As a toddler, Regan shows astrong resemblance to her father, except for the nose which is distinctly Wolff.
Even before she's off the bottle, she's discussing fine cuisine with Harlan.
Rukmini doesn't live to see her grandchildren grow up, she passes away not long after becoming an elder. Saranya has her buried in their family plot. Max is devastated at the loss of his wife, but is comforted to have their daughter Sundari living with him, with her husband and two children, Melissa and Mario.
As a child, Regan spends a lot of time playing with her toy oven. Today, muffins and brownies, tomorrow, crepes and lobster thermidor.
Regan is also passsionate about the arts. She loves painting, and Harlan gave her his cheap plastic camera to practice photography with, promising to give her his expensive Hikon when she's older, if she's still interested. Regan is quite sure she will be interested, in fact she's decided her goal in life will be to master painting and photography.
Saranya spends a lot of time training in the martial arts. The discipline and meditation has made her more focused and less reckless. While she still loves her job as a firefighter, she finds she's less excited by fires than she was when she was younger.
Time passes and Regan becomes a teen. Her eyes, mouth and face shape all come from her father, but she has her mother's nose, a trait passed through the Wolff genes.
Harlan hovers nervously as Regan prepares her first meal on the grown up stove, his stove. He's pretending to be focused on cleaning the counter, but he's watching her from the corner of his eyes. He didn't need to worry, she made her pancakes without burning the house down, and while they weren't as perfect as his pancakes, they were still quite good. With practice she will become as good a chef as her father.
As much as he hates crowds, Harlan attends the community grill-a-thon when Regan wishes to participate. Her hotdogs are better than any other hotdogs offered. He won't even mention the burnt grilled salmon cooked up by Megan Steel.
Max visits to tell his daughter he's remarrying. Marsha Landgraab, like him, has been widowed for some time, and they've been spending a lot of time together. "I'm leaving Wolff Manor to Sundari," he tells Saranya, "As much as love being around her and her kids, it's time for her to have her own life. Saranya sincerely congratulates her father. He loved her mother far more than, in Saranya's estimation, she deserved, and she's glad he's found someone new rather than spending the rest of his days grieving and alone.
Regan spends some time with her grandfather, her only living grandparent. Harlan's parents had passed on before she was born.
Regan meets a tourist from France outside the theater in town, and learns about Champs les Sims. Someday, Regan will visit there herself. She'd like to try her hand a nectar making, visit the art museum and take lots of photos.
That evening, shortly before curfew, she runs into two of her cousins, Regina Goth, her aunt Kamal's daughter, and Melissa Wolff, daughter of her aunt Sundari.
With perseverance comes success, Saranya achieves the top level of the martial arts skill. It will not be long now before she and Harlan are elders, and she will be able to retire.
(Challenge Notes: Saranya's original LTW was to rescue 30 Sims from death in fires. The problem was, for two Sim weeks straight, she only got small fires and rabbit hole emergencies to deal with, and was stuck at 16/30 rescues. Though achieving LTW is not a requirement for her generation, I've never not achieved a Sim's LTW, and began to worry about this one, since it wasn't dependent on anything I could do for her, really, it was up to the game to give the large houses fires that have Sims to rescue. So, I used Saranya's reward points to buy her a new LTW. First, I had to spend 20k to get the change traits reward, dropping her 'daredevil' for 'disciplined', so that when I changed her LTW, for 10k, she'd have available the LTW to max athletic and martial arts skill. LOL, so I spent 30k to buy a LTW that pays out 27,500 when achieved. But I have the satisfaction of fulfilling the LTW. I reach a point where I stop buying perks anyway, most I feel are too cheaty and avoid them, and end up with elders with 100ks of points and not wanting to spend, so, whatever.
As for generation goals, Perfect careers is met. Saranya is a level 10 firefighter (I can't wait to retire, the ambitions professions get boring after awhile, since you have to babysit the Sim that is in one), with maxed Athletic and Handiness. Harlan reached level 3 of his part time job, and he's maxed Gardening and Cooking, as part of his 'house-husband' career.
No Strangers was very easy, my game play style is already mostly No Strangers, I've never once hired a maid or ordered pizza in Sims 3, and rarely call for repairs, preferring to have a handy Sim around for that. The only NPCs I do ever use are babysitters, but that wasn't a problem to avoid this generation with Harlan around and only one child to raise.
Regan has a few days left before becoming YA and her generation taking over. Harlan turned elder yesterday, but I had a crash shortly after his birthday and will have to live through his birthday again when next I play. Saranya will become elder 2 days after he does.
Liam died some time ago, and Bridgette Wolff, his wife and Max's half-sister died recently, making Max the only one of his generation still around. There are too many Wolff cousins around now for me to count.
Kamala has had two girls, Regina and Alison. Sundari has a girl, Melissa, and a boy, Mario.)
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