when I finally realised that instead of doing any work, the butler was spending all of his time moping around, doing a mime act.
Malcolm ended up having to do everything from clearing away his dinner plate to winding the clock. Grr. Useless Butler.
To the nightclub again. It makes it all the way to rank four.
I finally realised that by switching the radio on, I could make everyone smustle for hours.
Smustle dance class is go.
Oh hey, thanks for setting the kitchen on fire and sending the business ranking through the floor, Peter. No, really.
Peter: Oops.
Jackass.
At least Malcolm was telling the truth about the fire alarm.
He even manages to joke about it later.
Malcolm: That's right, this is the hottest place in town right now! Or I'm a liar liar pants on fire!
Back home, Malcolm makes a start on his line of home-made electronics. He's not very good at it and spends as much time repairing robots as it took to build them.
At least he got a science club membership out of it, right?
To the electronics store! Malcolm is greeted with pop-ups, free stuff and demands for a pay rise.
Also when I went to put his robots on the shelf, I found out yet another half-a-dozen were broken.
But they sell like hot cakes and help send the business up to rank six.
Restocking and selling them also gets Malcolm more badges.
Then the bad witch showed up with a swarm of hail and cockroaches, so he had to close.
Aww yiss, flower store.
Secret Sue: Damn, that is one fine man!
Butler: Ugh, who is that terrible, uncultured woman?
Oh that's just Secret Sue, here to give Malcolm her card. Because he's gained cooking enthusiasm. From cooking. You know, that thing you used to do? In fact...
LIAR.
With Butler Useless out of the way, Malcolm heads over to the new flower store and hits rank one.
Vampire: Oooh, I could use some new flowers for my grave.
Great idea! Hey, wait a second... is that blue thing your fangs? Damn, I though I had a fix for that.
New staff, new talent badges.
Malcolm: You need athneed cute little plant in a tea tin!
Customer: You're so right, I do!
Those cute little plants in tea tins sell so well (because they're $1, which I had to go and change in SimPE) that the business hits rank two and Tom gets another register badge before we leave.
And finally, FINALLY, Malcolm's dream career shows up. Yay! I'm hoping if he gets his LTW, he'll roll a new one for the five businesses.
He'll have to do better than that though.
MORE CRAPPY ROBOTS. He really is bad at them.
To the club AGAIN, where Bella Goth has come to party hard.
Also, when I get a DJ music station thingy, I HAVE to hire this townie to work on it!
There's just enough time at the end of the week to visit the electronics store, reach rank seven and alienate Gilbert Jacquet.
And we end with Malcolm wanting to win a Best Of The Best award.
Again.
---
Well he may not have a love interest, or a family, or a pet, or any kind of social life at all, but Malcolm was very fun to play. I loved trying out his different businesses. I do want to find him a girlfriend eventually, but he has tricky TTOs (underwear and formalwear) so maybe I'll make him a classy restaurant with forced formal attire. OR maybe I'll have him concentrate of his robotics and make a Servo sexbot! We'll see.
Next time, I shall return to some pregnant sims. We've had pregnant sim women and pregnant sim men, so I'm going to deal with Sarah Crittur, the pregnant sim dog in the next update. And combine her with the Summerdreams because they all want a dog. See ya then!
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Also, I've been playing around with the sizing of pop-ups, but I'm not entirely sure if I like it. Please feel free to complain if they're too big.
Malcom disappoints me at once. I was hoping he'd want five top-level businesses, but nope, he wants to be a criminal mastermind. Join the club, Malcolm. Anyway, the job doesn't appear that day, so he can concentrate on working on his legit businesses, which are obviously now a front for money laundering.
I also got him a butler, because he seems like the kind of guy who'd have a butler.
To the electronics store! I recognise Cute Braids Reporter from the Jacquet's bakery, so Malcolm sucks up to her for a bit.
The business quickly hits rank 2.
This lady looked a bit lost, so I had Malcolm ask if she wanted help and she admitted she was only window shopping. He was furious about this.
Malcolm: Do you think the plush carpeting you're stomping dirt all over and those shiny lights you're basking under paid for themselves?! You're using my facilities and NOT SHOPPING?! THAT'S JUST LIKE STEALING, YOUNG LADY!
Townie: I'm sorry! I'll go buy something at once!
Wow, looks like it worked too!
Cute Braids Reporter likes his sales technique.
I was going to delete this picture, but as the week went on, I realised I was going to need it as proof that once upon a time, the butler did stuff like cook.
Swimming with Checo Ramirez.
Swimming turned out to be quite the workout. That should get you all the ladies, Malcolm!
He only has one bolt with Cairistiona, So I send him down to the nightclub to see if his hunky new bod can get him a girlfriend with at least two.
Milosz: You know you want in this club, lady. The boss is looking for hot young women!
Townie: Oooh, really?
Milosz: Yeah, which means the other guys here are gonna need some homelier-looking ladies like yourself to hang out with!
Townie: I wish to make a complaint! Your doorman over there insulted me!
Malcolm: Don't care, there's a hole in my ceiling.
Malcolm: All my patrons are hungry. I should make them some food if I want them to stay longer.
Or you could take out the food that's already cooking?
Malcolm: Oh. Yeah. That would've been a better idea.
Cyd Roseland decides to check the place out again.
Malcolm gives sales a go too and soon gets a silver badge.
Also, everyone fancies Elizabeth Aspir. I'm looking forward to going to her house and seeing how many guys are lusting after her.
Oh, by the way, Malcolm is a terrible cook.
Cyd: FIRE FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Townie: I DON'T WANT TO DIE IN THIS SHIRT!
Turns out customers don't like it when you torch the premises. Imagine that!
Doesn't take long to get back up to rank two though.
Looks like John and Jen got Lucy to look after the twins for the night.
Malcolm wants to branch out into selling flowers, so I buy him a bench.
So I'm trying to get him to work in all parts of the businesses so that when they get to higher levels, he can take over a job if need be without pissing off all the customers. So far, he's not doing that great at the cash register.
But he does get a restocking badge.
I have no idea what Puck's complaining about.
Finally, a cash register badge.
To the nightclub! Oh hey, it's Cute Braids Reporter again. And she looks mad.
CBR: I heard there was a fire here the other night and you had to put it out yourself. Can't say I'm overly impressed with that.
Malcolm: I can assure you madam, that there are plenty of smoke alarms and fire exits now in place and such a thing will never happen again.
CBR: Oh, well that's all right then.
Malcolm: Remember, if you must insult them, try to be subtle.
Milosz: Hey, that's a terrible shirt! Looks great on you though! Come on in!
Townie: Um... thanks. I think.
Malcolm. Excellent.
The club reaches rank 3.
Malcolm: Hi-
Oberon Summerdream: TALK TO THE HAND.
Oberon: ALSO I HATE THAT BLACK SPLODGE.
Malcolm: Congratulations, when's the baby?
Customer: Um, I'm a man.
Malcolm: Ooh, an alien baby. Fascinating.
Customer: ...An elder man.
Malcolm: Oh. Oh look, pinball machines!
Customer: Help, I can't find a counter on which to prepare this giant turkey.
GOOD.
Malcolm's been working pretty much non-stop the last few days, returning home only to eat and shower, so I decided to send him to an art gallery.
Malcolm: HAW HAW HAW, SHE'S GOT NO ARMS!
Pleb.
Back to work! This time he's at the electronics store again, which goes up a rank just as Isabel gets herself a silver badge.
Blue Reporter shows up this time and gives the store another good review.
Oh, and a Best of the Best award. That makes two awards for this place.
I'm almost beginning to regret putting in that hack that stops playables from spending all their cash in stores. Sure, they really would spend all their money on crap, but it would be fun to see what they've spent in on. I'm gonna guess that PT here is buying a pinball machine for Johnny.
Rank five now.
Malcolm: Hey, remember how I wanted to branch out into flowers? Let's move on with that plan.
Malcolm closes the shop for a quick shower, so the staff goof off for a little while around the pinball machine.
Isabel: So I hear your milkshape brought the boss to the yard.
When they reopen, Malcolm gets a gold sales badge.
Malcolm: My electronics store is doing great! You know what would be even better though? Home-made electronics!
Malcolm: Also toys.
I sent Malcolm home to rest, which is when I finally realised that instead of doing any work, the butler was spending all of his time moping around, doing a mime act.
Malcolm ended up having to do everything from clearing away his dinner plate to winding the clock. Grr. Useless Butler.
To the nightclub again. It makes it all the way to rank four.
I finally realised that by switching the radio on, I could make everyone smustle for hours.
Smustle dance class is go.
Oh hey, thanks for setting the kitchen on fire and sending the business ranking through the floor, Peter. No, really.
Peter: Oops.
Jackass.
At least Malcolm was telling the truth about the fire alarm.
He even manages to joke about it later.
Malcolm: That's right, this is the hottest place in town right now! Or I'm a liar liar pants on fire!
Back home, Malcolm makes a start on his line of home-made electronics. He's not very good at it and spends as much time repairing robots as it took to build them.
At least he got a science club membership out of it, right?
To the electronics store! Malcolm is greeted with pop-ups, free stuff and demands for a pay rise.
Also when I went to put his robots on the shelf, I found out yet another half-a-dozen were broken.
But they sell like hot cakes and help send the business up to rank six.
Restocking and selling them also gets Malcolm more badges.
Then the bad witch showed up with a swarm of hail and cockroaches, so he had to close.
Aww yiss, flower store.
Secret Sue: Damn, that is one fine man!
Butler: Ugh, who is that terrible, uncultured woman?
Oh that's just Secret Sue, here to give Malcolm her card. Because he's gained cooking enthusiasm. From cooking. You know, that thing you used to do? In fact...
LIAR.
With Butler Useless out of the way, Malcolm heads over to the new flower store and hits rank one.
Vampire: Oooh, I could use some new flowers for my grave.
Great idea! Hey, wait a second... is that blue thing your fangs? Damn, I though I had a fix for that.
New staff, new talent badges.
Malcolm: You need a
Customer: You're so right, I do!
Those cute little plants in tea tins sell so well (because they're $1, which I had to go and change in SimPE) that the business hits rank two and Tom gets another register badge before we leave.
And finally, FINALLY, Malcolm's dream career shows up. Yay! I'm hoping if he gets his LTW, he'll roll a new one for the five businesses.
He'll have to do better than that though.
MORE CRAPPY ROBOTS. He really is bad at them.
To the club AGAIN, where Bella Goth has come to party hard.
Also, when I get a DJ music station thingy, I HAVE to hire this townie to work on it!
There's just enough time at the end of the week to visit the electronics store, reach rank seven and alienate Gilbert Jacquet.
And we end with Malcolm wanting to win a Best Of The Best award.
Again.
---
Well he may not have a love interest, or a family, or a pet, or any kind of social life at all, but Malcolm was very fun to play. I loved trying out his different businesses. I do want to find him a girlfriend eventually, but he has tricky TTOs (underwear and formalwear) so maybe I'll make him a classy restaurant with forced formal attire. OR maybe I'll have him concentrate of his robotics and make a Servo sexbot! We'll see.
Next time, I shall return to some pregnant sims. We've had pregnant sim women and pregnant sim men, so I'm going to deal with Sarah Crittur, the pregnant sim dog in the next update. And combine her with the Summerdreams because they all want a dog. See ya then!
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Date: 2012-10-03 11:15 pm (UTC)Looking forward to catching up with the rest of your stuff :)
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Date: 2012-10-04 01:34 am (UTC)So I'm not really complaining, but just suggesting maybe. The blue popups are fine, it's the corner ones that are huge O.O I kept changing the zoom on the page with my mouse, because they were like jumping out at me. But you said you were fiddling with it, so I wanted to give my input.
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Date: 2012-10-04 06:54 am (UTC)Gotta admit, it took me a long time to get into the business part of the game, but it is good fun. I just need to remember to take my playables along to the owned stores too. I'm so used to Bluewater being full of useless shops. XD
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Date: 2012-10-04 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-04 09:42 am (UTC)BUTLERS SUCK. I've found otu that if they start loitering instead of working, forcing an error works on them, but only temporarily, and I decided it's not worth the hassle. Besides, I had one who would prank-call the fire departmentall the time, making his employer pay 500$ each time. Unfortunately for him, he was working for Olive Specter, so I set him on fire.
This update was really fun! I love reading about Malcolm, he always has an interesting week.
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Date: 2012-10-04 09:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-04 12:37 pm (UTC)Which should mean she doesn't show up randomly outside of college. So that's weird.
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Date: 2012-10-04 05:25 pm (UTC)