Fanon:Newbie family/A Newbie house party

The following was posted to ModTheSims on December 8, 2017. The original post can be found here.

A Newbie house party
I'm currently working on another post about another family, which I hope to have ready in the next few days (Hopefully!). I apologize for the lack of updates to this thread as I've been busy with school, and in fact still have exams ahead of me as I write this. However, with final exams comes a little break period from classes to allow for studying, and "studying" I have been doing... ahem.

For now, though, I'll fill you in on something I mentioned in my post about the Newbies: "Every Saturday, the Newbies hold a party at their house and invite random neighbours to mix and mingle with each other." Well, when I loaded the Newbie family house for the first time in weeks I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had saved the game at 2am Saturday morning, so it was time to prepare for the weekly Newbie house party! Of course, because having lots of Sims over results in lag-a-mania, I invited just two families over (My game has it capped at 11 guests) to join in and get to know each other. The weekly Newbie house party has traditionally been a time for other Sims in the neighbourhood to be able to meet and greet one another, so I've typically always made every guest selectable using cheats and making sure they knew every other guest at the party before it ended. And of course, don't forget my arsenal of hacked objects that can extend the party timer and the &#39;setHour&#39; cheat to roll the clock back! Except this time I found that... boring. Normally I'm a control freak and want my Sims to obey my every bidding, and when I'm trying to do something, then that is important. But after getting all the guests to greet each other, I decided to let loose and let the Sims have a real party, for once: I turned free will on and deselected all of the guests!

...Honestly, parties became fun for me again! It's a real party now that I'm not keeping my Sims on a chain anymore and just letting them mess up the place! Sure, I was giving commands here and there, but letting Sims do their own thing is something a good Sim photographer* should do, since that's when the most interesting photo opportunities occur.

Anyways, here's what happened one fine Saturday morning at the Newbie's lofty loft:


 * A whole bunch of memories. Er, images.



The guest list: all the Urbans and all the Days! Yes, even Cody was invited. Amar's the host, and he's friends with all but two of the invited guests. But seriously, who could refuse a party invitation from the great Amar?!?!



Making ten additional guests selectable might not have been such a good idea...



A few seconds after I gave everyone back their free will, this happened.



Another pic.



Another angle.



I set up a buffet table to feed the hungry guests. Christian took a plate.



Taylor made use of the easel.



Jared and Tommy are (shockingly) eating their vegetables.



Johnny and Suzie got into a musical mood.



Jaden and Bradley played together on the pinball machine.



Ethan, Christian, and the Urban twins went for a spin on the centrifun.



Oscar and Roland played pool with Cody. Cody didn't seem too thrilled being beaten by a robot.



Justin and Evan disappeared under a cloud of feathers.



Kitchen conversations.



Alec the Bigfoot didn't seem that interested in the party...



Neither did Oreo, who mostly stayed inside the master bedroom.



Amar played the drums, sans the tip jar.



All those outgoing points wasn't enough to stop Julius from blogging about cuisine...



Later in the afternoon, Amar got out the DJ booth, as is tradition during Saturday parties.



I think they had too much fruit punch.



Soon there's a crowd!



Justin and Evan were more interested in playing cops and robbers amidst all the dancers.



I was surprised to see Jared and Tommy... not having fun?



Alec had some chef salad on his own on the patio.



Cody had some cold turkey solo as well.



Cody later joins in on the dancing.





The Newbies are great at throwing great parties.



The results of Taylor's toils. It was still unfinished.



The dishwasher somehow broke, so Julius had to repair it.



The place was a mess! Parties are just messy events, aren't they? Good thing we have an army of Servos to clean everything up!

Hope you enjoyed! Stay tuned for the next post!

&#42;Speaking of photography, that's a hobby I'm starting to pick up in the real world. I invite you to take a look at my "amateur smartphone photography" accounts on Instagram and Flickr! No special training, no commitment, no real objective; just shooting for fun!

Outtakes
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