Thompson Legacy 1.1 – “Beginning Down The Road To Great Resort Owner” – Sims 3 Island Paradise

Fresh from business school Brenna Thompson has moved to the idyllic island town of Isla Paradiso ready to start on her new life. For Brenna this town was great because of the water and the attraction of the possibility of growing a successful water side resort that she owned and being the entrepreneur she wanted to be. She was able to buy a small houseboat with the money she made in business school from tutoring and work-study. The first day she hung out on the roof in the patio chair looking at the amazing view.

After a bit of lounging and taking in the view it was time to start snorkeling to find things to sell to start earning money for her dream. It took a few days for her to gain enough confidence in her skills to start scuba diving at the easier scuba dive spots in Isla Paradiso. Once she started though she gained more skill pretty fast and realized she could easily find things under the sea to sell to support her and her dream for owning a resort. Besides that she loved the ocean and the wonders it held.

Brenna continued on with the scuba diving over the next few weeks at a very aggressive pace and collected quite a few sea treasures that really added up in value. Every week she would turn in that week’s worth of her underwater bounty and after about a month of collecting work under the sea she went to the island’s consignment shop to sell this latest week’s haul and a few huge sales had come in for her items in the meantime and between that and what she just had turned in she could finally afford a down payment on a hotel resort and begin building the dream. She looked around town at a few spots but finally came across a beautiful location that would be great for her dream resort empire. Issue was the place was all run-down around the landscape and buildings. It wasn’t too bad inside but she was worried about what the total cost of repairing and remodeling before even improving the basics would add up too. Turns out, the previous owner was so desperate to leave the island and go somewhere else for retirement that they offered Brenna the place for free.

“Free? Are you sure?” Brenna couldn’t believe it but the owner smiled and nodded, and then gave her the key. And so the dauting task of creating an empire began.  

In between all this work, Brenna was able to get out and meet the locals and the tourists. She loved to talk to everyone in town, and now that she owned a resort, she met even more people all the time. One person in particular stood out to Brenna. One Mr. Branden Cleary, who was a tourist to the island, and would only be in town for a few weeks so she was anxious to spend as much time as he would let her with him during his stay. The two of them hang out around town and her wonderful boat house. Branden liked it even though it was small because his favorite hobby was scuba diving like Brenna, which made them bond quickly. One afternoon while they were having lunch at a local restaurant they started a more serious discussion as Branden was due to leave in a few days.

“It’s been great hanging out getting to know you, Branden. I hope I’ve been a good guide around the island, even though I’m fairly new here myself.” Brenna gave him a small smile and giggle. She wasn’t sure what to say next for the first time being around Branden. She was getting anxious, nervously fidgeting around, keeping her sweaty palms of her hands together. Pull it together Brenna, she chided herself and then noticed Branden was forming a concerned look on his face.

“Are you okay, Brenna?” He paused, and his face was soft with a warm touch of caring etched in. She settled down to almost normal as if the face melted her stress away.

“Yeah, of course. Well, to tell you the truth, I am a little nervous, and there is something that I want to ask you, but fear it may be too soon. But you are leaving in a few days so today might be my last chance.”

“Is it anything like we are hitting it off so well, and I feel more comfortable around you than anyone else I have ever known? Or something like that,” Branden chuckled and smiled playfully.

Brenna felt like she was exploding with happiness, smiling brightly. “Actually, yeah, I was hoping you felt that way and maybe stay longer or maybe, I don’t know, move here while we keep getting to know each other?” Okay, that might have been too far but too late now.

Branden took a moment but smiled again and said, “I have looked into work here at the local business center and when I talked to the higher ups, they offered me a job at the same level I was at. And if my background check passes, which it should, I start work next Monday. I was going to tell you but I wanted to wait and make sure it went through. They said they would let me know by tomorrow. I love it here, and I’m very interested in pursuing what we have going here. Sounds like you might approve of this plan?”

“Yes, sounds really great.”

And by the end of the week, Branden was settled in his new job and moved in with Brenna!

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Season 1: Part 2 – “A different Sunset Valley” (Fellow Simmer MintyLemon’s Save)

~The Wickham-Austin Family AND Jake Sterling AND Luke Peterson~

Background:

*Extra Note: This family and the two other characters described in this section is actually based on characters from a web series called The Music Freaks.

The Wickham-Austin family consists of wife and mother Shannon Wickham and her husband Michael Austin, with their three children Hailey Austin, Zander Wickham and Bethany Wickham. The siblings are pretty close, especially Zander and Hailey. Her brother is very protective over her. There were a total of two things in this world he was protective of most and that was his sister and his piano for which he had a passion for playing. Hailey has a passion for music so much that she started a music club in her high school. The only problem is she has stage fright so that could stand in her way even though she is great at anything music related.

Then there is Jake Sterling. A boy in Hailey’s class who has big dreams of making it big in the music industry and is especially interested in singing. He is painfully shy though and keeps to himself which made him more of a target in middle school but might be coming into his own now. He has a dog named Oreo as well.

Last but not least is Luke Peterson. Shy as a child, Luke still has residual bouts of shyness but is a lot more sociable now. He is bi and in Zander’s class with who he has a major crush on. And as passionate as Zander is of his piano, Luke loves his drums the same way.

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Michael Austin is aspiring to be a hit movie composer so like his children he is into music and may have influenced them in their interest of music as well. Shannon believes in the family unit and being close and wouldn’t mind having another couple kids if that happens naturally. The older two teenage kids Zander and Hailey started to hang out with their crushes and finally after a few hangouts made their move one afternoon as each was hanging out with the other after school (Hailey with Jake, and Zander with Luke). The children and thier crushes are all still into their musical hobbies and thought maybe someday the four of them should form a band. Bethany, who shares her family’s passion for music but is younger, can join when she’s a little older which made Bethany a little annoyed but everything with this family was going well overall.

~The Waltons Family and Honey Megortn~

Background:

Dwight Walton and Honey Megortn were married. However, Honey was unaware of what Dwight’s evil intentions were, all the while being pure of heart herself. They had a child together Bertrum who Dwight is trying to make evil even still but so far no luck and he seems to still take after his mother even though he lives with his father and his father’s like-minded sister Talia.

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The Waltons are three of a kind. Well, sort of. Dwight is an aspiring master criminal along with his sister Talia. However, Dwight’s son Bertrum he had with ex-wife Honey Megortn, who also has a career in the “criminal industry” but is looking to get out, and where her and Dwight are still co-workers, strives to be good instead. Sometimes Dwight would even help his sister practice her evilness in practice sessions. As the years went by and Bertrum caught on somewhat to what his Dad and Aunt were up to he made sure to promise to protect his mother from them. Honey was touched but she made sure to point out to him it was her who would protect him and they both hugged and promised to be there for each other in the chaos. In the meantime Honey is still trying to get into new line of work and completely get away from Dwight and now his sister and be able to protect her son.

~The Phelps Family~

Background:

None

Now:

The Phelps family consists of husband and wife Derrel and Susan Phelps with their son Adam. Derrel is a hard working father while Susan is a stay-at-home mom to Adam who is about to go to enter high school and his teen years. Susan wants to focus on herself at this point more and really is into the arts, especially painting and street art. Derrel thinks its the perfect opportunity to advance in his work where he is a resident in the medical field working on becoming a world renowned surgeon which is his true dream.

~The Riton Family~

Background:

None

Now:

Olly and Erica Riton are just starting to grow as a family with their young son Paul. Olly has figured out what he wants to do in life. He found he enjoyed the art of alchemy so much that he wanted to get skilled enough in it to make it a career option and grow to be one of the best Alchemy Artisans in the world. Alchemy is similar to cooking where you put ingredients together to produce something that you can consume which Olly liked because he loved cooking too, but with alchemy the potential for magical properties that can be more powerful and helpful. It could be used in a bad way but Olly wasn’t inclined to be a bad person, but he was a little naïve about things so hopefully he won’t get mixed up into something that isn’t good on accident on his journey on mixing and discovering elixirs. Erica has a passion for learning at least four musical instruments in her spare time and bought herself a guitar, a bass, some drums, and a piano to learn on. For her career she is starting out as a teacher but will she stay in that or go full-time in music? Paul is a very active little boy when he wants to be but can also be a couch potato and watches a little too much tv and plays a lot of video games like his dad Olly so as he continues to grow and approach his teen years they are doing their best but their progress in their own things are slow going.

(In my stream we saw him first as a child but taking pictures I had to go back to first save for some families and toddlers are so cute so I figured I would take a quick picture with Erica holding little Paul as a toddler).

~The Rebeca Colly Household~

Background:

None

Now:

Rebeca Colly recently moved to Sunset Valley and is excited to start her career in journalism and eventually become a star news anchor as she moves up the ladder. Not much else happened with her other than she began online dating by creating a profile but we did play a little while with her on stream and will check back in on her at later time.

~The Jolina household~

Extra Note: Jamie Jolina is actually a younger version of the original Sunset Valley Jamie Jolina and parents were added.

Background:

This is a small family with wife and husband Erica and Issac Jolina and their daughter Jamie. Erica’s family’s line is full of musicians. Due to that, Erica has hopes of becoming one of the best composers for shows and movies that there is in the world while hoping her daughter takes an interest in the music industry. Erica would love Jamie to grow up and be a very successful singer. Meantime, Issac is also very busy as he grows in the medical career where he is only an intern at the moment but he has high hopes to become one of the best surgeons in the world. This family may be small but they are ambitious and want to instill that in their daughter so she will strive for greatness too. The only trouble is will Erica be upset even if Jamie grows up to be successful if she isn’t a singer? And if so how will she deal with that?

Now:

Honestly only played a few minutes with this family so not much to report but hoping to go back in later streams so included here anyway but don’t have any further updates at this time except what direction the family wants to head in explained above.

NSBC: Mint Generation -> 1.2 – Moving Up and Moving In

Important Note: Each image has a possible slideshow where there is multiple images.

Amie was doing very well with her career already but she was still a little impatient about getting into more of the advanced science stuff instead of mostly plain lab work. Although she did get to invent two devices so far. So she was moving up in her scientist career and still as motivated as ever to reach higher levels. Even with that focus, she had become a little distracted by a certain sim she meet the recently. Akira was tugging at her mind when she was trying to focus soley on advancement at work but both she and Akira felt there was something there that they had to explore. Amie decided to work extra hard while she was at the lab and block Akira, or try, from her mind during the work day. When they both had time off they would hang out. The two of them also checked out the mountain area on a date where Amie hoped to start snowboarding and skiing soon. Akira was willing to try that with her too which she was happy about. For now they used the mountain neighborhood’s hot springs and relaxed and got to know each other even more. Akira became quiet for a while and seemed to have something on his mind.

Amie noticed Akira turn to her and he started speaking, “Amie, I think I would like to be exclusive. How do you feel about it?”

“Akira, I would love to be exclusive. Yes.” They both were beaming the rest of the date.

Something else was creeping in on her too. The feeling that she might need more than her career, as much as she loved it, to have a whole life, was forming, and Akira was such a good guy. Her biological clock might have been activated but she worried it was too early still. Then again if she was feeling prepared she figured she would just go with the flow for now because she was ready for whatever might happen.

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More specifically on the challenge front Amie has managed to move closer to her aspiration completion and has one person dislike her already and workng on another at the lab. She even used her freeze ray on them. The elements collection has a few more elements added in the display table. Amie has also been improving on her logic skill as well. Caleb wasn’t too happy about it but it didn’t make them that much closer to being in the dislike ballpark. She will have to keep working on it. With Akira a good prospect for having an heir for the next generation, we might be close to giving birth to the possible generation 2 rose baby.

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Amie and Akira continued to see each other on a regular basis and work life was still going strong, especially now that she learned to separate her work and her personal life more. Then one day, Akira asked Amie over unexpectantly.

“I have something I need to ask you. I understand if you don’t feel ready to, but I was wondering if I could move in with you?” Akira asked with a hopeful smile on his lips.

“I would like that very much,” Amie replied, smiling back.

And so the two moved in together and Amie felt like she could focus even more on her work because she would get a little jealous if Akira wasn’t with her and now he was around a lot more. (Akira has the jealous trait too!) Shortly after moving in they got a little wild and may have forgot something but had a memorable first time. Amie and Akira were both nervous about getting carried away but Akira wants children and Amie wants to carry on her legacy so it could turn out ok even if it is slightly early in their lives. They decided to have a talk about it to see if they were on the same page.

“To be honest Akira, I’m a little worried about how we got caught up in it last night. I do want kids but I just don’t know about this soon. I wanted to be further in my career and maybe you did too? What are you thinking?”

“Amie, I have always wanted children so if it happens I wouldn’t be upset. But I wouldn’t want you to be upset by it.”

“I don’t think I would if it happens. I think I’d be okay with it.”

“Well I hope you would because I also realize…I love you.”

“Akira! I love you too! Yes, I think we’ll be alright no matter what.”

NOT SO BERRY CHALLENGE: MINT GENERATION – 1.1 – Start of 1st Generation

Amie Mahoney is the founder of the first generation of my first ever attempt at the Not so Berry challenge originally by lilsimsie and friend alwaysimming and there is a 2.0 version by simqueen8. I will start by following the original story goal ending but I may explore and combine from both versions depending on if it feels appropriate to the story of Amie. And so, it begins…

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Amie Mahoney stood in front of her new home thinking about the possiblities that lay ahead. She was on her own as she was her whole life and becoming successful and established with wealth and prestige was important to her. Her only issue was she wasn’t the nicest person at times because she loved causing mischief and had a mean streak. But she had a big goal to achieve by mastering in the scientist career and she has fought to get to where she is so far. A very skilled lab techician in the well-known labatory of SimsLab Inc. She had already started making her way toward becoming a master scientist. Part of the reason she pursued this career was it was one in which she could definetly cause a lot of chaos in the name of science! On top of that she was ambitious and could focus in on a project for a long time which can also come in handy in science when you have to be in the lab sometimes all day. All in all, she thought it was the best path although if she had to pick a backup she would pick a career in engineering (again opportunity for mischief exists). Although in both cases she would have to be careful how far the mischief she deploys in her every day life goes. The question is if she cares enough to not go too far. Who knows what path she will go? Will Amie cause mostly harmless choas or dangerous mayhem?

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The first thing Amie did was buy the appliances and furniture she needed to get started in her new home, using all of her savings she had been able to store away from her lab technician job. At the moment, she was renting but there was an option to buy the house if she wanted later. Since she wasn’t sure about this new town yet she had decided to go that way. Although the activities the mountains provided interested her and may help keep her in this town. However, as a focused and ambitious young lab technician trying to break into the scientist career, hobbies outside of science would be few and far between for a long time. She barely had time to socialize since starting the lab tech job as she was putting everything into it. That didn’t mean she would be able to isolate herself from people for too long.

Amie started to settle in nicely in her new home and work was certainly going well. She already had a few breakthroughs while analyzing and experimenting with the lab’s equipment. Breaking into the scientist career path was in her reach and she was aas determined than ever to prove herself. The other thing she enjoyed about work was how friendly her co-workers were and most, so far at least, didn’t mind her mischievous ways. Amie was also trying really hard to be on her best behavior and keep the mean streak that could come out inside. Her co-workers were also very helpful in getting her started with some crystals and metals that on further analysis Amie discovered could be broken apart and formed new elements. She remembered wanting a element collection when she was younger and so she bought a element board to store her growing collection. She had another hobby besides collecting elements she wanted to start soon and that was fishing. So far however, she hadn’t found any good spots to fish in her neighborhood. She might have to travel some to another town to find a good fishing spot. On top of that, she was anxious to try snowboarding up on the mountain.

As far as dating went, that wasn’t a top priority for Amie but she did meet someone on a walk one morning before work. He was from a neighboring town called Windenburg and his name was Akira. He caught her eye as he had that dark haired possibly up for trouble kind of look to him. They stopped and talked for a while about some basic getting to know you things: how they liked their towns, what are the best hangouts in Windeburg if Amie were to visit, and more. Amie had to interrupt the pleasant conversation with Akira as it was getting close to her start time at work and she had to go home and get ready. They said their goodbyes but decided to exchange numbers so they could hang out later. And Amie managed to get together with him once so far and it was another easy going conversation.

Sims 4 Story Alert: Gabrielle’s Story Chapter 1 Preview

It was time for the two parents to go get an ultrasound. Gabrielle couldn’t wait to find out about the new life that was growing inside her. Lance was a little nervous. As with a lot of new fathers he was hoping for a baby boy. Although he was fine if the doctor said the baby was healthy of course. So they went along to the ultrasound appointment and they were thrilled as the baby looked healthy. Also, it was a boy! When they got back, they didn’t say much else about it though and life went on with them each focused more on their careers then each other in the food and fashion industries. The couple at this point was still interested in each other, but already there was something waning in their relationship and each felt the other start pulling away

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