Sedna is working on her second aspiration and poor Perseus is stuck being read to despite being almost a teenager.
Given her long-lived trait, I thought it'd be nice if she could help with skilling!
Glaucus spends most of his time in the third floor room I made it to house all of his ridiculous magic stuff. I added a ladder to his room that leads up to it and locked his bedroom door so no one else will be tempted to wander up here.
The spellcasting still hasn't won me over.
Shanice returns ready and raring to go when it comes to breaking literally every toilet in the house. Damn it, Shanice.
Shanice: 'Behold, my rage!'
Ugh, you loony old bat. Stop breaking stuff. Including the wall. Why is it black and colorless?!
Glaucus is challenged to a magical duel that has me more laughing than anything else. He loses, of course. He's not very good at this whole magical thing.
Not that
he seems to realize it... what are you doing? You lost.
Glaucus: 'Just need to work on my gun game a bit more.'
Because that'll help. With magic.
Glaucus: 'Look, don't harsh my mellow, okay?'
Sigh. Teenagers.
I had Glaucus trying to increase his magic skill by fixing things. Instead, he caught the bathtub on fire.
How? Just... how did you even manage that?
Glaucus: 'I don't even know!'
You're just awful at this. Don't you even have a water spell or something?
Glaucus: 'No! I'm out.'
Sigh. Idiot.
Sedna returns home, triumphant from her recent promotion, in the midst of the chaos.
Sedna: 'Why is everyone running and glaring at Glaucus?'
Your idiot son caught the bathtub on fire.
Sedna: '...are you sure he's the heir?'
Yep. Unfortunately.
Glaucus, off-screen: 'Hey!'
Sedna is an intimidating force when it comes to assisting her children with their homework. She looks more like a drill sergeant yelling out orders to the troops.
Raul is just amused because, for once, it's not pointed at him. He's reading a cookbook.
Glaucus: 'Mom, can't you like, tone it down a little?'
Ianthe: 'I graduate in three days. None of this matters anymore.'
Sedna: 'Not one of you kids has an 'A' and that's unacceptable. Now, write!'
Eeesh, Sedna. I never knew you had it in you.
Because I'm bored and there's too many people in this house, I've sent them on vacation to this posh lodge I downloaded from the gallery. I realized my mistake all too soon, because it's huge and I lost sight of most of my sims once I unpaused.
I also just realized I never addressed poor Perseus becoming a teenager! He's the one in the varsity jacket with a mop of hair.
Immediately, Ianthe is sobbing. She's having a brutal moodswing. Glaucus in unsympathetic.
Glaucus: 'Geeze, sis, pull it together.'
Ianthe: 'sniff... but we're stuck here... sniff... together!'
There, there, Ianthe. This generation has felt like a bit of a slog for me, too. We'll get through it. Maybe.
All sadness is forgotten at the sight of the Foosball table. It's honestly all anyone wanted to do. I miss the pool table. It was always present in my sim homes. Sigh.
So many cool things still absent from this game.
Also, Foosball games take forever and a day. It took hours for this one to finish. HOURS.
The next day, Glaucus slinks away to the newly installed spa because Granite Falls is boring as hell. There isn't even proper hiking, which I'm still mad about.
He gets a hand massage, because he's a magician-
Glaucus: 'Spellcaster!'
Whatever. The girl is cute. She's Becca... something or another. Interesting genetics.
She can also hold a conversation with Glaucus, which I haven't mentioned yet, but seems to be a task for most... even his family.
Becca: 'I feel weird giving him my number buuuut... I wouldn't mind retiring to a life of legacy living.'
There's a line, chica, but we'll keep you in mind.
Poor Raul is so distracted by his son's silly finger waggling that he nearly sets the stove on fire. Smacking at it with a spatula isn't proper technique, Raul. Gordon Ramsay would be most displeased.
Raul: 'Can't he do that... somewhere, anywhere... else?'
Probably.
Raul: 'And not in a spa robe?'
Haha, he's like a real magician! With a robe!
Glaucus: 'SPELLCASTER!'
Whatever, Gandalf the White.
Again, Granite Falls is beautiful but there's just... nothing to do. Even TS1 vacations had cool things to do. I loved vacations in TS2! Going to the islands was one of my favorites. And TS3's exotic locales were excellent. Ugh.
Instead, there was a lot of jogging and magic.
Sedna jogged, too, of course. She's fit. Ianthe would have been included, but she took too long getting out of the door in the morning.
They celebrate Harvestfest... apart? Honestly, this was the reason for the getaway. I wanted to mix it up for Harvestfest but then these idiots decide not to eat together.
Sedna and Glaucus are across the room, seated on the couches.
Glaucus: 'Does mom look a little... 'swirly' to you?'
Oh, great. Time for another round of illness to sweep through the house.
Remember when sims getting sick filled you with fear instead of annoyance? Sigh.
There's a 'Don't Wake Llama' or whatever table in this house, so they make use of it for some familial bonding. Unfortunately, I got a popup about Tasi losing touch with this plane and disappearing, so everyone had to pack up and head back home.
Which is a relief, because the house was a nightmare. Beautiful, but I just don't like massive houses. I lose my sims and it makes me anxious.
Of course, while his mother is making sure no more of the dead free themselves from this mortal coil (Nuihaur somehow escaped, damn him) this idiot is upstairs using his cauldron for freaking macaroni and cheese.
Glaucus: 'This was a mistake. It's so heavy.'
Stop it! This is such a stupid thing, my brain can't even. Back to practicing magic.
Glaucus riding a broom is a complete experience. Just... wow. If you thought his duels were bad, you haven't seen this guy try to fly. I literally laughed out loud.
I missed catching a shot of him holding onto the bristles as it streaks through the sky. This happens every single time he moves around with one.
You're hopeless, Glaucus. Good thing no one is expecting you to save them from some great evil.
Ianthe and Nereus' birthdays come up. The poor twins, they've been cast aside, along with their younger brother Perseus, because I've been too busy with Glaucus' ridiculous magical demands.
They both got cake, but I only got a picture of Ianthe because she's my favorite.
Ianthe adds Outgoing and Nereus is a Bro.
No sooner are the candles out that Glaucus is starting another fire of his own... again, in the bathroom. This time it's the toilet.
Why are you so bad at this?!
At least Ianthe saves the day. I'm going to miss her.
I move them both out before Glaucus inadvertently murders them with another stupid fire. I want Ianthe for a different challenge, possibly.
Glaucus heads off to the magical realm, where he can do less damage. He chats up Morgyn and I'm shocked that these two actually
get along. If Morgyn was capable of reproducing at all, I'd definitely move them in. Unfortunately, they are not, and as such, cannot join the legacy.
They can still be friends, though. Maybe they can help Glaucus with his atrocious spellcasting.
Looks like Morgyn's advice worked, woohoo! Glaucus finally won a duel. And he got a dragon familiar out of it, too.
Glaucus: 'Oh yeah. Look at me, I'm awesome.'
Don't get too far ahead of yourself. You still catch every other thing on fire.
Maybe being an adult will help with that! It's finally time for Glaucus to take the reins. I'm scared. After last generation, I'm hoping this one goes a little smoother.
He adds Loves Outdoors to Outgoing and Erratic. Loves Outdoors is gonna haunt me this whole legacy, isn't it? Sigh.
