5. Ratner

Round 6
Ratner Family
Fall

Back Row: William, Louise
Front: Curtis, Tyler, Rose holding Moonstar
Pets: Madras and Onyx.

Found some nice loot in the inventories.

Curtis and Tyler become overachievers.  William gets a promotion.

The first couple of days was spent skilling for university and promotions.

All three:  Not more babies!  NO!

Louise has a want for a baby and marriage, so she calls up all the men that have bolts hoping to find a love connection.

Little Miss Rose maxes her second skill.

Louise catches dinner on fire.  William was easily able to put it out.

Rose had a day off, so she became an overachiever long after her brothers.  Her and Tyler leave for University.  Rose gets a full ride and Tyler gets half price tuition.

When the fire was out, William ran over to age up Moonstar.

Don’t ask.  She is always like this.

I hate this house.  I might need to rebuild next season.  In other news, Faith and the twins moved in.  Louise passed out and now Faith is stuck on the baby blanket starving to death.  She was reset just before death.

Of course you can lead a sim to food, but you can’t make them eat.  She runs back over to feed a baby while Louise has another failure after her pass out.

Food and sleep all in one spot.  At least they won’t die now.

Ugh.  Faith does not get birth control, so I try and keep the woohoo to a minimum.  Luckily this has no conception.

Curtis can finally escape this madhouse.  He also earned a full ride.

William Ratner
Roll: 2
The Truth is Out There: one sim from your household is the victim of repeated alien abductions! Random roll (using the Sim Selector) between all of the ‘abductable’ sims in the house. Once the random number generator has chosen, force an abduction on that sim. Keep forcing abductions on that sim upon returning until the end of the week – once isn’t proof! But multiple instances..? 😉 (Note: If you have Freetime or above, you may want to instead use the Expensive Telescope Abduction Hack v1.0 to force abductions)

William is the lucky victim and he is using a hacked telescope.

Then Faith, the dipshit, followed him.  I didn’t even have a chance to put the telescope away, she was that fast.

While those two are gone, Louise has the want to befriend a university guy named Neal Bowen.  They had just barely become friends when she went into labor (freakin finally).

Jody becomes a fast favorite.  She has dark skin (where did those freckles come from?), a bit darker than Louise with her green eyes and Justin’s blonde hair.

Jarrod, her twin brother, gets the same tone of skin, but without the freckles. He has William’s hair and eyes.

The uni guy saw the babies and ran for the hills.  At this point Louise doesn’t care because the babies put her in platinum and she gets her life saved by the energizer.

Both abductees return.

I am horrified to realize that we now have a toddler and four infants in the house.

I saw someone run to vomit and now I’m doubly horrified.

Now there is one less thing to worry about.

William was giving Moonstar a bath, so Faith pops first.

Well this is so stupid.  William stopped bathing Moonstar to yell at Faith and then tops it off by falling out of love.

Louise:  Now you’ve done it.

You have got to be kidding me.

I cheated their relationship back and then forced them into marriage (they both had the want locked).

I think this is abduction #5.

Moonstar can now talk and almost walk.

Louise brings in a nice bonus and then a promotion.

Richard has his birthday.

Oh dear.  I really don’t want to deal with her crying right now.

Omg.  Seriously?  She wasn’t even hungry!  She dropped Ronald to the ground and then followed him.

William:  No!  Please don’t let her leave me here alone with all these brats!
Louise:  Holy crap, Madras.   You stink!

Luckily it worked!

Then Ronald was able to have his birthday.

Then Faith goes and dies again.  William is blocked by both Onyx and Madras and couldn’t save her this time.

William:  Damn, both dogs stink!

Louise is off doing what she does best.

She was just serving dinner when she falls to the floor in death.  William was having abduction #8.  At least I finally know what happened to both Faith and Louise.  Justin.  Asshole scared them to death on the same night.

William:  R2D2, initialize!  Now care for those babies!

R2D2 said hell no and moved her ass out.  I don’t blame her one bit.

I am so glad today was the end of the season.  Seriously, I jumped for joy.

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I re-read the rules and couldn’t figure out at what point I could build a cemetery.  An opening in Paranormal happens when a Cemetery lot is founded and there have been five deaths.  That is the only reference.  We also now have 15 deaths, which also opens up a Paranormal spot.  I decided to use one of the free community lots and just plopped in a cemetery.  If the rules can’t bother to be clear, I’ll just make up my own.  I revisited every lot and sent off all graves.  I’ll do the rest as I play them now.

Stats:
Family: Ratner
Businesses:
Hot Tub Heaven, Rank 10
Area 23, Rank 10
Shademoor National Bank, Rank unknown.
Taxes: $18,200 ($10,200 in taxes, $8,000 tuition)
Playable sims: 125
Sim multiplier:  52
Population: 6,500
Total Deaths: 15

Earned Community lots x 2: Cemetery and a pet cemetery