02-12. Full Moon Madness: Part 1

There was another full moon. That's 3 now since starting this save. I checked my options and realized that the cycle was at 6 days instead of the usual 10 days I play (for epic lives). I changed that.

Full moons are beautiful but crazy-making!


To begin with, there's always at least one of the guys who goes Lunatic and start doing strange things like slapping the others. This time it was Aaron. He was dead tired, but kept getting out of bed to freak out. I was afraid he was going to keel over! I finally just cheated and got rid of the Lunatic Moodlet. I had too much to deal with. 

During the day of the full moon and that night, all the ghost ladies made a showing except Sophia (Chris' girl). That's 7 ghosts and 7 romances to supervise during a 24 hr period! 

Amika, Guy's girlfriend appeared and used the outdoor shower early morning previous to the full moon.


Then she haunted the castle battlements.


The men started waking up and Guy was able to distract Amika. Trevor had nectar for breakfast. He's my biggest drinker. The Party Animal. Hair of the dog, I guess! 


During the day, the gentlemen practiced martial arts so they could be evenly matched for the Tourney competition.

What's going on here? Who is ... OMG! Guy! Guy! What happened to you, man! 


I don't know what the glitch was, but I made Guy switch clothes a couple of times, and he changed back to his normal manly self. Whew!


The boys spent a short time breaking boards.
Daryl: No, no! Not the boards too!!


And they all practiced 2 quick shots and 2 challenge shots on the archery range.


I had to send Dromio away from the castle because he wouldn't leave the knights alone!


He went to the Arcane Guild for collecting and gathering, then smelted metals and cut gems.


He also made a couple of toys.


Back home, Dromio was still giving knights body massages.


So I made him fix hot dogs to keep him busy. Big mistake! He had no cooking skill. 


Everyone stopped what they were doing (including the ghost girls) and came running to the fire. Daredevil Bradley tried to extinguish the fire.


But caught himself on fire!  He quickly ran off to the outdoor shower.


Meanwhile, everyone else was in a panic. Jeremy was closest to the flames, so I told him to try extinguishing them.


Bradley returned, but by that time, Jeremy had the flames under control.


Another grill destroyed! Luckily insurance reimbursed the household more than enough funds to replace it.


Right after the fire, Eileen (Steven's girlfriend) went over to the bushes and tossed up her dinner. Earlier, she'd gotten into the fridge and eaten leftovers that had the herb WonderPetal added. The herb was to enhance the knights' learning abilities, but it didn't agree with Eileen, poor girl! 


And still more madness to come ...

02-11. Between Tourney Challenges

Between tournament rounds, the boys had some free time. Here are a few pics of their activities at the library.











Cutie Guy. He really is a great sim. I love the looks he gives while playing the piano. Here's another pic of him. He knows he's adorable! Also, isn't that a neat idea the build creator (Vera_J) did using MOO to combine a sofa table and the portable piano? It looks really good.



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A few more free time pics of the guys.

Steven decided to play a blender pool trick. At first he just got hit with the balls.


But then he had some success.


Three of the ghost ladies showed up during the tournament, including Daryl's girl Clara. He hadn't seen her for days, but I couldn't interrupt the competition to send the boys back home. Sorry, romance has to wait.


The men really liked the sports equipment. There wasn't much library book reading going on.


Trevor surprised me by reading on his MultiTab though. He's an Athletic Party Animal. I guess he was getting tired after all his sports, juicing, and dancing.


Chris also took a break and played a sports game on the computer.


Bradley's second sculpture turned out to be a wooden nectar rack. Oh goody, just what we need--more nectar. I sold the rack immediately.

02-10. The Tournament Continues

I don't think I gave the reason for this tournament. The stakes are high! The top two winners will be the first to have their women resurrected. The lowest scoring knights will have to move to another house during the resurrection process.

The Renaissance: Arts and Science

For the 3rd challenge, the men met at the Old Tome Library. I looked at each guy's skills in the arts and science category. Fishing, cooking, and gardening didn't count because those skills were being used for the ghost challenge. Instead, I checked instrument skills, painting, handiness, inventing, logic, sculpting, glass blowing, writing, alchemy.

Whichever of these skills they were highest in would be the skill they would try to raise in a 6 hour time period. They would get 10 tourney pts for every skill pt in total they had at the finish of the round. Partial points would be rounded to the nearest whole point. So, for example, 3/4 of the way to level 4 would become 40 points for the tourney, 1/4 past level 3 would count as 30 points.

Jeremy's highest Renaissance skill was in Handiness. He has the Handy trait and had been getting wishes to use it. Dromio had already upgraded everything in the castle, so this was a perfect time for Jeremy to try his skill.


Daryl and Trevor's highest arts or science skills were in Logic. I sat them down to games of chess. They were closely matched, but the winner didn't matter, only the resulting skill levels.


Steven had been doing a lot of sketching in his spare time, so I put him in front of an easel with Painting as his Renaissance choice.


Chris was another high Logic man, so he was set to work on discovering potions at the chemistry table.


Bradley's highest Renaissance skills were tied with Handiness and Sculpting, but he has the Savvy Sculptor trait, so I chose Sculpting for him. He'd been getting wishes to do more sculpting.


No surprise that the two Virtuosos had instruments as their high arts or science skills: Guy on guitar and Aaron on base. These boys really enjoyed this round of the tournament.


Bradley finished sculpting a trash can, then went on to work on a second piece.


The musicians just kept jamming while Daryl and Trevor played two or three more games of chess.


Jeremy finished upgrading one sink and started working on another, which didn't get completed by the end of the round. Steven didn't quite finish his painting by the end of the round, and Bradley hadn't finished his second sculpture either.


Chris discovered a potion, but blew himself up 20 sim minutes before the end of the round. I let him listen to a Logic TabCast for the last few minutes while he cleaned up in the all-in-one shower. I then called Time on the 6th Hour and looked at the final skill levels.


Point results for the Renaissance Arts and Science round:

Aaron: 60
Daryl: 50
Guy: 50
Jeremy: 50
Bradley: 40
Chris: 40
Steven: 40
Trevor: 40
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The Gentlemanly Games

After some rest and a meal, the tournament continued with the 4th round: Strategy Games. The men each competed in 2 games of pool and 2 games of dominoes. The winners of these games received 10 points for a win, no points for a lose.


Even though they had fun and socialized during the games, tempers varied. The pressure was high.


The results for the Strategy Games round were pretty even. Everyone earned 10 pits except Daryl (2 domino wins for 20 pts) and Steven (no wins for 0 pts).

Final results after day two of the Tournament.

Guy: 235
Jeremy: 200
Aaron: 195
Chris: 190
Trevor: 175
Daryl: 120
Steven: 105
Bradley: 75

Coach Dromio took care of the men after they returned to the castle.


Then prep began for the 5th challenge, which would be martial arts sparring. I needed to get all the guys' Sim Fu skills to at least level 1. Bradley was the only one with the MA skill.


There will also be an additional archery match because the first scores for archery were so widely varied. The guys have been practicing and the final match will be with the Challenge shot (fire arrow).