Round 5: Benson
I know it's been awhile since my last update, but I've had this one sitting ready to be posted for months. So, here it is! Last time with the Benson family, the 3rd and 4th generations of the plantsim legacy were born, the elderly Mona continued to work on her LTW and IW, finally achieving her LTW of having 20 lovers, and Mona drank some elixir of life to last another round in hopes of getting that Romance IW!
Here's our dear Carter, studying hard for his last year of high school. He will join his long time girlfriend, Bree Wilcox, at Uni later this round.
To generate some money, Mona and Azalea work on some painting skills in the hopes of selling some masterpieces.
There's nothing really for plantsims to do during the evening hours, so Hyacinth builds some body skill while poor Carter is still studying for his high school finals.
The other idea the plantsims of this household had was to open up a flower shop! But to do that, they needed to work on their flower arranging skills. So Lavender and Hyacinth were put to work making flower arrangements while Azalea kept producing and selling masterpieces to afford their new hobby!
Meanwhile, Mona kept working on her IW of having 30 lovers, so here she is gaining #26 with exterminator Haven Madison.
The girls got their bronze flower arranging badges in no time.
And Ashley Pitts made love #27 for Mona.
Everyone also tried to spend as much time as they could with Carter since he'd be leaving for Uni soon. He's always been the favorite in the family, mostly because he practically raised all these plantsims by himself!
Carter applied for Uni and got a total of $4000 in scholarships. Go Carter!
On his last day of high school, Carter won some arts and crafts enthusiasm due to a lucky chance card.
And off he goes to Uni, where he will live in a dorm with other crazy college kids and get into all sorts of trouble! We will see him later on this round.
After Carter's departure, there really was nothing to do but skill. So the girls gained their silver flower badges.
While Mona made Jimmy Phoenix her 28th lover.
And Bran Ward became #29, but the game counts her first memory of mystery sim as 1, so he actually makes #30!
So CAS elder Mona achieved her LTW and her Romance IW of having 30 loves! What a life Mona...what a life!
Mona spends her last days with her family. 4th generation plantsim, Dandelion is about to become an adult.
But the family spends some quality time with her before her birthday. She was pretty much forgotten in the household after Carter moved to Uni.
She grew up into a very pretty plantsim even though she was neglected most of her life.
And she got right to work on producing the 5th generation of the plantsim legacy! That's the only thing these plantsims count for in this challenge, ya know.
And this time it was finally a boy! His name is Hemlock, and he's adorable!
Somewhere along the line, Mona maxed the nature hobby and got the plaque for it. I think you get points for having plaques, I don't really remember but I'll have to go back and check!
Now that she didn't need to wish for lovers anymore, Mona put the wishing wells to good use by wishing for money so the girls could start their flower shop.
The girls are just about ready for that flower shop. They've got gold badges and a TON of inventory!
Too bad Mona won't be around to see the flower shop or the end of her plantsim legacy, but she had a longer life than most CAS elders, so it's about time she sees ol' Grimmy! Farewell Mona!
Mona left money to quite a few people, 35 to be exact with her daughter Lavender getting the majority of it.
With Mona gone, the plantsims went back to work making money to open their flower shop.
But they did have a nice little funeral for Mona, their beloved matriarch. She is buried in the St. Eclair Cemetery right next to her old lover and friend Ruben Wilcox.
The girls finally opened their flower shop, called Le Fleur.
They mostly sell flower arrangements but they also have some naturally grown produce for sale as well.
Lavender and Hyacinth mostly concentrate on keeping things restocked and making sales to the customers, while Azalea tends the cash register.
Bronze sales badges for our two sales women.
Le Fleur made it's first sale and reached business rank 1 in no time at all.
Azalea was a little slow at the cash register at first, but she'll get used to it in time.
They even got a good review from the reporter!
And business rank 2 was soon to follow.
And to end this update, the sales girls earned their silver sales badges. They must have been working hard!
The Benson household is full of plantsims now. Carter's off to University, but he will return to claim the Benson household and name once he graduates. Thanks for reading and hopefully I can find some time soon to play the next family!