Welcome back home

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.





Ann enjoys showing off the things she learns on her trips away. Here she is telling the Dragon Legend to her family. (Alec had already heard it a few times by then, but he must really love the way Ann glows when she shows off).

A dinner was also held to say goodbye to Green who headed off to college.



Alec headed back to work. It seems he's lost all interest in the job. He found out upon his return that his manager, Melissa Fancy, had recently passed while he was on vacation due to a mishap with a cow plant.

It wasn't enough Alec's first day back was greeted with this news, Armando Cox also quit. (Alec doesn't know that Armando has another "job" lined up with Mr. Big's syndicate.




Amberle also stopped by to visit with Ann and her family and to thank them once again for their support getting her school started.

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Ann and the Ninja

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.





The time came again for Ann to go on one of her mostly business trips for a book deal her agent had brokered. The assignment is to write a travel guide for Takemizu Village. Ann takes these assignments very seriously-- as serious as Ann can with her playful streak.

Since her last trip with Green went so well, Ann invited her hubby this time to come along.

The trip has given them the chance to be like two children. They even went out on a date to the restaurant at the Flaming Dragons hotel.


In between their time spent visiting various sites, they have spent plenty of time at home watching TV between Ann's writing and note taking sessions.

But as Ann's vacation time was winding down, she realized she still hadn't managed to catch the supposed Ninja.

From one of the tourists, Ann had received a tip that she might catch the ninja early in the morning at the Pagoda park and market. (Apparently, the ninja is quite fond of shopping and likes to surprise the cashiers when he makes a purchase of one of their plastic souvenirs.) So Ann headed out on foot, alone, to see if she could catch a glimpse of him at the very least.



Under the guise of bird watching, Ann kept an eye out for him. She waited for hours for that puff of smoke that would announce his arrival. All the while she kept an eye on her watch. Alec would wake soon and wonder where she was. She had left no note as she hadn't wanted him to follow her.

Suddenly, there he was, across the street. Ann ran over to him before he could teleport away. At the sight of her, his eyes narrowed, but he did not disappear.

She stepped forward and bowed deeply.

He did not return the bow. Instead he simply asked, "Which came first, the ninja or the sword?"

Ann had to think for a moment, but she knew if she waited too long, it would count as a wrong answer. Other "tourists" had told her as much.



Ann guessed. "The sword." Her voice was clear and strong.

The ninja simply nodded, his eyes appearing to glimmer in the sunlight. Was he smiling? He leaned over and whispered in her ear the secret to teleporting.



Ann was now among the ranks of the few who knew the secret. Wouldn't that make an interesting addition to her next fictional book?

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I love twins

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.



Briena reading to the twins

I really do. They're certainly a handful, but they are also a blessing in my sim hood.

I have had three sets of twins in the neighborhood. But the youngest set aged up yesterday.

The family gathered in the kitchen of their home (which is too small now that I think about it).


It's interesting to see how genetics play out. Glenda has the eye color of the founder and the narrow eyes of the founder's husband, Pao Mellon. Her lips may even be something left from the founder.











Meanwhile, poor Maxen got the Stratton nose which looks so good on the ladies and horrid on the men. Everything else on him may come from his mother.

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Android Prototypes

Aurora Stratton, Legacy's resident genius has done it again. She has created the first Android prototypes in their entire Sim World. For an extra 30,000 (depending on the amount of customization) your servo can have its own SynthSim body.



This is Inge Stratton, Aurora's first customer. Now servos have a reason to keep in shape and not eat. Her new and improved body will get fat should she consume food that she doesn't need. The semi-living cells in her new body store the fat from the food as energy. As time goes on she will need less recharging and will be able to actually sleep to recharge.

Will she dream?


Each Android is completely customizable. The facial structure will not change, but hair color, make up, hair style may be selected. The gray outfit both android proto-types wear are to give sims warning that these are androids. Though it is not law, it is something that Aurora does voluntarily for everyone's benefit, including the Servos.





I wanted my servos to move forward into the next century. Since it seems there are no hacks that can be used safely to do this and allow me control over their looks, I decided I would just use SimPE.

To do that though, I needed a sim to clone. So I created The Prototypes, and stuck them in downtown. Using Simlogical's prisoner token, I make sure they stay put. Since I keep them alive and in lock down, I can change their looks as needed for "orders."

Both male and female faces are based off of the Type 1 Maxian face structure. The modifications were minimal. I basically slanted the eyes, enlarged them, and messed with the mouths a bit. The idea was to make the changes subtle so that they would be eerie, but perfectly beautiful (Frankly, the Type 1 Maxian face scares me, and I hate that EVERYONE claims that's the only beautiful Maxian face type.)



Here's Aurora's super secret technique:


IMPORTANT: backup YOUR ENTIRE HOOD FIRST!
It´s always important to backup, if you make mess, you don´t lose anything.

1. Download this skin and add to your game at downloads folder
2. Open the game, go to CAS screen and create a sim using that skin and the eyes you most like - I downloaded some alien eyes to match the robot
3. Save that sim
4. Close the game
5. Open SIMPE, there is a tab called tools -> neighborhood where you browse to open your hood
6. The same tab called tools -> neighborhood there is an options called Sims Surgery, click there and wait, it take some time
7. Select the servo as the patient sim and the droid sim you just made at CAS screen as archetype sim. Click in surgery and wait.
8. It will open a tab showing the servo with its new appearance, click commit and save
9. Save the hood

Close SIMPE. Open the game. Go to the house where lives the servo you just modified. The servo suppose to have the new appearance. Save that house.

If the servo don´t have the correct appearance but have the correct thumbnail, send it to change clothes at a wardrobe and the new appearance should appear. No sims harmed, works perfectly.

That´s it, have fun.

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Profile Ashley Stratton

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.




I love watching children grow.



Ashley had her birthday yesterday and became a lovely teen. She went out right away and bought herself a new outfit (a tradition with the teens in my hood.)

Now that she's a teen, she has a bit more say in her style. For one, she's stopped straightening her hair. Two, no more pink room deco. And three, she's a messy little teen. But I enjoy playing her house a lot.






Now that Ashley's a teen, her mother had a talk with her and suggested she give Green a call. Green and Ashley hit it off very well on their first phone call. So the next weekend, they went out on their first date (with Kimberly's permission of course.)


Things went really well, and ended with Ashley getting her very first kiss! Now Green comes over and calls her constantly. He hung out with Ashley and her little brother, Aaron, this past weekend, playing video games. (Ashley kicked his butt-- see Aaron's face?)


Ashley also redecorated her room to match her newer more mature outlook on life, while paying homage to her childhood. The flowers are from Green of course.

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Aging up

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.



Gabriel grew up yesterday. He's got the thin eyebrows of his mother and the lower face of his father. (Hopefully that means he'll grow into a looker too!)












Amberle was there of course to cheer him on. School is going to start the next time I play her, so she felt she should be there and get to know her future students.







Gabe is an adorable, typical, rambunctious little boy. Here they are over their first formal family dinner together where he's explaining about a fire breaking out at school. (Since he goes to Amber's school, I'm not surprised.)

Gabe is an okay student. His best friend is his teacher, but that doesn't mean she gives him special treatment.


Of course Gabe also spent his early years with Amberle. It seems a bit of her luck has rubbed off on him.





The little dog, Mimsy, also grew up. She seems to have taken a shine to Gabe, as he has to her. As far as the family is concerned, she is Gabe's dog.

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Welcome to Legacy Living!

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.



Moving on to another family...

Genesis Mellon, wife of the mayor, started Legacy Living, the town's first magazine!

Here is a glimpse of the upstairs offices. You can see Genesis working away in the back.

This is Genesis' office. It's made to be comfortable and inviting. The writers are free to gather in her office to hang out and watch a game after they get some work done.

Down stairs there are comfy chairs, a buffet, and a small shop that sells... what else? Magazines, including Legacy Living. Right now, Genesis is working hard to earn notoriety and respect. Right now she has very few employees and they make only about $2,000 a day.


How is this all possible? With Monique's hacked computer of course. ^___^

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