Merrick Legacy, 5.3
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napoleonherselfTime to finish posting generation 5 before I finish playing generation 6!
Previous entries are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Everyone got scared by ghosts about a million times! The matchmaker hooked up all three of the Merrick kids with the same goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking pedo perv, which may or may not have been even more frightening. Some random YA died upstairs for some reason? But don't worry, Doc Boy beat death and saved him. Then the kids went to college, started in on various romantic escapades, and did their best to drive me bonkers by all being attracted to the same people.
This time:
So I still can't decide who to heir, not least because I can't decide who should wind up marrying whom. It doesn't help that I love all three kids this generation.
Doc Boy has pretty good chemistry with Frances J. Worthington III, who is one of the most adorable Maxis premades (in part because of his name, in part because he has a completely unique face instead of just being a template like most premades, and in part because of his fussy little sideburns and sweater oh my god he's like a puppy someone dressed up). And by "pretty good chemistry" I mean "Doc Boy thinks Frances is hotter than anyone else he's ever met".
But even on a date with Frances, Doc Boy is still thinking about creeper Phineaus.
Sigh. Fine.
Oh gee, apparently the date is going well. How nice for you. (THIS IS SARCASM.)
At this point, I'm really torn -- Doc Boy apparently really, really wants to do the deed with Phineaus, and I've been intending to satisfy the kids' dumb romantic wants. But... Arlene is attracted to Phin too. In fact, he's HER pick for hottest person in town. And it can make a romantic relationship really awkward if the guy's sleeping with your brother.
But what's college for if not regrettable life choices, right?
dammiiiiiiit
Oh, and here's Lyman, who has spent about a semester and a half wanting to get engaged with Monica. He's having photobooth woohoo with Anthony. Like you do.
OH MY GOD JUST PICK ONE ALREADY.
I call this "Merricks In Repose". I sent everyone to the courtyard and then let them freewill, so you have the active, playful kids either dancing or hitting people with pillows, and the lazy, serious kid is in a chair observing the goings-on. Probably thinking about how the damn kids should get off his lawn.
Andrzej: Check out my sweet mohawk!
Lyman: Whoa! That is one sweet mohawk!
And apparently this dormie dude struck out for hot tub woohoo with this dormie chick.
Dormie dude: I don't get it! I mean, I picked such a romantic setting!
Day-old mac-and-cheese: [rots]
Yeah. Romantic. The flies buzzing around are like the love taking wing in your heart. I'm not sure what the incipient maggots would represent, though. Syphilis?
:(
The weird-jaggy-lines-thingy gossip memory is sometimes just a weird Sims 2 glitch, and sometimes a Very Bad Thing that presages your neighborhood exploding in a Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space. If it is the latter, mister dumb dormie guy, then I am totally drowning you in a pool.
Arlene's girlfriend Elle: Oh, that poor girl.
I know, right? She's going to have all the hearing losses.
Holly-on-the-floor: WHAT??
I said you're going to have all the --
Holly-on-the-floor: WHAT????
...never mind.
Oh, and portraits are painted! Two will stay at Yig Hall, since thus far each generation of Merricks has left two portraits behind. The third will be that of whoever I pick as heir, and will go with him/her.
In the end, Lyman appears to be the first to make up his mind, romantical-speakin'. Near the beginning of junior year he completely stops rolling wants involving Monica. Even after I invite over a passel of potentials and have him talk and joke around with both of his, it's only Anthony he's concerned with anymore.
Which means that Doc Boy only has to choose between Phineaus and Frances, so that's something.
Except I... sort of tell Doc Boy to flirt with Frances while Phineaus is in the room? Which pisses Phin off. And then he slaps Doc Boy, so Doc Boy's pissed off.
And it's just a whole big mess.
This guy, I think his name is Skylar: Akward.
Andrzej: Yeah. Eesh.
But! I still want to give DocxPhin a chance! So when I see that Doc Boy has simultaneously rolled wants to talk to Frances and Phineaus, I bring 'em both over and have Doc do a Greet Everyone on Phin. I figure the actions of his would-be paramours will help with decision-making.
See this? This is Frances and Phineaus immediately after being greeted.
Phin's response to coming over to the place of the guy he was in love with just a couple of days before -- and who he's still friends with -- is to run off and do homework.
HOMEWORK.
I'm pretty sure Frances wins this one you guys.
But! Just because Phineaus is a goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking pedo perv doesn't mean he shouldn't have one last chance at happiness with a Merrick! So I tell Arlene to talk to him.
Really, Phin? Really. This is how you're playing this. Well, have fun never satisfying your Family sim wants, then.
HAHAHAHAHAHA no.
And meanwhile, uh....
Frances: I'm claiming my territory.
Well, uh, everyone involved seems pretty okay with this, so carry on. I guess.
Arlene's wants panel tends to look like this, and Phin keeps sticking his fingers in his ears when she tries to talk to them, so I figure that she's pretty well sorted too. At this point it looks like the pairings will be Lyman with Anthony, Doc Boy with Frances and Arlene with Elle. (When I said in a previous update that they were all HOMMASEXSHULS MABEL GET MAH GUN, I was apparently not kidding.)
Except Lyman keeps sneaking away to casual woohoo with Andrzej, so eventually his wants panel looks like this.
ARHGLAJRHGALGHAGH LYMAN. Fine. I've unlocked your Get Engaged To Anthony want. Let's see if you can ever make up your mind.
And then Arlene, while on a date with Elle, rolls the want to fall in love with one of her friends. Who is straight, and not heir-spouse-eligible. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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Elle wins Arlene's fickle heart...
...but only for a moment.
Arlene: Hey baby, I may be lying in bed here with you, but what I really want to do is fall in love with someone else.
Arlene, you are a terrible Family sim.
So, while woman #1 sleeps peacefully in her bed, Arlene pads over to the phone in the next room and calls woman #2.
Mainly because I'm hoping that satisfying the "be best friends with" will cause the "fall in love with" to drop off. This is probably a foolish hope; the Merricks seem to be determined to spend their senior year driving me insane.
Pardon me, I have to go cry forever.
Since Doc Boy is being the least difficult to pin down romantically -- he wants Frances, and that's it -- I decide that Frances he shall have. But the gentleman in question is actually a playable, with his own house on campus. I decide to play him for a while -- maybe I'll graduate him, maybe not.
DAMMIT FRANCES YOU ARE STILL A FRESHMAN *WHY* ARE YOU *TRYING* TO HAVE A BABY
I hate everything.
Frances: Seeing as I'm now carrying your child, I don't suppose you could do my term paper for me?
Doc Boy: Wait, I what now?
The cow mascot lady breaks into Frances's house to hit him with a pillow. Like you do.
Of course, he's still better off at his house than at Yig Hall, where he might apparently be burned to death. ARLENE.
Arlene: OH GOD ALL I WANTED WAS A BOWL OF CHILIIIIIII
Lyman: ♪So appaaaarently that guy back there doesn't like me fliiiirting with you but whateverrrr our love is eternal since I stopped caaaaaring about Anthony or Monicaaaaa♫
Lyman: ♪Alsooooo by the way Arlene is toooootally getting it oooooon with a random duuuuuude♫
What? Dammit! You guys are all looser than a Reno slot machine.
ARHAGLAJRKLHGLAJRGH ARLEEENE
Arlene: >:3
At least she made it to her last semester before pulling this crap. Under my watch you either graduate before giving birth or you drop out! No dorm babies for me!
She sure did pick a classy guy to get knocked up by, though. Here mister "Colby" is physically accosting another dormie...
...after chasing said dormie into Arlene's bedroom.
Like you do.
Arlene: Don't mind me guys, just gettin' some shuteye. We'll talk later, Colby! :) :) :)
Colby: SHUT THE FUCK UP WOMAN.
O_________________O
Then he throws down in the same room as the sleeping mother of his unborn child.
He winds up losing.
I just... wow. Way to go, Arlene! Your baby has asshole genes. Like, even more of them than would usually come from having Michael for a great-grandaddy.
Arlene: Um... yeah! You were definitely the first man I've ever been with!
Technically true.
See, Doc Boy I'm not annoyed with like I am Arlene. This is because A) he graduates tomorrow so it's not like he has to be university pregnant for long, and B) he's actually the heir, getting pregnant by the next Merrick spouse.
Yeah, it's Doc Boy and Frances J. gonna carry this thing into the sixth generation. Frances is just too adorable to pass up.
Doc Boy and Frances: Yay! We are happy!
Yeah, let's just see how happy you are when babies start exploding out of everywhere.
All the Merricks graduate with honors, which is awesome! But Doc Boy will be this generation's heir...
...and this generation's spouse is still a mere sophomore.
Whose pregnancy I've decided to suspend, so he doesn't pop out the kid till after graduation.
ENJOY BEING PREGNANT FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, FRANCES.
But despite a few setbacks along the way...
...Frances does manage to graduate. With honors and everything!
And thus ends generation five. Doc Boy will father (and/or mother) generation six.
Next time: babies, some of which aren't lost to the mists of time! Incompetent nannies! Incompetent matchmakers! And Grim's next appearance draws all too near.
Previous entries are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Everyone got scared by ghosts about a million times! The matchmaker hooked up all three of the Merrick kids with the same goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking pedo perv, which may or may not have been even more frightening. Some random YA died upstairs for some reason? But don't worry, Doc Boy beat death and saved him. Then the kids went to college, started in on various romantic escapades, and did their best to drive me bonkers by all being attracted to the same people.
This time:
So I still can't decide who to heir, not least because I can't decide who should wind up marrying whom. It doesn't help that I love all three kids this generation.
Doc Boy has pretty good chemistry with Frances J. Worthington III, who is one of the most adorable Maxis premades (in part because of his name, in part because he has a completely unique face instead of just being a template like most premades, and in part because of his fussy little sideburns and sweater oh my god he's like a puppy someone dressed up). And by "pretty good chemistry" I mean "Doc Boy thinks Frances is hotter than anyone else he's ever met".
But even on a date with Frances, Doc Boy is still thinking about creeper Phineaus.
Sigh. Fine.
Oh gee, apparently the date is going well. How nice for you. (THIS IS SARCASM.)
At this point, I'm really torn -- Doc Boy apparently really, really wants to do the deed with Phineaus, and I've been intending to satisfy the kids' dumb romantic wants. But... Arlene is attracted to Phin too. In fact, he's HER pick for hottest person in town. And it can make a romantic relationship really awkward if the guy's sleeping with your brother.
But what's college for if not regrettable life choices, right?
dammiiiiiiit
Oh, and here's Lyman, who has spent about a semester and a half wanting to get engaged with Monica. He's having photobooth woohoo with Anthony. Like you do.
OH MY GOD JUST PICK ONE ALREADY.
I call this "Merricks In Repose". I sent everyone to the courtyard and then let them freewill, so you have the active, playful kids either dancing or hitting people with pillows, and the lazy, serious kid is in a chair observing the goings-on. Probably thinking about how the damn kids should get off his lawn.
Andrzej: Check out my sweet mohawk!
Lyman: Whoa! That is one sweet mohawk!
And apparently this dormie dude struck out for hot tub woohoo with this dormie chick.
Dormie dude: I don't get it! I mean, I picked such a romantic setting!
Day-old mac-and-cheese: [rots]
Yeah. Romantic. The flies buzzing around are like the love taking wing in your heart. I'm not sure what the incipient maggots would represent, though. Syphilis?
:(
The weird-jaggy-lines-thingy gossip memory is sometimes just a weird Sims 2 glitch, and sometimes a Very Bad Thing that presages your neighborhood exploding in a Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space. If it is the latter, mister dumb dormie guy, then I am totally drowning you in a pool.
Arlene's girlfriend Elle: Oh, that poor girl.
I know, right? She's going to have all the hearing losses.
Holly-on-the-floor: WHAT??
I said you're going to have all the --
Holly-on-the-floor: WHAT????
...never mind.
Oh, and portraits are painted! Two will stay at Yig Hall, since thus far each generation of Merricks has left two portraits behind. The third will be that of whoever I pick as heir, and will go with him/her.
In the end, Lyman appears to be the first to make up his mind, romantical-speakin'. Near the beginning of junior year he completely stops rolling wants involving Monica. Even after I invite over a passel of potentials and have him talk and joke around with both of his, it's only Anthony he's concerned with anymore.
Which means that Doc Boy only has to choose between Phineaus and Frances, so that's something.
Except I... sort of tell Doc Boy to flirt with Frances while Phineaus is in the room? Which pisses Phin off. And then he slaps Doc Boy, so Doc Boy's pissed off.
And it's just a whole big mess.
This guy, I think his name is Skylar: Akward.
Andrzej: Yeah. Eesh.
But! I still want to give DocxPhin a chance! So when I see that Doc Boy has simultaneously rolled wants to talk to Frances and Phineaus, I bring 'em both over and have Doc do a Greet Everyone on Phin. I figure the actions of his would-be paramours will help with decision-making.
See this? This is Frances and Phineaus immediately after being greeted.
Phin's response to coming over to the place of the guy he was in love with just a couple of days before -- and who he's still friends with -- is to run off and do homework.
HOMEWORK.
I'm pretty sure Frances wins this one you guys.
But! Just because Phineaus is a goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking pedo perv doesn't mean he shouldn't have one last chance at happiness with a Merrick! So I tell Arlene to talk to him.
Really, Phin? Really. This is how you're playing this. Well, have fun never satisfying your Family sim wants, then.
HAHAHAHAHAHA no.
And meanwhile, uh....
Frances: I'm claiming my territory.
Well, uh, everyone involved seems pretty okay with this, so carry on. I guess.
Arlene's wants panel tends to look like this, and Phin keeps sticking his fingers in his ears when she tries to talk to them, so I figure that she's pretty well sorted too. At this point it looks like the pairings will be Lyman with Anthony, Doc Boy with Frances and Arlene with Elle. (When I said in a previous update that they were all HOMMASEXSHULS MABEL GET MAH GUN, I was apparently not kidding.)
Except Lyman keeps sneaking away to casual woohoo with Andrzej, so eventually his wants panel looks like this.
ARHGLAJRHGALGHAGH LYMAN. Fine. I've unlocked your Get Engaged To Anthony want. Let's see if you can ever make up your mind.
And then Arlene, while on a date with Elle, rolls the want to fall in love with one of her friends. Who is straight, and not heir-spouse-eligible. (
pixel_trade via colemariesims represent)Elle wins Arlene's fickle heart...
...but only for a moment.
Arlene: Hey baby, I may be lying in bed here with you, but what I really want to do is fall in love with someone else.
Arlene, you are a terrible Family sim.
So, while woman #1 sleeps peacefully in her bed, Arlene pads over to the phone in the next room and calls woman #2.
Mainly because I'm hoping that satisfying the "be best friends with" will cause the "fall in love with" to drop off. This is probably a foolish hope; the Merricks seem to be determined to spend their senior year driving me insane.
Pardon me, I have to go cry forever.
Since Doc Boy is being the least difficult to pin down romantically -- he wants Frances, and that's it -- I decide that Frances he shall have. But the gentleman in question is actually a playable, with his own house on campus. I decide to play him for a while -- maybe I'll graduate him, maybe not.
DAMMIT FRANCES YOU ARE STILL A FRESHMAN *WHY* ARE YOU *TRYING* TO HAVE A BABY
I hate everything.
Frances: Seeing as I'm now carrying your child, I don't suppose you could do my term paper for me?
Doc Boy: Wait, I what now?
The cow mascot lady breaks into Frances's house to hit him with a pillow. Like you do.
Of course, he's still better off at his house than at Yig Hall, where he might apparently be burned to death. ARLENE.
Arlene: OH GOD ALL I WANTED WAS A BOWL OF CHILIIIIIII
Lyman: ♪So appaaaarently that guy back there doesn't like me fliiiirting with you but whateverrrr our love is eternal since I stopped caaaaaring about Anthony or Monicaaaaa♫
Lyman: ♪Alsooooo by the way Arlene is toooootally getting it oooooon with a random duuuuuude♫
What? Dammit! You guys are all looser than a Reno slot machine.
ARHAGLAJRKLHGLAJRGH ARLEEENE
Arlene: >:3
At least she made it to her last semester before pulling this crap. Under my watch you either graduate before giving birth or you drop out! No dorm babies for me!
She sure did pick a classy guy to get knocked up by, though. Here mister "Colby" is physically accosting another dormie...
...after chasing said dormie into Arlene's bedroom.
Like you do.
Arlene: Don't mind me guys, just gettin' some shuteye. We'll talk later, Colby! :) :) :)
Colby: SHUT THE FUCK UP WOMAN.
O_________________O
Then he throws down in the same room as the sleeping mother of his unborn child.
He winds up losing.
I just... wow. Way to go, Arlene! Your baby has asshole genes. Like, even more of them than would usually come from having Michael for a great-grandaddy.
Arlene: Um... yeah! You were definitely the first man I've ever been with!
Technically true.
See, Doc Boy I'm not annoyed with like I am Arlene. This is because A) he graduates tomorrow so it's not like he has to be university pregnant for long, and B) he's actually the heir, getting pregnant by the next Merrick spouse.
Yeah, it's Doc Boy and Frances J. gonna carry this thing into the sixth generation. Frances is just too adorable to pass up.
Doc Boy and Frances: Yay! We are happy!
Yeah, let's just see how happy you are when babies start exploding out of everywhere.
All the Merricks graduate with honors, which is awesome! But Doc Boy will be this generation's heir...
...and this generation's spouse is still a mere sophomore.
Whose pregnancy I've decided to suspend, so he doesn't pop out the kid till after graduation.
ENJOY BEING PREGNANT FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, FRANCES.
But despite a few setbacks along the way...
...Frances does manage to graduate. With honors and everything!
And thus ends generation five. Doc Boy will father (and/or mother) generation six.
Next time: babies, some of which aren't lost to the mists of time! Incompetent nannies! Incompetent matchmakers! And Grim's next appearance draws all too near.
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Date: 2013-07-07 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-07 04:36 pm (UTC)And I'll post it eventually, probably. I was planning to start in on it yesterday, but then I decided to work on The Mystery Of Why This One Ghost Lost His Clothing Even Though I Didn't Remove It From My Downloads Folder.
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Date: 2013-07-07 07:49 pm (UTC)If it's Jerkface Derek losing his clothes again, that's just because he's a jerkface.