2.2 - Magical Mayhem

 Welcome back to the Marsh Random Legacy. 

Logan: "Why DID the chicken cross the road?"

Our heir spends a lot of his time brooding, contemplating life's greatest questions.

When he's not brooding, he and Anwyn are pretty inseparable. The couple that games together stays together. :) 

Ivy: "Where did this come from?"

Logan: "I adopted her. Her name is Anna." *stares broodingly out the window*

Ivy: "My first grandbaby!"

Anna Marsh is the first member of generation 3! She is a friendly genius whose star sign is Libra. Her faves are digitunes, porcini risotto, and the color grey. Very fancy. :)

Note: Anna isn't eligible to become heir since she is adopted. 

Just because she was adopted doesn't mean she isn't 100% a Marsh though. Anwyn in particular loves rocking the nooboo in the tackily colored nursery (I'm not the world's greatest interior designer). 

Logan and Anwyn soon find themselves expecting a biological child as well. It was at this point that I realized I could make this legacy an actual plotty story if I really wanted to, especially with some things that spontaneously happened later in the game, but I know that writing such stories always slows me down, and I end up never finishing the actual legacy. 

So anyway feel free to imagine a dramatic storyline behind some of the events that happen in the legacy. :D 

NO! Seriously, this isn't cool. Tom lived to be 102, and poor Ivy here only made it to 92. :( 

Logan: "It's a wonderful day in the...oh my plumbob, Mom?!"

Ivy actually completed her LTW so her tombstone is the big fancy one. 

Comparison time between Sims 3 and Sims 4. I much prefer how pregnant sims look in the Sims 3. I think the sims get too cartoonishly big in 4. 

Ivy: "At least I got to meet my first grandchild while still alive!" 

Aww, Anna is a little cutie. And she's got some great traits too. I wonder if most adopted children start out with excellent traits to make up for the fact that they were living in the Sims version of foster care. 

Why are you freaking out, Ivy? You've done this yourself 3 times. 

Logan: "The miracle of life is so...mysterious." 

Stop brooding for half a second and take your wife to the hospital, lol. 

It's another baby girl! Meet Sarah Marsh. She is a Taurus who is Evil and Eccentric. Oh boy. Her faves are pop music, vegetarian salmon, and very appropriately, the color black. 

I never get to say this so early, but she is also the generation 3 heir! The roll for generation 2 was actually to have only 1 child, but the roll was also mixed couple so one adopted and one bio child, and so here we are. :) 

Also, I like to believe that Anwyn's eyes are glowing red, because she knows she just created an evil monster. >:) 

Logan: "This isn't Riverview."

Nope. Welcome to Isla Paradiso, courtesy of the Nraas Traveler mod. I decided I'd rather have Logan be a scuba diver than an explorer (where he'd have to go to the World Adventures locations), and the only way to do that was to travel to Isla Paradiso or build my own dive locations in Riverview, which, lol, was not happening. 

The Traveler mod is great, but let's just say you definitely want to have Error Trap as well and Overwatch, because the game was not meant to work like this, and it can start to get glitchy as hell. For example, the last few times I've sent Logan to Isla Paradiso, he keeps getting ripped off one whole travel day. His wishes also sometimes completely disappear traveling between worlds. 

So I've never played with Isla Paradiso before, and I love it! It's such a beautiful world. Also, watch your back, Logan.

Logan: "Why do I feel like I'm being watched?" 

SO. PRETTY. 

All the shinies will be ours! :D 

And not a moment too soon because with Ivy's death, the household is getting dangerously strapped for cash. 

 One major reason for that is that Anwyn still sucks as a magician. Luckily, she is a much better mom.

 Sarah grew up into a toddler, and the first thing she did was pick her nose. Ladies and gentleman, your heir!

Anwyn is determined to be the best magician she can be, but it's a long, hard slog with tons of failure along the way, a little too close to real life in my opinion, haha. 

It was around this point that I realized, based upon their traits alone, that I should have swapped Anwyn and Logan's careers. 

Anwyn is absent-minded, clumsy, socially awkward, frugal, and a virtuoso. Does a clumsy, socially awkward magician sound destined for fame and success? XD

Meanwhile Logan is charismatic like his mom Ivy, and I'm wondering if that wouldn't have helped him climb the ranks as a magician faster than Anwyn. Ah well, hindsight is 20/20. 

Newspaper Girl: "Wow, cute baby."

Logan: "Childhood is so innocent and fleeting..."

 Oliver decides to check out his sister-in-law's magical moves. And by check out I mean really check out. He's attracted to Anwyn! After this, he kept asking her out on dates all. the. time. See what I mean by I could totally have made this a real, dramatic story?

Oblivious to the drama, Logan focuses on teaching his toddlers their basic life skills. 

Anwyn: "I have a box now! Tada!" 

I will leave you with this picture of Anwyn in her gorgeous magician costume. Though getting her to become a successful magician has been difficult, it's all worth it just for these costumes. Seriously.