Ioanna woke the next morning and took a few minutes to remind herself where she was. The shack was still unfamiliar, but there was Ferdinand, in the middle of the floor, reminding herself this was home now.
Ferdinand required food, and although Ioanna had always prepared gourmet homemade pet food for him, this particular morning, she had none of the necessary ingredients. “I promise, buddy, it’s just out of the bag this once. We’ll go homemade from now on.”
In an attempt to keep her promise, Ioanna went out to the space she had designated for “the garden” and began planting the various seeds she’d found around town the day before. She wasn’t a wildly skilled gardener, but she was sure she could coax a few tomatoes and lettuce plants out of the ground, and she fully intended to get better. She wanted to live off of the land as much as she could. It was so much more ecofriendly to grow your own plants for food than to shop at the grocery store – all that food required so much energy waste, from shipping to storing, not to mention the energy output required to maintain those large factory farms!
When she’d planted her seeds, Ioanna couldn’t help herself. She stopped to play with her magic. She was just shooting sparks around, but it was so freeing to be able to do it outside without fear. She wasn’t hiding from anyone anymore.
While she was outside, James Hoppcroft stopped by. He was one of the townspeople she’d met yesterday, and he very sweetly wanted to check in and see how she was settling down. Ioanna was touched by his kindness. In fact, if he weren’t married, she would have thought he was flirting with her. He didn’t stay long, but it was nice to have a friend in town to talk to. She hoped to see a lot more of him, and to get to know his family.
After James left, Ioanna decided to head out on the town again. She wanted to go back to the occult shop and see if there was any work they needed done. Her savings were enough to keep her for now, but she knew that she couldn’t stand too many days of nothing but gardening, with no one but Ferdinand for company.
At first, Count Snypes was not wild about the idea. He “had no use for a barely skilled witch, and he wasn’t running a charity,” or so he said. Ioanna pressed though, and when Count Snypes told her he was looking for a new potion supplier, she jumped. Potions were, after all, easy to hide. You could mix them on the stove, and tell anyone who happened by that you were cooking. Ioanna was good at potions.
Count Snypes sent her over to the potion station to read the list of potions sold at the shop. “You think you can handle those, then maybe I will hire you on a trial basis,” he conceded. Ioanna immediately ran over and read through the list. Some of the potions were fairly complicated, and a few she honesty wasn’t sure she could manage at all, but most of the recipes seemed simple enough.
She whipped together a quick Vial of Bliss, her favorite potion, for her audition. If she’d done it successfully, the potion would bring happiness to anyone who drank it (or had it thrown at them). Ioanna had always gravitated towards potions with beneficial effects, the same way she was always better at charms than curses. If Count Snypes didn’t like her Vial of Bliss, she would have to find another line of work.
Fortunately, Count Snypes pronounced her potion “tolerable” and gave her a position – on commission. She would be paid by the bottle, and she would only be paid after the bottle was sold. There were no benefits, no sick or vacation days. But it was good enough. Ioanna was just pleased to have a job so soon after starting over in a new town.
Ioanna would have loved to rush home and share the news with a loved one, but unfortunately, only Ferdinand was waiting for her, and he was asleep. She could have called one of her new friends – James or one of the Goodfellows would certainly be happy for her – but instead, Ioanna settled in for the night. She had a house and she had a job. She could work on having a family tomorrow.
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A/N: That was a little bit of a filler chapter, but time is going to start moving faster in the next few chapters, and I wanted to get through the new house and the new job and the new town.
The Price Family Legacy 
Aww, glad she’d got a job. I’m guessing you’ve rolled alchamey (dunno how to spell it), I’ve heard it’s really easy to make money, so I’m hoping I roll it because my sims are poor 😦
Thanks Gemly. I did in fact roll alchemy, and having played through it for awhile now, I can say it’s pretty easy to make money, but for a single sim just starting out, it can be hard to start making the money – especially a sim who rolled homemade and can’t buy ingredients to make the more expensive potions. Once you’ve got a stockpile of ingredients and a little consignment store experience though, yes, it’s almost insanely easy to make money.
Home is where the kitteh is ❤
So you can throw potions at sims? lol I didn't know that. I haven't played around much with the Supernatural aspect. I do have a couple of witches in my legacy, but they aren't part of the active family…at least not for this generation.
Home definitely is where the kitteh is 😀
You throw potions, or you can drink them or mix them into a drink. Anyone can make potions, but in the sims world of my head, only people with inherent supernatural abilities can actually make successful potions. In the world of the game though, you just need alchemy skills. Ioanna honestly doesn’t do much throwing of potions, so actually using them won’t play too big into the story.