These are the stories of the citizens of Knowlton - A Sims 2 Prosperity Challenge. If you love it, if you hate it, if you saw something you wanted to talk about, PLEASE leave comments. I'm a sad pathetic human, and I live for comments.

For those of you not familiar with what a Prosperity Challenge is, it's a Sims 2 Challenge in which the main focus is to build a prosperous community from scratch. There are a few catches though, everything, including your starting families are determined by the role of a dice (or in my case a randomizer). For the complete rules and setup you have two options the Yahoo! Group or the BBS thread at the official site.

The quick low down on the newly created Knowlton; Knowlton is completely deserted. It's set out in a grid, so at some point in the past it may have even been a city, but that may have been hundreds of years ago, because other than roads for miles around all you see is grass plains. Four daring families have decided (okay have been forced) to make a new start here. So come meet these daring folks, hear their stories, and wish them luck folks, they're going to need it! To start from the beginning click here.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Week 5 - Round 10 - Belleosi Home

Home Jasmine and Samantha prepared for the arrival of their daughter Bethany who chose to be born in the green house. Samantha reached the top of her second career, and Jasmine was working her way up the Artist career track. Dad Belleosi spent most of his haunting time tormenting Jasmine while she tried to toddler train Bethany following her birthday.

A typical day in the Belleosi household

Sam seems to have finally figured out that this tiny human is her daughter. They are awful cute together.

Rowan, you spotlight hog! I should have known you'd start following people home the moment you reached Knowlton!

"So you really don't believe the Plumbbob Deity when she says your pregnant? She helped us get pregnant you know, she seems like she's a bit of an expert on this sort of thing."

Rowan! You're such a stoner, that's not good for the baby you know!
"I'M NOT PREGNANT!!!!"
Uh-huh

Gold Badge!

"You know Jasmine, I was thinking today that Bethany needs a little brother or sister. What do you think?"
"YES!!!"

Meanwhile Bethany is slowly becoming a musical genius. Gosh she's cute!

"MOOOMMMMIEEEES!!! I want out!"

"I'm so rumbly in my tumbly, time for something sweet to eat."

"Wait a second, I'm nauseous, you never said I was the one who was going to carry the baby this time."
That's life, suck it up.

Just a really sweet family moment.

Jasmine does not handle pregnancy well. She's constantly sick, she needs to eat about six to eight times a day, sometimes double servings, and her comfort bottoms out frequently.

"April! I'm so glad to see you, we didn't have anytime to spend together at Dana and Alannah's birthday party."

That's right little one, get to know your Aunt April, hopefully you'll be more like her sister Amber though.

Despite all the baby talk, she still manages to look amazed at the first baby pop.

I occasionally wonder how good this could possibly be for the baby, but sometimes there's just no other way of dealing with the plummeting needs of an expectant mother.

The reason that Jasmine needed to be supercharged was that she doesn't work at all this weekend, which is actually why she's the one carrying the baby this time. She ran out of buy wants amazingly enough, so the only way left to keep her in the platinum is for her to sell some masterpieces. Usually I would have Samantha paint them for her, but Sam's got her hands full with the gardening and maintaining her 30 friendships.

Of course, she does still spend time with Bethany, I even try to have the two of them sleep at the same time, unfortunately Bethany doesn't need as much sleep as Jasmine.

Hah hah! Jas is not the best cook, but you all know the rule, you burnt it, you eat it!

Baby Pop Number Two!

The Belleosis are getting quite the snowstorm, it's been snowing for about 24 hours straight now.

Samantha has been neglecting her friendships, so Monday she invites over Aremis, Sierra, and Tara (three lowest relationships) to rebuild.

I think you're a little too late with that bottle Sam.

Bethany Belleosi
Neat-9, Outgoing-7, Active-9, Playful-3, Nice-1
Scorpio

"Uncle Eddie, did you know that one of Mommy has 31 Bestest Friends?"
"Which Mommy is that dumpling?"
"The one that's your sister, silly!"

Time to get to know her relatives, plus it'll take care of the annoying make a friend want that they all get when they grow-up. I have a feeling this one may take after Samantha after all.

Yeah, you're crooked all right kid. Looks like we have another cheater on our hands.

Time to earn a few cooking skills so you won't burn your muffins kiddo.

"Sam! You never told me this hurt this bad!"

"Bethany, this is your little brother Pete!"
"Aww, he's so cute!"

This is Bethany's new bedroom, it's not very big, but at least it has lots of light.

Now that's more like the woman that pestered me for babies!


End of Round Review

Jasmine
Friends: 12 + 2 Family
Work: Art Forger
IW: $38,896 / $100,000
Skills: Cooking-5, Mech-6, Charisma-8, Body-1, Logic-9, Creativity-10, Cleaning-2

Samantha
Friends: 27 + 3 Family
Work: Icon
IW: 30 / 30 Best Friends
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-8, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-9, Creativity-10, Cleaning-4
Badges: Gardening-Gold

Bethany
Friends: 1 + 3 Family
School: C, Public
Skills: Cooking-1, Charisma-5, Logic-5, Creativity-8, Cleaning-1

Household Value: $78, 354

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi NightRowan, great update as usual. How did you get them to have a baby? I've never seen that done before.

Bethany is a real cutie, definately gonna be a stunner when she's older. I love what you did with the Bethany card, its so cute.

NightRowan said...

There are actually a few hacks out there to allow same sex couples to have children. I use the insiminator(inSIMenator.net)because it's also useful for fixing glitches like Rowan and Abbie falling in love. I've also used it to rename Annie and Wiggin's puppies because the game switched the names of Pigpen and Wizard.

Thanks for the compliment on the Bethany page. That was my first attempt at making something scrapbook like, and I have to say, I am rather proud of it, lol.

Mao said...

Very cool grow up collage! The InSim is truly an awesome hack, as well.