Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Nothing happened in Truth today but I wanted to show off

So as mentioned in my title, really nothing happened today because I haven't played yet but I really liked that banner I made yesterday so I decided to make some icons to go along with it (including an animated one).


And the animated:

Monday, March 12, 2007

Kenisa vs. Roschlel

From Left to Right: Felicia Goodman, Angelica Umgabi, Dru Seavey, Moorehouse (Em) Moore, Trisha Hamilon

Finally have some good shots of the girls of Kenisa Sor. (after I built them a photostudio in the basement). And I am also almost finished with University for this generation...do you know how tiresome and repetitive it can be? Anyways, let's go on with what happened to the girls now that Felicia's in charge.


Felicia started to freak out a bit because for awhile, it was only her. As far as she was concerned, she knew nothing about people management but luckily for her, she soon had a visit from Sandy who helped her get on her feet. Sandy gave Felicia tips on how and why pledges are asked to join and told her to make sure she explains the benefits of being a member of Kenisa Sor. (the $10,000 upon grad is a good incentive but try not to mention the pregnancies and photobooth). Felicia decided to invite Angelica Umgabi to join. She was only to happy to do so (hoping this also meant she could find a man by the time of graduation). Felicia decided it would be best to get the sister of a sister of Kenisa Sor. She called Dru Seavey who decided it was time to start looking for a new place to live, considering her sister had fast-tracked her way out of University upon discovering her pregnancy and her boyfriend, Jace had moved out of the dorms to run Roschlel with Dalhousie. Dru loved the sisterhood and especially Felicia when she finally found something decent to do with Dru's hair. Dru hated her cheeks so much but decided she wasn't going to go the way of her twin with plastic surgery. With 3 members in Kenisa Sor., Angelica decided to call her old dorm-mate, Em, to see if she would like to join as well. Em wasted no time and quickly called her brother Dalhousie's girlfriend Trisha. The 2 of them had become as close as sisters (Em was secretly hoping that Trisha was the one for Dalhousie). In no time flat, Trisha joined Kenisa as well bringing the membership up to 5.

Felicia, Angelica and Trisha are almost ready to graduate and Dru and Em are not too far behind, meaning they have to start recruiting new members already, namely one of Sandy's old cheersquad buddies who's name escapes me right now.

Angelica has gotten a record worse than Ven. And I think she's starting to get depressed. She tried Dalhousie from 1st year and we know how well that turned out. She tried with both Davnus and Damien, neither of them actually noticed her. She never saw anyone run as fast as Ven to get away from her. She thought she had finally found someone in on of the newest member of Roschlel, Marcel Vu. He sounded so nice on the phone and oh so friendly. Em even told her he was pretty decent looking, not as fine as Damien, but not disgustingly ugly either. Angelica thought she finally had her chance. They became friends really quickly and then she tried to ask him out on a date. Marcel didn't try to be nice about it and he was quite direct in what he was trying to say. A clear resounding "NO" nearly deafened Angelica. She tried to hold back her tears when she then asked if he wanted to come over and hang out at Kenisa as just friends...this was the answer she got:
Rude no?

Angelica decided she would not give up hope and tried talking to a guy who looked like a Star Wars fanatic who was always walking by...he was just too strange to her. What kind of person walked around talking like Yoda all the time without being small and green?

Em tried to cheer her up as best she could but there was really nothing she could do for her bestfriend. Em already made up her mind that she wanted to be single and fancy free. Maybe one day she'd adopt a kid or something but she wasn't going to put herself through the rejection that Angelica was going through.

At Roschlel Frat., you already heard that the jerk Marcel joined...I don't think that Jace and Dalhousie would have allowed him to pledge. But on a somewhat better note, they got a Secret Society Member, Corey Fancey to join. Roschlel Frat. is set and ready to have Jace and Dal graduate and have the frat left in the capable hands of Corey. Hopefully, Marcel will not be so...cruel.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Graduates, Homes and Babies! Oh My!

A lot of students have graduated (with the help of a hack that allows them to go to their final exam whenever I want them to...saves so much real-life time) but before I go into the details and show pictures of these students (about time someone else got to see them) I have to confess something...

As much as I love Keely-Ann Seavey, her lower jaw was bothering me to no end. I couldn't take it anymore and I caved...I gave her reconstructive surgery. I can't really feel too bad about it because she's not the heir anyways...so here's Keely before and after:

Now on to the other graduates and their problems (none of which can be fixed with surgery). My goodness, these guys love to pair up. Keely and Davnus paired up from quite awhile ago, so that was really no big surprise. Dru went to Truth U with her boyfriend but everyone else at Truth U were still single and they were supposed to be eduation oriented...well let's see how things went, shall we?

Ven and Damien finally got their fraternity started:
It took a lot of hard work, sweat, good grades, the InSiminator (sp?) and Monique's hacked computer from MTS to get it done. Since I really don't like sitting there for hours on end playing 1 sim through University, there was no way I was going to do that for about 5-7 houses of sims at Truth U, so I kinda cheated. They actually had to earn their grade, mind you, but they never ate, slept, went potty etc. All of the sims went through the same rigorous training:
  1. get the required skills to get a 4.0
  2. write their own term paper
  3. research with all free time, breaking only to go to class
  4. when grade bar is filled, move the final exam up to the next 2 hours
  5. come back home after exams, cheer for your good grade and rinse and repeat
Only the sorority and fraternity house did things a little bit differently. After their grade bar was filled, they were to spend all extra time working from home writing articles with Monique's hacked computer. This also helped raise their skill points while making the necessary cash to keep their sorority and fraternity going, and to give the graduates from Kenisa and Roschlel (yes, that is what I named the fraternity) a $10,000 bonus upon graduation to help them start up. Now onto their actual lives.

As Roschlel was begining, Damien saw Breanna Nott (from Kenisa) walking by (makes sense considering Kenisa is right next door). He liked what he saw and raced down the stairs as fast as his shoes could carry him...she smiled, he smiled, Venkat realized he was the only one doing work and became slightly miffed. Didn't take too long before they started dating. He proposed right before graduation...it was hard to do because all of her friends wanted to get a good look and this....man who was dating the current president of Kenisa. Damien managed to sail through them quite well and got a "yes" to his proposal.

Venkat on the other hand, kept on striking out with every girl he met...he was starting to wonder what was wrong with him. He saw the new and improved Keely. She smiled, he smiled, he tried to flirt, and got informed that her boyfriend, Davnus, was the new pledge...crash and burn Ven, crash and burn. Ven saw another girl who piqued his interest, Angelica Umgabi...until she opened her mouth. Ven pivoted on his heel and quickly ran back into Roschlel. He met Dalhousie's sister, Em/Moorehouse. She didn't even bother to smile. She just sailed right by him, looking for Dalhousie at his new residence of Roschlel. Ven was starting to wonder why no one was paying him anymind, even though his was the co-founder of Truth's first fraternity. While brooding in front of the fireplace, cheerleader Sandy Andrews from Kenisa sat down beside him smirking. He tried to flirt, Sandy told him not to try so hard and let things run it's natural course...apparently natural course with Sandy could move quite fast. She got pregnant in the "magical pregnancy" photobooth at Kenisa on their first date...I'm really gonna have to look into that considering they were not trying for a baby.

Davnus is still on cloud nine since he started dating Keely (who joined Kenisa). The magic photobooth did work on them too. As soon as Keely found out she was pregnant, she raced through Physics major as quickly as possible, not wanting to have the baby on campus....Pregnancies upon graduation while being in the Kenisa Sorority 4/5. Breanna and Damien decided to wait until they got married...especially after hearing the track record of the photobooth.

So that's 3 graduates from Roschlel. Dalhousie and Jace Aja- (you know who I'm talking about and if not, read one of the previous entries about Dru Seavey and her boyfriend Jace) are currently running Roschlel:
Doesn't Dalhousie (on the left) look so happy about this concept. Jace don't look so bad once you change his clothes although I still don't know why he has Maxis eyes...I have defaults plus about 20 eye colors de-customized so anyone could get them.

At Kenisa, you already know that Breanna, Sandy and Keely have graduated (2 of which left pregnant). Left in charge of Kenisa Sorority are Felicia Goodman (who is having some real trouble dealing with the cow mascot), Anglica Umgabi and Em (Moorehouse) Moore. Dru is currently pledging with Trisha Hamilton (Davnus' sister) next in line as a pledge. No good pictures to show as of yet, hopefully next update.

The graduated couples have all bought houses beside each other on Brixham Drive. Just follow the arrow to the box and you'll see which ones...all I need to do is add a lovely white picket fence :D:

So that's everything for the update except for one thing, I absolutely LOVE Keely's new hair, take a look:
And in case anyone's wondering where I got it from Bipsouille Sims. Yes the site is in French but just look under "Coiffures" on the 2nd page.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

The Ross Family finally gets their introduction

What makes this really sad was that they were the first family I created for Truth but other than Damian, they have never been mentioned. So let's begin

Nicole Ross

Single mother of 3 and we're going with the idea that her husband died. She has recently decided to go back to work, after Damien went off to Truth University and Derek (her youngest) began to go to school full time. She's working on becoming a doctor.

Teneesha Ross

Only daughter to Nicole Ross. She's a generally quiet girl but makes friends quite easily, despite the fact that she doesn't really say much. Nicole would prefer if she were a bit more outgoing and is subtly trying to make it happen. Teneesha is Nicole's right hand. While Nicole's at work, Teneesha stays at home with Derek, teaching him chess and the rules of soccer (Nicole's favorite sport). Teneesha seems to know everyone both in the town of Truth and at the University. She has recently made friends is Pedro Hernandez (much better picture will follow at the end of this update) but lucky for her emotionally anyways. she has no lighting bolts of attraction. Got to work on finding someone for her...maybe Venkat, Damien's roomate at Truth U.

Derek Ross
Sorry no older pics as of yet, forgot to take them

Derek's the baby of the family and looks just like Damien. Teneesha is already groaning about the idea of girls calling the house wanting to talk to Derek. She thought it would be done with considering Damien is away at University and no longer tying up the phone lines. Derek's becoming pretty good friends with Tyrone and actually likes the neighbourhood stalker Garrett Cho.

Alright, here's the promised picture of Pedro. Apparently, I can't get any good shots of him at home but when he's away from home, he's so photogenic...go fig?

I think this is the last CAS Created Population Boom for awhile

I added a couple more households to Truth and I swear I won't add any more for awhile...at least a month (don't quote me on that).

Our 2 new households are the Hernandez family and the lone Watson family. We'll deal with the Watson family first because they are the smallest one.

Olivia Watson is the only memeber of this family. She's the town eccentric, although an absolutely adorable one. She's a knowledge sim who loves to wear her aviator wear. She's bought herself a small house right next door to Damien Ross' family (I don't think I ever mentioned his family...they exist; a mother, sister and baby brother. I'll talk about them on another post when I actually play them)


Olivia in her lovely aviator wear


What Olivia could look like if she only tried a little

I kinda like her in her aviator wear for now, so I'll let her stay as she is.


Watson Homestead

Now on to the Hernandez. They are a lovely family who have just moved to Truth after winning the Sim City Million Simeoleon Lottery. Roberto (father) and Felicia (mother) bought a run-down factory (or more like Roberto was dragged into it kicking and screaming by Felica). Felicia was determined to make the place liveable for their son Pedro, and toddler daughter, Miguela.



The kids have grown. Pedro is now a fine strapping Romance Teen who wants to reach to the top of the slacker career track and Miguela is one of the most adorable children I have ever seen. They also now have a little brother who's now joined the scene named Miguel and Mamma is expecting again.


Pedro and his "sort of" girlfriend Kimberly Knight


Miguela just waking up in the morning


Miguel learning to walk from Papa

The living room is the only place that is completely done in the house and as Felicia goes through the house (which will take time due to her pregnancies), pictures will be posted of the changes


Floor Plan (only the bookcase has been changed since the picture was taken)


Just love this shot of the room

And after all of this, I think I may have found a perfect person for Tyronne. Miguela is always inviting him over after school (despite the fact they go to 2 different schools). They already have become best friends :D