Chapter Forty Eight - Hannah Grows Up

Back home, to the busy suburban family life. Better than Al Sim Hara Austin?
Meh.
Interesting. For a man of many words, he has very few to offer us today.
Change of topic.
Nice suit Austin. (I'm guessing this is is outfit of choice now that he's an International Super Spy), off to work?
Meh

 

Sorry I didn't lock your wish to retire, but all your wishes were full up and you weren't progressing any further with any of them until you wished to travel.
 
It was Blaine's first day at work too. The fire station was noticeably empty of staff, so he  was just about to upgrade the fire alarm when it went off.

It is making a funny noise.

That's signalling an emergency.

What do I do there is nobody else around.

Hop into the fire engine, drive to the source of the emergency and put out the fire.

Am I allowed to drive the engine?

Sheesh, I don't know, I've never dealt with a Simbot that wanted to be a Fire Fighter before. Just try it.

And so he rushed off, sirens wailing, to deal with his first emergency. A small house fire.
It should have been a piece of cake. However, it seems that one of his supposed work colleagues, decided to get in his way, stomping and yelling, so Blaine was stuck, whilst this small fire went from a Category A - within an hour or two, to a Category B emergency .... 3 hours maybe 4. I had to reset him and send him back there, where it was almost a repeat of the same situation. I had to reroute him to a spot on the lawn then onto putting out the flames.

Even so, he still got a boost up his career for what they call his 'quick thinking in an emergency'. Yeah, riiiight.
He went back to the station, to park his iron butt at the desk and sit chatting to someone - not a clue who though, until his shift ended.

Meanwhile, back home, here's a great glitch for you. William caught in mid transition, just before he turned into a micro fairy and headed off to the fairy castle outside.

Hannah was getting a lot of attention. Austin thought the world of her - and William too.

Even though she was a squally little kid, causing no end of frustration for both Austin and Shannon. So it was no surprise that Shannon felt a wash of relief when it came up to Hannah's birthday. I could have naturally let her transition without the cake, but I thought it would be interesting to see what happens.

Austin's Inappropriate trait kicked in as he mocked Hannah's birthday celebrations.
That's your daughter Austin.
She can't blow out the candles!!
Nevertheless ....
Nah boo!!

They ignored him. As did I.

And so she grew up into a sad faced little toddler. Cute, but just look at that face on her.... bless. She looks a lot like Austin there.

I just love her cute little butterfly wings!!!

Chapter Forty Five - Time Flies

William learned a new trick today . Seriously, I didn't even know that toddlers could do this.
Because he was overly tired and everyone else was busy elsewhere, he decided to march his stubby little legs over to the fairy castle outside, and make himself quite at home.

Plus, it was another way of avoiding his little sister's consistent squalling and yelling.
From then on, whenever he was left alone, he'd sneak back in for a quick nap.


After convincing the authorities that a fire station was a vital commodity in the town - due to the dragons that were supposedly hiding out there (I haven't seen one since Austin arrived) - they finally relented and I dropped a premade building onto an empty lot.

That gave Blaine the opportunity to pursue his own lifetime wish. And so he got a job there. He was soooo excited about the prospects of work that he turned up over the weekend to work on upgrading and maintaining the engine and the fire alarms.

He even stayed overnight to recharge his batteries.

However, this wasn't the main bit of news I've got to share.
Without pomp or ceremony, or a majorly big party, Austin aged up to Elder.

WOOOO!!! PARTAY!!!!

Whoa, feel sparkly!!

Oh my, pruny hands!!

Hmm, not bad, not bad at all.
I regard this event with a little hint of sadness because that means that he's at the final stages of his life. However, that doesn't mean that he's prepared to sit down and roll over. Oh noes. He's got plans.

MAJOR plans.

Stayed tuned to find out what they are, in the next update!!!