A week with John Mole and Natasha Una
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randomsushiHello, welcome back to my uberhood. After seeing a picture of a makeover of her, I decided to head over to Desiderata Valley to check on the resident cheese-loving artist, Natasha Una.
Natasha: I can't get to my cheese sandwiches!
Yeah, it's beginning to look like any food that was left in unplayed lots is borked, so boo. I had her throw them away and make a new batch.
Natasha's OTH is arts and crafts, and as she already had the hobby membership card, I sent her off to check out the secret lot.
Witch: Ow! What the hell!?
Arts Hobby Lady: The artists are tortured enough, they don't need your cockroach shenanigans.
Natasha's LTW is to eat 50 grilled cheese sandwiches. To make this a little easier, I got her the Summon Grilled Cheese perk so she could make them in emergencies. She also carried around a plate in her inventory at all times.
Sadly not everyone is as all that into cheese as Natasha.
Checo: Ew, it's all stringy and gross!
Natasha: OH NO YOU DIDN'T.
Townie's hatred of cheese leads them to steal the newspaper before the paperboy has even left the front porch. Not that it matters because Natasha doesn't want a job and can actually paint well enough to support herself.
But as painting all day is boring as hell to watch, I also make her mosey along down to the community lots to play chess.
Oh! And you know how her bio is all "is there a greater mystery for her, and by mystery we mean mysterious Mr Mole and you should totally get them together" then the answer is no. Because they have negative chemistry. I can understand this in basegame couples, but in EPs after Nightlife, I can't help thinking why bother putting in heavy hints that players are intended to get two sims together and then not check to make sure they're actually compatible?
Then I remember that the Bon Voyage General Store has all its shopping displays facing the walls and realise that's why.
I'm so ashamed of myself, it wasn't until I went and did a bunch of lot makeovers that I realised that at some point in the past, I'd deleted the Kat and Kim families and never reinstalled them. So say hi to Tara Kat.
Natasha: Hi! Have you embraced Grilled Cheese as your one true food yet?
Tara: ...Let go of my hand.
Natasha: Whoa. No cheese on these dogs? That's out of this world.
Darren: Professor Von Ball! I just wanted to tell you, I kissed a girl and I liked it.
Natasha: This game is boring and has nothing to do with either art or cheese. Why did you send me here?
To meet people you might like?
Natasha: You failed.
Sooooo I sent her picky arse off to the art gallery.
Natasha: How am I supposed to touch it with all these walls in the way?
You're not. That's the point.
Natasha: Ugh, this is terrible! What am I supposed to do now?
Natasha: Oooh.
Victor: Ho hum. Just sitting here. Being married an' all.
Natasha: *smooch*
Natasha: Oooooooh, I like him too.
No 'Tasha, don't be a homewrecker twice now!
Anyway, this was the about the moment I thought "wouldn't it be cool if she could actually buy some stuff from the little gift shop I made here?" And then, inspiration struck. Why not promote a random townie to playable, motherlode the shit out of them, buy all the stores and actually make the shops functional? And so I did.
Natasha: One cup of your finest coffee please. And quickly, I have shopping to do.
AND IT WORKS! Hurrah!
Natasha: Excuse me, I've just gotta go powder my nose.
Natasha: Shit. SHIT! Oh God, I'm stuck! I'm gonna starve to death here in this corner in a puddle of pee!
Why the hell didn't you go out the same way you got in? Wait, never mind. I'll just move you. And install some walkthrough blocks on this lot.
Back home, I decided that as she had no interesting LTW and no job wants, I'd get her into business selling her art.
Cheese break.
Rose: Ooooh, so dreamy.
I see what you did there.
For a split second, I honestly thought Vidcund had managed to turn into a teen for real, then I realised it was just Dustin Broke with a new hairstyle.
And for another split second, I thought Natasha wanted to do something other than obsess over cheese, until I realised she didn't just want to talk to these people, she wanted to talk to them about grilled cheese.
Every time I read the words "The Zone" I hear in the voice of Randall from Monsters Inc.
Anyway, here's Una's, your one stop destination for painted canvas.
It had a grand total of three pictures in stock when this happened.
Jodie: Is it just me or does that kid look really creepy?
It's not just you.
Jodie: Cool. I'll buy it to freak out my brother.
Natasha: Wait, is this seriously the last picture of me?
All you did was paint and eat cheese!
Natasha: But those were the best bits!
So in order to pad out the update a bit, I decided to play a week with John Mole too. After a quick makeover, he decided to skill up by spying on Vidcund. But John's a smart guy: he's locked all his doors. Let's see you get in now, Vidcund!
I also used his as a guniea pig to try out all those newly owned community lots.
John: Where's the server?
You two are in the wrong stores.
And alas, my attempt to hide the broken-faced cashier behind a Cyberman helmet failed.
John was able to buy a scarf from the clothing store, but as that's the cashier from the supermarket, I'm going to have to declare this experiment a big fat FAIL.
Turns out my mistakes were hiring NPC's instead of townies and attempting to use the Business Uniform menu, which is horribly broken and has never been fixed. Once I hired townies and made their casual clothes their uniforms, it all worked nicely.
Server: What can I get you?
John: Anything really, I nearly starved to death trekking here and back four times.
Much to my amusement, John rolled Grilled Cheese as a secondary. Note that it does not improve his chemistry with Natasha AT ALL. But on the bright side, he doesn't obsess over it like she does, and is happy to sample other foods.
Townie: Mwahaha... is he watching me?
John Mole is always watching you.
Anyway, he had a want locked to play with Tasha, so he invited her over for a nice game of Red Hands.
She insisted on bringing Elizabeth Aspir with her and together, they blocked her into a corner and forced her to eat Grilled Cheese.
Natasha and John: ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
Anyway. John's OTH is tinkering, so I brought him a restorable car. He is very very bad at it and the engine blew up in his face as soon as he touched it.
So he concentrated on the bodywork instead.
Promotion! It's not his dream job, but it'll do for now.
He celebrated by heading off to Archimedes Arcade. As the lot contains a cinema and bowling alley, it's pay to enter, but not too extortionate.
Coffee and bowling before heading home.
The next day, he needed a logic point for work, so I sent him to the library.
Loki: You should move the knight there-
Faith: Don't listen to him, he's up to something fishy.
Then he got hungry, so I sent him off to try out Oresha Family Dining where he was promptly mothed by both the server and the host.
Staff: OH MY GOD A CUSTOMER!
Whatever though, it works.
Later that evening, John comes home with a promotion, but what's really interesting is that he's also come home with Chloe Curious. IIRC, she has a LTW to have 20 simultaneous lovers and hey, John's single, so why not?
John: So... um, what's a girl like you doing in a place like this?
Chloe: Hoping to get laid. Wanna help me out with that?
And then they had sex. :D
He'd already had a bit of a crush on Sharon Wirth, but I guess his tryst with Chloe made him see things in a new light because he fell out of crush with her while talking on the phone.
Whoops.
John: Boo hoo.
Just to make his day a little shittier, somebody kicked over the bin and John just couldn't stop himself from stomping on the roaches with his bare feet.
Deja vu?
Chloe: Call me Miss Moneypenny, Mr Mole!
I have no idea how this wet patch got here. Nobody's wet themselves and even if they had, I have a yellow pee hack. WHAT IT THIS?
Chloe stayed the night and John took her out for breakfast, where once again, she refused to actually sit with the guy she's with.
John: Uh... Chloe? I don't think 'gin' counts as breakfast.
Chloe: Maybe not on YOUR planet.
Chloe, you've lived on this planet your whole life.
John: -and that's how I saved the world from the threat of- Chloe?
Chloe: Zzzzz.
John: Was I really that boring?
No, Chloe just refused to sleep all night long, despite actually being asked to stay the night.
The kitchen sink broke and flooded the whole place while John was at work.
On Sunday, John had a day free and needed a body point, so I sent him off to Cratus Gym to see if that was working properly. Sadly other sims would only buy tickets if I took control of the owner and forced her to do sales, but other than that, it worked.
And he finished off the week by doing some much-needed yard work.
---
Well, I liked the idea of these two as a couple, but negative chemistry=no for me. Despite the cheese obsession, Natasha is a lot of fun to play and I'm hoping she'll find a partner at her art gallery. Meanwhile, John can play the James Bond role with Chloe for a while, but when he finds his LTW job, I'm going to see if I can a more suitable partner for him. I like them as a couple, but with her LTW, that's never gonna work out.
Uberhood Index
Natasha: I can't get to my cheese sandwiches!
Yeah, it's beginning to look like any food that was left in unplayed lots is borked, so boo. I had her throw them away and make a new batch.
Natasha's OTH is arts and crafts, and as she already had the hobby membership card, I sent her off to check out the secret lot.
Witch: Ow! What the hell!?
Arts Hobby Lady: The artists are tortured enough, they don't need your cockroach shenanigans.
Natasha's LTW is to eat 50 grilled cheese sandwiches. To make this a little easier, I got her the Summon Grilled Cheese perk so she could make them in emergencies. She also carried around a plate in her inventory at all times.
Sadly not everyone is as all that into cheese as Natasha.
Checo: Ew, it's all stringy and gross!
Natasha: OH NO YOU DIDN'T.
Townie's hatred of cheese leads them to steal the newspaper before the paperboy has even left the front porch. Not that it matters because Natasha doesn't want a job and can actually paint well enough to support herself.
But as painting all day is boring as hell to watch, I also make her mosey along down to the community lots to play chess.
Oh! And you know how her bio is all "is there a greater mystery for her, and by mystery we mean mysterious Mr Mole and you should totally get them together" then the answer is no. Because they have negative chemistry. I can understand this in basegame couples, but in EPs after Nightlife, I can't help thinking why bother putting in heavy hints that players are intended to get two sims together and then not check to make sure they're actually compatible?
Then I remember that the Bon Voyage General Store has all its shopping displays facing the walls and realise that's why.
I'm so ashamed of myself, it wasn't until I went and did a bunch of lot makeovers that I realised that at some point in the past, I'd deleted the Kat and Kim families and never reinstalled them. So say hi to Tara Kat.
Natasha: Hi! Have you embraced Grilled Cheese as your one true food yet?
Tara: ...Let go of my hand.
Natasha: Whoa. No cheese on these dogs? That's out of this world.
Darren: Professor Von Ball! I just wanted to tell you, I kissed a girl and I liked it.
Natasha: This game is boring and has nothing to do with either art or cheese. Why did you send me here?
To meet people you might like?
Natasha: You failed.
Sooooo I sent her picky arse off to the art gallery.
Natasha: How am I supposed to touch it with all these walls in the way?
You're not. That's the point.
Natasha: Ugh, this is terrible! What am I supposed to do now?
Natasha: Oooh.
Victor: Ho hum. Just sitting here. Being married an' all.
Natasha: *smooch*
Natasha: Oooooooh, I like him too.
No 'Tasha, don't be a homewrecker twice now!
Anyway, this was the about the moment I thought "wouldn't it be cool if she could actually buy some stuff from the little gift shop I made here?" And then, inspiration struck. Why not promote a random townie to playable, motherlode the shit out of them, buy all the stores and actually make the shops functional? And so I did.
Natasha: One cup of your finest coffee please. And quickly, I have shopping to do.
AND IT WORKS! Hurrah!
Natasha: Excuse me, I've just gotta go powder my nose.
Natasha: Shit. SHIT! Oh God, I'm stuck! I'm gonna starve to death here in this corner in a puddle of pee!
Why the hell didn't you go out the same way you got in? Wait, never mind. I'll just move you. And install some walkthrough blocks on this lot.
Back home, I decided that as she had no interesting LTW and no job wants, I'd get her into business selling her art.
Cheese break.
Rose: Ooooh, so dreamy.
I see what you did there.
For a split second, I honestly thought Vidcund had managed to turn into a teen for real, then I realised it was just Dustin Broke with a new hairstyle.
And for another split second, I thought Natasha wanted to do something other than obsess over cheese, until I realised she didn't just want to talk to these people, she wanted to talk to them about grilled cheese.
Every time I read the words "The Zone" I hear in the voice of Randall from Monsters Inc.
Anyway, here's Una's, your one stop destination for painted canvas.
It had a grand total of three pictures in stock when this happened.
Jodie: Is it just me or does that kid look really creepy?
It's not just you.
Jodie: Cool. I'll buy it to freak out my brother.
Natasha: Wait, is this seriously the last picture of me?
All you did was paint and eat cheese!
Natasha: But those were the best bits!
So in order to pad out the update a bit, I decided to play a week with John Mole too. After a quick makeover, he decided to skill up by spying on Vidcund. But John's a smart guy: he's locked all his doors. Let's see you get in now, Vidcund!
I also used his as a guniea pig to try out all those newly owned community lots.
John: Where's the server?
You two are in the wrong stores.
And alas, my attempt to hide the broken-faced cashier behind a Cyberman helmet failed.
John was able to buy a scarf from the clothing store, but as that's the cashier from the supermarket, I'm going to have to declare this experiment a big fat FAIL.
Turns out my mistakes were hiring NPC's instead of townies and attempting to use the Business Uniform menu, which is horribly broken and has never been fixed. Once I hired townies and made their casual clothes their uniforms, it all worked nicely.
Server: What can I get you?
John: Anything really, I nearly starved to death trekking here and back four times.
Much to my amusement, John rolled Grilled Cheese as a secondary. Note that it does not improve his chemistry with Natasha AT ALL. But on the bright side, he doesn't obsess over it like she does, and is happy to sample other foods.
Townie: Mwahaha... is he watching me?
John Mole is always watching you.
Anyway, he had a want locked to play with Tasha, so he invited her over for a nice game of Red Hands.
She insisted on bringing Elizabeth Aspir with her and together, they blocked her into a corner and forced her to eat Grilled Cheese.
Natasha and John: ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
Anyway. John's OTH is tinkering, so I brought him a restorable car. He is very very bad at it and the engine blew up in his face as soon as he touched it.
So he concentrated on the bodywork instead.
Promotion! It's not his dream job, but it'll do for now.
He celebrated by heading off to Archimedes Arcade. As the lot contains a cinema and bowling alley, it's pay to enter, but not too extortionate.
Coffee and bowling before heading home.
The next day, he needed a logic point for work, so I sent him to the library.
Loki: You should move the knight there-
Faith: Don't listen to him, he's up to something fishy.
Then he got hungry, so I sent him off to try out Oresha Family Dining where he was promptly mothed by both the server and the host.
Staff: OH MY GOD A CUSTOMER!
Whatever though, it works.
Later that evening, John comes home with a promotion, but what's really interesting is that he's also come home with Chloe Curious. IIRC, she has a LTW to have 20 simultaneous lovers and hey, John's single, so why not?
John: So... um, what's a girl like you doing in a place like this?
Chloe: Hoping to get laid. Wanna help me out with that?
And then they had sex. :D
He'd already had a bit of a crush on Sharon Wirth, but I guess his tryst with Chloe made him see things in a new light because he fell out of crush with her while talking on the phone.
Whoops.
John: Boo hoo.
Just to make his day a little shittier, somebody kicked over the bin and John just couldn't stop himself from stomping on the roaches with his bare feet.
Deja vu?
Chloe: Call me Miss Moneypenny, Mr Mole!
I have no idea how this wet patch got here. Nobody's wet themselves and even if they had, I have a yellow pee hack. WHAT IT THIS?
Chloe stayed the night and John took her out for breakfast, where once again, she refused to actually sit with the guy she's with.
John: Uh... Chloe? I don't think 'gin' counts as breakfast.
Chloe: Maybe not on YOUR planet.
Chloe, you've lived on this planet your whole life.
John: -and that's how I saved the world from the threat of- Chloe?
Chloe: Zzzzz.
John: Was I really that boring?
No, Chloe just refused to sleep all night long, despite actually being asked to stay the night.
The kitchen sink broke and flooded the whole place while John was at work.
On Sunday, John had a day free and needed a body point, so I sent him off to Cratus Gym to see if that was working properly. Sadly other sims would only buy tickets if I took control of the owner and forced her to do sales, but other than that, it worked.
And he finished off the week by doing some much-needed yard work.
---
Well, I liked the idea of these two as a couple, but negative chemistry=no for me. Despite the cheese obsession, Natasha is a lot of fun to play and I'm hoping she'll find a partner at her art gallery. Meanwhile, John can play the James Bond role with Chloe for a while, but when he finds his LTW job, I'm going to see if I can a more suitable partner for him. I like them as a couple, but with her LTW, that's never gonna work out.
Uberhood Index
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Date: 2013-06-15 01:51 pm (UTC)You know, the shitty chemistry between Tasha and John is actually one of the things that make me so fond of them! I love that they can be best friends and never, ever want to sleep with each other.
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Date: 2013-06-15 05:50 pm (UTC)And yes, that's something I didn't consider. They are great friends, and now they're great friends who can hang out and just talk about cheese without it getting complicated with sex.