The Sims 3: Pets Chapter 4: Success!

Hello, Zelda fans (and possible Simmers!) Only three more days remain until Skyward Sword's release. I'm hoping my copy shows up in my mailbox promptly on Monday, so I can start playing as soon as possible. In the meantime, here's some more Sim goodness to tide you over.

Here's an adorable screenshot of my Sim playing with Pup.














It was about this time that I decided my Sim needed to improve her Charisma a bit, because she didn't have any points in it at all and I was tired of it taking forever for her to befriend anyone. So here she is Practicing Speech:















At some other time during all of this, Sky aged into an Adult Horse. Here he is Galloping Around while his parents discuss their dislike of horses (Adejaan) and dislike of cats (Star). Go figure.














Again, I don't know why his tail is white. It's just weird. And I don't like how father and son both have braided tails. I'd change that if I could (or if I knew how? I don't think you can change it, though).

Here they are talking about how Adejaan doesn't like leaves, but Star does.














Somehow, Sky already has his Racing skill maxed out. I guess he got that from Adejaan? Cool, I guess. Here he is practicing his Racing anyway.














And for some reason, the ice cream truck keeps parking outside my house. I don't have any kids, man. Park your ice cream truck somewhere else!















I still hadn't managed to become BFFs with Star, so I decided to give her a little attention. Here's my Sim giving her a hug while she thought about being mildly hungry.














And here's Pup socializing with a random stray cat. I resisted the urge to shoo the cat away, since I had a bad experience with the last one and everything.















Apparently Pup doesn't like cats (how nice of her to say that to a cat) and the cat doesn't like horses. Well, you wouldn't be a good fit in this household anyway, cat.

My Sim was slightly bored with being at her house all the time lately, so I decided to head downtown and visit the Consignment Shop, where I bought myself a Time Machine. Why not, right? And after the consignment store visit, I headed over to the local pool, where I got into a Hold Breath Underwater contest with some guy who was there.















And I won!
















Take that, guy wearing a rubber ducky flotation device!

So I went back home and finally managed to become BFFs with Star. So I checked the neighborhood map. Presto! The unicorn was hanging out at one of the fishing spots. So I headed up there!














Hello, unicorn who's thinking about himself! Let's do this!















In case you can't read that (you probably can't), it says, "Liz, you have proven yourself to be a friend to all creatures. I will follow wherever you lead."

So in other words...SUCCESS!!! MY AGENDA HAS PAID OFF! I HAVE MY OWN UNICORN!














YAY!!!

I'm thinking about dirty dishes for some reason. Weird. At least the unicorn is thinking about being loved, because he's my new BFF! The name he came with was "Emir Horse" but I can do better than that. I named him "Aljan Firebringer" (yes, I know he's the wrong color but I couldn't think of anything better). So, yeah. Here we are galloping home!















He leaves a trail of sparkles and rainbows. I feel complete.














Yay!!

The next day, I had to give Aljan a good grooming. I like how the random wild horse galloping past in the background got the Memory for Seeing a Unicorn as he ran by.














Later on, I decided it was time to start training Sky so I could sell him and breed Star again. Here I am sitting on him for the first time! I am not sure why I ended up backwards, since by this point I was at 9 skill points in Riding (out of 10)....














Well, whatever. He didn't buck me off, so let's get to training.















Things are going well so far. Let's step up the speed a little bit (and have us a leisurely gallop along the beach while we're at it)!














Whee!!!

And as an added bonus, while I was training Sky, this happened!



















Yes, please. It would have been nice if they'd spelled "legendary" right, though. "Legenday" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

The next day, I decided to put Aljan's jumping skills to the test. You know, so I could evaluate just how well he can destroy stars, or something. That was a Robot Unicorn Attack joke, in case you were wondering.














After this stunning display of machismo, Aljan went over to chat up Star.














Aljan likes...newspapers? Huh. And Star doesn't like ants. Well, that's not surprising, I guess. Adejaan, in the background, is practicing his racing, totally oblivious to what's going on.

Later that day, my Sim was invited to another party at her future romantic interest's house. The dress code was swimwear for some reason (said romantic interest doesn't have a pool). Well, whatever. We can still have fun. The party ended up in the romantic interest's bedroom (after he'd gone to sleep, no less). Suddenly I found myself in a pillow fight with one of the other partygoers!















This was fun. Eventually, though, the romantic interest woke up from sleeping during his own party and kicked me out.














FINE! I'll go home.














Wow, the unicorn even has a rainbow on him whenever he drinks out of the water trough. Truly I was meant to own this animal.

The next morning dawned bright and early, and what did I find? A completely full barn. Yay!















They're all sleeping. It's so peaceful!

In the love department, the relationship between Aljan and Star managed to develop to the point where she would allow him to groom her. Yay!














They may or may not have taken the party to one of the stalls in the barn for some fun time.

Meanwhile, I'd finally gotten Sky trained, so it was time to take him to the Equestrian Center and see how much I could get for him.















He sold for a grand total of 8,000 Simoleons. Yay! When I checked the horses for sale, there he was in the sale tab! For the price of 9,000 Simoleons. Nice markup there.

The next day, I happened to notice what looked like a horse lawn ornament on the lawn. Not sure where it came from, but its name is Zenyatta, apparently. Even though it doesn't really look like the real Zenyatta and it's not wearing the right colors. But whatever.















I also discovered Aljan, being a unicorn, can teleport.















I decided to teleport to the equestrian training grounds and do some socializing.















Everyone there got the Memory of Seeing a Unicorn. I'm glad to have done my part.

A few days later, I decided to go for a ride with Aljan. Here we are, galloping along free as the wind!














And later that day, a surprise gift from the stork arrived!















Due to his, uh, sordid parentage, I was hoping the foal would be a unicorn, but alas, no such luck. Maybe next time! I decided to name the foal Eclipse. We'll see if he sells for the same price as Sky did, being half-Unicorn and all.

And that brings me to my stopping point for today. Until next time, Simmers!

The Sims 3: Pets Chapter 3: That Darn Cat!

Yay, Skyward Sword comes out in less than two weeks! Woo! This isn't a Zelda-centric blog at all, no sir! Well, anyway.

I don't remember what I was doing when this happened, but while I was playing, I noticed Pup was sitting in someone's lap, except my Sim was busy doing something else. So I located Pup, and...














That is entirely too cute, Pup. And you're supposed to be shy! Why are you being so chummy with the maid? She's supposed to be cleaning my house! No, don't play around with the maid! She's supposed to be cleaning!















Meanwhile, at a neighbor's house, I had decided to adopt a cat, because of the whole "friend to all animals" thing. So, I found a cute little kitten to adopt and took it home with me.














So Pup and the cat (named Misty) decided to do some socializing. Apparently Pup likes ants and Misty doesn't like fleas. Good to know.

Oh, and that scratching post is there because Misty was stuck outside for the first few days she was at my house. Apparently she couldn't use the stairs (because of being a kitten, I guess?) so eventually my Sim had to carry her into the house.














Now Pup doesn't like ants (I'm confused) and Misty doesn't like rubber duckies. Clearly Misty hates fun. Little did I know what would eventually happen with Misty. Did I mention her two traits were Aggressive and Independent? Yeah...I kinda had a feeling the whole thing wasn't going to end well.















Well, at least the dog and cat are getting off on the right...paw, I guess.















Here's my Sim petting a deer (as it was thinking about bouquets for some reason), because clearly some random deer (in the middle of town, no less) would just let me walk up and pet it. But whatever.















And here's Pup the next day, trying to wake up my Sim so she can fill the food bowl. Cute!

Later that day, my Sim got invited to a party at her future romantic interest's house. Here they are enjoying some salad.














Not sure why that book is on the table. Apparently the romantic interest likes books? I guess that makes sense.

Here's my Sim fixing the romantic interest's sink after it broke while she was washing her salad plate.














You see those two other Sims in the picture? They spent the whole party attempting to give each other bouquets of flowers and rejecting each other. I don't think either of them knows how to do romance.














And there's my Sim mopping the floor after she got done fixing the sink. Note the guy rejecting the bouquet of flowers from the girl. They just stood right there, each attempting to give the other flowers over and over, rejecting each other over and over, until the party finally ended.

The best part was? The romantic interest threatened to kick me out of the party for "behaving inappropriately." Okay, well, next time you can just fix your sink yourself, AFTER it floods your whole house.















Huh. Well, that's interesting.

It was right around this time that I decided to get another horse, because there were three empty stalls in my barn and I wanted Adejaan to have a horsey companion. So I went to the equestrian center and bought a Lipizzaner mare I named Star. Here she is!















The funny thing about this is that I rode Adejaan to the equestrian center and then rode him back home because he had Racing maxed out and would get home faster, so Star had to make her slow, slow way home herself (because she walked all the way there for some reason). Okay, yes, I probably could have gotten her to gallop home if I'd bothered to try, but I just thought that was funny.

Here's Star eating hay in her new stall while Adejaan amused himself by Galloping Around.















And here she is, being introduced to Adejaan. Things are going well so far...















Uh oh. That didn't go so well.















I decided to try some Socializing first so the two could become friends. Here they are Socializing. Apparently they both dislike cats.















Oops...that didn't go so well either.














While all of this was going on over the course of a few days, I was trying to get my Sim to become friends with Misty. You know, because I have an agenda to keep here. But the cat, being Aggressive and Independent, didn't always appreciate my attempts to make friends with her. Trying to pet her or even let her sniff my hand frequently ended with her hissing at me and losing relationship points. So finally I got sick of it, grabbed the damn cat and petted it about 10 times in a row (I could always pet it if I was holding it).














Yay! I was finally friends with the cat.

After a few more tries with the horse situation, I was finally able to get their relationship high enough to groom each other.














Star is thinking about alarms, and Adejaan doesn't like dogs. This game confuses me sometimes.

Aww, look, they're friends.















Later that day I decided to enter another race with Adejaan. Here we are waiting for the race to start. Apparently the other adult horse in the picture had twins, too.














This made me decide to breed my two horses together to see if I would also end up with improbable twins or triplets. Alas, I only got one foal. But here he is!














Everyone, meet Sky the foal. I am not sure why his tail is white. But whatever.















And here's Adejaan being introduced to his new offspring.















And here's my Sim playing fetch with Pup again. Apparently Pup was feeling neglected or something.














Then something terrible happened. Pup got fleas! So I had to give her a Flea Bath. Hint: it wasn't any different from a regular bath.














The scary thing was, apparently it's possible for Sims to get fleas from their pets. Of course it is.

I suppose I should talk about the cat some more. Over the course of the previous few days, my Sim kept losing Friend status with the cat due to her attempting to, you know, be friendly to the cat. So I'd grab the cat and pet it long enough to become friends with it again, only to lose it again a few days later because I had the audacity to attempt to let it sniff my hand. Whatever, cat. Eventually my Sim ended up getting scratched up after Misty attacked her for no apparent reason. So I checked the Internets for advice on how one actually goes about adopting a Unicorn. Turns out you have to be BFFs with three household pets, not necessarily every species. So I immediately kicked Misty to the curb. That's right! Get out, you dumb cat! I never liked you anyway.

For whatever weird reason, I didn't take any screenshots of Misty's departure. Oh well. She won't be missed. So here's a picture of my Sim being sniffed by Star. Time to become BFFs with Star, I guess!















And that brings me to my stopping point for today. Sorry it was kinda short. Hopefully I'll be able to adopt a Unicorn in my next post. Until then, Sim on, my friends!