1.1 A new Sim in town

Lianndra Kyoti was new to Sunset Valley. She arrived with little more than a phone, a few simoleans and an ambition: to establish a legacy that would impact the community and last for ten generations.

On her first day in town, she headed straight for the centre to catch herself a man all the gossip.  She struck up a conversation with a likely looking fella, Ethan Bunch.  Unfortunately, it soon transpired that he was a teenager, and therefore not the best candidate for a potential mate, but she firgured it was worth getting to know him anyway.  After all, he’d age up sooner or later, right?  As she was chatting to Ethan, a suitable young adult, Jared Frio, happened by.  She immediately turned her attentions to him.  She started flirting with Jared.  Ethan was gutted by this turn of events and left town very shortly afterwards.

Lianndra was satisfied with her progress.  She spent the rest of the day bagging herself a job in the athletics career and paying to take an athletics class.  This didn’t leave her with much money, but a single bed and a chair would do for now.  After all, she could take care of most things in town for now.  Lianndra spent her time reading the paper, to catch up on all the gossip in town and attending the gym to keep her great figure trim and take advantage of the free food, toilets and showers.

In between hanging out at the pool and gym, and making herself popular with the rest of the sporty crowd, Lianndra focussed on her other goal: carrying on her legacy – and she wasn’t going to do this without a man….

It turned out that bagging a man wasn’t so difficult.  All it took was upgrading her single bed to a double and Jared agreed to move in.  Unfortunately he didn’t bring any much needed simoleans with him, just a crappy ghetto blaster circa 1987 that was stolen a few days later.  Jared was a heavy sleeper, a natural cook, mean spirited, inappropriate and a party animal.  He wanted to be a star chef one day.  He might not have come with much physical baggage, but there was some emotional stuff: a brother, Connor (who was soon to become a single father), and a bitter break-up with his ex, Claire Ursine.  Jared didn’t realise it for a long time, but he was also about to become a father…

Jared’s daughter, Alison Ursine, was born to little fanfare, but he was too busy building a life with Lianndra to pay her any attention (he hadn’t raised the thorny issue of his past with Lianndra yet).  He and Lianndra began to make a life for themselves, starting a  vegetable garden to help sustain them.  Because they lived on such a beautiful plot of land, neither was too bothered about the absence of walls.  In time, though, they began to start making some money from their vegetable patch and their jobs, and they could afford a crappy sofa and a three-walled bathroom.

Jared loved to fish, and although she wasn’t as keen, Lianndra would often accompany him on his trips in order to spend more time with him and encourage him to be part of establishing her legacy.

They both enjoyed this life of living off the land, but Jared began to hanker after an oven…

…and Lianndra wondered if her pillow talk would ever consist of anything other than sharing gardening tips…

Lianndra wondered if the reason Jared hadn’t woo-hooed with her yet was due to their bed.  So she bought a new one, and that night…

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