All about the Golden Trio!

2. A named chapter again, look at that. Well if you haven’t guessed, this chapter is ALL
about the Golden Trio. In order to give them good coverage for the heir poll (there has to
be one so I know who will write the last book in the Family Scrapbook challenge) and
the next chapter will be about Parker and Penelope, maybe Nathan too. Unless he does
something interesting being a singlet and gets his own chapter. I have 13 days to finish
this because it’s my summer challenge and that has to be completed BY September it’s
my own personal goal by the way, to get it done before then…so a lot of aging up in the
next few chapters and probably at least two more Detours for everything before it’s
complete. OWBC’s don’t usually take me long to do. My two weeks are going to be
filled up with writing. Anyway, let’s get to the chapter.

3. We begin the aging up with Oriole stuck headfirst into the turtle block table and her triplet
siblings wondering if she’s going to be alright. The only witch in their trio, she will be the one who
discovers the Secret Place to find out which wand calls to her as a teen. And once they are teens,
we will see what occult Owl will become because out of six kids, she’s the only human one. Don’t
want to be left out of the family now do you Owl?

4. Oriole’s third trait is Lucky. Never lose that child-like wonder there girl. Also soon after she
rolled her LTW: Fairytale Finder. Just like great-grandpa Chance, Oriole wants to find a new
unicorn since Shadow is finally feeling the ravages of time catching up to him. The house has no
room for pets right now however…so it’s unlikely she’ll get her wish.

5. Next up is Owen who is so invisible on the WHITE carpet that if not for the sparklies,
I’d have no idea where he was.

6. Owen is now a Perfectionist. He did not choose his LTW early like Oriole did but I’m
sure he will as time goes on and he’s closer to teen hood where he finds out what he likes
and where he wants to go with his life Because after all, he’s a Perfectionist and they
have to have everything sorted out and ready to go right?

7. And finally, Owl joins her triplet sibs in childhood. Owl’s third trait is
Kleptomaniac…well I mean if she’s Perceptive as well it would stand to reason that
she would perceive the best things to steal right? Owl is going to be fun, great-grandpa
Chance will be proud to see that his lineage still likes to steal stuff.

8. Owen and Oriole chill on the lounge chairs on the balcony while they figure out what three skills
they need to max. Children have a limited number of skill they can learn which kind of sucks.
Owen is an outdoorsman so he’ll be painting because he can’t garden as a child, Oriole is a
Virtuoso so she’ll be hitting the musical instruments, that she can’t touch until she’s a teen…I
miss having children able to play the violin like in Sims 2, and I miss violins in Sims 3 too.

9. Owl got an easy-to-do skill, the telescope. I could add a chess table too but it’s not as
interesting. And Owl is Grumpy so she’ll like the solitude of the telescope, unless the
stars somehow anger her…

10. What’s this? Well I built a park in Sunset Valley, there was nowhere for kids to play so I built one.
This is Cinnamon Park, it has all kinds of playground equipment and a huge pond with a
beautiful fountain dome in the center. It’s filled with flowers and trees and even has a nice picnic
area. These playground things each have their own animations and sounds. Even the ITF ones.
There are six different types of springy things here.

11. And it helps with the three friends requirement of the Golden Trio challenge. This
is…one of the townie kids. I forget their name but as soon as the trio got here they were
on the phone with the few kids they know from school, I made them invite the kids over
here.

12. Oriole is testing out the pirate ship which makes pirate noises, Owen is testing the
rocket ship that makes blast off noises and lights up as you can see. Owl is over there
with one of Justine Keaton’s kids, making friends for her part.

13. I used the Generations see-saws since the ITF ones don’t really fit this world without
other ITF stuff in it. And you can see the gorgeous pond that has invisible fish in it
apparently…I didn’t add them, I don’t know where to find spawners in NRAAS to
add certain types. Game does it on community lots automatically.

14. Then I remembered there’s also sand boxes in this game. Owl found a baseball that somehow was
already buried there, even though they are the first ones to use this park…now if they had baseball
diamond stuff in this game that would be awesome. But as far as I can tell, only Moonlight Falls
has one and it’s only neighbourhood décor, no actual objects to place.

15. Recognize that purple hair? Yep, this is one of the Trio’s first cousins. This is Orchid’s
great-granddaughter through Seth, her daughter’s son. I had to look that up, she
wasn’t one of Brianna’s grandchildren so that left only Orchid. They lost the werewolf
genes by the time she was born. That only passed down through her older grandson,
Seth’s brother. She’s River McIrish’s daughter with Seth and her name escapes me too.

16. This park also has a treehouse. And it’s fully able to have all three of them in there at
once. I like this park, I may save it to the library. Or if anyone else has all EP’s and SP’s
for Sims 3 and wants it, I could put it up for download somewhere.

17. Oops, a bit spoilery here, Parker and Penelope are also children now so this is all past
pictures. But you know what time it is? Aging up time! So the Golden Trio can finally
get down to brass tax and start learning all their skills, getting jobs, getting
scholarships to Uni with those skills. And Owl is up first this time.

18. And here we are, Owl is now a teen and her fourth trait needed to be added in CAS
because apparently the game thought they only had two as children and only gave me
the age up slot for the third. Owl is now a Bookworm and her LTW is Renaissance
Sim, which coincidentally is to Max Three Skills. Nice when things work out isn’t it?

19. Next up is Oriole. She got Orlando to put away his video game too. Orlando needed a
new hobby, now he’s a Nerd. 

20. Oriole now has the cute Showtime hat and a new trait, she is a Hopeless Romantic.
Her LTW also changed to Mystic Healer because apparently you can’t have Fairytale
Finder as a teen. Oh well, I’ll change it back when she’s a YA.

21. Owen went full Indiana Jones on me when he aged up so he now has the Indy hat too.
His fourth trait is Photographer’s Eye. Orlando bought two cameras in Egypt and
gave Owen one and the other to Parker. If he gets World Class Gallery for a LTW…I’m
not sure how to do that. I’ve seen others try and it doesn’t work that well.

22. Shadow gets mobbed by the whole house every time I’m not watching them, but in this
case, Owl just found another skill she can learn. Learning Riding skill so someone can
finally unleash Shadow and win.

23. But first: Owl has chosen her occult status. Can you guess? Does the glowy thing tell
you?

24. “Under da sea! Darlin’ it’s better down where it’s wetter, under da sea! Take it from
me!” Yep, Owl is now a mermaid! My second favourite mortal occult and it comes with
maxed Scuba Diving skill so she’s got 1/3 skills maxed already. I actually forgot that
was a thing when you make them into mermaids. Bonus.

25. Oriole can finally learn the piano and since she had the field trip boost from the theater
she started at level 4. The trio had boosts in those skills from their field trips as kids.
Grandma Faith approves of her granddaughter’s playing. The trio were babies when she
died so they barely remember her.

26. Owl and Owen are studying their skills, Owen has the Photography book and Owl has
the Riding book. Hopefully Owl will get to win a few races with Shadow before he joins
the other pets in the backyard. I want her to max the skill first so she can be ready to
adopt wild horses which is only possible at level 8 in the Riding skill.

27. That certificate behind Owen is Orlando’s Partnership with France certificate. I want
to get all three eventually. And have three vacation homes in each place too, then after
that I probably won’t go there anymore, it gets glitchy and slow after you’ve done all
the major tombs and quests so there’s no reason to go there anymore.

28. As per tradition, Oriole found herself drawn to the Secret Place in the basement where
she would choose her first wand. She felt a strong pull to a sleek black wand, Iridescent,
the best of the best. It called to her as soon as she entered the room…

29. The power was real, and Oriole felt in in every fiber of her being as she moved it
through the air with a practiced elegance that she had not thought possible for a
neophyte witch such as herself…

30. A powerful wand like this felt natural in her hands, perhaps it was the generations of
witchcraft in her blood that made it all possible…her great-grandparents had magic in
them, even though she never met them their power still flows through her…

31. Something fizzled out her next round, perhaps there was something near by that was
more magical than her…

32. An isolated fishing spot at the foot of the mountains, it called out to Oriole as she
headed across the town to find out what it was…

33. Oriole found the source of the magic she felt, a jet black unicorn, just like Shadow. Only
stronger and younger…but also male. The younger unicorn seemed to sense she had a
connection to them.

34. Oriole did have a special connection to Shadow. She was the only one who felt she had to
be outside at a particular moment…

35. It seemed that time had finally caught up to Shadow…

36. Even for long-lived magical creatures like unicorns, time does eventually find you…

37. Shadow had been around for four generations of the Buckner family and that was way longer than
most beloved animals get. Shadow still hoped that one day he could enter competitions and win for
his loving family. To earn them a lasting memory that would still be around even if he wasn’t
anymore. He did not regret his choice to come and live with Chance and his family.

38. To lose them before he goes himself, he could feel the pain from Orlando when he returned
from the Wolff house. Something went wrong and it upset Orlando very much…

39. It was beyond clashing traits and points of view, this was a deeper pain. One that
Shadow had seen Orlando endure seven times in recent months…

40. The loss of one’s past, one’s history, one’s family…losing the cats and the dog was hard
enough on Shadow as he had come to love them just as much as his human family. But
to not be there when one loses family, and worse, to not even be TOLD that the family
member was gone…that was a pain entirely unknown to Shadow. And Orlando would
once again have to endure it.