The Ouroboros Round Robin: Round 1.1
CAUTION: 61 shots, Ripp Grunt and dark skinned crazy elves. You can already see what you're in for y/y?!
OKAYS! Before we begin a few people might not know what the heck this is so I'm totally here with some exposition! :D
A Round Robin Legacy is a Legacy where each generation is played by a different participant. Gen one is born, the children grow to be adults and then the heir (chosen by a public vote) is passed on to the next player who installs them in their game and plays out their lives and then passes them on again. The list of participants might be pre-determined or could be on a per case "ZOMG I LOVE THIS HEIR CAN I BE NEXTXOR?!" basis.
Sound fun? INORITE?!
laridian had an original list of rules but a bunch of us potentially involved in this Round Robin decided to put our own little spin on a few things. SO! Here's a little list of rule changes, special caveats and such specific to the Ouroboros Round Robin, as based on laridian 's original round robin and her very comprehensive list of stipulations, commandments and injunctions.
1. Pretty much as is. COLLEGE FAIL! BUT! Since teenagerdom takes FOREVER without being able to send them to college, if you choose to age your teens up with a hack (insim or whatever) after a minimum of 8 days (two days after ACR says your teen is 18), then it is COMPLETELY allowed.
2. As is. Public poll ftw!
3. Basically the same. HOWEVER if the sim coming to you has an aspiration you don't have (grilled cheese/pleasure) then the sim has had a 'life changing experience' and that want has to be rerolled. ALSO slight alteration, if you have freetime and the sim coming to you has no secondary aspiration then you can either random roll or go directly to Grilled Cheese (and collect 200 xD). Because Grilled Cheese is EPIC.
4. As is.
5. Slight change: Sims can marry a playable sim but ONLY if that sim is not played while the courtship stage of the Round Robin is going on. So if you would like to attempt to marry your sim to a legacy spare in one of your hoods, that's completely fine but only if they meet them legitimately in-game. No summoning or moving them into the Round Robin's house etc.
6. As is. Multi PTs are totally a-okay!
7. As is.
8. As is.
9. As is.
10. As is.
11. As is.
12. SAMES TOO
13. SPARKLY CUSTOM RULE! xD All kids for each generation must be named after a particular theme. Doesn't matter what that theme is, as long as its the same for all the kids of that Gen. For example bondchick_nett picked characters from the 'Enchanted Forest Chronicles' by Patricia C. Wrede, simkittensims chose Disney characters. :D
14. Kind of based off of Laridian's rules: If you can, you have a fortnight from recieving your heir to play out and post your generation & heir poll. If life gets in the way though which is FREQUENTLY a problem then all you have to do is keep people posted as to what's going on and give realistic ETAs on when you think stuff will be up :D
Ouroboros Round Robin Participants:
01. bondchick_nett LoL, me xD
02. teffielynne
03. grotesqa
04. frabbitnib
05. simkittensims
06. simsforaranya
07. draicana
08. jtph_jo
09. favouritebean
10. pinkberet
11. iliketoplaygod
12. dragancaor
Oh yeah, we got an even dozen, baby!
This is the house that Fred built bought from a smooth-talking realtor in the well-to-do Downtown area of Simcity. There's nothing in the rules of Round Robin (and I probably would've just changed the rules anyway xD) that say you have to stick with any particular block so I thought a little bland cosmopolitan fixer-upperer would suit a little pleasure sim with a hankerin' to catch a her a man..! :D
WORLD?! Meet Fred Ouroborous. A pouty lipped elf who loves to juggle, base jump off of couches and constantly longs to bust her guitar out of storage and play stairway on that puppy every morning to achieve her zen.
Yes, she is le tans, and she is le redhead. AND she has DELICIOUS VIOLET EYES!
CENTRE YOUR CHI WITH A LITTLE PURPLE HAZE, BABY!
C WHUT I DID THAR?!
Oh and stats!
Founder: Fred Ouroboros
Pleasure
Gemini: 4-7-8-3-3
Turn Ons: Fit, Facial Hair
Turn Off: Vampirism
LTW: Have 50 1st Dates
So even though her house was le cheaps and le smalls and so did not eat all of her budget, getting the painters and decorators in -- even in a rather limited capacity by my standards (I decided not to cheat in any way, even when it comes to decorating etc like I usually do for this -- PLAYING IT STRAIGHT, BABY!) -- means that she was kinda cleaned out.
TIME TO DIG UP RANDOM CRAP FROM YOUR BACK YARD SO YOU CAN AFFORD DINNER! Man I wish every time I dug up a rock or some random bone one of our cats have left in the yard I could sell it instantly for $50. That'd be some kind of candied maple syrup SWEET!
And then it was time for Fred to turn into a pixellated leg montage genie. Chick if you could do that in the street on demand you could make a mint and never have to dig another hole in your back yard again! Or you'd be sedated and dumped in a sense-dep tank to be experimented upon for the rest of your natural life. So they could work out how you have this OUTRAGEOUS TALENT.
Except, its not really a useful talent. I mean what are you gonna do with this shit? Pixellate about in Las Vegas before some men who love their animals FAR too much have sex with them on stage? Doesn't exactly seem like something that could benefit the military. BUT I am not a military tactician so CLEARLY what would I know!?
There could be marines pixelating themselves all over the shop in covert missions around the world AS WE SPEAK, dazzling the opposition with their late-90's lagtastic skills.
Proof that Fred is an intelligent woman as well as a pixellated genie, her first autonomously cooked meal in her newly furnished kitchen is a bowl of cereal.
WE ARE A FLAME RETARDANT HOME, HERE!
Cereal consumed, nom nom delicious Special K (well with legs like that what else is she eating? Froot Loops? -- Also, WTF way to teach kids competent spelling from a young age, Kelloggs >_>;;), Fred engages in her second favourite activity: The aforementioned couch base jumping. PARACHUTE FREE! HOLY CRAP LIVING ON THE EDGE, BABE!
You break an ankle and spend 16 sim days recovering and this Round Robin will fall flat on its face first time out! Also, you've got about $60 left. No puncturing the couch with those sexy sandal stilettos of yours.
And then it was midday, and therefore time for the typical welcome wagon of not-usefuls. Well, okay, The chick on the far right has a GORGEOUS FACE of gorgeous cuteness, but Fred isn't a lesbian and I don't have the lesbionic impregnation hackery.
Therefore her options from this set is TannedJailbait and BadJumper. UNSATISFACTORY! And then this is when I realised I'd put Ripp Grunt as an adult in this hood. AND THUSLY THE MISSION TO AQUIRE RIPP GENES WAS BORN!
But before that could get underway, Fred had to go to work... I won't lower myself to make the million sausage and hot, slippery dog jokes I'm DYING to make right here.
Because I'm a classy lady.
Besides, you're already thinking them. I KNOW YOU ARE!
HOLY CRAP!! A sim that I am actually playing in a hood that I'm actually using and isn't ust a staging area ACTUALLY DUG UP A MAP THAT I CAN ACTUALLY USE!?!?
UNPOSSIBLE! Girl you are so hitting up Twikkii Island for your honeymoon. You know, when you actually get married... ^_^;;
WHOA! Fred's nose, a study. That's.. Some POWERFUL nostril she's got going on there. I didn't really realise it when I made her in bodyshop but her nose is a very special brand of epic...
Well what's a legacy if you can't start off with some super interested genetics, AMIRITE?!
Oh hai default-skinned version of ZombieJill's Salus. Yeah I know, I can't get enough of him and always put him in my hoods in various forms... ^_^;; You think he got whatever it was he was rooting around for in there? Or you think he just has a predeliction for touching his own squishy brain matter?
MmMMMmMMMmMMmmmm *scratches neurons directly*
HELL YES RIPP GRUNT, SIGHTED!!! Hanging out in that lover's lane hedge maze thinger. With an apparently relative of jtph_jo , Veruca Freeman. SORRY COUSIN OF JO! WE NEED YOUR MAN FOR THE LEGACY! YOU WONT BE GETTING IN HIS PANTS. EVER! We applaud your excellent taste, though :D
Since I'd just watched an episode of Seachange I decided to COMPLETELY BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAW ON TV and have Fred call Ripp over for a game of Marco Polo. Because that is APPARENTLY the most romantical thing ever. If it worked for Sigrid Thornton and William McInnes, then IT CAN WORK FOR OUR FUTURE OTP!
See?! He's a thousand percent chuffed to make her aquaintence :D I NOW BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SEE ON TV! EVERYTHING!
Just so you don't forget or anything, Fred = Pleasure Sim. What ARE these bottles anyway? Are they vodka? Are they water!? They seem to be some MAGICAL amalgalm of both! O_O;;
Okay baby, its time to get ready for THE DATE that will affirmatively secure you some wiggly Ripp babyshake. SCRUB THOSE PORES!
Wouldn't those bangles get kind of manky with congealed dead skin after a little while of never taking them off? O_O;;
Out at the restaurant for dinner, whilst Fred waits to be seated, who do we spy eating like something that in no way resembles a pig -- since Suinae are actually on the whole very finicky eaters! THEY GOT A BAD RAP, YO! -- YAY VALENCIA! Love you baby!
Very tanned Jemma Benton: If you're here, stealing my seat, who's that chick behind me?! O_O;;;;; Wait, what girl in the red dress turtleneck...?
Silly maxis complete body downtownie sets. Downtown is like a load program in the matrix now. TWINS (with mysteriously different names -- BECAUSE ITS A TRAP) EVERYWHARRRRRRR..!
HOLY CRAP! THAT CHICK IS TRYING TO TAKE OUT OUR INTREPID FOUNDER! WITH SMUSTLE!!!!! O_O;;; Get your fingers out of her jugular, crazy rave biyatch!!
Also, dancing in a nightclub in her uber-revealing swimwear? Fred you KNOW how to work a crowd my love!
GOD there's just SO MUCH GOING ON in this shot! *head implosion* Fred and Ripp have found each other in a state of largely undress and so have decided the ONLY course of action is to touch each other up, EXCELLENT *finger steeple.* Veruca Freeman is harnessing her hates and then a WHOLE LAND FULL OF LARGELY INNAPROPRIATELY DRESSED TOWNIES ARE SMUSTLING THE NIGHT AWAY!
That chick in the right foreground, hot y/y?!
*believes she needs to get in the Kohler-Wielles*
Oh hey Fred? THANKS FOR THIS NOT USEFUL LIST OF THINGS FOR DATE FULFILLMENT. I am VERY PLEASED by this double bolt action for Ripp however. Now if Fred could just keep her damn eye on the prize..! O_O;;
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.NU!!!!!!!!!!
I had to leave to go to a therapist appointment at this point and the date had JUST started. Fred had rolled the want to ask Ripp back to her place so I thought she could do that, they'd go home and I could save and pick the date back up when I got back from being all manipulated...
But since the date had kind of JUST STARTED: FAILSAUCE!
FRED WHATEVER I COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT THAT GUY. I mean sure he's a cute red-head and all and I LOVE ME SOME REDHEADS.BUT! RIPP. GRUNT. K?
Holy smokes! See this? I don't think I've ever had a sim autonomously clean a stove before. FRED, YOU ARE COMPLETELY MADE OF WIN.
Fred invited Ripp over, and even though he CLAIMED he thought it was a bad idea for him to come on over or ever see her again... Getting a LITTLE ahead of ourselves aren't we? MEIN GOTT!! Next thing you know she'll be ushering him inside to look at her pastel folders and scrapbooks filled with magazine clippings of wedding dresses and bouquets and wedding cakes and bonbonniere ... All with the brides heads cut out and hers pasted in on top instead and all the grooms DECAPITATED BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE MAN WOULD BE! O_o;;;;;;;;;
I'd scream run for the hills at Ripp, but, uh, YOU'RE OURS FOREVER NAO! MUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!! :D
Aww straight to the bedroom, not even naked yet and he's in love! Awwww! Guess even pleasure sims can be suckers for romance unless....
... She totally whispered in his ear that she wanted more and he jizzed in his pants. ITS OKAY RIPP, HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF THEM! Its not like you just ate a grape or opened a window or anything. ^_^
So.. What the HECK is that that you're eating, woman?! I'm trying to think of something that I could say to make it seem like your cooking skills for BREAKFAST for the two of you is a smart, nutritious choice but... I can't. Best I can come up with is squid ink noodles with rare beef strips, melted cheese and mint choc balls on top for an in-built dessert. Now all of these things are in fact delicious, just not TOGETHER. O_O;;;
Pregnant already?!
Look Ripp, nobody's perfect... So she can't cook, CAN YOU?!?!
To his credit though, he politely ate the entire thing and never made the vom face while she was looking. Awww THAT'S LOVE!
Fortified by her feral foods, Ripp decides that's IT time to ravish his girlfriend over the kitchen sink. Its a little... Chauvinist in a "this is where you're gonna be for the rest of your life" kind of way, but I'm okay with that if we get Ripp genetics. ALSO I NEVER have sinks in kitchens in the sims, they always have dishwashers! So its kind of novel to have a sim woman barefoot (and possibly pregnant) in the kitchen doing the dishes xD
Besides, can't possibly say you're culinary efforts were not appreciated now young lady! Not that she is, Her overly pronounced features have SO MUCH WIN when it comes to conveying her elation! ♥
SO! SNARING YOUR MAN: NOW'S YOUR CHANCE LADY, GRAB IT!
Awwwww so cute with his delight at putting that huag space rock on his finger! <3333
Awww, he got up in the middle of the night after post-question-popping-post-coitalness to deliver flowers for their dream date. D'Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! <333
Although if it was me and I woke up in the middle of the night to discover my newly engaged partner missing I'd probably go into a wild panic. And then if I found out he was putting flowers on my doorstep I'd go "Awwwwww" cause you know, girls are supposed to like flowers and stuff and then BEAT HIM TO A BLOODY PULP! O_O;; xD xD
*is not at all violent*
Nope.
Not me. ^_^;;
Although if he came back with sushi...
Just so no one forgets: Ripp is the MOST hard core. THE MOST. He keeps the proverbial 'it' real for the townsfolk. I'm not sure what this particular it is... But maybe its from the same place JT apparently brought sexy back from. Since I hadn't realised it had a) gone anywhere or b) anyone could concieve of entrusting it to him in the first place...
Needy Co-Dependency: A Study. Ripp goes off to work and what does Fred do?
IMMEADIATELY run to the telescope so she can spy on him all day.
WTF! STALKING IS NOT ENDEARING! Okay so apparently it is according to popular culture - I'm looking at YOU Mathew Broderick, you and Meg have some SERIOUS issues, you know that?! Also, Sting? WHAT THE HELL?! And don't even get me started on the Twilols. EDWARD?! THAT SHIT AIN'T HOT - but clearly I am not a subscriber.
What is this number plate trying to tell us all, exactly?
THE INSIDIOUS ENAYLA DEFAULT REPLACEMENT SKINS, THEY ARE GONE!!!! WOOOOOO!! Ripp is no longer shiny! Also, somehow, his hair changed. No idea how O_O;;; That will be fixed momentarily... But Ripp in MUCH nicer, much moar matte skins? DELICIOUS! YAYS!
Its time for the wedding, and so Fred purchases an ornate new outdoor grill on which to cook her CLASSY foods. Oh yeah, can't escape the dogs in THIS legacy.
Its HER wedding and she can serve hot dogs if she wants to. xD
There's always so much going on when loads of people get together in this thing! xD Fred's work colleague decides jamming it on DOOOOWN to set the musical mood is the thing to do, SuperTan™ Jemma Benton is busy finding Craven the SEXIEST of all men that every sexied, KaftanMan who Fred had the hots for but I rejected is singular in his sorrow and Craven and Lyna Kohler-Wielle..?
They're being Craven and Lyna.
Yeah that's right, they showed up for some chick they hardly know's wedding and STAYED (with the caveat of keeping their tongues in each other's mouths the entire time) but couldn't be bothered staying for their own daughter's who happened to be marrying her fathers BEST FRIEND. PRIORITIES GUISE!!
Uh.. Ripp? Are you trying to work up some kind of positive motiviation here? That's what it is right? You know, working the crowds? Thankyou I'll be here all week till I die?
Cause punch ups at weddings, between the bride and groom, although potential for GREAT post-nuptual lols aren't really what we're after here... ^_^;;;
HONESTLY YOU TWO! O_O;;;;;;
This screenshot is included for two reasons:
1) To prove that DS is in fact, SERIOUS BUSINESS.
And 2) HOLY CRAP PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF THAT LYNA WAS AT SOME POINT NOT ATTACHED TO CRAVEN'S FACE FOR TWO SECONDS!
I wonder if its fun for Beelzebub. You know, all that ice skating and getting to enjoy a white christmas for once... Bet he looks super adorable in fluffy pink earmuffs.
AND THEIR OFF... On their honeymoon which seems to be the single most boring thing they've ever done in their lives. WTF?! O_O I don't want to start pulling out the "Earth to's" like I think you're in space or something but.. I WILL IF YOU DON'T START LOOKING JUST A TAD MORE CHUFFED O_O;;;
Now THAT is more like it! :D Also, uh, see their little smiles of quiet pleasure?
Could be cause they're about to be lulled to sleep by the soothing, tinkly tones of BABYSHAKE LULLABY!! Generation two has been deposited! *air punch*
YAY VACATION TIME! As promised, they headed off to Twikki Island because I want me some diabolical voodoo action! :D NEVER HAD IT BEFORE! :D Bellboy is a CUTIE y/y? Pity Fred's already SERIOUSLY taken for serious. Hehe
ZOMGS!! I guess first or second generation ALLIUM HOUSE KEEPER! Looks nothing like any of the alien PT replacements I have *laughs* I guess its the maxis one or the one that was designed to work from MATY with the townie spawnable hack? Either way, NO NOSE IS NONE! *kinda wants to breed some of this in to a legacy at some point*
FRED! Couch jumping 'round the world..! She's not afraid to flash pantie, is our hero.
Random tourist: WHY ME?!
FRED + RIPP + COUCHES = OTP! Match made in heaven, I KNEW this mission was gonna reap some seriously kismetty results :D
Okay so this puts a WHOLE NEW ANGLE on "While You Were Sleeping" O_O;;; Fred if Sandy did this while Peter Gallagher was all coma-like she would've NEVER bagged Bill Pullman and would've ended up stealing that chick from Profiler's man and living unhappily ever after forever -- or at least until that serial killer that was obsessed with her offed her so that his beloved could be happy for another five minutes or something... Or marrying Joey.
God do I even remember Profiler properly? How come she turned into some redhead that looked "EXACTLY LIKE HER" in the later seasons?
HOLY GOD ALIEN CHILD ADMIRING THE FACT THAT IT IS RAINING IS POSSIBLY THE MOST ADORABLE THING I'VE SEEN IN AN ENTIRE MILLENNIA!
YOU THINK YOU CAN OUT ADORABLE THIS?! I DON'T THINK YOU CAN! NOT EVEN FINGER HOOKING BOX OF BABY SLOTHS COULD OUTDO THIS!!
Okay maybe thats a big call, I mean finger hooking baby sloths are possibly the pinnacle of all adorableness. So I take that back and say this out adorables that swimming baby hedgehog. K? OH MAN SWIMMING BABY HEDGEHOG! ♥ ALIEN CHILD ADMIRING RAIN! FINGER HOOTS?!?! *kersplodes from cute*
Um, So. Witchdoctor? Don't kill yourself before we can get a cute little amigurumi doll of manipulatory doom off of you, k? WE CAME ALL THIS WAY!
Even elves (or is it because she's an elf??) succumb to cliches. Man. Fixing things. The very epitome of HOT. /swoons maself
And just in case you weren't sure before, oh yes, Fred VERY very pregnant. And using the Witchdoctor's facilities to broadcast this fact. Which she JUST cleaned and so has to clean again in spite of being the aforementioned guest that need to be entertained by the witchdoctor. Manipulative bum, isn't he?
...And a lazy arse to boot. WTH WITCHDOCTOR?! O_O;; This dude gave up in mock disgust, left Fred and Ripp to clean up his place all day and just slept in this hammock for over 20 hours. In the end Fred and Ripp had to leave to get some real sleep cause tag-teaming sleeping on the couch, preparing meals from his fridge and bathing in his scary bamboo bath just wasn't cutting the holiday mustard.
Awwwwwww, there's something deliciously stalkery about sims heart farting about their SO's while watching them sleep that makes it more adorable than usual. Wickedicity in fiction, kind of spooky in real life. *laughs*
Ball of Stink™ wishes Ripp would heart fart about him sleeping at Fred's feet. Poor Ball of Stink, so maligned and underrated. BoS? You gotta get yourself some better represenation, mate. *hugs*
Fred and Ripp return from a decidedly unfruitful trip to the mysterious hut to witness this HUAG domestic between this apparent touristing couple. I guess she broke up with him while on holiday? She yelled at him and then stood watching him cry with a grin on her face for a full five sim hours. Sadistic bitch. *was impressed by her form*
This is not a shot of the morning after Fred hitting the nightclubs of Ibitha, though I'm sure she's wishing it was that instead. Baby shake does not agree at all well.
God I'm still loving me that MATY change that means elves and aliens are spawned as npcs and townies. Twikki Island is SO equal opportunity, check the delicious elfin tour guide, standing about ready to whisk you off to exciting destinations at a moment's notice. I wish I'd gotten a shot of his ears poking through the top of his silly sun-smart floppy hat. DELIGHTFUL!
And...! Fred and Ripp, back again for Diagnosis: Darwinism. Hey guys? Don't get too close the the CLEARLY unearthed Doctor of Self-Necromancy. Is that a wrench or a level five bullshit wand he picked up off of some forest boar in Elwin Forest!?
CLEARLY UR DOIN IT WRONG! What boars, exactly, are known for their microwave-repair credentials? I ASK YOU?!
RIPP WHY ARE YOU SO ADORABLE?! Tim the Witch Doctor Taylor of DIY Fail is all "K THX FOR FIXIN MA HUTS!" and Ripp squeals like a girl "Pour moi?" *licks his chin*
Oh great. I was THIS CLOSE |<-->| to escaping the darn hang loose gesture and then damn Ace Ventuhrooorrrr: Quack Maestro had to ambush her with the damn thing.
She's gonna be half arsedly doing that forever now isn't she? *sighs*
Awwww, poor Ball of Stink™ even on holiday he must eat alone ;_;
Ball of Stink™: D:
You co-ordinate well with the pineapple wallpaper though, Bos?!
Ball of Stink™: :D
TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR DELICIOUS HEIR BIRTHINGS! MMmMmmM NOM NOM!
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