The Pond Legacy 1.1
This is a 3 generation mini-legacy that is part of NLC 4.5.
This is the house that Karen built. (Or rather that I re-built based on one by brilliantsims)
This is the challenge that Karen rolled - become a 4 star celebrity. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I hope.
And this is Karen Pond, striding into the fire station like she's already running the place. Her LTW is to save 35 sims from a fiery death.
First order of business after getting a job - fishing. Because fire fighting is a profession that pays once a week and finances are super tight at the moment.
Just be happy you caught ANYTHING, Karen. Those 5 bucks per minnow add up to a lot of 5 buckses, you know.
5 minnows later she had barely enough to buy some staples so she would not have to live on juice and cereal and could have a nice autumn salad or mac and cheese instead.
Since this is a new unpopulated world we were both excited to see signs of life.
Karen: I'm a firefighter you know.
Chess Playing Dude: You're breaking my concentration. Just be quiet and play.
She rolled the wish for mac and cheese for dinner and who am I to deny her?
A rude awakening in her single bed the next morning.
Off to fight fires!
Looks like this fire station has a really relaxed dress code.
The highest ranking fire fighter happens to be a vampire (guy in red pants, who also happens to be Chess Playing Dude, apparently vamped overnight) and his twin is not quite as senior but looks a lot tougher than Karen.
Since nobody else does anything it was up to Karen to maintain the equipment.
Not a moment too soon, either, because the first emergency call came at lunchtime, shaking them out of their gaming and food stealing stupor.
Firefighting is a hot and sweaty choice of profession but someone has to do it.
And Karen is just the sim for the job!
The blaze was put out and Karen decided to have a go on the exercise equipment she found upstairs in the fire station.
Once she got home she planted some of the fruit she bought with the money she got for putting out the fire.
In the evening it was time to go out on the town.
Or to the library, as the case may be. Where she spotted John Smith (by Katu).
She immediately introduced herself.
They had a really quick chat but she was quickly overcome with exhaustion from the fire fighting and it was time to go home.
Yet another random shot of Karen getting out of bed. I swear this is not going to be a daily occurrence. But for some reason I had quite a few of these so I deleted most of them. It was like I was keeping track of days by taking waking up pictures.
She quickly tended the garden before heading in to work.
Turns out Chess Playing Dude is a firefighter, a vampire AND a celebrity!
Before the next Emergency Of The Day, everyone had a little boogie.
And Karen got a call from John!
That night she had a lonely time at one of the local night spots.
Not much of interest happened before she headed out to the next Emergency Of The Day.
At least someone took the child out of the burning apartment.
Blaze extinguished, the mum and teen older brother head back to the charred remains of their couch.
That night Karen invited John out to the observatory. You can see the two tiny specs running, one in front of the building, one on the hillside. That's them, hoofing it to their first date.
A date that brought them into contact with a rather ridiculous vampire.
And my rather bad attempt at making a Rory Williams sim without using slider hacks.
John: Sometimes I feel like my life is being recorded, to be televised for people's amusement.
John: But you... you are the real star in my life.
Awww...
More running! Granted they're not running down a corridor but there was plenty of running in fields and up and down hillsides in series 4. It's like these two were made for each other!
(And in case you managed to miss the glaring Doctor Who references so far, Karen Pond is a sim of Karen Gillan, who plays
Amy Pond in the current series and John Smith is a sim of David Tennant, the 10th Doctor).
The next day Karen rolled this wish so a second date was hastily arranged. At a diner that seemed to have got behind on their power company bills and had their electricity cut off.
Where Karen revealed her fascination with fire.
And John confessed his love for the colour blue.
The Doctor tends to have a bit of an aversion to romance but Karen managed to get her kiss.
She even managed to convince him to go steady with her.
SCORE!
The next day she was so excited, she ran to the Emergency Of The Day, forgetting to take the fire engine.
Luckily it was not a fire but a pack of llamas in the book store, which freaked Darren Phillips ( by Brilliantcat) right out.
Karen: Disaster averted. No need to keep freaking out. I'm going to knit myself a nice rug with all the fibres I collected in that pandemonium.
Towards the end of the shift she managed to make friends with firefighter/vampire/celebrity co-worker and got her first celebrity
star!
Karen: I now have the red firefighter pants and I've become a celebrity. I'm founding this legacy like a boss!
Vampiric Celebrity Fire Fighting Chess Playing Dude appears to have turned his twin.
Which realisation made Karen choke on her lunch.
Emergency Of The Day involved this woman with a rather interesting taste in clothes.
Karen: Ma'am, you really need to buy a fire alarm. It would have made the response time much faster and you would not have lost your poolside cabana.
Word obviously got around that Karen was starting to make a name for herself and had some money coming in.
NOT THE COUCH!!!
At least it's not the toilet, right?
At least we managed to get a picture of the getaway vehicle!
Despite all this help the cops didn't manage to get the thief.
And then gave Karen some unsolicited and decidedly rude advice.
She most definitely NOT look like she could use some time off and a face lift!
The visit from the burglar prompted the buying of a new bed.
And a replacement couch, which is much nicer than the old one.
The next day she had a visitor after work.
John: That feeling of being stalked via TV cameras is gone. I now feel more like I'm being stalked via computer.
And then Karen shared this secret with him!
I put you in very nice, character-approprite clothing, missy!
And then they went on an autonomous snog and flirt rampage. I was most impressed because I didn't have to do anything in that direction.
After which the fun with the water sprinkler started.
You and your flipper feet can just get the heck out of here! She did not put out your house fire just so you could come to HER house and laugh at her!
John: Why are there paparazzi staking out your house? I could whisk you away from all this and take you on a fantastic journey!
John: If you want I can call in a favour and get a certain Sontaran nurse to drive a tank over that guy.
Karen: No need for that my love. (I'm going to burn him with fire)
Now you're just plain scaring me with your fire obsession.
Karen: *shifty eyes* >.> <.<
John then moved in and it was time to end the date.
See you next time!