Toddler Mania Challenge THING OF DOOM
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fuzzysporkWhy am I doing this? D:
What this is, is the Toddler Mania challenge. The title of which is very deceptive. It should be called something like "Four Days in Hell" or, more appropriately, "Just Stick an Ice Pick in Your Eye Now and Avoid the Trouble of Doing It Later" challenge. As implied, the challenge involves raising 7 toddlers to childhood with only one adult to raise them. I used the rules Shadey came up with, which you can find here on her Live Journal. I believe she posted it to Boolprop as well, but I can't be bothered to find the link right now because the ice pick in my left eyeball is giving me some discomfort at the moment.
Anyway. On with the show...
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Since this was Shadey's STUPID IDEA, she gets to be the mommy. I created all the toddlers using her simself as the parent in CAS. The children all have the same father, and it will be interesting if anyone can guess who it is. (I mixed up the skintones, hair color, and eye colors so it was easier for me to tell the kids apart.)
This is the house I built for the family while they waited in the Sim bin. The house is completely furnished with everything (I hope) a mommy will need to get 7 toddlers through the next 4 days. The family has 27,000 to spend, so I tried to keep the price under 20,000. The rules allow for one motherlode cheat, but I wanted to see if I could do without having to cheat for money.
Okay, let's meet the kids...
And of course the 7th one is just a clone of Shadey's simself and aged down.
I did use the move objects cheat to move the toddlers into the house (since it sits on a foundation) so it didn't take 8 hours for Shadey to carry them in one at a time.
When I un-paused the game, Shadey Jr's first action was to huggle with her brother Sherlock. That kid sure has some chin. o_o
I went really cheap with the decor. Except for Shadey's bedroom nook and the bathroom, the rest of the house is just one large Berber-carpeted living space.
The opposite view shows the line of potties against the far wall. I had Shadey start on the potty training right away. None of them have to go very badly, but we might as well get that tiny little bit of blue in the progress bar.
Of course nothing is allowed to go smoothly. :P
Speaking of not going smoothly, this is my first realization that the toilet stall just ain't gonna cut it. It does keep the toddlers out of the toilet, but emptying the training potties is slowed down a LOT by Shadey trying to flush the poo bag but then discovering she (for some reason) can't actually walk into the stall holding a bag of poo. That, of course, leads to some foot stomping. Then she finally takes the poo to where I originally intended it to go...
Through the wall. *rolleyes*
"Fuzzy, I'm not having any fun here!"
Ooo, yeah, you might want to get used to the color of your fun bar, Shadey. It never gets better. D: See my originalplan pipe dream was that I'd have Shadey use the Humble computer to help her fun mood when there was a break in the toddler action. lolol *wipes tear* Honestly, I could have saved some money by not even bothering to buy a computer desk for it.
OKAY, they've all been potty'd and fed. It's time to start hauling them all to the cribs for nap time...
As soon as the last toddler is in her crib, Shadey grabs some food...
And barely gets two mouthfuls before the first of the toddlers is awake again!
From this moment on, I'm barely able to keep Shadey alive. o__o
She's also in DESPERATE need of sleep. I was going to see how long I could go without hiring a nanny, and we made to almost 4 o'clock PM on the first day.
o_O My confidence is really bolstered right now.
This is Kendal Lawson. Isn't she supposed to be the awesome nanny? Well, she might be great with one or two kids, but this challenge is going to break her before the end, too...
Anyway, some of the kids are about to go into bladder failure, but Shadey is about to pass out on the floor and that's a 5 point deduction! So off to bed she goes.
Shadey Jr is once again being sweet to one of her brothers. This time it's Shane...
And this is the moment she filled her pants. I think Shane just realized it, too. lol
Our first diaper deduction.
Kendal does prove to be quick with the diaper changes. I just wish she had taken a toddler to the potty once or twice.
Several hours went by before I noticed none of the toddlers seemed to be skilling! Then I realized it's because the activity table is full of completed drawings. Doh. Shadey's not slept enough yet, so I decided to just buy a second activity table...
And they descended on it like sharks on chum.
I think if I did this challenge again (lol! fat chance) I'd eliminate the activity tables all together, and just add 2 or 3 more each of the other skilling toys. The advantage to the table is it keeps the kids' social up, but the disadvantage is it's a huge time-waster. It takes forever for the toddlers to drop the "draw" or "blocks" action when I cancel it, and the adult will drop the "potty train" action from their queue if the toddler is at the table. It was one of the many things that made me want to put an ice pick in my right eye, too. D:
By the time Kendal started hauling them off to bed, the place looked like it was in the fallout zone of some nuclear bottle accident.
And that led to my first rotten milk deduction. This is Shaw. He's not even hungry! He's just bored...
All over the champagne Berber!
Up and at 'em, Sunshine. No rest for the weary.
Shadey actually has a chance to shower and eat a plate of gelatin (as it's the only thing left on the buffet that isn't rotten) before the toddlers wake up. Kendal left as soon as the last one fell asleep. So we're on our own again...
As the toddlers woke up I had Shadey take them straight to a potty because most of them are about to unload into their pants...
THEN I remembered that they refuse to sit on the potty when their hygiene is bottomed out! Ugh, Sheena! Valuable minutes wasted struggling with a toddler...
And that led to the second diaper deduction. Notice little Shiloh still sitting there potty training like a pro. Later I realized she was probably just daydreaming because she may have never made it back onto a potty after this. (Things got really crazy! You have no idea!)
This is when I thought Shadey Jr had been put on the potty a few seconds too late (that happened SO often) because her hygiene dropped all the way down all of a sudden. But it turns out there was no option to change her diaper. She just got really smelly really fast for no apparent reason. o_O
That plumbbob is the color of a crap environment and no fun. It's almost a happy color compared to what it looks like a day or so from now. D:
By the way, I should probably mention that I made Shadey a Popularity Sim. WHY? I have no idea. I was thinking in CAS "Oh she'll like being around all these kids all day! She'll roll all kinds of Wants to interact with them and she'll be in a platinum mood the whole time!" -___-
This is what a 3-way bottle battle looks like...
Somehow Shiloh (on the left) managed to pick up the bottle at the exact same moment Sheldon (on the right) picked it up. Sheena (in the pink) then moved in to take it away from Sheldon (who sorta didn't even have it anyway), as it floated around in the air between the 3 of them. Shiloh was the lucky one because her hunger bar is actually filling up right now.
The second morning we had to hire a maid. I'll gladly take the 2 point deduction.
It took Remington about 3 hours to pick up all the bottles and clear off the buffet. Then he said, "All done!" and left. Do you know what he DIDN'T do?
He didn't empty a single potty!! O_O Which led to more diaper deductions because I hadn't realized it and Shadey couldn't take any of the toddlers to a potty when their bladder got low enough.
*facepalm*
It's now 2 PM on the second day. All the kids are in bed and Shadey is trying to get some precious little sleep. I made the mistake of having her get on the computer for a few minutes to raise her fun, only to realize she was going to end up passing out by the time the first toddler was awake again.
Anyway, while there's a quiet moment in the house I can show you what it looks like....
This is all there is to it. Since they've been here I added a second activity table and swapped Shadey's bed for the one with the best energy rating. And except for paying Kendal, Remington, and filling the buffet once, we've not spent any more money.
But I think I need to do something about the bathroom. Maybe the toilet stall is keeping Remington (and Kendal) from emptying the potties? And besides, that shower was an extravagant expenditure...
Okay. Maybe this will work. :P
It did stop the foot-stomping when Shadey is disposing of poo. Oh, and I put a tub out here in the main room because I've discovered some of these kids are getting filthy and won't sit on the potty when their hygiene is so low. And with it out here it should keep the bathroom clear of traffic jams.
I had to call Kendal back for the second time. Shadey is running on fumes right now and none of these kids are even CLOSE to being potty trained!
This is when I realized I should have splurged on a better tub that will clean them faster. As it is I resorted to putting them in the tub just long enough to get their hygiene bar up a few clicks, then they were willing to sit on the potty without complaining.
And the diaper deductions just keep on coming! D: Kendal hasn't emptied a single potty and Shadey spends 90% of her time doing that! Then by the time she gets a toddler to the potty it's too late. GAH!
Kendal does a decent job keeping the kids fed. I have to give her that. So there's always plenty of rotten milk laying around for the kids to suck on. D:
It took this long for Kendal to finally start showing signs of weakness. (Notice Shane's AP points flying back there... I think I saw that a total of two times through the whole challenge. These kids apparently never had the Want to learn anything. o_O )
I'm not sure of the physics (or muscle control) required to deposit a puddle 4 feet beyond the exit point.
But hey, that's +1 point! :D
And -1 point for another dirty diaper! UGH. I had Shadey on her way to take Sheldon to the potty when Kendal swooped in and put him in his crib instead. Kendal left right after this.
It's the end of day two and it doesn't look like there's going to be any potty trained kids come grow-up time.
"Oh good! One of them is leaving."
It's 3:30 in the morning, all the kids are awake again, and Shadey is going to pass out any second now. Time to call Kendal for the 3rd time and let Shadey get some sleep.
(By the way, notice that "meet someone new" want? Yeah, that's been locked since they moved in. She was too busy potty training to greet the welcome wagon.)
The place looks a lot like it did when Kendal left a few hours ago. Including the pee puddle that's been ripening in the middle of the floor all this time since she left it there.
Which makes it perfect for wallowing in!
Holy mother of crap... that puddle grew 12 feet long while I was watching! O__O
Aw, crabcakes. Sheldon isn't the only one doing this. :(
And Sheena isn't the only one doing this!
WHERE THE HELL IS KENDAL?
And we have our first deduction for a toddler falling asleep on the floor.
It turns out Kendal is standing on the front porch complaining about her weak bladder...
And loses it on the way to the bathroom. Wow. She got some distance that time. That puddle is like, what, 5 or 6 feet away?
Remington, go empty a freakin potty, would you?! GAH.
"Here's 25 simoleans, big guy. How 'bout you clean out a potty? Please?"
I decided to do something about that "meet someone new" want Shadey STILL has. Her Aspiration is getting scary-low...
Wow Shadey, don't you feel better now? *rolleyes*
And things continue in the same depressing manor. Shadey washes a toddler just long enough to get them to sit on the potty, then gets them there 2 seconds too late and they mess their diaper anyway. Wash, rinse, repeat.
She finally calls Kendal for the... fourth time? and collapses into bed. The walls are down so you can see her orange plumbbob back there. It's only orange because she's in a room with a good environment. o__o
I can only let her sleep long enough to get her energy up a little. We're getting down to the wire and none of these kids are potty trained yet!
I'm sorry, Shadey! D: I've never had a sim get so miserable they actually have nightmares. GAH.
Okay, if I ever do this again (LOLOL... sigh) I'll eliminate the buffet and just have the sim prepare gelatin desert (as there isn't any "preparing" involved, they just take it out of the fridge). Filling the buffet was a huge waste of cash because she'd manage to get one plate of food from it before it went bad. The gelatin will sit out for a whole day before it goes bad. It's not very filling, but it will keep her alive!
(notice Shane hocking up that bad milk he just drank) +___+
With Shadey less close to death, it's time to get busy again....
OMG I COULD CRY! It's almost dawn on the last day and I have the first potty trained toddler (and the only platinum plumbbob). That's Shaw way back there on the potty, by the way.
Shortly after that Kendal has her 3rd accident. This time keeping the puddle under her. She and Remington have yet to empty a potty, so Shadey still has to spend hours out of the day keeping them ready for desperate toddler bladders.
Like this one! GOOD BOY, Sherlock! Whew... two down, 5 to go. D:
But Sherlock is celebrating his achievement alone. Shadey was on the verge of passing out again. The sun is up on the last day of the challenge and there's still a lot of toddlers left to train. So I can only let her sleep just long enough to get a little bit of a second wind.
I took a very small window of opportunity to have Shadey RUN out to the street and greet this random walk-by, Sarah McCarthy. She looks like a nice old lady and probably likes playing with toddlers. We might need the extra set of hands around the house these last few hours of the challenge. It's a good thing I chose to do this now...
Because that's when Kendal decided to take the world's longest bath. At least Sarah set to work getting the toddlers out of their cribs....
This is when I realized something... I should have put some floor strips around the tub because Kendal would not let anyone come into the room while she was in it! I couldn't put any down then because that stupid pee puddle was in the way, so Shadey was trapped in the bathroom for the next 3 hours, Remington on the front porch, and Sarah in one of the crib areas. GAH! This is what probably decided the final score for me, because all the toddlers were getting tired and were ready to use the potty.
Sheldon was the next to finish his training after Kendal finally got out of the tub. At this point it's mid-afternoon and Shadey is running on fumes again. If Kendal is going to shine, now is the time to do it!
O___O ... She's... sleeping.
Shadey is shoveling down some fly-ridden gelatin to keep from dying while Sheena attempts to slide in at the last minute with a potty doo-dad. Looking at the level of the bar, it ain't gonna happen. Sigh.
Shadey finally runs out of energy and I have to send her to lay down for a few minutes....
Which finally gets Kendal out of bed. *rolleyes*
Shadey hasn't had anywhere NEAR enough sleep, but 6 PM is only a few minutes away, and there might be a small chance Shane gets in on time....
Success! Then almost immediately after, the clock ticked over to 6 PM...
And tots starting sprouting all over the house...
One even outside the house.
WHEW... There's still two toddlers asleep, but lets have a look at who has grown up (some obviously better than others)....
Shaw. He earned 1 mechanical point, 1 charisma, and 3 creative skill points. He grew up in gold Aspiration with 3500 AP.
Potty trained!
Shane. Earned 2 mechanical, 1 logic, and 2 creativity points. He was in the gold and has 3250 AP.
Potty trained!
Shiloh. Earned 1 mechanical, 1 charisma, 1 logic, and 2 creativity points. She was in the red with zero AP. :(
Not potty trained.
Sherlock. Got 1 mechanical and 3 creativity points. He grew up gold with 4500 AP.
Potty trained!
Sheena. Has 1 mechanical, 1 charisma, and 3 creativity. She was in the red with zero AP.
Didn't get potty trained.
As you can see, Shadey pretty much went straight to bed. But she managed to become best friends with all 7 kids! And it's really weird that all the time Kendal spent in this house over the past 4 days and Shadey never managed to meet her?! o_O
The newly grown kids can finally take care of their own needs....
There was a bit of a line forming for the bathtub and shy Sheena was not willing to bathe with people watching. So I put in an extra dorm shower and sent them in there to bathe...
Sheena never got that bath and seems to think it's Sherlock's fault. (He's got the goofiest shower face. lol)
And I have NO idea what triggered this! I thought it was Sherlock and Sheena with the rivalry, so why is he picking on Shiloh?!
But it seems growing up in the red made Shiloh one tough cookie!
"Oh my god! These children are little monsters!"
Notice that I swapped some of the cribs for beds, and it seems Kendal managed to get the other toddlers out of their cribs...
And the last two grow up at just after 8 PM...
Sheldon earned 2 logic and 2 creativity skill points. He grew up in the gold with 3000 AP.
Potty trained!
Last, but not least, Shadey Jr. She got 1 charisma and 3 creativity points. She grew up in green with 2500 AP.
Not potty trained.
And I just realized none of the girls managed to get trained but all the boys did. o___o WTH?!
DONE. (That driver has been sitting out here for almost 24 hours!)
I never got any Social Worker pop-ups and in the end I earned the following points....
+12 for the potty training.
+15 for the ones that grew up well.
+32 for all the skills earned.
+3 for the nanny peeing on herself (or somewhere off to the side, anyway).
+7 for the parent being best friends with the tots.
-2 for toddlers passing out on the floor.
-16 for diapers changed.
-10 for spoiled milk being consumed.
-8 for hiring the nanny.
-6 for hiring the maid (neither of which ever emptied a potty!).
For a grand total of 27 points. Wow, that's way better than I thought it would be! lol
*collapse*
What this is, is the Toddler Mania challenge. The title of which is very deceptive. It should be called something like "Four Days in Hell" or, more appropriately, "Just Stick an Ice Pick in Your Eye Now and Avoid the Trouble of Doing It Later" challenge. As implied, the challenge involves raising 7 toddlers to childhood with only one adult to raise them. I used the rules Shadey came up with, which you can find here on her Live Journal. I believe she posted it to Boolprop as well, but I can't be bothered to find the link right now because the ice pick in my left eyeball is giving me some discomfort at the moment.
Anyway. On with the show...
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Since this was Shadey's STUPID IDEA, she gets to be the mommy. I created all the toddlers using her simself as the parent in CAS. The children all have the same father, and it will be interesting if anyone can guess who it is. (I mixed up the skintones, hair color, and eye colors so it was easier for me to tell the kids apart.)
This is the house I built for the family while they waited in the Sim bin. The house is completely furnished with everything (I hope) a mommy will need to get 7 toddlers through the next 4 days. The family has 27,000 to spend, so I tried to keep the price under 20,000. The rules allow for one motherlode cheat, but I wanted to see if I could do without having to cheat for money.
Okay, let's meet the kids...
And of course the 7th one is just a clone of Shadey's simself and aged down.
I did use the move objects cheat to move the toddlers into the house (since it sits on a foundation) so it didn't take 8 hours for Shadey to carry them in one at a time.
When I un-paused the game, Shadey Jr's first action was to huggle with her brother Sherlock. That kid sure has some chin. o_o
I went really cheap with the decor. Except for Shadey's bedroom nook and the bathroom, the rest of the house is just one large Berber-carpeted living space.
The opposite view shows the line of potties against the far wall. I had Shadey start on the potty training right away. None of them have to go very badly, but we might as well get that tiny little bit of blue in the progress bar.
Of course nothing is allowed to go smoothly. :P
Speaking of not going smoothly, this is my first realization that the toilet stall just ain't gonna cut it. It does keep the toddlers out of the toilet, but emptying the training potties is slowed down a LOT by Shadey trying to flush the poo bag but then discovering she (for some reason) can't actually walk into the stall holding a bag of poo. That, of course, leads to some foot stomping. Then she finally takes the poo to where I originally intended it to go...
Through the wall. *rolleyes*
"Fuzzy, I'm not having any fun here!"
Ooo, yeah, you might want to get used to the color of your fun bar, Shadey. It never gets better. D: See my original
OKAY, they've all been potty'd and fed. It's time to start hauling them all to the cribs for nap time...
As soon as the last toddler is in her crib, Shadey grabs some food...
And barely gets two mouthfuls before the first of the toddlers is awake again!
From this moment on, I'm barely able to keep Shadey alive. o__o
She's also in DESPERATE need of sleep. I was going to see how long I could go without hiring a nanny, and we made to almost 4 o'clock PM on the first day.
o_O My confidence is really bolstered right now.
This is Kendal Lawson. Isn't she supposed to be the awesome nanny? Well, she might be great with one or two kids, but this challenge is going to break her before the end, too...
Anyway, some of the kids are about to go into bladder failure, but Shadey is about to pass out on the floor and that's a 5 point deduction! So off to bed she goes.
Shadey Jr is once again being sweet to one of her brothers. This time it's Shane...
And this is the moment she filled her pants. I think Shane just realized it, too. lol
Our first diaper deduction.
Kendal does prove to be quick with the diaper changes. I just wish she had taken a toddler to the potty once or twice.
Several hours went by before I noticed none of the toddlers seemed to be skilling! Then I realized it's because the activity table is full of completed drawings. Doh. Shadey's not slept enough yet, so I decided to just buy a second activity table...
And they descended on it like sharks on chum.
I think if I did this challenge again (lol! fat chance) I'd eliminate the activity tables all together, and just add 2 or 3 more each of the other skilling toys. The advantage to the table is it keeps the kids' social up, but the disadvantage is it's a huge time-waster. It takes forever for the toddlers to drop the "draw" or "blocks" action when I cancel it, and the adult will drop the "potty train" action from their queue if the toddler is at the table. It was one of the many things that made me want to put an ice pick in my right eye, too. D:
By the time Kendal started hauling them off to bed, the place looked like it was in the fallout zone of some nuclear bottle accident.
And that led to my first rotten milk deduction. This is Shaw. He's not even hungry! He's just bored...
All over the champagne Berber!
Up and at 'em, Sunshine. No rest for the weary.
Shadey actually has a chance to shower and eat a plate of gelatin (as it's the only thing left on the buffet that isn't rotten) before the toddlers wake up. Kendal left as soon as the last one fell asleep. So we're on our own again...
As the toddlers woke up I had Shadey take them straight to a potty because most of them are about to unload into their pants...
THEN I remembered that they refuse to sit on the potty when their hygiene is bottomed out! Ugh, Sheena! Valuable minutes wasted struggling with a toddler...
And that led to the second diaper deduction. Notice little Shiloh still sitting there potty training like a pro. Later I realized she was probably just daydreaming because she may have never made it back onto a potty after this. (Things got really crazy! You have no idea!)
This is when I thought Shadey Jr had been put on the potty a few seconds too late (that happened SO often) because her hygiene dropped all the way down all of a sudden. But it turns out there was no option to change her diaper. She just got really smelly really fast for no apparent reason. o_O
That plumbbob is the color of a crap environment and no fun. It's almost a happy color compared to what it looks like a day or so from now. D:
By the way, I should probably mention that I made Shadey a Popularity Sim. WHY? I have no idea. I was thinking in CAS "Oh she'll like being around all these kids all day! She'll roll all kinds of Wants to interact with them and she'll be in a platinum mood the whole time!" -___-
This is what a 3-way bottle battle looks like...
Somehow Shiloh (on the left) managed to pick up the bottle at the exact same moment Sheldon (on the right) picked it up. Sheena (in the pink) then moved in to take it away from Sheldon (who sorta didn't even have it anyway), as it floated around in the air between the 3 of them. Shiloh was the lucky one because her hunger bar is actually filling up right now.
The second morning we had to hire a maid. I'll gladly take the 2 point deduction.
It took Remington about 3 hours to pick up all the bottles and clear off the buffet. Then he said, "All done!" and left. Do you know what he DIDN'T do?
He didn't empty a single potty!! O_O Which led to more diaper deductions because I hadn't realized it and Shadey couldn't take any of the toddlers to a potty when their bladder got low enough.
*facepalm*
It's now 2 PM on the second day. All the kids are in bed and Shadey is trying to get some precious little sleep. I made the mistake of having her get on the computer for a few minutes to raise her fun, only to realize she was going to end up passing out by the time the first toddler was awake again.
Anyway, while there's a quiet moment in the house I can show you what it looks like....
This is all there is to it. Since they've been here I added a second activity table and swapped Shadey's bed for the one with the best energy rating. And except for paying Kendal, Remington, and filling the buffet once, we've not spent any more money.
But I think I need to do something about the bathroom. Maybe the toilet stall is keeping Remington (and Kendal) from emptying the potties? And besides, that shower was an extravagant expenditure...
Okay. Maybe this will work. :P
It did stop the foot-stomping when Shadey is disposing of poo. Oh, and I put a tub out here in the main room because I've discovered some of these kids are getting filthy and won't sit on the potty when their hygiene is so low. And with it out here it should keep the bathroom clear of traffic jams.
I had to call Kendal back for the second time. Shadey is running on fumes right now and none of these kids are even CLOSE to being potty trained!
This is when I realized I should have splurged on a better tub that will clean them faster. As it is I resorted to putting them in the tub just long enough to get their hygiene bar up a few clicks, then they were willing to sit on the potty without complaining.
And the diaper deductions just keep on coming! D: Kendal hasn't emptied a single potty and Shadey spends 90% of her time doing that! Then by the time she gets a toddler to the potty it's too late. GAH!
Kendal does a decent job keeping the kids fed. I have to give her that. So there's always plenty of rotten milk laying around for the kids to suck on. D:
It took this long for Kendal to finally start showing signs of weakness. (Notice Shane's AP points flying back there... I think I saw that a total of two times through the whole challenge. These kids apparently never had the Want to learn anything. o_O )
I'm not sure of the physics (or muscle control) required to deposit a puddle 4 feet beyond the exit point.
But hey, that's +1 point! :D
And -1 point for another dirty diaper! UGH. I had Shadey on her way to take Sheldon to the potty when Kendal swooped in and put him in his crib instead. Kendal left right after this.
It's the end of day two and it doesn't look like there's going to be any potty trained kids come grow-up time.
"Oh good! One of them is leaving."
It's 3:30 in the morning, all the kids are awake again, and Shadey is going to pass out any second now. Time to call Kendal for the 3rd time and let Shadey get some sleep.
(By the way, notice that "meet someone new" want? Yeah, that's been locked since they moved in. She was too busy potty training to greet the welcome wagon.)
The place looks a lot like it did when Kendal left a few hours ago. Including the pee puddle that's been ripening in the middle of the floor all this time since she left it there.
Which makes it perfect for wallowing in!
Holy mother of crap... that puddle grew 12 feet long while I was watching! O__O
Aw, crabcakes. Sheldon isn't the only one doing this. :(
And Sheena isn't the only one doing this!
WHERE THE HELL IS KENDAL?
And we have our first deduction for a toddler falling asleep on the floor.
It turns out Kendal is standing on the front porch complaining about her weak bladder...
And loses it on the way to the bathroom. Wow. She got some distance that time. That puddle is like, what, 5 or 6 feet away?
Remington, go empty a freakin potty, would you?! GAH.
"Here's 25 simoleans, big guy. How 'bout you clean out a potty? Please?"
I decided to do something about that "meet someone new" want Shadey STILL has. Her Aspiration is getting scary-low...
Wow Shadey, don't you feel better now? *rolleyes*
And things continue in the same depressing manor. Shadey washes a toddler just long enough to get them to sit on the potty, then gets them there 2 seconds too late and they mess their diaper anyway. Wash, rinse, repeat.
She finally calls Kendal for the... fourth time? and collapses into bed. The walls are down so you can see her orange plumbbob back there. It's only orange because she's in a room with a good environment. o__o
I can only let her sleep long enough to get her energy up a little. We're getting down to the wire and none of these kids are potty trained yet!
I'm sorry, Shadey! D: I've never had a sim get so miserable they actually have nightmares. GAH.
Okay, if I ever do this again (LOLOL... sigh) I'll eliminate the buffet and just have the sim prepare gelatin desert (as there isn't any "preparing" involved, they just take it out of the fridge). Filling the buffet was a huge waste of cash because she'd manage to get one plate of food from it before it went bad. The gelatin will sit out for a whole day before it goes bad. It's not very filling, but it will keep her alive!
(notice Shane hocking up that bad milk he just drank) +___+
With Shadey less close to death, it's time to get busy again....
OMG I COULD CRY! It's almost dawn on the last day and I have the first potty trained toddler (and the only platinum plumbbob). That's Shaw way back there on the potty, by the way.
Shortly after that Kendal has her 3rd accident. This time keeping the puddle under her. She and Remington have yet to empty a potty, so Shadey still has to spend hours out of the day keeping them ready for desperate toddler bladders.
Like this one! GOOD BOY, Sherlock! Whew... two down, 5 to go. D:
But Sherlock is celebrating his achievement alone. Shadey was on the verge of passing out again. The sun is up on the last day of the challenge and there's still a lot of toddlers left to train. So I can only let her sleep just long enough to get a little bit of a second wind.
I took a very small window of opportunity to have Shadey RUN out to the street and greet this random walk-by, Sarah McCarthy. She looks like a nice old lady and probably likes playing with toddlers. We might need the extra set of hands around the house these last few hours of the challenge. It's a good thing I chose to do this now...
Because that's when Kendal decided to take the world's longest bath. At least Sarah set to work getting the toddlers out of their cribs....
This is when I realized something... I should have put some floor strips around the tub because Kendal would not let anyone come into the room while she was in it! I couldn't put any down then because that stupid pee puddle was in the way, so Shadey was trapped in the bathroom for the next 3 hours, Remington on the front porch, and Sarah in one of the crib areas. GAH! This is what probably decided the final score for me, because all the toddlers were getting tired and were ready to use the potty.
Sheldon was the next to finish his training after Kendal finally got out of the tub. At this point it's mid-afternoon and Shadey is running on fumes again. If Kendal is going to shine, now is the time to do it!
O___O ... She's... sleeping.
Shadey is shoveling down some fly-ridden gelatin to keep from dying while Sheena attempts to slide in at the last minute with a potty doo-dad. Looking at the level of the bar, it ain't gonna happen. Sigh.
Shadey finally runs out of energy and I have to send her to lay down for a few minutes....
Which finally gets Kendal out of bed. *rolleyes*
Shadey hasn't had anywhere NEAR enough sleep, but 6 PM is only a few minutes away, and there might be a small chance Shane gets in on time....
Success! Then almost immediately after, the clock ticked over to 6 PM...
And tots starting sprouting all over the house...
One even outside the house.
WHEW... There's still two toddlers asleep, but lets have a look at who has grown up (some obviously better than others)....
Shaw. He earned 1 mechanical point, 1 charisma, and 3 creative skill points. He grew up in gold Aspiration with 3500 AP.
Potty trained!
Shane. Earned 2 mechanical, 1 logic, and 2 creativity points. He was in the gold and has 3250 AP.
Potty trained!
Shiloh. Earned 1 mechanical, 1 charisma, 1 logic, and 2 creativity points. She was in the red with zero AP. :(
Not potty trained.
Sherlock. Got 1 mechanical and 3 creativity points. He grew up gold with 4500 AP.
Potty trained!
Sheena. Has 1 mechanical, 1 charisma, and 3 creativity. She was in the red with zero AP.
Didn't get potty trained.
As you can see, Shadey pretty much went straight to bed. But she managed to become best friends with all 7 kids! And it's really weird that all the time Kendal spent in this house over the past 4 days and Shadey never managed to meet her?! o_O
The newly grown kids can finally take care of their own needs....
There was a bit of a line forming for the bathtub and shy Sheena was not willing to bathe with people watching. So I put in an extra dorm shower and sent them in there to bathe...
Sheena never got that bath and seems to think it's Sherlock's fault. (He's got the goofiest shower face. lol)
And I have NO idea what triggered this! I thought it was Sherlock and Sheena with the rivalry, so why is he picking on Shiloh?!
But it seems growing up in the red made Shiloh one tough cookie!
"Oh my god! These children are little monsters!"
Notice that I swapped some of the cribs for beds, and it seems Kendal managed to get the other toddlers out of their cribs...
And the last two grow up at just after 8 PM...
Sheldon earned 2 logic and 2 creativity skill points. He grew up in the gold with 3000 AP.
Potty trained!
Last, but not least, Shadey Jr. She got 1 charisma and 3 creativity points. She grew up in green with 2500 AP.
Not potty trained.
And I just realized none of the girls managed to get trained but all the boys did. o___o WTH?!
DONE. (That driver has been sitting out here for almost 24 hours!)
I never got any Social Worker pop-ups and in the end I earned the following points....
+12 for the potty training.
+15 for the ones that grew up well.
+32 for all the skills earned.
+3 for the nanny peeing on herself (or somewhere off to the side, anyway).
+7 for the parent being best friends with the tots.
-2 for toddlers passing out on the floor.
-16 for diapers changed.
-10 for spoiled milk being consumed.
-8 for hiring the nanny.
-6 for hiring the maid (neither of which ever emptied a potty!).
For a grand total of 27 points. Wow, that's way better than I thought it would be! lol
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on 2010-08-31 02:02 am (UTC)I wish you luck, though. :]
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on 2010-08-31 03:03 am (UTC)I had a trash shoot either side of my potty line up then I would tell mum Heather to empty and cancel so she just tossed all the potty rubbish on the floor and when the maid was over she would just go along and pick it all up. Takes way too long to walk to toilets. Also constant expresso is mostly what kept mine awake. But that jello from the fridge is a good idea and refilling the buffet is probably why I ran out of cash.
Good job on doing it without any extra cash. :D
Now who is the dad? Sherlock reminds me of Nervous Subject... Close? far far away on planet Krypton?
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on 2010-08-31 01:35 pm (UTC)I was too scared to let her dump the potty rubbish on the floor. lol And I don't know if it's a glitch in my game or just really bad luck, but as soon as the trash starts fuming, that's when the roaches show up. D: Kendal was great with the kids, but didn't do hardly anything else, and certainly no cleaning. And if Remington had just cleaned out a potty! I really was relying on him that first day to empty the pots, but he didn't and threw off my whole system.
Shadey actually guessed who the father is. :D
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on 2010-08-31 07:13 am (UTC)I did this one a long time ago and it was HELL! By day two, my primary goal with it was to keep the parent alive, I didn't much care about points or skills. I really can't remember how it turned out but it was a lot of laughs.
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on 2010-08-31 08:33 am (UTC)Firstly: ROFL at you choosing to to use my simself, I guess I deserved that. But who the dad is? ... Well I'm detecting a Komei mouth, which quite a lot of my Pinch'es have, as well as Komei himself. Am I barking up the right tree here?
Love the S names.
I see both you and Jo use that very low fence, or whatever it is, to put each cot into a "room" without doors; I'm going to give that a go too I think. (as I write I am just about to start my #2 tot challenge)
The toddler table does become "messy" after a while, but you are allowed to use the handtool to put the drawings on the wall (I need to put that in the rules), but I'm not sure if that clears the table ... surely it does. I'm going to test that. But it hardly takes any effort at all for the mum to clean the table; she just waves her hand over it, and it's clean.
You should, as Jo says, just have dropped the potty contents on the floor, that way the maid (and sometimes the nanny) will clean it up. Mind you, my potty-piles did become stinky after a while and I was worried I'd get roaches, so my mum ended up taking some of them away herself. But then, that's when you can make sure you have a rubbish chute near the potties.
You did really well having so few passings out.
I was surprised how long you went without buying a bath. Was that just on the last day you bought it?
lol - three-way bottle battle. That was new. 8)
Ah yes, the mum's wants. She doesn't seem to roll any descent ones till she has had a good night's sleep, or till she gets one of her current ones fulfilled. Funny how you made SimShadey Popularity but one of her main wants was to get married.
"Oh good! One of them is leaving." LOL
So it's not just me - the nanny pee puddles DO grow!
Woah, it's got to be bad when you are having nightmares about yourself. 0_o
Good idea welcoming the old lady in, she was a bit helpful, even if she didn't help you get more points. I think I'll try and welcome more people in in my #2 attempt.
Poor kids almost all grew up looking like SimShadey apart from Sheena and Sheldon.
Great fun to see your attempt at this challenge, thank you so much for sharing Fuzzy, and I am terribly sorry for distracting you when I know you have lots of other important stuff to get on with. Big question is now: what would you have done differently?
BTW, I'm going to confiscate that ice pick of yours - you're going to do yourself some real damage some day.
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on 2010-08-31 01:54 pm (UTC)I explained to Jo why I didn't dump the potty rubbish on the floor. My game spawns the roaches at the first sign of green fumes. D:
I considered removing the table drawings with the pick tool, but decided to make things harder on myself. :P Besides, it does only take the adult 2 seconds to wave her hand over the table as she passes by.
I thought all the kids were cute! :D I went with the first randoms that CAS rolled up and was rather pleased to see Komei's face mixed well with yours. Sheena is actually very attractive as an adult, and Sheldon is probably my favorite face of the whole bunch.
Kendal really was awesome with the kids. She was constantly shoving bottles at them and putting them in their crib at the first sign of fatigue. I have to credit her for there being only two toddler pass-outs. :)
I think I mentioned everything I would have done differently. I did try to keep from calling the nanny back until Shadey really needed the sleep, because I knew she'd leave as soon as the toddlers were asleep, despite the fact one was due to wake up again in 2 minutes! I'm trying to think of how to "encourage" the maid to empty the potties. Maybe putting them in the middle of the room so s/he has to walk past them? I think Remington is just squeamish about poo, and that's why he never touched them. lol I've had plenty of female maids empty those things in the past!
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on 2010-08-31 11:57 am (UTC)I've attempted it more than once, so why can I not get off my ass and finish it. Now, I just need an awesome theme....
I enjoyed this so much, I laughed!
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on 2010-08-31 01:57 pm (UTC)It's hard. :P And probably best to do it in one go, because I played for about an hour, then saved and quit for the night. It was so hard to even go back into that house the next morning. lol I wanted to ANYTHING else.
Thanks! :D
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on 2010-08-31 01:34 pm (UTC)I'm not sure Shadey really deserved this! LOL
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on 2010-09-01 03:31 am (UTC)Gelatin <3. My food of salvation for the asylum I did.
I like Kendal's magical teleporting pee. Strange she needed a 3-hour bath when her waste products don't even touch her on the way out!
I can't remember if I have ever seen a maid empty a potty before I put in TwoJeffs' toddler potty fixes. Makes it so you can potty train them on a "full" potty also, which I guess means I would have to take it out if I did this challenge! But I never understood why toddlers can use a full potty but adults can't put them on it, makes no sense.
I was gonna guess that Olf was the dad! I saw the Komei nose on one of those boys! XD
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on 2010-09-01 02:37 pm (UTC)OH WELL. Just more proof that I'll never fully have this game figured out!
Shadey guessed the daddy right away. lol It was Komei (or his CAS face) who's the pater familias. Sometimes those really strong facial features tend to offset some of the simself wonkiness when producing offspring. Face one just don't cut it! ;)
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on 2010-09-29 01:45 am (UTC)