Happens Every Time

It was all going so well...

Mikayla completed her Lifetime Wish:  6 tombs in each country.

Once her daughter, Amelia, got old enough to join her, she'd tag along on some of her mother's expeditions.  Kids can't do too much in tombs, but they can run around scooping up loot while the grown-ups are busy clearing rubble and shoving statues around.

They're also immune to traps.  Lucky brats.

Much of the time, though, when Mikayla was off on go-fetch missions for visa points or canoodling with one of her foreign flirts, Amelia was left to her own devices - an unattended child in a foreign country.  Isn't Mikayla a great parent?

She developed a taste for booby-trapping the base camps for amusement.

And entertaining the locals with ghost stories.  Amelia just loves telling ghost stories.

I noticed the first warning signs, though, when Mikayla started getting calls for tomb quests she'd already completed.

No matter.  Lifetime Wish done, I didn't need to travel anymore, so I returned home.

Amelia enjoyed a relatively normal childhood. She made friends with the other kids in town..

And got creeped at by her Imaginary Friend.

Mikayla became the best Private Eye in the city.  But she's still not fooling anyone with those leafy pom-poms..

Amelia kept up her hobby of telling ghost stories to random crowds.  It's like instrument-playing in its friend-making utility, but with a higher Fun gain and available to children.  Love it.

She also kept up her taste for pranks and booby traps.

You've got nothing to blame but your own rotten parenting, Mikayla..

Oh, and if you notice something... strange about the edges of that picture there, that's because Mikayla really should've picked up a little Sim Fu while she was in China.

Eh... she's completed her Lifetime Wish, reached the top of her career, earned an awesome romantic reputation, and I've got aging on.  Nothing left for her to do but get old and die, so I decided to cut to the chase.

I gave her just enough time to see Amelia age up to Teen and have a few days to do stuff with her before she crumbles to dust.

One thing I failed to consider with Amelia's age-up:  a birthday party full of her child-stage friends and classmates..

 ... means she spends the rest of the party as a teenager surrounded by little kids.

Oh well.  She can still entertain the crowd with more ghost stories!

I like Amelia as a teen.  She's the first teen I've had (for more than 2 days) since Generations.  She's learning to drive in her mother's sweet muscle car, tormenting everyone with her mood swings, and has her prom coming up in a few days.

Managed to find herself a really cute date for said prom, too.  My second-generation townies are a good-looking bunch.

And then...

The town exploded in a BFBVFS.

I dunno.  I can't go a sim-day, or even a few sim-hours, without an abrupt crash to desktop.  I tried resetting the town.  Other towns play just fine.  But this one is broken.

You know, I don't think I'll ever be able to play one town long enough to see grandchildren happen in it.  They all get hopelessly corrupted by the time the first batch of kids grows up.

@*#&!