Long Week 5: Circle of life

Last week, Ben Long and Ivy Copur got married, had a baby, and started some businesses, like a typical BACC family.

The Long family currently includes:

Benjamin, Knowledge/Fortune adult who owns a toy store

Ivy, Knowledge/Fortune adult who has a job in Science and owns a park

Heather, toddler

Sheba the dog

No sooner do we enter the lot than Grimmy comes for Sheba. Apparently she was already elderly when the Longs bought her last week.

Ivy promptly finds out she is expecting another baby.

Heather becomes a child Tuesday night.

And Joshua is born on Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday morning, Ivy brings Serenity Park up to Rank 2.

And that night Joshua becomes a toddler, with a personality of 3-4-10-10-7 (Sagittarius).

On Sunday morning, Ben manages to leave the house (he's been doing the stay-at-home dad thing while Ivy racks up promotions) and brings his toy shop to Rank 2.

Also on Sunday, Ivy is promoted to Scholar. She probably looks worried because Ben and Heather are both sick and nobody knows how to make Comfort Soup. (It only occurred to me as I wrote this that Ivy probably has the medicine station available.)

That evening, Joshua becomes a child.

Progress toward challenge:

New Sims: 1

Taxes collected: $900/$35,670

Copur/Long Week 4: The Science of Fun

Ivy Copur and Benjamin Long fell in love autonomously at Tam Arcade. Fortunately they were friends with Jan Cooke, so she invited them to become playable, and here they are.

Ivy is a Knowledge Sim, with a LTW to become a Mad Scientist. Happily for her, there are lots of open positions in this town full of nerdy children.

Ben is also a Knowledge Sim, with the LTW to become a Space Pirate. That will have to wait until we have enough households for another NPC community lot, since nobody in this town can afford the required museum.

The third member of the family is Sheba the dog, who is stupid but friendly.

Two Knowledge Sims alone are boring, even with a dog, so Ivy "accidentally" gets pregnant.

Then they have a quickie shotgun wedding. (I think they rolled the want to get married once the baby was on the way.)

Heather Long is born early Friday morning.

Ivy and Ben are both nature Sims, so I have them buy Serenity Park. It reaches Rank 1 on Saturday.

Ivy is promoted to Science Teacher shortly thereafter.

Saturday night, Heather grows up into a black-haired, female version of her father. Her personality: 7-5-5-8-10 (Aquarius).

The money from Ivy's promotion is used to found Ben's Box o' Fun, a toy store. For now it just sells premade stuff, but eventually it will offer custom toys.

Progress toward challenge:
New community lots: 2
New Sims: 1
Taxes collected: $3570/$23,970