Chapter 24- Stage 3 Begins

To start the day, Harley had to repair that broken sink in the kitchen, and Maria helped to mop the floors.  It was a Saturday, so she didn't have school.  

Now, I've changed the rules slightly to include repair work as a point earned.  Plus Regan here is cooking Breakfast for the household.

Now, because of the King's Neurotic trait, and his laws regarding the written word, I decided to put the castle bookcases, including the one in the servant's quarters, into long term storage, i.e. the family bin, and to get rid of any books they had in their inventories.

Even though Queen Lynne is pregnant, she enjoys sculpting, and painting.  As her profession is a self employed painter, any paintings she makes, by freewill alone, I will have her sell.

Here, Maria sits at the castle table to do homework with Princess Stacy.  Maria is allowed to sit at the royal table because she is doing the work with Princess Stacy.

Harley, Regan, and Maria must wait until the Royal family eats breakfast, before they can help themselves to the leftovers of the meal.

 I thought it was unusual for the royal family to use the servant's bathroom, so I locked the door to exclude them from it.  I also locked the door to the office too.

By noon that day all the beds were made, earning them another point.

Harley took the morning off to harvest some plants from the community gardens.  He figures they will make a nice addition to the empty castle garden.

Here, maria is playing Hopscotch in the castle garden.

Unfortunately, keeping everyone from using the royal family's things is difficult at times.  Here, Regan is found playing games on the royal computer.  King Richie is not happy to find her in his desk, so he sends her straight to the dungeon.

Here, I've given her a little better of a cell than when the family was outlaw status, but it's still pretty bad.  Now, I could have technically sent anyone to the dungeon, and child Maria would have been the most strategic, but I just couldn't see sending little Maria to jail for her mother's crime.

When Harley gets home, he plants what he had gathered earlier, leaving the rest in the fridge.

Regan had brought her guitar into the dungeon, and managed to earn that 10th skill-point.

Regan misses the cosy bed she had in the servant's cottage.

Harley finishes the Laundry.  How it managed to dry on the clothesline in the rain, he'll never know.

Later that evening, Harley ages up to an adult sim.

Harley misses his wife too, and looks forward to seeing her tomorrow.

Unfortunately, due to a royal, late night pantry raid, I failed to get the point for no dirty dishes on the lot.
In total for the first day, I've earned 5 points.  One for cooking, for repair, for laundry, for beehive care, and for making beds.  I'm not counting the garden, because they were only just planted.  I am not sure to count Maria's Do homework with, as a tutoring action, as in my newest addition to the rules.

The next morning, Harley gets some garlic bread, leftovers from the royal pantry raid of the night before, and takes it to the prison.  Regan is very hungry, and happy to see it.

Later that morning, Queen Lynne goes into labor, and rushes off to the hospital.

She shocked poor Harley as he was making the beds.

Maria and Princess Stacy, however, play a water balloon fight game in the courtyard.

Harley weeds his garden, feeling proud to have something tangible for his hard work.

Harley soon regretted his wardrobe decision to clean out the beehive that was in the old tree in the castle gardens.

King Richie is rising quickly in the Nerd Guild (social group).

He also aged up today to an Adult.  Harley served them coffee with their dinner tonight to earn an extra point.

Regan is happy to finally be home with her family.  The cottage never seemed nicer.

And Queen Lynne's new baby, Princess Robin, is sleeping well in the castle nursery.   She got the traits Genius and Light Sleeper.

For this 2nd day I earned a total of 8 points:  One for Laundry, for Beehive Care, for Cooking, for Drinks, for Making the Beds, For taking care of the Baby, and 2 for the Garden (there are 7 plants in my garden, that's 2 groups of 3, making it worth 2 points.)

For both days together, I have earned 13 points.