Eleonore and her family are moving to a new, bigger house. Her daughter Bigga has been accepted to private school and will soon go to college. Olive is turning into a teenager and is excited about the new house and being able to meet friends independently. Randy has received an offer for his own cooking TV show. The family is looking forward to settling into their new home.

1. Leafe OWBC chapter 3

2. Welcome back to Leafe OWBC. It has been a long time so I guess that short recap
is in order. Here is our founder, Eleonore Leafe with her groom Randy Couderc
who she met at the college.
Eleonore is Taurus (4/6/4/7/4), fortune/popularity sim with LTW to become City
Architect. Her pre-destined hobby is games.
Randy is Leo (4/10/4/4/3), popularity/knowledge sim with LTW to become Celebrity
chef. His pre-destined hobby is music and dance.

3. It was just a coincidence that Eleonore first heard of townies and Randy also told that he
was one himself too. At the same time Eleonore first heard of simselves and after that she
has been wanting to find out more. Especially who is her simself and how can she be
controlled like that, doesn't she have own free will at all? What about if that simself made
her do terrible things? Does she have a past at all like she thought she had? And would
there be a way to help the townies as their life sounded so dull and boring?

4. Then their family started growing and for many years Eleonore was too busy to think
about simselves or townies. First to born was Bigga. Strong-temperated taurus girl with
character 6/10/2/10/3. Lazy but outgoing and playful but rather crouchy. Likes to tease
her siblings and wishes to find a well paying and easy work so that she can hire all kind of
servants.

5. Next one was girl as well, Olive. Very neat and quite playful capricorn (10/9/2/8/3) who
doesn't particularly want to use her time for cleaning but can't stand living in a dirty house.

6. The third one was a boy, Opal. He is leo and his character is quite close to his sisters
(9/10/5/7/3). Finally someone else is neat in this household so it isn't all down to Olive. He
just had his toddler birthday at the end of our last chapter so there isn't much more to say
about him just yet.

7. Then Eleonore accidentally met one certain Jessica Peterson who turned out to be
another playable. This meant that once again Eleonore was thinking about playables,
townies and simselves. And this is where we continue the story...

8. With three kids in the house it is almost always someone's birthday. This time it was Bigga's turn. As
usually, the house was full of Eleonore's college friends and of course Bigga used the chance to get
to talk to them as she was one step closer to the college.
Everything that she heard about college life only made her looking more forward to it. Well, Avril tried
to explain that you also should study at the college if you wanted to graduate but Bigga wasn't
worried, school had never been a problem for her. Besides, she knew that getting a good, well-
paying job she would need to see that her grades were well enough.

9. If the school only had been as easy for Olive too but it was quite common that her
homework just piled up. If she too wanted to get to the college, she would need to work
harder.

10. ”Olive, wake up. Dad has made pancakes.”
Olive was wondering if the pancakes were burned, it wasn't usual for Bigga to be this kind. But since Bigga actually
was friendly Olive thought that she could talk with her something that had been pressing her mind for a long time.
”Uhm... Bigga?”
”Yeah?”
”Don't you think that our house is quite small and shabby? What if I invite my friends to visit us and they see the
funny cleaning robot and our small bedrooms and the way we have a kitchen in the living room. What if they think
that we are poor?” All of this she said at one go, as if afraid that Bigga would interrupt her. Then she continued, as
an afterthought:
”Are we poor?”
She had been talking about friends to Bigga but even more worried she was aabout meeting a nice boy who she
invited to their home, what would he think about this small house?

11. Bigga thought about it while Olive got dressed before answering.
”I think the house is too small and I think that we could afford bigger one but I don't know why we can't have new
one. It would be cool to have bigger house with all kinds of fun stuff in it.But I will be soon at the college anyway so
I don't know if it matters that much.”
”But I'm stuck here for years. How can I meet my friends when their houses might be better and bigger?” Olive was
looking seriously worried about it.
”Well, you could do like I have done, meet your friends at the park... I will ask mum why we can't have bigger
house.”
That was typical Bigga, if she wanted something, she couldn't see why she couldn't get it. Even if it was a house
that she wanted.

12. Bigga was right though, they weren't quite that poor. Randy was just one small step away
from being a celebrity chef and just the next day Eleonore became the Head of the SCIA.
That wasn't what Eleonore really wanted to do but she thought that in this position, if in
any, she would finally find out everything that happened in their world. And everything
meant simselves and all of their secrets.

13. It wasn't the lack of trying but she just couldn't find anything. Only thing she could find was a
description about simself but after that there was nothing. It was like hitting her head in a solid wall,
she didn't even have a clue where to look since the SCIA's files didn't offer any more clues.
Eleonore's brain was buzzing but she tried to continue her life as usual, her kids needed her too.
Especially when Randy was busy with his own restaurant. Even though they both were very busy,
they tried to use their free time with their kids. After all, Opal was just a toddler still. But not for long...

14. It was time for Opal to grow up too. And just like his older sisters, he too got a birthday
party with the usual crowd.

15. Bigga already was a student in private school and now that Opal was going to attend school as well it
was good time to apply both him and Olive to private school too. Bigga served the lobster her dad
had prepared for them just for this occasion.

16. ”I have never had lobster like this. Really delicious.” The headmaster was clearly impressed by the dinner.
”My husband made it, it is his speciality”, Eleonore told him.
”I have heard that he is running his own restaurant?”
”Yes, he is very busy with it, it has become very popular.”
”I have some connections to SimTV, my wife works there as producer. Do you think that your husband would be
interested about own tv-show?”
Eleonore was silent for a long time. Own tv-show?
”Well...” she started hesitantly, ”I have to ask him, we have never talked anything like that. But I could take your
wive's business card.”
Eleonore got the business card and Opal and Olive both were accepted to the private school.

17. The next day Bigga was having lunch with her mother as they were eating the lobster leftovers fromt he previous
day. For a while they both ate silently, then Bigga started the conversation
.
”Don't you think that this house is a bit... well, smallish?” Bigga started, she didn't want to sound too pushy, ”I know
that you have a very important job and don't they pay well for important jobs and if dad is going to have his own
show, won't that mean that we would be able to afford a bigger house?” There, now it was said.
Eleonore smiled, ”this house has been our home for years and it is fairly comfortable. But you are right, we have
been thinking about buying a new house.”
”You have?” Bigga was surprised how easy this had been.
”Yes, but thinking about it and doing it are two completely different things and I don't know if we will find one before
you go to the college. You want to go to the college, right?”
Bigga told that she was and the topic switched from houses to the college life.

18. Eleonore had given the business card of the SimTV's producer to Randy who had been
taken aback but pleased about the offer. He was certainly going to contact her. Own tv-
show was actually a nice idea. As Randy was busy with the restaurant, Eleonore tried her
hands in cooking as well but no matter how hard she tried, she only managed to make
burned lobsters.
She knew that Randy had been interested about robot making and Eleonore decided to
give it a try too. Maybe she could be better in that than her husband.

19. The days went by as they do and it was time for Olive to become teen. And finally Eleonore had news for her kids.
She was tickling Olive who was laughing and squirming.
”Please be quiet, I have an essay here to finish”, Bigga complained and continued, ”If we had bigger house I could
make my homework in peace.”
”About that”, Eleonore started and stopped tickling Olive, ”we have actually found a new house that looks very
promising.”
Both girls stopped at once and said in unison, ”really?” and Olive continued, ”can I have my birthday party there?”
”I'm sorry but no, the house needs some finishing still, floors, walls and kitchen are unfinished and your dad wants
the kitchen to be perfect, of course.”
Olive was disappointed that her teenage party would be in the old house but it was still her best birthday present
ever.

20. In that evening Opal was talking to her mother.
”Bigga and Olive said that we are going to move, is that true?” he asked.
”Yes, it is true. We will have first Olive's birthday and after that it is only couple of days and we will move. So I
would think that you should be packing”, she added to Bigga.
”Cool”, said Opal, ”can I have own playfield there too?”
”I think that can be arranged”, Eleonore told him, ”and you can invite as many friends as you like to play with you
there.”
As Bigga had left the kitchen to pack her stuff and Opal was calling to his friends to tell the news Eleonore felt a
bang of guilt. She hadn't invited Jessica over as she had promised. And there wouldn't be time in couple of days
with the moving but she made a mental note to invite her for a coffee as soon as they had settled down to their
new home.

21. Finally, Olive thought, she was a teenager. Now she could go out alone to meet all her friends and it
wouldn't be too long time that she could go to college too. As she was checking her outfit (which
needed to change of course), she felt impatient now that the college was already so near but yet so
many years still to wait. She imagined all the parties that she would attend and all the boys she
would meet. Would she find someone special at the college? She thought about greek houses that
her mother's college friends had told her about. They would certainly have one and it would be a real
party center where everyone would come.

22. The family was almost ready to move, Eleonore was just cleaning up. She looked how
Opal and Bigga were tickling each other in the kitchen and thought all of the memories
the house held. The kids had grown up there but it was time to move on and they would
always have the photos to remember all important moments in this house. And who
knows, maybe the new house would see some grandchildren too. But now it was time to
move the family.

23. And move they did. As the family was walking in to explore the house, Opal was eager to
check out his playfield. Just for him!
The house was on medium size lot with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining
room and two studies. Something they could quite easily afford and also something that
offered enough space for them – even with three generations living in the house.

24. First one to walk in was Olive. She stopped to admire the living room, so much space
instead of the old, small living room that was combined kitchen-diner-livingroom.
She was stunned by what she saw. There was llama game, chess table and in the other
end of the living room there was a comfortable looking couch set with big tv. Yes, she
definately could live here and wouldn't be ashamed to invite her friends. She hurried to
see more of the house.

25. Yes, definately nice house to live in.

26. She took a quick glancy to two studies and smiled happily. They had everything! There
was robot making bench, easel, bike and laptop.

27. Then there was the room that she had been probably the most eager to see, their own
bedroom. She had to share with Bigga but that wasn't a big of a problem, at least they
had got to choose all the wall and floor materials, furnitures and decorations. She was
very happy with the result.

28. At the door to Opal's room she grimaced. Opal had also been allowed to choose
everything himself and you could see that. Definately not a room that she would have
wanted but it was Opal's room, he had the right to choose what he wanted.

29. For the bedroom of her parent's she smiled approvingly. Yes, her mother knew how to
decorate.

30. The kitchen looked modern and it seemed to have everything they needed, including
dishwasher, finally! From the kitchen there was a doorway to the dining room and from
there doorway back to the living room. She smiled happily, it was all better than she had
even hoped.

31. And on top of everything, even the bathrooms looked nice. The family would live happily
here for many years to come.

32. The family was quickly feeling at home in the new house. The work continued for the adults and the
school for the kids. Eleonore had been disappointed that even as the head of SCIA she couldn't find
any information about simselves. And if in that position with all the resources she couldn't find
anything more she probably should give up.
She wouldn't give up completely but the work didn't offer her anything more. She had had a dream
about becoming a city architect but she was getting older, no denying that. And if she ever wanted to
reach that dream, she should start looking for a possible job as soon as possible, maybe it wasn't too
late yet. The first search wasn't very promising, the town only seemed to want dancers, cops, doctors
and sports stars. But she didn't lose hope, she would search as long as was needed.

33. Olive still struggled with her school. She really tried but it just wasn't that easy for her. If
she wanted to have any fun at the college she would need some diplomas. A call to the
college and she realised that she could also get other diplomas. The college would give
her a small grant due to her artistic skills. But nevertheless she decided to try and get her
grades up, more money wouldn't hurt.

34. Yet it usually was Olive who cleaned the house, cooked and took away the trash. Actually
Olive was the only one who actually volunteered to cook. It seemed that Randy did
enough cooking at the work and didn't bother at home with it. He, like rest of the family,
usually just took some snacks from the fridge or just stuffed their face with anything they
could find in it.

35. Both of the girls also started seeing boys. Nothing too serious for either of them just yet
though. Olive saw the boys she met more as good friends who it was nice to spend time
with. She wanted to find the right one before committing herself to anything. Bigga
however had other things in her mind but she thought that the boys in their school were a
bit childish and even though she wanted to go for a real date, she hadn't met anyone who
she would have liked to go to date with. However childish they might have been, she was
very pleased about the admirers she had around her.

36. Opal got a bird he had been wanting for a long time. Finally they had enough space to fit
the cage in. The parrot was called ”Leaf” by Opal and as Bigga put it ”you couldn't have
given any more childish name, absolutely no imagination”. But Opal didn't care, the bird
was just great. Now he was just waiting that he could start training the bird with all kinds
of things. And it quickly became obvious that the rest of the family was fond of the bird, no
matter what they thought about the name or if they had been against the whole idea in the
beginning.

37. Olive and Opal were probably the closest of the kids. It wasn't uncommon to see them
hang out together. They were more similar than with Bigga. And after all Bigga was the
oldest and always considered the other two much younger than she was and thus boring
and nuisance.

38. But the two girls were teens now and had at least something in common. For example
they both wanted to get handheld games and mobile phones and while looking for those,
they noticed that they actually had good time together. And finally, first time Bigga
considered Olive something like a friend.

39. Then, finally Eleonore called and asked Jessica to come and see their new house.
”I'm so sorry I haven't called you earlier, we have been busy with the kids and moving and
everything”, Eleonore said, hoping that Jessica really wouldn't mind. But she didn't need
to worry.
Jessica smiled, ”I know you have been busy, I'm just happy that I'm here now.”
Eleonore and Jessica had met that one time on the street and talked couple times over
the phone but having a talk face-to-face was something completely different. Eleonore at
least had many things to ask from Jessica that she couldn't have asked over the phone.

40. ”So...”, Eleonore started hesitantly, ”there is so much I would like to ask you and I don't even know where to
begin.”
Jessica looked at her, somewhat troubled ”it is this playable-townie thing you want to discuss I guess.”
Jessica knew something about Eleonore's obsession about simselves and she continued:
”why don't you just drop it? There is nothing you can do for it.”
”But we don't know what our simself is like...”
”Well, no we don't but in any case how could we know what is happening? How would knowing it help anything?”
”Yeah, but then we could at least tell them to leave us alone... or something.”
Jessica looked at her, ”we wouldn't exist without the simselves”, she sighed and started to explain.

41. ”About the simselves... They have created us, they have created this world, there wouldn't be us without them. Or there
might be some of us, like the townies but their life just would be still, nothing would happen in their world”, Jessica
explained.
”Now that we are talking here, there most certainly is someone who hast decided to play us and as to how we know will
happen, we won't, I'm just glad that something is happening. And if you ever met a simself, you probably couldn't change
anything, they do like they wish, filling our wishes as much as they feel like and ignoring them as much as they like.”
”So they are kind of gods?”, Eleonore asked.
”Well, something like it, for better of a word”, Jessica replied.
”But your life isn't, and hasn't been, that pleasant”, Eleonore said, ”is it because the simself made it so?”
”No, I don't think so. We have free will and anything that has happened in my life, I can only blame myself.”

42. ”Townies and some playables, like me, my ex-husband and her adopted daughter exist in different universes at the
same time and they sometimes have some knowledge about other ”universes”. I for example have some images in my
head about these other universes and I bet Randy has too. For example in some places I have been married to
Armand again, can you imagine?”, Jessica laughed.
Eleonore looked puzzled and Jessica continued ”the other universes are similar places to this one at the beginning.
There is someone looking and acting like me and Randy, for example, but depending on the other circumstances they
have very different lives. The townies also might be called something different. My images aren't anytthing solid but it
is enough to make me know that these places exist. I also know that we can be shipped to these other universes, it
has been done and then one sim exists in two worlds.”
”How do I know that I don't exist in two worlds?” Eleonore wondered.
”If you did, you would have some kind of memory about that”, Jessica said simply.

43. ”Don't you ever wonder about... this all?”, Eleonore asked.
”Actually, no. It wouldn't help anything”, Jessica told her.
Eleonore was going to say something but Jessica interrupted, ”Listen, there is nothing you can do for it, why bother
yourself with it, just live your life?”
”You keep saying that...”
”Because that's the only way”, replied Jessica and at that moment Eleonore couldn't think any counter argument.

44. After that the women chatted about everything else, their work, hobbies, Eleonore's kids and so on.
Then it was time for Jessica to go home.
”Just try and relax”, she said to Eleonore while hugging her for goodbye, ”and enjoy your family –
while you still have it.”
”Thanks for the advice, I will do that. You are welcome to visit here any time you want.”
”I will keep that in mind. You are also welcome to visit me but you know... living in a trailer with just a
small table and two chairs...”
”I understand, just come here more often.”

45. That evening Eleonore fell asleep her brain buzzing. She was afraid that she wouldn't fall
asleep at all but she did pretty fast. It was very restless sleep. She kept turning over and
over.

46. Suddenly Eleonore found herself in front of an unfamiliar house, playing with an unfamiliar
dog. It was creepy, the house was standing there alone, the only thing she could see was
grass and trees. Something told her that she should get out of here but for some reason
she wasn't afraid, instead she walked inside.

47. There was somebody already inside.
”I thought we would feel cozier with the fireplace. Come on in and take a seat.”
The woman hadn't even glanzed her way and yet she seemed to be expecting her,
knowing full well who she was. Eleonore couldn't help herself, she stepped inside.

48. ”I thought that we needed to have a talk. I made some breakfast. Come and have some.”
Eleonore still hadn't said anything and she still didn't know who the woman was and yet
she had been expecting her. This was bizarre.

49. ”Who are you?”, Eleonore asked bluntly as soon as she had sat down.
”I'm your simself”, the woman replied in a friendly tone.
”No, you are not, you can't be.”
The simself smiled, ”why couldn't I?”
”You are... you are not...”, Eleonore wasn't quite sure what to say but the simself seemed to guess.
”I look just like anybody else here, that's what you are wondering, right?”
”Yes... you don't look anything like a god.”

50. ”Does somebody know what the god looks like?” the simself asked.
”If someone might, you might.”
Simself grinned, ”I'm not a god, not even close, I'm just a girl having fun with my game.”
Eleonore frowned, ”this is just some kind of a game for you? We are inside a game, none of this is real?”
”Yes, you are inside a game but it is very real to you, it is real to me too.”
”But then you can do anything you want to us.”
”That seems to be the problem with you, isn't it? From the day you found out that there was a simself, you have been worried about
that. I'm not going to lie to you, I could do anything I want. How about killing you and then resurrecting back to see your great-
great-great-grandkids as a zombie?”
Eleonore looked at the simself serious, ”you are joking”.
”Most certainly not. It can be done”, simself grinned again and Eleonore wondered what was so funny.

51. Then the simself actually laughed.
”You are making fun of me”, Eleonore said grumbily.
”No, I'm not. My poor Eleonore, you are just so serious about this.”
”But it is my life, of course I'm worried and serious.”
Simself sighed, ”you shouldn't be. You can have my word that I won't on purpose do anything bad for you or
anyone in your family. Anyone who tries to hurt you, or your family will get what they deserve. But you have nothing
to worry about. And why don't you?” the simself asked before Eleonore did and continued, ”because you are my
creation, my sims and I want you to live happy life instead of miserable one. I want you to continue the bloodline
and how would that work if I killed you or someone else in the family? Please eat your sandwich, these are pretty
tasty.”

52. ”How would I know what you want?” Eleonore asked, not quite convinced, she didn't know what to
think about this simself. She was being friendly but she was making jokes she didn't quite
understand and seemed to have fun with her. Yet she had answers for all of the questions she had.
”You don't need to”, the simself said simply. There it was again, the weirdness, Eleonore thought.
This all seemed to be pretty straight forward for the simself. And she found herself doing just like she
had told her and took a bite of her sandwich. Yes, it was tasty. Of course it was.

53. ”Any other questions?”
”Plenty”, Eleonore muttered and more clearly continued, ”so that's what you want, isn't it, to continue my bloodline as you
put it? Randy thinks that I'm here for some sort of a challenge.”
The simself thought about this for a moment and replied hesitantly, ”yes, I would like to see your family grow, I would like
to see, hmm... let's see two more generations, counting you as one and your kids as second.”
”And then what will happen?”
”I haven't planned that far just yet, maybe someone from the fourth generation will build completely new city or save one
from apocalypse. I haven't quite decided yet.”
”Building new city, apocalypses... Why?”

54. ”Why”, the simself repeated, ”that's a very good question.” Eleonore realised by the look on simself's
face that she wouldn't get any clearer answer. Anyway, there were more pressing matters.
”So we are part of a challenge?” The simself nodded and Eleonore continued, ”what it is you want
me to do?”
”What is it that you want to do?” simself asked instead.
Eleonore was silent for couple of minutes, ”I want to become City Planner, can't you help me there?”
Simself laughed, ”sorry no, I can't cheat”.

55. Cheat? Eleonore couldn't think more of that and continued.
”Well... I was thinking about making it a tradition that someone from our family would always live in the house, they
would write their memoirs so that we would be remembered, everyone who lived in the house would have their
pictures hanging on the walls of it. They should enjoy their hobbies and I think that Randy is trying to build a servo
robot, that should also stay in the house. I have also thought about having a family business that would run over
decades and I also have thought it would make nice family tradition to have party once every season. Just so that
the friends and the family would be together every now and then.”
Simself smiles mysteriously, ”sounds good to me.”
Eleonore stared her, ”is this what I want or have you made it so?”
”I don't tell you what to do, maybe nudge here and there to push you to right direction but the rest is your own will.
Maybe when there is a dirty toilet and no one is going to clean it I might make somebody clean it.”

56. Cheats? Cleaning toilets? Eleonore wasn't sure what to think of this simself. Was she joking? She
had so many questions but as the simself stood up, she somehow realised that there was no time to
ask them all so she asked simply:
”Is this real or just a dream?”
”Why would it be any less real if it was a dream?”

57. With that she woke up. She squeezed Randy, he was real at least. She was feeling dizzy, had it
been just a dream? Or was it something else? Part of her thought it was just a dream but how could
her brain have created something like that? And there was also the fact that she usually didn't
remember her dreams. Why was this so vivid then? If the simself was something like a god, then she
most certainly could come to her dreams.
Either way, she knew what she was going to do, she just needed some time to sort her thoughts. No
way she was going to tell anyone about her dream, though, it was too bizarre. Then she thought with
regret all of the un-asked questions that she hadn't remember at the time. Would she get a second
chance?

58. Eleonore found out that painting was good way to sort her thoughts. And it was just nice extra that
the portrait of her and Randy turned out to be, well definately not perfect, but good anyway. She also
started her memoirs. The first part was easy. She simply described how the college life had been,
how it had been when the kids were small. But how to include simself and townies into the story?
Luckily she didn't have to finish the story over night.

59. She was also proud of her kids. Opal was going to be teen soon and she had given him promise to
buy new clothes for himself for that day. Olive finally got A+ and Bigga took a job in business and, of
course, soon was executive assistant, a real good place for a teen.
They were all different but all of them were also smart in their own ways, all of them had different
wants and goals they wanted to reach in their lives. One thing was certain though, she knew that
these kids would do just fine in the future – even without her and Randy around.

60. Finally she decided that family dinner would be the right place to tell the kids about... it. She asked
Randy to cook something delicious and the whole family joined around the table.
”I have something to tell you”, she started but wasn't at all sure how to continue. She glanzed at
Randy but he seemed to be focusin on eating, he already knew what she had to say.
”I think that you are three the most wonderful kids I could ever have”, she had to blink couple times
before she could continue, damn it, she wasn't going to cry! ”Us, me and your dad are very proud of
you all. And even though you are quite young still, it is time to tell you something I think you need to
know.”
The whole family was quiet, some were eating, some were staring at her.

61. Eleonore took a deep breath and started. She didn't know how much the kids knew so she would just
explain everything.
”I don't know if you already know this from school or from your friends but we are sims that are called
'playables'. I have understood that it only means that there is a simself somewhere guiding our lives
and also that we can have families, have careers where we can climb up, in short our lives go on –
until we die and there will, hopefully, always be children who continue our family tree.
Then there are 'townies', for example your dad was one of them until I married him and he became
playable. Townies have some kind of half life, they have careers too but they don't have families
even though they have friends. Their lives just stay still, nothing changes until they are married or
moved in with playables.”

62. ”Did you hear that?” Opal looked at Olive, ”we can rule them all!”
”We are the richest and most popular sims here, Bigga said with a grin.
”I wonder if it is easier... nevermind”, Olive said. She was thinking if this would effect on finding a
husband and having a family. But her mother had done it so the townies probably didn't mind being
married to playable.

63. ”Yes, we can be cool, we can be rich but definately we aren't the richest sims. Some townies have
plenty of money actually. And we definately won't rule them all. Even though our position as
playables gives us some rights, we also have many responsibilities. We have a freedom to choose
and we have to use that freedom for the townies sake, too. We are the ones who can make things
change.” She had to keep a break to form what she was going to say next and took a bite of the
turkey.
”I think that it is our duty to 'rescue' as many townies as we can. I hope that all of you will marry in a
townie, if you don't want to get married, at least move in someone as your roommate, girlfriend or
boyfriend. There are so many great sims around who don't get the chance and I think we should give
them that.”

64. ”We can't choose anyone we want? That's not fair”, Bigga was almost shouting, ”besides how do we
know who is a townie and who is not? ”
”There are some on my class”, Opal said suddenly, ” they are those who we can't visit at all.” Rest of
the family turned to look at Opal who just shrugged, ”they called me playable once. But I didn't
understand what it meant.”

65. It was Randy's turn to continue, ”if you look closely you can see how the townies look slightly
different, the clothes they are wearing are more simple than ours for example. It is also like Opal just
said, we can't visit them even though we can call them and invite them here. I was one once so I
should know. And then you can just simply ask, they will know. Anyway, as far as I know there aren't
that many playables in this neighbourhood but of course we never know what will happen.”

66. ”But why there are different sims?” Olive asked turning to her mother.
Eleonore sighed, ”I wished I knew that. It seems that the simselves can't control all of us so some of
are townies who just exist to be our friends, husbands and wives.”
”But...”, Olive was trying to form her thoughts, this just didn't make any sense, ”why there are some
playables then? Who else is playable?”
Eleonore sighed even more deeply, ”if I ever get the chance, I will ask. I have absolutely no idea why
there are different sims. What comes to other playable sims, Jessica is one of them. And as Bigga
said that we are rich, Jessica isn't even she is playable so you never can tell for sure.”

67. ”Anyway, I have couple other wishes to make. If we forget this simself, playable and townie thing for
a while and discuss something else I have in my mind”, Eleonore swallowed, ”you know how I'm not
in contact with my family. And now that I know how sims can be created out of nothing, I'm not even
sure if my family exists”, Eleonore had to blink again to keep the tears away, she had become so
emotional lately, ”I would like to know that our family at least continues. I wish that one of you will
move back to this house and then one of his or her kids will move here and so on.”
Then Eleonore explained everything else she had told to the simself in her dream.

68. These ideas got very different replies.
”How do we know who has to come back to write memoirs and everything?” Bigga asked.
”If I can't move back here, how can I afford to build new, beautiful house to invite my friends and
have kids?”, Olive sulked.
”Can I keep my old room if I come back here?” wondered Opal.

69. Randy looked at the kids, ”we discussed this, your mother and me, and thought that it would be best
if you decided that together. The ones who move out will get small grant from us, so you don't have
to start in very small houses. Just choose wisely, the one who will move back here is sort of
resbonsible for the whole family and also has to continue the family name. And then there are of
course all those tasks your mother explained, it won't be that easy but I think it will be rewarding too.”
The kids just nodded, there was simply too much to think to reply anything. After all, there was the
whole college to decide that. The family ate rest of the food in a silence, something that wasn't too
common in this family.

70. Then it happened. Eleonore found a job in architecture and soon arrived home smiling to herself.
She had been promoted to city architect. She had so many ideas to improve the city.

71. It wasn't that long that it was Randy's big day too. He had received a call from the
headmaster's wife and had discuss the new cooking program with her. Yes, he was
nervous, no denying of that. But he couldn't deny that he was happy man. The show had
been accepted, he was going to have own show in tv and every cooking sim in the
neighbourhood would soon know him as the celebrity chef. He too smiled while looking
out of the window. What else could you expect from life?

72. ”She was right, they have very nice house”, Kiera was saying to Andrezj and Kevin Spitzig.
”They have done pretty well in their life I think”, Andrezj said, ”city architect and celebrity chef with
three beautiful kids, who would have believed that.”
Kevin looked slightly sulky, ”yes, you are right.” He remembered how he had fancied Eleonore back
at the college but she had chosen Randy instead. He had gotten over it but with a bang he now
realised that all of this could have been this.
Eleonore had been avoiding to invite Kevin to the house, no matter how good friends they were but
there was always the risk of some flirting from both of them and she just didn't want to risk the
marriage with Randy for something that stupid. Now she thought that enough time had passed for it
to be safe.

73. Old romances were put on the background, it was time to party! The youngest of Eleonore's kids was
going to be teen in a matter of minutes. She was going enjoy every moment.

74. The guests enjoyed themselves and Eleonore was admired by Andrezj. Something that she thought
harmless but also something that lightened her day. She was going to be elder soon and Andrezj
was young adult and still he seemed to think that she was as beautiful as back at the college. You
never got enough admiration for it to bore you. Even though you still were admired and adored by
your own husband.

75. And the birthday hero? He aged up well, naturally and ate too much cake.

76. All the problems aside, there were three teens in the house. There was a party with
delicious cake and good music. It was time to party, too soon they would head to the
college. Even though they most likely would keep in touch, these were the last days they
would be living in this house together.

77. Some stats
Bigga
6/10/2/10/3
Taurus
Pleasure/wealth
LTW Professional party guest
Pre-destined hobby games
Olive
10/9/2/8/3
Capricorn
Popularity/family
LTW to have 20 best friends
Pre-destined hobby cuisine
Opal
9/10/5/7/3
Leo
Popularity/knowledge
LTW Media magnate
Pre-destined hobby music and dance