1-0 // Introduction

GREETINGS!! T'is I, Efelkay, back from the dead!
Alright, alright, theatrics aside. Hi. Sup. I still exist.

So I'm not going to bother you with the long story since I already gave you a short explanation in the modthesims thread. But basically, the Attaways are gone, the Hawthornes couldn't even get started, and I'm trying to do another legacy because goddamnit you gave me a challenge and I'm going to complete it.

Third time's the charm, right?

I'm looking forward to this. I haven't played TS3 in a while - I got TS4 recently and have been messing around with that, and more recently I haven't been playing anything at all. I'm working on a comic and y'know... it won't draw itself.
And with that I should note that I'm not entirely sure how often I'll be able to update. I'll try to be frequent, but like anyone, I have priorities. Such as schoolwork, and my comic, and my pets, and whatever random trips my parents drag me out on.

If I manage to finish all the way through generation ten, I plan on moving on to another challenge with the leftover sims. Whether or not I'll do another legacy alongside it depends, I guess.

Anyway. You don't want to listen to (...read?) me rambling. Let's get on with it. Rolls!

Heir: Skylar McKinnon♂

Others: Viola O'Malley♀, Masaru Fujioka♂, Ciera Garner♀

Pets: Diesel♂, Rusty♀

Family Structure: Full House

Required No. of Children: 3

Primary Income: Standard Career - Culinary

Secondary Income: Standard Career - Military

Tertiary Income: Non-Standard Career - Busker

Quaternary??? Income: Non-Standard Career - Alchemist

Generational Goal: Party to Remember

Misc. Fun: Live Your Trait

Can we just take a moment to admire how ridiculously full my house is going to be by the end of this. 

Unlike some people on Modthesims, I'm lucky enough that most of my house is going to be working adults, so I'll probably be able to earn money pretty quickly, but still. The pathing errors. They're going to hurt. Especially once I have to throw that party with five guests.

But right now, at the very start, I don't have money. Which means my family can't afford a big house. Which means that I currently have four adults, a cat, and a large dog living in this small one bedroom cottage in Hidden Springs.

Heck.

My rolls aren't too bad though. Don't really have much to say about the careers. I have sims do culinary and military all the time in regular play, and while I've never used busking as a source of income there's nothing all that exciting about it. Maybe if it were my only source of income it'd be a bit more interesting, but it's not. 

I haven't really dabbled much in alchemy, though. Maybe my alchemist can do fun things to her neighbors with potions. 

I haven't bothered with generational goals for pets. I did it for the Attaways and I'm not doing it again. With a pet's lifespan, getting them to max hunting is really difficult and not all that fun, so Perfectionist just doesn't feel worth it. Fulfilled was simply boring, since pet wishes are usually pretty basic and can be dealt with in like two seconds most of the time. The idea of playing as a violent animal rubs me the wrong way so Fighter is out of the question, and there's no point in doing Explorer for every generation.

I'm not going to breed the animals, either. Any and all pets will simply be adopted.

From what I can tell, Live Your Trait is just supposed to apply to the heir. I'm going to apply it to all four of my adults, though. Consider it me making up for the lack of pet goals.
I'm also going to be doing Hall of Fame. Why the hell not.

So I've been blathering for a while, and yet we still haven't seen the household. Let me introduce you to my founder, Skylar McKinnon.

He's based off of a sim I made in TS4. The original Skylar was lookin' cute as hell in dresses and "feminine" hairstyles, but alas, TS3 won't let me do that. Makeup and jewelry it is.

He's going to be the chef, which means he's probably also going to be doing most of the cooking for the household. I kind of want to avoid using quick meals when I can since they feel cheatsy.

The original Skylar had a twin brother, Hayden, who I considered throwing into the mix as well, but ultimately I decided not to. The original plan was going to be to make all four adults in a polyamorous relationship, and while I ended up not doing that because of the mess that is jealousy, it still didn't feel quite right to have any of the four be related.

In the military career with have Viola O'Malley. Not much to say about her, really. She's the one I had the least amount of interest in while I was making them, so she doesn't have much of a story.

Masaru here is going to be the lead guitarist in the next greatest rock band!! ...Just as soon as he can find some bandmates. See, the few people who actually have any amount of interest in joining his band just aren't good enough to play with the great Masaru Fujioka, so for now he's just some amateur college dropout playing guitar in the park and hoping someone will be kind enough to drop a few coppers in his jar. Good thing he has several good friends to sponge off of.

Ciera (pronounced see-air-ah) is the alchemist. She likes to prank people with potions. Just harmless little things, such as making them tired, or turning them into zombies, or setting a horde of angry bees on them. No harm done!! What a great sense of humor.

And of course, no family is complete without pets. Meet Diesel and Rusty, the furry companions for this generation.

 

 I think that just about wraps it up for introductions? I'll be moving on to actual gameplay next update. Wow. Amazing. 

See you then!