2. Welcome back to the Iron Apocalypse- where everything is going to shit constantly. Right now, it appears as thought Sake has ripped through another
couch.
Sake: Meow
Canโt even own up to it, can you?
3. Itโs been about a week or so since Iโve played the family, so Iโm a little rusty on my writing. If Iโm not mistaken, this must be Garrett and Edna getting it on
for kid number two.
4. Sake reaches the top of the Pet Service career, meaning elders are now playable!
Sake: Meow
5. Garrett: Hey, can you take our cat to free up room in the house?
Townie: Certainly
Garrett: Thanks
Townie: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THANKS?
6. Well, at least now that we have cake, babies can grow up faster.
15. As far as good news goes, Garrett is now at the top of the Law career. Now, if I get around to unlocking Politics, Law Enforcement, and Slacker, those lifts
will stick.
16. With Cassandra able to help out now that she isnโt senile, Matilda may have a shot at actually getting her toddler skills.
17. Cassandra: I canโt believe I got in bed naked with my son.
Neither can any of the readers.
18. Matilda grows up again!
Matilda: Iโm a princess.
You are going to be a goth chick, and you will like it.
19. Matilda: As my first act as apocalypse princess, I demand you all show me your bones.
Close enough. She better enjoy lifting paranormal.
21. Apocalypse challenges do not get easier as you go, especially if you donโt unlock the right restrictions at the right times. It just becomes a game of
avoiding death at the hands of the previously dead.
22. Cassandra: This is boring. I thought things would get more entertaining as we got further in.
Garrett: Well, thatโs what happens when everybody else dies, mom.
23. The endless snow days mean that Matilda has to stay home to learn. Might as well get that body skill up so she can eventually leave.
Cassandra: Wanna be friends?
Matilda: Sure, grandma. Just leave me alone so I can read.
24. Andrea: Letโs see who I can kill off next.
Cassandra: Leave me alone, mother.
25. Matilda: Dad, why does great-grandma Andrea hate us all?
Garrett: Because every challenge needs that one spouse who causes unnecessary drama when they die. Itโs a rule in this game.
26. Oh god, not another one!
Andrea: Donโt worry, it was just a townie who was reading the newspaper.
You suck, Andrea.
28. Matilda: Why canโt I do this downstairs?
Garrett: Because the ghosts will try and kill us again, sweetheart. Why do you keep asking every five minutes?
29. Hereโs hoping Matilda tops all her skills before college. Gotta have some simoleons to rebuy the college home.
33. Since the ghosts wonโt stop harassing everyone, itโs time to keep the living sims upstairs at night.
34. Paul: BOO!
Can you please not kill the current heir before his daughter reaches her teenage birthday, thank you?
35. Matilda: I thought we could use the fridge any time?
Garrett: Sweetheart, everything is just going downhill. You have to accept that.
36. On the plus side, Matilda is now a teenager. She rolled Popularity and wants to have 20 pet best friends. NOPE. She likes black hair and sims high up in
their careers and she hates underwear.
Matilda: Why canโt I befriend 20 animals?
Because there arenโt enough in this neighbourhood for that.
38. Cassandra: Why do I have to do this?
Because I need you to focus on the paranormal skills like logic so I can exorcize this damn house!
39. Lillian: SHE STOLE MY HAIR CUT!
Lillian was the townie who died. I really just want her gone.
40. Matilda: When can I get out of here?
Tuesday. On Tuesday, you can go to college.
41. So I played until Tuesday when I could finally use the phone thanks to the Gamer restriction.
Garrett: Sweetheart, donโt join the Secret Society. The lot is glitched and you wonโt be able to leave until graduation.
43. Well, thatโs a cute outfit.
Matilda: Could be cuter if you let me unlock show business.
No.
44. After moving into the Apocalypse College house, Matilda was forced to major in Physics.
Matilda: This is so stupid. Isnโt there another major I can take?
Nahโฆ you be a STEM queen.
45. Since most of the sims who maintained our family friends are dead, I have Matilda make friends with every single walk-by.
Matilda: You donโt have a chin, eitherโฆ are you my secret brother?
46. It is way too easy to maintain a house with one sim, fewer restrictions, and no ghosts.
Matilda: How the hell did I get fat in an apocalypse? Who gets fat during an apocalypse?
53. Matilda: I donโt think I can do anything here that wouldnโt result in failing the challenge.
Iโm going to try and get you out of this as painlessly as possible.
55. Say what you will about these LFT Society sims, but at least they have good DNA.
This is Jim Tellerman. Heโs a Knowledge sim who wants to Max 7 Skills. Virgo (9/2/6/3/5). Likes Blonde hair & Charisma; hates make-up.
As you can tell from that little bio, heโs going to be the generation 4 spouse.
56. Now to get back to the main lot and continue the shit show.
Matilda: I see paranormal.
Good. Letโs exorcize these motherfuckers.
57. Now to figure out what exactly Jim will be doing as a lift. My goal for him is Politics so I can expand the house outward.
58. Good thing none of the ghosts are around to ruin this. For a brief minute, I thought they had subsided the minute Matilda took a job in Paranormal.
Jim: So does this mean I can change clothes now?
HAHAโฆ good one.
59. Matilda: So ground rules. 1 โ stay on the top floor as often as possible; the ghosts donโt seem to be able to climb stairs. 2 โ use the upstairs bookcase to
skill; itโs right by Jumbok and you will get a boost. 3 โ although we have birth control now, try and have as many babies as possible with me; weโve had
two sims die while pregnant in this family so weโre down by two restrictions we could have unlocked.
Jim: What about my environment score?
Matilda: Complain about it all you want, architecture wonโt matter until politics is unlocked.
60. Because itโs still Tuesday on the lot, I have Garrett call work to quit. I need him around when the babies are born to take care of them.
Garrett: Iโm not a frigginโ family sim.
Well, tough luck. Your mom was a romance sim and she did just fine.
Garrett: She tried to sleep with my brother.
65. Edna: Edna make it up to third floor.
Shit, theyโre getting craftier. Jim, any luck on the career front?
Jim: All I can take is Business.
โฆ Fine. At least I can sell items.
66. As long as the generation 4 heiress and spouse are employed, Iโm happy. My main infrastructure lifts are done, so I can manage this.
67. Matilda: Should I really keep going to work after each promotion? Canโt I have time off.
As long as you are platinum, I donโt care if you are going to work with zero energy. The quicker you do this, the easier the challenge will get.
68. Well, the master bedroom is now complete with wallpaper. Thatโs a good sign.
77. Not sure if this is against the rules, but stop playing. You never know.
78.
79. Atticus grows up! I think I may finally have cute sims in the family again.
80. Garrett: So what do you want to be when you grow up, Atticus? Do you want to do something important and useful? You better because thatโs all there is
in this life.
81. Only one more promotion for Matilda and I believe two for Jim.
This set-up seems familiar.
82. Shy a couple promotions and pregnant?
This canโt be good.
84. So most of the urns will be moved down to the ground level, although I think this broke the Music restriction. Oh well, it will be fixed in the next update.
85. Andrea: What are you doing?
Matilda: Watch and see, great-grandma.
86. Edna: Edna back, baby.
Thatโs right. Because she is pregnant with a generation 4 spare, I figure I should bring Edna back from the dead. Plus sheโs still in the Science career with
one promotion away from completion. Since she didnโt lose it, I figure it will still count.
90. So I realized after this picture was taken that by deleting the energizer I broke the athletic restriction. I donโt know how to rectify that, so I will move on.
91. Welp, looks like generation 4 and 5 will both have spares next updateโฆ
92. So to recap:
Lifted: Hopelessness, Education (Paul), Adventure (Andrea), Medicine (Cassandra), Military (Warren), Pet Show Biz (Balin), Culinary (Timothy), Law (Garrett),
Pet Service (Sake), Paranormal (Matilda), Business (Jim)
In Progress: Science (Edna)
Not Assigned: Athletic, Criminal, Law Enforcement, Politics, Slacker, Natural Science, Artist, Show Business, Pet Security, Music, Gamer, Journalism,
Oceanography, Intelligence, Entertainment, Dance, Architecture, Alien Technology
I think Atticus will probably take on Politics, unborn G5 baby will take on Athletic, and unborn G4 baby will take on Architecture
