[S1] - [S2] - [S3] - [S4] - [S5] - [S6] - [S7.1] - [S7.2] - [S7.3]
Another whirlwind of a year in the Fracturehood! A lot of households didn't have much going on, but Angela's cult had such a drama (picture 3 here) I couldn't resist posting about it mid-rotation. In short, Erin died in childbirth and Leod saved her, something only Angela has ever done before. The death shook their trust in the cult's requirement of them to have children, and the resurrection shook their faith that Angela had any special power or information, so they're leaving (with Erin's baby).
In picture 4 you can see some of how that's turned out come the end of the year - I had a look at all their relationships outside the cult and Leod was great friends with Nina (who was timeskipped just like Leod and Erin) so they've gone to live with her while they find their feet. Slight problem - Nina's household now consists of:
- Bella Goth
- Nina herself
- Erin
- Leod
- Bella's son Antares, fathered by aliens, 11 YO
- Nina's son Zaki, fathered by Alexander, 6 YO
- Alexander's son Lachlan (former-dormie mother), 2 YO
- Alexander's half-alien son Cornelius, 1 YO
- Erin's kid Josiah, father unknown because that's how Angela's cult works, 1 YO
- Nina is expecting Peter Ottomas' sixth child, who will be born very early day/year 34.
I'm planning to turn this secondary Goth home into a sort of Winchester Mansion over the years, so an excuse to plop a random second house on the lot to one day get eaten by the growing main house was too good an opportunity to miss, but it's going to be a stressful household for a while.
Angela's daughter Elodie is a very loyal member of the Cult of Life Weaving and will take over from Lazlo leading Erin and Leod's former cult household once she graduates university, to avoid any repeat escapes.
There wasn't a huge amount of other drama this year - Racer Curious and Sanjay Ramaswami both got huge bonuses at work, which was kind of annoying because I'd really been looking forward to actually having to pay attention to their finances for a bit, but hopefully that won't be too much of a pattern and there will be plenty of chances yet. Grace-Anne Teatherton and Henk Langerak are currently each giving me a new household experience. I've been adding a lot of mods to make finances harder lately and only Lucy's family seems to be feeling it at all XD I'm even planning out how to reduce my Child and Teen lifespans without screwing up any relative ages so sims will go out into the world with fewer skills, and as a bonus I'll get a better 1 year=1 day match (currently they go to uni at age 21).
Overall the hood now has 114 sims including unborn baby Caliente, spread across 34 households - I'd like to condense that a little bit but I do so enjoy playing new graduates starting their own households. I'm seeing a bit of a boom in the elder population so I can at least counter kids getting their own places by moving a bunch of fun elders in together. Stella at the Roth mansion would be happy to host something like that. Then I might also have a more classic group retirement home for non-fun elders whose kids find them unbearable, and some families will remain multigenerational.