Finally it was time to invite all of the grocery delivery people over. Some of them brought friends, which made the house a little crowded. Oh, and there’s Mitch Wolosenko, yet another grocery guy who showed up when I was trying to get Stuart. It’s like a grocery deliverers’ convention!
“So…anyone up for a game of Myshuno? No? OK.”
While I had them held captive in the house, I had someone order for groceries. Would it finally be the elusive Stuart Andrews? Sigh. No. Instead we got a guy named Kenneth Lillard (Brandon Lillard’s cousin? heh). I had Vesta waiting in the wings to Tip him and Chat before he left so I could run through this whole process again the next day. Vesta had several days to go before transitioning to adult, so I figured I might as well keep trying.
“So what exactly are you going to DO with 15 jars of mustard, Mrs. Shanley?”
While Vesta was chatting with Kenneth, I saw Robi’s ghost float out into the yard. Poor guy, he was crying. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost do that, so I’m not sure what his problem was. (Aside from being dead, that is.) I also noticed that Kenneth is a really cute NPC. He looks a bit like a Ken doll, which is unfortunate, but also quite appropriate given his name. He and Vesta also got along really well. I decided to try one more time — if the mysterious Stuart Andrews didn’t show up, I’d choose Kenneth to be Vesta’s future husband.
“Is it just me, or did it suddenly get really cold?”
So I had someone order groceries again…and someone named April Hutchins showed up. Dangit! My strategy just wasn’t working. I had Vesta tip April in case I felt like trying again, but I pretty much given up.
Oh, and I should mention that I did try to get Waylon Fairchild to show up one day, but every time I called (something like 10 times), Arcadia Bradshaw showed up. I tried having Marie make friends with Arcadia so she could invite her over and then call for another repairman, but by that time Vesta and Kenneth had clicked, so I didn’t bother.
“There’s more where this came from if you know where I can find Stuart Andrews.”
Well, Marie had a whole new pool of guys to flirt with, and she wanted to have five loves at once, so I had her hook up with Stephan Gothier. In the meantime, Stefaan’s relationship with Ericka had bloomed, and I noticed that Stefaan had fewer and fewer wants to flirt with other people. Eventually they disappeared — he just wanted to be friends with everyone. Had he finally found Miss Right? Of course, he’s afraid to get engaged to her, so she won’t become a Shanley anytime soon. They make a cute couple, though.
I also noticed for the first time that Marie is still wearing her wedding ring, even though her husband is dead. You’d think a Romance Sim especially would take that puppy off. ;-)
“PDA? What’s that?”
Well, now that I had picked out Vesta’s future husband, I was eager to age her to an adult. To this end, I had her drink the elixir when her aspiration meter was in low green. She lost about 6 days of her teenhood that way, which is too bad, but the teen years last too long anyway, and I only have two weeks to reach 10th gen. I raised the walls to take a pic of Vesta drinking elixir and found her seemingly stuck in the door. Heehee.
“AGH, that hurts!”
Poor Vesta, I had her spending so much time calling and meeting grocery delivery people that she was way behind in her homework. She ended up coming home with a D report card one day and proceeded to cry about it. Oops. Sorry, Vesta!
“I’m a failure in school and all they can think about is TV!”
(continued on Page 3)
“There’s more where this came from if you know where I can find Stuart Andrews.†I LAUGHED OUT LOUD when I read that.
Vesta’s a cute sim. I wonder how Kenneth and her baby will turn out like…
Hehehe…cute story. I had to laugh at the Delivery person convention you had going. LOL! Hey Ken is kinda cute for a sim. Vesta did well in choosing. Maybe studying cleanign will help in his sloppyness too.
Have a great sunday. :)
Oh! I love it! I’ve never heard of all those delivery people before! (Now we’re even!) It’s so weird how there’s so many different dilivery people. I never knew. I thought there were only about three… anyways, that picture made me crack up so much! (The one with all the delivery people)
Kenneth is really good looking for an NPC, but I did realize that most pizza delivery, grocery delivery, and firemen are cute. It’s weird but they look better than the townies Maxis generates…
Great job, I love your stories. I absolutely can’t wait until the next one! :)
Hi Jen. Great update. I was wondering why you didn’t have other sims call the delivery people? Did it have to be Vesta? I thought that as long as she greeted them it counted. You got 2 more tries to get that popularity sim. And you never know your 7th generation may give birth to a popularity sim. That would work right?
Well good luck. Can’t wait to see the wedding and the pitter patter of little feet in the Shanley house again.
Yay for Vesta! XD *grins*
I love your story! I am so amused by the delivery person saga. My daughter loves your house! Thanks for putting it up for download. :)
Great update Jen! I loved all the quotes. Especially the ones on the 2nd page. You had me laughing out loud throughout that entire page. Congrats with Vesta! I can’t wait to see more!
Fantastic update!
Thanks for uploading both versions of Shanley Manor , my 14 yr old daughter wanted one for her game also. Never knew about all those delivery folks.
Thanks for the comments! I had fun with my grocery deliverers’ convention. I think I figured out what was going on, too, and why I will never find Stuart Andrews — it was randomly generating brand new NPCs when I would call. The game would freeze for a bit, like it does when a new baby arrives. And Ricky Howe, Scott Perry, Kenneth Lillard, and April Hutchins are not listed in the NPC database on the Legacy Yahoo! Group, which leads me to think they’re not the “usual” grocery delivery people for anyone else. I don’t think I would have ever gotten Stuart — either he was randomly generated in the same fashion by someone else who was doing the same thing, or he just belongs to a different neighborhood, and I didn’t get him when I created Mt. Geneva. But no matter, I already have another plan to get that Popularity headstone! :-D
great update. lol… I love the Grocery Guys (and girls) convention! It was such a funny picture. lol.. Kenneath sure looks like the Ken dool though, now he looks a bit like my legacy founder except with darker skin… guess it’s just the hair. looking forward to a G6 wedding!
Hi Jen! :)
Sorry about the delivery trouble, but I’ve got a feeling the Shanley refridgerator won’t need to be restocked for a looong time!
I noticed that the NPCs seem to be more handsome than the townies. It’s strange, they go into clothes shops with a mirror and never change their appearence or buy things. I’m talking about the Townies, of course!
I think I had a glitch with the Elixir the other day – the Sim was at the halfway point and she still got the extra three days. Weird.
Bye!
E-Liz
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i absolutely love Vesta’s outfit when she became an adult!
I love that you are speeding up thier lives with the Elixer. This was another great update. :)
Hi, great update again. I was cracked up by Marie playing piano thinking about love in the background. It could have been unintentional, but it was so funny I sprayed coffee all over my keyboard (it’s dry and OK now). She must have been putting a lot of emotions into her playing!
The conga line reminded me of the teens in V-formation. And the convention …I could have destroyed my computer if I hadn’t been warned. You have this uncanny knack of capturing these priceless moments and giving the right captions!
Mary – I forgot to answer your question! I had Vesta calling the delivery people because Marie and Stefaan were either working or sleeping or fulfilling various other needs much of the time. Tristan and Vesta worked in tandem — she’d call, he’d greet and get the groceries, she’d tip and chat. I think Tristan might have called a few times, too. But since she was the one who tipped and chatted, she was acquainted with them and had to call them in order to raise the relationship score to in “invitable” range. Hope that makes sense. Anyway, it was really Vesta’s “mission” to find her future husband, so that’s why I referred to it that way in the update. Good question, though!