#GleamingBeachR1

[froynlaventje]

Ardisia and Conopholis Parviflorum have a busy week taking care of their new triplets and huge garden. Ardisia gives birth to Bumelia, Helicotrichor and Linum at the beginning of the week and by the end of their round all three have grown up to toddlers.

And that's the end of the first round. So far everyone is doing ok. Lots of fishing and gardening and lots of babies!

[froynlaventje]

The Maina's gave me some trouble this round. First, they could not woohoo for some reason, they would start and then just sit there together. When they finally did woohoo Taba immediately got pregnant.

Meanwhile I had found another problem, they could not catch bass in their pond. Since neither had any cooking skill points this made providing dinner a lot harder and they both nearly died several times. After trying to remove mods and some other options to fix this problem I just moved them out and into a new lot and everything worked fine with them..... (If only I had thought of this sooner)

Once properly moved in to the new lot Taba was ready to give birth and it turned out to be triplets! A boy named Abimbola and two girls named Bonolo and Bontu.

ACR took over and Taba was quickly pregnant again so by the end of the week Crall was running around trying to tend the trees and large garden on his own while a highly pregnant Taba tried to keep three toddlers happy.

[froynlaventje]

The Strongarms spend their week socializing with the neighbours. Cled takes care of the gardening and fishing and Tema hunts. Tema is soon pregnant and gives birth to twin boys they name Vac and Vatzoc. They all sleep together in a yurt so the parents do not get much rest but they make it through this rotation fine.

[froynlaventje]

Next up is Julien Cooke and his wife Sala.

Sala has the charismatic, green thumb, ambitious, thief (klepto) and rebellious traits. She will be tending the garden and trees because of her green thumb.

Julien has lucky, gatherer, dramatic, mooch and coward. He will be fishing for now and in the future he may gather ingredients from a nearby community lot when I build it. Since he is a coward he will not be hunting or go too far from home.

They spend their first days gardening and fishing, and socializing with the welcome wagon. Sala pickpockets every visitor who comes to the lot. After a few days Julien and Sala finally kiss and fall and love and she is soon pregnant.

While tending the garden Sala is turned into a plantsim! I already had cyjon's mod installed that makes turning into a plantsim harder but apparantly that won't be enough to stop this neighbourhood from being overrun with them. I switched it out in favor of one that allows plantsims to be made by the pollen cloud in stead of spraying for bugs. Sala will stay a plantsim but I changed her back to her old hair and clothes.

By the end of the week Sala gives birth to twin boys! They name them Kherv and Torv

[froynlaventje]

I'm starting my first rotation in the Test of Time Challenge with the Picaso's. Matthew and Jessica are living on a lot with a very large pond, sleeping in some leather tents.

In their first week Matthew spends most of his time fishing and hunting while Jessica takes care of the gardening. Jessica likes to take care of her chores in the nude. Everything is running quite well and before the week is over their first child Bran grows up to be a toddler.

Traits assigned: Jessica: Irresistible, hot headed, eccentric, coward, heavy sleeper Matthew: coward, hydrophobic, neurotic, irresistible, party animal

[froynlaventje]

My second family in the Test of Time Challenge are the Ramaswami's. They are living in a basement cave.

Right as I start playing, Sanjay autonomously tells Priya a dirty joke and they fall out of love. That's going great.

The next few days are spent trying to get back together. In the end Sanjay falls in love with Priya again but she never gets beyond the crush level. ACR 2 takes over and Priya gets pregnant however.

They have a baby boy they call Abhiskhek. Before he can become a toddler a fire breaks out on the lot (Apparantly rocks burn more quickly than I thought) and the rain stops before the fire is drowned. Priya dies trying to extinguish it and Sanjay ends up taking care of Abhishek on his own.

I did not plan for this scenario, who will feed the baby now? For now I gave Sanjay a bottomless bottle so he can nurse Abhishek.