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| Left to right: Briah, Trudy, Zeon, Jason dogs Mary Lou and Leroy |
Who are the Bostics? These are the ancestors of a founding family of Prosperity Falls, five generations removed. The founding family:
If you so desire to remind you who they are: Prosperity Falls - The Bostics, Chapter 1
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| Bostic Homestead |
Who are they now?
First let's go over what happened in their last appearance in the Prosperity Falls blog, last round. There was a birthday party to teen for youngest child Shalanta. She incidentally left for University this round. She graduated in this blog and came home to enter Towniedom. Both Andre and Yasika passed to the great Sim Beyond. Trudy fulfilled her LTW of becoming Mayor. Zeon wondered why his mother Yasika kept talking about Aliens....and we saw the King and Queen of Anatoth mulling it over, with telepathic input from Xuan Robbins. And it appeared the Cowplant had no appetite, having not eaten several people who approached it for cake.
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| Back then, in the old hood |
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| Popularity - Become friends with 20 puppies or kittens |
His mom and dad are Yasika (Robbins) Bostic and Andre Bostic. Grandparents: Maternal: Meadow (Thayer) Robbins and Timo Robbins. (Timo is the founder of the Robbinses in Prosperity Falls). Paternal: Ramey (Bostic) Cormier (one of the original four daughters of Marquis) and townie turned playable Ricky Cormier. You can see Zeon's son Braelen has passed, remember the satellite death in Uni this round.
ASim: Hi Zeon. It has been a might good while.
Zeon: Yes it has ASimWen. Good to see you.
ASim: So, what have you been up to these days?
Zeon: I am thinking of taking a different job. I am getting ready to age up and I just don't think bouncing around on the ballet stage is the way to go at this point.
ASim: Ok...so what are you thinking?
Zeon: I just applied for and as offered a job as a concert pianist. At least I can sit down doing that.
ASim: You know you can retire if you want.
Zeon: I might do that after I get to the top of this career. That would give me time to make friends with 20 puppies or kittens.
ASimWen: Well that might happen. You know someone in this household wants to raise 20 puppies or kittens.
Zeon: Woo, it just might. Only because I want to do it you understand. I am already perm plat.
ASimWen: *nods sagely*
Trudy Bostic
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| Popularity: Wants 20 Best Friends |
Maternal: Mother is townie Nicole Thompson....the teen. Can't remember her last name. Paternal side: Father is Fraiser Strickland (who's picture disappeared years ago). Grandmother is Kirstee (Bostic) Strickland and grandfather is Chevy Strickland.
ASim: Hello Mayor Bostic.
Trudy: Good afternoon, ASimWen.
ASim: So what is cookin' in City Hall?
Trudy: Well the City recently opened Prospeirty Falls Cemetery, along with a new shopping plaza. You know with the kind of population growth we have seen, this was a must. People move to Prosperity Falls for a reason. For our diversity and amenities.
ASim: Ummmmm... alrighty then. And uh, thanks.
Trudy: Be sure to vote!
And now, on with our story.
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| Off to work |
Briah narrating.
Hi everybody. I just graduated from Univeristy and moved back home to marry my love Jason McClelland the Good Warlock. We will continue the lineage in the Bostic Homestead. My baby sister Shalanta was due to do it but she decided she wanted to be a Townie instead. Bein' that her beau was still a teenager and everything. My twin Braelen Bostic was killed by a satellite in University. I brought his tombstone home and we laid him to rest in the family plot in the back yard.
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| ***SMOOCH*** Briah and Jason homecoming. |
Briah: Geeze dad, how about some privacy?
Zeon: How about you two get married, then get a room???
Briah is a Family Sim, and wants to raise twenty puppies or kittens. Jason is also a Family Sim and wants Become Education Minister. It is a relief for me to have a pair of Family Sims who have LTWs that are not population related.
Briah: Mom told me about a deal she made at work. She made 30K, just like that, in a blink of an eye.
Mom made the transaction. When 30K mysteriously showed up in mom's personal bank account, some said there was "favors" passed under the table, and it all sort of put a bad light on Mom's administration.
A man came by and scowled at Jason muttering something about folk of magic...warlocks. Not being wanted in Prosperity Falls, and that should have known the mayor would allow something like that in. I told him to get lost....he just laughed as he walked away. Wilkie. Leo Wilkie was his name. I will not forget that.
We had a great time getting caught up with dad. He hinted at trying to get a wedding date out of us but we hadn't really decided.
I helped Jason study Nature. Not that he really needed it being an accomplished warlock and all. It wasn't long before he had completed studies in the Ways of Light.
I knew because he had a special glow about him.
Mom and dad had their birthday at the same time. I felt so bad because I didn't plan a party or anything. They didn't seem to mind. Mom said she was just glad I was home with Jason. The big house seemed so empty after Shalanta left for University.
Speaking of parties, we did manage to work in a wedding party! Saturday came and it was an excellent day for a wedding. Me and Jason got hitched at home.
Attendees:
My sister, Shalanta Bostic
Jason's mother Jodie-Ann (Strickland ) McClelland. She is a Werewolf.
Jason's dad, Kelsey McClelland. He is a Werewolf too.
It was a good time, a real roof raiser of a party. (ASimWen's software wasn't working correctly. All the pics I took outside of the game camera did not "take". Sorry for the limited party pictures).
Dad scampered off to work right in the middle of the party, and managed to reach the top of his career. He is now a Rock God. An old one at that. hahaha! He stated that he sees retirement in his near future!
Sunday we decided to go out as a family and visit the cemetery.
We felt badly as a Sim had gotten eaten by our CowPlant. We shipped the tombstone off to the cemetery as we didn't want the poor man's spirit wondering around our property.
His name was Kent Somebody.
My wonderful husband took responsibility to move the grave.
The cemetery has a wonderful fishing pond. This certainly is a really nice cemetery for Prosperity Falls. Here is a tour:
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| Main Building and crypt with fishing pond |
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| Inside |
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| Bathrooms, on the left side of the lot. |
When we were ready to leave the cemetery, we decided to go to see the new mall, Midcity Marketplace.
Mom and dad immediately settled in to have a drink.
Jason had a wish to learn how to break dance. And so it was! I just had a good time being back in the Falls again after University and wondering around and meeting up with old friends again.
And that ends week one.
WEEK TWO
Week two slid by quickly. ASimWen noticed that old jpegs originally housed on Photobucket years ago now have a watermark. I am supposing this is because I simply lifted the code for the picture from a prior blog entry, not linking directly back to Photobucket. To get rid of it, I had to go back in the old backed up Prosperity Falls files and pull the pictures out of there and upload them fresh. Am also thinking that the story layout is nice, but will be time consuming and maybe a little difficult to keep up with. At any rate - here is how the second week went:
At some point at the start of the week, someone was invited to go downtown, and I found it humorous the game chose the helicopter for transport. This may have happened in my prior gaming years with TS2, but I don't remember it? ASimWen's Simmies don't usually get copters because they need that large landing pad.
People met at the downtown lot -
A miscellaneous Townie on the left....to the far right is Martin Strickland the current patriarch of the Strickland family, one of the original four founding families. Who is that in the middle??? Why that is a version of ASimWen. I totally don't remember her. I would never put myself in that silver gown, or do hair like that. Maybe I did??? There is a version of her in this neighborhood, but not this. Perhaps the custom skintone/hair she had was no longer available.
It is Ketrina McClelland. She graduated from University recently. Trudy was having a nice chat with her when....
She was bitten by the Countess. This reminded ASimWen of how active the vampires are in Prosperity Falls.
Back home Dovie Bostic haunts. Her prior storyline in the Falls: She sold her only child on the black market. (In reality, the girl's sims package became corrupt and was no longer playable, had to write her out of the neighborhood somehow).
Jason builds his warlock throne. Now he never has to sleep. I wish this worked on all Sims.
Jason and Briah have a close encounter that results in...
Oh yeah. Need at least one heir to carry on. Hope it is a boy.
Leroy the dog passes away..
As does Mary Lou. Both on the same day. This meant another trip to the cemetery to place their graves.
Whilst there Briah is suddenly struck with a bout of immaturity....
Zeon has a nice chat with recent Uni grad Polar Beare.
Back home, Briah throws herself into a nap. She was exhausted from all that fountain soaping. ASimWen noticed a broken something on the night stand. ?? Think this might be an ant farm. There used to be one in the house and I couldn't find it. Do those things break?
The day finally came, and the heir to the Bostic fortune was born. Tad Bostic. Go you, fine sir! He has his grandaddy's/great-grandmother's/great-great grandfather's skintone. The Robbins skintone.
Jason, the proud poppa.
In the meantime Trudy earns the hobby plaque in Music and Dance. This is due to all those hours of pounding the ivories. Now she wants a hobby plaque in Arts and Crafts. Maybe. She has a couple of more weeks before she dies.
Jason's mother Jodi-Ann Strickland drops by. He tells her about Tad, and she is very happy to be a grandma. Even though she still has a toddler at home herself. She is in her werewolf form. But because she has a custom skintone, she never takes on the werewolf skintone.
Speaking of Jason. He reached TOC in Education. Now he is perm plat, not that he needed it with that kewl magical throne and all. What is his new LTW? Marry Off Six. ASimWen vetoed that right away.
Want to end this on a high note. That is it for this round with the Bostics.
Ghostly Encounters:
In orange is Pachionetta, one of the daughters in the original founding family. She never married, stayed single. Didn't contribute to the population explosion in Prosperity Falls. Peeking in the fridge is Ramey, who married EA Teen Ricky Cormier. It is his bloodline that stayed in the homestead. Thus, the huge nose occasionally shows up.
There he is, Marquez Bostic...the single dad to four young daughters in the beginning. Wouldn't he be happy to see his family now. Well...I guess he does.
Well in the back ground of things not mentioned: Briah is working on her LTW of raising 20 pets. Thus a constant stream of dogs and cats from from Animal Control constantly come and go. Before they are shipped back to animal control as grown animlas, Zeon makes best friends with them so as to try to meet his next LTW of befriending 20 pets before he kicks the bucket. Otherwise, he is still trudging off to work every day in his job as a Rock God.
Next is the Stricklands.
Have fun everyone, and keep on Simmin', no matter what version you play. They are all fun. But remember, FAMILY FIRST.
~ASimWen
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| Left to right: Trudy, Briah, Jason, Tad, and Zeon |
