For any of the...oh...maybe five people (and that's being generous) who've read my "Farmer Wants a Wife" story, you may have wondered why I keep calling it "Season
2, Veronaville". That's because it is my second attempt at the challenge, and the only one I thought worth posting.
There is indeed a first...but I screwed up majorly, messed up on a lot of the rules, barely documented anything, and rushed through it like...well like I usually play. Just PLAYING, for my own benefit, and only snapping occasional pictures when they happened to catch my fancy, in a disorganised kind of way. As opposed to making up little "Character Sheets" of everybody, giving them each their own backgrounds and motivations, leaving off at cliffhangers, coming in real close to see the individual expressions on Sims' faces while they're doing everyday things, etc.
SO! This is rushed and not terribly interesting. But some of the characters here will be showing up in other peoples' stories, so at least this should help you know who they are.
Also--important!...ish: You should read this before you read "The Browns", because the Farmer and winning contestant's (first) kid shows up at their house and...her skin colour is sort of a giveaway as to who won. :P
You should also read this AFTER the Season 2--the good one--because the snarky comment I make at the end here is DEFINITELY a spoiler as to who won in the version I
do care about. As are some of the events themselves. (Which is why I made the comment.)
The original group, in Create-A-Sim mode. Right there, you can see one of my mistakes: I didn't make them up seperately and Combine Households, to make all this lovely money the winner could get their hands on (without extra cheating). No, they were all made together, so they had far less money to start off with...and worse, they all had the last name "Farmer", so we don't have like, individuals with their own full names living together in the house! Sigh.
Anyway, from left to right: Alucard, Thornton, Violet stealing the show in the front there, Jedidiah, Aneko, Craig, Delores and Mary-Anne (and the Skipper. :P) In case you're wondering...if a male had won, I was probably planning to use boolprop to get them to have kids together. I didn't have any hacks whatsoever, at this time.
The lot before I had a chance to build on it--everybody swarmed on the only object there, a beat-up old boiler furnace, before I could remove the thing. What the HECK was I thinking, using this as the lot for a big, fancy, sprawling house with huge grounds around it? But I was determined, and didn't move them out once I saw what the size really was. Oy.
The house, outside view.
Different views of the inside downstairs. It's
nice--it's a pretty, cozy little place that's more decorated/theme-y than I usually do, and I would LOVE a house like this for myself. However...it's not mansiony enough, for people to be competing over on a game-show.
Yes, mansiony is totally a word. Shut up. :P
The obligatory orchard and greenhouse.
And the oddly-laid-out (for now) upstairs. The...
narrow upstairs. Oh well.
The farmer's bed is on the LANDING...but there's nothing noisy there, so hey.
Here's Jedidiah. I didn't have much beautiful custom stuff at the time, but he's cute enough in a Maxis sort of way... Although, I do like the idea of the Tough Plain 'n' Simple Farmer wearing glasses. Heh.
He's Family, of course, since he's lookin' fer a wahf--er, mate--and I
think had the same Lifetime Want as Terrence Winters--marry off six kids. Hoo-boy.
Thornton, the kinky Bajoran cyberboy who is, strangely enough, the sweetest Romance Sim I've ever met--and gayer than an entire drag-queen convention. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Mary-Anne, who...with these two, I just randomly took whatever skintones and hairdos the game threw at me, and it was STUCK on this hairdo, and these Star Trek skins. I should've mixed things up more but I was enjoying letting the game decide. Anyway, she looked SO much like Thornton's sister that I really should have made her
be that, and, now that I've had to reboot this neighborhood anyway, she is.
Anyway she's Popularity, and is a total goofball.
VIOLET: What the HECK is that thing floating over my head? Get it off get it off get it off!
I forget what Aspiration she was (this was a long time ago!) so...I'm'a say Fortune.
CRAIG: YAY I'M'A GET HIT WITH A WATER BALLOON! +
...whom I evidently didn't get a good close-up picture of. Anyway, trying for another simple farm type person, here. He was...either Popularity or Family.
Do you see that symbol there, over his head? Do you clearly see it? Two people with...a snowflake over their heads. A SNOWFLAKE. He is
happy about being hit with a water balloon, OUTDOORS, in WINTER. That should give you an idea of my Sims' particular brand of Stupid, right there.
DELORES: Nyehhh! (sticks out tongue)
Anybody calling another Blueberry type? You are TOTALLY right. There's always gotta be one, it seems! Delores is Knowledge aspiration, goofy, has brightly-striped emo-gurl hair, odd skin colour, and, of COURSE, plays pirate in the bathtub. Yeah.
Now, I couldn't do much about the hair, since at the time I didn't HAVE many brightly-coloured neon custom hairdos, or at least not many that went with her personality. But...
Oh and those flower-vine patterns on her green dress aren't foreshadowing at
all, no. Perish the thought.
Aneko, in one of my rare decent close-ups. Me being me, you'll pretty much always have at least one or two odd skin-coloured Sims in any group contest like this, 'cos...well. It's
me.
She was another Popularity. My D6 loves to roll that one, apparently.
And Alucard, who is not a vampire but plays one on TV. That skintone would be
great for a Servo, I think.
"Whoah. Was there a house here a
minute ago?!" :P
Part of the welcome-wagon. Here's Six, original version (I like his features better now, in Riverblossom Hills 2.0.)
And Reginald Bushroot. Hey, BUSHY, mah main plant! How's it goin, bro? (And I have several plantsims, so "main plant" actually does MEAN something, now.)
And as usual, I didn't take a picture of the third person. I guess I thought they were that boring...?
This is not a blurry shot of everybody wandering around at random..it's a shot of the relationships panel at the end of the first day. (defining "end" oddly, I mean, why didn't I at least wait until 7pm, when the sun went down?) but anyway, with only 29 points from the Farmer's point of view, Craig has to go. So sorry.
Thornton comes over and waves goodbye. Awww.
Then Alucard gets in on the act. Seriously, even without ACR, these two were like totally IN LUV by the time Craig left. That fast. I always meant to move them into their own place afterwards as a couple, but, I was too busy. Then my game went SPLOT due to a cracked disc. And then, shortly after I got a healthy disc to play off of, my
neighborhoods went splot.
And, Violet's goodbye. Whoa, I never got ANY pictures of her interacting around the place at
all? Dang that's harsh.
THORNTON: Goodbye!
JEDIDIAH: GODDAMMIT THIS GUY IS IN MY WAY SO I CAN'T WAVE GOODBYE! Hel-llooo?
Alucard's goodbye. I didn't get any pictures of
him either. You can see why I feel I did a crappy job on this. 'Cos I kinda did.
ANEKO: Congratulations on being such a great kisser! (which you wouldn't know, he hasn't kissed anybody yet!)
THORNTON: Grrrr...goodbye, I guess.
DELORES: (snzz) Wha? Whuzzit? Is somebody leaving or something?
...and yes.
She was sleeping.
On the couch.
And then she finally notices what's going on. Actually, this is about the most attentive, truly
group goodbye anybody got, come to think of it.
Mary-Anne has a lot of autonomous skill points, for such a short amount of time. And doesn't seem to believe in clothes.
Aneko gets DOWN with her bad self! Yes, the phonograph again. And the old-timey phone. I love those. :)
Speaking of getting "down", I'm not sure why the heck I had the
walls all the way down, though.
PERI: (sighs) Well. I'm here. Isn't anybody going to say hello to me?
Apparently not--I couldn't drag anybody away from what they were doing in time.
OH MY GOD THE PAIN! Heh.
This certainly didn't happen the other time, too. Nope.
...oh-HO! First romantic interaction ("Kiss Tenderly"). And I have to say, from a source I wasn't quite expecting. In the case of Terrence and Vanilla it was DUH, WHY DON'T YOU GET ON WITH IT ALREADY? but here, there were no three-bolters and a few more or less equal possibilities.
And again, notice Blueber--I mean, Delores, in the foreground there. This isn't familiar at ALL no.
And...I sent them down to Red's again...for the first time. It sucked, because I don't know how to do group outings, only dates, etc. Nothing all that interesting happened except for me getting a low score so instead, enjoy this picture of my "Experimental Time Lady" in her third incarnation. Because it is the ONLY pictorial evidence of that entire "life" of hers that I have, period.
(She "regenerated"
again when I rebooted the neighborhood...I figured the excuse was: She heroically saved everybody BUT! (looks down in confusion at hands she's never seen before) At What Cost...?
I'm picturing, like, the "Logopolis" regeneration scene, specifically. Dunno why.)
And here's the (sucky and not at all accurate) grown-up version of my original try at Ace. Again, preserved here for posterity.
Thornton waves goodbye to his not-sister-but-should-have-been, who has gotten fat and is apparently embarrassed about it (one of her wants was "Get Fit"). This is an
adorable little house, it really is. Too bad it's a LITTLE house...
(Well, little-ISH. For a "rambling mansion", anyway.)
"MWAHAHAHA! I'll GET you, tomatoes! AND YOUR LITTLE VINE TOO!" An actually fairly artsy picture of Aneko being the Wicked Witch of the We--I mean, harvesting the HELL out of these tomatoes.
Goodbye, Thornton. We'll miss you, and your flaming kinkiness.
Notice anything here? This bugged me, at the time--Thorton was ALWAYS there.
Always. For EVERY SINGLE other contestant's goodbye. No matter how tired he was, no matter what else he was doing, no matter how far away he was he would wake up and autonomously drag himself over to the door to wave goodbye to
every single one.
And what happens when
he leaves? NOBODY NOTICES AT ALL! This made me kinda sad. :(
Anyway, that's what I mean when I said he was "the sweetest Romance Sim I've ever seen". 'Cos he is.
He gets into the cab--hey, if none of the other Sims in the house care,
I still can.
OHkaaay...! Skipping ahead here, basically a lot of things happened that I didn't take pictures of, 'cos I was a massive idiot. Basically, it came down to Delores and Aneko, I tried the "date" thing at the end at home because I hate loading community lots, it's so SLOW on my computer, of
course Delores walked in on Jedidiah and Aneko right as they were Woo-Hooing (even though I got her a job specifically so she would be OUT of the HOUSE--my scheduling abilities suck), and got
furious.
That skewed the relationships all up and it was MY fault, not autonomous, so I had her stick around several days more while I tried and
tried to get the fury down (this was before I had Apartment Life, so no "Anger Management"), and the relationships back to what they originally were so I could compare them accurately.
But that wasn't going to happen, no matter what--if I worked really hard on Delores, then by the time the Fury FINALLY went away, she would eventually end up with a
higher relationship score with him than before she got furious.
So I finally said "Screw it", rolled a die and declared Delores the winner.
Sigh.
Why am I so DUMB with these things,
why...?! (smacks head against desk)
So! The reason for this is that I decided we were starting a Rainbow Legacy, and that since Delores is green, this should now be Generation Green. I have never gotten why you "have" to start on Yellow, and then go
backwards...
So it's Generation Green and we're going forwards. 'Kay? 'Kay. Here's the new green house.
And the outside.
And the newly...VERY green prospective bride heeeey...! (cracks up) Oh man. Remember all those allusions I made to turning into a plant during the contest, in the "Season 2" version? THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!
That aside, I think this is a kinda lovely picture, in a way. ("Green Sims are LOVELY. :) Keep them on the screen!")
Jedidiah wanted a kitten, so...here she is! I forget her name though.
Anyway, Plant-Lady + kitten = adorable. :)
DELORES: GRRRR FLOWERS MAKE ME FURIOUS!!
...um...interesting attitude, for a Plant-Sim. :P Actually of course she's thinking of
Jedidiah, it's just that her ADD kicked in, so she's like OOH PRETTY FLOWERS! (jump and skip)
While Delores gets in touch with her inner child (oddly enough,
not raising her Water need) a Time Lord has a staredown with a small dog. Probably inquiring about the space battle-fleet it just ate.
"SUNLIGHT!" This animation always makes me go "Oh you poor
thing..!" (And yes, Slytherin Quidditch robes. Well, they're GREEN...!)
Around this time, by the way, is when the sun-lamps in my game suddenly STOPPED working. For no reason. They had kept Reginald Bushroot going during the night just
fine, and then when Delores Farmer needed them, nothing. I don't even know...but now I wonder if it was a sign of The End, looming on the horizon. I mean, this neighborhood WAS borked like Veronaville, too--I just didn't know it at this time.
"Oh! Despite the fact that this is called 'Farmer Wants a WIFE', this is so unexpected! Gasp!"
"It's so shiny!" (giggles)
Aww.
And a quickie wedding in the backyard, in front of the orchard trees. Aww. Cute, but I should've invited the other contestants to the party, it would've been more interesting...
I'm also tres amused at the fact that she seems to be a good bit taller than him. :P
Well at least he got THAT right, unlike some grooms I could mention. Notice the locked Want, there.
Also, interestingly: He doesn't want to fall out of love with Aneko, but is also afraid of being caught cheating. Not OF cheating, mind you. Of being
caught cheating. Hmm. Watch this one, Delores.
Bwoooomp! under the apple tree. Heh.
Jedidiah (with as green a makeover as I could give him) gets jiggy widdit.
Second bwooomp! While she was trying to read, heh. But at least, she's feeling much better than she normally would--PlantSims have it SO much easier than human Sims, when it comes to being pregnant. She doesn't get hungrier faster, need to go to the bathroom more often, or get tireder.
Much easier to play.
Don't ask me how a plant giving birth to a child the human way WORKS, biologically, but...
And yeah. Skipping ahead...she does indeed manage to give birth in the BATHROOM. My Sims usually do that in the bedroom, instead...
As close-up as I could get on little..Azura Farmer! First kid of Generation Blue. She got her mother's original alien green skintone...which makes her actually almost
look like she's half-plant! NEAT! (I always try to make technically half-supernatural kids who come out looking and acting like totally normal Sims, have significant visual Signs that there's something Other about them, whenever possible...)
The kitten is grown up. And she's FLUFFY! And..stripey? :) "Oh yes you is just the
cutest widdle baby yes you is! Yes you
is!"
... Sigh. This ISN'T an ISBI, you guys. Also, fill the damn cat bowl!
Skipping ahead, this is the smaller house I had them temporarily move into in Riverblossom Hills: 2.0 so I could cheat them into having enough money to buy back their
own house (which I had saved into the Lots and Houses bin 'cos this time, I DID have enough warning to back stuff up).
Here, we have another case of toddlers who can somehow converse knowledgeably about the weather pre Learning to Talk, and Jedidiah looks on, in his much more attractive (and greener) makeover. (With Pooklet default replacement skins.)
Seven, Patricia Wan and Cleo Shibuku are their Welcome Wagon, and apparently Azura is the most popular toddler in the WORLD. They're
lining up to play with her...!
This is my only shot of her as a kid (back in their own house, with more of a variety of green decor objects/walls and floors) and where I've left off with their family, for now. And WHOO, Azura, for transitioning into a blue outfit! Right on.
(And "cowgirl" totally GOES, for a farmer's daughter...)
And that's what happened with "Farmer Wants a Mate: Season 1." Now you know...the REST of the story.
(bows)
