The Eclectic Arts Household is adorable :) Has anyone already played them?

I played them to solve the mystery.

Mark Eggleston is now the Strangerville Hero for defeating the town's menace. He also obtained the Fan Mail quirk. I have Mark and Alice Martin still living as room mates in the house. Alice is doing the Musical aspiration. I plan to renovate the house as it was furnished with the minimun.

I built a new house fmor Leslie Holland and moved in one of the scientists Zach Sosa. I was trying to make a love match with them. The problem is that Zach has the Un-Filrty trait and the only thing he wants to talk about is Strangerville. I think I'm going to have to make some single male young adult Sims to find her a match and leave the townies unplayed. Leslie is now a writer persuing that aspiration.

To date I haven't played them much, but I plan to.

Yes, I played Leslie who found the files, made the vacine, had many friends from many neighbour hoods. She cured her house mates, befriended the pilot and encouraged him to join her to destroy the plant.
As a hero she has a new updated home.

Yep! Been playing them on my Strangerville save.

Leslie is writing down her experiences and experimenting with prose, slowly coming to enjoy her infected status which boosts up her needs (while also grappling with fear and worry regarding it).

Both Mark and Alice have joined the military to investigate what happened to their friend. Alice is flourishing while Mark is struggling with the military attitude. By the end Alice will be one of the people fighting the mother, while Mark will be working with a Sim In Black to keep things undercover but will be joining the politician career path.

Down the line I see Alice as being a successful sim in black agent and Mark as the mayoral aide and future mayor, while Leslie is a successful writer.

Yes but I moved them to a house in Willow Creek. Leslie stomped around for a bit but then went jogging and became more normal after a while. I'm going to move them back and start the adventure with them.

Oh, no, poor Leslie @mebagl15 unflirty sims are the worst :D Only my flirty vampires can melt their heart. I found leslie really sweet but somehow a logic girl. She need a cheerful guy! :#

Yay, @wrenstales I like the idea that she is the Hero. I love the version of the story. I still need to hangout with the pilot. The sim that want to awake Mother again (an alien) is the only one who know him.

@RobinGreenthumb I'm not surprised about Mark, he needs more attitude for the Military Career lol but I can see him living at San Myshuno :o Yes, for me Alice is more a rough girl :D But only time will tell. My second story is going slow, but fun enought.

@Simburian my first story was with a vampire that lived at Windenburg. StrangerVille was already bizarre when he arrived. So you will live that with that trio. By now I'm enjoying a normal town so it will be different living there already when things go bizarre again.

I'm always curious about how other players perceive the premades. I'm surprised that so far Leslie is a fav ;)

"emere;c-17030531" wrote:

Oh, no, poor Leslie @mebagl15 unflirty sims are the worst :D Only my flirty vampires can melt their heart. I found leslie really sweet but somehow a logic girl. She need a cheerful guy! :#

Yay, @wrenstales I like the idea that she is the Hero. I love the version of the story. I still need to hangout with the pilot. The sim that want to awake Mother again (an alien) is the only one who know him.

@RobinGreenthumb I'm not surprised about Mark, he needs more attitude for the Military Career lol but I can see him living at San Myshuno :o Yes, for me Alice is more a rough girl :D But only time will tell. My second story is going slow, but fun enought.

@Simburian my first story was with a vampire that lived at Windenburg. StrangerVille was already bizarre when he arrived. So you will live that with that trio. By now I'm enjoying a normal town so it will be different living there already when things go bizarre again.

Thanks, Mark in my game is learning to programme and has mod games. He created and sold plugins. Alice is catering and dreams on owning her own cake shop. I found the E elective arts household enjoyable to play with.

I played them. They made friends in Strangerville and defeated the Mother, but in the end decided that Strangerville wasn’t the best place for them. They now live in, and are pursuing their art careers, in Del Sol Valley. I like to imagine they keep in close touch with Erwin and have invited him to visit anytime he’d like.

I love what you have done with their house. I haven't done much except give their rooms some personal touches that reveal their personalities. I can't do much with the house itself yet, except replacing and adding some light fixures, as I've already depleted their funds; by decorating their rooms and buying this and that for them (like that army dummy and some computers and such). Next time I play them I plan on overhauling their kitchen and livingroom area.

I wanted to use the Strangerville premades to play through the mystery and chose this household as I found them perfect. But I have since decided to use a household from Willow Creek to play through the mystery. But I really like this household and I've folded them into my rotational play in my main saved game.

Their story in my game is that they are old university friends that have found themselves disillusioned with their previous careers and are desperate for a change. Pooling their resources they have taken residency in a rental property in a small little military town called Strangerville. Leslie is a burned out programmer (her programming and logic skills were pretty high when I started playing this household) for a big gaming company who has quit her job and is taking writing classes as her aspiration is to be a successful author. She is at the moment unemployed as she is honing her writing skills.

Alice, an accomplished violinist, she has decided on a different creative outlet and is trying her hand at painting. Alice is also unemployed but her paintings are selling so they have some dependant income besides Mark's military wages.

Because, yes, my Mark is in the military. His story is that since Uni he has really been roaming and not sticking with anything career vise. He is hoping that the military might give him purpose and maybe stability he finds lacking.

As for their living arrangement; I stuck Mark into that reader alcove (the one with no closable door) upstairs and gave the girls one room each. The girls are eyeing each other up and have started flirting with each other completely ignoring poor Mark.

I have also been toying with the idea of maybe making either Alice or Leslie actresses as I have just gotten Get Famous.

I have not played this premade family or any premades for that matter. But, if I were to pick one premade household to play, I think it would be them. Or possibly, since I like to play with one Sim, the elder pilot, George Cahill? I think that's his name.

However, I have sort've interacted with them on a few occasions. Leslie has twice been in a Welcome Wagon, and she tried to break my Hero's hand when he attempted to slap some sense into her. lol

When I send my Sims to fish in the Shady Acres area, I always get them there by having them visit the Eclectic household lot. I'm guessing none of those Sims have very high cooking skills because three times while fishing my Sim got a pop-up notice that, "A fire has started, you might want to extinguish it."

Alice started the first one on an outdoor grill, Leslie put it out. Mark started the second on the kitchen stove, Alice put it out. The third time, Leslie started it on the outdoor grill while grilling fruit kabobs. She just stood there panicking until Alice ran outside to join the panic. Finally, Mark came out there and I thought, good, he'll put it out since it was spreading. Nope, all three just stood there waving their arms and screaming for a few minutes then ran out front to do the same while the fire continued to rage.

I had to make my Sim quit fishing and jog over there to put it out or I'm guessing it could've spread to the house, the grill and backyard fence was already on fire and it was creeping toward the house.

Meanwhile, the Eclectic household finally stopped panicking, but didn't go inside quite yet. All three stood on the porch having a chat. Or trying to I should say. Leslie and Alice were in full possession mode, Leslie still clutching the platter of fruit kabobs, chattering away nonsensically while Mark watched. He finally must've had enough and soon walked inside leaving those two on the porch.

Man, I tell you, listening to those two infected ladies 'chatting' was SOO hilarious! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! I ended up watching them until the possession wore off. hehe It would almost be worth playing them just to watch them 'talk' like that again. What a riot! :D

EDIT: Forgot to add I also saw Alice playing the violin in the Spice District at the busking station once. She was really good!