Falling to Masterpieces 3.1

Welcome back to Falling to Masterpieces, an artistic alphabet legacy. We’re
only in generation B right now, with the heir, Bassano Masterpiece, in
college. Bassano is named for Jacopo Bassano, a painter who created “Two
Hounds,” the painting in the background of the title page. Bassano the sim is
an excellent example of why I use heir polls. He was my 3rd choice personally
for heir, but the readers liked him, so now I get to try and see what I’m
missing.

The other sims in the Greek House are Bassano’s sisters, Botticelli,
Bazille, and Bellini (not pictured). All four of the kids also have
fiancés/fiancées like Botti’s beau Edwin here, so they are often
hanging around somewhere.

“God, I hate your sims.”
Why, whatever is the problem, perpetually perturbed shopgirl?

Oh, right. The public woohoo again. Well, what are you gonna do?
This is Angeline, Bassano’s fiancée, sneaking in to join him.

“Dang. I think I know what she sees in me.”
Oh, go put some clothes on. I always have sims try on
underwear when they want to do public woohoo in a clothes
booth. Just seems appropriate . . . or rather appropriately
inappropriate.

Angeline got a makeover from last chapter before I towniefied her.
Bassano kept pretty busy for the rest of college and didn’t invite her
over or out again, so this is the last time you’ll see this outfit. Totally
worth the effort, lol.

One of the defining things about Bassano is that he developed an
interest in literature all on his own by reading while relaxing in bed.
He started rolling wants to write a novel, so I let him. Luckily, his
creativity is high so it sold well, netting a cool 8,000 points for him.

Here it is: his first novel. It is a cookbook (so actually not a novel at all,
but whatever, game) called Alphabet Salad. Super interesting, no? I
have a hard time naming novels, so most of them turn out rather eye-
rollingly stupid.

Bellini gets to work on painting Bassano’s college portrait,
but when it was finished, his head was huge compared to
Anjolie’s portrait, so Bellini sold it as a masterpiece.

“But I don’t want to sing karaoke!”
Okay, so don’t.
“But I want to sing karaoke!”
Okay?
“But I’m afraid of it!”
Ugh, Botti keeps rolling up fears of karaoke, which she then fulfills
because she loves singing karaoke. Makes no sense.

One of the romance girls wanted a hot tub, which I unceremoniously
plopped down right in front of the house because it is soooo getting
rebuilt next generation so I just don’t care anymore. Anyway, there
was one tile between the hot tub and the Greek house, so that’s
where these three decided to socialize. Of course.

We’re trying again on the portrait, but I still think it’s too big. I don’t
know why I can’t seem to take a good picture for it.

Bazille: “Hey, what’s going on here?”
Botti: “Oh, Bazille. It was awful! She insulted me for no reason!”
Bell the cheerleader: “I sure did. And later, I’m going to kick your
ass!”
Bazille: “Okay, Bell. Time to leave. I think we’ve all had enough of
your ‘cheer’ for one day.”

“There, there, sweetie. Don’t cry. Whatever she said, you know it
isn’t true. Everyone except Bell that knows you loves you. She’s just
causing trouble.”
“Thanks, sis.”

What’s up with you, Bassano? Writing another novel? That’s cool.
. . . I’m not doing so great at making him interesting, am I?

What Bazille said was true: everyone, especially Bassano,
adores Botti, including me. She was my second choice with
Bellini being number one.

Try number three on the portrait.
And it’s still too big! I know
Bassano does not actually have a
large head, so I don’t know why I
keep zooming in too close.

On the fourth try, we got it close enough to make me happy,
though his head is still larger than hers. Presenting generation
A and B’s college portraits, everyone!

“I hate Bell so much. I’m going to write awful things in my diary
about her.”
Whoa, I know she insulted you, but what’s with the hatred? Did I
miss something? Let’s turn back the clock and look at earlier that
day . . .

*flick* “Ha ha! Only an idiot would fall for that!”
“Shut up, Bell! And leave me alone!”
“Whatever, loser.”
“Did she just call our beloved little sister a loser?!”
“It’s okay, Bellini. I’m a big girl and I can handle a little bully.”
“Who are you calling a bully?”

Botti and Bell are really getting in to it day after day.
Botti finally stands up for herself and slaps back after Bell
slaps her, but then they’re right back to Bell insulting
Botti and Botti crying. I have no idea what Bell’s problem
is. She’s acting like a cow mascot.

Okay, I was unhappy with Bell before, but when she attacked
my sim, I was fed up. To top it off, Botti only has 9 body points,
so she lost to Bell.

“You beat me up, and now you’re going to cheer at me?”
“Vooo gerbits! What are you gonna do about it, you little priss?”

“I’m going to go cry!”
College has gotten unexpectedly hard for Botti. Bell keeps showing
up and making a beeline to pick on her whenever they’re in the
house at the same time.

Bellini tries her typical technique for cheering people up, but it’s
not really enough.
And yes, Bellini did this on her own again. She loves pranking
people and needs no help from me to do it.

It’ll be a small consolation, but maybe if Botti can win the next
fight, she’ll feel better. There will be a next fight because Bell
won’t stay away no matter how many times we ask her to leave.

So, I discovered that one sim can be a personal trainer to another sim on
the treadmill. You may already know this, but I didn’t. It’s going on 10
years, and I’m still finding new things about this game. I love that.
Back on topic, Bellini is not the most . . . encouraging trainer. Maybe
having a mean sim encourage another was not the best idea. She just
boos and gives Botti a thumbs-down. Not helpful, Bellini. She’s trying,
though. Bless her heart.

“Ha! You’re cornered! I’m coming for you, you wimp!”
“Bring it on.”

Botti gets back at Bell for all the abuse she’s been putting up
with. A few insults and pokes later, I’m just waiting for the
inevitable fight.

Unfortunately, Botti is too nice and can’t really take what she’s
dishing out. Bell, on the other hand, is spoiling for a fight and is
literally punching the air in anticipation in the background. >:(

Bell initiates the fight once again. Come on, Botti! You can do it!

Okay, maybe she can’t. I would like to call attention to Bell’s evil
face in this picture. I hate her so much.

For some reason, none of the
mascots like Botti much. I expect
it from the cow, but I don’t
understand what our mascot and
Bell’s problem is. At least the
llama isn’t attacking Botti every
chance he gets.
Amusingly, the llama’s name is
Odin and the cow is Freya.

“Vooooo gerbits! As soon as you get off that bed, I’m ready to
hand you your ass again.”
“Well, that’s an incentive to stay in bed.”

Bazille: “Ladies, I’ve called this meeting around the pinball machine to discuss
what we’re going to do about Bell picking on our baby sister.”
Botti: “Sorry, guys. I thought I could beat her, but I guess I’m not up to the task.”
Bellini: “Don’t feel bad, Botti. You’re a lover, not a fighter. Anyway, we’ve almost
graduated so she won’t be a problem soon, but I have a little plan to give her
her comeuppance. It’s going to take a little while, so be patient, but trust me:
she will get what’s coming to her.”
Chilling words from such a mean sim.

So, while the girls are plotting to stop Bell’s reign of terror,
what is Bassano up to? Uh . . . well, he wrote some more
novels and he maxed his skills. I just don’t find him very
inspiring. One of the reasons voters cited for voting for him
was that he wants to be a cult leader, so maybe he’ll get
more interesting as an adult . . .

So, Bassano wrote 9 novels (at least 1 of each genre) in the latter half of
his college years. The titles are Love in the Time of Comfort Soup,
Alphabet Salad, An Alien in Paris, Cruise into Death (remember this one –
it comes up later), Elephant’s Almanac, All Things Considered and Eaten,
The Andromeda Grain, Apocalypse Sim (inspired by all you apocalypse
writers!), and Sunshine Spaceman. Amazingly, his highest grossing novel
was the romance novel Love in the Time of Comfort Soup, with Sunshine
Spaceman a close second. I guess the editors don’t like his serious work.

College wraps up with 4.0s, a
placeholder moved in, and
Bassano growing up in a
mismatched outfit that turns his
top into a belly shirt, reminding
me strongly of Marc Encore.
Luckily we’ve had no more attacks
at the house since the last visit
from the Bell from hell.

So, now that college is done, it’s time to take care of the
spares. Bazille and Botti moved into neighboring townhouses.
Bellini and her fiancé are family sims, so they’re going to get a
house, but the two romance sims won’t need as much room
for their families.

Bazille married Alan, who we haven’t seen much of recently. I
had a couple of pictures of him hanging around in his pink
undies, but they didn’t make the cut for this already long
chapter. Anyway, he and Bazille make a cute couple. Alan is a
pleasure sim, so they’re a good match.

Not long after they married, Bazille gave birth to a little girl named
Anne.

Alan turned out to be a great dad to Anne, and she definitely
takes after him in a lot of ways. She has the toddler version of
Bazille’s hair.

Here’s Anne as a child. Definitely her daddy’s girl.

And here’s Bazille’s happy little family. Please pretend you can’t see
her underwear, but at least the CC maker put underwear in, I guess.

Meanwhile, next door, Botti married her fiance, Edwin.
They are a very cute couple and Botti seems to have
relaxed some now that she’s not being insulted and/or
attacked on a frequent basis.

They had a little boy who they named Thomas.

Thomas is freakin’ adorable and has kind of a throwback look to
some of Botti’s uncles.

He’s a little less cute as a kid, but still adorable.

And that’s the end to Botti’s story.

Bellini married her beau, Sebastian. I should mention that I
got lazy and had all the spares get married in their outfits
that they’ll be wearing for Bassano’s wedding. Bellini and
Sebastian are both family sims so they would love nothing
more than having a humongous family. Unfortunately for
them, they’re a spare couple, so they’ll have to limit their
dreams somewhat.

Hmm. Pregnancy totally breaks Bellini’s mesh, and I felt too
lazy to change it. It’s kind of terrifying when she goes into
labor, though.

Bellini and Sebastian’s first child is a girl named Lynne.

As a toddler she’s very cute.

While Lynne is still a toddler, Bellini gave scary-looking-mesh
birth to twins, a girl named Addison and a boy named Dylan.
As Lynne cried in her crib with a dirty diaper, I think
Sebastian and Bellini may be happy they’re stopping here.

Lynne, Dylan, and Addison grew up.
I love that they all have the same
eyes and look very closely related.

Dylan and Addison grew into children as well.

So that’s Bellini and family, but don’t forget that Bellini has plans for
Bell later . . . Mwa ha ha!
Okay, that’s finally it for the spares . . . for now. Let’s get back to
Bassano and the main house.

Bassano arrived home, changed, and called up Angeline. I guess I
lied earlier because you can see the shoulder of her newest
college outfit. Still totally worth changing it.

After a move-in and a makeover, here’s Angeline. She’s a
knowledge/popularity sim with the lifetime want to be an Eco Guru. I
think it’s cute that both she and Bassano have University LTWs. Her
personality is 4/4/4/7/6.

She makes a very pretty bride. She and Bassano moved in during
the morning, so they’re having their wedding right away since
Bassano’s parents both have the day off from work.

Corwin and Anjolie are still adults and
actually had something like 8 days left
in adulthood when the younger
couple moved in, so they may wait a
while to have kids.
Anjolie and Angeline get along right
away, which is good, but I realized
that, once again, I have given sims
very similar-sounding names, which
is bad. From now on we’re going to
call Angeline Angie, which is still
close to Anjolie, but a little better.
Anyway, Angie’s first autonomous
interaction with her soon-to-be
mother-in-law was to tell a dirty
joke, so I think she’ll fit in just fine.

While getting set up for the party, Anjolie and Corwin decide to
partake of the drinks before any guests even arrived. While we
waited for everyone to show up, they downed an entire tray of
poured drinks. Meanwhile, Anjolie and Oil are popping up thought
bubbles of Corwin. You may remember from last chapter that he is
a thought bubble magnet, and that hasn’t changed a bit.

“Doo-de-doo-de-doo. Skipping to my wedding. Sure is nice
being a playful sim.”
Bassano, you’re adorable.

The guests finally arrive before Anjolie and Corwin get too
sloshed. Bassano’s three sisters and Edwin and Sebastian
are invited. Bassano never made friends with Alan, an
oversight on my part, so he stayed home to watch the five
kids, I suppose. Semi-interesting note: the bridesmaid dress
I selected is the same one that founding spouse simRoxy
wore to her wedding. It’s one of my favorites.

We got one nice picture in of
Angie walking down the aisle . . .
. . . and then one typical sim
picture. At least they’re all sitting
down. I closed the business but
forgot to turn off the “charge
customers” option on the venue
thingy, so Edwin got confused and
went home instead of buying a
ticket to the wedding, leaving an
empty chair up front.

Here’s your typical sweet wedding shots. They make a very
cute couple, don’t they?

Anjolie is super psyched to see
her daughter married, apparently.
Neither of the parents rolled up wants
to see a child married since they’re still
adults. That was a little disappointing.
Also, I am a terrible photographer and
the family bug attended the wedding.

“I, the Volkswagon Beetle, do approve of this union. Bassano, you may
kiss the bride.”
The maid: “Oh how beautiful! I’m so glad I attended instead of cleaning
your filthy house! I made sure to wear red so I’d clash with all the soft
blues and pinks!”

I never do wedding cakes. I don’t
know why. It just was never part
of my routine. After seeing it in a
legacy I was reading recently, I
decided to give it a go.
Unsurprisingly, playful Bassano is
a cake stuffer . . .

. . . and playful Angie finds it hilarious. Whew.

The new couple heads upstairs and Bassano gets lost in his bride’s
hair. I think usually you get lost in someone’s eyes, but eh. They’re
not going to try for baby until Anjolie and Corwin are closer to
elders.

Everyone makes a beeline for the
drinks, and Anjolie gets to drink with
her daughters quite a bit. After her
alone time with Bassano, Angie studies
and Bellini tries her best to connect
with a knowledge sim. Angie doesn’t
have many skills, but she faithfully rolls
up wants for them like a good
knowledge sim.

She does look up from her book to say goodbye to everyone when
the party’s over. It was another roof raiser.

Although they’re pretty tried, Angie and Bassano quickly leave for
a vacation to Twikkii Island.

They stay at one of the family’s vacation houses, and
Bassano immediately gets down to the beach. Angie
spends some time calling her in-laws so they’ll be
friends when they get home.

Just your typical island vacation.
New massages learned, spas
woohooed in, and random
vacation townies ruining good
couple shots in the hot springs.

Bassano wanted to take a picture, and this is the one he took. You
think he likes what he sees?

Shopgirl: “Oh god. Not you guys again.”
Bassano: “I am a fortune sim! I want to buy all the things!!”

“I want to buy jewelry too! Why? WHY?!!!”
Dude, I so want to know that too. I always tell myself I’ll go back
in buy mode someday and fix this in all my neighborhoods, but I
always forget. It is so annoying.

Angie doesn’t have much luck beach combing, but she makes a
great pirate.

Back at the vacation home, Bassano learns to hula. He is
surprisingly good at it right off the bat, just like Palmer
Vermachtnis was.

Got enough sand castles there, Bassano?
“You should see where I built the fifth one!”

Why did you . . .? How did you . . .? Oh, never mind.

Lovey-dovey couple pics. Bassano loves jumping in Angie’s
arms. He’s so silly.

And it’s finally time for vacation to end. Now let’s get back to the
main house.

Anjolie wisely wants to study parenting, so Corwin joins her in
that. Angie is still working on maxing her skills, a want she has
locked. Neither paranormal or natural science have come up
on the computer yet, so these two have some free time.
Bassano spends his writing more novels.

“I’m off to become a media
magnate!”
Without any kids, things are kind of
quiet. Corwin and Anjolie are still
hoping to finish up secondary LTWs,
and Corwin gets a job in journalism to
work on his. Angie maxes skills and
also makes best friends with Anjolie.

We also open the business back up. It keeps things crazy around
here, which I love.

Angie tries to socialize during a game of poker, but she’s not
very good at it. She rejects every topic that comes her way.

Last generation, we had problems with cats eating. This
generation, it’s socialization. Despite lots of customers and
having each other to play with, Oil and Acrylic always run
down their social bars, so they have to be stroked and hugged
first thing every morning. I don’t know what the deal is with
my cats.

Anjolie found a job in slacker and became a Party Guest on her
first shift. Corwin is taking a little longer since he doesn’t have her
college benefits.

Portraits are painted and Angie finally maxes her skills. Things are
progressing nicely, if a little boring.

“I’m off to become a media magnate!”
Argh. My game crashed and I hadn’t saved in a long time, so all those
pictures you just read through? They technically didn’t happen since
that progress was lost. Grr.

Okay, let’s get through all this again.
Open the business? Check. Best
friends? Check. Max skills? Check.
Top slacker? Nope. It didn’t come up
on the computer this go around, but
Angie got a job in natural science,
though she has a day or two off
before she can go in. That’s actually
better since Anjolie’s already
permaplat and doesn’t need another
LTW technically.

Just a cool little pic of Angie painting while Oil and Acrylic share
the cat condo. I didn’t even know they could be on it at the same
time!

Here’s the finished portraits along with their placement on the
colorful portrait wall. Angie is pictured studying, since that was all she
did for the first bit of her adult years, and Bassano is supposed to be
getting an idea for a novel. I wanted a pic of him reading while
walking, but I could not figure out how to trigger it. He never did it, no
matter how many times I tried, so I went with this instead.

Angie has also made best friends with Corwin now, which he loves
since he’s popularity.

While her husband rakes the leaves from our neglected tree, Angie
heads off to her first day in natural science.

The first child born in this legacy, Avery, plays poker with Sebastian
and some random townie guy. They’re all thinking, though, that
this game is missing one thing . . .

“Gasp! A girl!”
Yeah. Aubrey rounds out the party. Notice that all four are in PJs, so
the customers are still spending the night. We also finally reached
level 10 for the business.

Corwin came home from work with the flu, but a few bowls of
Anjolie’s comfort soup has him back in shape to be wasting time
playing poker right away.

Anjolie and Corwin are almost elders, so Bassano and Angie decide
to get started on their family.

No need to flaunt it, though, you guys. Geez.

Corwin has reached media magnate. He now wants his first LTW
again, that is, to be a hall of famer. That’s what Anjolie still is since
she didn’t find slacker again before she turned elder.

Angie is working her way up natural science, and these two are still
trying for baby. Hopefully it’ll take one of these days. I’m in no rush
for them to start, so they’re not trying five times in a row or anything
like many of my sims do.

“My head is cold. Why do I have to wear this?”
Because you’re an exorcist! All exorcists wear weird tribal tattoos
and are bald and stuff. Everyone knows that! You’re only one step
away from your LTW, by the way.

And there we go. Bassano is now a cult leader, and he immediately
quit because I don’t like night jobs for my sims. I didn’t mention
one thing about cult leader until now, so once again, I am failing at
giving the readers all the interesting Bassano plot that they wanted.
Sorry, guys.

Angie fears that she’s been gaining weight recently, so she rolls a
want to get fit.

Which she achieves quickly. I guess she wanted it because of the
secondary popularity? It doesn’t really seem like a knowledge sim
want.

Ooh! And the weight gain is finally explained. That’ll be it for this chapter. Can
you believe we got through an entire chapter without even a single kid born?
Slow generation, I guess. Things will pick up next chapter, promise.
In the meantime, chat with me at SiMania or Boolprop. Thanks for reading!
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