Darko Immortal Dynasty [Happiness For Agnes 10/15]

[LivvieLove]

Settings
World - Sunset Valley
Expansion Packs - WA, A, LN, G, P, SN, SS, U, and IP.
Freewill - High
Aging - Normal
Celebrities - On
Supernatural - All Checked.
Seasons - All on, 20 days length per season.
Weather - Snow and Rain are checked.
Pets and Horses - Unchecked.


Family Tree
(Coming Soon)


Directory
Darko 1.0 - To Get Things Done Right
Darko 1.1 - Crazy, Beautiful Life
Darko 1.2 - House Renovation
Darko 1.3 - Generation Two's Terrible Twos
Darko 1.4 - Leighton's in the Doghouse
Darko 1.5 - Befriending Sam
Darko 1.6 - The Wants of Children
Darko 1.7 - Love Has Many Faces
Darko 1.8 - The Return
Darko 1.9 - Happiness for Anges - 1
Darko 1.10 - Happiness of Agnes - 2

This is my first attempt at telling an Immortal Dynasty story. It's my 20th try at a I.D. but that's usually because I give up on it after the second generation. If I write a story about something, I stick with it for longer.

Big Thanks To
-Thank you to Pam, Metropolis Man, Carl and all the other challenge team members for a great challenge.
-sunshine_2406, Chuckles_82, Swirl-Girl, Ausette, Gheez, Grimsoul - for patterns. I went through the forum's great swap-shop recently and fell in love. I'm sorry if I don't always name your pattern (or if I missed someone's name, please let me know!), but I will say this: I've never made a pattern, so if it's not by EA in your game already and you like a pattern, it's definitely from one of those beautiful creators mentioned above. I have not created any patterns, so I take no credit for any of them whatsoever. If any creators see their patterns have been used and they do not like their use or wish it to be taken down, please just say so and it will be done.
-To all of you who will be reading. I hope you enjoy.

[LivvieLove]

Immortal Status

Spoiler Alert!

Esmerelda - Founder

Lifetime Wish: Renaissance Sim
Traits: Artistic, Family Oriented, Perfectionist, Brave, Friendly. Rebel Influence Trait: Savvy Sculptor.
Unique Career: Art Appraisal
Unique Supermax: Painting
Building: Criminal Warehouse
Property: Summer Hill Springs
Unique Lifetime Rewards: Extra Creative, Inheritance, No Bills Ever.
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities: A Large Painting; A Medium Painting; A Small Painting; Popular Painter; Sculpt a Secret; Delivering the Green.
Portraits: YA; A;
Photos: YA; A;
Sculptures: YA; A;


Geralt - Second Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits: Brave, Athletic, Neurotic.
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits: To; C; T;
Photos: To; C; T;
Sculptures: To; C; T;


Third Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:


Fourth Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:


Fifth Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:


Sixth Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:


Seventh Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:


Eighth Generation

Lifetime Wish:
Traits:
Unique Career:
Unique Supermax:
Building:
Property:
Unique Lifetime Rewards:
Best Friends:
Six Opportunities:
Portraits:
Photos:
Sculptures:

[LivvieLove]

To Get Things Done Right
Hello, dear Readers.
My name is Esmerelda Darko, and I am my Watcher's favorite.
I'm sure by now you've assumed me for the snobby type. The ones who are so sure of their place, but I know it from fact, and that my Watcher tells me all the time. I've had many, many names, but Esmerelda Darko was my first, and is the one I call my own. I have been around for a very long time. I was created at the start of a new era - the first Vampire. My watcher built me to be an artist, and I tend to lean that way anyways, but I have dabbled in a great deal of other things in my lifetime too. My traits are as changeable as my name, maybe that's why I'm the Watcher's favorite.
I have had many children and completed many, many challenges. I think that's why she's called me to the front once again - for an Immortal Dynasty this time. My children have all failed these dynasties, or caused her to lose interest after a few generations.
I guess if you want something done right, you should do it yourself.
So here I go. The Watcher changed my hair and eye color as she usually does when she gives me a new identity, but this time it's different. My skin is a normal color, which disappoints me. It means we won't be playing in Dragon Valley this time.

I don't mind the red hair so much, I do miss my black hair though. The green eyes are ok too.

The dress I certainly don't mind. Now I wonder what traits she'll give me?

I'm really starting to appreciate the new Stuff Pack she got, I always preferred more dramatic clothing.

Yet she didn't change a thing about my sleepwear. I guess you can't mess with perfection. This nightwear has helped me seduce many-a-Sim in the day. I'm sure it will do nicely for Sunset Valley.

Though I'm not entirely sure about this, is this a joke? At least I won't be touching Athletics.

Maybe I should place a bet on how long my Watcher will stay interested in me. I usually don't lose her interest, and she knows I won't let failure become an option.

Though I should have spoken to her about a promise she owes me. I deserve some time with him. I only get to spend time with him when we're doing challenges. I should demand a lifetime of happiness with him.
Ah, trait rolling time. Wait... what is this? She only changed two of them. That's definitely new.
Artistic, Perfectionist, Brave, Family Oriented, and Friendly.
I suppose it's time to get things rolling. Here we go.


I think everyone who's ever done a Dynasty in Sunset Valley knows exactly where I'm going to go.

If you think I'm going to say something interesting or snarky about doing what everyone else does... it's not so much for the car... Well, yes it's for the car, but Agnes is also a dear friend of mine in a past life. She also is considered one of the most powerful witches ever known where I come from, but she likely has no knowledge of that. We are in another dimension anyways, so magic will not be her craft this time around.

After a full day at the library and getting Agnes to move in, I had the house built for my future husband and his son to move in too. It was really a spur of the moment thing. Leighton is a nice guy, we have a few traits in common and there was a mutual attraction. Choosing to love him was easy. I still miss him though, but Leighton has no idea that I would trade him out in a heartbeat. His son Sam is really adorable.

I'll have to remind the Watcher to put a thanks up for all the patterns she downloaded that she used in this house. They're all lovely, and almost make the house seem like less of a box house.
The house is very temporary though. There's no way it will survive the expansion of the ages, but the Watcher just isn't in a mood to build. I can't blame her either, though I will start nagging her about it soon.

Agnes is working on learning cooking at the moment, I am working on photography as one of the three skills needed for my lifetime wish and Leighton is working on gardening. Sam is simply being cute and enjoying his free time learning what he can while the adults are busy.
Leighton and I have been dancing around our relationship for a while. We don't really talk much, but that's ok. Marriage is inevitable, as no one can leave. Usually he does his thing and I'll do mine. Today was different though, I finally crossed the line and gave him a kiss.

It was received well. I decided to just go ahead and rip the rest off like a band-aid.

No, please don't get me wrong. Leighton is a wonderful guy, but he's just not him. I choose to love Leighton, and I will be happy to spend a lifetime with him, but I most certainly didn't fall for him. With him I didn't seem to have a choice, I love him unconditionally, and I will for all eternity.
I'm sorry, I will keep focusing on the Dynasty at hand. Obviously time is going fast for you reading, as I don't think you really want to see the same picture of Agnes and I doing our things at the sculpting station and easel respectively over and over, but right now, it's only day two and a lot has been accomplished

Agnes mastered the painting skill, following up with the writing skill the next day. That completed her lifetime wish. I was able to max Photography in a days time, and Agnes is at about level 6 in photography herself right now. Leighton has been pushing through gardening. Lifetime Happiness points are crucial this early on in a Dynasty, with that being the case, I've also encouraged Leighton to spend time with his son, as well as waiting for that wish to finally roll.

Thankfully, I didn't have to wait overly long to roll the wish, and I threw a party immediately for our wedding.

It was very backed up. Pictures are sparse of it, I'm sure the Watcher was doing her best to not tear her hair out, and I'm sure that everyone knows the drill with these things by now. Start with founder, founder moves in rich sim and sells their car, founder builds house, moves in spouse (if that spouse wasn't the rich person from step two), marries spouse, has baby, profits. My Watcher wasn't very careful. She saw I had gained lifetime happiness points and used it to get my Rebel Influence up as high as possible, and immediately gave me a job in the Art Appraisal career. The problem with that was it happened a few hours before our wedding. I hope she's kicking herself right now for giving me the forced time off at the get-go.

Either way, I'm enjoying time with Leighton, and I do think we'll have a happy life together.
Children though? Not right now. Since the Watcher already forced me to have two days time off from the start, I'm going to wait until I'm level 5 in my career before I even think about conceiving. Leighton wanted to have children right away, of course, and a lot of them. I don't look forward to having to break it to him that one pregnancy will be more than enough for me.
I intend to keep the house size small. We're already struggling to keep up with all the Sims here now, having more children would just make my watcher quit. I can't have that.
However, I can have a Motive Mobile. Day three, thanks to Agnes.

Leighton is also working on the skill that will be most crucial to our Dynasty. Our child will be the one to learn that skill, possibly even Supermax it.

It's a very slow and boring skill for me though. I usually just sit and let him do his work. When he's not working on the science skill, he's working in the garden, which has got our very first life-plants in it. Things are going magnificently well. I'll need to send Leighton out to the falls with some store-bought catfish to catch some Angelfish soon, winter will be coming in a few weeks, and we need to be prepared.

Agnes is also working on her 25 Ice Sculptures. I'm amazed at how fast she's working. She also got a job in the Culinary Career for that nice fridge. Together, we all make a great team. I'm eventually going to learn sculpting, but there's no hurry for me. I just need to focus on my supermax, my career, and eventually my child. Sam has already shown a knack for painting, so I could hold off on ice sculptures for a few generations and would probably be fine, but I do need to know the skill for my lifetime wish. Ah well, it will come eventually. The Watcher is used to being on the short lifespan, so when she finally slows down I can likely breathe a bit. Speaking of sending Leighton to the pond like I said earlier, it took him a few hours to collect 8 Angelfish. he even had time to kill.

Probably a little too much time.

Either way, we have five deathfish now, and with Leighton slowly gaining the ability to clone we'll soon have an abundance.
Leighton also changed his lifetime wish to have the Perfect Garden, which is much more doable in my opinion compared to the 5 children he wanted to have. His lifetime wish was achieved quickly, and we gained a second Motive Mobile to add to our lot.
This is a lot of information for one update though, I shall keep you posted with our progress, as time keeps marching on, and the Watcher seems to be fixed on us for the time being.

[VioletG]

Good luck! I'm rooting for you. I could never do this ... I get way too distracted and I'm a softie ... I always want to let my sims do whatever they want, heh.

[LivvieLove]

Good luck! I'm rooting for you. I could never do this ... I get way too distracted and I'm a softie ... I always want to let my sims do whatever they want, heh.

Thank you! I'll need all the cheering I can get! I usually just get bored after generation 2 is born. I'm getting more and more used to not letting my Sims do whatever they want (if you really want to break yourself of that habit, try a Short Dynasty, works like a charm), so it's less of a big deal. The hard part is waiting for those big wishes to roll. I know I don't need for them to roll, but it's so helpful to have the +5000 happiness points for getting to a certain skill level... and so on.
Anyways, I have like, 50 more pictures to put up here, but I also want to keep playing! Soon I'll be rushing to catch up!

[Lisa46]

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. Just make the story funny- it works like a charm. Sims do have a tendency to do funny things.

[ajm242]

I'm enjoying this story so far. I hope you can finish this. I tried a dynasty, but after the third heir was born, I got bored. I'm hoping to still finish it eventually.

[LivvieLove]

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. Just make the story funny- it works like a charm. Sims do have a tendency to do funny things.

That's a good idea! Thanks! I'll try it! Hopefully I can do it!

I'm enjoying this story so far. I hope you can finish this. I tried a dynasty, but after the third heir was born, I got bored. I'm hoping to still finish it eventually.

Thank you for your support! It means so much to me! I've been there before, hopefully it won't become this time!

Crazy, Beautiful Life
Hello again, everyone.
It's been a few days and I've finally got the chance to start work. It feels a little unsavory when I walk in, but it's a job. Supposedly there's an opportunity in this career track which will allow me to choose what kind of painting I will paint - from Masterpieces to Brilliant pieces. The Watcher is insistent I get it, but now that I'm actually here I'm a little hesitant on how that will actually pan out. The work clothing is a little strange too, as is the wig I have to wear - yeah there was no way I was cutting my hair off into that haircut. No way. The statue outside is a little strange though. I wonder what the world will think of next.

The Watcher was a little confused when she saw a new job requirement - Scanning Art? So she and I decided to figure out exactly what that meant. We took a detour after work to the Art Gallery and I queued up a few of them, but the queue dropped after one. The Watcher figured there must be a cooldown.

The big news of tomorrow though is that it will be Agnes' and Sam's birthday. Agnes has work that night though, so she'll have to bite the proverbial bullet and age up first thing in the morning. She made Sam's birthday cake first, but refused to make her own, claiming she would be digging her own grave.

Where was Leighton and I? Well, we were kind of busy. It had been a while since we expressed our affections, so I encouraged us both to express them.

All the way to the shower. No. No baby this time, just a few wishes though, and those are important. Leighton is a doll, he always wants to help me or cater to me, and I do love him for it. He's a great partner to have throughout this, and I'm thankful for his support.
We ultimately decided on a birthday party for Sam, knowing I would need to make friends somehow or another. Strangely enough I don't have any mods in, so I was a little confused to see small versions of Story Progression happening.

Gunther was right there too! I was flabberghasted - the watcher must have been too, since she took so many pictures while mumbling about a broken story progression cycle.
Funnily enough, the Watcher was so distracted by everything else that she didn't get a picture of Sam aging up, she ended up freaking out when she caught Agnes autonomously dumpster diving instead of coming home after work, however it seems that Agnes has outsmarted the Watcher, since during her little dumpster diving trick, she found a tiberium gem.
Life is good.

My poor stepson, he didn't get a makeover for quite some time. I was worried the Watcher was neglecting him, but it turns out she was simply too busy making sure we skilled. She was still stuck on her short lifespan stage, I hear they don't actually get wardrobe changes there. I'll have to call Ara and ask sometime though. It's been a while since I've chatted with my daughter.

Leighton was only at level 3 or 4 in the Science skill and this frustrated the Watcher to no end. She finally threw up her hands and sent Leighton to the library. How do I know she threw up her hands? I'm just that good.

Apparently, he was skilling up so fast there that the Watcher was almost in hysterics wondering why she didn't do that first. I just laugh at her mistakes. She does make quite a few of them, but that won't stop me. I've already gotten 2 out of 3 of my skill challenges for painting, four of my blackopps and I'm halfway through my career.
Did I say halfway through my career? I guess I did.

I always hold to my word.
Sam got his makeover.

Leighton started upgrading our incredibly useful Not-So-Routine Machine.

And I? I was getting a week off of work.

Leighton has been a regular at both the regular Consignment Store and the Elixir Store, one day he brought home this crazy contraption called a Miner. I had built one before, but I had completely forgotten how noisy they were!

Leighton stayed out there all day and into the night. Apparently we weren't the only one that heard it, you don't want to see Nancy and Geoffrey angry in their sleepwear... trust me. It was a scary sight indeed. I had to send Leighton in and apologize profusely to our neighbors. Leighton was just happy to get a break to spend time with his son.

He was then sent to resume a quieter task.

The days of my pregnancy rolled by quietly. Leighton and I both wished for a boy, so I stocked up on his apples from the garden and munched down. We had a plan for our little one, and as soon as I started to feel the pains of labor, we made the call.

Childbirth wasn't as hard as everyone always talks about it being. However, I have done this many, many times prior. As soon as the sparkles surrounded me I was filled with relief and my arms were full with the most beautiful boy I'd seen.
Geralt.


Geralt Darko, our second generation heir. On the other side of the walls, Leighton was getting Geralt's spouse.

He took everything upstairs, punched in some numbers - or whatever he does with that machine. I've actually never used one of those before - at least, not that I can remember.

And Rei joined our household.

We put both children downstairs, tomorrow would be Sam's teenage birthday, and I planned to throw it out and about, so the Watcher would have time to rebuild our home. That's all I have today, dear readers.

[AkonIsAwesome]

This story is really interesting and everyone in the house has such awesome clothes. I'm definitely cheering for the Darkos. Good luck! 

[Trip]

Hurrah for a dynasty from you!

I actually never noticed how cute Leighton is until now. And I can't wait to see who the mystery DNA donor was. You're right about skilling up Science; anything other than from the books is a chore.

[Lisa46]

DNA is a great idea!

[Tiamet]

I love the name Geralt!  Makes me think of the Witcher.  Can't wait to see who Rei looks like!

[LivvieLove]

This story is really interesting and everyone in the house has such awesome clothes. I'm definitely cheering for the Darkos. Good luck! 

Thank you so much! I love the new stuff pack I got - Movie Stuff. I'm so gothic and dramatic in my decorations and clothing, so it's a very fitting stuff pack. I'm surprised I waited so long to get it!

Hurrah for a dynasty from you!

I actually never noticed how cute Leighton is until now. And I can't wait to see who the mystery DNA donor was. You're right about skilling up Science; anything other than from the books is a chore.

Thank you!
I just couldn't understand it! Every other skill he had was close to maxed, and he had dumped HOURS into Science but was only at level 4. I was tearing my hair out wondering if I would EVER be able to clone. I usually avoid the books as they take so long and you can't get much out of it, but by this point I just figured, why not? I sent him to the library and he got the rest of the skill points in 2 days. I was stunned. Ridiculous.
As for our mystery doner... if she did turn out as perfect as the clones said she did everyone should be able to guess! 

DNA is a great idea!

I just can't do a pudding-face dynasty. I just... I can't. I love townie DNA, so I figured, why not give it a go? Now I'm thoroughly regretting turning all Supernaturals on though...

I love the name Geralt!  Makes me think of the Witcher.  Can't wait to see who Rei looks like!

Dingdingdingdingding! We have a winner. I love the Witcher story line. I thought about naming Rei after Yennifer or Triss, but I don't particularly like either one of them, so I went with Rei, because the name reminds me of the woman she's cloned after (and naming her Ciri would've just been too weird with the whole father-daughter thing). I'm not sure why it does, as it's nothing like her name.  Ah well, good guess though. Geralt is a wonderful name, though I probably should have saved it for the athletic supermax, so he could look as buff!


Anyways I totally didn't put any traits up, my bad! I'll write them down for next time! Sorry about that!

[sunshine_2406]

What a shock to see my name under your thanks. I'm glad you like my patterns and I look forward to seeing how you use them.

I really like your dynasty, your founder is very pretty. I don't think I've ever seen Leighton used in a dynasty but it's a good choice, he has nice genetics. I hope you can see this through to the end, and I may not comment much but I shall be reading.

[LivvieLove]

What a shock to see my name under your thanks. I'm glad you like my patterns and I look forward to seeing how you use them.

I really like your dynasty, your founder is very pretty. I don't think I've ever seen Leighton used in a dynasty but it's a good choice, he has nice genetics. I hope you can see this through to the end, and I may not comment much but I shall be reading.

Thank you for such lovely patterns! I went on a spree a couple weeks back and decided to just try a few patterns... which turned into like... 30-40 patterns. I lost track of which ones I got exactly, and when I might use them, so I decided to just thank the pattern makers up front! Thank you! I love my Esmerelda. She's always been my favorite.

House Renovation
Hello everyone, sorry for the lateness.
My Watcher has been busy, this last week she's been focused heavily on building us a house to last. She built up a great big box with another box attached to it, but it was very close to the front of the yard, and something just didn't sit well with her, so after all the building and decorating she did - she tore it all down to start from scratch. She even used a picture visual - it's much better than a box!

She really starting to improve. Unfortunately, she's also getting to the point of boredom caused by our dynasty. I'm really beginning to worry. I'll talk more in detail about it later, though.

The top floor of our house is for our museum pieces. That can easily be moved underground if needed, but I like it right there. That middle segment will be where we store our ambrosia.

Downstairs, we have a theater, and the painting and sculpting. Those will be moved later, though, when Sam and Agnes, well... pass I suppose.
There are six rooms on the top floor. These are for specific skill rooms. Obviously, the kitchen is connected to Agnes' room downstairs. There's only six, and not eight, because my Watcher has a pond built outside as well as a greenhouse, so if those become supermaxes then they won't need a specific room. 
Apparently, my watcher took a lot from others' dynasties. Hopefully no one minds, she kept saying what brilliant ideas everyone had. I remember her specifically saying Base Game Barbie taught her how to set up those skill rooms and the kitchen for the non-cooking immortals, though I'm sure she used quite a bit more help than that. You really should've seen the last house. Horrifying. I'm glad she got help.

Downstairs, obviously though, nothing's been decorated that much yet. I've got eight generations to do that, right now I'm fine with the shell. Finally, here's a picture of the greenhouse.

My watcher would also like to suggest, to any of you starting out in a new dynasty, to invest in the Architectural Designer Profession. She had my Leighton quit his gardening career to switch into that one before building this house - and here's a little bit of what she saved when doing so:
-Those Science Machines normally cost about $6,500 or so, she got them for $3,000 each.
-Those "Not-So-Routine-Machines" cost $15,000 each, she got them for $9,000.
-Walls cost about $45 to build rather than $70.
Leighton switched back to the gardening career as soon as the Watcher was sure she was finished with the majority of the building, but we were able to save a lot of money that way.
Anyways, that announcement is over, so let's see what we were doing while this was happening:

Sam was growing up! And everyone was sunbathing.

Don't mind Geralt and Rei in the background, unfortunately the game said I couldn't hold them while cheering on my step-son. The game is very against multi-tasking mothers.

Sam is a beautiful boy, or rather, I guess I should say handsome teenager. We never really had time to get to know each other though, maybe I should start spending time doing that. Life will seem short for everyone else (asides the watcher, who is growing bored at this stage). I suppose I should enjoy my youth while it lasts, too.

After the party, Sam, Agnes and I went home. Leighton wanted to hit up the library and study up on Alchemy. I got to stand for my sculpture.

Which is coming along nicely.

I also used these machines to get my final skill maxed for my lifetime wish.

To celebrate, I decided to make some progress towards my immortality.

I went all the way to my place of work, and bought it out.

Unfortunately, I'm not due back to work for another six days. Six. Days. Maybe I should've done my pregnancy earlier? The way my work schedule is set up (with the spaces between my four work days) has left me with way too much time counting towards maternity leave. Oh well, I suppose I can't get everything done while I'm a young adult.
Leighton came home after realizing that studying Alchemy that way was futile, and began to work on potions.

Then the watcher headed off to do something else. For a short while I was able to get a reprieve, which was strange and exciting all in itself. I was put on an - oh, shoot, I'm not allowed to discuss the details of it until the Challenge ends. Bear, the immortal dog and I were paired off to do the Fortunate Fortnight. We didn't win, supposedly, but it sure was a lot of fun!

Either way, readers, what I am concerned about is this is the part that is usually the most boring for my Watcher. The house is built, the babies are well... babies, and everything is going so smoothly - too smoothly. What do you normally do for your stories to keep things alive and spiced up? Money isn't necessarily tight at the moment, but it's not necessarily in abundance either. My Watcher is growing bored of waiting games. She's very used to people aging up exactly when she wants them to, like in the Life State's challenge. Normal lifespan seems to run extra slow for her, so what do you all recommend?