Guy Wrightley and Zoe Zimmerman: Week 5

If you click on the labels "Wrightley" or "Zimmerman", you will find Week 4 with these two.

The last household of this round lives in the apartment with the door on the left, closest to the street. It is one of the last few remaining apartment lots I am actually playing; I have given up nearly all of them, as they became annoyingly buggy after a while.

Zoe Zimmerman and Guy Wrightley live here. They have been a couple since their college days, when they fell in love autonomously. Both are on Permanent Platinum; Zoe had 20 best friends 22 days before reaching Elderhood, and Guy rose up the ranks of New Maximiliania's army he became General 19 days from Elderhood.

If you have read the previous week with these two, you will remember that they as good as never make group meals, but always cook for themselves, and it is almost always salmon for Zoe - no exception on this Monday morning!

Another pattern the couple has developed is that if one of them is in the kitchen, the other one follows quickly - while one of them cooks, the other does the washing up or cleans the counters.

But something is different today: All during their previous week, nobody could be bothered to empty the overflowing, smelly bin in the kitchen. Today, Zoe does it without any prompting from my part.

I have still not made them pay their bills, and so they remain unpaid until another visit from the Repo Man. This time, he takes a curtain from the living room and a cactus plant from the kitchen - that's all.

At 6:00 pm, Guy turns into an Elder. He seems to be happy about his outfit - at least he is smiling!

"Hey, this feels actually rather good!" he exclaims before Zoe.

Zoe is all but melting - she and Guy are very much in love. And - I did expect this to happen - Guy rolls the wish to marry. He proposes to Zoe on the spot, and of course she says yes.

Now that they are both Seniors, what could be more fitting than for them to move to the Senior Residence! And so they pack up and leave the rented apartment for good.
When they arrive here, it is Thursday.

Almost immediately, Zoe and Guy discover the poker table. Callum Capp has joined Bottom Summerdream already.
She and her husband Björn are the oldest residents here right now, being both 74 years old. Gunnar is next with his 72 years, Zoe is 61, Francis 59 and Guy the youngest at 54.
Oh, and of course Francis' cat Kim is also here, but she is not an elderly cat yet.

Guy is dropped off after work by his usual copter, now with Francis in tow. The latter has just been promoted to Hostage Negotiator.

Friday morning sees Zoe asleep on her dinner plate. Well, at least she did not starve!

Early afternoon, Francis returns from work with a promotion to International Sim of Mystery. It is a mystery to me what this actually is supposed to be!

Zoe rings some friends and gathers all the residents at the house for a group taxi to St. Simius. You can guess why, can't you?

Guy and Zoe finally tie the knot, and Guy becomes Mr. Zimmerman.

Bottom's choice of outfit was maybe a little ill-advised - she wears the same dress as the bride, but as usual when it comes to clothes, everybody generously pretends not to notice.

Francis and Gunnar must have been shopping together, too :-) Do you recognise the young man sitting near Gunnar?

Of course, there is a wedding cake and a buffet...

...and then an unbidden guest appears. He may not be welcome, but at least he is well attired.

Have you ever seen the Unsavoury Charlatan eat in your game? Well, I have now! And he seems to really like Pauline Broke (nee Aspir), constantly following her around and looking at her.

After everybody has had their time on the dance floor, the group dissolves and those living at the Senior Residence take a taxi back home.

Looks like there is something about weddings bringing unexpected emotions to the forefront - here is Francis, feeling VERY attracted to Björn Summerdream all of a sudden!

The next morning, Saturday, as if to show Francis that there is nothing to yesterday's burst of emotion, Björn kisses his wife in the common room while Francis is studying for his next promotion.

The newlyweds are as much in love as ever.

With all the studying, Francis has missed his car pool for work. Good job he has not forgotten how to fly a broomstick!

That evening, Guy surprises me by preparing a group meal. Zoe interrupts him and so it falls on Gunnar to complete the cooking - a little too late, as you can see.

On Sunday morning, Francis is practising for more charisma, when Bottom walks in and spots Gunnar standing quite by conicidence underneath the mistletoe.

One kiss later, the two of them are in love!

They go to bed together (only to sleep, mind you), and when they wake up, their faces look as if they are asking themselves "What have we done?".

Björn comes looking for his wife, and when the two of them exchange a kiss, Gunnar has the nerve of accusing Bottom - a married woman, after all! - of cheating on HIM!
It does not go well with Bottom, who resolves to stick to her loving and forgiving husband.

Meanwhile, Zoe is showing off her deft hand with the cards at the poker table.

And Guy manages to cook the salmon to perfection this time.

I am glad that Bottom and Björn did not split up. She dies that afternoon, much to my surprise; I expected someone else go first, really. Bottom was 78, and since she was a kid when the game started, has been around for as long as I've been playing New Maximiliania. Bye-bye, Bottom!

As I said, I expected another Sim to die before Bottom - Gunnar. He fulfills my expectation early on Monday morning; an unusual time for a visit by Mr. Reaper. Gunnar was 76.

Uh-oh... that mistletoe again! This time, Zoe and Björn happen to find themselves underneath it, and promptly fall in love aftr their holiday kiss.

But don't worry. Zoe will later say it was just to cheer up newly widowed Björn a bit. She loves her Guy, and nobody else.

uesday is the last day at this household, and the last for the entire round.
Zoe and Guy reassure each other of how happy they are to be married.

Francis still needs two more body points before he can expect another promotion and chooses to do Yoga out in the snow.

Guy returns from work just in time to greet Lance Landgraab, brother of Lilo Landgraab. The skunk is hurrying off on important skunk business :-)

Zoe brings today's paper in and sits down in the common dining room to read it, completely unimpressed by Lance's coughing fit.

She later surprises me by taking a plate of salmon (taken out of the fridge by Francis) to one of the apartments to eat it there instead of in the large dining room. Maybe she just wants some peace and quiet for her meal, and not more coughing from Lance or anyone else.

This week - and the round - ends without another death. I will do my annual head count of New Maximiliania next and post it on here.

Also, I plan to play more TS4 - one of the lovely gifts I found under the Christmas tree was the pets expansion for TS4, and I want to discover this as soon as I can. Oh, and i must not forget to make a backup of New Max before I start the next round!