Strohm Family

Generation 3, Chapter 5

ACK! Zircon! What the heck happened to your face?!? You shower constantly, you've never had your cleanliness meter go more than 2/3rds of the way down. How the heck could you get such monster zits!


Oh. This may have something to do with it. They'd ordered some Chinese food in hope of finding a cute mate for a future Heir. This guy doesn't cut the cake though, so I'll have to get him moved in and back out in hopes of getting a cute delivery guy.


"Getemoffgetemoff! Make those things go away, Controller!"
I would if I could, Z. Believe me. They bother me as much as they bother you.
"I doubt it. It's not your face they're ruining! And you'd better keep Arianna away while I look like this!"


"So, sweetheart, our family is starting to make some decent money. Think we can take a trip somewhere soon?"
Well, Kennedy, one of you two will be going somewhere soon, but I don't think it's what you had in mind...


See... there's a -reason- I never let my Sims fix either the dishwasher or the trash compactor. Anything else in the house is fair game, but not those two items. It's rare I've seen someone able to fix either one without getting electrocuted.


At least Arianna and Jade seemed to get a good chuckle out of the situation. This was the first of their relationship points too. Weird women, if you ask me. (Although I usually giggle over it too, so who'm I to talk.)


Jade really is a cutie, when she keeps the pounds off. Gotta make sure to keep her fit, especially since ever since she got fat, she constantly spins up wants to either use the exercise machine, go swimming, or get fit.


Grim! No!! You're not allowed to take Jewel yet! Her life bar isn't full or anything, you line jumping idjit!

I thought I'd be all upset when my very first Sim -ever- was to die. Except the Grim Reaper showed up early. Jewel still had space left on her life bar, so I wasn't expecting him. So she died with like 50,000 aspiration points unspent AND she'd gotten fat with the meal she was just cleaning up from. So now she's a fat ghost. *sigh* Stupid early arrivals.


"Pull my finger, Jewel."
"Ew, no way. I've seen Nery pull that one."
"No, really, pull it."
"No!"
"Fine, fine. We'll do this a different way."


"Here, have a drink, Jewel."
"With alcohol? Sweet! This blasted Controller of ours has kept this place dry and never bought us a bar or anything. Gimme that!"
Hey, it's not MY fault you never spun up the want to buy a bar. If you'd let me know you wanted one, I would have bought one.
"Yeah, you say that now, when it's too late for me to spin the want. Hmph. Let's blow this clam bake, Grimmy."


Kennedy was so distraught, he came running out of his shower without bothering to put his clothes on first! No wonder everyone's hiding their eyes.


Er, okay. I guess he just wanted some coffee...
"What's everyone crying about?"
We'll just let him figure it out on his own, eh?


I feel badly for Jade. Throughout her entire life, she and her mom got along famously. (Wish I could say the same about me and mine!) If I'd had a way of resurrecting Jewel, I might have, just to make Jade happy. But I didn't, so I didn't.


Oh, sure, NOW you mourn your wife! Well, I guess better late than never.


Jewel Strohm (Cancer), Legacy Family Founder
Platinum Fortune Sim Urn - 1 point
Lifetime Want: Chief of Staff - Achieved - Not an impossible want (only 25k points)
Spouse: Mailman - 1 point
Died with 6 Family Friends - 2 points
Family Net Worth: 145k - 2 points (rounded up)
Career Rewards: (I think they have, erm, 4 of 'em - no points until we have all 10 anyway)
3rd Generation Heir born - 3 points


Jewel's dead less than a day and already her family is thinking more about the money she left them than about her. Sheesh!


And the masterpiece portrait Jewel will never get a chance to finish. :-(


Nery was as work when Jewel died, so he promptly went off to her urn to mourn the loss of his mother-in-law. Either that, or they're tears of joy that she's no longer around to look disdainfully at him. They weren't really all that fond of each other.


"Why! Why did you have to take my mother! Who else will commiserate with me now about having to marry foolish NPC men! Curse you, Grim Reaper!"


Alas, life continues to march on. It's time for Melisand to grow up into a teenager. We invited Amar over so that Melly could get to work almost immediately on finding herself a boyfriend.


"Oh please, oh please, don't let me have my brother's nose! Please let me be hot, like my mom and grams."


Melisand, it's not very ladylike to do that in public with everyone watching. And what on earth have you been eating to make it so colorful?


Yay! Another hot Strohm lady. I might have to rethink this whole firstborn takes the heirdom... I might need to go with the oldest female gets it. Decisions, decisions.


And why is it all the females seem to enjoy rubbing themselves when they turn into teens?? Her mom did the same thing when she aged. Although since she did roll the Romance aspiration, I suppose it's not too unexpected.


"Oh, her parents invited me here for this. Maybe I'll get lucky with her. I hope I hope I hope!"
Sorry, Amar. Even if you're boyfriend material, you're not just a teen, but you're a townie. These heirs are only allowed to marry NPC's.


Melly develops a desire for horticulture.


Ah, that's much better. Low rise pants and a cute halter top.


Um, Melly? Just what is it that you're growing there??


And Zircon decides he's waited long enough. He's ready to get himself off to college so he can finally make some time with his promised bride! See you next chapter, when we visit La Fiesta Tech.