2. Welcome back to The Hues Legacy, a joint legacy written by
Haleigh/meadowthayer and me, Roxanne/Taube. Last chapter Haleigh
played out the early lives of the jewel-tone generation and left us a choice
for heiress, determined by having the rainbow eyes that have been passed
down from Neon: is it Sapphire or Jade? The answer is, as you can see in the
picture above, Jade. We liked her a little better overall, but it was very close.
Jade headed right off to college to get on with her life. She’s already looking
forward to graduating with honors!
3. Sapphire and their brother Onyx also
left for college, leaving their much
younger half-brother Peridot
behind. He’s still a child, so he heads
off the next morning in a different
yellow-colored vehicle. I’m going to
quickly play him to teen and then
get back to the flow of college.
4. First though, here’s the three main line kids. Peridot is the child of
Hobart, not Violet, of course, so he’s not eligible, nor is Onyx since he
doesn’t have the eyes. Anyway, the kids look good in college, and
that’s where they’ll have to stay for a bit while I get Peridot up to
speed. Just as a reminder, Sapphire is romance/grilled cheese, Onyx is
family/knowledge, and our heiress is knowledge/popularity. They’re
staying in the house that I’ve played all of my generations through
since Neon.
5. Back home, and Violet has decided to take a bubble bath in the dog’s
outdoor bathtub. Mmm, sanitary!
6. I decided to get Peridot into private school just for the heck of it –
and the prestige – so we invited the headmaster over. This is a good
place to point out that I am continually forgetting that my monitor
and the game’s camera pictures are not the same size and shape, so
please excuse any funny business at the top of photos. I can’t see it
when I take the pictures and sometimes stuff like plumbbobs or
porch railing without a roof creeps in when I’m not looking.
7. Bronze the dog does his part to impress the headmaster by peeing
in the middle of the floor. Nice job, Bronze. If you’re wondering
where the other dogs are, they’re back on Haleigh’s computer. I had
some difficulties installing the file this time, and for some reason,
removing some of the dogs from the household made it so I could
install, so we’re down to just Bronze. He was the youngest, so he’s
still the one to continue the line anyway.
8. “Ma’am, I’m impressed! I’d be happy to accept your son into our
institution.”
“Thanks. I literally did nothing to help – that was all Chris and
Hobart – but I did get a few rounds of pool in while you were
touring the house, so I appreciate the recognition.”
“That’s . . . er . . . nice.”
9. Neon had a very active night, luckily
mostly after the headmaster left. I’m
hoping the ghosts will be a bit more
manageable this time around. I’ve
had bad luck with them in the past.
Neon also seems to be sad that
Sinjin’s grave disappeared, as have
several of the dogs’ graves.
10. Just a couple of cool dudes, talking about maxing skills and puppy
litters while playing some pool. Cool.
11. Chris is extremely close to dying and finally joining Coral in the
afterlife, and he had been the one staying home when Violet and
Hobart were working, so I had Violet retire. She’ll be available to help
when Jade comes home from college that way too. On another note,
I have to agree with Haleigh here – Violet is a spectacularly good-
looking elder. She’s just beautiful.
12. Peridot heads off to his first day of private school all alone. I’ve
got him skilling some just to pass the time, but he’s not going to
max many skills in time. Doesn’t really matter in the long run,
though.
13. My hopes about the ghosts were
unfounded. Most nights, we get triple
hauntings and see a wide variety of
ancestors, and they are quite active.
Guess it’s back to micromanaging
sleeping patterns then.
14. Aw, Chris’s time has come. I really liked him and Coral together
and him as a spouse in his own right, so it was neat to see him
come back to my computer, but it is time for him to join his wife
in the afterlife. Violet and her husband are there to see her father
off.
15. “We appreciate your service, but are you ladies ever going to
leave?”
The hula zombies hung around forever after Grim had poofed
away. It was quite odd, and just about when I was starting to
wonder if they were glitched, they finally disappeared.
16. Finally! Finally Peridot’s birthday has come and we can get on
with this legacy. He looks pretty handsome for a natural alien. He
rolled fortune/romance.
17. Peridot heads off to college, pleased with his scholarships, and
arrives in an outfit that I actually don’t hate. It’s kind of
appropriate for his aspirations, and the yellowish-green of the
shirt is closer to the actual color of peridots than his skin, so
I’m going to stick with it.
18. The general chaos of the house, which is really only built for two
sims, is the backdrop for Onyx and Peridot dropping out of college.
I’m going to play just the girls through, but we’ll catch up with the
boys later.
19. Sapphire meets a nice guy named
Laurence through the crystal ball. In
the backgrounds, you can see
various blonds that Jade was trying
out at the same time.
Laurence is a fellow college
student, and he’s quite cute after
a slight makeover.
20. I wasn’t 100% happy with any of
Jade’s matches, even after I changed
her turn-ons with the potion, mostly
for nose-related reasons, but this
maid named Benedict Arnold (no,
not kidding) is her best choice. The
randomly-generated name combo
made me laugh, so I actually
remembered someone’s last name
for once.
Benedict looks better and for some reason
I liked glasses on him, then remembered
later that I gave a very similar makeover to
a male maid in another joint legacy.
Possibly the LHKR Legacy? I can’t
remember, but this feels familiar. Benedict
had black eyebrows and blond hair, which
probably means he’s carrying black hair,
but I have had the opposite be true before,
so I’m hoping. I gave him this hair because
it has really dark roots so we’ve got our
bases covered either way.
21. Now let the romancing begin! Sapphire and Laurence are soon
head over heels for each other.
22. Jade is not far behind her big sister, and also falls for her
boyfriend quickly.
23. Amusingly, Laurence and Sapphire are two romance sims who never
rolled a want to woohoo while on dates, despite having three bolts.
Jade and Benedict, who have two and are both knowledge sims, rolled
all kinds of wants and got to fulfill them when Jade wasn’t busy with
college duties.
24. Our resident cheerleader was particularly frantic and out of
control, whether that meant cheering for other mascots or
interrupting private moments between the soon-to-be official
couple of generation 7.
25. When she wasn’t dating Benedict, Jade did her studies like a good
girl. Like a good knowledge sim, she rolled a want to write her
term paper every semester.
26. However, her secondary popularity aspiration really shone through in
college. She made best friends left and right, leaving her in the
platinum most of the time, before finally rolling the want to have 30
best friends. I decided to go for this impossible want, again just for the
heck of it, so she spent a lot of time on the phone and visiting with
friends.
27. This quite naturally led to being inducted into the secret
society, and there were a ton of sims there at the
compound! On my old computer, only two or three would
ever be there at once, but there’s five in this shot, and
those are just the ones that cared to make it out front for
Jade’s arrival. I was impressed. Jade was not, however, so
she returned home immediately after. She had long ago
also become big woman on campus, so this was just
another notch on her popularity belt.
28. Finally, in her senior year, Jade made best friends with this blue-
haired guy, fulfilling the impossible want.
29. If it seems like this college chapter is really boring and going by
quicker than my normal pace, well, that’s because that’s how
playing it was, too. Not much exciting or worth documenting
happened. The girls kept up their grades, Jade made lots of best
friends, and Sapphire mostly just danced or spent time with
Laurence.
30. The one bit of excitement happened the night before their last
final exam. A burglar approached the house, but I guess she had
an extraordinarily poor sense of direction or perhaps speed,
because she never even made it inside before the police officer
apprehended her.
31. Jade: “Hey! What the hell? Why are you letting her escape? You
seriously lost the fight?”
Sapphire: “Boo! You suck!”
Police Officer: “I guess I’m not getting that promotion any time soon.”
32. After that small sliver of interest, Jade and Sapphire went to
and aced their final exams. Sapphire graduated with a 4.0 in
philosophy because she never cared about her major, while
Jade got a 4.0 in drama to prepare to meet her LTW of being a
World-Class Ballet Dancer, which I suppose I probably should
have mentioned before now. Without much fanfare, the girls
grew up and moved back to Desiderata. Let’s finish out the
chapter with a spare catch-up.
33. I moved the three spares each into their own house near the main
house. I used the houses that came with Nightlife since they’re
actually starters and affordable. Unfortunately, they don’t have
ceilings, so pardon any wall tops in the pictures. Again, I blame my
monitor. That said, Laurence and Sapphire are happy to be together
after graduating!
34. Because they’re both romance
sims, I went for a hasty propose-
and-marry dash while neither of
them feared it, since they had both
rolled that fear before on dates.
Regardless, they are very much in
love and seemed pretty happy
about the whole thing.
35. Now, you may be wondering why I would have two commitment-phobic
romance sims have a baby. Well, Sapphire was the only one of the
spares with the eyes and she’s also very pretty, so I was just curious
what their baby would look like. Also, that is one crazily pointy
pregnancy mesh, right?
36. Laurence jumped rope through most of Sapphire’s delivery, but she
successfully gave birth to an adorable little boy with the rainbow
eyes and Laurence’s black hair. To continue with the gemstone
colors, I named him Topaz.
37. Topaz grew into a toddler and his
parents, despite their aspirations,
were absolutely charmed by him. He
was a really lovable, playful, and
active little guy, and he especially
got along well with his daddy. It
didn’t hurt that he was adorable as
well.
38. Here’s Topaz as a child. I think he’s just so cute. He turned out really
nicely, and I do love those eyes.
39. As a child, Topaz picked up his dad’s favorite hobby, and this family
lived happily ever after. That’s Sapphire’s life.
40. Peridot met a lovely woman named Ophelia. They fell almost
instantly in love, both being fortune sims and having a lot in
common.
41. Their relationship progressed, and before long, Peridot was
proposing, and then they had a simple ceremony in their
backyard, which had a water view (as well as a view of the
main house, but that’s not as romantic as the ocean).
42. Not long after they became
married, Ophelia realized she was
pregnant.
After a quick and easy pregnancy,
Ophelia gave birth to a little girl
named Quartz. Gee. I wonder
who she’s going to take after in
facial features.
43. To be honest, Quartz as a toddler was a little bit terrifying. She had
the oddest combo of face/mouth/jaw/cheek/eye shape where her
cheekbones actually went in before her jaw jutted out. I hoped she
would grow into her looks, because her father wore them well.
Strange face or no, Quartz was loved all the same.
44. Luckily, Quartz’s face did fill out a little as a child, and she looked
more normal and more like her dad, but with her mom’s coloring.
Quartz as a little girl was shy but very playful.
45. Quartz enjoys entertaining her parents, and they love spending time
with her. That’s where we’ll leave Peridot’s happy family.
46. I saved Onyx for last because his journey was a bit more
complicated. It started off well enough. He met a former firefighter
named Ichelle, and, since they both loved sports, they bonded over
many a catch session. Soon they were a very happy couple.
47. After that, things moved quickly.
They hit all the major relationship
milestones together, and they
were elated when they found out
Ichelle was pregnant. Onyx was
actually on the phone with Violet
at the time, so she got to be the
first to know about this
grandchild of hers.
48. Ichelle gave birth to a darling baby boy named Citrine. He
was the only baby of the spares to not have black hair. Of
course, once he was a toddler, he insisted on wearing a hat
just like his daddy, but I don’t have as cool a supply, so he
would up with a knit cap in his color.
49. Citrine was a curious and boisterous boy, and he still loved wearing
a cap. It seemed like everything was going well for Onyx and his
family.
50. However, all that can change in an instant.
A lightning strike lit a tree on fire, but the rain ended before it was
put out, so it was burning. I tried to keep the sims inside because
nothing was near it, so I reasoned that it would probably burn out
once it had consumed the tree. However, sims are sims, and Onyx
soon ran out to freak out in front of the fire and got his butt lit on
fire for his efforts.
51. I then sent Ichelle, who happened to be pregnant again as both
Onyx and Ichelle were family sims who wanted a larger family, to put
out her husband. Ichelle was a firefighter, so she should be able to
handle these things. It seemed like things were going to be okay
after all.
52. That was until Citrine ran out to investigate and also caught on
fire. The fire was raging out of control, and the sims were all in
full panic mode and ignoring my commands most of the time.
53. Citrine was put out, but as the fire started dying down, he ran back
and got too close again, and he caught on fire again! I was kind of
panicking by this point. Shortly after this picture was taken, Onyx
also got lit on fire again, leaving only Ichelle to put out either her
son or her husband. We chose her son, but it wasn’t enough, and
eventually I didn’t even have the option to extinguish him any
more. Ichelle then put Onyx out.
54. Just like that, Citrine was gone. It was the most traumatic,
horrific thing I have ever had happen to me in a sims game. I was
equal parts distraught and mortified to have had a child die on
my watch. As the last bits of fire were being put out, Grim came
to collect Citrine’s soul and left a gravestone.
55. “I’m kind of feeling like we suck as parents right now.”
“Yeah. Not a good feeling.”
Me too, guys. Me too.
56. However, this was a spare’s house, so I can do whatever I want to
make things right. I cheated to get the bone phone, and while Onyx
mourned his son (tugging ALL my heartstrings), Ichelle called Grim to
beg for her son back. Luckily, it worked.
57. “That was awesome!”
Citrine, you died.
“Yeah, but I came back! What an adventure!”
Um, I am forever scarred by your death, and you’re celebrating?
“I got a second chance.”
Okay, fair point. Just, stay away from fires, okay, little guy?
“No promises.”
58. Citrine then helped his parents pick up the ash piles from the
yard. That one four-tile tree had made quite a mess, much
bigger than its original footprint, not to mention that it
managed to kill one of my sims. After the ash was thrown
away, Ichelle felt a familiar twinge and realized that all the
terror and action had sent her into labor! She doesn’t look
more pregnant because I didn’t change her clothes to one
with a pregnancy mesh because I wasn’t expecting to spend
this much time at the house.
59. Ichelle gave birth to a lovely little
boy with all her coloring. They
named him Alabaster.
Alabaster was well-loved, and the
parents kept a close eye on both
boys from now on. They wanted to
keep their sons as safe as possible
after the horrible events the night
of Alabaster’s birth.
60. Soon Alabaster was a child too, and as you can see here and in the
previous slide’s toddler picture, Alabaster also took to wearing hats,
though he went for a different style from his dad and his brother.
61. Alabaster and Citrine were the best of friends nearly right away,
and the family was finally happy and safe. I’m going to leave them
here now lest I jinx it. Whew. What an ordeal.
62. Back at the main house, Benedict had just moved in. It was time
for Jade and Benedict to start their life together, but that is a
story for another chapter, as we’ve reached the end of this one.
Thanks for reading and please check in with Haleigh and me for
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