I finally watched Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and man... Loved it. LOVED IT. If you haven't already seen it, go watch it now.

This is part of the 2 Founders Challenge at legacy_writers. Founder created by simrenity


( Generation 3 is finally born )

Nathan Sendak was disappointed when his girlfriend, Heidi Alcott, said she couldn't see him as much anymore. But the truth was he understood where she was coming from. Sure, his mother may physically be present, but that didn't mean that plenty of the responsibility for his siblings hadn't fallen on Nathan's shoulders while Rika chased after one true love after another.

When the moved to Nevermore, Rika had declared that she was turning over a new, more maternal leaf. Yet here Nathan was again, helping his little sister with her homework. Part of it was habit; Morrow knew Nathan was the more reliable one to ask help from. More than that, though, Rika had found a new passion.

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I have the pictures ready for the next two days of Nevermore, and I meant to work on them, but... I've kind of gotten addicted to playing Guild Wars and have been doing missions there instead.

Also posted at my wordpress site. Nevermore is a pixel_trade prosperity.

Since becoming head of the the household, Heidi had seen her grades slip further and further down. Most of her time was used up with chores around the house, or caring for Leo. But her grades had gotten even worse since she met Nathan. Now that she was failing, she knew she would have to spend more time on her homework and less with her boyfriend.

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This is a tour of the Luffington's house, mainly for scarred_id's request at pixel_trade.



( Step inside... )

Whatever issue was preventing me from uploading or staying logged into PB has been resolved, so I can finally upload and update Nevermore and the Luffingtons. Happy day. :D

This is just some quick pictures to keep me in the FC2. A full update should be up in the last few days; I've been having some issues with photobucket and barely managed to get any pictures uploaded. Much of this will be repeated in the full update.

The Luffingtons are part of the FC2; the founder was created by simrenity.

( Checking in on the Luffingtons )

Why will nothing cooperate for me today?

Can't get into GOS to look for a certain hair I wanted.

Photobucket won't let me upload anything so I can't update Nevermore or the Luffingtons.

I spent $150 on gas last week so I don't want to leave my home.

I guess I'll just play the sims. Wah.

Because I am a dork had some free time this week, I decided to try out Wordpress and I fell in love with how user friendly and organized it is. I like the friends page feature and the users of LJ too much to switch completely, but from now on Nevermore will be housed on Wordpress. I will post updates and links here. Also, from now on I'm going to post individual days, instead of seasons, that way I don't get overwhelmed writing an entire week at once.

Also at the wordpress blog are bios for each resident. If you're interested and have some spare time, the bios give a little more detail on their backstories, and also gives hints on which pixel_trade sims will be moving to Nevermore next.

Okay, enough babble...



The first day of winter was the grand opening of “Amber’s Ambrosia”, Amber Angelou’s new bakery.

I must have the worst luck of anyone in the whole world, Amber thought to herself when she woke to find snow falling. She just hoped the snow wouldn’t keep anyone away from her big day.

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I've tried playing through the Anelou's next round FOUR times. FOUR times I've loaded the game, the neighborhood, the lot, and played a tiny bit before getting called away and having to shut down. FOUR times and it's still just early evening for them. That post is going to be a hot, disjointed, mess, just you watch.

Still tweaking my version of time. You can't do a prosperity and get hung up on time. You just can't.

I just spent almost $100 on a tank of gas. D:

Previously, six families moved to middle of nowhere Nevermore, each wanting a fresh start for different reasons. This is a pixel_trade Prosperity Challenge.



( The residents of Nevermore settle in... )

Well, I spent all this time today on the simply_home Magic Box challenge, just to have trouble uploading the pictures to Photobucket so that I'm now past the deadline. However, after going through the trouble of building and taking pictures and uploading them, I had to post them SOMEWHERE. So here is Lily Beaumont's Magic Box.

( No entrende intended. )

Previously: Miriam moved from her home in Eureka to Baskerville to start anew as the founder of a legacy. There, she met Merlin, and together they had two daughters, Danube and Mersey. Danube dreamed of being an artist from a young age and worked hard as a teenager to be accepted into Academie le Tour's art program, but decided to go to Fiesta Tech with her boyfriend Berjes instead.





( The Luffingtons: Chapter Three )

I just watched Evening and it made me bawl like a baby. I think Claire Danes is just really good at making me cry.

So... I want my Nevermore to be completely integrated, including the economics. I can see perfectly how it will work eventually, with lots of locally owned businesses and citizens as NPCs, but how on earth can that get started? I'm at a loss as to how the economy will get started when everyone has spent their money on houses. I can see how I can get their funds up, with digging and dream catchers, but how can I plausibly, within the story, explain the money to buy a business or even buy something from someone's business? Bleh.

Prosperity pixel_trade style; all sims used here are from the pixel_trade community. Many thanks to the talented simmers who were willing to share their sims! Complete list at the end of this chapter. Spoiler: Renee Wormwood and Colin Davidson are elders, so don't read if you don't want to know what they'll look like!




( Come to Beautiful Nevermore )

I spent all afternoon downloading sims for a pixel_trade prosperity, and it was exhausting. But to me the most tedious part of setting up a prosperity is making the sims, and getting them all unique enough and trying to remember if you already had someone who kind of looked like this and so on and so on. I thought this would be a shortcut but now I'm not so sure! I downloaded over 40 sims (too many!) and made little notes on each so I could more easily tell who was who for proper credit.

There are some really great sims creators out there. I can't believe how many gorgeous and interesting sims I saw today.

Previously on The Luffingtons: Miriam Luffington's (ver 1.0) parents told her they thought it was time for her to strike out and make her own way in the world, so she answered an ad for a legacy founder and moved to dusty, failing Baskerville. Miriam (ver 2.0), along with her pet Cat Stevens, decided to embrace the Legacy lifestyle and find a husband to kick off generation 2 with. She found her three bolter match, Merlin, and they married and had a daughter, Danube.





( Chapter Three )