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And here we go with the next generation! I am thinking it removed the two families because they weren't set on played, so I put everyone back in the "played" category.. and so far so good. Early on in this third generation, I had some glitches where my game got stuck and said there was a sim aging up when there wasn't one.. so I had to play the same three or four days over and over again. I almost got so frustrated I didn't want to keep going.. but then I pulled an all-nighter building new lots for my vampire-y sims and the community lot.. and that got me right back into this challenge. For the rest of the generation, I was obsessively saving each sim day so I wouldn't have to replay much if it glitched again.... haha.

Generation 3

First, the proper vampire house (since I never bothered to take screens of the starter home.. the oil strike happened so early I just upgraded the home right away):

Shot of the kitchen I added:

And the family:

Heir: Alec Newcrest (Loves outdoors, Mean, Active, Vampire Family, Responsible)
Partner: Aanya Srinivasan (Good, Goofball, Perfectionist, Party Animal) - I also turned her into a vampire

I rolled a 2 for their kids, and a 1 for the first kid being the heir.

• Heir: Ashlyn (Perfectionist, Dog Lover, Music Lover, Bestselling Author)
• Sibling: Dylan (Dog Lover, Glutton)

Events that happened during this generation:

• Oil struck +50k (used to build a proper vampire home, hence the no pictures of his starter home)
• Spring fest add a baby. Rolled 1-5 for eligible families (the master vamp is not eligible, imo) got a 2, so added a little girl Mackenzie to the Callaway family
• Fire! 5000 paid to recover the community lot.
• Alec completed Vampire Family aspiration (..that was a lot easier than I expected. Their heir is still only a toddler!)
• Built the third community lot (the Museum), thereby lifting the medicine restriction.. no more unexpected woohoo accidents! YAY!
• Our first Casanova moves in! (Yay! Finally!) There are seven eligible females (oops eight.. forgot the heir's wife.. yikes!) ... I rolled a seven, which means the single newly vampired Laila Ashton gets a new man. I decided he'll stay with her. Let's see.. heads he's a vampire, tails he's human... tails wins. (gee, I wonder whether the baby will be human or vampire?!) The Casanova's name is Kyle Sears and he rolled Clumsy, Materialistic, Romantic (oh... nice one.) and Computer Whiz. The best part? He moves in just in time to see her transform into a vampire... haha! A few socials, some romancing, and voila... baby on the way! (I cheated a bit and let them be boyfriend and girlfriend... since the game won't do it on it's own.) .. update.. baby is a boy named King.. and yep, he's a vampire (and SO glad it's not me playing him because he rolled Clingy!)
• Family moves in (Valentine). Rolled a 3 for number of members. Going to put them in one of the empty homes from Gen one and two. (ended up putting them in the Frantz house with a makeover.)
• Alec ranked up to Grand Master Vampire. Woot! My first one ever! And just to make sure he sticks around, he's immune to sunlight. haha!
• And here.. is where I went a bit off the rails. I got so bored I sent Ashlyn (the heir) and Alec off to the lounge I edited to add in a bowling alley in the basement. I hadn't tested it yet, and I figured why not send them out to a night of bowling. Turns out I am so woefully lax on actually playing with the new features the game and stuff packs bring... I didn't even know there was a bowling skill! 0.o EEK! I guess you can say I wasn't bored anymore. I even took it off of fast speed to watch their epic fails and gutter balls. And so now I bring you some shots I couldn't help but take before we get back to the challenge as a whole. Oh, and for the record. Alec unashamedly won with a score of 58.... poor guy (then a 90.. I guess that's better... lol) Anyway, excuse the pic spam. Back to our regularly scheduled challenge in a moment.. the last pic is of some really cool flaming ball action that some other sims were doing.. I will definitely be doing more bowling!

• Building permits fail, have to gain two points in logic. .. Done.
• Ashlyn becomes an "A" student in grade school! First Newcrest to do that!
• Ashlyn rolls Dog Lover! Yay! Next generation will unlock pets. Also, just to make things easier, Alec and I went ahead and cured her vampirism since she won't need it next generation.
• Oh, no...!! The next event roll was for a family to leave town. I can't tell you how tempted I was to pretend I hadn't seen it and reroll. Rolled a five, which made Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt be the one chosen. I guess that's no so bad, since Alec can be the town master vampire now. I deleted his house, too, since I hadn't built it. At this point, I also decided that since his house was gone and Alec was taking over, I would build them a new house. I had a ton of money sitting around (some 70k) from Alec's gardening and painting, so I decided that the clunky house I built was going to be deleted. I moved them out to the lot where I used to have the master vampire in (up on the hill) and started building. Built the entire shell and had about 20k leftover for painting and such. Because it's such a BIG house, I have a bunch of empty rooms, so Alec is going to be back to painting non-stop to furnish the rest of the rooms in the 12 days I have left before Ashlyn grows up and is ready to move out. Anyway, here's the house as it is now... more pics when it's "finished" at the end of the generation.

• Ashlyn gets another "A" in high school. Another first!
• Another first... Ashlyn and her mother, Aanya got into a knock down drag out fight in the living room. Ashlyn won, if you'll believe that.. why the fight got started? Who knows. Aanya was in a mean mood swing, though, so that definitely brought the fight about.. but I've certainly never had a free will sim get into a fight. Took me completely off guard.
• And the last event for the generation... adding a baby. Rolled for the 7 eligible female sims in town... got a four, and the Valentines got a little boy named Korbin.

Lots Built/ Families Moved in:

• Lioncourt family (master vampire downloaded from gallery since I deleted all the town's vampires before starting the challenge.) - Genius Bookworm, Neat, and it looks like he has practically the whole powers list learned.. Someone put some time into this guy. LOL. His house is downloaded from the gallery, I explored it a little bit, but not much more. It sure looks cool at the top of that hill though.

• Ashton family (from Charisma 6) - Laila (Genius, Creative, Mean, and wants to be a Good Vampire) - somehow she rolled a vampire want when I already planned to turn her into a vampire with my heir. Since I rolled a lousy one she'll be moving into town all by her lonesome. I built her a fabulous mansion with a big hedge maze in the back yard in Forgotten Hollow.

• Valentine family (event roll.. got a 3, and moving them into the old Frantz house since it's empty.) - Maritza (Materialistic, Jelous, Snob, Big Happy Family), Diego (I admit, I rerolled his traits twice because of his look. The traits he initially rolled totally were alien to this man.) (Outgoing, Music Lover, Bro, Fabulously Wealthy), and Child Billy (Rambunctious Scamp, Glutton). Since somehow the furnishings got erased, I went ahead and custom designed the shell of the Franz house to fit with this family. So the house will look familiar, but with completely different furnishings.

• The Royal Museum - (Natural Light, Sunny Aspect, and Home Studio) This is built off a shell I got from the Gallery. I took one look at the big lot for the Willow Creek Museum and hit a big blank wall. So I ended up downloading one called Royal-Shell that was a big, rangy-looking house with a lot of charm (read: it's all colored and decorated and landscaped outside, I only had to figure out what to do with the insides). I spent hours on it. Literally. (and when taking screenshots I still noticed four little things I overlooked. Oh well. It's still awesome. And, yes, I uploaded it.

Town Stats: Three community lots (park, lounge, and museum), 7 families and 19 sims total.

Oh, and an update on the two community lots from Gen 1 and 2 - both now have lot traits. I'm not using lot traits on my sims' homes, but since I rarely go to community lots, I made them more enticing in the hopes that I'd actually use the lots. The jury is out on whether or not that will work, though. (It hasn't yet...)  Anyway, the park is Party Place, Bracing Breezes, and Sunny Aspect. The Lounge is Convivial, Great Acoustics, and Party Place.

And, as promised - pics of the finished house. (they ended up with some 60k unspent after the 20k for move out, so Alec was definitely on a roll with his painting!) The main floor - where all of their rooms are, and where they spend almost all of their time:

The upstairs has two virtually identical suites designed for a human servant and or butler, left locked to the household:

And the downstairs Master Vampire lair (since Alec needs a coffin to sleep in), and the home bowling alley that I think they used all of twice:

Ashlyn, The heir for next generation:

Oh, and I have decided to start doing the event roll twice a week. Wednesday and Sunday. I'm just finding the population hard to keep up, and getting all lots filled will be really tough as it is now. Also, changing one event that just isn't feasible MOST of the time and adding three more events to the 12 to make raising the population a little easier.

• 3 - another Casanova (female, this time) moves in
• 13 - add baby to a MALE sim household
• 14 - add a family (4 sims)
• 15 - the second female Casanova to round out the total

I am currently working on the fourth generation with a Vet Clinic (which keeps things interesting, I will say!) and the next heir is a child, so I'm moving right along. It took me a bit longer than I expected to get all of the screenshots for this post in order, hence the delay getting this published.

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