I remember Blossom, Klara and William. I moved a couple of students in with them. No matter how hard I tried I could not make Klara look anything except witchy. What a face!
Here's one more tidbit from Pleasantview - If you look up the Calliente Sister's family tree, you will find that they are decended from an alien... Also, over in Strangetown, I've heard rumors that you'll find a long-missing Sim! (Wouldn't want to ruin the surprise for any newbie players out there! Also, when I played Pleasantview, Mortimer was still alive, and Cassandra did marry Don Lothario. The marriage produced some truly beautiful children, before Cassandra discovered her errant husband canoodling with one of the Callientes and sent him packing! This was at the birthday party for for her's and Don's oldest son - the same Birthday party at which Mortimer - perhaps due to too much excitement and fruit juice - gave up the ghost, as it were, causing his grandson to have nightmares of somebody kicking Grandfather's tombstone! (The poor little tyke - loosing a daddy and a grandfather on his birthday! I wonder if he will grow up well, or be scarred for life. Only time will tell...)
way off topic, but... I have a family of adopted sisters who live downtown. Randy old goat that Mortimer is, promised the youngest marriage, but you know how that goes... I must say tho, that the little girl is one of the prettiest I've seen.
Mortimer and Dina have an infant daughter in my game, and Cassandra married Derek (?) Dreamer, and they had a girl too. Their names are Arabella Goth and Felicity Dreamer. I sent Dirk (I think that's the son's name) to college, and Alexander is a teenager now. Everyone lives in the same house ... a bit crowded, but that's OK.
pretty offtopic... did you guys know that if you leave your kids home alone the social worker will pick them up? I have a great legacy family with three daughters, and all three got picked up when I left them at home for two hours! The dad woulda came home soon but the evil social worker took them! I absolutely cannot beleive that!
Oh, Jazz, that's awful. But yes, I've gotten the warnings and was always careful. Babies and children will be taken away. Teenagers are OK by themselves. There is a convoluted way to get the children back, but I think I've heard that they have no memory of their real parents. Someone else adopts them. You have the whole family move in. Then the adoptive parent moves out, leaving the children behind with their "real" parents. Unfortunately, as far as the sims are concerned, all the direct family ties are broken. Their memories are messed up.
OK i just created as close as i could get replica of the family, the three daughters go to school (Mary, Sarah, Laura) and Laura comes home with a friend, who happens to be one of the children I lost in my REAL legacy family. Then the next day Mary comes home with friend and it's another of the 3 sisters. Pretty weird huh? yeah i thought so.
Those kids that get repo-ed by the SW don't vaporise ... they're available for adoption (only not by the bums who lost them by neglect). I've found that it's possible to leave the kids alone for up to an hour without getting caught .... but I've never pushed it more than once. You generally get a warning about leaving the child alone which basically gives you a bit less than an hour to sort out child care. If an adult is due home at 16:00 (4pm) then it is safe to ignore it, at least once ... but don't sue me if it goes wrong. Also a child can ring for a nanny as soon as they get home from school and usually avoid getting taken away.
Today the pet dog in my legacy family was taken away by a social worker because she was starving. Not my fault, though! She stopped eating out of the bowl by free will, so I had to get another sim to call her to the bowl every time she came into the kitchen and started whining for scraps. With a busy family of five, and all of them working hard to get promoted and get straight A's and scholarships and such, it's not easy for me to remember to take care of the pets. So Lulu came home from work one day and then the next minute she's in the police car. Grrrr.
LOL, 123. Do your sim parents pressure their kids to succeed? Are all your sim kids expected to grow up to be doctors? SBW and I were discussing this recently. Why were we so obsessed about our sims making straight A's and getting on the Dean's list? They're SIMS, for Pete's sake. Forget the grades. Play with the puppies and kittens.
I made a family once where the parents were both successful businessmen/women, and they made their son go through private school and get all of the skill-related scholarships. The son went to university, and, out from under his parents' thumbs, partied all night long, dropped out in his junior year, and is now living with his girlfriend in a small shack on the worse-off side of town. They have a perpetual roach problem.
