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The Science of a Legacy: Ch 34, Part 3 (28th Jan)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 2nd, 2007, 4:53 pm

I've decided to revamp my intro.. for some reason :)

Hi everyone, I am Gin *frantics waves* and I've been floating around with TS2 since it came out, but didn't attempt my first legacy until summer 2007, where it quickly exploded because I didn't have RAM on my laptop. Oops :) So I remobed Bon Voyage to make my game run, and started up The Sceicne of a Legacy aka THIS!

It is so called because I studied Biology at University and half the time wanted to be playing my game instead, so my Sims are named after whatever I happen to be studying that week! Two and half years later, I'm working at a big museum and my love of all things sciency is just as strong as ever so that theme is still ongoing :)

So I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have writing it, and any feedback/pointers are always appreciated! Thanks, m'little haddocks.

- - - - -

Generation One
Chapter One - Everybody Squee for my Pleasure!

Generation Two
Chapter Two- Indupitably, My Dear Monkey!
Chapter Three - Striiike!-ing Out
Chapter Four - 'Snap'ping at Your Heels, Love.

Generation Three
Chapter Five - The Coming of the Third
Better quality pictures from now on!
Chapter Six - The Legacy Pupp(y)ets
Chapter Seven, Part I - Dude, Want a Biscuit?
Chapter Seven, Part II - In Too Deep, Orb-er the Top

Generation Four
Chapter Eight - Back on Track, Dude!
Chapter Nine - Friends and Crayon Pictures
Chapter Ten - Shrewly Not?
Chapter Eleven: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! - Merry Plumbbob to You All!
Chapter Twelve - Strife, Life and a Wyfe
Chapter Thirteen - I Shall Never Forget

Generation Five
Chapter Fourteen - Futile Fertility
Chapter Fifteen, Part I - The Road to Redemption Part I
Chapter Fifteen, Part II - The Road to Redemption Part II
Chapter Sixteen - How To Love Your Family
Chapter Seventeen - "Oh, Mother.."
Chapter Eighteen - Of Cakes, Success, and Hunger
Chapter Nineteen - Older and Wiser
Chapter Twenty - Hard Truths
Chapter Twenty-One - The Secrets of Nihm
Chapter Twenty-Two - No Greater Love

Generation Six
Chapter Twenty-Three - Kiss Kiss, Bonk Bonk!
Chapter Twenty-Four - Those Unexpected Roads
Chapter Twenty-Five - M.I.A
Chapter Twenty-Six - Evil with a Single 'E'
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Out On A Limb
Chapter Twenty-Eight - 'Pfft, Old People!'
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Starter For Ten
Chapter Thirty, Part I - Love, etc, and So On Part I
Chapter Thirty, Part II - Love, etc, and So On Part II

Generation Seven
Chapter Thirty-One - One, Two, Lots, Many.
Chapter Thirty-Two - I Planned A Plan.. It Went Wrong.
Chapter Thirty-Three - Searching, Shouting, Shrieking and Sunshine
*NEW* Chapter Thirty-Four, Part I - The Tale of Cecily Urswick, Part I
*NEW* Chapter Thirty-Four, Part II - The Tale of Cecily Urswick, Part II
*NEW* Chapter Thirty-Four, Part III - The Tale of Cecily Urswick, Part III

November 2009 Interlude Thingy That's Not Really An Interlude

RECAP: Chapters 1-15
Chapters 16 - 29

The Quest for Shrew-hoo - A Bachelor Challenge




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Right-ho! Not sure how to pronouce some of the ridiculous names I give my Legacy Sims? Wondering what the whole thing even means? Me toO sometimes, heh. Here's a quick round up of all Sims with Science-y names, along with their pronunciations (well, as best I can do!) and meanings.

Family Name
Tegenaria: tedge - en - air - ia
A genus of housespiders, chosen as three Tegenaria species are the subject of my current research.

Generation One
Atrica: at - rick - car
A species of Tegenaria, so a housespider variety.

Generation Two
Corvus: core - vus
A genus of birds, which includes crows and ravens.

Repens: ree - pens
Latin for "creeping" in reference to plants that grow along the ground, instead of straight up.

Generation Three
Saeva: see - va
Another species of Tegenaria, so another type of housespider I'm working on.

Carapace: Kara - pace
The chitinous covering of many invetebrates, including spiders.

Generation Four
Meloti: mel - lot - ee
A species of butterfly in the Pyrgus genus
(I can't find the example of this in my lecture notes, so I have no idea where I drew it from..)

Arvicanthis: ar - vee - can - th - iss
Genus of African rodents (including shrews!), which are generally crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk)

Allozyme: al - low - zyme
Different alleles, so forms, of the same enzyme which are coded for by a slightly different order of amino acids.

Menidia: men - id - ia
Menidia menidia is the Silverside fish, which changes its gender according to the temperature of the water.

Pets
Parsimony: paar - see - moan - nee
A type of evolutionary tree, which the least evolutionary changes between all the species

Phylogeny: fye - lodge - en - ee
The evolutionary history of a group of organisms

Passerine: Pas - er - i - n
Name given to all speices of birds which perch eg Parrots, sparrows and so on


Good Boolpropian to you *tips hat*
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby DancingFudgemunkie on October 2nd, 2007, 8:28 pm

"You, potential spouse! You have blonde hair, I bolt you. You bolt me? Pleasure?"

I was laughing at this point! I really like your stories, and I can't wait for the next chapter. :D
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby Tirren on October 2nd, 2007, 9:01 pm

I love your legacies XD I didn't know chapter three and four were up. *goes to read them immediately*
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 3rd, 2007, 3:56 am

Thanks for the lovely comments guys, you made me beam :D Hopefully I'll have got the next chapter done by tomorrow, whoop whoop!
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby hbcirce on October 3rd, 2007, 7:25 am

What a small world this is. I am using Geology names for my Sims so, I can play instead of... I mean study really hard for my class too. *shifty eyes* *shifty*
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby StyxLady on October 3rd, 2007, 9:58 am

Had fun reading your stories today. I really like your founder couple, they're so cute! :) Corvus and Repens are fun to read about as well. I love how you add an extra little fun snapshot at the end of every chapter. ^^ Can't wait for the next installment!
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby jesirice on October 3rd, 2007, 10:56 am

Love your legacy, can't wait to read more.
Oh and hey, to get your kids into college at the same time, you have to save and exit the house after they get their scholarships then go into the college neighborhood and click on a button that says move sims to college or something like that, it's to the left of the make a family button I believe. You get a big list of names of teenagers ready to go to college, and you just click on the name you want push the arrow, add more if you like and whallaaa you got a family of sim teens in college.
I hope that that helped, I know it wasn't quite clear enough, but I hope that you got the gist of it.
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 3rd, 2007, 2:39 pm

Oh that's such a big help, I never knew that! Thanks muchly, jesirice :)
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby DrSupremeNerd on October 4th, 2007, 10:36 am

Seems like you got way more fun out of playing your serious Pleasure Sim than I did. It should be against the law for serious Sims to roll Pleasure. Mine roll wants to skill and date and that's it.

Love what you did with Corvus!

And *gasp* avoiding the almighty ANOVA? Blasphemer!
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Chapters 1 - 4 (3rd Oct)

Postby jesirice on October 4th, 2007, 10:49 am

Not a problem, glad that I could give ya a hand. Anyway can't wait to read more, lol. Have fun. I'm in process of getting my Chapter 2 done for my legacy, check it out and tell me what you think. The link is on my siggy. Thanks,
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 13th, 2007, 4:36 pm

New chapter out!

Sorry it's been a while, organising Fresher's Week has been manic and my simming has suffered.. Back on track now ;) Updates should be more frequent from now on, whoop whoop!

Please enjoy Chapter Five - The Coming of the Third
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby Dicreasy on October 14th, 2007, 4:20 am

I followed the link in your siggy after it caught my eye in a thread I was reading, and I'm so glad that I did. :D This is funny, smart, and I love your characterisation, especially the synopsis you give when telling us their stats . Part of me was disappointed that Corvus didn't make heir, because he is such a sweetie, but I think that Repens will do a good job, even if he does talk as if he has swallowed a thesaurus. :lol:

I can't believe how fast Saeva skills! I love it when my sims skill quickly, which is why I love the education reward object and Autumn, but I've never had a toddler skill as fast as Saeva, you lucky thing you.

Anyway, you've been added to my must read list, and I'm looking forward to more. :)

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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby StyxLady on October 15th, 2007, 11:07 am

Love the new update!
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Repens' daughters (or should i say The Third) are adorable! Glad you got Kerrie's genes in there to counter that nose. ^^ Fast-skilling toddlers are the best! I'm so glad you got Atrica his own bowling lane. That should keep his PLEASURE up indefinately. (I heart him, too.)

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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby thepiepers5 on October 16th, 2007, 10:50 pm

New reader here!

I noticed your legacy when I was browsing the list tonight and decided to read. Glad I did, it was wonderful. I love how you designed all of your coverpages... very creative and beautiful. Your characters are wonderful! Very unique and different... yet true to their aspiration. The first trip to the bowling alley for Atrica was very sweet to watch :) I will be keeping an eye out for further updates.

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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 17th, 2007, 11:27 am

Again, thank you so much for your comments you guys! Makes me want to get the next chapter out asap ;)

I have news! Kind of. I've upgraded my lappy (because of this legacy!) and can now take better quality pictures for my stories. Good, non?
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby jesirice on October 19th, 2007, 2:29 pm

Just wanted to see how everything is going? I'm stalking legacies right now, to see if there are any updates. Yours is one of the few I'm checking on right now. Hope to see an update soon. There is only so long I can patiently wait for more, LOL.
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby LettuceMermaid on October 22nd, 2007, 9:52 am

I totally love your legacy Gin! You have a fun writing style - it makes it easier to read when your characters really develop individual personalities. <3

I kept laughing the whole time, though - I'm working on adding science components to my legacy, too! I currently have Arolon Netter at University. ;P I'm a Bio major too - all the buildings and dorms at the University, which I'm custom building, are named after science concepts - "Ribonucleic Park" for example. I also made up a new handicap to hold myself to: The Science Handicap! The heirs must get a golden badge in robotics, become best friends with three professors, go to college (unless their ancestors have all reached the top of all the science related careers and attained all the career reward objects), and become either a vampire, werewolf, plantsim, zombie, or be abducted by aliens at least once in their lifetime. I think there is more, but I forgot. :p

ANYWAY! I love your legacy!! It is a lot of fun to read one that also follows a Bio science theme! I'll be checking up on it often. ;)
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 22nd, 2007, 10:11 am

That's brilliant LettuceMermaid! That's such a fun handicap, I haven't been too strict on mine as of yet, but maybe I'll tighten up at some point. I've been trying like heck to get Repens abducted and he's about to elderfy, bah! It's cool to know other people are working on similar projects :)

And Ribonucleic Park - love it :P

(P.S. Everyone, I'm hoping to get an update out tonight with good quality pictures and gasp, plot!)
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 14th Oct (Ch. 5)

Postby AngellaSummers on October 22nd, 2007, 5:16 pm

I just read all of the chapters of your legacy; I loved them! Cool theme :D

Atrica is adorable with his pleasure-ness; Margaret made me laugh with her 'Oh my gaaaaawd's, especially the one at the end of chapter one, wasn't expecting that, good thing I always click arrows even after I think the chapter's over :lol:

Corvus is so cute with his strangeness, and Repens is cute with his... everything hehe

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He's has an unfortunate habit for speaking in long words, which means I have to try and spell them, which I usually can't!

"Onomatapeia."

Whatever.

Hahaha

Saeva and Carrie are so cute, I love all the recessive genes in your legacy; blondes and redheads 8-)

One star in four days?? :shock:

Kudos for the reference to Heroes in your story, I heart Hiro, can't wait to watch the show tonight! *hearts*

Great chapters! *thumbsup*
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Re: The Science of a Legacy: Updated 23rd Oct (Ch. 6)

Postby GintasticNecat on October 22nd, 2007, 6:40 pm

As promised, Chapter Six is up! Though my goodness is it -long-! I had to cute about 15 slides which was a shame, I should have probably split it into two parts, but was too far along when I realised!

There are some spelling mistakes, sorry about that, but it's now 2:30am (I've been writing this chapter since 10pm!) so I really need to go to sleep :P And download heroes, as Angella has reminded me! Bah, tomorrow is another day.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter folks, it was brilliant to write.
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