silvereriena | The Claddife Legacy 1.2 (Reply)

I might re-try the Picklesworth Legacy and redo Gen. 5, seeing as

raemia has been helping me figure out what's caused my hood to implode on itself. With any luck, she could extract the remaining family members for me. WE SHALL SEE. In the meantime, new chapter!

So last time, our plucky founder Rue had found a potential mate in adorable waitress Rosie. I say 'potential' but come on, now. I've already singled her out as the companion of Rue's future life. Like Mr. Collins, I won't take no for an answer ~~unless Rosie leaves the room~~.

The challenge this week was to give the whole lot a red makeover. Rosie contributes by giving us a lovely rose bouquet. It's like she knows, the little cutie patater!

... Also, a pinball machine. Which is going straight for sale! KA-CHINNNG. I think this proves that Rosie is prime founder-spouse material.

You know what this means: MORE DATES. Dates everywhere! Dates so numerous my Sims will forget what it's like to have wants that don't revolve around another person!

Rue: Bowling sound good to you?

Rosie: You go, sweetie! Bowl a strike as sweet as a chef's dessert!

That doesn't make much sense, but the sentiment is appreciated, I'm sure! God, now I want that tiny slice of Cheesecake Factory chocolate cake in the fridge but my mother will kill me if I steal it

HOLY GEEZ who swings a bowling ball that high!? Are you trying to break the floorboards, woman?

... WELP.

Rue: >:T

Don't feel bad! This is just how I bowl! I suck majorly for the first half hour, then I manage to improve and get a strike or two in there only to start sucking balls at the end. It's like my performance anxiety fluctuates (often depending on how well the people next to me bowl and then I just slgjhsdfgl and run off to get nachos or something).

Rosie: Alright, you can do this. You gotta impress Rue with your mad skills. If you can wait tables without slipping on cooking oil, you can handle a bowling alley!

Well, already she's not hurling that thing like she's at a Scottish Highland game. Point in her favour!

lolololol. At least you both suck together?

Rosie: Dang! I slipped!

This is what happens when your bowling alley doesn't make you change shoes. OH U SIMS

Rue: BAHAHAHAHAHA

If you want your girlfriend's help in creating Generation 2, I suggest you cease your guffawing.

Did I mention this is a bowling alley/karaoke bar? Double the profits (if anyone ever rolls wants to own businesses in this legacy which... I hope not. I DID THAT LTW ONCE OKAY IT WAS ENOUGH).

I would've picspammed their off-key duet of love, but time's-a-ticking when you're on a Simdate so I had them do more productive things, like talking with their tongues. It's a whole 'nother language!

Sweetness! *Gets down with her spotless self*

Back home, Patrick comes over for a visit. That one chemistry bolt between them just can't keep him away! So I just have to keep giving ACR the stinkeye to make sure nothing UNSEEMLY happens. I'm watching you, ACR. I KNOW YOU STRIKE SILENT AND DEADLY LIKE A GAS PASS.

Patrick: Who the hell is that?

Our newest resident to the legacy house! Go on, try to look more affronted.

HELLO. Sweet simoleons that we can spend to build rooms for future kidlets! I HAVE CHOSEN WELL.

Patrick: You know, before you came I was her first choice, right?

LIES. ALL LIES. *Shakes fist in indignation*
Just watch him flirt with like... generation 4 or something when they're rich.

Don't see why he's complaining, really. Someone's rebounded fast! Townie romances, man. They just never have the decency to keep that shit on community lots.

Rosie post-makeover wearing the same red outfit as Rue because I thought it'd fit her. She's a Family Sim and her LTW is to marry off 6 children. Oh good, now you'll just have to spend all of your dates in the bedroom dancing the blanket hornpipe (because our ancestors had the best sex euphemisms and you can't convince me otherwise).

This is the Internet! Obviously you have to go with the most popular thing at the moment. Perhaps this will prompt a gaming company to actually make Interstellar Cyborg Marine Tag because that sounds hysterical.

HA! Fortune favours the red!

Rue and Rosie are now that annoying couple who dress alike. They have alliterative names for Pete's sake, it's like they are asking for everyone to side-eye them! Except that the matching clothes are temporary and how can you side-eye this? <3

A betrothal? Why don't mind if I do.

Rue: I'm not so sure about this...

What are you talking about? This what she wants! It's foolproo—

Rosie: Nope.

WAT. MY P&P REFERENCE WAS A JOKE. How could you do this to me? DDDDD: Is it all the red? I swear it'll be gone by Monday! You won't have to look at any variant of ruby, scarlet or crimson after this week!

That's when I remembered that hungry Sims are cranky Sims who reject proposals, so I had to feed them both and then work that date bar back up to a good score (because Rosie's refusal made it spiral down to 'horrible'). And what the hell, a little nookie is sure to seal the deal.

ATTEMPT NUMERO DEUX! I am on tenterhooks!

Rue: Victory is mine!

*Narrator voice* And so once again the day is saved! Thanks to the Power of Sex!

Rosie: EEEEEH I'm so excited!

Me too! Doubly so because I'm making chicken parmesan for dinner tonight!

Newly betrothed Rosie has a plethora of playful points which I hope will be passed on to the kids! She is the captain of the HMS Ceramic Tub!

It's a ship that badly needs a paint job and proper flooring but the horizon is a sight to behold!

Bathroom shenanigans aside, I decided to at least dress the girls up nicely for their intimate wedding, with I as a witness. A marriage that also nabs us another dream date? AYE

At this point, just assume that anytime the girls are interacting with each other, that means they're on a date. That's pretty much their state half the time.

Also lots of blowing of the grounsils lololol (I am easily amused).

Rosie: *POP*

Goddamn, that was immediate! ... Well, not really. I believe she got pregnant just before their engagement.

Rosie: AAAAAARRRRRGHHH SHE CANNOT TAKE MUCH MORE

The HMS Ceramic Tub has sprung a leak! MECHANICAL POINTS, TO OUR AID

... Is it considered a health violation if weeds grow in your bathroom? I just don't want to paint the house until the red challenge is completely over.

Since Rue's the only one bringing the bacon home at this point, chance cards are making me a mite nervous. Of course, that doesn't mean she won't stand and fight. THIS IS A LEGACY, KIDS. ALL OR NOTHING

HAAAAALLELUJAH

Rue: BLAAAARGHGHFJGHFJG

Your wife wants 6 of the little sproglets, so you better get used to this.

At this point, I realized that all of these dream dates were GODSENDS at keeping two pregnant Sims' motives up. The silver lining around this LTW! I has found it!

Rue: *POPS* HOLY SECOND TRIMESTER BATMAN

It's a new week! I have changed all of the kitchen appliances to their original colours and have added vibrancy + a new baby bedroom. Now it's time to roll for a new challenge and see whether my cringing is justified.

... BUT I JUST REMODELLED THE HOUSE.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

So I pulled the girls out and flattened the previously hilly terrain and then built a whole new house on it. No one said I couldn't use the same outdoor colours! FEEL MY VINDICATION

The girls didn't care one hoot that their funds had been reduced (mainly due to the terrain flattening) to a point that if they get pregnant again immediately following these first babies, I'm not sure we'd have enough money to build a second nursery. On the other hand: more time for dating!

Rue + Rosie: We're so fertile
Watch us pop
We'll make babies
'Til we drop!

I may be clutching my face in fear now, but think of all the possibilities for heirship!

IT BEGINS.

Out comes the firstborn of generation 2, a little girl named Estelle. She's got Rue's eyes and Rosie's hair. The skintone seems to be independent, possibly due to my rolling the pacifier beforehand.

Being a Family Sim, Rosie didn't even need my prodding to care for Estelle. So enthusiastic was she that she SHOVED THAT BOTTLE THROUGH HER DAUGHTER'S NOSE OH GOD

Rosie: Goodbye grease fires and hello recess!

Have fun keeping kids from eating paste!

Since the girls will be tag-teaming on paycheck duty, Rue does her part by making more family friends. With this Aaron fellow, for example!

Aaron: OH GOSH YES I LOOOVE BABIES. WOULD HAVE ME A BAKER'S DOZEN SPREAD AROUND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IF I COULD

Speaking of babies...

Rue: SOMEONE GET IT OUUUUUUUUUTTTTT

Rosie: *Endures intense sympathy pains*

Another girl, Champagne, whose first contact with life outside the womb is the cold, shaggy carpeting. Rue was so exhausted after the delivery she plopped the baby down and went to bed. So, uh... hi Champagne! Welcome to floordoom!
Lessee... S4 skin, Rue's eyes and also Rosie's hair.

Mama Rosie to the rescue! At least one of them has enough energy to take care of the babies!

Rosie: *SPLAT*

... Can I cover my words in melted cheese before I eat them?

Nah, Rue totally finds time to say hello to the little ones after she got a few hours of sleep. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm suddenly hoping for twins or triplets just so I can reduce the number of pregnancies needed.

We end this update with... *GASP SHOCK HORROR* a visit from the nanny. Fingers crossed that she lands somewhere on the competency scale between a rock and an athletic amoeba!