Been playing Stoffe's household today, lots of fun, so I thought I'd better post another update so it gets up to date soon.
Chapter 2 Part 1 - Sally-Mae Adams
When we left Sally-Mae, she was at Hot Spot where she met young adult romance aspiration Billy-Bob Sawyer, who put the moves on her. I'd like to warn that Billy-Bob is a shithead, so if you don't like reading stories where those exist that skip this one
For shy timid Sally-Mae being the focus of attention of a cool strong-looking college sophomore student was mind-boggling. One thing lead to another and...
Someone got their first kiss.
Amy did not like the looks of Billy-Bob and insisted they go home. Billy-Bob said he'd take Sally-Mae out to dinner the next day instead. And he sure did, at the hood's go-to romantic restaurant. It had some design-flaws courtesy of EA, and has since this date replaced it's table decorations with less face-obscuring options. But despite the decorations the date seemed to go well.
"Yeah yeah, this is my new girlfriend!" I picture him saying, while Sally-Mae doesn't know where to look or what to do with herself. Sally-Mae went home pretty pleased with her day.
Little did she know Billy-Bob isn't quite the man she thinks he is. In fact, he choose her specifically because she is shy and rather naive. Everything is calculated, planned, with the end-goal in mind. But until he gets there no reason he can't get his kicks elsewhere since he knows Sally-Mae won't find out, so after their date he hit the gym and had some grown up fun with the notoriously flirty owner.
After their date Sally-Mae invited him to the orphanage to meet matron and see where she grew up. When he got there, Billy-Bob found a teen male lurking around. No sir he said, you take your teen hormones and stay away from here. I feel rather bad for poor kid. Appears I didn't remember to capture more of the visit, sorry about that.
In fact turns out I haven't taken many pictures of Billy-Bob's courting at all, which is a shame. But he continued to bring Sally-Mae out to dinners, giving her presents and acting sweet. Making her feel special, and loved. Matron does the best she can, but it's no replacement for a real family and in Sally-Mae's case she always longed to be loved. To have someone that cared only for her, not as a job but because they chose to (which matron does, but Sally-Mae was too young to understand that). And so, eventually one day when Billy-Bob invited her to his dorm she gave in to his suggestions in hopes it meant he loves her.
In my Sims world, much like the real world, woohoo can have long-standing consequences. And Sally-Mae quickly realized her adult adventure had left her with a present.
When Sally-Mae told Billy-Bob the news he showed up quicker than you can say "positive pregnancy test".
No need to wonder about what Sally-Mae replied. Yes!
University only allows students to house in the dorms, so Sally-Mae stayed in the orphanage until they had a home to move to. Billy-Bob took out a loan and bought two cheap run down trailers and a patch of land on the outskirts of town. When it was settled he sent a taxi to pick up Sally-Mae. Here she is being waved off by everyone.
Stoffe came outside and waved her off into the taxi, and stayed until it had left. I think he's rather sad to see his friend go, though he knew having a family was her dream so he hoped she'd be happy in her new home and that she'd get exactly what she wanted.
And that is where we leave Sally-Mae for today. In the taxi on her way to her new life. She wanted love and a family, and from her perspective she's about to get everything she's ever wanted. Time will tell if that's really the case.
Chapter 2 Part 2 - Stoffe Andersson
When we left Stoffe he had recently aged up to a teen, though I forgot to mention his aspiration is fortune. He doesn't have much dreams in the love and family department, his dreams are about money. Although he is very happy in the orphanage, growing up in hand-me down clothes and with communal properties didn't feel great. He admired the richer side of town, with their big fancy houses and glamorous life styles. He wanted to prove to the world he was someone, and his mind that meant joining their ranks. And the fastest way to do that is to become a savvy businessman. So once he got old enough to start earning money, he buckled down and got busy.
Here he is practicing charisma by talking about the stock market and market trends. I'm bored just watching, but he clearly enjoys it.
Here he is sitting down to lunch, having woken up late on the weekend because he was up half the night studying and writing articles on Monique's computer to bring in a little extra cash.
Though even in his hardcore money-focused state he still had time for some fun. Here he is enjoying the radio-controlled car that Santa gave them last Christmas.
Now the oldest of the bunch he took over Amy's role of the bigger sibling looking out for the smaller ones when matron is busy. Here he is cheering on Olivia as she ages up to teen.
Letting Leah have a toe-dance before it's her turn at the cake.
But then it's straight off to work, gotta make that money!
When he's not at work, he's getting busy trying to get as many scholarships as he can for college. In Evergreen, the minister of education runs a free-for-all hobby development lot where anyone can come and practice different skills and hobbies even if they can't afford to buy the items themselves. So when Stoffe looked at the available scholarships and saw there was a toy building scholarship, he decided to put that on his list so he could make toys for the younger kids. Here he is trying working on a sir bricks alot.
Somewhere around here one of my hood's thieves decided to make a visit at the orphanage. They are notorious for being real shitheads, always targeting houses with sick pregnant women or young children on it. Sadly the orphanage did not have an alarm, so by the time matron had woken up and called the police the thief had stolen their beloved piano, a valuable painting and one of the bikes. Grrrrr!
Stoffe was especially annoyed that he took the bike, since he knew how much the younger kids like to ride on their bikes (in my imagination any way, sadly only decorative). I agree Stoffe, what a jerky thing to do!
Outside of holding down a job, writing articles, and scholarship studies Stoffe also made adventures out to community lots where he knew a lot of the influential and rich people in the hood would be. Here he is at the local pool club, serving the dual purpose of working on his pool scholarship and meeting notable people.
Sadly I seem to have been a bit lazy about screenshots during Stoffe's teen age, so no more pictures. It's probably because so much of his time was spent working on something or other. He busted enough butt to pay for private school for himself, he invited the headmaster over and convinced him to let him in. Costs 1000 simoleons as a registration fee and 750 a week, which is a lot of money but Stoffe felt it was an important investment in his future. Despite constantly working to pay for private school he managed to get a silver badge in toy making, sales, and cashiering, as well as reaching 8 in charisma, logic and mechanical. Between that and scholarships like pool, top grades and top level job he made it off to Uni with quite a good start. Here he is saying good bye to matron as he gets ready to leave for college.
In Evergreen when you go to university you start off by signing up at the registry office (a very cool building Joandsarah built for me once :3), and it's tradition to take pictures out front once you are done to remember your first day at campus. Look at him in his grown-up casual formal attire. Can you tell he chose economy as his major?
He's positively glowing with excitement to get started on his degree, but with that child-like overly-excited always happy flair I love about him.
From there he went straight to get in a work out, and then off to the library to get a head start on his studies. Rest is for when you are dead, right now it's grind time. It's always grind time!
Feeling the need to keep up appearance and immediately convey the message that he had money he chose to rent an apartment in the campus' high-end student apartment housing complex. Deep down he missed the orphanage though, so he made sure to buy a radio controlled toy to remind him of home. And even a workaholic needs a little bit of fun here and there!
That's it from Stoffe for today. Having busted butt all through teenhood he's now made it to college where he is determined to keep his head to the grindstone until he's reached his dreams. Given what he achieved as a teen I have no doubts he's going to get there.
26th Apr 2018 at 4:15 PM
