Welcome back to another chapter of the Deepwater ISBI. Two days in a row for updates! I'd honestly probably have enough for a third by now if I hadn't had to work in my classroom today to pack everything up. This is our first chapter with Nerissa as torchholder. The first thing she does is start working on her gardening skill. She also took a job in the gardening career.
She finishes her first aspiration milestone very quickly. +5
I then send her to spouse hunt. I don't mind the guy with purple eyes, but I really would like something other than brown hair. This guy at least has a different shade of brown.
MCCC had moved Izzy Fabulous into a random home so I had Nerissa stalk his house.
No really, if you thought Caspian stalked Venessa, Nerissa REALLY stalked Izzy. I went as far as to look up what career he's in and what time he'd be home from work and we stood on his porch until he got home. I also learned that is name is probably a play on "Is he fabulous?" and that's why the title is what is is. Anyway, she failed at attempting an introduction with him. *I know that Izzy is likely created as a gay man, but technically that's not canon. He could just be very feminine and have a female voice. He could also be bisexual, or trans. Therefore, I don't count this as going against Izzy's preferences but I apologize if I offend anyone with this. However, she stayed around for a bit because I was going to try a total of 3 times to attempt introduction. The first two failed, but before I could even try it a third time he just comes up to her and starts talking to her on his own. SCORE.
I'm really excited to see their children. I think I used him in my 100 babies challenge (that isn't published) and he had cute kids.
Caspian is adjusting to the free-will life and spends a lot of his time combing the beach for shells.
After work, Nerissa invites Izzy over and they play a game of chess together.
Then I get the notification about the romance festival so I send the pair there to drink some sakura tea to help move things along quickly.
Immediately, Nerissa gives Izzy a rose. They're honestly adorable and started flirting autonomously. Awe also ran into Neptune who is eating leftover food that was in his inventory from when he moved out. He also has donned a pink, white, and gray outfit for love day that I didn't create for him. If you look at the picnic table behind Neptune's head there's a lady with a scarf on her head, this is Triton's wife. He was also here, and so was Neptune's wife, but I could never get a good picture of them all. Thanks to the flirty vibe of the festival, and the sakura tea, Nerissa and Izzy share their first kiss.
And then another while sitting down together. This one was really cute.
Nerissa then changes into her winter wear, and passes out. -5
Meanwhile, there's a random townie wearing the festival shirt and her underwear. Back home and Neptune has swung by and so Nerissa has given him a key to the house. I still need to give one to Ariel.
Nerissa has invited Izzy over to hang out, which results in the woohooing in her parent's closet.
Immediately after their woohoo, Izzy goes into the master bath and "checks out fine self" in the mirror. Which is from his fame quirk.
Nerissa (and Venessa) go into the bathroom to talk, and then Nerissa invites Izzy to move in.
I tried to keep the pink palette for him. And I decided to give him pink eyebrows instead of leaving the gray ones he had. He's really handsome, and I'm excited to see his kids with Nerissa.
Nerissa: Izzy, as we stand next to this hot volcano, I'm sure you are wondering why I brought you up here in matching outfits. Well, the heat of the volcano is to symbolize the deep burning love I have for you. Will you marry me?
Izzy: Yes! In traditional sims fashion, they both decide to ruin my pictures and change into their swimwear even though I tried to get them to be on a piece of land for this. But, they're getting married in front of the waterfall. See, look they were on the bank but they changed into swimwear and took a few steps over into the water.
Oh well! I'm just happy they're married! Upon arriving home from her wedding, Nerissa wets herself. -5
Then, they celebrate their marriage with a woohoo and Nerissa is officially pregnant!
Nerissa: We're pregnant!
Izzy: What? We just got married, and we live with your parents! Nerissa: I mean, you knew we'd continue living with them. I told you this was an ISBI family. Pregnancy has been hard on Nerissa, and she passes out. -5
I got Nerissa and Izzy's pictures done, but I couldn't get the lighting to be as nice as it was when I took Venessa and Caspian's picture.
Speaking of Venessa, today is her birthday!
She ages into a stunning elder and doesn't look much older than she did before.
Caspian finally got the last promotion he needed to reach the top of the conservationist career. Unfortunately, even though he's no longer a torch holder, we can't earn points for him reaching the top of the career.
I happened to check the family's rosebud achievement and found that they have officially earned their first 100k. +20
Izzy went to the bathroom, then washed his hands, and as a result both pieces of plumbing broke. He's definitely not been off to the best start here. Caspian's time is coming soon, so I had Nerissa convince him to step down as the club leader. He accepted and made her club leader.
Just in time too, because a few short hours later and it was time for him to go.
He's really going to be missed. He was a good ISBI founder.
I placed his tomb in the front with the plants for now until I decide to build a mausoleum. (Or until I'm forced to build one due to incessant mourning.)
After reaping Caspian's soul, Grim stayed around to watch a movie. I was actually kinda happy about this because he had stopped hanging around in my other saves and I like seeing him do human things.
Not even a few hours after his death and the mourning was already so terrible I built a mausoleum.
Venessa is so devastated by the loss of her husband, she hides in the tiny 2x2 storage closet to eat and cry.
Oh wow, Nerissa's belly is getting huge! This baby is going to be here any moment!
It's also been nice to have her work from home when she needs skills since she's controllable. One of the things I like about living in Sulani is that the neighbors bring extra food. Well, the night Caspian died they came over and the even that popped up was "the town is here for you" and they told Nerissa they were sorry for her loss. It's really amazing and I love the community of it.
So, I didn't realize these two were married until much later. I had given Leila the no-aging trait but not Oliana and so now there is such a huge difference in age. Oops! Sorry ladies! Venessa pretty much cries all the time.
While enjoying some lunch, Nerissa goes into labor!
I decided to just let her labor at home and soon she headed up to the nursery to give birth.
It's twins! Meet baby boy Maui and baby girl Moana.
Both twins are named after the movie Moana. However even taking that movie out of consideration, here are the meanings of the names: Moana means a body of open water, in particular the sea And Maui is a Hawaiian island. Which isn't technically ocean related, but his character totally counts. Where was Izzly while Nerissa was giving birth? Riding around the beach on a neighbor's jet ski. Great parenting.
I used Venessa's elder action to have her practice speech to try to get her promoted to the top of her career.
What's wrong Venessa? I thought you were practicing your speech.
Venessa: I was, but Izzy had to pee. So I only got one extra level. Well, that's enough for one promotion at least. Nerissa is pretty much the only one that takes care of the twins, and almost always only because I tell her to. Izzy has not held his child yet and I haven't seen Venessa care for them either.
*The third bassinet is because I wanted to have the pretty bassinets and just in-case she had triplets I wanted to be prepared. After taking care of the twins, Venessa comes out and breaks the doll house.
She then repairs it immediately. She actually did this about 5 times while the twins were babies. Then, while going to work out, she gets struck by lightning.
After almost two days, Izzy finally holds his son for the first time ever.
Which apparently inspired Venessa because then she comes up to hold her grandbaby. Even Neptune held one of the babies briefly.
Thanks primarily to Nerissa, the twins survived their infancy and now it's time for them to grow up.
They're both really cute, but so far no pink hair. That's sad.
Nerissa has also tried to get into the bassinet but it looks like she broke it. Maui looks a lot like his Dad, but with Nerissa's brown hair. He also got the independent trait which is awesome!
Moana has more wide set eyes but is still precious. She also got independent.
Seriously, how did I get so lucky to randomize independent for TWO kids in the same generation, let alone TWINS?! In true Deepwater fashion, the twins immediately begin playing with their dollhouse.
Hi Caspian! I miss you, have you come to meet your grandkids?
Caspian: No, I came to drink this cup of coffee. Oh, well your grandkids are over there if you change your mind. I really wanted to try to get pink hair this generation since I didn't get Venessa's blue hair passed down, so I decided that since we have two independent toddlers I'd let Nerissa get pregnant again immediately.
Nerissa: We're having another baby Izzy! Izzy: What?! But what if it's twins?! Do we really want to have FOUR toddlers in the house at the same time? Nerissa: Don't be silly, we just had twins, I'm sure it won't be twins. Izzy: But Haleigh gave the house ley lines. Me: didn't think about that...uses mccc to check to see what she's having...aaaaand it's twins. That's where we'll leave this chapter! I will have another chapter out soon! Feel free to check in with me over at BoolProp or on my Twitch Stream in the meantime, I'd love to chat! Score |
AboutThe Deepwater ISBI is my first attempt at completing an "I'm Surrounded by Idiots" challenge.
Started: April 28, 2020 RulesThe goal of the challenge is to go ten generations (like in a legacy) while only controlling one sim at a time (your torchholder.)
You can find all of the rules and more information about what an ISBI is here. Current Score1075
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