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Welcome back to the Hallows Legacy! This is the final installment for Generation 1 as, due to what turned out to be fairly major problems with my game installation I have had to cut it somewhat short.

Rosemary, our lovely founder, is by

alleliua . This is a Round Robin legacy, using the original legacy rules as set out by Pinstar and the round robin rules as set out by Laridian. I will be playing through generation 1, until the generation 2 offspring age to adult. The generation 2 heir/ess will be chosen by poll and sent off to start their adult pixellated life with

daysofoursims . The overall theme for the legacy is "horror and halloween" and the naming theme for this generation's offspring is based on the movie Alien. The generation 1 spouse, Troy, was made by

cpowellscircus .

Try seems to have found a new book. One that makes no mention of princesses and their toilets. He was so excited by this discovery, he sat down in a bowl of cat food. Lambert seems to be rapt, regardless.

Lambert's OTH is Music and Dance so I bought her a violin. The whole family quickly became addicted.

Dallas starts making friends of the glowy-eyed kind.

This is what the ACR randomiser rolled for the first set of twins. Looks like Dallas is keen for both types of milkshake.

Mean teens = many many noogies.

Dallas extricated himself from the headlock long enough to go and cheer on his glowy-eyed friend.

I forgot to buy a burglar alarm, didn't I?

And Gordon goes straight for the kids' bedroom and the ladybug painting.

He got two paintings and the bongos before the police arrived.

Go get 'im, tiger!

Lambert and Parker bond over the fight dust cloud while Troy is just happy to be there.

Rosemary and the other set of twins just slept through it all.

This is the first time in a really long while that the law has triumphed in my game. Gordon must be losing his touch.

The reaction of the sleepers to the fact that the sanctity of their home was violated was varied.

Lambert finally managed to get to play the violin. And Parker lined up, ready to pounce on it the moment she walked away.

Parker is a little show-off. Though his twin usually just encourages him and his exhibitionist ways.

I had lots of images like this. The Gordon hate level is pretty high in the household.

They just can't stop thinking about it and chat about it to random passers-by while peddling lemonade.

It was time to send the teens out for the ubiquitous "night out on the town".

Ripley: I don't know if this was such a good idea. There's nobody our age in here.

engram : No there's not, is there? Seems I forgot to create teen townies.

Ripley: SO FIX IT!!!

At least Alice and Quin had fun!

engram : Quin, you're enjoying being hit about the head by an elderly lady's handbag entirely too much!

Quin: I'm still in the post-woohoo glow zone, man!

With new teen townies now in the mix, Ripley and Dallas went to check out the action at the park.

Dallas: Red hands, sis?

engram : *facepalm*

That was not hilarious when Parker did it, it's not hilarious now.

After several hours we finally have teen lift-off! Emilio Canizares by Boolpropped makes an appearance.

engram : Maybe if you saw him directly under the lamplight you'd change your mind? He's really quite cute!

Ripley: Nah! Dallas can have him!

Dallas was quite taken with Emilio but unfortunately no romantic sparks flew.

While I was trying to get pictures of Dallas and Emilio, Ripley managed to get pickpocketed. So of course I missed my Dallas + Emilio pic.

With no other teens in sight the Romance sim thought she'd try her luck with adults but quickly got shot down.

So what's a girl to do? Learn to break dance, of course!

While supervising the under-age lemonade peddling Dallas's heart suddenly skipped a few beats.

Because who wouldn't like to do some angry dancing with linuslover30's Bella Swan?

For some reason Dallas's face got stuck in the WTF expression. Dunno why.

Dallas: Too much touchy touchy too early early!

Bella knows what she wants.

And she's totally down with the idea of public woohoo.

What would Edward think?

Bella: Edward who? There's no Edward in this game!

engram : Oh, yeah... Never mind! Carry on!

And carry on they did.

Ripley: Do not display your amateur flirting skills in front of the unfulfilled Romance sim! I will get you for this, Dallas Hallows!

I know I said that the Hallows were going to start choosing the mean choices but I figured Troy may as well join in one last time.

And my choice finally paid off!

Troy: Who da man?

engram : Yeah, you da man, Troy. You da man...

It was homework party time because...

Berjes Straight, the private school headmaster, came around for dinner.

Troy: *Schmoozes*

Berjes: *Sucks it up*

Berjes: We at the school have no problem with our students consuming a variety of beverages.

OK then... Moving right along...

Dallas: And this is what we call the living room!

Berjes: Woo! Yeah! Alright!!!

engram : I fear for the level of education these children will get at your fine institution.

As if there was any doubt!

That night, Jones had nightmares. I hadn't realised that pets could have nightmares, but he was thrashing about and meowling in his sleep. Poor kitty :(

The family that plays with the kittehs together stays together?

HOT! HOT! HOT!

She's 10. And she hates your guts because you stole her paintings and bongos. Go away. Aren't they screening your phone calls in gaol?

And that's the end of Generation 1. I know it's a rather abrupt end but when I tried to send Troy out for a cooking competition I found out that my sims couldn't travel to secret lots. Further investigation into this phenomenon revealed that my game was quite seriously corrupted. So then I tried to uninstall and re-install and it all went pear-shaped and... I have no TS2 game at the moment. In fact, all my Sims games (TS2, TS3 plus all 3 Stories games) have become mysteriously corrupted. Even those that have never been fired up even once.

In a couple of minutes I will make a post showcasing the heir candidates. Luckily I extracted them all and grew them up in Bodyshop several weeks ago, while they were still toddlers. I am very sorry that I had to end it like this. I'm pretty heartbroken over the loss of this family because I really wanted to keep playing to the proper end of the generation.