Merrick Legacy, 2.5
Feb. 4th, 2012 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfThe end of generation 2! Gen 3 is going to be either six or seven parts. I don't know because I'm not quite done playing it. (Finish posting 2 before finishing playing 3 win!)
Also I decided I didn't like the rate at which I was using up my LJ storage space, so I'm throwing everything on photobucket for this post. We'll see whether that causes the heat-death of the entire universe or anything like that. (It does turn out to cause extreme irritation when I discover that if you edit a picture, keep the same filename, and then re-upload, then what actually winds up in your photobucket album is the old version, even if you save to and upload from a new folder! GOOD JOB PHOTOBUCKET GUYS)
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Eulawas possessed by an eldritch thing from beyond Yuggoth~went all the way~ with her college-age girlfriend, then left for college herself. Ruthie went steady with jerkface Derek the paperboy, then followed everyone else to young-adult-hood! I moved the kids into the Yig Hall dorms, which I picspam'd because I could. Classes were attended, majors were declared, and the lot got half-filled with invisible date reward objects before I put a stop to the madness. Edda had a matchmaker date with a bi dude who was more attracted to her brother than to her (this will be important later). Ruthie and jerkface Derek ~took the next step in their relationship~ (in bed). Eula proposed to her girlfriend Brandi. Edda wrote in her diary about writing in her diary.
This time:
I have Ruthie doing a painting of Edda, even though I'm pretty sure Ruthie's going to be heir. This is because when I had Ruthie start a painting, I noticed she could do still lifes now, so I chose that and then scrolled around looking for something interesting. Edda just happened to be smiling at her date at that exact moment.
Heyyy, look who it is! Jerkface Derek has been aged up and sent to join the Merricks at Yig Hall. This is because I decided that Ruthie basically won two hitherto-unknown contests -- she got the genetic mix I find most interesting, and she landed the Maxis-y-est significant other. So she's heir.
I'm fast-walking Derek through his first coupla semesters till he catches up with the others, and then he'll basically pass or fail on his own. He leaves college when Ruthie does whether he's ready or not.
Rather inconvenient that he's late for his first day of classes, then.
Not having the Haydenchin really does make Edda's entire face look better. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this painting... maybe hang it up in the dorm. Perhaps the likenesses of Merricks through the ages will come to adorn its walls.
WHAT
NO
THAT WAS NOT A JINGLE JUST NOW
o/~ Yes it wa-as! o/~
Why do my Sims always oops me while they're still underclassmen? They never get knocked up senior year when they'll be leaving soon anyway. No, they make me keep them frozen at first or second trimester for Sim-years instead.
Look, this time can you NOT send me a gay dude? That date was so boring that it didn't even get screenshotted.
Real nice fourth wall we had here once.
Oh lord. She gave Edda one of the Sims that I created to use as archetypes for sim-surgery-ing away Maxis face templates. This guy's name? Facem06 Facesone. But it looks like one of my hood-sexuality-randomizing passes did pick straight for him, so... at least he's not gay.
Holy crap, she got to dream date with a guy named Facem06?!
I know, Mark, I'm as surprised as you are.
Haaaa. Edda and Mark apparently have similar taste in dates.
AND JUST WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, HMM?
Another blind date, another playable. But it's one of the playables I plan to make townies when I get around to it -- crossbreeds between![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pixel_trade sims and my own creations to provide genes for future legacy needs -- and she's a Romance sim anyway, which makes me less hesitant about letting Mark have at her.
Nastasia is pretty, no? Definitely looking forward to getting her genes into a legacy sometime. Not this one, of course. A different legacy. In a different place. (Her mom, for the record, is Tumnal by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colemariesims, and her dad is... actually, Edda's next date after the one you see directly below.)
So Mark pays $2,517 and gets a two-bolter. Edda pays $2,519 and gets a gay firefighter.
I went back through her memories, and I'm pretty sure four of her dates were matchmaker-based. Two of those were gay dudes, one was an elder who basically refused to have positive interactions with her, and the last one was... well, okay, the last one worked out. Mark? Two gypsy dates thus far, one with a playable that I refused to let him have any fun with so that was my fault, and one with a hot Romance sim who'll probably get him into the photo booth first chance she gets.
The gypsy totally has it in for Edda.
Oh, and her date is attracted to her brother. Of course.
Edda: [forced smile] Pardon me, I have a gypsy to go kill...
He did want to take a picture with her, though, so maybe he can be her ~gay best friend~ or something. (Note Mark and Nastasia, who are waiting on the photo booth so they can screw in it. I am not even kidding; I had to cancel an ACR woohoo so Edda could get in there for a picture before her date timer ran out.)
This is what it looked like in the photo booth, btw. YOU'RE WELCOME.
Kind of creeped out by how happy the coach looks about his apparent free license to make young coeds jump around getting sweaty.
Coach: WORK OUT NAO
Mark: [ignores, prepares to devour Nastasia's head whole]
Neil, you make a terrible ~gay best friend~.
Oh look, someone figured out how to not glitch their present into the ether for the first time ever! All it took was me knocking down a wall and tearing out a huge clump of my pretty landscaping.
Okay, experiment time. Edda's date: another gay guy. Who refuses to talk about anything with her. And yes, of course he thinks her brother is hot, ALL OF EDDA'S DATES THINK HER BROTHER IS HOT.
Mark's date: an elder who refuses to hug him even after A) they become friends, and B) he strips down to his undies just to satisfy her kink.
I dunno, I still think Edda got it slightly worse that round.
Oh god, Neil, really? Interior-decorating gifts? You're really livin' the stereotype here. Plus, you know you're officially Edda's ~gay best friend~ now. You two are going to have SO many conversations about shoes.
Round two!
Mark's date: hotpixel_trade townie who digs him. (Kizzy Bowen by telectroscope)
Edda's date: an admittedly-non-Maxisy NPC who hates talking to her.
Mark wins again.
So here's jerkface Derek jamming to his mp3 player (which I'm not sure how he acquired) in the bathroom. See that censor blur, though?
Yes, he decided to rock out while Ruthie showered. I just. Don't. Even.
Derek: HYGIENE IS F'N METAL!!!!
And then EDDA gets sophomore-year-knocked-up, with some random dormie. Congratulations, dude! You're probably going to fulfill that "get engaged" want. Might want to decide whether you're more afraid of doing it or being rejected for it, though.
Eula: Oh, hi! We were just about to have sex. Wanna watch? :D
D:
Ohh, Mark. Congratulations on being the first heartbreaker of my game.
This angle really captures the difference between Family and Romance sims.
Family: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HOW COULD YOU CHEAT ON ME WHEN I DECIDED TO MARRY YOU DURING THE ONE AND ONLY DATE WE EVER HAD!!!
Romance: Baby, whaa? Look, it can be your turn next if you want, I don't mind!
Edda's babydaddy: Just think of how much fun our children will have playing on it! :D oh god what am I dooooing
Gosh, Eula, I just don't know what to tell you, safes are just basically the stupidest thing ever and you're stupid for liking them. :D :D :D
I made the right choice picking Derek as gen 2 spouse.
Aaaand one more round of "let's see whether the gypsy really does hate Edda" before I get bored and start letting everyone but Ruthie fend for themselves...
Edda's date: a llama-human hybrid with demonic glowing eyes.
Mark's date: a little-old-lady professor who thinks he's cute when he's angry.
Okay, so I kid about the demonic thing, but Mark still wins. All he has to do is strip down to undies and his date is all over him. Edda spends three Sim hours just trying to work her way up to a friendly hug.
I have made excellent use of these kids' first two years of college. With science.
I do take the opportunity to reroll Mark's turn-ons when he hits junior year, because beards? So not useful for a straight dude.
But then I start more-or-less ignoring everyone but Ruthie (and to a lesser extent, Eula). Because I'm starting to get bored. Ruthie doesn't need to date around and find the next generation's spouse! She's already going steady with him!
Eula decides to celebrate the start of junior year by nearly losing her baby. Maybe if you would go to bed when you are sleepy then I wouldn't get these messages about you needing more rest! Oh, and also try not getting knocked up sophomore year. That could help as well.
Three times while on a date with someone else, Edda rolls this want. Sweetie, no. Neil's gay. I am not letting you mack on him, because he will hate it, and that will ~~ruin your friendship~~. Just be happy with the free lamp.
I decide to move jerkface Derek's door to Ruthie's room so they can share a bed, and who should come along to claim the new door I put on the old room but Eula's spiky-haired swainette! I think she needs a makeover, though.
Better. I can't change her clothes for some reason, but what she has will do for now.
This is where Edda one-ups Eula by actually losing her baby. Worst date ever y/y?
The "cry softly" action is kind of horrible. And I'm a bit worried about the home life and/or childhood of whoever decided that that counts as softly. She was sobbing at the top of her lungs for nearly a sim-hour before I cancelled it.
But a few days later, when I've got her on a date to raise her asp level, she gets knocked up again. By this guy. Who rolls the want to get engaged to her!
While she rolls the want to get engaged to... someone else. (It's the demon llama.)
Oh, and after her "make out with this guy" want is fulfilled, she re-rolls the want to fall in love with her gay fireman friend Neil. Because she likes the noise my head makes when it collides with my desk.
For some reason, Eula's fiancee Brandi and this other dormie Tamara are enemies. I keep finding them beating on each other in random places. Eula always runs away when a fight breaks out, too, so it's annoying if they decide to go at each other in a room where she needs to be.
Mark: *sniff* *sniff* Do I smell barbecue?
Their last semester, the kids collectively have almost $20,000, so I decide Edda and Mark can have one last round each with the fortune teller, and both pay her the maximum.
Mark's $5000 date: CAS townie with whom he has three bolts. He gets the option to kiss her basically as soon as they've exchanged two words.
Eula's $5000 date: this guy. Maxis-made townie, and one of the town bicycles. I SimPE'd him into having a new face and skin, because he fathered a baby elsewhere in the neighborhood, but he's still the same guy who's in everyone's Nightlife-having game (just with a random name).
Two bolts. It takes two sim-hours' worth of me spamming interactions just for him to develop a crush on her... and then the next thing she does is flirt with him, and he refuses, and falls out of crush.
Man, the matchmaker hates Edda.
Anyway. Eventually all the kids graduate! So I make them leave. One by one they make the call...
Mark...
Edda...
Eula...
...and baby Ruthie makes her exit as darkness falls.
Oh, and also jerkface Derek.
And so we return to the house on Gambrel Road! (The house is on Gambrel Road btw.) I've built it up a bit to what is basically its final form.
Ruthie asks jerkface Derek to marry her...
And he stupidly says yes!
But of course, I can't actually marry him in, since there is TOTALLY NO MORE ROOM FOR ANOTHER SIM in this household of three members.
So I teleport-shrub him into being a member of the family. They can get married tomorrow when it's daylight and party-throwing hours.
Oh, yes, eating pancakes in your underwear. Very subtle, guys. (Although, interestingly? These two went at it like mad all through college, and Ruthie never got knocked up. And then the first time I had them Try For Baby? Jingle. It's a rare ACR-having sim who knows how to use birth control.)
Next morning! Here we have family friend Beth, one of Ruthie's professor friends, Ruthie's friend Ericka (who's apparently still sneaking from the last time she left Mark a post-date gift), Eula's babymomma Brandi, and Edda...
...Eula, Ruthie's other professor friend, Mark, and Edda's babydaddy Michael.
I didn't set any of the guests' formalwear, and I'm especially glad that Ruthie's sibs showed restraint in sartorial choice when they aged up. I half-expected Edda to show up in the boobie-displaying flapper dress, or something. (Joke's on me: Ruthie's the one who aged up into the boobie flapper dress.)
Right off the bat, Edda and Eula start making out with their respective babyparents. Mark would presumably be making out with Ericka, except jerkface Derek is distracting him by shoving his own head through a professor's butt in order to better illustrate a dirty joke.
I just don't get modern humor.
Jerkface Derek waves his fists at his wife-to-be for a while. I go D: for a while.
Ruthie also seems very surprised at his protestations of love, which doesn't really cut down on the D: factor...
...and as the vows are exchanged, Hayden comes in fresh from the hot tub to class things up a bit.
Aww. They look so happy; I'll save my vague implications of domestic abuse till after the honeymoon.
The assembled guests applaud, mostly.
Hayden: I'm pretty sure someone's getting married around here...
Non-derpy people: Try turning around.
Oops. Sorry, Eula. We'll try to save you a slice.
Ruthie: I LOVE KNIVES :D :D :D :D *disconnects teeth from jaw*
Ruthie's not a smusher. I should've had Derek do the cutting, though, since I bet he would've, like, thrown it at her, or something.
Most of the guests wind up watching TV after the ceremony. This is apparently very exciting, since the final score for the party was Roof Raiser.
O HAI I FOUNDS YOU SOME NIGHTMARE FUEL
YOU'RE WELCOME
Well, jerkface Derek is officially part of the family, so I should probably give a rundown on his stats. First, though, I have to share what I realized I had done to his name when I opened him up in SimPE to replace his default green eyes with a randomly-chosen other green set. (I'll be doing that with all genetic donors, btw. Default eyes are boring, and they don't get any less boring no matter how pretty your default replacements are.)
Derek Merrick. Roffle.
Ahh, there's the eyes. Anyway:
JERKFACE DEREK
Knowledge (LTW: reach Criminal Mastermind WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED)
2 Neat
8 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice OH MAN THIS WILL BE AWESOME
Turn-ons/off: undies and gray hair/glasses
Straight.
Ruthie rolled the want to get a job in the Law Enforcement career, BECAUSE SHE KNOWS IN HER HEART THAT DEREK'S REIGN OF TERROR MUST BE STOPPED. You know, in between all the baby-having.
I IS PRAGNENT??/?
Yes. Close your mouth; flies are getting in.
You two! Fergit your mouths, I'll settle for your noses not both occupying the same point in space-time.
What the... urgh! Get a job, slacker!
Yes! That job! Get that job.
That afternoon this guy came in the house and started up a conversation with jerkface Derek for some reason.
This guy: Hello bestest friend!!!! :D :D !! :D
Jerkface Derek: I AM KILLING YOU WITH MY MIND.
Hayden fulfills his want to sell a great novel, and replaces it with a want to quit his job.
Which he has two more days off from. And judging from his lifebar... yeah, that's a job you probably weren't going to ever go back to anyway, dude.
But sure, whatever. Enjoy not-actually-retirement retirement.
If the Merricks ever found a country, pillowfighting will be the national sport.
Next time: generation 3!
...and how did this post and last post get set as being made in March? I never touched the month dropdown on this post, and on the last post I accidentally changed it to January and then explicitly set it back to February...
Also I decided I didn't like the rate at which I was using up my LJ storage space, so I'm throwing everything on photobucket for this post. We'll see whether that causes the heat-death of the entire universe or anything like that. (It does turn out to cause extreme irritation when I discover that if you edit a picture, keep the same filename, and then re-upload, then what actually winds up in your photobucket album is the old version, even if you save to and upload from a new folder! GOOD JOB PHOTOBUCKET GUYS)
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Eula
This time:
I have Ruthie doing a painting of Edda, even though I'm pretty sure Ruthie's going to be heir. This is because when I had Ruthie start a painting, I noticed she could do still lifes now, so I chose that and then scrolled around looking for something interesting. Edda just happened to be smiling at her date at that exact moment.
Heyyy, look who it is! Jerkface Derek has been aged up and sent to join the Merricks at Yig Hall. This is because I decided that Ruthie basically won two hitherto-unknown contests -- she got the genetic mix I find most interesting, and she landed the Maxis-y-est significant other. So she's heir.
I'm fast-walking Derek through his first coupla semesters till he catches up with the others, and then he'll basically pass or fail on his own. He leaves college when Ruthie does whether he's ready or not.
Rather inconvenient that he's late for his first day of classes, then.
Not having the Haydenchin really does make Edda's entire face look better. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this painting... maybe hang it up in the dorm. Perhaps the likenesses of Merricks through the ages will come to adorn its walls.
WHAT
NO
THAT WAS NOT A JINGLE JUST NOW
o/~ Yes it wa-as! o/~
Why do my Sims always oops me while they're still underclassmen? They never get knocked up senior year when they'll be leaving soon anyway. No, they make me keep them frozen at first or second trimester for Sim-years instead.
Look, this time can you NOT send me a gay dude? That date was so boring that it didn't even get screenshotted.
Real nice fourth wall we had here once.
Oh lord. She gave Edda one of the Sims that I created to use as archetypes for sim-surgery-ing away Maxis face templates. This guy's name? Facem06 Facesone. But it looks like one of my hood-sexuality-randomizing passes did pick straight for him, so... at least he's not gay.
Holy crap, she got to dream date with a guy named Facem06?!
I know, Mark, I'm as surprised as you are.
Haaaa. Edda and Mark apparently have similar taste in dates.
AND JUST WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, HMM?
Another blind date, another playable. But it's one of the playables I plan to make townies when I get around to it -- crossbreeds between
pixel_trade sims and my own creations to provide genes for future legacy needs -- and she's a Romance sim anyway, which makes me less hesitant about letting Mark have at her.Nastasia is pretty, no? Definitely looking forward to getting her genes into a legacy sometime. Not this one, of course. A different legacy. In a different place. (Her mom, for the record, is Tumnal by
colemariesims, and her dad is... actually, Edda's next date after the one you see directly below.)So Mark pays $2,517 and gets a two-bolter. Edda pays $2,519 and gets a gay firefighter.
I went back through her memories, and I'm pretty sure four of her dates were matchmaker-based. Two of those were gay dudes, one was an elder who basically refused to have positive interactions with her, and the last one was... well, okay, the last one worked out. Mark? Two gypsy dates thus far, one with a playable that I refused to let him have any fun with so that was my fault, and one with a hot Romance sim who'll probably get him into the photo booth first chance she gets.
The gypsy totally has it in for Edda.
Oh, and her date is attracted to her brother. Of course.
Edda: [forced smile] Pardon me, I have a gypsy to go kill...
He did want to take a picture with her, though, so maybe he can be her ~gay best friend~ or something. (Note Mark and Nastasia, who are waiting on the photo booth so they can screw in it. I am not even kidding; I had to cancel an ACR woohoo so Edda could get in there for a picture before her date timer ran out.)
This is what it looked like in the photo booth, btw. YOU'RE WELCOME.
Kind of creeped out by how happy the coach looks about his apparent free license to make young coeds jump around getting sweaty.
Coach: WORK OUT NAO
Mark: [ignores, prepares to devour Nastasia's head whole]
Neil, you make a terrible ~gay best friend~.
Oh look, someone figured out how to not glitch their present into the ether for the first time ever! All it took was me knocking down a wall and tearing out a huge clump of my pretty landscaping.
Okay, experiment time. Edda's date: another gay guy. Who refuses to talk about anything with her. And yes, of course he thinks her brother is hot, ALL OF EDDA'S DATES THINK HER BROTHER IS HOT.
Mark's date: an elder who refuses to hug him even after A) they become friends, and B) he strips down to his undies just to satisfy her kink.
I dunno, I still think Edda got it slightly worse that round.
Oh god, Neil, really? Interior-decorating gifts? You're really livin' the stereotype here. Plus, you know you're officially Edda's ~gay best friend~ now. You two are going to have SO many conversations about shoes.
Round two!
Mark's date: hot
pixel_trade townie who digs him. (Kizzy Bowen by telectroscope)Edda's date: an admittedly-non-Maxisy NPC who hates talking to her.
Mark wins again.
So here's jerkface Derek jamming to his mp3 player (which I'm not sure how he acquired) in the bathroom. See that censor blur, though?
Yes, he decided to rock out while Ruthie showered. I just. Don't. Even.
Derek: HYGIENE IS F'N METAL!!!!
And then EDDA gets sophomore-year-knocked-up, with some random dormie. Congratulations, dude! You're probably going to fulfill that "get engaged" want. Might want to decide whether you're more afraid of doing it or being rejected for it, though.
Eula: Oh, hi! We were just about to have sex. Wanna watch? :D
D:
Ohh, Mark. Congratulations on being the first heartbreaker of my game.
This angle really captures the difference between Family and Romance sims.
Family: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HOW COULD YOU CHEAT ON ME WHEN I DECIDED TO MARRY YOU DURING THE ONE AND ONLY DATE WE EVER HAD!!!
Romance: Baby, whaa? Look, it can be your turn next if you want, I don't mind!
Edda's babydaddy: Just think of how much fun our children will have playing on it! :D oh god what am I dooooing
Gosh, Eula, I just don't know what to tell you, safes are just basically the stupidest thing ever and you're stupid for liking them. :D :D :D
I made the right choice picking Derek as gen 2 spouse.
Aaaand one more round of "let's see whether the gypsy really does hate Edda" before I get bored and start letting everyone but Ruthie fend for themselves...
Edda's date: a llama-human hybrid with demonic glowing eyes.
Mark's date: a little-old-lady professor who thinks he's cute when he's angry.
Okay, so I kid about the demonic thing, but Mark still wins. All he has to do is strip down to undies and his date is all over him. Edda spends three Sim hours just trying to work her way up to a friendly hug.
I have made excellent use of these kids' first two years of college. With science.
I do take the opportunity to reroll Mark's turn-ons when he hits junior year, because beards? So not useful for a straight dude.
But then I start more-or-less ignoring everyone but Ruthie (and to a lesser extent, Eula). Because I'm starting to get bored. Ruthie doesn't need to date around and find the next generation's spouse! She's already going steady with him!
Eula decides to celebrate the start of junior year by nearly losing her baby. Maybe if you would go to bed when you are sleepy then I wouldn't get these messages about you needing more rest! Oh, and also try not getting knocked up sophomore year. That could help as well.
Three times while on a date with someone else, Edda rolls this want. Sweetie, no. Neil's gay. I am not letting you mack on him, because he will hate it, and that will ~~ruin your friendship~~. Just be happy with the free lamp.
I decide to move jerkface Derek's door to Ruthie's room so they can share a bed, and who should come along to claim the new door I put on the old room but Eula's spiky-haired swainette! I think she needs a makeover, though.
Better. I can't change her clothes for some reason, but what she has will do for now.
This is where Edda one-ups Eula by actually losing her baby. Worst date ever y/y?
The "cry softly" action is kind of horrible. And I'm a bit worried about the home life and/or childhood of whoever decided that that counts as softly. She was sobbing at the top of her lungs for nearly a sim-hour before I cancelled it.
But a few days later, when I've got her on a date to raise her asp level, she gets knocked up again. By this guy. Who rolls the want to get engaged to her!
While she rolls the want to get engaged to... someone else. (It's the demon llama.)
Oh, and after her "make out with this guy" want is fulfilled, she re-rolls the want to fall in love with her gay fireman friend Neil. Because she likes the noise my head makes when it collides with my desk.
For some reason, Eula's fiancee Brandi and this other dormie Tamara are enemies. I keep finding them beating on each other in random places. Eula always runs away when a fight breaks out, too, so it's annoying if they decide to go at each other in a room where she needs to be.
Mark: *sniff* *sniff* Do I smell barbecue?
Their last semester, the kids collectively have almost $20,000, so I decide Edda and Mark can have one last round each with the fortune teller, and both pay her the maximum.
Mark's $5000 date: CAS townie with whom he has three bolts. He gets the option to kiss her basically as soon as they've exchanged two words.
Eula's $5000 date: this guy. Maxis-made townie, and one of the town bicycles. I SimPE'd him into having a new face and skin, because he fathered a baby elsewhere in the neighborhood, but he's still the same guy who's in everyone's Nightlife-having game (just with a random name).
Two bolts. It takes two sim-hours' worth of me spamming interactions just for him to develop a crush on her... and then the next thing she does is flirt with him, and he refuses, and falls out of crush.
Man, the matchmaker hates Edda.
Anyway. Eventually all the kids graduate! So I make them leave. One by one they make the call...
Mark...
Edda...
Eula...
...and baby Ruthie makes her exit as darkness falls.
Oh, and also jerkface Derek.
And so we return to the house on Gambrel Road! (The house is on Gambrel Road btw.) I've built it up a bit to what is basically its final form.
Ruthie asks jerkface Derek to marry her...
And he stupidly says yes!
But of course, I can't actually marry him in, since there is TOTALLY NO MORE ROOM FOR ANOTHER SIM in this household of three members.
So I teleport-shrub him into being a member of the family. They can get married tomorrow when it's daylight and party-throwing hours.
Oh, yes, eating pancakes in your underwear. Very subtle, guys. (Although, interestingly? These two went at it like mad all through college, and Ruthie never got knocked up. And then the first time I had them Try For Baby? Jingle. It's a rare ACR-having sim who knows how to use birth control.)
Next morning! Here we have family friend Beth, one of Ruthie's professor friends, Ruthie's friend Ericka (who's apparently still sneaking from the last time she left Mark a post-date gift), Eula's babymomma Brandi, and Edda...
...Eula, Ruthie's other professor friend, Mark, and Edda's babydaddy Michael.
I didn't set any of the guests' formalwear, and I'm especially glad that Ruthie's sibs showed restraint in sartorial choice when they aged up. I half-expected Edda to show up in the boobie-displaying flapper dress, or something. (Joke's on me: Ruthie's the one who aged up into the boobie flapper dress.)
Right off the bat, Edda and Eula start making out with their respective babyparents. Mark would presumably be making out with Ericka, except jerkface Derek is distracting him by shoving his own head through a professor's butt in order to better illustrate a dirty joke.
I just don't get modern humor.
Jerkface Derek waves his fists at his wife-to-be for a while. I go D: for a while.
Ruthie also seems very surprised at his protestations of love, which doesn't really cut down on the D: factor...
...and as the vows are exchanged, Hayden comes in fresh from the hot tub to class things up a bit.
Aww. They look so happy; I'll save my vague implications of domestic abuse till after the honeymoon.
The assembled guests applaud, mostly.
Hayden: I'm pretty sure someone's getting married around here...
Non-derpy people: Try turning around.
Oops. Sorry, Eula. We'll try to save you a slice.
Ruthie: I LOVE KNIVES :D :D :D :D *disconnects teeth from jaw*
Ruthie's not a smusher. I should've had Derek do the cutting, though, since I bet he would've, like, thrown it at her, or something.
Most of the guests wind up watching TV after the ceremony. This is apparently very exciting, since the final score for the party was Roof Raiser.
O HAI I FOUNDS YOU SOME NIGHTMARE FUEL
YOU'RE WELCOME
Well, jerkface Derek is officially part of the family, so I should probably give a rundown on his stats. First, though, I have to share what I realized I had done to his name when I opened him up in SimPE to replace his default green eyes with a randomly-chosen other green set. (I'll be doing that with all genetic donors, btw. Default eyes are boring, and they don't get any less boring no matter how pretty your default replacements are.)
Derek Merrick. Roffle.
Ahh, there's the eyes. Anyway:
JERKFACE DEREK
Knowledge (LTW: reach Criminal Mastermind WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED)
2 Neat
8 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice OH MAN THIS WILL BE AWESOME
Turn-ons/off: undies and gray hair/glasses
Straight.
Ruthie rolled the want to get a job in the Law Enforcement career, BECAUSE SHE KNOWS IN HER HEART THAT DEREK'S REIGN OF TERROR MUST BE STOPPED. You know, in between all the baby-having.
I IS PRAGNENT??/?
Yes. Close your mouth; flies are getting in.
You two! Fergit your mouths, I'll settle for your noses not both occupying the same point in space-time.
What the... urgh! Get a job, slacker!
Yes! That job! Get that job.
That afternoon this guy came in the house and started up a conversation with jerkface Derek for some reason.
This guy: Hello bestest friend!!!! :D :D !! :D
Jerkface Derek: I AM KILLING YOU WITH MY MIND.
Hayden fulfills his want to sell a great novel, and replaces it with a want to quit his job.
Which he has two more days off from. And judging from his lifebar... yeah, that's a job you probably weren't going to ever go back to anyway, dude.
But sure, whatever. Enjoy not-actually-retirement retirement.
If the Merricks ever found a country, pillowfighting will be the national sport.
Next time: generation 3!
...and how did this post and last post get set as being made in March? I never touched the month dropdown on this post, and on the last post I accidentally changed it to January and then explicitly set it back to February...
