In the meantime, I had ordered Demi and Lennan (8th gen) to try for a baby, and Demi had spent the last three days meditating through her pregnancy. I thought I’d need a spare heir in case something happened to Kyle. Meet Aurora Shanley! (name suggested by Leslie)
“What a dear…I hope you don’t look like your grandfather.”
Tebbany was due to pass away later that day, so I had her and Gary do some woohoo to get into platinum. The Reaper showed up right on time, before Tebbany even had a chance to put her clothes back on.
“My beloved Tebby…I can’t bear to watch…”
Gary still had a few days to live, so I knew he would still be alive when the challenge was over. I put Tebby’s urn in the cemetery and took a picture of all my gravestones. The non-platinum one belongs to Patrick, who was scared to death by his grandfather. I’m also missing one headstone, Kiara’s. (It vanished on its own, so I still counted it towards my final score.)
I had Maura meditate through her pregnancy as Demi had for both of hers, an idea I got from the TS2 Classic Legacy Yahoo! Group. If the pregnant Sim uses the Energizer and meditates, her moods will stay in full green throughout her pregnancy. She’ll stop meditating in order for her belly to grow bigger, but then you can just make her meditate again. The nice thing about this is that you don’t have to watch their needs like a hawk (pregnant Sims can die all too easily), plus they don’t suffer any nausea or morning sickness, so no cleaning the toilet every five minutes.
It’s hard to tell from the picture, but Maura had been meditating for so long that she was hovering above the ground. I also had her “teleport” a few times just for kicks — it looks really cool.
*inhales deeply*
After Demi had Aurora, I sent her to work on maxing her skills — she still had to get two more points of Charisma! She maxed it just hours before Maura had her baby, so I got that one point for Demi’s Impossible Want. Phew!
“You like me! You really like me!”
When it came time for Maura to have her baby, no one was around except for Ericka the Gardener. Everyone else was at work! (I had gotten Kyle a job in Business like his father). I should have had everyone stay home to witness the momentous event, but I was in double-speed just hoping my game wouldn’t freeze up or die on me before the birth actually occurred.
“I hope that didn’t freak you out too badly, Ericka…”
And here she is, little Mia Shanley (name courtesy of Helen). She has her dad’s blonde hair and her mom’s green eyes. I was hoping she’d have red hair like the founder of the legacy, Nia, but no such luck! She’s lovely anyway. So far, at least.
“I hope they don’t make me marry somebody named Goopy when I grow up…”
So there you have it! Here are my plans now that I’m done with the challenge and University is out:
1. Install University and hope everything works properly
2. Send a random Sim to college so I can explore a bit
3. Catch up on other Sims blogs!
4. Possibly build my own campus (to satisfy my building urges!)
5. Move the Shanleys to a new lot and continue to play them Legacy-style
6. Have one more heir
7. Age the heirs to teen and decide which one will go to college and which one will stay on the lot to continue the legacy (maybe I’ll have you guys vote?)
8. Once that teen has graduated from college, he/she can start a brand new Legacy family per Pinstar’s new University Legacy rules (which won’t officially be announced until next week)
9. Continue to play Legacy families and tell stories about them because they’re just too much fun
So I have plenty to keep me occupied! At any rate, this won’t be the last you’ll see of the Shanleys — far from it. In fact, you might be sick to death of them once you start getting double doses. :-) That reminds me — I’m still not sure what I’ll do with my satellite houses. I feel like they’re so far behind now, it’d take forever to catch them up. I’m open to any suggestions!
Actually Pinstar’s Uni Challenge turned into the Greek House challenge or whatever and it’s already out… You could prolly find it on the BBS without too many worries.
I’m pretty sure that’s a separate challenge, he said there’s going to be an updated version of the Legacy challenge for Uni as well as the Greek challenge.
Awesome! Congratulations Jen! The rest of this year is gonna be very interesting! CYA.
Hey Jen! This is so wonderful! I knew you would do it. I can’t wait to see how little Mia Shanley turns out. And I must say, I’m so excited to see what else you have in store for us! I probably won’t get University until this weekend, but that’ll be okay. I won’t install it until I’m done with my challenge anyways, however tempting that may be. Well, congrats! I’m off to picj up my video card!! It’s at the FedEx place right now! Huzzah! Finally! Lol. Can’t wait to see more of your amazing sims, Jen!
*whines about how fast Kyle’s life went*
Looking forward to the story telling style again… t_t *misses it*
Yeah! Way to go Jen. Glad to see you beat the clock. I’m so looking forward to reading new stories. I really miss your other stories. Happy simming.
CONGRATS, JEN!!! i knew you could do it!!! :D
i got University tonight… and played around with the interface. if you have a TEEN, you can immediately send them to college. looks like they don’t have to go to high school at all. okay, i’m not 100% sure about that… but when you get the game, you’ll see what i’m talking about. i have yet to try that out (i’m going to create a new Sim of myself)… but when you click on the button for University, you’ll get a listing of all the teen sims (including NPCs). you get to select them and give them a household name, which is like the name of the house they’ll be living in… not necessarily their last name. i’ve made several teens but never played those houses, so they’ve never been to school. so i’m guessing my hunch is correct. i need to get the Prima Guide, but it’s lumped together with the official guide. i wish they kept it separate. anyway, i’ll be posting more information on my blog as soon as i find out.
congrats again! i hope to be able to join you in the next edition of the legacy challenge.
Oh I’d love to hear more about the Shanleys actuallY! Sicne now that you’re officially done with the challenge, you’d be able to play the family more slowly and tharoughly enjoy it^^ and I can’t wait to see what Pinster’s new legacy rules are actually.
Yay! You made it without too many issues! Awesome Job Jen!
Yay!!!! Awesome job. I love the name Mia. It was weird to see Abijeet (from first g.) and Maura (from 5th g. who I actually killed after she became rather annoying). I cannot wait to see the stories of the Shanley’s continue.
YAY JEN!!!!! Congrats on getting through all ten generations! I’m looking forward to seeing more storytelling, too… now that University is out, you can continue your old stories because everyone was about to head off to college and such… weee, I can’t wait!
*cheers for Jen and breaks out the grape juice* Yea! *blushes* I JUST started my own challenge and just made it to third gen already…I’m enjoying it though XD Good luck with University! *rushes out to go get a copy for herself!
way to go Jen! I can’t wait to get university to. Only 7 more days untill it comes out in Belgium!!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMG!!!
You called your last legacy baby Mia! Squeeee! Hehe.
Seriously though, well done on your finishing! It’ll be weird to come onto your blog and not see the legacy family. Now I’m off to read your university story! :D
Congrats, Jen! That’s so great that you got to the tenth Gen! I’ll never get there! I don’t know why but when I saw you used my suggestion I got all excited! Yay! Too bad Aurora is just a spare heir… lol ^_^
Great job!
Can someone help me? The guy in one of my families has a teddy bear going through him and his hands are all twisted…defenitely a bug. I cannot making him talk through it and set it down, and it is literally though his midsection. I tried rebooting but it didn’t work…where can I fix it? Does anyone know? Tis very sad…its my first family!
Hi Vivi – Yeah, those teddy bears are evil. Did you have the afflicted Sim go to work or take a shower or anything? Try to have him do that, or change his clothes, to see if the bear will go away (or jump out of him, weird as that sounds). If that does work, do a Control-Shift-C on your keyboard to open the cheat window, then type “moveobjects on”. Then you can click on your poor Sim and delete him. It sounds scary, but if you quit out of your lot (don’t forget to save) and go back in, he should reappear. Hopefully he’ll be back to normal at that point. Let me know if none of those things work!