Round 1.4 - Murray

A new person has made his move into La Stique-en-Ardenne! Give it up for Mr Stewart "Stewing" Murray. Sweet, innocent and stuttering at first sight... buuut...

His tiny house is humble for now, my main inspiration was the Dursley residence from the Harry Potter series. You'll see...

Stewing has the Popularity Aspiration and wants to reach the top of the Military career track. Oof...

He's an Aries and he's kinda sloppy, quite outgoing, tends to be active, quite playful, but he's also super grouchy... 

This is his humble abode for now. Bedroom, bathroom and a living/kitchen/diner combo. Will do for now.

Another new announcement! With the Murray household I now have 4 households in La Stique-en-Ardenne. Per 4 households one free community lot is earned. In this case I'll build a sports stadium, which unlocks the Athletic career for everyone in town!

A bit of a closer look at the all new Ice Stadium. :) It has 2 skating rinks, where all Sims can practise their figure skating or their shorttrack skills. There's also a commentator's box overseeing the place.

Now we got all the updates out of the way, it's time to focus on Stewing's story. Here he is trying to practise his stuttering persona.

"I- I- I will not be put into c- c- cuffs for this.. Hmm, that's kinda getting there."

Soon enough the first wave of walkbys walks by. Time to put his acting skills to the test.

"Hello, I'm Ben. I live in the red house at the other side of town. Who are you?"

"M- m- my name is S- Stewart. P- pleasure to meet yo- you."

"Pleasure to meet you Stewart."

"One day, I'll take over the White Hou--- AAH fucking door!"

"Oh, sorry..."

Oof, I think Bradley figured out by now already Stewart is not who he seems to be XD

Ben and later greeted walkby Lucas seem to fall for the ruse though, they seem to be more interested in smooching eachother.

Roxy Callahan has also been invited in.

"Really nice PB&J, Stewart."

"R- really? T- thanks, Roxy."

Stewart: "Y- y- yes, it is nice to h- have such a warm w- w- welcome in this new town."

Bradley: "Hmm, you're welcome."

Ben, meanwhile, is still holding a grudge against Debby for cheating on him. Oof.

In the meanwhile, Stewing has made his first friend in town - Roxy Callahan.

"T- thanks Roxy, you really a- are a nice person."

"Thanks Stewing, you're also a good fellow."

If she only knew...

Ooof, that's a long-lived friendship XD.

At least Stewing managed to make friends with Ethan as well.

And next... IT'S GELATIN TIME

Once all the guests have been bonjoured out of the place, it was time for Stewing to buy a lot to build a business on.

Before going there, he also makes a phone call with Roxy, to try and bond some more with her.

After that it's time for him to visit his new lot...

Give a warm welcome to the Stewart Theatre! It looks cheap, but aesthetic appeal is not in the budget yet, sadly. Maybe if it starts making money soon. Hopefully Sims will be drawn to playing guitar for money, or singing and poetry on stage.

14 Simoleons per hour sounds like a pretty deal, especially if you consideg that guitar players can get tipped.

Stewing's personal hygiene does not permit him to do business just yet.

"Aww, I wanted to check out this new place."

"S- s- sorry."

Once home it was time to shower and then hit the hay.

Soon a new day started, and Stewing wanted to give his new theatre his first full try.

"Hmm, this new neighbour cleans up his house. A good first impression indeed."

TIME FOR BUSINESS!

The first batch of people is in!

Oooof. Looks like Stewing's got some hots for Debby XD

"That sounds worrisome, overheating Sims have a small chance of spontaneous combustion. And because this town  doesn't have a fire department his odds of survival will be nihil."

WAH WAAAAH

She does offer to give Maya his number for a phone call though. Trying to frame and blame Maya for eventual spontaneous combustions?

Ah yes, and soon he's earned the Bronze Badge for Sales. Noice.

Also - Diane is offering to sell Stewing stuff at a discount. Who knew she was working in furniture retail? I didn't.

With all the money Stewing made today he bought a second row of chairs and a shower to clean himself up in at work, before heading home.

After re-energising himself...

He went back to business.

Ooh nice, Debby is giving a Gold Star!

Hmmm... Diane's bonus comes in handy.. I can buy stuff at a lower price, like this table costing 972 Simoleons...

But if I immediately sell it I'd get the full 1.080 back for it!

That's a 108 profit! I could get VERY RICH easily if I abuse that loophole...

... 

Which is why I quit without saving. NO CHEATING, VUL.

... technically it's not cheating, but making cash the non-exploity way is much more fun.

Either way, Stewing just earned himself a good, honest Silver Sales Badge.

Soon after he also befriended Diane.

You get a GOLD STAR

You get a GOLD STAR

Debby is trying to flirt again, unsuccessfully XD Is she a Romance Sim in disguise?

YOU get a GOLD STAR

Also, Level 1 is here :P

Recharging with the thingy he bought from his Aspiration points. 

EVERYONE'S GETTING GOLD STARS

"Hi, Stewart! You know, I think you'd make a good match with someone I know. I'd like to set up a blind date for you at once. Are you interested?"

"Y- y- yolo, why not?"

IT'S RAINING SALMA'S! HALLELUJAH!

...

That looks kinda painful though. I do hope the wall didn't chop her head off.

Nah, she's fine. Dazed, but fine.

Hmm, shame that she doesn't swing his way. Means this will be a platonic date :/

While on the date, Stewing earned the Gold Sales Badge. Noice.

Stewing has also been building a good reputation. If the people only knew...

YAY, more GOLD STARS!

And he managed to have a Dream Date with Salma. Good for his mood and motives. :P And I managed to keep it completely platonic too.

Thanks to Debby we also reach business level 2. Which means more money!

And then Danny gives us a gold star.

Then I think it's time to go home and give Stewing some rest...

Ni ni!

Ooof thanks Salma! More money in the pocket XD

For now Stewing decided to skill some logic points.

Next he went to the Theatre with a very special goal in mind... Say goodbye to the old one...

And say hello to the new Theatre!

Since he has the Gold Badge and people eventually flock in anyways there's no need for Stewing to actually go around and chat with the people anymore. He decided to take on Meditation. :D Meditating Sims will freeze their motives.

*Jason farts*

Jason: "Hey Aiden. You stinky redneck!"

Aiden: "Na-ah! Dat's nawt meh! Why does dis 'appen all dah time teh me?"

On another note, we made it to level 3! More money rolling in.

Meanwhile, some Sims have been flying around town for a bit. First we got this evil witch. I might soon go and change her into Meredith Rathmore, and then I can change the good witch into Melinda.

Second Sim flying around... is Stewing himself! Super zen, and he can teleport!

Like this!

Fast forward a bit and we reach level 4!

And level 5! We got all money prices we can get now! :D

Time to close up shop...

... buy some more musical insturments so I can officially unlock the Music career for everyone...

... and------ OOOOOOOOOOOF.

..................

ABOUT time to leave the place...

And now that we got like over 80.000 Simoleons it's time to give this house a makeover.

Much better.

And here's the new first floor. The bedrooms in the back are empty on purpose, but they might be used if Stewing ever goes and reproduces.

But for now Stewing goes up his new stairs, first time he's done that since he moved in La Stique-en-Ardenne...

... and goes to bed in his new bedroom.

I think it's a nice idea to give Maya Carter a call, but then the phone appears to have an issue...

Wall phone it is.

Next it's time to return to the Theatre. Here's a full look on the completed exterior, including lantern posts and nice colourful banners. :D

And then it's time to get back to business - Maya gives us the final star to reach level 6!

..........

At least Aiden's not a stinky redneck anymore. He's just a wet one now.

Also, while fast forwarding I heard the love sound effect, and I was just in time to see the memory icon above Ethan's face.

Another memory icon here - Stewing just made 10.000 bucks. :D Nice job (apparantly the game does not consider business point money rewards)

-----..........

This time Ben took the initiative, he's whiping off his mouth.

He's lost all right to whine about Debby though, he's just as bad himself now.

--- Ooof. Artie isn't helping though...

At least Artie would be a nice surrogate mum in case Ben and Lucas don't want to adopt a kid. Although, neither Ben nor Artie has gotten an actual crush on the other.

Speaking of Ben and Debby, they seem to be at least on talking terms now, or at least in this situation.

It only takes a little push from the game's AI to let this situation escalate badly...

Oooh, thanks for the gold star Linda, now we got level 7. Though some people already are at the maximum number of stars... Gotta try and attract newer crowds during the next rounds.

Ben still loves Lucas as well though, given that they were slow dancing to the music. :3 Awwww

And then it was about time for Stewing to go home - despite meditating, he still needs to do some cleaning and chores every now and then, and that will cost energy.

And then it's off to bed.

Oooh, a job opening in the Athletic career! I actually want Stewing to join Music instead (Entertainment is only available for Sims who grew up into adulthood with maxed Charisma, so Music comes the closest), but Athletic will do for now.

Ben then made a phone call, so Stewing answered it. Gotta keep up appearances.

And then Stewing practised his rope-jumping, so he could earn some easy promotions on his job.

He was also visited by a vegan wolf. Rip the flower beds XD

Ooof, Ben and Aiden have been unfriended at once. :o

And while it was storming outside, the tree caught on fire! 

Luckily the rain extinguished it soon.

Ni ni!

The next day Salma called in for a fun chat.

Time to visit the Theatre again!

I was mostly just fast forwarding as Stewing was meditating to earn more money and hope people would give their gold stars.

Not much has happened, except that I caught Aiden crying for some reason here.. Not sure if it was Diane's doing, or just the memory of Debby flirting with him in front of Ben's face?

Either way, it was time to return back home.

Stewing had a want to meet someone new, so I went for the mail carrier. I'll probably replace her with a reality show Sim in the future, but I'm not sure who yet - anyone know a solid Sim who fits the job?

Stewing's jumping some more rope and managed to reach body skill level 2.

Then heigh-ho heigh-ho, it's off to work he go!

"Thank fuck I got promoted, this llama costume is fucking embarrassing."

And after work it was soon bed time.

The next day it was doing some household chores...

Back to his Sports job at the new, earlier hours...

And then Stewing scores another promotion, he's now at level 3!

RUDE DUDE!

Stewing still has energy to deal with the Theatre now.

And soon it was business as usual again there.

Salma showed up and sneaked around. I wonder what she's up to?

LEVEL 8! Almost at the top!

The bad news is, La Stique-en-Ardenne simply doesn't have enough Sims and townies to provide enough gold stars to reach level 9 and 10. So we gotta wait until the next round and add a second batch of Townies to pull that off.

So it's back to home we go!

Ben walked by, so Stewing let him in.

"Oof, it's getting dark. I think I'm gonna go home."

"O- oh... I'll catch you l- l- later, Ben."

Now that he's reached level 3 in the body skill, and also has a charisma skill from early on, it's time for Stewing to sleep again.

And as Stewing was sleeping, the first snowflakes of the year were falling, marking a change in the season.

Quite a bit of snow out there!

I'm thinking of maybe adding 1 or 2 more households before returning to the Stique household to start the second round. The question is, who will be the next one to join? Preferably at least one female Sim, to even the ratio a bit. Though I'd like to keep introducing Sims by players who haven't been represented yet.

(already represented Simmers are:

M13Vulpecula, HayloHusky, Paco1200, Tigerblu11, YJB19299, Kittymeow, WinteryGarnet, Turner, x_MG_x, Smarties100, Kaliko103, Mojot89, Alleenmens, Ninjakid150 and Lillibattenberg.)

STATISTIQUES

SIM STATS

Playable Sims: 6

Graves: 0

Sim Multiplier: 3

Population: 18

(Playable Sims + Graves * SM = Population)

Households: 4
Available CAS Sims: 3 out of 6

NEIGHBOURHOOD STATS

Business districts: 0

Downtown: 0

Universities: 0

University fund: §0

LOT STATS
Occupied residential lots: 4

Community lots: 6

- Sim owned: 5

- City owned: 1

DISASTER STATS

Fires: 0 (every 3 unlocks Law Enforcement spot***)

Electrocutions: 0 (every 3 equals Science spot) 

Burglaries: 0 (every 3 unlocks Law Enforcement spot)

***Only the following fires count:

- House fires

- Repair failure fires

- BBQ fires

- Business fires caused by controllable Sim

JOB STATS

Adventurer: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked with museum worth 250.000, career unlocked when career is topped)

Artist: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked at level 5 art gallery, unlocked for Sims with 10 creativity and 10 sold masterpieces, Uni degree)

Architecture: 1 spot 

(1 spot unlocked per 10 buildings and per new subhood (uni, dt, business)
(buildings: 10)

Athletic: unlocked (Stewing Murray)

(unlocked with a sports themed community lot worth 250.000)

Business: 0 spots 

(spot unlocked at every level 10 business, career unlocked when topped)

Culinary: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked per level 5 restaurant, unlocked with career topped)

Crime: 0 spots 

(1 spot unlocked at 100 pop, additional spots opened with career topped)

Dancing: locked

(spot unlocked at level 5 dance business, career unlocked at level 10)

Education: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked per 250 pop, always available for Sims with a Uni degree)

Entertainment: 0 spots

(unlocked for Sims who grew up into adulthood with max Charisma)

Gamer: 1 spot (Stique Family)

(unlocked for Sims who own the expensive pc, gaming console, pinball machine & arcade machine)

Intelligence: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked per criminal, military or science career topped)

Journalism: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked per 1000 pop, 1 spot unlocked per topped criminal, law enforcement, or showbusiness career

Law: 0 spots

(unlocked for Sims with a Uni degree)

Law Enforcement: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked when 1) pop reaches 500;     2) per 3 fires;     3) per 3 burglaries)

Medicine: 0 spots

(first spot at 1.000 pop, additional spots per 5.000 pop, unlocked when there's a university. Until topped all woohoo = try for baby)

Military: locked

(unlocked with military base community lot)

  

Music: unlocked

(unlocked when there's a community lot with a stage and 3 musical instruments)

Natural Science: 0 spots

(1 spot per level 5 flower or landscaping business, unlocked for Sims with a gold gardening badge)

Oceanography: locked

(open for Sims with a gold fishing badge, unlocked when career topped)

Paranormal: 0 spots

(1 spot unlocked per 5 human graves on community graveyard lots, more spots per 10 additional human graves)

Politics: locked

(unlocked at 1000 pop, only 1 mayor allowed)

Science: 0 spots

(unlocked for Sims who aged up into adults with max logic, 1 spot per 3 electrocutions, unlocked when Sim graduates from uni)

Showbusiness: 0 spots

(1 spot per Sim who tops entertainment or slacker careers)

Slacker: 1 spot

(1 spot unlocked per club community lot, unlocked when downtown is unlocked)