Build your Next Life
Welcome to my “Build your next life” gameplay commentary! Build your next life is a randomizer that gives you four elements to weave into a sim: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/10088...
Forum Discussion
Spring Year 1: Getting serious
“One day in spring I returned home to actual mail being stuck in the mail box. I hadn’t expected this postbox to still be registered, let alone get served! Who could have written me an old fashioned letter?”
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“Oh. The city of Detroit. Maybe it came from the city council, with a raise and a promotion? That would be nice!
I opened the letter, only to find a bill over 400$ in there.
Wait, what? I’m just sleeping under this (conveniently on the grid) roof! I’m not the tenant!
It was true. As far as the city council was concerned, I wasn’t the tenant. From their demand it became clear that I was considered to be the house owner. And as the owner, I had to raise the property tax somehow as well as cover utilities.
The phone call that solved my financial problems also pushed me to sort out my love life. Or get it started in the first place. Turned out I stood to inherit wealth from a distant relative. (Not Clive this time.) 2,500$ guaranteed, or 12,000$ if I was married or would marry within a certain time frame. It wasn’t a week or so, I’d have enough time to properly date someone, and so I agreed to the condition. So now it’s either 12K or nothing!”
“One day in spring I returned home to actual mail being stuck in the mail box. I hadn’t expected this postbox to still be registered, let alone get served! Who could have written me an old fashioned letter?”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_21-25-27umfrh.png
“Oh. The city of Detroit. Maybe it came from the city council, with a raise and a promotion? That would be nice!
I opened the letter, only to find a bill over 400$ in there.
Wait, what? I’m just sleeping under this (conveniently on the grid) roof! I’m not the tenant!
It was true. As far as the city council was concerned, I wasn’t the tenant. From their demand it became clear that I was considered to be the house owner. And as the owner, I had to raise the property tax somehow as well as cover utilities.
The phone call that solved my financial problems also pushed me to sort out my love life. Or get it started in the first place. Turned out I stood to inherit wealth from a distant relative. (Not Clive this time.) 2,500$ guaranteed, or 12,000$ if I was married or would marry within a certain time frame. It wasn’t a week or so, I’d have enough time to properly date someone, and so I agreed to the condition. So now it’s either 12K or nothing!”
Spoiler
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In the upper left Carrow’s potential marriage partners: my sim Orochi Person, premades Danny Shino-Miller, Jordan Mayer and Morgyn Ember and townie Kim without a surname. Two of those made advances towards Carrow in the romantic department: Jordan and Orochi.
“Sparks had started flying between me and Jordan, but the more serious that relationship got, the more I felt I was missing out… making a mistake… With Jordan it was all fun and games, whereas a certain beat cop was shyer, but always there… with an ear, a hot cocoa or just her smile from across Spice Market.
Long story short, at the end of spring we kissed in a park and soon after she brought a bedroll and some of her stuff. We called it “moving in together”, but in truth Orochi was still living in her flat across the street.”
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After I had decided on Orochi for Carrow, I went on pairing the remaining sims of Carrow’s friendship circle. Kim wanted either Danny or Jordan. Now I like Danny with Jordan, but she had rejected him earlier during an attempt of Carrow’s to hook them up, so he got Kim.
From Jordan’s many friends I chose my sim Leo, thinking two photographers might make a nice couple. A quick double engagement later…
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…Kim x Danny was fixed, but Jordan had rejected Leo. When she also rejected Morgyn, I cas.fulledit-paired her with the evil SWAT captain out of frustration.
I then enabled “Have baby” for chosen households and returned to focus on Carrow again.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-46-19qtfoh.png
Orochi turned out a natural at the Medium skill. Or maybe it only felt like it, compared to Carrow, who had to juggle several skills. At the moment Orochi is in the detective career, but she may switch to the Paranormal Investigations Department later.
Orochi is only a very minor sim in my Detroit multiverse and on top of my head I don’t even know her traits (Loner, Dance Machine and something else.) She is always in the background, always doing her job, never seen doing crazier things than the rest of the police co-workers. One time, when the DPD set a trap for a group of aliens, Orochi had successfully played bait. She definitely is brave and I want her to have that trait in this save.
Much of what she will do as Carrow’s partner will shape how I’m going to play Orochi in the future, and that is the main appeal of playing in a multiverse: how the sims grow and change between the individual saves they’re in.
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Burns didn’t like the new addition to the household AT ALL. He started out playful, but seems to have identified Orochi as a police officer pretty quickly, because he turned angry.
Burns: “Cops! The kid is filling the house with cops, as if he didn’t know that this was what destroyed Old Saltwater House the first time around! He’s a good for nothing Barrett, for sure!”
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Burns: “There you are, where you belong, little cop - with the trash!”
Orochi: “Yeah, it’s floating right above my head.”
Godfather Burnstein nodded generously. At least this detective knew how to exchange niceties.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-12-37dpcfh.png
In the upper left Carrow’s potential marriage partners: my sim Orochi Person, premades Danny Shino-Miller, Jordan Mayer and Morgyn Ember and townie Kim without a surname. Two of those made advances towards Carrow in the romantic department: Jordan and Orochi.
“Sparks had started flying between me and Jordan, but the more serious that relationship got, the more I felt I was missing out… making a mistake… With Jordan it was all fun and games, whereas a certain beat cop was shyer, but always there… with an ear, a hot cocoa or just her smile from across Spice Market.
Long story short, at the end of spring we kissed in a park and soon after she brought a bedroll and some of her stuff. We called it “moving in together”, but in truth Orochi was still living in her flat across the street.”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-26-04c7cdb.png
After I had decided on Orochi for Carrow, I went on pairing the remaining sims of Carrow’s friendship circle. Kim wanted either Danny or Jordan. Now I like Danny with Jordan, but she had rejected him earlier during an attempt of Carrow’s to hook them up, so he got Kim.
From Jordan’s many friends I chose my sim Leo, thinking two photographers might make a nice couple. A quick double engagement later…
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-26-36mdfn5.png
…Kim x Danny was fixed, but Jordan had rejected Leo. When she also rejected Morgyn, I cas.fulledit-paired her with the evil SWAT captain out of frustration.
I then enabled “Have baby” for chosen households and returned to focus on Carrow again.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-46-19qtfoh.png
Orochi turned out a natural at the Medium skill. Or maybe it only felt like it, compared to Carrow, who had to juggle several skills. At the moment Orochi is in the detective career, but she may switch to the Paranormal Investigations Department later.
Orochi is only a very minor sim in my Detroit multiverse and on top of my head I don’t even know her traits (Loner, Dance Machine and something else.) She is always in the background, always doing her job, never seen doing crazier things than the rest of the police co-workers. One time, when the DPD set a trap for a group of aliens, Orochi had successfully played bait. She definitely is brave and I want her to have that trait in this save.
Much of what she will do as Carrow’s partner will shape how I’m going to play Orochi in the future, and that is the main appeal of playing in a multiverse: how the sims grow and change between the individual saves they’re in.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-52-59t2fi1.png
Burns didn’t like the new addition to the household AT ALL. He started out playful, but seems to have identified Orochi as a police officer pretty quickly, because he turned angry.
Burns: “Cops! The kid is filling the house with cops, as if he didn’t know that this was what destroyed Old Saltwater House the first time around! He’s a good for nothing Barrett, for sure!”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_22-53-52fddru.png
Burns: “There you are, where you belong, little cop - with the trash!”
Orochi: “Yeah, it’s floating right above my head.”
Godfather Burnstein nodded generously. At least this detective knew how to exchange niceties.
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