Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Busman's Honeymoon...

(With apologies to Dorothy L. Sayers.)

My game is getting corrupted. I have already reset it by removing the .nhd files for all vacation worlds and the university, followed by Kuree's SaveCleaner on what was left of the save folder. This means of course that all tombs are reset and that Alexander will have to start over with his China adventure chain...

Alexander and Alexandra are in Egypt for their honeymoon. Of course they do the usual sharing-the-tent-and-making-it-fly thing. And they do quite a bit of stargazing.

But also, they both have work to do. Alexandra has a good camera now, but she really would like a book on photography as well.


She decides to read the book before doing anything else - at this stage photographs are pretty expensive, and she doesn't really need a lot of pictures of her thumb, or worse, of a magic gnome!!


While she's reading, Alexander checks the board for adventures.


He does a few small things, like finding lost relics and selling copper to the relics merchant and disarming a lot of traps in somebody's basement. That gets him up to level 1.



Pangu's Axe comes in quite handy:



After a few minor adventures, though, Alexander gets involved with MorcuCorp, and things get stickier.


He does manage to become a "hazmat Sim" by disarming ten traps, so now he has all the adventurer awards.
Unfortunately he didn't manage to find the relic he was looking for before it is time to go home. So he needs to return to Egypt in a few days to finish that adventure chain.


I didn't take too many pictures, but Alexandra did!! She got a lot of wishes regarding her photographs - taking black and white or sepia pictures of things, or vignettes, or just generally taking photographs worth a lot of money...
All in all she manages to scrape together a lot of LTR points, so that at the age of barely twenty she can buy herself a midlife crisis.

She changes her 'over-emotional' and 'unstable' traits to 'artistic' and 'photographer's eye' - which will not only help her with her career, but will probably make her a happier person altogether. Being unstable is really annoying!


Alexandra brings home about twenty photographs. She keeps the ones that are worth more than 100 Simoleons, and puts some of them up in the garage. She does sell the smaller ones. They are a pain to hang (they do shift, but you can't 'stack' them).

(There's one of the sphinx on he other wall, I forgot to move it over...)



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