Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 5

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SimNaNo Update #8

Welcome back to another Easter Egg update! The last time we were with Tara, she finally got pregnant by Don Lothario with her one and only child. She also managed to upgrade the weather machine and successfully set the season back to spring. She also made progress on a few of the easter egg goals. Let’s get into this next week!

Week 5

We join Tara in the middle of a new yard sale. This sale goes very well, and she is left with almost nothing on the table. This is great news for her, as we need to expand the house desperately.

This is Tara’s newly built house. It has a nursery, office, bedroom, 2 bathrooms (although one is not completed), and a big room for the kitchen/living room/dining room, like before. It’s still rather small, but it should be perfect for the rest of this challenge. In building the house, we used a couple of other easter egg items (although not ones for points). I’m relatively certain this ‘Let This Door Be the Door’ is a reference to the ‘Let My Love Open the Door’ song, based on the lines at the bottom of the description. This light is also a reference to a song, I’m relatively certain. Karma Kamelon is a song from Culture Club, and Calla Chameleon just seems too likely.

This is the current state of the nursery. I wanted to make sure she had all that she would need for the new baby, and we have a lot of easter egg items in here, including the old posters from early on. We also have a House on a Hill window, which I’m relatively certain is an easter egg to either House on the Hill or at least a horror movie. Dage Decal is obviously a reference to the Doge dog meme, and the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Silk curtains are clearly a reference to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Finally, we also put in the Yonder Window, which is a reference to Romeo and Juliet.

Now that Tara has a larger house, and we will show more of the interior later, Tara needs to go collecting again. She is mostly out of money and has bills coming up.

With collections completed, it’s time for more yard sales. Before long, Tara has a couple thousand in the bank again and can make additional renovations to the house.

Tara started to upgrade the computer in her new small office. It’s very tiny, mostly just room for the desk, but it’s nice to have a dedicated spot for the computer, instead of on the dining table.

Tara got an opportunity for fame and money, and while I often might not have Tara take this, we could really use the money. Tara is now, unfortunately, tense due to being typecast, and she also has some fame. She came home from work with a work rival, which seems fitting.

Tara takes some family leave for the rest of the week so she can prepare for and care for the baby when it comes. That includes being able to take care of other things, like the bees.

Don comes over and “meets” his little one. I think he’s ready to meet the new baby, and Tara is quite ready to be done being pregnant. Luckily, she only needs this one; no additional pregnancies required for Tara.

Tara tried a novice tournament and came in second. While that isn’t winning, it’s at least a decent start since the computer isn’t fully upgraded, and Tara isn’t even that skilled at video games yet.

Tara then heads to the rather empty-looking corner of the living room to do some painting. She has not gotten a single easter egg painting yet. Our luck has not been good.

Tara decided she likes video games while sitting down in her newly set-up living room to play games on her new console. She saved up to buy the most expensive, which I’m hoping will help her win tournaments. Also, it’s not really a true easter egg, but this rug is called the ‘No Colt Feet’ rug, and I thought that was a funny pun.

Tara is officially in labor! The baby is on the way, and we are very excited to meet him or her. This gives us a good view of our new couch, which, while not an OFFICIAL easter egg, is a reference. The Loung-E Boy is obviously a play on Lazy-E Boy furniture.

Don comes to the hospital but leaves fairly quickly once Tara is back. I can’t really be surprised. It’s rare for non-playables to stick around the hospital. Tara gets into the machine, which luckily handles her needs, which were pretty bad by the time she got there.

Welcome, baby Robin, to the challenge. Robin is named after the Robin Eggs candies that always show up around Easter time. He gives us 10 points for being born to Don Lothario, an easter egg sim.

THEN, also welcome Cadbury (whom I’ll call Cad) to the challenge. Yep, that’s right; Don gave us TWINS. So Cabury brings in a net -65 points. He brings in 10 for being born to an easter egg sim, but -75 for causing us to go over our child limit. Cadbury is named after the Cadbury Eggs that are often around at Easter.

Luckily, Tara has more family leave and enough money to actually EXPAND the nursery, since now we need room for TWO babies. Tara heads out to tend the few plants she has and bond with the bees.

Tara, while gardening, I believe, gets the Mastery Perk, Spacebender. That means she can teleport, which might come in VERY handy while chasing after twins!

Tara is a very attentive mother with the boys. She almost always jumps right to tending to them when they cry and usually gives them what they need, but as with twins, they are a handful.

Due to losing so many points with Cad, any additiona money Tara can earn will be useful. Tara tries to paint an easter egg painting and fails to, so that will be sold on Plopsy. Then it’s back out for a very lemon-heavy yard sale.

I was so glad when it was infant time, not that infants are necessarily easier. At least now Tara can work on teaching them things.

Here are our boys after their makeovers. Robin is in blue and is a calm infant. Cad is in red, and he is an Intense infant. YAY……Cad, you are not doing yourself any favors with these roles. They are, clearly, identical.

We quickly get a quirk for each. Robin frequently sneezes, and Cad is going to be a picky eater. I swear it’s like the game WANTS me to not like Cad.

Here is Cad being picky and not wanting his bottle. You are hungry, for the love of the watcher, please just eat so Tara can go to bed!

Actually, I think Tara’s next task was to do tummy time with Robin. I am determined to at least get them some of their milestones, but I traditionally struggle with twins.

Oh, goodie, more “fun” quirks. Both boys, it turns out, are early risers! Lucky me, I mean Tara…..

However, some REALLY good news has graced us. I must have missed it during the twins’ needs, but Tara got a Hypnofrog, finally! We have named the frog Kif, after Futurama, which this toad is a reference to. He brings in a wonderful 15 points!

One of the boys, I THINK it was Cad, woke up with a blowout, and Tara had to give him a bubble bath.

Tara then attempted to sit down and play some games again, but was interrupted before she was able to get too far.

I swear I did tummy time with Cad as well. I just keep getting pictures of Robin being the one Tara did tummy time with. As a calm infant, he needs a bit more “prodding” to earn milestones.

Final quirk for Robin is revealed, and he is a self-soother. Bless you, Robin. I swear I like both of these kids, but the game really stacked the deck against Cad.

A lovely, blessed moment of peace and quiet. These two really have been a handful, although not as bad as some infants I’ve had. They are relatively on the same schedule, at least.

Well, when you REALLY have to go, but also need to feed your infant, I guess this is a choice you can make. It worked either way, so I’m not going to complain.

Oh, see, I do tummy time with Cad too! I swear he is not getting neglected in any way. Thankfully, Tara is still on family leave. I have never actually used family leave before in this game, and I’m glad it exists right now.

After some additional tummy time for Robin, he also needed a bath, so Tara took him in to give him his own bath. That brings us to the end of this week.

It was a rather eventful and at times, stressful week of the Easter Egg challenge. We did not GAIN any points; we actually lost points due to the -75 for Cad. Our current total is 175 points. Even though we gained 35 new points this week. Sadly, I did NOT get a dialog box that said anything about the life, universe, and everything for the birth, and from what I can see, that may not even exist. Either way, we are limited in the points we can gather at this point, but we’ll keep working towards it all next week. I hope you enjoyed the update and will join us next time. Thanks for reading!

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