Lambert, Little, Mack, McGovern

Francois Lambert lives in the Lilac Woods Inn. It's a hotel - but mostly it's residential these days. The Sims who live there are NPC workers.
Like everyone's least favourite babysitter - Prude Dickson. (Unfortunately she's the only one!)



And Pierre LaRue, the town's NPC Magician. (Who is secretly a genie.)



Others who live here are Billy Bob Dickson (the burglar) and Maggie Sue Dickson (the maid).

There aren't many NPCs in the game, I try to limit them as much as possible. I don't use them very often. I do need to create some new ones, as some seem to have been lost somehow...

Francois Lambert registered as a self-employed repairman this round. He needs to be doing something with his life.



Living with Prude as a neighbour isn't easy, but the room is very comfortable, so Francois puts up with her.

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Vanna Little got promoted (from teacher's aide to substitute teacher) and decided to celebrate with her boyfriend, Micah Brown.

They decide that with this promotion, and Micah's salary as a bed pan cleaner, they have enough income to get married.

So Vanna pops the question - and Micah is over the moon.

They waste no time on being engaged.

Micah is now called Micah Little. 

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In the Mack family, Holly Sue aged up wanting to be a psychic, so she goes to the new alchemy shop to apply for a job there (she had been working as an art appraiser, but there's really no future in that career).

She also fixed her wardrobe issues. No more emo haircut, either!



Holly Sue proposes as well, but unlike Micah and Vanna, they feel they're too young to get married just yet... (Where would they live? They both have a lot of siblings, and neither family has money to buy a house for them yet.)



Now the Mack family have a nice house that is big enough for all of them - but it's not very practical on the inside. So after a lot of trial and error, they decided to just take all the furniture out and gut the place.



They change the entire lay-out. They take out one of the downstairs bedrooms, so the living room is a bit larger now. They also change the lay-out upstairs, because the way it was, with two bathrooms at the front of the house, all the nicest windows had to be covered with blinds.





Now the beds are at the front, where there's the most light. And they still have a bathroom for the boys, and one for the girls. (And downstairs there's a shower room for the parents, and a toilet for the visitors.)
Hopefully they'll have some money to get rid of the generic furniture next round.

After all the redecorating they have very little money left. Hank decides to get a job at one of the local shops to help out.
Michael gets his first promotion that evening, so they're feeling a bit more hopeful about their future in this town.

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Stacia McGovern decides to move in with her sister. She gives her elderly horse Barney to her son Raphael (Bernard), but she keeps her little elderly dog, Sheba.

Originally Stacia had two horses, but Thunder died recently. Barney will probably not live very long either, he's now well over 30.
Poor Stacia has to visit the catacombs to find her dead horse's grave.



She also finds her Uncle Joe's tombstone (he was the NPC who ran the bar at Matilda's Corner). She does find it a bit odd that nobody thought to notify her - not only is she the oldest living relative, but she actually *works* for Joe McGovern, as the bartender at Joe' Corner.

Aaron Wilson approaches her for a donation. "Is it for the third world?" No, apparently it is a political issue...







"There's a lot of dirty money in politics."
"You're preaching to the choir, sister!!"



Stacia and Constance rearrange the houseboat a little. Stacia now has a bedroom overlooking the ocean floor. Sleeping with the fishes, in a matter of speaking...



Stacia keeps her role job as the barmaid at her uncle Joe's bar. For now, Constance keeps her job as a fake psychic as well.
Stacia used to work as a psychic - if there were more role Sims around, she could maybe take that job again, and fill the place up a bit more.


In the meantime, Constance and Stacia's youngest brother, Trevor, just had a second grandchild. This time it's a boy, Collin McGovern.
(I don't think there was ever a birth announcement in the paper for his first grandchild either. Her name is Terry and she's about two.)



So now they need two cribs in the bedroom upstairs. (This is really not a good permanent sleeping arrangement for a baby!)



Margaret is only a week or so away from aging up to young adult, and she can't wait to get out of the house. It's just too crowded, and Ayana has been throwing out hints about needing a room for the children...
Margaret doesn't really feel very welcome at all. She spends a lot of time at local bars, with her father.





Margaret is turning into quite the pool shark - but most of her tricks could use a bit more finesse...