Ariel Faylyer is supposed to be starting an ISBI, but she turns the tables, and goes for her LTW, before even finding a husband!

1. Teh Faylyers
Chapter 1A
Usually, I play to show off my simming skillzors,
but this time, I'm playing reverse-style, and
letting them have their own way. Let's see how
many failure points I can earn, while still
keeping the family going for 5 generations.
Like the Limbo, How Low Can I Go?

2. Hi, there! I'm Ariel Faylyer, a Neurotic, Dramatic, Inappropriate,
Gathering Bot Fan, and I want to Make the Most of My Time, by
experiencing all alternate futures and being honored by a legacy statue.
I'm going to start a family, eventually, of course, and pass the torch on to
my favorite child, when she becomes a young adult. Until then, I'll be
the only smart person in the family. Being surrounded by idiots seems
like a GREAT idea! It'll be fun!

3. First things first. I know I gotta find an idiot to marry, so I'll explore the
town a bit, before I try travelling to the future. Although, now I think
about it, I may not even need to marry a man from my own time. I'll
make sure I find the one that's right for me; not just any man will do.
He has to be charming and handsome and sexy and preferably good with
kids. And sexy! Did I mention that, already?

4. UGH! NO! I don't care if he is some kind of a count. Well, he can sell
me some stuff, and that's important, too. See, I want to buy some
magical stuff at the Elixir shop. Wouldn't it be cool to become a fairy or
a genie or a vampire? Hey. Hey! This guy's a vampire, isn't he?
COOL.

5. Vampires are cool, and all, but fairies are better! And it only cost me
$2500! What a deal!
“That's, uh, not such a great deal, actually.”
Ah, get outta my head, Voice!
“Make me.”

6. Nope. I'm not going to University. But my heiress can. Speaking of
which, I'd better get some watermelon, whenever I get pregnant.
“You really want a matriarchy, huh?”
You betcha! Men are good for woohoo and taking care of the children.
“Ummmm... What an inappropriate thing to say.”

7. What? Next you'll tell me that I shouldn't say how gorgeous I am!
“Well...”
Get outta my head, Voice! Don't make me throw a hissy fit! Now, I have
an hour or two to kill before the time machine shows up, so I'm just
going to learn how to be charismatic, because it's free.

8. OK, let's get this show on the road. How do you work this thing?

9. Hey, you're cute! How would you like to be my house-idiot... I mean,
husband?
“Yeah, that's really gonna persuade a man to marry you, Ariel.”
Voice! Stop blocking my game.

10. Alright, Emit. I found your time cells. Now take me to the future, so I can
fulfill my lifelong dream, and find a really dreamy husband.
Emit: Wait, how did you manage to get this controller all sticky?
Wasn't me! Anyway, fairy dust isn't sticky. You must be thinking of
vampires. Blood is sticky, right?

11. Wow! This place is beautiful! But I bet I can make it better!

12. Oh, but I don't fit the fashion here, at all!

13. Emit: You gotta get with the flow, girl. Electronics is what the future is all
about.
I can do that!

14. This is much better! Now to try out that jetpack thingy Emit gave me.

15. Ugh! When I want to fly, I'll stick to my fairy wings!

16. Ugh! I think I'm gonna hurl!
“Not in the box! NOT IN THE BOX!”
You're right, for once, Voice. I'll go back to my old-fashioned look. Hey,
maybe I'll start a new trend, here in the future.

17. Hi, there, Bend0! What's your function? Emit says I need to ask you
that. Something about helping to find my feet here in the future. Hey, if
it gets me a better relationship with the hot time traveler, I'm all for
following some basic instructions.
Bend0: I am built to play music for the entertainment of the humansims.

18. I was supposed to buy a synthesized drink at the cafeteria, but I stopped
on the way to read an inscription at the park, where they have all the
statues to people they idolize. Now, I want to be the one to build a top-
level plumbot, and give it sentience! That statue is of some dopey-
looking woman, but I'm going to change the future, so that it is of ME!
The library has all I need to learn the basics of bot-building.

19. That was a big day! And I still have so much to do. I want to learn more
about Advanced Technology, as well as bot-building. And this
community living center is great! I have everything I need, so it doesn't
even matter that I spent too much at the alchemy store, and don't have
any furniture at home. Or walls. Or a roof. Yeah, I better make a bit of
money, so I can build a proper house when I get home.

20. Awww! This digital pet is so cute! This one belongs to the community
living center, but maybe no one will mind if I claim it for my own. They
didn't notice when I claimed that floating “laptop” computer.
“They didn't notice, because you were alone in the room. You're not a
trained klepto, so be careful, or you'll be caught.”
Didn't I tell you to get out of my head, Voice?

21. Y'all have some of the wierdest plants, here in the future. I saw some
crystal flowers at the park. They're beautiful. Can I grow those at
home?
Emit: Someone grew them, long ago. That's why we have them now.
I am gonna TAKE OVER the future, by doing things in my day, to affect
the now. Future. Whatever. You know what I mean.

22. It took a while, but I collected all the key fragments, so now I can finally
open this mysterious door in the crashed thingamajiggy. I'm not sure if
it's an alien spaceship, or one of our own that no one has invented, yet,
in my time, but it's certainly cool, either way.

23. No aliens, or people, either. Still, I found some cool loot, and no one to
tell me I can't take it with me.
I'm pretty sure this is not an alien spaceship. What would aliens want
with llamas?

24. Seems like it was an alien ship, after all. I guess I triggered some kind of
call to the homeworld, because no sooner did I get back to the
community living center, than the aliens came to debrief me!
“Good thing you're a woman, because they might have implanted a child
in you.”
Yeah. I'm not ready to be a parent, yet. I have too much to do!

25. The aliens told me to activate the pyramid I found inside the spaceship.
It's actually a dream pod program, and I can dream about something
called, “Sims 4,” which they said was a cool game that many humans
like to play.
I've never seen it, though, back home or here in the future.
“Different kind of human, kid. You're a humansim, not a human.”

26. So, the aliens are humans?
“Well... Not exactly. But nevermind about that. You just enjoy your
dreams in the dream pod.”

27. Hey! Great minds think alike! We have the same sprite forms!

28. This is where my descendants live? It's luxurious compared to my vacant
lot back home, but it doesn't exactly make me proud, compared to the
community living center.
Hopefully, they're good people, at least.

29. GRANDSON! I am your Granny! Well, your great-great-something-great
Granny! I'm from way back when this place was called Moonlight Falls,
and boy, it sure has changed. But I am so proud to meet you. What a
beautiful home you have. I love the planters on the porch. I had
nothing like that back home. Maybe I'll have to add some, when I go
back. What do you think? Hey, maybe you can come back with me, to
visit?

30. Descendant: Alright, shut up already. I believe you. If it weren't for the
hair, I wouldn't believe you, but that pretty much clinches it for me.
YAAAAAYYYY! I'm so happy! Now introduce me all around! I want to
make friends with all my grandchildren.
Descendant: Are you kidding? You raised us like a bunch of idiots. We
don't really want to be friends with you, now.

31. I wonder... If I went back home and won the lottery, then gave it away,
like this guy, would my descendants have a brighter future? I should
check the lotto records, and give it a try.

32. I bought the ticket, but the drawing's not until tomorrow. I need some
furniture NOW. But after spending all that money at the elixir shop, I'm
kind of broke. Maybe I'll get lucky, and find that someone threw out a
bed, or a sofa or something.

33. Oh, it was today, after all? Boy, do I feel dumb. Buy, HEY! I won pretty
big! Time to get that statue and see if my descendants are better off in
the future.

34. Donating $50,000 to the Plan the Future Fund ought to do it. Now it's
time to go back to the future, and check on my descendants!

35. Emit: You got a legacy statue! I'm so proud to be your friend! Did you
know, you can change other things about the future, too?
I want to change it all!
Emit: Use your almanac to find out other things you can do. I'll see you
soon, in the Future!

36. Help! The aliens are after me again!
“They must have heard about how you changed the future, and want to
… well, maybe they want to thank you, and maybe they want to punish
you for making it harder for them to take over the world. Or maybe they
just want to probe you again. They like probing.”
Well, I don't. They better be thanking me and calling me a heroine!

37. Hi! So, I really want to build myself a wonderful plumbot, and I need a
bunch of parts. Can you sell me what I need? I figure some of every
trait chip, so I can disassemble them, and figure out how to make them
myself. What's that called? Reverse engineering. Yeah. So, I need a
little bit of everything, and I can totally afford it, because I won the
lottery! Yay!

38. So, you're a plumbot. Do you have any recommendations for me?
Model U: Clarify your specifications.
I need to know what sort of traits I should give my plumbot.
Model U: That depends entirely on the purpose of the plumbot.
Thanks. You're so helpful.

39. Emit asked me to purchase a plumbot, but now that I see this one is
programmed to be sinister, I think I'll swap some trait chips, maybe
tune it up a bit, and then sell it back, because I don't really think I want
this one to be in my family for generations.

40. Sorry, Spark. You're just not what I want in a plumbot. But at least I
upgraded you a bit, and made a profit.

41. I know all there is to know about building plumbots. When I go back in
time, I'll create a sentient plumbot, and change the future again, getting
that statue to MEEEEE! You know, if I work at this hard enough, I
might just make it so that ALL the statues are of me.
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
“You are so modest, I can't even say just how modest you are.”

42. Author's Note: OK, so I never really sunk my teeth into Into the Future,
and did you know fairies have very long lives? I have all kinds of time
before she needs to get married, so I'm taking the time when she's
alone to just explore all there is to explore here in the future. I am
loving it!
Idiocy and pants-peeing will commence when she is done here.

43. It's time to go back in time, and earn another statue. Or possibly two.

44. OK, so I'm not an architect. It has everything I need, for now. I want to
be able to expand, and I think this layout will work for starters.
Meanwhile, I need to buy another lotto ticket, to see if I can get the
money to change the future. Oh! And I need to buy a clothing
pedestal, to try to become a Trendsetter. I just need to convince
people to stop by and change clothes.

45. Now to create an outfit that I want to see all over town.

46. And, of course, I have to wear it, myself. I'm going to bed, now, but
tomorrow, I start selling this to all the passersby, create my sentient
simbot, and buy a lotto ticket. Oh, and I should talk to people about the
future, too. What better way to change the future than to change the
present?

47. Welcome to the world, AlphaDoll. You're going to be my helper. Now, I'll
give you the Sentient trait, to start you off, but that's just to get the
statue. You won't need it for long. Later, I'll just give you the special
traits you need to be the perfect plumbot for the Faylyer family.
AlphaDoll: Beep!
Right. I need to program you with speech.

48. Wait a minute. You're not high enough quality to get the statue. Well,
neener neener. I'm going to bring you back to the future and sell you.
In the meantime, I guess I'll just give you some useful chips for now.
You can have the holo chip to entertain me, at least.

49. I programmed you to be able to fish, so go and catch me some good fish,
while I try to make a proper Future Tech quality version of you to keep.
AlphaDoll: My programming does not allow for direct commands.

50. OK, I brought you to the fishing hole, and you have nothing else to do, so
let's see if you'll fish.
“Gee, this whole ISBI thing is a bit more challenging than I thought.”
Oh! So this is YOUR fault, Voice!
“Yep. Sorry. Why don't you try to set a trend, or something?”

51. Hooray! The trick worked. I'll have to remember that, when I'm planning
my next plumbot. Bring it to an area where there is absolutely nothing
to do, except the thing it's programmed to do, and no one to distract it.
What a boring life plubots must lead.

52. Darn it! I, Plumbot is only average quality. I'm going to have to just keep
creating all day, aren't I? And no one has walked by to shop from my
pedestal.
Well, I did win the lottery again, so maybe I'll build a greenhouse, and set
this one to work gardening, or something.

53. Let's se if she plants anything. Or do I have to do all the planting, first,
and let her just weed and water after me? I don't know how this works.

54. Meh. These two are worthless, except for the prices they'll fetch when I
go back to the future to sell them. I think I'll take their trait chips out
and just let them wander around, uselessly. At least then I'm not
wasting good trait chips I want for the plumbot I actually mean to keep.
And I have to go back and plant everything, myself.

55. I like your look, Number Three. Too bad you're only High Tech, and not
Future Tech. Anyway, let me upgrade your chip slots, so we can get
the most from you when we sell you.
I say “we,” but I really mean “I.” Just being friendly, I guess.

56. AlphaDoll, there are two charging stations, and neither one is in use right
now. Will you please stop siphoning energy off the electronics, and just
use the stations I bought specifically for you!
“At least they're not passing out.”

57. And now you broke it. Thanks so much!

58. Delta! You're Future Tech! You're also ugly, so I'm going to customize
you and make you look like Number Three, because I like her look so
much better. Hold on.

59. OK, I took the same stylings, but reversed the colors. Welcome to the
world, Delta! I will now give you a sentience chip, as well as the other
chips I want my plumbot to have. You will stay with the family, forever,
even if we do swap out Sentience with something else, later. Enjoy
thinking for yourself while it lasts, I suppose.
Now, it's time to head back to the future!

60. What the heck?! Now I have two plumbots named Delta, and neither one
is Future Tech?!
FLERGLE!

61. OK, I tuned you back up to Future Tech. Now STAY that way!

62. Hurry up, before anything else goes wrong. Let's get you all here to the
future, and sell you off.
Wait. Shouldn't I feel different, or something? Like I did when I donated
all that money?

63. DANG IT!
OK, Delta. Give me back my trait chips. You are being SOLD. And then
I'm going straight back in time, and grumblemumblegrumble...

64. Bye, bye, AlphaDoll. I hope you get a good family soon.

65. I, Plumbot, Number Three and Delta, all sold now. I can go back to trying
to change the future and getting that statue.

66. And just in case my next plumbot is too stupid to use the charging
station, I'm going to make this thing unbreakable!

67. Nope. Fiver, you're for sale.

68. Sorry, Sexus, but no.

69. You're close, Se7en, but no cigar.

70. YES! Octavia, you're the one!

71. Emit: I felt the tremors in the time field, and knew you had done it. I can't
wait to see you again in person, as you come back to see yourself on
that pedestal.
Me, too, Emit! I'm so excited. I just have to take care of a few things
here, before I come back, but I'll be there, soon.

72. Emit promised me that I could really change the future a whole lot with
this magnet thingy. I look forward to seeing what the future will be like.
Hopefully, I'll still get good prices for my plumbots. Except Octavia, of
course. WOOOT!

73. Now to attend the Doomsayers' meeting. It sounds exciting. I wonder if
they'll have punch and cookies.

74. Now I just have to convince six sims that the sky is falling. With my
charisma, that shouldn't be hard, at all.
I just hope that my plumbots aren't getting into too much trouble at home,
unattended. Well, the science machine is unbreakable now, at least.

75. Aaaah! It's a flaming meteor! It's coming right for us!

76. And Sexus had a forced shut down. I guess that's -5 points!
There are two charging stations, and the science machine can be
siphoned off, and Octavia is even solar powered, so she doesn't need
the charging station, but Sexus just couldn't figure it out.
Maybe I should have given them all trait chips, after all.

77. Meanwhile, I am happily trash talking the environment, encouraging sims
to litter.
Author's Note: In real life, I hate littering so much, it gives me actual
anxiety. As in, “Oh, no! There's litter! We're all gonna diiiieeee!”
Thank goodness this is just a game!

78. Emit: You really did it, Ariel. You have to come back and see the
changes you made!
I'll be right there!

79. Wow! What a difference!
It's actually sort of pretty in a dreary sort of way.
For now, it's late, and I need to hit the dream pod. I'll do some major
exploring tomorrow, though. I need to find my descendants, and see
how they're doing, as well.

80. Time to sell the plumbots, and make a bit of profit. Mostly, I just want
them out of the house. Octavia can hang out here at the plumbot store,
where she has free use of the chargers, while I explore the area. I can
already see a lot of differences! There is trash everywhere, and the
outside air is dirty and dark. But it makes all the lights that much
prettier, in contrast.

81. AAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Octavia! Why did you go outside?!

82. Wow! Really?! You survived! Octavia, you are a marvel!
“I am so relieved! I was afraid you'd lost your biggest investment, yet.
Although, I was pretty happy to see a meteor strike. They're so rare,
you know.”
Happy to see my plumbot get hit? Wow, you're an awful person, Voice.
And you call me inappropriate.

83. Meteors are magic! They go right through walls and windows, without
damaging them, although they do make a mess on the floor.

84. You don't need that sentience chip, anymore, Octavia. Let me just take
that out, and give you something more practical. Then we can take you
to a fishing spot, and let you go to town. Maybe later, I'll take you to a
garden, if it's still around.

85. Well, these fish are weird. They have three eyes! OK, Octavia, you keep
fishing, while I explore. There are rifts to climb into and garbage piles
to sort through. And I still need to check out my descendants, too.
Octavia: Yes, Ariel.

86. I used the dream pod to dream abaout working out, and now I can enjoy
walking on the treadmill, while I look out at the dusty brown landscape.
The sun is just going down, and it's dirty, but it's still oddly beautiful.
Although I know I should fix this future, I'm almost reluctant to do it.

87. Although, this place is kind of dangerous. My family is pretty much the
same as it was before. I think I'll finish the opportunity I'm working on,
and then go home and see about fixing this place up.

88. Every now and then, Octavia needs some direction, but if you bring her
to a spot with nothing to do but fish, she'll generally buckle down to it,
eventually.
I plan to dig a large pond back home, and stock it with the fish she caught
here, so they can breed, and we'll have a never-ending supply of good
fish. And weird ones, too!

89. OK, well, maybe just one more opportunity. I like the perks of being a
celebrity.
It's sort of sad, though, that the community living center only has cardio
workouts. What about building my strength? But I must say, the
workouts are really effective, after a good dream! I LIKE the future,
even this dark and dirty one.

90. “Now, LOOK, you! You said one more opportunity five opportunities
ago!”
But, I'm becoming such a massive celebrity! I have a want locked in to
become a five-star celebrity! I need these opportunities!
“When the home base gets hit with a meteor and catches on fire, it is
TIME TO GO HOME!!!”

91. Octavia: Don't mind me. I'm just raking leaves. Oh, was there a
commotion twenty feet away from me? Oh, well.
“Plumbots.”

92. All right! Another giant meteor for my collection!
“You've been taking advantage of this future, collecting all the meteor
showers, haven't you?”
You betcha, Voice! Also, did you notice that for some unknown reason, I
got a giant $53,000 payoff, while I was sleeping? I have no idea why.
Life is just so good to me! I LOVE the future!

93. “Ariel Faylyer, I have had enough of this! Enjoy your meteor collection,
and whatever you rummaged out of the trash piles, because I am
yoinking ALL of your money!”
What?! You can't do that! You're nothing but a Voice in my head!
“That's 'The Watcher' to you, impious mortal! Now you go back to failing,
hard! This is supposed to be an ISBI, you know!”

94. WHAT?! You actually yoinked all my money?! I don't believe this!
“That's right! And furthermore, unless it is for a LTW, nobody in your
family is allowed to get a job! So there! Just because you kept abusing
the system and buying winning lotto tickets.”
Can I just buy one more? I have the winning numbers, right here. I'm
gonna buy another ticket, just as soon as I get home! So there!

95. “FEEL MY WRATH!!!”
WheeeeeeeeeeeBOOOOOOM!
Octavia: Uh, what just happened? The leaves suddenly flashed before
my visual sensor units.
“GET BACK HOME, NOOOOOOOW!”

96. Aw, Gee, “Watcher.” It looks like I can't go home right now. I have to
wait until the aliens bring Octavia back.
“AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!! THWARTED, YET AGAIN!”
HAWHA!
“You are going to pay for this, you miscreant. Just you wait!”

97. More loot for me!
“Oh, yeah?! Well, guess what! I won't let you sell those meteors. You
can sell anything else you find, but you can't sell meteors! So there!
Pbtbtbtbtbttt...”
Did you just blow me the raspberry? What kind of a goddess are you?
Sooooo mature. Wow.

98. You know, you still have to count the points for the money you threw
away.
“Phooey.”
AND, you are contractually obligated to at least try to fulfill LTWs. Your
job is to try to earn as many points as you can, even if you WANT to
earn the lowest score possible. HAHA, to you! Again!

99. “Just shut up and get in the time portal! I'll have my vengeance. Just
you wait and see.”
Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna succeed so hard, you'll be slapping yourself, just
to keep from exploding. I'm gonna go back, and change the future to
Utopia, so I can achieve my LTW, and you can't stop me!
“Maybe not, but I'll find something to do to annoy you. Next chapter!”

100. The points:
Self-wetting: n x -5 = y
Failing school : n x -5 = y
NPC visit: n x -5 = y
Passing Out: 1 x -5 = -5
Accidental Deaths: n x -10 = y
Social Worker Visit: n x -15 = y
Birth: n x +5 = y
Twin Birth: n x +10 = y
Triplet Birth: n x +15 = y
Fulfilling LTW: n x +40 = y
Honour roll: n x +5 = y
Randomizing every LTW choice and trait for a whole generation of children: n x +10 = y
Portrait of the torch holders somewhere in the house: n x +5 = y
Having a spouse reach the top of their career: n x +10 = y
Every $100,000: 2 x +20 = +40