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...
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The Wedding
It’s still Spring Year 1, but in-story a full year has passed. We’re in spring 2040 now, and Carrow and Orochi are ready to tie the knot.
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“I was a bit anxious to pass down my surname, Barrett, since it seems to come with a curse that ties members of my bloodline to Old Saltwater House. What if Orochi and me condemned our future children to that fate? But then again, she was named “Person”, and had been at the bottom of many a joke because of that. Long story short, Orochi was even less inclined to pass down her surname than I was, so “Barrett” it would be.”
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With the inheritance money the Barretts were able to restore the lower floor of Old Saltwater House! They opted against the historic look and for a more eco-friendly finishing on the inside, while keeping the façade unchanged.
The furniture was still sparse, only the bathroom already gave an inkling of the splendor that Carrow envisioned for his and his family’s new home.
Longterm the room to the right will be an office and the Barretts will live on the upper floor.
It’s still Spring Year 1, but in-story a full year has passed. We’re in spring 2040 now, and Carrow and Orochi are ready to tie the knot.
Spoiler
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“Lacking funds, we decided to book Myshuno Meadows park for our wedding. It only cost the basic thousand dollar for the ceremony, the cheapest option we’d find in Detroit. Maybe that choice was what killed Caroline’s mood even worse than the weather. My boss and me are on first name terms now, and although we both value nice homes, she is way more materialistic than I am. Status symbols are everything to her, and watching one of her subjects (friends?) settle for less might infuriate Caroline. I might need to find a way to apologize tp her...”
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“Being friends with Caroline has its perks: She is one of the few licensed owners of a weather machine in Michigan!
Too bad neither of us could correctly handle that thing and Caroline was too grumpy to help us. The downpour kept going and now lightning struck, as a sort of proto-fireworks, too.”
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“Lacking funds, we decided to book Myshuno Meadows park for our wedding. It only cost the basic thousand dollar for the ceremony, the cheapest option we’d find in Detroit. Maybe that choice was what killed Caroline’s mood even worse than the weather. My boss and me are on first name terms now, and although we both value nice homes, she is way more materialistic than I am. Status symbols are everything to her, and watching one of her subjects (friends?) settle for less might infuriate Caroline. I might need to find a way to apologize tp her...”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-06-36j4iy3.png
“Being friends with Caroline has its perks: She is one of the few licensed owners of a weather machine in Michigan!
Too bad neither of us could correctly handle that thing and Caroline was too grumpy to help us. The downpour kept going and now lightning struck, as a sort of proto-fireworks, too.”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-13-08t5fqv.png
“I was a bit anxious to pass down my surname, Barrett, since it seems to come with a curse that ties members of my bloodline to Old Saltwater House. What if Orochi and me condemned our future children to that fate? But then again, she was named “Person”, and had been at the bottom of many a joke because of that. Long story short, Orochi was even less inclined to pass down her surname than I was, so “Barrett” it would be.”
Spoiler
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Carrow: “Ooof. I’m so sorry, sweetest! All I have to offer is a cursed legacy, it’s raining cats and dogs, Caroline is casting a death glare our way, Danny somehow arrived in his track suit and…”
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Orochi: “Uh-huh. Wanna know how we at the DPD would call this?”
Carrow (thinking): Desaster.
Orochi: “A slow day. - Where are Burns and Temperance, by the way? Are they mad at you?”
Carrow: “You think I should have invited our ghosts?!”
Orochi: “Ey, I can take them or leave them.” *smiles* “What I can never leave is YOU!”
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“That was the moment I realized that I wasn’t destroying my love’s wholesome world by adding her to my household and to Old Saltwater House.
Imagine: compared to policework in this city, my situation had to count as ordinary! The last, subconscious, reservations vanished and I could fully embrace our union and the life together we were about to start.”
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The weather improved naturally, as if mimicking my sims’ mood!
Too bad the very moment the sun came out again, the game informed me that it believed Carrow to be an Indoorsy person (=lifestyle gained).
What the plum? Carrow had tried so hard to make this outdoors wedding happen, first with the weather the machine and then by refusing to just plop a wedding arc down inside the building. That’s not the hallmark of an indoorsy person, an indoorsy sim would have jumped to the opportunity to marry indoors! (I don’t view Carrow as being particularly outdoorsy, either, I think he is neutral in this regard.)
I can interpret the new lifestyle as Old Salt Water house once again exerting its influence over Carrow, but, yeah, every time I give lifestyles a try, I regret it later. Such a good idea in general, but so off in many cases.
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On the upside, with Orochi by his side now, Carrow was able to accept his situation as, of course, tough, but not strange anymore. He didn’t have it easy, but he wasn’t weird in any way. That change of perspective really did the young man good. He now had the self confidence to interact with the other city dwellers on the same level, no longer as the oddball or the wide-eyed country boy.
Technically still a young adult, Carrow matured a lot in the time right after his marriage.
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Carrow: “Ooof. I’m so sorry, sweetest! All I have to offer is a cursed legacy, it’s raining cats and dogs, Caroline is casting a death glare our way, Danny somehow arrived in his track suit and…”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-17-035qia6.png
Orochi: “Uh-huh. Wanna know how we at the DPD would call this?”
Carrow (thinking): Desaster.
Orochi: “A slow day. - Where are Burns and Temperance, by the way? Are they mad at you?”
Carrow: “You think I should have invited our ghosts?!”
Orochi: “Ey, I can take them or leave them.” *smiles* “What I can never leave is YOU!”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-20-24zuifv.png
“That was the moment I realized that I wasn’t destroying my love’s wholesome world by adding her to my household and to Old Saltwater House.
Imagine: compared to policework in this city, my situation had to count as ordinary! The last, subconscious, reservations vanished and I could fully embrace our union and the life together we were about to start.”
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-20-25vue0b.png
The weather improved naturally, as if mimicking my sims’ mood!
Too bad the very moment the sun came out again, the game informed me that it believed Carrow to be an Indoorsy person (=lifestyle gained).
What the plum? Carrow had tried so hard to make this outdoors wedding happen, first with the weather the machine and then by refusing to just plop a wedding arc down inside the building. That’s not the hallmark of an indoorsy person, an indoorsy sim would have jumped to the opportunity to marry indoors! (I don’t view Carrow as being particularly outdoorsy, either, I think he is neutral in this regard.)
I can interpret the new lifestyle as Old Salt Water house once again exerting its influence over Carrow, but, yeah, every time I give lifestyles a try, I regret it later. Such a good idea in general, but so off in many cases.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-45-42jxcve.png
On the upside, with Orochi by his side now, Carrow was able to accept his situation as, of course, tough, but not strange anymore. He didn’t have it easy, but he wasn’t weird in any way. That change of perspective really did the young man good. He now had the self confidence to interact with the other city dwellers on the same level, no longer as the oddball or the wide-eyed country boy.
Technically still a young adult, Carrow matured a lot in the time right after his marriage.
https://abload.de/img/30.05.23_23-42-49ejc38.png
With the inheritance money the Barretts were able to restore the lower floor of Old Saltwater House! They opted against the historic look and for a more eco-friendly finishing on the inside, while keeping the façade unchanged.
The furniture was still sparse, only the bathroom already gave an inkling of the splendor that Carrow envisioned for his and his family’s new home.
Longterm the room to the right will be an office and the Barretts will live on the upper floor.
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