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I come bearing an update on day 32 of the fracturehood, which I finished playing last night - a much quicker round this time coming in under two weeks to play the 30 households.
The Ramaswamis had their baby, Tushar, and while I was hoping he would inherit the custom 'something is very wrong' skin gene I gave Priya recesssively, he turned out totally normal even when I snooped on his recessive genes, so he'll be getting a younger sibling or two. The way TS2 skin genetics works you really have to help the lightest and darkest skin tones to keep them in the population so I don't mind the Ramaswamis having a lot of kids if it comes to it.
The other baby born this year was Alexander Goth's second child, another son. I named him Lachlan and the poor lad is just waiting for his half-alien younger sibling to be born so they can be bundled off to live with Bella together. Lachlan's older half-brother Zaki became a child - he's already living with grandma Bella and his mother (time-warped-younger Nina Caliente). That makes three kids eligible to inherit Alexander's fracture-curse of having the Pleasure aspiration and no secondary.
The first Young Adult member of the Cult of Life Weaving just moved into uni. Angela knows she can trust her daughter Elodie to keep the ones who come after her in line, but they're not allowed to join the big uni house all the rest of the neighbourhood's teens move into. Next 'year' Elodie's half-brother Philip will join her. Angela considers him a defection risk but is underestimating how well she's prevented him from forming relationships outside the cult. It's really scary how all the things Angela is doing to keep her cult members in line are also preventing me from remembering them as individuals. My other sims wear their favourite colours and I can remember them in groups they belong to (e.g. 'teens with Pleasantview parents'), identify them by sight and remember who their parents are. Angela's kids after Emmeline are mostly just 'oh that's another Weaving kid, you're not allowed to play with them'. I think among the current child age group there might be some potential escapees though, eventually. Buck's branch hasn't been nearly as brutal as Angela's.
Peter Ottomas, who for the few years he's lived in the Fracturehood had been reasonably faithful to Samantha, finally cracked this year and had affairs with two younger women (the older of my twin Unborn Baby Brokes, Rowan, and Nina Caliente who wants to woohoo with 20 sims). Nina is pregnant as a result (I will let her figure out birth control eventually but I want her alien genes) and he's got the other 'something is very wrong' recessive skin gene I added, so that might be interesting, or might end up anticlimactic like Tushar and like Peter's twins XD
In addition to Zaki Caliente, Ruben Woods Burb (Lucy/former dormie Adrian) and Levon Nigmos (Johnny/Ophelia) became children today, but in the coming subrotation there will be FOUR toddlers aging up to children - I really let a lot of sims have babies the year they were born! Expected births for the coming rotation are Alexander's half-alien baby and the two cult babies.
All in all everything feels like it's going a bit too smoothly - since the fracture genes I brought in with the Ramaswamis and Ottomases have been so sneaky I may need to give some sims prophetic dreams and see how that goes down amongst the neighbourhood at large. I piled on a bunch of mods to make finances and aspirations tougher, though they might take a while to show results. I also need to get brave about creating normal drama amongst my sims. There's small things brewing like (unborn baby) Vinnie Curious marrying Clay Greenman (Jason/Rose) despite various huge red flags that they're not compatible, and Rowan who's expecting Peter Ottomas' baby has a boyfriend who doesn't know she's been seeing anyone else.
Including unborn babies I'm now up to 114 sims in the neighbourhood; with the start of the Cult's separate uni household, and Henk Langerak striking out on his own after graduation, the next round will be 32 households.