Generation German, Chapter Four

Hello, and welcome to the new Around the World Legacy. Or, in German, Rund Um Die Welt.

As promised at the end of the last chapter, my save file is now huge. The family needs to move. The town is full (of Edel's children) and story progression is killing people left and right. The legacy house is lovely, but too crowded. It's time to go!
Not only that, but it's time for some new mods. Okay, so CC ate my game alive a few generations ago, and I've been understandably scared of it since then. But I have custom objects now. I have custom hair. I have custom clothes and custom patterns (So. Many. Patterns.) and I have numerous Chimerees and Numerals. I even have a few minor mods.
And story progression has really sucked recently. So… I downloaded a few mods. I now have:
Twallan's Story Progression (plus almost all personalities) and Super Computer and Woohooer
Reaction Removers (finally!)
Aikea's Camera Mod

I'm still going to seed the neighborhood every generation, but now I don't need to use quite as many families. One or two should work fine. I've experimented a bit with the story progression mod and it's amazing! The neighborhood is alive! And it's so customizable. I wish EA could give us something like that.

So those are the new mods, but what will I do about my ginormous save file?
Do you even have to ask?

Welcome to Twinbrook, Legacy Family!

I brought all the paintings, and the ghosts (as you can see, Gummi dropped them off at the graveyard) and sculptures. I also brought some family members. No, not all of Edel's children could come, but some did. Faux and Frac are here, plus his favorite mistress, Lavender, and my simself. The rest of the family was left behind in Sunset Valley.

This is the new house. I spent forever building it, and it's still a bit small for our (projected) needs. I plan on adding on to it when the family needs it.
Downstairs is the front hall, with a bathroom on the left behind the stairs. To the right is the kitchen and small dinning room. On the left is the living room, another hallway, and two bedrooms with three beds each. Outside there is a pool, the garden, and a place to work out, plus the cars and motorcycle.

Upstairs is another hall. On the right are the two bedrooms for parents and grandparents (which switch off every generation) which share a bathroom. On the left is the study, laundry room, nursery, and another bathroom. If the family needs it, I plan to expand the nursery and add another room for things like the tattoo station, makeover station, sculpting station, etc.

Before moving I had the family sell all their businesses, which paid for most of this house. They had close to $3,000,000! I've never had a family that ridiculously rich (without cheating) before! When they got to Twinbrook they bought all the businesses immediately. I was surprised that they could afford to buy all of them so easily! Maybe we'll play around with this upgrading lots thing. If it costs money, the family will be glad to do it. After all that spending they still have well over $200,000.

Anyway, the family got right back to their normal routine... oh. That's the old house. Where are the pictures of them in the new house?

No.

No.

No.

Uh, guys? I seem to have, uh, neglected to take any pictures of the girls' childhoods in the new house. It's not like they did anything exciting. They worked on their respective skills - inventing, writing, and wasting time - for a day, then went to the cakes. I know this chapter is mostly me babbling on without any exciting pictures, so let's just skip right to it.

-ahem- Before long the girls were ready to grow up.

Gabe grew up... well, not ugly, I would say, but not the most gorgeous of girls either. I believe she added the perceptive trait.

Galle added hydrophobic (I didn't get to pick the girls' traits this time, since they all had Cs from just moving into town). I think she's lovely. She totally has that beach-babe thing going on.

As long as you don't view her from the side.

I thought Gummi was cute (in a Gwen Hadley sort of way) until I realized that she had the same exact face as her mother, and I had given her the same haircut (in my defense, it's hard to find one that looks good with that chin).

So I changed her hair. But I'm not to thrilled with her anymore. Not very unique, is she?

So I sent her off to learn to cook while Gabe registered as a self-employed inventor, and Galle became a self-employed writer.

And I leave you with pictures of our three neurotic (potential) heiresses, having a good freak out (except Gabe couldn't get out of her bed).

Ah. Nothing like a good scream to start off the morning.

Generation German, Chapter Three

Hello, and welcome to the new Around the World Legacy. Or, in German, Rund Um Die Welt.

Last time, Fais had neurotic triplet girls - Gummi, Galle, and Gabe - and everyone dropped what they were doing to train them.

They are extremely cute!

All three got fully trained just in time for their birthday! They all added the unlucky trait (family trait).

Gabe - Unlucky, Neurotic, and Eccentric - is sort of growing into her looks, but it's hard to find a good picture of her.

Gummi - Unlucky, Neurotic, and Disciplined - is the most conventionally pretty. She likes orange, but I felt weird with two orange girls and one in purple, so I changed her clothes to yellow.

Galle - Unlucky, Neurotic, and Perceptive - is in orange. She's a mix between her two sisters' looks, I think.

I sent our second little inventor down into the basement to start working. She looks so tiny next to that huge workbench. Faux's trophy is almost bigger than her!

I started Gummi on the toy oven - we haven't had a chef in the family in a long time - and figured she could try to sell her wares, but that didn't really go that well.

She stood outside for hours, but no one came to buy. People say the table makes sims flock to your lot, but she didn't have one customer.

The next day she adjusted the price based on the bakery report and went to a community lot for a bake sale. She sold one item all day.

Frustrated, I kind of left her to her own devices, until she was brought home by the curfew police. Galle, meanwhile, was following in great-grandma Dårlig's footsteps and writing. She's aimed toward romance novels. This time, instead of quantity of novels, I think I want to go for money. She'll be doing the writing career as soon as she's old enough.

Edel is, quite honestly, waiting around to die. He's retired, his LTW was completed ages ago, he's maxed painting, logic, and charisma, and now he's just fooling around with random skills. He works out, tends the garden (but mostly Fais does that because she's eco-friendly) and cooks a few meals before retreating to his easel to make more money that we don't need. The family owns almost all the businesses and community lots, except for three. The profits are HUGE. Plus adventuring money left over from Chyba, and four generations of painters, etc.

I sent Gabe out to look for scrap at the junkyard one night after school, since we haven't gone yet, but it hasn't been very beneficial. Seems easier just to buy the scrap from the table, especially if you have a child inventor and they can't leave the lot in the middle of the night because of the psycho curfew police.

I have nothing to say about this picture, it's just a pretty shot of the yard.

Lame chapter. Next time: my save file is too huge, the girls grow up (hopefully), and the family moves house?

Generation German, Chapter Two

Hello, and welcome to the new Around the World Legacy. Or, in German, Rund Um Die Welt.

Last time, Dårlig died, we were getting started on generation G, and my banner gave away a little bit about what was going on with Fais' pregnancy.

Fais has been gardening almost non-stop. It's practically the only escape from kids music (I've even got it in the bathroom, ah!)

I missed their word bubbles because Marc's kept going into the wall, but their conversation went something like:
"Babies?"
"Rubbish!"

When he's not talking about rubbish with his very pregnant wife, Marc is... Wait a second, what's that sound?

Fais is in labor! Quick, join her at the hospital, Marc!

"Do I have to? I'm busy showing off my tattoos!"
I said go!
"I don't wanna."

And so he didn't. Fais went all by herself, and ran into a few of her father's mistresses on her way in.

She came out with this little basket of joy! Inside were three neurotic baby girls.

Gummi is neurotic and disciplined. Her name means Rubber in German.
Galle is neurotic and perceptive. Her name means Gall Bladder.
Gabe is neurotic and eccentric, and her name means Gift.

It looks like we're in for a generation of hand washing.

I decided to have their birthdays the next day, and forgot to have the cakes upstairs so they wouldn't have to be carried all the way down just to be brought right back up.

Gabe grew up with her father's black hair, along with his eyes and unfortunate nose, but she got Wolfe's pink eyes.

Gummi is cute. She has the white hair, but different eyes. I suspect she got The Nose too, but it doesn't look so unfortunate on her.

Galle has a wide jaw, and a very flat face.

No, seriously. She also has Mel's hair color, which is cool. It means I have triplets with three different hair colors again.

I had that once in the Hadley Legacy, but it was more noticeable because the three colors were vastly different. This time the white hair and the blond look pretty much the same. It doesn't help that those two girls love the color orange.

I set up a TSAL and had the girls basically jump over each other as they went down, then double back to get the books they missed. It was confusing, but they eventually all got through it rather quickly (though at different rates).

I suspect that Gummi's disciplined trait is making her needs decrease more slowly (at least social never seems to be low!) so she can skill for longer. Galle also seems to learn faster thanks to her perceptive trait. Poor Gabe started first, but still finished last!

They did all learn to speak at roughly the same time, though. I haven't potty trained or gotten them to walk yet, but so far I have a collection of very well trained toddlers building relationships at the block tables while their parents and grandparents get happy enough to return and help them skill... though by then the toddlers will all be hungry, smelly, and sleepy again! Seems like the parents and babies are never on the same schedule.

Generation German, Chapter One

Hello, and welcome to the new Around the World Legacy. Or, in German, Rund Um Die Welt.

Last time, the legacy kids were growing up, and Frac got engaged and moved out.

Fais grew up so pretty! She didn't roll any LTW related to tattooing (does one exist?) and all hers were job related, so now she wants to do the new medical track.

Faux is lovely too, but I like Fais better. I decided to let Fais tattoo as a hobby and work as a doctor for a career.

So Fais tattoo'd her sister.

Then Faux moved out.

Fais needed tattoos too, so she headed off to the tattoo parlor, but the artist died before she got in the chair! There was no option to get a tattoo from a professional there any more, so she headed to the spa instead.

She got three tattoos there, which I love.





Then she rushed home to give her mother a tattoo.

Just a small one, at the base of her spine.

The next morning, she started the important work of bagging a husband. Marc Brandt, her best friend, came over.

He accepted her advances up to a point.

He even agreed to be her boyfriend.

But when she got down on one knee...

Turns out he's afraid of commitment! FRAC!

So she asked him to move in instead.

And then he was the one to propose.

While Fais set up a wedding party for that evening, I gave Marc a tiny little make over.

Then I had Marc propose marriage, because I was afraid he'd flee if given the choice.
Of course, this gave them the small problem of being Mr. and Mrs. Brandt rather than the traditional family name...

But oh well, Alphabetacy is a stupid surname anyway!

Fais then gave a tattoo to her new husband. He already had a bunch, and I left them mostly the same, but I didn't really like the back piece, so I changed it.

Then it was time for some baby making.
"What happened to that slinky black dress you were wearing? It matched my tux!"
"I thought I'd show off my hot pink pajamas instead."

The next day, between listening to kids music and watching kids TV while discussing her fertility treatments, Fais discovered she was pregnant.

I allowed her to garden without the music, but other than that she spent the next three days listening to that annoying tune (and so did everyone else!) Okay, so she got a break while sleeping too.

Meanwhile, the game told me Edel was about to become an elder, and sure enough he was only days away from his birthday, however Mel was still at the bottom of her age bar. That's strange, seeing as she was also at the bottom of her age bar when he was a teenager! I decided to let them age up together.

It was hard to find a look that worked for an older Edel. He was so thin and young looking before!

I think Mel is still quite pretty! Finally, a sim that ages well. I was starting to think it was a myth.

Then the family gathered 'round and cheered for Dårlig (Marc was at work, he's in the military). I have NO IDEA why. Why is Edel carrying a yeti sign as he cheers and the gals throw confetti? Dårlig didn't even notice.

But several hours later, she kicked the bucket. I guess she couldn't live long enough to see her great-grandchildren, even though she lived for a long, long time.

And so, generation D comes to a close. With Generation G right around the corner, there's hardly time to mourn. I'm not that sad, since it's been a long time coming, including TWO death flowers. However... I will miss Wolfe and Dårlig. They were a wonderful pair.