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mightyspritesims
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago

Aliens Stole My Alien Parents

Decided to try this scenario with a twist or two.

The Zeezoob family just immigrated to Earth, settling in a small house in Copperdale. As soon as they got the basics unpacked, Mara and Oliver's dads ran out for a quick errand "to meet someone from work." It's almost nighttime and they haven't come back. Mara and Oliver are excited to get to know more about Earth, but they're starting to worry.

Here's Mara getting to know the neighbors. She is super proud of being an alien. She's also a fan of Earth culture.
https://i.postimg.cc/MHd4VRST/02-get-to-know-neighbors2.png

So as not to make the scenario too easy, Mara has no interest in painting, gardening, writing books, or collecting. She can't wait to dig into the typical Earth teen life with parties, friends and mischief. She has the Live Fast teen aspiration.

Oliver is a good kid who just wants to make his parents proud. He loves making friends with adults. He has the Whiz Kid aspiration.
https://i.postimg.cc/1t0bR27D/01-jog-and-get-to-know-neighbors.png

They haven't even been to school yet and Mara already had a run-in with the principal
Spoiler

She was kind of mean
https://i.postimg.cc/660FksvX/03-principal-mean.png

Mara thought it would be funny to scare her a little bit
https://i.postimg.cc/rsFZVmrL/04-principal-mean2.png

Totally got her
https://i.postimg.cc/JhZ2KSLS/05-principal-mean3.png

"What... what does that attachment do?"
https://i.postimg.cc/xCPFVHqR/06-principal-mean4.png

Mara cracked up laughing
"This isn't over."
https://i.postimg.cc/CxW2GSWj/07-principal-mean5.png


But she has a friend in Mr. Lum, who works as the school janitor
Spoiler

https://i.postimg.cc/tTbmcDRJ/08-pals-with-janitor.png


"Dads aren't home yet, so you have to do the dishes."
"You do them."
"You."
"You."
https://i.postimg.cc/brCCshxS/09-annoying.png

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  • mightyspritesims's avatar
    mightyspritesims
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 years ago
    Day 2

    Mara and Oliver went to bed in the little cots their dads had bought for them, "just for now," while they were getting settled. Sleeping all in one room wasn't unusual for Sixa, but Mara wasn't fond of this bed. They were supposed to get better beds soon. Mara decided she'd put on her best begging act for dads in the morning. When they would be back. They would have to be back by then.
    https://i.postimg.cc/XYnzvqsQ/01-beds.png

    In the morning, they weren't back. But Mara had something more important on her mind: her first day of high school. She decided to dress classy for the first day. She wanted to make an impression on her peers.
    https://i.postimg.cc/XJB2PCv7/02-class.png

    She made an impression all right, but it seemed Copperdale teens didn't take kindly to a bright-eyed mischievous green alien in a black dress. She ran into this girl Molly in the bathroom
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/PqxVmcsD/03-molly1.png

    Who immediately started making fun. Well, Mara could dish it right back.
    https://i.postimg.cc/TP47Q9f4/04-molly2.png

    In her first class there was this boy who was wearing a disguise. Mara hadn't realized humans might wear disguises too. That was interesting. She wondered why.
    https://i.postimg.cc/fTf81ZMX/05-jeb1.png

    She tried to get to know him
    https://i.postimg.cc/J7J6cZgp/05-jeb2.png

    He didn't like it.
    https://i.postimg.cc/mkQmLWMv/05-jeb3.png

    And then at lunch there was this boy who didn't like anything or anybody.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Y0cXBC4N/06-lunch1.png

    "Are all the students here going to be backward, ignorant and mean," muttered Mara to herself.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Kv2994hx/07-lunch2.png

    "Yeah, mostly," said the girl to her left. "Not much culture here in Middle Copperdale. I like your dress. Nice to see that some people respect themselves enough to dress classy."
    https://i.postimg.cc/BnhMQgLn/08-lunch3.png

    "That's exactly what I was going for," said Mara with relief.
    https://i.postimg.cc/YC2dHVSP/09-lunch4.png

    Her name was Cassandra. (Cassandra was the first teen sim not to respond to Mara with a Very Angry mood and Unpleasant Conversation tone upon introduction.)

    Mara felt much better in her afternoon class. It was science, which she loved, and she had made a friend.
    https://i.postimg.cc/cJrTKnwM/10-next-class-better.png

    Maybe all you really need to be happy in life is one good friend.

    Mara was feeling so happy at the end of the day that she agreed to take Oliver to the library.
    https://i.postimg.cc/zBhj7Ydy/12-library.png

    And even to play chess with him.
    https://i.postimg.cc/x8SPFp7t/13-chess.png

    But then Oliver got talking to Toru the librarian and Mara wandered over to the computer.

    The computer was an annoyingly complicated and slow way to access knowledge. She struggled with it, trying to find out anything she could about her dads. Had they registered their craft in port anywhere? Had they crash-landed on Earth and generated any news reports? And she hated to be so crass, but if they were going to be gone a long time, was there any way she could access her family's bank accounts?

    "Hi, I think we have a class together," said a teen girl behind her.
    "Hi. Do you have any advice on accessing the Earth information repository?" asked Mara with some irritation.
    "Uh, I can look something up for you on my phone?"
    https://i.postimg.cc/t4gNfxSQ/14-research-and-gemma.png

    Her name was Gemma. She had a grumpy vibe but she really did try to help Mara.
    "Thanks for not being mean to me just because I'm not from here," said Mara.
    "Meh, everyone at school is basically a weird alien," said Gemma. "You're no different. Are your dads really missing? That's terrible. And kind of cool."

    They talked for a little while. Then Gemma went home. Mara spent a while trying to hack into the bank.
    https://i.postimg.cc/cL5BNL2K/15-hack.png

    Meanwhile, Toru the librarian helped Oliver with his homework. Oliver thought Toru was wonderful.
    https://i.postimg.cc/pXCBqZBJ/16-homework-with-toru.png

    Unsuccessful in her hacking efforts, Mara and Oliver went home, where they tried to make a salad.
    Mara hates cooking.
    Oliver tried to cheer her up. "Hey, donut be so crabby! Get it? It's an Earth food joke!"
    Mara hates Oliver's jokes.
    https://i.postimg.cc/C1j8dGM2/donut-be-so-crabby.png

    The salad was terrible.
    "This is really terrible," said Oliver.
    "Like it or not, it's what we're eating for our next 6 meals," said Mara. At least, if I can't get to our money before then, she thought to herself.
    https://i.postimg.cc/28rwQJn5/17-salad.png

    She didn't want to worry Oliver, but she was getting really worried.
  • luciusstorm's avatar
    luciusstorm
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago
    Interesting start...I've got to say I love that Cassandra and Gemma are both ok with green look... trust a Goth and a witch to accept the outsider.
  • EvilBnuuy's avatar
    EvilBnuuy
    New Rookie
    3 years ago
    Excited to see where this goes! Looks like they'll face a fair few challenges on the way but the Zeezoob family seem fun so far.
  • ignominiusrex's avatar
    ignominiusrex
    3 years ago
    You've got a fan, that was fun! I like how you pull familiarity with townies' tendencies into a believable dynamic with your character!
  • mightyspritesims's avatar
    mightyspritesims
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 years ago
    Thanks @SnowBnuuy and @luciusstorm :)
    Yeah, I thought Cassandra and Gemma made a pretty perfect little bunch with Mara, so I was pleased. Initially I thought Mara would be a popular party-girl and contrast that with her family responsibilities. But I'll take odd-girl mischief maker with a close-knit group of odd girls too. This is an interesting crew.

    I wonder what's going on behind the scenes with NPC reactions to aliens. I have NPC aliens in my San Myshuno game, and I can't remember my played sims ever having Very Angry moodlets upon meeting them. So I can't compare from that.
  • mightyspritesims's avatar
    mightyspritesims
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 years ago
    Day 3

    The next morning before class, Mara went into the school science lab looking for answers. The lab had a large, heavy-duty machine that resembled the library computers, but said "Electromagnetic Research Archive" on the bootup screen. It looked like a throwback to pre-flight technology, but Mara was happy to discover it had more in-depth information, full articles and research studies rather than the dumb little snippets one could find on the internet.

    She couldn't find anything there about what had happened to her dads, but she found some interesting articles about convincing humans to do things, solving problems logically, one thing led to another and pretty soon it was halfway through class time

    https://i.postimg.cc/KjhpbSwS/18-lab.png

    Spoiler

    The principal came in
    "You never saw me," said Mara.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Hn0Zsv1J/19-lab2.png

    "Okay," said Principal Prescott.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Pf1F4Jvt/20-lab3-never-saw-me.png


    Mara spent a precious few of her dwindling supply of simoleons on a school lunch. It disappeared before she could eat it. She decided to wait until the line cleared away and try again. Her new friend Cassandra was already sitting down to eat so Mara joined her. Wolfgang, the mean kid, came over, but before he could start in with them Mara invited him to a fake party. And the other kids laughed. That really got his goat.
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/s2BTZgRC/21-lunch1.png

    Mara and Cassandra chatted until the line was gone and Cassandra was done eating. Mara tried again at the lunch counter, but again the lunch disappeared. She was so hungry.

    As the other kids cleared out to go to class, Mara spied a half-eaten plate on one of the tables. She was embarrassed, but she knew that plate of leftovers would have to be her lunch today. She waited until everyone was gone so none of the other kids would see her doing this
    https://i.postimg.cc/GhQ7WfjV/22-lunch2.png

    Well, almost everyone was gone
    https://i.postimg.cc/ncZSwxqq/23-lunch3.png

    "Please, Principal Prescott! Have mercy on a hungry child!"
    https://i.postimg.cc/FHHWNxWR/24-lunch4.png

    And thus Mara escaped detention.


    After school, Mara enlisted her friends to help her in a prank. It felt good to stride down the hall amid her crew.
    https://i.postimg.cc/JzYTnBvQ/25-crew.png
    Spoiler

    "Let's show that mean kid in Class 2 what we really think of him," said Mara gleefully.
    https://i.postimg.cc/wBS05Y6y/26-crew-prank.png

    They let their imaginations run wild.
    https://i.postimg.cc/1XSBT0Vy/27-prank.png


    The crew headed over to Thriftea to hang out. Mara thought it might be good to have another couple of outfits for school that were classy. She couldn't wear that black dress every day, and although her Sixa clothes were comfortable, Sixa didn't exactly go in for variety in fashion either.

    Mara browsed through the clothes, looking for classy, maybe sort of trendy, but original. It was a lot of fun coming up with ideas. In the back of her mind loomed worries about running out of simoleons. But we have to learn to fit in here on Earth, said the front of her mind. And don't you deserve something for yourself?
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/fyvCh3Ym/28-thrift1.png

    Mara picked out a textured white shirt and a purple skirt with a chain around the waist. The store had some weird policy about not letting you buy an outfit without shoes. Who wears shoes? Mara looked around and realized everyone was wearing shoes. Human feet must be really weak. Or maybe it was part of their fashion. Okay then. She chose the least uncomfortable-looking pair, some white-and-gold sneakers. Actually, they didn't look too bad with the rest of the outfit. She took a deep breath as she handed over more than half of her remaining pocket money to pay for the outfit. Dads will be back soon, she reassured the back of her mind, our family has plenty of money and nothing to worry about.

    An attractive boy sat down on the sofa, holding two cups of boba tea. "Hi," said Mara. "I don't think you go to my school." He seemed a little edgy, but he didn't get angry at meeting her. That was okay. Mara felt a little edgy too.
    https://i.postimg.cc/7P1mzRjh/29-rohan.png

    His name was Rohan. They talked for a little while, as Rohan drank one of his cups of tea. Then he made an awkward excuse and left.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Cx2NYpnP/30-rohan2.png

    Mara felt oddly sad to see Rohan go. Then she saw that he had left the second cup of tea on the table. For her?
    She'd heard that it was special when an Earth man bought a drink for a woman...
    https://i.postimg.cc/CLFJsNVN/31-rohan3.png

    It might have been cooler if they'd enjoyed their drinks together...
    But still.
    A boy bought me a drink!
    https://i.postimg.cc/Jz0q9z0H/32-rohan4.png

    Just then another handsome boy sat down at Mara's table and admired her outfit. Full of new confidence, she chatted up her friend. "Have you met my friend Cassandra? She's so cool, and very kind, I think you would really like her."
    https://i.postimg.cc/tC2kSxqH/33-kiyoshi1.png

    Mara called to Cassandra. She joined them. Her voice said a sweet introduction to Kiyoshi. Her eyes said "Help me, I'm so nervous, don't you dare leave this table" to Mara.
    https://i.postimg.cc/LXK3YkTj/34-kiyoshi2.png

    So Mara didn't leave the table. And pretty soon Kiyoshi seemed to like Cassandra's company a lot.
    https://i.postimg.cc/0QYdp6WF/cassandra-is-great.png


    Cassandra texted Mara late that night about how much she appreciated her.
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/prYBNYMx/best-friends.png

    And by the way, did she want to come over for a party?
    https://i.postimg.cc/bw4QW044/invite.png

    Of course she did!

    "Bye, Oliver," said Mara.
    "Where are you going?" asked Oliver.
    "Out to a party. What are you doing awake anyway?"
    "Can you stay? I think I just heard something under my bed and I'm really scared--"
    https://i.postimg.cc/vm6vZ2WQ/35-monster1.png

    She went downstairs.
    "Mara?"
    The front door closed.

    The house was quiet.

    Something seethed and oozed under Oliver's bed.

    Oliver hid in his dads' bed, but the weird noises continued.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Y0tN8pT9/36-monster2.png

    "Mara?"

    Oliver suddenly felt all the sadness and loneliness of missing his dads for two days, all at once.
    He pretended his dads were in the bed with him. Through tears, he told them everything that had happened for the last two days. It didn't change anything, but he knew exactly what they would do if they were here. Dad Benoy would tell him all the reasons he didn't need to worry, and Dad Sovey would just give him a big long hug until he stopped crying.

    Curled up tight, Oliver hugged himself with the closest to a Dad Sovey hug he could muster.
    He gave a confident Dad Benoy list of reasons why everything would be okay.
    And then it seemed that something under his bed had stopped oozing around, and was maybe listening to the sound of his voice.

    "....Hello?"
    The thing made an awkward, somewhat wet rumbling sound.
    And Oliver talked to it some more.
    https://i.postimg.cc/XNgkqCyy/friends-monster.png

    Pretty soon they were even playing together.
    https://i.postimg.cc/6qzrmkNh/38-monster4.png

    Earth animals are weird.

    Soon Oliver was ready to go back to sleep.


    The next day, Mara wasn't home from the party yet. Oliver got himself ready for school. When he came home, a strange girl met him at the door
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/ZK7PFzHb/39-strange-girl.png

    Make that two strange girls.
    https://i.postimg.cc/BnjTm77x/40-two-strange-girls.png

    "Hi, I'm Oliver. Have you guys seen my dads? Or my sister Mara?"
    "Haha, Mara is asleep on Cassandra's floor right now. You should see how she drools."
    "I've seen it," said Oliver.
    "Oh knock it off, Gemma, you drool worse," said Cassandra, giggling. "Mara will be back any minute."
    And she was.
    The next day would be Harvestfest. Would their dads be back then?

  • moppy14w's avatar
    moppy14w
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 years ago
    Really enjoying this story! Happy Simming mightysprite.
  • ghilie3's avatar
    ghilie3
    3 years ago
    I do love me some aliens, and these aliens are great. Bookmarked!
  • mightyspritesims's avatar
    mightyspritesims
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 years ago
    Day 4

    It was Mara and Oliver's first Earth holiday! Without their parents... and their friends were probably busy all day with their own families... and Mara has her first breakout.
    https://i.postimg.cc/8z8G2MHt/01-first-acne.png

    Great start.

    Mara went outside and discovered the yard had been invaded by strange creatures. She had heard of this custom! She eagerly looked up the gnomes on the internet.
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/50kdnCy5/02-gnome-lookup.png

    Thumbing through a web browser on a phone was a sorry substitute for a knowledge repository, but it was the best Earth had to offer for now, and fortunately the information was useful!
    https://i.postimg.cc/mDrWYwL2/03-gnome-success.png

    What Mara wasn't sure about was the gifts. Was it true that the gnomes left gifts, or was that something the adults in the house did in secret? So many Earth holidays seemed to involve keeping secrets from children. Mara wasn't in the mood to play pretend for Oliver today. She went for a jog instead.
    https://i.postimg.cc/0jMg3yKT/05-jog.png


    When Oliver woke up and remembered that there was no school, all he wanted was to play chess and go to the library. As annoying as Oliver was, Mara had to admit that she was in need of some intellectual challenge, plus she was way behind on studying for tomorrow's exams. They went to the neighborhood park and played chess. Mara started feeling very sad all of a sudden
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/tRwG6WLp/06-chess-sad.png

    (She has the fear of unfulfilled dreams, because like everyone's sims right now, she keeps rolling wants for things I can't do like Listen To DJ Music. But I have to say I'll welcome a few Very Sad and Very Angry moods for a while, because (a) the kids aren't getting any moodlets about their dads missing and it makes sense for them to be sad and angry about that, and (b) Mara is a teenager.)

    Oliver lost, and threw a chess piece at Mara.
    https://i.postimg.cc/MHCk8Jyv/07-chess-angry.png

    (Gameplay-wise, Oliver has no excuse, I really don't know what his problem was. But same thought about the absence of dads taking a toll on the kids' feelings.)


    When they got home Mara found a surprise: seed packets in little circles around the gnomes. And every so often the gnomes moved from place to place in the house.
    "Let's plant a garden!" Oliver crowed.
    "It looks like we can sell these," Mara crowed.
    After a lot of bickering, Mara agreed to let Oliver keep one packet of winter plants and to buy him a planter box. And to use some of the extra money to buy books.
    Spoiler

    "Yay! An Earth book! I wonder when the rest of my books will get here from home?"
    It was one more question Mara didn't have an answer to. She wasn't supposed to have all these answers. She wanted her dads to come home and figure everything out already.
    https://i.postimg.cc/hPmW1hBx/08-read-angry.png

    Somewhere, her dads felt the same way.
    https://i.postimg.cc/LsDMg7Mb/09-dad1.png
    https://i.postimg.cc/jjtb5TBf/10-dad2.png


    Cassandra came over for a visit after her family finished Harvestfest dinner. Suddenly it was easier to be warm and friendly
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/0yqgWxk4/11-read-with-cassandra.png

    Mara suddenly felt herself feeling very friendly
    https://i.postimg.cc/sgPkb81g/12-read-with-cassandra.png

    She'd always idealized the Earth boy-girl dating scene. She wanted a boy to take her out for ice cream, hold hands on the ferris wheel, be escorted into prom (looking fantastic) on the arm of a dashing fellow, maybe a slightly gruff fellow, maybe a little like that Rohan... but maybe there were more possibilities she hadn't considered?

    It didn't occur to Mara to say anything to Cassandra. She was too grateful and happy about their friendship, and honestly she was quite scared about making any sort of foray into romance. So if her heart beat faster all of a sudden when Cassandra was around... she'd keep it to herself.


    Mara, Cassandra and Gemma met up at the library for a last-minute study session. They kept each other company and worked hard, now that it was almost too late.
    Spoiler

    Oliver got help with his homework from his hero, the librarian
    https://i.postimg.cc/63qF2pc8/13-library1.png

    He got done before Mara did, so he sneaked some time with some possibly not appropriate for his age video games.
    https://i.postimg.cc/CKmWxqGy/14-library2.png

    That night, Mara sold all the seed packets except for one, and the gnomes to boot. Even after buying books and a planter box for Oliver, they had just over 2k simoleons now.
    And Mara saw that her face had cleared up.
    Things were looking better.
    https://i.postimg.cc/yNVMKPSX/15-better.png


  • luciusstorm's avatar
    luciusstorm
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago
    @mightysprite, wow I really feel for Mara... alone, confused, outsider, teen alien. That's a lot to carry.

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