The Name Game – An Alphabet Legacy

Chapter 7 – The House of the Rising Lag

Well first thing’s first- Centowski is my generation C heir. He won the poll with Chen coming in second.

Now on to the title: as of the end of this chapter, the game is lagging. Also, Last Name’s character file seems to have been deleted, so he is blank in the family tree. I blame Yusun.

Here’s Centowski’s spouse for the generation: Lisa Rauscher. College townie family sim extraordinaire.

Of course I move them out on their own so I can focus on playing them.

They graduate college with low marks because I just wanted to get them through as quick as possible to have…

Lisa: Baaaabbbbbiiiiieeesss….

Lisa is an Aquarius (4/4/4/7/6). Family sim who wants to be Captain Hero. She likes charismatic and creative sims who don’t wear swimwear.

Time for generation D to begin.

I get Lisa her dream job in law enforcement despite the fact that this family does not need anymore money. I feel uncomfortable having so many simoleons in the bank and not really having anything to use them on.

I also, accidentally, get Centowski a job in natural science instead of his preferred paranormal. Want to know how long it takes for me to figure out my mistake? Stay tuned :P

First baby bump of generation D.

Blum and Payton are still around as adults. They haven’t aged up yet, and that makes me sad.

Blum: Do you think he wants us dead?

Payton: Probably. I think this generation is going to be huge.

Here we go!

DOBREV NAME! She is a Sagittarius (2/7/8/8/4). Her name is Bulgarian for son of Dobri.

Time for more babies!

Payton opens up a second store to try and complete his lifetime want. This one will be a toy shop.

I get Burns a job here and it starts off slow. I got it up to level 5.

But then I had to go back because this is an alphabet legacy and I need to focus on making my heir and spouse have more kids.

Payton focuses on making toys for his business so it doesn’t reflect in the budget.

First bump for baby 2!

Toddler Dobrev!

Where‘s the glow?

Blum: I didn’t give her Toddler Milk.

Do you not want superpowered kids?

I got a cowplant! So cute

So dangerous…

Elder Blum!

Elder Payton!

Hey Araya! Don’t kill my heir.

Araya: Don’t worry, I’m not Yusun.

Baby time!

Baby number 2 is DEAN NAME! Sagittarius (6/4/9/8/4). His name is derived from the Middle English word for valley.

And baby number 3 is DE WITTE NAME. He is a Capricorn (9/10/1/8/7). His name is Dutch for “the white.” Cause he’s white…

After having the twins, Lisa rolled the want to have 10 kids so I figured I may as well go after that. Here’s her drinking some elixir of life to stay young.

And here’s her getting ready for baby 4.

It’s all coming up Lisa!

Child Dobrev!

Toddler Dean!

Toddler De Witte!

Gotta keep the cow entertained so I don’t accidentally kill the family.

This was the point where I realized that I had Centowski on the wrong career path. Yup. It took until the middle of the fourth kid’s pregnancy.

Time for number 4!

Baby number 4 is DRAGO NAME! Sagittarius (6/4/8/8/4). Drago is Italian for Dragon.

More elixir.

Headmaster: You‘re not, Araya.

Blum: Well screw you too, buddy.

Child De Witte.

Child Dean!

Toddler Drago!

Gave Dean a makeover while the headmaster was here. Had to time the entire thing so that I could get most of the kids into private school.

Of course, the kids got in.

Lisa: De Witte, we need you to not narrate our sex life.

DW: But it’s fun.

Centowski: Not for us.

Hi Ralph!

Lisa reaches the top of her career! Now she can quit and focus on what’s really important: her impossible want.

Also, some townie died and Lisa is gonna drink him for youth.

Oh, and another townie is dying as we speak.

Centowski reaches the point in the paranormal career where he gets the career reward.

Centowski: It’s ugly.

You wanted this life, jerk.

Family reunion… and Dobrev being rude to her great aunt.

Dobrev: SHE SHOULD BE DEAD!

Child Drago!

Teenage Dobrev. She rolled family and wants to be captain hero like her mom. She likes custom and gray hair, but not blondes.

I then sent her off to college to live with some townie kid who I aged up with her named Keith Fairchild. He’s a pleasure sim who wants to be a party guest. I can’t remember anything else about him, but if she wins the heir poll this will be her spouse.

Time to make baby number 5.

Blum: You’re new.

Headmaster 2: The last guy said he didn’t want to come back.

So Drago got into the private school.

This may have been the point that Last Name’s file became corrupted because it’s the last time I saw his ghost before I moved him.

Payton opens his third business: a graveyard.

Soon I realize I need to give people a reason to be here.

It soon just becomes a hot tub hangout.

And the second business of Payton reaches level 10.

Teenage Dean rolls knowledge and wants to max out 7 skills. He likes brown and black hair, but not full face makeup.

Teenage De Witte rolls romance and wants to be a party guest. He likes cologne and the cleaning skill, but not the mechanical skill.

Time for baby 5!

It’s another boy! This is DU NAME. Leo (6/9/3/4/4). Du is Chinese for “stop,” which I don’t plan to do.

Centowski reaches the top of his career so he can quit now (seriously… we have too much money).

Now to work on baby 6.

This bump was brought to you by the twins moving out (I forgot to mention that earlier but I don’t edit because the point of me publishing this is to show that I am in the works of COMPLETING the legacy.. Not to tell a story).

Toddler Du with the same hair as his uncle he hasn’t met.

Drago is a jerkass.

Time for teenage Drago to get out of here. He rolled fortune and wants 6 pets to max out their careers. He like stink and cooking but not unemployed sims.

Payton trying to pass on his skills to the next generation before he dies.

It didn’t work, so he’s passing them to Centowski.

Lisa: I want 10 kids, not level 10 businesses.

Time for the baby!

Baby 6 is DUFFY NAME! Leo (6/9/4/7/5). Duffy is Irish for “descendant of Dubhthach.” I didn’t know how to pronounce that, so I just went with what was easier on behindthename.

Oh, and baby 7 is here, too. This is DUKE NAME. Taurus (4/9/8/10/4). It is and English occupational surname for anyone who had the title of Duke or worked in the household of one.

Three more babies to go!

I send Payton and Blum to the toy shop one last time to get it up a few levels. Maybe a future generation will be able to achieve the want.

Back at home, I forget to pay a few bills… oops.

Really? A kid’s toy?

Child Du!

Toddler Duffy and Duke.

Baby number 8 is DVORAK NAME. Be careful what you wish for because I now have 7 boys in this generation in total after having so many girls in generation B. Dvorak is a Sagittarius (6/4/8/8/4) and is a Czech occupational name for someone who owns a manor.

Sighs really loudly.

RIP generation B.

The deaths of Blum and Payton mean two more spaces are open in the household for the last two kids of generation D.

I completely forgot which dessert was which so she had a piece of both.

Child Duffy!

Child Duke!

So clearly a headmaster is over….

Hopefully the final pregnancy…

He was so disgusted by the family that they didn’t get Du, Duffy, and Duke into private school.

Headmaster 3: You have a gun on the table!

Oh psh… it’s a scanner.

Toddler Dvorak.

Centowski reaches elderhood. Maybe I should have given him some elixir, too.

Baby 9 is DYER NAME! She (finally another girl) is a Libra (1/9/4/7/8). Her name is English for “one who dyes.” Another occupational name.

And here is baby 10. A second girl named DZIEDZIC NAME. She’s a Taurus (4/9/5/8/5). Her name is Polish for landowner.

Child Dvorak!

Didn’t want him to look too crazy.

Teenage Du. He rolls knowledge. Don’t know his LTW yet, but he likes stink and glasses but not the cleaning skill.

Toddler Dyer.

Toddler Dziedzic.

The heir poll won’t be out yet because I haven’t played far enough for everyone to be in college. To make things easy on me, each of them will be in their own household. Twins will be paired because they will count as one heir this generation. I want to mix things up a bit.

- Rex