The Summerdreams - Update 25.11.2018

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The last time I played here at the Senior Residence was only two months ago in real life, for Gunnar Roque. Now I am back for Björn and Bottom Summerdream, as they are next on my alphabetical list to play.
In this picture, you can see Sarah Love (74), Jimmy Phoenix (75) and Bottom (63). It is early Sunday morning.

Gunnar Roque is now 61.

Bottom's husband Björn (a half-Alien son of Loki Beaker) is 63 like her.

Everyone here is on Permanent Platinum, and so any cleaning, cooking or gardening is always done on their own initiative. I only control these Sims if it is to greet a neighbour passing by, pay the bills or take care of Blacky the wombrat.

Do you remember how Gunnar and Björn did not get along very well at first? Now they are best friends, and any initial animosity between them is forgotten.

Gunnar can't sleep because he is hungry. But instead of going to the fridge (which is, of course, well stocked and easily accessible), he moves from one bed to the other - there are 8 in total.

It takes him until Monday morning before he finally makes his way to a meal - and that only because Bottom was hungry and went to the fridge to take out leftovers in the shape of comfort soup. Hardly surprising, Gunnar falls asleep face down into his bowl of soup, but at least he has eaten enough to be saved from starvation - for now.

Spring has sprung, and the garden looks a mess.

Bottom surprises me by clipping the hedges and pulling weeds until the job is almost completely done.

Sarah happily announces her return from work. She is now 75 - and this was her very last working day: Mr. Reaper comes to meet her before she can do anything else. Bye-bye, Sarah!

When Jimmy returns from work, he has his colleague Guy Wrightly in tow.

Björn has been sleeping all afternoon and then makes a meal of the smelly leftovers from his wife's breakfast. There is something wrong with the fridge, it seems; no Sim can "check food level" or put in the basket of groceries Gunnar has in his inventory. I sell and replace the fridge a few times, but to no avail. Let's see if a change of scene will make a difference.

Tuesday morning sees Bottom and the other three remaining residents with suitcases in their hands on the way to the airport shuttle.

They arrive at the Flaming Dragon, their hotel for the next three days at Takemizu Village.

Bottom, Björn, Jimmy and Gunnar are not alone: Bottom has asked her closest friends along as well. Shaun Singles, Marcus Baldwin, Sharla Ottomas, Justin Kim, and Pauline Broke all check in with them.>

Many years ago, Gunnar dug up a tattered old map in his garden. He now puts it to good use: The group of friends are able to walk to the Pagoda in the Shadows.

There, a wise old man is floating in the air, meditating.

He has tea with Björn and talks to Bottom for a while before our group of friends have to leave - there is no toilet on this lot, and nearly everyone is desperate for a wee after all that tea!

It is Wednesday, and I send the group to the Lucky Shrine Park.

Some of them have autonomously had breakfast at the hotel before heading to the park, but my four playables are all very hungry and order food at the food stall before they do anything else.

Most of them roll the want to go on a tour, and so I have them book a trip to the Bamboo Forest by helicopter. Somehow, Björn (who actually booked the tour for everyone!) and Pauline Aspir reach the *copter too late, and are left behind.

Thursday morning starts with the Summerdreams engaging in some romantic interactions - never mind their friends all being around!

Today, they visit the Pagoda Market.

Just for fun, I have Bottom buy some jewellery (she rolled the want) while everbody else do as they please.

Isn't it funny that the Unsavoury Charlatan walks about in local dress, but still wears his top hat?

Friday is departure day, and after having checked out and paid their impressive bill of over 12,000 Simoleons, the group take their suitcases and board the shuttle to the airport.

Apparently, there was no food served on the fight - everybody arrives home rather hungry! Good job Jimmy offers to make omelettes for everyone.

The round of today's visitors is started by Ginger Newson...

...followed by Castanea Landgraab...

...and ends with Prezioso Landgraab, formerly Picaso, who has recently married Lilo Landgraab.

It is the last day of this week with Bottom and Björn Summerdream. Something strange happens: Even though I have always been making sure that Blacky the wombrat was regularly fed, played with and his cage cleaned, and no message or animation appeared to indicate anything was amiss, I suddenly find the only option available is "stock cage". That means Blacky has either died or escaped - and I never saw it! Ah well, Blacky was possibly the longest-living wombrat ever in my game (originally, he was bought for Freiya Freshe, Tom Freshe's daughter, when she was still a school girl), and now that he is gone, I sell the empty cage.

Bottom is hungry close to the point of starvation and decides the omelettes from yesterday morning are still good enough. You'll get food poisoning this way, Bottom!

Gunnar at first follows her example and eats up another gone-off plateful, but then at least he has the decency to clear up ALL the empty plates around.

Later, I have him call the repair service, as the dishwasher is broken. (I only realised that when Gunnar went to wash the dishes in one of the toilet sinks.)

When Björn returns from work, he throws away exactly ONE of the many old newspapers littering the front garden.

The week ends like almost all days and weeks begin and end at this place: With a round of poker.

Who will be next to join the four residents here? How much longer will they all be around? Is anyone going to starve, given their less than clever eating patterns?