I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change.
Though all the feelings that broke through that door
just didn't seem to be too real.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes.
Somewhere it must be time for penitence. Gardening at night is never where.
Though all the feelings that broke through that door
just didn't seem to be too real.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes.
Somewhere it must be time for penitence. Gardening at night is never where.
* ADVISORY: This chapter includes pixelated nudity and an old man. *
Laurel woke up, lying on a cot in the Research Center's infirmary, feeling oddly out-of-sorts. One of her co-workers was standing over her, holding a clipboard in his hands. "Ah, you're awake, Test Subject L4UR3L," he said, robotically. "How do you feel?" he asked.
"I... I feel fine, I guess," she said, looking herself over. She lifted her left hand, and was startled at what she saw. "Why... why is my Thumb Green?" she asked? The scientist didn't answer immediately, but instead scribbled on his clipboard for a few moments.
"The discoloration should be temporary," he replied. "37 out of the last one hundred test subjects have had the coloration disappear within a few hours." He scribbled more notes, and looked her over again. "It's close to the end of your shift," he said, with a bit of humanity evident in his voice. "I can tell you've had a very stressful shift, just from how Hard you've been Working today. The boss mentioned that he likes your work ethic, so don't be surprised if you get promoted soon. Why don't you head home?"
"Um, okay. Thanks," Laurel answered as she got up, still feeling a little strange.

She took a deep breath of the fresh air. This surprised her, because normally when she left a building, she would dash right to the curb to catch a cab, or jump in the police cruiser as quickly as she could, before the shakes and shivers would start. This time... there was nothing, no unease, no sense of dread. Curious, she stood outside the building for five whole minutes. To her surprise, it felt no different from being indoors.
Still amazed by this, she caught a cab, and headed home.

She was a middle-aged woman now, the wife of a wonderful man, and the mother of two strong boys - she had no business Flirting with anyone else, anymore. The stress she felt from her first day's work made her appreciate Brian even more - she hadn't quite realized how hard he pushed himself over the years, to provide for them. Even her most difficult days raising the boys while he was at work, hadn't prepared her for the stress level of the workplace.
After her bath, she went to find her husband to show him just how much she appreciated his many years of work - even now, he still went to work each day, and did analyses from home for extra cash on his days off.


Over the next few days, Laurel found that her fledgling garden was growing quite well - the plants actually even seemed to do better when she Talked to them.


Laurel wasn't the only one experiencing changes in her life - it wasn't long at all before it was time for Christopher's birthday.



As for Laurel, no where in the rules does it say a Sim can't have a Mid-Life Crisis; so I let her have one. She exchanged Flirty and Hates The Outdoors for Green Thumb and Angler.
Oh yeah... I didn't say the pixelated nudity and the old man would be in the same shot. You people make me wonder sometimes.... ;)
8 comments:
*wonders why the shiny one is warning about old men* Oh I get it, you wanted people to think the old geezer was the nekkid one. Maybe I would have thunk that if you hadn't said nudity and an old man.
37%? That's not a very good percentage. I'd be scared, Laurel. Very scared. I've seen what he does to his sims.
Congrats on a successful mid-life crisis.
Hahaha! I love her test subject name! VERY clever. :-D
Ooo, she's got a Green Thumb now. Neat. And she's a Hard Worker. (Love how you're slipping in her traits like this.) Hmm, does she Love the Outdoors now, or just no longer Hate the Outdoors? *ponders* I guess she's no longer Flirty?
Hahaha! "Things that worked properly and things she hadn't tinkered with yet." Priceless! *giggles*
(FYI - Talking to your plants actually doesn't help them at all, unlike in TS2. It simply raises your Sims' social need.)
So she's an Angler now too? Nice! So Green Thumb, Hard Worker, and Angler for sure. Missing 2 (unless she actually Loves the Outdoors, but it seemed more that she just didn't mind them anymore).
So, if you only gave her Green Thumb and Angler, why'd you capitalize Hard Worker? Was that one of her original traits? *is too lazy to look back through past chapters to see*
*smacks Brian* Of course that's what we're gonna think, you dweeb! Anyway, pixilated nudity requires the blur to be off. You have it on, so it's just a blurred out woman in a tub. :-b
-is dissapointed at the lack of nudity- okay not really. they are sims after all.
interesting, flirty can be good for drama and they arent the only ones who flirt endlessly. turns out hopeless romantics tend to flirt as well.
so did changing her traits mess w/ her LTW?
Hard Work is one of the Work Tones that you choose from when your Sim goes to work, remember?
Laurel's traits are now Artistic, Great Sense of Humor, Angler, Green Thumb, and Handy.
Her LTW didn't change.
EXCELLENT update, Brian. I like this Mid-life crisis thing. Didn't know what it did. Thanks for letting Laurel be the guinea pig. Love how you fit it into the story. :O)
Great update! Nice robot they have at the science lab hehe. You really have luck with rolling traits for your sims *envious*
(If you go strictly by the rules I think you need to re-roll all the traits. Don't mind me, I'm all quiet and not telling anyone ... shhh)
tara: The rules say Lifetime Reward points can be spent however you want, and make no mention of the Mid-life Crisis at all, when it said how all traits must be assigned randomly.
I took it's absence to mean that when using MLC, I can set the traits to whatever I want. Which I did.
LOl! Of course that's what we expected - I wanna see shots of our founder out gardening Au Natural (behind a artfully placed shrub, k?!) XDD Very misleading of you!
Too clever - I love the idea of the mid-life crisis and trading in her YA type traits for more mature ideas about nature & her world makes a LOT of sense. Well done! *claps*
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