TS4: The Rad Legacy [5]
I'm updating again! Maybe I'm playing too much?
Anyway, last time, Rhea and Anne took to the woods to find Anne a husband, which wasn't all that successful really. Camping, however, was fun! When they returned, Rhea decided to show Anne how the whole heir thing is done, and got married and pregnant.
We arrive back at the Rad household to find Alison doing all of the dishes by herself which is sad - you’d think someone else would have helped!
Also, that’s the largest pile of dishes I’ve seen in game so far.
Anne isn’t helping because she’s still trying to woo Dante Mayfield, the snooty-looking blonde from next door.
If you remember, I found him in the ‘sim bin’ - or whatever it’s called in TS4 - and moved him into the area so Anne would have someone to talk to who wasn’t already silver-haired.
Unfortunately, she tried to flirt with him, and he wasn’t having it.
“Oh, WHY did I say that?!”
It led to everyone feeling embarrassed and awkward.
He accepted a flirt later, though, after a dip in the family’s pool. Maybe he just needed to loosen up before Anne tried to flirt.
The next day, and Alison passed away. She never got to meet her grandkids, so naturally I was devastated, and so was Dax.
GEEZ, DAX, HOLD IT TOGETHER. YOU’LL BE REUNITED SOON.
“Not soon enough! Wah! My true love!”
SOME DAYS, I REALLY HATE THIS JOB.
Death then thought it was a good idea to go talk to the peeing pregnant woman on the toilet.
I DON’T KNOW…YOU EVER GET THAT FEELING WHEN IT’S TIME TO CHANGE CAREER?
“Death, can we talk about this later? I’m a little busy.”
Anyway, Dax and Alison are reunited. Their time in the land of the living may have been short, but at least they’ll have all eternity together now.
And with Cooper Riley, the maid that died a couple of chapters ago. He’s buried near them, too.
In an attempt to move on with their lives, and the legacy, Anne invited Dante out to the park on a date.
I’ve found I really like playing dates in the Sims 4 for some reason.
Progress was finally made in the relationship, and Anne stole her first kiss from Dante. Not that he looks very impressed by it all.
He does, however, actually like Anne. The pair of them sat and talked on the bench for hours.
And other things, of course. Dating involves the occasional kiss, you know.
Yes, maybe this picture is only here because I thought it was pretty.
“Look at this shiny ring I found on the floor!”
“Oh, Anne, it looks like it might be my size!”
“You should try it on!”
“It’s a perfect fit!”
“Hooray!”
“I think we should get married to celebrate such a find!”
“Okay!”
And that’s the storyof how Anne accidentally proposed.
After that, the pair of them laid down to gaze up at the sky, which was somewhere in between day and night.
“Do you think birds know that flying is weird?”
“Maybe they fly so much just to spite us…”
Laying around on the cusp of darkness is probably not advised, what with the teenage gangsters hanging around at night.
I find it typical that there are now teens in the ‘hood but not adult men.
Back at the house, Rhea’s getting to be enormous.
“Are you growing a baby elephant in there, Rhea?”
“…shut up. I’m sure it’s only one baby.”
The next day, Dante is invited over to follow up on that proposal in the park. Legacies don’t continue themselves, and there’s no time to waste!
They actually look happy, though, which was nice. Not like Rhea and Nawwaf in the last chapter.
I actually really, really like them together. It may have been a short relationship, but it works.
We’ll call it a whirlwind romance.
The only witness to this union was the new maid, who funnily enough, is an adult male. Too little, too late, new maid.
“Sniff, that could’ve been me!”
Dante got a teeny tiny makeover (I took off the hat and gave him a different top, basically) and he cleans us rather well.
He still has that slightly snooty look going for him, but I kinda like it.
Oh, and his traits are Music Lover, Loner & Cheerful, with Essence of Flavour tied to his food-themed aspiration.
Of course, there’s no time to waste.
Legacies need babies, and babies mean woohoo!
And it was successful! Which is quite nice, because it does mean Anne and Dante don’t have attempt conception about six times.
They’d probably enjoy it, but their needs panel would not.
Anne told Dante about the baby straightaway, and he actually seems like the first male I’ve had who’s happy - it must be the cheerful trait.
“N’aw, we’re going to have a little Dante?”
“Or a little Anne.”
“This is the best day of my life!”
Shortly after Anne found out she was expecting, Rhea went into labour. Naturally, Nawwaf was completely useless.
“CRUMP! STOP DANCING ABOUT!”
I checked afterwards, as Dax had been doing a similar dance during Rhea’s birth, and as it happens, Nawwaf has the Hates Kids trait too.
Maybe he’ll turn out like Dax and actually be good with kids!
Anyway, it a little girl, who was named Anabelle. :)
Meanwhile, I am trying to do Anne’s aspiration. At the moment she needs crystals from these rocks, but I’m having the hardest time finding anything that isn’t some mineral that I don’t need, or a MySim statue.
So she heads back to the house after her unsuccessful morning of digging and catches up with her husband, who is feeling very playful, and flashes her the crazy eyes.
“As someone with the insane trait, I find that in poor taste, Dante.”
She actually lost relationships points with him.
They quickly made up for the lost points by being adorable, which was nice.
In what seemed like no time at all, Anabelle grew up, and gained the Self-Assured trait.
Rhea, Nawwaf and Anabelle were all moved into a house down the street to make room for Anne and her growing family.
The miserable guy with the blue bandana from the last chapter was invited back over by Anne, and he’s just as miserable as ever.
“Does it bother you that you once could have been my wife’s husband, but now I sit on her sofa while she’s pregnant with my child and eating grilled cheese?”
“I don’t know why I came round.”
Dante was then feeling so energised he dropped to the floor and started doing sit-ups.
“Really, Anne? You chose this freak over me and my brooding?”
“Funnily enough, Dante and I are well suited.”
Yeah, they’re both a little strange.
That afternoon, who should wander by but Rhea. So of course Anne went outside to greet her older sister.
“Have you dropped by for tea and cake?”
“No, I dropped by to point out you’re now the one who looks like they’re carrying a baby elephant.”
“I’ve missed you, Rhea, in the one day we’ve been apart.”
After that, I sent Anne to Sylvan Glade, thinking there would be more of those rock things to dig up, and a higher chance of finding crystals, but apparently not.
A wasted trip, other than the view.
What, you thought I was going to leave the glade without showing off the scenery?
You thought wrong!
Back at the house, and it’s time to meet the first of our potential heirs for generation three!
Are you as excited as I am?
It’s a boy! The first boy of the challenge.
Continuing with my theme of choosing a name the game comes up with, this is Ryker.
Of course, Dante loves Ryker.
“Ha, I’ve got your clay and all you have is a stinky baby!”
Not even a rude maid ghost could ruin this perfect little family.
Remember that guy Anne was getting to know in the last chapter? Round a campfire? Nicknamed him Bob?
Well, he came over for a visit. And died.
Great.
WOW, THIS MUST BE THE MOST HAPPENING PLACE TO DIE.
It really is.
Also, it turns out Bob’s real name is Freddy Inman.
SERIOUSLY, DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELVES A RETIREMENT HOME OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE THIS IS THE FOURTH ELDER I’VE COLLECTED FROM HERE.
“Death, do you ever knock before interrupting a man’s meal?”
THE LIVING ARE SO RUDE.
The Rads now have an amazing four gravestones in the garden, and I bet you, by the end of the challenge, they will have a graveyard to rival that of Olive Spectre from TS2.
Dax, Alison, the maid Cooper Riley & Anne’s Friend Freddy Inman are now all buried out back.
So it’s ghosts-a-plenty in the house. Well, I say that. It’s usually just one ghost. More often than not, Dax.
“So I hear you gave me a grandson.”
“I did, Daddy.”
“When did you get old enough to start having kids?!”
And as if by magic, Ryker suddenly exploded out of his crib and into childhood.
That seemed to come round really, really quickly.
Well, I love him.
And he rolled Lazy, like his mother, and to be an artist prodigy, like Rhea, last generation.
“You haven’t even been to school yet and you’re doing homework? Nerd.”
Got to get a head start if I want Ryker to get anywhere with his childhood.
Also for some reason, he puts glasses on to sleep. Nerd.
That’s all I have for this time, join me next time to find out if Dante and Anne add to their brood, or whatever!
See you soon!