No More Roy: Checking In

I checked in with the Criminally Challenged (aka The Racketeers) household in Riverview. I was just going to tuck them into bed, but things got a little lively. Ruby got abducted before I realized what was happening. Thank heavens it wasn't one of the guys again. I don't want any more surrogate fathers!


Soon after that, Ernest--one of our resident ghosts--woke up.

He made himself some tea...

...then wandered around the place until way after sunrise. You'd think a drowning victim would stay clear of any bodies of water, but Ernest loves water. He uses the sauna every time he shows up, and I guess he doesn't mind wading through the wishing well either! 

It feels strange in the household without good ole Roy. He's in the Wild West now with Holly and Riley. I need to figure out what the Criminally Challenged family will tackle next. Can't leave them in domestic bliss too long! 


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Champion Chestnut the horse misses Roy. None of the others have a good relationship with him yet even though they are trying to interact with him. I'll have to work on that.


Mark ate fruit from the Tree of Prosperity and gained his first skill point in Riding. 

When Clyde isn't dancing, he's thinking about money. 

Ruby is just now working through the Betrayed moodlet she got from her last encounter with Roy. I don't think she's going to miss the guy. 

So, what's in store for the family now? More indiscretions and arguments? Another pregnancy? A new dangerous caper? ... Maybe all the above!

Renovations in Riverview

I decided to do a little renovating to the Jones home in Riverview. I've never played in that house before. First, I put the Now And Then Century Manor grand staircase in the foyer.

The stairs still take up a lot of room, but the rest of the house is huge, so that doesn't matter as much as it did in the original Manor house. And the Jones place already had a large entryway staircase to begin with.



I also made a few changes to the front porch and door. The original had two different doors and the stairs leading up to them were separate. Unique, but bizarre.


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More Jones Home Renovations

I spent a little more time last night redoing parts of the Jones mansion 1st floor. Mainly got rid of the basement walkway. I have no idea what that was supposed to be. I didn't see anything down there. If there was anything there, it's gone now!

Here's a screenshot of the front group of stairs that led down to that "pit." There were more stairs in the back of the house too. All wasted space.


And here's what I did after I floored it all in--just basic functional things. The first area became a new dining room, and the second area became a small TV room. I also put black and white tiles in the foyer (typical for those types of homes), rearranged the living room, converted the arched walkway on the right to a small waiting room, put rocking chairs in the room where the dining table used to be, removed the third fireplace which was on the porch and replaced it with a washer/dryer in that odd chimney room.


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Some Final Touches on the Jones House

I spent some time adding a few more touches to the Jones house in Riverview. I used NRaas to open the home and the "Build on This Lot" cheat to fix things since the Joneses were still living there.

This back porch had brown grill work overhead. I changed that to a small deck above the walkway and glass roofing over the main patio area. I put in a screen door opening from a second story bedroom on to the deck. I also replaced the red brick chimneys with the Old Mill venue recolorable ones.


I improved the laundry room a little and also added a hutch to the dining room I'd made where those weird staircases used to be. ... I happened to catch Hannah romancing Aidan while taking screenshots. 


Here's a closer view of the TV room that replaced the back stairs to the unfinished basement. The Joneses also got a new computer for their study. And Hannah was still seducing Aidan. 


The only other thing I did was add a couple of lights and a planter to the small balcony above the foyer. I then closed up the home and left Hannah and Aidan by themselves. 


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The second project I did was to make a few changes to the Now and Then Manor where my active household used to live. It's sitting empty, so after I made the renovations, I saved a copy to the bin.

I moved the back doors over and expanded the porch, allowing more room inside the screened porch too.

I also enclosed the deck area above the small room off the living room downstairs.

On the second floor, I replaced a door leading to the deck with a window in one of the bedrooms. I'd had some embarrassing moments with sims walking through bedrooms at "private moments" to get out to the decks. 

Here's how the manor looks now. The first floor:

The main changes to the second floor I did today was to switch the bedroom and TV room around and to close in the deck off the TV room, which used to be the bedroom. I also replaced the futuristic tube elevator with the ladder leading up to the attic.

No changes to the attic today except for the ladder access. Basic exercise room and a spare bed and bath.