The Bee Immortal Dynasty - now complete

[Louise56]

The house is absolutely amazing! Can't wait to meet the beeboo.

[Magz from Oz]

Great story.  Johnny Jones is more resourceful than I imagined. 

That's also a very unique house.  It looks like the logo of a local honey company. I wonder what the aliens will think of it when they see it? 

[sdhoey]

That house is UNBELIEVABLE!! I love it. It's so cute and so fits the story. I can't wait to see the nooboo or beeboo. 

[Alex]

Forgot to say the house looks hilarious! It looks cleverly designed though!

The house is absolutely amazing! Can't wait to meet the beeboo.

That's also a very unique house.  It looks like the logo of a local honey company. I wonder what the aliens will think of it when they see it? 

That house is UNBELIEVABLE!! I love it. It's so cute and so fits the story. I can't wait to see the nooboo or beeboo. 

The house may be a bit too unique -- it's getting a bit annoying to play in  But thank you! Sadly, no aliens will see it (at least for a while) as I don't have Seasons.

Beeboo (that is my new favourite word) coming right up!

[Alex]

The Private Lives of Bees

For as long as he had lived with Queenie, Johnny Bee had sometimes snuck out of the house while the others were busy painting or sleeping. This was why:



He loved Queenie very much, but he was still an equestrian at heart, even if Queenie did make him have a mid-life crisis. And ever since Chuck started going steady with Johnny’s own romantic interest, Honey Darnell, he had never quite trusted Chuck to look after Freebird. She seemed happy enough, but Johnny liked taking the time to care for her properly.



Speaking of which, there was now somebody else for Johnny to take care of. He had a daughter:



They decided to call her Honey; it was Queenie’s idea, but Johnny liked to think that she was also named after the other Honey (although Queenie will never know this). They both loved playing with her, although Honey took a while to understand about not touching people’s eyes.



There were some birthdays soon after Honey was born:



Queenie wasn’t too pleased about her new wrinkles, but Johnny thought she still looked beautiful.



Honey soon aged up to toddler. Much to Johnny’s delight, she had Queenie’s eyes, but otherwise she looked a lot like him:









Johnny produced masterpiece ice sculptures of Honey and Queenie and was allowed to retire from the endless sculpting. He was, after all, in his late nineties. He would have liked to fetch Freebird so that they could retire together, but as Queenie hated ‘nasty smelly horses’, he had to settle for relaxing:



And then there were some more birthdays, this time Nita’s and Honey’s. Poor Nita was concerned about having to do the gardening with her bad back; Honey was just fascinated by the pretty sparkles.



Honey’s childhood was significant to Johnny for two reasons. First, obviously, his beautiful little girl was growing up. Second, it marked the first time Queenie got off her behind and started to do some work:



When she wasn’t doing homework, Honey played with Barrington,



checked for monsters under Johnny and Queenie’s bed,



and helped out Nita by taking charge of some of the cooking.



Johnny was secretly relieved that his daughter didn’t seem to have inherited her mother’s laziness or her snobbishness, even if she had developed a freakish interest in the supernatural.



Meanwhile, little Germaine was not so little anymore. Johnny remembered changing his nappies when he was a nooboo, and it seemed impossible that he was now a young adult. Somehow, despite having done all of his homework late in class, he was named valedictorian, along with Most Likely to Save the World if Only he Could Escape from Queenie.



Johnny was now 107, and he knew he was starting to slow down a bit (well, rather a lot), although that didn’t stop this from happening:



Johnny began to set his affairs in order. He telephoned Chuck, and pretended to have forgiven him for marrying Honey Darnell:



He called Honey Darnell, and pretended to forgive her too:



He watched his daughter grow into a teenager, and made her another masterpiece ice sculpture for her museum.





He helped Queenie to celebrate the upcoming newest addition to their family.



And very occasionally he popped back to tell the other girl in his life all about it.

[Louise56]

Wow a lot has happened! Honey is a cute teen. Lets hope Johnny live long enough to meet the new beeboo.

[cathyknits]

...the house. The house is wonderful. I hope you don't have to rebuild it.

[Alex]

Everybody who knew Honey told her that she was good. As a child, she had wondered what they meant by it – her dad said it was the reason she gave to charity and nobody else did, but she had always assumed that it was a (rather poor) excuse. What Honey did know was that she didn’t like her mother’s attitude towards their housemates.



Honey had grown up with the Blancos: Auntie Juanita and Uncle Barrington had played with her and taken care of her, and Germaine was her best friend. As far as her mother was concerned, though, they seemed to exist purely for her convenience, along with Honey’s dad. Mum kept Juanita gardening, Barrington painting, and Germaine sculpting all day every day.  Honey’s dad did both painting and sculpting, even though he was really old. Honey helped where she could, buying a moodlet manager as soon as she was able to, but it wasn’t enough.

Things came to a head when Barrington died. Even at 97, he hadn’t achieved his lifetime wish of becoming a sports legend, primarily because he had left his career so soon.



In Barrington’s memory, Honey purchased the local beach and turned it into a place for her mother’s workers to rest and watch TV. The poor things had been standing up for so long, they seemed to have forgotten what to do with chairs.



She and her mother fought about it endlessly: Honey felt it was simple – free the workers, and stop collecting masterpieces in the basement for no good reason. After all, the basement was inaccessible (Honey only knew the paintings and ice sculptures went down there at all because she had randomly sunk into the ground one day when she was checking for monsters), and without anybody to clean them, they gathered dust horribly. Her mother insisted that the so-called ‘museum’ was vital; apparently, Honey would understand one day.



Their argument got temporarily waylaid by the birth of Honey’s new sister, Deborah. Poor Juanita hated having a child around again, but Honey couldn’t help but notice that it was Juanita and Honey’s dad that did the bulk of the work looking after Debbie.



Honey couldn’t stand to argue with her mum for too long, and she had come up with a partial solution to her problem:



Bonehilda couldn’t sculpt or paint, but she was great at tidying up and changing Debbie’s nappies.

The day after Debbie was born, Honey’s mum had a birthday. She complained endlessly about her lost figure and her wrinkles, but at least she had achieved her lifetime wish, unlike poor Uncle Barrington.



Meanwhile, people were constantly going on at Honey about choosing a ‘path’. Apparently, Germaine had chosen his lifetime wish as a child – but as Germaine never did anything but fish, paint and sculpt, he hadn’t had much to choose from. Auntie Juanita suggested that she became a politician, since she spent so much time telling her mum off for mistreating workers; her dad thought she should go into music or take up horse-riding; her mother pushed her to be a painter. Something about the future of the family.

Honey didn’t want to be a painter, and not just because it annoyed her mum. She liked mixing stuff up and turning it into other things, like Firecracker Shrimp, or Potent Jars of Friendship. Her dad said it was because she was a natural cook. Her mum sighed, but then handed her a green recipe book and told her it was vital she read it. Honey was secretly intrigued by the green book: its title alone, ‘Ambrosia’ was odd; the fact that she wasn’t allowed to mention it to anybody was odder still. Honey took to reading cookery books in her spare time. Dad thought she should join some afterschool clubs or get a part-time job instead of always cooking, but Honey’s mum encouraged her. Auntie Nita did too: Juanita herself had never become a celebrity chef like she had hoped, so she wanted Honey to be one instead.

Honey had other ideas. She liked cooking, but she liked alchemy best – she dreamed of becoming a supernatural, and she’d heard that alchemy was the way to do it. She enrolled as a self-employed alchemist and sold all the nasty elixirs, and she threw the nice ones at people she met in town. Without telling her mum, she chose a lifetime wish that involved alchemy instead of cooking (or painting).



Nevertheless, Honey finally read the green book and cooked her first batch of ambrosia. Her mother ate it all up herself, greedy pig, after Honey had stored some in the funny food machines.





Honey aged up to young adult. Perhaps her lack of interest in extracurricular activities had been noticed: not only did she fail to make valedictorian despite having been on the honour roll, but her classmates didn’t vote for her for anything, not even ‘Most Likely to be Mediocre’. At least she had been prom queen.



Debbie had a birthday too.



She was quite a loud toddler



So everybody was very relieved when she had another birthday.



Poor kid got stuck in front of an easel almost immediately, no matter how much Honey objected.



Honey helped out by chucking Skill Boosters at her to raise her painting skill, but their mother seemed delighted by the expensive paintings, and it only encouraged her.



Once the ambrosia was done, her mother got off Honey’s back, and she was left alone to make elixirs, throw them at people, and sell them off. By the end of her first week as a young adult, her lifetime wish was complete, her career was maxed, and she had supermaxed alchemy.





Honey started to wish she’d worked more slowly: her mother flatly refused to let her learn any more skills or leave home, which left her with little to do. So she made her own entertainment.

She adopted a kitten, Fris.



She posed for the sculptors.



She flirted with Germaine.



Quite a lot.



And she watched Fris attack Debbie.



Until one horrible day, this happened:



RIP Johnny, worker bee extraordinaire. We’ll miss you <3.


Immortal 1: Queenie Bee

Traits: Snob, Savvy sculptor, Nurturing, Family oriented, Charismatic
Favourites: Vegetarian lobster thermidor, yellow, classical
LTW: Living in the Lap of Luxury
Maxed career: Sculptor
Supermaxed skill: Sculpting
Other maxed skills: Charisma
3 Unique LTHRs: Fireproof homestead, super nanny, motive mobile

6 Unique opportunities: Help the School (sculpting), Sculpt a Suspect (sculpting), An Old Ruse (sculpting), Delivering the Green (sculpting),  Personal Sculpting (sculpting), Oh Scrap! (sculpting)

6 Unique best friends: Johnny Bee, Rodney Singleton, Maggie Gray, Dakota Fox, Juanita Blanco, Kalliopi Ellada

Building: Flying Bees’ Coffeehouse (aka Flying V’s Coffeehouse)
Property: Queenie’s Bee-Dazzling Throne Room (aka Performance Park)

[bubbles]

Congratulations on your first immortal Alex! Honey and Debbie are definitely lookers as well!

[NearlyWitches]

Wow, Queenie really is working them to death! I guess there's a lot more to come now that she's immortal, congratulations!

[Dextra2]

RIP Jonny Bee.  But congrats on your first immortal!

[Magz from Oz]

Congratuations, Queenie made it.  I look forward to Honey's turn.  Yeah!!

[Louise56]

Congratulations on your first immortal!

[Alex]

Story is now abandoned, but the dynasty itself is completed. I've moved cities, jobs, houses and computers since I started this, and too many files and screenshots have been lost to recover chunks of story. Since I've also forgotten a lot of the earlier stuff, a (brief) summary is going to have to suffice.

Founder: Queenie Bee



Much of Queenie's story is above - after that, her existence consisted largely of admiring herself and churning out endless ice sculptures.

After Johnny's death, she adopted a third child, a son named Bumble, who was a sculpting slave:


Traits: Snob, Savvy sculptor, Nurturing, Family oriented, Charismatic
Favourites: Vegetarian lobster thermidor, yellow, classical
LTW: Living in the Lap of Luxury
Maxed career: Sculptor
Supermaxed skill: Sculpting
Other maxed skills: Charisma
3 Unique LTHRs: Fireproof homestead, super nanny, motive mobile

6 Unique opportunities: Help the School (sculpting), Sculpt a Suspect (sculpting), An Old Ruse (sculpting), Delivering the Green (sculpting),  Personal Sculpting (sculpting), Oh Scrap! (sculpting)

6 Unique best friends: Johnny Bee, Rodney Singleton, Maggie Gray, Dakota Fox, Juanita Blanco, Kalliopi Ellada

Building: Flying Bees’ Coffeehouse (aka Flying V’s Coffeehouse)
Property: Queenie’s Bee-Dazzling Throne Room (aka Performance Park)


Gen 2: Honey Bee

Honey got half a story before I stopped... Her adulthood is where most of the missing screenshots would have fitted in. However, she married Germaine, and they had two kids: Mason, the gen 3 heir, and Fuzzy, a clone of Germaine who almost broke the dynasty by refusing to die (he eventually made it to 131). She was sculpted a lot, and posed for a lot of paintings, but the poor girl did very little else.

Here she is sampling ambrosia for the first time, many years after she made it. Ew.


Traits: Good, Excitable, Supernatural fan, Natural cook, Born Saleswoman
Favourites: Firecracker shrimp, blue, indie
LTW: Alchemy artisan
Maxed career: Alchemist
Other maxed careers: Culinary
Supermaxed skill: Alchemy
Other maxed skills: Charisma, cooking, athletics, logic
3 Unique LTHRs: Suave seller, Born to cook, Moodlet manager

6 Unique opportunities: Swim into the Grill (cooking), Perfection from the Pan (cooking), From One Chef to Another (cooking), A Life Giving Recipe (cooking), The Dish Showdown (culinary career), Burgers for Sims in Uniform (cooking)

6 Unique best friends: Germaine Bee, Deborah Bee, Angel Bedlington, Virgil Murdock, Bumble Bee, Delia Porter

Building: Darris Teeter Grocery & The Koffi Café
Property: Adventure Landing


Gen 3: Mason Bee

Mason was an adorable toddler, who was born at just the right time to enjoy the bee springrider thingy from Seasons:


He also played with his mother


and half-brother


and occasionally the cat, who got a very tasteful makeover after she grew up into an adult.


Mason grew up into a serious child, who spent much of his childhood taking photographs. As a teen, he also found time to meet a girl, Lillian, who shared his taste in tops, if not in trousers.


They were a sickeningly sweet couple, even if Mason was thinking about his bed when he popped the question.


They had a private wedding, relatively safe from Queenie's interference


and, um, enjoyed themselves afterwards.



Mason was an architect


and was supposed to go into the police afterwards. Unfortunately, he glitched and refused to enter the police department, no matter how many times I reset him. He became a painter instead, and later a photographer.

Other than the whole not-entering-buildings thing, he was pretty low maintenance, and was ready for ambrosia the moment Lily had finished his museum items.



Traits: Artistic, Genius, Photographer’s eye, Perfectionist, Brave
Favourites: Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, blue, country
LTW: Visionary
Maxed career: Architectural designer
Other maxed careers: Painting, Photography
Supermaxed skill: Painting
Other maxed skills: Logic, photography
3 Unique LTHRs: Extra creative, Teleportation pad, No bills ever

6 Unique opportunities: The Sphinx (photography), The Pyramids (photography), The Business of Decor (painting), A Retreat to Inspiration (painting), French Photos (photography), Fresco Fest (painting)

6 Unique best friends: Fuzzy Bee, Lillian Bee, Esperanza Hammons, Josue Madson, Bronson Jacob, Clara Dorsey

Building: Gypsy Wagon
Property: Cinnamon Crest Falls


Gen 4: Digger Bee

Mason's son, Digger, enjoyed spending time with his parents



playing outside,


and wearing very manly costumes.


He took up gardening as a teenager


and discovered girls as an adult. Meet Nellie:



He worked through the gardening career, supermaxed gardening, and terrified me by failing to get any opportunities as a young adult, and by only making friends who died the next day. I ended up putting him into the Science career, before I remembered that the mixed rabbitholes don't spawn opps - and his killing-his-friends-off curse offed all the local scientists.

He got there in the end, though:


Traits: Friendly, Loves the outdoors, Eco-friendly, Green thumb, Good sense of humour
Favourites: Dim sum, spiceberry, country
LTW: The Perfect Garden
Maxed career: Gardener
Other maxed careers: Science
 Supermaxed skill: Gardening
Other maxed skills: Charisma, athletic, fishing
3 Unique LTHRs: Super green thumb, Legendary host,  Climatron control unit

6 Unique opportunities: Uncommonly Good (gardening), Outstandingly Rare (gardening), Perfect Produce (gardening), A Just-In-Time Harvest (gardening), Great Plums (gardening), The Omnificent Plant (gardening)

6 Unique best friends: Nellie Bee, Amir Slater, Gena Carlisle, Jerod Waldrop, Honey Bee, Queenie Bee

Building: Rustler's Den
Property: Appaloosa Plains Public Library

[Alex]

Gen 5: Buzz Bee

Buzz had a simple, trouble-free childhood:





It didn't last.

As an adult, Buzz joined the army. Although childish Nellie had named him after Buzz Lightyear, Buzz preferred another Buzz entirely, and dreamed of walking on the moon just like his namesake.

At work, he fell in love with one of his colleagues, Nichol.


They wanted children, but all eight spots in the household were full. I tried not to will Fuzzy to die, but, um, did it anyway. Unfortunately, Fuzzy was still alive on Nichol's birthday - as was Nellie, who was the only other mortal elder in the house.

I played on fast a lot and willed the mortals to die. It was all very sad and tragic, and I totally didn't do a happy dance when Fuzzy and Nellie died on the same day, closely followed by Nichol.

Buzz tried again, with another soldier, Selina.


I was not amused when it turned out to be her elder birthday.

Fortunately, he hadn't done anything more than ask Selina to move in yet, so he backed off while they were still just friends, and put the moves on yet another colleague, whose name reminded him - for some reason - of his first love. Nikole apparently hadn't heard the gossip about the weird serial monogamist bee, because she agreed to marry him.



And they reproduced, very quickly, before she could age up as well.



And everything was good. Buzz became an astronaut, and although he slept through every shift, he was somehow very successful. And Nikole got a whole fortnight with her new family before she too died of old age


Traits: Eccentric, Athletic, Brave, Handy, Heavy sleeper
Favourites: Goopy carbonara, spice brown, Latin
 LTW: Become an Astronaut
Maxed career: Military
 Supermaxed skill: Handiness
Other maxed skills: Athletics, Inventing
3 Unique LTHRs: Efficient inventor, hardly hungry, professional slacker

6 Unique opportunities:  Target Practice (inventing), The Great Invention Convention (inventing), Jog Everywhere (athletic), Exposition on Explosion (inventing), A Task About Time (inventing), Master Invention (invention)

6 Unique best friends: Nikole Bee, Selina Washington, Quintin McClain, Chadrick Kennedy, Bizzie Bee, Thomas Washington

Building: Darris Teeter Art Theatre
Property: Appaloosa County Water Treatment


Gen 6: Bizzie Bee

Bizzie was a Daddy's girl, mostly because her mother was extremely old/dead.



Buzz told her all about his problems finding a wife


which might be why she married the oldest man she could find, without bothering to find out anything about him. The dynasty wasn't going to fail on her watch, and she didn't see much point in long happy marriages anyway.


She spent her days making and enjoying fine nectars


harvesting grapes


working out


and occasionally glitching.


She was a total workaholic and a terrible mother, but she made her clients zillions as a successful Power Broker, held record numbers of meetings, and maxed most of the available skills, and people made lots of puns about Bizzie Bees.

Traits: Athletic, Loves the outdoors, Ambitious, Schmoozer, Workaholic
Favourites: Ceviche, spice brown, kids
 LTW: Bottomless Nectar Cellar
Maxed career: Business
Supermaxed skill: Nectar Making
Other maxed skills: Logic, Athletics, Riding, Charisma, Cooking
3 Unique LTHRs: Collection helper, All weather champion, Bookshop bargainer

6 Unique opportunities: Going Pro (athletic), No Sweat! (athletic), Push It! (athletic), At the Health Seminar (athletic), Muscle Showdown (athletic), Add It Up (athletic)
6 Unique best friends: Casey Bolech, Ladonna Rayla,  Jose Totte, Rashawn Linder, Conrad Ball, Mason Bee

Building: Hueber Associates & Kim Gould's Steakhouse
Property: Dog Day Town Plaza