Spring 3: Megan

Welcome back to Drama Llama! It’s been a bit since I last posted on this blog, but I’ve been busy with my last term of school. In other news this blog has been nominated for Best Rotational Hood on Boolprop! Thanks to everyone that has voted and/or nominated this blog! Anyways, last time Megan completed her aspiration and, Snuggles had puppies.

Megan has moved with Honey, Chiquito, and Butter to Strangerville!

She’s in one of the pre-built houses.

Megan takes Chiquito for a run.

Then the welcome wagon shows up…

All three dogs seem rather skittish of Megan’s new neighbours.

Megan: “Um, hello?”
None of her neighbours seemed to respond to any of her attempts to talk to them.

One of them even planted something in her planter boxes!

Megan is starting to suspect that there is something weird going on in this town.

There are all of these strange plants growing everywhere. Megan may have never been to the desert before, but she’s never seen a plant like this!

After the Welcome Wagon left, some women in suits claiming to be the government show up.

They take her refrigerator! What infection are they talking about?

And why are they warning her away from the lab?

They even left a note in her kitchen! Something is definitely wrong in this town.

Megan heads to the library to talk to some locals.

The librarian tells her that the military has been unusually active.

And there is that Science Lab again.

She talks to a scientist.

Who’s apparently been studying those strange plants.

But why are they also looking at the archives?

Next she checks out this weird road-side stall. The guy seemed really cagey.

She bought something hoping it would call him down a bit.

She gets home to Butter drinking out of the toilet. Megan still has to teach her not to do things like that!

She then takes Honey and Butter for their walks.

The next day she checks out the lab everyone was going on about.

Megan: “This place is a mess, does anyone even work here?”

Megan: “This door seems oddly high-tech for a place like this.”

She needs a keycard to get in though.

She rummages through some of the papers left laying around.

She finds even more of those strange plants.

She swears that something is growing inside it.

Next Megan checks out the archives.

Why would a plumber have satellite technology?

Oddly enough, Megan finds that there’s a new librarian. She wonders what happened to the old one.

She also mentions the plants.

Megan: “What happened to the old librarian?”
New Librarian: “Doesn’t matter. I just know there was an opening. Stop asking so many questions!”

She talks to some more scientists and finds out that the lab has been closed ever since an explosion happened there.

Megan decides to plant a bug she picked up at the curio shop on one of them.

She goes home to listen in.

What do space rocks have to do with everything going on here?

Megan gets an odd phone call, it’s probably a prank, but the timing is odd.

She goes to the bar where she plants some bugs on military personel.

She makes sure to get a drink so she doesn’t look too suspicious.

Back at home, she listens in.

The military is definitely covering up something strange at the crater.

She talks to the Curio Stall guy, and it turns out he has a key card!

Megan: “Now to see if this thing works.”

Megan: “And that’s not odd at all.”

Megan: “They were clearly studying the plants here.”

Megan wonders into a hallway and comes down with a coughing fit.

Megan got out and collapsed.

That’s not good.

Megan can’t really remember what happened next, but her head felt real fuzzy for awhile.

When she gets out she finds that the plants have grown!

One even produces a strange fruit.

The sky seems to have gone a funny colour. Megan is worried that she let something out when she opened that door.

She confronts a low level military person about the spores in that lab.

She mentions something about a scanner.

She manages to convince her to give her the scanner.

Megan starts scanning around town.

She finds some spores.

Megan has decided to take a break from the investigation and takes Butter to the dog park.

She has fun meeting all the other dogs there.

She comes home to something strange growing out of the toilet.

It takes ages for her to clean it up.

Cain gives Megan a call and it looks like Cain might be engaged next time we see him!

Megan continues to scan for spores.

Huh, it turns out elder dogs can still have puppies.

Chiquito is the father of Honey’s puppies.

As usual Honey gets dirty pretty quickly.

Megan gives her a bath only to discover that there are more plants growing out of the toilet!

Honey gives birth to two puppies, both boys! One is called Mocha, he’s Independent, Active, and Hairy. The other is Dusty, he’s Playful and Hairy.

Grant ended up inviting her out to the Spice Festival.

Megan tries the spicy curry challenge.

But it doesn’t go well.

When she gets home Honey passes away. This is my first pet death in this game and the notification is so sad!!!

Aw Honey.

The Grim Reaper shows up.

And her grave now sits in the yard.

When Megan goes back to the library, the old librarian was back!

Megan: “Where did you go?”
Librarian: “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

Megan needs a filter to get to get past the odd hallway, so she decided to talk to a scientist.

Looks like Megan needs to analyze some spores to make one.

Megan invites Noel Tye a fellow conspiracy theorist over.

Megan asks about what she knows.

It turns out theat Noel needed a place to stay, so Megan offers her the couch.

Noel is thankful and helps out by taking Butter for a walk.

That’s all for now, one of the puppies, Mocha goes to live with Cain. Next time we’ll be with Max!

Winter 2: Megan & Max

Welcome back to Drama Llama! Last time Max and Megan graduated early, Grant completed a few aspirations, and Megan did a lot of hanging out with dogs.

Megan, WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?????
Megan: “I’m celebrating the holidays.”
It’s not even Winterfest yet.

I find Max on the grill outside making food. I’m just glad he doesn’t catch on fire, Grant is the one who does most of the cooking around here

None of the dogs in the household have been fixed or neutered, so I decided to try something I’ve never done before and see if I can get some puppies!

Megan still needs to befriend a bunch more pets for her aspiration, so I sent her off to visit Kevin Puri, who is a teenager living alone with 7 dogs in Henford-On-Bagley… How did this even happen???

Megan manages to make friends with two of the dogs before she heads home.

WHEN DID YASMIN DIE??? (And how does Max even know her?)
Well, there goes that option for Cain’s love life. The poor guy has zero luck in that department.

With three dogs in the house, these two go on a lot of jogs (though I limit Grant to 1 a day, I don’t want him to die on me).

Oh look, I guess this is why Kevin is living alone as a teen.

Megan manages to befriend 1 or 2 more of Kevin’s dogs before heading home again.

What? WHEN DID GRANT DO INVESTING??? AND HOW??? Is this a thing that sims can do in this game???

YES!!! Puppies are on the way!

Though I get the feeling that this combination could be interesting.

Grant spends most of this rotation painting for his current aspiration. I checked with MCCC to see how much longer he had left to live… AND HOLY SHIT. I knew he was going to live a while cause he did the body builder aspiration, but I didn’t expect 80 FREAKING DAYS. Gen 2 are probably all going to be elders before he even dies!!

Max has mostly been going to work and logging hours on the computer for his aspiration.

And Megan is back at Kevin’s place!

Seriously, this kid never seems to go to school.

He also owns one funny looking dog! Look at the bulging eyes on this thing!!

Megan still manages to make friends.

She also befriends one of the puppies Kevin has too. LOOK HOW CUTE IT IS!!

As a real life lactose intolerant person I find it hilarious and appropriate that Lactose Intolerant sims get happy from eating dairy!

Though out of all the food in that fridge, Megan goes for the one thing that has dairy in it.

She even pays for her choices later!

The Snuggles has her puppies!! Look how cute they are!! They’re both girls, the one with Snuggles’ colouring is called Maya, while the one with Chiquito’s colouring is called Butter. Maya is Adventurous, Active, and Vocal, while Butter is Active and Adventurous.

The puppies became instant friends with everyone in the household, which means Megan has all the pet friends she needs!

Snuggles aged into an elder shortly after the puppies were born.

She’s a sweet old lady now.

Honey also aged up.

But she doesn’t really look any different.

I would not want to be the person to piss Megan off.

Grant needs to veiw some paintings at a museum for his aspiration, so off he goes!

He now just has to paint 5 masterpieces… I wonder how many aspirations I’ll be able to get done with Grant.

That was fast. Literally the first painting he did after returning back home was a masterpiece.

Megan has been working on upping her relationship with Butter so she can feel the love.

That was fast. Max is already at level 5 in his career, now he just has to log some more hours on the computer and his aspiration is done.

It’s Winterfest and even Father Winter has to say hi to the puppies!

Megan was able to Feel the Love with Butter, so now all she has to do is play with 2 ghost pets!

But first she gets a present from Father Winter.

Which she hates.

Grant decides to do some flirting with Father Winter before asking for a present.

It must work, cause Grant is pretty happy with his gift.

Max is next.

And he gets a post card… Seriously? I know these are a collection in this game, but as a present??

This is when I decided that they will not be keeping both puppies, Butter is staying, but Maya has gone to live with Beth and Mao.

UM, WHAT? I don’t even know who these people are, but does this mean anything???

Max only needs a couple more hours on the computer and it’s power shut off day… COME ON!

Max isn’t impressed either.

Instead I send him to the library, which has full functioning power.

It’s also where he decides to hack the Lothario Trust Fund.

He only gets $235.

But he finishes his aspiration! I gave him the Master Vampire aspiration next.

He looks up information on vampires.

And then reads one of the vampire books.

The next step is for Max to become a vampire, since in this file Lilith and Caleb Vatore are both dead at this point, Max tracks down Vlad who is living in a crappy house in Del Sol Valley instead of his mansion.

Max needs to build some relationship with Vlad before he can ask him to turn.

Max askes Vlad about vampires and this is his response… SERIOUSLY, YOU ARE A VAMPIRE!!

It turns out Vlad is Evil and since Max is Good, BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP IS NOT WORKING. EVERYTIME THEY GET SOMEWHERE VLAD HISSES OR MAX SAYS SOMETHING DUMB AND THEY END UP BACK WHERE THEY STARTED! GAAAAAAH!!!

GRANT SERGIO IS DEAD, GIVE IT A REST!!!

I give up on Vlad and decide to try Georgia instead as she’s a vampire as well… SHOULD I BE CONCERNED OVER THE 3 GRAVES???

Oh look, I found Caleb.

No idea who this is.

But this is Finn’s mom, she must have married Caleb at some point.

Max starts talking with Georgia and this is already going so much better. I checked Georgia’s family tree, and it turns out she’s Jade and Caleb’s daughter… I could have sworn she was Vlad’s daughter last time I looked at her family tree (back when Carter and Cain brought her home from school with them).

Max is finally able to ask Georgia to turn him.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!

And back to Vlad it is.

I ended up using cheats to up Max’s relationship with Vlad because this was not working and I was going insane.

FINALLY!

It is now 7am, Max started this vampire thing at 3pm the previous day…. THAT IS HOW LONG THIS CRAP TOOK!

When Max gets back, it looks like Snuggles is sick.

So Megan takes her to the vet and picks up a bunch of wellness treats while she’s there.

Max is not having a good time. I love how you can see the vampire bite marks on his neck.

It’s night time, so Megan heads off to Brindleton Bay to find ghost pets! Now I just have to find the cemetery.

Found it!

I love this place, it has a wonderfully spooky atmosphere… There definitely needs to be more graveyards in this game, cause this place is awesome.

GHOST CAT! He’s called Mr. Business!

Um, this is when I realize that Megan decided to go to a graveyard on a full moon. The werewolf disappears after this, but howling is heard all night.

Ghost dog! He’s called Burger!

Megan plays with the two ghost pets.

And finishes her aspiration!! Her new aspiration is Strangerville Mystery.

Oh wow, the entire island is full of ghost pets!

Megan has to say hi to this dog cause he’s called Captain.

Megan checks out the view from the light house before she heads back home for some sleep.

Grant does more painting, he’s at 2/5 masterpieces now.

When Megan wakes up, she takes Chiquito for a jog.

Max spends his time getting through all the vampire books.

And Butter is now an adult!

She looks a lot like Chiquito, but she’s got floppy ears and is a bit fluffier.

That was fast.

Just in time for Max to become a vampire! I was worried he wouldn’t turn until after I left the household.

HAHAHAHAHA, I definitely need to change Max’s dark form.

That’s better.

Max was a little hungry, so he asked Grant for a little snack. I’m not sure Grant knows what to think of this new developement.

Vlad then calls to check on him. I find it funny how vampires in the Sims 4 die in ways completely opposite to Sims 3. In Sims 3 vampires can die of thirst, but they can’t die from the sun (they just pass out), and in Sims 4 vampires can’t die of thirst, but they can die from the sun.

These 3 celebrate New Years.

And afterwards, Max invites Vlad over to get some vampire training.

Turns out even the dogs hate Vlad.

And that’s all for now, see you next time!