Two Weddings

After Brandon's funeral, there were two weddings. Life goes on, and all that. (Especially in Sims... Three days of excessive crying, and you're ready to go on a date with the repo man...)

First, Layla Lufti and Michael Adams finally decided to tie the knot. I think Layla may have been disappointed to find that all her ex-conquests were off her relationship list after the move to the new Winchester. Or maybe she just outgrew her party days...

In any case, here's the first couple to be married in Winchester's new church. The church is on the same lot as the town hall.

Victor was the minister (Layla apparently didn't think much of his speech). He played them out as well. That's the bride's twin sister Aisha at the harmonium.

They had a party in the City Hall, which is on the same lot as the church and has a complete banquet hall upstairs. Judith held up pretty well, although I did see her crying in the corner at some point...

Aisha switched back to her formal. Now that the wedding is over... I'm sure it makes sense if you're a Sim!

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A few days later there was another wedding. Rosanna Harrell finally married her girlfriend of many years, Constance McGovern. The Super Villain (halfway to becoming the next Empress of Evil) and the fraudulent fake psychic. Must be a match made in Heaven. Or maybe some other place...

This is Samantha Thao (née Adams), the eldest living resident - she's in her 80's by now. She wasn't invited to this particular wedding, but couldn't resist showing up anyway. Nothing goes on in Winchester without Samantha knowing about it.

Rosanna and Constance bought themselves a houseboat - one with a top floor, the type that looks like it may topple over even without the assistance of the Kraken..

The Mummy Curse

The Adams men all want to travel. Shawn wants to be a Great Explorer, so he wants to go to Egypt first. He's done a few tombs there, but of course they've all been reset, so he has to do them again. He's taking his father Dexter and grandfather Brandon.

Brandon kept going off by himself, so I decided to let him do the Tomb of the Rock while Shawn was off looking for flame fruits. It didn't go so well for him.

Most people just get a bit of a backache when they lose a fight with a mummy, but Brandon actually got cursed.

(He did get burned, soaked and cursed in that order - unfortunately he never accepted that particular game challenge. Frustrating, because it's literally the only time in all these years that a Sim managed to do it!)

Shawn is off on other adventures. He wants to reach a maximum visa level by completing a lot of tombs and talking to a lot of locals.

Dexter, on the other hand, is fascinated with the noble art of snake charming.

He even takes a snake in a basket home with him.

Back home Shawn decided to get to know some of the local girls a bit better. He invited Tracie and Gina Bernard as well as Lori Samson. They had all recently become young adults.

Lori and Shawn really hit it off.

Dexter was enjoying his new toy, a King Cobra.

Brandon apparently took a different kind of souvenir home from Egypt. He was feeling strange, as if there was something ominous going on around him.
Nobody else felt anything strange in the air, though, so in the end he figured he imagined it.

To distract him, Shawn invited him and Judith to his next trip, to China.

Brandon felt a lot better in China, as if a curse had been lifted... He and Judith decided this was going to be their second honeymoon, while Shawn was off running errands for the locals.

The dragon cave continues to fascinate Sims, generation after generation...

Back home the weird feeling came back, though. It seemed to swerve around Brandon wherever he went.

And suddenly one evening he collapsed into a cloud of dust. Grim came to take him.

Brandon is my first Sim to actually die of the mummy curse. It's ridiculously easy to cure, but it's nice to know what happens if you don't. Even if it's at the expense of a pixel life. LOL!!

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In the meantime Gwendolyn Adams decided to move out of the house. She's probably going to stay single, but she doesn't have to live with her family forever. She decided to buy a house in town and move there with the Bernard twins and Lori Samson. They're now a kind of 'Roomies' household - a place to go for single adults who don't want to live with their parents or siblings for the rest of their lives.

Michael Adams, who lives across the street, tried to cheer Judith up by giving her two of his many cats. It didn't really work, but it was a nice distraction.

Since the game (Twallan's Story Progression, to be exact) decided that Michael Adams and Layla Lufti were a perfect couple and made them get engaged, I made plans to move Layla in to the other Adams household. I needed to move out some of the pets to make room for an extra human. 

Next up: getting Michael and Layla married! .

Another new beginning...

There's a new version of Winchester out, with dive lots and ports. I couldn't resist it. So everyone had to move over and find new places to live.
At first there weren't enough houses, but after the first round it dawned on me that I could place some houseboats. Duh!!!
Anyway, all the families are back in place. Round one was spent fixing relationships and some clothing. And now Sims are seriously working on their wishes again.

Round two is ongoing. Sims are moving in and out of houses, and hooking up. I'm letting Twallan's Story Progression take care of the relationships. I've taken some new family portraits, as those darn kids keep growing...


The Adams house is now on a bigger lot, so that they have room to make it a proper farm.

Yue Xiulan and Judith both love the new tractor.

Yue loves the cows and the chickens, too. She keeps forgetting she's supposed to work on her inventor career. Every time I turn around she's playing with the animals.

Victor and Sun Young move into a small house together, and Chen, Angelina and Michael move into the house across the street from Brandon and Judith.

Chen is still writing, even though he's already achieved his lifetime wish, and he doesn't really need the money.

(Somehow I can't find a picture of Chen, Angelina and Michael together anywhere...)

Harmony Bernard welcomed her first grandson, Darin Younger. 

Her two granddaughters are about to become young adults now.

Julien is still working in the music career, while Ginny is in education. 

The recording studio still exists, but it's been slightly relocated, and the camp around it (with the cute little wooden houses) is gone.

Rosanna Harrell still lives with her parents, Daniel and Sofia. She's still a criminal.

Nathan and Abbie live in the same house as before, with Leonard and Janelle, Sheila and Donovan.

The Kim family live next door to Nathan Harrell. Ho Sung  and Hui Young are elders now. The twins aged up, and Alexander is about to become a teenager.

 

Yi Quan and Wu moved into a very small home, similar to the one they lived in before.

Wu continues to work on her instrument skills.

And then we have the McGovern families. Here's Stacia with her son Raphael. - who looks more and more like his father, Pablo Mendez.

And the rest of the McGovern family: Jerome and Malinda, who are also elders now, their daughter Constance and their  son Trevor with his wife Gillian and their son Buddy.

And of course there's Mena Mendez, with her daughter (who also looks like Pablo), and her sister Layla.

Russell and Regina moved into a big farmhouse with Dominic, Colleen and Raoul. Raoul ust aged up to young adult, and he wants to make a career out of horse-riding.

The Sommers family, including Blake and Melanie Samson and their daughter Lori, all moved into one house for the time being.

Jonathan and Danelle Thao live with Timothy, Aisha and their two sons Ernest and Brendan.

While for now Jonathan Thao lives with his wife Lucia, his daughter Susannah and her husband Bryan Fox, and their two children Carlton and Alexandra.
His grandmother Samantha lives with him, too. His grandfather, Tom Thao, died just before the family moved, so they took Samantha in.

And that's everyone for now, at the start of yet another chapter in the life of the Adams Legacy clans.