Ramaswami Week 6: Magic Redux

Last week, the Ramaswamis had repetitive promotions and a bunch of almost identical birthdays.

The Ramaswami family currently includes:

Sanjay, Popularity/Fortune adult with a job in the Music career and a venue called 3/4 Time

Priya, Popularity/Knowledge adult with no job but a clothing store called White Lotus Boutique

Anand, Popularity/Romance teen and owner of Ramaswami Dance Studio

Ravi, Popularity/Romance teen

Sandeep, Fortune/Romance teen

Gita, child

Sanjay kicks off the week by getting promoted to Studio Musician, which might be the highest he's ever gotten in his career. 

On Tuesday evening, he becomes an elder, cheered on by his family and Jerome Cooke.

Priya just has her children watching (Sanjay had to go to work and I don't know where Jerome went), but that's still a sizeable audience.

On Wednesday, the kids have a snow day, so Ravi gets press-ganged into helping out at White Lotus.

In the wee hours of the next morning, Sanjay is promoted to Concert Pianist.

Also on Thursday, Gita becomes a teen. Like her brother Ravi, she is Popularity/Romance and wants to become a General. She is turned on by custom hair and jewelry but turned off by fatness.

On Friday, White Lotus reaches Rank 10!

On Saturday, the gypsy leaves another lamp. Sanjay wishes for peace of mind, just in case he gets fired again before reaching his LTW. Anand wishes for peace of mind too, since his LTW is unattainable. Priya wishes for wealth. (She's been permaplat since the last genie lamp.)

At some point this week, Anand maxed logic.

So did the twins.

And Anand closes out the week by maxing Charisma.

Progress toward challenge:

Jobs opened: 1/4 Business, 3/11 Science, 1/6 Entertainment

Taxes collected: $2700/$48,870

Ramaswami Week 5: Groundhog Day

Last week, the Ramaswamis had lots of babies who looked alike.

The Ramaswami family currently includes:

Sanjay, Popularity/Fortune adult with a job in the Music career and a venue called 3/4 Time

Priya, Popularity/Knowledge adult with no job but a clothing store called White Lotus Boutique

Anand, child

Ravi, child

Sandeep, child

Gita, baby

At the beginning of Week 5, the Ramaswamis move from their 3-bedroom, 2-bath home to a 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home just across the street. They don't have much money left for furnishings after buying the house and paying taxes, but fortunately both businesses reach Rank 5 within 24 hours.

Gita has the honor of celebrating the first birthday in the new house, becoming a toddler with a personality of 5-9-5-5-6 (Leo), exactly like Anand and Ravi. I was slacking off with the randomizer for this family.

On Tuesday, Sanjay is fired due to a bad choice on a chance card yet again. 

Shortly thereafter, Anand grows into a teen, Pop/Rom with the LTW to become The Law. (Won't happen, poor little BACC kid.) He is turned on by career-oriented brunettes but does not want to add any more black hair to the Ramaswami gene pool.

Anand's parents decide to get a tax break by giving him the money to purchase Ramaswami Dance Studio. I picked this since Anand shares Sanjay's Music and Dance hobby. 

Random picture included because Priya looks so unenthused about being done with diapers and potty training FOREVER.

And here's Gita as a child.

Komei Tellerman and Sandy Bruty fall in love at White Lotus. I suppose I should follow my "rules" and let them become real playables and have the world's ugliest children.

By Saturday night, Sanjay has managed to work his way back up to Roadie. I bet he is thinking that these first 2-3 Music promotions are getting awfully tedious.

Then it's time for the twins to become teens. Ravi is a clone of Anand, so he becomes Pop/Rom as well (in this 'hood I decide aspiration based on personality). However, he wants to be a General--very doable in the challenge, and he already has the hairstyle for it! He is turned on by full-face makeup and black hair and turned off by charisma. Apparently he wants his wife to look pretty and not talk back!

Sandeep bucks the trend by becoming For/Rom (the only one in his family who doesn't have Pop as a primary aspiration). He wants to become Hand of Poseidon, attainable if he starts fishing, and wants a woman who is hardworking, creative, and averse to hanging out in her underwear.

The next day, White Lotus reaches Rank 8!

Progress toward challenge:

New community lots: 1

Taxes collected: $3050/$33,970

Ramaswami Week 3: Try Again

Now we meet our third family: The Ramaswamis. Sanjay (Pop/For, Become Rock God) and Priya (Pop/Kno, Become Media Magnate) are newly married and deeply in love.

Priya opens a clothing store called White Lotus Boutique. It is immediately wildly popular and reaches Rank 1 on the first day.

Sanjay sinks most of the rest of their money into a music venue called Three-Quarter Time--thereby opening an unlimited number of positions in the Music track. He takes one of those positions. (I thought it only fair that he quit and start over at the bottom, since he didn't start the music venue until after he arrived in town.)

On Tuesday morning, several good things happen. First, Three-Quarter Time reaches Rank 1. Then White Lotus reaches Rank 3 and gets a good review from the man in the ugly yellow shirt.

On Wednesday, there is more good news: Priya is pregnant! (It took several tries.)

In less fortunate news, Sanjay is fired due to a bad chance card. His bad luck is short-lived, since he finds another job as a record store clerk Thursday morning.

Some boring stuff happens, and then Anand is born on Friday afternoon.

 On Saturday, the boutique reaches Rank 4.

 The same day, Sanjay is promoted to coffee shop sound engineer--his second attempt at the Music career is going well.

Shortly thereafter, Anand becomes a toddler. His personality is 5-9-5-5-6 (Leo).

In the wee hours of Monday morning, Sanjay's club reaches Rank 4.












Progress toward challenge:
Jobs opened: Unlimited Music
New community lots: 2
New Sims: 1
Taxes collected: $3500/$10,800 (I think I mistakenly taxed them 10% instead of 5%. Oh well.)