Merrick Legacy, 3.4
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napoleonherselfI'm listening to mecha badmouth Frank Lloyd Wright to his mom on the phone. It's pretty hilarious.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: the second set of triplets got into private school through the magic of bad schmoozing gaining positive schmooze points. Cassandra got abducted by aliens! But she didn't get teen alien pregnant, which made me sad. Then she almost had hot tub sex with a hot alien college boy, except Duncan interrupted her by getting abducted. Cass went off to college; the second set of triplets hit teen, and Knute was the THIRD child of the generation to want to get abducted by aliens. These last three kids all annoyed me by being pretty. Ruthie and jerkface Derek got old, I sent the older triplets to college, and Knute got abducted and then IMMEDIATELY rolled the want to do it again.
This time:
Eula would like to welcome you back to the Merrick legacy!
AHAHAHAHAHA MY MOMMY DIEDDDDD HAHAHAHAHAAAA :D D: :D D:
Oops. Maybe I shouldn't have greeted her when she walked by.
No... no, I'm okay... I'm okay...
I think...
(Man, shut up, I don't care about no carpool)
Wait, carpool? What am I talking about?
Hee! She's shaking the hand of the invisible shrink.
This is what Ruthie does with her spare time while jerkface Derek's at work. She is the best old lady. All those "oh look at me I'm so WACKY and CREATIVE and NONCONFORMIST because I'm wearing a red hat JUST LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHER NONCOMFORMIST OLD LADIES AT THIS VERY SECOND" types should be ashamed.
I don't get why everyone is always so eager to push perfect strangers on the swings... but it's adorable when family members do it.
There goes Knute!
Incidentally, this is the single most popular sequence of gossip in this household.
Oh man, so you know Crystal?
She's an ALIEN!
And she abducted DUNCAN!
Yyyeah. You know what Crystal was doing when Duncan was abducted? This:
I don't really think she had anything more to do with it than you did, Tiffany. Also? Stop occupying the same point in space as the bar. It's weird.
I bet I'll get a lot more opportunities to drink in college, anyway!
Yig Hall doesn't have a bar, so... no, you won't.
Finally, Crystal is the last of the gen 3 kids to walk out to that waiting taxi...
...while inside, Ruthie and Derek have already relocated to the freshly-redecorated elder bedroom downstairs. The next time I play this house, the torch will have passed.
...
Right. College! And Young Adult makeovers for all the kids (although Tiffany kept her look because I still like it).
CASSANDRA
Knowledge (LTW: become Chief Of Staff)
2 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
9 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and brown hair/blond hair
Straight.
JEREMY
Pleasure (LTW: 50 dream dates)
2 Neat
3 Outgoing
10 Active
8 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: perfume and blonde hair/black hair
Straight.
MICHAEL
Romance (LTW: 20 simultaneous lovers)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: underwear and blonde hair/formalwear
Straight.
DUNCAN
Fortune (LTW: become Hall Of Famer)
6 Neat
10 Outgoing
3 Active
6 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fat and fitness/red hair
Gay.
CRYSTAL
Popularity (LTW: become Hall Of Famer)
8 Neat
8 Outgoing
8 Active
7 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and brown hair/makeup
Straight.
KNUTE
Knowledge (LTW: become Criminal Mastermind)
10 Neat
8 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
2 Nice
Turn-ons/off: stink and gray hair/blonde hair
Straight.
TIFFANY
Romance (LTW: become Professional Party Guest)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: glasses and hats/black hair
Gay.
Seven kids is a lot to keep track of, and I haven't even decided for sure who's going to be heir yet, so I try an experiment. Each kid gets one day a week where I play them and take care of all their needs; the other six kids are more or less on their own. The day after a kid's play day, while his/her mood and aspiration are still high, I'll keep an extra-close eye on him/her to gauge awesomeness. After a couple rounds max, I should be able to pick an heir. As oldest, Cassandra goes first. Even though she's a face clone of jerkface Derek and therefore not going to be heir anyway.
For the record, Michael autonomously beds some random dormie before I've even finished making everyone over. Romance sims....
There are a lot of Merricks. I don't know if that was obvious yet.
...and it's only the first night and already the social order has broken down completely. There are three Merricks crammed into one bathroom, one of them on the toilet, another one playing pirate in the tub, and the last one watching the first two go about their... er, business.
They're not getting out of this alive, are they.
The next morning I catch Michael and --
Do you MIND?
...um. Sorry.
Anyway, I catch Michael and the same dormie from last night, autonomously woohooing again. But it's Jeremy's day to be played, so! Please enjoy this picture of him jamming his fist into his pancakes.
Knute decides to spy on Delilah O'Feefe, which will obviously have excellent consequences. Crystal decides to play piano all day instead of doing silly things like peeing.
Yeah, great timing, Knute. She runs up and shoves you, so you forget that you needed to go to class. I'm not even going to remind you, because you? Brought this on yourself.
What was I out here for...? Oh yeah! To use the hot tub!
Face. Palm.
If only those two doors each led to a perfectly good toilet! Oh, what a shame they do not. (They do.)
Sigh. Well, Crystal, if you want to be the first kid to pee herself this generation, then you go right on ahead.
WHAT
NO
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A GOOD TIME TO GET YOURSELF KNOCKED UP
BECAUSE TRUST ME, IT IS NOT
Meanwhile, back in the caff: good job, Crystal! Was it everything you ever dreamed of?
My mac and cheese smells funny.
See, it's stuff like this that keeps making me think I should pick Michael as heir... except a male Romance sim isn't as good an heir as a female one unless you do mpreg, and his current turn-on for blondes would increase the risk of a very genetically-boring gen 4. But, I mean, really. This is what it's like watching Michael in action.
Michael: Fuck yes I am AWESOME.
Michael's ~OTP~ From Teenhood, Roxy: Yay sex! :D
I love Tiffany too, but after having Edda and Eula go through so many miscarriage scares when they were uni pregnant, I was strangely unexcited by the idea of managing a first-semester-of-college pregnancy when there are six other kids at the same time. So she's dropping out.
Bye-bye, Tiffany. I am sorry I had my risky woohoo chance set so high. (8%. It's 4 now.)
Congrats on staying in college unlike our knocked-up slut of a sister!
Duncan! D:
Michael: You know, like half of my siblings were abducted by aliens!
Some Dormie Named Zoe: So did they, like, make best friends with the aliens?
Michael: o_O Probably not, no.
Roxy: *splash* Tee-hee! Pay attention to ME, Michael!
Roxy: So you used protection earlier, right?
Michael: Uhhh...
Michael: Hey Zoe! Roxy and I totally made out this morning!
Michael: I wasn't even underage this time!
Zoe: That's cool. So, hey, dresses, right?
Roxy: [+1000]
Michael: Dude WTF?
Ever since Crystal was a toddler, she and her older brother Jeremy have been... close. Not, like, Gabriel and Gillian Laroux close, and not Laurincest close, but... yeah, I've been keeping an eye on them.
Duncan rolled a want to be friends with his econ teacher.
Art majors are dumb! [grade+]
Michael is an asshole.
And Duncan is making over poor Dominic here, because nobody should have to live with that hair.
Now I'm not a bowlcutted doofus!
Nnnno... but you are rather, uh, intense.
I used the gay kid's play day to have him give someone a makeover. I'm a bad person, aren't I.
Does it make it any better if Crystal's play day fulfills both her first kiss and her First Woohoo want via ACR with this cornrow'd fellow? No? Crud.
Knowledge sims need love too!
Fascinating! Some sort of phase-modulated ionic field?
...maybe you should try reversing the polarity on that thing.
Your paper on transgenic augmentation of post-ganglionic nerve cells was brilliant!
And if I might be so bold, your hair shines like the third moon of Aldebaran IV.
...forget what I said about reversing the polarity. An elder fellow Knowledge sim is just who Knute needs to nerd it up with.
Crap, Knute, you're running out of time! Reroute something through the deflector grid or something!
Or slow-dancing, sure. That works too.
Cassandra is way too into KnutexProfessor Meadow here. After she sat down by them, I got to listen to her "uh huh!" every time they did anything romantical. And the grin. THE CONSTANT GRIN.
Anyway, first kiss blah blah. The date doesn't make it to Dream, but I'd still say this was a successful First Contact. Knute is definitely getting a commendation put in with Starfleet Command!
I really need to clean out the ol' Date Reward Corner more often.
Cassandra: Oh my god, lady, did you seriously hook me up with a guy who looks just like my GRANDPA?
Meanwhile, I've sent Michael to skill because I realized he didn't have the basic "at least four points in everything" that I try to give all my college-bound teens. He has very intense opinions about nothing.
No, just kidding, it's about makeup. Which doesn't make a lot of sense, either.
Crystal: No time for makeouts, dude I find hot! I've got a half-naked brother to play with!
STOP IT. NO MERRICKCEST.
Knute's nerdy professor date has left him a nerdy gift. There is a part of me that wants to find a way to de-age her to adult but let her keep her gray hair so that the two of them can have five million nerdy babies together.
Fun fact about gen 3: there are so many of them that I have some of them two to a bed, since Yig Hall only has four double-bed rooms. (It only has six rooms total, which would be enough for everyone NOW, but we started out with seven kids.) Knute and Cassandra share a bed. Which makes this little scene, involving Knute, Cass, and a random dormie... somewhat awkward.
Also begs the question of why Cass is ACR-ing it up with this guy.
I cancelled the action. I SET THOSE ACCEPTANCE LEVELS HIGH FOR A REASON MISSY.
And he's Family, which makes it even MORE ridiculous.
Jonathan: So... we're not gonna have sex?
Next time: things get creepy.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: the second set of triplets got into private school through the magic of bad schmoozing gaining positive schmooze points. Cassandra got abducted by aliens! But she didn't get teen alien pregnant, which made me sad. Then she almost had hot tub sex with a hot alien college boy, except Duncan interrupted her by getting abducted. Cass went off to college; the second set of triplets hit teen, and Knute was the THIRD child of the generation to want to get abducted by aliens. These last three kids all annoyed me by being pretty. Ruthie and jerkface Derek got old, I sent the older triplets to college, and Knute got abducted and then IMMEDIATELY rolled the want to do it again.
This time:
Eula would like to welcome you back to the Merrick legacy!
AHAHAHAHAHA MY MOMMY DIEDDDDD HAHAHAHAHAAAA :D D: :D D:
Oops. Maybe I shouldn't have greeted her when she walked by.
No... no, I'm okay... I'm okay...
I think...
(Man, shut up, I don't care about no carpool)
Wait, carpool? What am I talking about?
Hee! She's shaking the hand of the invisible shrink.
This is what Ruthie does with her spare time while jerkface Derek's at work. She is the best old lady. All those "oh look at me I'm so WACKY and CREATIVE and NONCONFORMIST because I'm wearing a red hat JUST LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHER NONCOMFORMIST OLD LADIES AT THIS VERY SECOND" types should be ashamed.
I don't get why everyone is always so eager to push perfect strangers on the swings... but it's adorable when family members do it.
There goes Knute!
Incidentally, this is the single most popular sequence of gossip in this household.
Oh man, so you know Crystal?
She's an ALIEN!
And she abducted DUNCAN!
Yyyeah. You know what Crystal was doing when Duncan was abducted? This:
I don't really think she had anything more to do with it than you did, Tiffany. Also? Stop occupying the same point in space as the bar. It's weird.
I bet I'll get a lot more opportunities to drink in college, anyway!
Yig Hall doesn't have a bar, so... no, you won't.
Finally, Crystal is the last of the gen 3 kids to walk out to that waiting taxi...
...while inside, Ruthie and Derek have already relocated to the freshly-redecorated elder bedroom downstairs. The next time I play this house, the torch will have passed.
...
Right. College! And Young Adult makeovers for all the kids (although Tiffany kept her look because I still like it).
CASSANDRA
Knowledge (LTW: become Chief Of Staff)
2 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
9 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and brown hair/blond hair
Straight.
JEREMY
Pleasure (LTW: 50 dream dates)
2 Neat
3 Outgoing
10 Active
8 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: perfume and blonde hair/black hair
Straight.
MICHAEL
Romance (LTW: 20 simultaneous lovers)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: underwear and blonde hair/formalwear
Straight.
DUNCAN
Fortune (LTW: become Hall Of Famer)
6 Neat
10 Outgoing
3 Active
6 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fat and fitness/red hair
Gay.
CRYSTAL
Popularity (LTW: become Hall Of Famer)
8 Neat
8 Outgoing
8 Active
7 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and brown hair/makeup
Straight.
KNUTE
Knowledge (LTW: become Criminal Mastermind)
10 Neat
8 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
2 Nice
Turn-ons/off: stink and gray hair/blonde hair
Straight.
TIFFANY
Romance (LTW: become Professional Party Guest)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: glasses and hats/black hair
Gay.
Seven kids is a lot to keep track of, and I haven't even decided for sure who's going to be heir yet, so I try an experiment. Each kid gets one day a week where I play them and take care of all their needs; the other six kids are more or less on their own. The day after a kid's play day, while his/her mood and aspiration are still high, I'll keep an extra-close eye on him/her to gauge awesomeness. After a couple rounds max, I should be able to pick an heir. As oldest, Cassandra goes first. Even though she's a face clone of jerkface Derek and therefore not going to be heir anyway.
For the record, Michael autonomously beds some random dormie before I've even finished making everyone over. Romance sims....
There are a lot of Merricks. I don't know if that was obvious yet.
...and it's only the first night and already the social order has broken down completely. There are three Merricks crammed into one bathroom, one of them on the toilet, another one playing pirate in the tub, and the last one watching the first two go about their... er, business.
They're not getting out of this alive, are they.
The next morning I catch Michael and --
Do you MIND?
...um. Sorry.
Anyway, I catch Michael and the same dormie from last night, autonomously woohooing again. But it's Jeremy's day to be played, so! Please enjoy this picture of him jamming his fist into his pancakes.
Knute decides to spy on Delilah O'Feefe, which will obviously have excellent consequences. Crystal decides to play piano all day instead of doing silly things like peeing.
Yeah, great timing, Knute. She runs up and shoves you, so you forget that you needed to go to class. I'm not even going to remind you, because you? Brought this on yourself.
What was I out here for...? Oh yeah! To use the hot tub!
Face. Palm.
If only those two doors each led to a perfectly good toilet! Oh, what a shame they do not. (They do.)
Sigh. Well, Crystal, if you want to be the first kid to pee herself this generation, then you go right on ahead.
WHAT
NO
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A GOOD TIME TO GET YOURSELF KNOCKED UP
BECAUSE TRUST ME, IT IS NOT
Meanwhile, back in the caff: good job, Crystal! Was it everything you ever dreamed of?
My mac and cheese smells funny.
See, it's stuff like this that keeps making me think I should pick Michael as heir... except a male Romance sim isn't as good an heir as a female one unless you do mpreg, and his current turn-on for blondes would increase the risk of a very genetically-boring gen 4. But, I mean, really. This is what it's like watching Michael in action.
Michael: Fuck yes I am AWESOME.
Michael's ~OTP~ From Teenhood, Roxy: Yay sex! :D
I love Tiffany too, but after having Edda and Eula go through so many miscarriage scares when they were uni pregnant, I was strangely unexcited by the idea of managing a first-semester-of-college pregnancy when there are six other kids at the same time. So she's dropping out.
Bye-bye, Tiffany. I am sorry I had my risky woohoo chance set so high. (8%. It's 4 now.)
Congrats on staying in college unlike our knocked-up slut of a sister!
Duncan! D:
Michael: You know, like half of my siblings were abducted by aliens!
Some Dormie Named Zoe: So did they, like, make best friends with the aliens?
Michael: o_O Probably not, no.
Roxy: *splash* Tee-hee! Pay attention to ME, Michael!
Roxy: So you used protection earlier, right?
Michael: Uhhh...
Michael: Hey Zoe! Roxy and I totally made out this morning!
Michael: I wasn't even underage this time!
Zoe: That's cool. So, hey, dresses, right?
Roxy: [+1000]
Michael: Dude WTF?
Ever since Crystal was a toddler, she and her older brother Jeremy have been... close. Not, like, Gabriel and Gillian Laroux close, and not Laurincest close, but... yeah, I've been keeping an eye on them.
Duncan rolled a want to be friends with his econ teacher.
Art majors are dumb! [grade+]
Michael is an asshole.
And Duncan is making over poor Dominic here, because nobody should have to live with that hair.
Now I'm not a bowlcutted doofus!
Nnnno... but you are rather, uh, intense.
I used the gay kid's play day to have him give someone a makeover. I'm a bad person, aren't I.
Does it make it any better if Crystal's play day fulfills both her first kiss and her First Woohoo want via ACR with this cornrow'd fellow? No? Crud.
Knowledge sims need love too!
Fascinating! Some sort of phase-modulated ionic field?
...maybe you should try reversing the polarity on that thing.
Your paper on transgenic augmentation of post-ganglionic nerve cells was brilliant!
And if I might be so bold, your hair shines like the third moon of Aldebaran IV.
...forget what I said about reversing the polarity. An elder fellow Knowledge sim is just who Knute needs to nerd it up with.
Crap, Knute, you're running out of time! Reroute something through the deflector grid or something!
Or slow-dancing, sure. That works too.
Cassandra is way too into KnutexProfessor Meadow here. After she sat down by them, I got to listen to her "uh huh!" every time they did anything romantical. And the grin. THE CONSTANT GRIN.
Anyway, first kiss blah blah. The date doesn't make it to Dream, but I'd still say this was a successful First Contact. Knute is definitely getting a commendation put in with Starfleet Command!
I really need to clean out the ol' Date Reward Corner more often.
Cassandra: Oh my god, lady, did you seriously hook me up with a guy who looks just like my GRANDPA?
Meanwhile, I've sent Michael to skill because I realized he didn't have the basic "at least four points in everything" that I try to give all my college-bound teens. He has very intense opinions about nothing.
No, just kidding, it's about makeup. Which doesn't make a lot of sense, either.
Crystal: No time for makeouts, dude I find hot! I've got a half-naked brother to play with!
STOP IT. NO MERRICKCEST.
Knute's nerdy professor date has left him a nerdy gift. There is a part of me that wants to find a way to de-age her to adult but let her keep her gray hair so that the two of them can have five million nerdy babies together.
Fun fact about gen 3: there are so many of them that I have some of them two to a bed, since Yig Hall only has four double-bed rooms. (It only has six rooms total, which would be enough for everyone NOW, but we started out with seven kids.) Knute and Cassandra share a bed. Which makes this little scene, involving Knute, Cass, and a random dormie... somewhat awkward.
Also begs the question of why Cass is ACR-ing it up with this guy.
I cancelled the action. I SET THOSE ACCEPTANCE LEVELS HIGH FOR A REASON MISSY.
And he's Family, which makes it even MORE ridiculous.
Jonathan: So... we're not gonna have sex?
Next time: things get creepy.
