LaPaige's Porch

[Lapaige46]

My Taylor needs to get a life. Once I get Walmsley sorted, I'll work on Taylor.
Edited to add: I gave up on Walmsley for now to focus on Taylor. Using Nraas Register I assigned her spot at the bar in Gabby's. Still says she's unemployed but when 7:00 came I sent her home. She immediately went back to working the bar so I guess I'll let it play out to see when she's ready to go home.
She served lobster to one of her customers and that customer took her plate and went to the sink behind the counter to clean up her own dishes.
It just dawned on my why they're serving food. I have the food register in the bar. I'm guessing there's no drinks register.

[Lapaige46]

Well, I tried. Taylor was chatting with someone on the computer when Bender Dunnitt came to call.
I was happy with that.



Unfortunately any potential relationship effort was interrupted when a girl's gotta do what a gir's gotta do.


It seems Mr Dunnitt wasn't patient enough to wait. Things to do, places to be, people to see...
He left as soon as she walked out the door. What a cad.

[Lapaige46]

"Sweet. Taylor just took in $366 for mixing drinks. (can't get simoleon sign to work..

Taylor is serving more food than drink but the simoleons keep adding up. The notice says it's for mixing drinks so I don't know if that includes the food she serves. I've added a food register which generated a food merchant but that doesn't seem to be doing anything. I did ad a fence/gate at each open end of the bar and it seems to be keepting the riff-raff out from behind the bar but customers with the "neat" trait are going behind the bar and washing their own dishes. Weird.
And more random weirdness. The lights all went out and someone started telling spooky stories.
I remember reading that bars close at 3:00 a.m. so I waited to see what would happen. The bar didn't close at 3:00 a.m. so I sent Taylor home. She immediately turned around and went back to the bar. Looks like I'll have to manually dismiss her with Nraas Register. Her energy never diminished either.
Bender was hanging out at the bar. They exchanged a few words that didn't seem to go well. I haven't figured out if he's romantically interested in Taylor or just being a creepy stalker.

[Lapaige46]

I put MissyHissy's bartender mod back into the game and when Taylor went to her computer to search for a job, bartending actually came up. So now she's officially employed as a bartender at Gabby's with regular hours. The only way I could have her work at Gabby's was to make it a rabbithole. That means I can't see her working at the bar during her regular shift. Half the fun is watching the antics at the bar so I will have her moonlight from time to time.
The status "missing work" did come up but I realized there was a "go to work" button and when I clicked on that it showed as working. What a process to figure all that out.

[Lapaige46]

Saltwood House, as previously mentioned, is a B& B in Cape May, NJ, which I have photographed.

I recreated the House for Riverview but instead of being a B&B it became one of 3 rooming houses. The area where I grew up was called Riverview and it had many large homes built from about 1910-1920. Many of them ended up being rooming houses. My version of S3 Riverview is based on the real life Riverview.

The residents of Saltwood house:


Weston Delaware - The Homeowner
LTW - The Tinkerer
Friendly, Good, Sense of Humor, Handy, Neat
Occupation: Repairman


Angela Delaware - His wife
LTW - Farm to Table
Bookworm, Charismatic, Green Thumb, Natural Cook, Neat
Occupation: Homemaker

Johnny Dockery - Resident


LTW - Superstar Athlete
Athletic, Childish, Easily Impressed, Good, Schmoozer
Occupation: Professional Sports


James Reed - Resident


LTW - Superhero Firefighter
Bookworm, Friendly, Brave, Sense of Humor, Lucky
Occupation: Firefighter


The Twins - Residents

Autym Sullivan


LTW - Superstar Actor
Bookworm, Dramatic, Friendly, Natural Performer, Schmoozer

Occupation: Theater

Wynter Sullivan


LTW - Super Popular
Artistic, Bookworm, Friendly, Hopeless Romantic, Nurturing

Occupation: Education

[Lapaige46]

The Saltwood gang threw a pool party.
I wouldn't exactly say it was a roaring success.
The only one in the pool was Robert and at 4:00 a.m. I finallly had to send him home (reset) because he wouldn't get out of the pool and I was afraid he was going to drown himself.

[Cheeseweasel]

Saltwood House, as previously mentioned, is a B& B in Cape May, NJ, which I have photographed.

I recreated the House for Riverview but instead of being a B&B it became one of 3 rooming houses. The area where I grew up was called Riverview and it had many large homes built from about 1910-1920. Many of them ended up being rooming houses. My version of S3 Riverview is based on the real life Riverview.

The residents of Saltwood house:


Weston Delaware - The Homeowner
LTW - The Tinkerer
Friendly, Good, Sense of Humor, Handy, Neat
Occupation: Repairman


Angela Delaware - His wife
LTW - Farm to Table
Bookworm, Charismatic, Green Thumb, Natural Cook, Neat
Occupation: Homemaker

Johnny Dockery - Resident


LTW - Superstar Athlete
Athletic, Childish, Easily Impressed, Good, Schmoozer
Occupation: Professional Sports


James Reed - Resident


LTW - Superhero Firefighter
Bookworm, Friendly, Brave, Sense of Humor, Lucky
Occupation: Firefighter


The Twins - Residents

Autym Sullivan


LTW - Superstar Actor
Bookworm, Dramatic, Friendly, Natural Performer, Schmoozer

Occupation: Theater

Wynter Sullivan


LTW - Super Popular
Artistic, Bookworm, Friendly, Hopeless Romantic, Nurturing

Occupation: Education

I love what you did with the twins' names.

[Lapaige46]

I love what you did with the twins' names.

Thanks. Autym was actually a typo but I thought it was cute so I did Wynter the same way.

[Lapaige46]

For some reason these two want to keep reverting back to the Law Enforcement career which they were never in in the first place. He was always a writer and Mavis was the receptionist at the spa.
I have retired them a couple of times but it doesn't seem to stick. At the moment they seem to be succcessfully retired and Robert has taken up golf at the Greenwood golf course.

[Cheeseweasel]

For some reason these two want to keep reverting back to the Law Enforcement career which they were never in in the first place. He was always a writer and Mavis was the receptionist at the spa.
I have retired them a couple of times but it doesn't seem to stick. At the moment they seem to be succcessfully retired and Robert has taken up golf at the Greenwood golf course.

Yeah, they get some whacky ideas. I left Tailor for a bit because the household was glitching out and I thought switching households for a bit might straighten them out (and it did) but when I went back, I found Tailor running a concession stand at the Festival. I decided she was just filling in for a friend for the afternoon. Once I switched back to her, she quit and went to scarf down some hotdogs.