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mlek13 · 4 months
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Winter, Year 8: Royals
(I set up this post wrong. Hopefully not putting the title in the right place does not mess up the formatting.)
I have been eager to get to this household since Lila and Deven rolled wants to get married last season.
At the start of the season, Princess Lila invites Deven Langerak over to propose and he accepts!
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Deven still had a day left in university, but I had him skip it so he could move in and they could get married right away. (I didn't feel like bothering with the semester timer to let him finish in the castle, because it doesn't really matter.)
I invited aunts and uncles, siblings and their spouses, and few close friends. Even a limited guest list is a crowd.
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They had a beautiful ceremony in the snow.
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The guests take the party inside to dance and feast.
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Queen Rosalin wants to become a witch, so she invites her good friend Justice over to see if he can help her. I didn't see any interaction for her to ask him to make that happen, so she didn't get her want.
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Her time as a witch would have been brief, because her life had reached its end. :(
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Queen Rosalin was the second queen of the realm. Her rule began following the death of her mother, Queen Lilliana, in the summer of Year 5, and lasted 43 simdays.
Queen Rosalin and her twin brother, Prince Florian, were the oldest of Queen Lilliana and King Anton's seven children. All except their younger brother, Prince Oliver, survive. Queen Rosalin was married twice. Her first husband, King Kevin Lam, who immigrated from a foreign kingdom, was the father of her four children, and died in the winter of Year 5 from the seasonal plague. They had been married for 17 simdays. She later remarried Grant Allbee in the summer of Year 8. Their marriage may have only been for 7 simdays, but they were happy in their golden years together.
Queen Rosalin is survived by her husband, Grant Allbee; her four children Elton, Laurence, Calvin, and Lila; ten grandchildren Roman, Louisa, Rosalie, Helena, and Adelaide Durden, Ansel and Laura Cade, Randall and Candace Clarett, and Kenton; her twin brother Florian, and her younger sisters Violette, Hyacinth, Dahlia, and Petunia. She also leaves behind her trusted ladies' maid, Lydia Mamuyac and her favored niece Nova.
Queen Rosalin survived to the impressive age of 85 simdays.
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The entire household is devastated by her loss.
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They also lose three family pets this season. The cat legacy I was attempting for this family has been broken. I know there are descendants of their original cats elsewhere in the neighborhood. I could try to adopt one of them into the family or just continue with the dogs. For awhile, there were way too many pets in this household and I'm not sure if I want to have to deal with that many again.
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Grant tries to encourage everyone to look to the future. There's still Lila's new baby to look forward to. Maybe she's carrying the next heir to the throne.
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Unfortunately Lila and Alida are not comforted by his hopefully words. They are still very much consumed with grief and finding it hard to be optimistic.
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But they have to keep moving forward.
Lila goes into labor. The baby is a boy, so unfortunately not an heir, but they are happy to welcome baby Dillon to the family all the same.
Before the season is over Lila and Deven are already trying for their next child. I think it is unlikely that they won't produce an heir in the future, but if they do not, Lila's nieces (Elton and Lucretia's daughters) are next in line for the throne. It will be interesting to see how it ends up playing out.
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Big brother, Kenton, has his birthday this season too.
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Preparations are made for Queen Lila's coronation. To mark the beginning of her reign, Lydia sets to work painting Queen Lila's portrait.
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Once it is finished, it is hung in the main hall next to the portraits of Lila's mother and grandmother.
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Family members and heads of the main noble houses are invited to the castle for a memorial service and coronation.
Lila chats with her eldest brother, Elton.
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Princess Violette takes a quiet moment to sit in the throne room with her sister's urn, before Princess Dahlia joins her. The sisters recall how happy Rosalin was to see her daughter's wedding just days ago.
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The season ends with a couple of birthdays in the servants' quarters. Alice reaches her elder years and Alida reaches adulthood. Next season Lydia, Alice, and Alida are going to move out of the castle to pursue their own ambitions and I have already moved in someone new to fill Lydia's role and be a ladies' maid to Queen Lila.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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Fall, Year 8: Meanwhile in a Neighboring Kingdom
I'm going to skip a lot of pictures that I took in my subhood and just mention some highlights. Some of these pictures are from gameplay from almost a year ago that I played early in the season, some are from a week or two ago.
Faith Mace returned home from university with a toddler and twin infants to her already full family home. Her uncle Rex and his wife Amy are also living the family home with two of their older children, twin toddlers, and a new baby on the way.
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With 5-6 infants/toddlers in the house at once, I had to do some remodeling to accommodate all of the little ones.
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It was hectic. Luckily there were a lot of adults (and a couple of teens) to pitch in.
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At the Langerak's, Sitara and Vincent have a baby girl named Vaeda.
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They immediately (and I mean immediately) drop the baby in the hands of the butler and set to getting pregnant again. Geez, give your body a second to recover.
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They are very devoted parents though. And Lakshmi is a very involved grandmother.
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Sitara's oldest daughter becomes a teenager and is discovering boys.
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I liked the idea of her and Aldric Cade hitting it off and uniting the two main vampire families, but, despite their chemistry, they did not get along. (Actually, never mind. I realize they are related. They're like first cousins once removed. Almost everyone is related in this neighborhood at this point.)
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Leela also finds herself at odds with her stepfather, Vincent.
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Lakshmi and Venkat are still going strong. I had to cut them off from having more children, since Lakshmi is a great-great grandmother and Venkat is a great-grandfather. They have to be the oldest sims in the kingdom.
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Celeste spends some time in her late mother's potions shoppe. She brings her granddaughter, Cordelia, to lend a hand, but she's not too helpful. Her boyfriend, Drake, is a better worker when he accompanies her the next day.
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Ione and Earnest's youngest child, Edgar, becomes a teenager. He looks a little alien.
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I'm sad when it's time to say goodbye to Earnest. Ione steps in like she's about to go with him.
Earnest was an interesting character, The second son of peasants Byron and Jenee, he was always getting in fights with other sims, especially his older brother, Jeremiah, and his next youngest sister Madeline. But that seemed to be a trend with all of Byron and Jenee's children. They really disliked their closest in age siblings. With a lot of effort and family fishing trips, Jeremiah and Earnest eventually became close friends.
He lost touch with most of his family and fellow peasants when he met the love his life, Ione King, and moved to the subhood to be with her. As a peasant who fell in love with nobility, he married way above his class. But since Ione was nobility from a neighboring kingdom (and they were cute together) they got away with it.
Earnest is survived by his wife, Ione, their three children Ian, Evangeline, and Edgar, grandchildren Inez Burgos, and Irving Lyndlia, siblings Jeremiah, Madeline, and Patrick. He was preceded in death by his parents, Byron and Jenee, and sister Rebekah. Earnest was 80 simdays old.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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Fall, Year 8: Peasants, pt. 5
I really enjoy how close Hugo and Brooke's daughters are.
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Marlowe was about to go to bed, but had to run out to the street to hug her mother hello first.
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Marsha grows into a teenager.
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And is still BFFs with her older sister.
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Meadow and Vaughn have a tempestuous relationship. She finds herself conflicted on her feelings about him.
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They end up sleeping together multiple times (which I did not take a picture of) but Meadow had better watch out that she doesn't get hurt, since she isn't the only girl Vaughn has expressed an interest in. She has some competition with Brandine and Marianne.
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I thought Hugo and Brooke were a solid couple, but when Hugo got fired and was home while Brooke was at work, he had an affair with a apartment townie!
Then slept with Brooke after she got home, like nothing had happened!
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It caught up to him when I played the neighbor's lot. We will have to wait until next season to see what the fallout will be . . .
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Marsha: Oh, you're a werewolf, so do you like eat rats?
Marsha! You can't just ask someone that!
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Brooke caught Hugo cheating while I was playing Braxton and Rosemarie's lot where I caught a rare peaceful moment between their twins, Orlando and Rosanna. It's mostly been an effort to keep them from fighting every second.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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Fall, Year 8: Peasants, pt. 4
The only picture I have of Christa and Elias' household is the birth of their latest baby, Crispin. As I recall, they are still struggling to make ends meet and keep up with the rent.
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At Ezra and Marissa's, the family keeps busy. Ezra keeps wanting to plant more crops, so their garden keeps expanding and is taking up most of their small yard.
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Georgina helps a lot with pulling weeds and with fishing as the family prepares for winter.
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She's not a fan of the family's roommate. He has a townie girlfriend. I think I moved her in with the intention of moving them out together or letting them start a family. (I don't remember either of their names.)
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My poorhouse families finally have enough funds to move into regular apartments, which is good because the lot was having a problems with their yards not registering as part of the apartment and was limiting their already tiny space.
Juliana and Sebastian move into one of the complexes that houses peasants and merchants. It has a lively common area and they fit right in.
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Juliana gives birth in their new apartment lot to a second baby girl named Siobhan.
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And their elder daughter, Gillian, becomes a teenager.
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Hazel and Damian move with their boys to the new lot where Madeline, Jess, Ava, and Jonas are living now. Hazel and the boys commemorate their move by planting a tree in their backyard.
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Damian celebrates the move by asking Hazel to marry him. (They have been autonomously engaged and broken up before. I'm not sure if it will stick or not. Maybe they just needed to get in a better financial position / living situation to make a commitment.)
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Fall, Year 8: Peasants, pt. 3
Brenna goes into labor and delivers a baby boy named Grayson.
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She and Corbin have been planning to tie the knot for awhile. They finally find the time to make it official.
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Brenna's older boys have birthdays. Britton is a teenager and Jarrod is an adult.
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In another household, Vivian and Alon's son, Vaughn, reaches adulthood.
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I really don't know what happened here. I have no explanation for it other than a glitch or a freak accident, but somehow Ash caught on fire.
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I was so stunned that I decided to let it play out. Besides the closest sim who could intervene was Vivian and she was trapped in the shower as this was going on behind her.
R.I.P. former apartment townie Ash Guevara. Ash is survived by his pregnant wife Evelyn, daughter Ashlynn, and son Vance.
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Evelyn is devastated.
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She has to put her mourning aside because it's time to give birth. Baby boy Asher is named in honor of his late father.
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Evelyn copes with the loss of her husband by spending time with their young children.
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She makes the most of Vance's last toddler days before he becomes a child.
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Former butler Ralph visits and thinks there's a fire on the lot and that it's his job to call the fire department until I delete the invisible fire on the lot.
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That wasn't the only glitch from Ash's death. On Madeline and Jess's lot in another apartment complex, I kept getting messages about how Ash had died on another lot. Moving them out of their apartment and back in didn't help, so I ended up moving them to a new apartment lot I had built but haven't used yet.
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Since Ava and Jonas are expecting, I moved them out of the single's lot and back in with Madeline and Jess.
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It was probably better for Jonas to leave the singles' lot as it was getting difficult to keep his various lovers from getting jealous.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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Fall, Year 8: Peasants, pt. 2
It is time for Autumn and Brandon to welcome a new baby!
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Actually, it's twin boys! Their names are Edwin and Edgar.
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Luckily, big brother Connor is a huge help with the babies.
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Which is much needed because their parents aren't getting any younger. In fact, Autumn has her elder birthday this season.
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She isn't the only one growing up. Brandine becomes an adult his round.
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And the twins end the season as new toddlers.
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Over at Jeremiah's the family loses their roommate, Jan Landchild, and one of their family pets.
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Walter and Jayne are fed up with their boys playing ball in the house.
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The next day, Walter gets his son outdoors to do some fishing.
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Jenna goes into labor and the couple welcomes her and Walter's third son, Wyatt, to the family.
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Meanwhile, their middle child, Wesley, has his child birthday and Jayne's son, Johnny, becomes a teenager.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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Fall, Year 8: Peasants, pt. 1
Ward and Marjorie keep busy with twin toddlers
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and it only gets busier with the birth of new baby, Wallace.
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Luckily, the twins, Martha and Jordan, are soon out of diapers.
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Monica returns home from a trying day at work. (I don't remember why I took this photo. I'm not sure if she got fired or demoted or something. I need to take notes.) In their last season post I said I was going to move her to the singles' lot, but I did not. Maybe it was because I was thinking of her as an heir and it's only her, her teenage brother, and her elderly father living on this lot.
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Or maybe it just wasn't necessary, since while playing the singles' lot, she found love with Henry Shahan. (Apparently I moved him in with her at some point during the round and forgot.)
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Unfortunately, the Grim Reaper was waiting for Raymond when he returned home from work. His appearance was not unexpected.
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Raymond was the third child of original Peasant couple, Kathlynn and Russ. He was a popular ladies man. He had eight children with three different women. Brandon, his oldest son and neighbor, was the son of the late Rebekah. He had Aldous, Sebastian (who was taken by social services), and Ava with Madeline. Janice, the last great love of his life and fiancee, was the mother of his youngest four children, James, Barry, Monica, and Norman.
Raymond was preceded in death by his parents, his older sister Emmaline, and his fiancee Janice. He is survived by his older brother, Justice, younger siblings Vivian, Warren, and Ross, eight children, twelve grandchildren, and his special lady friend Solveig Couderc. Raymond was 68.
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The sadness continues when Raymond's younger brother Warren dies on the same day in his own household.
Warren was Kathlynn and Russ's fifth and youngest child together. He was married to his wife June for 27 simdays. Together they had five children (Hazel, Ward, Jack, Quentin, and Wade) and five grandchildren (Dominic, Harold, Martha, Jordan, and Wallace.) Warren was 62.
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Quentin makes sure Solveig isn't lonely after his uncle's death.
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At least his adult birthday is soon, so their relationship (if it continues) is a little more age appropriate.
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Fall, Year 8: Misc. Merchants
While Maureen is tending to her mirror shop, Shaun makes out with a random elderly townie.  Who is she?  How do they know each other so well?  I have no idea.
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Marlene and Roscoe take turns at the business.  It is doing pretty well, but I think it will be a long time before it can become the beauty shoppe I had intended.
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Back at home, baby Roland grows up.
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And Roscoe barely scrapes together the money to pay the rent.
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Next door, Benjamina has baby number three, a boy named Eugene.
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They lose a family pet.  :(
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Dorothea has her child birthday
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and Cody becomes a toddler before the season is done.
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This is one of my odd households that doesn’t really fit in anywhere
Daniel gives birth to a baby girl named Rochelle, with the help of a magical fertility potion.
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As a vampire, he’s struggling with his health postpartum
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and has to be rescued from death by his husband, Roy.
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I’m a little disappointed that Rochelle inherited the vampire trait with how difficult it has been to keep her father alive.  She’s pretty cute though.
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mlek13 · 4 months
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So . . . you know one way to keep the seasons in sync? Take over a year to play one in game season.
When I do have time to play (which is rarely) my game takes so long to load that I lose interest by the time it does, I feel like I'm just rushing through some of my households to get to other that are more interesting, and the game crashes as often as not.
Awhile back I loaded my modern hood and was reminded that I really enjoy taking posed pictures. (Until I shot an entire scene without opening fraps first and had to do it over.)
I had some time over the recent holiday weekend to play and I managed to get the last households in my kingdom still on fall to winter (without my game crashing after 1.5 households!) So I am going to see if I can queue up any posts. I have had one in my drafts since July!
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mlek13 · 8 months
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I did not write this conversation to be so antagonistic.
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I also didn't plan for the family kiss to make up afterwards, but that was nice.
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mlek13 · 9 months
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Third Generation of the Tribe
I decided I wanted to catch up with my other neighborhood for a bit.  When I left off I summarized my second generation sims.  (I actually finished this post a few days ago, but it didn’t post or save so I’m back to my previous draft.)
Silvia and Manuel were the first born sims in the tribe.  They grew up together, were teenage sweethearts, and ended up being the unintentional matriarch and patriarch of the main colony.
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They were the parents of seven children, including the first set of twins in the colony, George and Lydia.
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Poor George had his life cut short when he was scared to death by a ghost.  I missed the event while I was watching another part of the lot.  I noticed that an icon was missing, but it took me a while to figure out who was gone and how.  Unfortunately, this is the only decent picture I have of him as a teen.
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I only have more pictures of his twin, Lydia because she seemed to be the main helper of birthdays for toddlers.  Here she is pictured with her future partner/spouse, Brian.  (I don’t pay much attention to marriage relationships in this neighborhood, so I use those terms interchangeably.)  Brian is an offspring of the Beta tribe, the second household I created to provide potential future spouses.
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Silvia and Manuel’s third child is Lorena.  She partnered with Neil who is the son of an Amazon and happens to be Brian’s half-brother on their father’s side. 
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Lydia, Brian, Lorena, and Neil all moved onto their own lot together.  Between the two couples, they have 12 children.
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So many kids makes for ready playmates.
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Unfortunately, not everyone is going to get along.  I had to keep these two separated for most of their childhood and teen years.
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These two were adults (or nearly adults) before they learned to get along.
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Lydia and Lorena are both very industrious sims (especially Lorena, judging by the pictures.)
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They keep busy with all types of chores
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even while heavily pregnant.
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I was glad when they could finally build a stove, so Lydia could start making comfort soup for the family.
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While I’m sure their husbands did help out around the homestead, they were definitely not as ambitious or skilled as the ladies were.
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I forgot until I was going through the pictures that Silvia and Manuel’s fourth and fifth children were also twins.  Another boy-girl set, their names are Emilio and Blanche.
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Blanche fell in love Xavier Thayer as a teenager when he was visiting the homestead with his mother Meadow, who joined the Amazon tribe.
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Their romance continued even into adulthood.
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They moved out with Sergei (son of Lynn and Lewis) from the main camp and his lady Bella from the Amazons.  In spite of living in the same household and raising their children together (6 for Blanche and Xavier and 3 for Sergei and Bella) the two couples are not close.  They are practically strangers.
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It was rough starting out with too many babies and not enough house.
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They have had a lot of struggles between fires,
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brushes with death,
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a secret aspiration failure from having too many babies,
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and infidelity.  Xavier is in love with 5 women, but his wife doesn’t seem to know.  I think some of the relationships were from before they were married.
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Emilio fell in love with Gretchen from the main camp.  She is Anthony and Heidi’s only surviving child.
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They are following in Silvia and Manuel’s footsteps and becoming the new matriarch and patriarch of the main tribe.  With their generation, I think I am starting to move away from tribal lots and more toward nuclear + extended families.  Right now they are living on the main camp with the remaining elders of the previous generation, several new adults that haven’t become established on their own yet, and their own young children.
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With this generation I am also starting businesses.  Since I’m not using the in-game money system, my businesses are based on trade.  When a customer buys something, I make them selectable and take something from their inventory of a comparable value and place it in the business owner’s inventory.  Right now the businesses are mostly selling random goods and the trades are very random.  At some point I would like my households to specialize more in what they craft and sell and ideally they would trade for things they actually need.
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Silvia and Manuel’s sixth child is Todd.  Todd is single and looking for love.  He kind of gets lost in the crowd with the other sims in the main camp.
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I forgot that Todd and his younger sister, Silvia and Manuel’s seventh and last child, Alexis did not get along.
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Alexis found love with Troy from the dating pool.
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The moved out with Tonya (daughter of Cecelia and Elias) from the main camp and her former townie spouse, Chandler Platz.
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Considering Alexis stole Troy away from his dating pool love interest, it’s not too surprising when he cheats on her with his former lover.
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The shock of his infidelity coupled with the fact that she chops trees while pregnant to the point of exhaustion, causes her to collapse.
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Troy saves her life.
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Later, she gets the chance to return the favor.
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It’s too soon to say if their near death experiences will bring them back together or if Alexis will be unable to get over Troy’s cheating.
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Not all sims are destined to spend their entire lives together like Manuel and Silvia.
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Fall, Year 8: Kimbrell/Chun
These two households both rent apartments in the same complex as the Vijayakars and Hanbys.  Rebecca and James are actually peasants and Armando and Pamela are merchants.
Rebecca and James welcome their first baby, Sarah.
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Since they both work outside of the home, Rebecca recruits the neighbors to babysit.  Armando looks more than happy to do it.
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Unfortunately, while they are away the cleaning bot they bought from the Smith’s goes berserk with no one home to stop it.
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Rebecca has to hear all about the smell as soon as she gets home.
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The chaos is cleaned up by the time Sarah has her birthday.
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Next door, Armando is thinking about the genie lamp in the yard.  (I didn’t know there was one or how long it’s been there.  I had to hunt for it before he could make his wish.)
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I’ve been rolling a die to decide what my sims wish for and he got resurrect a sim.  I was trying to think of who would make the most sense for him to resurrect, then I remembered Colette is his cousin and they grew up like siblings, so Leila would make sense.
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I thought I was going to have to have Leila stay with them until the end of the season, but then I realized the timing doesn’t matter since vampires don’t age.  Their apartment was not going to be a safe place for her to stay with so much being outdoors.
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“Guess who’s back!  I hope you kept up with your studies while I was away.”
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Later, Colette and Leila pay Armando a visit to thank him.  He and Colette should really make an effort to see each other more often since they were so close growing up.
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Armando and Pamela welcome a second daughter to the family this season.  Her name is Amelia.
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And their older daughter, Paulina celebrates her birthday.
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Fall, Year 8: Vijayakar/Hanby
Lindsay checks in on the carpet shop and her new employee.  She needed more help and this teen townie most have been the best option at the time.
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Benjamin is bored.  Stuck in the apartment all day, I wonder if he misses his brief time living in the vampire apartments.  Even in his own apartment his job seemed to keep him busy and out of trouble during daylight hours.
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He needs to be kept out of trouble.  I don’t think the neighbors’ apartment smells bad enough that you need to risk your life to complain about it.
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Avril and Caryl still haven’t been able to keep the peace after their broken marriage and their son, Darryl is the one suffering because of it.
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Caryl decides, for her son’s sake, things can’t go on this way.
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She moves out and rents her own apartment for just the two of them.
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Meanwhile, things are not going well for Avril.  She loses her job.
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She also starts to feel bad about how things were and she apologizes to Caryl for her terrible behavior.
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Hopefully they can work on being civil for Darryl’s sake.
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Later, Caryl makes peace by stopping by with a gift of a piano?  (I’m not sure what date or outing prompted this, but that must have been some apology.)
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Also Tiffany’s son, Adam, has his child birthday.
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Fall, Year 8: The Hideaway / Marissa and Aldous
Living with family does not afford young couple Leon and Brynn much privacy.
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Now that Rebekah is gone, Darius takes charge of the produce market.  It should be Brynn’s by inheritance, but she has a baby and her pregnant self to take care of at home for now. 
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Baby Lynn grows into a toddler.
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And the family welcomes new baby Beckett.
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Rebekah and Darius’ youngest child, Gavin, grows up.
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He’s clearly looking forward to starting his adult life with his sweetheart, Roxanne.
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At Marissa and Aldous’ apartment, baby Marcie has her toddler birthday.
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Marissa is trying to get her sports themed business off the ground.  She sells berries (perhaps promoting them as health food) to make money in the meantime.
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She doesn’t start out with much, but eventually she has enough to add in a soccer net.
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It feels like their lives together are just getting started, but Aldous and Marissa are already starting their elder years.
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Maybe they are just late bloomers.  Hopefully this last stage of life will be their best yet!
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Fall, Year 8: Ajjanagadde
Alison finally gets a chance to start her own business as an adult.  Based on her interests and the needs of the community, she starts a clothing shop.
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She is very excited about this new venture.
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Her grand opening seems to be a success!
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It’s also time for her to start focusing on her personal life.  Back at home, I invite a bunch of potential suitors around for her to get to know.
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She and Milo seem to hit it off.  (I’m eager to find someone for him after his failed engagement to Sheridan.)
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Kit Carpenter seems to be a front runner for her affections.
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As does Shaun Potter who is also set to inherit a family business of his own.
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Matthew is a devoted big brother to baby Jeremy.
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And is there for him when he celebrates his toddler birthday.
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Joshua’s teenage years are behind him and he is officially an adult.
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It’s time for him to also start looking ahead in his personal/romantic life.  Elise Cadeking could be a good potential future spouse.
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But it looks like she has some other things that she’s dealing with right now and she’s in no state of mind to be thinking about starting a romance.
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mlek13 · 9 months
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I haven’t been able to get into my game lately.  Even when I have the time and inclination to play, I ended up closing it back out without playing much, or sometimes at all.
There are a few things I am looking forward to.  In my kingdom, a lot of big events are going to be happening in the Royal household when I get back to them, but I still have the peasants to play through and they haven’t been that inspiring to me lately.  I think since I started my new neighborhood, my kingdom peasants seem so aimless.
The last time I posted about my new neighborhood  (I’m not sure what to call it) I said I needed to regroup and figure out how to move forward.  I ended up having a few of the households start businesses where they sell crafts and goods in exchange for items in the customers’ inventories.  Also, someone finally earned a sewing talent badge, so the sims in my tribe/village can actually start wearing clothing.  I just need to decide what that clothing will be and what time period I am moving them into.  I really like that the community evolves and progresses and I think that might be what my kingdom is missing, but I’ve built so much up in my kingdom that I don’t want to abandon.
I might see if I have any posts I can put together.  I have three posts (pictures only, no text) that have been sitting in my drafts since March. 
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mlek13 · 1 year
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Fall, Year 8: Laughlin / Fancey
Kay checks in on her community lots and makes a date of it with Isaac.
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They seem to like each other a lot.
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Kay also likes Isaac’s brother, Henry, but despite their high chemistry, they seem to be just friends.
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Justice keeps busy with his potion shop.
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I have him invite Alida over, so he can get to know his daughter better.  She would be ideal to inherit the potion shop, but I hate to push Kay out.  I have future plans I would like to explore for Alida and her moms, Alice and Lydia.
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At the Fancey/Livingston household, Cleo gives birth to baby Piper.
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Marlin has the day off from his intelligence job and spends it helping Chloe at the restaurant.  The place is packed.  (If only more than one sim would be seated at each table.)
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Meanwhile, Cleo is left home to take care of the babies.
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Could she be expecting again already?  Whether it’s pregnancy or illness, either would make staying home with twins and a newborn extra challenging.
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Marlene and Roscoe pop in from across the street for a visit. (I love how they randomly visit her family together as a couple.)
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The little ones are growing up.  Twins Camille
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and Camden leave the toddler stage
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and baby Piper begins the toddler years.
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