Merrick Legacy, 2.1
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Last time: Titania Merrick existed. She met a bunch of dudes, and married one of them. They lived together in a crappy little house.
Generation 2 wound up being 6 parts. That is just heck of ridiculous! But here's part 1.
We have first pop! Also, a TV. Also also lame maternity clothes because I haven't bothered to pursue alternatives yet.
Pop two! In the bathroom, because duh. Bathrooms are the happenin' places when it comes to babies.
Titania's getting out of bed well before her energy bar can get a chance to fill, which means...
I NO WANT BABBIES NO MOAR
It's a singleton! (I have Trips And Quads.) A girl, Edda, with her dad's green eyes and brown hair, and a light skintone close to his. She also appears to be wearing a bald cap.
For the record, I do have a naming theme, although I would be surprised if anyone guessed it. Titania isn't part of the theme, but all the heir-elegible kids will be.
Hayden approves. Alternate take on his pose: Hayden thinks this is fabulous.
You can see I changed his clothes slightly. I decided he's a lumberjack now, although he gets to keep the red velvet pants he aged up in. Red velvet is very lumberjack.
It's right around here that I notice Hayden's incorrect aspiration -- it must've gotten kerjiggered somewhere in the process of me trying to figure out how to get him marry-in-able, so he's been Family the last few days instead of Knowledge. Setting him back also causes me to notice his turn-ons. Red-headed vampiresses? Well, zero out of two ain't bad.
Titania is not good at baby-related problem-solving.
We have pop #1 on baby #2! Notice Edda in the background, sleeping peacefully in
Aaand since Edda missed her birthday due to that whole "hold a sleeping baby? that's unpossible!" thing, Hayden finally gets her toddler-ized later that night.
I wonder if Titania is impressed by my baby-juggling abilities?
I'm not sure if Edda's upset because she's being forced to learn, or because her dad dosed her with mind-altering radiation.
For the record, Edda? Pretty Maxis-y. I think she may have gotten her chin from Titania, and nothing else.
Titania thinks this wall is awesome! No, not really. It's just pop #2.
It's also a reminder that I really need to buy them lights eventually... but I just spent all their money on a bed that will maybe actually cause Titania's energy to rise instead of just holding still for six hours straight.
Zzzzz... hate this bed... wanted lights...
Look, you're finally up to yellow energy for the first time in like two days! Quit complaining!
NOT AGAINNNNNN
Bet you're glad you're well-rested now, huh? Or would this be easier for you if I put in more lights?
It's another singleton! A boy, Mark, with brown hair, his mom's purple eyes, and I think the same damn skintone his sister got. I've got how many skins geneticized between Titania and Hayden...?
Oh. Right. A LOT. A LOT OF SKINS. Also, yes, I keep track of my skins and eyes via spreadsheets. Because I'm hardcore.
It's birthday time for Edda! Hayden has elected to keep his distance because, well, I don't know why.
That tiny little chin with those cheeks... well, I wish a bit more of Titania was coming through, but there's still Mark, I guess.
The house gets an addition for a kids' bedroom slash playroom. No floor or wallpaper yet, though. This is because I'm saving their money for a non-crappy bed. ...two non-crappy beds, really, since Mark will be needing one inside of a week.
The following things happen that night: Edda gets a makeover; Edda is sent off to skill until she gets tired enough to sleep; Marylena the translucent grocery lady comes in after midnight, starts watching TV, then fades away. I'm really not sure why that last one happened, or why grocery delivery fell off the phone menu.
Oh, and then Hayden TOTALLY FAILS to impregnate Titania while a burglar sneaky-sneaks her way up to the door.
I... what are you planning to take over there? The corner? You can't take the corner, honey. It's part of the house.
She... walks back outside without stealing anything. Titania is still doing a little Muppet-flail dance of terror, though.
Then the burglar runs back inside to whine at the burglar alarm.
HAYDEN WAKE UP SOMEONE IS STEALING ALL OUR THINGS.
Mnuh?
Then the burglar cleans them out while the cops refuse to show. :/
At least Edda heroically blocks her from getting down the stairs long enough for her dad to call the police station. Twice.
LIES.
Sooooo I decide, based on the magical ghost-while-still-alive grocery woman and the utter lack of cops, that my lot must be bugged. Already. Which means everyone gets moved out, everything gets rebuilt, and they start fresh on a brand-new lot plopped into the same location.
It's a fixer-upper.
The first thing Hayden and Edda do is act pouty about the doors.
These will NEVER stop a burglar!
NONE of the doors I have will stop a burglar!
Titania, meanwhile, immediately rolls this want. Because the alarm did so much good the last time.
The welcome wagon is for some reason 100% composed of darker-skinned females. On the one hand, maybe they figured that must be what Hayden's into. On the other hand, he's already married and is not a Romance sim, so I'm not sure what they hope to accomplish.
Also? They're all playables. Made by me, not ganked from
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pixel_trade, but still. Of no use here!
<3 Hayden. Sure, there are ladies outside, but he's got ~~parenting~~ to do.
Hayden gets a promotion the day after they move in, so now they can afford a couch! And a non-crappy bed for Edda. AND A BURGLAR ALARM OKAY WILL YOU GUYS STOP WANTING ONE ALREADY.
For her part, Edda has started bringing extremely rude children home from school. (I've never seen a sim do this before, maybe because my sims are not impolite little brats. You visit someone's house for the first time ever, and this is what you do? Really?)
Mark leaps into toddlerhood!
Aaaand I'm pretty sure he's an exact face clone of his dad. With Titania's eyes.
Good thing we've got option #3 coming!
Yeah, I doubt the pre-verbal toddler is going to read your diary, Edda.
KITCHEN BABY TIEMZ
Could've been worse. It could've been the bathroom.
You've been through this twice already and you're still surprised? What kind of Knowledge sim are you?
It's yet another singleton! A girl, Eula, with dark skin, brown hair, and her dad's eyes. I would've reloaded if she'd had the same skin as both her sibs.
For the record, Hayden? Decided to turn on the radio while his wife was giving birth.
He goes from shocked to bored fast.
Then the grocery delivery guys stop coming AGAIN. So I move everyone out, kill the lot, replace it, rebuild everything, and this time swear never to use the batbox's sim randomizer again. Since that's the only thing I'm using here that I've not used on other lots, so presumably it's what's destroying my game. I'll just have to roll the pacifier the slow way.
I also indulge in a few kachings to make up for the fact that I have basically had to sell and re-buy their house TWICE over the span of about a week (which also means that Hayden keeps missing work on move-in day). So now they have a few more amenities than they managed before. And paint!
And the family sits down at a table to enjoy a meal together for the first time EVER. Keep in mind, Edda is like twelve by this point.
I can has eats at table too?
Soon, Hayden Junior. You'll age up at 6:00 tonight, and then you can have breakfast with everyone else tomorrow just like a big boy.
Wow, you didn't tell me I'd get rainbow fingers!
That's just a temporary glitch. It'll disappear in five sim-minutes or so, so don't get too attached.
Mark gets a slight makeover, although I'm not sure what the point is. I haven't bothered to change either him or his sister out of their transition clothes, and a new haircut and eyebrows don't make up for the fact that he's Hayden Junior.
There aren't enough beds for everyone, so
Brahms is in da HOUUUUSE!
Yeah, sure. Whatever you say.
...the more I look at this picture, the more her arm seems way too long.
ONLY GREEN CLOTHING IS ALLOWED IN THIS DOLLHOUSE.
(Confidential to the color-deficient: this joke hinges on the ability to perceive and identify the color green. If you cannot, that may explain why it wasn't funny.)
(Confidential to everyone else: this joke hinges on you not all being a bunch of beefwits. If you cannot understand Pure Art, that may explain why your pedestrian minds cannot grasp my genius. Why must the common denominator be so common?)
Nobody ever wants to play Mary Mack with Edda. I don't know why.
It doesn't matter much, though, since she's growing up tonight, and will never be rejected for Mary Mack again!
I love Mark's apparent train of thought here.
Wait... all you have to do to grow up is jump? I can do that!
Ouch. Edda's both stoned and poorly-dressed.
She rolls the Pleasure aspiration (with LTW of Celebrity Chef), and the anti-sparklepire attraction set. Don't worry, Eds, nerds with bad hygiene are a lot easier to find.
Here she is post-makeover (and with her gender pref rolled)! I decided she might be a bit tired of pink after having been surrounded by it for a good chunk of her life.
She's still stuck with the same bedroom, though.
Eula hits toddler after a few rounds of queue-stomping Hayden with "Help With Birthday", then being too sleepy to be held when he actually got over to her crib. Babies are annoying.
Eula is... interesting. I think she's got her mom's eye shape and nose, and possibly chin. Hayden's mouth is eternal, though.
Edda brings Manuel Gregory home from school her first full day as a teen, and they have two bolts! He seems bored by her talk of spacemen, though.
A little light flirtation doesn't go unwelcome, even after Edda's attempt at conversation goes down in flames.
But while Maxisy, Manuel's still human-looking, so I send Edda downtown to scope out the available menfolk. Her first choice has one of the few Maxis face templates with which I can find nothing wrong whatsoever, so he's out.
I really wish she had a chance with Komei Tellerman. Seriously, he has like the worst Maxis face ever. Landing him would make Edda a shoo-in for heir.
It's at the point where she finds herself attracted to Dickson, a YA with the exact same face as her father, that I decide to call it a bust and send her home.
Meanwhile, her father? Likes to bring home coworkers with his same haircut. Who then play dollies with Eula.
You know, this reminds me that I should finish flooring their house. She's going to get splinters in her hands doing that.
Boop boop beep! That there is a post.
2.2 will come as soon as I feel like cropping/resizing/jpgificating another 70ish screenshots, uploading them all to LJ, and obsessively proofreading the post only to then realize ten seconds after publishing it that I missed a typo or a malformatted HTML tag or something.
Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
Preamble + 1.1
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Date: 2012-01-17 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 02:54 pm (UTC)So if I heir, say, Mark, and then Edda has a kid, Edda's kid doesn't get named as part of the theme. Also, if Mark's spouse had a baby with someone other than Mark, that baby wouldn't be themey. I actually have a secondary theme for the extra kidlets, but it hasn't come up yet, since there are no extras.
Short version: right now, the kids!
But it's an incredibly vague naming scheme so I doubt you'll figure it out. Maybe in gen 3, because things happen that force me to get less vague.
Also: I am cheerfully using lots of terminology that doesn't make sense unless you're familiar with either the game or the fan creator community. I will answer any questions that arise because of this.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 12:22 am (UTC)I AM SO MYSTERIOUS.
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Date: 2012-01-18 12:27 am (UTC)It amazes me that people can actually be bothered to comment on all this stuff day in and day out.
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Date: 2012-01-18 01:06 am (UTC)It amazes me as well, though. I just read, because I don't have the time or attention span to keep up much in the way of online conversa
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Date: 2012-01-18 08:54 am (UTC)http://joshreads.com/?p=7258
And, I like the way you set that up.
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