The Movie Continued Playing, But Malcolm And Abby Kind Of Lost Interest.

The movie continued playing, but Malcolm and Abby kind of lost interest. 

"Well, this is it," Malcolm said, putting the car in park.  

Abby stepped carefully out of the car, pausing to open her umbrella.  She looked up at Landgraab Manor.  "Holy crap," she murmured.  "I thought you said it was nothing special. You live here all by yourself?"

"Yeah," Malcolm said.  "Let's get in and I'll show you around."  He led the way up the walk and into the house.  Abby couldn't seem to stop staring.

"I'll take your umbrella," Malcolm said once they got into the front hall.

"Thanks," Abby said, closing the umbrella and handing it to him. She looked around.  “There really isn’t a butler or anything?”

"Nope."  Malcolm put the umbrella in the stand by the door. "The house was closed up for years while I was at college, and then it was just me here, so I didn't think a butler was necessary.  I hired a maid and a gardener, but they don't live here. Mostly it’s just me."

End of Round 1

Yay!  We’re done with Round 1 of Bluewater Challenge 2016!!!  

I had so much fun playing this!  I liked trying to find a balance between what i’d done before and trying new things.  I loved the stories that developed.  I did get frustrated with some of the families but overall it was just a lot of fun!  

Originally I was going to include the SSU premades as well, but a variety of circumstances have changed my mind on that. Instead, let me welcome you to  Bright Lake University, which is the uni we’ll be using for this challenge from now on. I “built” it using a few premade lots, a couple of lots that I built, and a bunch of the lots that @penig created for her Land Grant University.  (I would have just used LGU, but I wanted a slightly different neighborhood layout.  I really like the lots Peni created, though, so I hope it’s okay that I copy/pasted them into a new hood. They really are fantastic and I can’t wait to send sims to them.) I’ll give you more of a campus tour once Melody Tinker is at University.  (That’ll probably be after Round 2.) 

I made all the SSU premades into dormies, so hopefully they’ll show up and Melody can get to know a few of them. I still want them to be in the Bluewater story, but the prospect of adding so many more sims to the playable rotation (among other issues) convinced me that this was the right way to go. 

In the meantime, let’s review where everyone left off in Round 1 and then we’ll jump into Round 2 of Bluewater Challenge 2016!

I tried @dramallamadingdang‘s little CAS meme of randomizing 8 times and seeing what comes up.  I got Yvonne.  She’s going to be a college student at the campus near Bluewater.  

The grandfather clock in the hall chimed midnight. Malcolm and Abby finally moved slightly apart.  Malcolm looked from the TV, which was back at the DVD menu, to Abby, who was grinning.

“Did you see the end of the movie?” he asked.

“No,” she laughed. “I wasn’t really paying attention.” 

“Me neither.”

Malcolm led Abby into the den.  They flipped through his DVDs and found something to watch and sat together on the couch.  As the movie went on, they snuggled closer and closer.