Sims Life Stories: Four Corners - lots and sims rebuilt for Sims 3

The Margison Family

Keats is a well-paid scientist who only talks in facts, but his son Jacob is infatuated with Madison Fortuna, and is neglecting his schoolwork. Can Keats persuade his son that studying is more important than a shortsighted romance?

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Keats is a noted scientist of Four Corners who only talks in facts. He worries that his son Jacob is neglecting his studies.

Keats Margison is a serious scientist with no sense of humour, who only talks in facts. At some point in his life he had a wife, who was deleted during development of Sims Life Stories, and the only trace of her left is her Want table, she had a lifetime want to be a pro athlete. Maybe Keats got too to be too much to handle? Regardless, Keats is not interested in finding another woman; his gender preference is set to actually be repulsed by women, while neutral towards males. I'm guessing his breakup affected him deeply back then, as today, his only concern is his son's 'shortsighted' infatuation with Madison Fortuna. He does not appear in the story mode, appearing in the family bin at the end, while in Freeplay, he already lives in a furnished home. I'm guessing his family arrived a bit earlier in the freeplay timeline. He had a different hairstyle in Life Stories, but Sims 3 really lacks options for dreadlocks in both genders.

Male: 0
Female: -10

Jacob: They share a 60/30ish str/ltr in Sims 2 in story mode, and a 100/40ish str/ltr in Freeplay.

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The biggest thing in Jacob's life right now is Madison Fortuna. Can he manage to pay enough attention to his school work to please his father?

Jacob Margison is a rather plain teenager living under the thumb of his studious serious scientist father. His whole story is that hes infatuated with Madison Fortuna, and that his grades are slipping as a result, something his father wont stand for. In the story mode, he has yet to even meet Madison, as hes still in the family bin, suggesting that he merely glanced her and developed a crush. In Freeplay, hes lived in the town for some time, and he and Madison are in love with an almost perfect relationship, but they arent officially partners yet.

Male: -10
Female: +10

Keats: See above
Madison: 85 (Freeplay only)

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17 Hyacinth Circle, dubbed The Science Corner, the Freeplay version is a fully furnished home. There is room for a science station in Keat's research/study room, although furniture will need to be moved to house it. The science station is already in the family inventory. Jacob's room has signs of teenage stuff, so he at least has more personality than Keats does, although I feel a lot of it is suppressed by constant demands to study and learn.

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The story version of this lot has some structural differences, notably the MUCH bigger bathroom on the ground floor. I always move the Margisons into this lot and slowly adapt it to the Freeplay version (but I keep the bigger bathroom)

Also a design note; since the halfwalls are different in Sims 3, the staircase had to be adapted. In the original, its a straicase behind a large halfwall with tall railings, but the equivalent in Sims 3, only has short railings. That combined with the different way stairs are built, I had to change the design a bit.