STONEAGE: Introductions and starting out

Welcome to Little Rock. It's a cave of two large interconnected rooms plus a little toilet room. The main room has a bed, pantry (fridge), hearth (stove), counters and a couple of chairs. The second room has another bed and a bath. The toilet room has a toilet (weirdly enough).

Outside there's a stream and pond, a fire pit, and some rocks and plants and some animal spawners. The waterfall placement means it is totally unusable as a shower, but hey it looks awesome, right?

This lovely cave is home to the Stone tribe (yes, I am incredibly imaginative with names).

Garan; family sim

Meela; knowledge sim

 Talia; family sim

 Storm; popularity sim

 Abban; doggo

 beautiful waterfall closeup.

 Storm and Talia are the first couple. Part of the 'rules' of this era is that sims have to try for baby daily until pregnancy and although I'm not looking forward to having two pregnant sims on the same lot... uhm.. yup...

 These guys must be super fertile because they got chimes on the first attempt. Generation 1 is on the way!

 Not wanting to be left out, Garan and Meela also conceive on the first try. gulp.

 Next morning a wolf appears in the camp. Storm heads out to be the first to attempt a hunt:


One dead wolf. And Abban, the trusty hound helps by slaying... a rabbit... which he then refuses to eat. For a while I thought I had some kind of glitch, but it turns out that Abban is just a fussy eater and would rather starve than eat wild food. Hmph. There's no room for slackers in this era Abban!

Talia and Meela discuss turning the wolf fur into a rug for the cave.

 Garran's turn to hunt, but he's looking a little overheated. Having the seasons set to summer all year round isn't helping. Plus both of the boys are mainly using a hot tub/rock spa for hygiene purposes, as the bath requires buckets of water, and they're valiantly saving those for the baby-carrying members of the tribe.
and then... oh how quickly it all went to shit. It got so chaotic I failed at taking pictures, but a summary would be: one toilet, one bath, limited water, constant heat, two pregnant sims, starving dog, starving sims... starving stinky sims... starving stinky exhausted sims...

...dead Meela.

 I was so busy trying to get Storm and Talia to go to the toilet one at a time, that I totally missed Meela was dying until everyone ran into her room. :/ It didn't really come as a surprise given that she'd already passed out twice and wet herself once. Sorry Meela.

and sorry Garan, who immediately went into a breakdown.

 and at this point I was worried that they were all going to die, so I cheated a little bit to recovered everyone's motives so I could get things back under control.
And thankfully, Talia then had her healthy baby boy, who is called Rabbit.

 Cuuute.

Garan was heartbroken over the loss of his wife, but having a ratio of three adults to one baby is probably going to be helpful in the long run.

 Hopefully it gets better from here onwards!