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The Magpie Prettacy - Generation 2.4!
I know I said this round there was only enough pictures for one update. But then it turned out there were actually 230 of them, plus screen-caps, so this session will be split over two more reasonable updates.
What happened last time again? Well, for one, Burton came of age and got married. The lucky girl was Isabel, Alfie's sister. Yep, the family connections are getting a little complicated here. Elys had a son named Thaddeus. He wasn't ugly enough. Then she had twins named Reuben and Laurence. They weren't ugly enough. Then I cheated until she had her daughter Louise. She was ugly enough. Pat, the oldest dog, died. Avis ran away twice, but was returned by a cop. Rose and Sinjin finally got the Burger Machine Dilemma right, and got the jobs they should have had 20 years ago. Everyone drank lots of elixir.
And just in case anyone wondered what the family panel looks like... Don't feel bad if you don't know who's who.
By the way, this is Louise's personality. Taurus, one of the classic Magpie signs, along with Aries and Capricorn. She won't be a naked hot-tubber, thank goodness!
It's about time Jennifer went home. She's been visiting since her brother was newborn! And I can't even tell if she's got frostbite or not!
Isabel: Why do I have to do this? Do I look like a plumber?
Isabel: We've got the money, so why aren't we hiring a repair-person?
Weedy: I have called one, but she's not coming until tomorrow. We can't have the kitchen flood until then, and she'll have 10032 other things to fix. Keep cranking.
Sinjin and Rose: OH WOE IS US!
Weedy: Oh, please...
I think Rose has slept almost as much in her breakfast as in her bed.
Yesss! Thank you, Gypsy Lady!
Oh, did they forget to pay the bills again?
For shame's sake, Magpies... This is your heir! (You can imagine how well the rest of the kids were taken care of.)
Oh, that's the same dilemma Rose had. The elderly couple was looking for a hotel. I guess he can safely ask them to leave.
x( Trust Sinjin to mess up! That's it, you're fired! I have other plans!
Yes, he would like that.
Alfie: This is my little baby Molly! Isn't she just the cuuuutest? *smoochie*
Molly: Dad? Dad! I'm over here!
As punishment for being a useless lump, Sinjin got put at the pottery wheel. He will make lots of beautiful pottery that can be handed down from mother to daughter.
I don't care that Lonzo's not talking to them anymore, but Heather is Isabel's niece. I guess they should keep in touch.
Thaddeus: This is Thomas, he's my best friend!
Hang in there, buddy. Your brothers will be old enough to play with you soon.
Molly really wanted to get into a private school, so I though she should at least graduate from one.
Neale: The only consolation is that Reuben's not heir either.
Neale: He's kind of cute though, looks a lot like me!
Molly: Don't you dare pee on the floor, Edna! You're 15 years old!
Edna: But the toilets are disgusting!
Molly: This is not a job for a girl!!!
Rowland: I'm too old for all this violence and hatred!
Okay, we've got this covered. Alfie, our best cook, has prepared gumbo, and then it's just a little sweet-talking.
Alfie: ...and we're trying to pass a bill that will make it easier to object to...
Vince: LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Alfie, shut up before you antagonize him further. He knew your Dad, and didn't like him either. Show him around the house instead.
He really liked the tour of the bedroom labyrinth that makes up half of the ground floor.
Vince: *Sprays Sinjin with half-chewed food*
Rose: BOOOO HOOO I didn't get into Hogwarts!
Molly: Aunt Isabel must think everyone here is crazy! They seem a lot more normal over at their place.
Isabel: (The Headmaster is still as horrible as I remember him.)
Douglas: Dummm-dee-dooo... I see that awful little man is back to brainwash our kids.
Blue's not really his colour.
Sinjin: NOM! *Sprays Vince back*
Vince: How disgusting! Have you no manners, man?
That's good. Although, he'll have to come back for Thad and Louise. The twins and Neale don't even go to school most days.
And then it was the twins' birthday. Reuben had of course pooped himself for the occasion.
Well, I guess nobody expected him to grow up well.
Edna: Ow, my arm!
Rowland: I cad't breed through by dose!
And then it was Laurence...
Thaddeus: Yay, I'm going to have kids my age to play with
Thaddeus: Go Laurence! You'll be my twin now!
As a kid, Laurence looked a lot like ET.
Isabel, you're a little late to the party.
Edna: Yayyyy! Birthdayyy! Where is everybody?
Weedy: Zzzz...Helena is hot...zzz...I secretly want to look like Helena...ZZzzzzZzz...
Alfie: I wonder what had happened if Velma was my mother...zzZzzz...
(BTW, I've back-engineered Weedy, and she's quite the looker!)
With both her kids old enough to fend for themselves for a few hours, I though Weedy should get out of the house a bit more. The Oceanography career came up, and I thought it was a nice way for her to honour her father.
Weedy: Zzzz...I'll get used to these early mornings eventually...Zzzzzz...
What's this? Have they decided to finally bury the hatchet?
Of course not.
Yay! Homework catch-up! Not that all of them will necessarily do it...
Uh, not for all of them, apparently. :( According to my friend's experiences this winter, private schools do stay open long after the public schools batten down. Well, okay. These are the good students, who normally have their assignments done, anyway.
Rowland: Uh, yeah... I'd like eternal happiness, please.
Rowland: Oh but what if it doesn't work, and I get eternal misery instead!
Don't worry. It worked. :) Do you like Sinjin's artwork, "Tribute to Canada"?
Elys: So... eh, I've got six children, and I'm half mad with worry that they'll turn out stupid. Can you give me something to calm my motherly nerves?
Elys: Yeah, he's part Keeshond, I think. He looks like a fluffy Dutch wolf-thingy with spots, and his name is Blakeney. Oh, and he bites.
If I didn't know how sweet and kind-hearted this family is, I'd suspect they were celebrating the absence of Blakeney...
This is Neale's individual make-over. I figured he would be the one to take over from Rowland as the resident free-thinker, since Burton is nothing like his father.
Weedy: (Am I a horrible person for thinking that my own babies were actually cuter?)
As long as I can cancel the excercise, I'm okay with having the bikes around. Does Molly really have any fat left to lose? She's a stick, and her face is really sharp and angular.
Weedy: Yeah... I guess I wish for... eternal sunshine in a spotless mind.
Weedy: BAAAAAW IT DIDN'T WOOOOORK!
Molly: Calm down, Mom. Sometimes it takes some time for it to take effect. I read that on the Internet.
Edna: Yeah, and we'll probably get another lamp in like... 50 years or something.
Molly: It's gonna be okay!
(It did take effect a while later.)
Rowland's getting old, and Louise is going off to school. It would be nice if she didn't age up in total aspiration failure.
Elys: Can't you be a good baby and sit still on the potty?
Louise: Um, no?
Oy, that's enough biking for you two! Go and eat before you join Grandpa on his nightly prowls.
Edna: Molly! We have no food left! We're gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!
Molly: Oh, shut up and call the delivery people!
Mary Elizabeth: This is the story about when Pooh and Piglet caught a Heffalump!
Burton: You think Edna will be OK?
Ettie: Yeah. She inhales a few crumbs every time she breathes. She'll be fed by the time she wakes up.
(Caution: Don't try this at home! Edna's got some troll-anatomy to her insides.)
Louise: WOOOOOOOE IS MEEEEEE!
Don't tell me she's not the most beautiful baby ever!
Yeah, it's her birthday.
Heir or not, she didn't have any of her wants filled. Most of the time she was too bored, too tired or too hungry to get in a good mood.
I couldn't help but think that this chance card was a nod to Keeping up Appearances, and all the times Hyacinth called Richard about insane things while he was in the middle of some important meeting with the city council. He really didn't want to talk to her.
Richard was incredibly grateful. :D
It wasn't the best start, but at least she got old enough to entertain herself a bit. Oh, and new clothes, please.
The indoor lawn got furnished as an activity room. Karaoke quickly got popular. Let's take a look at Ettie's little fan over there.
Louise: BOOOO! You sound like a fork on a blackboard!
Don't be discouraged. Molly's got ten years' worth of experience playing SSX3.
Sinjin: This will be a master-piece!
Ettie and Louise didn't get their own room, but I made this little corner for them. It's got a few small reminders of their heritage as forest creatures.
Speaking of children of the forest, the youngest of their elfling cousins came home with them from school. He's an odd little kid. I'm really not sure what he'll turn out like.
Reuben didn't have a very good night.
Reuben: ZZzz...Blakeney ran away...ZZzzz...I miss Blakeney...Zzzz...It was just a dream.....No...It really happened...
Reuben: ZZzzz...Oh no...Zzz...I'm my twin brother Reuben!...Zzzz...Oh no...That's true as well.....ZZZ...
Reuben: Zzz...They're going to have another baby to replace us...ZZZZ...Oh...Already happened...
Reuben: SCARY ISABEL HAS MOVED IN! ...Okay, that was just a dream.
To brighten up the long, dark winter a bit, I put in a Christmas tree for them. Let's just pretend they'll get lots of presents off screen, etc.
I need to download more holiday deco for all seasons. This little Nativity crib is cute, though. It reminds me of the Christmas Calendar for kids that was on TV when I was little. Every day they put a new figure into the stable. Oh such good memories. :') Being a kid was best in the 80s!
Oh, what have we here? The ghost of Christmases past?
Douglas: BOOOOOOO!
Louise: I don't like Grandpa!
(I just watched an episode of that old children's show I talked about. Now I'm all nostalgic and in the Christmas spirit. And that's a good job, because it's a really blustery and grey spring morning outside.)
Isabel: Please help us! We're the empoverished Kratchit family! Spare us a nickle for Christmas dinner?
Rose: Oh, Dorian! Run away with you to Panama? But I can't leave my husband in the middle of the Holidays! After New Years? Maybe.
Finally the schools stopped discriminating, and they all got a Snow Day.
I like poor Thaddeus. In a house full of people and angry dogs, he really has to fight for attention, though.
Whoo! She's on her way to greatness!
Sinjin: This plate got stupid! x(
Elys: Charisma is a bad idea which humans invented, because they lack the natural communication skills other species have. From an outside perspective, it's abundantly clear that this is an unecessary thing to waste time on. The ability to capture people's hearts with words will never be half as effective as what us Otherkins can express with only our eyes.
Joe?! But they only just got him as a little puppy!
Pingu: I'm sure you'll get normal again if you only take a bath!
To be honest, he's better at this than he ever was at managing junk-food.
Tadaaa!
Yes, it's time for Allyn to retire. She's really old now.
Little Thaddeus is growing up. Appearently Mary's getting smarter as well. He he, I wasn't really looking when I cropped that one, because birthday announcements usually come in multiples.
It was also time for Rowland to get old. I'll still keep him around for a while, but the family needed an Elder, to take over after Allyn as head of house.
"Don Juan"? Isn't that an achievement you get from having 30 loves at once, or something. I can assure you there was only ever one woman for Rowland.
Not even ten feet of frost in the ground can stop the weeds from thriving wherever there is a puddle.
Here is Rowland's new look, with bonus hamburger.
Both dogs finally got clean. It will be his job from now on to make sure the pets are clean.
Burton: I sailed away to China, in a little red boat to find ya. And you said you had to get your laundry clean.
I think he's pretty bored, to be honest.
Spoiler: Gordon never brought Blakeney back. In the end I set him free as a stray instead.
Sinjin: Hee hee, I can't move my face.
Rose must be so tired of pizza and other junkfood that if she never saw another it would still be too soon.
Oh. Most people prefer bland food, it seems.
In other news, Burton wants that job. Patrol Officer isn't even bottom level, and the pay is good! Captain Hero is on his way!
Edna: Noooo. You're too old for this violence and hostility!
I will get a replacement for the police uniforms. In the mean time, Burton is probably just happy to finally be allowed to wear one.
Louise: Laurence? Laurence? Are you alive? Moooom? I think Laurence has become a snowman!
Still sucks to be Ettie and Rose. :(
And poor Elys just got back to Level THREE of her career, despite having worked there for roughly 25 years! She WILL top that career, even if it means keeping her around until Generation 11!
Ooops. They forgot Thad's birthday. He'll take it with a smile and forgive them, though. His desire is money, and he wants girlfriends who are athletic and hard-working. Maybe he could start a farming-challenge. (No, I'm just kidding.)
I'll try to make it up to him. His LTW is not happening, though. I'm not running five businesses in addition to this crazy family.
Aren't you happy, Burton?
Burton: BOOOO HOOOO WE FORGOT IT WAS THAD'S BIRTHDAY! HE MUST FEEL SO WORTHLESS. WE SUCK AT FAMILY LIIIIIFE! AND I HAVE TO DO PAPERWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORK!!!
Alfie's career reward is useful for building charisma without hogging a bathroom.
Maybe the Heiress didn't learn much else, but she had to learn homework. Elys wanted her to go to private school.
I don't think there is any danger for Molly, actually.
Elys: I promise I will never have another baby to replace you!
Ettie made it through her teen years in one piece, and it was time for her to come of age. (Actually, she died mysteriously at the beginning of this play session, but I "accidentally" quit without saving. Next time around, she lived.)
Other than having her basic needs met, she didn't have that great of a life at this point.
*Flomp!*
Ettie: NJUGHGNHUNFLIUNFNNUBUJINFBNIUUNVNUJUUNCNFDLIUNDSFSD
Embrace your inner Troll, Elys!
I'd love for her to actually get a promotion, though.
They say that no two children grow up in the exact same family. That seems very true for Laurence and Reuben.
Yeah yeah, Sinjin is hot, etc. Good thing Rose's getting old and crusty in ten, nine, eight...
...two, one, ZERO! Happy Birthday, Rose! That dress has to go.
x(
Edna: Molly, I need to pee, and I will do it on the floor if you don't budge. You're just sitting there!
Molly: I'm doing the kids' sudoku. If I'm going to become Education Minister, and reform our school system, then I need to be smart, no?
Edna: Do it at the kitchen table, for pity's sake!
Molly: Nope. Scientific research has shown that you learn best while on the can.
Then it was time for Molly to get older and wiser.
Weedy: Nice dress, darling. Won't keep you warm, though.
At this point, Molly and Weedy decided that they would have to pass for sisters. Weedy had been drinking so much elixir she was barely older than her daughter. Okay, I admit it. I'm holding the Gen 2 girls and Alfie back one generation. It's just that I love them too much.
As with every major occasion in this family, it ended in a Smustle line.
I think this is the largest number of smustlers I've ever seen in sync. Well okay, Reuben isn't. And Ettie and Burton aren't dancing, but whatever.
As I said in the comments: If you find yourself wondering whose kid someone is, it's safe to assume it's Elys. These are all hers.
Avis too, eh? To be honest, the family actually got them as puppies around the time Ettie was born. They're over 20 years old.
There was no reason to make an old woman work a job she wasn't even particularly fond of. They've got many sources of income now.
Noooo! She's only been alive for a few days! I'm not ready for her to start chasing boys!
And the announcements keep on coming. I guess Burton is ideal for undercover work, with that look of his.
Cynthia's getting ready to kick some Sea Lice ass, with love from her Pa.
Laurence found the podium. He held an impassionate appeal against bath times.
The twins' birthday came around again.
Reuben grew up well, while Laurence remained the unfortunate brother.
Reuben rolled Family, and will be very useful as a resident uncle. He likes bling and brown hair, but would rather see the girls without swimsuits.
Laurence is an odd one. He rolled Knowledge, and his dream girlfriend is a good cook who is not too concerned with hygiene. I guess his field of academic interest is not microbiology. Or maybe it IS? Dun dun dun?
All these beautiful family heirlooms will remind future generations about Sinjin.
Edna: So, do they like keep you in a barred cell, and chain you up at night?
Rowland: Edna, that's insensitive and impolite!
Jerica: Nah, it's okay, Mr. Magpie. I'm not actually an inmate, and those who are have a lot of freedom.
Yes, I'll get around to play the asylum again. I guess until I get a new computer, that's the safest household to play.
Luckily, it's not long until Sinjin loses his sexy as well.
The discrimination continues!
Mary Elizabeth: You need to work hard, so you'll get lots of promotions when you grow up!
If you wonder why Mary's put on her mother's hand-me-downs, it's because she's in aspiration failure. (Fortune Aspiration, to be precise.)
Louise: My loneliness is killing me, and I, I must confess I still beliiiiieve.
Louise: When I'm not with you I lose my mind. Give me a siiiiiign. Hit me baby, one more time!
Weedy: I've been waiting for this moment, BUAHAHAHAHAAAA! Dad? Are you watching this?
Weedy: SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! Drinks on meeeeee!
She moves up the ranks a lot faster than Doug did.
Louise will probably grow a better taste in music when she becomes a teenager. Or maybe not.
She's very beautiful. A better textured hair would be nice, though.
There, that's better. She rolled Family, so she won't mind having a litter of her own. I sure hope it won't be more than three, though. Athletes with brown hair, eh? Who have no handiness to brag about? She's looking for a boy who resembles her dad. Psychologists could say a lot about this one.
And then Grim and the Hula Girls came for Allyn.
But she was in platinum, so she got a VIP ticket to the party. So long, Allyn. You were an amazing founder spouse, and probably lived a good 120 years.
I assume all 13 were in the household.
The family's reactions varied a bit, but I think Reuben's is the one they should worry about. He seems to have lost his footing in reality.
Yes, Mary Elizabeth wants that job, so she can get out of her funk about being sooooo pooooooor.
Burton: So that's it then. Grandma's gone...
Isabel: Yeah, both of my parents, too. And my sister's 80.
Burton: You think maybe we should... continue the family?
Isabel: Yeah, I think so.
Um, oops? :)
So yeah, as you may have read, I'm looking for a new computer to replace this one, which has started flickering and glitching. I assume I can get a new one within a week's time, but in the mean time I'm not going to play the Legacy families. However, there is another Magpie update coming, and I can reveal that not everyone survives that one... And when Isabel and Burton's baby is born, Generation 4 is unofficially started. Goodness me!
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Your poor Sims. Always food napping and flirting with aspiration failure. Poor Ettie! I love how Edna and Molly are always arguing, and that Sinjin got banished to pottery making. Clearly he was never meant for that career track. Oh, and I LOVE Rowland's elder makeover. Classic. Yay for Weedy not getting stumped by those stupid sea lice. XD
It's amazing how attached you get to these little fake people. I'm a total cheat and have Beau's aging turned off, but I keep finding other ways to keep my super favorites going. You'll see as the Duckling generations unfold.
Hey, I was a kid in the 80s, too! I was born in 1975, whut bout u? (You don't have to answer that.)
I hope your new computer comes sooooon, and everyone will safely move into it. I'm looking forward to the next Magpie update!
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It may looks like Molly and Edna are always at each other's throats, but it's actually just bickering between friends. Their faces always look like they were just force-fed unripe lemon, and I get inspired to write "sour" conversations, but there is no serious animosity there.
Rowland did a radical home-perm when he got old. He didn't want anyone to think he'd given up his convictions and become a square. And he still sports the flannel.
Louise's killer cupcake hat is from a bundle download in the GoS Secret Santa thread. I think it was Trapping's gift to someone, but I can't check because Body Shop is being a hater and won't load. I've taken out the downloads, and those weren't the problem, so I'll just blame the laptop. :P
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He he, I know! It's what I've got now, and the graphic quality is questionable. I'll make sure my next computer has got either nVidia or Radeon.