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Checking in with my mad scientist Annie.. Apparently her alien wife Raina is allergic to this planet because she’s been sick basically all spring. Nehi spent Prank Day and Memorial Day getting to know his older cousins better, and Mikayla has been extra patient with him. Annie got to spend some time relaxing with her big brother Alex, who she hasn’t seen nearly enough since he and Jasmine bought a farmhouse and moved out of the mansion.

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Theo is honestly just the happiest, most casual sim I’ve ever played. He just flops everywhere with that awful goofy walk, happy and telling jokes and helping his family. He doesn’t even mind that his mother-in-law’s ghost is haunting their house. I think they were actually friends before she died--seems like she was a coworker at some point. 

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Checking in on Theo’s family just in time to catch Tanvi visiting her parents and younger twin sisters. Her little sister Charley had dinner out with some friends and Bailey (Tanvi’s twin--I refuse to let Brandy have more kids because she only ever has twins)--she’s trying to join the Paragons but was never really close to her big sister, who leads the group now. (Their house is The Burrow by @peacemaker-ic along with tons of his CC to furnish it.)

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Love Day AND the romance festival both hit while I was playing Theo’s family, so Brandy got to meet Joelle’s “friend” over a pancake breakfast, and then a holiday lunch date with her husband during a thunderstorm. Charley took a more .. direct .. approach with her crush Monty at the festival.

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All his effort making this lovely comedy club at the Solar Flare lounge, just to have the paparazzi ignore Theo’s routine and lean over him to get pictures of his sister-in-law Jasmine. .. So naturally I immediately grabbed @littlemssam‘s Celebs Undercover mod to keep out fans and photographers and keep his little comedy nook safe. (To be fair, Jasmine’s stand-up is significantly better than his.)

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The Worley’s, around town. Chantel &family spending time with her brother Lucas at the karaoke bar (Quay Karaoke by @peacemaker-ic); Mikayla hanging out in a teen club at @pictureamoebae‘s Skate Rattle & Roll, aaand awkward goofy puppy love first date with Wolfgang. Who is surprisingly flexible and dorky and I can’t get over how cute he is with her.

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Morning jog before work for Chantel, vanity time (and some mother daughter bonding) with Rachael now that she’s getting a bit of fame as a professional athlete, and Mikayla is finding a group she fits in with a bit better than her cousins’ study group friends.

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I love Oasis Springs so much. Skate Rattle & Roll, Nookstone Bunker and Shady Grove Motel by @pictureamoebae are all so perfect..SR&R is with the comedy club and space museum downtown, and the bunker and motel are in the outskirts near my astronaut’s place (Chantel).

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Bailey’s PR career is going well--giving speeches to an empty crowd in the rain. Her social life is a little less dreary, at least. SimPAC is going well so far, with a country club in Brindleton as the official meeting place.

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Meanwhile, Annie’s house is getting even weirder than usual. Despite having two roombas, a daily maid service, and a summonable skeleton servant, Annie is going around mind controlling her son’s friends into cleaning the house just for the fame points. And Raina is hoarding mountains of cash in their basement vault just because it looks cool.

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While Lucas and Tanvi worked their way up to the B-list fairly quickly, Bailey’s luck has been a bit more .. mixed. She spends most of her time working office hours in public relations and hyping up her roommates to anyone who will listen. But she still stays out watching Tanvi’s shows as late as she can and has breakfast with her in the morning before work, so she doesn’t seem to mind. Bailey seems more focused on steering the Paragons, and on building her newest project: a totally innocent not-at-all-corrupt club for local politicians, CEOs, and PR reps to meet in private and discuss .. common interests. Tentatively named SimPAC, the Fengs and Landgraabs were the first ones on board.

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Lucas and his older twin cousins (Bailey & Tanvi) aged up just in time to head to Del Sol Valley together! Grabbed the cheapest little house available, immediately made everything concrete and neon, and dove in. Tanvi spends her days working as the muscle for a crime boss, and nights DJing in Windenburg nightclubs (with coffee and disco naps instead of sleep). Lucas is working his way up as a secret agent a few days a week, and bouncing between bars and his easel the rest of the time trying to be noticed.

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Community lot / club photo dump.

1&2. Joelle & Charley’s new teen club Neon Lights at Skate, Rattle & Roll by amoebae (which I’m completely in love with)

3. Private underground gaming area for Bailey’s guild

4. Chantel hanging out with Bailey at the Dust Bowl (which I actually haven’t even edited yet--that never happens)

5. Annie giving Lucas an archaeology lecture at Club Slate (heavily made over into a vampire nightclub)

6. Still loving my slightly tweaked version of The Solar Flare lounge in Oasis Springs for an entertainers club / comedy club run by Theo

7. And also still loving my science makeover of the Future’s Past museum in Oasis Springs--Malakai just joined the Mad Scientists club (run by Annie and Chantel)

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Alex got Jasmine patched back up with a plate of Ambrosia, and Annie’s Potion Emporium (conveniently next door) started stocking Age-Away Serums to hopefully avoid this in the future. It’s a bit embarrassing for the mom of a vampire and sister-in-law of a mad scientist to die of old age..

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Alex managed to get Jasmine’s ghost moved back in just in time for a Halloween party with the younger twin nieces (Joelle & Charley), Mikayla (step granddaughter?), Annie & Raina and their hybrid kiddo, and Lucas’s girlfriend, Sofia Bjergsen. Somehow Jasmine ended up on trick-or-treat duty (despite hating children), with only Vincent the Banana Dog keeping her company.

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Played Chantel & Rachael’s family for the summer holidays, gave Mikayla a bit of a makeover, and let Ghost Jasmine spend some time with her daughter and grandkids.

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Hopped back over to Alex’s household to find everyone crying in bed. Their dog Vincent apparently didn’t care, though, so he just kept being adorable. And Lucas got over it fast enough to go on a date that night with his girlfriend. Played piano for her while she ate dinner, and then snuck downstairs to get a drink from the bartender.