the bakelite legacy 6.2

[furbyq]

we start off with primadonna immediately, and i mean IMMEDIATELY, having her baby.



everybody, including primadonna, who is in labor: WHO THE FUCK IS THIS GUY



baby!! this is jet bakelite. i haven't specified up to now, but jet, onyx, and bismuth have similar personalities (i believe they're scorpios-- lots of neat points, no nice points) and zircon is a wild card capricorn.



yep that's where the baby goes. right on the floor.



quartz: speaking of children, my womb is inexplicably empty at the current moment.

peter williams: i can help with that!

jasper: you guys are so weird.



skylar sells a painting he didn't even paint in order to fulfill the "sell a masterpiece" want. he's really playing this game the right way.



and thus, we receive some chimes for quartz and peter's future hellspawn.



i have never in my life experienced the holiday events in sims 2. and really, i could've never experienced them and my life would be the same amount of fulfilled.



the way the titties peek out of these pillows makes me giggle a lot.



primadonna shows that she's decent at childcare but she mostly ignores jet in favor of bismuth and zircon. which seems... not right.



luckily skylar is here to help! and he's not even related to any of these children!



onyx is still a cutie. and being a solo child for any length of time means she got all her skills pretty easily.



jasreen: um i can't use this computer that you keep in storage because there's no CHAIRS



i think the "ask to be read to" action is annoying and i'm glad primadonna shut it down.

i mean, the animation is cute, but when you're trying to manage four kids and a pregnant sim, there's no time for this.



i always forget that sims can watch other sims play arcade cabinets! it's such a nice little interaction.





jasreen and peter find common ground playing chess. peter's just happy that he knows someone in the house other than quartz now.



quartz: i think we have a live one! or my love of grilled cheese is turning on me.

primadonna: too many bakelites, too many bakelites.



still unsure how jasreen's mouthwatering strawberries translate to so many sparkly dishes.





i sent endica, quartz, and jasreen out AGAIN to see if i could figure out public woohoo and it's kind of defeated me.

i looked up how to do it and my bitches still won't do it, so i assume i have a mod problem. which is super.



amber: if you weren't my sister i might bang you repeatedly in the face with a gavel.

jasreen: I'M YOUR SISTER? HOW MANY OF YOU GUYS ARE THERE



i believe this nice lady is called claire seahaven, but unfortunately, quartz didn't have any chemistry with her.



moonstone: excuse me? i can't get through here! nothing is in my way!

mawreen: all my grandchildren are so smart.



so i learned the hard way that the bad makeup is just... stuck on jasreen permanently now. i tried to remove it and it was a no-go, so this is just her face.

she's pretty psyched about the new hair though!



jasreen: i look marvelous!

hairdresser guy i forgot his name: there's a large mirror right in front of you.

jasreen: i find that i am more palatable in small doses and mirrors.



amber: *lurks. and snacks*



i had no clue that sims could age up on community lots (which may be a mod thing, idk), which means that jasreen undid my hard salon work almost immediately.



luckily mr. salon guy had his shit together this time and was able to repeat his success.



since fulfilling public woohoo wasn't an option, i thought maybe we could work on quartz's "woohoo with 10 sims" want and i had her invite quilk to the strip mall.

he asked if he could bring a friend. i mean. this is a public place so quartz can't exactly stop him.



moonstone and endica get along better than i remember them doing in college. which slightly worries me.



quilk's friend was charles lee! he's back again.

quilk himself didn't even stay on the lot. he showed up for a split second and immediately left, so charles lee was the real MVP of this encounter.



damn even charles lee would hit it



jasreen came to the lot in her pjs and now she's just an old woman with fucked up makeup in a nightgown who socializes with everyone on the lot.



jasreen: what a nice boy to be best friends with. :)

quartz: mom, please, i'm trying to lock this charles lee thing down.







eventually, quartz ran out of energy and had to run home before she passed out. it was a pretty successful trip overall!



round 57 of trying to get jasper's green sparklies back



sapphire ages up and she looks great! you probably wouldn't have noticed if i hadn't pointed it out.



onyx also aged up and i made the unfortunate decision to give her glasses. look ok, something has to differentiate these kids because let's get real. they're all going to have quartz's face.





peter williams wants to be best friends with onyx for some reason. i say shoot for the stars, peter williams.



this pic just exists for me to squeak at how nice endica looks in these athletic outfits i made forever ago.



i didn't even notice until this point that skylar also aged up while quartz and the others were gone! all that changed were his little eyebrows.







zircon and bismuth have birthdays! and they're both extremely cute.

you may be like "wow, zircon has a normal face" but they have the absolute worst eyebrow bones. i'll show those off later.

for some reason, the makeover i gave bismuth makes me think of amelie.



yeet the baby



skylar: man, jasper's mom was HOT

you are correct





this pic exists to showcase skylar's tiny makeover. and to shout him out again since he's the only one really helping skill the toddlers.



i had quartz invite charles lee over to possibly have another heir with in the future.

i thought about moving him in, but i feel like charles lee is better as a townie for now.







jasreen: i'm into it.

quartz: mom, please. i'm talking to charles lee.



charles lee: charles lee knows secrets of lovemaking you could only dream of.

opal: damn you sure sound like a cishet man right now, charles lee.



everyone gossips about garnet, and i'm assuming it's because of his marriage to mawreen.

which i've decided is strictly for tax reasons, given that i'm pretty sure garnet is gay.



sometimes i wish we could double up on babies in ts2. get some kangaroo shit going.





one of the rooms gets a small makeover for onyx.

i haven't been feeling decorating recently and my folder is a mess so excuse the lackluster pics. /o\





peter: what the fuck??



peter: how dare you cheat on me with charles fuckin lee?!



yes, i forgot to properly set peter's jealousy. no i don't want to talk about it.



peter: hey congrats on the degree

quartz: thanks!

jasper: can you guys go somewhere else?

professor kari: yeah, we're gonna fuck in sapphire's bed.



this is like... quartz's harem runoff room i guess? currently peter sleeps in here. i also put one of those carpet divider fences down so the crib wasn't an issue.



skylar had a want to throw a kickass party, so i indulged him. he responded by immediately going to bed after the guests had been invited.



probably because he invited like eight people and only these three showed up. womp womp.



crystal still exists! and honestly, she and quartz have a lot in common.



i think i threw a regular party, but i decided to take advantage of the guests and plopped a cake down for jet.



and then proceeded to not get pictures of her as a toddler for several images. oops.



jasper wanted to cast an ~evil~ spell, so i had him cast mellifera attackum on his sister.



and, not really feeling quartz as a witch, i had jasper turn endica into one! i think it fits her better.



the toddlers were really neglected during the party. and their entire lives, really, unless i stay on the adults to interact with them.



here's toddler jet! she has quartz's face but she's a cutie.





i panic skilled the twins because they were close to aging up, and luckily got all their skills done.

however, they had glitchy aspiration bars... basically at some point my game started breaking down and it had a bunch of glitches that took me forever to fix and that was one of them.





opal decided that SHE could throw a better party than skylar and demanded i let her throw one, so that happened. at least more people came to hers.



...some interesting sims indeed.





AND LIKE SKYLAR OPAL IMMEDIATELY WENT TO BED

NEVER LET ELDERS THROW PARTIES



so this happened and i was like alsdjklsjadksjdkskldl



WHEN DID YOU GUYS GET CHEMISTRY



jasper knows what kind of party this is





opal: LOOK AT THIS TOTALLY RAD MOVE

onyx: grandma, no one says rad anymore. they say poggers.







ok so here we go. quartz decided to have the GLITCHIEST birth i have ever experienced in ts2.



NOT EVEN MENTIONING THE FACT THAT SHE HAD TRIPLETS.

but essentially she birthed two children that i named diamond and pearl, and then the game decided, you know what? i'm going to eat the third child. it's not going to be born and you can't name it and basically fuck you.

so i panicked and tried a bunch of debugging stuff and eventually



OPAL WAS JUST. HOLDING THE THIRD CHILD. WHO STILL DIDN'T HAVE A NAME AT THIS POINT



eventually she set him down and he became unable to be interacted with, so i had to pick him up and delete him. i thought at this point he was truly gone.



don't even talk to me about the fact that all these kids have given me so many sims that i have a second line on the sidebar now.



ARBITRARILY, the Forbidden Child eventually reappeared on the lot and immediately aged up to toddler, so i gave him a small makeover and considered the saga over. he seems to be working like a normal sim now.



SPEAKING OF THE TRIPLETS THOUGH

i had to age the other two up to match The Forbidden Child and THIS ONE HAS A NORMAL ASS FACE



also bismuth's hand was pixelated for a little while? basically my game was having a Time.



bismuth and zircon aged up around the same time that the triplets were born and i promised a peek at zircon's eyebrows. so here they are.



they look relatively normal with hair certain hairs though!



bismuth also aged up and she's a mean little sim.



so to set the record straight, this is diamond. he has a normal face because he looks like peter.



this is pearl, whose face is possibly the MOST fucked up.



this is Obsidian, the Forbidden Child.



and after all that nonsense i needed to do something for Me, so i called over quilk because i would like a cute turquoise alien baby if possible, please game.





we got chimes! so hopefully next time we'll get some good news on the heir front, instead of a choice between five quartz faces and two relatively normal ones. i would like something in the middle, game.