Merrick Legacy, 6.2
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napoleonherselfSo I've been using a giant laptop as my desktop replacement for years now, and putting up with its 17" screen (which is great for a laptop, but not that great for a desktop). Did you know that the entire time, we had a 24" monitor going unused in the basement? Because we did. For years. Just about exactly twice as much screen real estate, completely unused. But eventually I remembered that this was the case and we hooked it up to my computer! And now everything looks tiny because I have a choice of exactly one resolution that fits the monitor and that resolution is "a butt-ton by an ass-load". Which is why I've decided to start making the pictures in these posts just a little bigger.
Also, my Sims game runs at a bigger window size now, which is kind of cool. It was actually always set to run at 1366x768, and I never realized it was a bit shorter and quite a bit narrower than that until just now. That doesn't kick in until next update, though.
Previous entries are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Doc Boy and Frances J. Worthington III got married! They each had a baby, but then the babies turned out to not really exist. Instead they had three babies. And eventually two more! Doc Boy's want to top the criminal career, and Frances's want to top the law enforcement career, somehow failed to spawn a wacky sitcom. The nanny was horrible and my Terminator reference wasn't much better. Maddie and twins Owen and Lisa became teenagers, and got a series of pretty crappy dates from the matchmaker; Jinx hit child and youngest Keisha became a toddler. Then I stopped playing for a while in an attempt to avoid the inevitable.
This time:
Since Adrian will be dying come twilight, I decide that he and Kaylynn should both call in sick to work. That way they can have the day all to themselves before Adrian... well... you know.
Adrian: Yeah, I... *cough cough* ...I don't think I can... *cough* ...make it...
Adrian: Hee hee hee, I think they bought it!
You're a regular sneakypants, Aides.
So now Adrian and Kaylynn can spend the day doing whatever they want, and...
Why am I not surprised.
After some more pillow fights, and some autonomous dancing, they sit down together on the couch, and I swear to little baby Cthulhu --
This is how Adrian opens their conversation.
Adrian: Now, we both know I'm dying... but I want you to think about my life, not my death.
Kaylynn: [sadface]
Kaylynn: You mean like how you did really well in school?
Adrian: Huh?
Adrian: Well, yeah. Or how we raised three kids who all did well in school too!
Kaylynn: That's true.
Kaylynn: I guess our time in this world's been pretty good!
Adrian: We've all had our health, none of us has been really sick or hurt...
Kaylynn: Although it might have been nice to travel. You know, take a cruise, see the world.
Adrian: We could've eaten all kinds of exotic food!
Kaylynn: ARE YOU IMPLYING THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY COOKING?
Adrian: ...no, dear. [minus]
Kaylynn: You should be thankful for all those healthy meals I made! After all, you probably owe a good chunk of your life to them!
Adrian: Bleh! You can tell me I'd live a thousand years eating tofu, but I say that's not living!
And that was the end of their conversation. XD
...I may have dramatized it somewhat.
The last thing Adrian ever does is receive a Family Kiss from granddaughter Maddie.
And then it is sadtimes.
Well, for everyone except Adrian.
Adrian: Doot de doot doo doo...
Adrian: Oh, hey Grimster! Sup?
Death: NOT MUCH. BESIDES, WELL, YOU KNOW.
Adrian: Yeah, I know the drill. Same thing as with dad and grandma and grandpa.
Death: YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY SHOW UP TO YOUR GRANDFATHER'S DEATH.
Adrian: I was hungry! :(
Death: THERE IS ONE CHANGE SINCE LAST I VISITED YOUR BLOODLINE, HOWEVER...
Adrian: Buh?
Death: YOU DON'T GET ANY BOOZE!!!
Adrian: No!!! O death, HERE is thy sting!
Death: NAH, I'M KIDDING. HERE YOU GO.
Adrian: Yaaay!
Adrian: Oh, Grimmy, always the kidder!
Death: I TOTALLY HAD YOU GOING THERE, DIDN'T I.
Adrian: You totally did!
Death: NOW LET'S GET OUT OF HERE. THE HULA ZOMBIES CHARGE BY THE HOUR, PLUS YOUR FAMILY IS KIND OF A BUNCH OF WHINERS.
Adrian: Aww, they're all right. Kaylynn's takin' it like a champ.
Kaylynn never actually queued up the mourning action at all. She just kind of hung out in the room for a while, then headed to the sofa to watch the action.
Kaylynn: Well, sure, I could take the time to mourn. Mourning's easy.
Kaylynn: But I'm more interested in revenge.
Against the tiki-drink-slinging anthropomorphic personification of death?
Kaylynn: ...yes. Shut up.
So that is Adrian's death.
And while I wouldn't say anyone takes it *well*...
...some take it worse than others.
Much worse.
So Maddie has a big stompy temper tantrum...
...then blows off some steam by bullying her little sister.
Meanwhile, Kaylynn's apparently found time to mourn after all.
Kaylynn: Sh-shut up!
Keisha: Doubleyou-tee-eff! I've been a child for TWO HOURS and THIS happens?!
This is how you know you're a for-real Merrick! Feel the love!
Keisha: MY HEART
I don't think she's feeling it, you guys.
This is how she looks when she's not terrified of ghosts. Doc Boy's nose and forehead, and pretty much everything else from Frances; her eye color is inherited from her grandma Kaylynn, meaning she can't have the Merrick purple that yet survives from founder Titania.
Speaking of generations past, Saint Deadwife Lisa scores a first kiss off the same guy who several of her long-dead female relatives have previously dated. The whole "immortal townie pool" thing is kind of creepy sometimes.
The other teens continue going on dates too, of course. For instance, Owen is handed this townie teenager, who, despite his colored overshirt thing, is not gay.
Jacob is, though! AND HE IS ALSO A RELATIVE SO ICK.
Granted, he's a very distant relative -- Adrian was Owen's grandpa, Ruthie was Adrian's grandma, Eula was Ruthie's sister, and Jacob is Eula's grandson. But Jacob's mom wasn't heir-eligible, which means neither is he.
None of the teens really seem to connect with any of the people offered up by the matchmaker, except maybe Lisa with trenchcoat boy. Owen actually winds up having a lovely date with a llama cultist dormie dropped off for his big sister.
And by "having a lovely date with", I mean "embedding his nose in the back of".
Owen: Totally worth the pain.
Um.
Owen: Don't judge me!
Heir/spouse portraits! Kaylynn provided both of them, along with many other paintings sold in an attempt to reach her LTW of $100,000. It's, uh... it's not looking good.
Yyyyeah, llama cultist, I'm gonna have to call bullshit on your fitting that potted palm in the bag you're carrying. Not that Owen will refuse the gift. (Also, pretend like the walls aren't bare -- I had a downloaded-content-deleting spree and managed to get the siding I was using. Don't feel like reloading the game just to restore it.)
Jinx: Hey look, I'm a teenager!
Hey look, I forgot to cake you!
She winds up a Knowledge sim, LTW to top the science career, and she's attracted to ladies who're wearing muscles and not much else.
Also she winds up a little less froglike than some of her siblings.
Jinx: Praise Dagon.
What?
Jinx: Nothing!
Ick. Preeetty sure Kaylynn's not making it to her LTW given that she has about a day of life left. Good thing she wants her grandkids to get all the scholarships ever + Owen and Jinx skill fast. (At the time of this writing, Owen is missing one skill scholarship, and I expect him to earn it before he leaves for college.)
Time for Kaylynn to spend a last afternoon with her children!
Also for synchronized splashings.
And as the afternoon shades into evening, Kaylynn pushes her youngest grandchild on the swing.
Keisha: Be strong, Keesh. You can get through this. :|
It's okay to show emotion, honey. You don't HAVE to ruin what would have been a completely adorable shot if only you would SMILE ALREADY.
Come 6:00, Kaylynn dies surrounded by loved ones. Like, so surrounded that they can't all get over to her to mourn.
Whoops. Arlene appears to miss her mommy. At least she gets money though?
Fun fact: a townie teenager also died that day, apparently of starvation while playing the guitar! Nobody noticed. Not even me.
Doc Boy, at least, seems to deal with grief better than his father did. He goes to work six hours after his mom's death and returns the next morning with a promotion.
Doc Boy: Heyyy, mailbox!
And that permaplat comes none too soon, as Doc Boy celebrates his elder birthday that very night. I dig the combo of archvillain costume + cheery birthday cake. Very 60s-era Batman. I can only assume he builds giant versions of things like coffee cups and pencil sharpeners as death traps for the hero.
Doc Boy wears all the sweaters.
Oh also Keisha hits teen. She rolls Grilled Cheese! Have I had any GC sims in the main bloodline yet? I don't think I have. Being cheese means the aspiration popup thing I usually screenshot won't work for her, but for the record she's into blondes + makeup, hates vampires, and is gay.
On the one hand, I kind of love the idea of having a GC heir, plus Keisha is the only kid to inherit Frances's mouth. On the other hand... she has her grandma Kaylynn's eyes. That means she can't possibly have a gene for the purple eyes that have yet to be bred out of the family.
And Maddie goes to college. While apparently dreaming of her MRS degree.
And the private school headmaster's here.
AND Frances has gotten old and is now either senile or fabulously camp!
For the record, the headmaster apparently loves grilled cheese...
...and Doc Boy and Frances now wear matching sweaters.
And they are adorable in them.
And that's all for now!
Next time: Ghosts! Mystical powers! SCIENCE!!! Somebody gets pregnant... and somebody dies. Also, Yig Hall comes back for a repeat performance.
Also, my Sims game runs at a bigger window size now, which is kind of cool. It was actually always set to run at 1366x768, and I never realized it was a bit shorter and quite a bit narrower than that until just now. That doesn't kick in until next update, though.
Previous entries are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Doc Boy and Frances J. Worthington III got married! They each had a baby, but then the babies turned out to not really exist. Instead they had three babies. And eventually two more! Doc Boy's want to top the criminal career, and Frances's want to top the law enforcement career, somehow failed to spawn a wacky sitcom. The nanny was horrible and my Terminator reference wasn't much better. Maddie and twins Owen and Lisa became teenagers, and got a series of pretty crappy dates from the matchmaker; Jinx hit child and youngest Keisha became a toddler. Then I stopped playing for a while in an attempt to avoid the inevitable.
This time:
Since Adrian will be dying come twilight, I decide that he and Kaylynn should both call in sick to work. That way they can have the day all to themselves before Adrian... well... you know.
Adrian: Yeah, I... *cough cough* ...I don't think I can... *cough* ...make it...
Adrian: Hee hee hee, I think they bought it!
You're a regular sneakypants, Aides.
So now Adrian and Kaylynn can spend the day doing whatever they want, and...
Why am I not surprised.
After some more pillow fights, and some autonomous dancing, they sit down together on the couch, and I swear to little baby Cthulhu --
This is how Adrian opens their conversation.
Adrian: Now, we both know I'm dying... but I want you to think about my life, not my death.
Kaylynn: [sadface]
Kaylynn: You mean like how you did really well in school?
Adrian: Huh?
Adrian: Well, yeah. Or how we raised three kids who all did well in school too!
Kaylynn: That's true.
Kaylynn: I guess our time in this world's been pretty good!
Adrian: We've all had our health, none of us has been really sick or hurt...
Kaylynn: Although it might have been nice to travel. You know, take a cruise, see the world.
Adrian: We could've eaten all kinds of exotic food!
Kaylynn: ARE YOU IMPLYING THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY COOKING?
Adrian: ...no, dear. [minus]
Kaylynn: You should be thankful for all those healthy meals I made! After all, you probably owe a good chunk of your life to them!
Adrian: Bleh! You can tell me I'd live a thousand years eating tofu, but I say that's not living!
And that was the end of their conversation. XD
...I may have dramatized it somewhat.
The last thing Adrian ever does is receive a Family Kiss from granddaughter Maddie.
And then it is sadtimes.
Well, for everyone except Adrian.
Adrian: Doot de doot doo doo...
Adrian: Oh, hey Grimster! Sup?
Death: NOT MUCH. BESIDES, WELL, YOU KNOW.
Adrian: Yeah, I know the drill. Same thing as with dad and grandma and grandpa.
Death: YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY SHOW UP TO YOUR GRANDFATHER'S DEATH.
Adrian: I was hungry! :(
Death: THERE IS ONE CHANGE SINCE LAST I VISITED YOUR BLOODLINE, HOWEVER...
Adrian: Buh?
Death: YOU DON'T GET ANY BOOZE!!!
Adrian: No!!! O death, HERE is thy sting!
Death: NAH, I'M KIDDING. HERE YOU GO.
Adrian: Yaaay!
Adrian: Oh, Grimmy, always the kidder!
Death: I TOTALLY HAD YOU GOING THERE, DIDN'T I.
Adrian: You totally did!
Death: NOW LET'S GET OUT OF HERE. THE HULA ZOMBIES CHARGE BY THE HOUR, PLUS YOUR FAMILY IS KIND OF A BUNCH OF WHINERS.
Adrian: Aww, they're all right. Kaylynn's takin' it like a champ.
Kaylynn never actually queued up the mourning action at all. She just kind of hung out in the room for a while, then headed to the sofa to watch the action.
Kaylynn: Well, sure, I could take the time to mourn. Mourning's easy.
Kaylynn: But I'm more interested in revenge.
Against the tiki-drink-slinging anthropomorphic personification of death?
Kaylynn: ...yes. Shut up.
So that is Adrian's death.
And while I wouldn't say anyone takes it *well*...
...some take it worse than others.
Much worse.
So Maddie has a big stompy temper tantrum...
...then blows off some steam by bullying her little sister.
Meanwhile, Kaylynn's apparently found time to mourn after all.
Kaylynn: Sh-shut up!
Keisha: Doubleyou-tee-eff! I've been a child for TWO HOURS and THIS happens?!
This is how you know you're a for-real Merrick! Feel the love!
Keisha: MY HEART
I don't think she's feeling it, you guys.
This is how she looks when she's not terrified of ghosts. Doc Boy's nose and forehead, and pretty much everything else from Frances; her eye color is inherited from her grandma Kaylynn, meaning she can't have the Merrick purple that yet survives from founder Titania.
Speaking of generations past, Saint Deadwife Lisa scores a first kiss off the same guy who several of her long-dead female relatives have previously dated. The whole "immortal townie pool" thing is kind of creepy sometimes.
The other teens continue going on dates too, of course. For instance, Owen is handed this townie teenager, who, despite his colored overshirt thing, is not gay.
Jacob is, though! AND HE IS ALSO A RELATIVE SO ICK.
Granted, he's a very distant relative -- Adrian was Owen's grandpa, Ruthie was Adrian's grandma, Eula was Ruthie's sister, and Jacob is Eula's grandson. But Jacob's mom wasn't heir-eligible, which means neither is he.
None of the teens really seem to connect with any of the people offered up by the matchmaker, except maybe Lisa with trenchcoat boy. Owen actually winds up having a lovely date with a llama cultist dormie dropped off for his big sister.
And by "having a lovely date with", I mean "embedding his nose in the back of".
Owen: Totally worth the pain.
Um.
Owen: Don't judge me!
Heir/spouse portraits! Kaylynn provided both of them, along with many other paintings sold in an attempt to reach her LTW of $100,000. It's, uh... it's not looking good.
Yyyyeah, llama cultist, I'm gonna have to call bullshit on your fitting that potted palm in the bag you're carrying. Not that Owen will refuse the gift. (Also, pretend like the walls aren't bare -- I had a downloaded-content-deleting spree and managed to get the siding I was using. Don't feel like reloading the game just to restore it.)
Jinx: Hey look, I'm a teenager!
Hey look, I forgot to cake you!
She winds up a Knowledge sim, LTW to top the science career, and she's attracted to ladies who're wearing muscles and not much else.
Also she winds up a little less froglike than some of her siblings.
Jinx: Praise Dagon.
What?
Jinx: Nothing!
Ick. Preeetty sure Kaylynn's not making it to her LTW given that she has about a day of life left. Good thing she wants her grandkids to get all the scholarships ever + Owen and Jinx skill fast. (At the time of this writing, Owen is missing one skill scholarship, and I expect him to earn it before he leaves for college.)
Time for Kaylynn to spend a last afternoon with her children!
Also for synchronized splashings.
And as the afternoon shades into evening, Kaylynn pushes her youngest grandchild on the swing.
Keisha: Be strong, Keesh. You can get through this. :|
It's okay to show emotion, honey. You don't HAVE to ruin what would have been a completely adorable shot if only you would SMILE ALREADY.
Come 6:00, Kaylynn dies surrounded by loved ones. Like, so surrounded that they can't all get over to her to mourn.
Whoops. Arlene appears to miss her mommy. At least she gets money though?
Fun fact: a townie teenager also died that day, apparently of starvation while playing the guitar! Nobody noticed. Not even me.
Doc Boy, at least, seems to deal with grief better than his father did. He goes to work six hours after his mom's death and returns the next morning with a promotion.
Doc Boy: Heyyy, mailbox!
And that permaplat comes none too soon, as Doc Boy celebrates his elder birthday that very night. I dig the combo of archvillain costume + cheery birthday cake. Very 60s-era Batman. I can only assume he builds giant versions of things like coffee cups and pencil sharpeners as death traps for the hero.
Doc Boy wears all the sweaters.
Oh also Keisha hits teen. She rolls Grilled Cheese! Have I had any GC sims in the main bloodline yet? I don't think I have. Being cheese means the aspiration popup thing I usually screenshot won't work for her, but for the record she's into blondes + makeup, hates vampires, and is gay.
On the one hand, I kind of love the idea of having a GC heir, plus Keisha is the only kid to inherit Frances's mouth. On the other hand... she has her grandma Kaylynn's eyes. That means she can't possibly have a gene for the purple eyes that have yet to be bred out of the family.
And Maddie goes to college. While apparently dreaming of her MRS degree.
And the private school headmaster's here.
AND Frances has gotten old and is now either senile or fabulously camp!
For the record, the headmaster apparently loves grilled cheese...
...and Doc Boy and Frances now wear matching sweaters.
And they are adorable in them.
And that's all for now!
Next time: Ghosts! Mystical powers! SCIENCE!!! Somebody gets pregnant... and somebody dies. Also, Yig Hall comes back for a repeat performance.
