Thank you to all who read along. Special wave to
@BallerinaHippo I applaud anyone who has managed to read any of this. Doubly special if you're largely unaffected by it.
@Playalot I can imagine a room of half a dozen dying sims, and more standing around mourning. Thinking of the playful ways to die, that room in the last photo does now have 3 FuzzRead articles. So Ahilac is at level 9. That room could be a morbid comedy death room. Just one of the picture gives a +2 playful mood. If anyone told a good joke with the mic it would be suicidal. I'm not even going to dispose of Antwan that way.
@oshizu And thinking of Antwan, I'm just assuming the genetics only looks at the parents, not the grandparents. But if anyone were to sigh over pictures of Antwan, that would be entirely up to that Person, and we wouldn't judge...
@FrancescaFiori I didn't know until you told me! But it seems you are in good company. As rewards go, the weaponised joke is not the top of the list especially when you can set up a comedy death room like mine without it. If it was a goal to kill a sim with laughter, grinding all the way to the weaponised joke is the worst way to achieve that. That said, tests on Salisbury Plain confirmed the joke's effectiveness at a range of up to 50 yards. Top brass were impressed.
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Part 34.
The sweet, lovely, and married (!) couple autonomously use the massage table. Which is fine. It gave Quentin a good mood. But strange because I removed "do spa activities" from the club. Partly to avoid awkward woohoo in the sauna.
Lacy's age bar was bubbling, and before blowing out her candles having a last game of stab-the-toy-and-then-mend-the-toy for the empathy. Having written it like that, someone unfamiliar with the game might be surprised to know that playing stab-the-toy is good for emathy. It totally is. Just believe me. Ignore what other people say!
Fans of Quentin's nose must appreciate the Moral Dilemma I was in here. In the end I felt it was a better picture if it faced Lacy.
And the final eugenics child ages up to a teen...
... with some truly apt and awful teenage style. Gaudy everything. Ladies, this is how to look sophisticated.
And here are the two final sims doing their homework. So the distinctive genetics have run their course. The road is closed! The court is adjourned! The train has derailed! The ship has sunk! The family are now normal. The Granny Smash is just there because this is a totally normal family, and this is how every teen does their homework. It comforts my sims to see a drink there. It's a soothing sight to see.
Lacy looks to the left.
So she kept glasses and big earrings and a youthful hairdo. She has got Anissa's and Kelly's blue eyes, and I'm fairly happy she doesn't have the hook nose. Alyssa had it, and it was awkward, and then Quentin had it and perfected it. And we're fine with that.
Ethan looks to the right.
Not a bad looking kid at all. But you wouldn't know he was a descendant of Vlad and Harriet Smith.
Lacy again. This is the bathroom where Anissa died on her wedding day. It was only since seeing
@oshizu use such style that I have been brave enough to give wildly coloured pants to anyone.
Ahilac, the best and greenest sim, invited Chadwick over having noticed that he's now a Young Adult. He got the Unflirty trait which is disappointing since we're trying to romance the dear man, but it hardly slowed down the progress at all. Ahilac's magnetic charisma - she's level 10 charisma, super friendly, socially gifted etc - overcame any thought of resisting Chadwick had.
And the first thing she did, after the heart-melting "impress with video game prowess" interaction, was to give him a makeover.
That's just Hair and Shoulders. I thought I'd take this picture to show it is the same sim and show the progression and change from strangely-shaped-blue-man to normally-shaped-but-still-strangely-blue man.
I figured I'd keep the jacket he had and just use a different colour combo.
And he emerged from the closet to having his heart strings pulled by Romantic Poetry. Yes. Red pants. The same evening closes with Ahilac having fallen madly in love with his blueness and redness and proposes marriage in the bathroom.
Meanwhile, Antwan still lives and still autonomously does athletic things that exhaust him.
The indoor pool got those lane markers at some point because it looks cool.
Ethan and Lacy have a chat one morning before school - I think her first day at high school. All the solitary homework and skilling and whatnot left them both with low social meters and I felt a bit bad.
And there are Ethan's purple shoes!
Ahilac has returned home having reached level 10 of the Social Media career. I think that makes her a spin doctor. Wonderful timing.
And finally, the whole family watching an alien movie. I chose this screenshot for Quentin's nose.
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Next time: well... this has now caught up to as far as I've played. The eugenics experiment is over. The two sides of the family have been united and we've seen the children. There is of course the 3rd child of Quentin, with Ayaka, who may or may not have the nose. But if he does, he is only descended from the HS + Vlad --> Nick --> Alyssa --> Quentin side, and has no genes from the HS + Adonis --> Allie --> Antwan --> Kelly side.
A nice house was built. Many interesting sims passed though it. Next will be the wedding of Ahilac and Chadwick which will conclude this challenge / story / thing. Which will be fun because Ahilac and Chadwick will look pretty! And there will be drinks! And we'll eventually see them again! And one more chance for the nose remains!
