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Welcome to New Reflections, a blog that continues to tells the stories and struggles of humankind through The Sims 3 (and sometimes 2).

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Chapter VII: Special Delivery

I stared at the little blue stick in my hands in disbelief; the Sea Gods were surely playing a practical joke on me. I was pregnant again. I was torn between joy and worry. I loved being a mother and I missed having babies in the house. All of my children were school aged now. My eldest child would be graduating from high school soon and I wasn’t the young, attractive nymph I used to be when I first came to the surface, yet here I was, about to welcome my fifth child into the world.

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Poll: The Sims Medieval Stories?

Chapter VI: The Recital

I threw myself into my new job to avoid missing my boys. It worked, at least somewhat. I was too busy working out and trying to get promoted to think about them being so far away too much, but I still missed them. I think Cycl0n3 really missed the boys, too, even though he never said anything. I think he just didn’t want me getting upset, but he threw himself into his work, too, and got a big promotion. I was so proud of him. I went out and bought him a new work desk and office supplies and computer for him. We didn’t have the money to build an office, but I did my best to carve out an office space for him in the living room. He has his diploma proudly displayed above his desk.

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Chapter V: The Woe of Wade

“WAAAAAAADE!” I screamed at the top of my lungs when I got out of the shower and saw myself in the mirror. Oooo, he was really going to get it this time!

“What? What’s wrong?! What’s going o—oh…” Cycl0n3 shouted, running into the room and stopping in his tracks when he saw me.

Yellow! My hair was yellow! Bright yellow!

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Chapter IV: An Angel’s Sw0rd

The first thing I was aware of when I regained consciousness was white. So much white all around me. It was blinding after the impenetrable darkness that I had grown used to in… the past few minutes? Hours? Days? I had no idea. I had no sense of time when I woke up. Suddenly, the crushing weight of what had happened just before the pain and the blackness overcame me hit me once again and I wished I were still in blissful sleep.

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Chapter III: Maternal Instincts

My happiness at being able to afford a crib for both of my children was short-lived, as Wade proved to be just as fussy as Alton was when he was his little brother’s age. On top of that, Alton still needed so much attention even if he already knew how to walk, talk and use the toilet. I never foresaw the difficulties with raising half-human children in a human world. I had never known anything different from the female nymphs in my clan who raised nymph children in the ocean where there’s no such thing as money and bills and girlfriends and wives. I never imagined my children would need anything more than just my arms and milk, like nymph babies do. I’m starting to think my decision to join the human world was impulsive and poorly thought out… but we nymphs are an impulsive race of people. I wouldn’t mind so much if it was just me struggling to live on the surface, but I’m afraid that my children are suffering.

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Chapter II: Misunderstandings and Confusion

Almost as soon as I found out I was pregnant, I received a… vocal message of some kind on this odd little device I was given when I came here. It’s called a cell phone and humans use it to speak with each other even though they are very far away. Kind of like the song nymphs sing underwater to call to any other nymphs nearby, except these cell phones allow you to speak as though you’re standing right next to each other. I like this particular human invention.

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[Gen I] Chapter I: A Different World

Great Sea Gods, please protect me on this perilous journey.

My name is Azure Waverunner and I’ve left my home in the ocean against my clan’s wishes to join the human world and make a life among the land-dwellers. Now that I’m here, I can’t go back home. I’ve been labeled a Surface Nymph by the clan elders and can never become a Water Nymph again now that I have left the ocean, as is the way of my people. It hurts to be shunned from the only family I’ve ever known, but I have to do this. The human world is so alive and ever-changing and it is a world I long to be a part of.

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Welcome to New Reflections

Here it is! NEW Reflections! With brand new challenges and stories for you to read, enjoy and comment on. I am truly sorry about discontinuing Reflections, but I hope you’ll understand that I had no alternative and I also hope you’ll love New Reflections just as much as Reflections.

New Reflections has the same Twitter and Facebook page, so no need to worry about switching over to a new page on those sites.

Check back for the first chapter of my new legacy challenge soon!

(P. S: Does anyone know how to get the launcher to connect to the EADM after updating to Origin? I can’t install any of my stuff packs or expansions until I get that resolved. My game is completely vanilla and completely up-to-date. I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS.)