Hua, Part Seven
We left off with Hua getting called out on dating several people at once, which she did kind of deserve. In her defense and mine: she still wasn't steady with any of them, and only one of them was woohooed with. And that one was not Rhonda.
We had a fix in Hua's pocket though.
The rest of their date that day went well. Rhonda overestimated her spice tolerance, forgave Hua, and was on the track to become the next decadynasty wife. She still needed a makeover though.
But then when I had Hua meet with Jarred to get acquainted with her future babydaddy, he wasn't having any of this arrangement either. He felt used! He really thought there was a spark, even if they hadn't so much as kissed since high school. And now they disliked each other, which wasn't
impossible to fix, but I had to consider if I wanted to raise a child in that environment.
And within this all was Winter, who never questioned Hua's courtship. She was the woman that Hua got the most wishes for, the one who she had the best dates with, and the first woman she ever made love to. She was very cute like her mother and her brother certainly wasn't a ugly one either; he skewed more towards looking like Uncle Kiwi. The two of them were pretty lonely in their house after their mum shacked up with her girlfriend, while the Kahales certainly weren't lonely with Jarred, Rhonda, mother Leilani, and roommate Rosalind Sapota (nee Cruzita), who was forever an adult werewolf. Their other brother, Gregg, had since moved in with his girlfriend instead.
It was going to be a tough decision. It was Hua vs. her watcher, and Hua vs. her own interests too. Clearly we had to stay in Sunlit Tides and figure it out like an adult.
Or we just go to China? We'll just go to China.
I finally had an alright plan for Hua's opportunities. She could fulfill her alloted three in China, and once her career as an angler was maxed, she could go into law enforcement for any other remaining ops. I didn't have it slated as a unique career then, and the likelyhood of her having to finish it was nearly zero. Plus, some Chinese fish would help out her supermax, because some base game ones were proving impossible to find in Sunlit Tides (pirahna where are you?)
She had to hunt for treasure and true to form, fish.
The treasure hunting is always fun, but the hunt for a few koi was not. She went to a pond and fished. The scenery wasn't even great, I give it a 3/10 for the experience.
Like in Egypt, Hua scouted out the genetic material in town. First stop that I didn't screenshot was to the Wang house, and I was sad to see that
Deng Wang didn't have any descendants and was an elder. He was the one of the scant handful original foreign NPCs that I had some genetic reference for, and also liked (guess I'm a sucker for cool noses?). And yeah,
story progression still kind of functions in foreign worlds and university and I can expect kiddos from whichever foreigner I want, I'll explain more if asked.
We'll come back to Deng though so put a pin in that until later!
Randomly generated NPCs in China and Egypt and even generated tourists in your town from them also pull from pre-made face templates and aren't necessarily pudding abominations, which is actually pretty neat and not the worst way to combat same-face syndrome. Though there don't seem to be too many "foreign faces" either and France uses the same zero-slider generating as the homeworld. Food for thought? I'll get a screenshot when I can.
But in the picture she found Niu Wong, the child, and Rui Xi Lu, a teenager who she tormented through magic. Niu turned out to be the one descended from the
Lu Family in Shang Simla (their little boy married a Chinese NPC with the Wong surname and took it too) whilst Rui Xi seemingly was not. Again, too young to use right now, but old enough to keep an eye on.
Back at the ranch, uncle Taurus passed away and while close to the criminal hideout? Not suspicious at all. He produced a redundant medium tombstone, but got to be buried close to his mother in the backyard. There may have been a household exodus brewing and he kicked it off.
We'll remember him for entertaining the town's fairies one night. He did not max three skills either. (Seriously I think the only fairies missing from this shot were Theodora Jayne, even though her son's right there, and Helen Hoffman, who we might see soon!)
Alastair still had his old romantic interest, Penelope Pepper. This almost caused some drama between him and Taurus but not quite. I can't say he was really over Taurus. Alastair never changed his last name and would forever be a Ling. That has to say something, right? And not just about my laziness?
He and Penelope had four daughters: Helena, Robyn, Tonya, and the dearly departed Elizabeth. I loved him and Taurus as the house's gay uncles, but if I said that I didn't want his genes too, I'd be lying.
It was an exodus for everyone. Heiva met up with Amedee for the last time. He had long ago been widowed
again and made peace with it. Even his daughter's boyfriend moving in wasn't so bad in the end. Amedee was a brilliant musician and an alright painter, had 75k+ LTHP when we moved out (and you don't lose that), and was filthy rich too. Heiva may have passed on the news that Kiwi's other children may be joining the dynasty. At least I'm pretty sure that Amedee knew about them.
Liwei also grew up and quickly fell in love. I can't call him responsible but he was chained to his desk for his entire youth after all.
His love was the older Ginny Hale, now living alone or with some townie roommate. Who cares. Liwei wouldn't join the dark side with her and her vampire kin, but they could have a long marriage with no children for sure--
Ah, we pressed the Try For Baby button didn't we?
And you rolled Dislikes Children as your adult trait?
Pedro, his only surviving son, didn't seem to like him either. But as far as I could see, Liwei and Ginny had an alright marriage in an alright house. She lived on well into Gen 4's young adult years too!
It must have hurt to be Hua. Her much-younger brother got married and had a kid before she did, and she wanted a good marriage and a kid just like any self-respecting heir. But she still had two romantic interests.
Well I made the decision before she did. I figured that I could preserve Rhonda's beauty for another generation and made her a vampire just like her brothers. And she got a makeover too, I couldn't resist the temptation.
Obviously, Rhonda was unhappy with the deal because she was promised a starring role as a spouse. I promised a starring role
later, it's good enough! And as a new vampire, she was much scarier to Hua than she ever expected.
It was the hardest thing she ever had to do! What else could be going wrong for her? She wasn't even neurotic. Next thing she knew, mom and dad would be having another baby before she could even get her tenth op.
Just say you're kidding, guys-
