Okay, this is my first time uploading images here, so set me right if I do something wrong!
Here's our new founder, Glenda Neville. She loves retro styles, but is too lazy to really follow them. Her lifetime want is to reach golden anniversary, so after the challenge is done she can probably look forward to a life in permanent platinum. She's got a pretty average personality, not extreme on any scale. Her turn-ons were hard worker and creative, I think that worked in our favour, because if her first three-bolter hadn't been free to marry her, she had options.
Her first three-bolter was free, though. He was a random townie that I'd never seen before, and his name was Moist McLachlan (that's my naming mod in action! I've put in some names from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, so if you think his name is horrible you should compare it to his Discworld namesake, Moist Von Lipwig). He was indeed a hard worker, already at level 8 in the business career - which I messed up for him by making the wrong choice on a chance card, so now he's demoted to level 6.
Life in the Neville household can bequite idyllic, when the cat and toddlers are asleep! They must have tried for baby via ACR the same day the twins aged up to toddlers, for she was pregnant allthrough their toddlerhood - lucky for me she has an attentive husband who can cook and autonomously cares for his wife.
What I know you've been waiting for if you follow this thread: pics of the descendants! Stuart has skintone 1, like his mum, Campbell I think has skintone 4, like his dad . Their faces display about the same amount of Glenda's ... eccentricities, I'd say. Writing this I realise I haven't even looked at their personalities yet! I can't tell you who'snice and who's naughty, only who gave me themost trouble: that's Stuart, without a doubt. He has three toddler skills and one skill point now, but it was a struggle and he never seemed to be in a good mood. Campbell was much more easygoing and even learned his nursery rhyme and earned some log and charisma points.
And when I went in to take the pictures I heard a 'Shooflee!', so you get a sneak peek of the third little Neville - Cameron. I stopped playing almost immediately after he was born, so I can't even tell you what his eye colour is, but at least I can prove he's not a clone of any of his brothers - they all have different skintones.
I also wanted to introduce the most troublesome part of the family - Flurry. When I made Glenda, I gave her an almost equally weird looking cat. She's not a bad kitty, really, she's just constantly getting sprayed by skunks or challenging strays and losing the fights. And sitting on furniture, she never seems to learn she's not supposed to.
Edit: Dang, I meant to click 'preview' but clicked 'submit' instead. I wasn'tfinished!
Edit2: Posting updates in edit, to avoid doubleposting.
Okay, things have definitely progressed! Last time you saw young Cameron,he was a newborn. Now he's a teen and his older brothers are nearly aduults. By tomorrow if all things go as planned, I can post adult pics of the heir candidates and we can pick our heir!
But first things first. Here are the twins as chldren:
And Cameron as a toddler:
During these sessions, lots of things happened in the family. First, Moist reached the top of his career. Then the twins got into private school, but only thanks to Glenda's charms. He hasn't stopped calling her since! She stays true to her three-bolt husband, though. After that, the twins showed more of their personailities. Stuart is the nice one (stats below!) and he still seems a bit slow in learning new things, but he loves anything creative, so he spent most of his child stage by the easel.That or playing with his brothers and hugging and kissing them. Or hugging the cat. He is a real cat lover and Flurry now prefers him to Glenda. Campbell isn't really naughty either, he has the same amount of nice points as his mum and dad. He loves running around, playing sporty things and jumping rope and he is okay with the cats, but not like Stuart. He still learns new skills fairly quickly. At the toddler stage, Cameron is quick enough to learn his toddler skills, but gets only two creativity points.
What else happens: the twins play a lot with Cameron which helps keep him in platinum and one day Stuart manages to teach him the nursery rhyme in one go. Thanks, Stewie! Campbell walks in on his parents in an inappropriate situation and just stands there staring. They don't shoo him either. Sigh.
Next session I played, it was time for the twins to age up to teens and for Cameron to age up to school child. This is how they looked after:
The twins got fairly suitable aspirations. Campbell ended up a knowledge sims with a lifetime want of becoming a media magnate. Stuart is a family sim who wants to become the minister for Education. They both quickly found the right jobs and could start climbing the career ladder. I also had them collect scholarship money for college - since both their parents and the twins themselves keep rolling wants about college, I decided to clone them from teens and age the clones up to adults in CAS while the originals go to college. Stuart Stuart got a measly three scholarships (top grades, topped teen career, 8 or more creativity points) but Campbell got five (grades, career, 8 bodypoints, 8 charisma points - and another one, I'll get back to that!
Meanwhile, Cameron's personality is starting to show. He is a social butterfly, but with a sting. He'll have friends over all the time and throws the ball too hard at them deliberately. He has a favourite thing to do when he's not bombarding townie kids with balls or shooting hoops in the garden:
If Cameron's childhood was a book, there would be a chapter called: 'Cameron cleans all the things', because that's what happens. It's so practical, I'll just leave him in the bathroom telling him to clean stiff and he'll be happy and kept occupied for ages. This means I can focus on getting the teens neglected social life a boost, They get to go Downtown just for the fun of it (and to scope the rooms...) and lo and behold:
The teen girl is Fleur Frisk, who gave both twins their first kisses and also dated both. Stuart didn't have any bolts with her, but wanted a first kiss, so they dated til he got what he wanted, then he asked her to be just friends and Campbell took over. Campbell and Fleur went really well together, so they staid together. While they were busy making out, Stuart met this townie lady, who wouldn't leave him alone. This wasn't the last time either, his three best friends are this woman and her two besties.
Time just flew by with all of these activities and with Glenda's supernatural garden needing attention and the new kitten to care for. Flurry and one of the strays that she hadn't yet lost a fight with (that came later) tried for kittens and two were born. We sold the dark one and kept the pale one - She is an adut cat now:
But you'll be wanting to see Cameron teened up now. Here he is:
I suspect he'll get to be heir. I was thinking he had just a straight down face 1 like his dad, but it looks like he at least got Glenda's chin. I was quite pleased and was going to close the game when I'd got this far, but wanted to see what Stuart was up to first. And while I checked on him, I heard a scream outdoors, from where I had left Campbell by the telescope...
I don't have InTeen, so at least he got another scholarship instead of an alien baby.
That's it for this post, please, if you have reactions post them!