Tuesday, February 5, 2008

In which there is dancing

Finally, Bastion and Brionna had become adults. They chose to stay at home rather than get places on their own, as the empty basement was the perfect size for two bedrooms and a second bathroom. As Pleasure sims, neither had the inclination to marry and settle down.

Brionna could not wait to meet her alien ancestors, now that she was old enough. Night after night, she stood near the beacon telescope and looked for a sign that they had come back to the neighborhood. Night after night, she was disappointed.


Ah, but they were there for Bastion when he'd barely been at the 'scope for an hour. And, of course, for mom Arianna again. What a waste of a probe! With Arianna only a couple of days from becoming an elder, she couldn't have been much fun to play with.

In an attempt to furnish their basement space, Bastion and Brionna opened a business on a small lot not far from home. A dance floor, a ticket machine, and a stereo. Very, very exciting stuff. However, we've learned that townies don't really care what they are doing as long as they have the opportunity to play the consumer. The twins dubbed the new business Dance!. Mostly, it was just a place for the local girls to sit and laugh at Bastion's horrible dance moves.

Elderhood became Arianna. Except for a slight hunch to her shoulders, she didn't seem to have aged a day from when she first moved to Prospect Beach tens of days ago. With Arianna now off the table as a viable specimen and Bastion already expecting, the aliens deemed it time to retrieve Brionna.

A short thanks is needed towards SaraMK of MATY. Without her hack, found here, to make Maxis default neighborhood objects and decorations placeable virtually anywhere, views like these just would not be possible. Without her added information on how to do this on your own objects, my custom signage placements would be severely restricted. Great gifts come in small .packages.


Other thanks to:

  • TwoJeff's Age Duration Hack (I've slightly modded this hack in my game to lower the teenage days to 8 days, equal to childhood. 15 days is excessive.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That house is very nice. I look forward to more updates. Your pictures are always impressive.

Zazazu said...

It's a-coming. Since I have that annoying missing animation string bug at the moment, I'm not getting much playing in. I have two updates organized. Just need to write around them. It'll be perhaps four more installments before I get up to present day!