Life on the Bayou Part 5 - Another Wedding, a Burglary, and a Mad Scientist

After adjusting to the initial shock of learning her boyfriend up and married another woman whom he had gotten pregnant, Logan's ex-girlfriend Leslie Briscoe landed on her feet. She secured a job at the science facility and a modest apartment on the Lorena Burrough's estate. She even got a break on the rent for agreeing to take care of the maintenance of the place and take care of Lorena's rather extensive garden. (Lorena likes the idea of having a garden, and it looks great on her social media posts, but it's the actual work it takes to keep a garden that doesn't interest her in the least.)

Leslie also loves the idea of having a fishing pond just outside her door, and can often be found enjoying it.

It appears that Lorena's and Leslie's arrangement is strictly business. They aren't becoming fast friends.

Now there's another wedding on the horizon.

Leslie was only lukewarm on the prospect of attending.

Lorena can't understand why Leslie isn't thrilled to be invited to one of the premier events of the season.

Meanwhile, Bart is planning a shindig down at Bayou Beats for the guys in town.

He's also warning them to keep their cars locked up at night and preferably in a garage equipped with a burglar alarm. Some mean-spirited hooligan absconded with his brand new pickup truck.

And he took Lorena's computer that she needs for her job.

Leslie tried to stop him, but she didn't have access to the big house.

Bart invited every guy he knew to his bachelor party. The dress code was "dress to impress." Enrique Cattiwaller had an interesting understanding of what this meant.

"Oh my eyes! They burn!" Harmony cried. Why a teen was hanging out here is beyond me. Maybe she should just go home.

The other guys seemed to understand the concept, and poor Enrique was feeling mighty under-dressed.

Of course there were other exceptions to the dress code, but not as extreme as Enrique. University mascot Caleb Dougherty showed up in his signature jeans, tee shirt, and cowboy hat, but people didn't seem to mind.

A few of the guys took advantage of the hot tubs, at least until they broke.

Even Bart ended up in his boxers after getting sprayed with champagne.

A fun time was had by all, and Bart crept home half-naked in the wee hours of the morning.

The wedding was held at Bayou Botanical Gardens.

"Hey girl! Are ya ready to party?"

The wedding went well, except for the fact that they ran out of cake.

I think Leslie and Caleb made a love connection. Maybe Leslie is glad she came after all.

Now I know who Leslie reminds me of . . . .

Maybe they'll be seeing more of each other in the near future.

Lorena went looking for Bart and found him in the company of that flirty Sandy Gavin-Blackmon, and Lorena wasn't too happy about it.

To add insult to injury, she had to ride a bike back home because Bart took her car after his was stolen.

However, they made up when they got home.

When Lorena's social media followers began to drop off, she took a temporary job at the bistro to keep the bills paid. Lorena was looking for some ways to bring in more followers to her social media platforms, so after working at the bistro a few days later, she decided to sleep in a mummy's sarcophagus and blog about it. We'll see if this can help her social media career gain ground.

Let's visit a few more households. Last episode we got a glimpse of the Reinhart family who reside at the Eclectic Italianate (created by XDeltaMirage)

The game threw a curve ball and teenager Curtis Spencer moved out of his mother's house and in with the Reinharts because his brother Ira couldn't tolerate having him around.

It turns out that Ira is a slob, excitable, insane and mean-spirited, and while Curtis loves his brother, he knew that in order to preserve the relationship he could not live with Ira. Therefore, when Khalilah found herself pregnant again and was looking to hire a nanny to help her out, Curtis seized the opportunity. It was just down the road from his family's home, so Shana was okay with it. She could still see him often, and he could enjoy a little bit of independence.

Khalilah loves the outdoors, is a computer whiz, handy, a virtuoso, and a natural cook. Her lifetime wish is to reach level 9 of the science career, so she's going to need some help with the little ones if she wants to pursue this goal.

Her husband Graham loves his little daughter Latonya, but two babies might be a little too much for him to handle.

Latonya loves the outdoors and is good.

Soon baby Brenton was born - he's artistic and easily impressed. I think it's a good thing that Curtis stepped in to help out because Khalilah looks stressed.

Graham Reinhart is handy, artistic, an angler, a schmoozer and lucky. He wants to master guitar. He often goes around town sporting a jaunty top hat. That's about all I really know about the guy at this point.

We have another new resident to check out. His name is Scott Guinn, and he resides at the Debutante (created by KCity74).

Scott is a light sleeper, a party animal, a social butterfly, a natural cook, and handy. His lifetime wish is to reach level 9 of the science track. He is already very high in the science skill, to the point where he can create clones from townies' DNA. He autonomously goes around collecting samples. I don't think he's on the up-and-up about what he does with these samples he collects.

When I first joined him, I sent him out to explore some new places around town. He spent some time at Jacquard, Batiste, and Bath (created by chojrak.)

While he was there he decided to get a tattoo.

He found the tattoo artist to be quite attractive.

I think she likes him too. Scott also enjoyed a nice soak in the hot tub.

While he was there, he happened across Marie Laveau on one of her rare nights out on the town.

He figured he could unearth some significant scientific breakthroughs if he could just convince her to donate a sample of her DNA to him.

At first she was stand-offish, but she soon warmed to him and cooperated with some of his scientific experiments.

She passed the duck reflex test and eventually agreed to provide a DNA sample.

Shortly thereafter, Marie started addressing him in a condescending tone, and implied that all the scientific discoveries in the world would not compare with the mysteries of magic. This did not set too well with Scott.

It looks like Harmony was on site, doing a load of laundry. She didn't appreciate Marie sneaking up behind her.

The next day, Scott made his first attempt at cloning, using Marie's DNA sample.

Strange things started to happen and specimen 1200 disappeared.

I expected the baby to be at his home, but she was lost, at least until Error Trap found her.

Here she is! Scott hired his good friend Christopher Tovar as his live-in lab assistant. Her job will be caring for the clones he creates.

Christopher, (I'll call her Chrissy), is a magician and came with some magic props.

She also reminds me of someone. . . .

Being a party animal, it seemed only fair that Scott would throw a party before I moved on. He invited a lot of people. The teens seemed content with dancing up a storm in the living room.

It looks like Kenyatta is dancing with his girlfriend's sister. I got a notification that he and Bridget were going steady.

The older folks were enjoying dinner and conversation in the dining room, . . .

except for those who were treated to the musical stylings of Ishmael Deemon in the kitchen.

Chrissy took the opportunity to show off some of her magic tricks.

Ishmael was quite impressed. Then I spotted Scott securing some DNA from Harmony. I'm pretty sure he didn't get permission from Harmony's legal guardian either! But she passed the duck response test, so I guess that's good enough for him.

I wonder if we will be having a Harmony clone running around town. Scott prefers to collect samples from sims who pass the duck test, but he made an exception for Chrissy.