Strangetown extras: Ophelia rocks!

[strangetomato]

Okay, so I just wanted to brag about Ophelia's achievement in obtaining her gold talent badge for flower arranging, and show a cute photo or two. This is actually the first sim of mine to reach this level of flower arranging (I haven't had OFB all that long), so I'm excited to see the snapdragon bouquets in action.

Go Ophelia! That's the big payoff above her head. Shouldn't she get more aspiration points than that? Come on! I guess she probably would if she was a fortune or knowledge sim... but she did have the want (which I locked). Oh well. Ophelia rolled the want to buy a flower arranging table back when she was a teen, quite randomly, and it worked nicely into the story. She's moved on to gardening now.

Check out Johnny and Ripp over there "helping" her while she's working. As I mentioned before, her room is the biggest and becomes the place they end up hanging out in all of the time, since the stereo is in there too. The dancing happens autonomously. Johnny, in particular, always heads up there to turn it on and then dance or just hang out on the bed. Lots of autonomous relaxing going on around here.




Aren't they cute? They're all really good dancers (by sim standards). If I recall, they all received that college scholarship for dancing. Sometimes they just break into little dance offs like this for fun. Oh, I just love them.

 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems to be something to use in moderation, though when shooting photos for complicated scenes this story, I often find myself using maxmotives anyway to avoid having to set things up again, so the snapdragons might be a nice alternative. Hmmm... can you place them on community lots? They should be useful for preggos and babies too.

I'm mostly interested in how they might be useful in the story. I have something in mind that might be good.

They sure are cute! I knew that you, of all people, would appreciate them dancing together. :) Johnny's tracksuit is pretty coordinated with his skin and hair, isn't it? He probably doesn't let on, but I'd say he puts a bit of effort into his look. Those bangs don't style themselves! *snicker* Or does he just sleep on it?

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Watch that the pink mist doesn't get in screenshots. It only appears for a few seconds, at least.

I haven't tried to place one on a community lot. As long as you can access a sim's inventory, it should work. Or you can convert a community lot to residential briefly, place it, and then change it back.

Man, in the 80s I'd have killed for bangs like that. He must really go through the BedHead (tm)!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, unless I actually want to see the pink mist in the shot, and then I'll be killing myself to time it right.

Yeah, Johnny has bangs to die for. Notice how the boys are way more vain about their hair than Ophelia is. She just has it tucked away in that topknot.