The Sims and I have a bad track record. I love the Sims THREE to hell and back, but every time I play it I am absolutely besieged by bugs, glitches, chaos, and unplayable doom, and when it came to the Sims FOUR... ugh. It was dumbed down. They removed burglars. There was no open world. There was no living world. An NPC could be at work, but jogging past your Sim's house, and talking to your Sim on the computer, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
It was ridiculous. I hated it. And I also hated the lack of customisation available. They removed Create-a-Style, an integral part of making your Sim's clothing and furniture unique! Ridiculous.
But here I am. Willing to give it another chance. For two reasons.One being that I really want to play the Sims and the Sims 3 is a pile of glitchy arse-garbage.
Two being that @emuse has been playing it and is making it look reeeeally interesting, and is enticing me with her every post.
So, if you will, please meet Heidi Kael, my latest Sims protagonist.
She's a young woman with grand desires -- grand! She wants to one day meet aliens, befriend them, and possibly entice them into her bedroom to steal their DNA and create a human-alien-hybrid child. The human-alien-hybrid that'll begin a great legacy. The very next Kael Legacy!
That's right! A brand new Legacy Challenge, but this time ignoring the first generation. The Legacy starts with the alien child.
Hungry with her desire to give birth to the world's first ever half-alien-half-human child, Heidi concocts a grand scheme.
She will move to the desert where the secret Sim Science Facility is known to be hidden and she will become a scientist of great renown. Aliens love secret facilities and love smart women even more. It's a foolproof plan!
However, she didn't quite realise just how hot the desert happens to be.
Within moments of moving into her new house, she flung her arms up into the air and wailed with despair. Sweat ran down her back, down her crack, down all of her cracks. This was not cool. Not cool at all!
Soon after settling into her new hot house, she had to go take a great, hot poop.
This was horrible. Absolutely horrible. But surely she would get used to this horrid heat. She had to. If she was going to meet aliens and lure them into her bedroom, she had no choice!
After several interviews, she began her first day of work at the secret Sim Science Facility.
Within moments of being inside the building, she bemoaned her fate. There was no air conditioning. Why on earth did this place have no air conditioning!?
Before she could learn how to make contact with the aliens and fulfil her life-long goal, she would have to do something about this atrocious heat.
Several days were spent both at home and at the Facility, sweating and uncomfortable.
She made ghastly faces each and every day, in hopes that maybe fate would smile down upon her and send some snow to the region.
Instead, fate gave her an idea.
And what an idea it was!
The next day she went to work, she raced to the 3D modeler and began plotting plans for a device. Not just any device. A device that could literally do anything.
Armed with the device, she raced out of the lab and into the next room. One lonely woman sat at a computer. She'd do.
Yanking the woman up from her chair, the woman tried to protest but her cries fell on deaf ears. Heidi activated FREEZE MODE.
The device worked perfectly. The woman was a block of ice so cold that the reception, each laboratory, and even the upstairs kitchen were cooled to a nice 16 Celsius. It worked so perfectly that she even got promoted!
With the bimbo frozen solid in the centre of the facility and the higher-ups pleased with her prowess at inventing cool inventions, the horrid heat was at last made bearable and Heidi could finally get to work on her main goal in life -- contacting aliens.
The money she got thanks to being promoted allowed her to build an observatory in her backyard.
Other than becoming a scientist working at the Facility in the desert, this was the first step in making contact with alien life. She just knew it. If she could observe the stars each and every day, she could discover whereabouts they were located and then invent a device capable of communicating with them.
She would have to do it soon. She was getting older each and every day, too. Such is life, being a Sim.
It didn't take her long to figure out how to make an interstellar communicator. Taking advantage of the Facility's resources, she made the communicator and then snuck it home.
She tried to contact the aliens every night before she went to bed, to no avail, until...
One night, shining lights glittered outside her doorstep. Curious, she investigated the lights and was swiftly abducted by those whom she sought.
This was not the plan!
She didn't want to be the abductee, she wanted to be the abductor!
Then, on one fateful night, Heidi got awoken by a noise in the house.
There was an alien! And it had come inside!
There was only one thing to do!
Waltzing bravely up to the alien that had abducted her several times over and stolen her DNA, she brazenly asked for his.
He was, surprisingly, more than happy to give her a sample of his DNA. 😉
Three days later, an eternity in Sims-days, Heidi found herself in hospital under the crazed eye of a young nurse.
They were aware of her alien offspring and were prepared for all the possibilities when it came to giving birth. They had robot arms at the ready, ready to dive into her squishy flesh and retrieve the growth within.
The strange robot-arm technique worked well and Heidi soon found herself cuddling her brand new alien-human-hybrid-baby, Nathaniel Kael. He who would kickstart the great Sims 4 Kael Legacy.
All hail Nathaniel Kael!
Until next time! 👽🛸