DITFT Generation One Chapter One

1. A Life Worth
Living
Generation One – Chapter One
“Welcome to Riverblossom Hills”

2. “Uh-oh , I believe I’m birdwatching on an empty lot this can only be-”
Yeah yeah okay, let’s get the awkward founder introduction over with…

3. Alright. Name, aspiration, LTW, personality. Go!
“Oh um okay! I am looking at you now right? Iris Ashbrook. Family, my dream is to become a Chief of
Staff. Oh and I’m a default Pisces 5/3/7/3/7. How was that?”
Short and sweet, I like it. Not sure about fulfilling that LTW though. It doesn’t really fit with this
generation’s theme.
“Oh…”
But don’t be too bummed out, it could still happen! Maybe.

4. Speaking of our theme, Iris decided to build her homestead out in the
boonies, the scenic rural town of Riverblossom Hills. And I DO
mean the boonies. We’re talking edge of the neighborhood map,
folks.

5. So it should come as no surprise that Iris’ starting home is styled
in a farmer’s theme.

6. Gen 1 Mandatory goals
• Get a gold gardening (or flower arranging) skill badge if you have the required
EPs. So I’m assuming we have to earn both.
• Have a garden containing each type of plant/Make every type of flower
arrangement.
• Get married with no premarital woohoo, have a boy and a girl.

7. Optional Goals
• Catch every type of fish
• Maximize the nature hobby(Been there, done that. Though it takes forever!)
• Marry a sim whose predestined hobby is nature, or marry a gardener/Garden
Club member.

8. In an attempt to get to know the neighbors, Iris Admires the first walkby, Patricia
Wan in this case. She was unimpressed.
Patricia: “Pfft! You founders are all the same, trying to worm your way into our hearts
to boost your family friend count. Only to discard us when we’re no longer needed.”
Iris: “B-but…”

9. Iris: “I’m so glad to have met someone new. I like it here already!”
Patricia: “Uh right…what a weirdo.”
Maybe we’ll fare batter with the welcome wagon.

10. Which turns out to be Leod MacGreggor, Cleo Shikibu(who’s rocking a makeover I
did for Boolprop’s Valentine’s Event), and Morty Roth, who can’t stop thinking about
the time he got an A-plus, which was way-back-never since he is a premade adult.

11. Iris: “So Leod, I heard you live by yourself in your own farm.
I’m actually starting my own myself!”

12. Leod: “Gee it’s so nice to meet another aspiring agriculturist. But watch out for
burglars, you hear? They’re merciless on founders like you.”
Iris: “Really? Well I think I’ll be fine. I don’t have anything super valuable at the
moment.”
Leod: “These are sim burglars we’re talking about miss. They’ll steal a sink if they
want to.”

13. And the verdict is…two bolts! There’s no rule against marrying
premades either.

14. Leod: “My oh my, so nice to see a lady in plaid.”
Iris: “Oh well, thank you!” *blushes*
Cleo: “I guess we’re third wheels at this point huh Morty?”

15. Iris: “Really everyone, as much as I’ve enjoyed entertaining you,
shouldn’t you be getting home now?”
Leod: “I suppose so Miss Iris. Though I am enjoying looking upon
you with close proximity.”

16. This would be one of our Garden Club representatives. Let’s see
if he is worth it as a potential spouse option.

17. Iris: “NO I’m sorry I do NOT like the book Good Night Moon!”
Ted: “But the moon, it’s so pretty.”

18. Iris: “BOO! He’s hideous!”
Oh come on, there’s way worse. Looks like romance wasn’t meant to
be, but you can still befriend him to have an in for the potential
wishing well.

19. While Ted strikes up a conversation with a random lady, who should walk by other
than Leod(I keep wanting to call him Leon and I initially misspelled his name for
about 40 slides).

20. They’re already friendly enough to greet with a kiss on the cheek.
Well, who am I to argue against fate? This match would be great for
the challenge lore since Leod is canonically supposed to be a self-
made farmer.

21. Leod and Ted do some male-bonding while Iris gets to work
tending our first crop; tomatoes.

22. And then Leod is chased off the lot by that white stray wolf.
Leod: “I am not equipped for this wild, uncharted territory!”
Oh you will be, soon enough.

23. Iris: “This doesn’t look like any fish I’ve seen.”
Actually, a boot counts as a “Fish” according to the sims wiki. You need a
gold badge to catch all the available fish, so practice makes perfect.

24. The next day, Iris invites Leod over(so convenient that he doesn’t have a job), and he
performs an autonomous Charm.
Leod: “Miss Iris, it’s so good to see you. I walked all the way from my house to your property,
might you treat me to a home-cooked meal? I am certain you are a lovely home cook.”
Iris: “Hehe well I actually don’t have a cooking point to my name, but absolutely Leon!”

25. Fortunately, Leod is the provincial type who doesn’t mind a
good lunch meat sandwich. And hey, neither do I!

26. And…it’s love.

27. But more importantly, we can now plant more plants.

28. Leod fished on the lot until well past dusk. Much to the displeasure of the
Leader of the Pack Ichabod(talk about a creepy name for a wolf).

29. Animals seem to have something against Leon.
Leod: “Hey, Wolfie? I request that you please stop staring at me or else I’ll be forced
to free my bladder.”
Ichabod: …I don’t like you.

30. The next night, Leod is invited over again and starts off with a dirty
joke. I’ll leave the content of said joke up to your imagination.

31. Iris: “Oh wow I had no idea it worked like that!”

32. And Leod’s not just dirty in the figurative sense.
Iris: “Is that necessary?”
Leod: “I’m only releasing my natural odor into the environment.”

33. But Iris doesn’t care about his eating habits, she’s head-over-heels for Leod.
Jules o’Mackey: “Someday…I’ll be back here as some teenage fling.”

34. They’re both eager to woohoo, too bad that has to wait until the
wedding. Leod’s locked want is to earn 100 simoleons, which is
automatically generated when you load his household for the first
time.

35. A few days have passed since these two met, high time they tied
the knot!

36. Iris: “I want to create a beautiful farm Leon, and I’m hoping you’ll help
me with that dream.”
Leod: “Absolutely, Iris. And if we make a pretty penny selling our crops,
that’ll be worth it too.”

37. Leod commemorates the engagement by gifting Iris a karaoke
machine. Perfect for wedding entertainment, but it will have to
be sold afterwards to increase our funds.

38. You can’t see the number here, but Leod moved in with about $2,400.
Seriously? He had well over $20k when I checked his household.

39. All that was left was to invite everyone they knew for the ceremony.
Iris: “WHOO! Leod, you’re SO talented!”
You’re probably the only sim to cheer him on, since Leon’s got zero
creative points.

40. The wedding is already a dud, thanks to Leod’s “amazing” vocal
skills. And also due to Alexandra o’Mackey heart-barfing her ex
husband, I guess.

41. But the guests were pretty enthusiastic to watch the vows, save for
Jason Greenman and Morty Roth(who didn’t make it into the shot).

42. Leod’s a Fortune sim who appears to be the default Sagittarius, don’t have
the exact stats on hand. His LTW is to become Business Tycoon, that’s
about a generation ahead of you buddy. But here’s the good news: his
OTH turned out to be Nature so we get a bonus point!

43. The wedding party scored much better at the end. Even though
Cleo was stuck in the karaoke machine for most of that time.

44. Also, Leod’s got some questionable double boltage for the other
Riverblossom Hills ladies! Including Gabe’s ex-wife even though he
is friends with him. I’m guessing this was intentionally done by
Maxis since he is the town bachelor.

45. Just because her wedding is going on, doesn’t mean Iris neglects
the garden.

46. And then we have Grim paying us a walkby. Potential omen?

47. Ideally I would want this generation to live off the land, but because
Leod brought fewer funds than I anticipated, he got a temporary job
in law enforcement so we can make use of those promotion bonuses.

48. The first night on the job didn’t bode well for Leod. He came back with the flu and as
soon as he stepped out of the carpool, he was struck by lightning. When it wasn’t even
raining.
Leod: “Why do bad things keep happening to me when them dogs are around?”

49. Because of the infection, Leod and Iris’ wedding night was to be
delated. But that’s okay because Iris earned herself another badge.

50. Leod: “Don’t worry honey, I’m fine-BLAGGUHHH!” *more
hacked coughing*
Jeez, that doesn’t sound good at all.

51. The tomatoes are now ready for harvest. Unfortunately the garden
doesn’t have anything to help with Leod’s sickness, since we would need
oranges and I don’t have any fruit trees planted yet. One, they’re
expensive. And two, they’re high maintenance, so I want to wait until Iris
gets a gold badge.

52. Leod: “Bah, this sickness will be the death of me! You won’t
even let me talk to my wife.”

53. I forgot that Iris could make comfort soup, so since Leod was
taking a while to heal, he got a hearty portion. After all, there’s
baby-making to be done.

54. Iris: “Alright honey, let’s just play some more red hands before we go into
bed.”
Leod: “But sweetpea, I feel fine!”
Not according to his fun meter he’s not. He would gain plenty of fun
from woohoo but he kept getting out of bed in annoyance.

55. But they were soon successful, and on the first try to boot. And I
don’t even wanna know what that graphical glitch is on his stocking.

56. Leod has a good amount of fish in his inventory, so he cooked up a
portion of stuffed rainbow trout for Iris’ hunger pangs. Looks like he
forgoed the “rainbow” portion of the dish, but it’s still very filling.

57. Iris has been more focused on garden-tending than flower-
arranging, so unsurprisingly, she’s still badge-less here. It can be
a challenge when both arranging and gardening drains comfort.

58. Iris: *gasps* “Can it be?”
No, really…*sarcasm overload*

59. Leod: “The MacGreggor gene putting in work!”
Iris: zzz Leod is so good in bed zzzz
Real subtle, guys.

60. Leod: “I must capture the likeness of my Iris.”
Spitting image of her, clearly. We don’t really *have* to paint
portraits, but I like having them.

61. Umm, I will say that socializing is important here.

62. And my judgment turned out poor. But like I said before, the
career doesn’t matter for this generation.

63. Iris: “I’m so glad Leod’s such a good cook. Really, how did I get so lucky
finding such a wonderful man for a husband?”
I know, it’s so nice to find someone without even leaving your own
house. You sims have it lucky.

64. Iris: “Well that sounds like a morbid conversation. Leod honey, who are you talking to?”
Leod: “Alexandra o’Mackey.”
Iris: “…”
Relax, Alexandra moved into Leod’s house so that his property wouldn’t be lost. I’m assuming
he’s talking about his parent’s death(speaking of which, why is the death memory in his panel
GREEN?)

65. Iris: “Uh-oh…”
C’mon Iris, this isn’t an ISBI. You so could have made it!

66. And hooray, we can make something other than daisies now!
There will be more time to work on flowers in the winter, when
the plants are dormant.

67. That is, if the kids don’t get in the way.

68. Leod: “Ah, what fresh air we have tonight. Isn’t it Iris?”
Iris: “LEOD! Act more panicked PLEASE!”

69. And so we conclude the chapter with a baby girl, Dahlia. Who
looks entirely like Leod. If the game likes me enough, the next
one will be a boy(and only one, hopefully!) See ya then!