Oh boy.

So this post will be a bit different to the previous episodes. I broke my arm in 2015 just after finishing the game play for gen 10 but before getting round to blogging it.

I thought I would be out of action for a few weeks. But it’s nine years later.

I couldn’t really use computers much at all for years because of pain and mobility issues and was reliant on voice software. I will never have full use back and do still use voice software a lot, but I finally have enough use of my arms to be able to finish up this legacy for you.

That said, I played this over nine years ago and I have no real memory of what happened! So here’s the best I can remember of the animal generation…

Chris Beaker-Clark is our baby daddy for our shared spiral heirs

Spira

And Helter Skelter.

Why did I make life so much harder for myself 😭?

To make it even harder on my memory, we have a cat uglacy going and we had got to green generation in the last post, but violet/purple by the end so no idea if I’ll remember all of them… Weirdly enough, the green cat heir, Al Green, is still alive in the last save file I have!

Hey guys, don’t suppose you remember what order the babies came in?

Guys?

I meant the human babies, but yeah we also got four cat babies…

I’m not entirely sure which is which but I think the left is Blu Cantrell

and the right is Moody Blues…

Bluebells…

And Bluetones…

Or the other way round?

As for the humans, Chris and Helter Skelter had master-controller induced triplets…

Radley

Andrex

and

Rita

So named because I was playing a character called Rita in a play I was doing at the time and she wore loads of animal print.

One of the older cats died, who knows which one. What I do know is it’s very annoying that they get upset when we’re playing on super speed and there are eighteen zillion cats in the household.

Spira’s pregnancy will hopefully expand her life long enough to see the kids age up. We’ve been super lucky with that but it’s always been cutting it a bit fine, and if sims didn’t get bonus days while pregnant this kind of ultra speed legacy would be difficult to pull off.

She also had triplets. Stupidly I put the other two kids in animal hats so I can’t remember which is which from their toddler pics.

This one is Hofmeister though.

One of the others is a girl called Silentnight. Which sounds like silent night night, adorable. Going on eye colour I think this is her.

The other one is a boy called PG Tips.

Helter Skelter got abducted by aliens. Although he didn’t get pregnant. Trust it to happen in the legacy where I’m not interested in the supernatural when the poor Dayes can’t catch a break.

He also got old.

And before long it was time for the first set of triplets to become children.

Rita is super cute.

So is Radley, though she doesn’t smile much.

Andrex is perhaps less interesting than the girls but they’re a good looking generation overall. As they should be, of course.

Poor Radley

She really hates the rain.

Awww.

The cats aged up: Blu Cantrell will be the heir, then there’s

Moody Blues…

Bluebells…

And Bluetones

We moved in DeepBlueSomething,

a mate for Blu

Why am I like this? I aged up two kids into hats and it took me ages to figure out which was which.

But I should have realised this was Hofmeister because follow the bear (hat).

OK so THIS is PG Tips at least.

Which means this is Silentnight.

I don’t actually have to follow them to school to hunt spouses any more but old habits die hard…

We got one sole kitty out of Blu’s pregnancy, Code Indigo.

The older kids became teens. Here’s Radley.

Rita, who is so cute.

Poor Andrex, I kept forgetting to take his pic.

Code Indigo aged up and was… almost ugly?

Here’s his mate, Mood Indigo.

Kitty baby time!

Well these boys are basically identical…

One is The Lilac Time

And one is Deep Purple.

Spira got old.

I’m not sure what happened to Chris as he vanished from photos but is apparently still alive on the family timeline. I assume I shipped him out with the extra blue cats.

The younger kids became teens. I don’t think PG Tips will end up the prettiest of the six, though he’s certainly not ugly.

Here’s Silentnight. Ignore the derpy face she’s pulling here.

And Hofmeister.

At some point Helter Skelter died but I didn’t take pics.

So here’s TheLilacTime as an adult

And Deep Purple. I guess DP is the ugliest? But really they just prove it’s pretty much impossible to do a cat uglacy.

These shoes would win an uglacy though.

‘Oh no! The legacy is coming to an end!’

Yeah, nine years late.

So here they are as adults:

Radley

Rita

Andrex

Silentnight

Hofmeister

And PG Tips.

Looking at their faces, this may have been the passing of Helter Skelter. Or a cat.

Of course it was a cat.

I think Rita is probably the cutest overall.

Here’s what she looks like without makeup.

And here we have our gen 10 prettacy winner, Rita, along with the founder of our uglacy, Dark, and the Gen 10 uglacy winner and founder of our prettacy, Wii.

If you have read this, a huge thanks and mega apologies for the years it took to get it to you!

I am back to updating the Dayes of Our Lives legacy and I may also do some future challenges (I have ideas), so please keep an eye on Rad’s Sims Stuff!

Many moons ago, I finished my speedy uglacy and decided it’d be a hoot to do an even speedier prettacy. It was meant to take a few months to do the whole thing. Instead, it’s become a few months in between generations.

It wasn’t the plan. Still, last time we were with you, Drumstick Knight was crowned heir.

His pregnant partner is Jennika Wong.

To cheer them up, I hired a magician.

Come on guys, it’s a lamp!

A car?

Tough crowd.

The pregnancy isn’t helped any by grandma Shirley (from the stripe gen – even though the spot gen died ages ago – popping her clogs as the oldest sim in this legacy ever).

We crowned Code Orange Kids Knight the cat heir.  The cats are meant to be engaging in an uglacy but it’s quite hard to get ugly pets in this game.

His mate is called Agent Orange.

While the kitties were littering, the adults had graduation to go to.

Never too early to start the spouse hunt.

Lots of people died at the ceremony.

Which meant the baby was left to fend for itself.

And everyone route failed all over the place.

But for some reason, it was the romantic setting these two needed to finally agree to get married.

Right before Drumstick aged up. Male heirs on this speed are a nightmare.

It wasn’t long before we had litters of both the human and cat varieties.

A baby boy called Slinky…

And a little girl…

…called Spira.

And a litter of four kitties…

Yello

Lemonheads

Goldfrapp

And Lemon Jelly.

As kittens I can’t really tell them apart, but as adults I can, so there’s something to look forward to later in the chapter!

Now make me another baby before Jennika gets old and dies.

Like you Drumstick.

A rare shot of Jennika in wood gear just to prove I did give her a makeover.

So Drumstick died.

Whilst Jennika was pregnant.

With two toddlers to care for.

That’s speed legacies for you.

Kids don’t seem too fazed though.

Awww.

Our third and final Spiral genner is…

Helter Skelter.

He is super-smiley, which is unusual for this family.

The kids are kind of cute.

If a bit generic.

They’re a pretty contented trio though.

Even doing homework despite the fact that they’ll barely spend any time at school.

We interrupt this prettacy to show that the scenery will win all the prettiest polls ever.

‘Am I bovvered though?’

Love these placid kids.

Helter Skelter seems to be the one with the best skin-tone though.

This is Lemon Jelly…

Lemonheads…

Yello…

And Goldfrapp, who was the heir, I think by virtue of being the only female when only male cats were available to adopt. None of these cats are ugly!!

Her mate is called Goldie.

Birthdays for the people who are supposed to be pretty now: Slinky…

…Spira…

…and Helter Skelter.

Jennika got old and the last of the red kitties died whilst Jennika was wearing an appropriate jumper.

Whilst I am kind of favouring Helter Skelter at present…

I am not ruling out either of the others.

And Slinky clearly has the hots for this townie.

Who is a bit generic looking.

Speaking of townies…

I am not

sold on any of them yet.

Almost enough to drive you to despair, eh, Slinks?

They’re an adorable and sociable trio.

Love them.

I didn’t seem to be able to get the cats pregnant so I cheated them in four kids.

Al Green

Professor Green

Green Day

And Caro Emerald. (This might not actually be Caro – I don’t know if I have any pics of her as a kitten)

‘Err, Rad? How many kittens did our cat just give birth to?’

Gulp. That’d be four more then. Guess I was a bit presumptive with the cheating.

The Green

Green Jelly (yes, we had a Lemon Jelly last gen. Hey, bands are unoriginal!)

Green Gartside

…and Mint Royale.

The kids aged up.

Spira is a lot prettier than I thought she’d be.

Jennika decided enough was enough.

This gen are all pretty cute actually.

But Slinky is a bit of a Jennika clone.

Not sure Spira looks that much like either parent, so I’ll keep her around for a bit.

Professor Green

Green Day

Caro Emerald

Al Green – currently the uglacy contender, so we kept him around whilst shipping the rest out with Slinky.

To celebrate the cats and Helter Skelter ageing up, we threw a party.

Spira and Helter Skelter were both into the idea of a gift giving party, so why the heck not, I thought.

I wasn’t overly impressed with the townies.

Not that they seemed uber-keen on us.

A lot of face-ones and kids with bad make-up choices.

We aged up the vaguely interesting ones.

With mixed results.

This guy seemed my best bet.

But Code Orange Kids dying, a bunch of bladder fails and dirty plates meant no gifts were given and the guests were miserable.

Welcome to legacy life, Chris Beaker-Clark!

Helter Skelter is lovely, albeit perhaps a tad generic. I was in a bind – him or Spira. I didn’t really want joint heirs for the final gen, as it feels a bit cheaty, but I kind of favour him. However, with Chris as the mate, we need a woman around or else the kids will go into care.

In the meantime, we aged up and shipped out the last four cats, meaning Al Green, the only vaguely ugly one, is heir.

His mate is Fiona Apple.

With the cats some way off ten gens, I moved their lifespab from short to shortest to see how far we get during the next human gen.

Helter Skelter’s LTW is cat herder. We’re making vague attempts at it. Spira’s is Master of the Arts, Slinky’s was Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous, and Chris is after becoming a surgeon (hahaha).

And we are going with the joint heir thing – heck, they’re bringing in the final generation so I want the best chance possible at a super-stunning sim. Join us then to see which animal-themed Knight comes out top of the pack!

Once upon a time, many moons ago, we saw the Knights elect a couple of the circle generation to become joint heirs – Twister…

…and elder sister Ladybird.

…They are aided in their task of bringing in the wood generation by Steve Texas.

Who does kind of like Ladybird, even if she pretty much had to stalk him to get to this stage.

I gave the boys triplets…
a girl

called Coffin.

Two boys – Pinocchio

and Bread Bin.

Despite all the usual measures such as kids’ TV and music (not enough LTH for fertility treatment), Ladybird gave birth to ONE SINGLE, SOLITARY KID.

His name is Drumstick.

Although Chess died, Shirley still lives and is able to help out with the kids.

We got Ladybird pregnant again just before she could become an elder, and the babies became toddlers. This is Bread Bin.

Coffin – who has her papa’s eyes.

Pinocchio…

…and Drumstick. Two out of four who’ve picked up some of their father’s colouring is OK, I guess.

Red kitty gen picspam!

We settled on this one

I think he’s Red Dragon. It took so long to play this chapter I am having trouble remembering which child is which, never mind which cat.

The cats’ colourings are quite in keeping with the wood theme.

We found him a mate.

Rose Royce.

Bless.

Then Roaring Heights became a big steaming glitchy mess, so we left Steve, Shirley and the non-heir kitties there and moved to Aurora Skies.

Where the kids aged up. This is Bread Bin…

…Pinocchio…

…Coffin…

…and Drumstick.

Early favourite…

Hmm.. I think Rose Royce is secretly too pretty to be an uglacy cat, but non-elder adoptees are hard to come by.

Baby time!

The final member of this generation is called…

…Billy Bookcase.

I really like the school rabbithole here.

All a bit white and blonde, though.

I didn’t realise at the time that this was a Scandinavian-style hood, which might not have been my best option for genetic diversity.

OMG why is the game taunting me with all these priceless uglacy specimens?

Age comes to Twister…

…and Billy Bookcase becomes a toddler. Cute but notsomuch into that skin tone.

More townie-hunting!

At least not blonde…

Blonde.

Blonde.

Not bad, but looks like Kevin in the film of We Need to Talk About Kevin so I’d end up afraid of crossbow incidents.

Not bad, but a bit face-bland.

Same.

More blonde.

Ladybird got old…

And kittens got born. Their names are:

Code Orange Kids

Orange Juice

Tangerine Dream

and

Jason Orange.

‘Which one is which?’

Search me, Pinocchio. I had to take screenshots to remember which kid was which, never mind the moggies.

‘So which one am I?’

One of the ones that won’t be heir.

I do like that this hood is quite wood-y given this generation’s theme.

The kids all grew up. Coffin reminds me a bit of Annalise Populous from my WYDC.

Billy Bookcase looks a little traumatised to be in his pants.

Indeed, where the last gen were emo in a grumpy sort of way, this lot seem perennially sad. C’mon Pinocchio, it isn’t that bad.

A smile, perchance, Drumstick?

I’ll take that, Bread Bin, even if I know it’s because you’re not yet wearing wooden garments (I imagine they must be super-comfortable).

Kittehs!

Kids looking somewhat possessed…

G’bye Twister.

I still fancy Drumstick for heir, he is the best mix of parents, I think.

‘If I just sit here, will you let me be a child forever and then not have to worry about acidentally getting made heir or anything?’

‘DAMN YOU WORLD’.

So Billy Bookcase is also a teen.

He is cute enough but there are enough white blonde sims in this town, let’s face it.

Speaking of which…

Let’s assemble a bunch of sims and age them up in an not-at-all creepy fashion.

Hi Kevin. stay away from small creatures and sharp objects.

Hello Face One. We won’t be needing your services, but nice of you to attend.

You may be blonde, but you are quite cute, so…

Eh.

What about you, little androgynous being?

Mmmm… maybe?

Although if you want to go ahead and add more mixed-race babies to the hood, that’s also good.

Holy crap, what kind of CC accident is that?

It isn’t 2010 any more, you know.

Let’s sort you out with age-appropriate hair and clothing.

…or not.

Much better.

We interrupt the formalities of ageing up the kids and pretending the heir isn’t already decided to bring you some cats growing up!

Find out which is heir next chapter as I haven’t decided yet (and there are no suitable mates to adopt anyway).

Bread Bin is so unloved that he was at the Beakers’ house when he had his birthday.

He is a proper, artistic, friendly technophobe who hates the outdoors yet wants to be a master acrobat.

Coffin, meanwhile, has a whole Molly Ringwald vibe going on. She is an adventurous, frugal, genius, loner cat person who wants to be a cat herder. Fingers crossed all those moggies don’t eat her body when she dies alone, eh? She’s also likely to be the recipient of the spare cats seeing as though she wants them.

Pinocchio is childish, never nude, athletic, friendly and a diva who wants to be a vocal legend.

And Drumstick is neurotic, family-oriented, charismatic, hydrophobic and a virtuoso who wants to be surrounded by family.

He’s also (duh) going to be the heir.

So we may as well age up Billy Bookcase.

I think he will fit very well into the Scandi-vibe of this town.

Meanwhile, I’d grown quite fond of Ms Wardrobe Mishap.

Her name is Jennika Wong.

She and Drumstick are pretty into each other already.

With the legacy future secured, Ladybird checked out.

These two got to more romancing…

Aww.

So we got to do this.

But then this happened.

So more of this ensued.

As did this.

And this.

Nevermind…

…make babies first and we can discuss weddings later.

Join us next time for swirls and curls gen!

We left the Knights with Shirley about to pop out the first member(s) of circle gen, so without further ado, let’s get on with the show!

Welcome to the family Domino…

…Mr Blobby…

…and Ladybird.

Chess got old 😦

Now go and make more babies before you die.

Here the triplets are as toddlers – Domino

Ladybird

and Mr Blobby. Sullen bunch, aren’t they?

We managed to get all three of them trained, though, no mean feat on a 13-day lifespan.

Meanwhile, Chess got abducted, just as his mother had before him. Nothing really occurred from it though.

Spinderella died. At the same time…

…as Shirley gave birth and a townie passed on…

…and our new members of the cat uglacy were born:

China Black

and

Black Sabbath

More triplets!

Bubble Wrap…

…Smarties…

and a boy I forgot to photograph, whose name is

Hula Hoops.

I know. Exhausting, isn’t it?

Kids aged up – Ladybird.

Domino, rocking a reverse ombre hair there.

And Mr Blobby.

Would it kill any of you kids to crack a smile?

Sigh.

Sadface.

Most emo gen ever.

Not that the littlies are faring much better – Smarties…

Hula Hoops…

…and Bubble Wrap.

‘What did I do to deserve such mardy children?’

No idea Chess, sorry.

These two wanted to woo-hoo again. So… I made it risky…

‘More babies?’

Afraid so, Bubble Wrap. At least you guys are in no danger of being orphaned too early.

‘Such a pleasing development on my birthday.’

‘New babies can go DIAF.’

SO MUCH HAPPY.

Being teens doesn’t cheer up the older triplets, either.

I am trying to figure out if it’s just the colouring or if Mr Blobby really isn’t that attractive.

Domino, on the other hand, is lovely. But without the make-up and hair, she’s a total Shirley clone.

Ladybird at least seems more of a blend.

Would it kill any of you to smile, just once?

They are all super-emo but I think Domino just takes the prize for the best moody faces.

The cats aged up. China Black…

…and Black Sabbath.

We made China Black the heir (they’re both male, by the way).

Townie watch! No.

Eh.

Hmm.

Nah.

Oooh, nice.

Nice colouring but notsomuch with the face.

OMG WHY IS THIS NOT STILL AN UGLACY YOU AMAZING SPECIMEN.

These two are still totally adorable.

Time for Def Leppard to check out…

…and as he ascends…

…we welcome our final baby this gen!

Hello Twister. It’s going to be a pain waiting to see how pretty he is so I’m thinking the heir will come from the first six and if he’s the best looking he can be a joint heir.

After all, time waits for no-one and they’re all getting older. Hula Hoops is a most chirpy teen…

…as is Bubble Wrap, who is not as unattractive as she seems in this shot, she just likes to pout.

Smarties is totally gorgeous, but a bit of a throwback to Zoom genetically.

I normally let babies have a day before ageing them up but time is not on our side so I aged up Twister almost immediately.

We needed to, as the oldest kids are now YAs. Domino is lovely looking when she’s not scowling, but she is a Shirley clone through and through.

Mr Blobby didn’t turn out too badly, but he is a Chess face clone.

Therefore, as a decent mixture of both parents, Ladybird gets to hang around until the next set of triplets age up.

Meanwhile, Smarties got in on some toddler training.

This gen are very studious, always autonomously reading or doing homework.

Bless ’em.

We tried forever for mates for China Black and none came up. In the end we were forced to adopt an elder female cat and edit her down to an adult in CAS.

Meet Black Lace.

Don’t panic – although Chess and Shirley are at it yet again…

…she’s too old for more kids now.

Oh Smarties, why must you be such a clone?

Difficult to tell how Twister will turn out, but he’s a cute enough kid.

Hula Hoops as an adult – not really feeling it.

Nor am I putting Bubble Wrap in charge of a prettacy.

Smarties is totally gorgeous, but she’s also a total Zoom clone. So instead of being heir, she’s my next entrant in Boolprop’s Next Top Model.

Which means Ladybird is going to have to take her chances at heirdom as she’ll be an elder before Twister ages up and I don’t want to put all the eggs in his basket. As she’s turning into a full-grown adult in this shot, things are “interesting”.

Time for more townie hunting, then. And am I late to the party in not noticing this Sims 4 mural in Roaring Heights?

Perfectly timed throwing the diploma / father passing over shot.

This town is a full-on clone zone. Look at all the sims with default EA faces. I want none of their babies. The pretty girl I saw as a child doesn’t even exist now. Stupid town.

So I sent Ladybird to university in desperation. I hope this mascot isn’t a sign of things to come.

So far, so ho-hum.

O hello.

Not only is he cute, he’s black, which is a godsend given the Aryan dominated ethnic cleansing programme that is story progression (both EA’s and NRaas’). I am sick of every single hood being a bland sea of white face ones. Hurrah for diversity!

His name is Steve Texas.

And whilst these two are friends, he’s unflirty. Bah. I also learned that pollinating a sim at uni doesn’t work although at least they don’t age there.

Back home and one single, solitary kitten is born.

Called Simply Red. (Insert jokes about ugly gingers here if you must)

Twister’s an OK looking teen but not stunning enough for me to get rid of Ladybird just yet. He’s as cheerful as his siblings.

Shirley got arrested. Grief has made her badass.

So I had to cheat a bit. Ladybird came back from uni at her max adult span and we invited Steve over straight away, but it would take a day for him to get here. I couldn’t pollinate her with his genes until he came to town, so I had to pollinate her with a random townie and then cancel the pregnancy when he turned up. The perils of super-short life spans.

I added him to the household straight away and had him go for a heat of the moment kiss, even though sims always reject these.

Except Ladybird.

Girl is obsessed with him, even if he’s a little less bothered.

He then got electrocuted! I’ve never seen that before.

I didn’t catch them in the act, but they tried for baby in Chess and Shirley’s sex shower. Then Ladybird pranced around nude. So skeevy.

Twister aged up and whilst neither he nor Ladybird are the best looking this gen (I’d say Domino and Smarties) they do both have a great blend of genetics, and I decided they could both make heir – not least as he’s a bit younger so may live long enough for the kids to be teens.

Just in time, as Steve’s ageing up to adult and trying to pretend he shouldn’t be in a prettacy.

MOAR kitties. Four this time – not sure which is which, but their names are:

3 Colours Red

Red Dragon

Red Box

and

Scarlet

I can’t pollinate men effectively at the moment, not sure why, so I’ll instababy the boys’ offspring. Meet them and the product(s) of Ladybird and Steve’s amour next chapter when we welcome wood generation!

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‘Am I supposed to remember what on earth is going on here?’

Well, you are Zoom Knight, heir to the crashiest legacy in the world. Probably.

Your duff has been upped by this fellow, Roderick Lozano.

So I am not sure this is the most suitable recreational activity for you.

Slightly better.

I swear this challenge is going to be the death of me. Never did I think a legacy on ultra-fast speed could drag its feet the way this one has, but the Knights are as crashy as ever, hence our long gap between posts yet again.

Still, I can’t get enough of the scenery in Sunlit Tides.

This is hilarious. The Knights’ money has all gone into their house. They have about 10 grand in cash, and that’s dwindling fast.

Now, if we were going on ‘most likely to die surrounded by cats’ that might be more appropriate.

Last time we were with you, a whole bunch of kittens were born, and now the house is overrun by felines.

 

This last one is Phil Oakey.  The colour mix this genertion of cats is really interesting.

I decided to make The Doors the heir

And this is her mate, Woody Guthrie.

It’s not just the cats who’re mating, of course. And despite all the usual efforts, we just got twins.

Chess

And Battenburg

Which should probably be spelled Battenberg, but too late now.

And we remembered the perils of super-speedy legacies.

I know Roderick. I didn’t want you to get old, either.

Although I have no problem with cats getting old so we can get rid of some.

Fortunately we’ve got Zoom pregnant again – partly to delay her ageing.

New kitties!

Their names are:

Spin Doctors

Spinderella

And Twisted Sister.

As usual, I can’t tell them apart at this stage.

Fortunately I colour-code the kids. This is Battenburg…

…and Chess.

Someone decided to check out before the next baby/ies arrived… 😦

And for some annoying reason, it was baby singular.

This is Tartan.

With a baby and new kitties in the house, the training of the toddlers is non-existent.

And with our game freezing every single save, we decided it was time to move again. Hello, Roaring Heights.

And hello, more birthdays.

Unlike the others, we have time to skill Tartan.

Someone is mummy’s favourite.

As the kids might expect, I took full advantage of their names.

So Chess played a lot of chess

and Battenburg baked.

I sent the kids out to explore the new hood.

Which is not quite as nice as Sunlit Tides but still fairly pretty.

They were a bit non-plussed by the tourist centre type place.

And you would think the rollercoaster might give a moodlet or something.

Still, there’s enough to keep them entertained.

Even if, left on free will, they prefer homework.

Whilst Tartan gets skilled up.

We spied on the townie kids, even if you can never tell how they will really turn out until they hit teens.

Kittens became cats.

They have some ace colouring going on.

We chose Spinderella to be heir.

And this is her mate, InspiralCarpe(ts)

And our human kittens also grew. Here’s Tartan…

…Chess…

…and Battenburg.

Meanwhile…

Zoom got, um, zoomed up by aliens. She seemed OK though.

I think Battenburg might be her face clone. The make-up and hair disguise it a bit, but I don’t see much of Roderick here.

And now for another townie check…

Could be cute with different hair.

Reasonable.

Nah.

Not really.

Could be cute if she smiled.

As could she.

Tartan served us well by bringing a cute friend home.

‘Does this mean he will be the heir?’

‘Noooo!’

Tartan turned into a not-at-all bad-looking teen

…who spent all day chatting up the maid when she should have been cleaning.

Meanwhile, MOAR KITTIES.

The one with white bits is a boy.

Called Def Leppard.

The other one is a girl

called Jungle Lion.

The twins aged up.

And Battenburg was sent packing for her clone-ness.

While I waited for Tartan to grow up, Chess got a job.

Cute magician costume! Poor Bunnicula Daye never got one of those.

He is pretty good-looking – but the downside of him being heir is if I wait until Tartan is old enough, he’ll be ancient himself and therefore will die sooner.

Tartan checks out the scenery…

…and she has aged up OK.

I still quite like this one, though.

We interrupt mate-hunting for this piece of cute.

Which doesn’t last long, as Jungle Lion ages up…

…as does Def Leppard.

I declare him the winner of the cat prettacy, being its tenth gen. It’s harder to do a prettacy with animals, they’re all a bit much of a muchness.

Still, that won’t stop us now trying a cat uglacy with our new mate

Whitesnake.

Tartan ages up to look quite a bit like his brother.

He gets a kilt… and then I kick him out, as I think Chess is a bit cuter and a better mix between the two parents.

So now we pursue Lil’ Miss Red Cheeks, whose name is Shirley Templeton.

She is unflirty and has a boyfriend, so it might be a challenge.

Or not.

She is so into him.

D’aww.

They both graduated.

As did Tartan.

Shirley was voted valedictorian. It was a beautiful event.

And then Zoom died.

Surrounded by her children.

And about five other elderly townies also died.

Shirley’s baby bump emerged and Chess aged up.

It was the most romantic setting for star-gazing.

And for this.

Our first Knight wedding in a long time!

Innit beautiful?

A pregnant Shirley pulled some awesome dance moves to the kids’ music.

Join us next time to see how circles and spots gen turn out!

This update is brought to you by the words PAIN, IN, THE and ARSE. Which is about standard for this legacy these days.

So, last time, we moved to Isla Paradiso, brought in Teodor Medina and although his family tree said he had a kid, Palmira, she didn’t turn up. However, a recover missing sims operation later and she turned up.

Welcome to a future of babysitting.

The Dayes couldn’t get into the future, so when the portal thingy arrived on the Knights’ boat, I couldn’t resist.

To the future, Teodor!

Turns out the future, whilst pretty, was a bit boring. I guess things only happen when you get those pop-ups.

Speaking of happening, the kittens all grew up and I still don’t remember which is which.

I do know we kept Oblong to be the heir, though.  Pretty sure he’s the bottom one.

Baby time! Teodor gave birth first. To our only boy…

Mars Bar…

… and two little girls…

Button Moon…

…and Voyager.

Poor Palmira got to age up…

…and was immediately set to work.

Teodor wants to scuba dive for his LTW, so he got right on to it.

He looked like he was drowning so I told him to come back in.

But instead he drowned in the carpet.

I think this may be the first accidental death in this legacy.

Idiot.

Come on you, no sleeping. You’ve got three babies to care for and you still have to give birth.

There we go.

Astrid…

…and Zoom make this a four girl, one boy generation.

Life on the houseboat was sort of fun at first.

We found an island.

A babysitter came over while Pacer Mint took a water taxi around our island.

She smelled the flowers.

And it rained.

We got a new cat, Ice Cube, to mate with Oblong.

And it rained.

The kids became toddlers – Mars Bar

Button Moon

Voyager

Zoom

Astrid

And Palmira got to be a teen

Who immediately got put on childcare duties

As did the maid.

And it rained some more.

Living on a houseboat is annoying when it rains – so much of it is outdoors.

The second university mascot turning up should have been a sign something was wrong.

Oblong and Ice Cube produced a litter of kitties.

Again, I am rubbish at which is which, but there are four of them…

Their names are:

Looper

Dot Allison

A Perfect Circle

…and The Ink Spots

Awwww.

Kiddies age up time!

Astrid

Voyager

Zoom

Button Moon

And Mars Bar

I think they were super-cute kids, so prepare for picspam…

Super adorable. And yes, Button Moon always does look a bit mardy.

You may have spotted a little something during that picspam.

‘Hooray! No more house boat for us!’

The houseboat save kept freezing. After hours and hours of attempting to solve it, I gave in and we started again in Sunlit Tides.

Which is just the prettiest.

Its residents aren’t too bad, I suppose.

Pacer Mint got old…

…inappropriately.

Kitty picspam!

Young adult Palmira!

Despite never having attended a school in her life, Palmira graduated.

It rained.

I love that Sunlit Tides has different rabbit holes.

And random singagrams.

Sooo pretty.

I even let Palmira half-heartedly chat up a local.

I don’t know if I got them all in, but the top two are TheInkSpots and Dot Allison and I’m making them joint cat heirs.

Just before the kids aged up, we got a bit of townie spying done on their only day of school.

Cheer up, Button Moon, they aren’t that bad at all.

I see. You’re staying cheery then.

Given this is the cosmic gen, I thought we’d make the most of make-up.

Without make-up, this lot aren’t all that, but with it, they scrub up pretty well. Voyager is a bit of a Pacer face clone and Mars Bar and Button Moon look a lot like their dad. Astrid and Zoom are more of a mix, and of the two, I’m favouring Zoom.

That’s a good bed, young lady. You could get in it.

We invited local teens over to party/spouse hunt.

Some are better than others, but not a bad lot overall.

Although we did catch a cute one flirting with a less-cute one.

What’s up, Voyager?

‘I just… feel.. so… stuck.’

Yeah, despite getting rid of Palmira and excess cats and resetting all, we still got into a freezing loop.

‘Haven’t we been here before?’

Yeah, we started over yet again. In a new Sunlit Tides save. The things I do for this legacy.

We adopted a kitty. Our choice was elderly girl or girl kitten.

This lil’ kitty is Karen O

It was only after we got her and had gotten rid of the other cats that I realised both TheInkSpots and Dot Allison were girls. So I cheated and pollinated them.

The kids had lost all their relationships, so I sent them out around town again.

Snowcones give cute moodlets!

The park in Sunlit Tides isn’t as pretty as its equivalent in some other towns.

‘Here comes the rain again.’

‘Fantastic.’

Random pic of Zoom because she’s so adorable.

‘Is that the birthday chime I hear?’

Sure is. Mars Bar is hot-headed, family oriented, excitable, clumsy and a mooch.

His LTW is Ark Builder.

Voyager has learned the patented Captain Picard facepalm.

I love her so much, but she does look a lot like Pacer Mint. Her traits are: supernatural fan, brave, disciplined, excitable and unlucky. Her LTW is physical perfection.

Button Moon aged up in the same outfit she had on as a teen.

Her traits are: slob, athletic, heavy sleeper, artistic and… no sense of humour. You don’t say. Her LTW is vocal legend.

Astrid is family oriented, disciplined, neat, a genius and a light sleeper. For some reason I was able to choose her final trait despite them only doing 1 day of school ever. Her LTW is surrounded by family.

Much like her namesake, she likes to wait on everyone.

Zoom is a vegetarian, virtuoso, perceptive slob who loves the outdoors and wants to be a CEO.

‘Beam me up, Scotty.’

‘No, some mistake, surely? I’m moving, aren’t I?’

Afraid not, Zoom.

Button Moon seems to have become a taxi driver.

I set up a townie party for her to meet potential mates.

It rained.

I fancied the look of this one.

She didn’t.

And this one was unemployed with bad hair.

This one was cute…

…but I’m not sure I want werewolves in the family and I’m assuming the tail means something in that line?

Too many of them wear bad eyewear…

…or look a little seedy.

Here’s Karen O as a full-grown cat…

In time for six kitties (one litter of four, one of two). Most are girls, even the ones with boys’ names.

Again, they are all a bit interchangeable to me, but their names are (along the wood theme)…

The Doors

The Carpenters

Courtney Pine

Ronnie Wood

Phil Oak-ey

Roy Wood

Zoom rolled up a want to chat to the pretty bloke from earlier (whose name I forget).

And they were about to try for baby… when the game crashed. Oh well. We’d saved just a couple of moments earlier, so not too bad.

And at least when it rains all the time, you get a rainbow…

Join us next time for square/rectangle/check gen… if we can manage it, going on the stress of these past two gens!

‘Hello, can I help you?’

Hello Treebeard Knight, it’s your simmer here. I know you thought you’d gotten rid of me sometime last Christmas, but unfortunately, I have a job for you.

‘Oh yeah, suppose I ought to marry the mother of my children’

Well yes, but I was more interested in the children bit.

They’re both pregnant with little stripe Knights.

And in case you were wondering why this update has taken eleven months to appear, it’s because it’s brought to you by the letters N-I-G-H-T-M-A-R and E, but more of that as we go through.

Rolling Stone is still alive, despite being ancient. Fields of the Nephilim and Screaming Tree have kitties on the way, and the short lifespan means the cat generations are going to end up quite a bit in front of the human ones, but… eh.

The pregnant duo also made the most of their child-free time by having fun in the snow.

You could almost pretend I was getting in early for this Christmas, instead of reliving events from just after last Christmas…

A rare instance of a Knight parent having a lie down.

Hospital time! Although neither has enough LTH for fertility treatment, we’ve been watching non-stop kids’ TV and listening to non-stop kids’ music to induce multiples.

Oh. Well, at least Treebeard is still to pop.

WHAT.

Anyway, these first two babies are

Pacer Mint

and Grimsby Town.

I could have named the whole family after types of mint (Everton mint, Mint humbug, those brown stripy mints I forget the name of) or football teams – so be thankful that I’ve restrained it to these two.

Now make more babies.

You may be wondering where the kitten posts are. Well, here’s a thing. The cats in game are up to the square/check/rectangle generation – and the ones about to be birthed at this point in the update are the stripy ones. I also changed computers part-way through this generation. So I’ve got a bunch of generations of cat pics to find, and I’m slightly befuddled about which is which, but this generation only had two kitties:

White Stripes

and

Stryper.

They both looked quite similar, IIRC (it was nearly a year ago…)

I believe this is one of them.

And this is probably the other (star gen and stripe gen look quite similar as you’ll see, so it’s hard to distinguish)

I do know that I chose Stryper, possibly because of the types of cat available from the shelter for mating purposes, the winner of which was

Rainbow.

Now go make some kitties.

Whilst the kitties are cooking, we’re about ready to pop out some more babies.

And age up our twins – this is Pacer Mint

And this is Grimsby Town

Their happy days as a twosome are not going to last long.

I believe this pretty was taken just before Rolling Stone finally kicked the bucket.

Although being dead is no bother in this town, where they have many uses for people in the afterlife.

We interrupt this frenzy to present disco zombie. Werk it, baby.

So here’s a thing. I have had multiple births a ton of times. I’ve had Twallan’s mods installed for years. I’ve given sims fertility treatment and made them listen to kids’ music and watch kids’ TV and all the rest of it, and I’ve always known that triplets was the maximum number the game let you have.

BUT NO. Thanks to the “magic” of mods, not one, but TWO sets of QUADS. I swear I had no idea this was possible (they got the triplets moodlet IIRC but this may be wrong). Never mind that, EIGHT BABIES. Plus two toddlers. TEN CHILDREN GENERATION I WAS NOT PARTICULARLY EXPECTING THIS.

What’s up, Rainbow?

You want to interrupt the multiple birth story with your own litter? Well, you will have to get in line. I have a lot of children to welcome first, and then we’ll come on to the kitten army.

First up, two boys.

Barber’s Pole

and Bagpuss.

Two more:

Hornet

and Candy Cane.

Aquafresh 3…

…Burglar…

…School Tie

Sidebar: this is my school tie from Middle School (my first school tie was plain red so that’s no use)

…and here is 25-years-ago me modelling it.

My secondary school tie is hard to find online seeing as the school no longer exists, but it looked something like this. Everyone wore one on the first day of year seven… no-one wore one afterwards. But both ties have strongly influenced my boy’s image, as you’ll see.

And there’s a girl ,too.

Deckchair.

As if ten kids, two adults and three cats (Fields of the Nephilim and Rolling Stone are dead at this point, and we shipped out White Stripes, but Screaming Tree remains alive) weren’t enough, here’s a litter of kitties, none of whom I can really tell apart very easily. Hooray!

Dubstar

Stars on 45

And Starship

I have no idea which is which, but cute kitty picspam is cute.

So, to recap. Twelve sims and six cats. There may be a reason why my game then started to crash. Every single time. For months. With me only occasionally getting to a save point (and bear in mind I have Twallan’s saver mod, so saves should happen every half an hour).

After a lot of effort, I managed to get some toddlers happening. School Tie favours the unisex look.

Deckchair is an early favourite.

Although Barber’s Pole is quite cute too.

Here’s Hornet…

…Bagpuss and Aquafresh 3…

…Candy Cane…

…and Burglar.

I sort of regret so many of them having red stripes in their outfit, as I’m always forgetting which is which.

The older girls aged up too. Pacer Mint wears the look of one who has endured much baby crying and many game crashes.

Grimsby Town meanwhile, gets into the sporting spirit early.

I always forget to repaint that roof bit. Anyway, it’s around this point that two things happen. 1: I wonder if the Twinbrook save is beyond help, so I move the family to Midnight Hollow and 2: I get a new computer.

Then the kids all start to age up again – School Tie…

…Candy Cane…

…Bagpuss…

…Aquafresh 3…

…Burglar (who has evil as a trait)…

(and is totes adorable)

Hornet…

…Deckchair…

…and Barber’s Pole.

I forgot that we still had Mandy’s grave on-lot and so she came out to chat to her grandkids, who seemed quite fascinated.

The kids started to bring home friends from school, which was quite handy.

Even if the town has slim pickings.

The older two tend to just play together instead of with the octuplets.

And occasionally get some sleep.

The kittens grew up – this is either Dubstar or Starship, who are total clones.

I went for Stars on 45 as heir though. We couldn’t find any cats to adopt, so we ran around the neighbourhood and found a kitten that we promptly cheated into our house, aged up and renamed Mazzy Star.

She’s not the prettiest cat, but beggars can’t be choosers.

Meanwhile these two aged up

But fortunately so did these two

So if the old folk pop their clogs, we’ll be OK.

I staggered the octuplets’ birthdays across a day to try and avoid game crashing (it failed – multiple attempts ensued), which meant Hornet was able to do this…

…to poor Aquafresh 3.

Burglar is a bit generic-looking and leans more towards Laura, but I still love him.

I’m not sure Aquafresh 3 looks that much like either parent.

Bagpuss neither, but at least I can use this Mare’s Nest CC I’ve had for years.

Hornet is more Knight than anything, but he’s not the pick of the bunch.

Barber’s Pole is not quite as ugly as the hideous hair suggests.

School Tie is very cute, but a bit of a Treebeard clone.

Again, not sure where Candy Cane’s looks come from.

Deckchair is probably the cutest but I don’t seem to have separate photos of her. She’s a total Laura clone, though.

Screaming Tree finally died.

A crazy amount of mourning ensued.

More than when both Treebeard and Laura kicked the bucket just afterwards. Still, three sims less is better for me, even if the game didn’t get much better.

Speaking of not much better, the townies of Midnight Hollow seem either bland or supernatural – and I’m not sold on supernaturals for this family.

Sending ten teens to school is always fun.

Everyone do the foot tapping dance!

The new EPs install and the game now starts letting me get 1-2 saves in before crashing to desktop. Huzzah! Pacer Mint is even able to age up and become quite the cutie.

Whereas Grimsby Town seems to have some proper old-skool Knight throwback genes in there. She wants to be a superstar athlete (but will settle for the Blue Square Premier League or whatever it’s currently called) and is an insane virtuoso with a photographer’s eye who loves the cold and is a supernatural skeptic.

Pacer Mint is a bit Treebeard-y but she’s a good contender. She wants to be an animal resucer and is family oriented,a savvy sculptor, genius, mooch who loves the outdoors.

Stop! Kitty time!

No, there aren’t a billion of them – just 4. (Just!) I can’t remember which is which yet, although they all look quite distinctive and are all a pleasing blend of the two parents. There are three girls and a boy (and they bring us up to seven cats and ten sims in the house).

Their names are…

Oblong

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOb799cTxM]

Black Box

Living in a Box (check the cultural insensitivity of that video. Oh, the 80s)

…and Check 1-2.

Eventually, although with much crashing in between, so half of their outfits didn’t make it, we got the others aged up. Deckchair is a slob, good, a party animal who loves the heat and despite hating the outdoors, wants to be a seaside saviour.

Aquafresh 3 is the only one with all three, three in one protection for your family. He’s also an excitable virtuoso snob who is friendly, loves the outdoors and has designs on being a fashion phenomenon.

Bagpuss is inappropriate, he can’t stand art, but loves animals, is a grumpy heavy sleeper and wants to be a fairytale finder.

Barber’s Pole loves both the cold and the heat, but can’t stand art. He is a born salesman but inappropriate and is a party animal. What a weird set of traits.

He wants to be a vocal legend.

Burglar wants to be a master thief, naturally. He is evil, avant garde, athletic and a light sleeping loser.

He is not fond of clothes.

Pretty good looking gen, no? And we’re only part-way through.

Candy Cane doesn’t look much like his parents, but he’s not the prettiest either.

He is flirty, over-emotional, unstable, good and friendly and wants to be a heartbreaker.

I aged up Hornet and School Tie in the middle of crashing and forgot to take proper pics, so here they are in CAS. Hornet wants to be a blog artist. He’s easily impressed, inappropriate, nurturing, evil and a computer whiz.

School Tie is good looking when he isn’t screwing his eyes up, but his eyes are exactly Treebeard’s. I forgot to write down any of his traits or LTW because I’m a BAD SIMMER. I was torn between him, deckchair and Pacer Mint for heirship.

But in the end I decided Pacer Mint was the most interesting choice.

‘Can I call a bad out of here?’

You can.

All the way to Isla Paradiso. The house hasn’t come in case that is the reason for the glitching.

Stryper is still alive, would you believe?

Still, I have no desire to play such an enormous household, so I packed off Pacer Mint with the four kitties.

She contemplates her future and wishes she could head out to sea, sailing away from legacy madness.

You can have the sailing bit, missy. The houseboats are quite small, aren’t they?

Time to run around town and look for mates. You only have a day left as a YA, time is of the essence.

No.

Cute, but best not to break up happy families, in case we make it to another generation in this hood and need the genetics.

No.

Pretty, but CC and face one suggests a service sim and we like to go for townies.

Pacer Mint and not especially attractive girl take to checking out the teen talent.

I think we’ll pass.

Maybe, but again, seems to be part of a family.

Nah.

Family again. Also looks a bit like Seth and I don’t want my sims being burned.

Ummm….

We decided to throw a party to see if she could find a partner that way.

Eh.

That much make-up can only mean a maid.

Hmmm.

Not bad.

Oh hello. Someone is wearing stripes. I wouldn’t even need to change his outfit.

Hello, Teodor Medina. Pleased to meet you.

We had to wait until morning to get a proper date with him – i.e. morning of the day Pacer Mint turns adult.

But we worked our magic.

And he fell at our feet.

Putty in our hands.

Generation cosmic is on its way.

And I decided we were gonna need a bigger boat.

I deleted all the pool tables and bars and replaced them with cots and cat beds.

Join us… whenever it may be… to see how (and if) the next generation turns out!

‘Make it stop’

Oh yes, the howl of multiple babies…

Baby kitties that is.

I decided that we may as well go for a cat prettacy – when Tonia died and left Rolling Stone with us I decided to set it in motion.

We went for the best looking (/only) male cat at the shelter, called him Stone Roses

and got babies underway.

They were very much in love…

And then he promptly died.

Poor pussy, poor pussy cat.

The kitties are a bit samey-looking and I can’t tell you which is which but they’re called Flowered Up

Grass Show

Screaming Tree

and Daisy Chainsaw (the only girl cat).

The theme this gen is plant-life, as if that didn’t give it away.

‘Can we get on to the important bit now?’

It was a long time ago, but you may recall that there are two heirs, Golem and Ice Cream Slab, who are both pregnant,

as is their joint baby mama, Mandy Nathan-Daye.

Golem faced the daunting task of telling his stalker, Eldrad…

…who actually took it rather well.

Mandy is pregnant with Golem’s kids, meaning he has a better chance in the heir race than Ice Cream Slab, but only slightly.

She only gave birth to one of them though.

Ice-Cream Slab had two, both girls, but for some reason I only have photos of her carrying her baby nephews.

Golem pushed super-hard to birth triplets. What a trooper.

So meet our ‘sextuplets’

Little Weed… (Golem/Mandy)

Hyacinth (Ice Cream Slab/Mandy)

…Wisteria Lane (Ice Cream Slab/Mandy)

‘Aargh!  The maid looks a bit like Asa Populous!’

… Treebeard (Golem/Mandy)

…Moss Man (Golem/Mandy)

…and Green Giant (Golem/Mandy)

Sad cat is sad. Ice Cream Slab, on the other hand, is just delusional.

Toddler time! Little Weed…

Moss Man

Wisteria Lane

Hyacinth

Green Giant

…and Treebeard.

Mandy has a clear favourite, despite being the mother of all six. Brave soul.

Obligatory cute toddler picspam

Obligatory cute kitten picspam.

This may not mean anything to any of my readers, but this reminded me of ‘chasing birds and butterflies, James the cat.’

Five out of six ain’t bad…

Here’s Little Weed.  I do love her so much.

Wisteria Lane seems a lot more earnest than the others for some reason.

More Little Weed! I love dressing her more than the others.

Hyacinth, who frequently looks miserable for some reason.

Treebeard in adorable dungarees

Green Giant pulling an ‘I don’t wanna be heir’ face

And Moss Man

The kittens became cats and it was a bit boring: Flowered Up and Grass Show are just Rolling Stone clones. The other two are like her but with a different shape. None of them resemble their father at all.

The kids had a day at school, so I checked out the town ‘talent’. It is somewhat lacking.

Which is a pain, seeing as they’re teenagers already. Treebeard isn’t bad looking

Nor is Moss Man…

…or Wisteria Lane.

The hair doesn’t do Hyacinth justice, but it is theme-appropriate.

Little Weed remains a favourite, although all five have potential.

I doubt Green Giant will be taking the reins though.

I sent the kids to the far corners of town to search for mates.

No thanks.

Oh dear.

It’s time for a family conference to discuss the severity of the situation.

Whereupon it was decided that the best (/only) hope was Laura Trott Knight-Parish, the only kid at school who talks to any of them.

‘It’s not that exciting a prospect.’

Tell me about it, Hyacinth.

I mean, she’s OK and all, but proper squidgy pudding-face.

Still, the competition isn’t up to that much.

This one would be OK without the nose and the probability that she’s their cousin or something.

Mandy died, which must mean one thing!

Birthday time! And time for Ice Cream Slab to pop her clogs too!

Hyacinth is brave, good, a virtuoso, hot-headed and… something else, with an LTW I have forgotten. Oops.

Moss Man is inappropriate, a vehicle enthusiast, friendly, a snob and a couch potato who wants to be the leader of the free world.

Green Giant is a genius couch potato who is good, dramatic and ambitious and wants to be an alchemist.

Wisteria Lane is nurturing, insane, absent-minded, friendly and a snob. She wants to be a CEO.

Little Weed is good, a snob, a dog person, friendly and hydrophobic. She wants to have a world-class gallery. I had hoped the shots that we got way back in the first legacy would count, but they didn’t.

Treebeard is hotheaded, a party animal, a born salesman, artistic and a snob who wants to be a home design hotshot.

I then thought I’d get them all to pose for a Christmas shot for you.

May all your Christmases be Knight!

I decided to make Screaming Tree the head cat… but I’m pretty sure this isn’t a picture of him. Oops.

This, however, is his mate, Fields of the Nephilim.

We then installed Seasons, so I sent them all to the park to play for a bit while I made my mind up about the heir race.

Moss Man had a fake tan and attempted some shameless showboating in the process by getting his chest out.

He, Golem and Wisteria Lane entered the eating competition. And they all lost.

Green Giant filled his face at the hot dog stall instead.

Treebeard set off some fireworks.

Little Weed had a snow cone.

And Hyacinth played football.

I ummed and ahhed about the heir race for ages, but eventually decided Treebeard was the best cross between two parents. He also had the strongest relationship with Laura Trott.

So we set about wooing her.

I’m not sure she’s that attractive, Treebeard. But slim pickings are slim.

He was in the middle of wooing when he got a call from Charlotte Dujardin Something-or-other (You can tell the townies of this generation were born during the Olympics… the current townie babies are all named after Strictly Come Dancing dancers) saying she fancied him and wanted him to go on a date with her. New feature is exciting!

‘Someone is actually asking a Knight on a date??’

Oh yeah, it’s her. The one with the chin. Maybe not then.

Very excited that we have rollerskates. My poor neglected Kingsfield neighbourhood has a roller derby team and now they’ll actually be able to roll!

I moved the other kids and cats out and we got to work on wooing Laura Trott. She didn’t even seem to notice the love letter Treebeard sent.

And the bathroom flirting was much harder work than usual.

The full moon even brought out a potential new contender for Treebeard’s affections – and seriously, that zombie is no more hideous than most of the townies (which is, I know, entirely the fault of our ten generations of fug and their descendants).

Still, the full moon also brought lurve.

(I wish she looked less generic)

Nevertheless, he scores!

Join us next time for stripy babies!

So why is Tonia reacting like this, you might ask?

Well, it could be that a bit of this…

…and this

Equals an abundance of these…

This is not one baby, by the way, but a stack of babies on top of each other. Creepy game.

Tonia gave birth to three babies, Wii two. Not the sextuplets I was hoping for, but not bad.

Also: epic stacked moodlets for the win!

I can’t remember who gave birth to whom, but the generation this time is ‘rock, marble and stone’ and we have four girls and a boy. I’ll introduce you to them on their toddler birthday seeing as on super-speed, babyhood just lasts a day.

Appropriate decor is appropriate.

‘Oh yay! Wii is becoming an elder which means she will probably die and leave me with five screaming brats!’

Oh shush, they’re ageing quickly too. And here they are: Uluru.

Ice Cream Slab…

Rockery…

Weeping Angel…

…and Golem

As you can see, the kids also have IFs although we don’t have enough time, potions or room to make them all real. Still, for posterity, Golem’s is called Eldrad

Ice Cream Slab’s is PestleMortar

Weeping Angel’s is Stone Dalek

Uluru’s is called Grand Canyon

For some reason I don’t have a pic of poor old Rockery with hers, but it’s called Pebbles and that might even have been an EA name which I kept for being appropriate.

Poor cowardly Tonia really hates having five toddlers all at once. I made several of them evil so they could reap the benefits of each others’ misery.

Despite the passion-killer you might think all these babies would be, these two are always rolling up lovey-dovey wants.

Dawww.

For a family whose legacies are based on arranged hook-ups according to looks, the Knights are often surprisingly loving.

How come when this was an uglacy, only the pretty townies seemed to be breeding, and now it’s a prettacy we have the reverse?

Even though she’s left to her own devices, my ghost horsey is skilling up, bless her.

Someone asked me in the last chapter about jobs. The Knights have jobs. They just don’t tend to keep them very long.

Two days of toddlerhood can still feel like an eternity…

We bought a karaoke machine and the newly aged up kids loved it. Golem immediately rolled up the want to be a lead singer.

As did Rockery.

And Uluru.

Golem’s also making an early heirdom bit by shameless showboating: hanging out with his IF, singing and being the King of the Royal court…

…as well as sending out the slight incest vibes this family thrives off…

I’m not writing off Ice Cream Slab though, who’s really cute.

Rockery has potential…

…but the other two have definitely been hit with the ugly stick. (Or should that be the Wii-mote?)

‘Boo to me not being heir!’

Like you’d want it. It’s all multiple babies and enforced marriages.

Don’t look! It’s hideous! But also: don’t blink! Aaaargh!

I know it’s all in the hair, but he is kind of adorable.

Even though the kids have never been to school, Rockery is still managing to do homework somehow.

She’s certainly one of the more conscientious members this family has had.

And the only Knight in a long time, possibly ever, to get an A.

‘Oh yay I get to be old now’ – yes, and potentially leave these poor children motherless. Thanks for that.

Mighty White putting in loads of effort into the jumping…

Teen time! Ice Cream Slab is cay-oooot.

Rockery is pretty cute too, though I think Ice Cream Slab edges it between the two.

Golem isn’t quite as adorable as I’d hoped but still not bad.

LOLNO

Sorry girls.

This brother/sister duet thing isn’t at all creepy, is it?

Nope. Not at all.

Stop it with the homework before you’ve even gone to school, missy!

Ice Cream Slab is bucking this generation’s trend and wants to be an equestrian. Never going to happen, but I locked it in anyway seeing as we’re long past expecting LTWs to come true.

What?! Tonia was only an elder for one day!

Then the weirdest thing ever happened. A pet got added to the portrait panel and we got this pop-up:

So does this mean Tonia’s spirit is living on in a cat?

It’s an odd looking beast, but I feel mean kicking it out seeing as Tonia bequeathed it to us. So we renamed it Rolling Stone and let it stay.

The kids finally got to go to school, so you know what that means…

…well, for one thing, it means that the short lifespan is giving everyone in town a lot of grief…

…this one is coming home with them, btw.

…and she’s cute.

No time to be picky, she’s going to be the mother of our children.

Her name is Mandy Nathan-Daye. She’s at least fourth-generation townie and has some Knight in her background, but she must have some Populous genes somewhere, because look at her! Stick a blonde wig on her and she could easily be one of Bebe’s identikids.

I don’t know whether or not I’ll go for Ice Cream Slab or Golem as the heir so I’m getting them both to schmooze Mandy.

Ice Cream Slab wanted to ask her to the prom they’ll never actually make. Awwww 😦

Since Weeping Angel is the only one who is best friends with her IF, I let Stone Dalek take our last potion.

Here’s the fella. He has the blackest eyes. Fitting for a Dalek, I guess.

There was a show going on in the park, so I sent Uluru to watch it. Meg White, one of the white gen IFs, was performing.

I thought she was pretty good.

Uluru begs to differ.

She will be ours.

Oh yes, she will…

We got an Oh my Ghost! opportunity and I wasn’t 100% sure if teens would get taken away by the game if all the adults died, so I sent Wii to resurrect Tonia just in case.

Now that’s what I call bad timing.

Fortunately, the kids didn’t get taken away.

Townies also kept dying and I swear, each member of the family saw a different one die and wanted to resurrect them. They all wanted to resurrect strangers but none of them wanted to resurrect either of their mums. Cold kids, cold.

Still, cake. We know what that means, right? Yes, all the kids made it to adulthood.

One of these girls is not like the others…

So here they are in all their glory. Rockery…

Stone Dalek…

Weeping Angel…

…who wants to be the Emperor of Evil…

…and Uluru.

And now for the two favourites. Golem…

And IceCream Slab. Yeah, from the front she’s cute (although you’ll have to take my word for it, not sure why I don’t have a decent picture), but from the side she’s all Knight.

Although I think IceCream Slab is cuter face-on, Golem’s profile is way better. So he’s the obvious heir, right?

But the thing is, in Rainbow Knights, I liked to have an heir who had genetics from both parents, and that’s perhaps more obvious in IceCream Slab than in Golem.

While I was deliberating, I moved the others out and Mandy in.

Her LTW is medicine.

So I decided on Golem…

…then IceCream Slab…

(Is this what Golem and Mandy’s offspring would look like?)

I never found IFs creepy before, but Eldrad does act like a jealous stalker…

Yes Eldrad, those were chimes you heard…

…and so were those.

So we went for one pretty genetic donor, two heirs, and three pregnancies… join us next time for the foliage generation to see how that all pans out!

Way back in the midst of… oooh, 2011, there was this simmer who was sick and bored and in that frame of mind, she decided to create a rainbow uglacy and play it on short mode.

And then EA made extra sliders and short mode’s 25 days was no longer the shortest gameplay mode.

And she felt cheated.

‘You want me to what?’

Ladies and gents, meet Wii Knight. Or re-meet her if you met her before.

Wii was the ‘winner’ of my uglacy, Rainbow Knights. She was the ugliest sim created from breeding ten generations with townies. Most of whom were related.

And she’s now the new founder… of… my ultra-speedy pattern prettacy!

And by ultra speedy I mean all the sliders turned to the left. We’re going for the 13-day lifespan baby!

(Oh, and by pattern I mean each generation will have a pattern theme. Wii’s generation is plain. We’re still doing the 1 post per gen thing)

With very little time to get Wii pregnant, we went to the theatre on a mate hunt. The intention is for townies only, no IFs or service sims. We’re also going bisexual because it’s going to be hard enough to snag a mate, never mind a gender-specified mate.

As you can see, she got off to a great start. *Double thumbs up*

Reasonable, but not as gorgeous as I’d like…

It’s a shame you hate Wii, townie. Although you’re a bit bland.

Nah. Plus = clearly related.

The theatre a failure, we went elsewhere…

Gorgeous. But the pink hair’s a bad omen… she’s Wii’s cousin.

And married. Breed pretty babies now!

Pretty, but she’s a tourist, not a townie.

Freaky.

At the bistro and Wii immediately rolled up wants to talk to this lady, Tonia and to give her gifts.

Wii’s father, Cartland, then decided to die on us. Which freed up room for babies.

The previous generation dispensed with, we continued our pursuit of Tonia. Wii was about to become an adult and time is so limited… assualt with flowers seemed a reasonable way of operating under such circumstances.

She’s got a slightly large nose (almost certainly an inheritance from this family somewhere along the line) but otherwise I think she’s really cute. Pretty sure that hair is inherited from one of my simself incarnations though. Eek, it’s like Pinkfiend’s ISBI all over again, all this incetuous mating with my own sims.

Soon enough, Tonia moved in with us (and she’s a day or two younger than Wii – which is lucky as Wii might not live to see her kids become teens). The Knights are curiously irresistible.

Oh, look. We left the Christmas decs up.

These two rolled up more romantic and sexytime wants for each other than I’ve ever seen.

They couldn’t get the going steady option though, so I sent them on a date and it arrived!

Followed immediately by its logical conclusion.

And a double impregnation – as there’s only likely to be time to do pregnancy once, it seems legit to have both partners share the load.

That’s Archbishop’s gravestone outside the theatre, btw.

I allowed them one night out to celebrate being married.

Yeah, get used to the kids’ channel. You’ll be seeing a lot of that.

A lot.

Wii’s LTW is to adopt a unicorn, and I read that you can find them at fishing spots, so I sent her to them every night.

THE PRETTY.

It’s white too. And she’s the last gen of Rainbow Knights, so it’s an omen, right?

We tried really hard with the unicorn.

Not that trying hard always worked.

But I wants one 😦

Then I read somewhere else that the sims are meant to befriend several pets first before a unicorn will get to that point with them… LOL NO back to kids’ music and TV for you, Missus.

Awww. These two really adore each other.

I can’t resist the snuggly animal suits for them. Naff on other sims, but cute for these ones.

‘You do realise Rad wants us to have six babies all at once. That’s like SEXTUPLETS.’

‘Don’t remind me.’

Tonia had the Oh My Ghost opportunity, so we resurrected Mighty White. Not really for any reason, just because I wanted to see how having a ghost pet would work out.

Pregnancy really becomes her, doesn’t it?

Well well, what have we in here? Join us next time (soonish as I’ve played through to the conception of gen 3) to find out!