Hello everyone and welcome back to Once Upon a Thyme! If you remember from last chapter, our heir's wife was pregnant again, but we hadn't seen Oregano's reaction yet!

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Needless to say, Oregano wasn't too pleased about finding out his wife was pregnant again. I imagine it has something to do with the fact that he's just not the most friendliest of sims. What with his squeamish, evil, and hot-headed traits along with his career in the Criminal career.



In true evilness, he immediately headed downstairs to troll teh forums and begain maniacally laughing while doing so.

This actually frustrated me, because normally when I send him to troll teh forums, he stops after a few minutes and I really need him to build his mischief skill for his job. But I actually had queued other things for him to do, and NOW he decides he wants to troll teh forums. (Also, my brain keeps wanting to type 'the' instead of 'teh.' It's odd purposely making a typo.)



It's Angelica's birthday, and she blessed us with this lovely glitch. In fact, she never even showed up outside of the crib and was invisible even though I had given her a childhood aspiration and trait.

Luckily, I was able to queue her to change her appearance and when she came out of the mirror, she finally appeared!



Originally, I thought she looked more like her Mom than her Dad, but her eye spacing is definitely from her Dad. She's adorable though and I like this shade of blonde hair on her since it's different than the shade that we had in the earlier generations.



This is one happy kid. She's constantly going around the house giggling and smiling. I'm not sure if it's related to her good trait or not because her Mom does the same thing, but it makes me love her even more! I hope that her siblings are just as sweet and cute.



Since her childhood aspiration is Artistic Prodigy, she immediately gets to work on it.



She's actually inspired due to one of the items in the room with an emotional aura, but she still gave me this pouty face.



Not long after Angelica's birthday, Trinity was going into labor with her next baby!



And it's twins! Both of which are girls.

On the left, is baby girl Bay and Trinity is holding baby girl Jasmine.

I didn't initially plan on giving all the girls "regular" names, but it just kind of worked out that way.



Since there are now three kids in the generation, it was time to roll for our heiress!

Angelica, you're our heiress!

"Oh okay."

What's wrong? Aren't you excited?

"Not really, I didn't have a good day at school."



Not only was Trinity sad from her first day at school, when she went upstairs to meet her siblings, she became sad again from "meeting an unwanted sibling."



Rue was abducted by aliens! I'm grateful it was her and not Daryl or Oregano.



You can't really tell by their facial expressions, but these two shouldn't be alone in a room together.

See, Angelica is a good sim, so when she's around her Dad, sometimes she gets an angry moodlet from being around an evil sim. When this happens, he gets a happy moodlet from her discomfort.



It's already time for the twins to grow up! Man, they sure do grow up quick! Luckily, none of them gave me a creepy glitch like Angelica did.



Bay looks a lot like her Mom, but I see some traits of her father as well, and she got one of her Mom's traits.



Jasmine is an identical clone of her twin sister, only she got her father's evil trait. Which means now I have to keep an eye on her when she's around Angelica as well.



I dressed them similar while still accounting for their different personalities. Though, I'll admit, I personally favor Bay's outfit because I love that watermelon shirt.



While Angelica is playing the violin, I immediately have Bay get started on her aspiration.



I had to send Jasmine to get playful before I sent her out to the jungle gym, but soon she was also working on her aspiration as well. What can I say, I run a tight ship.



Angelica has completed her original aspiration of Artistic Prodigy! I WILLINGLY gave her Social Butterfly as her next aspiration just because I hadn't completed it in a while.



Angelica completes her homework much faster than her siblings. She sits down and is practically finished. It's strange really, because I've never seen a sim complete it as fast as she does.



Oregano has reached the split in his career, and I decided to send him down "The Boss" path. Mainly because I thought it was fitting since he has an evil daughter now too.

This also completed Rue's aspiration, I chose painter extraordinaire for her next aspiration though I'm not sure if she has enough life left to finish it.



For his daily work task, Oregano has to perform mean actions. So I sent him to the park, and he was mean to the gardener which ended in him fighting the guy...and losing.



Luckily, Oregano's big brother Saffron happened to see the whole thing happen and comforted his brother.



Rue has actually been making a decent amount of progress on her aspiration. Maybe she'll actually be able to finish it after all.



Speaking of aspiration progress, Bay has completed her Artistic Prodigy aspiration. I decided to give her Rambunctious Scamp as her next one.



For some reason, Angelica's aspiration glitched and even though she had like 6 adult friend and 5 child friends she wasn't getting progress for them, so once her social was maxed I used the cheat to complete the tier and thus she has completed the Social Butterfly aspiration.

Next, Angelica will be working on Whiz Kid.



I have to admit, Jasmine makes some of the best faces when she's doing stuff. Right when she completed her aspiration, she made this face and I thought it was fitting and adorable.

I also gave Jasmine whiz kid as her next aspiration.



Honestly, I should've given it to Bay too, but with two sims working on the same aspiration, they were able to complete the first tier quickly.

Though, with the Good vs. Evil thing going on, they did up getting angry a few times while playing chess.



Jasmine was still angry about playing chess with her good sister that despite mourning one of her dead ancestors, she was still making an angry face on her way back into the house.



Unfortunately, right in the middle of a nap, the grim reaper came to collect Rue.

I have to say, even though I knew it was about to happen, I totally wasn't ready for her to die yet.



"Please don't take my wife away! I have the long-lived trait, I don't want to be alone for that long! Please!"

"Oh fine..."



Daryl was able to successfully bring Rue back to life. Which, I didn't know was possible for sims who died from old age.

Her age bar is still sparkly though, so I'm sure she won't be around much longer. I considered giving her a youth potion, but then I decided she'd be around for too long and my game runs better with less sims in the house. So we'll just have to make the best of the time she was given.



Her first autonomous action after being brought back from life was to go troll teh forums. I would've thought she would've done some things with her family, or at the very least kiss her husband.



Uh, Daryl?

"Yes?"

Stop smiling, your wife is dying.

"No she's not. I just saved her from the grim reaper, weren't you there?"

No, like again, she's dying again, look behind you."



"You're throwing me a surprise party aren't you?! Because I saved Rue's life. That's so awesome!"

No. Your wife is dying. The grim reaper is here again and everything. Why don't you look down.



*gasp*

"Oh no, Rue really IS dying again. But, I just saved her. He only gave her a few hours!"



"RUUUUUUUE! *SOB* I'M SORRY! *SOB* I TRIED TO GIVE YOU MORE TIME."

*uncontrollable sobbing*



Oregano needs to be mean to some more sims, so I figured what better time than right after the death of his mother. That should fuel his rage.

While on the hunt for someone to be mean to, we ran into Pepper as a teenager. Man, she sure has a thing for hats.

He ended up being mean to the gardener again, and I didn't get any pictures.



Once back at home, he went upstairs to discuss evil plans with his evil daughter Jasmine. They literally discussed this for hours.



Daryl reached max handiness, so it was finally time to send someone to check out the Forgotten Grotto.



Upon first entering, it's nothing fancy. Just some boards and other things. (There is a toilet though, you know, if your sim has to pee a lot.)



But as you move a little further in there are these pretty crystals. You can't mine/collect them though.



And then there's this really pretty light above a fishing spot. I don't think it's normally this dark, but nightfell when I was trying to get the correct answer after he broke the door.

I hope the door stays gone so that if I get an heir ever with angling ace I can bring them here.



After I unpaused the game, lots of bats came and started flying above the water, and I thought it was really cool.



Daryl did a little fishing while he was there, but he was still sad about his wife's death.



While Daryl was exploring the Forgotten Grotto, Trinity reached the split in the Tech Guru career. I decided to send her down the gamer career so we could get the other motion gaming rig, but for now Trinity seems content with the basic one they already have.



Daryl has picked up boxing in the absence of Rue. Unfortunately, he always gets the "dangerously tired" moodlet after doing so for any extended period of time.



There are two reasons for this picture:

The first is that somehow water has gone bad and is emitting an odor. I'm not sure I'd want to be drinking their water if it can go bad so easily.

The second, and actually main reason, is that Angelica has completed her Whiz Kid aspiration. Her birthday is coming up soon so she probably won't be able to complete it, but I went ahead and gave her rambunctious scamp.



Surprisingly enough, she was able to finish over half of it. Thinking back, I should've had her taken a vacation day from school and had her grow up later than I normally do. (I get so excited about birthdays that as soon as it hits midnight and says there are zero days left before aging up, I bake them a cake.)



While Trinity was baking Angelica's birthday cake, Bay completed the Rambunctious Scamp aspiration. I gave her Whiz Kid as her next aspiration.



Soon, the cake is finished and Angelica is blowing out her birthday candles!



What is it with all my sims growing up into hats? It's crazy!



I decided to keep the bun look she had as a child, and gave her this side braid that goes into a bun hairstyle. I think it really suits her and her aspiration.



I'm not going to lie, when I put these boots on her and saw how well they matched the outfit I was on the fence about, it sold me. I think it looks really nice for someone who wants to be fabulously wealthy, even though her family is already rich.



The family that studies together, stays together.

Oregano joins in on the homework fest by studying mischief. (Seriously he's SO SLOW at building this skill.)



I can't believe that it's already time for Oregano's adult birthday. I feel like there's nothing to the young adult stage.



Post aging, he looks pretty much the same just with some wrinkles and some added weight.



Jasmine has just completed Whiz Kid, which means next she'll be doing Artistic Prodigy.



I hadn't sent Oregano and Trinity on many dates, so I decided to work on their aspirations some and sent them on a date to the park. The first two sims we run into are Tarragon and Sumac who look a lot a like in my opinion. Tarragon is on the left, and Sumac is on the right.



Unfortunately, they also witnessed the death of Saffron's wife Ariana.



To celebrate completing their aspirations, the couple went to the spa and got some massages together. How relaxing right?

Trinity's new aspiration is computer whiz, because she's already got most of the skills needed for that.

And I gave Oregano Public Enemy because he already has an enemy and has to be mean and mischievous for work.

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This is where I'm going to end the chapter, so stay tuned for the next chapter! I already have about a quarter of it done, so it shouldn't be too long before it's out!

Until next time! xo

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