Monday, August 12, 2013

College is Hell: Part One

Wow! You're kids are in college already?! No... Well, yes. I cheated and aged the kids and their parents up, because I'm impatient. Who wants to play through 20 households and naturally age up thirty-one kids? I also aged up Ares and Berjes.
So! Thirty-one kids divided into five households. The first household is one of eight taking up residence in the Hyperion Residential Hall. The group is comprised of Hecate and Thanatos Cygnus, and Carina, Hemera, Peitho, Endymion, Eros and Hypnos Seraph. See how clever I am? See? SEE?!
Their first day is chalk full of term paper writing and skill leveling, since most of them are in the plat from joining college. The first to complete her term paper is Carina, who I sent out for emergency clothes for everyone. Trust me, they have he funds. For the moment I could care less about majors. It's likely I'll be changing some of them for chemistry... Maybe. That night they learned how to slap dance and I slapped my cheeks in terror.
Hemera and Hypnos would make the cutest couple, because they both have pointed ears. I'm so pleased they share two bolts. The sad thing is Carina is related to everyone here except Endymion, Hemera and Hypnos.
The next college household harbors Aether and Phobos Cygnus, and Nike, Gaea, Deimos and Pan Seraph at Atraeus Auberge. It's becoming more evident that I should rearrange the college households. Or it could be that everyone is just that closely related. Right! Everyone's term papers are more or less complete and no one looks like fashion disasters anymore. I just have to figure out where to start. Hardest one first, right? Hardest is comparative, college is a long, boring haul, but not that difficult. In this case, hardest would be the household with the most students and that's at the Hyperion Residential Hall.
Carina and Endymion have fallen in love without my say so, but I'm not opposed to this union. Hypnos and Hemera are, shall we say, promised to each other and I'm currently scheming Eros and Hecate's love affair. To no avail, Hecate's more interested in Deimos, which may cause problems, as Peitho seems attracted to him, as well.
Eros made fast friends with Gaea and he shares two bolts with her. The next day, Carina invited over Nemisis and her dorm mates, Peitho met Hermes, Eros met Tyche and Hecate and Thanatos didn't meet anyone they were interested in. All I'm asking for is two bolts, man! At least Hemera and Hypnos officially fell in love. And there's still Persephone and Selene to investigate. The trouble is no one on the lot knows them. Hecate's making things weird for Eros, so she's going to spend time with Deimos. Eros didn't waste any time putting the moves on Gaea, not all of which were appreciated. To bed with all the kiddies! I wasn't watching the time and they all have midterms in the morning.
After midterms, the kids received $10,000 total to do with whatever they [I] wanted. -sigh- More money to spend. The next couple of days were quiet, no visitors, but the household regularly invites over their neighbors, for parties the days after. I want well defined personalities and relationships. And I'm really happy Thanatos is coming out of his shell. Oh shit, he and Peitho developed crushes on each other. These kids are recklessly affectionate.
They're all also sophomores now, adding another $10,000 to the funds. During the excitement I forgot about Hecate, Peitho and Eros' studies. Oopsies. After Peitho completed her studies, she and the other students, minus Hecate and Eros, who still has skills to earn, went jogging. Poor kids came back completely exhausted. Midterms again. Wow, that was quick. Shit, Peitho fell in love with Thanatos. Oh well. Eros and Hecate are closing in on the necessary skills to complete college. Oh dear, Dionysus fell asleep in his macaroni and cheese. Let's send him home. Welp, their time in college is halfway over, and the only one without a sweetheart is Hecate. She's spent most of her time beefing up her skills, though.
Things may be looking up for her, though, she seems to be quite taken with Apollo. They made fast friends. The guys are juniors now. I had the option of changing their aspirations, but.. Meh, wasn't in the cards. Augh, spending $10,000 every semester is HARD!
Heh, whenever I invite Gaea's household over the first thing Deimos and Pan do is play a game of chess. It's awesome. But, now that Hecate no longer has any interest in Deimos, Peitho is given the go ahead. Yes, she's already in love with Thanatos, but she has more chemistry with Deimos. I'm just keeping her options open.
Eros has been broadening his romantic pallette as well, and asks Tyche out on a date. She's a pleasure sim, too! They also have great chemistry. At the end of their date, though, Gaea called Eros... hmm, she suspects! What do you know. Peitho also shares some chemistry with Hermes. Delight, delight. Whoa! Cat fight! Hecate just bitch slapped Tyche! Oh dear, she does not like cheaters. No body flirt around the crazy lady! Apparently no one likes the idea of Eros courting Tyche, he's been shoved around all evening, poor boy.
Oh crap! I forgot about midterms! Ahhh! Everyone study! Study! Phew. 4.0s across the board. That was close. I don't think I'll invite Dionysus over anymore, he keeps rushing to defend Tyche's honor and punching Eros' lights out. Oh yes. It's official. Peitho and Hermes are in love. I like this couple. It is hereby sanctioned. Speaking of sanctioned couples, Hypnos proposed to Hemera in the bathroom. She was ecstatic.
Oh shit! Cow ruined it all! Hemera's outraged and Cow and Hypnos! Noooo! Aww! I hate you Jeff Zarubin! Oh no... he tried to sweet talk Endymion in front of Carina. He's just fucking up all the couples. Man. Well... What do I do now. Eh, repairing Hemera and Hypnos' relationship. I did say I wanted complicated relationships. Bah! This just throws everything out of sync! Okay, okay, okay, Peitho and Endymion, possible; Carina and Dionysus, possible; Hemera and Hermes, possible; that leaves Hypnos out on his ass, but! He's a good looking guy and there are lots of women in Ebonwood who still aren't spoken for.
The following days I invited strictly the boys from the other households, silly me. I realized Peitho's lovers might cause some trouble if she starts flirting with any of them. She, Carina and Hemera all rolled the want to learn Couple Counselling. Gee, I wonder why. Wow, it works. Hypnos and Hemera have patched things up. Shit, Eros hugged Gaea in front of Tyche. It's just one disaster after another! Dionysus was right to beat the shit out of him.
Oh my gosh, they finally graduated! Buh, I'm sleepy. Save, quit, go to bed. Next time on 'College is Hell': Gaea's household.