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Over at the Hill household, Jia is doing a excellent job taking care of the sheep, and Drustan has been stuck with laundry.
Drustan: Why do I have to do the laundry, outside, in the cold? :(
Because you have a want to earn a cleaning point.
One baby sibling was enough for Dunk, thanks.
Jia: Hang on a minute, Sun—UNCLE DOGGY!
That’s actually Elmet’s nickname forever, much to his regret.
Sun: Jia says she doesn’t like horses because they can’t really fly, but I think that’s stupid. Horses are great. You can braid their hair and they can run REALLY fast. Do you have a horse on the farm, Uncle?
Eisu: No, we haven’t had one for quite a long time.
Sun: You should get one, then. The ones with a white blaze on the nose are the best ones, but—
Sun talks a lot more than her mum ever did.
Hate that I know this about you!
Drustan also wants to gain a cooking skill point, so his dads have let him take over cooking duties for a while to practice.
Drustan: It’s supposed to look like that... right?
He’s not having a good time with this baby, btw. Never seen a sim's energy meter go DOWN while they're sleeping before.
We’re TRYING, random pop-up. Unfortunately, his needs keep tanking when he has to sleep.
Clearly it’s time to summon Helenet.
Helenet: I’m going to pretend I’m not seeing this.
Xiang: He’s having a rough time of things today.
Helenet: Hmm, I’ll see what I can do for him. But sometimes these things are just rough, especially when spirits are involved.
Clearly that was not what he was hoping to hear.
Some practice on herself has made Helenet more confidant with that rejuvenation spell.
We’ll take it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Helenet: Hey, how are you feeling?
Eisu: *yawns* Tired, but a lot better than last night.
Xiang: I don’t understand why the spirits would make a blessing something difficult.
Helenet: Now that’s the question generations have asked. It just takes a lot of work to make a whole new person, I suppose.
Xiang: Hm.
Helenet: Anyway, it was good you sent Jia to get me. Let me know if anything else happens, otherwise I’ll come by again in a few days.
Baby drama over, time for teen drama. Dunk has also learned that complimenting Gytha’s violent spirit is the way to her heart!
Like Gytha said to Angus, she’s keeping all her options open. Careers, boys, choice of murder weapon… how’s a girl supposed to choose when she has so much of the world before her, ready and waiting to be cracked open and taken?
Angus is sweet, but so is Drustan, and Drustan is more outgoing and talkative. On the other hand, Drustan is best friends with her brother, so his taste must be questionable at best.
I’m not sure this particular relationship will go anywhere, but teenage mistakes must be made, right? Anyway, I guess if Glamaer kinda has two girlfriends, it's only right that Gytha can have two boyfriends. At least Dunk and Angus know they're competing!
Glamaer drops by right as Drustan gets back home and immediately starts talking about kissing, lol.
Drustan: 😬
Jia: Dunk, are you going to get married and move out like Uncle?
Drustan: I mean... I wasn’t planning on it. When I get married, I’ll probably still live here.
Jia: Aw. I was hoping I’d get our room all to myself.
Drustan wants to know if Glamaer is really okay with him dating his sister.
Glamaer: Yeah, sure, it’s not like I have a monopoly on your friendship or anything. And whatever gets Gytha out of the house and doing something besides sulking in our room or having glaring contests with Brigid.
Drustan: She could go out on the boat with you?
Glamaer: Yeah, no, Gytha says ‘the fish are all yours, dummy’.
Jia and Sun have been spending a lot of time
Oh, and I must not pay enough attention to sim kids drawing at this table in my regular game, because I noticed something I’d never seen before—when Jia finishes drawing, she cheers and looks around, pointing at the drawing like she’s showing it off. Cute!
Xiang: Let me make sure I have this right. You want to invite the strange forest spirit into our home... for pie?
Eisu: He’s our neighbor! And my brother’s partner, apparently! It’s just good manners to have him over, love.
Xiang: I’m not sure that it’s a good idea.
Eisu: Why? Helenet and Elmet trust him. That’s good enough for me.
Xiang: Your brother is...
Eisu: I see you trying so hard to not call him a dumbass, and I appreciate the effort.
Xiang: I was going to say 'a werewolf’. I imagine that gives one an edge over other... supernatural creatures.
Eisu: Well, I don’t see why it would come to that, but if it does, I have a very strapping swordsman here with me. We could send the kids to stay with Norweni if it makes you feel better.
Xiang: Yes, I suppose so. If you're set on the idea.
Ew, parental affection.
A talent, an icon, etc. Would recommend maybe not doing handstands next to the open hearth, but you do you, Jia.
Soon.
Drustan: ...but she also says she wants to try dating Angus? I mean, Angus? Really? But also she’s right, we’re not, like, old enough to be really thinking seriously about marriage and stuff like that, it’s just, I dunno. What do you think, Baba?
Xiang thinks that this is so not his forté. Eisu is the adult in the village with emotional intelligence, dammit, not him.
Mouse goes through like five of these catnip balls every season, no exaggeration.
A heavy snow settles on the farm overnight.
Jia: Dunk, looooook! It snowed! It’s so pretty!
Drustan: Yup, it sure did, now can you close the shutters? It’s getting c-cold in here!
The animals still need to be fed and cared for even when there’s a few feet of fresh snow. These days, Drustan needs to break the ice on their water trough in the morning.
Drustan: At least you guys have nice thick coats on.
Well, maybe you should put on your damn cloak. I know I gave you one.
Helenet is here again, though Xiang is handling the things she usually helps out with pre-birth—she’s also very pregnant, after all.
Jia convinces her brother to come play in the snow with her.
Drustan: Oof! Why can you throw harder than me?!
Jia: Practice!
It’s true, Jia has a fitness OTH and loves to roll wants to do things like jump rope and gain body skill.
Inside, it’s baby time! Why does she already come with a pink bow???
Anyway, the spirits have blessed them with another girl, who they decide to call Xiuying. Like Jia, she has Xiang’s pretty gray eyes.
Jia: I’m boooored. Dunk, can we go out? Can we go to the well or something?
Drustan: I’m busy.
Xiang: Drustan, just take her out for a little while. Please.
Drustan: Ugh, fine.
Little siblings are so much trouble. 😤
He does find someone to hang out with while Jia is playing, though.
And Jia ropes Faro Seax into a snowball fight–he’s much better at it than Drustan.
I think he might be getting a lil cold, though. Even his bald spot is turning blue.
Xiuying reliably wakes in the middle of the night, every night, and Eisu gets up with her. He can never get to sleep afterward, so tonight he’s working on that pie for when they invite Arturo. (Also, peep that thigh-high slit on his nightshirt. How risque.)
Thought for a second that Drustan got his hands on an ILLICIT ELECTRONIC (handheld game), but it was just the puzzle sphere.
Drustan: So if I line the red up... but then the green doesn’t match?
Midnight feedings aside, Eisu is back to his usual energetic self!
Never mind! KINET!!!
Glamaer: What am I, chopped liver?
Drustan: I guess I could kiss you too if you really want.
Gytha: Ew, don’t even joke about kissing my brother. You can find someone else to kiss if you need to. Like Angus maybe?
Drustan: Huh?
Gytha: Nothing!
Gytha: If I wanted to talk about baking, I would stay home and listen to my step-mother drone on about different kinds of wheat.
I'm starting to think she’s just coming here for the cat.
Gytha: When I live on my own, I’m getting a cat. No, TWO cats. Four cats.
I’m so conflicted. They’re actually all sitting nearby and facing each other to hang out, which never happens when my sims hang out, but Gytha is sitting in the hearth. I guess her butt was cold. The true plague of winter: cold butts.
Yeah, I know, she’s not that great, which is why I don’t understand why you and Angus are both fucking obsessed with her.
This village is menaced by wolves. Plagued by them, even.
Eisu: Helenet, dear one, I see you have an escort today!
Helenet: Oh, if it’s not one of them it’s the other, since apparently neither understands that I’m PREGNANT, not INCAPABLE.
Arturo: I believe you to be very capable, witch. I’ve just also watched you attempt to get off the ground recently.
I couldn’t even get him to drink the flu cure Helenet brought before he started telling dirty jokes, bless him.
Arturo: Hm... a very admirable creature.
Mouse: Mrow?
Eisu: Well, hello there, future nibling of mine!
Helenet: Elmet insists it’s going to be a girl. I keep telling him there’s no real way to tell how it’s going to come out.
Eisu: Maybe it’s just wolfish intuition. Oh, I think they’re saying something... they’re saying, ‘you should name me after Uncle Eisu.’
Helenet: Sorry to say, I’ve got a name in mind already and it is not Eisu Junior.
Eisu: There’s always the next one!
Helenet: Heh, only if you’ll make Xiuying’s middle name Helenet—
Eisu: Done!
Helenet: Oh... I didn’t think you’d actually say yes.
Xiang: Not to be rude, but I am surprised you agreed to come along with Helenet. You left rather abruptly the other day.
Arturo: Yes, well, someone had decided to ambush me that day. But there is little to do in the grove in winter. It was this or sit around and… I don’t know, reorganize my library for the one thousandth time.
Xiang: Library?
Arturo: Ah. A ‘library’ is a collection of writings. Do you—
Xiang: Of course I know what a library is! You have books? Where? What language? How many? Can I see them?!
Helenet: Aww, Eisu, look, they’re making friends!
Arturo is not the easiest person to befriend, but Eisu is determined to do it. (Besides, his brother isn’t the easiest person to befriend either—so clearly Arturo is perfect for him and Helenet!)
Xiuying looks delightfully like a little squirmy caterpillar in her swaddling. A squirmy wormy, if you will.
Eisu: Wenna! And dear Diseta, you don’t have to wait to be greeted, just come in when you arrive!
Diseta: Oh, uh, I just don’t want to be rude.
Diseta promptly finds the household cat. Sims: they’re just like us at parties.
Eisu: So, what do you think of Elmet and Helenet’s mystery man?
Norweni: Why are we whispering?
Eisu: Espionage! Also, little pitchers have big ears.
Norweni: That saying has never made sense to me. What makes children pitchers?
Eisu: It just means they take in a lot of information, Wenna, like filling a pitcher.
Eisu: Anyway, I like him.
Norweni: Eisu, you like everyone.
Eisu: And he’s promised to bring Xiang a bunch of story scrolls or whatever, so he’s coming around on Arturo as well, I think.
Norweni: I don’t trust this whole thing. He’s clearly some kind of magical creature, and when have you ever heard a good story about a mysterious, magical creature from the woods?
Eisu: Well... someone’s got to be the first one.
Norweni: What if he’s ensorcelled them or something like that?
Eisu: Helenet is pretty strong-minded. I don’t think anyone could ensorcell her, and she’d probably notice if it happened to Elmet.
Norweni: Ugh. I suppose we’ll just have to keep an eye on things for time being.
Eisu: You know, if he’s living in Veridia, technically he’s under your care as well.
Norweni: I know. That’s the part I don’t like about this.
Diseta: So... new baby, huh?
Xiang: Yep.
Mouse: ZzzzZZz... I am the best... zZZzzz...
Jia: Take that! Oof
Jia has found a wooden practice sword somewhere (let’s be real, she didn’t find it, Aunt Wenna probably gave it to her).
Her baba stumbles upon her when she's playing with it again later—
Xiang: Jia, what are you up to?
Jia: Ummm, nothing?
Xiang: Would you like to continue playing, or would you like some actual lessons?
Jia: Lessons! Do I get a real sword for lessons?
Xiang: No.
Jia: Aw.
Xiang: At least, not yet.
Eisu wanted to host a party to celebrate Yule, and Xiang is looking forward to tasting what his husband has been cooking up since dawn.
Sun: She copied my dress.
Gytha: This is my MOTHER’S dress. You’re clearly copying me.
I have like three clothing sets in this hood, everyone shut up.
Elmet: Ugh, the armpit on this tunic is too tight...
Helenet: At least you haven’t been pregnant for a hundred moons.
Elmet: I didn’t say anything about that? And it hasn’t been that long?
Drustan: Excuse me, I’m TRYING to get inside.
There’s space all around them, just go around.
Oh, I see, you had to pointedly shove past Angus to make your feelings known.
Sun: Do you want to see a really cool bug I found?
Diseta: Do I ever!
Xiang: This is the first time we’ve all gotten together since your spirit day party, right?
Norweni: Samhain, but yes, I think so. And before that, Helenet’s wedding, I think.
Helenet is deeply offended by all the belching happening at this table.
Apparently wassailing requires everyone to jam in as close as possible.
Sun: Why don’t WE get special drinks too?
Jia: Yeah!
Maybe Veridians are finally tackling the underage drinking plaguing their village.
Jia: Grown-up parties are boring. Wanna see how hard I can throw things at the barn wall?
Sun: Eh, okay.
Angus: Um, can I come too? There’s too many people in here.
Jia: Yeah, but only if you don’t talk about boring grown-up stuff.
Diseta: Where are you two off to?
Gytha: Nowhere.
Drustan: Yeah, nowhere.
That’s not your bed!! I guess the Yuletide spirit got to Drustan and Gytha, because they snuck off from the party for a while.
btw, I was curious and had all of them on the lot, so: chemistry reports. Dunk is so into Gytha and she’s like… he’s okay. He’s pretty enough for kisses, I guess.
One problem with Angus? He doesn’t like Gytha’s dirty jokes. :’(
Clearly the cat is the most popular person here.
Good ol’ Yuletide fish-slappin’ fun!
Gytha: Your uncle is a werewolf?!
Drustan: Oh, yeah, you didn’t know that? I kinda forgot everyone didn’t know that. It’s kinda cool, right?
Gytha: Um...
That’s an interesting set of wants you have there, Dunk.
Eisu’s party is, of course, a resounding success. Everyone ate, drank, and made merry (though SOME of them should’ve been making merry in their OWN BED), and also he foisted all the leftovers off on Elmet.
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