the bakelite legacy 3.2

[furbyq]

amillia, as with other bakelites, is the picture of undeniable class.

sometimes i wish the mouse was a hand, like in dungeon keeper 2, and i could just slap the shit out of sims that used the nursery fridge as a regular fridge.



it's a normal family, really.

even though the main bloodline is of an arcane sort.



idk what exactly effects how good a sim is at teaching toddler skills, but jasper is very quick even when smart milk isn't involved.

although i do typically load little ones up on it in hopes that they'll skill chain as a child.



peridot: i'm mildly uncomfortable. :-)



jasper: being immortal isn't nearly as good as i thought it would be.

professor kari: ...you're immortal?!

jasper: it wasn't obvious when you became old as fuck?



professor kari: if you were truly great at magic, i would look forward to this more.

jasper: mean.



more people seem interested in caring for malachite.



probably because jade is a little difficult.

which, actually makes no sense because she has 10 nice points and he has 3, and yet she still continues to reject learning her skills.





peri really loves banjo, but banjo has a weird dislike for her? maybe she finger waggled banjo when i wasn't looking. 

tbh i love one-sided relationships in ts2. they give the relationships concept more depth.



banjo: your hair animates improperly! unhand me, uncultured swine!



peridot: who's a cutie whootums snuggle bear? is it YOU?

top ten pics taken before disaster strikes.



banjo: i shall take my frustrations out on you, mr. cactus.

i mean, could you have a more fitting scratching post for a desert legacy?



banjo hates juggling as much as i do. she's like a simcat self-insert at this point.





jasper gains the ability to read baby minds.



peri is pretty, ok. i love her. she's the only kid that got amillia's cute eye shape.



professor kari: finally, a descendant that doesn't disappoint me.

girl spends all her time playing chess. she's a genius compared to past bakelites.



professor kari: allow me to edumacate you on certain subjects, like quantum physics. 

peridot: grandma, i'm a little unsure that i--

professor kari: ap bup bup, i'm going to tell you how definite it is that our universe will one day implode upon itself. 



i regret buying them games. they do nothing interesting unless the games are already being used.



malachite: watch out, passengers. i'm a combination iceberg and sea monster and y'all are screwed.



professor kari: whoops too high

jade: ow.



luckily, jade was okay. but professor kari's identity as a saboteur is becoming more and more apparent.



i'm sure malachite would have many witty things to say, but i mainly took this pic to show off beryl's baby bump.

additional sporgle is afoot.



beryl: dad just reached his 20 grandchildren want, which is insane. could you imagine how chaotic that family reunion would be, if our overlord wasn't a lazy douchebag?

hey. how dare you call me lazy.



malachite wants to join the band, but he is too smol.



beryl's pregnant but she's still toned af.



apparently jade is the ice kraken now. 

jade: no! i'm a friendly sea monster. 

i don't think it's friendly to hold a boat perpendicular like that.

jade: but this is a cruise ship full of corrupt businessmen and i'm going to be friendly and drown them. :)



PERI GOT AN A+. has anyone else done this? my memory is bad and honestly i don't care about non-heirs. also my heirs are trainwrecks.



beryl: WHOO GIRL I'M SO PROUD! YOU GET THAT A+!



beryl: WHOO BOY YOU STAND LIKE A PRO! I'M PROUD



child jade! i'm like... 99% sure that her face structure is identical to beryl's. i had sneaking suspicions when i saw her eyes.



malachite isn't a clone in any way! and he's cute. 



jade: mom looks like a sumo wrestler. i idolize her strength.

amillia: rude, but also weirdly wholesome.



some bedroom makeovers were had, to accommodate the beds i needed. this is malachite and jade's room.





here's peridot's room! i couldn't find a ton of green shit i liked so i used blue and yellow.





i generally make everyone skill cram on the weekends, to make university easier on myself. jasper's included, because if he wants to be immortal he's going to max all of those skills out eventually. 



2/10. p sure he already mastered logic.



and then i changed his hair back! woo. one day i'll find a good ponytail. it's a shame that cazy didn't make any (that i know of) that would pair well with this hair for different outfits.



jasper: i'm sorry, but you won't stop switching back into your broken default. you gotta go.

maid: oh thank god, your cat keeps trying to kill me.



oh goodie. 



jasper: i'm so. surprised? ah. 

beryl: could you be any more facetious?

jasper: ahhhh my god a baby what a surprising outcome



baby! :D 

also it's cute that beryl thinks of amillia while looking at baby. like 'i love this baby so much because i love amillia'.



this is emerald.

i'm not entirely sure we'll ever have a main line bakelite that doesn't have black eyes.



booyeah! professor kari achieved her lifetime want.



professor kari: mailbox, guess what!

mailbox: oh my god, you got the promotion? i'm so happy for you!





malachite: how dare you use the computer when i want to do so.

peridot: look how fun this game is, too bad you can't play it.



i'm glad for emerald adding a little more choice, but she is the last baby of this gen. i made sure of it.



doesn't stop them from trying, of course.



i use macrotastics to make jasper clean EVERYTHING because it fills his fun meter, but he autonomously magivestigiums while doing so, and lost his sparklies.



is this what mad scientists go to work in? seems a little... conspicuous. 



i made over the hallway, because it literally still had amber's bed in it. and at this point, we gotta move on from amber, the hallway dweller.



i might've watched some ts2 decorating videos on youtube and gotten the idea for accent shelves. i overuse them now.





I REALLY LIKE THIS WALLPAPER OK.



jade: gonna go do my homework!

malachite: gonna play mortal kombat all day.

jade: wow, malachite's so cool... what a top.



this might look like a picture of jasper turning on the mailbox for chatting up his wife, but it is actually jasper fulfilling his oft-rolled wish to cast corruptus locus. 



jasper: lightning and sadness are so funny! EHEHHEHEH

you know it brings a shitload of cockroaches too, right?

jasper: fuck



peridot is a really good mix of her parents, personality-wise. focused, like amillia, but slightly whimsical like beryl is.



professor kari: i have an important call to make, but i'm body-blocking this game until i can play it.

i feel like sims shouldn't seem this logical.



the cockroaches begin. and amillia, being one of my sims, walks straight over to them instead of literally anywhere else on the lot.



banjo: this is my favorite program.

beryl: ...you can talk?



beryl: it's like cats: the musical, but in real life, with a real cat, and with no music!



malachite: i am watching you.

banjo: foolish human. it is in fact YOU who is being watched.



banjo: what a fool. *minus*



i had jasper call the exterminator because there were cockroaches, and then it took this motherfucker forever to show up.

by the time he pulled onto the lot, all of the cockroaches had disappeared.





exterminator: work smarter, not harder. if the roaches die on their own, i don't have to deal with them.



he walked over here and started spraying, and the roaches magically appeared.

dude's good, he can detect ghost roaches.



okay, so he shows up late to kill cockroaches. there's no cockroaches when he arrives, but he uncovers a phantom infestation.

and yet jasper "i will have a thousand bees sting your face" bakelite feels it's impolite to interrupt his work.



bj (lol): ewww roaches.



stop catching GODDAMN butterflies and go assault that useless exterminator. 

jasper: BJ LOOKS BUSY.



i hate when stupid sims go unpunished. i stg i will have bj's head on a plate.



beryl: who's a cute baby? is it YOU?

spoiler: it's emerald.





i assume jasper is on the phone with one of his grandkids at this point, but i couldn't tell you which one. they're like an infestation at this point.

better get bj on it.





i've been having beryl get more serious about her magical abilities, so i placed her cauldron.



beryl: all of my kids are so smart and i'm so proud!!



jade: you're like my best friend, sis.

peridot: that's sad.

jade: rude. :c



in order to keep the house happy, the bakelites offer emerald into it, "this house has people in it" style. 

just kidding. i'm sure this is part of her aging up. the floor hungering for flesh is unrelated.



apparently this was a two-person job? kari started it and amillia finished it.



and amillia got Stuck Hand from it. so now she's in a constant state of "put 'er there". 



emerald! who has sad, droopy toddler eyes like beryl before her.



speaking of birthdays, peridot became a teen! and she is perfect. *__*



no. NO MORE. 25 is enough.

you know what? that's fucking it. you're going in the pit.



have fun not dying, asshole.



jasper: pfft surviving is easy. i'm a survivor. in the womb, i almost ate topaz to survive.



so here we have the pit. it's a nice 0 bedroom place with a combined kitchen/bathroom. lovely interior, concrete floors. open fire. flames, like you would have in actual hell.



banjo: i wish for those boxes to be emptied and opened, that i may sit in them and attack anyone who gets near.

ah, to be a cat.



beryl: say mom. mooooom. m-o-m.

emerald: crib? floor? wall? changing table? thermonuclear?

beryl: MOM.



peridot: playing mk3 is harder with these nails. :c



ahhh amillia got fired. i do chance cards occasionally and always subsequently realize why i usually don't.



but! it's fine. scientist wasn't amillia's dream, so now i can make her a journalist and reach her ltw.





why... why specifically fear the death of malachite? 

is something going to happen that i don't know about?



the best thing about peridot being a teen is that she can help pick up the slack caused by jasper being excommunicated to the pit.



spinny visited! unlike ruby, who had trouble getting kari to acknowledge him, spinny has no trouble. 



malachite: if this lady is my aunt, why have i never met her?

oh i didn't realize this was 'call out furbyq for never inviting family over' day but here we are.



I HOPE YOU DROWN IN THE RAIN





amillia: have you ever thought about joining an after-school sports team?

malachite: chess and shit-talking my family is more appealing as a recreational activity, honestly.



jasper: one bad thing about the pit is how easy it is to forget i'm down here... plotting your demise autonomously.



h o t.



beryl: i made grilled cheese of the void.

amillia: ...i gotta go.



beryl: god that cat box is really ruining the mood.

oh. sorry. our usual cleaner is kind of preoccupied if you want to take care of that.



malachite and spinny meet, for real this time. even though they were in a room together earlier, they still had no clue each other existed.



i feel like bakelites always take it one step too far. we're straight onto the 'watching you while you sleep' phase.



malachite: you're terrible at chess. how dare you wear the same pajamas as me, like you're some kind of winner.

jade: i just wanna play and have fun. :c



amillia had some free time, so i had her teach banjo some tricks to help with her job.



then banjo FLIES into the car, ready to go be a security cat.



hehe, look who's sun burnt now bit... did you grow a pencil mustache?

jasper: maybe. maybe not. who's to say?





and here we have emerald's room, which took me forever to finish making over, because i'm slow.







her room might actually be my favorite.



emerald: can you please get out of that divider and talk to me?

malachite: ok ok... just one more time. 

emerald: fine.

malachite: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CUUUUUT ME OOOOOFF, MAKE OUT LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED, MAKE ME THINK THAT WE WERE NOTHIIIING



a better shot of child emerald. 



beryl: i love you so much!

amillia: i love YOU so much. 

malachite: hi.



wh.

what. WHAT. 

HOW DID THAT LAMP. GET THERE

WHAT



banjo: i find the looming specter of death relaxing.



amazeballs.



as sim children do, they cornered amillia on the front porch so that she HAD to praise them.



beryl's OTH is tinkering, so i just. have her mess with the tv a little. 

eventually i'll get that maximum tinkering want fulfilled. +15,000 aspiration points is good.



professor kari: i'm sure there's better ways to play this game.

jade: 1v1 me irl grandma.



jasper: remember not-charles lee? what a character he was! his thing was that he wore the exact same outfit as charles lee.

apparently the pit is actually a vacation compared to the main house, so maybe some extra torment needs to be added.



PERFECT.

jasper: wait



professor kari: who's a good kitty? tbh this arrangement works for me, as long as i get to keep banjo up here.



mawreen: hello.

jasper: h... hi?

mawreen: what're you doing in my pit?

jasper: ...i will have you know, madame, that i was the first inhabitant of this pit.



malachite: ugh so embarrassing!

emerald: i think it's cute. 



beryl: you know what i'm gonna do? i'm gonna break this tv. and then i'm gonna fix it. and then i'm gonna break it again. that's what i do.



F I N A L L Y

i'm pretty sure mawreen is working well as a physical obstacle for navigating the pit, but i'd love to think this pic is after mawreen devoured jasper's soul and left his embittered husk to wither in the pit.



believe it or not, this little dragon is a bakelite cousin. i thiiiink this is tango, one of tourmaline's kids.



oh fuck. 



THERE'S SO MUCH HAPPENING AT THE SAME GODDAMN TIME.



tango: i gotta go, bro. aunt dying? gotta run.

also spinny got the same amount as beryl, which really says a lot.



well... even though professor kari died, we do still have some twin birthdays.

this is teen malachite.



and teen jade, who is gorgeous. this is, without a doubt, the perfect hair.



emerald: grandma died and i'm sad! and grandpa disappeared years ago, never to be found!

jade: he's... he's in the backyard. that does suck about grandma though. :/

sorry for the abrupt ending, but all we're waiting on now is for emerald to age up so i can ship everyone else off and it takes forever for the youngest sibling to catch up. see y'all soon.