Generation 01: Chapter Three

Miranda also soon discovers that Maya, her cat, was expecting too. Almost mocking her she gave birth to three cute kittens, Miranda watches them and hopes to not give birth to triplets herself but the kittens are so cute. She called them Hanna, Zoe and Simon.

Miranda thought it was time to cook something for them, living alone made her develop her cooking skills so she doesn't have to live of fastfood anymore.

And right then the baby decided it was time to come out.

Then she discovered it wasn't one baby but two!

And that's how Alessio and Andrea Spires joined the family.

Miranda setted up two cribs upstairs. One was in her old room, the walls were still painted her favourite color. It will need to get changed since a little boy may not like to sleep surrounded by all that pink.

On a full moon night, the twins were asleep and Miranda aged up to adult, nothing too bad only a few more wrinkles on her face.

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I'm glad I managed to made her listen to enough kid's radio to get twins (and not more) because her personality doesn't really fit for romance... so now I'm done with gen 1 and I can focus on who to make heir :) comments are appreciated!


Author's notes

• Alessio likes country music, aloo masala curry and the color black. He's athletic and a heavy sleeper.
• Andrea likes country music (yes, they like the same type of music), dim sum and the color turquoise. He's clumsy and friendly.
• If anyone's wondering the twins are both male.
• She will not have that cherry tattoo in later chapters because my idea was that she got it because of the twins, but then looking more closely I noticed that it's three cherries and not two... so I picked another one XD  
• I've removed the full moon from my game, it's useless since I disabled warewolves and now I won't have zombies and weird lightning anymore.

Generation 01: Chapter Two

I remember people gossiping about me being a party animal, I probably should have stopped drinking then but let's start from the beginning...

It started as a normal day, I bathed and brushed Maya and Jack...

Then I went out practicing horseriding, I'm getting better at it but I still have up and downs.

Also stopped at the salon and got some new tattoos.

Then I went out to a local bar. It was full, there was even a band playing.

The bartender was kinda cute but the way he looked at me was a little scary. Don't they use uniforms in here? Isn't a yellow t-shirt a bit too casual? I also vaguely remember talking about my pets with someone...

I lost track after the fifth or sixth drink. There was a cute sim that I flirted and made out with a bit, but the memory is all blurry.

I felt weird the day after but I thought that maybe I had too much to drink. I focused on work to keep my mind occupied.

I had a new case. Eric was still unsure about marriage, his girlfriend Ava had asked me to check on him before, apparently his family is strongly against them getting married. They're living in the same house and already have a family together, quite a big one with their six children, it's obvious they're a good match so I just told him to go for it. If he really loves her the choice should be easy. 

I felt a little nauseous later, nothing so bad to go to the hospital though.

When I finally realized what was happening it was too late to do anything, I was expecting a baby and it was going to be soon.

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The second generation is ready to come out! I don't usually write in first person but I thought it was fitting this time :) what do you think?

Author's notes

• I had downloaded a bunch of new stuff before playing including a new skintone and eyes default replacements. Miranda has a custom skintone so she didn't change much but maybe you noticed the new eyes.
• I just decided this will also be a traitacy, I will update it on the sidebar soon, to read the rules for it you may go here. Miranda's highlighted trait is "Animal Lover".
• The poses I used in this chapter are 104° Fever and Beauty in Pregnancy.
• During her pregnancy Miranda only got the "pregnant" moodlet and sometimes the "backache" one with the want to get a massage. I wanted to show a vomiting scene but she didn't have any nausea at all. 

Miranda's new office

With the money Miranda has earned with her job I made her an office, so I will also have a place to display her trophies when she'll get them.
I think it came out quite well, it's under the garage because I haven't figured out yet how to put a staircase on foundations and in the end I just used a ladder because the space wasn't enough anyway...

The one outside the door its supposed to be a little waiting room, there's the investigator's special door but you can't see it cause I had to take the walls down. The office itself looks a bit empty seen like this, I have the feeling there's something missing but I don't know what it is.

This is where I placed the job board she got with her latest promotion.

Miranda seems to enjoy her new office, she really needed it cause the house doesn't have any electronics (I also bought her a laptop).



And this is all, I don't even know if I'll show her office in the story. This was a bit of a challenge since I'm not very good at decorating XD

The first screenshot looks a bit different because I changed all the in-game lights to pink, and I took that one when they were still white, I personally prefer the pink light.

I was thinking of laying her magnifying glass and fingerprint kit on a table or something, but I don't know if she can still do her job without them in her inventory. I've never really played the Private Investigator career before.

Generation 01: Chapter One

Miranda has always being rebellious, she left home still a teenager to join a protesting group on animal rights. She used to work as a freelance programmer but it wasn't interesting enough for her.
One day her group dissolved and she was left alone, they used to support eachother but they were all going their separate ways now. Then she got a call from home one day, it was a lawyer telling her her parents had died and asking if she wanted to live in the house. If she didn't then the house would be put up for auction along with the animals.
She didn't wanted to come back home but she had nowhere else to go and she couldn't let them just sold the animals with the house... before she even realized she had a train ticket in hand and she was heading back home.

 
Keeping a farm costs so she will need to find a job. She doesn't want one of those boring jobs where you only sit on a chair all day, she wants something more dynamic. She decided to write an ad and put it in the local library, offering help with general issues and computer problems. The first person to call is a young woman, obviously pregnant, worried that her boyfriend won't marry her. 

"This would be our second child already and he didn't mention anything about marriage" Said Ava in a worried tone.

Looks like an easy enough job, she'll only need to follow him a bit and maybe read his mail, sounds fun.

After some hours of flipping through the boyfriend's mail and checking his trash she didn't find much. Looks like he's just a bit confused, maybe he has commitment issues, Ava does seem to be a bit difficult. Miranda can only tell her to calm down and wait. Ava didn't take the news too bad.

During her freetime she likes to take her horse to the equestrian center to keep him in shape.



To feel less lonely in that big house she also took in two cats: Maya...

and Jack.

She soon got a new job by a woman called Amaya McCullough.
"Please not another boyfriend problem, I'm tired of it already!" Thought Miranda by herself.
Turned out Amaya is happily married and currently expecting her second child so she couldn't be asking that, though her problem seems to be related.
"I lost my wedding ring" She said. 
"Do you remember where you've seen it last?"

So Miranda starts her investigation first asking around town then looking for it herself, wearing her favourite pink coat and with her magnifying glass on hand. It's freezing cold outside, it's snowing and her breath comes out in white puffs clouding her glass, but Miranda is determined to solve this case.

She also sneak around and look for evidence with her new fingerprint kit.

Miranda found the ring hidden in Amaya's house, that's odd, she quickly went back to her and told her the good news.
"Thank you for finding my ring!" Said glad Amaya.
"It wasn't too hard, oh and congratulations I've heard you had quadruplets!"
"Yes, now we have four new girls in the house. It's a joy but it's also going to be hard"

This was her first important case she got a prize from the town's city hall, an official position with a weekly salary and an office all for herself. It was time to celebrate, she decided to get a tattoo so she'll remember it for the rest of her life.

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And this is the end of the first chapter, it's just an introduction basically, what do you think of it so far? ^_^ I wrote a lot more than usual and it actually make sense XD comments are very appreciated!

Author's notes

• Ava is a sim I created along with her boyfriend, they were supposed to be married but I must have made a mistake since they're not. They're basically just a family oriented couple I'm pushing to have a lot of children, so I will have some good looking neighbours later on. :) There's a bunch of other families like this you may or may not see in later chapters.
• The neighbourhood I'm playing in is "Winchester Farming Community" from "My Sim Realty". I love this neighbourhood, it's the perfect size (Small map, I can see everything in just one look and it doesn't slow down my game too much) and it has everything up to Supernatural! All the lots you'll see are premade, I've tweaked little things here and there but if I'll chose to do major changes I'll probably add it to the storyline.
• This small chapter is played through a full season change, it started in summer and ended in spring. That's because I was trying to build up relationships, keeping up with her pets and getting her to advance in her job then I also had to make her pursue a hobby and get tattoed regularly but for the storyline I like to pretend she got there in late autumn.
• Miranda already had her tattoo in the second screenshot, I admit I have mixed some of the pictures cause I thought it flowed better like this.
• I shouldn't have made her start with that many pets, especially not a horse! She got them taken away two times (And I quit the game without saving). I really wanted to play a horse because I never did before, I've even made horseriding her hobby.
• I actually made her move out using cheats once because there was a glitch in the house, and also because I needed a bigger house for the story and it was occupied at the time. When I did she lost the progress in the job she was doing and also everything she had in her family's inventory... so I had to do a bit of mix and match with her case.
• Amaya really did have quadruplets XD and she's not the only one in the neighbourhood.

Technical problems and news

Hi everyone! Unfortunately I've had a lot of problems while installing new expansion packs and updating custom content. I wasn't able to even load up the game for a long time and when I finally managed to (yesterday) I found out my savefile is corrupted. I actually had two different saves and a backup but they were all bad...
I thought about just deleting this old legacy blog and start fresh, of course I will need to start a new game but I'm not so sure about deleting this. Not that my writing was any good, and the story wasn't going anywhere but I was starting to make plans for it and now I can't play those scenes anymore.

I hope that starting this challenge on a whim helped me in becoming a better writer. I've always been the type of person who doesn't speak much and my writing tends to be similar, also since english isn't my first language sometimes I get stucked wondering if my phrase structure is right.

I've already started a new game and I will update on here with it, I've also written a little backstory for my founder. That's new as I don't usually plan ahead, I should do it more often though.
I always use the same surname for my legacies, that's a habit I have since "The Sims 2", so this will still be "The Spires Legacy".

Let me introduce you to Miranda Spires. Her traits are: Rebellious, Perceptive, Animal Lover, Kleptomaniac, Athletic. Her Lifetime Wish is "The Animal Rescuer", adopts 6 strays.

What I rolled for her:

Marital structure: Single

Number of Children: 2

Primary Career: Private Investigator

Generation Goal: Hobby or Obsession

Misc Fun: Tattoo Addict