Corey has become the head of the household for the next generation. Now that the kids are grown, Corey assigns jobs and careers to his siblings using the computer and newspaper listings. Louisa marries into the family to help lift restrictions. Clara makes the Culinary lift, freeing the family from being tied to the mood boosters. The household can now live more normal lives with real food, beds, and fewer restrictions on their time.

1. Xtreme Xavier Apocalypse
Chapter 9
Whoopsie!

2. Back home, and the kids are all grown up.
Cassandra: Aaaagh! Who put me in a suit?!
Celeste: Aaaagh! Who put me in a dress?!
Well, this will be fun. Take it away, Corey, official head of the
household for Generation Four.

3. Corey: OK, everyone, to the mood boosters!

4. Corey: Since my lift, Law, has to come before Slacker, I get dibs
on the computer job search. After that, we'll use the papers, to
get started in our careers, and then check the computer daily, in
case of instant promotions. But I must make my lift before
Cassandra makes hers, so she'll be limited to the newspaper, for
now.

5. Corey: Oh, my PlumBob! First listing! That's amazing! Time to
get my siblings in here to check the other listings for their own
jobs.

6. Corey: Each set of twins gets a portrait for the wall. And now that
the sun is up, it's time to invite over my future wife. Marrying her
will make my parents happy. Mom is almost permanently
platinum now. As soon as she is, they can move in with Aunt
Brianna.

7. Corey: Hi, Louisa! I have a carpool arriving soon, so let's get you
married in, and settled.
Louisa: Cool! I'm glad to be really played again. Spareship is just
not for me.

8. I LOVE these two together! I just can't get enough of the CUTE!

9. Now that you've married in, tell us about yourself, Louisa.
Louisa: I'm a Pisces, 3/6/9/7/10, and my aspiration is going to
change, so I can have more romantic wants for Corey. As for
my career, I'm a Specialist.
LEVEL 7 MEDICINE! I swear, that was totally random when I
townified you! BOOYAH!
Louisa: Yeah, and I have to go to work now. See ya!

10. Caleb and Carlos have to wait for their university careers to show
up on the computer. All of the girls, however, have careers in
the newspapers. It starts out much lower than the computer, but
at least they can get started, now, then check the computer
every day for an instant promotion. After all, those computer job
listings are so random, it could take weeks for their careers to
roll around.

11. Corey, you're heading off to your first day of work at level 9, in the
platinum, with all the requirements met. Do NOT take after your
grandfather!
Corey: Until I lift Law, and Cassandra lifts Slacker, I can make no
guarantees. Chance cards are what they are.
You're right, Corey. I know. And you're all well educated, and can
swap around, as necessary. No big deal, actually.

12. Clara: I really need an aspiration boost. Will you get engaged to
me, please? Writer doesn't consider professors to be Service
Sims, restricted by Intelligence, because we can't actually hire
you to do any service, so you're fair game!

13. Awww, look! You both had the want! Are you going to want me to
play you when you move out?
Clara: Well, I'll be permanently platinum, if my make my Culinary
lift, so I don't suppose you really HAVE to.
Good, because I don't really want to.
Clara: Works for me.

14. Louisa: I love Arts and Crafts! If anyone fails their lift, how about
taking Artist, instead?
We'll probably shuffle among the lifts we are already trying for,
Louisa. Sorry.
Louisa: Well, I'm glad we have picture portraits, at least.
Something for me to look at is nice.

15. Corey: Grandma! You have great timing! I just made the first lift
of Generation Four. Law doesn't do much, by itself, but now we
can lift, not merely suppress, Law Enforcement, Politics, and
Slacker!
Audrey: That is fantastic, Corey! I'm so proud of you!
Corey: I'm going to tell Cassandra to check the computer for an
instant promotion. The sooner, the better!

16. Cassandra: Oh, yes! Freelance Web Designer, with a shift
tomorrow morning. Three days in a row, yet. If it don't get rid of
yucky chance cards by the end of this week, I'll eat my hat.
You're not wearing a hat.
Cassandra: Actually, that phrase comes from olden times, when
sugar came in cones, called “hats.”
We don't have a Culinary lift, yet. No sugar.

17. Cassandra: But, there are Knowledge sims in the house. Why
me?
Never mind, dear. Just sit in front of the mood-boosters, and work
on your hobby until it's time for work in the morning. At least you
rolled a want to max your career!

18. Louisa: I really should be getting better acquainted with my in-
laws, but I need three skill points before tomorrow morning!
You mean you didn't move in fully skilled up? Shocker!
Louisa: Actually, I did learn some logic skills from playing chess
with Corey, while he was in college. As for the rest, no. He
couldn't train me, and he didn't know what I'd need, anyway.

19. Oh, golly. Well, at least this isn't all day, every day, as sims are
starting to get their careers in order, and even making their lifts.
Still, until the Medical and Culinary lifts are complete, they are all
basically tied to the mood-boosters. Next generation's life
should be much more interesting.

20. Cassandra: What a nerve-wracking day! Three chance cards!
Well?
Cassandra: Fortunately, nobody got demoted or fired. I lost a
couple of skill points. No biggie. I was already maxed out, and
didn't really need them, anyway.
AND?!

21. Cassandra: And, I am a Professional Party Guest, and have lifted
the Slacker restrictions! No more chance cards! EVER!Sims
can skip work, if they want to! They can go back into a career
they had before, if they left it for some reason.
You mean like working for a scholarship, before college? Yaay!
Cassandra: Also, elders may retire, rather than quit, and sims may
redeem work perks. It's a good lift!

22. Caleb: And I have lifted Natural Science! That means that we can
do a lot more stuff, including order groceries, eat chef salads,
have plants, make compost, use the Hydroponic Planter that
Cassandra just unlocked, join the Garden Club (thanks to
Cassandra's Slacker lift), use the wedding arch, change the
ground cover, place walls on the ground, and...

23. Caleb: We can start a garden. At this point, we can only place two
garden plots at a time, and we won't be able to buy the special
light for them, until Intelligence allows us to buy more expensive
items. But it's a start! No more selling the old fridge and buying
a new one when we run out of groceries. We can order more,
until we can grow our own. Also, I can place the Cowplant! It's
blocked off in the basement for now, like the stinky left-overs.
Just delete one fence, and it's fair game.

24. Caleb: And now we can compost all those newspapers Corey
brought home from college.

25. Clara: Awww, the instant promotion from level 4 to level 9 gives
me a warm fuzzy feeling in my tummy. I'll have the Culinary
restrictions lifted within days, now.

26. Meadow: Baldo, darling, thanks for waiting for me to go perma-
plat. I finally reached lifetime happiness.
Baldo: You sound so enthused.
Meadow: I'm old and tired and ready to move out.
Baldo: Me, too. I miss Brianna. Let's go.
Good luck, you two. I hope you enjoy immortality.

27. Caleb: I don't need to worry about chance cards, so why not keep
working?
Why not, indeed? I love that uniform.

28. Louisa: I got a promotion to level 9, and I'm platinum! I'm really
tired, but if I leave right now, I can get in a quick shift at the
hospital, and maybe make my lift tonight!
You go, Girl!

29. Just a bunch of hobby enthusiasts, waiting for lifts and another
genie lamp.

30. Louisa! I love you! Not only are you utterly adorable, but you also
brought back showers and baths and baby changing stations,
and contraception, and dishwashers and garden sprinklers, and
just a boat-load of good stuff!

31. Corey: Be careful, Louisa! That thing gave my siblings weird
lifetime wants.
Louisa: I'll take my chances. I'm going for Family/Knowledge, just
like you, with logical blonds turning me on, and brunettes turning
me off. And now, I want to become a Game Designer. With
Slacker restrictions lifted, that should be easy, even while I'm
raising my family. As soon as it comes up on the computer, I'll
take the job. Meanwhile, I'll study for it.

32. Corey: I don't understand it, Writer. We have matching
everything, yet our chemistry is still absolutely neutral.
Ummm, whoopsie! I actually forgot! Louisa is a 100% lesbian.
Corey: Oh, great. Just great! I don't suppose you can fix that with
the ReNuYu orb?
Sorry, no. I feel awful. You'll still have to Try For Baby, though.
Apocalypse rules. She lifted Medical, and must breed.

33. Corey: Aunt Brianna? I have a problem. I love my wife, and
Writer really wants her genes in the family, plus, since she
moved in and lifted a restriction, she's not allowed to move out,
and HAS to have babies! It's, like, the law, or something. But
she's a lesbian, and we don't have same-sex pregnancy! We
haven't even woohooed once. Writer says Try For Baby is our
only option. … What's that? I don't know, Aunt Brianna. That
just sounds horrible. Are you sure it's the only way?

34. Cassandra: Oh, Jessie, Writer says she'll play me, if I marry you.
I'll get to send three kids to college! I just have to do one thing
for her, but I promise, I won't let it bother you.
Jessie: What's the one little thing?
Cassandra: Ummm, if I tell you, it will probably bother you. Just
accept it as a Writer's Prerogative, and move on, OK?
Jessie: We mascots know all about Writer's Prerogative.

35. Cassandra: You do?
Jessie: Sure! Legacy writers marry us in all the time, and they
always like to lay on the drama. Look, just don't turn me into a
zombie, and I'll be happy.
Cassandra: WOW! Are you easy-going!
Jessie: Eh, I'm coded for legacy stability. Cows, on the other
hand, are all about the legacy drama.

36. Corey: So, you're going to be my brother-in-law, and actually get
played, huh? Let me train you up on a skill. How about
Charisma? I have the perfect thing for that!
Jessie: No thanks. I mean, sure, building a skill is good, but I
barely know you. We aren't good enough friends for me to let
you tell me how to give speeches.

37. Aw, chess. The classic relationship-builder in an apocalypse.
Corey: It builds his logic skill, too, so that's good for a lot of
careers.
Jessie: Yeah, but for all you know, I want to be a Slacker, too. Or
just have a lot of friends or children. If so, then Cassandra can
support us on her pay. If we time her pregnancies right, she'll
never have to work again!

38. Aww, Carlos, now I want to play you, after all. But you wanted to
marry Kelly, and then autonomously flirt all over town, so I won't.
I'll just marry you off, and cheat her perma-plat, like with your
Aunt Brianna, and then it's immortal sparedom for you.
Maybe I'll just put tubs on the community lots? Oooh, and hot
tubs! Tubs and hot tubs and photo-booths. And possibly install
ACR? Ah, no. I already have too many glitches. No mods!
Autonomous flirting, but no autonomous woohoo for you. Sorry.

39. I just can't stop watching. Nothing else is interesting enough to
drag my eyes away, including Corey, who is just trying to max
Sports hobby. I even like that pirate voice.

40. CLARA! You did it! With both Medical and Culinary lifted, the
family is free to survive all over the house, and no longer be tied
to the mood-boosters! They can live normal(ish) lives, and
certainly become a whole heck of a lot more interesting. And
since you are permanently platinum, I don't even have to do
anything with you, once you move out. Unless you really want
me to play you.
Clara: Not really. I want the immortal life, please.

41. The first floor is now the kitchen/dining room. Sims can sleep in
real beds, and eat real food. Someone clean up those left-
overs, please! Wow, only two platters, left! But from now on,
there will be almost any food you desire (no salmon or lobster,
but everything else is available), and fresh groceries delivered,
and eventually, once Celeste makes her lift, fresh produce from
the garden! And no lifts are in danger, now that chance cards
are all ignored. We have gotten over the apocalypse hump!

42. It should be all smooth sailing from here!
Carlos: Says you! I definitely saw a kracken in the distance! Load
the cannons! Hoist the mainsail! Swab the poopdecks!
You think swabbing the poopdecks will prepare you for battle?
Carlos: You can't be too careful. Don't want anyone slipping on a
dirty poopdeck at a critical moment. And who stole my mop?!

43. Clara: How can I cook a celebratory turkey dinner without an
oven?
Whoops. Sorry about that, Clara. Better, now?
Clara: Yes, thanks.
So many mistakes. I'm a bad simmer.

44. Clara: Well, guys? What do you think?
Corey: I think you have manufactured the greatest meal this city
has ever known!
Clara: Cooked. It's called cooking. But thank you!
Corey: With this, my children can live free and easy lives. Sure,
there are still restrictions, but they won't be forced to study away
their childhoods, just enough to get the scholarships they need.

45. Carlos: Still no listing for Paranormal. Can I just take a newspaper
listing for Athletic, and go for my LTW, while I wait for my
assigned lift to come up?
Considering that you can always go back into Athletics later, why
not?
Carlos: Great!

46. Corey: OK, everyone who is not actively working on a lift or
lifetime want is on free will. I mean, Writer can help them with
wants, and stuff, but otherwise, I have no assignments for them,
except to stay on for the friendship count. Aaaaah, I just feel so
relaxed, now! I can't thank Clara and Louisa enough for that.
And the sooner everyone else is sorted, the sooner Louisa and I
can sort out our issue.

47. Caleb: Melissa, will you be my wife and help me get six
grandchildren?
Melissa: Ooooh! I get to be played? I'm not usually chosen to join
a legacy. Cool!
Caleb: Well, we'll just be a cadet branch, not making any lifts, or
anything, but we'll be played!
Melissa: Sounds good to me, Caleb!

48. Louisa: Just eight more skill points, and I'll have everything I need
for my lifetime want. And once the LTWs are out of the way,
and we don't need the friendship count, I'll do my duty and have
two sets of twins.
And after that?
Louisa: FREEDOM!

49. Corey: CARLOS! There's a job in Paranormal! I was looking for a
promotion for myself, in my LTW of Law Enforcement, but I
found your lift, instead.

50. Louisa: Yay! Now, I'm just learning for the aspiration points. That
Knowledge secondary aspiration is really helping.
What do you say to having your babies while the others are in the
house, so they can befriend the next generation? After all, you
can walk to work, or take the days off, thanks to Slacker.
Louisa: Sounds like a good idea, actually. Get it over with sooner.
I'll talk to Corey about it after work tonight.

51. Meadow: Pregnant, already, dear?
No, Meadow. She's just tired from work. That platform jumping
really takes it out of you. But she did get a promotion. She's
due to get her lifetime want before Corey gets his.
Meadow: Great! Then she can give me grandchildren! Just
because I'm not being played doesn't mean I'm not rolling the
wants.

52. Louisa: Corey, you're my best friend in this whole world. There's
no one else I'd rather breed with. Still, the sooner done, the
sooner it's over and we can move on with our lives.
Corey: Let's set this plan in motion, honey!
Louisa: OK! But, ummm, turn off the lights, please. I kinda don't
want to see what's happening, here.
Corey: No problem.

53. Ah, Louisa, your undeniable cuteness is a curse. You keep being
used for baby-making. At least you got it on the first try.
Louisa: That's because my man knows how to do it right.

54. Good luck, Carlos! I hope you lift Paranormal tonight! Then, you
can send the dead relatives to the graveyard, and when you
move out, you can raise them, then give the bone phone back to
Corey, in case of catastrophe in the main line.
Driver: Ugh. Why do I get all the freaks? Mama told me to
become a dentist, but oh, no. I just wouldn't listen.

55. Louisa: Baby bump!
Enjoy it. This is the only one we're going to show.
Louisa: You don't show baby bumps? But, it's traditional.
We're extreme. We do timelapses and montages, but not a lot of
baby bumps. Sorry.
Louisa: OK. Works for me.

56. Carlos? What happened to your paranormal outfit?
Carlos: Cult leaders don't need special clothes, and overalls are
cool. Almost as cool as bowties!
Point taken. Congratulations! Now, you can get a job in Athletics,
again, and this time, stick with it until you make your lifetime
want. But first, send the angry ghosts to the graveyard, please.

57. Also, better beds! I just wish the top-of-the-line double bed came
in a different frame. The wood options just don't match the rest
of the décor. But, best beds mean best sleep, and the family is
sleeping in shifts, due to insufficient space, so oh, well.
Actually, I could squeeze two more singles in there, but that would
literally leave nothing but walkways, and that means traffic jams,
galore. No, thank you.

58. Whatchadoin'?
Corey: Studying Body skill to max both Fitness and Sports
hobbies. I rolled the want, and need the aspiration points, since
I lost the want for a baby.
Well, take a break to pay the protection payment, please. $2700,
this week.
Corey: Drop in the bucket. We have over $700,000.

59. Louisa: I'm just rolling those skilling wants, while practically
everyone else just wanders around on free will, tickling and
talking about hobbies and playing rock, paper, scissors, and the
like.

60. Corey, you are still my favorite of Generation Four. I am really
enjoying this free-will bit, where all of you are just filling time
while you climb up your career ladders. Soon, there will be
babies to distract everyone and a really full house, but for now,
everyone just does their own thing, and I love you.

61. Hot dogs, Clara? At this point in the apocalypse, I would think
you'd be past that.
Clara: I've never tasted a hot dog in my life, and I rolled the want.
Fair enough. Of course, you're perma-plat, so it hardly matters.

62. Cassandra: These hot dogs are delicious, Clara! Why did we
never eat them, growing up?
Celeste: Of our few options, hamburgers were the most filling.
Cassandra: I never want to eat a hamburger again, but these hot
dogs are tasty! And if we want more to eat, we can just make
more.

63. Louisa: Is there still some leftover turkey in the fridge? Pregnant
sim needs fooooood.
Clara: If not, I'll cook another one.
Louisa: I LOVE the Culinary lift!

64. Louisa: Corey! Come and see your babies get born! Then we can
hand them off to the aunts and uncles, and get started on the
second set. I want this DONE.

65. Corey: I'm so glad I got the want back in time for the birth! Yay,
I'm platinum again! Now, if I can just get another work shift in
time for the promotion.
Celeste: I only have one promotion left to go. Give me some of
that aspiration, will ya?

66. Oh, my PlumBob! Daisy and Davey are adorable! I love them,
already! Thank you, Louisa for your beautiful genes! The
CUTENESS!

67. Louisa: Five tries, Corey?! Really?!
Corey: I'm sorry! I just got a bit turned around, you know, in the
dark.
Louisa: Nice try, but that's a lousy excuse after the sun comes up,
buster!
Corey: Well, look at it this way. You never have to let me touch
you again!

68. Louisa: You just “got turned around” on purpose, so you could
have extra sex with the lesbian! I feel so... so USED!
Corey: You ARE used! You knew full well when I married you that
Writer just wanted you for your cuteness.
Louisa: That doesn't mean you had to have your fun with me four
extra times! You selfish jerk!

69. Corey: Well, maybe if you knew how to please a man, you
wouldn't need to do it four extra times!
Louisa: Why would I want to please a man? I'm a flergling
lesbian!
Corey: Well, flergle you!
Louisa: Right back atcha, you son of a llama!

70. Louisa: I don't love you anymore!
Corey: Well, I don't love YOU anymore! What do you think of
that?!

71. Louisa: I think it's time for a nice game of chess. How about you,
Corey?
Corey: Sounds about right. Well, this worked out nicely. So, do
you have anyone in mind for your new lover?
Louisa: Not yet. I think we should take a trip together to the
community lot to find our new “special friends.”
Corey: Sure thing, pal! Best friends forever!

72. What? You thought I would feed her to the cowplant?
I think I'll go ahead and end the chapter here. I know we still have
one more lift to go for Generation Four, and Celeste is almost
there, but this just feels like a good stopping place.
Any suggestions/requests for who should be my two sims' “special
friends”? I know how to townify CAS sims now! Female only,
please. And Happy Simming!