Purple patch

I decided it was time to concentrate on Eddie Kidd’s photography collections again, and with so many ghosts around the place, I figured the paranormal collection couldn’t be too hard, but we did need a mummy and a death on vacation, so he and Babysitter were promptly dispatched to Egypt to sort these things out.  Weirdly, the ‘hold private wedding’ option that hasn’t been available on the home lot was immediately available, so they remarried and Eddie got a photo of his dead spouse for the collection.

The newlyweds took the whole ‘we two are one’ thing a bit too seriously.

I sent them rummaging around in the tomb where we’d seen the mummy before (and, if you recall, Eddie couldn’t take a photo of the mummy that time), but no dice.

They did, however, get to woohoo in a tomb.  (No more babies, there was an 8-sim household at the time).  We went into as many tombs as we could in our stay and couldn’t find a mummy anywhere.  This is not good for my photography collection!

As well as getting a mummy photographed, I wanted to try and kill Babysitter while we were here.  Not because I don’t like her, but because I no longer needed her and I did need that death on holiday snap.

She went through many fire traps, many times, but the worst that happened was singing and passing out.  However, the menu text warns of passing out, which makes me wonder if living sims will also simply pass out (though if that’s the case, and they also don’t age, how to get death on holiday?  I sense another experimental mission for one of my living sims soonish).

I love how this sim’s all ‘singed ghosts in their pants?  Nothing new to me’.

Eddie and Babysitter (who each have 1-2 skill points in martial arts) both rolled the will to spar, so I let them (Eddie won 2-1) while we were trying to find mummies to no avail.

Babysitter had a nap in a sarcophagus to see if that had any ill effect,  but it didn’t.  When our trip was over, I cheated and dragged her hunger bar down to see what would happen.  She walked around with starving moodlets but didn’t die.  This troubled me, as I’d read about the trouble of trying to kill a ghost in A Legacy of Thieves (very funny).  Can they really not die (again)?  I sent Babysitter back to the Netherworld after this, but her grave vanished with her.  On graves, she and Eddie both had enough LTH for a medium gravestone (Eddie’s on his way to earning a large one) but in their inventories, the graves still show as the small ones, so I wanted to see what happened when she re-died.  Oh well.

We had an ‘Oh My Ghost’ left to use, so I resurrected the maid to see if she had potential for mating, but she showed as an elder (and Eddie just wasn’t in the mood for flirting).  I’m pretty sure my theory is correct and only male white ghosts will be able to make white ghost babies.  I then cheated and triggered her age transition to see what would happen and it sent her back to the netherworld, though we still had her grave, unlike Babysitter’s.

So, there’s a space in the house for a living baby.  Harry and Repairlady were very excited about the prospect of trying for a nooboo.  It took FOUR attempts to get a lullaby.

Obligatory spot the ghost pose for Adrian Mole.  All four members of Gen 4 were due to age up within a day of each other, and I hadn’t seen our spares for a bit, so I stupidly decided to throw a four-way party.

Adrian Mole went first, way before the guests arrived, and he aged up fine.  I gave him the ‘no sense of humour’ trait which I haven’t used before.

Piranha and Evel have both become OLD now.  I forgot just how big the age gap was between them and the twins (who are barely adults)

Baby Polaroid was next to age up.  I tried to get both twin purple babies to age up, but no-one collected Kodak, so I tried again a bit later, and she blew out her candles.

Eddie put her on the floor, and there she stayed, while her twin aged up fine.

The guests stood around staring at the baby who wouldn’t grow.

Meanwhile, Fuji DID manage to blow up candles and age up.

Newly childed-up Adrian Mole celebrated by floating between Thomas’s legs.  Not a good look.

The party went on for hours, and everyone eventually left – except Koi who hung around until 2 in the morning, despite the party beginning at 4 in the afternoon.

Fuji makes a cute teen ghost…

…and also a cute teen in her CAS.  I am torn over whether I’ll ambrosia her or not: she’s cute both ways.  I think she’ll do the LTW that involves maxing out athletic and martial arts, that way she can max out athletic first while still a ghost and then we can work on martial arts when the little ones are teens and can spar with her.

Every time Adrian Mole gets into CAS he’s in his pyjamas, which isn’t what I want, because then he isn’t wearing his glasses, like his namesake.  I’ll try and get him to sort it out by the next update.  He’s blonde, though.  He’s started playing chess, despite only being a few hours into childhood.  Given his geeky namesake, it seems fitting that he becomes our Chess Legend (plus it means he’ll be able to leave around the time we need room for Gen 5).

Polaroid is a cutie (and though this is DB-pleasing picspam, Repairlady, Eddie and Harry all take an equal role in raising our brood).

Here’s her CAS.  She’s going to be getting ambrosia-ed to do martial arts stuff at some point.

Kodak, meanwhile, just slept through it all…though at least she got put back in her crib…

Join us next time for Kodak as a toddler, our first living baby for ages and some explorations into LTRS and the No Sense of Humour trait.