Jude Morgan

Jude Morgan is one of the six sims who founded the Build A City Challenge. He started out living in the Original Household and later founded the Royal Household with his wife, Naomi Royal. Jude comes off as a bit prickly and can be quite stuck in his ways, but he loves his family and adores his cats. His signature color is dark blue.

## Original Save

Jude was originally from my 100 Baby Challenge. He was the oldest child of my fourth matriarch, Genesis Morgan. In this save he named his restaurant, The Genesis Diner, in her honor. One of his sisters, Natalie, is also a BACC founder, and during rotation 12 I imported two more of their sisters, Lara and Marie.

## Rotations 1-6: Beginning the Challenge

Jude was added to the save at the beginning of the Challenge. Since he had the Master Chef aspiration I had him get to work on maxing his Culinary skill, which he accomplished in the second rotation. He maximized his Logic skill in the third round, which unlocked birth control. He also attended all five of the household parties, which unlocked townies for the save. He also maximized his Gourmet Cooking skill during the fifth rotation, and was thus 2/3 responsible for unlocking the save's first Restaurant.

While all of the sims in the household got along well, none of them autonomously interacted romantically with each other until I briefly added Wicked Whims to the game in the fourth round in the hopes of some couples forming. Jude had good relationships with Naomi, Leia Royal, and Maci Redmond, and I would have been happy for him to end up with any of them. However, since he got Naomi pregnant during the fourth round, I decided they would be together. At the end of their household's fourth rotation turn Naomi gave birth to the first baby in the save--their daughter, Avery. However, the mods in my game were wilding out at that point, and while I was playing Brock Redmond and Natalie's household during that rotation Naomi visited, hooked up with Brock, and got pregnant by him, later giving birth to their daughter Brielle. Jude then autonomously showed up in an angry mood and raged at Brock. This didn't damage Jude and Naomi's relationship, though--in fact, she proposed to him during the fifth rotation.

## Rotation 7-9: New House, Growing Household

Jude and Naomi, with now-Toddler aged Avery and Brielle in tow, moved out of the original household and into their own starter house in Rotation 7, creating the Royal Household. At the end of their household's turn, Jude and Naomi had a sunset wedding at the Pirate Wedding Park. Jude also befriended (by which I apparently mostly mean hooked up with) Mabel Seagraves during rotation 7.

Jude and Naomi adopted two black cats, Flash and Shadow, at the beginning of their eighth round. While Jude doesn't specifically have a Cat Lover trait, this was the beginning of him showing that he was still a cat person. Since I didn't have a vet clinic in the save, Jude also built up something of a Veterinary Skill since he would have to treat the cats at home. I did think about trying to have him max that skill, but there was always too much else for him to do.

Avery aged up at the end of rotation 8 and Brielle at the beginning of rotation 9, at which point their personalities began to dramatically clash. Naomi got stuck doing most of the disciplining, while Jude mostly ignored it all in favor of autonomously admiring the family portrait. He and Naomi started having some autonomous conflicts during this rotation as well. As if this wasn't enough, Naomi got pregnant again and I didn't realize it until I saw the Slice of Life moodlet about thinking about baby names. She gave birth to their second child together, Ollie, on Friday.

Rotation 9 is also when Jude used LittleMsSam's ATM Cards mod to take out a loan to open his restaurant, The Genesis Diner. (It was a redecorated version of the "Pasta Present" lot on the Gallery.) I had never played a restaurant in the game before, so this was a really fun learning experience for me, and during that rotation in particular I had him work there on almost every sim day.

Jude attended a number of parties and gatherings as usual. He also got autonomously angry at Lancelot right after Lancelot yelled at Maci for talking to Natalie. I also made a few tweaks to Jude and Naomi in CAS, including giving Jude Luumia's body hair.

## Rotations 10 and 11: Marital Turbulence

During rotation 10 I visited the Genesis Diner with Leia and Jude showed up with Avery, at which point I began speculating that she might take over the restaurant one day. This rotation is also when I realized that having the Diner in the save had unlocked a spot in the Culinary track, so I had Jude start on that career path. In other food-related news, Jude discovered that he wasn't a natural at Baking despite having maxed Cooking and Gourmet Cooking.

In rotation 10 the Wheel Decide I was using rolled for Jude and Naomi to divorce. I thought about going with it, and even added Candy Behr to the save to see if she and Jude would hit it off, but he wasn't interested. (And neither was Naomi, who I also thought could be with Candy.) I didn't want to split up Jude and Naomi, anyway, so I used the divorce roll for another household and had them re-roll. Their second roll was to adopt a child, and after randomizing to see which of the available adoptees I should go with, they adopted Marcella. While Marcella got along with Naomi immediately, she tended to get angry with Jude. (And while Jude and Naomi's marriage stayed intact, this *was* also the round where I discovered that it was really hard for Naomi, who was in the Politics career at this point, to get Jude to agree to vote for her!)

Since the starter house was now much too small for the family, I moved them into a new house. While I am not much of a builder, I was starting to put more effort into houses, and this one in particular was designed with its residents in mind--I had a large kitchen/dining room area both because Jude is a chef and because Naomi had the Party Animal aspiration and I wanted to be able to fit a lot of sims. (The kitchen/dining area then also featured the family portrait, which Jude continued to autonomously look at a fair amount.) The kitchen was also the place where Jude broke out into illness-related swirls while raging at Charles Seagraves, bless him. (And, speaking of Jude reacting to other sims in the save, later in the rotation he seemed to visibly approve of Maci Redmond leaving her husband for Sofia Bjergsen.)

Jude spent rotation 11 autonomously working out and bonding with Ollie, and put in a day of work at the Diner, where one of his employees died and Jude subsequently got in some bonding time with Grim. It turned out to be foreshadowing--a few days later Leia flirted with Jude right in front of Naomi and Naomi died from anger, but in a glitchy way where instead of actually having the death animation she just vanished and was replaced by her urn. Since it was so glitchy I let myself cheat and bring her back. Did I mention all this happened in the middle of a joint birthday party for Jude and Avery??? Once they returned home I bought the wishing well and Naomi was able to return to life on her first try of wishing. Her relationship with Jude had desperately tanked and I thought they were going to get divorced after all, but somehow they pulled through. (Though he did have an autonomous slow dance with new resident Daisy Fitzhugh while I was playing that household, but luckily Naomi wasn't on hand for that.)

## Rotations 13-

Rotation 12's images were lost, but based on the household changes between rotations 11 and 13 I can at least tell you that I built up the house some more in rotation 12 and unfortunately the older of Jude's original cats, Flash, passed away. Jude's second cat, Shadow died near the end of rotation 13, and both were buried in the backyard.

In happier news, Jude and Naomi's marriage was back on solid ground--they also put in an appearance at the karaoke restaurant while I was playing the Seagraves/Behr household. As usual Jude put in more time at the diner and spent time with his family. He also adopted two more cats, Isak and Boris.

Rotation 14 was a big one for Jude--not only did he and the rest of his family get to be the first sims in my game to go to Mt. Komorebi, but once he was back home he maxed out his aspiration!