Welcome to The Arcana:  A Legacy!  My name is Lulu - until recently an avid Sims 2 player.  However, I have traded in my Sims 2 for Sims 3, and have decided to give this thing a go the only proper way I know how - with a Legacy!

Or legacy-ish anyway.  I don't plan to play for points, or follow any particular ruleset.  It's the general create-a-sim, find-a-spouse, have-some-babies, repeat, no-cheating formula.  And I pretty much plan to continue until I get bored, although I have set myself up for 22 generations.  I assume my computer will explode before then.

Keep in mind that I am A) Bad at remembering to take pictures, B) Bad at commentating, and C) Almost completely ignorant on all things Sims 3.  The last time I played was when Ambitions came out, and even then, I didn't play long.  And I've read a few stories here and there, but not many.

Because it took longer than thirty seconds to figure out, I will be playing unmodded (even Awesomemod, which makes me sad).  I do have all the expansions, however.  (This lack of patience will soon become a trend, incidentally)

Enough of that, let's meet our founder!

(Naturally, I don't know how to fix this so it fits - check back in later!)

Mat was almost completely randomized, except for his LTW which I chose for... reasons.  I wanted to, okay?  His favorite color is Lime, but I've dressed him and decorated everything in more subtle greens, also for dot dot dot reasons.  Whatever.

Mat's first Wish (which I will almost certainly mix up and call Want at some point, just fyi) is for a job... as a Criminal.

Um, no.

After a long search, I discover that Paradise Isle (or whatever they call it) doesn't have a gypsy wagon, and I have to add my own.  Several frustrating google searches later, I finally figure out how to add one.  After spending so much time on this, I'm not inclined to be particularly fair about things, so...

He works over there now.

Should have included a wagon in the town, EA.

Mat is a pretty glum Sim.

Mat:  My boss is an old lady :(

Cheer up.  Go make friends with that guy, whoever he is.

Mat:  Maybe you should take notes?

Too lazy.

How many camera-zooming arrivals need to happen before this nonsense stops?  (Like, four).  And the llama thinks it has a lot in common with Mat.  Yikes.

I send Mat downtown to hopefully meet some more appropriate matches (which apparently involves a taxi boat - convenient!), but he is followed by a horde of girls, so apparently I'm going the wrong way.

Mat's second wish is to plant a garden, and then to buy some lettuce.  I completely fail at finding things, so I send Mat to that blue store in the back (which sells... clothes?) instead of this orangey one in front, which is the actual grocery store.  At least I was close.  And there are some girls there.

Again, I'm not good at this.

This girl appears to be taken. 

(You can't tell, because I fail at taking pictures, but they have the same last name and were doing romantic interactions, so I took that as a broad hint)

I... think this one is a teen?

Better.  At least she's the right size.

Go Mat, make friend!

Mat:  Hi!  You're you.

Hinni(?):  Yes.  And you're you.

Told you I couldn't caption.

Yeah, my walls are down.  What, you didn't want to see the bathroom?

Mat:  When I get home, I'm going to have a great new legacy house!

Hah, yeah.  A house, yes.

Mat:  You... did buy me a house, right?  I know we have some money left, because you bought the wrong size lot.

It's plenty big!  Not my fault I couldn't find the right size.  Couldn't just let me place my own damn lot, oh nooo.  (I figured out later that I could have?  But it's not like there was room anyway).

Mat:  ...It's still empty.

It's a nice view, though.  And anyway, what's a legacy without a little lawn living?

Now plant your garden.

I bet you're just on the edge of your seat with all this action.

What... what are you skilling right now?

Mat:  Social Networking.

...Is that a skill?  Don't you have to just not be ninety?  Eh.

Since Mat doesn't have any means of getting food at home, I treat him to this super expensive restaurant.  

He does get into his tux for it, though (rented, obviously).  He also meets this woman's breasts, who is a celebrity and doesn't care to talk to him because he sucks or something.

Back at home, he's finally acquired his first piece of furniture!

Hey, it's better than a lawn chair (probably).

Whew!  What an exciting day!  We entered existence, explored a new town, cheated a little, got a job, bought some lettuce, planted a garden, and met a couple of girls and their chests!  

And here we shall leave Mat to sleep peacefully before tomorrow, when marriages and babies soon happen!  Hooray!

Too-da-Lu! ;)

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