1. Welcome to the imaginatively-named Gold legacy. This is my
founder, Persephone Gold, a Fortune Scorpio with an 8/7/8/2/0
personality, turned on by charisma and creativity and off by
black hair, pictured in front of the small dorm at the copy of the
Académie Le Tour recently attached to Desiderata Valley. Seph
here very obligingly rolled up the Five Top Businesses LTW.
No, that last sentence wasn't sarcastic.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure if that was Persephone being
helpful or Persephone being surprisingly intelligent; that's one of
two Fortune LTWs our handicaps will allow her to get. This is a
Pure Entrepreneurial legacy and there will be no bartending or
barista-ing; there will be no being hired by other playables'
businesses; and, most importantly, there will be no newspaper
jobs. Our income will be coming from businesses, novels,
crafting benches, and the occasional aspiration reward or wish
for wealth, as well as semester grants.
2. Of course, Persephone isn't an altruist, and she expected
some concessions in exchange for jumping through my hoops.
So, for her help with Pure Entrepreneur and Storyteller, I'm
giving her Noble Composure, Obey Your Sims, and True Love: I'll
spend the next ten generations paying very, very close attention
to her and her descendants' needs, wants, and desires.
So, Seph, do you have anything to add?
"I agreed to help you complete this legacy, which doing this
assignment is one very small part of. I never agreed to entertain
you."
Okay, okay, I'll leave you to it.
3. And, sure enough, she gets her first aspiration boost in short
order.
4. Her search for True Love proves a little more difficult. A few
candidates present themselves...
11. Despite Persephone's overwhelming enthusiasm, the date
doesn't get much past "meh" and a platonic-looking peck
goodbye. Oh, well, I'm sure there are plenty of dormies
clamoring to be a legacy founder's spouse, right?
12. Let me amend that: a legacy founder's *husband.* Sorry,
Kana, this game folder's lacking Preg For All, and I'm not going to
worry about alternate methods of reproduction this early.
13. I'm not quite sure you'd be up to the bed-on-the-lawn
lifestyle, anyway.
14. I'm kind of annoyed with myself right now: I forgot to de-
townify the albino skintone from this set before I went and
mass-generated my dormies. And, of course, since it's my least
favorite of the eight townified skins I've got in, it seems to show
up on every third sim. Blech.
At least Alvin, in yellow, has two bolts and a slightly different
skintone. Whatcha think, Seph?
"Eh."
Come on, you’ve got better chemistry with him than with
anyone else so far. Maybe you can ask him out later.
15. In any case, she soon maxes logic over the chess table--she
keeps rolling the want to Play Chess first thing in the morning,
thanks to Free Time and that Games hobby she has to get to ten
points in, and then I don't have to worry about obeying her for
the rest of the day.
Oh, hey, her dormie friend is still asexual. Go chase him
down when you finish up here, Seph.
16. ...wait wait wait, *what*?!?!
Oh, &$@#. I'm not playing with No Instant Loves and they're
friendlier than I'd noticed, so one Check Sim Out and they're
both crushing. @#&^! And they've only got one bolt--this is not
good.
"I know you've got a fair number of nice points, Kaz, and
you're too soft to break this up if you don't have to. You'll find a
way to make this work."
Wait, Seph...?
17. "You made it clear that the True Love handicap was meant to
pacify me, but I'm *not* happy about being thrown at any sim
off the street I happen to have a couple of bolts for. Zion would
be good for the Legacy, and, well...I like him. I don't have the
nice points to get sappy, but I'm telling you that you *will* make
this work."
What the heck, Seph, that's completely...um...well, okay,
that's actually fair enough, and it's almost sort of a sweet thing
for a sim with no nice points to be so manipulative about. Fine,
then, I'll see what I can do. But no promises, Seph, and if I have
to overrule you, I will--it's still just a crush; you'll both get over it.
18. The next dozen pictures I've got are of Persephone Asking
About his turn-ons and sign and otherwise collecting data; he
proves to be a Cancer into cleaning points and swimsuits, who
doesn't like glasses, and who is creative but not charismatic.
With Persephone changing into her trunks and studying up on
cleaning, they manage to hit two bolts--it must be a high two
bolts, based on the order in the relationships panel, but I'm not
confident that that last turn-on will give them three.
Luckily, I recall Cyjon posting a very useful guide to the
attraction calculations...
19. After a bit of research, it looks like we can make this work
once we get him playable, although I'm still worried that I've
miscalculated somehow and I'll end up with a spouse my
founder can’t breed with. But, after all, I'm allowed to choose
Persephone's secondary. She can always go get that Romance
attraction bonus if I've--well, if *she's*--completely screwed
things up.
I'm still not overjoyed about Zion Nanale as my legacy's co-
founder, but I can live with it. He's not great-looking, but that
template (at least the not-quite-Maxis version I've got in) won't
throw regrettably ugly kids or anything, and more importantly,
he's a default Cancer: nice, active, and neat, but moderate
enough to be easygoing. Persephone's right, that's pretty nearly
perfect for a legacy co-founder. So, if she hasn't changed her
mind...
29. The cook set the legacy's rather anticlimactic first fire.
30. Persephone soon maxed her Games enthusiasm, thereby
completing one of her tasks and incidentally setting the family
hobby.
31. She made it into the Secret Society, which Zion seemed
remarkably unconcerned about.
32. She also gave yet more evidence of being unusually capable
of forethought: on free will, she listened politely to the dormie
who barged into the bathroom to brag...
34. Of course, she also proved more than capable of holding
grudges about nothing at all.
35. But soon enough, relationship drama resolved and no other
drama instigated, she graduated summa cum laude.
36. Well, I *thought* her relationship drama was resolved. For
some reason, despite appearing to be a crazy-Maxis-coding
greeting, this generates a kiss memory.
37. Yeah, Alvin, those are about my thoughts on the matter.
What's going on here, Seph?
"Our friendship's well over 70/70, and there aren't any hearts
or lips flying around. This is *not* my doing and you are not
going to upset Zion with it."
Okay, okay. Just a glitch. We'll go with that.
38. I'm more than ready to get out of the dorm at this point (and
afraid that another glitch like that will have consequences that
neither Persephone nor I want to deal with), so I let her move
out soon after. With a kiss--a real one--for Zion...
39. ...and a quick spin into a surprisingly well-chosen outfit,
Persephone heads off to Bluewater Village.
