Welcome back to yet another chapter of The Deepwater ISBI. I've been enjoying this family, even if they caused me to lose most of the points I earned last chapter. But, I'm really excited to see how this generation turns out and see which of the four kids ends up being the next torch-holder. There should be a poll for that in the next chapter. At some point, Nerissa destroyed the doll house which absolutely devastated Moana. I honestly feel like the kids should be able to repair the doll house themselves.
Poseidon is still adding on to the mess that he was making at the end of last chapter.
Amphitrite is being a responsible sim and has started working on her homework.
Poseidon: See, I can be responsible too, I'm mopping up this puddle!
That's true, you are trying to be helpful, but the sink is broken so that puddle is going to be on the ground again in just a few minutes. Every time Izzy or Nerissa arrive home from work, the kids run out to them and usually ask for advice.
Also, it's winter and since it doesn't snow here I bought Snowy the Sandman as decorations for them. It would be cool if they could make their own out of the sand during winter. So, our cowplant died because he went too long without being fed. These things die way too quickly/easily. I miss the ones in TS2 that were immortal and you could just lock up in a fence.
By playing pirate with his siblings, somehow he got credit for meeting someone else and so Maui has completed an aspiration milestone +5
Ariel comes over to hang out a lot, but because of Poseidon's messes she usually ends up spending most of her time cleaning. Not that I'm complaining though, it's nice having someone that comes over to clean.
The doll house has been repaired and Moana and Amphi play together.
Izzy has been being a fabulous parent, like usual, and spends his free time playing in trash. Amphi has completed an aspiration milestone! +5
It was also around this point that I began noticing every time she sat down that her arm did this. I thought it was a bug at first. Nerissa becomes best friends with Maui, which completes another aspiration milestone for him. +5
The flea market is in town again, and Caspian invited Nerissa to meet him there. I accepted since I wanted to try to get the last snowglobe.
Back at home, I use Moana's free action to have her practice typing. I'm pretty sure that this completed an aspiration milestone.
Instead of being productive, Poseidon likes to destroy the dollhouse. I blame his evil trait.
This is about when I started to question if it was the mesh causing Amphi to distort her arm in weird ways because she always held dishes like this. But, I had debugged her and hoped it fixed her.
More messes in the house, I guess they're making up for not making them as toddlers.
Venessa's ghost is amazing though and helps clean them all up.
Tonight is Izzy's birthday!
As you can see, Venessa stopped mopping to sing happy birthday to Izzy! He looks mostly the same. Moana has received an A at school, but she doesn't really seem thrilled about it because she's so tired.
At this point, while watching Amphi play with toys I finally realized it was definitely the mesh for her CC outfit, so I sent her into CAS. I saw that her outfit had to available meshes, so I switched to the other one. So hopefully that works.
On Easter, Nerissa was able to get the remaining Easter eggs and unlock Bun Bun.
Poseidon, making messes on the beach kind of undoes everything your grandfather was working towards in the conservationist career path.
Woo! Switching to the other version of the mesh fixed Amphi's weird flexibility contortionism.
Caspian spent some time getting to know the younger set of grandchildren. I really do like how interactive the ghosts can be.
OH MY GOSH, YOU GUYS.
IZZY ACTUALLY MADE A MEAL FOR HIS FAMILY. Maui has finally received an A in elementary school.
In case you were curious about the differences between Maui and Moana. Take a look at Moana in the background doing her school project while Maui makes a mess on the porch. This is why Maui didn't get his A until much later than Moana.
And from the other angle you can see Ariel is cleaning up the other messes while he continues to make his mess. I must have been wrong previously, this is where Moana finished her aspiration milestone.
Our first negative points in the whole chapter! -5
It's time for the twins to become teenagers already! Where has the time gone?
Moana: OMG how horrifying, I look like my mother!
But your mother is pretty. Moana: Yes but she's like totally old. You realize, she's still a young adult, right? Maui looks a lot like his father, but I do see some of Nerissa in there.
His glutton trait caused him to gain a lot of weight though, which is why I think his face makes him look older than he is. I'll admit, I wanted to give him the one hair that reminds me of Maui from the movie, but it just didn't look right on him so I didn't do it. Moana truly does look a lot like her mother. She adds child of the ocean to lazy.
When coming out of the mirror, I find Amphi is in a bear phase.
So, I have to admit I used a styled outfit for Moana for two reasons.
First: she's a lazy sim, so I figured she'd have someone else pick her clothes for her like that anyway. Second: I really liked this outfit on her surprisingly, and since she's lazy I figured it looks like something a lazy sim would wear. Moana immediately hacks her school grades. Luckily she's successful and now she has an A. +5
Maui is trying to work off some of that childhood weight he gained. But when he's done working out, he immediately goes to hack his grades also.
He's also successful and now has an A. +5 Maui: Seriously? The duck face? Why?
Moana: It's what all the cool kids are doing. Amphi is still in her bear phase, so Nerissa wears a bear costume with her.
Amphi is still in her phase but for some reason she doesn't always wear the costume so she has the sad moodlet. But she's maxed out her creativity skill.
Since everything is runny fairly smoothly this chapter with everyone, I have Nerissa spend some time upgrading things in the house.
She's maxed her gardening skill out, so the only thing left is to have 10 excellent plants and then her aspiration will be completed. I think she's at like 4 right now.
All of a sudden the entire family decided it was time to get sick. Izzy has what I think looks like ringworm.
And Maui has the same thing.
I think this is the same random townie that was napping on the couch as a teen, but she came over and destroyed the dollhouse and then left.
One night when Venessa's ghost was out, she painted us this picture. Nerissa is unfortunately sick with a very swirly looking disease. But it's her birthday so we'll just have to deal for now.
Despite her illness, Nerissa is still gorgeous!
Izzy now has the tiger stripes disease. Which, under water just looks like stretch marks.
Amphi has maxed out her motor skill.
She also got credit for playing with a toy by using the monkey bars and has completed an aspiration milestone.
While trying to build a relationship so that I could try to help Poseidon get a BFF, Nerissa stargazes on the deck with him autonomously. Which, I thought was really sweet. I haven't had my sims stargaze very often in TS4.
Moana: TAKE THAT YOU STUPID DOLL HOUSE!
Why did you destroy it? It was your favorite toy as a child. Plus now you've splashed water everywhere because of the doll's pool. So, I noticed the hot tub was broken and omg it's so disgusting looking. Like it's steaming and bubbling. SOOOO nasty.
Today is the twin's birthday but I let them go to school before aging them up because I knew they'd be getting an A. So here's Poseidon with his A.
And Amphi with hers. While Nerissa made their cake, Poseidon maxed his creativity skill. That should give you an idea of how much he made messes because he never touched the craft table. He maxed creativity purely on making messes.
Anyway, birthday cake time for the youngest set of twins!
Despite his mysterious eye color, Poseidon looks SO much like his father.
Amphitrite is very unique looking. I wasn't sure how I felt about her at first, but I do think she's pretty in her own way.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of all the kids. I think Moana or Poseidon will likely win the heir poll when we have one next chapter.
Moana is the only one who got Nerissa's eye shape, the other three all got their father's eyes shape. See? She's pretty in her own way! 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! Also, now that they're all teens (except Shea who is a YA) I wanted to share pictures of the spares' kids. Since they're kids of the spares, I did not name them the game did when they were born so their names do not fit the theme. 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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