Landgraab Bachelor Challenge - Tumblr Posts - Page 2
Three flirts each today (not all pictured). At least one girl is now in love with Malcolm, though he is not yet in love with any of them.
At noon, Malcolm gathered the girls and made a sad choice.
Malcolm: Bella, as much as I like you, I just don’t think you’re the one for me. I’m sorry. You need to go.
Bella: *mouths in silent shock*
Malcolm: I’m sorry…
Malcolm, Charlotte, and Penny spent some time in the hot tub after Bella left.
Malcolm had to make out with the final girls tonight.
Bella: *cries*
Cynthia: Bella, sweetie! Come sit down.
Bella: *cries some more*
After a break
Cynthia: Oh, sweetie, I am so, so sorry! I can’t imagine how you’re feeling right now.
Bella: I...love...him...He made me...fall in love with him...and then...he broke my heart! *wails*
Cynthia: I know, I know...
Bella: I just wish I had never done this show. I didn’t realize it would be this hard!
This is it, the final day. Today it comes down to Charlotte Worthington or Penny Pizzazz. Who will Malcolm choose as his future wife?
Breakfast was slightly awkward. Everyone knows that there’s a lot at stake today and they’re all nervous.
Three flirts, including a serenade. Malcolm and Charlotte are in love.
Malcolm and Penny are also in love.
This is it. The big moment. Malcolm looks at the two beautiful ladies sitting on his couch. He takes a deep breath, steps forward, and --
"And then you'll finally get down on one knee, in front of the woman of your dreams, and you'll say--"
"Okay, hold it!" Malcolm held up a hand, stopping Sylvia Marie mid-sentence. "I already told you, I don't want to do a reality show. I don't want your help. Why can't you leave me alone?" Malcolm slammed a fist down on the desk. "Why can't everyone please just leave me alone?"
"Sorry, sweetie," Cynthia said. She reached out and tried to touch his arm but he pulled away. "We just want you to feel better, and we don't want you to lose what your family has worked so hard for. We thought this was a way to do it."
Malcolm sighed heavily and said nothing. Cynthia and Sylvia Marie exchanged looks, then stood and left the study.
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!
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?