Simulation Life | DM x FM |
Au- set in 2017 -Danny's p.o.v
Dylan had gotten me a new gaming computer for my birthday. He had also helped me with my obsession with the Sims game series. I now own all of the current expansion packs for the Sims 4 and I have an idea on what I am going to do with it. I am going to put all of us into a household as we currently are in real life and see what happens. That means Jorel and Matt are the single pringles who can look for love. Jordon and George will be married as they are in real life. Finally Dylan and I are going to be married as we are in real life. There will be no kiddos and despite all of mods that I have I will not be doing a male pregnancy through human means. If they get kidnapped by aliens and get pregnant then so be it. I'm not going to do anything about it but help them raise the kiddo.
I spent the next half hour making the guys and setting up the relationships so that by the time I play the game the marriages will already be in place. I will probably use some cheats to help set up some other things, but the rest of the gameplay will be all natural. If I am doing simself things then I want to make things as comfortable as possible to begin with and then they can struggle as much as they like from there. I tend to use the motherlode cheat to make a nice house then take a lot of the leftover money from the household so they can fend for themselves after that. I am thinking of a 5 bedroom house for this household, so I have room for any babies if the aliens start kidnapping us and knocking us up with alien babies.
Once I am finished decorating the house which took probably about an hour to do because I took too long thinking about what I wanted and where I wanted it to go I am ready to play. I make them all true friends with each other which earns them the good reputation. They enjoy the welcoming party and make some new friends. Then I start giving some of them jobs because $180,000 isn't going to be enough to sustain them all for long. I give George the writing career because I know how much he loves his books and reading. Matt gets the astronaut career due to him loving aliens and I wanted to see where that would go. Lastly Jorel gets the Athlete career because I wanted to do something different then all 6 of them having music careers.
My in game traits are – Creative, Music Lover, Natural Singer, Muser and a mod I have gave me The Doer trait for some random reason.
Matt's traits are – Self-assured, Talented, Music Lover, Muser and The Commander.
Jordon's traits are – Self-assured, Cheerful, Foodie, Muser and The Thinker.
Jorel's Traits are – Self-assured, Cat Lover, Vegetarian, Muser and The Idealist
George's traits are – Bookworm, Music Lover, Natural Musician, Muser and The Provider
Dylan's traits are - Creative, Music Lover, Goofball, Muser and The Provider
Nothing really exciting happened in the first 3 days. Matt stayed awake the entire first night which earned me an in game achievement and he passed out when he got back from work. Jordon set the barbeque on fire, but luckily everyone survived. The downstairs bathroom sink and toilet broke. My simself fixed the sink and Dylan fixed the toilet. The slice of Life mod definitely made all the moodlets interesting. They kept feeling insecure about their bodies, body shaming and feeling a wide range of emotions that just doesn't happen in the Sims 4 base game. Then the kitchen sink broke which I set my simself to fix while I cleaned up some of the spoiled food that Jordon left outside.
I was half expecting some cheating to happen like it did the last time I tried to put us as a band into a household together. Geoffrey Landgraab kept asking me out on a date to different things going on in the town which I declined every time. Nobody has used the dining room table yet as far as I have seen. I am trying to let them lead their lives as much as possible with as little interference from me as possible. The only thing I do is keep things tidy when they don't clean up after themselves. Darrel Charm kept asking my simself to go out with him, but I kept declining. Jordon fell asleep in the hot tub which was probably the most interesting thing which happened on day 4. I need to start setting them up with tasks to help those in work get promotions.
Dylan called me for dinner, and I paused the game because as much fun as it would have been to leave the game to its own devices I was a bit worried about what would happen if I left the game unattended for an hour or so. I didn't fancy coming back to all the sims having killed themselves because Jordon started another fire, or they didn't take care of their own needs. "I take it you're enjoying your new compute then? I've not seen you all day and I've missed you," Dylan tells me. He was working on something in the garage all day as far as I was aware. "Yeah, sorry about that. I put us all into the Sims four and I got a little bit carried away with it all," I tell him. He knows that I didn't mean to ignore him. I have been trying to get him to play The Sims 4 for a while now.
"Oh yeah? How's that going for you?" he asks me. I smile because maybe this is time chance I have to get Dylan as addicted to this game as I have become. "Good, Jordon set the barbeque on fire and that's as about as interesting as it has been so far," I tell him. I couldn't really tell him much else because that has been all the interesting stuff that has happened so far. I was also going in and out of the game to tweak some settings. I want my sims to be able to gain their skills faster without me giving them all level 10 with MC Command Centre. There is a skill adjustment in there, but I don't know if I have set it up wrong because it wasn't working as well as it used to. "That's good. Maybe you should show me the ropes later," Dylan tells me.
As a band we have a gaming channel and a twitch channel where we make content from. Like that one time in American Truck simulator I took a bend too fast and I tipped over. Now I know some cheats that will help me not end up in the services when that happens again. I tried putting in the savant trait mod in to try and make the skill level go up faster, but I don't think it is going to work either. "Of course I can," I tell him. We enjoyed our dinner and went back up to the game. I had then realised that I had put the mod into the wrong folder, but I don't know if it will clash with MC's skill difficulty adjustment. We will have to see what happens there. The game decided that it was not going to respond so I had to start it all up again.
I explained to Dylan how to navigate the main menu which was fairly straight forward. You could see all the custom content I had installed as well as all of the expansion, game and stuff packs I had. I showed him my saved games, one which was my simself alone going to university, another which was if Reese and I had stayed together and had more children than Scarlett and the final one which wasn't the Undead one was my Sims 5 100 baby challenge which I needed to play more of because I only had 3 children at that point. I feel sorry for the only girl. "So wait, what the heck is the one hundred baby challenge?" Dylan asks. Strangely enough he was fine with the other two, I guess those two are not as weird as the 100 baby.
"The one hundred baby challenge as the title suggests is to have one hundred babies in as few generations as possible. They all also have to have different dads unless obviously they are twins or triplets. I find it a lot easier on the sims three if I am honest with you," I explain. I load up the house while he digests that information. I think I have finally found a setting that works as I put Danny on the workout machine since for some odd reason at 3 am on a Friday morning he is the only one who is still awake and he was gaining the fitness skill at a rapid rate. I would like to think that is the savant trait but I would have to test Dylan out on something to see. I put Dylan on the workout machine because I noticed he was starting to get a little bit of chub on and he wasn't levelling up as fast as Danny was doing.
It must have been the savant trait working its magic. "Oh it's love day in the game," Dylan comments, as I give his simself the same aspiration reward as I had given Danny and watched as his fitness skill started racing up. "Yeah, we could take our simselves out on a date and see what happens," I suggest. Then I realised that I had left the dishes downstairs so I had to pause the game so I could do them. No offense to Dylan but I don't quite trust him with the game on his own just yet. The sim versions of ourselves need to be in tip to shape before we send them on the date anyways. It would give me a good chance to show Dylan how the sims needs work. I stubbed my toe on the washing machine and swore loudly once I had finished the dishes.
"You okay lil lion?" Dylan asks. I had come in with a slight limp, but I had just smashed my toes into our washing machine so I knew it was going to hurt. "Yeah, just stubbed my toe against the washing machine is all," I tell him. He had kept the game paused which honestly surprised me a little bit. I was fully expecting him to have unpaused the game and had a bit of a mess around with it but we were exactly were I had left it. I had saved the game before I left too so if something were to go wrong then I could easily get it back to just before everything went wrong. After I teach Dylan how to play I am going to let him take our sims on a date considering it is love day. I also need to give everyone the savant trait because that seems to work in getting their skills up faster.
"I didn't touch it, I was kinda scared that I would mess things up," Dylan says, when I sit back down in my chair. Sadie cat decided that she wanted to know what was going on and soon had me stuck in my seat even though I wanted to get a can of Pepsi from the fridge. "No worries, if anything had gone wrong I could just have loaded up an earlier save," I tell him as I hit the play button. I queued up a bunch of tasks to make sure the boys had their needs filled and all of the bathroom plumbing had started to break for some reason so I tired to get a sim to deal with those and someone was always behind them moping up the mess that had been made. I then show Dylan the basics and make us swap chairs which confused him.
"You're going to use the skills that I have taught you to make us go on a date in the game," I tell him. He does and smiles once he sees the cute little romantic reactions that happen between our sims. I notice that still no one eats in the dining room, rendering that room practically useless as they all eat standing up while they are talking to each other. Dylan's little date goes well and he easily achieves the highest level for it. "Wow, I can see why you've become so addicted to it. It is so cool to control your own life in this way. You can be anything you want it to be and then you don't have to face some of the consequences that you would if it happened to you in real life," Dylan tells me. That is most definitely the main reason that I have been playing it.
Another thing I noticed about the sims was that they really enjoying spending a lot of time in their sleepwear. For most of the sims they have boxers on and that is how they spend most of their days. also Geoffrey Landgraab still keeps asking me to go with him places and some of the places sounded sketchier than others. They also enjoy mopping the floors even if the sink or toilet is still broken at the time they are cleaning the floor. At least I don't have to consider getting them a maid. All I need to worry about is their cooking skill which for some was low and that is the time where they are most likely to start fires. "Hey maybe for my stream tonight we should married stream some of this and show people how cool your sims are," Dylan tells me.
"That is a good idea, we can swap either between who controls the sims or just leave them too it and discuss what is going on while they are living their lives. I am still hoping for aliens to come and kidnap one of them. I don't see Mpreg as being something that would go down well with the fans unless it was alien," I tell him. I then have to explain to Dylan what a mpreg means. Basically in the world of the sims you can get your male sims to woohoo with each other and if you have the mods or the right settings you can get a male sim pregnant with a human baby. The other way is for an alien to come and kidnap the sim and the male sims can come back pregnant. Apparently some fans don't like the human pregnancy but don't mind the alien one so much.
"Ohh, yeah I can get why they wouldn't like it but they have to realise that it is only a game and there is a very slim chance that we are ever going to make a you tube video where you are actually a pregnant man," Dylan tells me. A quick google search tells me that the scientist career is the way to go and the person who is in that career has a higher chance of being taken by the aliens. It also gives us an opportunity to go to work with the sim which will spice things up a bit. I decide that I should be the one to get that career since I am the one who is most desperate for the alien abductions to occur. I will go with the sim when it is stream time because for now I want to keep helping Dylan become more familiar with how it works and what the controls and cheats are.
We had completely forgotten to send Jordon and George on a date so only two sims had a good love day when that happened. I was leaving them to it so prank day never happened even though some gained the mischief skill during the day. They also keep being invited to events which is through the slice of life mod and since I am not controlling the sims they are not going to them. They are also not fixing broken objects without prompting. I think the tumble dryer is going to be the next thing that will go on fire because they never clean the lint tray out. My simself goes on his first day of work and I have to click the send alone button even though I am really tempted to see how that career goes. They also get their first bills on the second Monday which comes to $6,261 which is not bad considering I have probably spent about $200,000 on the entire house.
Just as I thought about the tumble dryer, it went on fire. Poor George also caught fire but hero Dylan saved the day by putting the fire out. The insurance pay-out for the fire was $305 which was a considerable amount less than what the washing machine and the tumble dryer cost to replace. It was a good thing that we have over $100,000 to cover that bill or I don't think I would have been able to afford that if Jordon keeps discovering fires. It also burned the rug that was in that room however it didn't give me the option to replace it and I feel as if that room will be just fine without it. The skill cheat is paying off because it is easier for me now to set the boys on their tasks and just let them get on with it knowing they will probably max it out and then will get a promotion when they next go to work.
For example, Jorel just got his promotion for team mascot and he already has the fitness and charisma skill necessary to reach the next level. He just needs to put in the work effort now. The same goes for George who despite being over three hours late to work also got promoted and has the writing skill necessary for his next promotion. Then I get distracted by it being hot and a bright orange notification that George was burning to death because he was getting too hot. I luckily had Dylan save him by making him come inside. Then Matt got home from work and he has also been promoted. Danny was the only one who hadn't been promoted but I think I have to go to work with him in order for that to happen because instead of skill increases like the other three he has tasks to do.
On second thought apparently he can do his task at home too. I made him do some research on the computer and he almost instantly had his first breakthrough. He just needs another one and for his performance level go up and then we're done. I keep seeing notifications that Jorel who's trait is vegetarian keeps eating meat. It is weird because he seems to do it on purpose and the game should know that he should cook or eat the vegetarian safe dishes. He has the high enough cooking skill to do it. Danny is also chief repair person as he has fixed almost everything that has broken in this house so far. Dylan tells me that in 5 minutes he needs to take over the PC so we can stream so I told him go ahead and set up now.
I kinda needed the bathroom and I felt more comfortable leaving the game running as I walked from our office to the bathroom and back. Who knows something more interesting could finally happen? Unfortunately for me though, by the time I had come back and the stream started the only interesting thing that happened was Jorel was dancing in the living room in just his boxers with his beanie on and George and myself were extremely close to wetting ourselves and I had somehow managed to get yet another bladder infection. That was only because of the mod I had in. Then just as Dylan was introducing ourselves and what we were going to be doing George reached level ten of the cooking skill and I reached level two of the comedy skill.
"Hey guys, I have been playing this save for a few hours now and the thought we should show you guys what we have been up to as it is basically our simselves in a household together and we are in control of as little of their lives as humanly possible," I explain then I go around showing them each sim and their traits and what job roles they have if any and then all the interesting things which happened as I have played. It was time for Danny to do his second day of work and I clicked join instead of send alone because I wanted to see what happened. Then I got throwing into a loading screen. Once the loading screen was over I read the text out loud. I also discovered that I have played the sims for five hours straight as today was the first time I have loaded the game since I installed it.
Daily experimentation
Welcome to FutureSim Labs! You'll be quite busy conducting essential experiments, researching new technology and maybe even interacting with alien life. It is your job to leverage potent scientific equipment for the purposes of good. We hope. Well, welcome.
"Oh great I always wanted to interact with aliens. I also kinda want to do it for the whole abduction thing because considering I have been a long time sim fan I have never been abducted by an alien in the sims four, Sadie lets go," I say. My loyal kitty had come back and meowed to announce her arrival so I had picked her up and placed her on my lap even though she wanted to go on the back of my chair. She was an instant hit with the fans especially when my microphone picked up her purring like the maniac she is. I kissed her on the head and she eventually settled down to watch me play because she enjoyed the people moving around. She even looked at me as I was discussing what I was doing and I was acting like I was having a conversation with my little cat.
"Gosh your little nose is cold," I tell the kitty who after having a good sniff of my armpit decided that she would stick her nose on my arm. I start rubbing her head while Dylan takes control of my sims actions which also makes the fans go in a frenzy as you are guaranteed to be a successful and popular streamer when you bring your adorable pet on. She even holds my hand as she washes herself which was the cutest thing. We almost filled the bar by the time the work day was finished but we didn't which made me a little sad but we know what to expect for next time so we can do better next time. I tried to get a cute little selfie of me and my kitty playing the sims but I accidentally dropped my phone onto the floor and scared the kitty away.
I did apologise to her though, she knows deep down I didn't mean to drop my phone. It didn't break which was good but I also had my case and a screen protector on it as back up because you never know what might happen. My simself went to bed when he got back from work so we spent a little bit of time focusing on Jordon and whatever he decided to get up to because we were not going to control their lives unless we had to. "There are plenty of vegetarian safe food around so Jorel should hopefully stop making and eating meat ones now," Dylan comments as he puts the serving plate of veggie burgers and the plate of pancakes in the fridge. There was also a plate of cookies that Jorel could safely eat and Jordon was in the middle of grilling a pot of camper's stew on the barbeque because apparently that is a thing you can do.
"Someone just commented saying that Jordon needs to stay away from the barbeque," Dylan says, we have swapped over again and I made Jordon go star gazing while Dylan read out some of the chat messages. "He does, but I don't think he is very likely to set it on fire again. I think the tumble dryer is the main fire hazard here," I reply, as I quickly zoom the camera over to the washing machine and tumble dryer combo at the same time as watching a sims 4 how to get abducted by aliens video on aliens. "The observatory Jordon is using could work in our favour," Dylan tells me. It really could because we are all getting desperate to see some aliens and to see what happens. "Yeah he's just the right level for something," I tell him.
I click on Jordon and make him use the search for the truth interaction to see what happens. "I am sure to go that I have done with before accidentally and it has been easier than this. Well, at least Jordon is level ten in the logic skill," I tell him. Then it was time for Danny to go to work again and I was determined to make him have the best day in work ever. I got a crystal from co-worker in my first hour in game. I was also tasked with making a synthetic food serum which sounds interesting. "Does that mean we make the food for Matt?" Dylan asks, referring to the fact that in the sims world Matt is an astronaut. I was thinking about my answer as I played through the game and managed to break the machine I was using in the game.
"We could be. We have no idea what the sims four astronauts eat. Also I think I am hungry because that baconite sounds tasty," I tell him. I showed him the notification that said we got a metal called baconite from one of our co-workers. "Maybe you should have rubbed some bacon on the machine to make it work again," Dylan jokes and I just roll my eyes. I love the random references but now was not the time. Just as I was making the food serum for the second time because the first one had failed our elderly co-worker who had just given us the baconite laid down on the floor and passed away. "RIP Keala Hoapili, we only knew you one day, but it was the best day of our lives," I say after I had recovered from the shock of that.
We finished our shift with a promotion. I think Jorel also got another promotion today. Darrel is more persistent then Geoffrey Landgraab who has seemed to have given up trying to get my sim to go out with him. "Aw, you kissed me and now you're probably telling me about your day in work," Dylan says as he watches our sim interact with each other. I let the conversation happen then laugh as it was really a discovery of a new type of fish. "Yeah, I am going to stick with that one because it sounds cuter then hey look what fish I discovered today. Also why are you letting Jorel invite a woman in when he is just in his boxers?" I ask. Emilia Ernest is a pretty young adult, might be the perfect sim match for Jorel or Matt if we work hard enough.
"I only saw her outside and decided Jorel should invite her in. I had no idea he was just in his boxers but then again so am I by the looks of things," he says and then he reads out some more of the notifications we were getting from the stream. Our luck paid off, just as I was about to ask why Emilia was uncomfortable Jordon got abducted by the aliens. "God damn it. My career is a waste of time if Jordon can just hop in the observatory and then search for the truth and the next night he gets flipping abducted," I tell him. I have to restrain myself a bit though. Just because Jordon got abducted does not guarantee that in three or four sim days' time he is gonna pop out an alien human hybrid baby. There is a 25% chance of that happening.
"Nothing yet. Right we're gonna leave the game running real quick while we go grab some drinks. Keep an eye on them for us," Dylan says. It is true, Jordon had come back just as we had left and there were no obvious signs or moodlets that he had been impregnated. "I don't think he's pregnant this time," I tell him, as we come back there was a lot of funny messages in the chat which we read out while we were checking on the sims. They have become really efficient at taking care of themselves. "A cat called Tiger with a hundred bits says you better put my cat mom into the game so help me god," I read then start laughing. I don't think the fans are that impressed with Jorel being with anyone other than Vanessa. Dylan laughs too.
"Next stream we will make and add Vanessa into the game and into the household. Right now though I wanna focus on some other things and see where they take us because we are not going to do a one off with this you guys," I tell the chat. I had already been recording the stream so I could edit it up into a video series to go on to the channel. Dylan goes on to explain that I have made a Vanessa sim in the past and if I haven't saved her then it would take me a long time to make her again and that we would at least attempt it. We have plenty of time tomorrow to explore and focus on another sim because with the science career our attention had shifted onto my sim and what he was getting up to. "Damn Daniel, back at it again with those breakthroughs," Dylan jokes.
"Oh whoops, I was still brainstorming that is why. I was supposed to be making the SimRay," I tell him. Lilith has stolen our first invention after it had been there for two days. I guess it doesn't really matter but I still felt hurt that someone had taken our hard work. Maybe if it asks us to use it on a sim we could use it on her as payback. "That is one hell of a smoky SimRay," Dylan comments. I then realise that Lilith had left work so I decide to freeze our only male co-worker instead. The moodlet that goes with freezing a sim is so perfect. We're getting better at letting Danny have more fantastic days at work now that we know more of what we are doing. "Right then, let's check on Jordon and see how he is doing," I tell Dylan.
"Nope no pregnancy here. We'll have to try again maybe with Danny this time," Dylan comments. I think that could work. If not we could send Jordon out again. I send Danny to go and observe the night sky even though it was too early to use the search for the truth interaction. I forgot what level my simself has in logic so I suppose a few extra hours won't hurt. "Wow Matt is acing his career," I tell him. Another promotion is in the bag. These guys are getting quite successful. I set George on a task to create a motivational book while we look at his current job performance. "George is gonna be next too," Dylan says. He was already at level 7 for writing I don't think we would have to worry about the levels once they all hit level 10 in everything.
My accidental forgetting to cancel interaction worked in my favour too. All my sim needs to do now is to get his performance up and he will be promoted as well. In our endeavour to see if we could set up Danny to be abducted by aliens in the morning we had maxed out his logic skill. So all we need to do now is to focus on his work and getting him fantastic reports at the end of each day. "Someone is going to go to work tired in the morning," I comment. My simself stayed up all night searching for the truth and had two hours left before he had to leave for work and he was fast asleep on the bed. "We could always cheat his need if it gets too bad," Dylan comments. I decide to cheat his needs so that he has the best day possible.
We also decide that we are going to end the game when we have finished Danny's next working day after waiting to see if there will be any potential abductions. We have been streaming for two hours now and I was beginning to get tired. Dylan didn't want to carry on without me either. I guess that is the downside to doing this as a married stream instead of a single stream. Maybe when Dylan is more sims confident we can get him to stream his sims games or this one by himself. At least the sim version of me can garden better than the real me can. I wasn't concentrating too well on this one because I was getting tired so his performance slipped a little bit. At least we earned another vacation day that we could use at some point.
We ignore Darrel and Geoffrey again and find a rare crystal in our backyard once the sim version of myself gets home. Both Jorel and Matt have minor performance losses as I make the wrong choices. The sim version of myself also maxed out his fitness level and his charisma level as we wait to see if he gets abducted or not. There were also sadly no more alien abductions this time which made me a little disappointed. Maybe next time I guess. I know I could always cheat the way there but I don't want to. It will feel better if it was more authentic as strange as that sounds. Once the stream is over Dylan and I get ready for bed. "Goodnight Dylan I love you," I tell my husband. I had settled into his arms and was so ready for sleep. "Goodnight Danny I love you too," he tells me.
And that is the end of another one shot! Let me know what you think! Also let me know if you want a part two. Everything that happened to the sims was based on what happened in my sims game, including all the broken electronics and plumbing. This was honestly so much fun to make and I want to do it again some time.
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