Oh look, it IS a white Christmas after all

Oh yeah, we didn’t have Pets last time, did we? Seeing a little white(ish) creature gave me an idea.

That’s Sheena’s LTW changed to pet rescuer, then…

Cartland is making some token attempts at his mixology LTW. Never gonna happen, but at least we can say we tried.

Seeing as there are babies (I hope) on the way, it was time to get these two hitched.

As Sheena left the hospital, Pink Windmill went in. PW’s labour was much quicker. Notice what Sheena is carrying.

ONE poxy baby. It probably didn’t help that I only remembered to spam the kids’ TV and music fairly late on in the pregnancy.

Anyway, this is Handbot Knight. His favourite colour is white, which is a nice bonus.

More babies, quickly, please and thank you.

At the same time as Handbot and Cartland had birthdays, Archbishop decided to depart. I’ll miss her, but one more space for a baby so, you know. *Shrug*. She had the good grace to make us some imaginary friend potions and get enough LTH to get that ‘inheritance’ money (badly needed as all those potions skinted us pretty quickly) so all to the good.

Oh, and I changed her LTW before she died to ‘surrounded by family’.

Whoop whoop, medium gravestone. In my revised rules for speedy legacy playing, that’s another point she’s got me – and another for her LTW.

Here’s my boy…

That’s more like it.

And here he is all grown up. My they grow so fast in a speed legacy.

Here’s Lab Coat…

Tipp-Ex

And Wii

Oooh, an actual stray to make friends with!

Unlike the ones the Populouses have had, this one actually hung around, came in, hung around for days and allowed Sheena to befriend it – but however high their relationship got, she couldn’t adopt it.

On the subject of pets (well, ish), the triplets all got imaginary friends. Poor old Handbot is a lonely little fella though.

Wii’s is called Barry White.

Tipp-Ex’s (not pictured) is called Isla Wight…

And Lab Coat’s is called White Diamond

I was so close to naming her Diamond White after the cheap cider, but my love for Kylie supercedes my nostalgia for the foul-tasting booze of my youth.

Gah, I hate triplets.

Sheena is pregnant again, and I searched for our cat problem – turns out the game’s a bit glitchy so I cheated with MC and adopted it. But then that didn’t count, so I gave it up for adoption, then went to adopt from the shelter, and the Stray Cat turned up, so we adopted it back. I’m cunning that way. The old flea bag’s a pain in the butt but Sheena’s wasted so much time caring for that and neglecting her children that we had to have it in the family.

I’m not even renaming it because we’ve had it around so long.

We also adopted this little one – White Town.

I’m vaguely going for the aim of adopting white(ish) animals. I know you can change their colour, but, eh, they’re only really pawns to achieve Sheena’s LTW.

Handbot is already growing up, and he’s not bad but he’s too much of a clone of his mum.

Our maids currently SUCK. It doesn’t help when the heir plays ball with them instead of caring for his kids or improving his mixology.

I bought the cats a load of toys. I don’t really know why, given this family don’t really have money to burn.

Multiples are always a mixed blessing – a pain to care for but all the more genetic possibility, and in this final (or is it) generation, you need all the genetic possibilities you can get.

Meet Yorkshire

And Milkybar

The triplets are children now, and Wii is shaping up rather well…

Tipp-ex could do better.

Lab Coat is suffering the effects of a temporary mod glitch that meant I had troubles changing outfits, but is still a good lookin’ fella.

The twins are ageing up too – Yorkshire…

…and Milkybar.

The kids get in trouble for tending to the other kids, they get in trouble for trying to go to school and then they get in trouble for bad grades at school because they never get to go there. Generations, I hate you.

A reminder that we wish you all a Marry Christmas

Nice profile you’re rocking there, Wii.

We adopted another pet – White Cliffs of Dover.

Mangy Stray Cat is Mangy.

Handbot grew up: traits = loner (which figures), unflirty, coward, friendly, grumpy. LTW = Ark Builder.

He was promptly shipped off – good, but not good enough.

Stray Cat died of old age. The family went into a ridiculous amount of mourning. They didn’t miss Archbishop this much, but a flea-bitten old mog? It was like the world had ended.

We adopted another pet, Mighty White

even though nothing can replace the loss of a manky cat we didn’t even rename.

The littlest ones got IFs as well – Jimmy White

And Meg White.

Tipp-ex is so not going to be the heir – like his brother, he looks too much like Sheena.

Lab coat, my very own Billy Idol, is much more like it.

Attagirl, Wii.

Whilst Tipp-ex and Handbot were mummy clones, the twins are more daddy. Here’s Milkybar…

…and Yorkshire. Looking good ladies, but I think Wii and Lab Coat still shade it.

Check out this profile <3 <3

Isla Wight became the first IF to turn real…

We adopted another pet. Its catalogue picture gave me the impression it was mostly white. It lied.

Anyway this is White Lightnin. Had to get one terrible cheap cider brand in there somewhere.

Snowball isn’t white but I got him for the name.

Which fits.

Will you lot shut up about the stupid cat already?

‘But… I luffed it. WAAAAH’.

LTW in hand, I chucked out Sheena and all the pets bar Mighty White and brought White Diamond into the fold.

Seeing as she has nothing better to do, I thought she could befriend the horse.

More birthdays! Milkybar…

…and Yorkshire. My my, those girls are fiiine.

Great profiles too, if a little similar to Cartland and Archbishop.

No thanks, creature. Been there, done that, still not sure the family are over Stray Cat yet.

Time for the triplets to age up and make me proud.

Well done, Lab Coat.

Tipp-ex is clearly getting shipped outta here.

Oooh, swit swoo.

This isn’t a bad final generation, is it?

I love this family.

The IFs are growing up too. Here’s White Diamond…

…and Isla Wight.

Mighty White got old. Shame.

What’s that, Bonnie Tyler?

Isn’t there a white Knight upon a fiery steed?

Why yes, Bonnie Tyler, yes there is.

I’m not ashamed to admit that was entirely the reason I kept the horse around after all the other pets had gone.

We interrupt this broadcast to just say AREN’T TEENAGE GNOMES CUTE?! Chimeree here is a delight to me. Kaleidoscope’s grave less so. Everyone route fails when they go near it.

The twins went to prom. I’m sort of ashamed to admit it but they’re the first sims I’ve ever had go to prom. And then Yorkshire got rounded up by the police on the way home. Whatever, game, whatEVER.

Actual prom photos! So excited! Yorkshire found herself a fella…

…and Milkybar was made Prom Queen.

I shipped out Tipp-ex and the two female IFs so I could get the other IFs humanised.

CAS wouldn’t let me recolour Barry White’s facial hair, but I think this mismatched look is kind of fetching.

And it was also time for the final kids of the final gen to age up – Yorkshire…

…Milkybar…

…Meg White…

…and Jimmy White.

With that, I declare Wii just about the ugliest – though it’s a close run thing between all four remaining siblings – and therefore, the, er, winner?

So what else do you do at the end of a legacy?

Tot up scores, I guess? The Dayes and the Kyotis laugh in pity at this:

Generations +10

LTWs +8

LTH +3 (Dark, Starfish, Archbishop)

Skills +1 (Cricket Ball: Martial Arts)

Other things I am giving myself a point for out of desperation +1 (Marcy topping the chess rankings)

Total +23

Well, that was, er…

Anyway. That’s it. The End.

Or is it?

Watch this space…

Any excuse for Fuzzbox. And pink gen gave me a good excuse to use these fab T-shirts The Mare’s Nest made a few months ago. The Bagpuss ones get a bit of usage here too .

Anyway, on with business. And there is a lot of business to be getting on with.

‘Hey Louis. I know I’m carrying some other bloke’s kid, but he was nowhere near as… attractive as you, so want to move in and make more babies with me?’

Putty. In. Our. Hands.

Unfortunately, Louis had a girlfriend. A pregnant girlfriend. But we soon dealt with that inconvenience.

And with the excavation of Pink Windmill from the womb…

…it was time for… *resists pervy joke based on the word pink*

Louis got married in. Look at these two in profile. <3

Hmm. I’m not sure how Pink Windmill is going to turn out. Not to worry, I’m sure Louis won’t let me down.

These two really adore each other. They’re always rolling romantic wants. It’s nice

Oh look, a purple sim with a purple moodlet… OK, this colour thing is being stretched now…

I have no idea what all the relatives are over for, but I do know this… I love a basket.

Here’s HMV…

…Rock…

…and Prawn Cocktail

With the boys safely in their cribs, it was time to get one more pink bun in the oven.

Pink Windmill’s imaginary friend was called Pink Panther…

…but he kept glitching so a number of resets and reboots later, he ended up being called Pink Panther3.

PW herself had to grow up again at one point and I completely forgot the original hair and outfit she had.

Anyway, the boys soon grew up too. Prawn Cocktail’s IF is called Pink Glove.

Rock is promising. Here he is with his IF Pink Pound.

HMV’s is called Pink Lemonade.

‘Four toddlers and I’m pregnant again? I hate you, Rad’.

‘Seriously. I HATE you’.

No you don’t.

‘Sod. Off.’

Look at that silhouette.

Whilst her mum went into labour, Pink Windmill had the courtesy to grow up. And look ruddy miserable about it.

Stop. Baby time!

Meet Cartland

And Jem.

6 kids. Truly truly truly outrageous.

I think I’ve broken Archbishop.

More birthdays! HMV…

…Prawn Cocktail…

…Rock…

…Cartland and IF Pink Elephant…

(Blimey could this legacy scream ‘Rad’s formative years were the 1980s’ any more?!)

…and Jem with IF LilyThePink

I think I’ve got six very promising kids here

We don’t have six IF potions, so Archbishop’s been trying to work on that as well as cope with all the nappy changes, feeds and snuggles.

This is a very, very familiar happening chez Knight.

Birthdays might feel like they roll around quickly in a speed legacy, but with all these whiny babies (and several crashes to desktop) it felt like these teen birthdays were a long time coming.

Pink Windmill has turned out pretty well, if a little too like her mother.

Would you believe I’ve been playing TS3 since it came out and this is the first time I’ve had this glitch?

I suspect the boys are trying to get in early for the heir race.

Once they’d sorted themselves out, we have Prawn Cocktail…

HMV (nice, but an Archbishop clone)…

…and Rock (an interesting mix of the two).

It’s hard to tell how Cartland will turn out.

Jem’s a daddy clone though.

We had a gnome death and a baby gnome. This is more than the Daye gnomes have ever done.

I moved Louis out once there were no longer any toddlers in the house so we could get some IFs living. Prawn Cocktail was the first who’d made good enough friends with their IF.

Pink Glove is super-cute.

Townie watch. Umm.

Meh.

Nah.

Hubba hubba.

When I discovered that Rock also had the option, I realised I must have more than 8 sims per household enabled.

So it was on with the IF conversions. I love my gay cowboy Pink Pound…

…and my cutie pie Pink Elephant…

…even if life in this family baffles her somewhat.

Neither HMV nor Jem are friendly enough with their IFs yet – but at least HMV’s helping with one of the (approximately) eightybillion repair jobs in this house, which is more than the repairpeople seem to bother with.

Pink Windmill grew into a YA (over-emotional, great kisser, evil, light sleeper, friendly, wants to be a super-surgeon) and though she’s nice and ugly, I have confidence there are others in this generation who can surpass her.

So I converted Pink Panther3 (absent-minded, unflirty, good, artistic, coward. LTW: Rock Star). They moved out, and soon enough were married with a baby on the way.

Oh, Rock. I know you’re totally checking out Pink Pound’s arse, but you’re still high on the list for heir choice, so don’t pin your hopes on it.

More townies!

Not a chance in this legacy, but I <3 <3 <3 magicians.

Oooh, not bad.

Reasonable.

Stupendous.

A bunch of sims, standing about lagging the place up? Must be birthday time again.

Jem is mighty fine. But she doesn’t have much of Archbishop in her, and I do like my heirs to be a genetic mix.

Pink Elephant is too cute for words.

HMV (neurotic, couch potato, dramatic, artistic, snob, LTW: Fashion phenomenon) working the classic Knight pose.

Come on fella, let’s get your imaginary friend sorted out so you can move.

I think Pink Lemonade (adventurous, can’t stand art, perfectionist, hydrophobic, ambitious. LTW: Seasoned Traveller) is stunning.

These two are married with a baby on the way as well now.

Pink Glove (rebellious, good, family-oriented, frugal, computer whiz. LTW: Master Mixologist) is still single – for shame, Twinbrook.

Prawn Cocktail (brave, excitable, inappropriate, clumsy, artistic. LTW: Firefighter Super-Hero), on the other hand, is a player. Every girl in town appears to have sampled his, er, flavour.

Oh Rock (good, over-emotional, handy, virtuoso, party animal – master of arts). What am I to do with you?

Can I deny you a lifetime of cute with Pink Pound (loner, technophobe, perceptive, easily impressed, bookworm – Illustrious Author) and force you to shack up with an ugly girl?

Of course not.

Story Progression tells me the new Mr and Mr Knight are very happy

That means, Cartland, my boy, it’s all down to you.

I think he got the most interesting mix of both parents’ genetics, and the ugliest townies are all girls, so I’m happy.

Twin profile picspam!

You’d think with only Archbishop and the three teens left in the house that things would be easy. But no.

The kids get sent to school every morning, but they dilly dally so much they end up late. Then there’s a whole bunch of lag when Archbishop has to go through the rigmarole of telling them off. This takes so long that they miss school and she misses work. She ended up getting fired because of this.

I hate you Generations.

On the rare occasion the kids did make it to school, we had the lag you get in a town full of kids when no-one will enter the rabbit hole.

Still, it makes for good townie stalking time.

One of the problems was that everyone in town stopped ageing for a long time and only a reset everything with Master Controller sorted things out. The purple-haired girl is Sandy Blugren-Wozny, Louis’ daughter from his ex. She’s the elder sister of the twins and triplets, technically.

Zombie kid isn’t bad.

You wore that deliberately just to get in this chapter, didn’t you?

This girl is from an epic family of four sisters.

The Kyoti-Givens family are formed from some genetic experiments in my simbin that Story Progression and/or Master Controller cooked up.

The red hair seems to be the only bit they got from the Kyotis.

Any one of them would be a good match for Cartland.

Their mum wouldn’t be a bad catch either.

Whilst Cartland started grooming the youngest one…

…her older sisters were very industrious.

I love this family.

Archbishop is still working on getting us one final potion.

I don’t know why, though. LilythePink is horrible to Jem. She does something mean every time Jem tries to be friendly.

Pink Elephant had a mardy strop or whatever it is the game calls those things and wanted to beat someone up.

Poor townie kid. She got grounded for this, if it’s any consolation.

Cartland organised a sleepover. The too-pretty townie kids did their homework on the lawn like squares.

At least Jem got into the spirit.

Sheena, the littlest sister, grew up. And she grew up in a Fuzzbox t-shirt. I so picked the right one.

Unfortunately she turned teen as our teens turned YA.

If I hadn’t already done the double heir thing with blue gen, I so would have done it this time.

Jem’s a good loner, light sleeper who can’t stand art yet has a photographer’s eye and for reasons I can’t fathom, wants to be a super-surgeon.

Cartland’s also got a photographer’s eye, is an athletic, grumpy, charismatic heavy sleeper and fancies being a master mixologist, which we might actually try and achieve.

I love them both so much.

And I love Pink Elephant (vegetarian, party animal, athletic, computer whiz, vehicle enthusiast – super-popular).

LilythePink (clumsy, inappropriate, neat, artistic, over-emotional – rock star) is a big fat meanie though.

We got Sheena over to induct her into our family in our traditionally creepy way, by ageing her up prematurely and spamming her until she gave in.

Archbishop finally made a potion, so we did let Lily take it.

This was the hardest work imaginary friendship ever.

Jem couldn’t get away from her fast enough when they moved out, marrying a blue skinned townie girl almost straight away. They’ve become the first gay couple in my hood to get pregnant – if only they’d been a few generations earlier so I could use their genetics…

Bathroom flirting is a-go-go!

‘Am I a player yet?’ Given she rushed off home after this, I’d say no.

Now the town is ageing, Archbishop finally got old. She was a YA until Pink Windmill aged into one. Oops. She might make some more potions before she pops her clogs but the huge house makeover betwen purple and pink gens and Archbishop being fired has skinted us and we only have 20K in the bank. Those potions cost 4.5K a pop. Ouch.

The stabby stabby bubble is nothing to do with Cartland. Prawn Cocktail’s been working his way through the sisters (as well as half the town) and clearly Sheena’s found out. Now THAT brother is a player.

Cartland proposed. And was rejected. Twice.

I feel this is a pattern familiar to the members of the Knight family.

And let’s face it, we’ve never let failed proposals halt our pursuit of genetic excellence. Sheena (absent-minded, couch potato, brave, frugal, good – Firefighter Superhero) moved in.

Look at them in profile. This is going to be fun.

Pink bed, pink hearts, pink funtime equals one thing… the final generation is on its way. Join us next time to see just how hideous white generation can be!

We didn’t get a great look at our indigo heir last chapter, so here he is. Isn’t he a charmer?

I think these two will make great parents.

Starfish isn’t a crash hot stylist. Although this is partly due to my own apathy/attention to things other than his career.

These two are still cuter than cute. And despite Biro Ink and Indigo Blind splitting up at the end of the last chapter, they got back together

Yay!

Purple/Violet flowers to herald the incoming generation. This may be a theme.

(Although actually I think these might be the pink flowers. Oops).

I fancy me a double wedding.

Noooooo!

If at first you don’t succeed…

Oi, Starfish! You want to get married. It is in both of your panels. Admittedly not necessarily to each other, but still.

Spam those romantic interactions like your lives depend on it.

What is wrong with you people?

Honestly, they’re as bad as Jody and Limeade. Except kind of worse, as these two don’t have insanity or commitment issues stopping them.

Pfft. Single wedding it is, then.

I love you guys xx

Grotbags is still alive. I have no idea how.

As much as I love M&S Jeans and Indigo Girl, I need room for babies in this house, and I’d like them to go and make their own.

Indigo Blind went into labour at the wedding and had a little girl, Tanisha. She and Biro Ink got married and pregnant again almost straight away afterwards and M&S Jeans and Indigo Girl are also expecting

Starfish and Ginger have, of course, been plonked in front of kids’ TV listening to kids’ music.

Hooray, new generation time!

Only twins? Pffft.

Meet Majesty

and

Parma Violets

I think Parma Violets are gross, by the way. I suspect they’re as polarising as Marmite (which is AMAZING).

Some weirdo lying that they were their grandfather sent them special gifts.

Parma Violets’ is called Violet Femme.

Majesty’s is called Purple Haze.

The boys are turning out rather well…

I keep forgetting Da Ba Dee isn’t actually their grandma.

I suspect Majesty’s going to look more like Starfish and Parma Violets like Ginger, though they’re each a bit of a blend.

Ginger is pregnant again, by the way.

Finally!

I got them to have a quickie private wedding before they changed their minds.

Ooh, look, it’s a basket!

We interrupt this birth announcement for some birthday announcements.

Here are my two big boys.

I got Majesty to live up to his name and hold royal court. Automatic early favourite.

“I will be King of this legacy”.

“It’s not fair, Violet Femme, I will never get to be heir”

“But that’s good, as it’ll mean we can marry and have babies”

Speaking of babies, meet Victoria Plum…

Archbishop…

…and Ribena.

“Pfft! Babies are boring! I saw this ghost once…”

“…and it looked just like an Ambitions tattoo!”

“Ooooh”

Babies are boring, but toddlers are fun. Here’s Victoria Plum, with her friend Professor Plum

…Archbishop, with friend Beauregarde

I thought it’d be funny if Archbishop’s special friend was a girl, given all the debate in the Anglican church about both women bishops and gay clergy at the moment. I appreciate the things that make me smile might be lost on people who don’t write about British religion day in day out.

…and Ribena, with friend Purple Prose *cough* never going to be heir in a million years *cough*.

I don’t understand how Ribena is so cute. The other four kids all have their fair share of the fug.

Parma Violets is a much more interesting teen than he was child.

He still has nothing on Majesty though.

The first thing that happened as the boys turned teen was the adults getting an opportunity for a free trip…

…and they didn’t take the toddlers with them. The boys both rolled up the want for a ‘teen party’.

I have seen enough American films to know this can’t end well.

That’s right, you just stay like that girls.

Uh-oh.

OK, nom Beauregarde. That’ll kill the hunger and social needs in one.

Party time!

Essentially, this is just an excuse for me to look at the teenage townies. No.

No, this is Rainbow Knights, not Operation: Population.

Meh.

Only if this were an ugly-hats-acy.

Ho hum. This one’s a Knight offspring. But not exactly worthy of bringing in the ninth generation. By this stage of the game we want proper ugliness.

OK, I guess. (Also a relative)

Possible. But we’ve had a variation on that nose before (for yes, tis another relative) – and nose aside, she’s a bit face 1.

The blue haired girl is Biro Ink and Indigo Blind’s daughter, Tanisha.

Well, as luck would have it, the party coincided with the girls’ birthdays. Archbishop is the most promising.

Victoria Plum isn’t too bad, but is almost certainly a spare.

I’m beginning to question Ribena’s parentage though.

Awww, the boys are good big brothers really.

The uncomfortable moment when you realise you don’t have enough beds for everyone.

Time for cuteness picspam…

Obligatory shot of the triplets together.

Da Ba Dee isn’t a brilliant grandparent. She never rolled up any wants to be one, and has never met any of her four grandchildren (all Biro Ink and Indigo Blind’s – Belinda has dalliances with men but has never settled). Yet, she does want to boast about them from time to time. Those are not photos of your grandkids, Da, you’ve never met them.

Until now. Darla is Biro Ink’s youngest.

And Maryann is the little sister of the “best” looking teen. She looks potentially more interesting. Oh yes, Ginger works in Daycare – but having been on maternity up until now, this is her first shift.

More townie kids!

Hmm.

M&S Jeans and Indigo Girl’s eldest.

Oh look, Majesty’s in his snazzy formal gear! That must mean….

Birthday time!

I wasn’t expecting Ribena to have Ginger’s nose, but she’s still too pretty.

Victoria Plum is pleasingly sullen but still very mid-table in terms of this gen.

Archbishop is definitely the most interesting girl. However, her front view doesn’t show off her full beauty. Wait until you see her in profile.

Parma Violets turned out rather well (Loner, Technophobe, Hydrophobe, Loves the Outdoors, Childish. LTW: Monster Maker), and I’d like to ship him out with Violet Femme. Da Ba Dee made enough potions for all the imaginary friends, but we can’t use any of them, as she is still clogging up a space in the house. This is ridiculous. Indigo gen are all elderly now, why is she still alive?

In case Maryann becomes a ‘stunner’, it’d be a good idea for us to get to know her more, so I had Archbishop teach her to talk to build up their friendship. Sneaky little hobbitses we are.

Majesty (Perfectionist, Hates the Outdoors, Friendly, Ambitious, Unlucky. LTW: Master Mixologist) is still a fine specimen, if a little too similar to Facebook and Starfish.

Ugh. This house is disgusting. I must check if our maids actually clean. And build more bathrooms.

Graduation time!

Interesting choice of headgear, Parma Violets.

Starfish actually cried. The big wuss.

Parma Violets was voted ‘most likely to never leave the house’ despite him loving the outdoors. His outdoors hating brother was voted ‘most likely to burn down own house’. That could be true.

At long last. 36 days old! That’s 10 days over the lifespan.

Now we can get this show on the road…

Violet Femme (Dramatic, Hydrophobic, Friendly, Vegetarian, Snob. LTW: CEO) is adorable, even if the Imaginary Friends are all a bit Face One. I moved her and Parma Volets out, as friends, but they quickly got married and are expecting a baby. Sweet.

I sent Ginger off as well. She was at the end of her life bar, but seeing how long Da Ba Dee lasted, I can’t trust that, and there are four more imaginary friends I want to make human.

Majesty greeted Purple Haze’s ageing up with so much excitement…

…that he wet himself.

Why, hello pretty lady. (Neurotic, Star Quality, Genius, Nurturing, Angler. LTW: Perfect mind, Perfect body)

Have a nice life in story progression!

With three spaces in the house we should be able to meet all the girls’ imaginary friends. Professor Plum and Victoria Plum were the only ones who were close enough though.

Aww, I love him.

Oh look – purple flowers for purple generation.

Wheeee!

Everyone loves the water slides and always rolls up wants for them – despite half the household being hydrophobic and getting negative moodlets from them. Weirdos.

Maryann became a child so we invited her over for Majesty to stand in his pants assessing whether or not she might become a suitable partner. There is nothing at all dodgy about a grown man in his pants grooming a little girl. Oh.

Kaleidoscope got old.

Majesty wants to be a master mixologist. He’s not very good at it.

Ribena and Purple Prose got their relationship high enough to make him human.

Nice.

If I was doing a prettacy.

“Why flowers in the colour of my generation! How surprising!”

A teen wedding? Sure, let’s go there.

“What have I just agreed to?”

“Think I’m just going to go play in the sand and ignore what’s about to happen…”

Because what’s happening is Ribena’s hen do… with two strippers! (As usual, no-one cared)

The bride-to-be snuck out early to go to sleep. Aww.

These two are still not best friends despite spending every moment together.

Way to make sure the world learns of your pregnancy, Violet Femme.

“So my uncles and their imaginary friends have 6 kids between them, my brother’s imaginary friend is puking in our bathroom, and my sister’s about to marry hers. This is… kinda awkward”.

Oh yeah, Ginger died.

FINALLY.

She’s feisty.

The teen wedding occurred, on the morning of the day the kids were all due to age up.

Starfish died after seeing his daughter wed. Pretty prompt, too, at 27 days.

He’s only my second-ever Knight to get a medium gravestone. This is only because I changed his LTW to ‘surrounded by family’ after the girls were born.

Look at Archbishop’s profile. Isn’t it something? We aged up Maryann (opposite) and despite her nose, she’s far too pretty. Disappointing.

The heirship is essentially between Majesty and Archbishop. I love them both, so I think it’s all going to depend on the suitable mates around town. I toyed with double heirs again, but it’d be a bit soon after blue gen.

These are M&S Jeans and Indigo Girl’s kids. I forget their names.

The Plums went on a romantic date… to the graveyard.

My town has been feeling a bit small of late, and so I checked the demographics. Master controller claimed it had 41 residents. Bear in mind that this means 10% of the town were Biro Ink and Indigo Blind’s kids, and over 20% were purple gen and their imaginary friends. So I fiddled with my immigration settings in Story Progression and a whole load of new folk moved in. Hurrah! I sent Majesty and Archbishop to see what was going on, and found this lady entertaining Majesty with a ghost story.

Nah.

Hmmm.

Pretty good, but I suspect the hair is making him seem more ugly than he really is, and he’s married with a baby on the way.

This one has potential, but again is married. Not that this tends to stop me.

Just too cute.

Everyone became YAs. Beauregarde wants to Live in the Lap of Luxury and is a technophobic, kleptomaniac, good, easily impressed hater of nudity.

Victoria Plum is easily impressed, a savvy sculptor, hydrophobic, vegetarian whose fifth trait looks like scribble on my crib sheet. Oops. She wants to be a Surgeon.

Ribena wants to be a Rock Star. (Hydrophobe, Slob, Friendly, Nurturing, Never Nude)

Prof Plum would like to be a Star News Anchor. (Loner, Heavy Sleeper, Daredevil, Lucky, something that looks like “Gleisse” – my handwriting sucks).

Archbishop wants to master the arts (Unflirty, Genius, Good, Dramatic, Technophobe) whilst Purple Prose (Good, Vegetarian, Light Sleeper, Good Sense of Humour, Coward) wants to be a DNA whatchamacallit.

I sent everyone except Archbishop and Majesty packing, and Ribena and Victoria Plum got pregnant almost straight away.

Archbishop… you’re kind of freaking me out.

Majesty’s a full-blown adult now, and while he was grieving his lookalike dad, I realised that while I adore him, he looks a bit too much like the previous two male heirs, and there are no really ugly women in town.

I checked the family tree to see how ugly its branches were, and located the most ugly man in town. I think he’s called Richard. Or something. I sent Archbishop down to his workplace, the military base, to get acquainted.

Don’t look so disgusted with yourself, you’re pregnant! It’s a wonderful thing.

He’s your great-great uncle Slimer’s grandson. It’s not that close a relation.

However, I feel I may have been too presumptuous letting him be the babydaddy…

…because I then got a pop-up informing me that this fine specimen had moved to town.

Being married already and only just acquainted with Archbishop, he rejected her gift of a piece of fruit. But he will be ours, we have the whole of her first pregnancy to work on it.

With that, I let Majesty go to try and have some semblance of a life.

I love you. I will miss you so much.

For the first time since Dark, I have a one-sim household. But not for long! Join us next time to see how ugly Pink gen can get and whether they will be up to the task of getting me a hideous final generation…

Generations +8

LTWs +6

LTH +2 (Dark, Starfish)

Skills +1 (Cricket Ball: Martial Arts)

Other things I am giving myself a point for out of desperation +1 (Marcy topping the chess rankings)

Total +18

Last time we saw the Knights, they didn’t have Generations. Now they do, so expect EP spam.

Da Be Dee and Kari went into labour at pretty much the same time.

Oh yay, memories! *Sarcastic thumbs-up*

This is Biro Ink.

And this little man, performing the rather creepy new animation for babies in buggies, is M&S Jeans.

(For non-Brits, the denim range at Marks and Spencer is called Indigo)

Facebook and Kari went straight to work on conceiving another Indigo baby.

Da Ba Dee went straight to work on making another relative (Jennifer) count towards her LTW total.

No sooner was Kari’s oven “bunned” than Facebook was out seducing the elderly.

No, this is not Facebook’s baby photo sneaking back in, this is M&S Jeans pre-makeover.

Here he is in all his glory. The two boys got “special toys” in the post.

M&S Jeans’ is called Indigo Girl

Biro Ink’s is called Indigo Blind

When they sing to their toys, it is the cutest thing EVER.

Oh Facebook, I know you want to complete your LTW, and I know this town likes to keep things familiar, but your mother is NOT a suitable candidate.

Also of note: Limeade is trying a stink juice potion. It made her smell. Oh, and Jody died. *Shrugs*.

“I don’t want to get married”.

Er, good. Because you weren’t actually going to.

I was hoping to snag this guy’s genes for my legacy.

“Aw, but I was hoping to marry into pink gen”

Neither of us had any such luck – he died later that day.

I sent Da Ba Dee and Facebook to the military base to see if they could get lucky.

Biro Ink’s dad was there. Whatshisname: ‘Oh yeah, I tapped that’.

I invited er, this other bloke. I figured they could both have a pop on him.

He genuinely is the ugliest man who isn’t a close relative. My town, it disappoints. Still – he managed to father another indigo baby for me.

Facebook “My turn now? I am ever so sexy, yaknow”

“Knocked myself up a Knight. Gonna go home now, kthnxbai”

The best laid plans…

I sent him to the gym instead where he picked up Da Ba Dee’s cousiny cast-offs

Looks very uncomfortable, but who cares? ANOTHER LTW IN THE BAG!

Da Ba Dee decided to go for the same approach…

For those who are counting, this is her fifth conquest.

Apparently the game wasn’t counting, though, as her LTW didn’t fulfil.

Jennifer: “Check me out, I scored with two members of my own family. That makes me a LEGEND as far as Twinbrook is concerned”.

We interrupt Blue Gen to come back to the focus of this chapter – more indigo kidlets! This is Starfish.

Notice how Kari isn’t in blue maternity gear? This is because I found her so incredibly boring I couldn’t be bothered watching anything she did.

The boys had their birthdays. Here’s Biro Ink…

And M&S Jeans

“Why is the bathroom broken AGAIN?”

I don’t know, but I suspect it’ll be your father as usual.

Biro Ink was so wrapped up in Indigo Blind that he didn’t notice the car. Which then drove right through him.

M&S Jeans played at having a tea party with Indigo Girl. I know it’s unfair because Starfish is only a baby and child #4 isn’t even here yet, but he’s so my favourite.

SO MUCH CUTE.

EVEN MORE CUTE.

I kicked Kari out because she bored me… and then my best babysitter, Limeade, died.

Da Ba Dee finally got her LTW with her sixth conquest…

…who happens to be sister Blu Tack’s husband. This family is so classy.

The boys are always in trouble at school and having to stand in the corner. I hate that punishment is compulsory.

I know what will cheer him up…

Wheee! Someone’s come out to play!

Pillow fight!!!

Indigo Blind’s turn…

…just in time for the boys to age up!

What’s up, Indigo Blind?

“You won’t like this…”

Oh.

Aw, look. This is adorable. Now you see her…

…now you don’t. Hee.

Starfish is pretty darn ugly though

I <3 U.

Look! He’s cuddling thin air!

LOL jk not rly.

This will never get old.

In other news, I’m apparently 6 years old.

Well done on removing the baby before standing in the buggy, Da Ba Dee.

This is Belinda.

So this one might take some explaining. Thinking of indigo things is HARD. But Belinda on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (The first BBC Andrew Lloyd Webber reality/talent show thing) wore indigo. If any of you understand this reference, well done on being as sad as me.

*Doodles love hearts all over her blog*

“I don’t have a special toy. Does that mean you don’t love me?”

Look at that face. How could I not love you, Starfish?

I have no idea why the maid is the one to age up the baby.

Oh, that’s right, because Da Ba Dee thought having a go at her nephew for lacklustre grades was more important.

Belinda has a special friend too, Indigo Child.

M&S Jeans had a day of feeling naughty so he went and egged a house…

…which happened to belong to Grotbags, the only surviving member of green gen.

Starfish grew up again. Niiiice.

I love that there’s more for children to do in Generations.

Whooop! Ghost story!

Whoop! Bunk beds!

The boys bonded over their love of their imaginary friends.

Love imaginary friends so much.

Why Belinda, you grew up very well.

“Oh Indigo Child, when you grow up I will marry you”.

I sent Starfish away to boarding school – the expensive one (Smuggworths?).

Facebook wanted to go on a date, so I let him… with Kari. She’s expecting another man’s child.

So this is odd. This little kid appeared on the edge of the lot and I hovered over them, and it’s apparently Indigo Child!

“That’s my prince!”

“I love my prince”

Yeah, the date went well…

I want my imaginary friends to become real so the family have been fiercely brewing up potions in the hope we’ll get the magic one. It took me ages to realise they build like skills, so I only really needed one sim to work at it.

Once I did discover this, it became Da Ba Dee’s job to be chained to the chemistry table.

I love all the new bits you get with Generations, even if I don’t think that overall it adds as much to the game as the other EPs did.

Indigo Child came out to play…

…and then my game crashed and I had to replay Belinda’s childhood…

Vroom Vroom!

Dig for rainbow gems like your life depends on it boy!

Generation 7 and we finally get a Mysterious Mr Gnome. He’s called Kaleidoscope.

Oh, hello there teen Belinda! What a fine chin you have (but why must the rest of your face be so pretty?). Why so grumpy?

“Thanks to your lousy game playing, I don’t get my prince”.

Whoops. I forgot to make her play with Indigo Child second time round.

The boys all aged up as well (though Starfish is still at boarding school so you’ll have to wait to see how deliciously ugly he is). Biro Ink was apparently born into the wrong family.

His traits are: Flirty, Neurotic, Photographer’s Eye, Loves the Outdoors and Heavy Sleeper.

His LTW is also Master Romancer, as we can get a point out of him for it before he goes. He began with Indigo Blind…

…in the tent.

M&S Jeans aged up to be a fine figure of a man. His traits: No sense of humour, virtuoso, loner, hot-headed, easily impressed. LTW: Living in the Lap of Luxury.

For some reason, he got to graduate and Biro Ink didn’t. I guess he must have done his homework more or skipped school less.

I’ve been disappointed by the lack of ugly in the town lately, so, remembering the gem that was Mozzy Weller in Dayes, I ordered pizza. The pizza guy was boringly face one. In other news, Belinda still resents me.

Da Ba Dee finally learned to make the potions!

Indigo Girl went first.

She is adorable (yes, I did tweak her in Master controller to make her indigo).

Her traits: Good sense of humour, disciplined, neurotic, genius, nurturing (oooh!) and she wants to be a Martial Arts Master.

Indigo Blind’s turn…

She is a loner, technophobe, friendly, clumsy eccentric who wants to do the stylist LTW.

Biro Ink got his second conquest…

…with his cousin’s imaginary friend.

Given that imaginary friends do the stride of pride ALL THE TIME, it’s hard to tell if this is a post woo-hoo response or just her normal toy-self walk.

We ordered a mixologist. We don’t have a bar.

This family are such pervs.

Da Ba Dee actually watched as her son notched up his third conquest. *Shudder*.

See-Saw!

Townie watch! This one is Blu Tack’s son.

I think this is Julio’s daughter (Slimer’s granddaughter). She has some potential I guess.

This one belongs to… someone in blue gen.

Meh.

Townies disappoint me.

These two though, are too adorable for words.

I’ll just ignore her little indiscretion with Biro Ink.

They do present me with a problem though. Indigo Girl is clearly too cute to be an uglacy spouse, and I can’t bear to split them up, so I am placing all my hopes on Starfish when he comes back from boarding school. His portrait photo tells me he should come good but it’s hard to tell unless I see him up close.

Biro Ink got his fourth notch in the city hall…

…and his fifth in the military base. Another point, with no messing.

I got him to propose to Indigo Blind. For some reason, this helped her career progression.

They then ordered stag and hen dos… at the same time, at home, with mostly the same guests.

While the townies were getting raucous, the camera zoomed…

…onto my returning hero. Private school is rubbish, I didn’t get to choose his LTW or traits and though it said he’d get a head start in certain careers, such as medicine, I signed him up only to discover he got to level 2 straight away, and that’s all. He didn’t even get any skills.

Traits: Heavy Sleeper, Over-Emotional, Artistic, Ambitious, Snob. LTW: Stylist (really??).

Look at him though. So precious. The hair the game aged him into is perfect.

Meanwhile, back at the party…

…everyone ignored the strippers…

…everything was in chaos…

…and Belinda continued to be unimpressed.

The bride and groom to-be snuck off for some fun times, and I’m pretty sure there were chimes.

I moved them out and they promptly split up!

Oh well, Indigo Blind will be living on in my entry for Boolprop’s Slice of Life competition, so watch Boolprop or Rad’s Sims Stuff for her progress.

At the party, this townie caught my eye.

However, when I sent Starfish to make his move and got a closer look, I was worried about her age, so I used Master Controller to check. One day from ageing!

So I then cheated and moved her (Ginger) in without delay.

Well, if your town was as deficient in ugly townies (especially women) you’d do the same.

Facebook handily died to make room for Ginger to have twins. With her age, we need multiples, fast.

In case you were wondering, yes she is distantly related to the Knights. Obviously. I forget how, I think she’s Funshine’s grand-daughter or something. She is an artistic, virtuoso, good, kleptomaniac snob who wants to live in the lap of luxury.

“Can I finally leave this hell-hole?”

You certainly can. Your chin had so much potential but look how disappointed you have made me.

Belinda can’t stand art, is excitable, a mooch, a heavy sleeper and disciplined. I can’t remember her LTW (oops).

Hopefully now we can have triplets. Join us next time when we hit a purple patch with violet generation!

Score

Generations +7

LTWs +5 (YAY!)

LTH +1 (Dark)

Skills +1 (Cricket Ball: Martial Arts)

Other things I am giving myself a point for out of desperation +1 (Marcy topping the chess rankings)

Total +15

Oooh, nice labour face you’ve got there Limeade. So, let’s see what gems blue gen has in store for us, shall we?

Dammit Marmite Lid, why do you have to interrupt? Oh. I see.

It made me laugh that Grimmy was doing the ‘can’t move’ wavy wavy dance because the guy he was reaping was in the way.

Oh well, circle of life and all that. Don’t fret, little Facebook here isn’t an only child.

He has a twin brother, Raspberry. I wanted to name him Raspberry Ice Pop or Raspberry Slush but neither would fit. Why DO makers of cheap frozen goods make the raspberry flavoured things blue, anyway?

Quick you two, more babies!

Sssh, blue boy. Mummy and Daddy are busy right now.

We bought a solar panel, although I’ve forgotten to check if the bills went down. Frugal Kellee seems to approve anyway.

Birthday times!

Here’s little Facebook…

…and Raspberry. Why must all toddlers become little whingebabs the moment they age up?

The incest has started. Yusun here is one of Lancashire’s descendants and she’s married to Green X Code.

Erik’s also a descendant (as if the nose didn’t give it away!), though I forget whose grandchild he is. He’s married to Absinthe.

The dead fella is Jeffery, Red Nose Day’s son, who seems to have lived to a ridiculous age.

The death distracted everyone so much that the poor babies both got neglected.

The woman going into labour is Slimer’s wife – and she’s also Jody’s sister. This town is sooooo inbred.

Kellee took her off to hospital…

…whilst Slimer just hung around at our place.

Their son is called Julio!

Grimmy sure does love our games console.

A better shot of the twins (i.e. not crying). Facebook looks more like Jody and Raspberry like Limeade.

Limeade and Jody both wanted to get married but another batch of failed proposals ensued.

Seriously guys, either you want it or you don’t. After another four attempts, I gave up.

Hooray, a baby basket!

Meet Blue Riband…

Blu Tack…

And Da Ba Dee.

Soon enough, all five kids had a birthday. Here’s Da Ba Dee…

Facebook…

Raspberry…

Blue Riband…

…and Blu Tack.

Grandma decided it was time to check out.

This little fella is Slimer’s son Julio, by the way. D’aww.

Look at these naughty toddlers.

Don’t tell the Dayes and the Populouses I let them get away with this, will you?

“I hate toddlers”

Oh do shut up…

…because toddlerhood lasts a nonosecond in a speed legacy. Here’s Blu Tack as a child…

…Blue Riband…

…and Da Ba Dee.

And here are my teenage boys, Raspberry…

…and Facebook. So far, Facebook seems to be the ugliest but they’re all somewhat genetically challenged. Interestingly, none of them have rolled up any LTWs yet.

The bedroom currently has one double and three single beds, but apparently the girls don’t like each other enough to share, so I probably need to delete the double and replace it with a couple of singles.

Limeade and Jody are kind of in a band with each other. I say kind of, because they never really play together or get any gigs.

Everything in this house breaks every day.

With the kids all at school, it’s time to scout out potential mates. This one’s got funky hair but is probably a bit too conventional.

This one is a Knight of some sort or another.

And this is Slimer’s little Julio. Far too cute.

Hmmm, probably another relative this one.

Nice… but a teacher, so a bit old for one of my girls.

Mmm.

Overall, I would say I’m a bit disappointed. The ugly townies keep breeding according to the Story Progression pop-ups, but their offspring are decidedly average.

Quick shot of the triplets together. Blue Riband is probably a bit too cute.

Oh look, the girls aged up again. Da Be Dee is the best mixture of both parents – Jody’s face shape with some of Limeade’s features. If she had Jody’s nose, she’d be my number one by a mile.

Blue Riband looks far too much like Limeade…

…as does Blu Tack.

I’m not sure I can decide between these two. I think their YA appearance and potential mates will be the deciding factors.

I sent all the kids out to look for mates, but there wasn’t anyone hanging about…

…except Funshine’s daughter and her invisible husband.

Here he is visible. Now HE is an interesting prospect, albeit a bit old.

The teacher guy turned up eventually and Da Ba Dee started schmoozing him but from some angles he’s actually quite attractive

I love this generation – in fact, Jody and Limeade both rolled up a want for a new baby when the girls turned teen and I was tempted for a second… but resisted.

I forced most of the kids into Jody and Limeade’s excuse for a band, but it hasn’t made much difference.

She’s neither neat nor a perfectionist, yet cleans up the dishes unprompted. <3

Don’t look away fella, you break it, you can fix it.

Even though no-one’s a celebrity as far as I know, we had a pap turn up. And play our double bass.

Jody had some plasma juice in his inventory for some unknown reason, so I had him drink it but there was no effect other than it filling his hunger bar.

This little girl proved interesting…

…So I sent Facebook over to make friends…

…and he had his birthday.

‘Hooray! I’m now officially a creepy old man. Thanks’.

Here he is as a YA. His traits are: Flirt, Loner, Loves the Outdoors, Inappropriate and Easily Impressed and his LTW is master romancer – woohooing in five places with five different sims. Never done that before but it seems easy…. and fun.

Raspberry aged up (No Sense of Humour, Couch Potato, Absent Minded, Bookworm, Good – what a boring set of traits). He wants to get into politics. I shipped him out, along with Jody, who’s already 32, so way past his sell-by date.

Facebook wasted no time in his first conquest.

More birthdays!

And not one, but two cake fires. Joy.

Blu Tack was set on fire and I honestly thought she might die.

Frankly, it was a miracle we got through with just a few singings.

And then everyone started freaking out that Funshine’s daughter was in labour – which she didn’t seem to cotton onto.

And then she realised.

Blu Tack is an athletic, friendly, evil, kleptomaniac with no sense of humour who wants to be an athlete.

Blue Riband is an over-emotional, technophobic, excitable, heavy sleeping genius who wants a perfect mind and perfect body…

…whilst Da Ba Dee is a loser, technophobe, virtuoso, athletic type with commitment issues, who also wants to be a Master Romancer. Two ugly sims with the same LTW? How could I choose between them?

I couldn’t. So we’ve got joint heirs this generation.

I set Da Be Dee onto wooing the maid. He’s not that ugly but he’s no oil painting, and I kind of like the idea of her having several different babyfathers, given her LTW.

Speaking of LTWs, Facebook got his next conquest…

…with the guy that isn’t his twin brother.

We then invited over the girl I’ve been grooming for Facebook, Kari Wills-Adcock. She’ll suffice.

Meanwhile, these two were failing to get jiggy.

Don’t laugh at your newly aged-up beloved, Facebook.

Kari then started flirting with the maid. Not on.

That’s more like it.

Success!

…and…

…more success!

I moved Kari in, although I don’t see her and Facebook going beyond the romantic interest stage they’re at right now. She’s a virtuoso, friendly, heavy-sleeping loser with a good sense of humour who wants golden body parts. And… she’s a descendant of both Notzo Curious and Red Nose Day Knight (who was Notzo’s biological niece), so that’s all kinds of in-breeding, right there. Oh well.

Kari and Da Ba Dee’s bumps haven’t even popped out yet and Da Ba Dee managed to get in her second conquest – with the same bloke her brother got with in the town hall. Nothing like keeping it in the family, eh?

Join us next time for generation indigo!

Kellee: ‘I’m feeling somewhat…’

Yup. How kind of you to colour match your vomit for the next generation.

Marmite Lid was given fertility treatment, and Kellee was plonked in front of the children’s channel the whole time, with kids’ music on in the background as well.

Birds’ Custard: ‘You do realise your dreams of being the Emperor of Evil are in tatters now? You’re only good for making ugly babies’.

Baby basket!!

Grotbags here is Kelllee’s favourite.

And this is her sister Absinthe…

And their sister Limeade.

It makes me sad that this is the last generation who will have matching plumbobs.

Right then, back to bed with you two.

The old people are at the end of their lifespan. There’s currently only one space in the house but if one or both of them die, we could end up with twins or even triplets again.

Yellow generation are all busy romancing. Wizbit is married with a kid on the way, Funshine is married, and Birds Custard seems to have dated all the men in town.

Birthday time! Here’s Limeade. She’s a daddy clone.

Ooops, the birthday/death curse strikes again. Although Marcy didn’t max her logic skill and fulfil her LTW, she DID get to the top of the chess rankings so I’m going to give myself a point for that. It’s not like the points are exactly forthcoming.

Anyway, the show must go on. Here’s Grotbags as a toddler. She looks a lot like mummy.

Absinthe looks like her dad, too, but seems to be the cutest of the three (i.e. the least likely to stick around).

D’aww. You seem a bit too cute as well, Grotbags, even if you do have greenish skin.

Gratuitous toddler spam.

And there goes Kia-Ora, 26 days old. OrangeWeds is the only member of orange gen left alive now. He died at the exact moment Kellee was giving birth to…

Green X Code (Green Cross Code and GreenCrossCode were too long)

…and Slimer.

Thank goodness they weren’t triplets. Even on short lifespan, triplets are a bit too much.

At least I won’t have to cope with five infants at once. Birthday time!

Grotbags…

…Limeade…

…and Absinthe.

How about NO, Marmite Lid?

Time for the boys’ birthday. Birds Custard is in an actual relationship now. Her boyfriend is not the father of her baby.  The dying fella is Jeffery, Red Nose Day’s son.  I’ve pretty much lost track of all Dark’s descendants now – there are quite a lot of them around town.  Twinbrook is kind of getting to the stage where everyone is a distant relation of each other.  Oh well, creepy incest is good for an uglacy, right?

Green X Code is definitely a Knight, but possibly a bit too cute.

Slimer, stop being so adorable! He does have Kellee’s ears, the only one of the five who does.

My two favourites for the heirship bond a little.

The boys do pretty much everything together.  Green X Code’s mouth with Limeade’s eyes and Slimer’s ears and skintone would be the best heir ever.  Bah.

Oh look, our very own green fairy is doing the sparkly dance…

Absinthe is a prettier version of her dad.

Grotbags looks a lot like her mum, but again, maybe a bit prettier.

Limeade is definitely the ugliest of the three – she looks a lot like her dad, but she does have Kellee’s eyes.

I still have a soft spot for Slimer, but I think if he becomes heir this is going to essentially become a patriarchy, isn’t it?

Green X Code, though, has spare written all over him.

I pay little attention to the kids’ traits but Absinthe is mean-spirited and I found Limeade having a go at her for something she must have said. Absinthe is one of those kids who looks like butter wouldn’t melt but is actually secretly nasty, I think.

With three teens in the house, it’s time for our generational school stalking.

Hmm…

Maybe… I’d consider her just because of the Fuzzbox T-shirt, to be honesy What’s the Point is one of my favourite songs, too.  However, she might be a bit old for the boys.

Nah.

Some random townie decided to die on our lot and Grimmy hung around to play games.

These two are descendants of Dark’s.  The older one is the granddaughter of Lancashire.

This little blue boy (that’s next generation, kid) is OrangeWeds’ grandson.

This little boy is Wizbit’s son…

…and this little boy has great spouse potential.

This little girl is also a Knight. I can’t remember if she’s Birds Custard’s daughter or one of OrangeWeds’ many grandkids.  I really should learn the names of all the junior Knights.

Time for the boys to become teens…

Green X Code, looking every inch a Knight.  He reminds me of Cricket Ball.

Slimer, eyebrows and eyes aside, is much more Kellee’s boy.  I love the ears but if I’m honest, Limeade is probably the ugliest, with him a close second.

I think Grotbags looks a bit like Bette Midler.  Or Blossom.

I love this dress on Absinthe.

Ugly townie boy is dating ugly townie girl which means I feel a little less inclined for him to be a spouse – them having ugly babies for gen blue wouldn’t be a bad thing.

And then, Marmite Lid went over to his sister’s for a party, and everything changed.

Behold this perfect specimen, Jody Prudence-Givens. He is related to Pansy Prudence, who had a baby with Notzo Curious way back when, but he’s not actually her descendant and isn’t actually related to the Knights. He is divine.

Also at the party: yet another Knight relative.

And another one. I think *this* is Birds Custard’s little girl. Funshine has a baby as well now – all of the yellow gen spares have one child.

Soon it was time for the girls’ birthdays, but having met Jody, the question of heirship is pretty much settled. I hope Limeade (unlucky, disciplined, good, virtuoso, insane, destined to never fulfil her desire to be a Star News Anchor) likes him.

Weirdly, she aged up in the park, after curfew, and even though she was a young adult, Kellee decided to turn up and yell at her and she still got the ‘busted’ moodlet.

Absinthe (brave, slob, mean-spirited, excitable, green thumb) wants to be a Creature-Robot Cross-Breeder…

…whilst Grotbags (loves the outdoors, vegetarian, perceptive, friendly, frugal) fancies a career in politics. I got them jobs and shipped them out.

Bye girls! Make babies!

I then threw a party to try and get Jody and Limeade to meet. Notice the epic fail of only the relatives showing up.

The rest of the town arrived five hours later, and all ran off again because it was too late. Stupid Twinbrook. That’s what inbreeding does to you.

I sent Limeade round to Jody’s house but he conveniently left in between me sending her and her arrival. She and his sister threw each other evils instead.

Eventually he came home.

*Sigh*

He is so perfect.

He even talks about all the right things. AND he has a green cardigan on.

Don’t believe this – the boys are best friends and still do everything together.

We tried to get Jody to move in, but he has commitment issues. And a girlfriend.

Oh look, another Knight. This is Peggy, OrangeWeds’ youngest daughter.

Which means…

Let’s get the formality of pretending there’s still an heir race over and done with.

Green X Code (brave, clumsy, mean-spirited, family-oriented, virtuoso) wants to be the Emperor of Evil. Let’s hope he is better at it than his mum.

These two are both approaching the end of their lifespans and are only at level 2 in their careers. Hopeless.

Slimer (vehicle enthusiast, over-emotional, absent minded, brave, photographer’s eye) wants to be an astronaut.

I then tried to send the two tired boys to get jobs, one at a time, then move. This led to the other one sleeping while their sister was trying to procreate in the shared bedroom. Both of the boys did this, and then Jody decided he had to go. Curses!

Yeah, thanks for that lads. And for developing creepy wonky arms *after* I’ve kicked you out. See you.

Finally we were able to get generation blue conceived…

…and Jody moved in. He’s at the early stage of his adult bar, is a kleptomaniac (and brave, friendly and light-sleeping) with commitment issues whose LTW is possession is nine-tenths of the law. He has about six romantic interests, one of whom is Birds Custard.

His first action was to bin off his girlfriend…

…and ask Limeade to go out with him.

If you’ve ever had sims with either the commitment issues trait or the insane trait, you’ll know how hard it is to get them to accept a proposal.

When you have one of each, it’s nigh-on impossible. After turning Limeade down, Jody proposed and she laughed in his face at the proposal! I’ve never seen that before.

He then rejected her a second time…

…and she him, and then him her again. This could go on forever.

Join us next time to see if I give up on marrying these two off, and to meet generation blue!

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Generations +5

LTWs +2

LTH +1 (Dark)

Skills +1 (Cricket Ball: Martial Arts)

Other things I am giving myself a point for out of desperation +1 (Marcy topping the chess rankings)

Total +10 (wit-woo)

Hooray!  Cricket Ball has become the first ever member of the Knight family to max a skill (martial arts).

I consider that worthy of a point!  He’s only about level 6 in athletics, though, so that LTW seems somewhat elusive.

Claire would be doing better at her LTW if the wretched old folk of Twinbrook didn’t keep dying in the middle of chess matches.

The Knights finally had a couple of thousand simoleans in cash, so I threw it away on an attempt to get Kia-Ora his photography collection LTW by sending him travelling.

It was quite fun to go exploring again, even if it means letting myself in for a whole heap of glitchtastic fun when the journeys are over.

I hate it when chess opponents don’t come over, but at least Marcy and Claire can play against each other.

I bought a second chess table so they could play at the same time, despite us having precious little cash with Kia-Ora’s galavanting nearly breaking the bank, and literally the first time both tables were in use, this happened.  Thanks, Claire.

‘Can I die yet?’

Your level 7 athletic skill says no.

OrangeWeds is pregnant.  The orange boys are all married to/dating elderly women, though, so no babies from them.

This is Jeremy, Red Nose Day’s youngest.  I’m not sure I’ll be able to keep track of all Dark’s descendants throughout the legacy – already random townies keep emerging with Knight in their hybrid surnames and I can’t work out how/if they’re related to the family.

Anyway, onto the yellow babies.

Cricket Ball doesn’t exactly look thrilled to be a grandfather, but don’t believe him – he wants five grandkids.  In the background is Marcy’s mum, autonomously giving childcare = <3

Here the twins are as toddlers – the girl is called Funshine

And if that didn’t date me, this will…

The boy is called Wizbit.

(Actually I think Funshine Bear predates Wizbit, but anyway).

I invited everyone over for the twins’ birthday.  Irn Bru’s elderly partner has died.  Fingers crossed he can meet someone of his own age now.

Even though Marcy’s pregnant for the second time with Kia-Ora’s progeny she’s still technically been going out with this fella.

Not any more, though.

Married just in time to give birth again…

…to Marmite Lid

…and Birds Custard

Four kids is plenty for this generation, methinks, even if yellow is my favourite colour so I’d be tempted to try for more.

Cricket Ball just managed to get his five grandkids (OrangeWeds has a daughter called Anastasia) before popping his clogs.  He didn’t get his LTW, but he was 32, which is an eternity in this kind of legacy.

Two seconds later, Mars also died, 16/20 towards her LTW

All the kids had birthdays – here’s Wizbit…

…Funshine…

…Birds Custard…

…and Marmite Lid.

I don’t think they’re quite a match for Orange gen, but they do seem to have some interesting genetics.

We never manage to full train the toddlers, but I let Marcy and Kia-Ora train them in the things they’ve rolled up wants for in order to gain some LTH.

Speaking of LTH, Cricket Ball racked up enough for us to get, and sell, a body shaper, so we used the proceeds to buy some more furniture for our all!  new!  upstairs (well new as of late-orange gen, but still) and to send Kia-Ora travelling again.  As well as getting his requisite ten (minimum) photos in each location, he’s been doing missions – if you’re canny you can make enough money travelling to not only cover the expenses but make a decent profit.  The downside is it feels a bit like a drag to play 6 days of travelling (he has the perks to extend it) when 6 days is the whole of a YA’s lifespan.

Kia-Ora eats way more fancy food abroad than at home.  I refuse to buy the Knights a cooker at the moment – it’s a waste of valuable money.

I got a bit bored by day 4 so sent him home.

Wizbit has taken a vague interest in cookery, though, possibly because of the lack of grown-up oven.

Unsurprisingly, the townies couldn’t be bothered with his wares.

The kids are mostly left on freewill, which is why things like this occur…

Cindy, the pink-haired black-skinned friend of Gen Orange, is dating a man with pink skin and black hair.  Awesome!  After being beaten at chess, she decided to autonomously sit with Birds custard when she was playing.  Cute!

Birthday time!  Here’s Marmite Lid…

…Birds Custard…

…Wizbit…

…and Funshine.  The two older kids’ childhood took place on a Saturday and a Sunday so all four will be experiencing their first day of school together.

Time for the traditional school mate-hunt.  This is Anastasia, OrangeWeds’s daughter.  So she’s not mate-eligible but at some point the gene pool will be depleted enough that her descendants will be possibilities…

Hmmm.  Too normal.

Cindy’s son Mauricio is a possible catch for the girls…

…whilst Kellee Bayless-Wuoys (daughter of Kelsey and Turq from the last chapter) is my clear favourite for a spouse.

We invited Anastasia over for her yellow makeover.  OrangeWeds and her husband have another daughter now, whose name I forget and we have yet to meet.

I sent Marmite Lid to do one of those opportunities at the supermarket, where I got him making friends with Mauricio and some other townie kid was staring at them like a creep.

Kia-Ora: ‘Heeeeey, I’m old now.  Can Wizbit take over now?’

No – not least because he’s essentially your clone and therefore not my favourite for heir.

And you have to go to France.

Yay, birthday time!  Birds Custard is a bit of a daddy clone, too.

I then aged up the wrong brother by mistake.  Oops.

Nice shot of the other three waving their brother into teenhood…

…and here is Marmite Lid.

I think the kids are all pretty equally un/attractive.  They’re not perhaps as genetically challenged as Orange gen but they’ve all got something distinctive about them.

Let’s be honest, though, it’s all about the spouse and so I’m choosing Marmite Lid to go and woo Kellee.

They haven’t quite mastered the art of kissing yet.

I thought I’d clicked on ‘make out’ as that’s what he wanted, but I must have clicked the option next to it.  Oops.  I guess teens proposing is something with the Woohooer mod?  She said no anyway.

Funshine was next to age up.  She wanted to be a one-sim band, whilst Wizbit has designs on becoming an astronaut…

…and since we had an attempted burglary, the younger twins want to become DNA thingymajigs.

I moved the older two kids out now I’d decided Marmite Lid was going to be the heir.  I think Marmite Lid has a bit of both parents in him, but Birds Custard is definitely a daddy’s girl.

Marcy chose to celebrate her birthday and the youngest two’s passage into adulthood by pulling a very uglacy face.

Of course it wasn’t just the twins who needed to age up…

Uh-oh.

Birds Custard: ‘Yay, birthday!’

Kia-Ora: ‘Double Uh-Oh’.  He was bang on 25 and probably quite some way off his LTW, it’s hard to tell.

Fortunately Wizbit and Lancashire’s son Dexter were on hand to deal with the fire, which went on FOREVER…

…because the fire brigade clearly couldn’t be bothered.

I am so glad Kellee isn’t dead!

Although the twins aged up amid the fire chaos (Kellee didn’t, but the game aged her up when she went home), no-one registered any acknowledgement of Kia-Ora’s death and his ghost just hung around.  So I used resetsim on him…

The game reset him to the start of his elder age bar, which was very kind of it.  Five more days to try and get that LTW…

Here’s Birds Custard as a YA…

…and here’s Marmite Lid.  His traits are Vehicle Enthusiast (we haven’t bought a car but we seem to own one – I think Marcy may have brought it with her), Artistic, Ambitious, Athletic and Friendly.  I’ll put all the others’ traits up on their profiles.

He and Kellee decided to usher in the next generation with Birds Custard still in the room.  Classy.

With a successful lullaby, I also managed to get them married.

Birds Custard was sent on her merry way to allow room for babies.  I am considering five babies this time around if we can get a set of triplets out of them.

Dammit, Kellee (who wants to be the Empress of Evil, by the way.  Hahahahahaha), why must you look quite pretty from the side view?

Join us next time for Green generation!

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Generations +4

LTWs +2

LTH +1 (Dark)

Skills +1 (Cricket Ball: Martial Arts)

Total +7 (oh the shame of it)

Baby basket!!  Claire is right to look nervous…

Meet Tango…

Kia-Ora…

(Oh dear, this looks much more suspect with age than it did 25 years ago)

…and Irn-Bru

‘Yay!  I want FIVE grandbabies!’

It’s a good job Red Nose Day is pregnant, then.

This shot has no real purpose, other than for Mars to be cute.

Mars and Tizer took Kia-Ora to the park when they went for their daily jam.  Fortunately his uncle was there to play with him.  This is Red Nose Day’s husband – Oren Jina.  He so should be orange gen, not red gen.

Kia-Ora had his birthday while still in the park.

He doesn’t smile that much.

Tango looks like a little lion

Irn-Bru might potentially turn out to be not that ugly but already I have hopes for this generation.

Cricket Ball’s getting pretty good at martial arts now.

He doesn’t have any time to build athletic as well so I am relying on a combination of his martial arts and ‘practice illegal activities’ at work to build it up.  He gets arrested pretty much every day, though, like his dad.  He works out in prison but being in prison doesn’t exactly make us much money.

Claire is doing OK at the chess thing but I’m pretty sure we won’t make it.

Dark was leaving work, when Grimmy struck down one of his colleagues…

…and decided to make it a 2-for-1 deal. I was kind of relieved in a way. He was 31, so way over time, and I want four kids per generation if possible.

Make more babies now, you two.

After failing to train the boys in anything, they aged up to children.  Here’s Tango, looking worryingly normal…

Kia-Ora, looking a lot like daddy…

…and Irn-Bru looking like mummy.

Tizer got old… and her friends are dying.  She went down to 9/20 friends for her LTW

Bunny got married to Tay Bayless the minute she left the house, which makes me regret waiting until she was an elder to get rid of her, as Bayless-Curious babies would be beautiful for this legacy.  Notzo has a different woman every week, although I can’t quite see how – everyone hates him for being a rude house guest and he’s hardly a looker.

Lancashire married some old bloke and when she turned up grieving, I figured her husband had died, but no, she clearly had more than one love on the go, cheeky thing.

This little girl is Betsy, Red Nose Day’s daughter.  Check the orangey skin!

I started following the boys out of school to stalk the townies.  I’m glad to see the multicoloured CAS sims spawning.  This little boy is the son of Turq Wuoys and Mellow Yellow.  They got married and became Yellow-Wuoys.

Bayless offspring! <3

She’s probably a bit old for our boys, but hopefully she’ll have babies.

Irn-Bru went home with the turquoise kid one night.

I was intrigued by this little girl’s genetics.  She’s the daughter of some of the other multi-coloured townies who live in the same house as the Yellow-Wuoys family.  I think she might turn out to be too cute, though.

The ghosts of Dark and Cherish are frequent visitors and usually outstay their welcome, forcing me to do a resetsim on them.  I think I’ll move them to the graveyard soon.

Even with two bathrooms, everyone’s always smelly or wetting themselves (like all my legacy sims), because they will insist on getting annoyed with each other by trying to use the bathroom at the same time.  The Knights’ bathrooms are also the dirtiest and most broken of any of my sim families so far.

With children in the house, Mars gets to play tiggy to help with her LTW.  Tizer’s always at work (it seems) so it’s harder for her to make friends than her sister, but they don’t make quite enough in tips for me to let them both off steady employment.

This fine specimen is Notzo’s son with that Prudence woman, Loren.  He’s dating a not-especially-attractive member of the Racket family.  I love Twallan’s Story Progression – the ugly townies are breeding well (so are the attractive ones, but you can’t have everything).

The triplets decided that the moment Claire went into labour would be the perfect time to age up.

Here’s baby Orange Wednesday…

Tango clearly hated having his hair down as he aged into a ponytail and also got himself back in the heir running, though he’s essentially a clone of his mother with a different skin tone.

Irn-Bru’s also a bit of aClaire clone,  but I feel I will have a wealth of heir possibilities this time around.

Kia-Ora is the most interesting-looking, though, as he has a lot of Cricket Ball’s features, but with a long face like Claire.

Awww, look at how absolutely adorable Betsy is.  I’m very glad Red Nose Day wasn’t ever much of an heir contender.

Lancashire’s also pregnant, and seems rather freaked out by something or other.

Litter, body odour, desperate attempts at LTWs, bladder fails… all we need is death and it’d be a typical birthday party for my sims.

Well you are far too cute.

Oooh, you suddenly got a little bit more interesting…

Ugh, why must everything always break?

I sent Tango over to the Bayless house to see if he could chat up whatever-her-name-is, but when I saw her being romantic with our Turquoise friend, I let them get on with it.  Please make babies!

We managed to train Orange Wednesday up – it seems to be possible with single births but impossible with multiples.

Everyone is pregnant – and two of them went into labour at the same time.  At least one of these ladies has the kind of genetics we want to encourage.

Nice try, but you’re still too cute, although your chin’s a bit odd.

Oh, I dunno.  Maybe there’s potential there.

Cricket Ball and Claire got old  These LTWs are looking unlikely…

Bunny died as well, so I ripped her away from the Bayless family and brought her back home to annoy us with her constant bed-hogging.

Red Nose Day had another baby, whose name I forget, and whose skin is weirdly green.  Her husband died not long after, which might be why she’s so stressed.

Lancashire also got old and seems to have some face/body skin mismatching occurring.

This is her son Dexter.  Too cute!

Lancashire lives here.  It’s a little better than our legacy shack, where Mars and Tizer share a bed.  On the lawn.  Red Nose Day also lives in a swanky house.

Pink haired girl (can’t remember her name, Issey, maybe?  Let’s say Issey for now) keeps following the boys around.  I don’t know why she’s desperate to get into our legacy, we have no money, little space and your dreams remain unfulfilled.

Also: take a moment to marvel at the three fine specimens Claire and Cricket Ball have produced.

Betsy is properly adorable, although she never smiles.

There are too many attractive kids at the school at the moment, but this girl has an interesting jaw.

Bayless girl is now a YA and married to Turquoise boy.  No babies as yet, but fingers crossed one will arrive about the same time as gen yellow is born

Birthday time!

Orange Wednesday’s essentially a clone of her dad, but with mum’s skin colour.  Placed next to Kia-Ora, you can see that his genetics are far more interesting in terms of being a mix between both parents.

Bummer.  The birthday/death curse strikes again.  She only had 11/20 friends

Notzo decided to join in.  He must have been ancient, given Tizer was 27.

Turquoise boy got nice and ugly

I initially discounted this townie, Marcy Prudence-Whellhoff, as a mate because I thought she was a Curious of some sort, but seeing as she isn’t, she’s got some potential.

Why so  happy, Kia-Ora?  Everyone’s dying!

Oh, right, you’re all ageing up.

Kia-Ora is a clumsy, artistic, virtuoso, ambitious mooch.  He rolled up his LTW early in his teen years – World Class Gallery.

Irn-Bru rolled up his LTW when Dark visited one night – to be a creature/robot cross-breeder.  He’s an excitable, light sleeping couch potato loser (school didn’t treat him well and he always got pop-ups saying he was being picked on or whatever) who hates the outdoors.

Talk about a scary way to age up.

Kia-Ora seems worried about the toilet.  Can’t think why.

Tango is a hydrophobic, artistic, heavy sleeping mooch who hates the outdoors and wants to have golden body parts.

Three fabulous men, I’m sure you’ll agree – much better than red generation.

Mars got old… 15/20 towards her LTW so it’s possible…

Also: Kia-Ora, just use the damn toilet already!

I invited Marcy over, mainly for Kia-Ora to flirt with as I was leaning towards him for heir.  He kept wanting to flirt with the repairlady.

Way.  Out.  Of.  Your.  League.

Tango went to autonomously talk to her and I figured if they got on, I’d be willing to consider him for heir.

They did not get on.

Orange Wednesday got into a strop and crushed the dolls’ house.  I’d forgotten they could do that – Jared Frio back in Gen 1 of the Kyoti Legacy was the last sim I had who went that crazy.

Talking of going crazy, I saved after this and when I loaded the game up again, Orange Wednesday was gone, though she still showed as being resident in Master Controller.  After lots of fiddling and talking to Twallan, turns out the game borked her so I had to annihilate her.

I recreated a version of her as close as I could get her in CAS, made her a YA, renamed her OranjWeds, linked her up to the family once more and moved her in with Red Nose Day.  I’m sure you’ll see her some time. It’s a good job she was never that likely to be heir.

After electrocution near-disaster, I decided Irn-Bru and Tango were just too Claire-like and sent them on their merry way, leaving Kia-Ora to be heir.  I might even try for his LTW, as I kind of miss travelling.

This is Lancashire’s son Dexter.  I must have missed his childhood

He’s dating Shana, the townie with the interesting jaw.  Betsy’s also a teen now, though I haven’t caught up with her, and she’s dating some cute townie or other.  Tango and Irn-Bru got girlfriends within minutes of leaving the house, and OranjWeds is also hooked up.  Red Nose Day’s found some late-in-life love with a much younger man to replace her dead husband.

This is Lolly Racket and her kid with Loren Prudence (Notzo’s son).  I think it’s a boy.  Whatever it is, it has fine genetics.

I sent Kia-Ora over to make some moves on Marcy.

As they were chatting, elsewhere in the house both infants were crying and Santos (Marcy’s dad, I think) passed away.

I love how, while everyone else is grieving, Kia-Ora is just whining about the baby.

I decided to carry this back on at ours, where everyone’s already dead…

…or about to be scared to death by their parents’ ghosts.

(Thanks, Dark, Cricket Ball’s on level 9 martial arts now and he’s 25 days old.  We don’t need your hindrance).

Marcy agreed to move in, even though she has a boyfriend.

We won’t worry about things like that, though.

Even though I built them a bedroom, Marcy and Kia-Ora decided to create generation yellow right in front of Cricket Ball and Dark’s ghost.  Tasteful.

Marcy wants to be a chess legend (ha!  Like that’ll happen!) and has no skills or job.  She did, however, bring over 10,000 simoleans with her, which was very welcome, seeing as we had 380 in the bank and bills to pay.

Join us next time to see if our new found wealth brings us a nicer house or takes Kia-Ora travelling.  Oh, and yellow generation will turn up as well!

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Generations +3

LTWs +2

LTH +1 (Dark)

Total +6

Um, Cherish, can I just ask where the other babies are?  I did request multiples you know. I believe I was rather forceful in sitting you in front of the kids’ channel and blasting kids’ music at you, even if Dark kept changing the music to Rockabilly and you kept changing the channel to whatever mindless non-skilling non-baby-influencing pap you liked to watch.

‘I love my nooboo’.  Yeah, her name’s Tizer.

I didn’t get to roll her traits (adventurous and excitable) and there’s only one of her.

‘More babies then?’

The beauty of short lifespan is that the baby stage only lasts one day.  The toddler stage only lasts two, though, which is tricky.  We did get Tizer through her three basic skills, which I was surprised at.

She even autonomously made a play for the baby toys.  Bless her.  She is kind of quirky looking but not entirely ugly.

‘Yay!  I’m a proper adult!’ Already?  Those six days or however long it was went fast!

Dark completely sucks at his job and gets arrested all the time.  Not good when we’re on founding generation money, and given the short lifespan, will be forever.  You’d have thought they’d adjust job performance to match the lifespan, wouldn’t you?  I guess none of the Knights will ever fulfil a career-based LTW.

This picture tells a thousand words.  Bunny aged into a young adult, so I had Dark make his moves on her whilst Tizer aged up and Cherish went into labour.  Hey, you can’t waste time on a speed legacy.  Cherish is at the end of her adult life span so even if she has triplets she won’t help Dark fulfil his LTW, so a second babymomma it is.

‘Why is my daddy flirting with my sister?’

Welcome to Rainbow Knights, Tizer (child trait: neat, which I got to choose).

Yay!  I wonder if Bunny’s babies will be uglier than her mother’s offspring.

Cricket Ball

No choice in his traits (disciplined and loves the outdoors)…

…and Lancashire (grumpy and artistic).

Twallan’s mods make mixed gender multiples more likely, for those who were wondering.

Oh Dark, why must you reject your new beloved’s kiss?

That’s more like it.

It didn’t take too long to move her in and knock her up.

Like mother, like daughter.  Dark never eats on the loo, but these two always do.

I may have retired Cherish’s ovaries but she’s still useful to me.  I want to see if she can fulfil her LTW and in the meantime she’s got repairs, cleaning and childcare to attend to.

Poor Tizer is properly neglected.  She paints a little bit but I don’t see that going anywhere.  Her child stage is only two days so I won’t be able to choose her teen trait.  Short lifespan really hasn’t been thought through very well.

The twins aged up and Lancashire fixed me with a ‘you just DARE make me the heir stare’.  Somehow I don’t think she’ll turn out ugly enough.

Cricket Ball might have potential for heirdom, but not when he’s pulling cute woobie face.

Cherish’s husband died and she spent the next two days whining and moping.  You left him for another man, you fool, and you haven’t spoken to him since.

‘I am in a bad mood.  I am SAD.  My plumbob is red’.

That’s fine by me, it matches the house.

Why is your plumbob red?  You’re on your way to give birth.  It will be a magical experience.

Twins.  Thank goodness.  No choosing traits for me.  Again.

Red Nose Day

is a brave heavy sleeper, and Mars

is an excitable neurotic.

Fortunately everyone had a birthday so I didn’t have to deal with four infants at once.  Tizer rolled up artistic.

I find the kiddie make-up a bit gross but this is an uglacy, so Lancashire was lumbered with it.  She’s kind of cute so I needed to uglify her a bit.  She rolled up slob.

Cricket Ball needs no such help, though.  Ladies and gents, I think we have a contender.  I chose his child trait (neat).

I love how messed up this family is already.  Dark’s kids are Bunny’s brothers and sisters and Cherish’s grandbabies, and are aunts and uncle to their own sisters.  Amazing.

‘Hooray!  The sweet, sweet joy of being an old man’.  Hmm.  You’d better live to see that LTW fulfilled, mister.

It was pretty much everyone’s birthday all at once again.  Here’s Red Nose Day as a toddler…

…and Mars.

Lancashire is always grumpy but I do love her.

Her nose is interesting but I think she’s just too pretty for this uglacy.

Her brother, on the other hand…. (Lancashire rolled up Easily Impressed, and Cricket Ball Excitable).  Most importantly, their becoming teens meant Cherish fulfilled her LTW.  I am so giving myself a point for every LTW, regardless of whether or not they’re original.  I don’t exactly think many points are coming my way.  Portraits and careers aren’t going to happen, and LTWs, LTH and money points will be scarce.  I doubt many people will max out a skill so maybe I’ll point skills up, too.

Tizer: ‘Yay!  I’m an adult!  I can leave now?’  No, your LTW is super-popular because that’s easy and I want to see if it’s possible.  Besides, I can’t really rule you out of the heirship until someone uglier turns YA, just in case. (She also rolled up bookworm in her four-day (I think?) teenhood).

She’s destined to spend a lifetime at the park guitaring for friends.  She also got a job in music as we can’t afford to keep anyone for free in this family.  We have no money.

Bunny: ‘Are you sure this is wise?’.  I don’t really care.  We can’t afford to get it fixed and if you die, it’s no great loss, you’ve given us two babies and your LTW (living in the lap of luxury) is never going to happen.

Oh, Dark.

Red Nose Day (lucky) has interesting eyebrows…

Mars (can’t stand art) is adorable.  I am thinking Cricket Ball is going to be heir, but we’ll see if the girls become hideous as teens.

A day after her lifespan ended, Cherish popped her clogs.  She was 4,000 points off getting a medium gravestone.  Oh well.  At least she got her LTW.

Fortunately, she’d earned enough LTH to get  us a moodlet manager to remove all those hideous grief moodlets.

Well, except the girls’ ones.

‘MY MOTHER DIED!!’  Careful, Lancashire, that was almost an ugly face.

Hurry up with the precious toy, Tizer!

It was time to start stalking the townies to assess the ugly.  Ahmad Bayless is a joy, but he’s a little old, and besides if it’s Cricket Ball, I need a girl (I do have same-sex pregnancy mods but it seems like it’ll be harder to do it the natural way so I’m going to try for m/f partnerships.  I reserve the right to change my mind).

The Bayless genes are incredible.  Tay is actually a romantic interest of Bunny’s.  They would have made some excellent uglacy-mate-worthy kids.  I almost regret moving her in now.

This townie is AMAZING.  But again, perhaps a bit old.

Ooooh, now THAT is one potential spouse.  She looks as though she may be the daughter of one of the multi-coloured sims I stuck in the hood.  Cricket Ball, introduce yourself, stat!

Oh, Chase Bayless.  Please have babies.

I went to stalk the school at kicking-out time.  Too pretty.

Still too pretty.

Getting warmer…

Oh, baby, you are smokin’.

Mars was out with Tizer playing tag to help Tizer’s LTW on its way when the twins had their birthday.

Red Nose Day, would it kill you to crack a smile?

Apparently so.

Mars is far too adorable to be in an uglacy.

Dark: ‘Yay, I got my LTW!’  A good job too, as he’s 25 days old so that was pushing it right to the edge.

Cherish’s ghost showed up for the first time and she and Dark started flirting.  This didn’t impress Bunny, who has clearly forgotten she stole her mother’s man in the first place.  I’ve been trying to get Dark and Bunny married as they both want to get married (though didn’t specify to whom), but no matter how much I spam the romance, they don’t even get to go steady.

The first time I tried to caption this photo, WordPress crashed at the hideousness of it all.  Cricket Ball is glitched up with the blue girl from the park, Claire Pincher.  He’s rolled up wants to chat to her and hang out with her, which is all very handy.

Oh yeah, she’ll do.

He wanted to go over to her house, and that was fine by me, though the distance between them doesn’t please me much.

The family had their first ever party and everyone thought Bunny’s brother Notzo was being rude and kept queuing up to boo him.

Lancashire: ‘Woohoo!  I get to leave now, right?’

Yeah, you’re far too pretty to be in this legacy.

Nice try, but off you go.

She broke the computer after agreeing to move out.  Her LTW is Natural Cook and she wants to be a Five-Star Chef.  Who knows whether or not Story Progression will oblige?

These two still won’t marry and Dark’s kind of outliving his welcome now.

Bunny seems *really* impressed with her beloved.  Dark: *Rolls up want for more babies*.  How about NO?

Cricket Ball rolled up frugal and his LTW is physical perfection.  Who knows, this one might even be doable.

Cricket Ball is clearly going to be the heir, so time to age up Claire and get her moved in.

Well, not quite as ugly as I’d hoped, but she aged up in red, so that was a bonus.

Despite her agreeing to move in with no issues, they each kept rejecting the other’s romantic advances.  Boo!

They were all up for trying for a baby in the judges’ chambers, though.

Hooray!  BTW, the creepy cop kept staring at them,  but handily whipped a book out of his butt when I took a picture, as if to convince you that such a thing never happened.

This pleases me.

Bunny got old and I chucked her out.

Red Nose Day promptly followed, after rolling up adventurous and one of the exploring LTWs.  So she’s destined to be very unfulfilled.  Tizer is also way uglier in the bath than she is normally.  Tizer is actually quite close to being an elder now, whilst Mars and Red Nose Day  have just turned YA.  So I guess if you want a fair heir pick on a short legacy, it’s going to have to be two pregnancies max, back to back.

Mars is totally adorable.  She rolled up schmoozer and has the same LTW as Tizer, so I’ll keep her around a little while.  Dark is nearly 30, surely he must die soon?  He’s becoming one of those elders that just hang around long after their worth.

The girls are now spending as much time as they can playing together to try and get those friends.

Claire’s LTW is to be a chess legend.  She also wanted to join the private eye career, but there was no way on Earth that was happening, so she works in education.  She invited her opponent over, only for the opponent to bring her husband, who promptly sat in her seat and READ A BOOK.  Thanks, stupid townies.

Other townies please me more.  Maybe that bump contains a future spouse for Orange gen?

Bunny’s brother Notzo is in a relationship with this fine specimen and they have a son, Loren (way to go with the original naming, game).  I can’t wait to see what he looks like.  OK, he’ll be too closely related to Orange gen for any babies just yet but in a couple of generations’ time, his descendants might be very useful.

Hmmm, I guess chess is going to have to wait.  Join us next time for Orange gen!

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Generations – 2

LTWs – 2

Total – 4

Say hello to Dark Knight.  Isn’t he a fine specimen of a man?  You could argue that he deserves better than to endure lawn-living in the valley of the damned (aka Twinbrook) and the fate of producing five children with the pick of the local talent, but at least he’ll only have to endure the madness for a short time.

Let me explain.  The flu is a dangerous thing.  I was sick the other week and not really well enough to concentrate on work or even on playing the Dayes or Populouses.  My poorly brain somehow decided that what would be fun would be to start a new legacy.  A legacy played on ‘short’ mode, which gives your sims a lifespan of just 25 days.  I’ve also toyed in the past with the idea of an uglacy.  And the idea of a rainbow legacy.  So the obvious thing to do when you’re sick is to start a super-speedy rainbow uglacy, right?

I’ve always wondered what, if anything, sims can achieve in such a short life, and the Knights are about to find out.  I’d like to get some points, but I’m not going to push them too hard for it – the main aim is to have fun and create the ugliest tenth gen child we can using the locals.  Fortunately, we’re in Twinbrook, so it can’t be that hard. The only exception to the townsfolk rule is that I’ve flung a few sims with funny skin colours into the town and added Twallan’s story progression mod so hopefully there’ll be some fugly blue, green etc people in a few generations’ time.

There’s no traditional legacy lot in Twinbrook, so lucky Dark gets some walls, even before he’s left the lot.  He’s still sleeping outside, though.

Here you go: the lovely black generation house.  I’m planning one chapter per generation, as per the other Boolprop ‘super-speedy’ legacies.  Given there will only be one chapter per gen, and I’m only going to be playing the Knights every now and then when I need some quick’n'easy downtime, don’t expect updates very regularly.

Time to hunt up some spouses.  Dark already wants to get married, the softie.  Sadly, the park was empty.  With only a very short lifespan, we have no time to be choosy, so the first ugly chick we come across will be ours.

The girl at the library was way too pretty, so I sent him out again.

And then we saw her outside the library.  Cherish Curious is the mum of Bunny Curious, and I know Bunny turns out interesting.  Bunny’s still a child, so no use to us right now, but her mother is just perfect.  Who cares if she’s married with two children?  Morality can’t get in the way of our pursuit of the ugly.

‘O hai Cherish.  We can make legacy babiesz nao pls’.

Cherish agreed to abandon her baby on the pavement and follow Dark home, where he spammed the friendly interactions on her like nobody’s business.

She soon forgot about the messy business of having a husband.

She agreed to move in, and as she’s already in her adult bar, she was instructed to make babies even before I got round to changing her clothes to black.  She has the same LTW as Dark, so they may both get to fulfil it.

Dark desperately wanted to work in the criminal career (he’s a kleptomaniac) and so here he is working out.  I don’t see his career really going anywhere, but anything that brings in money is fine.

Cherish works in education – again, she’s not likely to advance, but she can stay in that career.  She went out to harvest a whole bunch of fruits for us, as all good first generation legacy sims should.

I hope Cherish enjoys her pregnancy outfit.

I want her to have triplets, so the kids’ channel and music are on all the time.

Except every time I click away from her, the channel has ‘mysteriously’ changed to something else.

The problem with black gen and no money is that the lot’s not very bright.  Apologies.

I keep getting Cherish to invite her husband over so she can divorce him and marry Dark, but he always refuses to come over.  Spoilsport.

Fortunately, Bunny is very happy to come over.  Given her mum’s ovaries might not last long enough to give Dark five offspring, I’m grooming Bunny to step in if we need a new womb.

I should feel sick and wrong about this, but Bebe Populous groomed her paper boy, so I’m an old hand at having sinister motives.

Soon enough, Bunny turned teen and her genes proved entirely suitable.  The joy about speed legacies is no-one stays any age for long.

Cherish Curious, I love you.

(Regular Kyoti and Dayes readers will understand why).

Although sims age much faster on fast mode, pregnancy takes the same length of time.  This better result in multiples, Cherish.

Join us next time (whenever that may be) for generation red!