Alright, well... it's been a while, hasn't it? I could ramble about how, or why, or what the heck happened that made me take a break, but that's no fun and the reasons why I was away are also not fun. So, let's talk about the Timeless family instead and jump into generation six properly!
Here's a recap of what you might have forgotten during my
desertion unplanned break: Ares and Helios aged up, Kronos and Tiffany got married, and Electra won't die. Also, some of you may have seen the updated score count, including generation five's points... I triple-checked and I swear, that's the right amount of points. I have no idea how I did it, all I know is that I went a little crazy. It probably also helps that I had a complex strategy for how I approached generation five that I can make a post about in the future if anyone is interested, but I never expected to get
92 points.
It just happened. I definitely think that the fact Electra had so many children played a huge part in me being able to get so many points, but managing that amount of sims during a short dynasty is exhausting and not something I could do every generation. It also helped that Ares was not the firstborn or generation five would have been much shorter and I wouldn't have been able to get as many points.
All of that aside, the family tree is updated to the point that generation seven is a toddler, so
spoilers. Look at it at your own risk. Oh, and I have decided that from now on I will label all dialogue with the name of the speaker in front of it except mine for better readability. Hope that helps!
One last thing to note: this chapter has more combined pictures than usual because if I didn't combine them, then I would have broken the picture limit. Fingers-crossed it's not super noticeable!
Okay, I think I have officially covered everything I need to before jumping into this generation properly. Let's get started!
Ares has some... interesting traits to say the least, and of course,
of course , his lifetime wish had to be Gold Digger. Of course it did. All of the other options were lifetime wishes that were difficult to accomplish, and so Ares got me stuck between a rock and a hard place. He just haaadddd to have the same lifetime wish that Midas and Erebus did.
For Ares' generational picture, I decided to have him pose with a cockroach because that's his spirit animal.
He really annoyed me this generation (in the best way, but STILL).
The first thing that Ares did as the official heir was call the travel agency so that the whole family could travel to China. Since my game is experiencing an aging bug which has accidentally made Electra immortal, the Timeless family will have to move shortly after they finish their vacation. Once they move, I have decided that, in the spirit of fairness, they will never take another vacation again.
Ares: "Wait, WHAT?"
Most traveling breaks by the point of generation six and continuing to take vacations into later generations gives me an unfair advantage. The fact that I have already moved the Timeless family so many times due to bugs that had a potential to break the game is unfair enough, I don't need to add an unfair traveling advantage to it—
Ares: "This isn't fair! That all sounds like your mistakes, not ours!"
I'm your Watcher. My mistakes are kind of your mistakes.
Ares: "Can we get a new Watcher then?"
No.
Ah, China, the.... what just happened?
Ares: "You will listen to me, Watcher! YOU WILL!"
Midas: "You need to reset Ares and Helios, Watcher. Also, I'm craving popsicles."
Give me a second—
Midas: "I want a popsicle. You abandoned us for over five months, Watcher. I deserve a popsicle. I know you have an orange-cream popsicle in your refrigerator."
Alright, you all need to stop being weird and START SKILLING!
Midas worked on maxing the science skill because I have plans for generation seven. So many plans.
Midas: "Blah, bah. They already know that you played ahead. Now, where's my popsicle?"
Shush!
Ares focused on his alchemy skill because I still have plans on him supermaxing it.
Ares: "That's because you don't love me."
No, it's because it's easy and it requires me to spend the least amount of time babysitting you.
Ares: "Exactly!"
Morpheus was off being adorable because I love him and wait—shouldn't you be skilling, Morpheus?
Morpheus: "I should be, but look at how cute I am."
Fair enough. Continue.
Helios, on the other hand, was busy screaming at the sky and critiquing ancient statues.
Whatever floats his boat, I guess.
While Midas worked on maxing his science skill, I got this message.
Midas: "A baby!"
NO.
Midas: "Then you better take it out of my inventory or I'm planting it."
Fine, fine. I'll put it in Morpheus' inventory.
Midas: "Good luck with that."
I feel bad for Morpheus because for most of his life, all he has been doing is skilling. Poor guy has never complained either, but he has rolled wishes to go on dates every now and then. He hasn't had any luck in his love life because I have made him skill so much, so it was finally time to find somebody that he may be able to date. After using some NRAAS mods to look for a suitable partner for Morpheus... there isn't a single male gay sim to be found in Sunset Valley or China. Not. A. Single. One.
It was at this point that I decided to take matters into my own hands. I first tweaked my game settings, so that there will be more diversity in the future when it comes to sims' sexual orientations, and I put down a sim from my bin down into China that I thought Morpheus would get along with. I had to do it and I have no regrets.
His name was Shen and the moment that Morpheus saw him, they instantly had hearts. Look at these two! They are adorable together. They are going to be the cutest—
The game made him straight.
WHY, GAME. WHY?
It then put Shen in a relationship to rub more salt in the wound. Ouch.
I may have used some not so family-friendly language at this point.
To say that Morpheus and I were bummed out about what happened with Shen was an understatement.
Morpheus: "That is definitely an understatement."
I felt so bad for Morpheus that I gave him the rest of the day off from skilling and he ran into...
Morpheus: "Lucas Bunch-Wainwright. Who is very much married to a woman."
Wait, who is he married to?
Morpheus: "Blair."
Oh hey, there was a townie named Blair Wainwright. She's long dead now...
Morpheus: "Nope. It's her. She's still alive."
HOW?
Morpheus: "I don't know. Ask Midas."
No thanks....
...but it must be because of how buggy Sunset Valley is, though, right? That would make sense.
Morpheus: "I don't know. You're the Watcher."
Bah. Fair enough.
Anyway, I ended up sending Morpheus home to go back to skilling as I turned my attention back to the other Timeless family members.
Ares, for example. After dragging my feet for far too long and moaning and groaning about Ares' lifetime wish, it was time to get it out of the way. So I decided to send him to meet random women and BAM! He met a woman! Just like that.
Ares: "You know, Watcher, I'm really excited that you're finally giving me the attention I deserve. Now that I have met one person who could be my potential wife, we can say that the search for my wife has officially begun! So, who else are you going to send me out to meet?"
No one. That woman is going to be your wife.
Ares: "...So you have done a lot of research on her to make sure she's the perfect match for me because I'm your heir."
Nope. I don't even know her name, but she's going to be your wife. Your first wife at least, anyway.
Ares: "Excuse me?"
I want to finish your lifetime wish before you consider kids and since that requires a dead wife...
Ares: "Okay, okay. I might be crazy, but I see where this is heading. FINE."
That's the spirit!
Ares: "So, what do I do next?"
Woo her, I guess.
Ares: "You mean throw a friendship potion at her?"
Wait, no.
Ares: "What do you mean, no?"
You know what? On second thought, it's close enough.
Ares asked her to move in, and the first thing she did was take a nap in one of the rocking chairs while Helios laughed maniacally above her.
Sometimes I forget how weird this family is.
In need of some wholesomeness, I sent Morpheus out into the great unknown to see Lucas again.
Morpheus: "So... what do you think about the weather?"
Lucas: "The weather?"
Morpheus: "Yeah... it's not as cold as I like. I wish it was colder..."
Lucas: "Do I know you from somewhere?"
Morpheus: "We talked yesterday for hours, remember?"
Lucas: "Oh, yeah. You were the guy who kept mumbling about escaping from his Watcher and tabcasts yesterday."
Morpheus: "Right. Uh... hey Watcher?"
Yeah?
Morpheus: "How do I befriend somebody without throwing a potion at them?"
Uh, let me see. Well, usually I just get adopted by a really friendly person who then introduces to me other friendly people, but maybe you could just ask about his interests and see where that goes?
Morpheus: "Too late. I'm running away."
Wait, no, that's not how you make friends!
Morpheus: "Sorry, but I can't hear you over the sound of me running away from my problems."
Sighs.
Back with Ares, he was actually at successfully wooing his future wife! Wait, what's her name, anyway?
Ares: "Her name is Ping Wang. She had a boyfriend two minutes ago that I convinced her to break up with."
You were productive while the spotlight was not on you? All on your own? I'm so proud of you!
Ares: "Watcher, I hate you."
And here I was, giving you a compliment. Now I'm going to take it back.
Ares: "Wait, I need the validation! Don't do that!"
Too late. No compliment for you.
Ares: "Fine. Then I'll mess this relationship up before it has truly started."
Okay, you know what? You can have the compliment back. I am NOT redoing this lifetime wish again.
Ares: "Hah!"
Now you might be thinking to yourself, dear reader, is that Electra in the background being nosey as Ping and Ares finally go steady?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Also, it turns out that Ping used to be Shen's (the guy I created for Morpheus) girlfriend. Small world, right?
Ares: "So what do you think, Ping? You, me, marriage?"
Ping: "With your mother lurking in the background? How could I say no? Of course!"
Electra: "I'm getting old. I want... to see Ares get married to his first wife... at least."
That's oddly dark for you, Electra.
Electra: "It's the truth."
Ares: "Alright, Ping. Shiny ring for you, lifetime wish completed for me. Here you go!"
Ping: "Agreeing to marry you doesn't seem like a terrible decision at
all! It's not like I just met you today, or that I keep getting referred to as your 'first wife.'"
Ares: "Glad to see we are on the same page!"
Alright, time to get married, you two.
Ares: "Whatever gets my lifetime wish completed."
That's... oddly agreeable of you, Ares. Who are you and what have you done to the sim I know?
Ares: "I want to get this over with so the attention can go back to being all on me. Now, can I get married or what?"
That's more like it. I guess.
It was a beautiful ceremony. Ping and Ares exchanged rings. I didn't let Electra stop skilling to watch because that was a waste of skilling time...
...and Midas even
escaped left the room where he was working on his science skill in order to show the future couple the random DNA sample he was holding ominously. It wasn't planned and I wouldn't have allowed it if I was properly babysitting him, but yep, that's a thing that happened. All in all, a great wedding. Definitely a ten out of ten.
That's it for this chapter, you guys. I'm sorry for taking such a long break from this story. I can't promise it won't happen again as life tends to like to throw a curveball or two, but I have every intention of finishing this short dynasty and hope this longer chapter helped to fill in the gaps left by my break. Anyway, I'll see you all in the next chapter! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. Bye!
