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IT'S DONE.  I woke up early this morning and played the last 48 hours of the challenge.  I've got to be in the Chattanooga area in the morning to look at some rental properties, so this is going to be a fast-and-dirty update.  Expect less than stellar commentary.  e__e

(BTW, I had a crap bunch of problems with Photobucket while trying to upload these pictures!  So if any of them aren't showing up, I'll get it fixed soon...)

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Here's the quintessential lazy approach to a who's-who recap.  :P   But really, there's only one person there who really matters right now, and that's my heir...






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Enolia!  Who is still 9 days to adult at this point.  And pregnant.






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There are still other people around who will continue to be around for a little while.  Older brother Earl (the blond on the right) is due to grow up tonight.  So that will be one less to keep track of!





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Earl was just in the process of kicking over the garbage bin when 6 o'clock arrived.  He's also got a big fat fear of growing up badly...






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And like so many family members before him, he first has his birthday Therapist visit, then he called a cab and moved out.






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Er yeah, I kinda forgot I'm allowed to give Knowledge sims 5 commands a day!  So Elvis is busy catching up on his homework so he at least has the scholarship for good grades.  The only other scholarship he is close to qualifying for is the one for Art.  He has ZERO skills every where else.  Gah.

It's gonna be a while before I can get him out of the house, too.






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In the meantime, I just get to sit around and wait for them to grow up.  Or die.  That gets them out of the house, too, I guess.

Anyway, this particular ghost scare started a domino effect that would make things just a little more miserable for me for a few days...






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After Grandpa Bodean scared Elmer the first time, Elmer had a fear of seeing another ghost.  So of course Bodean had to scare him again!  This sent Elmer's aspiration to the very BOTTOM of the red end.  If he was an adult that would result in the Therapist.  No Therapist for teens!  He pretty much went to bed right after this, so I thought maybe teens just don't get any worse than they already are if they are in the red.





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That night everyone's sleep was cut short because Enolia had her baby...






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A boy with black hair.  I named him Rebel.

Enolia put him on the floor and...





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Got the ever-lovin snot smacked out of her by Elmer!!  :O  They have had a 100/100 relationship, too!  I was all kinds of "what the hell!" then I realized it must be what teens do when they get that low in the red.  D:  I have never had this happen before.






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And just like that they are both furious at each other and well into the slap-and-poke range, which leads to the mortal enemy range...






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Normally I wouldn't intervene, but this is my HEIR and I can't risk her running away!  So Eric spent the rest of the night constantly influencing Enolia and Temper-Tantrum-Elmer to do random pointless crap that kept them busy and away from each other.

Which is way more clicking than I like!  D:





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OH, and I figured since Elvis is a knowledge sim I'd have him stargaze at night to get enough logic for that particular scholarship.  Now his sleep schedule has him going straight to bed after school and I send him straight to the telescope when he wakes up.





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It's Friday and I'm looking at a house full of teens who are all in the red and none of them have wants that can be fulfilled by having one of the controllable adults interact with them.

Everett there just wants to hire Brooke, get random scholarships, and play Marco Polo.  None of that's happening!  D:






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Bright and early Saturday morning I sent Edna to the community pool and she drags all the kids along with her.  I'm hoping a change of scenery will get them some different Wants she can help fulfill.

You think they want to play Marco Polo now?  NO, now they all want to buy electronics and go on vacation.  Guh.






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GAH!  Now Elmer is attacking Everett!  They've been BFFs since Elmer was a toddler!






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This is not the "healing" family adventure I was imagining...






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Next he tries to smack that grin off of Ellie's face and now ALL of his siblings can't stand him.  Great.

A trip to the pool was an awesome idea, Fuzzy.  BRILLIANT.  e__e






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I had Edna do the only thing I could think of right then in order to get them all to sit and talk amiably.






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And when this Evil Witch showed up, I could have kissed her!  BECAUSE...





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Elmer wanted to see rain!  He's still in the red but at least he is out of that "slap and poke" range.






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GAWD.  Time to just freakin go home.






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Yay!  One day warning!  Time for Rebel to have his cake...






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He looks very much like his dad...





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With the exception of having Enolia's tiny nose and pancake-flat forehead.  At least he has a chin!






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For an entire day this is all Enolia did.  She would go kick over the garbage bin...





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Then immediately pick up the garbage and take it inside and put it in the kitchen bin.  Then realizing the kitchen bin was full she'd collect the garbage and bring it outside; upright the outside bin and put the garbage in it.

Then she'd freak out and kick it over again.  Then pick up the garbage and repeat the whole process!  Over and over and OVER!   Only when she got too tired or too hungry did she break that loop.  It was the most insane thing I've ever seen.






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Anyway, FINALLY it's Everett and Ellie's last day as teens!  I was glad to see Everett actually gain a little AP!  He's just barely into the green but that should be enough to avoid the Therapist.





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A few minutes before 6 PM Ellie went to bed and Everett got in the hot tub.

Then hours went by...





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Sometime around 10 o'clock, Ellie was about to give Rebel a bath when she got the urge to grow up...





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Complete with a Therapist visit.

I decided to wait until Everett grew up too so I could move them out together...






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But he wasn't showing any sign of leaving the hot tub!  And with a yard full of ghost dogs I wasn't confident he was going to make it to his birthday alive because by now his hunger bar is way on down there.

He did finally get out of the hot tub without dying, but...






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He went to bed instead!  At six in the morning he was still a teen and on the verge of keeling over from starvation...






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He woke up and went straight to the food.  You can see how low his hunger is, and that's after he already got several mouthfuls in!






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FINALLY.  This was about 10 minutes before the school bus was due to show up.

(Elvis is trying to get yesterday's homework done since he spent all night at the telescope.)






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Everett even managed to grow up well!





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He and Ellie moved out after the other kids had left for school.






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It's Rebel's birthday, but he's passed out on the back porch of the second trailer that remains locked so they can't get to the kitchen and bathroom in there.  Enolia must have forgot it was locked, because she hauled him all the way over there when he was DEAD TIRED in order to bathe him in that tub, despite having to walk past TWO other tubs to get there.






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And she finds it hilarious that he's passed out now!  She didn't find it so hilarious when she realized she was now trapped on that one-tile-wide porch, with Rebel blocking the steps.  I had to unlock the trailer doors so she could get through to the main trailer after Edna called her over.








That pink arrow on the far left shows where Rebel is.  I had to put a light over there just to see him.

After a couple of hours I was able to get him to wake up, so he could finally have his birthday!







Thank goodness.  Now he can bathe himself.  e__e

And because I forgot to show his personality earlier... The first finger-gunner I've had this challenge!







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SO, it turns out Elvis is the slowest learner EVER.  D:  It takes him all of one night and half of the next to get ONE logic point!  He's still 3 points away from a scholarship and at this rate Enolia will be an adult and the challenge will be over before he has enough scholarships to go to college.






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Rebel's first day of school!

And this is the first time I have ever had a child and their parent getting on the school bus at the same time.






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That afternoon Marcel got off the bus with them again.  Instead of going to bed like he usually does, Elvis had to tell Marcel a dirty joke instead...





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Which led to him finally getting that first kiss!  With absolutely no AP for it, but at this point that's not the point.  I guess.

I was expecting more romance after this, but...






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Arcadia got Elvis to join her in the Slap Dance.  Gawd.






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While Enolia got Marcel to join her in the bedroom!  D:  GAWD.

However, I am glad to announce that this was not a Try for Baby or a Risky pregnancy or anything traumatic that would have resulted in me becoming alcohol dependent from the stress.  THANK PLUMBBOB.






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"Hello?  I'm not exactly sure why I felt compelled to run out here to the graveyard dressed in a white ape costume, but now the gate seems to be missing and I can't leave!"






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Sorry, Eric.  I can't say I liked you much, but at least you made things a lot more interesting.  If in a trashy kind of way...






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Speaking of Trashy; Arcadia uses the family's moment of grief as an opportunity to snag a couple of gnomes.  e__e

And around 10 PM...







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SCHOLARSHIP!  :D






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At this point I had a dreadful thought... with InTeen, can teen boys get alien pregnant?  D:  Of course that's not an issue this time since Elvis is too closely related to the Pollination Tech, but that would be beneficial to know.






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Elvis got up from the curb and immediately went out to retrieve a couple of gnomes that Arcadia had stolen earlier.






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Every time - every single time I tell Elvis to call college he looks right at me like that!  D:

IT CREEPS ME OUT, MAN





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At least this time he gets that final scholarship he needs to move out!  Of course it's now the last day of the challenge because Enolia (and Elmer) are due to grow up in about 16 hours.





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Enolia and Elmer spent the rest of the night taking turns giving Elvis noogies.





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At 6 AM I had him call and move to college... and he looks like he's not regretting it at all.  o_O





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There's only a few ways Enolia knows how to show motherly affection... Okay, there's only one way.







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With the kids at school for the last time, I got busy spending the 5200 simoleons that Eric left to the household.  They got another truck, another junker, and a pinball machine.  The bills got paid.





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There was a few hundred left, so Edna planted the garden for the first time since last generation.






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Since they spent all night tormenting Elvis, Elmer and Enolia went straight to bed after school.





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And I was left to watch Edna and Rebel entertain themselves for the next several hours...






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At around 7 PM Enolia got up and started her wiggle...






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As expected, she didn't exactly grow up "well"... BUT!






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This photo represents the end of the challenge!  Kind of appropriate, I guess.  o__o

It's over, but I can't stand leaving unfinished business!  So I decided to wait until her twin aged up too before I officially called it quits.






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Elmer soon woke up and proceeded to make his bed.






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Then he acknowledged his sister's presence...






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Then he cleaned the toilets...






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Then he made all the other beds!






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THEN he spent an hour playing with Edna!

At this point I sent Enolia over to distract Edna so maybe Elmer would feel compelled to grow-the-hell-up so I can finally leave!






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WHEW.





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And that's it!






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I'll have to go back through my old updates to figure out what my score is, because I lost my notes.  D:  Though I do know that in the end they ended up with 208 simoleons, 27 pay-off gnomes, 2 living dogs (8 not-living dogs), 5 trucks, 4 junkers, and a whole freakin lot of good ol' fashioned screwed-up family values.

THE END

If you feel like you can't live the rest of your life without playing this challenge too, you can find the rules right here.  :)   I'll likely tweak a few more things now that I've completed the play-through, but they are basically what they are gonna be, I think.  Suggestions welcome!

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on 2013-04-19 01:19 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] lacycurtains.livejournal.com
In the next to last picture, Edna is smiling, looking directly into the camera, probably as relieved as you are that it's all over. Enolia is in tears; is it because Elmer's by far the better-looking twin?

I've really enjoyed this challenge.

on 2013-04-19 01:56 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
Edna was one of the few who managed to get through with little permanent damage, so maybe she has a reason to be smiling. XD Elmer did well with the face bits he ended up with, that's for sure!

Thanks! :D

on 2013-04-19 01:42 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] joandsarah.livejournal.com
When did Edna get old?

So much fun and so many things happen in your game Fuzzy! Babies, therapist visits, hooker teens lol.

Can I ask where that cute suit that rebel grew up in as a kid is from? Kind of awesome to have the child and the parent catch the school bus- in a dysfunctional sim family kind of way.

on 2013-04-19 01:53 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
Edna got old at the end of the last update (the one with the heir poll). lol

Well, this was a pretty fast challenge and I wasn't going to spend a huge amount of time on the details - or I'd end up with another 5-year-long OWBC-type project! D:

The kid suit is probably Maxis, since I don't download clothes these days that aren't Egyptian CC. Though I'll double check and let you know if it's from somewhere else.

on 2013-04-19 02:10 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] silverbelle1220.livejournal.com
Rebel's outfit is one of the Sims Store ones, though I forget from what set it's a part.

on 2013-04-19 02:23 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
Heidi's right, it's Sim Store. It's called "prep school brown" so I'm not sure what set it's from either. :P

on 2013-04-19 02:43 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] joandsarah.livejournal.com
Thanks, that should be good enough for me to find it.

...Seems like it might be part of the Nouveau Clothing set which is linked to on gos, but the user is out of bandwidth. :/ I'll try again tomorrow. That suit also comes in a blue jacket version which I'd like as well. I really don't have enough suits for my boys.

on 2013-04-19 03:15 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] docnerd.livejournal.com
Try MATY, there are threads for Sim Store stuff in Peasantry, I think.

on 2013-04-19 10:44 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] joandsarah.livejournal.com
I looked on MATY and didn't see it, but I could try again and search for Nouveau now that I know it's from that set.

on 2013-04-21 03:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] joandsarah.livejournal.com
Thanks Doc, but I can't use 4shared. I don't know how others go with it, but my antivirus always blocks it. Last time a file I wanted from BPS came up with a 4shared link, I turned the antivirus off and got myself a web browser hijacker. Not a fun afternoon. Looks like the GOS link goes to 4shared as well. Thanks, but I'll give it a miss.

on 2013-04-19 02:11 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] silverbelle1220.livejournal.com
Congrats on finishing!

This was hilarious. I'm curious to see how you did points wise once it's all done. And Edna does look very happy that it's all over.

on 2013-04-19 02:24 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] mysterymusic7.livejournal.com
I admit it I was a little worried for you there when I saw Marcel and Enolia were in that double bed. And I was worried again when I saw Elvis get taken by Poli Tech.

Enolia makes such a great mom. *sarcasm*

Congrats on making it to the end, with your insanity somewhat still intact. :lol:

It was a fun read...but I know it must be a relief to have it over.

on 2013-04-19 04:55 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] bellemistoire.livejournal.com
Wooo! Congrats!

(yes, your teen boys can get alien preggers with inteen)

on 2013-04-19 05:00 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rosefyre.livejournal.com
Yay for finishing!

...Don't you lose points for teens dying, though? So it's something to avoid.

Ah, family trips to the pool with a bunch of teens. Sadly, I'd expect it to go something like that with RL teens too. :P

Ugh, sims are idiots when it comes to bathing toddlers and feeding toddlers and NOT PUTTING THEM IN THE CRIBS WHEN THEY'RE TIRED.

That is...really weird to see a kid and their parent go to school together. *shudders slightly*

Arcadia: hey, the dude I liked is dead! I'll take a gnome instead!

Yay for finishing!

I still think you need to tweak the scoring on parties - +8 for the police breaking up a party when you can make it happen EVERY DAY if you play it right is way too much.

Also, this rule: "There must be a photobooth picture of the founder, every heir, and their spouses in the trailer(s) by the end." - you need to specify that it doesn't mean gen 3, as you CAN'T take a photobooth picture of the heir, as it ends the instant he/she becomes an adult, and as a teen, he/she is uncontrollable - so unless you take pictures of ALL the kids...and there's not a spouse anyway, so... Also, did you want to give points for that?

And negative for not getting the required pregnancies. And maybe some points for getting the wishing well.

And yes, I'm curious on your points. :P

on 2013-04-23 06:22 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
Yeah, I need to specify that the last heir doesn't need the photograph. Just the founder, first heir, and second heir. I'll add points for the photos.

The points definitely need tweaking. I just mostly jotted down what came to the top of my head as I was making that post. Good idea for Wishing Well points. :)

on 2013-04-19 06:49 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] katmiesterk8.livejournal.com
*shudders* It's so creepy the way sims look at the player like that.

Congrats on finishing!

I was going to do a TPC myself, but my games kinda borky at the moment, and I don't know why. Probably something I downloaded. *sigh*
Edited on 2013-04-20 03:30 am (UTC)

on 2013-04-19 08:40 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] katee412.livejournal.com
And this is the first time I have ever had a child and their parent getting on the school bus at the same time.

Well, if there ever was an appropriate challenge for such a first, this is it ;)

on 2013-04-19 03:23 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] docnerd.livejournal.com
I've had Teens get in the red before, but I've never had one go quite so antisocial as Elmer! And I've definitely had them tanked, usually because they were on the border of green and red and had a big fat Fear of a relative dying, and then someone died. Usually I just see a whole lot of trash-can-kicking. It must have really sucked to be one of Elmer's siblings for a few days there.

It would be interesting to see if Elvis could have gotten pregnant from an abduction if you had a multi-PT hack, and he got abducted by one of the other three aliens. I mean, "interesting" from a purely academic standpoint, not so much from an insane redneck teen pregnancy standpoint. Or from a questionably incestual standpoint.

I really hate the stupid bathtub/fridge coding with respect to babies and toddlers. Like, if you put a fridge in the nursery so that they don't have to cart babies and toddlers through the house to the kitchen, they'll still use the kitchen fridge! And noooo, of course we can't use the bathtub attached to the nursery, we have to use the one two floors away! At least you managed to get Enolia off the porch, and Rebel didn't get taken by the social worker.

on 2013-04-19 06:04 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] panicsims.livejournal.com
Wow. I can't believe it's over D: but I'm glad that you made it through! I had a lot of fun reading it since last summer. Mine is chugging along just fine. I'm at the point in my game where an heir needs to be chosen, but I still need to get a lot of stuff posted.
Question; so we do not need to play through generation 4? It might have just been me, but for some reason I thought we had to. All we need to do is have someone be chosen as an heir?

on 2013-04-19 06:55 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
On my phone so forgive any typos! To answer your question, the challenge ends when the third heir becomes an adult. You do not have to play them any further. So it should go: founder (Gen 1), first heir (gen 2), second heir (Gen 3), third heir. When the third heir reaches adult, it's done.

on 2013-04-19 10:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] biglenny.livejournal.com
Congrats on finishing this! I'm so amazed at how you managed to stick to this challenge amidst all that mayhem.

Ouch on Elmer slapping his half-siblings. At least he managed to see rain, which made him better.

Overall, this has been a fun thing to read.

on 2013-04-20 05:52 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] inujadesims.livejournal.com
So awesome! Loved it all, and congrats on finishing! :D
This challenge led me to all your other sim things, and now I've read your OWBC and WYD in between updates of this. Question is, what am I going to do now?! XD

on 2013-04-20 02:05 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] cindyanne1.livejournal.com
*barges into your LJ*

This is a great challenge and you did a wonderful job with it! I would like to start one myself, but I'm leaning more toward trying it on TS3. Is there an official set of rules for TS3 yet? It looks like a lot of fun for TS2 as well so I might just fire up that game and do it if TS3 won't cooperate haha.

on 2013-04-23 06:27 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fuzzy-spork.livejournal.com
It would be a huge task for me to come up with TS3 rules myself, since I don't own any EPs for that yet! :O But I might make that a new "side project" when I get the time (and the money to buy all those EPs, lol). You are more than welcome to give it a shot and see how it goes in TS3! I think there would need to be TS3 specific rules involving collections and such. It's definitely a lot of fun in TS2 though. ;)

on 2013-04-21 05:33 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com
Congratulations of finishing the challenge! It was a wild ride, but a lot of fun to read. :D

I hope you were able to find a house! Moving to a whole new place on short notice has got to be one of the hardest things to do. At least you'll be with Spock again. Good luck with everything! :)

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