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Chapter 19 of Lune Legacy has now been posted. You can find it here: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=141281

It ended up quite light on text, but heavy on conceptual imagery.

Yet another pictorial spamination.

( + several pics )

So yeah, that's my picspam. I've actually played a few more houses so I will try to have a bit more picspam in a few days.

Pointer to post with pointer to post with pointers on how to avoid winter weather dangers. Useful thing. Read it. Yes, Californians too; the EMT who wrote many of the posts pointed to says that the 40-60°F range is actually one of the most dangerous.

[There's been a number of other posts over at Odds and Ends, too, some of which some of you may find amusing, but those aren't required reading. Though if you're bored, have at. :)]

I'm editing the pics to hell and back and I want this update to be like the most perfect one ever. After this one, we're truly sliding down the plot triangle to the end.

I'm not sure if I'll use this pic or not - it's taken in daylight while all the others are nighttime pics. But it gives an idea.



So, to end the night - seven pics edited and 177 words. The words don't really count, as they're crap and will need to be heavily edited.

Hey everyone. Chapter 18 has been released and can be viewed here: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=137947

At this time, I have regretfully decided to no longer update the blogs. It takes too much time to copy and paste the text, and upload and insert the pictures into a blog. I do not prefer the story option on the main site, and I do not like what it does to the pictures, but most of my viewers are over there. I play for hours for each chapter, then spend another 2-3 hours writing and retouching every chapter, and the added 1-2 hours to convert everything for the blogs is too much on top of it all. I'd rather get chapters out quicker and not have to worry about whether I have enough time to sit down and get everything updated.

I thank you for understanding. I will continue to update over here when each chapter is released, and I can be reached at lunelegacy@gmail.com.

-BlueChan

Who knew that us three born beneath the same stars, nurtured by the same love, and guided through the same obstacles of life could end up as strangers? Our childhood bond weakened as hormones raged within our cells. Our attraction to the opposite sex weakened the chain that held us together. And I was the one to destroy it.

I suppose I should begin with the night we lost our home.

It began as a tropical storm off the coast of some place I'd never visit, nurtured by the warm waters where it grew until its temper destroyed the island. Wind. Air. A breath turned into a typhoon. Its fingers curled at the shoreline, pounding the beaches. Chewing on the sand until it vanished. Trees broken into driftwood. The tears needles of hail on our vehicles and windows. The crystals piled onto the backyard until the ground turned white and I envisioned the season winter instead of the mild autumn.

High above the water level we ignored the mandatory evacuation call the day prior. What we didn't expect was the howling. The wind that cut the soil like paper, filling in with water and turning our backyard and garden into a pond. Flooding our basement. The trees, some of them planted over a hundred years prior, cracked as the pressure bent them farther than their old spines would allow. We huddled on the 2nd floor near the staircase. The wide windows that brought my mother years of breathtaking views now offered us no mercy from the storm's fury. Branches shattered the glass; the pieces shattered and drew pinpricks of blood on our exposed skin.



My mother cried. I could not comfort her; she was in the arms of my father. My sister, Frida, wrapped her arms around my mother's waist. I felt pained by the separation from my mother; I cradled myself and tears of self pity were hidden as the lights flickered then turned off altogether. This was my inheritance. Destroyed.

Fola remained composed beside me; her caramel eyes gazing with wonder. My Uncle Elek had departed the day before after a heated argument with mother. The way he left, the empty stare on my mother's face; I don't believe he will return.

An emptiness within my mother that never filled. Although the storm eventually tired of his tantrum, my mother never returned to her position as matriarch. She passed the reign to me. The rubble. Fallen trees and a thick coating of mud on the first floor shattered any notion that we would be able to clean up and continue where we left off. The house was deemed inhabitable like many others in the neighborhood and it had to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. We salvaged what we could.

"We lost Akiho's dining set. All the books. All the paintings." Eshe stated dully. "She'll never forgive me."

My father groaned; he was worn from the constant pessimistic attitude. "What does it matter? That woman has been dead for two centuries. This isn't the first time the land has been cleared and the house rebuilt. That and I don't believe we managed to recover any of the urns on the third floor. I doubt we'll be seeing any of the ghosts again."


The exchanged a glance; I knew my mother wasn't swayed by his words.

"Where are we gonna live?" Finn interrupted.

"We've got a hotel room downtown. We'll be staying there until the house is reconstructed. There's a huge swimming pool, video games, and an arcade. The theater is right across the street. We can go there every night if you'd like." Damon's smile was paper-thin but it was enough to keep my brother in good spirits. "Find your brother and help me with some boxes?"

"Sure!" He replied. Finn screamed his twin's name and ran off around the house.



It wasn't until we set up at the hotel was I able to speak to my mother alone. The title of heir had lost its appeal over the last twenty four hours, but I was determined to prove I was up to the task. It still boggled my mind that she choose me to carry on the legacy when Frida was her obvious favorite. Maybe it was a decision done in the heat of the moment; a lash out against the illegal activities my younger sister engaged in.

"So what do I need to do?" I asked.

She stared at me. "Basically, you must have at least one child and live on our estate until death. But they won't make it easy on you..."



I waited for her to finish. One minute. Two minutes. Her eyes had lost their shine; their ambition. Wrinkles sneaked into the corners of her features.

"How. I don't understand how. She never told me why. Why they want us to be destroyed. I never asked. If she's gone and they are not. We're doomed. I never heeded her. She told me I was making a mistake. That you would cause the end of the legacy." My eyes widened. "You were always the most well behaved. The one who caused no trouble at school or home. You were the only one immune to the dreams. A gift from me, I assumed."

Her rambling disturbed me. Where had my logical, down to earth mother gone? Why did she speak of dreams? My sleep was heavy; never disturbed by footsteps or demons. If I dreamed then I remembered none of it upon waking. "What dreams?"

"Then again, I thought I was immune to them. There's been only two times in my life that I had trouble sleeping. When my mother died and when I was deciding who to choose for a heir. Both times my mother was the one who haunted me."

She never spoke of Dachi. I seized the opportunity to learn more. "What was she like?"

"My mother had the most beautiful voice; even after she died I swear I could hear her singing to me. When I knew her, she was very depressed. Her heart chose a demon to love and her coldness towards everyone and everything in life drove my father insane. He killed her. Then he left me and my brother to deal with her wrath."



"How can she hurt you if she's dead?" I wondered, but my mother only shrugged. The answers to that question could only be provided by another ghost. I sensed from her expression that my mother had burned all her bridges to those in the underworld. So many regrets clouded her happiness.

NOTE:

Due to a virus on my computer I had lost my legacy family. I've had several issues with the Sims 3 since which have delayed me finishing the legacy (blue lots, etc). Also, due to the bugs in World Adventures I will not be purchasing that game until after this legacy is complete. I recreated the family to the best of my ability and have since uploaded them to the exchange so that I won't have to start from square one with this family again.

And don't worry. The ghosts will be back.

Vacation over. Work on the next update starts tomorrow night.

Bits and pieces of it are beginning to loom out of the fog. The title came to me this afternoon - the title very rarely comes before the rest of the update.

It's going to be in the more text and less pics style of Interlude I think.

And it's going to be good.

I had totally blocked SimSecrets out of my consciousness but I had a personal reason to go and check on the one last week. It wasn't really negative so I don't consider this feeding a troll.

I don't have kids. I don't go to school. I have a really cool but easy and not very stressful job. I am a deep introvert married to the most introverted person ever. We've been together for ten years and hanging out quietly in the same room on our respective computers seems to work well for us.

So yeah, I'm obsessed with Valley. But hell, what else would I do with my time? Play WoW? It's not like I'm neglecting anything or anyone. It's not negatively affecting my life.

And I am naturally intense and obsessive and I have always seen Sims stories as more Serious Art than light silly social fun or an occasional hobby.

I live and breathe writing. It's all I've ever wanted to do with my life. To me, it is indeed very serious business. Yeah, I don't get paid for it but I've never been motivated by money. I'm not exactly a capitalist.

So Valley is my structure and my meaning for now. And I'm cool with that. Thanks for the concern, but I'm an adult and quite capable of deciding how to live my own life. :)

I know that I haven't posted for ages, but that's through no fault of my own. Mostly.
First of all, my computer died, which stopped me from coming on here for 3 weeks. After that, I had to reboot my PC (and go from Vista to XP - NOOOOOO! I Love Vista!), and I lost EVERYTHING. Sims included. So, no more legacy. I still haven't got the game on yet, because I've lost the base game =P
And I also had a really nasty ear infection. It was absolutely horrible T_T But I watched Back To The Future III, and loved it (I barely remembered it, having watched it aaaaages ago), so I downloaded it to my kinda new ipod. I really really love it :) And, I downloaded Dragonball, after coming across Dragonball Z and feeling nostalgic (but I had never seen the original ones, so I went for those). I really like it, but I thought, 'why not try some more anime, too?', because I love anime and manga. so, I got a few episodes of Naruto, and seriously... I'M IN LOVE! xP It really is good, though. I'm more for Pirates than Ninjas, but even so, this is awesome. I'm practising drawing manga, too, with Naruto - I haven't done for ages, and I really want to get back into it.

I still probably won't be on TOO often - mack exams are looming, and they're important. I had my first one today, art. Usually, with a 4 hour exam, I'd be screaming, but it was one of the most fun days I've ever had at school! It was in complete silence, but I really don't mind that. I love art, so all of the draing, and the painting I did (even though I'm not a painter) made the day really good. Yay :D I'm definitely doing Fine Art at sixth form.
I'm not too worried about my exams anymore, apart from the fact that I really find it hard to revise (so why waste time attempting to? xP), but we're doing some revision at school, so not all is lost. And I'm chuffed about accounting - I did a past paper for practice, and got 88%, which would be a good A. Ohhh yeahhhh :D But I'm carryuing it on next year, and because no one else doing AS levels this early, I'll be put in a class with the year above me T)_T Scary, but I'll feel really clever >w<