May. 24th, 2020 11:40 am
Chapter 5.7: A Dog's Life
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avaricesims Welcome back to the Legend Legacy! In the last chapter Leviticus and Arohirohi, the alien son of Bruno and Spellcaster daughter of Sekhmet and Darrel, took great pleasure in horrifying her father as much as possible. Both Maui and Bruno passed on, and to be honest only one of those things was sad (sorry Bruno, but you'd had a good run), and Rehua betrayed me and this entire legacy by rolling both a bad trait and a poorly fitting aspiration. The Legends are now reliably raising at least one child-hating holy terror per generation, and I'm not here for it.
Well, first of all, you might have outstayed your welcome Bruno, but you will be missed nonetheless. After providing the eyecandy for Loki's generation quite nicely, you proved to everyone that the long-lived trait does not fuck around, and that those aspiring to be bodybuilders should think hard about whether they want to risk outliving the heat death of the universe. Loki subjected you to a rollercoaster of emotions during his reign, and you even managed to birth, if not exactly raise, three alien children after our extraterrestrial friends decided you were their ideal child-bearing vessel. I hope your afterlife involves fewer pregnancies, for your sake.
Two of those aforementioned alien children actually became adults the same day Bruno died, too. Exodus, the older twin and definitely the best-looking of Bruno's children, is a squeamish loner who loves music and wants to be a Bestselling Author. She signed up right away to become a writer for her career.
Leviticus, also much better looking than their unfortunate older sister Genesis, is a gloomy, mean slob who is also an outdoor enthusiast. He stayed in his part-time labourer job, because I couldn't really think of another job that suited him.
The plan for the twins was always for them to move in with Genesis, their older sister, who already owns a cute wee starter home in Willow Creek. But first...
While Exodus, a loner and aspiring writer, will be left to her own devices to find a partner if she so chooses, and will not be having any children of her own, Leviticus and Aro dated throughout their teen years, and Levi's less than charming personality does not seem to have put Aro off.
To be fair he is never mean to Aro, and sometimes does sweet things like give her a rose.
Or perhaps he's just using nefarious alien powers to trick her into liking him. Who really knows?
Levi really goes all out on wooing her though. They've been dating for ages and have full bars, but if nothing else the guy knows how to treat a lady, especially now he's allowed to woohoo with her again.
Aro, to random strangers: hey, my hot, buff alien boyfriend whom my father HATES is just paying the bill. Do you happen to know if this restaurant has a closet?
I can't decide if random woman here has a bold and original fashion sense, what with wearing a top hat to a middling restaurant, or if EA's randomization just hates her. Sometimes it is a fine line.
Next Levi whisks Aro off to Windenberg, where it is raining heavily, but lets not let that get in the way of a photoshoot amirite.
He proposes to her under the pink trees in a rainstorm that is making them both miserable. Aww.
She accepts, naturally.
Levi: when do you want to get married?
Aro: why not right now? If we elope without telling anyone, my Dad will be FURIOUS.
So they did. And he was. His youngest daughter not only married the alien she keeps bonking all over their house, but didn't even invite them to the wedding. The scandal!
They chose the Legend household to consummate their marriage, but not before Aro graced the kitchen and most other rooms with her scantily clad self, including visible butt crack, much to Kui's disgust.
Kui: I might not be heiress yet, but I'm going to need you and your sister to move out immediately, Levi.
As soon as Exodus returned from work, that is exactly what they did.
Please do note that Aro did not bother to put pants on, however her butt crack is now Genesis' problem. I actually did a really sweet renovation of the house for them; as they were moving in with Genesis, Exodus and Levi got 10,000 simoleons each, and this was plenty to spruce things up. The house has three bedrooms, so the largest went to Levi and Aro, who are most likely to start popping out babies at any moment (they also have a crib and toddler bed ready to go in their room). Genesis got the second biggest, also with a double bed in case she finds love one day. Exodus, who I expect to remain single, got the smallest room with a comfy single bed. I didn't take any pictures of the renovation, but I hope someone invites one of the Legends around sometime, so we can see it then.
Farewell, Bruno's alien children! Hope to see you around!
The rest of the family also got up to some shenanigans while Levi, Aro and Exodus were making their way into their new lives. Maui's ghost visited for the first time!
Neith was promoted to Elder Statesperson, the ninth level of the politician career, and is now having no trouble obtaining votes because of the very friendly reward store trait which makes your Sim instafriends with anyone they talk to.
Family and non-family alike fall to her charms and promise to vote for her, including Colleen here, Thor's younger daughter and Neith's cousin.
Kui indulges her foodie trait by becoming the family's next cook, thus freeing Eric up to focus more on the garden. I've been wanting for a while to have a Sim max all the cooking-related skills, complete the restaurant food picture collection, and learn all the city recipes. If Kui becomes heiress, which seems likely, these will be goals for her.
Rehua took up the mantle passed on to him from Bruno and started autonomously working out whenever I left him alone. Since he aspires to be a public enemy and will no doubt enter the criminal career track, I let him go for it.
Back to Kui though, in between shifts as a Fry Cook and school, she adopted the family's newest member! Meet Kahu, the Newfoundland puppy. My family had a great Newfoundland when I was a kid, called Max; they are huge lovely teddy bear dogs. Kahu is the name of a local mountain (mountains are sacred in Maori culture).
I think she's happy about it! Now that Maui has passed on, she needed to adopt a new pet to make progress on her Friend to the Animals aspiration. She quickly completed the first milestone and will work on the second, which requires making friends with five animals, once Kahu is older and she can take her to the dog park.
And that about updates us on the family. Eric is still around doing his thing, building his gardening and logic skill for work, but he's turning into Max 2.0 (Kali's husband) and finding himself ignored because he's too sensible and obedient about working and skilling and getting up to zero hijinks to be worth taking pictures of.
Speaking of hijinks, Sekhmet invited Neith along to the Humour and Hijinks festival. We love a family get together, so of course along she went. I've just now realised she should have taken Kui too, to start learning some city recipes.
Neith learned how to make Pho instead. I do like this animation for spicy food; the absolute drama of it gets me every time, because this is exactly how I feel whenever I eat anything labelled "medium" or above, as I am a cry baby about spicy food.
Neith joined the pranksters, humour was had, and they won and she got a free microphone. Sweet.
Sekhmet spent most of the festival watching the comedian, however was accosted by these two tragically dressed strangers, with a shared loved for tiny, tiny shorts. One must admire the choice to wear a santa hat in the middle of summer, I suppose.
Miko's ghost: perhaps Neith was a good choice for heiress. You seem very studious, while on the other hand my daughter's child Aro is running around bonking her alien boyfriend all over town. An interesting phenomenon for which my genes take zero responsibility.
No, you're right Miko. That's all Loki.
Actually, Kui was just getting in some last minute homework for no real reason, as her young adult birthday has rolled around! This took me by surprise, probably because I didn't pay as much attention to her as I might have in her early teens, since I assumed Rehua would be inheriting. The traitor to my legacy plans helped her celebrate.
I am happy to announce, however, that Kui remains a worthy candidate. While music lover is kind of a boring trait if you don't plan on a musical career or hobby, it could certainly be much worse. It's also quite a family trait, Kali also had and never made use of it. I'm going to wait and roll Rehua's final trait before I make the call, though.
Athena and Gaia both cast their votes for Kui, if you were wondering. The family ghosts actually appear fascinated with her; they constantly interrupt her for conversations.
Neith: I also vote for Kui, as she will keep me fed into my old age. Rehua may steal cool shit for me, but I may or may not be able to eat it and I am not willing to take that risk.
Kui has indeed been baking and cooking up a storm, making a good start on those two skills.
Kahu also grew up right around the same time as Kui! They were meant to be. As in real life, black dogs are difficult to take pictures of in the Sims 4, but be assured she is a precious big girl.
Kui: a cake? Yet more birthdays?
Indeed. Quiet, steadfast Eric, ever-occupied with quietly toiling away for his family and working on his own aspiration with nary a moment in the spotlight, has reached elderhood.
And he do be wearing it well, I must say.
Now back to the garden with you!
Meanwhile, Rehua really isn't all bad. I am just so salty about that Hates Children trait, but despite wanting to be public enemy number one, he's generally a good guy for the moment. In a stunning display of traditional gender roles sneaking into my game unintentionally, he has taken up the mantle of home handyman, which Leviticus and Eric mostly handled otherwise. I really didn't mean to have Kui in the kitchen and him repairing things, but as he's a laborer and may want skill points for his job at some point and she's a foodie, it just makes sense.
Bruno looks a lot happier to be around now that he's a ghost, and can presumably have ghost-sex with Loki any time he wants instead of waiting for night to fall and hoping Loki haunts us out of our 12 current family ghosts.
And yes, if you were thinking the plumbing situation must be bad, you would be right. Poor Rehua and Eric sometimes have to spend all night repairing thanks to said ghosts, and if one single sink is spared in a night it is a goddamn miracle.
Now that Kahu is all grown up, we take our first foray into the dog park. Sadly, there are no other dogs. Other SIMS turn up, just like any other community lot, but they don't bring dogs?? Useless. Poor Kahu HATES the obstacle course and sullenly does the whole thing as slowly as possible while Kui manically cheers her on, but she is very unhappy about it.
This is how I, too, respond to even the smallest obstacle in my path. Give up and go to sleep. Kahu is a dog after my own heart.
Since no other dog owners bring dogs to the park, I am forced to send Kui wandering through the open parts of the neighbourhood looking for strays to befriend. Luckily, her aspiration gives her the option to immediately befriend any animals, and she's soon chums with this cat wearing a sweater.
The next stray is obviously rabid and might try to kill her.
Dog: I have stared into the abyss, and the abyss stared back...
Kui: aww poor doggo, here, sniff my hand that I am holding out to your slavering jaws, dripping green spit, this is for sure a safe activity and not to lead to my imminent death and/or zombification
Making friends or going for the throat? You decide.
Of course Kui can't just LEAVE the poor thing there, so she adopts her and takes her to the vet.
Who is not even wearing gloves when he does this to the stray dog drooling green slime. What kind of cowboy joint is this?
Anyway, Kui welcomes Miko into the family, whom we don't rename as it suits her and she is an adult dog who has known this name her whole life. Miko is cured and joins Kahu in being completely neurotic once she gets back to the household. Both dogs spend about half their time standing at the door whining about needing to go out. Maui never did this, he just went out and peed whenever he wanted.
And that brings us to the end of the chapter! A couple of birthdays, not one but two new dogs, and thus the Legend's lives roll slowly on. Will Kui cope with training both Miko and Kahu? Will Rehua make a surprise last minute bid for the heirship? Will either of the Generation 6 kids ever find boyfriends/girlfriends/nonbinaryfriends considering I have not really paid attention to either of their love lives so far? Tune in next time to find out!
Well, first of all, you might have outstayed your welcome Bruno, but you will be missed nonetheless. After providing the eyecandy for Loki's generation quite nicely, you proved to everyone that the long-lived trait does not fuck around, and that those aspiring to be bodybuilders should think hard about whether they want to risk outliving the heat death of the universe. Loki subjected you to a rollercoaster of emotions during his reign, and you even managed to birth, if not exactly raise, three alien children after our extraterrestrial friends decided you were their ideal child-bearing vessel. I hope your afterlife involves fewer pregnancies, for your sake.
Two of those aforementioned alien children actually became adults the same day Bruno died, too. Exodus, the older twin and definitely the best-looking of Bruno's children, is a squeamish loner who loves music and wants to be a Bestselling Author. She signed up right away to become a writer for her career.
Leviticus, also much better looking than their unfortunate older sister Genesis, is a gloomy, mean slob who is also an outdoor enthusiast. He stayed in his part-time labourer job, because I couldn't really think of another job that suited him.
The plan for the twins was always for them to move in with Genesis, their older sister, who already owns a cute wee starter home in Willow Creek. But first...
While Exodus, a loner and aspiring writer, will be left to her own devices to find a partner if she so chooses, and will not be having any children of her own, Leviticus and Aro dated throughout their teen years, and Levi's less than charming personality does not seem to have put Aro off.
To be fair he is never mean to Aro, and sometimes does sweet things like give her a rose.
Or perhaps he's just using nefarious alien powers to trick her into liking him. Who really knows?
Levi really goes all out on wooing her though. They've been dating for ages and have full bars, but if nothing else the guy knows how to treat a lady, especially now he's allowed to woohoo with her again.
Aro, to random strangers: hey, my hot, buff alien boyfriend whom my father HATES is just paying the bill. Do you happen to know if this restaurant has a closet?
I can't decide if random woman here has a bold and original fashion sense, what with wearing a top hat to a middling restaurant, or if EA's randomization just hates her. Sometimes it is a fine line.
Next Levi whisks Aro off to Windenberg, where it is raining heavily, but lets not let that get in the way of a photoshoot amirite.
He proposes to her under the pink trees in a rainstorm that is making them both miserable. Aww.
She accepts, naturally.
Levi: when do you want to get married?
Aro: why not right now? If we elope without telling anyone, my Dad will be FURIOUS.
So they did. And he was. His youngest daughter not only married the alien she keeps bonking all over their house, but didn't even invite them to the wedding. The scandal!
They chose the Legend household to consummate their marriage, but not before Aro graced the kitchen and most other rooms with her scantily clad self, including visible butt crack, much to Kui's disgust.
Kui: I might not be heiress yet, but I'm going to need you and your sister to move out immediately, Levi.
As soon as Exodus returned from work, that is exactly what they did.
Please do note that Aro did not bother to put pants on, however her butt crack is now Genesis' problem. I actually did a really sweet renovation of the house for them; as they were moving in with Genesis, Exodus and Levi got 10,000 simoleons each, and this was plenty to spruce things up. The house has three bedrooms, so the largest went to Levi and Aro, who are most likely to start popping out babies at any moment (they also have a crib and toddler bed ready to go in their room). Genesis got the second biggest, also with a double bed in case she finds love one day. Exodus, who I expect to remain single, got the smallest room with a comfy single bed. I didn't take any pictures of the renovation, but I hope someone invites one of the Legends around sometime, so we can see it then.
Farewell, Bruno's alien children! Hope to see you around!
The rest of the family also got up to some shenanigans while Levi, Aro and Exodus were making their way into their new lives. Maui's ghost visited for the first time!
Neith was promoted to Elder Statesperson, the ninth level of the politician career, and is now having no trouble obtaining votes because of the very friendly reward store trait which makes your Sim instafriends with anyone they talk to.
Family and non-family alike fall to her charms and promise to vote for her, including Colleen here, Thor's younger daughter and Neith's cousin.
Kui indulges her foodie trait by becoming the family's next cook, thus freeing Eric up to focus more on the garden. I've been wanting for a while to have a Sim max all the cooking-related skills, complete the restaurant food picture collection, and learn all the city recipes. If Kui becomes heiress, which seems likely, these will be goals for her.
Rehua took up the mantle passed on to him from Bruno and started autonomously working out whenever I left him alone. Since he aspires to be a public enemy and will no doubt enter the criminal career track, I let him go for it.
Back to Kui though, in between shifts as a Fry Cook and school, she adopted the family's newest member! Meet Kahu, the Newfoundland puppy. My family had a great Newfoundland when I was a kid, called Max; they are huge lovely teddy bear dogs. Kahu is the name of a local mountain (mountains are sacred in Maori culture).
I think she's happy about it! Now that Maui has passed on, she needed to adopt a new pet to make progress on her Friend to the Animals aspiration. She quickly completed the first milestone and will work on the second, which requires making friends with five animals, once Kahu is older and she can take her to the dog park.
And that about updates us on the family. Eric is still around doing his thing, building his gardening and logic skill for work, but he's turning into Max 2.0 (Kali's husband) and finding himself ignored because he's too sensible and obedient about working and skilling and getting up to zero hijinks to be worth taking pictures of.
Speaking of hijinks, Sekhmet invited Neith along to the Humour and Hijinks festival. We love a family get together, so of course along she went. I've just now realised she should have taken Kui too, to start learning some city recipes.
Neith learned how to make Pho instead. I do like this animation for spicy food; the absolute drama of it gets me every time, because this is exactly how I feel whenever I eat anything labelled "medium" or above, as I am a cry baby about spicy food.
Neith joined the pranksters, humour was had, and they won and she got a free microphone. Sweet.
Sekhmet spent most of the festival watching the comedian, however was accosted by these two tragically dressed strangers, with a shared loved for tiny, tiny shorts. One must admire the choice to wear a santa hat in the middle of summer, I suppose.
Miko's ghost: perhaps Neith was a good choice for heiress. You seem very studious, while on the other hand my daughter's child Aro is running around bonking her alien boyfriend all over town. An interesting phenomenon for which my genes take zero responsibility.
No, you're right Miko. That's all Loki.
Actually, Kui was just getting in some last minute homework for no real reason, as her young adult birthday has rolled around! This took me by surprise, probably because I didn't pay as much attention to her as I might have in her early teens, since I assumed Rehua would be inheriting. The traitor to my legacy plans helped her celebrate.
I am happy to announce, however, that Kui remains a worthy candidate. While music lover is kind of a boring trait if you don't plan on a musical career or hobby, it could certainly be much worse. It's also quite a family trait, Kali also had and never made use of it. I'm going to wait and roll Rehua's final trait before I make the call, though.
Athena and Gaia both cast their votes for Kui, if you were wondering. The family ghosts actually appear fascinated with her; they constantly interrupt her for conversations.
Neith: I also vote for Kui, as she will keep me fed into my old age. Rehua may steal cool shit for me, but I may or may not be able to eat it and I am not willing to take that risk.
Kui has indeed been baking and cooking up a storm, making a good start on those two skills.
Kahu also grew up right around the same time as Kui! They were meant to be. As in real life, black dogs are difficult to take pictures of in the Sims 4, but be assured she is a precious big girl.
Kui: a cake? Yet more birthdays?
Indeed. Quiet, steadfast Eric, ever-occupied with quietly toiling away for his family and working on his own aspiration with nary a moment in the spotlight, has reached elderhood.
And he do be wearing it well, I must say.
Now back to the garden with you!
Meanwhile, Rehua really isn't all bad. I am just so salty about that Hates Children trait, but despite wanting to be public enemy number one, he's generally a good guy for the moment. In a stunning display of traditional gender roles sneaking into my game unintentionally, he has taken up the mantle of home handyman, which Leviticus and Eric mostly handled otherwise. I really didn't mean to have Kui in the kitchen and him repairing things, but as he's a laborer and may want skill points for his job at some point and she's a foodie, it just makes sense.
Bruno looks a lot happier to be around now that he's a ghost, and can presumably have ghost-sex with Loki any time he wants instead of waiting for night to fall and hoping Loki haunts us out of our 12 current family ghosts.
And yes, if you were thinking the plumbing situation must be bad, you would be right. Poor Rehua and Eric sometimes have to spend all night repairing thanks to said ghosts, and if one single sink is spared in a night it is a goddamn miracle.
Now that Kahu is all grown up, we take our first foray into the dog park. Sadly, there are no other dogs. Other SIMS turn up, just like any other community lot, but they don't bring dogs?? Useless. Poor Kahu HATES the obstacle course and sullenly does the whole thing as slowly as possible while Kui manically cheers her on, but she is very unhappy about it.
This is how I, too, respond to even the smallest obstacle in my path. Give up and go to sleep. Kahu is a dog after my own heart.
Since no other dog owners bring dogs to the park, I am forced to send Kui wandering through the open parts of the neighbourhood looking for strays to befriend. Luckily, her aspiration gives her the option to immediately befriend any animals, and she's soon chums with this cat wearing a sweater.
The next stray is obviously rabid and might try to kill her.
Dog: I have stared into the abyss, and the abyss stared back...
Kui: aww poor doggo, here, sniff my hand that I am holding out to your slavering jaws, dripping green spit, this is for sure a safe activity and not to lead to my imminent death and/or zombification
Making friends or going for the throat? You decide.
Of course Kui can't just LEAVE the poor thing there, so she adopts her and takes her to the vet.
Who is not even wearing gloves when he does this to the stray dog drooling green slime. What kind of cowboy joint is this?
Anyway, Kui welcomes Miko into the family, whom we don't rename as it suits her and she is an adult dog who has known this name her whole life. Miko is cured and joins Kahu in being completely neurotic once she gets back to the household. Both dogs spend about half their time standing at the door whining about needing to go out. Maui never did this, he just went out and peed whenever he wanted.
And that brings us to the end of the chapter! A couple of birthdays, not one but two new dogs, and thus the Legend's lives roll slowly on. Will Kui cope with training both Miko and Kahu? Will Rehua make a surprise last minute bid for the heirship? Will either of the Generation 6 kids ever find boyfriends/girlfriends/nonbinaryfriends considering I have not really paid attention to either of their love lives so far? Tune in next time to find out!