A Legacy and A Slut

      I started playing the Sims 3 again recently. I blame it on two things. a) We finally have computers that can run the thing at a normal, playable speed. b) I got a preview of the Sims 4 in my email.
      Anyway – as before, I created a family to do a legacy game. Legacy Game, in which I spend many hours watching said family grow, have children, die, and then watch their children do the same.
      My last legacy game started with a Sims version of my parents, my sister & myself. They were “adults”, we were toddlers. I followed them as they grew. And since it was a fictional game, I also made up Mark’s family. Sim-Mark was older than Sim-Josie but they started hanging out in-game without my intervention. Aww. Eventually, they got married and had two sets of twins. Two boys, both curly haired – one ginger, one blond. Then two girls – one brunette, one ginger. I had the boys move out into their own bachelor pad, they both ended up with Significant Others & children and continued the storyline. Both the girls, also. Plus, Mark’s siblings had families – Angie and Chris, I gave them their three boys as in real life, then they had a daughter on their own. Jason & Jasmine had four girls, I think. Evie married a Sim from the neighborhood, Sam Sekemoto, and had three little half-asian kids, two boys & a girl.
      I played that neighborhood for five generations, I believe – My parents, Me & Evie, Our Kids, Their Kids, and then their kids. I don’t recall why I gave up that game.
      ANYway, back to the present.
      I had a mis-fire legacy game. I started with a family, yes, and then started playing them, but before the second generation got all grown-up, a glitch in my save game ruined them. Boo-hiss.
      That’s okay – because the characters gave me a fantastic idea for a story and I may yet write about the main girl there.
      But the second time around, I started with one Sim. Her name was… shit, I forget. Oh, Aubrey, I think. Audrey? Yeah, Audrey. And she is also going to be a catalyst for a story I may never finish (I’m about 20 pages in right now). Anyway…
      Audrey came to town a lonely bookworm with no family ties. She moved into a one bedroom house on the shore, took a job in the book store, and started writing. She also started seeing a local sim. In my story, he’s got a whole backstory, just as she does. Anyway – they woo-hooed as Sims are wont to do and next thing you know…
      The second generation was on its way. I used a cheat to manipulate the game to work in a way that matched story I was building in my brain. In the meantime, Audrey never married her first love and her daughter’s dad, but she eventually almost caught the house on fire trying to cook dinner (Surprisingly common event in Sims households, haha) and then she chatted up the hot ginger firefighter who came to save her.
      They got married. They had three kids.
      He got killed – in a fire. Aww.
      Time passed; children grow-up, move away, reproduce. I stuck with the eldest daughter and her wife and their two children. Leo & Larissa. Leo…
      Well… Leo is a slut. Leo had a kid with an older woman while he was in high school. Leo loves the ladies and the ladies love him. I think he’s glitched or something, because I leave him alone for a day or two to focus on Larissa & her two kids, and when I look back… he’s got four more kids being born around town. He’s got two sets of twins by sisters. He’s got something like twenty-two children scattered around the town now. I am not sure there is any household he hasn’t “touched”.
      He must be a bug.
      Anyway… I’m presently watching Larissa’s children grow-up without their daddy. He was actually Larissa’s boss at the research facility; I cheated to “marry” them, but didn’t let him move in. I call it – “Daddy’s always away on business” syndrome. He stopped by frequently but then he died, right before the little girl was born.
      Leo didn’t do badly by his first few children though, the eldest one died as a child, but the two sets of twins by sisters, they all grew up and joined the medical field. Others… I forget.
      And Audrey’s children were all fairly fecund. Her eldest had just two, Leo & Larissa, but her second daughter had three boys, her son had (and raised alone, thanks to the miracle of cheats) eight children, and her youngest (who died in a tragic fire like her daddy, when she was just about to age from YA to A), had two as well.
      Generations are fun.
      Its interesting. I mostly let them go their own way, like, while I’m working on my work laptop, I’ll have it running on my personal PC and just glance over to make sure the kids go to school occasionally. I have the lifespans set to be fairly long so they have time to advance in careers and stuff, but after the first generation, I’m pretty hands off.
      I get a kick out of writing mental stories for these characters, and this time, I’m getting a kick out of writing ACTUAL stories about them. About young Audrey and her ill-fated love with her baby-daddy (who, by the by, she married when she was an elder. Romantic!). About the time Audrey and her little girl had a friend and her baby move in (they did, briefly) to escape her abusive husband (yes, all mental storylines not game-play). About Audrey’s second great love, Adam, and his tragic end. About Audrey’s eldest daughter and the brief love triangle between her, her best friend, and Torrance (who always loved girls, but was not happy in her body until she became a woman). About Audrey’s eldest, who became a famous athlete while her wife became mayor (and in game-terms, Leader of the Free World, hahaha).
      All sorts of fun stories…
      Maybe they’ll all suck.
      But writing is the important thing and damn it – I love writing, even if its only for myself.

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Signed, Josie
Note: Image is “GoodwinFamilyPortrait” by (Josie) and the Sims 3. Back Row: Audrey (elder). Middle Row: Audrey’s Eldest, Torrance, Larissa, Leo. Bottomw Row: Audrey’s Youngest Daughter’s Son, Devin (Leo’s eldest), Audrey’s Youngest Daughter’s Daughter

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