Yup, I finally revealed the heir in chapter six; frankly, I can’t believe I managed to keep it under wraps for so long – and honestly, I didn’t even mean to.
Anywho, I’d thought I’d share some stuff about the challenge now that it’s all good and done. Again, the original idea for an heir challenge came when I was reading joandsarah77’s Mobacy. I liked the idea of a challenge as well as the idea of “fate,” or the game’s randomness, picking the heir. And rest assured, there was no dues ex machina, tampering, any reconfiguring of the story to pick the heir, though I know it may seem that way.
I actually planned out all the rules for the challenge a long time ago, when I first started working out the ideas for the legacy and long before I started writing anything about the heir challenge or even played generation one. I think I finalized my rules about the same time I finished the prologue. So all that stuff about the Year of the Saiyan and the Year of the Moon – well, first I want to apologize if you thought the names were awkward, but I’m a geek so I’ll pretty much use any excuse I can to drop in a Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z reference. But all that stuff about heads and tails was in the plan from the beginning, so it’s not like I rewrote things to make Asher my heir, because really, if I had, I could have just said he survived/died last and called it a day. On the other hand, I was pleased to have the challenge turn out the way it did. I think Asher will be an excellent heir, plot wise, and I have a lot to work with Zeph and Aerith, too. Skye really didn’t have much of a personality; I guess I was secretly hoping one of the others would win all along, so I didn’t really give him one. But back to the whole fixed/not fixed thing; the only thing I “rearranged” was Kaylynn’s death. Technically, she died after the challenge was all said and done, but I want her to stay dead – her death certainly makes for complex characters.
Funny story about Raye, though. I originally created her to oversee the challenges. I just wanted the challenges to be away from the legacy lot and of course, teens can’t move out on their own. So that’s why she was made proctor. But now she’s turned into a regular Marsha Bruenig, calling Zeph, Asher, and Aerith every day, even though they only have like six relationship points. I had to put her in the sim bin and hope that that would stop the ringing. It’s funny; I never really understood the Marsha thing before now. It just goes to show simmers, you must always be vigilant against the phone stalkers. You never know which sim will turn out to be a member of the Marsha squad.
Anywho, I’d thought I’d share some stuff about the challenge now that it’s all good and done. Again, the original idea for an heir challenge came when I was reading joandsarah77’s Mobacy. I liked the idea of a challenge as well as the idea of “fate,” or the game’s randomness, picking the heir. And rest assured, there was no dues ex machina, tampering, any reconfiguring of the story to pick the heir, though I know it may seem that way.
I actually planned out all the rules for the challenge a long time ago, when I first started working out the ideas for the legacy and long before I started writing anything about the heir challenge or even played generation one. I think I finalized my rules about the same time I finished the prologue. So all that stuff about the Year of the Saiyan and the Year of the Moon – well, first I want to apologize if you thought the names were awkward, but I’m a geek so I’ll pretty much use any excuse I can to drop in a Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z reference. But all that stuff about heads and tails was in the plan from the beginning, so it’s not like I rewrote things to make Asher my heir, because really, if I had, I could have just said he survived/died last and called it a day. On the other hand, I was pleased to have the challenge turn out the way it did. I think Asher will be an excellent heir, plot wise, and I have a lot to work with Zeph and Aerith, too. Skye really didn’t have much of a personality; I guess I was secretly hoping one of the others would win all along, so I didn’t really give him one. But back to the whole fixed/not fixed thing; the only thing I “rearranged” was Kaylynn’s death. Technically, she died after the challenge was all said and done, but I want her to stay dead – her death certainly makes for complex characters.
Funny story about Raye, though. I originally created her to oversee the challenges. I just wanted the challenges to be away from the legacy lot and of course, teens can’t move out on their own. So that’s why she was made proctor. But now she’s turned into a regular Marsha Bruenig, calling Zeph, Asher, and Aerith every day, even though they only have like six relationship points. I had to put her in the sim bin and hope that that would stop the ringing. It’s funny; I never really understood the Marsha thing before now. It just goes to show simmers, you must always be vigilant against the phone stalkers. You never know which sim will turn out to be a member of the Marsha squad.