After the Legacy: the Stone boys

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I downloaded some new default eyes and loaded the game up to test them out. I didn’t like them (I like my cartoony eyes!), but having already loaded the game I wasn’t going to close it down just to put the old ones back in! I ended up playing for nine hours, and thus, all 204 pictures in this update will use the new eyes that I didn’t like. It’s not that they’re bad eyes, though, so I’m sure you’ll deal!

Now that’s out of the way, here’s a picture of Stewart trying to prove how smart he is by watching the New World news. As you can see, a building somewhere downtown has just exploded and caused a big fire.

Stewart didn’t think it was very interesting, and turned it off. “Doctors don’t have to know the news, anyway!”

I called the Gypsy Matchmaker, intending to get a date for Corey, but she merely dropped off another genie lamp.

Keen not to let my call have gone to waste, I got Corey to “rub the lamp”.

Genie: And what do you wish for, young man?
Corey: I wish to be BEAUTIFUL!!

Genie: Done!

Talk about false advertising: he looks exactly the same as before! But everyone at the nightclub (the pictures are all the victims of intense artifaction, so you do not get to see them) seemed to think he was irresistible, so I guess the genie knows what he’s doing…

At 3am one day, this mysterious man turned up on our doorstep — and woke everyone in the house up.

Since he kept ringing that stupid doorbell, I had Laura go greet him. “OH WHOOPS IT’S LATE, BETTER GO HOME, HAHAHA.” Jesus is an arsehole.

In part two of Estelle and Laura’s wonderful tale, I suggested that she might need some better bohemian clothes. To this end, I sent her Downtown (after Jesus woke her up).

Umm… she paid for the clothes. Not sure how this picture escaped excision.

Then I saw this guy — Jason Phelps, a miraculously non-bizarre name — swooning over Laura as he walked, and I decided to force Laura out of her comfortable monogamous ways and be Romance Sim she technically is.

Laura: I like politicians. Do you like politicians?

Jason: Oh, sure. I’m a big admirer of them proponents of peace.

Laura: Not the POLITICS, dude! The POLITICIANS!

Jason: Well, I SURE DO like what they can do with their missiles!
Laura: Now we’re talking!

Laura: So… do you want to try on some clothes with me?
Jason: Um, I met you five minutes ago? NO.

Laura: OK, dude, let’s try this again. You play by my rules, or you DIE.

Laura: I mean, you could always die… that’s your choice, and I’m not gonna stop you. It’d just be such a terrible shame…

Jason: Ahaha, death…

Jason: You know what, I may just write a book in your honour!
Laura: Yippee!

Laura: That’d be fantastic!

Jason: Or, you know, I could paint a portrait of you… I’m quite an artist in my spare time…
Laura:

Laura: How about I give you a preview of what you’d be painting?

So they make for the only sofa in the whole of the clothing store (clothing booths were a no-go — their lifetime relationship was only at 2…), and Mr Old Man turns up and thinks that he has found one foxy female.

Mr Old Man: Helloooooo, my name is John Smith*, and I’m… hey, wait? Foxy female? Foxy female, are you listening to me?

* like I was actually going to remember his name…

She wasn’t.

Mr Old Man: MY FOXY FEMALE IS SLEEPING WITH ANOTHER MAN RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME ARRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!

Mr Old Man vacates his chair and looks the other way. Mr Puffy Neon Vest sits down in his place.

Mr Puffy Neon Vest: Hey, wait… are they doing what I think they’re doing?

So, while we have sex going on in that little alcove, we have violence going on here. You see, as you may remember from the main legacy, there is actually a war going on, and the piffling little city-state of New World decided it could help. Rose Wade, on the left, thinks this is the most retarded idea ever and takes out her anger on Carmen Harrow, who finished her tour of duty and now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (and cries at the sound of helicopters).

However, even soldiers suffering from PTSD can fight back.

Carmen: How dare she insult my job! My friends! Those people who died for our country!

General Simpson tries to talk some sense into this irresponsible citizen, but Rose Wade was having none of that.

Rose: MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
General Simpson: *cringes*

Laura cares a lot.

Carmen: I HEARD THAT FLAGRANT COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. HOW DARE YOU DISGRACE THE MEMORY OF OUR SOLDIERS WITH YOUR LIES!!

This’ll teach that hippie!

Laura: Oh, baby… we should do that again some time…

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

That little peacemonger got her arse kicked. All the shoppers in the store were nonplussed — this clearly isn’t a very popular war…

Laura: Wasn’t that a fun morning?

This is the second stranger to turn up uninvited on our doorstep. The second of many.

So. Here is that outfit I was talking about! On a whim, I decided to check out the clothes that came with the Free Time EP, and there were a whole bunch that were exactly what I was looking for. I chose the red one, to match Laura’s hair.

After a good dose of coffee, Laura sets to work painting. C’mon, the morning’s adventure was enough romance for our little artist for, like, a decade…

Uninvited guest #3. Though at least we know this one.

This is Corey’s “friend” BJ.

Stewart wonders if he can prove his intelligence by getting all cultural on me. He gave up pretty fast, though.

See, Jordan’s better at being cultural than Stewart is!

Corey really likes BJ.

BJ really likes Corey.

So, like Goopy before him, BJ is disappeared up to Corey’s bedroom…

…and some afternoon fun was had.

Laura paints so much that she starts glowing.

According to the art club, this is something to be congratulated about.

It’s so nice to see the maid taking an interest in his son…

SMUSTLE PARTY!!! Nowhere near the radio…

Jordan turns into one good-looking teenager! He rolls Romance as his aspiration (damn loaded dice), and I think his LTW is to be a Celebrity Chef. Not sure, though.