Time After Time (annElise)

Hello, readers. This is the Creator speaking. While our "hero" works on his Mechanical skill, I will take over to explain some of the other weirdness I've noticed running this challenge.

To start with, I seem to have a bit of an Anne-nigma on My hands.

First of all, she was even a worse cook than the rest. She's currently responsible for two of the three kitchen fires these My subjects have experienced. She'd burn ice cream if she could.

I will say, she and the other women have been ruining their food a lot less thanks mainly to passive skill points from cooking. I'm much less worried for their safety when Brian goes off to his Bookie job.

Back to Anne, though. I thought she would be more of a handful when I saw how the six-sided die dictated her aspiration and her personality. A romance Sim with three nice points and four playful? How's this going to work?

* a voice pipes up from the rec room * Not to mention ten outgoing points, and us with no hot tub. What's up with that?

Cry Me a river, Captain Whitebread.

No one seems to have told her she's a Romance Sim. You can blame My no ACR if it's appropriate, but she hasn't made the first romantic gesture towards the only male in the place. I'd have figured she'd have been good for at least two Aspiration crashes by now, if it weren't for the guitar, and toaster pastries. She and Brian have neutral chemistry, though. Just goes to prove the old saying, "Women are fussy even if they're locked in a stone building in the middle of the desert."

They're not the only mysteries in this place. Take Sandy and Carrie, My two Pleasure Sims. While neither has crashed yet, they do weird things when they're worried.

Like scrub the place, top to bottom. I'm serious... when they start Worrying about their low Aspiration meters, the sponge and scrub brushes come out. Deanna is like this too, but it's somewhat more expected from her, since she has seven Neat points, even if she only has 1 Active point.

Tammy, Jen and Leslie are another story. I honestly thought Jen in particular would have crashed by now judging by how quickly after I started she started worrying. Thanks to the powers of Winter, both she and Tammy have gotten themselves to Platinum mood without any help from me, just from making Best Friends. The strange part is, even though they have the same personality, they don't get along well with each other. Leslie stays out of it, and keeps herself in at least green by playing the guitar when it's available. Other than that, it's getting very routine here. There really isn't a lot of conflict... still no poking or fighting, and aside from a few rejected jokes and pillow fights, I don't see many red minuses at all. There's all the high drama of a quilting bee.