Romero Household: Chapter 1, Part 5
After a brief visit to the humour and hijinks festival Keira tries to teach Marta how to play chess.
Marta’s first language is Spanish so she is teaching Keira (and me) some common Spanish words/phrases
Ay dios mio: omg equivalent
Buenas noches: Good evening / Good night
Gracias: Thank you
Hasta luego: See you later
Qué?: What?
Si: Yes
The couple sit down for dinner and Keira entertains Marta with stories about her day at work. The sea otters and harbour seals are some of her favourites but there is a particular cheeky walrus you have to look out for. She mostly stayed prepping food at her current level but she enjoyed feeding, even if it was slightly chaotic.
The two make a quick stop at the humour and hijinks festival.
Keira: Sweetheart I think your hair is doing weird things to your hat
Marta: It’s worth it, I’m attached to these ponytails. Get it, attached because they’re my hair
Keira: *giggles* Someone has had to much jokesters tea already
The two go to the tables when they are joined by someone unexpected, Keira’s ex.
Morgan: So I heard you were getting married
Keira: Yes, this is Marta
Marta: Buenas noches
Morgan seems grumpy and not to keen on leaving their table so the two decide it’s best they clear out. They’re interested in their future, not their past.
Keira: Do you know how to play chess
Marta: Si. I get my pieces to the other side of the board
Keira: Not all of them, just the pawns, and that's not the main goal
Marta: *whispers* que? Why are we talking about porn in public
Keira: Oh I’m not it- they sound similar si but they are completely different words. A pawn is one of these smaller pieces
Marta: Ah. And they move forward, si?
Keira: You got it. Let me show you the rest
Keira: The rooks can only go in straight lines, forwards or backwards until they run into a piece
Marta: They are the hetero pieces
Keira: *chuckles* exactly. The bishops here, these pointy ones, they move diagonally. Again just until they run into a piece. If you run into a piece of yours you stop on the square before it. If you run into a piece of mine you take it and put your piece where mine was
Marta: Si. What about the pony
Keira: The pony? It’s called a knight but I kind of like pony better
Marta blushes.
Keira: Ponies… move to their own beat. They move like they’re making capital L’s
Marta: Que?
After giving her best explanations, the two start to play but honestly Marta is more interested in flirting.
Marta: *blows kiss* two more sleeps
Keira: Aww. Are you counting down
Marta: *grins* Si! I’m looking forward to being wives
Keira: You’re so cute sweetheart
Marta: Gracias. I would make cute infants, no *raises eyebrows and pouts*
Keira: *giggles* That has never been in doubt
The game carries on and Keira eventually wins, she does have a higher logic skill after all. But she blows Marta a kiss so who’s the real winner? Back home for bed when-
Marta: Ay dios mio! A cat
Keira: I can see that
Marta: Can we keep him carino
Keira: Since he belongs to the neighbours I’m going to go with no
Marta: *sighs* Hasta luego friend
The next day after work Marta is bring in the washing when Tiana says hello.
Tiana: Was it you that put my washing in the dryer
Marta: No, it would have been my fiancé Keira. She was in the laundry yesterday
Tiana: Ah. I wish my husband helped out that much
Lawrence: Afternoon ladies
Tiana: Lawrence dear, how are you? How is your lovely family
Lawrence: *sighs* A handful at the moment. Roger keeps getting in spats with some other kid at school so I need to supervise pick ups
Tiana: Here is where I’m glad I don’t have kids
Marta: Did you really never want kids
Tiana: No, never. I’m so glad I found a man who didn’t expect me to pop them out
Marta: How do you handle our neighbours infant shrieks?
Tiana: They shriek? Blessings of losing hearing in my old age, I've yet to hear them. I’ve never minded kids, I just have no desire to raise any
Lawrence: To each their own. Oh, I better go, school ends soon. Hey Marta, best of luck for your wedding tomorrow
Marta: Gracias. Hasta luego Lawrence
Keira has been working hard and burnout is threatening, luckily she has the wedding and honeymoon to slow her down. Sitting down for dinner she notices something strange on the floor… a cursed book? Weird. Must be a landlord problem.
Keira: Panya? Yes it’s Keira Foster from 2 Dockyard Way. Could you come and check some things? Thanks
Marta: What was that about
Keira: Just calling the property owner to come check out that book
Marta: What bo- ay dios mio! Que? Where did it come from
Keira: I don’t know, maybe I should just toss it before the property owner shows up so he doesn’t think we’re hysterical
Marta: Que? No! You cannot get rid of it. It could hurt you
Keira: What? It’s a book
Marta: But the glow, it’s cursed. Leave it for Panya por favor.
Keira relents and when Panya shows up she invites him in to check the thing out. He assures her he will deal with it and takes it out of the unit.
Keira: Oh come on! That score can’t be right. You’re using a mod or something
Joey: Can’t do mods on console, you just need to up your skills
Keira: Whatever. Don’t be late tomorrow *disconnects*
Marta: I gather you didn’t win
Keira: Not this time. I suppose we had better go pack
Marta: *smiles* for the honeymoon
Keira: I’d offer to do it in the morning but I know you’ll want to pack your own suitcase
Marta: Si. Just think, this time tomorrow… we’ll be married
Keira: You still won’t let me see your dress?
Marta: No. I want you to have surprises carino
Keira laughs and pulls Marta into a dip, raising her hand for a kiss.
Keira: Te amo sweetheart
Marta: Te amo carino
And so the two spend a few hours ensuring everything is packed for the honeymoon then lie down and try to sleep while bubbling with excitement.
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The Dom(ino) Effect: Week Three
Simoleons: 6.055k (Dom acquired a she-shed, so more money was made than suggested.)
Skills:
LEVEL 8: Mischief (finally! 🎉)
LEVEL 5: Charisma, Gardening
LEVEL 4: Handiness, Logic
LEVEL 3: Comedy, Cooking, Fabrication, Fitness, Singing, Photography
LEVEL 2: Dancing
Aspiration: Live Fast (HSY) - Risky Business (Level 2)
❌Ask a Sim out on a Date 5 Times (4/5)
✔️Start a Fight
❌Summon an Urban Myth Twice
MASTER POST
Pro Tip if you're working on MISCHIEF and HANDINESS skills at the same time? Prank toilets, break them, then repair them. Wash (literally too, you'll get stinky) rinse repeat. Same deal once you reach Level 5 and can clog sinks.
Also the Humour & Hijinks festival happened so with the help of some highly suspish purple tea and then late Sunday evening TROLLING TEH FORUMS (Dom fished up and repaired a dumpster laptop), we finally got there.
Date No. 2, Electric Boogaloo was again with Morgan. In spite of otherwise getting along, she didn't enjoy any of Dom's jokes or mischief interactions (interesting choice to be a Renegade then, especially considering that she's also GOOD) . Since humour is a major way in which Dom bonds with people, they agreed to cool off things.
See? They're already so much happier.
Dom even got the opportunity to poach someone else's order of a scone - probably rightfully belonging to the dude currently looking over her shoulder. Oddly this doesn't seem to count as theft in-game, which is a shame as Sims (justifiably) reacting irately would be hilarious.
This was also the week where I put more stringent money-making rules in place. The dash voted Master Maker, so it is was off to the Greenburg's to put Dom's shiny new ALWAYS WELCOME reward store trait to use and mooch their free food and fabricator.
Results were not unexpected.
I say that Dom was mooching off the Greenburgs but to give her credit, she does have some concept of fairness and paying it forward. So the produce you see in the garden behind her is what she planted as a kind of 'thank you.'
Two other dates happened this week with Molly Prescott and Zhafira Cahyaputri (who is super pretty and I don't know why the Simternet isn't raving about her more) but in spite of Zhafira's DASTARDLY trait, there wasn't a strong connection with either.
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