Merrick Legacy, 4.4
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napoleonherselfTwo months since the last Merrick post WHAT
The apparently-book I'm writing is in a slow spot now -- I know the basics of what's about to happen, but I need to let it turn over in my head before I start putting words on not-paper -- so now I'm actually playing Sims again. Or, in this case, posting the update that I played months ago.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: One last gen 4 kid was born, a boy named Kurt, who sadly was a faceclone of his mother. Aldo was abducted by aliens, and Toby caused two different kitchen fires! Michael got haunted by 43724973343 ghosts, then got old at a sexy party with a baker's dozen of his college girlfriends. Toby joined her siblings in the I Done Gots Abducted By Aliens Club; Kurt grew up mysteriously fast into a teenager LOOK I WAS BORED OKAY, and then also took a trip to the saucer in the sky. Also he figured out how to set macaroni and cheese on fire. And then all the kids left for college!
This time:
Here we are back at Yig Hall! And, of course, college means YA makeovers.
DREW
Fortune (LTW: make $100,000)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
4 Active
9 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: beards and full-face makeup/red hair
Bi.
ADRIAN
Fortune (LTW: top the medicine career)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
10 Playful
2 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fatness and brown hair/custom hair
Straight.
TOBY
Popularity (LTW: top the military career)
4 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: red hair and gray hair/vampires
Straight.
ALDO
Fortune (LTW: top the business career)
10 Neat
6 Outgoing
3 Active
10 Playful
6 Nice
Turn-ons/off: Fitness and makeup/blonds
Straight.
KURT
Fortune (LTW: top the criminal career)
8 Neat
7 Outgoing
7 Active
5 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: vampires and black hair/fatness
Bi.
I have to admit that Adrian is kind of my favorite right now. He's just so... derpy.
Then again, heiring Adrian gets me more pale skin, and another mean, sloppy sim. Heiring Aldo would get me nice and neat points, darker skin, red hair... but she doesn't have much to offer in terms of new facial features.
Life is so hard.
College means dating! The gypsy gives Toby a jock. They're three-bolters. [sigh] Popularity sims...
Drew gets a straight guy who hates talking to him.
Kurt also gets a straight guy, but they actually get on pretty well. I might have considered switching this dude to bi, if not for that schnozz. LOOK AT IT. That neeeds to be in the legacy... and as a faceclone of his mom, Kurt's definitely not heir. Thus, he doesn't get to hook up with The Nose.
Toby scores her First Kiss want!
Adrian, meanwhile, is playing the field a bit, chatting up two or three different women. The firewoman is apparently so taken with his sideburns that she forgives them not actually being a true beard.
And Aldo has three bolts with a sim who has dark skin, non-green eyes, and an interesting face. DAMMIT ALDO IF YOU WERE MORE INTERESTING YOURSELF THEN THIS WOULD BE A LOT EASIER.
College!
Come for the knowledge, stay for the late-night stalkers! At least they don't read the titles of your books and CDs, though. That would be unchivalrous.
It's not all studying and stalkers, of course; the kids all have time to develop new relationships. For instance, Aldo and her three-bolt sweetie ACR themselves into bed, apparently in enough of a rush that injuries are sustained.
At least poor Scot's accident doesn't change Aldo's feelings for him. He wants to get engaged to her, too, so I'll definitely be moving them in together after graduation.
Dear blonde little Toby may not have done the deed with anyone yet, but she still has a rich social life!
Toby: Gee, empty space, you're my best friend!
(One of the dormies got stuck invisible for a while, but that didn't stop them from chatting.)
Kurt and Forrest here have kind of a crazy mutual obsession, but I don't claim to understand it.
Wherever Kurt goes, Forrest will mysteriously decide that the art nearby needs viewing.
Or he'll sit down at the next table and start doing homework.
Forrest: ...is he noticing me yet?
Dude, he just got done "noticing" you, physically, in the photo booth. Let the man do some schoolwork already.
I'd previously been leaning toward hooking Adrian up with that firefighter from earlier, but it turns out he thinks this llama cultist is prettier, even though both women have the same face template. Sorry, Maura. Maybe if you'd started dyeing your hair brown!
On a date with Kaylynn the llama cultist, he has his first kiss, which is of course adorable and sweet and the swirling hearts and blah blah blah... but he ruins it with THIS.
THIS. FACE.
I love you, Adrian. Never, ever stop being ridiculously derpy.
Adrian: Derr I kissed a girrrrrl :D :D :D
Excellent.
So Adrian wants to get engaged to the llama cultist...
...and Kurt wants to get engaged to Forrest (who is the father of two of Kurt's cousins, for those of you keeping track).
Drew is vaguely into a bunch of people, but hasn't really connected with any of them yet. And Toby?
Well, Toby gets two gay matchmaker dates in a row.
I paid the first tick above $4500 each time, so that's OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND simoleons wasted.
Oooh, I lied about Drew. While on a matchmaker date with a TEENAGER who is ALREADY GOING STEADY WITH HER THREE-BOLT LITERALLY-MADE-FOR-HER TWOO WUV, THANK YOU, he rolls the want to fall in love with one of his higher chemistry matches. She's a crossbreed between a couple of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pixel_trade sims, so completely ineligible for heir spouse, and thus great for a spare.
Committed relationship because Kurt is in so much wuv. Forrest regularly woohoos another dormie, though, so unless he starts refusing her advances now, this will not end well.
Forrest is also heading towards enemies with blue hair, I think because they were both woohooing the same dormie. I love how Kurt cold doesn't care that his beloved is getting his ass handed to him.
At... least... I think he lost? Um. I have no idea what's going on here.
I do know that yet another dormie came and poked blue hair, which made blue hair cry, at the same time that I had Kurt comfort Forrest after his loss. Blue hair's suffering kind of fills me with glee.
Thing is, I move Forrest's door to Kurt's room, and add a new door to get a new dormie. And I get... this guy! Who has way higher chemistry with Kurt than Forrest does.
And who apparently likes to watch, since he autonomously jumped in the hot tub after Kurt and Forrest started ACRing in it.
Next day, I have Drew go on a date with the woman he wants to fall in love with. Thing is, when you give amouse a cookiejunior in college a woman, he's going to want a glass of milkwoohoo to go with it. In triplicate.
And if you give him that, he'll want to get engaged to the milk. Er, woman.
This whole extended metaphor is just falling apart, isn't it.
Anyway. Now everyone wants to get engaged to someone, except Toby, who's just busy sneaking off without my noticing and losing her virginity to this guy. Who refuses to date her even though they're friends and three-bolters. In the photobooth. The skeezy, skeezy photobooth.
The woohoo was in the booth, I mean. Not the being friends. That's location-independent.
Tangent again. Um. Right! Time to make some kids happy.
Adrian proposes to Kaylynn (satisfying a shared want)...
Kurt proposes to Forrest (which Forrest didn't specifically want but accepts with good grace)...
Aldo proposes to Scot (who also wanted to get engaged, and who now, I can only imagine, has rolled up a want to find his missing T)...
And Drew proposes to Tamasyn (shared want again).
I don't think anyone else was quite as terrifying about it as Tamasyn, though.
Drew: Hey, sis!
Toby: Hey, bro!
Tamasyn: Hey, sim-god. Am I seriously marrying into THIS?
Me: Yep! Shoulda turned down the ring.
Meanwhile, Toby is not to be outdone by her various siblings, and rolls the want to propose to a guy who her great-grandma found hot aaaaall the way back in 1.1.
Proposal is in undies outside of the room where they just woohooed, because Popularity sims are classy.
For the record, Kurt is the ONLY one who didn't propose to someone who wanted it just as much as he did. Poor Kurt.
Senior year starts out quite peaceful this generation, in part because everyone's already made their romantic choices.
Kurt also spends a lot of time helping Forrest with his homework, because the guy leaves half-done assignments on every. Single. Table.
Forrest, for his part? Now that he's engaged to Kurt, I don't catch him so much as looking at the dormie he's been screwing for a couple generations now. He's got a cheat memory on him, but Kurt got one when someone else came on to him, so I'm giving Forrest the benefit of the doubt.
Aldo helps Mr. Bear deliver a lecture on the importance of a healthy stock portfolio.
All the kids date their beloveds a couple times; Drew's Tamasyn autonomously uses the photobooth every time she's over. I didn't even know sims could do that with the EP mix I have.
Then Kurt decides to usher in his last semester with an, erm, bang.
As does Toby later that evening.
Immediately after knocking Toby up, Chandler joy-buzzers her. I don't think he wants to be a father you guys. :( :( :(
And Kurt may not be getting electroshocked, but he is getting stalked.
A lot.
No, I mean A LOT.
Yeah.
Fortunately, stalkers are managed, everyone graduates, and no babies die. Adrian is heir! Everyone else gets to start a new lot with the spouse of his or her choice.
Next time: possibly the gen 2 spares update, since all I really have left to do is fight with the gimp long enough to get a good animation out of it (the way the gimp does animations is really stupid you guys). Either that or the start of generation 5. Yes I am way behind on spares updates.
Spoiler from the first update of gen 5: ohmygod babiesssss D:
The apparently-book I'm writing is in a slow spot now -- I know the basics of what's about to happen, but I need to let it turn over in my head before I start putting words on not-paper -- so now I'm actually playing Sims again. Or, in this case, posting the update that I played months ago.
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 | 4.3
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 | 4.3
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: One last gen 4 kid was born, a boy named Kurt, who sadly was a faceclone of his mother. Aldo was abducted by aliens, and Toby caused two different kitchen fires! Michael got haunted by 43724973343 ghosts, then got old at a sexy party with a baker's dozen of his college girlfriends. Toby joined her siblings in the I Done Gots Abducted By Aliens Club; Kurt grew up mysteriously fast into a teenager LOOK I WAS BORED OKAY, and then also took a trip to the saucer in the sky. Also he figured out how to set macaroni and cheese on fire. And then all the kids left for college!
This time:
Here we are back at Yig Hall! And, of course, college means YA makeovers.
DREW
Fortune (LTW: make $100,000)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
4 Active
9 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: beards and full-face makeup/red hair
Bi.
ADRIAN
Fortune (LTW: top the medicine career)
2 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
10 Playful
2 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fatness and brown hair/custom hair
Straight.
TOBY
Popularity (LTW: top the military career)
4 Neat
9 Outgoing
7 Active
8 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: red hair and gray hair/vampires
Straight.
ALDO
Fortune (LTW: top the business career)
10 Neat
6 Outgoing
3 Active
10 Playful
6 Nice
Turn-ons/off: Fitness and makeup/blonds
Straight.
KURT
Fortune (LTW: top the criminal career)
8 Neat
7 Outgoing
7 Active
5 Playful
0 Nice
Turn-ons/off: vampires and black hair/fatness
Bi.
I have to admit that Adrian is kind of my favorite right now. He's just so... derpy.
Then again, heiring Adrian gets me more pale skin, and another mean, sloppy sim. Heiring Aldo would get me nice and neat points, darker skin, red hair... but she doesn't have much to offer in terms of new facial features.
Life is so hard.
College means dating! The gypsy gives Toby a jock. They're three-bolters. [sigh] Popularity sims...
Drew gets a straight guy who hates talking to him.
Kurt also gets a straight guy, but they actually get on pretty well. I might have considered switching this dude to bi, if not for that schnozz. LOOK AT IT. That neeeds to be in the legacy... and as a faceclone of his mom, Kurt's definitely not heir. Thus, he doesn't get to hook up with The Nose.
Toby scores her First Kiss want!
Adrian, meanwhile, is playing the field a bit, chatting up two or three different women. The firewoman is apparently so taken with his sideburns that she forgives them not actually being a true beard.
And Aldo has three bolts with a sim who has dark skin, non-green eyes, and an interesting face. DAMMIT ALDO IF YOU WERE MORE INTERESTING YOURSELF THEN THIS WOULD BE A LOT EASIER.
College!
Come for the knowledge, stay for the late-night stalkers! At least they don't read the titles of your books and CDs, though. That would be unchivalrous.
It's not all studying and stalkers, of course; the kids all have time to develop new relationships. For instance, Aldo and her three-bolt sweetie ACR themselves into bed, apparently in enough of a rush that injuries are sustained.
At least poor Scot's accident doesn't change Aldo's feelings for him. He wants to get engaged to her, too, so I'll definitely be moving them in together after graduation.
Dear blonde little Toby may not have done the deed with anyone yet, but she still has a rich social life!
Toby: Gee, empty space, you're my best friend!
(One of the dormies got stuck invisible for a while, but that didn't stop them from chatting.)
Kurt and Forrest here have kind of a crazy mutual obsession, but I don't claim to understand it.
Wherever Kurt goes, Forrest will mysteriously decide that the art nearby needs viewing.
Or he'll sit down at the next table and start doing homework.
Forrest: ...is he noticing me yet?
Dude, he just got done "noticing" you, physically, in the photo booth. Let the man do some schoolwork already.
I'd previously been leaning toward hooking Adrian up with that firefighter from earlier, but it turns out he thinks this llama cultist is prettier, even though both women have the same face template. Sorry, Maura. Maybe if you'd started dyeing your hair brown!
On a date with Kaylynn the llama cultist, he has his first kiss, which is of course adorable and sweet and the swirling hearts and blah blah blah... but he ruins it with THIS.
THIS. FACE.
I love you, Adrian. Never, ever stop being ridiculously derpy.
Adrian: Derr I kissed a girrrrrl :D :D :D
Excellent.
So Adrian wants to get engaged to the llama cultist...
...and Kurt wants to get engaged to Forrest (who is the father of two of Kurt's cousins, for those of you keeping track).
Drew is vaguely into a bunch of people, but hasn't really connected with any of them yet. And Toby?
Well, Toby gets two gay matchmaker dates in a row.
I paid the first tick above $4500 each time, so that's OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND simoleons wasted.
Oooh, I lied about Drew. While on a matchmaker date with a TEENAGER who is ALREADY GOING STEADY WITH HER THREE-BOLT LITERALLY-MADE-FOR-HER TWOO WUV, THANK YOU, he rolls the want to fall in love with one of his higher chemistry matches. She's a crossbreed between a couple of
pixel_trade sims, so completely ineligible for heir spouse, and thus great for a spare.Committed relationship because Kurt is in so much wuv. Forrest regularly woohoos another dormie, though, so unless he starts refusing her advances now, this will not end well.
Forrest is also heading towards enemies with blue hair, I think because they were both woohooing the same dormie. I love how Kurt cold doesn't care that his beloved is getting his ass handed to him.
At... least... I think he lost? Um. I have no idea what's going on here.
I do know that yet another dormie came and poked blue hair, which made blue hair cry, at the same time that I had Kurt comfort Forrest after his loss. Blue hair's suffering kind of fills me with glee.
Thing is, I move Forrest's door to Kurt's room, and add a new door to get a new dormie. And I get... this guy! Who has way higher chemistry with Kurt than Forrest does.
And who apparently likes to watch, since he autonomously jumped in the hot tub after Kurt and Forrest started ACRing in it.
Next day, I have Drew go on a date with the woman he wants to fall in love with. Thing is, when you give a
And if you give him that, he'll want to get engaged to the milk. Er, woman.
This whole extended metaphor is just falling apart, isn't it.
Anyway. Now everyone wants to get engaged to someone, except Toby, who's just busy sneaking off without my noticing and losing her virginity to this guy. Who refuses to date her even though they're friends and three-bolters. In the photobooth. The skeezy, skeezy photobooth.
The woohoo was in the booth, I mean. Not the being friends. That's location-independent.
Tangent again. Um. Right! Time to make some kids happy.
Adrian proposes to Kaylynn (satisfying a shared want)...
Kurt proposes to Forrest (which Forrest didn't specifically want but accepts with good grace)...
Aldo proposes to Scot (who also wanted to get engaged, and who now, I can only imagine, has rolled up a want to find his missing T)...
And Drew proposes to Tamasyn (shared want again).
I don't think anyone else was quite as terrifying about it as Tamasyn, though.
Drew: Hey, sis!
Toby: Hey, bro!
Tamasyn: Hey, sim-god. Am I seriously marrying into THIS?
Me: Yep! Shoulda turned down the ring.
Meanwhile, Toby is not to be outdone by her various siblings, and rolls the want to propose to a guy who her great-grandma found hot aaaaall the way back in 1.1.
Proposal is in undies outside of the room where they just woohooed, because Popularity sims are classy.
For the record, Kurt is the ONLY one who didn't propose to someone who wanted it just as much as he did. Poor Kurt.
Senior year starts out quite peaceful this generation, in part because everyone's already made their romantic choices.
Kurt also spends a lot of time helping Forrest with his homework, because the guy leaves half-done assignments on every. Single. Table.
Forrest, for his part? Now that he's engaged to Kurt, I don't catch him so much as looking at the dormie he's been screwing for a couple generations now. He's got a cheat memory on him, but Kurt got one when someone else came on to him, so I'm giving Forrest the benefit of the doubt.
Aldo helps Mr. Bear deliver a lecture on the importance of a healthy stock portfolio.
All the kids date their beloveds a couple times; Drew's Tamasyn autonomously uses the photobooth every time she's over. I didn't even know sims could do that with the EP mix I have.
Then Kurt decides to usher in his last semester with an, erm, bang.
As does Toby later that evening.
Immediately after knocking Toby up, Chandler joy-buzzers her. I don't think he wants to be a father you guys. :( :( :(
And Kurt may not be getting electroshocked, but he is getting stalked.
A lot.
No, I mean A LOT.
Yeah.
Fortunately, stalkers are managed, everyone graduates, and no babies die. Adrian is heir! Everyone else gets to start a new lot with the spouse of his or her choice.
Next time: possibly the gen 2 spares update, since all I really have left to do is fight with the gimp long enough to get a good animation out of it (the way the gimp does animations is really stupid you guys). Either that or the start of generation 5. Yes I am way behind on spares updates.
Spoiler from the first update of gen 5: ohmygod babiesssss D:
