Still in the Wood Age.

1. Hello! I bet you thought I was never going to update my Creation
To Future challenge ever again! Boy, were you wrong!
Currently, our Movin’On Up! family is in the Wood Age, where
they will remain until they earn Gold Badges in both Gardening
and Fishing… and then top Creativity. I hope you like 80’s style
sitcoms* featuring people in animal skins, because you’re going to
be seeing an awful lot of animal skins for some time yet…
*Laugh track not included.

2. BELLA: Bryan, sweetie, aren’t you cold?
BRYAN (sleepily): I dunno.
BELLA: How can you not know if you’re cold?
BRYAN: I don’t know what that means.
BELLA: “How can you not know”?
BRYAN: “Cold.”
BELLA: It means you turn kind of blue and you shiver a lot and
you wish you were warm.
BRYAN: Oh, yeah. I’m that. (yawns) How’d you know?

3. BELLA (V.O.): Why don’t you just sleep inside with the kids?
BRYAN (V.O.): Because you’re out here. And anyway, Clarence
snores.
BELLA (V.O.): No, he doesn’t.
BRYAN (V.O.): Sure he does. He snores all the time. And as soon
as I wake up or roll over, he stops. He’s sneaky, that one! (yawns)
…And he farts a lot, too.
BELLA (V.O.): Are you sure we’re talking about Clarence here?
Seriously, just go inside and sleep in the warm.
BRYAN (V.O.): But what if you need me?

4. BELLA: What could I need you fo-ooooooooooowr! Owowowow!
BRYAN: What can I do? What can I do?
BELLA: Can you get some towels?
BRYAN: What are towels?
BELLA: Can you get me into the bathroom? That’s where all impo-
ooooooowuuuuuurtant hee hoo hee hoo life events are supposed to
ha-APPEN…!
BRYAN: What’s a bathroom?
BELLA: Can you at least boil some water?
BRYAN: What’s “boi– ”?
BELLA: NEVER MIND JUST GO AWAY!

5. BRYAN (cheerfully): You stay sleeping with the new baby, Bella.
I’ll take care of the big babies.
CLORINDA: (screams)
BRYAN: Don’t worry, sweetie. Daddy’s here to take care of you.
CLORINDA: (screams louder)
BRYAN: You’re kind of stinky. …Oh, darn, I said something.
(sigh) Okay, I’ll take care of it…
CLORINDA: NAH! NAH! NAH DADA NAKT! NAH! (screams)
CLARENCE (sighs, then, patiently): Daddy, go put on some
clothes.
BRYAN: Oh. Whoops.

6. BELLA: Okay, sweetie, I’m going to teach you some very
important words. Are you ready?
CLORINDA: Ya!
BELLA: Here we go: “Daddy, put some clothes on.”
CLORINDA: Dada puh su clo-oh ah.
BELLA: “Daddy, put some clothes on.”
CLORINDA: Dada pusah clo-ah.
BELLA: “Daddy, put some clothes on.”
BRYAN (cheerfully): Did someone call me?
CLORINDA: Daddy, put some clothes on! (hides eyes)

7. BRYAN (excitedly): Did you know that the Big Waterfall in the Sky
lives in the ground too?
BELLA: No, it doesn’t.
BRYAN: Oh yeah? Then what do you call this?
BELLA (panicked): That’s a problem! A big problem! Fill it in,
quick quick quick!
BRYAN: You mean there’s a Bad Waterfall in the Ground?
BELLA: No, no, there isn’t. Just fill it in. Hurry!

8. BRYAN (V.O.): I think there is too a Bad Waterfall in the Ground.
And that’s why bad things happen.
BELLA (V.O.): No, that’s not how it works.
BRYAN (V.O.): But you said the Bad Waterfall in the Ground was
bad.
BELLA (V.O.): No, I didn’t – That’s not what I meant. The, uh, Bad
Waterfall in the Ground can’t make bad things happen.
BRYAN (V.O.) (smugly): Well, if the Bad Waterfall in the Ground
doesn’t make bad things happen, why does that rabid wolf keep
coming around?
BELLA (V.O.) (wearily): Glowing eyes are not a sign of rabies.

9. BRYAN: SEE? I told you the Bad Waterfall in the Ground was bad!
Now it’s MAD at us!
BELLA: Don’t be silly. Why would it be mad?
BRYAN: I don’t know! Maybe it wants us to give it stuff. Do you
think it would like stuff?
BELLA: I think it would like you to fill the hole in now, please. I
think it doesn’t like being disturbed.

10. BRYAN (V.O.): THIS PROVES IT. The Bad Waterfall in the
Ground is so mad at us, it made all the kids cry.
BELLA (V.O.): No, it didn’t, Bryan.
BRYAN (V.O.): Then why are they all crying?
BELLA (V.O.): I’m sure you could figure it out. Or you could try
just asking them.
BRYAN (V.O.): Oh, okay. Hey, um, sproglet! Grub! Er – Bella,
what’s the new one’s name again?
BELLA (V.O.): (sigh) Claude.
BRYAN (V.O.): Hey Claude! What’s wrong? Why are you crying?

11. BRYAN: You believe me, don’t you?
CLARENCE: Aaaaaaaaah!
BRYAN: About the Bad Waterfall in the Ground? You know it
really exists, right? And that it’s bad?
CLARENCE: AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhHHH!
BRYAN: Do you think we need to appease it? I think we need to
appease it. So it isn’t mad at us anymore. What do you think?
CLARENCE: Anything you want, Daddy, just don’t drop me!
(Bryan sets Clarence down gently. Clarence promptly throws up.)
BRYAN: An offering! Great idea! (happily) That should do it.

12. Note from esmeiolanthe: I apologize for the even-less-sensible-
than-usual writing this chapter – I’m writing it up just about a year
and a half after the pictures were taken, and I have absolutely no
clue what I was intending with the pictures.
Clorinda also Grew Up this time around, but in the best tradition of
80’s sitcoms, the show will never ever mention this and will just
replace the character with an older actor. That’s Clarence on the left
and Clorinda on the right.
Until next time, Happy Simming!