The wedding of the season
Dec. 8th, 2009 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
profbuttersSo I'm really busy, but I'm making time for just a little bit of playing. And I've been waiting to play this wedding for a while, so without further ado:
The Ulysses-DocNerd wedding
DocNerd was kind enough to say that I always put a lot of effort into my weddings. Well, I do, sort of, but I don't bother controlling the guests too much, and something always goes just a weeny little bit wrong.
First, Ulysses invited Doc Nerd over.
And Doc thoughtfully brought two gnomes, a cheap stove, an expensive vase that De Beers probably sold her, and 4,000 dollars.
Through the magic of the Sim Blender, Ulysses was able to invite quite a large number of relatives and simselves. Glitch #1: No matter how hard I try, there are always a few Sims who aren't dressed appropriately. In this case, it was Gawaine, who ought to have been in his chain mail but wasn't.
Vampire weddings always require a little extra planning because they have to be at night, and then you have to have extra lighting.
And I certainly planned for plenty of seating.
Almost everyone heads obediently down the stairs, except, of course, for Cassius, who needs to pass on some gossip about Stacielee.
Dicreasy: May I Admire you, Elaine?
Elaine: Um, yes?
SimMe: Sims. No matter how hard you plan, Sims are still Sims.
Case in point: Cassius and De are always antisocial at weddings. They can't be bothered with anyone except each other--mostly.
Gawaine: Excuse me, Prof?
Whoops, even my Simself can be pretty clueless.
Stacielee: At least you sat down.
WriterTina is more interested in talking to Palomides.
Ulysses: Um, Doc? Do we wait for everyone to pay attention, or what?
Doc Nerd: Or what. I packed up everything remotely interesting--the pool table, the dance sphere, the pinball machine, the Lave Pinball Machine, and the Rock Hammer. I built the house, and I know where it all is. And I put them in your inventory. So they'd better pay attention.
Ulysses: Gosh, you're lovely when you're devious.
No matter how well you plan, you still can't make some Sims sit down.
And you also can't make the important guests show up on time. It's my fault that Penelope's still in her wedding dress, though. Ooops.
Doc Nerd and Ulysses proceed, undeterred by the frequent thoughts that Flavius is a Popularity Sim and the fact that Parsifal appears to be stuck on the stairs.
Note: first two rows of seats completely empty.
Well, at least it leaves a nice open shot, right?
Aw, they make such a cute couple.
Even if a lot of people are still standing around and --who's that with a chair and a red X mark through it?
Elaine: Ra-MOO! Shorba ko!
SimProf: See, the thing about weddings is that you can always find new ways to screw them up.
Stacielee: Yes indeedy do!
The happy couple goes in for a kiss while Tina talks about smokestacks and Dicreasy waits to talk to her about something else.
SimProf: Do you want to speculate about why the gardener got into formalwear and sat down and the guests didn't?
Stacilee: Nope.
Ulysses got squadillions of Aspiration points for the wedding party and for marrying Doc. Doc, I'm sorry to say--
Ulysses: No Aspiration points, hmm?
No.
Ulysses: And she's swooning over my brother Achilles, which is. . .
Yes?
Ulysses: Fairly standard for a Sim.
*clapclapclap*
Palomides: Why yes, you are making an excellent point about air quality.
Family Sims who aren't dating anyone, pfft.
Flavius: It's a party! And I'm at it! And I know enough to applaud on cue!
And in the right direction, which Achilles forgets to do and which Jack and Cassius don't bother to do at all.
Jack: I must felicitate you, Mr. Marius, on having acquired 10 Best Friends--
Flavius: Um, thanks?
Jack: And I shall now proceed to gain 1,000 Aspiration Points for Meeting Someone New.
Flavius: --I thought that was my prerogative. Can he do that?
Sneaky, Jack. Sneaky.
Also, evidently Doc forgot one Fun item.
Elaine: Wheee!
--which of course my Squeaky Clean heiress got into right away.
De: Plusplus!
Cassius: Plusplus!
C'mon, you guys, MINGLE.
What follows is a set of extremely tactful pictures.
Doc: Well, I'm not wasting some perfectly good cake. It looks yummy.
Ulysses: Um. . .um. . .
Doc jumps out from the cake. I hear this used to happen in Sims 1.
Ulysses: I was just trying to say that BLORGH.
Ulysses: Agh, Doc, I can see you.
Doc: Peek a boo, I can see you, too. What's the point of this?
Ulysses: No, I mean, um, Doc, I can SEE you, see you. As in -- do you feel a draft?
AUGH NO THE CURSE OF THE LYRAN SKIN! I keep forgetting it's non-Barbie. I keep forgetting what non-Barbie even MEANS, and then I notice something odd right in the middle of a critically important function!
Doc Nerd: (Girlish laughter)
Geez, and it's only one side, too! I suck so hard at throwing weddings.
Ulysses: I don't want to tell you what to do, but we're shooting a wedding album, and maybe you'd feel more comfortable if you--
Doc Nerd: All right, all right. Sheesh, YOU'RE no fun.
It doesn't even matter because the whole party is still outside, obsessed with playing Red Hands and Kicky Bag.
Cassius looks terrifying here, but he's just playing kicky bag. Also note that Dicreasy has come up to Tell Jokes to Palomides, thus ending his conversation with WriterTina about carbon emissions.
So I sent Doc Nerd inside to buy another formal dress. Too bad, because isn't the back detail pretty? Unfortunately, it's not the back that's the problem.
I dunno--is this some kind of payback, or does Doc just Know No Fear?
Doc: I'm just fulfilling a Talk want.
Flavius: Hey! Me too!
Kicky bag obsession continues outside.
Ulysses: I think the dress looks great, AND it excludes the drafts. How's your cake?
(I think Other PB is right--Telemachus looks a lot like Jack, if you don't count the flat nose, the pointy ears, and the bluish-green skin.)
Ulysses: And I really have to hand it to Flavius, who made your whole Want Panel turn over and now you're even rolling the want to Have A Baby!
Thank you, Flavius, who is much brighter than he looks.
Gratitude is not long lasting.
Doc Nerd: Ew, gross.
Flavius: *makes internationally recognized sign of choking*
De: I don't knoooow. . . usually I don't play with anyone but Cassius--
Achilles: Oh, come on, a little Water Balloon fight--that's totally innocent, right?
Uh huh--that's what honeymooning couples used to do back before I installed Bon Voyage.
Achilles and De: *scamperscamperscamper*
SimProf: I'm not sure, but I THINK we have to burp a lot to get back down.
Doc Nerd: I want you to know that I'm only cleaning this up because if I don't, my husband will run around tidying up plates all night and we will want you to GO HOME, Cassius.
Doc Nerd: Congratulations.
Ulysses: On what, specifically?
Doc Nerd: Oh, marrying me. Being hot. Having a Roof Raiser wedding. All of the above.
See? It WAS a Roof Raiser!
Ulysses: And I don't even have to have the baby personally this time!
Nope!
Hope you enjoyed that! It' s back to grading for a while now, but when there are babeez, you'll be the first to know!
The Ulysses-DocNerd wedding
DocNerd was kind enough to say that I always put a lot of effort into my weddings. Well, I do, sort of, but I don't bother controlling the guests too much, and something always goes just a weeny little bit wrong.
First, Ulysses invited Doc Nerd over.
And Doc thoughtfully brought two gnomes, a cheap stove, an expensive vase that De Beers probably sold her, and 4,000 dollars.
Through the magic of the Sim Blender, Ulysses was able to invite quite a large number of relatives and simselves. Glitch #1: No matter how hard I try, there are always a few Sims who aren't dressed appropriately. In this case, it was Gawaine, who ought to have been in his chain mail but wasn't.
Vampire weddings always require a little extra planning because they have to be at night, and then you have to have extra lighting.
And I certainly planned for plenty of seating.
Almost everyone heads obediently down the stairs, except, of course, for Cassius, who needs to pass on some gossip about Stacielee.
Dicreasy: May I Admire you, Elaine?
Elaine: Um, yes?
SimMe: Sims. No matter how hard you plan, Sims are still Sims.
Case in point: Cassius and De are always antisocial at weddings. They can't be bothered with anyone except each other--mostly.
Gawaine: Excuse me, Prof?
Whoops, even my Simself can be pretty clueless.
Stacielee: At least you sat down.
WriterTina is more interested in talking to Palomides.
Ulysses: Um, Doc? Do we wait for everyone to pay attention, or what?
Doc Nerd: Or what. I packed up everything remotely interesting--the pool table, the dance sphere, the pinball machine, the Lave Pinball Machine, and the Rock Hammer. I built the house, and I know where it all is. And I put them in your inventory. So they'd better pay attention.
Ulysses: Gosh, you're lovely when you're devious.
No matter how well you plan, you still can't make some Sims sit down.
And you also can't make the important guests show up on time. It's my fault that Penelope's still in her wedding dress, though. Ooops.
Doc Nerd and Ulysses proceed, undeterred by the frequent thoughts that Flavius is a Popularity Sim and the fact that Parsifal appears to be stuck on the stairs.
Note: first two rows of seats completely empty.
Well, at least it leaves a nice open shot, right?
Aw, they make such a cute couple.
Even if a lot of people are still standing around and --who's that with a chair and a red X mark through it?
Elaine: Ra-MOO! Shorba ko!
SimProf: See, the thing about weddings is that you can always find new ways to screw them up.
Stacielee: Yes indeedy do!
The happy couple goes in for a kiss while Tina talks about smokestacks and Dicreasy waits to talk to her about something else.
SimProf: Do you want to speculate about why the gardener got into formalwear and sat down and the guests didn't?
Stacilee: Nope.
Ulysses got squadillions of Aspiration points for the wedding party and for marrying Doc. Doc, I'm sorry to say--
Ulysses: No Aspiration points, hmm?
No.
Ulysses: And she's swooning over my brother Achilles, which is. . .
Yes?
Ulysses: Fairly standard for a Sim.
*clapclapclap*
Palomides: Why yes, you are making an excellent point about air quality.
Family Sims who aren't dating anyone, pfft.
Flavius: It's a party! And I'm at it! And I know enough to applaud on cue!
And in the right direction, which Achilles forgets to do and which Jack and Cassius don't bother to do at all.
Jack: I must felicitate you, Mr. Marius, on having acquired 10 Best Friends--
Flavius: Um, thanks?
Jack: And I shall now proceed to gain 1,000 Aspiration Points for Meeting Someone New.
Flavius: --I thought that was my prerogative. Can he do that?
Sneaky, Jack. Sneaky.
Also, evidently Doc forgot one Fun item.
Elaine: Wheee!
--which of course my Squeaky Clean heiress got into right away.
De: Plusplus!
Cassius: Plusplus!
C'mon, you guys, MINGLE.
What follows is a set of extremely tactful pictures.
Doc: Well, I'm not wasting some perfectly good cake. It looks yummy.
Ulysses: Um. . .um. . .
Doc jumps out from the cake. I hear this used to happen in Sims 1.
Ulysses: I was just trying to say that BLORGH.
Ulysses: Agh, Doc, I can see you.
Doc: Peek a boo, I can see you, too. What's the point of this?
Ulysses: No, I mean, um, Doc, I can SEE you, see you. As in -- do you feel a draft?
AUGH NO THE CURSE OF THE LYRAN SKIN! I keep forgetting it's non-Barbie. I keep forgetting what non-Barbie even MEANS, and then I notice something odd right in the middle of a critically important function!
Doc Nerd: (Girlish laughter)
Geez, and it's only one side, too! I suck so hard at throwing weddings.
Ulysses: I don't want to tell you what to do, but we're shooting a wedding album, and maybe you'd feel more comfortable if you--
Doc Nerd: All right, all right. Sheesh, YOU'RE no fun.
It doesn't even matter because the whole party is still outside, obsessed with playing Red Hands and Kicky Bag.
Cassius looks terrifying here, but he's just playing kicky bag. Also note that Dicreasy has come up to Tell Jokes to Palomides, thus ending his conversation with WriterTina about carbon emissions.
So I sent Doc Nerd inside to buy another formal dress. Too bad, because isn't the back detail pretty? Unfortunately, it's not the back that's the problem.
I dunno--is this some kind of payback, or does Doc just Know No Fear?
Doc: I'm just fulfilling a Talk want.
Flavius: Hey! Me too!
Kicky bag obsession continues outside.
Ulysses: I think the dress looks great, AND it excludes the drafts. How's your cake?
(I think Other PB is right--Telemachus looks a lot like Jack, if you don't count the flat nose, the pointy ears, and the bluish-green skin.)
Ulysses: And I really have to hand it to Flavius, who made your whole Want Panel turn over and now you're even rolling the want to Have A Baby!
Thank you, Flavius, who is much brighter than he looks.
Gratitude is not long lasting.
Doc Nerd: Ew, gross.
Flavius: *makes internationally recognized sign of choking*
De: I don't knoooow. . . usually I don't play with anyone but Cassius--
Achilles: Oh, come on, a little Water Balloon fight--that's totally innocent, right?
Uh huh--that's what honeymooning couples used to do back before I installed Bon Voyage.
Achilles and De: *scamperscamperscamper*
SimProf: I'm not sure, but I THINK we have to burp a lot to get back down.
Doc Nerd: I want you to know that I'm only cleaning this up because if I don't, my husband will run around tidying up plates all night and we will want you to GO HOME, Cassius.
Doc Nerd: Congratulations.
Ulysses: On what, specifically?
Doc Nerd: Oh, marrying me. Being hot. Having a Roof Raiser wedding. All of the above.
See? It WAS a Roof Raiser!
Ulysses: And I don't even have to have the baby personally this time!
Nope!
Hope you enjoyed that! It' s back to grading for a while now, but when there are babeez, you'll be the first to know!
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:11 am (UTC)Good luck with all of your grading!
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:25 am (UTC)Or just think sad thoughts!
Anyway, hahahaha oh weddings. I was cracking up at Doc's dress slip. She's just lucky there's no sim version of ONTD in your game, those shots would've gone up there in no time. :P And they may be in a new neighborhood but somehow it doesn't surprise me that Cassius and De's wedding behavior has not changed at all.
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Date: 2009-12-10 05:18 am (UTC)SimDe and Cassius are sadly consistent.
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:56 am (UTC)And she might heart-fart the other guys, but now she'll leave them alone! I can't believe she rolled Have A Baby--she's never done that in my 'hood.
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Date: 2009-12-10 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 02:59 am (UTC)LOL at the dress mishap. It WOULD be Doc's wedding where that happened.
I'm looking forward to the babies and definitely enjoyed the picspam a lot!
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Date: 2009-12-09 03:14 am (UTC)And babies? YAY!
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Date: 2009-12-10 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-10 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-10 04:05 am (UTC)I wonder if that want for a baby will last after the first bout of morning sickness. 8D
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Date: 2009-12-10 05:16 am (UTC)I actually took several otherwise very nice pictures before I noticed.
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Date: 2009-12-10 07:40 pm (UTC)Argh, the curse of the Lyran skins. That's one reason they came out of my downloads folder nearly as soon as they went in.
But it really was a very lovely wedding. :)