Arya bought a decent sized plot and some canny planning enabled her to have a rather nice one-room place. She even had enough left over to buy a laptop! But the days were lonely, and random ringing of bells later, she zeroed in on mega-loser Buck Broke.

And this is how it all started.

Buck, despite having a flirty edge to him, proved surprisingly difficult to get into bed, but the moment Arya managed, she took no chances and got herself pregnant.

Wooing Buck... check out the bunny slippers!

Arya was doing quite well at work and started on the multi-volume Oxford family legacy (that she expects future generations to keep up). The book bombed, but heck, they haven’t much of a legacy yet. To be honest, there was almost none, as she did her best to commit suicide…

Suicide bid...

Anyhow, she lived and thrived and stole watermelons, and a few days later gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, Nadia.

Nadia Oxford: The next generation

What comes next? Who can tell?

~Janny

Well, Roshan grew up to be a snob and a musical genius, and Madhu an excitable, chess-mad, athlete. Erin passed on when Madhu was a child, but she liked to think that it was her influence that gave the little girl her interest in sport. Anyhow, Erin’s death meant the Subramaniams came into a lot of money, with which they bought this house:

The house that the Subramaniams built

The ground floor plan

First floor plan

Well, anyhow, they love their house. The kids have bikes and all. Roshan appears to be getting serious about his girlfriend and his music, though for some reason I have no photos of him. Madhu passed into teenage a couple of days ago and has a penchant for working out or sneaking off to the beach for a bit of making out…

Madhu contemplating growing up

Madhu makes out at the beach

Dad Ravi is sous chef at the local swank restaurant, while mum Madhavi is a big shot executive in a business firm. Madhavi has her eyes firmly set on reaching the top, no matter now many toes she has to step on, whereas Ravi is already contemplating retirement with a little kitchen garden and lazy mornings at the beach.

Roshan is all set to pass into adulthood in three days and his girlfriend is a “hopeless romantic”. Will they start making babies immediately? What about Madhu — will herrelationship go anywhere? Hmm… we shall have to see.

~Janny

God, it’s painful! I so want OFB, but it’s not available where I live any more. Of course, I have a new neighbourhood, along with a new Legacy family. Their name is Tenner. The founder, June, has two children, Dana and Mark. Dana is the heir.

June is a single parent, and cash are still pretty tight in the Tenner household. Dana has a part-time job after school to do what she can.

New neighbours have moved in next door, a bunch of rather mysterious people. They’re calling their lot Torchwood, and no one really knows what they do. There are three of them, Jack, Toshiko and Ianto, and they have a lot of money. I have a feeling they are going to be very entertaining!

~Janny

I was getting so sick of them—they were too rich and there were too many of them. Anyway, there’s a brand new legacy now, the Lake family! Faith Lake was the founder, and *cough* I cheated a bit. I had her have a kid with Jan Carlsson, who’s one of the Sims I made. I know that’s against Legacy rules, but what the heck, all the townies were too ugly.

Anyway, Erik is on the verge of teen-hood now. Jan saw Faith making out with Benjamin Long (ew! I know!) and he stamped out of the house.

As for poor Jan, he has to cool his heels till his future partner safely negotiates childhood and grows up! It’s so hard when you have to plan so many lives!

~Jan

Was up to generation 5 in my Legacy family, but it was getting out of hand. Moral of the story: make only one offspring per generation in the Legacy next time.

Since I deleted the neighbourhood Eternal City, there is a new one called Andara (the official name for the Eternal City). It has two families at the moment, the Carlssons and the Fullers.

Sabine and Otto Carlsson were the founder family of Andara. They had four kids: Jan (of course!), Kristina, and the twins Evert and Mia. It was a tough job playing this family of six because only Otto was going out to work. When Sabine was not busy having and bringing up the kids, she was running a home business selling flower arrangements. Money was always tight.

Now Jan and Kristina are grown up. Kristina went to university, dropped out, and is now a single mother with a son, Henrik. Jan has also moved out, and his future is, of course, related to the Fullers

Helen and John Fuller have two kids: Laura and Stephen (aha!), both teenagers now! I’m trying to get Laura fixed up with Evert Carlsson.

And I have to SOMEHOW get Stephen and Jan to meet and fall in love! *sigh… what a romantic* (And in case anyone’s interested, I made Otto and Sabine really ugly so they’d have ugly kids, but Jan is quite pleasant to look at. Stephen, on the other hand, looks like a… well… not too good!)

But with the Fullers and Carlssons breeding with each other, I think I’ll soon need some more families in the neighbourhood.

~Janny

In between she managed to have and sort of raise three kids (Sara, the heiress, Alicia and Yazid). She also managed to have a long-standing affair with Jan Lindahl, and two of those three kids are his!

She married Seth (I forget his original surname) and it’s a tribute to that man’s trust that he has never questioned why Maya produced two very pale kids when he is certainly not pale himself!

Generation 2, Yazid, finally died at 85. He was on a platinum high since mid-elderhood, so he was greeted by the Grim Reaper with a glass of fruit punch as two hula zombies danced for him. Somehow I don’t think he’ll be bored in heaven.

Anyway, his grandkids are gearing up to carry on the glorious Kassem legacy. Two are in teenage, and one is still a kiddie.

~Jan

My first-born Legacy generation 3, Luc, was supposed to move in with the youngest Lindahl offspring, Vendela. But he fell for Laci Ying as well, and got her pregnant. As that was happening, Vendela was sneaking past Luc’s door, with a big bouquet of roses to thank him for a dream date, and she happened to peek in at the window (what a voyeur, I swear!).

Anyway, now Vendela walks by at periodic intervals knocking Luc’s trashcan over. I think she might ultimately settle for Xen Emon, and they might get married even.

I’d actually forgotten about the existence of the Emons… or the Anhels, which leaves poor Rehan doomed to be a child for ever! And I really have to play the Lindahls if I want to bring up Jan, who I intend to have a significant role to play in the production of Legacy generation 4 with Maya Kassem.

I wish he’d die—his job on this planet is done.

His kids Maya (the heiress) and Luc got into private school. Luc is now a teenager. He’s having it off with two local lasses… sigh.

As for Maya, I’ve already rolled the dice for her. She’s to have the Family aspiration. I’m really not looking forward to having little Sims running about. Hopefully by then Yazid will be a ghost and will scare the living daylights out of them!

I like being Sim God!

~Jan

But life goes on. Yazid married his university lover Melanie Wolosenko and soon enough, the third generation popped out. As you can see here from the profusion of pink, it was a boy. They called him Luc. However, for various reasons, the designated offspring to carry on the legacy is not him, but his sister Maya. You can see her here, learning a very important life skill, potty training.

With Sara’s death, the number of family friends has fallen drastically, and Yazid and Melanie have their work cut out with their careers, bringing up the kids and keeping their spirits in the green. It doesn’t help that Sara’s ghost roams the premises, scaring her family. I notice their bladder control is weak when faced with spirits.

Well, at least they have a nice house.

~Jan

Well, all right, I cheated a bit—I used the motive decay cheat to freeze his motives. He spent all his time between classes building skills. As a result of which he has maxed out all but two skill sets.

He’s moved back to the Eternal City and his university lover Aiyana Phelps has moved in with him. She brought in a whole lot of money (close to 17,000 simoleons), so if you have a Sim getting friendly with her, I’d say go for it!

~Jan