Chapter Nine: Aging Gracefully and Aliens

Wen Shocklee

Oh my what is this?  Is it s Shocklee Family update? Finally after a way too long hiatus, we're back!

Wen Shocklee apparently is worried she isn't aging gracefully and that is why I haven't been paying attention to her little family.

The truth is I got stuck in a rut because of this guy right here:

Adam Shocklee

See Adam won't die.  He putters around his house since he retired, fishes, cooks, and JUST WON"T DIE.  He even kept trying to have death flowers in his inventory and that was so not happening.

I also had the problem of Wen and Gregg had complete opposite sleep schedules due to his being a vampire, and her not.  Mostly though I didn't know what to do with the house.  Nothing was really going on that kept me entertained.

I was very amused when Adam decided to train his son-in-law, Gregg, in the middle of the day, who just happens to be a vampire.

Adam Shocklee trains Gregg Shocklee, vampire

I have to say I was kinda of bummed that Gregg didn't catch fire and run screaming for the house.

Then I had a problem develop.  I couldn't select my fridge.  If I tried to feed my Sims, they would complain that they couldn't get to the fridge. I sold the fridge, I bought a new fridge, still stuck, repeat, still stuck. I had Adam doing a lot of cooking to advance his cooking skills, and realized that maybe the fridge was a bit too full.... so I emptied its contents...

Maybe I went overboard?  I ended up cleaning out the fridge of everything in it to get it to work again.

Soon it was time for Rachel to grow to child...

Rachel Shocklee's birthday to child

And the tradition of crappy grow up photos continues!  Rachel gained the trait Hydrophobic.

Gregg and Wen Shocklee post Woohoo

Her parents celebrated her birthday by rolling the desire to have a baby and going upstairs to make Rachel a sibling!

Wen Shocklee - Baby Bump 

A few days later and we had proof that it took.

What's this? Adam is dying!? FINALLY!

Okay so I cheated and threw a party, we all know those are how ya get Death's attention. Plus Adam rolled the want for a pool party, or at least someone in the house did. I don't really remember who, but I was ready for Adam to move on already.

Adam moves on at the ripe old age of 113 days

Adam lived a healthy annoyingly long and useful life and was 113 days when he FINALLY went to the great beyond.  I did not let him have any life fruit.

Jess Crockett dies at Adam's Death Party

It seems that Death wasn't done with this party and before the party ended he came for Jess Crockett.  She did not leave a tombstone though.

Wen goes into labor

Soon Wen went into labor. Her and Gregg rushed to the hospital and she gave birth to the child they both had wanted to have a little girl.

Turns out I didn't get any good home from the hospital picks, or baby pics of the new little girl.

Meet the newest Shocklee

EphyToast Shocklee
Traits: Loves the Cold, Loner

EphyToast is named after one of my all time favorite Sims storytellers, Ephemeral Toast of the Apocalypse A Go-Go Challenge for the Sims 2.  (Her stories were posted on the Sims 2 website which has unfortunately been taken down by EA.  However someone put it on another page and if you want to read this super long story it's available here: http://clockwatching.net/~jack/s2/reader/ephemeraltoast127833/)  I have to say Toast is my inspiration with the view I take of the Shocklees.  Her stories were all funny and I try to have a similar tone to my story.

Wen was potty training EphyToast one night and poofed on me.  I have to admit I wasn't watching.  I didn't see it happen.  I only noticed something was up when I couldn't FIND Wen.

It took me a few minutes and then I realized to watch for her return...

I'd never had an alien abduction before this in the Sims 3.  I honestly forgot it was an option with the expansions I have installed.  Unfortunately, Wen won't get knocked up.  Thankfully being abducted by aliens doesn't cause the social worker to come take your toddler and child for being left unattended.  (Gregg was at work)

At the end of this little update:

Adam is dead. HURRAY!
Gregg is working his way to being Emperor of Evil.
Wen is working on being a World Renowned Surgeon. She gained the trait "Bookworm" when she aged to adult.
Rachel is hunting with some help from Wen for a rainbow stone so she can make her invisible friend, Puzzles, real.

There will be some changes on the score page as I've realized while prepping for this blog that I had missed giving myself credit for some things.  Hopefully it won't be as long for another update.  Life got crazy busy this last year.

Chapter Eight: Expansions and the new Generation

We start this chapter with photographic evidence that I suck at remembering birthdays.  Especially when I forgot to write things down as I went.  Both twins have clearly aged up to Elders and well I didn't get a good shot as usual.  They are sitting with Wen, who is a teenager in this photo ...I think.

Here we have our resident evil Sim, Aleksia in ...what's this a rocking chair? Wait, rocking chairs didn't come out with in the base game, and this is a base game only install right?  Well...see...I sorta decided it was time to add some spice to this challenge and installed a few expansions.  I followed ASimWen's example and picked a few expansions to install.  I'm not going to tell you which until the end of the chapter, so feel free to make your own guesses based on photos as we go. I will tell you I installed 3 packs total.

This photo shows Cheri on the day she finally got to her lifetime want as a Master Thief.  I can now count everything she did towards the challenge.  I honestly wasn't sure I was going to make it before she aged out.

 

Wen grew up and had her graduation ceremony.  Then promptly got bugged and her graduation cap and gown became her work clothes for a while.

She went to one of the festivals and did an eating contest.  At first it looked like the zombie was going to participate, but it ended up wandering off looking for brains to eat instead of hot dogs.

Wen gave it a good effort, but didn't win.

Cheri started to work on upgrading and repairing things around the house to get some of the handiness skills out of the way.

Oops.

And Grim comes for Cheri Shocklee.  Since Aimee the founder was brought back at the science facility I didn't have an eletrocution ghost roaming the lot.  Now we do.  And no it wasn't on purpose.  It just happened because that's the way this family rolls.

Adam decides to challenge Grim to a pillow fight to mourn the passing of his wife.

Since Cheri hadn't achieved Tinkerer or Electrician, Aleksia, the resident technophobe, took on the task.  Might as well make my elders useful!

Wen put a profile on a dating website and went on a few dates to try and find a single man who was a good match for her.

Aloysia found a man to go on dates with, though she was a bit of a tramp and had a bad rep. Oddly enough this is the brother of the guy who disliked her because she cheated on him while picking up a rock.

Wen had to decide between a fairy, a werewolf, and a vampire.  The fairy turned out to be a dirty cheater who had 5 kids, but wouldn't marry his baby momma.  The werewolf was one of her best friends.  Her family liked the vampire and almost all rolled wants to be friends with him.

I decided that it only made sense that the person she was named after get to decide between the three. 

ASimWen chose the vampire.

Gregg Shocklee (Braun)
Traits: Workaholic, Clumsy, Evil, Ambitious, Angler
LTW: Emperor of Evil
Vampire

 One night while Adam and Aleksia were enjoying the rocking chairs and the view on the balcony....

Grim came for Aleksia finally.

Adam celebrated his sister's passing by having ANOTHER pillow fight with Grim.

One day while out shopping, Wen got her first baby bump for the next generation.

 

Gregg gets slim via a potion and works on his athletic for his job, and Wen works out while pregnant for an opportunity. The family that works out together stays together or something like that right?

One night while playing at the computer, Grim comes for Aloysia.

Everyone crowded in to the study so Aloysia had to go out to the livingroom while everyone else mourned in the room she died in.

Gregg spoiled Wen while she was pregnant giving her a massage with the massage table I got with the Serenity Retreat.  (I camped the Daily Deal list for a while and scored the venue half off! Woot woot!)

Wen had a home birth rather than a hospital birth because I wanted her to have the relationship boost a home delivery gives.  She gives birth to a little girl and names her Rachel (After Rachel Ziese-Lecy creator of the Prosperity Point who does Podcasts for the Sims 2)

Adam loved to hold his granddaughter, but not always in the most logical of places.

I borrow ASimWen's idea of rockers to keep my ghosts busy, and it worked. It even drew zombies to it.

One night I ended up with a lot of ghosts and a couple zombies hanging around the family graveyard.

How many ghosts can you count? Let's just say that I get more ghosts out on my lot than ASimWen apparently.

Adam loves Rachel and the rocking chairs.

I sent Wen up to change Rachel's diaper and unfortunately she decided to let her daughter have her birthday with a loaded diaper rather than changing her so that Rachel would be happy when she aged up.

Rachel Shocklee
Traits: Artistic, Loves the Heat
Vampire 

Ephraim comes out to haunt and ends up visiting with Rachel and rocking her in Adam's favorite rocking chair.  Unfortunately he couldn't be bothered to change her diaper and wouldn't give her to Adam so he could change her.

Adam is 105 days and still kicking.  What is it with the men in this family living forever?

Somewhere along the way the house hold found our first Mr. Mysterious Gnome. 

Odd Photos Out:

Evil Aleksia talks to Charles the Evil Chicken

Crazy random hair do on the repair lady

Wen blows up an elixir while trying to discover elixirs

Rachel practices biting her victims on her imaginary friend

Even with the plentiful rocking chairs the Shocklee family ghosts still find ways to torture their descendents.

Expansions installed: Generation, Supernatural, Seasons