Death visits Torrential Valley

Sharlene died at the ripe old age of 69 at 9:30 in the evening. Grim was nice enough to bring her a fruity umbrella drink and some hula girls and even helped her pack her bag. Carter had her transported to the Torrential Valley community resting place, the Garden of Eternal Slumber.

Elijah and Alessa left for college with all scholarships for skills and the Sim Scholar award. The house seems very empty now that the population is reduced to half.

Carter finally managed to fill his influence meter.

Elijah chose Fashion as a major & Alessa chose Computing (real major hack from MTS2). I played University all the way through from Freshman year to graduation in one round. It was very uneventful since both kids had most of their skills already (Elijah was missing 2 cleaning points if I remember right). I would have them write a term paper and then turn on speed 3 and let them go until 5 hours before finals when I got their needs up. They both graduated with a 4.0 GPA and moved back to Torrential Valley. Elijah moved back home with his parents since he will eventually inherit the home and Alessa moved into a new house of her own.

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I completely forgot to write down what happened in Marcel's family so I'm writing from memory. I do know that all the children have grown to teens and the girls, Melody and Harmony, grew up. I set a limit on which Sims I send to university - they have to have at least 5 skill-related scholarships and an A+ average at school to attend. Needless to say, with 6 kids to wrangle, the girls were far from that goal. They both aged up to adult and brought their respective loves up with them (for Melody there were 3, Harmony only 1). Harmony immediately moved out, but Melody has stayed home - it's easier to work on finding multiple lovers when you don't have pesky bills to worry about.

Keane & Kelan both grew to adults that last day of the round. Since Keane is the oldest male heir, he will inherit the family home, so he won't be moving out. Kelan finally talked Melody into a life where her many dates wouldn't be scowled on by her family-loving father. Unfortunately for the siblings, their parents aren't as well off as Eddie's family is - they moved out will barely enough money to purchase the tiniest lot they could find. Harmony agreed to live with them briefly to help add to their desperately needed funds, but as soon as she can, she's going to get married and move out into her own home.

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Rosie and Nicholas looked to the world to be a happy, if not unorthodox, couple. On the inside, however, Nicholas was hurting. He knew the hole in his heart would never be filled with adopted children. He unconsciously was on constant lookout for a potential mother to his future children. When his friend from Takemizu Village, Marisa Shahan, called him unexpectedly one day, he invited her to come spend some time with his family. Once she arrived, they hit it off immediately and right under Rosie's nose, he fell in love with a real woman.

When Rosie left for work the next day, Nich and Marisa consummated their love. He explained to Rosie that since she had a dream to be a Game Designer and would need to work very hard to reach that level, he had asked Marisa to move in with them to take care of their daughter, Caprice (now a child). Rosie was completely trusting and suspected nothing, even when Marisa started showing a very obvious baby-bump. Nich just explained that she was already expecting when she moved in. That's the thing about robots. They trust because they are programmed that way.