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Oh, Generations. You give in many ways – new interactions, objects and experiences.

Yet in so, so many ways you take away. Memories. Reputations. Compulsory punishments for kids. And the BBFVFS you sem to have turned the Daye and Populous saves into. So this chapter represents three attempts at gameplay. The Dayes should count themselves lucky, though. They can get through two or three sim days at a time. The Populouses are lucky to get through a few hours.

I’m very glad that the first attempt crashed though. Many, many bad things happened.

Bramble wanted to enrol Blackberry in the School of Peace and Love. I didn’t realise at the time this would mean she was sent away until she turned teen – and whilst I’m going to be sending kids to all the private schools, I didn’t want to start that just yet, with all the Generations stuff to play with.

Bramble got old. Without completing ANY of the mixology skill challenges.

Everyone glitched all over the place.

And then this happened. Bugger.

The thing is, I am always telling Mona to cure herself but the architect career is such a pain for vampires with all that hanging around waiting for clients. It was inevitable that one day this would happen – I’m surprised it took so long.

Thing is, I would have just let this happen. I would have waited until Oh My Ghost! came up and resurrected her – in many ways, a ghost Mona would be easier to manage, although it’d be a shame that my thirst ghost was the spouse of an heir who’d already given kids to the legacy rather than an actual descendant.

Look though, snazzy gravestone, even without achieving her LTW.

Of course though, all of this never happened. So onto the second attempt.

Pregnant-looking elderly townies isn’t a *great* sign.

Alley had to eat at the restaurant for a celebrity opportunity. I sent her with Lola Belle to see a) if that’d help her celeb score and b) to start a plan I have in motion. They just stood around. The game crashed again.

Still, third time’s a charm right? The maid looked like she was cleaning… but there were still a load of dirty surfaces, plates, rubbish and laundry around, so I think she believes putting away ONE thing of food is worth my 125 simoleans.

I like the idea of Blackberry being a bit naughty, so she put a whoopee cushion under the sofa.

Why grandma, what a comfortable seat…

It’s a bit disappointing that her reaction was just to get up and pull a face. Boo, EA, where’s the funny noise? Mona got a -10 1h ‘Pranked’ moodlet, whilst Blackberry got a 12h +15 ‘successful prank’ one. The gains outweigh the losses (well, they did in this case because Blackberry wasn’t caught).

Alley finally ate at the restaurant. She had the wrong food, ate it, was given some excellent vegetables and puked her guts up. Oh.

These two are still being romantic. For my cunning plan. Which I hope will come into fruition next chapter.

I still don’t understand what you lot are up to. I thought it might be a gnome baby, but none as yet.

And finally… Mona and I made a big decision.

I couldn’t stand the sunlight reactions any longer, so we bought her the un-vampire potion from the science lab (although she wouldn’t drink it in front of me, so I didn’t see the animation). This now puts her at 0 days to elderhood and she doesn’t have enough LTH yet to buy the age freeze potion or the resetting back to young adulthood – but hopefully she’ll manage to earn more before she dies so we can turn back the tide and get her LTW to complete. If she doesn’t, I think we’ll just call time on it and declare it impossible.

Sorry it’s so short – limited time to play, and limited success when playing – but join us next time to see how my plans for Alley and Puddle develop, to discover if Bramble can get anywhere at all with mixology and to hopefully see Blackberry playing with Generations some more.

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