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.
