Chapter 14: Illegal Cat Breeding Scheme

Suchandra is making a tradition of being the one to take his grandchildren to the cake on their birthdays.

The baby is at the cake. Where the hell is everyone?

Finally, the family starts gathering on the patio.

Oh, yeah, Lourdes is finally pregnant.

"See, my husband's swimmers work just fine."

Sitara becomes a toddler.

I wonder where Darleen and Suchandra have gone off to? Right, of course, they're in one of their son's beds.

Being a good family-oriented Sim, Kiran immediately rolls wishes to teach his new toddler all her toddler skills.

Suresh running off to work the next morning. Suresh is rising quickly on the corporate ladder, getting promotions and raises steadily. He's currently the main source of income, pulling around $800 a day to Kiran's $300.

Suresh, hearing himself praised, turns his head toward the camera. "I am the King of Bringing Home the Bacon."

Well, technically, bacon doesn't exist in your world.

"What kind of crapsack world is this? Can I get a transfer? Maybe you could set me up in one those 100 baby challenge deals?"

I don't know, Suresh, it took you long enough to father your first child...

Chelsea, the Eco-Friendly PI.

Chelsea's LTW is to reach the top of the PI career. SP had placed her in the medical career before Kiran married her, but she rolled a wish to join the PI career pretty much right away. She was also on maternity leave when she married in to the family, and she was staying home to care for Tamira. Then she got pregnant again in Egypt, so it's taken this long to finally get around to the career change.

PI is the one Ambitions career I've actually never played. I can already tell it's going to be hours of fun, checking through mail and rummaging through garbage. 

(It's also sadly broken with UL, half of the 'cases' she gets offered are to study at home or in the library to help with 'finals'. I've been having to send her into the police building over and over, rejecting the bogus study jobs until a real case comes up.)

Chelsea's sleuthing uncovers an illegal cat breeding scheme. These people have 6 cats living their one bedroom house.

Chelsea has to hack into someone's computer for her job. She has no idea what she's doing and breaks the laptop.

"Aaagh! This laptop was fine when I left for work this morning! Aaagh!!"

After his little hissy fit, Suresh mans up and rolls a wish to fix the damn thing.

"You wouldn't survive this challenge with out me, you know."

I think you might be right, Suresh.

"So, we just sit around all day watching TV?" Sitara asks.

"I need to reach level 6 in Cooking, to be able to read this cobbler recipe book, so I can satisfy my craving for grape cobbler."

"How would you like to taxi that big 757 down my runway?"

"Excuse me? Did you just say..."

"You heard me, big boy."

Lourdes goes into labor in the pre-dawn hours.

Suresh and Lourdes both wanted a boy, and actually got one. Meet little Aurelio.

Yeah, I'm never going to get tired of this. 

In case your sarcasm meter isn't functioning, I already hate this career. =P

She's already had her baby, but, finally, Lourdes can satisfy that pregnancy craving for grape cobbler. Funny how no matter what fruit goes into the cobbler, they all come out of the oven looking the same.

Tamira: Yay! It's my birthday!

Sitara: I'm going to go see what's on TV.

Tamira ages up to child.

And Aurelio ages up to toddler right after her.

The next day is Spooky Day, and Suresh drives his wife, son and niece to the festival for a few hours before Kiran's Feast Party starts up.

"Why can't we have a costume party? Feast parties are boring!" Tamira complains.

"I wish we could have a costume party, too," Suresh says, "And if I were heir, my wishes would dominate. Instead, we have to have the boring party your father wished for."

"Well, I wish you were heir, Uncle Suresh."

"I clearly am the better candidate for heir," Suresh agrees, "But I guess some people don't recognize quality when they see it." 

Passive-aggressive much, Suresh?

"I like feast parties," Lourdes chimes in from the backseat.

Darleen and Suchandra are already at the festival, so they are invited in on the family greeting card photo.

Suresh plays with Fred Philips, who seems to live at this park.

"I am the King of Pu---"

No, just, no, Suresh. Don't say it. I'm warning you.

"--ssy."

I told you not to go there.

Suresh: Smirks.

While this is going on, I hear the lullaby of a successful try for baby. There's nothing on the festival lot for anyone to woohoo in, so I guessed that maybe some NPCs were going at in the nearby City Hall rabbithole.

After wasting a few hours doing nothing at the festival, Suresh et al head home for the feast party.

"You ever wonder what it would have been like if we were conjoined twins?"

"Actually, no, Suresh, the thought never crossed my mind. Go clip into someone else."

Here's Dion, Kamala and Alvaro's son.

What's with the deer in the headlights expression, Dion?

I was totally bald just two seconds ago! This hair just showed up on my head from nowhere!

Oh, I just abducted you and took you to CAS.  Some people wanted to see a picture of you, and I had to make you presentable.

Who are you? Who are you showing pictures of me to? Get out of my head, crazy voice!

Calm down, Dion. You aren't in the active family, so you won't have me bugging you very often.

And Darshan, now aged to YA.

"Seriously? This is the best picture you could get of me? I'm way better looking than this!"

I know, sorry, Darshan. These parties are always such chaos, I forget to get good pictures of everyone. Look on the bright side; you are the most downloaded Sim on my studio on the exchange. You've been downloaded more times than Suresh.

Shelly Boyd shamelessly flirts with Rajendra in front of his new wife, Leslie, officially earning the 'Homewrecker' title. Just ask Alvaro, Shelly, once you earn a label, it pretty much sticks to you forever.

I'm good with that.

I know Chelsea wants another baby, but as far as I know, she's not pregnant...

You left Kiran and me alone here while you were watching Suresh at the festival. What did you think was going to happen?

Was that lullaby I heard you guys?

Maybe.

It's a battle of the the sisters-in-laws as Darshan's wife Monica gets into a fight with Rajendra's wife Leslie. Ezra, Darleen and Suchandra's youngest son, wonders how he ended up in such a toxic family.

Yah, well, it's not a party until someone's woohooing in their hosts' beds.

Tamira plays with Treble, a dog Suchandra adopted after Kiran and Suresh moved out. 

Shelly doubles down on the homewrecker title, flirting with Rajendra in front of her fiance, Orlando.

Please, Shelly, I need you to make at least one baby with Orlando before you drive him off.

Don't worry, I have him wrapped around my finger.

Well, I hope so, because I want you two to stay together, even if I feel kind of bad for him.

The battle of the sisters-in-law carries on unabated. That's what feast parties are for, I guess. 

It's a feast party, and no has sat down to eat anything yet. Instead they are all just loitering around the entrance. When Sitara starts crying, I'm about ready to call this party over.

Tamira gets to know her uncle Ezra. Ezra clearly wants out of this crazy family. 

Look on the bright side, kid, at least this isn't an ISBI.

"You're still going to marry me, even though I'm a shameless homewrecking hussy, right?"

"I don't know, what are my options?"

None, I guess. As soon as they got home from this party, Shelly and Orlando got married.