Merrick Legacy, 4.3
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napoleonherselfI should probably actually get around to posting stuff, huh.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Ruthie died and I was sad. This was also perhaps not the best thing for the kids, as it left them with no "responsible" "adults" watching over them except the evil supervillain with the doomsday device, and the crazed womanizing Romance sim who kept rolling wants to marry half the town. Drew became a teenager with a gigantic chin; jerkface Derek died; Aldo and Toby became teens with more normal-sized chins. Michael re-impregnated Toby's mom Roxie, and Adrian was abducted by aliens! They gave him back, though.
This time:
Aldo grows up! She's Fortune, just like both her brothers. I think I need to switch to a new d6; this one's stuck on 2. Her LTW is to top the business career. She's straight like Adrian and Toby -- I think my d4 may be stuck on 2 too.
EVERY SINGLE KID THIS GENERATION HAS WANTED TO BE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS. It's official -- the Merricks are anal-probe fetishists.
Oh, and see that lovely green number over Michael's head? That's him fulfilling a want to have his daughter grow up well. ROMANCE SIM FAIL.
I send Aldo to the mirror to get a makeover, but before she gets there...
ghost!jerkface Derek: Hi, Adrian! How's my grandson? :) :)
Adrian: I'm doing great, grandpa! Nice to see you again! :) :) [jazzhands]
ghost!jerkface Derek: I hate you all.
I notice this while jerkface Derek is scaring Michael. Michael, what's wrong with you? You've become a good father! :( :( :(
And jerkface Derek, what's happened to YOU? You were happy enough when you died, so I don't know why you're yelling at me about being lonely now. Is it that Ruthie's ghost hasn't shown yet? Because I have no control over that.
Roxie: Dear diary... beingkidnappeda long-term guest at the Merrick house is nice enough, but I miss my brother.
Roxie: ...though not so much that creepy llama.
Roxie: But most of all... [siiigh] ...I miss my beloved lawn gnome, Petey.
You see? A lazy Sunday afternoon, a little black book FULL of hotties, and what is Michael doing? Autonomously pillowfighting with his daughter.
Oooh, right in the kidney! You'd better watch those; there's only six days till they turn old along with you.
Meanwhile, Roxie isbreaking the neck ofgiving birth to her second baby, Kurt, a boy with blond hair, Titania's eyes (which have really come through this generation!) and a light, lightly freckled skin.
Oh, and here's Aldo's teen makeover. She's got the same chin, cheeks and jaw as Toby, and their noses look basically the same from the front, but different in profile. I dunno. The girls still look a lot alike to me except for Toby's big round eyes.
Apparently the aliens think Aldo is more interesting, though. :D
Aldo: MY FEET ARE NO LONGER TOUCHING THE GROUND. WHY ARE MY FEET NOT TOUCHING THE GROUND.
Adrian: [has flashbacks]
Drew: God, like it's so terrible to hang out with aliens? Aldo's such a drama queen.
Adrian: You don't know, man... the aliens take you, and then they do... THINGS...
Adrian: ...horrible, horrible things...
Adrian: [incoherent sobbing]
Toby: Omigod, poor Aldo!!!
Drew: Would you all please just shut UP.
Aldo: Um, you guys, I don't think I can hold on much long --
Aldo: -- er
Toby: Welp. She's toast.
Drew: DRAMA. QUEEN.
THE DA-LEK FLEET IS APPROACHING. WHERE IS YOUR DOC-TOR NOW????
Toby left breakfast on the stove to watch the saucer come back. -_-
Aldo: GYAAAAAAAHHH
Aldo: [suffers]
Adrian: [more flashbacks]
Toby: [worries that her turn is coming]
Oh, also, here is Kurt as a toddler...
...and as a child. I maaaay have aged him up somewhat faster than usual to make up for the fact that he was born so late.
Argh, Toby, I gave you a pass on the last fire because you were running outside to gawk at the flying saucer. This time, though? All your fault.
Kurt needs to join his siblings in private school! Only the headmaster is a jerk and decides to ignore being called to dinner in favor of playing the pinball machine. So even when he eats the turkey Michael cooked (turkey! for once I have him cook TURKEY!), I get no food points for it.
Fortunately, this is the same headmaster who was friends with jerkface Derek, and since Michael takes after his dad, a few Chat interactions yield enough schmooze points to seal the deal.
Ruthie's ghost comes out that night. I wish ghosts could interact with each other... it would be sweet, plus maybe jerkface Derek would quit complaining about being lonely.
There are actually three of four possible ghosts out, and they keep having ghostly little confabs in the upstairs hall. Or, at least, they would be having ghostly little confabs if they could interact.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WHY ARE YOU GUYS BEING SO MEAN TO MEEEE.
ghost!Hayden and ghost!Ruthie: Hee hee, we're having fun and you're not!
Urine puddle and stink cloud... the ghosts were not kind to Michael this night. He isn't picking up new saw-ghost-of-Foo memories anymore for some reason, but I'm pretty sure they got him at least four times. He only barely made it to bed before passing out, too.
Along comes Michael's last day of adulthood, and I decide he might like another sexy party, so I invite over 16 of his college girlfriends. 13 of them show up.
He only has woohoo with one of them -- ONE -- which, I think, proves my theory that fatherhood has completely destroyed him as a Romance sim. But at least he spends a lot of time interacting with one of them while two or three others stand around waiting for a piece.
Somewhere back there, Michael is transitioning to elder... and you know what expression he has on his face right now?
Michael: O___O WAIT WAIT I CHANGED MY MIIIND
Michael: Hey cake... just between you and me, I'm awesome.
Michael: Er, um... "ow, my back"... heh heh heh... [stare] [stare] [stare]
Dammit, none of my skins have any wrinkles on the elder faces.
Michael: Oooh, hello again! [stare] [stare] [stare]
...I think the elder transition re-broke Michael.
Now that he's both settled down and gotten older, I've given him a somewhat more sedate makeover; no more makeup (except for the wrinkles), hair pulled back in a simple ponytail, a nice collared shirt. It kind of gives him a cool-grandpa look.
I send Toby out to the telescope, and not too long afterwards...
Toby: SWEET JEEBUS I HAD NO IDEA THIS WOULD HAPPENNNNN
As usual, she gets dropped off a couple hours later, and...
...oh goddammit Michael.
Again? Really? This is becoming a bad habit with you.
To make Toby's morning even better, here comes her carpool to run her down!
Carpool lady: [beeeep] Hey, obviously frightened and disoriented young girl standing in the street in her nightgown! [beeeeep] Get in the car already! I have a schedule to keep! [beeeeeeeeeep]
Kurt grows up! He rolls Fortune, because I don't have a single d6 that isn't stuck on 2. His LTW is to top the criminal career, same as his jerkface grandpa Derek, and he's bi, same as Drew.
Of course.
Kurt is, unfortunately, more or less a clone of his mom... I think he may have gotten Michael's cheekbones and that's it. He did get Michael's 0 Nice points, though! I'm assuming that's why he looks like this when he's walking around not actively being mad at anything specific.
Oh, and he cheats at chess.
Aldo: ...I think I may have just been tricked.
Drew: Heyyy, taxi lady!
Drew is off to college!
The next day, Kurt comes home from school with a townie teenager who thinks that it's awesome to electroshock an old man.
He brings him home again the day after that, too.
Michael: Look, kid, I don't exactly need a crystal ball to see you down there.
Toby leaves for college! Kurt waves at empty space.
Adrian's off too.
Kurt: I'm bored of this now. I'm gonna play Punch You Punch Me with dad instead.
This turns out to be a poor decision.
Michael: DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU.
Kurt: Owwww jesus fuck god! [pulls arm out of wall]
There's really nothing like father-son time.
Oh, and then after his father beats him through a wall, Kurt gets abducted by aliens. The Merrick house is a happy house.
Kurt: Um. Um dad. Daddy help. Help please daddy oh god don't let them take meeeeee
Michael: Meh, not sure what I can do here, kiddo.
Kurt: Oh ga-ha-ha-hawwwd whyyyyyyyy
Michael: Hell if I know, son! You're the one who wanted the scholarship!
Father of the year Y/Y?
The Kurt who returns a few hours later is a wiser man, who has learned well that no amount of scholarship money can repurchase one's dignity.
Also I get to take some pictures that kind of make him look like he's running from the saucer. Ha ha, silly Kurt, you can never escape the aliens and their many, many medical implements!
At this point I'm kind of grinding the kids into high aspiration so I can shuttle them all off to college. While Aldo is outside scoring the logic point she needs to win the Will Wright Genius Grant, her... uh... second cousin?... Nick walks by. Yay mod that turns vampires into late-night walkbys!
Michael is Aldo's dad; Ruthie was Michael's mom; Edda was Ruthie's sister; Nick is Edda's son. I'm not sure what that makes Aldo and Nick, although it's far away enough that they're not tagged as family.
Nick is totally bragging about not having to get old, here.
Oh, and Michael is a little confused about this whole "ghost" thing.
Having gotten that scholarship, Aldo is off to college. Her dad decided that pushing his... cousin? Yeah, cousin. That pushing his cousin on the swings was more important than seeing her off.
Getting old really hasn't changed him all that much.
It's down to just Michael and Kurt now, and the latter rolls the want to sneak out with Toby. Kind of wondering where she got the car from!
Then, the next morning, he and his dad have a guys' PJ dance party.
Definitely father of the year.
Then Michael goes off to pee while Kurt learns how to turn mac-and-cheese into a homemade explosive. -_-
I was only having him make macaroni so he could get 500 aspiration points for eating it, too. Dammit.
Fortunately, Michael has figured out the complicated science of boiling the pasta, THEN stirring in the cheese sauce.
Michael: Heyyy, kiddo! Way to be lame!
That night, I put Michael to bed in the elder bedroom, which has been newly redecorated for the occasion...
...and Kurt leaves for college bright and early the next morning. Apparently Michael feels that this calls for dancing.
Onward to Yig Hall! Except you'll have to wait till next time.
Next time: probably the gen 2 spares update, since I've got it almost finished. And then, for the main line here, college! I don't know exactly what will happen because I haven't actually played much more yet. I do know that I'm trying to figure out my favorite for heir, and having a hard time picking between delightfully derpy Adrian and neat-point-having, darker-skinned, founder's-mouth-inheriting, otherwise-boring Aldo.
Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Ruthie died and I was sad. This was also perhaps not the best thing for the kids, as it left them with no "responsible" "adults" watching over them except the evil supervillain with the doomsday device, and the crazed womanizing Romance sim who kept rolling wants to marry half the town. Drew became a teenager with a gigantic chin; jerkface Derek died; Aldo and Toby became teens with more normal-sized chins. Michael re-impregnated Toby's mom Roxie, and Adrian was abducted by aliens! They gave him back, though.
This time:
Aldo grows up! She's Fortune, just like both her brothers. I think I need to switch to a new d6; this one's stuck on 2. Her LTW is to top the business career. She's straight like Adrian and Toby -- I think my d4 may be stuck on 2 too.
EVERY SINGLE KID THIS GENERATION HAS WANTED TO BE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS. It's official -- the Merricks are anal-probe fetishists.
Oh, and see that lovely green number over Michael's head? That's him fulfilling a want to have his daughter grow up well. ROMANCE SIM FAIL.
I send Aldo to the mirror to get a makeover, but before she gets there...
ghost!jerkface Derek: Hi, Adrian! How's my grandson? :) :)
Adrian: I'm doing great, grandpa! Nice to see you again! :) :) [jazzhands]
ghost!jerkface Derek: I hate you all.
I notice this while jerkface Derek is scaring Michael. Michael, what's wrong with you? You've become a good father! :( :( :(
And jerkface Derek, what's happened to YOU? You were happy enough when you died, so I don't know why you're yelling at me about being lonely now. Is it that Ruthie's ghost hasn't shown yet? Because I have no control over that.
Roxie: Dear diary... being
Roxie: ...though not so much that creepy llama.
Roxie: But most of all... [siiigh] ...I miss my beloved lawn gnome, Petey.
You see? A lazy Sunday afternoon, a little black book FULL of hotties, and what is Michael doing? Autonomously pillowfighting with his daughter.
Oooh, right in the kidney! You'd better watch those; there's only six days till they turn old along with you.
Meanwhile, Roxie is
Oh, and here's Aldo's teen makeover. She's got the same chin, cheeks and jaw as Toby, and their noses look basically the same from the front, but different in profile. I dunno. The girls still look a lot alike to me except for Toby's big round eyes.
Apparently the aliens think Aldo is more interesting, though. :D
Aldo: MY FEET ARE NO LONGER TOUCHING THE GROUND. WHY ARE MY FEET NOT TOUCHING THE GROUND.
Adrian: [has flashbacks]
Drew: God, like it's so terrible to hang out with aliens? Aldo's such a drama queen.
Adrian: You don't know, man... the aliens take you, and then they do... THINGS...
Adrian: ...horrible, horrible things...
Adrian: [incoherent sobbing]
Toby: Omigod, poor Aldo!!!
Drew: Would you all please just shut UP.
Aldo: Um, you guys, I don't think I can hold on much long --
Aldo: -- er
Toby: Welp. She's toast.
Drew: DRAMA. QUEEN.
THE DA-LEK FLEET IS APPROACHING. WHERE IS YOUR DOC-TOR NOW????
Toby left breakfast on the stove to watch the saucer come back. -_-
Aldo: GYAAAAAAAHHH
Aldo: [suffers]
Adrian: [more flashbacks]
Toby: [worries that her turn is coming]
Oh, also, here is Kurt as a toddler...
...and as a child. I maaaay have aged him up somewhat faster than usual to make up for the fact that he was born so late.
Argh, Toby, I gave you a pass on the last fire because you were running outside to gawk at the flying saucer. This time, though? All your fault.
Kurt needs to join his siblings in private school! Only the headmaster is a jerk and decides to ignore being called to dinner in favor of playing the pinball machine. So even when he eats the turkey Michael cooked (turkey! for once I have him cook TURKEY!), I get no food points for it.
Fortunately, this is the same headmaster who was friends with jerkface Derek, and since Michael takes after his dad, a few Chat interactions yield enough schmooze points to seal the deal.
Ruthie's ghost comes out that night. I wish ghosts could interact with each other... it would be sweet, plus maybe jerkface Derek would quit complaining about being lonely.
There are actually three of four possible ghosts out, and they keep having ghostly little confabs in the upstairs hall. Or, at least, they would be having ghostly little confabs if they could interact.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WHY ARE YOU GUYS BEING SO MEAN TO MEEEE.
ghost!Hayden and ghost!Ruthie: Hee hee, we're having fun and you're not!
Urine puddle and stink cloud... the ghosts were not kind to Michael this night. He isn't picking up new saw-ghost-of-Foo memories anymore for some reason, but I'm pretty sure they got him at least four times. He only barely made it to bed before passing out, too.
Along comes Michael's last day of adulthood, and I decide he might like another sexy party, so I invite over 16 of his college girlfriends. 13 of them show up.
He only has woohoo with one of them -- ONE -- which, I think, proves my theory that fatherhood has completely destroyed him as a Romance sim. But at least he spends a lot of time interacting with one of them while two or three others stand around waiting for a piece.
Somewhere back there, Michael is transitioning to elder... and you know what expression he has on his face right now?
Michael: O___O WAIT WAIT I CHANGED MY MIIIND
Michael: Hey cake... just between you and me, I'm awesome.
Michael: Er, um... "ow, my back"... heh heh heh... [stare] [stare] [stare]
Dammit, none of my skins have any wrinkles on the elder faces.
Michael: Oooh, hello again! [stare] [stare] [stare]
...I think the elder transition re-broke Michael.
Now that he's both settled down and gotten older, I've given him a somewhat more sedate makeover; no more makeup (except for the wrinkles), hair pulled back in a simple ponytail, a nice collared shirt. It kind of gives him a cool-grandpa look.
I send Toby out to the telescope, and not too long afterwards...
Toby: SWEET JEEBUS I HAD NO IDEA THIS WOULD HAPPENNNNN
As usual, she gets dropped off a couple hours later, and...
...oh goddammit Michael.
Again? Really? This is becoming a bad habit with you.
To make Toby's morning even better, here comes her carpool to run her down!
Carpool lady: [beeeep] Hey, obviously frightened and disoriented young girl standing in the street in her nightgown! [beeeeep] Get in the car already! I have a schedule to keep! [beeeeeeeeeep]
Kurt grows up! He rolls Fortune, because I don't have a single d6 that isn't stuck on 2. His LTW is to top the criminal career, same as his jerkface grandpa Derek, and he's bi, same as Drew.
Of course.
Kurt is, unfortunately, more or less a clone of his mom... I think he may have gotten Michael's cheekbones and that's it. He did get Michael's 0 Nice points, though! I'm assuming that's why he looks like this when he's walking around not actively being mad at anything specific.
Oh, and he cheats at chess.
Aldo: ...I think I may have just been tricked.
Drew: Heyyy, taxi lady!
Drew is off to college!
The next day, Kurt comes home from school with a townie teenager who thinks that it's awesome to electroshock an old man.
He brings him home again the day after that, too.
Michael: Look, kid, I don't exactly need a crystal ball to see you down there.
Toby leaves for college! Kurt waves at empty space.
Adrian's off too.
Kurt: I'm bored of this now. I'm gonna play Punch You Punch Me with dad instead.
This turns out to be a poor decision.
Michael: DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU.
Kurt: Owwww jesus fuck god! [pulls arm out of wall]
There's really nothing like father-son time.
Oh, and then after his father beats him through a wall, Kurt gets abducted by aliens. The Merrick house is a happy house.
Kurt: Um. Um dad. Daddy help. Help please daddy oh god don't let them take meeeeee
Michael: Meh, not sure what I can do here, kiddo.
Kurt: Oh ga-ha-ha-hawwwd whyyyyyyyy
Michael: Hell if I know, son! You're the one who wanted the scholarship!
Father of the year Y/Y?
The Kurt who returns a few hours later is a wiser man, who has learned well that no amount of scholarship money can repurchase one's dignity.
Also I get to take some pictures that kind of make him look like he's running from the saucer. Ha ha, silly Kurt, you can never escape the aliens and their many, many medical implements!
At this point I'm kind of grinding the kids into high aspiration so I can shuttle them all off to college. While Aldo is outside scoring the logic point she needs to win the Will Wright Genius Grant, her... uh... second cousin?... Nick walks by. Yay mod that turns vampires into late-night walkbys!
Michael is Aldo's dad; Ruthie was Michael's mom; Edda was Ruthie's sister; Nick is Edda's son. I'm not sure what that makes Aldo and Nick, although it's far away enough that they're not tagged as family.
Nick is totally bragging about not having to get old, here.
Oh, and Michael is a little confused about this whole "ghost" thing.
Having gotten that scholarship, Aldo is off to college. Her dad decided that pushing his... cousin? Yeah, cousin. That pushing his cousin on the swings was more important than seeing her off.
Getting old really hasn't changed him all that much.
It's down to just Michael and Kurt now, and the latter rolls the want to sneak out with Toby. Kind of wondering where she got the car from!
Then, the next morning, he and his dad have a guys' PJ dance party.
Definitely father of the year.
Then Michael goes off to pee while Kurt learns how to turn mac-and-cheese into a homemade explosive. -_-
I was only having him make macaroni so he could get 500 aspiration points for eating it, too. Dammit.
Fortunately, Michael has figured out the complicated science of boiling the pasta, THEN stirring in the cheese sauce.
Michael: Heyyy, kiddo! Way to be lame!
That night, I put Michael to bed in the elder bedroom, which has been newly redecorated for the occasion...
...and Kurt leaves for college bright and early the next morning. Apparently Michael feels that this calls for dancing.
Onward to Yig Hall! Except you'll have to wait till next time.
Next time: probably the gen 2 spares update, since I've got it almost finished. And then, for the main line here, college! I don't know exactly what will happen because I haven't actually played much more yet. I do know that I'm trying to figure out my favorite for heir, and having a hard time picking between delightfully derpy Adrian and neat-point-having, darker-skinned, founder's-mouth-inheriting, otherwise-boring Aldo.
