So someone made a DnD esque challenge

Each generation is a DnD class and you have to achieve specific goals kinda relevant to that class for each generation

There's some quirks to it. Every Thursday in-game you roll a d20 for a smaller scale Wild Magic where you might get simoleons or have a toilet for a head depending on the roll

So I am trying not to read ahead for the challenge AND I AM NOW LIVING IN REGRET OF THAT DECISION

So I am on Gen 2, gen 2 is a cute little toddler

And I noticed that the toddler has a mark on their neck that's like a tattoo

So my Gen 1 Sim, the BARD did not marry and woohoo'd a guy she knew from highschool, hence toddler

So just put away that tidbit for a whole sec

Gen 2 is a Warlock, and one of the goals is to do the Reaper career, okay no problem ez

AND THE OTHER GOAL

Woohoo the Grim Reaper and get a child out of it (which will be gen 3)

So I'm like. Hang on a minute

So I look up the little tattoo on the toddler's neck because BOY THAT LOOKS STRANGE IS THAT A SCYTHE maybe it's a bug

Nope

Turns out the toddler has the Grim Descendent trait

So I temporarily add the father to my household to look up his traits

AND HE'S FUCKING GRIMBORN

Which means, his dad is the Grim Reaper

So the Grim Reaper is the toddler's Grandfather

And her LITERAL GOAL IN LIFE IS to romance..................... the Grim Reaper

Send help, I am discomfort.

So because Grim is not a genuine townie like, say, the toddler's dad. The game doesn't actually count him as the grandfather

But eeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh I still disagree with this

Lol so my tactic is to message the challenge creator to say SO I DID AN OOPS, what's your opinion

I think she'll laugh at my predicament

Apparently once you have a Grimborn Sim, all following children are considered Grim Descendents

Spoiler alert: the trait simply adds 7 days to your Sim's lifespan. It's nothing fancy

But for that to be for all descendants feels kinda big depending on what lifespan you are playing on, it doesn't scale whether it's long or short

OH NO

that's hilarious in its own way

...personally i would rank the grim reaper as a sort of god, were i to do this challenge, and the gods are notorious for sleeping with their relations SO

but it's up to you lmao, i definitely understand feeling uncomfortable about it all

one of these days i really do need to bite the bullet and get Sims 4 so i can start doing some challenges

isn't there more than one Grim?

i swear when i watched Simsie doing the career, there were at least two Grims at once wandering around the career building

cause she was flirting with them both lol

lol Simsie would

There is only one Grim at a time, if you were to cheat your way into adding Grim to your household, he'll lose the is_grimreaper trait and another one will spawn

But he might still look like the reaper, he just doesn't do any reaping

You can tell if a Grim is the same one because the relationship meter will reset if it's a new one

So I'm not sure how there were multiple unless it was just the other employees maybe? Cause they're all dressed in the same robe for the career

Unless the game bugged, which is completely feasible tbh

I'm still not sure what I'm planning to do about this. I might like, replace my current grim reaper and then I'll feel better about it lol

unsure, i'd have to try and find the video again, but as i recall, she was flirting with one in the career headquarters, it left, then it reappeared... but that one didn't have any relationship bar

so it appeared to be a new grim

but maybe it was a fake grim? no idea how grim works behind the scenes

found it!

my sim is having a baby with the GRIM REAPER???

and she left the lot to do some reaping and came back the relationship was gone

she said she knew a lot of grims and that it's a new one on reload, whatever that means

LMAO okay I see what's happening

When you load in a saved game, job positions can shift. Like if you have a recurring nanny, butler, maid. You'll have the same one for the duration of playing that day, but as soon as you save, quit, then load to play again those positions can be replaced with new townies

So I'm guessing that's what keeps happening to Simsie and her Grims

It's more likely to happen when you gain relationship with that townie too, so the more you know them, the less they are likely to return to their job post, whatever it is

OKAY SO

MAYBE IT'S FINE THEN

For my gen 2 anyway

For story telling reasons, we'll just say her grandpa retired lmao

weeeeird. i had no idea

lmao, nice workaround

It's a bug that's existed since the game's release. Just didn't expect it to work in my favor in this instance lol