- Omar Tellerman opens a wormrat emporium business to unlock the first business district in Skull Valley. The business initially struggles but eventually breaks even. - Ivy Tellerman gives birth to Pasquale Tellerman, their second son. - Benjamin Long moves into the empty lot next to the Tellermans. He is slated to have the first alien baby in Skull Valley. - Pasquale Tellerman ages up into a child as the week ends. The playable sim count is now 23 across 6 households.

1. Skull Valley
Week 5 – Stratton & Tellerman

2. Joe: “Can I finally talk now? I promise I won’t knock over anymore garbage cans.”
Fine. Welcome back to another update on Skull Valley. Joe here just got a position in the athletic career, since it was unlocked,
and finally has a shot at fulfilling his lifetime want.
Like the previous update on the Morris family, the Strattons won’t really change the stats in town.

3. Christy and Joe Stratton get their much needed makeovers.
Christy: “Oh Joey, you look so handsome. We’re the bestest couple ever.”
Joe: “Are you sure?”
Christy: “… Can you go back to not talking and me pretending you’re saying things to me. You’re kinda-winda a big old jerkass.”

4. Charity: “Just one more day of homework and I’m out of here.”
Charity is the exact same age as Marcus & Michael Morris, so she will be a part of their cohort at college.

5. Lily & Lukas grow into teenagers. Lily I believe wants 5 top businesses and Lukas wants to be the Hand of Posideon. Both do-
able… if I can get a proper pond in.

6. Post make-over twins!

7. The second day of week 5 goes by pretty quickly and soon Charity is off to college.
Charity: “Smell ya later.”

8. Lukas: “OH GOD!”

9. Lily: “So it turns out that Lukas got abducted by aliens just to earn a scholarship.”
Christy: “Oh no- my poor, baaaaaaaabbbbyyy! Do you think that means I’ll get my first grandkid soon?”
Lily: “Mom, this is serious.”
Christy: “I know.”

10. Lukas: “It hurts to sit.”
Been there. Anyway, just earn your logic scholarship the easy way for now.
Lukas: “You’re so planning on me having an alien baby when I’m old enough, aren’t you.”

11. Hey, you two are supposed to be in the Sim Bin waiting for me to play you at Hsu College! What gives?
Michael: “You can still have us visit until we officially age up.”

12. Nicole: “Plus, these two are supposed to be by roommates since we’re all the same age.”

13. Mid-week means it’s time for a double birthday! This time Christy & Joe are aging to elder.
Neither one has perma-plat status yet.

14. Since Christy will get her LTW passively, Joe still needs to complete his the hard way.
Joe: “You know, you could have moved more sims in early on to create more households.”
Quiet! I want to play this the long way.

15. Christy puts herself at risk of not getting her LTW complete by fixing the TV.

17. End of the week at the Stratton household means Lily & Lukas are off to college. This was also the moment that I decided to beef
up this update into a double update.

18. Omar: “That’s the last of them. What kind of romance sim maxes all their skills?”
One obsessed with wormrats. Now we’re over at the Tellerman household, which manages to be the one where most of the
action happens.

19. Ivy: “Omar, please. I don’t do anything around here; just let me have this one thing.”

20. Don’t do anything? Why Ivy, you get pregnant.
Ivy: “Seriously. I’m so bored.”

21. Slowly, Omar begins to earn his pottery badges. It may not earn scholarships, but it will certainly earn money later.

22. Ivy gives birth to a second boy- meet Pasquale Tellerman. I was hoping for a girl to name Abby, but I guess this works.

23. Ivy: “*sigh* If only some sims would die so I could start the Paranormal career.”

24. Omar: “GOLD BADGE!”
Good for you, you little overachiever.

25. What the- IVY?!?
Ivy: “I was bored.”
Why didn’t it register as cheating?
Ivy: “At this point, I might as well stir the pot.”

26. DING! Komei has now reached the top of the business career meaning we have one Business Tycoon in town.

27. Benjamin Long, while nowhere near level 10, might make a decent Business Tycoon later.

28. Pasquale grows into a bald toddler. Seriously? I have all those custom styles and he goes bald?
At least he isn’t a clone.

29. Omar: “So I need to buy two lots… mhm… that’s right.”
The next generation is about to start their businesses. Plus, I need two more lots owned by playables to unlock the first business
district.

30. Welcome to Skull Gallery! This will act as the business unlocking the first position in the artist career.
It’s also going to be where Omar is selling his pottery since that counts.

31. Komei, of course, has a gold sales badge meaning he can sell anything for the highest price. I’m going to drain these sims dry.

32. Christy, don’t. It’s all too expensive.
Christy: “Well if you aren’t going to take away all the money my Joey makes to upgrade the college, then I’ll just give it away!”

33. Omar: “I have a best of the best award.”
Good for you, kid.

34. So I left this place at level 8. Artist now has one position open and I’m that much closer to upping the SM.

35. Omar: “So I have this idea for the last business…”

36. Welcome to Omar’s Wormrat Emporium!
Omar: “YAY!”

37. Komei: “Wormrats?”
Yes.
Komei: “How do you expect me to sell wormrats?”

38. So I jacked up the price of the wormrat cages and… well… people were not happy. Turns out I had forgotten that you can get
negative rankings in Open for Business.
Omar: “Well, everyone needs a wormrat… let’s sell them for as cheap as we can go!”

39. I guess that works… albeit this business just tanked the family $10,000 due to the cost of upkeep.

40. In the end, I managed to get it to level 10 and break even once I could stabilize the selling price of the wormrats.
Omar: “They’re my friends. They’re going to be everyone’s friends.”

41. Back at the Tellerman place…
Komei: “Please tell me you’ll move in.”

42. Benjamin Long becomes the next townie to move in. He wants to be the Hand of Posideon, however I need to keep him in
business for the time being.

43. And I need to give him a makeover.

45. Omar: “I get to be played one semester.”
Omar heads off to Hsu College where we’ll see him in a later update for this week.

46. Say what you will about freetime, but I love their perks.

47. Benjamin: “What was that noise?”
You’re gonna have the first alien baby, buddy.

48. The last day of the week and it’s time for Pasquale to grow up!

49. And it’s also time for Ben to move out!

50. But where is this mystery location?

51. Welcome to Skullport- the official business district of Skull Valley!

52. Ongoing Stats:
Playable Sims: 23
Households: 6 (Morris, Stratton, Tellerman, Hsu Students, Hamilton, Long)
Community Lots: 5 Owned (Hang 10, Komei’s Diner, S& Outfitters, Skull Gallery, Omar’s Wormrat Emporium), 1 Unowned (Skull
Valley Recreation Centre)
Business Tycoons: 1 (Komei Tellerman)
Business Districts: 1 (Skullport)
Universities: 1 (Hsu College)
CAS Sims Available: 14/16
Fires: 3
Sim Multiplier: 13
Total Population: 299
Careers Unlocked: Gamer (Morris family), Slacker (1/1), Culinary (1/1), Law Enforcement (0/1), Architecture (3/3), Medicine, Law
(w/Diploma), Business, Criminal (1/1), Athletic, Education (w/ Diploma), Science (1/1), Artist (1/1)