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.

Consequences of My Actions? I don't know her.

After a brief, frenetic break to redo all the townies so they're all attractive enough to be featured characters, we're back to Jade, Skip and their little farm.

Jade and Skip continue to repeatedly break the no-woo-hoo until marriage when given any leeway. At least they're getting along well? We're still trying for that wholesome dynamic so off they go to the pub to have a sweet date night.

Skip: So, apparently, I have family now! When the Watcher was remaking townies, my family tree got a major expansion. My dad, Trigger, is living with the Addams commune now - you know that dating show place we met? Jade: The one with all the fire, where you hooked up with Raj? Skip: That's a different save, baby, it's like it never happened. Jade: *suspicious Jealousy trait engaged* Skip: I ALSO HAVE A BROTHER; Dustin from Get Famous, and he has a whole family of his own that he's left to start a career in Del Sol Valley. Jade: Aw, side characters! It's like we're a real legacy story, almost. Skip: Some day, babe. Some day.

After some getting to know you, wholesome small talk, Jade and Skip moved on to things they do best; making other townies super uncomfortable!

Townie that escaped the makeover brush is not so sure about the PDA. Wholesome, you guys. WHOLESOME RELATIONSHIP DYNAMIC.

*sigh*

Nothing says wholesome like the post woo-hoo walk of shame to the bar bathroom on bear night.