Merrick Legacy, 2.3
Jan. 28th, 2012 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfI think this is the first Merrick entry where I start adding animations! I do this even though creating animated gifs in the gimp is stupidly complicated. FOR YOUUUUU. I DO IT FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUU~~~
Last time: the lot stopped breaking! Edda dated a dude old enough to be her grandpa, then had her first kiss with a random teen. Eula became a child, and Ruthie, the last child of gen 2, was born. The grocery lady took a bed, which made me sad. Mark became a teen and rolled Romance, delighting me with the sexy walk. I hated the nanny a lot. Ruthie hit toddler, then child; Eula hit teen and stymied my attempts to not make her look like a drag queen; Titania became an elder in adorable hair that made me sad again because I don't actually have it in gray. Titania then got promoted to party DJ, because I know I don't find it a good party till my grandma is the one spinnin' the tunes.
This time:
The family finally has enough money for me to start on a house expansion I've been wanting to do for some time. On the left are Titania and Hayden's bedroom and a large bathroom, same as before. The living room is a bit bigger, though, and the kitchen is a LOT bigger, and the kids' bedrooms have been moved into a new wing on the far right. When they get more money, I'll enlarge the left side symmetrical-like.
Meanwhile, it's time for Hayden to have his birthday in their newly spacious kitchen!
Also for whatever this is.
You know... I'm a lumberjack, and I AM okay!
Oh dear. I think I may actually keep him in that outfit.
Elder!Hayden immediately engages his teenage son in a game of Punch You Punch Me, presumably to prove that he's still a mighty warrior of the Play interaction.
As soon as they finish, Titania whangs Mark with a pillow. TODAY'S TOP HEADLINE: MAURAUDING GANGS OF ELDERS TERRORIZE LOCAL TEENS. MORE UP NEXT BUT FIRST HERE'S WALLY WITH SPORTS.
And there goes the old lady's brittle neck...
I break out a cake to keep Ruthie from falling too far behind her older siblings, and it's almost time for her to grow up! But first, some pleasant table-side conversation.
From this side of the table, a three-gun salute...
And from the other... errr...
She'd better roll Knowledge.
I wish for... um... oh yeah! Hair that isn't transparent straight through to the wall behind me!
I like how Eula is totally photobombing her sister here.
O hai, Titania with Hayden's nose! (Also, notice the phone, which everyone is ignoring. Today we've been called by Sierra, Sierra's friend Emily, Sierra again, then Emily again. This time it's probably both of them.)
Sorry, Hayden. If it's any consolation, I'm disappointed too; Ruthie skills INSANELY fast, so she would've made a great Knowledge sim. (Not pictured is her gender pref roll; she's straight.)
Ruthie's new look is my attempt to do justice to a Family sim with 10 outgoing and 8 playful. Mark and Ruthie both have full outgoing, and I think Edda does too. Their parents have three and four, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Next morning, I unexpectedly hear the floating-hearts jingle, and I find Eula doing... this. She's alone in the room, nobody's on the lot except family members, and the last person she talked to was her sister, who she turned down for Punch You Punch Me. I'm... again, not sure what's happening here.
This is Mark's "I get to kiss someone" face. He grins at me like an idiot and rubs his hands together. While his date just kind of derps there. That's Emily, btw, who called twice the night before.
Emily: I get to be kissed by an underage boy!!! :D
Me: ... D:
Eula, meanwhile, is on another date with Elle. They're both in love with each other now, and Elle wants to lose her virginity to Eula.
Mark: Shoesssss :D
Ruthie has pretty good chemistry with Derek the paperboy, who has one of the really wonky face templates... I think that's the Komei Tellerman face, maybe? It's got kind of a jaw on it, regardless.
I'll be honest, I've figured for a while that the heir race is between Ruthie and Edda, and landing Derek would give Ruthie a real advantage. I just wish all the kids weren't so cloney... they're all almost-perfect Haydens, or, in Ruthie's case, an almost-perfect Titania. Although I think she does have her dad's forehead in addition to his nose.
First kiss for Ruthie!
Derek is kind of a jerkface crankypants who makes faces like this even when talking about subjects he LIKES, so I'd been kind of worried he'd reject her for the kiss even though he was totally into her.
Seriously, this is what it's like conversing with Derek:
That is unedited except for being cropped and resized.
Then jerkface Derek decides to gyp Ruthie out of her dream date.
Oh, and Titania + chance card = win. I just shoved her in the Slacker career a couple sim-weeks back because we needed the dosh, and left her there even after she hit elder. I now feel completely justified in this decision.
And the girls keep bringing Sierra home. I think they really like her for Mark and, as Family sims both, are hoping she can cure him of his Romance sim ways.
Titania's giant bonus is used to embiggen the house again. It's less asymmetrical garbage now!
Clockwise from top right: Mark's bedroom; Eula and Ruthie's bedroom; playroom; kitchen; bathroom (yellow/blue check) and entryway (wood); living room; nursery; bathroom again; heir bedroom. With narrow hallways running up the left and right sides. Hayden is painting in the middle of the right hallway, because when he started painting, that was still where the hall ended.
It's a bit big for five people, while simultaneously being not quite all of what I have planned for the design. But it will do for now. Next generation there will be more people (plus babies to use that nursery!). That will justify me adding the last couple of areas I have planned.
Oh, and I did fix the asymmetrical shrubberies after this. Otherwise it would be GARBAGE, JUST TOTAL GARBAGE.
The parental paintings have been moved to behind the stereo, because this family spends about 50% of its free time dancing and thus stare at that wall a lot.
Titania becomes fulfilled for the rest of her life just by making a phone call. Then I manage to unpause in the act of trying to get a screenshot. GET BACK OVER TO THAT PHONE AND POSE FOR ME.
The busy living room, during his anniversary party, is an interesting place for Hayden to decide to whip out his diary.
THEN GO WRITE IN YOUR DIARY IN ANY OTHER ROOM IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE.
...Titania, you don't HAVE a hot tub.
The next day, Hayden gets promoted, thus fulfilling his own LTW! Oh, did I not mention that he wanted to be a mad scientist? He wanted to be a mad scientist.
Yayden!
Probably not happening, old-timer.
It's now, after playing this lot for like half a generation, that I finally realize why Titania had trouble emptying the trash so many Sim-years ago.
THEIR TRASH CAN IS GONE.
Where? I do not know. This isn't a downloaded lot, and I sure as hell didn't delete the trash can myself. I downloaded a replacement right away, but it won't be installed this update.
Mark is a Romance sim who's a day away from YA and still a virgin (not my fault! I have ACR!), and he's on a date with a girl who wants to jump his bones. So I figure, why not. (I also buy them a hot tub, because she wanted that locale specifically.)
And then, the act completed, his date immediately gets up and leaves. Whut?
Since the family has some extra cash now (thanks, Titania!) I have Mark call the matchmaker. Because he may as well get in as much Romance simmin' in as he can before he goes off to college and has to, like, study and stuff.
Buh... Vera is a playable! She's not Maxis at all! I demand a refund!
They have one measly bolt, too. That was three grand I'll never see again.
Meanwhile, Ruthie is congratulating jerkface Derek for being hot...
...Titania is jamming the phone handset through its base...
...and Eula is telling a dirty joke to her dad.
Sweetie, what the hell?
Because I don't want Vera getting attached to Mark (or Mark to Vera, for that matter), they end up just hanging out until the date ends. They never make it out of Okay, but at least that means no stinkbomb letters.
Oh, good. No attachment here.
GODDAMMIT HAYDEN. DO YOU SEE THAT THING? THAT THING FIVE FEET TO YOUR RIGHT? THAT IS YOUR WIFE WHO IS ALREADY COOKING DINNER. WHY THE HELL DO YOU NEED LOBSTER ANYWAY.
I really miss the part of Sims 1 where if you caught them rooting around in the fridge, you could cancel their action and have them not actually waste food. You cancel it here, they pull the stuff out, dump it on the counter, and then look at you like they expect you to praise them for being stupid.
NO.
Mark's off to college! Two down, two to go.
The next morning, Hayden has the honor of starting the very first kitchen fire of the legacy. He has max cooking skill. I... yeah. The teenagers can manage to oven-cook pop-tarts, but you can't make a damn omelette?
Eula invites Ivy Copur over, since Ivy's bi and I'd like Eula to have options instead of just sticking her with the very first person she ever dated. Ivy thinks Eula's mom is hot.
Ivy also likes beards and hates muscles. Eula is female and fit. This, uh... this won't work out.
Because I am dumb, I have Eula hit up the matchmaker for a date.
I hope my date's pretty!
Pretty, nothing. I'll settle for "not straight".
Oh god damn you gypsy.
So I try again...
asfjkjlajklfjkl
A) Playable.
B) Straight.
Third time's the charm? (Also, I really have to clean out those deco palms and... whatever the white trees are. It looks like a jurassic desert over there.)
...heyyyy. Brandi's bi, AND she matches Eula's turn-on of black hair...
She's... into vampires, which isn't optimal, but we can work with it...
And she isn't disgusted by Eula's rippling muscles! This could totally work.
Brandi is a natural at calmly eating a sandwich as World War 87 is enacted with pillows behind her. That's a useful skill in this family -- it hasn't really come up a whole lot in screenshots, but they are ALWAYS pillowfighting each other. The parents get the kids, the kids get the parents, Hayden featherbeans Titania while Eula is pummelling Ruthie.
You see? This is still the same date.
Same date.
...crap. This is Eula and Brandi both complaining that they can't get into the hot tub. Problem being? We don't HAVE a hot tub right now. Well, not a visible one. I've suspected for some time that we've had an invisible electrodancesphere on the lot, and now I know we've got an invisible hot tub, too.
Which makes this a good time to end the update, so I can exit the game, back up a copy, and then do a bunch of crazy crap to try to make the invisible stuff visible and/or gone. Also? A mod to make people leave date rewards by the mailbox instead of on the porch, and to just not leave anything at all if anything happens to confuse their tiny sim brains. NO MORE INVISIBILITY.
Mmmyep.
Last time: the lot stopped breaking! Edda dated a dude old enough to be her grandpa, then had her first kiss with a random teen. Eula became a child, and Ruthie, the last child of gen 2, was born. The grocery lady took a bed, which made me sad. Mark became a teen and rolled Romance, delighting me with the sexy walk. I hated the nanny a lot. Ruthie hit toddler, then child; Eula hit teen and stymied my attempts to not make her look like a drag queen; Titania became an elder in adorable hair that made me sad again because I don't actually have it in gray. Titania then got promoted to party DJ, because I know I don't find it a good party till my grandma is the one spinnin' the tunes.
This time:
The family finally has enough money for me to start on a house expansion I've been wanting to do for some time. On the left are Titania and Hayden's bedroom and a large bathroom, same as before. The living room is a bit bigger, though, and the kitchen is a LOT bigger, and the kids' bedrooms have been moved into a new wing on the far right. When they get more money, I'll enlarge the left side symmetrical-like.
Meanwhile, it's time for Hayden to have his birthday in their newly spacious kitchen!
Also for whatever this is.
You know... I'm a lumberjack, and I AM okay!
Oh dear. I think I may actually keep him in that outfit.
Elder!Hayden immediately engages his teenage son in a game of Punch You Punch Me, presumably to prove that he's still a mighty warrior of the Play interaction.
As soon as they finish, Titania whangs Mark with a pillow. TODAY'S TOP HEADLINE: MAURAUDING GANGS OF ELDERS TERRORIZE LOCAL TEENS. MORE UP NEXT BUT FIRST HERE'S WALLY WITH SPORTS.
And there goes the old lady's brittle neck...
I break out a cake to keep Ruthie from falling too far behind her older siblings, and it's almost time for her to grow up! But first, some pleasant table-side conversation.
From this side of the table, a three-gun salute...
And from the other... errr...
She'd better roll Knowledge.
I wish for... um... oh yeah! Hair that isn't transparent straight through to the wall behind me!
I like how Eula is totally photobombing her sister here.
O hai, Titania with Hayden's nose! (Also, notice the phone, which everyone is ignoring. Today we've been called by Sierra, Sierra's friend Emily, Sierra again, then Emily again. This time it's probably both of them.)
Sorry, Hayden. If it's any consolation, I'm disappointed too; Ruthie skills INSANELY fast, so she would've made a great Knowledge sim. (Not pictured is her gender pref roll; she's straight.)
Ruthie's new look is my attempt to do justice to a Family sim with 10 outgoing and 8 playful. Mark and Ruthie both have full outgoing, and I think Edda does too. Their parents have three and four, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Next morning, I unexpectedly hear the floating-hearts jingle, and I find Eula doing... this. She's alone in the room, nobody's on the lot except family members, and the last person she talked to was her sister, who she turned down for Punch You Punch Me. I'm... again, not sure what's happening here.
This is Mark's "I get to kiss someone" face. He grins at me like an idiot and rubs his hands together. While his date just kind of derps there. That's Emily, btw, who called twice the night before.
Emily: I get to be kissed by an underage boy!!! :D
Me: ... D:
Eula, meanwhile, is on another date with Elle. They're both in love with each other now, and Elle wants to lose her virginity to Eula.
Mark: Shoesssss :D
Ruthie has pretty good chemistry with Derek the paperboy, who has one of the really wonky face templates... I think that's the Komei Tellerman face, maybe? It's got kind of a jaw on it, regardless.
I'll be honest, I've figured for a while that the heir race is between Ruthie and Edda, and landing Derek would give Ruthie a real advantage. I just wish all the kids weren't so cloney... they're all almost-perfect Haydens, or, in Ruthie's case, an almost-perfect Titania. Although I think she does have her dad's forehead in addition to his nose.
First kiss for Ruthie!
Derek is kind of a jerkface crankypants who makes faces like this even when talking about subjects he LIKES, so I'd been kind of worried he'd reject her for the kiss even though he was totally into her.
Seriously, this is what it's like conversing with Derek:
That is unedited except for being cropped and resized.
Then jerkface Derek decides to gyp Ruthie out of her dream date.
Oh, and Titania + chance card = win. I just shoved her in the Slacker career a couple sim-weeks back because we needed the dosh, and left her there even after she hit elder. I now feel completely justified in this decision.
And the girls keep bringing Sierra home. I think they really like her for Mark and, as Family sims both, are hoping she can cure him of his Romance sim ways.
Titania's giant bonus is used to embiggen the house again. It's less asymmetrical garbage now!
Clockwise from top right: Mark's bedroom; Eula and Ruthie's bedroom; playroom; kitchen; bathroom (yellow/blue check) and entryway (wood); living room; nursery; bathroom again; heir bedroom. With narrow hallways running up the left and right sides. Hayden is painting in the middle of the right hallway, because when he started painting, that was still where the hall ended.
It's a bit big for five people, while simultaneously being not quite all of what I have planned for the design. But it will do for now. Next generation there will be more people (plus babies to use that nursery!). That will justify me adding the last couple of areas I have planned.
Oh, and I did fix the asymmetrical shrubberies after this. Otherwise it would be GARBAGE, JUST TOTAL GARBAGE.
The parental paintings have been moved to behind the stereo, because this family spends about 50% of its free time dancing and thus stare at that wall a lot.
Titania becomes fulfilled for the rest of her life just by making a phone call. Then I manage to unpause in the act of trying to get a screenshot. GET BACK OVER TO THAT PHONE AND POSE FOR ME.
The busy living room, during his anniversary party, is an interesting place for Hayden to decide to whip out his diary.
THEN GO WRITE IN YOUR DIARY IN ANY OTHER ROOM IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE.
...Titania, you don't HAVE a hot tub.
The next day, Hayden gets promoted, thus fulfilling his own LTW! Oh, did I not mention that he wanted to be a mad scientist? He wanted to be a mad scientist.
Yayden!
Probably not happening, old-timer.
It's now, after playing this lot for like half a generation, that I finally realize why Titania had trouble emptying the trash so many Sim-years ago.
THEIR TRASH CAN IS GONE.
Where? I do not know. This isn't a downloaded lot, and I sure as hell didn't delete the trash can myself. I downloaded a replacement right away, but it won't be installed this update.
Mark is a Romance sim who's a day away from YA and still a virgin (not my fault! I have ACR!), and he's on a date with a girl who wants to jump his bones. So I figure, why not. (I also buy them a hot tub, because she wanted that locale specifically.)
And then, the act completed, his date immediately gets up and leaves. Whut?
Since the family has some extra cash now (thanks, Titania!) I have Mark call the matchmaker. Because he may as well get in as much Romance simmin' in as he can before he goes off to college and has to, like, study and stuff.
Buh... Vera is a playable! She's not Maxis at all! I demand a refund!
They have one measly bolt, too. That was three grand I'll never see again.
Meanwhile, Ruthie is congratulating jerkface Derek for being hot...
...Titania is jamming the phone handset through its base...
...and Eula is telling a dirty joke to her dad.
Sweetie, what the hell?
Because I don't want Vera getting attached to Mark (or Mark to Vera, for that matter), they end up just hanging out until the date ends. They never make it out of Okay, but at least that means no stinkbomb letters.
Oh, good. No attachment here.
GODDAMMIT HAYDEN. DO YOU SEE THAT THING? THAT THING FIVE FEET TO YOUR RIGHT? THAT IS YOUR WIFE WHO IS ALREADY COOKING DINNER. WHY THE HELL DO YOU NEED LOBSTER ANYWAY.
I really miss the part of Sims 1 where if you caught them rooting around in the fridge, you could cancel their action and have them not actually waste food. You cancel it here, they pull the stuff out, dump it on the counter, and then look at you like they expect you to praise them for being stupid.
NO.
Mark's off to college! Two down, two to go.
The next morning, Hayden has the honor of starting the very first kitchen fire of the legacy. He has max cooking skill. I... yeah. The teenagers can manage to oven-cook pop-tarts, but you can't make a damn omelette?
Eula invites Ivy Copur over, since Ivy's bi and I'd like Eula to have options instead of just sticking her with the very first person she ever dated. Ivy thinks Eula's mom is hot.
Ivy also likes beards and hates muscles. Eula is female and fit. This, uh... this won't work out.
Because I am dumb, I have Eula hit up the matchmaker for a date.
I hope my date's pretty!
Pretty, nothing. I'll settle for "not straight".
Oh god damn you gypsy.
So I try again...
asfjkjlajklfjkl
A) Playable.
B) Straight.
Third time's the charm? (Also, I really have to clean out those deco palms and... whatever the white trees are. It looks like a jurassic desert over there.)
...heyyyy. Brandi's bi, AND she matches Eula's turn-on of black hair...
She's... into vampires, which isn't optimal, but we can work with it...
And she isn't disgusted by Eula's rippling muscles! This could totally work.
Brandi is a natural at calmly eating a sandwich as World War 87 is enacted with pillows behind her. That's a useful skill in this family -- it hasn't really come up a whole lot in screenshots, but they are ALWAYS pillowfighting each other. The parents get the kids, the kids get the parents, Hayden featherbeans Titania while Eula is pummelling Ruthie.
You see? This is still the same date.
Same date.
...crap. This is Eula and Brandi both complaining that they can't get into the hot tub. Problem being? We don't HAVE a hot tub right now. Well, not a visible one. I've suspected for some time that we've had an invisible electrodancesphere on the lot, and now I know we've got an invisible hot tub, too.
Which makes this a good time to end the update, so I can exit the game, back up a copy, and then do a bunch of crazy crap to try to make the invisible stuff visible and/or gone. Also? A mod to make people leave date rewards by the mailbox instead of on the porch, and to just not leave anything at all if anything happens to confuse their tiny sim brains. NO MORE INVISIBILITY.
Mmmyep.
