The Vincis (G) - Round 13

Starring:

Gemma Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Professional Party Guest

Willow Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Rock God

Puck Vinci, Teen Popularity Sim, LTW Become an Icon



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Last round, Willow, Gemma, and Puck purchased a house in "downtown" Rosebud and had very little money to decorate due to the price of the land and building. The sisters both quickly got jobs, Willow in the paranormal career track and Gemma in her chosen field of slackerdom. Puck aged well from a cute little boy into a badass teenager, and the house gradually filled up and got decorated as money started trickling into the family bank accounts. Let's see how these three do this round.

If Puck had learned anything from living with two romance-driven people like his mom and his aunt, he had learned that there were two things you needed to be super popular. The first was charisma, that natural charm.




The second was a hot bod. Yoga may not have been the manliest activity in the world, but it sure built up his muscles. Puck would have preferred to do something like run a treadmill or lift weights, but he knew they couldn't afford this expensive equipment, and Rosebud hadn't gotten its own gym yet. So yoga it was, and he delighted to see his muscles begin to define themselves.






All his hard work quickly paid off. He was soon getting off the bus with the beautiful Tabitha Devivio, a Silvervale transplant.




Their casual conversation quickly turned to flirting, and soon Puck could see that she was starting to crush on him a bit. The feeling was mutual; Tabitha was gorgeous, and she still had that "new girl" appeal.





That day, Puck managed to get his first kiss from the brunette beauty, and he felt himself beginning a rocket ride to popularity.






Willow wasn't having quite as much fun, to her chagrin. Sure, she was making good money and getting promoted regularly at work, but all work and no play made Willow a dull, and grouchy, girl.






Gemma, too, found herself spending so much time in the house that she was almost turning into a dorky knowledge sim. Not that there wasn't value in learning, but what about fun?





Fortunately, she at least satisfied some of her more romantic needs at work. Being a professional party guest had its perks, and now that she'd become the queen of the scene, she could relax and start picking off some of the men she'd met at work for more private parties.





The three members of the household got along great. Sure, they were an unusual family, but they all understood each other, and they frequently had breakfast in the wee hours of the morning, when all three were getting home from their social pursuits.





Gemma, inspired by the delicious food she ate at all of her soirees, started contemplating a career shift into something that was...well, a bit more lucrative.




As she started researching all the things she would need to do to make her dream come true, it occurred to her that she was sort of turning into a dorky knowledge sim against her will. She simply sighed and accepted it...though she did make a promise to herself to go on no fewer than three dates a week.





After all, if hardworking Willow could manage to still booty call her old flames and date new people, so could Gemma.




If Gemma had to listen to one more night of Willow having fun with one of her suitors, she'd scream anyway. Best to find her own and try to drown her sister out.





Puck's popularity began to really take hold in his school, and he brought home yet another Silvervale transfer, this time the ginger-headed Lindsay Wade. As pretty as Tabitha was, there was something fiery and appealing about Lindsay that Puck found entrancing.





In fact, he found that he couldn't stop thinking about her, even when working on homework for his favorite subjects.




He finally gave up trying to concentrate and called her. Tabitha would probably be jealous, but they weren't going steady, and how could he resist this new pretty girl in his arms? If this was what popularity brought him, he was okay with having to deal with the tough choices it brought.



[[Author's Notes: I am SO glad that Puck brought home some of the Silvervale kids. I really think he hit it off with Lindsay, so she may be joining him when he goes to college. I guess it depends on if he can keep his lips off any OTHER females he might bring home on the school bus, lol. Poor Willow and Gemma are dying from not getting any romance action, so I'm going to have to try harder next round to allow them to play at least as hard as they work. I got a little caught up in trying to get money into the household.

Bloopers:
Not a blooper, but their kiss was so picture perfect and adorable! // Lol, Willow, you just can't let go of the past, can you? ]]

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The Vincis (G) - Round 12

Starring:

Willow Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Rock God

Gemma Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Professional Party Guest

Puck Vinci, Child Popularity Sim, LTW Grow Up Well


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The last time we saw Willow and Gemma, they were at University, living it up in the Urele Cham house. Unfortunately, due to oversight, neither of them were on birth control and both were woohooing half the male members of the greek house. This was only remedied after it became apparent that Gemma was pregnant by Bastian Beaumont, and before she graduated, she gave birth to Puck, who aged from infant to toddler and toddler to child before the two sisters finally graduated. They've moved back to Rosebud into a bachelorette pad of a house with little Puck. Let's see how they do in the real world.

There was one thing the Vinci sisters decided they wanted, if they were going to move back home to Rosebud and attempt some sort of domesticity, and that was the most unique house in the neighborhood. They contracted a builder to build them a tower of a house, a leaning one. They were delighted when they showed up at the front door and looked at their cherries and cream house.




Their excitement diminished a bit when they got inside the house and realized they barely had the minimum they needed to survive. Building the house had eaten up all their savings. The first night, they were forced to eat leftover pizza from their college days because they couldn't afford groceries.




They couldn't even afford to build walls around a proper bathroom, which meant that the sleeping floor (a.k.a. the third floor), became an impromptu shower area as well. It was far from the ideal living situation, and the girls knew they had to do something about it, and quickly.



The lack of entertainment was another serious problem. When they weren't playing red hands or catch with Puck, the only thing to do was settle into bed with a book. They didn't have a TV or a computer or even a radio to keep them entertained. The situation was dire to them, having gotten used to the plush furnishings of the Urele Cham house.




Willow took the first job available, in the paranormal career track, because she wanted to get a paycheck as soon as possible, and this was the highest paying job she was qualified for at the time.



Fortunately, Willow was not only smart and a hard worker, but also very charming, and she came home with a promotion almost immediately. All the money went into the house. First on the agenda was a walled-off bathroom in which to shower, a couch, a cheap tv, and a few lamps.




Puck, finally in school for the first time in his life, suffered the most from the lack of entertainment. After doing his homework in the evenings, he was so starved for fun things to do that he started remedying the situation himself.



From the first week on, he began bringing home a series of kids from school that he could play with. Sure, there were no toys or video games, but if he and his friends used their imaginations, cops and robbers could almost be as much fun as SSX. (Pictured above: Pearl Vinci)





This clever arrangement allowed him excel at his studies without dying of boredom.





Willow continued to work while Gemma stayed home in order to be there for Puck when he got home from school. She brought home promotion after promotion, each time the money going to improve the house and add more features like better lighting, wallpaper, and actual carpet.




They even managed to purchase a cheap used telescope at a local pawn shop, which provided them with some much needed relief from the boredom of being stuck in a house with a pitiful bookshelf and a TV that only got three stations.




Finally, one night, Gemma was searching through the want ads and discovered a job she knew she wanted: a freelance web designer. The pay was decent, the hours were short (allowing her to be home for Puck in the evenings), and it just plain sounded fun. She snapped it up immediately.




Willow was relieved that Gemma had finally found a job that would suit Puck's school schedule. She liked her job and excelled at it, but decorating the house would have gone a lot faster with two incomes.





The girls finally managed to begin on the top floor in their decoration. The first floor was the kitchen, the second the living area, the third Puck's bedroom, and the fourth was to be their little mutual den of iniquity. Both extremely focused on romance, the two sisters were dying to finally settle in and have some dates with the men of Rosebud. They couldn't do it until the house looked halfway decent, but they were dying to get to that point. The first thing they did was design a fantastic shared bathroom on the top floor with all the amenities they (or their potential guests) could want. The bedrooms were next on the agenda.






Before they could start picking out egyptian cotton sheets, though, they had another matter to attend to: Puck's birthday. Gemma could hardly believe he was already becoming a teenager.




He grew into an awkward but still cute young man with both his mother and father's ice blue eyes.



He decided that he wanted to be the most popular kid in school. Perhaps it was because he felt inferior thanks to his parents not being married, or perhaps he just enjoyed the habit of constantly socializing he'd adopted as a child to stave off boredom. Either way, he knew that a sweater vest wasn't the way to be the most popular kid in school.



A quick makeover with the help of his Aunt Willow turned him into badass-looking kid that he knew everyone would respect. It was time to rule the school.



[[Author's Notes: This house was SO. POOR. this round. But it was kind of fun anyway because I'm getting tired of playing the main houses where they constantly have over $500,000 all the time. Poor Puck is going to have to wait for wallpaper in his room because the women are going into aspiration failure from lack of woohoo. So bedrooms for the ladies next, then finally finishing up the third floor for Puck. Third floor will also become the bedroom for any more oops babies that might occur during the course of all the woohoo that will inevitably happen in this house. Anyway, a couple of bloopers for you!

Bloopers:
Could you have maybe found a more appropriate time to seek validation for your A+, Puck? // Oh Inari. You might reconsider what you wear out for a walk. // So you're preggers, Samantha!? SHOCKER! You only have 89548903432 babies already and are the size of a small condominium. // Alex looks SO thrilled to have been impregnated with alien spawn. ]]

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