Merrick Legacy, 6.3
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napoleonherselfSo the United States federal government may be shut down because nobody can agree on what's important to pay for (although OBVIOUSLY we can't delay the You Are Required To Give Money To Private Insurers Even If You Can't Afford To Actindividual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, what are you CRAZY, those golden parachutes for insurance company execs aren't gonna build themselves) -- but the Department Of Jenny Playing Sims is always open.
also gonna just say, in general, that any "wait, you disagree with MY political opinions? I thought you were a good person but obviously YOU ARE NOT and I just want you to know that I will NEVER READ YOUR LIVEJOURNAL AGAIN!!!" comments are just gonna result in my lol'ing at your flouncing away like a pouty five-year-old (seriously I've stopped reading LOTS of things because of their authors' viewpoints but it's been a long time since I felt the need to brag to them about it)
BUT ANYWAY
Previous updates are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Adrian died, which made his whole family sad and also me. Keisha became a child, and Jinx became a teenager; the older teens date some random people, although the most interesting thing that happened there was that Owen dated a llama cultist who was actually dropped off for his sister and also who I'm pretty sure has access to Time Lord technology. Then Kaylynn died, which didn't stop Doc Boy from becoming a criminal mastermind and achieving permaplat aspiration. Keisha hit teen (and rolled Grilled Cheese as her aspiration) in between Doc Boy and Frances both becoming elders; the private school headmaster gave 43 food points to a grilled cheese sandwich; and now I really want to eat grilled cheese. Dammit.
This time:
ghost!jerkface Derek: Booooooo... I'm the ghooooost of the patient you kiiiiiiilled! Booooooooo!
Jinx: My god! I've pierced the veil of reality! The truth is out there!
ghost!jerkface Derek: ...fuggin' Knowledge sims.
Um, Keisha, what are you doing?
Keisha: I'm playin' on the fridge!
And who's that behind you?
Keisha: Oh, the nice lady with the crystal ball brought her! She's makin' sammiches :3
Because you influenced her to.
Keisha: That's what I wanted to do!
Cheeses have the weirdest ideas of what makes a good date.
KITCHEN DANCE PARTY
oontz oontz oontz oontzoontzoontz oontz oontz
Man, the kitchen is probably the most romantic place a Grilled Cheese sim could have their first kiss.
The fridge is right there, don't you understand?!
THE FRIDGE IS RIGHT THERE!!!
Owen doesn't get a first kiss, for the record. He doesn't even get a date. Townie teenage girl is completely into him and yet keeps turning him down.
ghost!jerkface Derek: Booooo your painting suuuuucks boooooo!
Jinx: Amazing! The phenomenon is repeatable! Also, I've soiled myself.
Owen gets his first kiss next day! Finally. He was about two hours from turning into an adult. Now he and his twindead Saint Lisa are off to college, and only Jinx and Keisha are left.
Frances: I have the right to remain AWESOME.
You do!
Frances: Hey, remember that one spiky-haired chick we haven't seen since college?
Frances: Remember that one fight she lost?
Frances: With Blue Hair?
Doc Boy: Ha ha ha, oh, you!
Sim gossip is weird.
Also, I gotta say, Frances is doing his best to make sure I keep screenshotting him by doing wacky things.
What... what are you doing, Frances?
Frances: I'm learning telekinesis!
You've broken your wrist!
Frances: Nah, that's nothing. It's not like it's even that hard to make a teddy bear float.
Frances: And now it's in the pinball machine!
And now it's in the pinball machine.
*sigh*
Are you proud of yourself, Frances?
...Frances?
Fra --
...
*sigh*
Doc Boy: So what's with your little friend?
Frances: I... may require medical attention.
Doc Boy: No, no, this is great! You're, like, a cyborg or something! Like, like -- MECHA-FRANCES!
Frances: What the hell? That doesn't even make any sense!
Doc Boy: There goes my husband the cyborg.
Eventually I gave up and forced an error on Frances to get him to put his arms back where they belonged.
Elsewhere that eve, more science is taking place!
ghost!jerkface Derek: Ooga booga boogedy!
Jinx: This is some fantastic data!
Man, I hadn't even realized that nobody had pillowfought in like sim-years until these two reminded me.
Doc Boy: Curses! His cyborg strength is too much!
Doc Boy: AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Frances: He must never know the horrible secret truth of my cyborgness.
FRANCES YOU ARE NOT A CYBORG.
Frances: I know.
Doc Boy: Welcome home, sweetie! How was your day?
Frances: Oh, the usual, foiling your every evil scheme. Have fun at work tonight!
Doc Boy: I'll try to leave a mysteriously sinister clue just for you!
This is the best combination of lifetime wants ever. EVER.
ghost!Michael: YOUR MUSIC IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD
Everybody's a critic. (Also, Michael, you used to be besties with Arlene! For shame!)
Jinx: ...I think I'm tired of science now.
You can't fool me, miss Knowledge-sim-pants. That "saw ghost" memory was totally blue.
Doc Boy: HUGS!!
Frances: You are the least intimidating supervillain ever.
Doc Boy: Yes, yes. Destroy you later. Hugs now.
Doc Boy does this a lot. It is the cutest.
Less cute is what ghost!Michael does a lot.
Townie kid: Um.
Nooo! Jinx, this kid came home with you on the bus today, and that makes him your responsibility!
Jinx: My god! You could keep a TEAM of scientists busy studying this phenomenon for YEARS!
Wipe that grin off your face, dammit! You've got a friend to save!
There's so much going on in this one shot that it's honestly a little hard to unpack.
Jinx: OH PLEEEEZE SAVE MY FRIEND BLOO BLOO BLOOHOOOO
ghost!Michael: One corpse is as good as another! BOO, you sunovabitch!
Doc Boy: HOLY CRAP IT'S MY DEAD GRANDPA
Frances: That scythe is... ridiculously sharp.
I can almost feel Grim debating whether to call in sick tomorrow, just to have one day off from this madness.
Jinx: Can... can I study that? Like, just for a little while? I'll give it back when I'm --
JINX. STAY FOCUSED PLEASE.
She lost. :(
This kid was literally the second friend she ever had outside the family, too. They'd just met today... he came home from school with her, and they hung out and had a great time, and then he wandered off to play the drums... and next thing she knew, he was lying there on the floor.
And now he's gone.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAYING MORE ATTENTION JINX.
~~~never forget~~~
Incidentally, I don't know if it's totally obvious that I'm just killing time until the last two kids go to college, but I'm just killing time until the last two kids go to college. That's why I keep hopping back between the old people doing something silly and the teenagersletting people die doing something silly.
Speaking of which,
Frances! Are you cheating on Doc Boy?! I thought he was your one and only supervillain!
"Sprucing up the Captain Cave" is, in fact, what the kids are calling it these days.
Jinx: Um, no we aren't.
You hush.
FRANCES
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS FRANCES
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARCH BEHIND DOC BOY'S BACK
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Eventually the last of the kids is off to college! Doc Boy and Frances celebrate in the most ancient of Merrick traditions.
I like how A) the Merrick kids have settled on a couple different poses for their time hanging out in the sim bin, and B) the shadows are actually rendered per sim instead of being a generic blob.
Then they grow up into young adults! And I dress them up and do their hair because WHY NOT.
MADDIE
Family (LTW: graduate 3 children from college)
10 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
3 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fatness and vampires/blonde hair
Bi.
OWEN
Family (LTW: marry off 6 children)
8 Neat
3 Outgoing
10 Active
10 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: full-face makeup and brown hair/fatness
Bi.
LISA
Romance (LTW: woohoo with 20 sims)
3 Neat
10 Outgoing
6 Active
3 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: blonde hair and black hair/vampires
Straight.
JINX
Knowledge (LTW: top the science career)
7 Neat
10 Outgoing
5 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and underwear/vampires
Gay.
KEISHA
Grilled Cheese (LTW: eat a whole bunch of grilled cheese)
7 Neat
3 Outgoing
9 Active
9 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: Makeup and blonde hair/vampires
Gay.
Lisa is the lone heterosexual. Plainly this is what happens when you let THE GAYS marry: they give birth to lots and lots of gay children. I think I saw that on Fox News.
jinx
jinx sweetie i don't understand
how did you end up so pretty
i mean you were never quite as froglike as owen or maddie but still
jinx
howwwww
Even Owen and Maddie, who inherited the worst combo of nose + mouth from their parents, turned out all right from the front. Although they look pretty weird in profile.
That first night on campus is spent in a variety of ways. Lisa goes on a date with some guy who's in a band or something I think...
Maddie fields calls for her dad, who hasn't been here in at least 20 years...
Jinx nerds it up like a big ol' nerd...
Keisha makes sure the dorm is equipped with the world's most perfect food...
While Owen... um.
This guy: Look guise! :D Look! Look! I'm totally ripping his heart out! :D :D :D
Owen: I'm... not sure how to react to this.
And these two smustled perfectly in time with each other for hours.
I call them the Smustle Sisters. You know. In my head.
Lisa: I like college!!!
You know it won't ALL be bangin' dudes in the hot tub, right?
Lisa: So far it is!
Granted.
Major-declaring wants start the very second day.
History for Owen!
Literature for Maddie!
Psychology for Lisa!
Jinx appears to be trying to major in "sucking up to the professor"...
...but once she makes friends with him she realizes that math might be a better choice.
And Lisa sleeps with a couple more dudes. Even though for some reason neither one counts? I dunno.
Owen, meanwhile, has picked up a stalker -- wherever he goes, dormie Tamara here tends to follow.
LISA
DAMMIT LISA WHAT DID I JUST HEAR
Lisa: Oh, sorry... tee-hee, we might have been a little loud...
I AM REFERRING TO THAT JINGLE
Lisa: You mean those opening bars to Rock-A-Bye Baby gently wafting on the afternoon breeze?
YES DAMMIT I MEAN THOSE
Lisa: Huh. I was wondering what that was.
It was the sound of me trying to figure out whether to make you drop out of college, or let you have a university baby, name it Darren, and give it up for adoption.
Lisa: Is that a reference to something that nobody cares about but you?
MAYBE IT IS.
Cough.
So anyway, I decide that since there's enough money in the dorm account, I'll drag the matchmaker over and have each kid get maximum-payment blind date. I figure that with five kids, surely there will be one halfway decent pick.
From front to back:
Keisha gets Sarah Love, a Maxis-made playable who is A) already going steady with someone and B) straight.
Lisa gets the headmaster of the school she attended as a child, who is gay.
Owen gets a sim I made for non-Merrick purposes, who is straight. (Owen also got this fellow's lady-love on another occasion, because the matchmaker is a troll.)
Jinx got a teenaged distant relative, who is straight.
Maddie got a random teen, who is straight.
Note that all the non-straight kids got straight dates, while the one straight kid got a gay date.
The matchmaker is the biggest troll. I hope she chokes on that $25,000.
Lisa: HAAAAALP
Oh right, you're still pregnant. I guess I'll freeze it long enough to work you a bit closer to your LTW before dropping you out.
Lisa: And you couldn't have decided to do that BEFORE the third trimester?
Nope! Ha ha ha your god is capricious and easily-distracted ha.
...also, your god is feelin' some good old-fashioned wrath right about now.
Stalkers gonna stalk.
I want to give the kids another round of matchmaker dates since the last round was so crappy, but they're kind of low on money now, what with having spent twenty-five thousand dollars on said crappy dates. So I cheat and reload my save each time another crappy date is produced.
Maddie gets handed a gay guy. Owen gets handed a teenage lesbian who is also a distant relative. Then Maddie gets handed the same gay guy again.
While Owen is hooked up with A DIFFERENT UNDERAGED RELATIVE.
And that's when I got tired of living the same sim-hour over and over again. Fuck you, gypsy!
Although to be fair, I'm pretty sure Owen and Jovia are three-bolters. The fact that she is his grandfather's cousin appears to not matter to either of them.
But it seems like he's not really feelin' this, and I am fine with that, believe me. He does still manage a date that hits Good despite being completely platonic...
As do Maddie (once I stop her from going to sleep, that's how excited she was you guys) and her gay pal...
...and Jinx and her straight one. (They're both knowledge sims so they just talk about math for hours.)
There's just onnne little gouda-scented exception.
Keisha: Huuuugs!
Jasmine: um lol no
HE'S DEAD, GAME.
Although I did forget to stick his urn into Jinxy's pocket when she left.
At one point this random chick decides to feel up Maddie's face, which is nice, I guess? I mean, Maddie seems to like it.
And Owen's stalker plants one on Owen's giant, protruding lips.
And it's Lisa's turn for a blind date, so...
Matchmaker: My work here is done.
HE'S UNDERAGED AND HER FATHER'S COUSIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I'll leave off with one of the best cafeteria worker fails I've seen. Somehow the Yig Hall caf worker managed to make chili...
...but forget one of the bowls.
Next time: Maddie develops a fetish! New human beings -- fully-clothed adults with dreams and aspirations and everything -- spring suddenly into life in the middle of a dorm building, and nobody cares except for thinking some of them are hot! Then the dorm building mysteriously grows in size (thankfully not with horrific results) and still nobody seems to care! Sandwiches are eaten! Hearts are broken! Then everyone graduates, and either goes back to the Merrick house as heir, or goes into the sim bin to probably be mostly ignored.
also gonna just say, in general, that any "wait, you disagree with MY political opinions? I thought you were a good person but obviously YOU ARE NOT and I just want you to know that I will NEVER READ YOUR LIVEJOURNAL AGAIN!!!" comments are just gonna result in my lol'ing at your flouncing away like a pouty five-year-old (seriously I've stopped reading LOTS of things because of their authors' viewpoints but it's been a long time since I felt the need to brag to them about it)
BUT ANYWAY
Previous updates are here.
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Adrian died, which made his whole family sad and also me. Keisha became a child, and Jinx became a teenager; the older teens date some random people, although the most interesting thing that happened there was that Owen dated a llama cultist who was actually dropped off for his sister and also who I'm pretty sure has access to Time Lord technology. Then Kaylynn died, which didn't stop Doc Boy from becoming a criminal mastermind and achieving permaplat aspiration. Keisha hit teen (and rolled Grilled Cheese as her aspiration) in between Doc Boy and Frances both becoming elders; the private school headmaster gave 43 food points to a grilled cheese sandwich; and now I really want to eat grilled cheese. Dammit.
This time:
ghost!jerkface Derek: Booooooo... I'm the ghooooost of the patient you kiiiiiiilled! Booooooooo!
Jinx: My god! I've pierced the veil of reality! The truth is out there!
ghost!jerkface Derek: ...fuggin' Knowledge sims.
Um, Keisha, what are you doing?
Keisha: I'm playin' on the fridge!
And who's that behind you?
Keisha: Oh, the nice lady with the crystal ball brought her! She's makin' sammiches :3
Because you influenced her to.
Keisha: That's what I wanted to do!
Cheeses have the weirdest ideas of what makes a good date.
KITCHEN DANCE PARTY
oontz oontz oontz oontzoontzoontz oontz oontz
Man, the kitchen is probably the most romantic place a Grilled Cheese sim could have their first kiss.
The fridge is right there, don't you understand?!
THE FRIDGE IS RIGHT THERE!!!
Owen doesn't get a first kiss, for the record. He doesn't even get a date. Townie teenage girl is completely into him and yet keeps turning him down.
ghost!jerkface Derek: Booooo your painting suuuuucks boooooo!
Jinx: Amazing! The phenomenon is repeatable! Also, I've soiled myself.
Owen gets his first kiss next day! Finally. He was about two hours from turning into an adult. Now he and his twin
Frances: I have the right to remain AWESOME.
You do!
Frances: Hey, remember that one spiky-haired chick we haven't seen since college?
Frances: Remember that one fight she lost?
Frances: With Blue Hair?
Doc Boy: Ha ha ha, oh, you!
Sim gossip is weird.
Also, I gotta say, Frances is doing his best to make sure I keep screenshotting him by doing wacky things.
What... what are you doing, Frances?
Frances: I'm learning telekinesis!
You've broken your wrist!
Frances: Nah, that's nothing. It's not like it's even that hard to make a teddy bear float.
Frances: And now it's in the pinball machine!
And now it's in the pinball machine.
*sigh*
Are you proud of yourself, Frances?
...Frances?
Fra --
...
*sigh*
Doc Boy: So what's with your little friend?
Frances: I... may require medical attention.
Doc Boy: No, no, this is great! You're, like, a cyborg or something! Like, like -- MECHA-FRANCES!
Frances: What the hell? That doesn't even make any sense!
Doc Boy: There goes my husband the cyborg.
Eventually I gave up and forced an error on Frances to get him to put his arms back where they belonged.
Elsewhere that eve, more science is taking place!
ghost!jerkface Derek: Ooga booga boogedy!
Jinx: This is some fantastic data!
Man, I hadn't even realized that nobody had pillowfought in like sim-years until these two reminded me.
Doc Boy: Curses! His cyborg strength is too much!
Doc Boy: AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Frances: He must never know the horrible secret truth of my cyborgness.
FRANCES YOU ARE NOT A CYBORG.
Frances: I know.
Doc Boy: Welcome home, sweetie! How was your day?
Frances: Oh, the usual, foiling your every evil scheme. Have fun at work tonight!
Doc Boy: I'll try to leave a mysteriously sinister clue just for you!
This is the best combination of lifetime wants ever. EVER.
ghost!Michael: YOUR MUSIC IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD
Everybody's a critic. (Also, Michael, you used to be besties with Arlene! For shame!)
Jinx: ...I think I'm tired of science now.
You can't fool me, miss Knowledge-sim-pants. That "saw ghost" memory was totally blue.
Doc Boy: HUGS!!
Frances: You are the least intimidating supervillain ever.
Doc Boy: Yes, yes. Destroy you later. Hugs now.
Doc Boy does this a lot. It is the cutest.
Less cute is what ghost!Michael does a lot.
Townie kid: Um.
Nooo! Jinx, this kid came home with you on the bus today, and that makes him your responsibility!
Jinx: My god! You could keep a TEAM of scientists busy studying this phenomenon for YEARS!
Wipe that grin off your face, dammit! You've got a friend to save!
There's so much going on in this one shot that it's honestly a little hard to unpack.
Jinx: OH PLEEEEZE SAVE MY FRIEND BLOO BLOO BLOOHOOOO
ghost!Michael: One corpse is as good as another! BOO, you sunovabitch!
Doc Boy: HOLY CRAP IT'S MY DEAD GRANDPA
Frances: That scythe is... ridiculously sharp.
I can almost feel Grim debating whether to call in sick tomorrow, just to have one day off from this madness.
Jinx: Can... can I study that? Like, just for a little while? I'll give it back when I'm --
JINX. STAY FOCUSED PLEASE.
She lost. :(
This kid was literally the second friend she ever had outside the family, too. They'd just met today... he came home from school with her, and they hung out and had a great time, and then he wandered off to play the drums... and next thing she knew, he was lying there on the floor.
And now he's gone.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAYING MORE ATTENTION JINX.
~~~never forget~~~
Incidentally, I don't know if it's totally obvious that I'm just killing time until the last two kids go to college, but I'm just killing time until the last two kids go to college. That's why I keep hopping back between the old people doing something silly and the teenagers
Speaking of which,
Frances! Are you cheating on Doc Boy?! I thought he was your one and only supervillain!
"Sprucing up the Captain Cave" is, in fact, what the kids are calling it these days.
Jinx: Um, no we aren't.
You hush.
FRANCES
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS FRANCES
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARCH BEHIND DOC BOY'S BACK
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Eventually the last of the kids is off to college! Doc Boy and Frances celebrate in the most ancient of Merrick traditions.
I like how A) the Merrick kids have settled on a couple different poses for their time hanging out in the sim bin, and B) the shadows are actually rendered per sim instead of being a generic blob.
Then they grow up into young adults! And I dress them up and do their hair because WHY NOT.
MADDIE
Family (LTW: graduate 3 children from college)
10 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
3 Playful
10 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fatness and vampires/blonde hair
Bi.
OWEN
Family (LTW: marry off 6 children)
8 Neat
3 Outgoing
10 Active
10 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: full-face makeup and brown hair/fatness
Bi.
LISA
Romance (LTW: woohoo with 20 sims)
3 Neat
10 Outgoing
6 Active
3 Playful
4 Nice
Turn-ons/off: blonde hair and black hair/vampires
Straight.
JINX
Knowledge (LTW: top the science career)
7 Neat
10 Outgoing
5 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and underwear/vampires
Gay.
KEISHA
Grilled Cheese (LTW: eat a whole bunch of grilled cheese)
7 Neat
3 Outgoing
9 Active
9 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: Makeup and blonde hair/vampires
Gay.
Lisa is the lone heterosexual. Plainly this is what happens when you let THE GAYS marry: they give birth to lots and lots of gay children. I think I saw that on Fox News.
jinx
jinx sweetie i don't understand
how did you end up so pretty
i mean you were never quite as froglike as owen or maddie but still
jinx
howwwww
Even Owen and Maddie, who inherited the worst combo of nose + mouth from their parents, turned out all right from the front. Although they look pretty weird in profile.
That first night on campus is spent in a variety of ways. Lisa goes on a date with some guy who's in a band or something I think...
Maddie fields calls for her dad, who hasn't been here in at least 20 years...
Jinx nerds it up like a big ol' nerd...
Keisha makes sure the dorm is equipped with the world's most perfect food...
While Owen... um.
This guy: Look guise! :D Look! Look! I'm totally ripping his heart out! :D :D :D
Owen: I'm... not sure how to react to this.
And these two smustled perfectly in time with each other for hours.
I call them the Smustle Sisters. You know. In my head.
Lisa: I like college!!!
You know it won't ALL be bangin' dudes in the hot tub, right?
Lisa: So far it is!
Granted.
Major-declaring wants start the very second day.
History for Owen!
Literature for Maddie!
Psychology for Lisa!
Jinx appears to be trying to major in "sucking up to the professor"...
...but once she makes friends with him she realizes that math might be a better choice.
And Lisa sleeps with a couple more dudes. Even though for some reason neither one counts? I dunno.
Owen, meanwhile, has picked up a stalker -- wherever he goes, dormie Tamara here tends to follow.
LISA
DAMMIT LISA WHAT DID I JUST HEAR
Lisa: Oh, sorry... tee-hee, we might have been a little loud...
I AM REFERRING TO THAT JINGLE
Lisa: You mean those opening bars to Rock-A-Bye Baby gently wafting on the afternoon breeze?
YES DAMMIT I MEAN THOSE
Lisa: Huh. I was wondering what that was.
It was the sound of me trying to figure out whether to make you drop out of college, or let you have a university baby, name it Darren, and give it up for adoption.
Lisa: Is that a reference to something that nobody cares about but you?
MAYBE IT IS.
Cough.
So anyway, I decide that since there's enough money in the dorm account, I'll drag the matchmaker over and have each kid get maximum-payment blind date. I figure that with five kids, surely there will be one halfway decent pick.
From front to back:
Keisha gets Sarah Love, a Maxis-made playable who is A) already going steady with someone and B) straight.
Lisa gets the headmaster of the school she attended as a child, who is gay.
Owen gets a sim I made for non-Merrick purposes, who is straight. (Owen also got this fellow's lady-love on another occasion, because the matchmaker is a troll.)
Jinx got a teenaged distant relative, who is straight.
Maddie got a random teen, who is straight.
Note that all the non-straight kids got straight dates, while the one straight kid got a gay date.
The matchmaker is the biggest troll. I hope she chokes on that $25,000.
Lisa: HAAAAALP
Oh right, you're still pregnant. I guess I'll freeze it long enough to work you a bit closer to your LTW before dropping you out.
Lisa: And you couldn't have decided to do that BEFORE the third trimester?
Nope! Ha ha ha your god is capricious and easily-distracted ha.
...also, your god is feelin' some good old-fashioned wrath right about now.
Stalkers gonna stalk.
I want to give the kids another round of matchmaker dates since the last round was so crappy, but they're kind of low on money now, what with having spent twenty-five thousand dollars on said crappy dates. So I cheat and reload my save each time another crappy date is produced.
Maddie gets handed a gay guy. Owen gets handed a teenage lesbian who is also a distant relative. Then Maddie gets handed the same gay guy again.
While Owen is hooked up with A DIFFERENT UNDERAGED RELATIVE.
And that's when I got tired of living the same sim-hour over and over again. Fuck you, gypsy!
Although to be fair, I'm pretty sure Owen and Jovia are three-bolters. The fact that she is his grandfather's cousin appears to not matter to either of them.
But it seems like he's not really feelin' this, and I am fine with that, believe me. He does still manage a date that hits Good despite being completely platonic...
As do Maddie (once I stop her from going to sleep, that's how excited she was you guys) and her gay pal...
...and Jinx and her straight one. (They're both knowledge sims so they just talk about math for hours.)
There's just onnne little gouda-scented exception.
Keisha: Huuuugs!
Jasmine: um lol no
HE'S DEAD, GAME.
Although I did forget to stick his urn into Jinxy's pocket when she left.
At one point this random chick decides to feel up Maddie's face, which is nice, I guess? I mean, Maddie seems to like it.
And Owen's stalker plants one on Owen's giant, protruding lips.
And it's Lisa's turn for a blind date, so...
Matchmaker: My work here is done.
HE'S UNDERAGED AND HER FATHER'S COUSIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I'll leave off with one of the best cafeteria worker fails I've seen. Somehow the Yig Hall caf worker managed to make chili...
...but forget one of the bowls.
Next time: Maddie develops a fetish! New human beings -- fully-clothed adults with dreams and aspirations and everything -- spring suddenly into life in the middle of a dorm building, and nobody cares except for thinking some of them are hot! Then the dorm building mysteriously grows in size (thankfully not with horrific results) and still nobody seems to care! Sandwiches are eaten! Hearts are broken! Then everyone graduates, and either goes back to the Merrick house as heir, or goes into the sim bin to probably be mostly ignored.
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Date: 2013-10-07 01:27 pm (UTC)Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease do this. And name the other one Summer and adopt her out too so that way she can have all the solo car dates she wants.
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Date: 2013-10-07 03:27 pm (UTC)I love that at least one person gets my dumb mudge references.
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Date: 2013-10-07 04:55 pm (UTC)I guess it's a good thing she didn't have university babies. It keeps her from retconning her night in the hot tub as rape and then making her daughter read all about it in her diary years later.
College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-29 03:55 pm (UTC)By the way your legacy is my favorite of all time and inspired me to start playing legacies again so thanks for that!
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-29 05:57 pm (UTC)I have about a zillion mods, and whichever ones control uni pregnancy were installed a couple years ago, so I can't say for absolute sure what the secret is. The likely candidates are InTeenimater (http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=inteen/inteenimater/&sort=date&order=desc) (I checked the user guide for my version and it does mention allowing YA pregnancy) and ACR (might need to go through the pie menus for... I think it's Global Overrides > Pregnancy > Allow Try For Baby, something like that, and make sure it's set to Allow Unmarried if you in fact want that).
I don't know if InTeen conflicts with Sim Blender, though, because I don't have the right expansion packs to install the latter.
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-29 07:40 pm (UTC)I considered Inteen as I knew it allows YA pregnancy but its complexity has always made me very cautious of it and I hadn't seen anywhere where you might have mentioned using it. I'll try again with ACR see if I can tweak it to get the results I want. As for Sim Blender, all of twojeffs mods are compatible with Inteen so that wouldn't concern me if I did take a crack at Inteen.
Thanks for responding, and especially so quickly. Sorry to bother you about it all but whatever setup you got with all your mods is very appealing to the way I like to play so I had to ask.
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-31 04:51 am (UTC)No need to apologize for questions, either -- I enjoy human interaction! I'm just glad that I happened to finally open my email for the first time in like two days.
Also, maybe this means it's time to finish up the spares 4 post I got 3/4 done with and then left open in notepad++ for a month and a half...
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-31 03:00 pm (UTC)And yes if you ever have the time I would definitely appreciate anything you added to the Merrick Legacy. I love how you fill out the story with the spares, really adds a lot.
End of long post before it gets longer.
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2013-12-31 11:36 pm (UTC)Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2014-01-01 05:30 pm (UTC)In the mean time thanks for everything you've saved me a lot of trouble. And of course thanks for a great legacy!
Re: College Pregnancy
Date: 2014-01-02 05:41 am (UTC)