Sunday, July 18, 2010

Generation German, Chapter Eleven



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

Last time, Death's twins became toddlers, and I became bored.

Galle amused me (temporarily) by having to stop the angry gnomes. It was actually harder than I anticipated. I do like playing this career, I just wish it would load quicker. Unlike other people, this legacy (and now the Hadley legacy) is my only save file, so I do all my testing out of new things here. I do so love this family.
I would just love it more if they were quicker.

I resisted the urge to grow the twins up early, though, and they finally became children!


So Geschehen is really hard to style, since you can't really see his face.

I think they look relatively similar, though, if he didn't have the black skin. Winnie's hair is a more natural blond, though, like Mel's.

And just in case you forgot that everyone this generation is neurotic, here's someone freaking out right next to the computer.



Allow me to introduce you to what every day in the legacy house is like.



Lather, rinse, repeat.




C-C-C-Combo breaker.

I had Fais try an experimental treatment, and she swallowed a pill as big as her head! Then she felt nauseous. Wonder why. I was going to make a new banner for this generation with this picture and maybe the grim reaper or something, since the triplets basket doesn't apply as much any more (they're having kids of their own by now!) but this generation's almost over anyway (uh, I hope). I'm going to be so glad once we finally have some Hungarian babies.

I had Marc sculpt, and after he made his first clay guy, he was able to sculpt metal if he had scrap in his inventory. I'm sad I missed that with Frac, so he's doing almost entirely that. I want him to learn how to do the octopus guy and make one for me in metal.


Sometimes, instead of playing chess, I have Geschehen paint. There's not much for a child to do around here. He could invent, but Gabe already did that this generation. Besides, he paints things with an evil red tint!

Firefighting is really the most exciting thing in my day, it's hard to resist taking pictures of the pretty flames.

Galle is getting all sorts of rewards, too. She has this ax and coat, plus two or three awards from city hall.

And then, after what seemed like forever, the twins were ready to grow up into teens.

Winnie is kind of cute. I could see her having cute freckles and giggling.


Geschehen just annoys me, though. I haven't gotten to pick his traits since birth (but I've picked his sister's) and he's all grumpy and techniphobic (or something like that). Blah. I can't even see his face.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Generation German, Chapter Ten



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

Last time, Fais had different gendered twins with Death, and the triplets grew up.
I don't know if I remembered to mention it, but Faux is now dating someone named Cruz. Gummi is dating Fate, and Gabe's expecting a child with someone named Hassan.

Galle and Fritz are waiting for all the kids to grow up so they can reproduce. Seems like everyone's having kids these days.

I managed to resist the urge to grow the twins up early, though. I know, I know. Be proud.

Geshehen's face is like a black hole.

You can kind of see his features if he has the face paint on. Don't worry, it came off quickly. I just wanted to see if he looked weird.

Unfortunately, Winnie is rather normal looking.

Everyone's pitching in to make sure the twins are properly trained before they have to grow up. At least now we know Fritz will make a great father some day.

Fais is stretched rather thin. With her job, the garden, and her kids, she hardly ever has any time for herself!

Galle, meanwhile, is stealing a ton of my attention with her fire-fighting career. My computer takes forever (like 20-30 minutes) to load a new location, so when disaster strikes, it takes a while to deal with. I hope she'll be rescuing a bunch of sims soon. She'll be back to the writing career as soon as possible, I think... though it is kind of cool.

So while at home, the toddlers are being trained...

...Galle is putting out fires all over town. Though she hasn't actually saved anyone's life yet.

When she's not putting out fires, Galle writes her romance novels from the station.

Soon it's time for Gefahr to grow up.

Galle and Fritz snuck away from the party to flirt autonomously. I love it.

Gefahr is... um, well, kind of like Gabe. So much so that I typed her name instead of his.

Things have become boring. It's a waiting game. Waiting for the little ones to grow up. Waiting to see their genetics. Maybe that's why my updates are taking longer right about now. There's no excitement.


Everyone skills quietly, goes to work quietly. It's boring.

At least it's a cute boredom.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Generation German, Chapter Nine



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

Last time, Mel and Edel died, and Fais got pregnant with the Grim Reaper's baby.

The triplets are continuing to skill. I still don't know what to do with Gummi, so she drifts between sculpting, logic, and cooking.

Galle continues to write, and has reached level five in the writing career. If you have any writers in your game, they definitely should do it! You earn promotions from the money you get from your books anyway, so you don't even have to do anything extra!

Gabe is inventing and occasionally plays chess with Gummi when she's lonely or bored.

Fais is meditating through her pregnancy. I wish it still froze their needs like it used to, that would make this so much easier.

I suppose she has to get up sometimes. It's Gefahr's birthday!

He is neurotic, insane, and unlucky. Yes, this truly is the neurotic generation.

That night, Fais goes into labor in the garden! At last! I'm hoping for twin girls.

Aw, it's a little boy! And he has his father's skintone!

But where'd that little girl come from? It's mixed gender twins! I have no idea how that happened, my only guess is that one of the mods I have installed allows for that (which I kind of like).
The boy is named Geschehen which means Happen in German. He is evil and a heavy sleeper.
The girl is Gewinnen which means Win. I was thinking we could call her Winnie. She is also Evil and something else I don't remember.

"Hmm... Baby. Crying baby... I don't think I like this any more."

The next day was Saturday, and I decided to throw a huge birthday for the triplets. Fritz came too, and got to become a young adult because I wasn't in the mood for waiting for him to grow up.

"Hmm... Gabe."
"Hmm... Galle."
"Hmm... Dishwasher."

The party lagged my game like wicked, so I didn't get many pictures until after everyone left.

I think Gabe kind of grew into her looks. I was actually kind of stunned when I saw her. She's... pretty! She wants to be a ghost hunter! I moved her out, though, since I've already decided she's not the heiress.

Gummi wants to be a Top Chef.
She'll have to find Tom Colicchio on her own, though, because I moved her out. I was going to let her stay, but when I confused her and Fais three times in ten minutes, it was time for her to go.

That just leaves Galle. I like Galle. She's pretty. She rolled brave as her final trait. She wants to be a firefighter and save 30 people.
You can tell I like her because I took a ton of pictures of her. Normally I shoot 3 pictures of a sim from 3 angles (straight on, turned a little, and moving) then pick the best one later. I shot 5 pictures of Galle in each position.

I'm not going to spam you with every single picture of her, but here are a few of my favorites! You'll notice I gave her a scar. I figure, she's a firefighter now, she's going to have scars!

I also didn't move her out right away (ooh, ah!) I figure, if the little ones grow up and I don't like them, then she'll work on her LTW and be the heiress and start making babies once they move out. If they grow up and I do like them and pick one of them for heir(ess), then she'll work on her LTW and move out once they're old enough to take the throne. I'm also a little scared that Marc and maybe even Fais will die before the kids are old enough to look after themselves.

I also let her invite Fritz over to woo him again. While they were flirting and building up their relationship I discovered that the timestream was being very kind to Gummi. She's already dating Fate Sparrow, Fritz's sister that she hit on that one time, after maybe 3 hours of being out of the house. Go Gummi!

Galle and Fritz (I think his real name is something lame like Franz, Fritz is better) are so cute together. Their relationship was quickly rekindled.

So she got down on one knee. Of course he said yes, and promptly moved into the legacy household.
Sure, I could have let the timestream take care of him, but I don't want him going anywhere. Better to have him here, where I can keep an eye on him. Besides, an extra pair of hands can help with the babies!

Franz "Fritz" Sparrow is a young adult with dark brown hair and really cool eyes. He wants to be an international super spy and he's already in the police career (thank you, story progression!) He is unlucky and neurotic (two traits pretty much everyone in the house has). I think his other traits are excitable, angler, and clumsy, but don't quote me on that. His favorite color is green, but I dressed him in red... just because.

And he has a funny nose.