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

1.08 - Birthdays and Experiences

A few days later was Brandon's birthday and he grew up as a young adult.

Jinny as the animal lover that she is decided to adopt a cat, so now they have this fluffy red Siberian cat named Ginger. She's a lazy cat and she would nap somewhere most of the time.

Prom night arrive and Jinny is putting on makeup for the first time, her aunt helped her a little. She also decided it was time to try leaving her hair down. Did she look ok? She's not sure, it's all new to her.

Gino is waiting for her outside.

They were voted king and queen of the prom but the others couldn't give them their crowns because they were nowhere to be found. Gino suggested to go to an hotel nearby, they knew eachother for months already but haven't done it yet. Jinny was a little scared but trusted him.

Brandon had someone to meet with too, they both had to study for exams and were also busy with part-time jobs but they're both adults now.

It was also Myron's birthday and he aged up to a child.

* Brandon looks so much like a CAS sim, he only took his eye color from his mother. Jinny's nose looks weird but I still think she's cute, she has lilac eyes not her mother's hot pink. Ginger is the cutest, Siberians are actually my favourites in RL (can't afford one though) but all cats are cute. She was the nicer one I could choose, the other had some bad traits, she isn't bad just lazy... It's odd to see a child with such strong features isn't it? I did change his appearance a little but I forgot to take a pic, the one you see here it's just after his aging up without changes.

Also I should mention that I'm using a custom world (that you can find here), most scenery and lots you've seen in my screenshots are part of this world and I didn't make any of it. I forgot to say it before but it should be clear that the only thing I made are my sims, when I will actually make something I will point that out.

1.07 -

Myra was aware of the bad choices she made, now she only wanted to have a normal life with her husband. That's why she married Jaron, he was kind and would take care of them.She wanted to start a new family with him, her children where already grown up. She wanted another child and was going to take risks... she wasn't lucky unfortunately.

The chances of giving birth without complications at her age were slim, courage isn't enough in this circumstances. She died giving birth to a baby boy that was later called Myron after her.

Trisha wasn't too happy to grow old the same day her sister died, they were twins and she thaught they were going to stay together. She dyed her hair and used makeup to make it seem nothing changed.

At the funeral Brandon met Nick Whitehead, he had never met Joann's father because he travels a lot for work. Seeing his face he suddenly remembered a picture his mother used to show him when he was a child, it was a picture of his father, and now he was seeing that same face in front of him.

They almost look like clones, there's no doubt they're related.



Jinny met Gino and she seems to have serious intentions, she was attracted to his original hairstyle first. She would ask him a lot of questions but he didn't really spoke much, she still decided they were going to be best friends.




Myron is growing and has his mother's eyes.



Jinny cought her first fish, she looks so happy.



After Myra's death Jaron had to take care of the house, he would clean and cook meals. He would also care about Myron, he's still so young. He was trapped in his routine and wouldn't notice if Jinny or Brandon were doing well at school. In fact Jinny was skipping class often, she would just go fishing at the park, when she noticed he didn't really care she stayed at home more just relaxing and reading fantasy books.

* Myra was becoming hard to write because I forgot to give her flaws, no one is perfect, also now I'm at single parent again. Jaron is neat so he will autonomously clean. Jinny skipping school may be a glitch, I noticed she wasn't being scolded for it so I kept it as part of the story. Aging up seems to have finally unglitched Nick. Do you like Jinny's boyfriend? He may be hard to convince, they talked for hours and they're barely friends...  Jinny and Gino, anyone else thinking it's funny?

The pictures got like that because if I try to center they get all on top with all the text under, it looks a little odd but at least the text is where it should be.

1.06 - Confrontations

Jinny loves the outdoor, she's in her school scout team and she especially like fishing. Her friends don't really perceive her as a girl, she's just part of the group for them. That's why her growing up generates mixed feelings among them. She's a girl now, she has never tried to hide it but it's also very clear now, she's her mother's daughter after all. Others couldn't pretend she wasn't but that didn't stop her from being the same as before.

Brandon went to prom with Sherry, he wasn't sure about his dancing due to his clumsiness so was very surprised whe they voted him prom king.

Myra got pregnant and Jaron was excited.

Brandon wanted to believe what Shirley told him, he didn't have much experience with girls. He wasn't very popular, no one from the chess club really is, he does have some female friends but this would be his first romantic story. Brandon has always understood math better than romance, people says he's a genius but he often miss things obvious for others. 

He got a call from his friend Joann saying they needed to talk about Sherry. They met at the park because Joann's brother, Harrison, was still mad at him.

Joann has been Brandon's friend for a long time and she wants to warn him. There are rumors about Sherry, she's known for changing boyfriend easily. Joann had warned her brother too but he wouldn't listen, he had a crush on her since childhood. Brandon is kinda shocked, he may not trust Harrison but Joann is one of his best friends.

"Sherry has tried almost every boy in the school." Joann said. "Tried?"

"Yes, tried, because she go out with one a couple times than she gets bored and picks another" Joann continued "My brother has watched her for a long time, he couldn't approach her, he isn't exactly the best looking guy. Suddenly one day she talked to him and they started going out."

"She told me they were just friends, could it be a misunderstanding?"

"You're too innocent, she'll never admit it, why don't you open your eyes? There are better girls who will be happy to be with you"

Brandon went to Sherry's house after talking with Joann.

"You never noticed?" Sherry said. "She has a crush on you"
"She's on your same clubs, she barely know how to play chess, and she's following you around that's creepy. I thought you you knew and didn't say anything for kindness"

Now Brandon isn't sure of anything anymore, Joann's his best friend but Sherry has a point. Who should he believe?

* I'm getting better, this time I even wrote dialogues. Still no real answer, I kinda want to leave this open. I just installed Relativity and I feel I have so much more time, the reason why there are so few pics of Jinny's childhood is because after school, school activities, homework and sleep she had very little free time before. My old graphic card screwed the first picture, I still used it because she has a lovely expression, I just bought a new one and I may be able to raise the quality a bit too... at least now I can see the pets.

1.05 - White Wedding

As she's laying in bed Myra thinks about her life, getting older makes people wonder if they did something good in life. Sure she's great with her job but she's always out on missions, she has to be ready to travel anytime, and the house they lives in is too small for all of them, Brandon has to sleep with her and there's no space for another bed when Jinny will grow up. Myra is seriously considering leaving her job and moving to a new house with the money she has saved.

She did buy a new house, a bigger one with more than enough space for everyone. Brandon and Jinny's birthday was approaching so they organized a party to celebrate both the new house and their birthdays.

 

Jinny didn't seem very happy but Brandon discovers that the prettiest girl in school is at their party. Sherry Starkey is pretty and she knows it, he doesn't really believe to have a chance but still tries and to his surprise she accept to go to prom with him.

 

Trisha meets Michaela and they seems to get along really well.

And Myra meets Jaron.

 

They're qick to fell in love and she accepts his marriage proposal just as quickly. Myra look at her image in the mirror, she has never been the type of woman who wants to be a princess and seeing herself in that long white dress makes her feel a little weird. She thought to be brave but this isn't among the things she's used to.

Their wedding is perfect, their family and friends are all there... only one person isn't happy today. Brandon spotted Sherry with Harrison, he thought she wasn't seeing anyone when accepting to go to prom with him but now he isn't so sure and he confronts them. Harrison is as shocked as he is to discover Sherry is going to prom with Brandon istead of him wich is her boyfriend!

They fight while Sherry watch them. Harrison claims she has being his girlfriend since childhood and Brandon has no right to ask her out but he points out that she accepted to go out with him so maybe she has chosen Brandon over him, after all did they get past childhood in their relationship?

After Harrison left Sherry tries to explain to Brandon that he sticked to her since childhood but she never felt anything more than friendship for him, sadly he doesn't seem to understand. She's going to prom with Brandon, that's what's important.

* Do you believe what Sherry said? I'm not too sure myself... Harrison Whitehead is Brandon's half-brother, sadly he seems to took after his mother while Brandon has their father good looks.

1.04 - Discoveries

Myra was kept in a small house furnished with just the essentials while the group she was spying was on a mission, she was guarded almost all the time. Suddenly she felt pain, it wasn't like anything experienced before. She wanted to call a doctor but they wouldn't allow her, she tried to endure it but it grew more painful as time passed...

At home Trisha is painting, she miss her sister, she has no way to ask where Myra is. She knows her sister is strong but she can't help being worried for not knowing. Her painting subject resembles her sister so much.

Myra was able to escape, she wasn't imprisoned and she also overheard that the group was splitting up. She had to go, staying there would put her in the middle of the fight, and she has to report back.
Once safe she goes to the hospital for a checkup and discovers she's expecting a baby, it was too late to do anything other than staying there and giving birth, a little girl named Jinny was in the family.

Brandon grows up and starts making friends.

Myra finds out that Marisol's her boss now and that she knew about her and Nick, she couldn't believe her at first why she would stay so calm? Myra soon finds out that her last job was her idea, that group seems to be known for their fights and she was hoping for her to get killed but Myra infiltrated better than she thought.

Working with your girlfriend isn't always easy, Arianna joined because it was a project they would carry on together but she wasn't so much into music. They weren't getting much opportunities as a band but Arianna didn't seem to care. Having a successful band was Trisha's dream and couldn't stand it, she was also in the middle of a crisis and wanted a change, when she kicked her out of the band she also told her it was over between them.

* I hope this makes sense. Now I have a camera mod, it's so much easier to get nice pics. The pregnant morph missing top maybe was too obvious... Two out of three children, just one more pregnancy.
Marisol's an elder now, she and Nick were trying really hard and they already have five kids. Every time I invited her over she was pregnant! Maybe because they both have the nurturing trait plus he's flirty and she wants a big family. Another funny thing about them is that Nick has reached Kama Simtra level 8, and he's the only one in town who has it at all XD