Merrick Legacy, 3.2
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napoleonherselfEveryone at work got two locally-made truffles today! Free chocolate is the best chocolate.
Also, sims. Yessss made it to posting 3.2 while still playing gen 3. It's way more fun to play than to post, but then I want to look back over previous adventures and realize I can't.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: gen 3 was born, in the form of Cassandra! Hayden died, and jerkface Derek and Titania tried to bathe the hula zombies. Triplet boys were born -- Jeremy, Michael, and Duncan. Michael secured a spot in my heart early on by first puking on jerkface Derek, and then turning out to have zero nice points. Hayden's ghost roamed the halls, scaring everyone except the Knowledge sim who would have enjoyed it. With Titania's lifebar growing perilously full, I threw her a family reunion so she could spend some time with all her various descendants.
This time:
Ohh, Titania. You ate a lunchmeat sandwich on your very first day of existence... sitting alone, in your empty, bare-walled living room. What a very different sandwich experience you're having at the other end of your life!
Mmmyeah, thish lunchmeat ish way tashtier!
That's not really what I meant.
This is kind of like that one really dramatic part of the movie where the one person knows that the other person is walking up behind them and they respond all badass without turning around. All like,
So... we meet again, you husband-stealing bastard. I've been waiting for you.
I KNOW.
But then it's more like,
Dude, what the hell! You packed my stuff?!
I ASSURE YOU I WAS MOST DISCREET --
Oh I'm so relieved that you went DISCREETLY through my underwear drawer!!!
Of course, booze makes everything better.
Inheritance information is, again, brought to you by a spectral Barker's Beauty.
It occurs to me, as I'm writing this, that Drew Carey took over on The Price Is Right years ago and of course they don't call them Barker's Beauties anymore and let's be honest the current way of doing it where they get, you know, NAMES, and apparently starting in the 2010 season MICROPHONES so they can TALK instead of just being WALKING MEAT, is, like, a million times less icky than the old way, but still. Everything that's different now from how it was when I was younger is bad. :( :( :(
Teens and 20-somethings reading this: YOUR TIME IS COMING TOO. Better start practicing yelling at people to get off your lawn now.
...
Anyway. That's just what the hula zombies keep making me think of.
And nobody tried to bathe them this time!
Ruthie and Duncan take it hardest. The death, I mean. Not the not-getting-to-bathe-a-hula-zombie.
And, well, that clears out the elder bedroom. Ti and Hayden take up their new residence in one of the upstairs rooms, until I decide whether or not I'm enlarging the house again just so I can put in a sweet hallway that's for nothing but memorials. At this point I figure I won't, since when we get enough dead people up in here I'll wind up sending them to a separate graveyard lot anyway.
This family is a regular revolving door, though...
RUTHIE WHYYYYYYY
I really should put her on birth control now, but... I just can't resist the morbid curiosity. How many more kids is she going to have?
DUDE YOU GUYS CHECK OUT THIS SWEET FLOORBABY!
So, let's see. We have a girl named Tiffany, with jerkface Derek's eyes and brown hair...
...a girl named Crystal, with jerkface Derek's eyes and blonde hair...
...and afloorbabyboy named Knute, with jerkface Derek's eyes and brown hair.
Still no Ruthie eyes.
Before all the babies have even been retrieved from the floor, jerkface Derek gets a call from, of all people, the private-school headmaster. My assumption is that he could feel the future income popping into existence. He's probably offering Derek a multi-pack deal right now.
:(
Ruthie's energy bar was down to red-orange... Derek got home from work about an hour after the birth, and by the time he got the babies moved to their cribs he was even worse off... I didn't have a choice! I had to hire the nanny! And she'll probably wind up setting the babies on fire or something but at least then the social worker won't blame ME!
It is ostensibly not possible to burn babies or toddlers in this game. SOMEHOW THE NANNY WILL FIND A WAY.
Aww, hello little baby that a neighbor left on the floor! Here, let me pick you up.
Who's an oogy-woogy-oogums baby, then? Yes oo is! Wuzza wuzza!
Okay, baby, have fun back on the floor!
Wait, what am I THINKING? I can't just leave you there!
This spot is MUCH better.
My work here is done.
ಠ_ಠ
At least Ruthie finally has a chance to finish jerkface Derek's portrait. This was him having a positive conversation, about a topic he liked, with Titania.
Speaking of jerkface Derek...
He's still good at being a criminal. Of course.
Good job on earning tons of money that you don't even need, jerkface. Next time try doing something useful. ...impregnating Ruthie with another set of triplets does not count as useful.
Oh look, the nanny's hard at work.
Ruthie clears the floor of babies, because it's Cassandra's birthday!
Apparently she figures that since she's basically a face clone of jerkface Derek, she might as well follow his aspiration, too. But her LTW is to be Chief Of Staff, not Super Criminal Jerkface.
For the uninitiated: this is a college scholarship you can only get if you have been abducted by aliens... and in my game, it's not just men who get alien-pregnant when abducted.
Cass m'dear, if you really want to get teen alien pregnant in order to further your college career... well, then I guess I'll just have to do my best to make that happen (hence why it's locked). Because hilarious.
...I... I have never had a sim roll this want before. I... oh god. This is terrible.
Now I don't know which one to lock. :( :( :(
Cass post-makeover plus gender preference roll.
And since the family has nearly $100k in the bank, I give her a $5000 matchmaker date when she gets home from school.
She gets this random-spawn townie, who isn't legacy-spouse-eligible because he doesn't have a Maxis face template... but they have at least a couple bolts, and they get along well. And as a faceclone of her dad, Cass really isn't likely to be heir anyway, so she'll be free to marry whoever she wants.
...and then it passes 6:00 and I realize I forgot to birthday-cake the babies when Cass starts getting queuestomped to Help With Birthday. BECAUSE SHE HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO.
And at the same time all that's happening, ghost!Titania makes her first appearance, AND ghost!Hayden comes out again! It's a busy night.
A... busy... busy night.
But the next day, it's toddler dance party post-makeover spam! Featuring Knute...
...Crystal...
...and Tiffany!
Knute actually got the same skin Jeremy did, I think -- the one with eyebrows painted on -- because apparently I didn't bother to actually take it out of my downloads folder. But I do like the way it looks other than the eyebrow thing, and if the sim isn't blond then you can put different eyebrows on and not have them look all stupid. So I wind up letting him keep it.
Triplet birthday! (That narrows it down SO MUCH in this family I AM LOOKING AT YOU RUTHIE.)
I think Michael missed the memo, though.
Duncan aged into a Muppet nose. o_O
And into some kind of weird turn-ons. (+fatness, +fitness, -red hair)
Jeremy, meanwhile, knows that blondes have more fun... (+blondes, +perfume, -black hair)
...and Michael thinks that outfit looks great on you, but it would look even better on his bedroom floor. (+undies, +blondes, -formalwear)
Um... Michael, sweetie? You were the last one to age up. There isn't anyone left to cheer. ...who am I kidding, you have zero nice points, 9 outgoing, and you rolled Romance. You're cheering yourself.
Jeremy! Pleasure sim with a LTW of 50 dream dates, and he's straight.
Michael! Romance sim with a LTW to have 20 simultaneous lovers, and he's straight.
Duncan! Fortune sim with a LTW to top the athletic career, and he's gay.
For some reason, every teen boy I put one of these colored overshirt things on? Rolls gay. It's the damnedest thing.
Duncan follows Cassandra on the road to Teen Alien Pregnantville.
You guys are going to wind up with aliens in your butts. :/
I figure Michael doesn't want to waste any time, so on his first full day as a teen, I have him fork the maximum amount over to the gypsy for a blind date.
...well hel-lo. He has all this available and he hasn't done any more than nodded to her. He's even got Slow Dance. Three-bolters if I ever saw any.
And since Jeremy's LTW is for 50 dream dates...
Argh. His date A) isn't Maxisy, and B) is more attracted to his brother than to him. Ah well. She's a Romance sim, so it won't hurt to get flirty with her.
~~first kiss~~
I love love love how they match. ~~~Michael and whatever this chick's name is OTP~~~
(It's Roxie, for the record.)
Jeremy is a couple hours behind his brother -- who's already ended his date as Dream -- but he's getting there. (Although he only manages Great-and-a-half.)
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, BITCHES
The second set of triplets are done being toddlers FINALLY
Glad to see that ghost!Hayden received his invitation to the party.
Two of the trips are exhausted enough to go straight to bed without even being made over, but Tiffany's still got some wakeful hours in her, so I send her upstairs to skill. And then proceed to wonder why she's talking to herself.
And then, well.
Yeah.
Tiffany is HARDCORE. All straight-up talkin' to the ghost of her dead granddaddy like it ain't no nothin'. She keeps this up, she'll displace Michael as my favorite. (She has zero nice points, same as Michael. WHY DO WOMEN ALWAYS FALL FOR THE JERKS)
...thanks, Teresa. I guess. Jeremy will probably appreciate it, but... that's just 'cause he's a Pleasure sim.
(I love her expression here... as if I've caught her in the instant she begins to wonder, "Wait, is this a stupid gift to leave?" Yes, Teresa. Yes it is.)
MWAhahahahahahaaaa!! My master plan is finally coming to fruition! Those fools will rue the day they... brb, swings. WHEEEEE
Derek keeps his baseball cap even in the Evil Mastermind outfit. A+
I'll finish up with madeover chillun!
Tiffany, with her "I am dancing autonomously. See how much fun I am having." face.
Crystal, with her "listening to mommy talk" face.
And Knute, just kinda bein' Knutey.
And with Michael enthusiastically administering the very first noogie of my game, we're outta here.
Next time: aliens! Birthdays! Disappointingly attractive children! Old people! More aliens! And a fine sprinkling of blasphemy to top things off.
Also, sims. Yessss made it to posting 3.2 while still playing gen 3. It's way more fun to play than to post, but then I want to look back over previous adventures and realize I can't.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: gen 3 was born, in the form of Cassandra! Hayden died, and jerkface Derek and Titania tried to bathe the hula zombies. Triplet boys were born -- Jeremy, Michael, and Duncan. Michael secured a spot in my heart early on by first puking on jerkface Derek, and then turning out to have zero nice points. Hayden's ghost roamed the halls, scaring everyone except the Knowledge sim who would have enjoyed it. With Titania's lifebar growing perilously full, I threw her a family reunion so she could spend some time with all her various descendants.
This time:
Ohh, Titania. You ate a lunchmeat sandwich on your very first day of existence... sitting alone, in your empty, bare-walled living room. What a very different sandwich experience you're having at the other end of your life!
Mmmyeah, thish lunchmeat ish way tashtier!
That's not really what I meant.
This is kind of like that one really dramatic part of the movie where the one person knows that the other person is walking up behind them and they respond all badass without turning around. All like,
So... we meet again, you husband-stealing bastard. I've been waiting for you.
I KNOW.
But then it's more like,
Dude, what the hell! You packed my stuff?!
I ASSURE YOU I WAS MOST DISCREET --
Oh I'm so relieved that you went DISCREETLY through my underwear drawer!!!
Of course, booze makes everything better.
Inheritance information is, again, brought to you by a spectral Barker's Beauty.
It occurs to me, as I'm writing this, that Drew Carey took over on The Price Is Right years ago and of course they don't call them Barker's Beauties anymore and let's be honest the current way of doing it where they get, you know, NAMES, and apparently starting in the 2010 season MICROPHONES so they can TALK instead of just being WALKING MEAT, is, like, a million times less icky than the old way, but still. Everything that's different now from how it was when I was younger is bad. :( :( :(
Teens and 20-somethings reading this: YOUR TIME IS COMING TOO. Better start practicing yelling at people to get off your lawn now.
...
Anyway. That's just what the hula zombies keep making me think of.
And nobody tried to bathe them this time!
Ruthie and Duncan take it hardest. The death, I mean. Not the not-getting-to-bathe-a-hula-zombie.
And, well, that clears out the elder bedroom. Ti and Hayden take up their new residence in one of the upstairs rooms, until I decide whether or not I'm enlarging the house again just so I can put in a sweet hallway that's for nothing but memorials. At this point I figure I won't, since when we get enough dead people up in here I'll wind up sending them to a separate graveyard lot anyway.
This family is a regular revolving door, though...
RUTHIE WHYYYYYYY
I really should put her on birth control now, but... I just can't resist the morbid curiosity. How many more kids is she going to have?
DUDE YOU GUYS CHECK OUT THIS SWEET FLOORBABY!
So, let's see. We have a girl named Tiffany, with jerkface Derek's eyes and brown hair...
...a girl named Crystal, with jerkface Derek's eyes and blonde hair...
...and a
Still no Ruthie eyes.
Before all the babies have even been retrieved from the floor, jerkface Derek gets a call from, of all people, the private-school headmaster. My assumption is that he could feel the future income popping into existence. He's probably offering Derek a multi-pack deal right now.
:(
Ruthie's energy bar was down to red-orange... Derek got home from work about an hour after the birth, and by the time he got the babies moved to their cribs he was even worse off... I didn't have a choice! I had to hire the nanny! And she'll probably wind up setting the babies on fire or something but at least then the social worker won't blame ME!
It is ostensibly not possible to burn babies or toddlers in this game. SOMEHOW THE NANNY WILL FIND A WAY.
Aww, hello little baby that a neighbor left on the floor! Here, let me pick you up.
Who's an oogy-woogy-oogums baby, then? Yes oo is! Wuzza wuzza!
Okay, baby, have fun back on the floor!
Wait, what am I THINKING? I can't just leave you there!
This spot is MUCH better.
My work here is done.
ಠ_ಠ
At least Ruthie finally has a chance to finish jerkface Derek's portrait. This was him having a positive conversation, about a topic he liked, with Titania.
Speaking of jerkface Derek...
He's still good at being a criminal. Of course.
Good job on earning tons of money that you don't even need, jerkface. Next time try doing something useful. ...impregnating Ruthie with another set of triplets does not count as useful.
Oh look, the nanny's hard at work.
Ruthie clears the floor of babies, because it's Cassandra's birthday!
Apparently she figures that since she's basically a face clone of jerkface Derek, she might as well follow his aspiration, too. But her LTW is to be Chief Of Staff, not Super Criminal Jerkface.
For the uninitiated: this is a college scholarship you can only get if you have been abducted by aliens... and in my game, it's not just men who get alien-pregnant when abducted.
Cass m'dear, if you really want to get teen alien pregnant in order to further your college career... well, then I guess I'll just have to do my best to make that happen (hence why it's locked). Because hilarious.
...I... I have never had a sim roll this want before. I... oh god. This is terrible.
Now I don't know which one to lock. :( :( :(
Cass post-makeover plus gender preference roll.
And since the family has nearly $100k in the bank, I give her a $5000 matchmaker date when she gets home from school.
She gets this random-spawn townie, who isn't legacy-spouse-eligible because he doesn't have a Maxis face template... but they have at least a couple bolts, and they get along well. And as a faceclone of her dad, Cass really isn't likely to be heir anyway, so she'll be free to marry whoever she wants.
...and then it passes 6:00 and I realize I forgot to birthday-cake the babies when Cass starts getting queuestomped to Help With Birthday. BECAUSE SHE HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO.
And at the same time all that's happening, ghost!Titania makes her first appearance, AND ghost!Hayden comes out again! It's a busy night.
A... busy... busy night.
But the next day, it's toddler dance party post-makeover spam! Featuring Knute...
...Crystal...
...and Tiffany!
Knute actually got the same skin Jeremy did, I think -- the one with eyebrows painted on -- because apparently I didn't bother to actually take it out of my downloads folder. But I do like the way it looks other than the eyebrow thing, and if the sim isn't blond then you can put different eyebrows on and not have them look all stupid. So I wind up letting him keep it.
Triplet birthday! (That narrows it down SO MUCH in this family I AM LOOKING AT YOU RUTHIE.)
I think Michael missed the memo, though.
Duncan aged into a Muppet nose. o_O
And into some kind of weird turn-ons. (+fatness, +fitness, -red hair)
Jeremy, meanwhile, knows that blondes have more fun... (+blondes, +perfume, -black hair)
...and Michael thinks that outfit looks great on you, but it would look even better on his bedroom floor. (+undies, +blondes, -formalwear)
Um... Michael, sweetie? You were the last one to age up. There isn't anyone left to cheer. ...who am I kidding, you have zero nice points, 9 outgoing, and you rolled Romance. You're cheering yourself.
Jeremy! Pleasure sim with a LTW of 50 dream dates, and he's straight.
Michael! Romance sim with a LTW to have 20 simultaneous lovers, and he's straight.
Duncan! Fortune sim with a LTW to top the athletic career, and he's gay.
For some reason, every teen boy I put one of these colored overshirt things on? Rolls gay. It's the damnedest thing.
Duncan follows Cassandra on the road to Teen Alien Pregnantville.
You guys are going to wind up with aliens in your butts. :/
I figure Michael doesn't want to waste any time, so on his first full day as a teen, I have him fork the maximum amount over to the gypsy for a blind date.
...well hel-lo. He has all this available and he hasn't done any more than nodded to her. He's even got Slow Dance. Three-bolters if I ever saw any.
And since Jeremy's LTW is for 50 dream dates...
Argh. His date A) isn't Maxisy, and B) is more attracted to his brother than to him. Ah well. She's a Romance sim, so it won't hurt to get flirty with her.
~~first kiss~~
I love love love how they match. ~~~Michael and whatever this chick's name is OTP~~~
(It's Roxie, for the record.)
Jeremy is a couple hours behind his brother -- who's already ended his date as Dream -- but he's getting there. (Although he only manages Great-and-a-half.)
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, BITCHES
The second set of triplets are done being toddlers FINALLY
Glad to see that ghost!Hayden received his invitation to the party.
Two of the trips are exhausted enough to go straight to bed without even being made over, but Tiffany's still got some wakeful hours in her, so I send her upstairs to skill. And then proceed to wonder why she's talking to herself.
And then, well.
Yeah.
Tiffany is HARDCORE. All straight-up talkin' to the ghost of her dead granddaddy like it ain't no nothin'. She keeps this up, she'll displace Michael as my favorite. (She has zero nice points, same as Michael. WHY DO WOMEN ALWAYS FALL FOR THE JERKS)
...thanks, Teresa. I guess. Jeremy will probably appreciate it, but... that's just 'cause he's a Pleasure sim.
(I love her expression here... as if I've caught her in the instant she begins to wonder, "Wait, is this a stupid gift to leave?" Yes, Teresa. Yes it is.)
MWAhahahahahahaaaa!! My master plan is finally coming to fruition! Those fools will rue the day they... brb, swings. WHEEEEE
Derek keeps his baseball cap even in the Evil Mastermind outfit. A+
I'll finish up with madeover chillun!
Tiffany, with her "I am dancing autonomously. See how much fun I am having." face.
Crystal, with her "listening to mommy talk" face.
And Knute, just kinda bein' Knutey.
And with Michael enthusiastically administering the very first noogie of my game, we're outta here.
Next time: aliens! Birthdays! Disappointingly attractive children! Old people! More aliens! And a fine sprinkling of blasphemy to top things off.
