Delve Into Lunacy

I’ve been playing the Swipers more than any other family but I haven’t updated their family album recently or given an update on them here for a while. I believe last time that I left off the whole crew had moved into a new home and Brandi and Don had finally gotten married. Since then a lot has happened.

Brandi has died at the ripe old age of 76 days. It killed me since she was less than half of a bar away from maxing out charisma and then she would have had them all maxed. Not too shabby since I didn’t get to play her through childhood and what not. As much as I miss her I do have to say it was getting a bit boring when she didn’t have anything to do except trying to max out skills and once a week pull weeds in the yard.

Dora has just headed off to college which occurred right after Brandi died. She’s pretty much kicking ass and taking names at this point. She got five scholarships: the one for an A+ in school and the ones for having charisma, cooking, creativity and logic at 8 or higher. I looked it up and with the exception of one major she already has either all the skills needed for each of the majors or only needs like one more mechanical point. I’m still torn as to whether I want her to become an artist or go into show business after college. Show business makes more money but she just seems more like an artist to me.

I still hate playing Don, but since he’s close to reaching the top of the medical career path he’s at least now bringing in some decent money. Beyond that he doesn’t do much more than simply exist in the house. While Brandi was alive and Dora was at home he wasn’t allowed to interact with them and even for social boosts I either made him to wait to go to work or call someone outside the house to talk to. I originally planned on having him hook up with Dina Lothario but I have a feeling that by the time Carl is dead she’ll be awfully close to being an elder and unable to have more kids. So I think I might have Don score with the maid at this point. Not sure what her name is but her little French maid outfit is pretty hot.

There are a lot of new Swiper family album pages now (pages 6 through 12) which can be found in the “The Sims 2 - Family Album Collection” post.