As Kelly and Cyrus sleep later that night, Donna’s mixture permeates
the air of the Realm of Dusk, altering the memories and desires of the
inhabitants. Luckily for the Darkdusks,
they seem to be mostly unaffected, as do people’s memories of them.
After she wakes up, Kelly works on upgrading the
toilet. She doesn’t finish before Cyrus
wakes up, grabs a bite to eat, and gets the mail. In the mail, he finds membership certificates
from the local gym. He goes to hang
them, along with his diploma and school award, up on the wall, but the Lord of
Dusk intervenes.
You Shall Not Hang Those On The Wall!
Cyrus: “Okay…maybe that wasn’t such a good idea.”
Kelly and Cyrus then decide to try for an heir.
At work, Daydream Ivy is now Kelly’s boss at the Duskwood
Fortune-Telling Agency, thanks to Donna’s mixture. Kelly does get some new clients, though:
Ronnie Gates and Bailey Swain. For his
part, Cyrus looks at his schedule and notices that he has one more performance
than he remembers having. Of course, he
does marvelously.
When Kelly gets home from work, she sits down and
reads. However, she doesn’t feel well,
and soon leaves the book to get sick.
Could it be?
Kelly waters the garden, awaiting the bump that she hopes
will come.
And…
It comes!
Kelly invites Daydream and Bailey over for a party to
celebrate. (She invites Ronnie, also,
but he can’t make it.) Bailey even
brings lobster!
Daydream starts playing guitar and everyone but Cyrus (who’s
smart enough to stay out of the Realm of Dusk sun) comes outside and listens. Now that she knows why Kelly wasn’t at work that day,
Daydream gives Kelly her pay and puts her on a week paid leave, which Kelly
happily accepts.
During the pregnancy, Cyrus tries to make Kelly feel
comfortable. He does all the heavy work,
leaving Kelly to relax. They both hope
for a healthy daughter to carry on the Darkdusk legacy.
Despite the risk, Cyrus does make a grocery run; he knows
that Kelly prefers plasma fruit to juice.
A policeman is standing in front of the store.
Policeman: “Sorry, we can’t let you in. This store is closed right now.”
Cyrus ignores the policeman and runs in anyway. The store has already been burglarized – but
by someone other than Kelly! Kelly only
steals plasma fruit; this burglar stole aspirin and laundry detergent while
leaving the plasma fruit alone. Cyrus
runs to the produce section, steals some plasma fruits, and runs out of the
store in less than thirty seconds. In
five minutes, he loses the police, and in ten, he is back to Kelly.
Meanwhile, Kelly goes out (in the sun again! Won’t she ever learn?) and harvests her
garden. Cyrus doesn’t have the skill to
do this. It turns out to be the first
and only harvest that she will ever get from these plants, as the full moon
returns, and with it, the Zombies. This
time, they eat her plants, leaving nothing but dead husks.
The Zombies don’t make it inside the Darkdusk house, and
baby Maria is born the next day.
Meanwhile, in the Realm of Night…
Desirae: “It didn’t work! I don’t understand why it didn’t work! I mixed everything perfectly and it still
didn’t work! Unless…”
Will baby Maria grow up well? Will Kelly replant her lost garden? And who stole the aspirin and laundry
detergent from the grocery store? Find
out next time on Realm of Dusk!
Some notes:
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Donna's mixture hit the Realm of Dusk at the same time that I patched to 1.42 and installed StoryProgression is in no way a coincidence: all of the effects of the mixture are either glitches from the patch or mod or effects of the patch or mod.
I think I failed the Hands Off roll during this chapter by moving stuff from Cyrus' inventory to the wall; that's why the Lord of Dusk told him to put it back in his inventory.
It's hard to keep in mind that Hands Off requirement (I had that my first generation...drove me nuts).
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see how Baby Maria looks as she grows up! And I personally want to shoot the zombies who destroyed Kelly's garden. I hate those things so bad.
A minor suggestion. Is it possible for you to make your pictures bigger? I'd love to see the pictures better. :) (My eyesight is pretty terrible, but wearing my glasses while using the computer gives me a headache, so I choose not to wear them when reading blogs.)
I actually made some of the pictures in this chapter bigger than they were in the previous chapters; I'm going to experiment with the picture settings some more in future chapters.
DeleteI also can't wait to see how baby Maria looks!
Hmm, I wonder why the mixture didn't work as intended. I'm looking forward to seeing the baby grow up :)
ReplyDeleteThe gameplay reason the mixture didn't work as intended: If the mixture had worked as intended, I would have had to kill off every single sim in the town.
DeleteThe story reason the mixture didn't work as intended: The Realm of Dusk and the Realm of Night have slightly different properties (the Realm of Dusk sun is one example). Desirae made the mistake of assuming that the difference wouldn't matter; it did.