Caelum is an Aries, 5/8/6/3/3. He's a Knowledge sim. He likes red-heads with glasses and is mortified of vampires. We're starting him off in college. He rolled Political Science as his major. Right, so one of my rules is to max out all skills. This will get easier as time goes on, but right now it's going to suck, so Caelum grinds away while he's in college. By the way, his LTW is to max out all skills. Lucky!
Out delightful cafeteria man, Curtis Carr, lit the kitchen on fire. Thankfully Caelum was in the bathroom, otherwise occupied. No breaks after college. He'll have to deal with those fires. It was time for him to meet the locals, perhaps scope out a few spouse possibilities. So he went out to the Library. Ha! There he met Michael, Hades and Tethys Cygnus, Caelum did not find Tethys attractive, but hit it off great with Hades. I mean, really great. We found our first monster.
Ho shit! I forgot about the knowledge aspiration benefit: Eureka! Ho ho ho, awesome! He might be a knowledge sim, but he sucks at skilling, so this'll come in so handy. I think I was uber spoiled with that Edu Bookshelf.Alright, I'm having the same problems with this legacy as the last. My dorm mates keep sleeping in my bed and not in their own. They're the same! Homigod, I played through 3 semesters without saving. Scary! Caelum graduated Summa Cum Laude and skilled like freaking pad, he's got 64/70 skill bars! And by the time he was forced off campus he was 69/70, All he has in his inventory is his college diploma. Since it's easy making money, I figure I'll give myself more of a hard time.
So, I can't delete anything I buy from here on out. I'm going to have some crappy shit at first. By the way, this does mean walls and all that. So to start off with, Caelum gets a wall, a toilet, a shower and a fridge. That's it. There I took a picture. Mr Humble left his little present. I can't sell the damn thing and my funds are at $105. Broke as shit.
Pallas, Demeter, and Edith mosy on over to welcome the new family to Ebonwood. Pallas already heart-farted the man and Caelum doesn't look displeased. Back it up, Pallas, this one needs kids. Since there was nothing better to do, all four of them started preforming Tai Chi. Poor dude, can't even afford a bed. Caelum took a job so he could at least afford a bed. He came home promoted- then the game crashed. Not cool, yo.This time I skipped the shower and bought a bed instead. Caelum took a job in Law, which corresponds with his diploma. Came home, was able to get the shower after all. I need to find that gypsy woman for her re-nu-nu chug. Who never came around and all the Cygnus women he tries to hit on he has negative chemistry bolts for. Wonderful. That's hella weird 'cause he gets along so well with the Cygnus men.
You know, for someone who's supposedly behind the times, Caelum really enjoys the company of Servos. He's friends with Michael, Ariel and Sandalphon. They're just really nice robots, though. He got along well with Rhea, too. No bolts, though. Augh, this sucks. I need to find that gypsy woman. Finding the right woman is going to be impossible if I can't find her. I shouldn't have rolled Caelum's turn-ons. I just realized a flaw in my handicaps. I can't write novels without a computer and I'm not allowed electronics. Shit. Umm. Never mind the Storytelling one then. Ha! Well, don't I feel like an idiot. I was so excited about that part.Whoops, I got Caelum fired. Oh, wells. I found my Cygnus spouse! Metis! He proposed to her their first date and got married right after said date. Holy shit! They do legitly have 3 bolts for each other. That's so freaking cute! Wow, she moved in with $359 and 4 $18,000 aquariums. (I'm selling those, it's money fodder, I don't care if that's pseudo-cheating.)
Oh, goodie, Caelum's being abducted by aliens! Get alien pregnant! Get alien pregnant! HA! Yes! Oh, shit. They're both pregnant. What have I done?!
25 career paths. 10 generations, 3 kids per generation. Caelum and Metis can't have a nanny, so at least one is going to have to be a stay at home parent. Caelum's already permaplat. He's not good at keeping jobs anyway. But! I found him a job in the military path and Metis plays Mommy.Metis goes into labor with a baby girl named Mensa. Then Caelum to another girl, Camelopardalis, Cam, for short. She's got her daddy's eyes. Flying tuxedo toddlers! Mensa grows up. She's an Aries like her pappi, 10/10/5/4/6. Cam toddlerfies not long after, dear hell, she's horrible. Cam's a Virgo, 10/6/4/3/3.
God bless smart milk, Mensa and Camelopardalis are skilling like crazy! The baby girls became children and Metis went into labor with another baby girl, Dorado. All girls. Funderful. Welp, that's a fantastic way to start this legacy! I'm going to bed.
So, Caelum maxed out his skills, married Metis, had 3 babies, he just needs to become a monster and reach the top of his military career. He's got 5 days before becomes an elder. Hmm, you know what? I'll be a little haxy and go to Hades' to turn Caelum. It should have been allowed anyway! Also, I figure to get around the storytelling thing, I'll make a room only accessible to the founder/heirs and that's where they'll write their novels.Right! so, back on the Cygnus lot, Hades can't invite Caelum over for some reason, so I'm sending him to a community lot to make his dastardly move. Oh! Hahahaha, he tried inviting Caelum over in the middle of the night, that's why, okay, never mind. Caelum's on his way over. And the deed is done! Caelum joins the forces of the monster army! Back on the Seraph lot, he reaches the top og the military career track! He's a General.
Now all he's got to do is write that novel. He had the whole weekend to do it, too... He got it done in one day. All his challenges have been met, yes, some rather haxily, but met, nonetheless. So the novel, the handicap requires a story, and it's up for interpretation so this is my interpretation.
Caelum Seraph
I write this with a heavy heart, for I must tell the tale of my family and why it is forever cursed, as if that's some vestige of penance for what I've done. I was a young, foolish man, fresh out of college, I thought I could take on the perils of the world, trying to prove myself a man. I thought I could handle anything.
When I met Metis Cygnus I fell madly in love, I cared not who her family was, I declared my devotion to her openly. This would cost me dearly. The Cygnus clan is rather protective and I would doom my kin forever after. To my accursed family: I am eternally ashamed. I love you.
The first to warn me was a decrepit old fool with a severe limp. He eyed my newspaper covetously, as he made his threats and I snidely yawned at them. Zombie or no, there was hardly anything he could do. I knew it. He knew it, but I should have taken his threats seriously. If I had shown the slightest bit of humility, none of this might've happened.
The second came under the cover of night, in a suit, which I thought was sort of pretentious. I get on well with Hades, though, honestly, I don't know what he'd wear if he didn't have that warlock garb. Anyway, vampires creep me out. Oceanus seemed to innately understand this about me and terrorized me relentlessly. Standing at my window, watching me. Really rather upsetting. I was determined, however. My love for Metis would not waver.
I pursued her despite the maddening stalker activity of her.. uncle? nephew? I'm not sure of their lineage. Hades, the old witch, surely knew of our affair, but we never discussed the matter. Surely Metis was getting heat from her family to discontinue our courtship. That she was still in it at the end of the day fueled my conviction. Love of defiance, love for each other, classic Romeo and Juliet, right?
We stole away one day, in my passion I confessed my everlasting love and asked her to be my wife. We married in secret. That was my fault. And it was a grave mistake. Had we wed openly, as I'd have been proud to do, I might not have forsaken my own lineage.
I lost touch with Hades for a while after that. Made enemies of her whole family, but we were happy. Metis was soon with child. During her pregnancy, I felt on top of the world. In my mind I had beaten her family, and my ego had swelled. That, with my insatiable curiosity would get the better of me, and I took on the forces in the heavens. There I found not angels, but devils. The atrocities they brought upon me made the vampires torture look like child's play.
I will never forget.
To make sure I don't, they left me with-... what to call her. A reminder of my sin. As time passed I put on weight. I'd be as big as Metis during her last days of pregnancy, and a few days after our daughter, Mensa was born, I, too, brought a child into the world, Camelopardalis. I would keep her as close to me as I would Mensa.
This seemed to spark the creativity of the Cygnus family. Mensa and Camelopardalis were growing up nicely, Metis was again with child, we two ever in love as we ever were, and I was starting to feel my oats, if that's the phrase. This is when Hades invited me to his estate. Having not heard form him in a while, I was apprehensive. I had reason to, as well.
His family could not overlook my brazen disrespect, but he wouldn't hurt Metis by taking me away from her, or our children. After my ordeal with the demons in the sky I had learned humility, and I would accept my punishment, whatever it cost me.
Hades hung his head. He explained it wouldn't be just me who paid for my sins. It'd be my children, and my children's children. Hades, a man who considered me his friend, had to curse my family line for eternity. This was not only my punishment, but the only way his family would ever recognize Metis' children as part as their family. Which made the next part kind of weird. My forbears would be allowed to bear children from their family line.
I told him there was no way I'd agree to that, but there was nothing he could do. He took out his wand and this eerie green glow surged around him, then me and it hit me. What he was talking about, what this curse was. My kin destined to carry on my family line would end up ... unnatural. I was becoming unnatural. This is the legacy I bring.
