A "Become One With Russia" challenge attempt

By Captain Chaotica!!

PART FIVE

Big Brother Russia is watching you sleep.

Last time...what DIDN'T happen last time? We had fights, fires, slaps, hookups, birthdays, a birth, superheroes and smustle parties. The Micronations grew up into kids, Sealand started a war with Molossia, Britain started a war with Ukraine, Ukraine gave birth to a baby girl named Odessa Gervickas, Berlin Ivanova showed her murderous tendencies early, and Mother Egypt moved in. Among other events.



We come back in to find Britain STILL on the chessboard.



SPAIN: Yay! I think!
LITHUANIA: DIE, YOU BASTARDS! DIE!!



Berlin Ivanova can talk!
...hey, there's nothing in the rules about RUSSIA teaching toddler skills...(and she is his own kid, after all.)



Now that she can talk, world domination can't be far behind!
BERLIN: Mmmm, block.
...or maybe not.



Yay, skill point. Lol, that headdress with underwear.



Obligatory "busy house" screen is obligatory. :P



BWOOMP! Pink dust! And wow, Germany...are you having triplets? Or maybe a Volkswagen.



VATICAN: Ohmygod, school.
SEALAND: (continues to win friends and influence people)
I have little idea what is up with these guys. ALL of them except Molossia have only 2 nice points, and yet the only real antagonism that's popped up so far is her vs. Sealand. The other combinations get along fairly well--especially Vatican and Ladonia, who KEEP geeking out at each other.



AGAIN. This time Ladonia cheers on Sealand. Fickle, much?



O-HO. Look who just randomly fell in love.
GERMANY: (oblivious)



what. Dude WHAT?! This is weird in so many ways. (A), why the freak is Italy trying for a baby at all, he's not even REMOTELY Family-ish, (B), he and Russia haven't even flirted since Italy moved in, (C), if his biological clock was going to go off I figured he'd go with Spain...just...
WHAT?
Also--watch out, Italy! Incoming blitzkrieg in 5...4...



...Or...not. Whacked out on alien pregnancy-hormones?
GERMANY: (blissful motherhood)
(Isn't Berlin just the cutest little THING? Look at those elfin eyebrows!)



...in fact he seems to still like Russia JUST FINE! This is like, less than an hour later, by the way.
Oh, and: skill point. Yay.



I have no idea...Comet! It's got a cooler name.



Drat. Well, why did you do that, moron? You could've argued your point without smacking the customer!



DEJECTION.
SWITZERLAND: What a loser!



Oh, hello Estonia!
(I swear his face isn't really as square as it looks here.)



It looks like "relations" between Russia and Switzerland are going very well indeed! (waggles eyebrows)
...Oh, and the Micronations have A's. HOW IS THIS AN ISBI. HOW.



SWITZERLAND: That was AWESOME! (bff)
RUSSIA: Dayam you hot, lemon tree.
Obviously, this is the time to ask him to "become one" with Russia...right after he already did. Wait.



Of course! She wouldn't go anywhere without her Big Brahther. Also, she's a teenager--we kinda can't move her in seperately.



WOOT! This is why I prioritized moving in Switzerland first, over the other countries Russia's made contact with. He's RICH!...relatively speaking. Naturally--he's friggin' Switzerland!



Eeanyway, I've had uses for this money for AGES. Behold, the finished communal bathrooms and showers!



Behold--random landscaping in the backyard just because I can!



Flags. :)



VATICAN: Yes, I do indeed rule. No autographs, please.



The conflicted heart of a Russian in love.



MICRONATIONS: HEY MOM DAD LOOK AT US WE'RE AWESOME YOO-HOO LOOK AT US LOOKIE LOOK LOOK!
BRITAIN and FRANCE: (ignore them completely to cuddle someone else's baby)



Taiwan continues to bring home the bacon...and the plague. Sigh.
Yeah, you know all those promotions and good grades? I have a feeling that's about to go south.



Liechtenstein and Mother Egypt have a conversation through three smustling people. Somehow.



Game nagging/reminders (YAY, we get to find out what Odessa looks like!) and PIRATE DINNER. ARRR.



Yes! Come on over and get the plague I mean, clean up this pigsty!
...and does it surprise ANYBODY that those two somehow managed to get the flu at exactly the same time?



Fiery death aside, isn't my landscaping pretty? :P



Anyway, the new patio. (And a random green townie.) With a little shelter over the hot-tub--I'm curious to see whether that's enough to protect Sims from lightning by itself, or does it HAVE to be fully indoors.



And now, a Portrait of Two Pregnancies:
Italy, first trimester, does this.



Whereas Germany, due to give birth at any moment, has stats like THIS.
...in case you thought I was exagerrating his badassity.
(This isn't just amazing for a pregnant Sim in an ISBI. This is good for a pregnant Sim in general!)



(sings) Let's have a party, there's a full moon in the sky/It's the hour of the wolf, and I don't wanna die...



EVERYBODY ELSE: Yay, birthday!
UKRAINE: Grrr!



Birthday Party at the Embassy! I love this angle. :)



And POOF! Odessa Gervickas is a toddler, with her dad conveniently posing in the background to show how much she looks like him.



RUSSIA: (pondering over the globe) Someday...



The plague spreads further and hey, somebody actually used the new backyard table! For a second.



...why are one or more people in this household ALWAYS at least an hour late for every major event? :P



Obligtory Russia-wearing-his-scarf-in-the-shower shot.
(And yes, we KNOW what you're obsessed with...you're about to have at least one more.)



Whoah, they actually ate the whole cake without my prompting! I'm impressed.



UKRAINE: Grrr me wash plate now grrr.



(sigh) And MORE plague.



GAAAH! This isn't FUCKING TERRIFYING at all, no!



LITHUANIA: You know what, Mr. Flash? You're really freaking hot.
WALLY: Why, thank you. ++
...still not gay, dude.
(In case you're wondering, I didn't have Lithuania call him over, he just...wandered right on in. Two nights in a row. No, I don't know why either.)



Thwarted yet again in his quest for hot, spandexy superhero luv, Lithuania jumps into bed with...Ancient Greece?!
Well, okay. This is the first nookie she's gotten since moving in! So why not.



SMUG. ;)



Hey, she auto-feeds the cat! I think I'm going to like you, Liechtenstein.
FIGARO: I like her too.



Then Lithuania, the poor exhausted dear, falls asleep on the couch. Because heaven knows there isn't anywhere ELSE for him to sleep in this whole big house.



Certainly



Not



What's with these little -500's all over the house? Oh--Ukraine must've howled. Everybody hates it, except for...



I love Knowledge Sims. :)



SPAIN: Hmm, I'm starting to think America might have something with his alien nonsense, actually. I mean, we saw that flying saucer...



URKAINE: (deadly serious) I HAS A KERMIT.
...ALSO I IS FEELING MUCH BETTER NOW.



Russia will rule over you all! ALL, I say! BWA HA HA!



Oh god. England cooked. Run.
(Normally I'd make fun of Lithuania for going "OH I'M SO HUNGRYYY" when there's food right there, but considering who made it...)



SPAIN: It's not what it looks like!...okay it is what it looks like.



Then Switzerland randomly goes insane. I didn't even know there was anything wrong with him? (Aspiration-wise, anyway.)



SWITZERLAND: I feel much better. Thanks, imaginary shrink!



And Germany decides to give birth in the yellowest room of the house.



D'awwww.



Meet little...Kepler! I thought of Germany + aliens and came up with very little. So then I went: Germany + space in general and came up with: Astronomers!
...do you have any idea how many entries there are under "German Astronomers" ALONE, on Wikipedia?

She has that light purpleish skin and...red eyebrows. Huh. I wonder if she's going to come out looking anything like Lenore Williams, over in Veronaville. (They'd technically be half-sisters!...which is a scary thought, if you know Lenore. She'd also be Herbert Brown's half-sister and THAT, I can see. He and Germany are a LOT alike in personality. And you have no idea who any of these characters are and don't care, so I'll shut up now.)



Everybody rushes in to "YAY, BABY!" but within two seconds forgot why they came there in favor of thinking about Spain, complaining about each others' smell, and random tickling.
Ah, Sims. So focused.



The new loading screen--only eleven out of the twenty are shown, nobody is holding their own baby, and Molossia is doing the Helicopter Arms of Fiery Corruption Doom. (At least, I've heard that that's a bad sign somehow, but I'm vague on the specifics.)



Sigh. More flu, including Russia himself. Great.



THIS is what Vatican chose to do rather than go to school today. And you were doing so well, dear.



Boy, Russia looks THRILLED at whatever Romano is talking about, doesn't he? You'll never move them in with that attitude, Mister.



Germany proves yet again that he is not only capable of caring for children in general, he's capable of caring for his actual OWN children. Unlike most people in this house.



Tell me about the rabbits, George!



WHOOOO!! YEAH!! Since these guys aren't townies, they have no expensive things in their inventories and start off at at the bottom rung of their jobs rather than being at random levels, and so we've been struggling for money off and on since the beginning. This isn't extra. This money will be USED. :)
(Switzerland and Liechtenstein were the only ones in their household, and I cheated to get them expensive stuff, but...well, Switzerland.)



Playground! Which nobody will use. In front of the beautiful pond (that nobody will fish in) and trees and rocks and things that make it look like an actual park!



Swimming pool! which, again, probably nobody will use. Also notice I finally added in Greece's flag.



This is why I had the house on a foundation from the very beginning--so I could eventually make a FUN DUNGEON! Or that's what I'm calling it, anyway. :P All kinds of par-tay stuff in the basement, and room for more, when I can afford it.
I also added an axe-throwing log and a hammock outside, but forgot to get pictures.



Meanwhile, enough cheerful stuff...more failure spam. Sigh.



Naturally, all this spending of precious, precious money causes Switzerland to go into aspiration failure. :P



Yay! And she does have relatives outside the house--America and Canada are kinda her much-older brothers. I'm guessing probably Canada sent the money--I don't think their economy is QUITE as screwed up as ours, right now? :P (Although it is getting better.)



Due to Aspiration problems, Germany's only three nice points FINALLY come out. I'm amazed it took this long. He's taken to randomly poking Mother Egypt, Taiwan and I think also Ancient Greece? for no reason.



Switzerland would like to show us his UBER-MANLY PYJAMAS. That is all.
(Actually, if anybody knows WCIF full-body, loose, light pink PJ's for guys--a recolour of the basegame Maxis mesh would be fine--lemme know. I want something that looks vaguely similar to the ones Liechtenstein made for him. ;))



More flu...



And Taiwan decides to take Lithuania for a test-drive. Huh. She seems to be working her way through all the proven-breeders of the house. Wonder how long it'll take her to get to Germany, Italy or Ukraine.



WHEN are you two ever going to learn that your relationship just plain doesn't work? You both want a loving long-term family type deal, but you both keep failing to have kids with each other, and you both keep sleeping around on each other! Give up.



Anyway, it's time for Berlin Ivanova's birthday. Everybody, including Random Really Dark Townie Who Fades Into the Shadows that...somebody brought home from work with them, parties down.



And we'll stop here for now, 'cos it's as good/bad a time as any. She's "well on her way to perfection" (GERMANY: Of course! Do you sink I vould tolerate any less from MEIN kinder?) and a...different-lookin' little thing. The combination of Russia's sleepy-ish vague eyes and Germany's slanty eyebrows continues to be interesting. :P



WILL the household ever get over its deadly annoying illness? CAN Switzerland stop going crazy every two seconds? And WHAT will the competely unexpected baby of Russia and Italy, of all nations, turn out like?

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK--same Sim time, same Sim channel!

TOTAL NATIONS CONTACTED: 17.
TOTAL NATIONS MOVED IN: 13, not counting kids (except Sealand).