Chapter 359

The 'Deck the Palms' event has ended and the Parsons have completed another magnet collection!

Now it's time for the 'Lost Legacies' event and with that comes new collectable items!

Mack: "Looks like someone needs a bath."

Barkley: "Was it the dirt or flies that were a giveaway?"

Either way, a bath is desperately needed.

TV: "An envoy has been spotted in town, and they appear to be royal in nature. Several local residents claim to have seen them. Stay tuned for updates on this intriguing development!"

Ainsley: "A royal envoy? I need to check social bunny to see if anyone has spotted her!"

Oop- it appears she has shown up at the Parsons' doorstep!

(Looks like one of my mods that replace townies have replaced her with another sim, but let's just go with it.)

Ainsley: "You're the royal envoy? No offense, but you don't look very royal."

Royal Envoy: "I'm trying to blend in."

Royal Envoy: "Anyway... greetings! I am the royal envoy representing the noble kingdoms of the Darong, the Capp and the Thebe family. I have received word of suspicious activity regarding some of the ancient treasures being kept outside of the kingdoms. I have come to ensure the safety and security of these items. I am hoping to do this as swiftly as possible. I do not want to bother any of the dukes with this matter. They're just so busy, as noble people tend to be. You understand, don't you? I need someone trustworthy to help me complete this task and your social bunny profile caught my eye. Would you help me with my master pla- I mean... royal duties? I will make sure it is worth your while."

Ainsley: "Interesting... I can help you out, but what can you tell me about this 'Darong family'?"

Royal Envoy: "The Darong family has always valued fine works of art. Their homes are adorned with masterpieces from renowned classical painters. Why not find an easel and paint for yourself? You might uncover clues in the process. I must move on for now. If you find any clues, don't tell anyone but me."

Let's see if Ainsley can live up to the masterpieces from renowned classical painters with her level 1 painting skill.

Finally! One of the chickens have laid a golden egg just in time for the Finchwick Chicken Fair tomorrow!

Welp... I guess there might be a sim out there that would consider this a masterpiece.

Ainsley: "And that sim is me. This is a true masterpiece! I wonder if the Darong family would agree."

That 'masterpiece' has helped the Parsons earn their first collectable key!

Mack: "Alright... number of sims saved today... zero."

Mack: "Being a lifeguard is so rewarding!"

Mack: "Hey there, Flower Bunny! Didn't I almost save you from drowning the other day?"

Flower Bunny: "You weren't supposed to ever say anything about that!"

Mack: "Apparently, the royal envoy has been spotted at this library and Ainsley is trusting me to go meet her while she's at work."

Let's hope she's here!

Mack: "Hmm... I don't see her anywhere."

Mack: "Oh, hey! Are you the royal envoy? You don't look very royal. My fiancée sent me here to ask you about this library."

Royal Envoy: "Ah! I didn't think you would be here so quickly... The Darong's Family treasure is hidden here somewhere in these old archives. Why not help me uncover its location? I believe you will be the next guardian of their legacy!"

Off she goes again, just as fast as she arrived.

Mack: "I guess I'll stay back here and search for the Darong Family's treasure myself. Thanks, anyway!"

Mack: "Do you guys happen to know anything about a royal family's secret hidden treasure being in this library?"

Librarian: "Do you really think I would still be working as a librarian if I knew? I did hear the so-called 'royal envoy' muttering "Darong... art" repeatedly while searching through the books. Maybe I should try to look through them, too."

Mack: "I need to hack this computer for more clues before the librarian finds them before I do!"

Mack: "Interesting... it seems the Darongs have been trying to restore an old family painting."

Mack: "With how much they've invested in this restoration, its completion must be very important to the kingdom. That must be why the royal envoy has been acting so suspicious! This painting might also hold a secret..."

Mack: "I've got to rummage through these bookshelves for clues!"

After rummaging through the shelves, Mack discovered a book about the Darongs. Hidden between the pages, a delicate old key slipped out and landed silently on the floor. This must be what the envoy was after! Time to head home with the key.

Ainsley: "Well, well, well... look who it is. You left the library pretty fast without spilling too many details about the Darong family, according to my fiancé. Why don't you tell me about the Capp family, next?"

Royal Envoy: "Oh! I didn't expect you again so quickly. The Capps, yes... they were quite captivated by romance. Why don't you get into the mindset of love and see if you can whip up any clues?"

Royal Envoy: "I must be on my way, now!"
Ainsley: "Leaving so soon? See you later, then."

Ainsley wasted no time beginning her research on the Capp family. After doom scrolling for longer than is healthy, Ainsley has uncovered fascinating details about the Capp family's romantic inclinations and love for the piano.

Ainsley: "There must be some more clues on the romance channel!"

Ainsley: "I can't find the royal envoy anywhere, but I did recieve a text from her that reads: 'I think you should take some time to learn to play romantic music. If you discover anything... interesting... just tell only me! K, thnx, bye.' This seems like a job for a musical master."

We interrupt this program for some adorableness!

Servo is the perfect sim to delve into the connection between romance and music when it comes to the Capp family.

It's time for him to show off his piano skills at the nightclub!

Servo: "You must be the royal envoy? You don't look very royal. I overheard you muttering something about fireplaces... care to share?"

Royal Envoy: "What? Oh, I wasn't saying anything. Just enjoying the atmosphere. Do you happen to know Ainsley, by any chance?"

Servo: "I do, but that's not important. Any other details you care to share about the Capp family?"

Royal Envoy: "Uh... no other details! Just keep brushing up on your piano skills, kay? I've gotta go. See you later!"

Servo brought his keyboard to play right in the middle of the dance floor.

Looks like these three sims all wearing green sweaters are too distracted by the DJ to pay attention to Servo's keyboard skills. Time to head home.

Back at home, Ainsley decided to search the fireplace after Servo revealed the royal envoy's mutterings about it. She discovered a hidden key hidden behind a loose stone. This must be the Capp family's long-lost treasure!

Without many recent sightings of the royal envoy, Ainsley can get back to working on her writing skill for the style influencer career.

With Barkley watching close by, of course.

Servo: "Are you ready for the chicken fair, my wonderful chickens?"

The chickens are all dressed up in their adorable knitted outfits and are ready to go!

At last, it's finally time for the Finchwick Chicken Fair!

Looks like this is the perfect time for Ainsley to catch up on some sleep and for Barkley to go for walkies.

Mack: "One cottage pie, please!"

For some reason, each time one of the Parsons' chickens were entered in the fair, they became invisible.

Liam: "Servo is so awesome. He has so many fans everywhere we go!"

How adorable are the Parsons invisible chickens... right...?

At least the egg competition entries aren't invisible.

Barkley is already tired out from the fair.

Ainsley: "One plate of fish and chips, please!"

It wouldn't be a Finchwick fair without some dancing!

Break it down now, Liam!

Ainsley: "Do I look cute today, babe?"
Mack: "You always do, babe!"

Mack: "Babe... I think I stink!"

Ainsley: "You do stink, babe. But, you're still so cute, babe."

I guess Ainsley got tired after saying the word 'babe' 500 times.

The Parsons were able to earn a second, third and participation chicken fair ribbon and a first place and two participation egg fair ribbons! Off into the Parsons collectable items they go.

Ainsley is pregnant! Generation 32 is on the way!

Ainsley: "Babe, I'm pregnant!"

Mack: "Are you serious, babe?"

Ainsley: "I sure am, babe! Isn't that exciting, babe?"

ENOUGH with the 'babes'!

The chickens are back in their coop. They did so well at the fair!

Preslie is back after a long weekend away at work and has been promoted to level 8 of the park ranger career!

Preslie: "Am I ever going to reach the top of this career?!"

Mack: *Gasp!* "An uncontrolled large body of water?"

Mack: "Not on my watch. I'll keep an eye on these waters."

Those waters you speak of are behind you.

Mack: "Oh... right."

Ainsley is improving her photography skill for her career!

Ainsley: "I'm doing some research for work, and I must say mom, you have such a good fashion sense!"

Preslie: "Oh, why thank you. What makes you say that, honey?"

Ainsley: "You're wearing pink! The best color of all time!"

Preslie: "I have to agree with you there. Nothing beats pink!"

Now that Ainsley has some fashion inspo, she can place it on her muse board.

Ainsley: "Hmm... which shade of pink should I put on my muse board this time?"

Preslie: "Servo! Your head looks like the perfect place to shoot an apple off of!"

Servo: "Can't say I've ever heard that in my very long life."

Servo: "Woah! I'm okay..."

Looks like there isn't enough space out here for Preslie to shoot an apple off of Servo's head.

They had to head down to the nearby park, instead.

Servo: "I hope you know what you're doing."

Preslie: "Believe me, Servo. I'm a pro at archery."

I'm scared.

Oop- she missed.

Preslie: "That was... embarrassing to say the least."

Servo: "I live to see another day!"

Preslie: "Alright, looks like it's my turn."

Servo: "This is what a real archery pro looks like."

Here goes...

Preslie: "Woah! Did you shoot the apple?"

Servo: "Bullseye!"

Preslie: "That's a relief... and quite impressive."

Preslie: "You really shot it perfectly, too. I guess I'll need to brush up on my archery skills before I ask to shoot an apple off of your head again."

Servo: "You want me to risk that again?!"

Preslie: *Yawn* "I'm tired after all that archery."

Nothing to see here... just two utiliti bots simultaneously watching Mack and Ainsley sleep.

All of the adorable animals are out today!

Now that Servo has made most of the gourmet meals except ambrosia which requires fishing and potions, he can move onto making all of the bar drinks.

With the party bot nearby for encouragement, of course.

Mack has learned that with moving into the Parsons household comes making jewelry all day long for the crafted items room.

Servo: "Look how awesome these drinks I made are."

Ainsley: "Looks like you've been tasked to making jewelry all day long just like every other spare member of the household, huh?"

Mack: "What do you mean by 'spare member of the household'?"

Ainsley: "Anyone who's not an heir or Servo, duh."

Ainsley: "Oof, I wonder why my back hurts so bad."

Mack: "Gee, I have no idea."

Ainsley: "Your fashion sense is top tier, Bonehilda."

Bonehilda: "Really? You like my maid uniform?"

Preslie: "I'm starting to think Ainsley tells everyone she likes their fashion sense."

Mack needs to increase his fitness skill for the lifeguard part-time career. What better place to do that than at Fitness Fest?

It may just be him and the trainer here, but that doesn't matter!

Sherbet is in her feels again.

Servo: "Look at me go!"

Ainsley: "Did I just pee myself or am I in labor?"

Ainsley: "...I think it's a little bit of both!"

Ainsley: "Babe, wake up. I'm in labor!"

Mack: "Are you serious, babe? I can't believe this, babe! We're about to be parents, babe!"

You've got this, Ainsley!

Mack: "Time to pick from the list of names."

*Sparkles!*

It's a boy! 💙 Introducing Joshua Parsons!

Mack: "That's a lot of cool drinks."

Servo has now made most of the bar drinks with the exception of beetle juice, which requires beetles.

Next, he can move onto making all of the smoothies.

The chickens are still dressed in their fabulous knitted attire.

Mack is outside nurturing the beetles. Servo will need to collect beetle nuggets from these to make the beetle juice drink.

Off for a jog!

What's that rash?

Preslie: "What rash?"

You have a rash too, Liam?

Liam: "I do?"

Liam: "Woah! I feel dizzy!"

Looks like there's an illness going around.

There's only one kind of coffee to make with this coffee machine, but it's going in the crafted items room no matter what.

Preslie: "Is my rash noticable, party bot?"

No comment from the party bot. Just vibes.

Next up for the crafted items room is ice cream!

I guess Mack loves pink just as much as he loves blue.

Josh aged up into an infant!

Sherbet has been sitting like this for an hour. Should I be afraid?

Tummy time for Josh!

Mack: "I'm back from riding my pink bicycle around town with my pink helmet."

Ainsley: "I've taught him well. Pink is the best!"

Mack and Ainsley decided to elope in the nearby park!

Mack: "I love you so much."

Ainsley: "I love you more."

Pink, purple and blue are clearly their colors!

Mack: "It's true. We're totally coordinated."

*Kiss*

Ainsley: "With this ring..."

Ainsley: "...I thee wed."

May you live happily ever Parsons!

Mack: *Yawn* "I'm tired after all that 'getting married'."

Of course, he has to ride the pink bicycle home.

Ainsley: "And I still made it home before him."

Back at home, Josh is peacefully sleeping.

Preslie seems to love the beetles. I guess it's because she sees a lot of bugs working out in the woods.

The cleaner bot is horrified by this chaos!

Coral: "I've lived a long life, but it's time for me to go."

Nooooooo! Coral! (Do you really have to pass away in a pile of trash?!)

Rest In Peace, Coral Parsons. You were a lovely, smart cat. You will be dearly missed. (Barkley is not letting anything stop him from playing in that trash.)

Hey! Did you just take that shadow realm drink?

Grim Reaper: "It makes me feel so alive!"

Mack: "You almost slept through the whole night. Great job!"

Confetti for almost sleeping through the whole night!

The Parsons decided to purchase a rooster to hopefully fertilize the next golden egg that is hopefully laid. Introducing Martin!

Servo is already besties with him, of course.

Paparazzi: "Servo has a new rooster? Front page news!"

Hooray! Josh sat up for the first time!

Mack: "I almost fell asleep standing up. I'm exhausted!"

As soon as Mack went to sleep, Josh had a diaper blowout.

Lucky for Liam, though!

Liam: "What did I do to deserve this?"

I think the chickens might love Servo just a little bit.

He was finally able to harvest some beetle nuggets!

Now, he can make the final bar drink looking cool as ever.

This 'flirty animal treat' should help the eggs in the coop be fertilized.

Martin also needed some fabulous threads to fit in around here.

Servo is also becoming besties with the bunnies outside in hopes they will gift him the recipe to 'golden animal treats'.

Afterwards, he's off to do some outdoor activities for his career.

Preslie: "That reminds me, I need to do some outdoor activities, too. I wanted to sit on the couch and watch TV all day, instead."

Liam: "Why are you meowing non stop?"

Sherbet: "Someone needs to fill the automatic food bowl stat!"

Preslie: "Are you ready to learn to stand?"

Servo: "Did someone say 'stan'? Are my stans following me again?"

The party bot is always nearby for moral support, of course.

Let's see if Josh likes smashed avocados!

The final verdict is...

He hates them.

At least someone is happy with their food.

Ainsley is pregnant again!

Mack: "I've got the baby name list ready to go!"

Sherbet seems to have moved on from the coffee table to the washing machine.

Ainsley now needs to work on her painting skill for the style influencer career. Luckily, she has some prior experience from her masterpiece lion painting.

Preslie is teaching Josh to crawl before she goes to work for the weekend.

Hooray! Josh is now crawling!

Ooh! A harvestable egg is in the coop!

Now, it just needs to be incubated.

Hooray! Mack has reached the top of the part-time lifeguard career!

Mack: "Not only that, but I saved one whole sim today!"

Preslie: "Milestone alert!"

Hooray! Josh learned to stand!

He's very confused by Teresa triceratops, however.

Aww! Bonehilda decided to give Josh some ice cream since it's a heatwave outside.

Servo and Preslie are off to another weekend away at work!

Happy birthday, Josh!

Josh aged up into a toddler!

Ainsley: "My back is killing me!"

Liam: "Mwahahahaha! I can't wait until Conner receives my forged breakup letter from Lori!"

That's not nice... but Conner did keep messing with the Parsons doorbell, so I guess this is somewhat equal revenge... right?

Aww, this is adorable!

Two seconds later, Sherbet is obsessing over the shower for no reason with the fixer bot.