The Magpie Prettacy - Generation 3.1!
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tigeranne
This is a long update with over 150 pictures plus screen-shots. Packing lunch is strongly recommended.
Soooo dear readers, we're finally on Generation 3. Going by traditional numbering, we've been on Generation 4 since the previous update, but whatever. Only dead fish follow the stream. This is the beginning of Louise's reign as Head of House.
Ernest called to talk to Mary Elizabeth. That probably cheered her up. :)
And Thaddeus had to get a job, so he wouldn't transition into Lonzo #2 and start dragging his nieces and nephews around begging for Simoleons and scraps of food.
The update begins with Ettie having a well deserved night out.
She met Rebel Dude...
...and LimeCat-boy. I think his name is Joseph. Sorry about the pictures being so dark.
They seemed to have a bromance going. Sorry if that word offends anyone. :)
LimeCat-boy: So I hear that the expectations for Reality 4(TM) is going a bit up and down, but at present mostly up because of the eased building restrictions and increased opportunities for individuality.
Rebel Dude: They are also much more in touch with their emotions over there. I just hope that doesn't mean we'll be depressed all day long because the toilet gets clogged, or something.
Ettie: Blah, blah, blah. Joseph is ugly.
Oh hi, Billy. Nearly didn't see you there.
Brandon Lillard on the other hand... I keep typo-ing it as "Branson". Stupid Downton Abbey obsession. (Although it has nothing on my Ripper Street obsession...)
Ettie: I love a man in a kilt! It's soooo cool when guys get in touch with their feminine side.
Brandon: Lady, this is the heritage of mighty warriors! >:(
Ettie: I love when mighty warriors get in touch with their feminine side!
She thought Rebel Dude had a hilarious sense of humour, apparently.
Then she decided to fleece LimeCat-boy at the poker table.
Ettie: Look at this neat trick I learned from watching Cousin Burton's gangster movies!
Careful there, Ettie. The guy with the white hair has the Universe telling him what's on your hands. Although, whether it tells him the truth is a different matter.
Francine: I don't like special cookies, I think.
Rowland: Just so one thing is clear, Sinjin, I'm the Family Eldest. You may be more advanced in your aging, but I was born before anyone else in this house.
Sinjin: I'm cool with that. It's my wife who's currently Head of Family, so that's who I take my orders from anyway.
(Actually, Sinjin was around as an adult before Rowland was born, but let's ignore that.)
In another attempt at having Louise run into Chester, I sent her out on the town. If you read my Asylum Challenge, you can tell that this happened a while ago as Nathan is alive here.
Chester wasn't present, but she met Liam. He's my non-aging teen Williana's boyfriend, for those who haven't read the Atherton "ISBI".
Liam: That poor girl must have some sort of birth defect!
You know, after almost everyone who have met the Magpie Trollettes have found them absolutely stunning, it's kind of funny seing Liam being a typical shallow teenager. To be fair, he's measuring Louise against a very high standard.
Liam: ...and so this stupid Servo-boy with NO REAL BRAIN is constantly making the moves on my GF. He beats up her sister, and stomps down her beautiful flowers, and still she loves him! She says she made him, and is the reason for his miserable existence, but she's just too tolerant, you know.
Louise: Yeah, that sounds like a rough situation.
I think Liam was happy he found someone to vent to.
Louise: See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen...
Elys: We should get the kid into your school, Louise.
Louise: +500!
Oh poor Elys. She went from fit to average at the age of 80, how horrible.
Isabel: Alfie! I've got that explodey feeling again!
Alfie: Mffgfgf you can handle it, sis.
It's not twins, seriously.
Just look at this magnificent Wife & Husband team.
The strawberry sprouts are looking healthy. :)
This kid will carry a grudge for a long time, I think.
Thaddeus: Good Sir, can you spare me a penny so I can feed my seven orphan daughters?
Rowland: Thad, it's me. Your uncle! I'm even poorer than you, since I've never worked.
Thaddeus: Please, Sir? Just a penny for the children? :-(
Yes, he needed a job. If only it paid a little more...
Hello, serious looking walk-by.
I wondered if the crush-treatment would work on Edna, since it did wonders for her sister. (I forgot to take pics, but Molly drank two whole tanks of elixir.)
Oh, she likes him... >:) Well, let's find out some more facts about the guy. She's not having his babies, but a later generation might. That sounds a bit sick, but this is the Sims.
Oooh, a scientist!
That can be arranged.
Sinjin should never have bothered with his cooking career.
Please don't be Wince... I mean Vince.
No, it's Ryan. :)
Then Elys faced a dilemma at work. Let's see... An old man died from old age, which was expected and inevitable. Another man bizarrely and tragically had his brilliant life cut short, in the most statistically unlikely work accident ever. Which event to give attention to? Hmmmmmmm, I think we go for... Greg.
It seems Elys' superiours weren't total knuckleheads for once.
Yes, I know I keep doting on the non-eligible clone child, but she reminds me of the good times when Helena and her siblings were small. Okay, those were pretty bad times for the actual family.
That's the new Lucky's behind her, and Tikki Tacky next to it. They live in a classy area.
She loves her daddy.
Hi, Cousin Jennifer! She came home with Burton. They're colleagues, remember. :D Burton is also her uncle.
O.o You guys, I realized something awful! Alfie is Burton's uncle through being married to his aunt, Weedy. Isabel is Alfie's sister. That means Burton has married his own aunt! D: And no, the fact that Burton was present when Alfie was born does not make it any better.
I'm getting tired of her hair style, actually. It's not as flattering as it looked when she was younger. She needs a make-over.
Benjamin Jason (that HAS to be what it stands for) has arrived.
Burton: Ah phew! It's you, Mister Ryan! I was scared it was Wince who was coming to judge us again!
Let's start with the mandatory tour of the bedrooms.
And BTW, there are birthdays coming up. How unusual around here. And now Reuben and Louise are apparently the twins. I know I cheated her into existence, and she spent no time as a baby, but she was born a day after Laurence and Reuben.
He liked the house, I suppose. It wasn't enough, though. Dinner had better be good.
Mr. Ryan: So, are you the parents of the child?
Peter: No, I'm not the father. My wife got pregnant by a stray dog, somehow. But this isn't her.
Jennifer: I don't even live here.
Peter & Jen: NOMMMMMMM! SCARFFFFF!
Jennifer: I am... SO pretty?
Peter: You really ARE. Is there like... any more tabasco?
Mr. Ryan was still not convinced, so expert Head Master handler Alfie had to swoop in an kiss some butt.
Mr. Ryan: State Assemblyman Magpie, I think you'd do well to feed the children in your family less sugary foods.
Despite Peter and Jen's best efforts, Mr. Ryan accepted Francie. I think he wanted to save her, actually.
Isabel: That was nerve-wrecking! I really have to go through that again with this baby, after the spectacle Jen made?
Molly: Don't worry about it, Cousin Isabel. I will soon have a lot of power in educational circles. They will forget this. I will make them.
Isabel: Aaaaaahh noooo! It's that time again! That puppy better be awesome to be worth this!
(She's talking about the puppy Burton promised her, not her baby who she will love regardless.)
Isabel: AUUUUGGHH BURTON I HATE YOU!
Burton: ZzzzzZzZzzz...
His wife's screaming eventually woke him up. It's a boy this time. I'm kind of getting a little tired of boys again, but one more is okay.
His name is Bartholomew, and he seems to have mostly Isabel's genetics. Not an Elliott-clone, please!
For fun you can try pronouncing his middle name.
Having a baby secured Burton's happiness enough that he could binge on elixir, but Isabel sadly never developed a want to have the baby. I had to get them the puppy to get her into Platinum.
In a family where babies are called Bartholomew it only makes sense to have a dog named Kate.
Burton: The Troll is strong in this one, I can feel it!
Louise was the first to greet the new puppy again. :)
Welcome to life as a Sim-baby, Barth.
And they all have the flu. What else is old news?
Weedy: ALGUS TROLLAEUS WEEDII!
You know... the only thing stupider than giving a semi-sociopathic woman with zero nice-points explosives as a reward, is to give them back to her as a punishment.
Also good to know that science is about politics rather than knowledge. I suspected as much.
Weedy: They can not keep me down! BOOOOM HA HA HA!
Right, Neale got a job as a cement-mixer. I know that logically it means the person in charge of mixing the sand and mortar, but I can't help but interpreting his work title as if they transfigure him into the actual machine every morning and he spends the day vomiting cement.
What to do about this, though? I say just use it. It's not a chemistry experiment. What's the worst that could happen?
Oh. Well, it was a crap job anyway. He'll find something better.
Yes, Molly wants that job! She'll call in for it as soon as she awakes from her celebratory hangover.
Yay! It's hard for Burton to earn all the points he needs to buy elixir, so it's a good thing so many of his wants revolve around his children doing well in school. They are doable.
The family is still getting along almost suspiciously well.
I shouldn't have said that.
Yesss! I really want Isabel to top her career.
This was their last homework. :) I can't really remember what was my last one, but I'm sure it felt great when it was done.
Sinjin: I WISH I COULD FIND A TOILET!
Awww, not again? At least this time he's excused because he's senile.
He can make jokes about how much it sucked in the architecture business. Actually, his homelife is probably fodder for more funny stories.
Ettie went out again. This time she met Kennedy Cox. Because of her family background, she won't discriminate against his nose.
There was some real chemistry, actually.
Ettie: I want to be popular! I need to have more friends!
Well, go and make one of the guy right in front of you, maybe?
Kennedy: Wow, you're hot! How come I've never seen you around here before?
Ettie: I'm an athlete. My career takes up most of my free time.
Kennedy: Well, no wonder you're so... fit!
Ettie: I almost look like I've got a chin in these!
She looks slightly homicidal, if you ask me.
That's Goopy, isn't it? I never looked that closely at his face, because I recognized him by his shorts.
Then she noticed... HIM!
"Him" being Elmer McClellan.
Kennedy: BABY BABY BABY NOOOOO!
Kennedy: I loved you! How could you just leave me like that???
Ettie: LOL, easy there buddy!
Ettie: That is no way to treat a girl! I'm with Elmer now, and he know how to make a woman feel like a lady! *SMACK!*
Kennedy: *Feels betrayal*
O unfaithful heart, thy name is Ettie.
Better take some new pictures, with the correct romantic interest.
Elmer: Feisty girls are sooo hot!
Ettie: I dunno. My chin looked better in the last set.
Ettie: Here's a present, to remind you of the day we met. :)
Elmer: Oooh, thank you!
It was the pictures of her and Kennedy. x) She'd rather forget about that.
Kennedy: *Betrayal!* *Chagrin!*
No, darling. You'll have to birth them. But we'll get you a puppy. :P
Molly: This is the moment I've been training for!
She's not quite as frightening as her mother, but that may have to do with the lack of dynamite sticks.
Mary Elizabeth got her former job back. No more giving the boss long lectures during lunch, I hope.
Weedy: They couldn't hold down such a powerful mind!
Then it was time for the big occasion; The heir's Coming of Age, the transition to a new Head of House. It got so exiting that Isabel couldn't handle it.
Louise: I wish for... many ugly babies.
Um, no. Grey is not her colour.
Oh, and we can grow Barth up immediately after the "twins".
Then it was Reuben's turn.
He seems to be destined for something corporate. I think he may have to lose his braids.
Craaaap.
Reuben: Baaaaabiess! I neeeeed baaaabies!
Reuben: Why did I have to become Louise's twin? It was poor little Laurence who was supposed to be the unlucky one!
Doktor Geisteskrankenheit: I zink zat Sie und mein poor pazient Ethan ought to ztart a zupport group. It might hilfe Sie find der Frieden und peace of mind.
Louise brought her unhappy twin-by-circumstance out for an evening of fun. Or as much fun as Reuben was capable of having.
Oh no, she's got two bolts with Jonathan. It's not going to happen. He's got the old-fashioned Mac-face, which I don't want into the main bloodline here, since it never breeds out! And how inbred would they be if it happened? Also, she doesn't much give a hoot about her alleged twin brother.
This is Human Weedy. :) Of all the reversed Magpies, she's the one who retains most of the original, including Weedy's make-up. It was very tempting to name her Cynthia, but that is the name the game recognizes Weedy with, so she became Aileen.
Not sure, but I think I gave her Weedy's 10 outgoing points.
Reuben had the hots for Heather. :-/ Not sure what to think of it. At the time, he was fresh into adulthood, and she's probably pushing old age. Moving her into the Legacy House is OUT OF THE QUESTION, but moving Reuben out is not. And at the point in time the Legacy is on at the time of writing, he's not really that much younger than her anymore. He may move in with the MacAvoys eventually.
Burton: Buddy... THIS is what a baby looks like.
Poor Reuben. I'm known to play favourites among the spares. Some get to have a family, despite not even being the children of an heir, others get destined for joining an ISBI.
Francine: Did this many people come to my birthday?
I think they did, actually. Burton is super popular, so his kids are cool by association.
Burton: Uuuup you go!
Oh yes, that's a classic half-Magpie!
Definitely his Dad's son. Now we need to groom him for a career in the police! Or maybe the army, because having an astronaut in the family would be cool.
Rowland: I wish Rose was here to see this!
He's still wearing his wedding band. :-( I think Rowland needs something or someone in his life to make him happy again. Not Mallory, because she's still concidered for heir spouse in a coming generation, but he had chemistry with someone else, if you remember..! :D
Neale: Congratulations on being so popular. Of course having friends is not as great as having fans, but it's the next best thing.
Louise: We're really proud of you, Grandpa! You're the one we all look up to as an example.
Rowland: I'm not your... Thank you, darling. It means a lot.
Weedy: I finally get to the part of the job where I have intelligent beings to talk to!
He grew up in a suit, so maybe he's better suited (no pun intended) for the daily grind of the corporate world than the Ancient Way of the Trolls.
Look who's here. It's Gus! But is Louise anywhere nearby?
Oh, looks like she was. :) Looks like he likes her as well.
Well, Hoodie McShortsIthoughtIhadreplaced certainly liked her, but he's not legacy material. Too Maxis.
No thanks. He'll have to find a new job.
Claire: Ivy, I think we better move to the next lane. There are lovestruck teenagers blocking the way again, and we know they're not going to budge.
Louise: Who is she calling teenagers? I turned 20 like... yesterday.
Gus: You're so mature for your age! I'm 21!
Chester, you lost. Your fault for never going to community lots.
Louise: These will look SO great on my wall. Reuben is gonna be totally jealous that his annoying sister is dating and he isn't! LOL!
(Louise is one of those insufferable I-wasn't-born-when-Friends-started-airing people who actually say LOL.)
Oh, I need to put wall-siding in that corner.
Let's have some romantic cuddling-under-the... afternoon sun, while talking about all the fun stuff one can do in a bath-tub, while being in everyone's way.
Louise: I've always wanted someone to cover me in green jello.
Gus: I can do that. Or do you want me to play the piano while you bathe?
Louise: Jello first, then you can play to me.
It was a pretty spectacular first kiss, even without the cut-scene. This is meant to be.
Gus: I'm so happy we met. This has been the best day of my life.
Louise: Of mine too!
This is a lot more adorable if we pretend her nose isn't doing something physically impossible.
They're like those teenagers that sit behind you on the bus, and kiss like they can't imagine how they will endure the pain of not seeing each other again until next day at school. Or at least not until later in the evening.
Um, wrong sister.
Tell the boss. At this point it doesn't matter if he's fired, and I think the right choice gives a promotion.
Good call, Thad. And how fitting that the guy with the monocle works in business. :D
You know what to do!
Yesss!
It's taken 50 years, but she's moving ahead!
And Burton is another step closer to saving the world.
Give up, Jon. Louise has moved on to something that can actually lead somewhere. Though when a guy offers to take a girl shopping, you know he's desperate, because that's a boyfriend's personal nightmare.
Ettie: Oh, hi Elmer! No, I wasn't doing any... I mean, I'm really busy being a famous athlete and all, but I can probably squeeze in some time for YOU.
A lot of firsts in this update. But did Ettie get a lot less hearts than her sister?
Hi there, guy who might be Marsha Bruenig's father. Toby, is it?
Once they get past the barrier of the first kiss, they don't seem to have any problems with the second, and third, and tenth...
Lenna, be careful around that cat.
That's Curtis! How did he get fat? He was thin when I last played their household, and this isn't TS3!
Lenna continued showing great power of judgement. I wonder if the evil witch's cat turns into the Unsavoury Charlatan. That would make a twisted kind of sense. (Yes, I know that in terms of game-play it doesn't.)
I'm starting to understand why she keeps getting demoted in the army. She probably invites the enemy over for tea too much.
This is just one of those pictures where the posing and expressions are perfect, and you don't notice until you write the update.
It sure helped their relationship too, it seems.
Hiya Gus. Louise isn't here tonight. Okay, so it's actually the same night. Being a townie must be a bit like living in a time anomaly.
Yes, Petunia Pickett-White is in a public hot-tub, in front of a giant window facing the street, butt nekkid.
Dream Date! She got the points she needed to get Gold and drink some youth-soda. :)
I don't think Ettie is completely adversed to the idea.
Burton was just as good a parent to Barth as he'd been to Francie.
Don't worry, Elys. You need some weight to throw around when you become Family Elder. It won't happen in a while, though.
Louise: So how many babies are you and Elmer going to make?
Look at her in her school uniform, with her Ancestral Home in the back. :) Go and earn an A+, so your dad can drink more green stuff!
This is a boring picture of a Maxis Match car, just to let you know that
Louise took it for a spin in order to meet up with her heart-throb.
Gus: Awww yeah! That's the spot!
Gus: I can tell now, you really are the one for me, Lou-Lou!
Louise: Oh well, in that case...
Gus: Oh Louise..! :D I DO!
Louise: ME TOO!
Okay, with that settled, it was time to head home and set up a wedding.
Jennifer: Hi, kind-of-cousin Louise! I see you keep the family traditions alive?
Just in case you're wondering what she's talking about...
I think you'll see a lot of each other, he he he.
Kate grew up, and looks like an ordinary Labrador?
No, she's a little more interesting than that. :) I like Labs in real life, they are so friendly and fun-loving. For the Magpies, however, I'm always hoping for weird mutts. I love her schnauzer-beard and one brown paw.
And she looks like a happy dog. :D
I don't think Ettie's the kind who would sabotage someone else's chances to get ahead. She's got a cheating heart, sure, but that's limited to the love-arena.
Poor Mary Elizabeth has sunk deep into desperation. Money has a cruel power over her. Get your butt inside, Marykins. Your niece's wedding is about to start.
Black dress? I forgot to get her new formal wear, but never mind. Let's get the wedding rolling!
This family seems to think it is a somber occasion, not one for joy.
Louise: I, Louise Irmengard Magpie, take thee, Augustus Nicophilaeus Donaldo Jackdaw...
Awww, now they're honourable you guys!
Or, they will be as soon as Gus gets a new job.
I'm super pleased that he didn't bring a lot of crime-money to the family.
The guests seem happy for them. Okay... who is that passed out in the back?
It's Thaddeus. Poor guy.
Ettie, Burton & Sinjin: IS THADDEUS DEAD HE LOOKS DEAD OH NO WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NICER TO HIM!
Reuben: Don't worry, he survived his childhood, UNLIKE MY TWIN, so there's got to be some of that legendary Troll-toughness Uncle Rowland tells us about left in him.
Molly: Yeah, he used to lay around passed out all the time, and you didn't worry then.
I think the elixir can only mask the fact that Alfie is really 90 years old, not undo it.
Well, okay. Time for the ceremonial cake-feeding of the spouse.
She did it neatly, with a spoon. That means they'll have kids with many neat-points, right?
Meanwhile, something was happening further down the lawn.
She seems to be a bit of a *dark* soul. :P And her hair got all transparent, she needs a new style.
She rolled Fortune! D: Oh no, she'll be out in the doorway with the tin in her hand! Her dream guy is has artistic talent which shows in his hairstyle, but he must not have muscles. She's a hipster, you guys. There is one in every family.
And her brother is growing up and starting school.
Not sure I like it, but this is her teen style. The make-up may have to go. I've gotten a new braid-style that may suit her thin-ish face better, but she'll keep this hair for now.
Make a really cute ugly baby, please!
BTW, Gus' personality. Forest Trolls are very shy and timid, in contrast to the boisterous, outgoing Mountain Trolls. They are also generally easier to get along with, since they live in large communities composed of smaller family units, and not in isolated giant clans.
Generation 4 is baking!
Oh, Kennedy... Get over it.
She'll be the family's artist. :) She had almost maxed out her creativity already, so her stuff should sell okay, stopping her from going down the "I'm so poooor"-track of her Great Aunt (and sometimes mother, as well).
Barth is still around, being adorable with his sad little face and badger jammmies.
Louise: When we get that lamp, I'm SO first in line for eternal happiness!
Poor, old Rowland. He'll be around for a while, and now he's got a new source of grief.
And that is Isabel. I know she's only got 3 nice-points, but she's never been a problem for the roughly 30 years she's lived with them. But I wanted feuding family members, so..?
Meanwhile, something was happening in the living room.
Sinjin: Booo hooo, he left Bella in the forest!!!!!!!1!! How could he be so mean??? She should have chosen Jaaaaacoooob!!!
No, not that.
POP!
And with that, this insanely long update leaves you wondering. Will it be a girl? A boy? More than one?
Is something going to happen between Molly and Harry? Between Ettie and Elmer? Will Edna see the good-looking bloke from the side-walk again? Will Rowland lose his pacifist ways and beat the living snot out of Isabel? Keep watching this space to find out. :)
