Hey, Everyone! I Need A Bit Of Help! Im Working On The Official Start Of Round 3, But Im Not Sure Where

Hey, everyone!  I need a bit of help!  I’m working on the official start of Round 3, but I’m not sure where to take the story after a certain point.  That’s where you come in.  I’ve created a really short poll about who you wanted Malcolm to end up with in the Bachelor Challenge (if it had been real).   You can also tell me why you wanted him to end up with that sim, and there’s one extra bonus question on there as well. 

Please go HERE to participate in the poll.  It really will help! 

Thanks!

“We’re both going to need you to take care of us.”

There it was.  The real reason she was telling him this. He shoved the feelings he had buried back into their grave.  She didn’t care about him.  She cared about his money and what he could do for her.  She was trying to manipulate him again.  It wasn’t going to work.

He pulled his arm out of her grasp, stepping back so she wouldn’t be able to touch him again. “Nice try,” he snapped.  “You’re not getting a simoleon from me. I am going to want that paternity test, and then if it is my child, I’m going to want full custody.  No child deserves to be raised by a manipulative bitch like you.”  He spat the last words like venom, hoping to hurt her.  He was glad to see her flinch.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said before she could say anything else.  “Right now, I don’t want to see you anymore.” He walked away, taking wicked pleasure in the sob he heard behind him.

Surprise!  I don’t know if you saw the twist coming or not, but I had a lot of fun creating Malcolm’s Bachelor challenge and then pulling the rug out from under everything at the last minute.  For the record, I think he would have chosen Charlotte.  She was only about 5 points ahead of Penny in relationship points and they really seemed to have a connection.  But, of course, it was all a pitch cooked up by Cynthia and Sylvia Marie, so none of it actually happened.  

Look below the cut for more about how I played the bachelor challenge.  There aren’t any extra pictures, but I got a little wordy (to no one’s surprise).  If you don’t feel like reading, I won’t be hurt.  Round 3 will start soon and I will see you there!

I played the entirety of the Bachelor challenge in a copy of Bluewater, now officially called Bluewater Extras.  (I’m not sure if I’ll need it for any future staging purposes, but it’ll be nice to have it around.)  

I tried to just let everything go naturally and keep the sims on free will, but when I had to start having Malcolm queue up flirts with each girl and he kept wandering off, I turned off everyone’s free will.  I also made use of teleportation so that it didn’t take forever for sims to climb up and down the stairs in that giant house, and I actually locked a bunch of the rooms there so the sims wouldn’t wander everywhere.  I wish now that I hadn’t put in so many chess tables because that and the hot tubs were all they wanted to use...

I’d never played a bachelor challenge before.  It was surprisingly quick to play (once I turned off free will).  I wanted to add a lot more drama and make it more like a TV show (like I did at the beginning of the challenge) but it just didn’t work...I did try with Cynthia’s little bits with each of the eliminated girls, but I never got the spirit of those first few posts back. 

I hope you still enjoyed the whole romp.  My favorite part was the ending, but that was mostly because I knew the twist from the start and was wickedly delighted by it.  What was your favorite part?

Reblogging in case someone didn’t see this yet.  I’m going to leave the poll open for the rest of this week, so if you haven’t answered my questions yet, there is still time!  Thanks to those who have answered so far.  Your answers really are helping me figure out what to do next in Malcolm’s story!

Hey, everyone!  I need a bit of help!  I’m working on the official start of Round 3, but I’m not sure where to take the story after a certain point.  That’s where you come in.  I’ve created a really short poll about who you wanted Malcolm to end up with in the Bachelor Challenge (if it had been real).   You can also tell me why you wanted him to end up with that sim, and there’s one extra bonus question on there as well. 

Please go HERE to participate in the poll.  It really will help! 

Thanks!

One more reblog.  I’m going to close the poll tonight, so if you want to help me out, do it today!  Thanks again to everyone who already answered. I will share the results after closing the poll.  

Hey, everyone!  I need a bit of help!  I’m working on the official start of Round 3, but I’m not sure where to take the story after a certain point.  That’s where you come in.  I’ve created a really short poll about who you wanted Malcolm to end up with in the Bachelor Challenge (if it had been real).   You can also tell me why you wanted him to end up with that sim, and there’s one extra bonus question on there as well. 

Please go HERE to participate in the poll.  It really will help! 

Thanks!

That is the end of the interlude.  I need some time to get ready for Round 3 (I haven't even started playing yet). I think what I will do is play out a good portion and get posts ready in drafts, and then I'll try queuing up stuff in late September/early October.  I hope you enjoyed the interlude.  I will be posting a Thoughts on Bluewater reflection on it later, and I can’t wait to jump into Round 3!