Welcome to the Pringle Legacy!
This isn't the first legacy I've ever played but it's the first I've posted online, so please bear with me if the format is a bit wonky. Hopefully I'll get the hang of this without too much awkwardness.
Without further ado, let's meet our founder.
Say hello to Leland Pringle. He's a family oriented, clumsy genius, has the Soulmate aspiration, and is also a total cutie.
Leland: So what's this Legacy thing about, then?
Well, you start out on a huge lot and try to produce ten generations of successful heirs.
Leland: Cool. So where do I live?
Leland: ...Great. What's this knight doing here?
Knight: A challenger appears, ho! Choose your weapon, knave, and draw!
Don't worry, he'll just be sitting quietly in your family inventory, making all your bills catastrophic.
So this is Leland's humble abode. I've never liked having to go to the gym for all my founder's needs and now the loading screens are going to make it even worse, so I bought him a little bathroom and kitchen.
Leland: I'm fine. This is fine.
Leland: Now I am at the park.
First order of business: fine a mate. Leland hits the park to scout out potential lady friends.
The park was almost entirely full of children, un-marriageable Oasis Springs residents and one old gardener man. And one pretty lady working on her logic skill (whose name I can't remember, so we'll call her Slagathor).
Leland: Hi! I'm Pringle. Leland Pringle.
Leland: So that's how my second goldfish died. And then in third grade-
Slagathor: Checkmate.
Leland: But I didn't even-
Slagathor: Check. Mate.
Leland: I'm hungry.
Leland, darling. This is the park. If no-one has grilled themselves a huge mountain of hamburgers then gone home then this legacy strategy is deeply flawed.
Choir of angels: *sings gloriously*
But Leland had not time to eat his huge platter of burgers, because girls are more important than food and a particularly fine one wondered past at that very moment.
Quick, Leland! Don't let her get away!
Leland: Um... hey.
Rowan: Hi?
SUCCESS.
Leland: Maybe Oasis Springs isn't so bad after all...
Leland: Stop zooming out. You're making me feel small.
Sorry.
It's never too early to start working towards Gen 2, so Leland asked Rowan out to the lounge in Oasis Springs. I still don't know any of her traits so she's probably going to turn out to be some sort of evil child-hating slob, but they do look cute together.
Leland: Um... did you drop something in the bin?
Annalise: Are you judging me?
Leland: No, I-
Annalise: It's not my fault! I just get these whims, you know? I can't fight it! And then people like you come along and judge me!
Before that interaction could get any more awkward, Rowan showed up for her date.
Leland: You came! I was starting to think it was just going to be me and dumpster-girl!
Rowan: Of course I came. And I've very quickly changed clothes mid-conversation, apparently.
Can I just say I love the new dating system? It makes everything so much clearer and I like having goals to work towards. Leland and Rowan wanted to sit at a table together, so luckily there are a whole bunch of adorable little two-person tables next to the bar.
Leland: So then in fourth grade, my parents let me get a cactus.
Rowan: Did that die too?
Leland: So quickly.
Leland: Actually, there's something I've been meaning to do.
Rowan: Get a pet rock?
D'aaaaaaw!
Rowan: That is much better than a pet rock.
It's heating up here in Oasis Springs! I was not expecting the passionate kiss animation to be quite that passionate. No complaints!
They just wanted to sit and have deep conversations for a while after that, so I got working on finding out Rowan's traits. And she is... a family-oriented, cheerful music lover!
<3<3<3
I think we've found our spouse, Leland.
After showing off some of his epic dance moves to impress Rowan, Leland's energy need was getting dangerously low.
Leland: I'll text you <3
They got a gold medal for their first date :D
It was nearly morning by the time we got home, so Leland jumped straight into his kiddie-sized bed and slept the morning away.
Apparently Rowan couldn't go more than a day without seeing Leland again, because she randomly showed up by his letterbox and stood there for like an hour.
Awkward.
Rowan: I wonder how long I can watch him before he notices me.
Leland: Rowan! Hey! How long have you been there?
Rowan: Long enough to see you showering.
Leland: Pardon?
Rowan: I said it's lovely to see you again!
Rowan: So... is this really where you live?
Leland: Haha, yeah, funny story. I have like twenty simoleons and I live in the middle of the desert, but the invisible god that controls me promises that I'm destined to have rich and powerful descendants that will eventually take over the whole of Oasis Springs.
Rowan: ...I can dig that.
Rowan had somewhere to be, so it's time to get working on earning some simoleons. Leland signed up for the Tech Guru career and headed straight on down to the library to start working on his promotion requirements.
Leland: You mean I have to play video games for most of the day? As in my boss wants me to?
Apparently, yes.
Leland: *orgasm face*
Leland: Hey, this computer has Definitely Not Tetris! That's way more fun than Definitely Not The Sims 1 and Definitely Not FIFA.
Leland: Please let it be a long one please let it be a long one please let it be a long one...
Leland: NO!
Leland: This game is stupid. I'm going to play Definitely Not Tony Hawk instead.
Isn't this the homeless woman from the park? She has the same legacy strategy I do...
Video games are tiring.
Leland's job doesn't start until later and there's this little ring around his lot that's full of collectibles, so I sent him hunting for some rare gems and metals. It's not like we couldn't do with some more pocket change here.
So apparently there's an old mining shaft on his property that requires level 10 handiness to open.
WHAT IS THIS.
No don't tell me. I'll come back to this once Leland has enough experience unclogging cheap toilets.
Leland NAILED his first day at work.
Leland: I shifted the crap out of those paradigms. I'm going to call Rowan.
She's going to be super impressed by the new TV we bought with your first paycheck.
Leland: Hey Rowan, so I was thinking... legacy founders need a spouse, and we're-
Rowan: What happened to the bed?
MAGIC.
It was one of his whims. Who am I to deny Leland his Rowan?
Exhausted by the night's activities, Leland catches up on some sleep while Rowan indulges in her apparent habit of watching him in compromising positions.
I knew she'd love the TV.
I'm sorry but WHAT HAPPENED TO LELAND'S MUSCLES? Since when has he been DEADLIFTING BOULDERS?
Upon researching this phenomenon, I've found out that this is what happens when you make sims do too much collecting. WHAT. He found like three pieces of metal.
...I know it's technically against the rules, but I might get rid of them in CAS later on. He'll make the other tech gurus jealous with those guns.
Leland: I know I live on a big patch of desert in the middle of nowhere and I only own a fridge, a bathroom with no walls, a bed and a TV shaped like a penguin, but will you marry me?
Rowan: Of course I'll marry you, Leland's muscles!
Cuteness overload. And he has no trouble carrying her now :P
Rowan: So Leland, I was thinking... I don't really like wedding parties. They take so much time to plan and organise...
Rowan: And then someone always starts crying because you look better than they do, even though they know you've always been the pretty sister and it was them who wanted you to be a bridesmaid.
Rowan: And then they get drunk and eat all the food on the buffet table and you get blamed for ruining their whole day when it's not your fault they've always been volatile and insecure.
Leland: ...I totally understand. I hate it when that happens.
Leland: Why don't we just elope now instead? I can't afford a ceremony anyway.
Rowan: You really mean that? Let's do it!
The Sims 4 wedding ceremony is actually adorable. I wasn't expecting it to be half as long as it was and they have all these cute little emotes and ugh. So sweet. At about four o'clock in the morning, Leland and Rowan join the time-honoured legacy tradition of exchanging rings alone on the front lawn.
Rowan Pringle, formerly Gale, joins the legacy family! She's a music lover, cheerful and family oriented, significantly older than Leland (I miss the ask about age option from Sims 3...) and aspires to be a Public Enemy.
Wait, what? But... but... she's so nice! Why does she want to be hated? Rowan, you confuse me.
