Stone’s Season 4: Summer

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Welcome back to the achievement challenge Gemstone Legacy update! We are back with the Stone family and last update Sappir married Sergio eloping on the Tartosa beaches. Sergio became pregnant and gave birth to a little boy named Sidian. The family moved to a slightly larger house in a different area of Mt. Komorebi.

We are getting close to wrapping up season 3 of the achievement insanity project. I have been thinking that maybe I should, starting next round, split my updates to doing 2 per round, one per week. Not only will it likely ensure I can keep updates going a little more regularly, possibly, but they won’t be so long to read. Let me know if you have any opinions in the comments, I can also leave it just like it is. All right, enough rambling, let’s check out how this season goes!

When we join the family at 4 AM Sappir is outside for some reason. Sergio and Sidian are in the house hanging out. We send Sappir up to bed so he can start the day at a more reasonable hour.

Sergio reads Sidian to sleep before heading back to bed himself. 4 AM is simply too early for them all to be awake at the start of a week. This, at least, helps Sidian with his imagination skill.

When we start the week for real Sidian gives us two traits right away. First, he hates wake-up time, which, same Sidian, same. Then he also has a good appetite which means he’s going to want to eat a lot. Not the worst traits, I’ve certainly had toddlers who were more challenging.

Since it’s a Sunday we have Sergio and Sappir take a walk through the walking paths near where they live. They have a good walk and enjoy the time they get to spend together. Once again I cry a bit over the fact that we don’t have toddler carriers to allow Sidian to come with us more easily.

While out and about Sergio decides that he enjoys adventure and gets the adventurous trait. That is kind of a fun trait for him, since for the most part, his life has been pretty quiet and straight-laced.

Sappir still needs to work on all his required skills, and we have a lot still to go I feel like. So he spends time serenading his husband. Sidian decides to come out and do some watching to work on his thinking. I haven’t fully decided if Sidian will be an only child or not. There isn’t anything say we can’t have more, but I kind of feel like these two would be happy with their one child.

We get the final trait for Sidian as a toddler and it’s destructive. That one is not quite as nice for us and could cause some issues while he is a toddler.

While the dads are both off at work the next day we go ahead and get a nanny to come over and take care of Sidian. Luckily she helps Sidian with potty time, but only after she breaks the sink. Thanks nanny.

Sergio and Sappir come home from work both with repairing tasks to take care of for the day. Once that is completed they are able to spend some more time together in a more intimate setting. We do have risky in, so if that happens to strike we’ll allow it.

When Sappir is awake again he starts on some work for his career. He is doing all right, but since we still need to reach level 10 we will need to focus a bit more on his work and his skills.

Sappir does decide that he enjoys Handiness, which will be good for as often as we have things breaking at the moment. Not to mention a destructive toddler.

Before heading off to work the next day Sappir works on his violin skill and plays something beautiful for his husband, who was eating some breakfast. I’m struggling with getting him inspired much of the time. He gets focused very easily, but inspired is what we need the most with all these instrument skills.

The nanny is back and this time she is very helpful. Sidian gets some work in with his blocks and then learns to dance with the nanny. Eventually, he heads off to read some of his books by himself for a bit. The milestones are actually kind of a fun “blueprint” for what to skill up next and with what.

Sappir gets himself a promotion the next day which comes with a good bonus. Sergio decides that his husband can handle all the handiness because he does not like it. That’s all right, Sappir is doing well with handiness. Too bad that isn’t one of our required skills.

Our little Sidian got a candy from the nanny and he is going to enjoy eating it outside away from his dads, who probably don’t know he got it. This little tyke is getting devious already. Luckily he’s super cute.

Sergio gets a looming layoff warning and we are going to have to have him work a bit harder. He needs skills, but the family needs another computer probably. Then, maybe as a reaction to the layoff news he gets a strict dynamic with Sidian.

Sidian looks so sad but Sergio really does love his son a lot. Right after this, he does get a diaper change and a quick clean-up to feel better. Then Sergio reads him to sleep. Sergio is the best storyteller I think.

The next day is a holiday and while Sidian decides to celebrate by making a big mess, Sergio and Sappir light a couple of fireworks to enjoy the holiday. It was an ok holiday for everyone, not our best, but it’s tough with a toddler sometimes.

Sappir decides, with all the cleaning up he’s been having to do, that he is neat. I think this suits him pretty well since he was always very clean in his own house before he was married.

It is almost Sidian’s birthday so Sergio decides to help him out with any of the last little skills he needs to level up. I do love this interaction.

For Sidian’s birthday, we invite over a bunch of people that are friends of the family. He blows out his candles and grows into a child. He gets the Mean trait, according to the challenge rues, and rolls to get the Playtime Captain aspiration. That should be fun for a mean sim.

Sidian becomes another sim in this challenge who dislikes dancing. I think Kendall Keet from our Box of Chocolates is the only other one I have. After a bit of a makeover, we can see our little Sidian, who is likely to be our only child in this particular generation. I just think it makes sense with his generation too.

Since we need Sidian to get the Playtime Captian aspiration done we send him to the playground next door to play with a bunch of the kids and meet a few of them. He has fun and gains some good motor skills as well.

He needs to splash around in a splash pad so we send the family over. Sidian plays in the splash pad while Sergio gets a bit of a tan and Sappir works on his piano skill. I really like this little rec center. Sadly, Sidian wasn’t playful while splashing around, so while they had fun we’ll have to come back.

Back at home, Sappir works on cooking some food for the family and Sergio does a little cleaning up. Once the food is ready they sit down as a family for dinner. This doesn’t happen very often with this family so it was nice.

I love the current work outfits for our two handsome fathers. They look very dapper leaving for work at the same time each day, and luckily the nanny is no longer needed since Sidian heads to school as well.

After school, Sidian brings this girl home with him and they are starting to become friends, at least a little bit. Since Sidian is mean it isn’t always easy for him to make friends. I struggle a bit with mean sims, mischievous ones are fine but mean ones are more difficult. I guess I’ll get some practice in.

Sidian and Sappir get the jokesters dynamic, which isn’t overly surprising, but it is nice that he is a jokester with one of his parents instead of completely mean all the time with everyone.

The Hijinks festival is in town so the family heads down and joins the pranksters so that Sidian can get some action in that won’t seem too mean for doing them. He’s going to get mischief skill leveled up pretty quickly.

Monday Sidian brings home a school project, and he works on it sloppily since it’s not really his priority. It’s quite a humorous thing to see the “poor” solar system, which I have never seen. Then his room gets a nice update more fitting for a child.

Both Sappir and Sergio come home with promotions which is great news. Sergio has been able to build up his skills and Sappir is finally up to level 6. We have a ways to go still, but it’s progress and with not needing as much time spent on Sidian we can hopefully get more progress done quickly now.

To celebrate the promotions we have the family sit down and do a hotpot. It’s a lovely experience for all of them and a lot of fun to watch them chat around the hotpot at the table.

Sergio has spent so much time being happy that he is no longer feeling hot-headed. I think this is a really fun change for him and so we say yes. So instead of Hot-Headed he is now Cheerful.

This was an interesting moodlet I have not ever seen, or at least noticed. I guess his dad’s working so hard to be successful has him feeling the need to not be inferior himself. Sergio did manage to keep from getting laid off thanks to the work he did, so I guess it’s good they are teaching him to work hard, but this is a lot of pressure. It does fit in well with how Sidian’s generation will go though.

Since Sidian did not manage to finish splashing around playfully the visit before, we send him back to the rec center. This time with a bunch of kids, and after he becomes playful they head off to splash around in the splash park again. This time he completes the objective without issue.

Sergio is an active sim and we don’t have him go do active things very often. To help make sure he doesn’t get too tense we send him out for a jog around the neighborhood. It’s actually really fun to see where sims go jogging around, although it’s a very gloomy day this day.

Once he’s back at home he spends time with Sidian reading a book. Sidian works on his homework because he is going to get good grades. He can also be responsible, but he does need to get the insensitive trait, which I need to remember and start to work on.

All the work he’s been putting in means Sidian has gotten an A in school. He also, somehow, managed to max out his social skill. For a ‘mean’ kid he grew that skill SUPER fast and this isn’t even a tiny home. Now to make sure we work on the insensitive trait.

Sidian and Sergio spend some more time together and discuss about life. I can’t remember where Sidian is with the insensitive trait, but I think he is starting to have people who don’t overly like him. That makes a lot of sense.

The festival of lights? I think that’s right, is in town and the family heads out to participate. Sergio even does some fire dancing while we are there. It was a successful festival for them.

Sappir spends time making up some food for the family the next morning. We are almost through this season already. I have enjoyed this family a lot, although it feels like there is still a lot to do for them before the end of the generation.

Sidian, throughout the last day, decides he likes fitness, finishes his aspiration, and goes into a loud phase. He rolls for a new aspiration and gets the Whiz Kid this time. There is a chance he will get through that before he grows up, but that will have to wait for next season.

It’s 4 AM again and now the family is all asleep. We will be back for another season, hopefully, soon. In the meantime I hope you will join me for the last update for this round, the White family, who is up next. Next time with this family we are going to have to focus on Sidian’s insensitive trait, and Sappir’s skills. Let me know your thoughts about breaking up the updates into two if you have an opinion, and I hope to see you at the next family soon!

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