So, after some minor teething troubles with changing hosts and upgrading software, we finally have the Tempered Sims back up to date. There are still a couple of issues with regard to performance, but they’re being monitored and we hope to have them ironed out shortly! The pictures now appear slightly smaller (they’re actually large thumbnails), but if more detail is wanted, just click on the image to open the larger copy.

What have our Sims been up to in our absence?

At the start of Day 6, here are the standings in the house:

It would seem that druids are happy, shamans pretty happy, priests relatively happy, and warriors not quite happy enough (understatement of the century). Seems to fit with what can be  read on World of Warcraft forums (sort of)!

How the team scores are doing:

Icecrown have increased their lead to 4393 – that’s more happiness than any of the warriors have (and the priest and shamans)! It’s early days yet, plenty can happen to change these figures.

What “exciting” things did our sims do today? Did they brush their teeth (oooooh)? Did they wash their hair (aaaaah)? Did they … wait for it… go to work (ohhhhhh)?

Pippy went to bed after the party without bathing, so he’s still singed. I hope someone cleans those sooty sheets!

Gratuitous bikini shot…

Vigilant has some brekkie, then gets upset over the dishwasher being broken, leaves the dishes…

…and sits down to read a book instead.

Pippy finally decides to go for a bath! Yay!

Viridian is having loads of fun watching Shirine worry about something or other.

She has a full on freak out to calm herself down. Did someone turn her into a bunny or something?

Viridian is upset at broken dishwasher (note that none of them try to fix it!), meanwhile Pfant mops up the mess that it has left on the floor.

Pippy has his hair back and heads off to work, as do many of the housemates – most of them start at the same time in the morning.

I don’t understand the “I’m having loads of fun standing around in my pjs” thing that the boys seem to have going on. Perhaps I never will.

I wonder where Eeni might be heading!

Devyna checks to make sure nobody left the taps running.

Oh look, he’s playing games on the PC… /gasp, etc!

Funny that he was so close to desperation for the bathroom, yet he still went to play games.

He had a wash too, and gets ready for work, then eats salad for breakfast (that someone else made). He’s in the culinary career, has never prepared his own food in the house, and has 0 skill points in cooking. Can’t see him getting far!

Devyna’s turn on the pc.

Not for long, as it’s “make silly face” time for her and Eeni.

She’s telling him how much she dislikes art. It’s a bizarre trait…

Vigilant and Pippy return from work.

Vigilant decides to go swimming in her normal clothes.

She gets out again shortly and plays guitar. She played for ages, got 2 skill points in it today.

Pfant didn’t sleep for long before getting up for work today, so he’s exhausted when he returns. He goes for a nap, then when he has rested slightly, he gets into the bed and sleeps.

Viridian has a night out on the town again. (Yep, straight home when he finished). He was promoted, so perhaps he’s celebrating.

What’s this? Gorfast left work, was promoted and promptly arrested. Here is is in the cop car, apparently chatting away to the driver as he’s driven to the jail.

Do not pass GO, do not collect €200.

Pippy gets out the soapy suds in the loo.

I’ve been trying to catch a good sequence of “Wonder Woman Swirl” shots, but it’s so fast. Here’s my best attempt so far, as Viridian changes into his everyday clothes after a bath.

“You’re a big hairy ape and you smell”

Funnily enough, that wasn’t taken very well.

Why oh why oh why is he apologising? Diplomacy sucks… just hit him!!!

“Vigilant is getting better at the guitar”. They have a bit of a chat and the relationship improves slightly. No fight from these two today.

Vigilant is still playing, Devyna is listening/dancing and Eeni is home from work (he got promoted despite having no skill at cooking – sign of the times) playing foosball.

A sign of how enjoyable the music is. Guitar at skill 2 is still pretty dodgy. Plus she’s in the music career, so she knows a thing or two about it. Devyna managed to gain 2 skill levels in guitar whilst at work today.

Gorfast finally gets out of jail. He’s been in there for hours, and all he can think about is going home.

Viridian is at the PC now – games etc!

Gorfast made it home without collapsing. He heads straight to bed. He’s had a pretty tough day, all things considered.

These guys all hate the broken dishwasher – but none of them fix it. We might have to do something about that.

“I r haf bowl n spooon.”

“I r haf bowl n spoon n jug n stuff.”

“You smell”. Standard schoolboy argument there, Viridian. (Classic face in reaction).

More annoyance at broken dishwasher – at least he’s washing dishes though.

And Eeni is the last to head to bed tonight.

Just as Shirine gets up, eats breakfast…

…and starts a workout. (It’s 2am!!!).

All in all, a fairly standard day in the Tempered house. People got up, ate, washed, went to work, were promoted, got arrested, came home, ate, played games, chatted, insulted each other, and went to bed. Dull? Perhaps. What’s on the cards for tomorrow? We’ll have to wait and see if it’s more of the same, or if our sims do anything out of the ordinary. Gorfast is my first sim ever to be arrested – I thought that was pretty exciting (although probably not so for him). Well done that man!

Day Five