#sidepease

Jade Pease - Chapter 1

So, we have a Gen 1 sim for the Legacy, Jade, and her hostage future spouse, Skip Broke, so it seems like a good time to go over the goals that we are failing to meet for this generation.

I'm using @sojutrait's legacy challenge but we have already failed at least one of the goals for this gen (spoilers!) soooo... it's gonna be that kind of legacy play through.

Gen 1 - Homesteading Era You're on your own now! With a plot and an affinity for self sufficiency, you're ready to live off the land. Rules > Start with YA sim on a plot of land, you have 20K > You and your spouse have to stay unemployed - all money must come from gardening fishing and your livestock. > Mut have at least one cow or llama, one horse, one goat or sheep, and one chicken. > No woohoo till marriage > Have as many children as possible. > Max out fishing and gardening skills > Have at least one child in Scouts >Complete any Nature Aspiration.

Guess which one we've already messed up. I looked away for TWO MINUTES while trying to figure out what was wrong with the cow.

Can't leave these two alone for FIVE MINUTES.

Anyway, we did cheat in a bit of money to clutter up the house and pay for a hot springs BUT, look, it's so pretty!

Located in Henford-on-Bagely, Jade Pease is the proud owner of a single-wide, a run down cow shed, a small green house and a lot of land.

Cozy, cluttered and entirely theirs, it was time for Jade and Skip to settle in and work on building up the farm into something they were proud of.

So they got a cow...

Jade (and her watcher) promptly discovered that you can slip in the messes cows make.

The cow immediately announced that it only had a few more days to live. So, money well spent there.

At least there were chickens!

This fight did not end the way I thought it would.

The chickens get to live another day, thanks to Cluckers. Cluckers is the farm's MVP.

After planting some more sad plants, the Royal Envoy from the event showed up once again.

.... with a suitcase?

Jade: I guess we technically do have a spare room.

Cow: Grim can't come for me soon enough.

The Envoy was a terrible house guest.

And her presence and weird demands were really not the best for Jade and the Jealous trait she picked up as a souvenir from their romantic getaway adventure.

Jade: I need you to get out of the bathroom. Envoy: I need you to learn to play the piano and perform for me at a random bar open mic night.

Unfortunately for everyone at the bar, the Envoy vastly overestimated the duo's capacity to feel embarrassment or shame about their single level of skills.

Skip: *Aggressively playing chopsticks* Jade: Do-Re-Me-Fa... uh... Fa... So?

Townies chucked spare simoleons into the pot while muttering in simlish what the watcher can only assume was 'please stop', before they all went to the opposite end of the room to hide from the music.

And then they left for home with Confident Moodlets somehow.

The little chapel that really shouldn't! Jade and Skip were off to get married before Indigo turns into a toddler in the sort of style that suits a couple that met on reality tv and had a baby in the first week of their relationship.

Everyone is invited! Well, Raj wasn't invited for reasons. Actually, neither was anyone else from their little romantic tv-show meet-cute which was probably for the best.

Like all good Vegas Oasis Springs weddings, Jade and Skip started this shindig at one in the morning.

Like the reasonable sims they are. Well, best to get it done before anything else goes wrong. Everyone's still smarting from that whole bad-luck incident with Indigo's birth.

Dustin, Skip's brother was invited, as was Jade's only real friend, Dustin's ex-wife Brandi.

Awkward.

Aw, look, Dustin regrets the life choices his Watcher made him make.

Love that for him.

Enjoy the sim child-support mod in your unfurnished Del Sol apartment, Dustin!

Anyway, there were three options for the wedding. The 'Budget Bridgerton':

The 'Quick and Tacky':

And the 'No Money, Only Love':

Unfortunately, as much as Jade loved the faux-garden aesthetic, they started the party in the middle of the night with dubious weather conditions so indoor celebration it was!

All they had to do was pay the deco-sim clerk and the wedding was on! As is usually the case with My Wedding Stories, everyone sort of trickled in and out while sims were made to amble up and down the aisle at the Watcher's whim for pictures.

No wedding is complete without random townies getting it on in the hallway. At one point Skip wandered out of the room while Jade was trying to walk up the aisle but eventually they both made it to the place to exchange vows.

And thanks to more deco sims, the wedding didn't look too empty.

Indigo was too little to participate so she was lugged around in a backpack until she fell asleep from exhaustion.

Aw, they WERE pretty cute though.

Not only did they get married, but they managed to have three actual sims observe it! Gold medal, here we come!

This sums up a lot of the relationship dynamic, honestly. Sidenote: this was about the time I realized that I had Skip and his dad have the exact same hair so he gets a small makeover shortly after the wedding.

They did manage to cut the cake before the wedding toast bugged out the whole party but honestly, I consider that a rousing success with the wedding stories nonsense.

And some random shots from the wedding party before it broke entirely.

After a brief electrocution, Trigger Broke was ready to join the extended family for Indigo's big birthday party. Which meant wrangling a whole bunch of extended Broke family to all show up for it. Trigger was already there because he was the houseguest that never leaves, but they went all out to celebrate their little princess.

(Literally, Skip capped out his noble career between the arrival of his many, many children).

Trigger and Skip's mom arrived, Ruby, though she's remarried Oberon Summerdream. Before her marriage though, Skip and Dustin got a surprise little sister. (Thanks, MCCC!), who is right around the same age as Indigo. Jordan Summerdream (because Dustin learned how to deadbeat dad from his father) is going to be eventually one of Indigo's BFF's. Today, however, is a rough introduction.

Indigo doesn't care for these strangers!

Also in attendance are the Broke-Black cousins. Though mom, Brandi, may have misunderstood the dresscode.

Yikes. I don't know, maybe she just wanted to make really sure her ex-husband knew she was happily married now.

She probably should have just sent him one of the wedding photos instead.

They eloped. Which makes sense as they have been busy having twins of their own.

Talia Broke-Black, however, is the biological offspring of Dustin, Sr. and Brandi. She's here with her parents and brothers though the infant twins remained at home with the babysitter.

And for some reason we had a ghost entertainer show up who mostly broke the dollhouse for the kids. Rude. No tip for you ghost performer!

Indigo is not making the best impression with the whole biting strangers habit.

Dad was NOT impressed with her antics. At this point, Skip is very much the main-parent as Jade spends most of her time dealing with breastfeeding twins and watering dying plants.

Skip does... everything else, really. Alongside ruling the very small kingdom of Henford-on-Bagely.

Despite a few incidents, though, we gold-starred that party!

Trigger Broke failed to make an impression on his ex, Ruby, who has moved on to a fairy king. Good for her. Oberon did not show up at the party because he has zero interest in the Broke or Pease families and you know what? Fair. That's fair.

Eventually, though, it was time for cake!

Happy Birthday, Indigo!

And we are officially into snapshot montages of Too Many Babies (tm). With a toddler and an infant, Jade and Skip are more or less keeping their heads above water.

While being devoted parents, the ranch part of the legacy was definitely suffering a bit.

Grim was an uncomfortably regular visitor to casa Pease. To the point where he started letting himself in to chat with Skip and Azure. Which made everyone but Azure kind of tense. Understandably!

Just make yourself at home, I guess, Grim.

But Jade and Skip managed to sneak away long enough for their favorite activity; how fast can we fill all the household slots. It's easier to get some private time when you're letting the playmat do most of the heavy lifting on getting the baby to his infant milestones.

And letting the toddler just wander the farm without supervision. Jade and Skip are really leaning into the whole free-range parenting most of the time.

As much as Indigo likes the plants now, that will not last into the years where she has to do chores.

The milestones that Az doesn't get from the playmat mostly come from Indigo. I was really worried with her reaction to the birth and the whole biting habit but she ended up placing the blame squarely on Jade's shoulders to the point where she developed some seriously angry impressions about not having enough attention. Which is... valid, really.

Jade does love being a mom, though, and has managed to get herself pregnant with twins after I retconned the alien pregnancy. Which... I have some regrets there because alien pregnancy as birth control had some real possibilities.

At least we have Colt Connelly's modern doppelganger to play the role of Doctor McDreamy.

And L.Faba teaching the lamaze class in her workout clothes, apparently? The Grey's Anatomy of this simworld is super weird. But you know what hasn't happened in a hot minute? Some of Skip's terrible male relatives showing up with a suitcase and a sob story.

Pictures taken moments before disaster. Trigger Broke is a stranger to Indigo and we know what sort of welcome strangers get in the Pease household.

It's childhood semi-montage time! Jade's watcher has been deep in the trenches of infant hell but there are some cute pictures to share. When last we left the disaster family, it was just Jade, Skip and little Indigo.

Though since Skip and Jade can't keep their hands off each other, regardless of who may be watching, that was about to change.

The farm went completely to shit at this point, the third cow died and the Watcher decided we were going to pause livestock after the chickens all died out because Grim was a constant visitor.

To the point that Jade got jealous over him and Skip developed an obnoxious fear of death to replace his angst over his bastard status, which resolved when I gave him a mom.

There was also a brief visit from a would be thief to steal... honestly, it would probably have been the fridge. Most of the Pease estate is not very valuable.

Fortunately, that whacking at the sword training dummy came in pretty handy actually. Honestly, Skip really started to show himself as the MVP here while Jade was pregnant with the second member of Gen 2 as she mostly slept, ate, and occasionally tried to keep the plants and remaining chickens alive.

You never know who will show up at basement-court. Looks like Dustin's life is still a dumpster-fire though. You love to see it.

Time for a trash-nap!

Brandi showed up to briefly allow Dustin to see the daughter he abandoned and then promptly went into labor herself with the twins she'd conceived with Crispin Black.

Which was apparently contagious because Jade also went into labor despite it being Indigo's birthday.

Rude, Jade. This totally isn't going to give Indigo a complex later on in life.

So the party I planned for first birthday will have to wait. But Indigo still got a cake and hit her terrible twos, gaining the aggressive trait! Fun!

She's a cutie! Even if she did promptly bite the first stranger to walk into the house; the mid wife who showed up to deliver the new baby.

After Indigo's harrowing birth, Jade was determined to have the home water-birth that she was promised.

Surrounded by nature and the smell of chicken shit and dying plants, the Pease family welcomed a baby boy to be the official Gen 2 Spare.

A boy they promptly punished by leaning hard into the color naming conventions of the legacy and named him Azure.

Azure Pease. It sounds like a WTD

At least he's a cutie!

And he even survived meeting his older sister for the first time, without any teeth-marks to show for it.

So an eventful day; a birthday, a birth, some off screen births of cousins. But at least everyone was settling in for a quiet evening.

We are quickly heading into childhood montage territory for Gen 2; who is already stealing my heart.

Skip is a really good dad (breaking the generational trauma for his branch of the Broke family, apparently!) And Indigo is really enjoying her brief time as only child.

Since Skip and Jade don't have real jobs, they have plenty of time to teach the Gen 2 heir important infant skills.

Though that time is quickly coming to an end. Jade has some real feels about a second pregnancy after Indigo's dramatic entry into the world, so we're doing ALL the healthy pregnancy activities. Even if they take a day and a half to get through.

Since we're already a little bit askew from the original goals of this gen of the legacy, we have decided to interpret inheritance and land ownership as part of 'making money from the land'.

(And it allows me to stress test some of the regency/nobility mods before jumping back to 1890 where it matters).

So its time to cosplay as nobility. Jade is now the proud owner of 'Pease Estates' through the regency mod and she and Skip have both joined the noble 'career'. So, in true 'simstagram farmer' fashion, they're playing at farming while relying on inheritance Simoleans.

And since they only know Skip's family, that's who gets to come to their pretend ball. Trigger, Skip's dad, and his mom spent a lot of time dancing despite being estranged and separated. Hm.

Though we did discover a bit more of what's been going on with Brandi. She's pregnant with their next niece or nephew and showed up to the party in some random formal wear.

Brandi deserves better.

But no time to focus on the side characters in this episode, there's a new Pease on the way!

And there's Basement-Court to be held!

All hail Baron Skip Pease:

After a successful wedding event, we return to the ramshackle farm and popups to announce just how unhappy the chickens are with the state of their prison.

While they are remarkably bad at farming and ranching - the two skills this step of the legacy challenge revolves around, Jade and Skip are actually really devoted parents.

Apparently, Dustin is having all the feels after seeing his ex at the wedding so he begs to come crash at the farm for 'a few days'.

Sure, Dustin. We can always use more pictures of your man-pain in the background.

Fortunately, Indigo's toddler room is empty while she's in the nursery so the inflatable guest mattress makes an appearance. Dustin is family, so we'll let him sleep in the house instead of the barn, but he still gets the garbage mattress.

The allure of stomping in trash piles during a thunderstorm was too much temptation and I thought we were going to see Dustin die from electrocution but he survived and ran inside to scream at Skip.

They kept startling each other with panicked screaming. House guests are the worst.

Despite the chaos of her uncle, Indigo zipped through her infant milestones. She's such a good baby. She had the calm trait and all of her quirks were charming; she had a quirk that meant she always woke up happy, that she was a 'happy spitter' and a feeding tinkler. Just easy as far as infants go all around.

Easy enough that Skip and Jade actually got some private time even with a baby and a house guest.

(I don't know why Dustin is in his swim trunks)

They might not have been prepared, but Jade and Skip were happy to welcome little Indigo to the family.

Indigo's side-eye game remained strong but surprising everyone, Watcher included, Jade appeared to have found something she was actually.... good at?

Unlike gardening.

Or common sense.

Still, things were by and large pretty perfect at the Pease farm.

With the new family making all of those perfect memories together.

Well, mostly. Skip, apparently, realized exactly what it takes to make a baby and now had ALL THE FEELS about his own birth outside of wedlock.

(Or maybe the Watcher added the Regency mod in between updates.)

Regardless of the reason, Skip was spending his time alternating between sad and angry about his birth and the Watcher was not going to deal with that shit when Indigo grew up. So it's time for a wedding before Indy hits toddler hood.

Let's got to Vegas Oasis Springs, baby!