Nancy gets rejected. She's a terrible Succubus.

I don’t like this legacy anymore.  It isn’t fun.  I find that I’ve boxed myself into a corner by requiring the heart breaker achievement in every generation even without the LTW.  I can’t drum up the enthusiasm I once had for it.  I no longer care if the heirs meet the requirement and the whole thing fails…which is a good indication that it might just be time to call it quits.

I thank everyone who has ever read this story and liked how quirky it was.  I enjoyed playing the different heirs, but I just can’t make myself do it again.  I played all weekend and thought I might have enough to write about…but I only have 30 screenshots…normally I have well over 100.  This is from about 8 hours of total play time and I only have 30?!  And I sat down to play yesterday and tonight and have found all kinds of other things to do instead.

It’s no longer fun, so for now, it’s over.  I doubt I will come back, but who knows…maybe Late Night will inspire me to devilish ideas worthy of a true Succubus.  Never can tell.

Here are a few slightly amusing shots to make you remember me with fondness.

Whoops, I lost a point because this dude died on the lot while Elisabeth was jumping on the trampoline.

Ok, so that last screenshot was funny.  Actually, the moment when Elisabeth was cackling in glee as the reaper took this guy’s soul was funnier…but I didn’t get the shot.

Eleanor did get to marry her Chad-Creeper-wannabe. I don't even remember his name. She forced him to marry her after she got two points for the legacy: Mastered logic and got to the top of the ghost hunter profession.

So thank you all.  I hope you all follow my new legacy, The Twinbrook Fields.  It’s a DITFT, which I find a lot more entertaining than this.

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Well, Nancy was chosen over Martha to be the heir.  I thought for sure people would pick Martha because of the blond hair.  But it doesn’t matter.  They are both the most un-interesting Sims.  I didn’t have a preference when I set up the vote and still don’t.  According to Martha’s moodlet, she’s unhappy with Nancy.  I would have written a little rivalry between the two, but this is the only negative interaction they had.

I really hope that Nancy gets more lively as she ages.  She’s flirty but has yet to really find any boy to use her talents on.  Same with Martha.  If they don’t get more interesting, I might have to give up the legacy as too repetitive to keep playing for 10 generations.  Seriously.

Martha rolled the desire to skip school, so I chained her to the easel in order to get her painting skills high enough for portraits.  Now that Erik is dead, she’s the only one besides Elisabeth who even knows how to paint.  I’ll need a portrait of Nancy soon.

Yawn.  Nancy is a studious Sim who made the honor roll while her sister was skipping.  She and Hillary came right home and did their homework.

I’m thinking maybe Eleanor would have been more exciting.  At least she gets to go hunt ghosts and solve paranormal problems.

She solved one at Victoria Succubus’ house and spent some time talking to Dominic who was holding the only male child born of a Succubus spare…little Dirk.  None of Victoria’s children had red skin.

Meanwhile Elisabeth finally had her elder birthday (damn that life-fruit pancake!).  Her 10th boyfriend, Deric Brothers the tattoo artist, came over to celebrate.

Of course Elisabeth had to do something about her look after she aged.  She hasn’t made her LTW of being leader of the free world.  Voters don’t vote for people who look too old.  Deric didn’t seem to mind her looks, but suspiciously the next day he quit his job at the tattoo shop (I was informed that he got a job in the military) and then the day after that he was no longer a resident in town.  Odd.

Since I want to marry Eleanor to her lovely Chadwick Mather, I have her chained to the chess table and the telescope when she’s not working, eating, sleeping or pooping.  Since our telescope is outside, I sort of expect a meteor strike to happen one of these days.  I’ve been disappointed, though.  Nothing unusual has happened at all.

Oh, Elisabeth finally got the limo back as Vice President.  It was about time.  Vice Presidents shouldn’t ride around in measly sedans, even if they are luxury sedans.

To spice things up in the legacy, Elisabeth got the opportunity to resurrect a ghost.  I sent her to the Science Facility with Erik’s urn.  She came home with her little slave (son) in his ghostly form.  Too bad there are no toddlers for him to take care of.

That same day it was Hillary’s birthday.  True to form, everyone forgot about it.  Hillary spent it at the community pool where she relaxed and tried to think of what to do with herself as an adult.

Before she could age up, though, an old man died and the Grim Reaper had to come take his soul.  The pregnant Sim is Betty Simovitch, for those of you who have her in your games.  Betty got knocked up by the chinless Osvaldo…the guy that I had picked out special for Hillary!  When I found out about it, I was pissed.  Osvaldo had only been a young-adult for like one day!  Betty is an old maid.  What a cougar!

Eventually Hillary did age up.  And the transformation wasn’t pretty…

But back at home everyone was borderline shocked and disgusted that Elisabeth had reanimated her dead son.  As a ghost hunter, I wasn’t surprised to see Eleanor react this way as he floated by her.

Martha was pretty happy to see him once she got over her initial shock.  She hugged him and then they caught up with each other’s lives (deaths).

As for Elisabeth, Erik apologized for dying and thanked his mother for letting him live again.  WTH?  I have no idea what he had to be sorry for!

Hillary is not reacting in horror at the specter of her brother.  She’s yawning because her solo birthday party was so tiring.  She’s dressed like a sort of spinster librarian.  She gained the yawn-inducing trait of flirty (yeah, it’s yawn-inducing because who is going to want to flirt with her?) because I could pick her trait and it is the family trait that all female Succubi must have.

Eventually Eleanor gets over her problems with living with a ghost and she and Erik are back on familiar ground.  They play chess together.

After the reanimation of her son, Elisabeth is given the task of writing her political memoirs.  She has level 2 writing skill, but when this tome is finally finished she was level 7!  Yes, it took that long.

Things were looking more Succubi-ish when Nancy decided to go over to Rod Hagar’s house after school one day.  However, Rod had to go to work almost immediately.

Good ol’ Nancy wrangled his older brother, Lance, to help her with her homework.  Lance isn’t too bad to look at, no?  If Rod turns out anything like Lance, he has promising boyfriend potential.

Speaking of boyfriends, we can’t let Chadwick get off of Eleanor’s hook.  He needs reminding that he’s her intended as soon as she earns a point, damn it!

And guess what Erik is painting…Eleanor is curious.  It’s a picture of Hell, of course.  He’s the only one of this generation who’s actually been there!  I couldn’t believe it when he started painting this.  How appropriate!

As an adult, I wasn’t too fond of Hillary’s looks.  I thought she was sort of ok as a teenager, but as an adult she is a bit too much like Harold.  Her nose is miniscule and her chin is just a dot on her face.  Her jaw is humongous.  I’ve decided to see if she improves when she is thinner.  Personally, I don’t mind her being husky, but maybe her face will not be so odd without the weight.

She’s also upgrading and re-upgrading all of the objects in the house that can be tinkered with.  Hillary is working toward handiness for her skill point.  She decided to go into medicine since Elisabeth rolled a desire to see her in the Medical career.  Elisabeth’s wishes are more important that Hillary’s (and Hillary has always sought her approval).  Medicine takes logic, but it’s too late to change the point that Hillary is trying to achieve.

BTW, Elisabeth finally became leader of the free world!  She threw a fundraising party to celebrate.  She and Margaret struck up a conversation about her achievement.  Margaret was almost happy for her until Elisabeth mocked Margaret’s own inability to achieve greatness in the criminal organization.  Margaret is no more than a 5th ranked thief.  She likely won’t become Empress of Evil.

Good job Nancy.  She’s talking to Woodrow Ivanov, the cousin of Dmitri Ivanov…or maybe half-brother.  Yuri Ivanov got around, but this might be the son of Yuri’s ex-wife, Tatiana Ivanov…I can’t remember.  Anyway, they’re flirting, which is what Nancy should be doing.

Nancy isn’t the only one flirting.  Osvaldo is met by her at the front door.  Betty Simovitch, his pregnant girlfriend, is out back.  Hillary, in true Succubus fashion, flirts with him shamelessly.  Unfortunately, while he didn’t reject said flirting, he didn’t reciprocate or seem to really appreciate it.  By the time he left, they were no more than friends.  Hillary will need to work harder if she’s to break him up with the hag, Betty.  (BTW, Betty had a boy after the party was over.)

Guess who else was at the party.  Jason Succubus and Erik reacquainted themselves.  Jason is very good looking.  Too bad he’s a loony loser.  His dad, Don Lothario, died…I got the message earlier and felt a pang of sadness.

Looky here.  When you are an Evil Dictator and Leader of the Free World, you get a white stretch limo.  Elisabeth is so pleased with herself.  However, her outfit is just awful!

But after a little makeover, she’s back to her lovely lime-green self.  As she passes her portrait, she is thinking that she hasn’t really lost the look.  As for me, I was thinking that at least I got a point out of this…the most boring update ever!

Eric got to level 9 in painting.  He finished the Hell picture.

And then he painted this one.  I’m sensing a theme.  Fires of Hell must have made an impression on him.

Oh, and Nancy brought home a boy from school.  He’s name is Eduardo.  Unfortunately, he didn’t respond well to flirting because he has a girlfriend.  It didn’t keep Nancy from trying, though.  She was quite angry with her and was only mollified when they sat down to play chess.  Actually, he was the next ranked chess player, so she challenged him to a match and then beat him.  She rolled the wish to be a Grand Master Chess Champion.  I decided to grant it.  For Nancy, she will only get boyfriends who are her chess opponents.  Poor Eduardo.  He doesn’t know that his girlfriend is toast.  Nancy has her mission now.

And thus I conclude this chapter.

Points: 1 Elisabeth gets her LTW.

Erik the ghost finally came out to haunt the Succubus family.  It is moments like this where he walks through the table and has a plant inside his body that I really appreciate the ghost graphics in this game.

I found this highly disturbing.  Erik sleeps with his mother…the mother who abandoned his brother, ignored his sister completely, and paid him to be the primary care-taker of his other sisters.

Each of the girls wanted to see Erik’s ghost.  No one has gotten the opportunity to revive it yet.  Here, Nancy wonders if there are airplanes in heaven.  Erik wouldn’t know.  He hasn’t gone to heaven and he likely won’t seeing as he’s a demon spawn and all that.

Anyway, Erik’s death had a profound affect on the house.  Most of the girls had red or orange plumbobs for the 2 death days.  Hillary was almost always red.  She doesn’t have any friends in the house anymore.

Martha’s plumbob is inclined to be something other than green because she’s grumpy, but when she’s talking about Erik to Theseus, it’s as red as her skin.

Elisabeth rolled the wish to get a tattoo.  She also became Governor.  Getting a tattoo might not be what the voting public want her to do.  Of course, Elisabeth just wants to be leader of the free world, so who cares what the public wants.  They can go to Hell, right?

So she got a tattoo of flames surrounding a skull to illustrate her grief over losing her son (she doesn’t have someone to take care of the kids anymore!)

Then Elisabeth decided to flirt with the tattoo artist.  His name is Deric Brothers.  You can’t tell here, but he has beautiful sapphire eyes, so I decided he will be boyfriend #10.  Elisabeth just has to break up with Ken…I mean Jovan Masters first.

The tattoo that Elisabeth got isn’t very good.  Tattoo guy must really suck at his career.  No matter.  He’s easy prey to Elisabeth’s flirting and her killer massage.  He’s half in love with her and she hasn’t even left the shop.

The grieving over Erik gets pretty annoying actually.  Nancy is supposed to be selling tasty treats and keeps crying over her brother.

Martha finishes a painting and cries over Erik.  So he’s not around anymore to paint portraits of his sisters.  Get over it!

Even meals are overshadowed with talk of Erik and death.  The 2 mourning days seem to drag FOREVER!

One interesting thing did happen, though.  The Succubus family was visited by another burglar.  I don’t know why both of my legacy families are so plagued by these criminals.  I mean, I went 5 generations in my Kendrick Legacy before they were ever burglarized!  Why does it seem to happen every Sim week now?

But this burglary was a little out of the ordinary, though.  I saw this pile of refuse on the floor and thought, “WTH?”  Looks like a pile of leaves and a rotten apple.  Strangest thing, really.

Just to move things along (and to fundraise for her campaign) and to provide Elisabeth with an opportunity to break up with Jovan, I had her throw a funeral/fundraiser.  Martha played chess with her friend Melody Ivanov, but she kept thinking of all of the chess games she and Erik had played.

Elisabeth wasted no time in breaking up with Ken/Jovan.  He didn’t even know it was coming.  Most of the guests missed the big moment.

Margaret hadn’t missed it.  Margaret was complaining about how she would have broken up with men a lot better than Elisabeth if she had been the heir.  Whatever.  Elisabeth’s reply was her standard STFU.

You know things have gotten out of hand when even Chadwick, Eleanor’s boyfriend, is talking about death.  Hillary  has taken to stuffing her face with cookies to avoid thinking about it.  Nancy, like Martha, is still wracked with grief.

At the party, the tattoo guy stayed like only a few seconds, so Elisabeth never got the opportunity to ask him to go steady.  She went down to the salon the next day and used all of her impressive flirty skills on him, but she never got the chance to ask him to go steady.  I wondered if it was because he was supposed to be working.

While Elisabeth was wooing the tattoo guy, Eleanor was on a date with Chadwick.  They were at Plumbpuddle Park.  Chadwick appears shorter because he’s standing on a little decline by the pond.

They are misaligned, which is why this kiss is so funny.  Looks like she’s kissing his forehead!  I didn’t get a screenshot of them making out, but she was sort of kissing the air around him.  I almost cried laughing.

Nancy and Martha hang out on the trampoline while Elisabeth and Eleanor are gone.  All I can say is that I’m glad that they aren’t toddlers.  With Erik gone, they have to care for themselves.

At the park, I am not sure what Chadwick did, but Eleanor suddenly got the wish to see his ghost.  She also got the humiliated moodlet.  Interesting.  I locked in the ghost wish just because.

Nevertheless, Chadwick was the only guest invited for Eleanor’s birthday.  I quite like him.  I think if Eleanor is not the heir, she will marry him and have lots of Chadwick babies.  He’s got the tiniest nose!

As Eleanor aged up, I got the first in a series of butt shots featuring Hillary’s posterior!   Chadwick is still a teen, but he doesn’t leave when Eleanor becomes quite a stunning adult.  Her LTW is to be a Ghost Soother.  She is an unlikely looking ghost buster, isn’t she.

A few days later, Chadwick is back at the house and he’s an adult, too.  Definitely, he and Eleanor will marry if she’s not the heir…in fact, let’s just say she’s not the heir.  I want to see Succubus babies with Chadwick’s nose!  He’s a politician, now, too.  Awesome.  Elisabeth will be his boss.

Awwwww!

But, before Chadwick aged up, everyone went out to plumbpuddle park to have some fun.  The dreaded death moodlet had finally disappeared.  Martha rolled the want to find a rock, so she did.  I haven’t had a Succubus scavenge for rocks since the 2nd generation.

Nancy and Eleanor fished in the pond.  Eleanor is still trying to max out fishing.  I think she will be just fine with not being heir.  She’s evil, but not like her mom and aunt Margaret.

Hillary (and her butt) didn’t got out with her sisters.  She’s trying to max out handiness, so she’s upgrading all of the bathroom appliances.

Elisabeth threw another fundraiser/birthday party for her youngest daughters.  I actually captured her autonomously being affectionate toward Martha.  Doesn’t Martha look happy?  She’s usually so grumpy…maybe Martha should be the heir?

This time Deric Brothers, the tattoo guy, sticks around for the party and Elisabeth is able to ask him the all-important “will you go steady with me?” question.  He says yes, of course.  And with that Elisabeth has finally fulfilled Lilith’s Curse.

I was proud that she had done it before she was an elder.  Then I got to thinking…why isn’t Elisabeth an elder?  She only had like 3 days…about two updates ago.  WTH?

And that’s when I discovered she had 9 days left.  9?!  Was I being stupid?  What happened?  We had life fruit in the garden, but I hadn’t made Elisabeth eat them.  I checked her inventory…none.  I checked the fridge…8.   Then I looked at what else was in the fridge….Life Fruit Pancakes!  Apparently, Hillary had made these pancakes and Elisabeth had been the only one to eat them.  GAH!!!!

Those got deleted.  I had to adjust Elisabeth’s age.  I changed it so that she has 1 day to be an elder.

So anyway, back at the party, I discovered that both Sally and Victoria were expecting babies.  I was so excited because I thought Sally would NEVER have a baby with Perseus!  (Sally ended up with a girl named Jaime and Victoria’s second child was a boy named Dirk.)

Margaret and Jason Succubus both spent the party dancing together.  I wonder what nefarious plots Margaret is cooking up.

Later I caught Margaret staring intently at Chadwick and Eleanor.  Margaret is seriously creepy!

Hillary spent the party flirting with Osvaldo—the no-chinned teen.  She’s being aggressive about perusing him.  I want them married so that their children will be chinless and chubby forever.

Finally, Martha and Nancy aged up.  I held the party inside because I realized that I almost always hosted the parties outside.  It was time to change things up.

And so both girls gained the flirty trait because they had had much better childhoods than Hillary.  They joined her in high school the next day.

Eleanor had her first day as a ghost buster.

Elisabeth basked in the disco-ball glory of her tenth boyfriend while she was still an adult.  He didn’t know that his pretty girlfriend was going to turn gray and saggy soon.But before she ages up, Elisabeth went to work and got promoted to Vice President.  She beat out Heather Crosby (who is still listed as her boss).  Elisabeth might actually achieve her LTW before she dies!

And that’s it for this update.   The next update will reveal who will be the next Succubus Heir.  Until then, I need you to vote between Nancy and Martha.

Nancy is Clumsy, Absent Minded, Over Emotional and Flirty.  She has Elisabeth’s black eyes and dark hair.  She doesn’t have any strong talent or skill and doesn’t seem to be interested in mastering any one thing.  She has no love interests.

Martha is Grumpy, Light Sleeper, Perceptive and Flirty.  She has Lilith’s green eyes and her father’s blonde hair.  She is a painter and is good at logic, too.  She has a best friend, Melody Ivanov, but no love interest.

Martha and Nancy aren’t that close as sisters.  They aren’t rivals like Elisabeth and Margaret, though.

I put up a Boolprop poll here. If you want to vote there,  you can.  You can also vote on the poll below.  Heck, you can even vote twice!

Here’s a picture to tide you over:

Boyfriend #10! This is the tatoo artist at the salon. Deric Joiner is his name. I liked his blue, blue eyes.

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Handiness is just not one of the skills that Elisabeth has spent time raising.  But, with Theseus out of the house, she is the only one left who can repair the broken dishwasher.  But after one surge, she calls a repair person.

Sedrick, Elisabeth’s current boyfriend, is not the repair person who comes over anymore, but he is still Elisabeth’s boyfriend.  He’s worthy eye-candy for her never-ending fundraising parties.  This one is in celebration of Erik’s birthday.  Quite a lot of teens were invited to the party as well because Eleanor needs to find a boyfriend.

Trey Salisbury is the kid waving to Elisabeth.  He’s cute.  If he were older, she’d dump Secrick and take him.

Isabel Bagley comes to the party, too.  Erik finds out that she is now going steady with his half-brother, Jason.  This is distressing news.  He has always liked Isabel, but he is best friends with his brother.

  Victoria arrives at the party pregnant!  Yay for Story Progression!  She’s the first non-legacy spare to have a baby.  She ends up with a girl named Nora.

Margaret set up her treat stand at the party, too.  Sally Succubus, Perseus’ wife, has never been pregnant.  I was really hoping she and Perseus would have had kids.  I always liked the look of her.

As one might suspect, Trey catches Eleanor’s eye right away.  He is very cute, no? 

She ignores the other teen gentlemen that Elisabeth had invited.  The blonde here is named Osvaldo and the dark haired guy is Nate.  Osvaldo has interesting looks.  I wonder if they’d breed true with red skin?  Maybe later in the legacy…

  Hillary abandons her muffins to become friends with Laurel Grisby’s son with Chris Newbie.  He doesn’t seem to be afflicted with the Grisby ears or nose.

She also befriends the daughter of Dallas Shallow (one of Elisabeth’s old boyfriends).  It’s good to see that the Shallow need for money hasn’t escaped her.  I can’t remember who her mother is.

  Erik grows up very well.  His LTW is to be an astronaut, but in order to move out of the house, he needs to max out his painting skill.  He’ll be an artistic military man.

At the party, Elisabeth encounters the same surfer dude as was seen in the last update.  She flirts with him which irritates everyone at the party—especially Sedrick.

Margaret isn’t the least irritated, though.  I catch her in some evil plotting and laughing at Elisabeth’s expense.

  Another of the teens at the party sticks around for a game of chess with Erik.  His name is Chadwick Smothers.  He is slightly reminiscent of the the Creeper Legacy founder, Chad, so I decide that I will see if Eleanor takes a fancy to him.

I’m actually quite thankful that Erik hasn’t mastered a skill yet.  That means he’s still around to help the toddlers skill up.  I think I might even keep him around always…even if he is adventurous and wants to travel all the time.  Succubae don’t get to leave Riverview.  It’s part of the Curse.  (Also traveling glitches the game something awful!)

He’s really good with the kids.

Hillary takes her bake sale out around the town.  She does fairly brisk business around the grocery store.  Betty Simovitch who’s sitting on the bench, almost buys from her but then says she’s on a diet. 

  Showers give Elisabeth a lot less fuss than dishwashers and she earns the Plumber side-reward.

  Most of the family is away from home when it’s Hillary’s birthday.  As is usual, she celebrates alone.  The only one with a relationship with her in this family is Erik.

Doesn’t she look like a pretty version of Harold?  I actually kind of like her looks.  I didn’t get to pick her trait again…she got excitable.  This is added to perceptive, friendly, and clumsy.  I think I might upload her to the exchange and the put her in my other legacy just for fun.  Wouldn’t she make a good Kendrick?

Elisabeth does end of going back to work and leaves the children in the care of a babysitter all day.  He isn’t a bad one.  He doesn’t spend all of his time playing Gnubb like Debbie Scuggs did.  His name was Lenny, I think—or maybe I’m just channeling Laverne and Shirley because of the hair.

On her first day back to work Elisabeth gets promoted to Mayor!  She arrives home in style.  I just don’t understand why she isn’t more elated.  This is her LTW, after all.  “I’m 3 days from becoming an Elder.  Mayor is only level 6 of the political career.  I have so far to go!” 

Hillary and Eleanor start to make a relationship with each other now that they are in high school together.  It’s actually kind of cute. 

In order to get promoted even more quickly, Elisabeth throws a fundraising party for Nancy and Martha’s birthday.  She hits up Sedrick for a donation right out of the gate.

After she gets her money, she mocks him for being a vegetarian.

Then she dumps him.  The dumping wouldn’t have felt so good without the mocking first.  This gives Elisabeth quite the happiness boost.  She is aiming to be an Evil Dictator.

I haven’t forgotten Jason Succubus, the long abandoned and hated child Elisabeth had with Don Lothario.  He aged up around the same time as Erik.  As usual he’s a little worried about being at Erik’s house.

  And he has good reason.  Elisabeth never wastes the opportunity to mock him or insult him. 

This time, though, his brother sticks up for him.  Erik actually retaliated on Jason’s behalf and accused his mother of being Evil.  Oh where is Margaret when she needs to see Elisabeth get some just deserts!!

Meanwhile Hillary talks to Cole Grisby who also had become a teen.  Unfortunately he doesn’t like Hillary as anything more than a friend.  Instead he asks her all about Eleanor.  Poor Hillary is destined to be the Jan to Eleanor’s Marcia, I think.

But Cole doesn’t stand a chance, really, unless Eleanor becomes the heir.  Chadwick is at the party and he’s the one Eleanor likes.  She roles a want to kiss him right away.  Right after she learns he’s mean-spirited—I guess she’s one of those girls who thrives off her boy friend picking on her—or maybe it’s just that she’s evil and gets turned on watching him be mean to other people.  Who knows.  But Chadwick will be Eleanor’s!

Even though this was a fundraising venture, it was also the party for Nancy and Martha.  Everyone cheered for them, including Jason, who for some reason changed into his swimsuit.

Martha gained the perceptive trait like Hillary.  It’s added to Grumpy and Light Sleeper.  She’s quite and interesting little Sim.

Nancy isn’t as cute as Martha, in my opinion.  She is clumsy, absent minded, and over emotional.  She forgets what she’s doing, trips over her feet, and then cries about it.  She’s funny to watch!

  After the girls aged up, Elisabeth mastered painting.  Yay!  A point for her!

  She also decided to throw her next campaign party at the Juice Bar in town.  She grilled hotdogs and hamburgers for her guests.  Margaret was the first to arrive.  I am not sure why Margaret always shows up.  Elisabeth didn’t invite her.  She only invited men because she’s on the prowl again.

The man in her sights is Jovan Masters.  I think he looks like a Ken doll.  Anyway, he’s been single ever since she first met him…maybe no one likes his plastic doll face, or maybe his lower parts look like Ken, too.  But anyway, she likes him.  “I know I’m the town Bike, but I was hoping that we could hook up.”

Meanwhile, as Elisabeth was proposing that Jovan go steady with her, Eleanor was locking lips with Chadwick in front of the community pool.  Neither man nor boy was immune to the Succubae flirting, and the boy readily agreed to go steady.

  Before the party was over, though, Elisabeth did have to get one good jibe in on her son Jason, who, like Margaret, wasn’t invited and came anyway.  Jason isn’t a bad looking Sim.  Too bad he is both a loser and totally insane…as any guy would be if he had Elisabeth for a mother who abandoned him to be raised by his father, Don Lothario.

The limo ride seems to have only been a perk for that one promotion.  As Mayor, Elisabeth is still picked up and dropped off by the company car service.  She desperately wants the limo back.

  After school grumpy Martha goes over to the Ivanov house where her uncle Theseus lives with his boyfriend Dmitri.  They also live with Tatiana, Dmitri’s sister and her family.  This is Melodie Ivanov, who is Martha’s friend.

Meanwhile Nancy has taken over the baked goods business from Hillary.  She lowered the prices absent-mindedly and now is making a lot more money than her sister.

At home again, Martha takes to painting.  It was the skill she rolled the want to learn after she aged up.  This is a good thing because Erik is the only painter and he won’t be around forever.

Nancy rolled the want to learn writing, which I indulged, but since writing garners no fun, I have her learning handiness on the blocks as well as cooking at the little stove.

  Elisabeth invited Ken…I mean Jovan over for some fun.  He didn’t stick around at the fundraiser long enough to get an invite, so she had to invite him to spend the night after work the next day.

  After some sheet-bouncing fun, Elisabeth gets up early enough to make pancakes the next morning.  I have no idea why Eleanor and Martha wouldn’t sit at the table.  Nancy elected to bake muffins instead of eating her mother’s cooking.  Erik had the day off, so he was reading a book for work.

Since it is his day off, Erik does agree to do the dishes, but the dishwasher is broken yet again!  He needs to learn handiness for work anyway, so  I set him to fixing it.  This is what happened.

And it got worse and worse as the dishwasher also caught on fire!

Erik fell to the ground and Jovan rushed in to try and save him…isn’t that sweet?  I bet he didn’t know that was part of the whole Succubus boyfriend gig.

  Unfortunately Jovan was only able to put out the fire.  He hadn’t saved Erik at all.  The Camo-Grim-Reaper came up through the floor and took Erik away.

   No one was around to care about Erik’s passing except Jovan and the man-maid.  What an ignominious ending.  I ALMOST went back to my saved game just so that I could keep Erik…he was turning into such nice eye-candy! 

Let’s just hope that Jovan and Elisabeth were careful.  Erik isn’t around to take care of any spawn from their union.  Erik’s remains were put on Elisabeth’s dresser.  I haven’t let any other ghost but Lilith’s stay on the lot before this.  Maybe I will have Eleanor resurrect him if she gets the opportunity.

Points this chapter:

+1 Elisabeth masters painting.

Note that Elisabeth is also on boyfriend #9.  Only one more to go!

Erik took over care of his younger sisters from his uncle Theseus so that Theseus could concentrate on earning a point and moving out before he became an elder.  “Listen Hillary, I don’t want to do the gardening.  Hurry up and grow up so that you can take that chore.”

Meanwhile, Eleanor was getting ready to become a teen and then she could help with the household upkeep.  Her “friend” Amie had aged up before her and this made her annoyed.  However, Amie got the Insane trait and this made Eleanor quite happy.

Eleanor’s party was also a campaign fundraiser.  Elisabeth uses her maternity leave to earn funds.  There is no such thing as a plain party at the Succubus house anymore.  From now until Elisabeth is leader of the free world, all parties must be fund raisers.

Eleanor ages up very prettily (after some Mirror and Dresser help from Twallan’s mod).

Erik doesn’t have such great luck at the party.  He has wanted to kiss Isabel Bagley for the longest time, but they are just friends.  She seems to get and break up with boyfriends as often as Erik’s mother.  Whenever she’s between boyfriends, though, something always comes up like breaking the bathroom sink right in front of her.  How embarrassing!

Now that Margaret has moved out, Elisabeth does not hide her true feelings from her.  After calling Margaret a llama’s backside, she declares Margaret her nemesis.  This amuses Margaret who has all kinds of Evil planned for Elisabeth as soon as she becomes Empress of Evil.

While Theseus is skilling up, Erik discovers why his mom is paying him for childcare.  Hillary is always upset about something.  Erik was just trying to work out in peace when she started to scream.

Finally calming the squalling child down, Erik needs some fun time and joins Eleanor on the couch for some video games.  “You know,  you aren’t heiress yet.  You might think of helping out around the house.”

“If you beat me at Madden, I’ll make all the meals for a week.”

“You’re on!”

Eleanor lost.  At least her cooking is half decent.

Free time was sorely needed by all of the Succubae…except Elisabeth, but she got a spa day anyway.  “I’m the head of the household.  I get whatever I want.”

Right.

Eleanor headed up to Lost Willow Park for some fishing.  She loves being in the outdoor setting.

Erik accompanied her, but he had also invited Isabel.  They had a nice, friendly chat.  Unfortunately she was on again with her boyfriend Daniel.

No one was home when Hillary became a child.  Looks like she got Harold’s flat face and pudge.

After and outfit change, Hillary amuses herself at the block table.  She is used to being alone.  But, her wish is to have a best friend.

Later that same day, Theseus was forced to accompany Elisabeth to the hospital.  As a doctor, he couldn’t let her drive there by herself even if it was taking him away from his favorite program on Got Garden.

They finally returned home and Theseus was a little worried about ever reaching mastery on his skills.  Elisabeth had twins.  Red twins.  Red GIRL twins.

Eleanor was fishing in the pond out back.  “I feel a disturbance in my Legacy.”  The two new contenders for heiress were named Nancy and Martha.  Nancy was Clumsy and Absent Minded and Martha was Grumpy and a Light Sleeper.

Lilith was out that night.  She was the only one paying any attention to Hillary.  “So, you’re a ghost.  And you’re my grandmother?  I have to be dreaming.”

You’re very perceptive Hillary.  What gave it away that she was a ghost?

For an evil Sim whose Legacy is threatened, Eleanor is really very good with the twins.  She autonomously plays with them.  Margaret would have smothered them in their cribs.  So would Elisabeth.

Hillary searches outside of her family for friendship.  Marie Lobos invited her over to hang out after school.  Hillary enjoys this immensely.

Elisabeth invited the twins’ father, Marco, over to meet them.  He didn’t go to the hospital with her because he was working.  Marco had also aged up to an elder.  “Hmmm, I wonder if I should keep him around until he dies?”

Don’t do it Elisabeth.  Remember Norman Joy?  He REFUSED to die.  Elisabeth only has 3 more boyfriends left to get.

Theseus engages Marco in a chess match.  Logic is required for his job.  He has 8 points.

He also gardens after he gets off of work…even if he’s tired.  He has 9 points in gardening.

Before anyone knows it, it’s time for the twins’ birthday.  Elisabeth had kept Marco to witness their small party.

Aren’t they cute?  The problem with them is that they always seem to want the same things.  Nancy is the brunette and Martha is the blond.

When Nancy has a toy, Martha gets upset (she is the grumpy one).Poor Theseus.  Now that there is toddler skilling to do, his own skilling gets put on the back burner.

Elisabeth is still on maternity leave, so she keeps throwing political parties.  She invites Perseus over.  He and Sally recently moved out of the fancy mansion next door and into a shack across town.  Who knows why they downgraded so severely.  They were worth tons of Simoleons, so it’s not like they needed to save.  Sally’s a doctor, too, and Perseus is employed as a Sous Chef.

The party afforded Elisabeth another opportunity to make fun of Margaret who didn’t react with amusement this time.

And she got to insult Marco and accuse him of being mean.  He didn’t take these attacks well at all.  He counter attacked calling Elisabeth an Evil bitch.  It was just what she was hoping would happen.

“If I’m such an Evil bitch, then we’re through.  Over!  Get out of my house!”

And with Marco out of the picture, she immediately started looking for boyfriend number 8.  This surfer man named Collin was playing computer games in Theseus and Erik’s room.  He looked good in his swim trunks.  He had a great sense of humor, so he and Elisabeth spent a few minutes gossiping and making jokes about Marco.

Hillary made good use of Elisabeth’s party as well.  She set up a treat stand and charged $5 for muffins.

Her uncle Donovan was her first customer followed by an old guy who hadn’t been invited to the party.

Theseus got called into work while the party was in session.  They sent him to the cemetery of all places to do vaccinations for a few hours.   Dallas Shallow was his first patient.

Aren’t Martha and Nancy cute?  They play together a lot.  Martha frequently forgets what she’s doing, though, and wanders off.

Elisabeth is on the prowl again, so when things start breaking she calls in the repairman.  Unfortunately, sometimes it is a repair woman.

But then Elisabeth gets lucky and it’s a repairman.  Sedrick Conner is single, huzzah!

He feels like hanging out when Elisabeth asks him despite the noise of her youngest children.

Erik has the toddlers covered, though, so Elisabeth is free to work on boyfriend #8.

Doesn’t take long.  And you know what they say about a man who knows how to use his tools…Elisabeth is very happy with this boyfriend.

If she only knew that he broke the bathroom sink…and didn’t fix it.  But Erik came along afterwards and did it, so Elisabeth never found out.

And it looks like Hillary has found a friend.  His name is Harvy Dean.  He thinks her red-skinned brother is a little weird.  Why does everyone in her family have red skin except her?

Sedrick hangs out at the house for quite some time.  He and Elisabeth really enjoy bouncing around together…

And while Elisabeth is occupied with Sedrick and Erik has the toddlers, Theseus FINALLY earns his last gardening point.  “What was that music I just heard…I suddenly feel like a burden has lifted from my shoulders!”

Soon after Theseus earned his point, Elisabeth earned a point for charisma while she was flirting with Sedrick.

Unfortunately there isn’t enough money in the family coffers for Theseus to move out on his own and he needs to wait until Dmitri is off work in order to move in with him.  Therefore he and Erik teach the twins their skills.

Hillary continues to sell baked goods to random passers-by.

And Eleanor goes on her first date.  She asks Delvin Monroe to go to Lost Willow park with her.But it doesn’t go well.  They find out that they are incompatible because he’s good and she’s evil.  “But I’m not that Evil.  Have you met my mother or my aunt Margaret?”

He runs off and she spends the day fishing in the park by herself.

Finally Theseus takes a jog over to Dmitri’s house.  “I am ready to move in together.”

Dmitri’s mom, Nadine Ivanov, might have objected to one of Elisabeth’s siblings moving in (since Elisabeth stole her husband Yuri) but Dmitri didn’t ask her.  Theseus looked around and noted how small the place was, but at least there were no children in it.  He moved in without a second thought.

Despite having just lost her mother, Elisabeth had not given up her political aspirations.   In fact, she is more determined than ever to reach her LTW of being the leader of the free world.

Because Cassandra has gone, no one but Theseus takes care of Hillary.  Cassandra hasn’t lifted a finger to care for this little Sim.

And though she has the wish to become best friends with Eleanor, Elisabeth hasn’t spoken to her since she became a child.  Eleanor spends a lot of time alone or with her brother, Erik.

As for the Curse, Lilith’s spirit finally visited and Elisabeth was able to talk to her about Cassandra’s death.  In point of fact, Cassie did fulfill her generation’s 10 Sim requirement.  She had 11 boyfriends in total actually, but one of them had been a boyfriend of Helen’s, too, so he didn’t count.

With the exception of Elisabeth and Margaret who rarely grieved, Eleanor and the other Succubae were constantly thinking of Cassandra.

Eleanor cursed the heavens for taking her grandma away, but she probably should have been cursing Hell.  Cassandra’s death sparked the desire to be Emperor of Evil…but I wouldn’t allow her to pick that LTW.

This didn’t stop Eleanor from plotting.  Her green eyes, so reminiscent of Lilith’s, almost glowed.

Maternity leave or not, Elisabeth refused to pay attention to little Hillary, so she made sure to call in a babysitter every day.  Debra Scruggs was the girl’s unfortunate name.  Debra was a decent babysitter, but she did spend a lot of time at the Gnubb game when Hillary was in her crib.

With the babysitter always around, you’d think that Erik would have been making the moves on her, but instead he always brought home Isabel Bagley.  They played catch, did their homework, played Gnubb.

Margaret, realizing that the curse continued, redoubled her efforts to earn a point so she could move out.  While exercising she and Elisabeth bonded.

“I hate you like the fires of Hell!  I should have been the heir!”

“STFU Margaret.  Besides, why aren’t you skilling up logic if you hate it hear so much?”

“Die a fiery death, Elisabeth.”

Erik wasn’t the only one who brought friends home from school.  Amie Lobos was often invited by Eleanor.  Amie thought they were best friends.   Eleanor may have thought otherwise, but was too busy plotting to let Amie in on her mastermind plans.

Maternity leave was good for one thing besides throwing political parties.  Elisabeth used it to cozy up to the help.  Hunter, the man-maid, had lost his elder wife.  He was now free game for Elisabeth.  However, the new repairman, Timmothy Coldwell, was also free game and might be easier pray.

Without Cassandra there to cook, Elisabeth was forced to learn.  Her recipes often ended in disaster.

One of Elisabeth’s perverse pleasures was forcing people to eat her horrifying concoctions.  “I bet you don’t have such awesome food at your house, Amie.”

Amie is too nice to tell Eleanor how vile her mother’s cooking is.

Hillary’s toddler birthday is attended by only one person, Debra.  Theseus was working at the hospital and no one else seemed to care about her age transition.  Hell, even I almost missed it.

Soon afterwards Eleanor realized that Hillary was out of her crib and decided to get acquainted with her sister.  “All the candies belong to me!”

Erik actually started helping out with the toddler by putting her to bed while Theseus was at work, but he didn’t sleep in the same room as her, so he missed her cries to get out.  Poor Hillary.  Unless Theseus was home, she was often in a state of yellow or orange Plumbob.

Before returning to work, Elisabeth decided to throw one last political fundraiser/ manhunt.  There were quite a few possible men to choose from there (and Harold…).

To keep Harold occupied so he wouldn’t cause a scene, Elisabeth sicced her Aunt Penelope on him.  Penelope was loonier than ever and kept him totally unaware of Elisabeth’s search for a new man.

Several interviews with the eligible singles present, Elisabeth settled for this man, Marco Oswald.  She liked his skull shirt and fashionably long hair.

He was also easy to snag.  By the end of the party they were going steady.

Of course the next day Elisabeth returned to work.  But first she had to stop and talk to the mailman.  He looked interesting.  Future boyfriend material maybe.

Elisabeth found out his name was Jason Marland and that he was family oriented, never nude, and had commitment issues before her ride laid on the horn that forced Elisabeth to say goodbye.

Poor Theseus.  He will never earn a point for the legacy.  He’s at 8 for logic and for gardening.  He just doesn’t have time to skill up between working at the hospital and taking care of Hillary.  I think he might be resenting her.

Hillary, when she wasn’t demanding attention, was actually quite adorable.  She spent a lot of time at the Xylophone learning early musical skills.  Who knows, she might be a prodigy.

Eleanor decided on fishing as a hobby.  She loved being outdoors, so fishing will be her skill to earn a point with.  She might or might not be the heir.

After work, Elisabeth invited Marco home for a meal and some woohoo.  She didn’t burn the spaghetti this time.  Marco was quite the gentleman and talked to both of Elisabeth’s children trying to make a good impression.

“Thanks for inviting me over.  I hope you don’t mind that I’m in your house.”

He didn’t hear Eleanor whisper under her breath, “Don’t worry, you’ll be gone soon enough.”

Margaret, Margaret, Margaret.  She plots all the time.  She’s thinking, “I’m going to move out, get rich, become the Empress of Evil, and make my own Damned legacy!”

You do that Margaret.

And so Margaret mastered logic.  She took a minute to admire her certificate.

Then she moved into this modest house all the way across town.  “Don’t worry.  I’ll move up in the Organization soon and then I’ll have a real house.”

After Margaret moved out, Theseus confronted Elisabeth about his own situation.  She was in the bathroom vomiting…it was the only time he could get her alone.

“You have responsibilities, Elisabeth.  I shouldn’t have to take care of your children.  I want to move in with Dmitri.  Maybe we will adopt someday.”

BLARGGARGGGAFFF!

Once she was done she told him to focus on his skills and then he could move in with Perseus for all she cared.

Then she offered Erik money to help take care of his sisters.

And since Erik wasn’t a fool, he took the deal.  Theseus would now be free to read chess books, challenge ranked opponents or search the galaxy for stars.  Or, he could garden in his pajamas everyday and watch Got Garden.  Either way, he could earn his point and go.

Elisabeth didn’t worry about Hillary or Eleanor with Erik to take care of them.  Erik could take care of the next baby, too.  Or, if worse comes to worse, she could hire that Scruggs girl.

Isn’t it nice to be a mother…if someone else is there to take care of the kids?

Elisabeth no longer has the desire to see her mom perish in a fiery inferno, but whenever Cassandra starts messing with the fireplace I get a little worried.  I got the message about Hunter getting old the other day, but he has yet to die.  Cassie may have fulfilled her 10 boyfriend requirement, but I’d like to see Hunter go before she does.

Elisabeth is not letting a little thing like maternity leave stop her from ruling the world.  She’s using her time off to throw huge fund-raising parties.

Her siblings are her primary supporters.  Every time I see Victoria in her formal wear, I think she’s pregnant, but then I remembered that she had been wearing a CC formal dress, so this is the default—all my CC is gone with the exception of Twallan’s mods.  No story progression babies have happened for any Succubus loosed on Riverview.

Don Lothario donates quite a bit to the campaign especially when Elisabeth starts talking about babies.  He doesn’t want anything to do with that.  Been there, done that.  Thanks for all the diapers.

Harold takes his impending fatherhood quite well.

He’s so full of love for his pregnant girlfriend that she hits him up for a donation and he gives her nearly 10k!

The only guest at the party who is not welcomed by Elisabeth is poor Jason.  She orders him out of the house.  Poor kid was invited over by Erik and had no idea a party was going on.

That night Cassandra confronted Elisabeth about the new baby.  “Trying for another girl?”

“Might as well.  Every heiress should have a threat to her throne.”

“Like Margaret was any match for you…”

“True, that.”

Speaking of Margaret, she’s level 9 at logic, but it was time for her birthday.  The pudgy belly on the left is Harold.  Sheila is excitedly hoping her best friend gets her birthday wish…beauty.

And young Eleanor also faces the cake.  She is too sweetly evil to have any wishes.

Finally, it’s Erik’s turn to blow out the candles.  By the time he does, most people have already left the party.  Sally and Perseus are too bored with each other to leave.  They hang out until the last piece of cake is eaten.

So, did any of the birthday Sims get their wishes?

Not Margaret.  She resorts to pseudo-seventies slut wear to cover her hideousness.  Not even a Veronica Lake hair-do can make her face lovely.  It’s the chin.  Melvin had a humongous chin.  Margaret got neat as her last trait, hence the pristine white clothing which she will keep as clean as Megan Fox’s costume in Transformers 2 (did anyone else notice that even after all the explosions and fighting Megan never got her t-shirt dirty?)

RAWR!!!!  Isn’t Eleanor precious?  She scares her uncle Theseus in the most logical way.  “I want to learn chess!  I must learn how to strategize and plot more logical evil plans.”  I don’t know why she wished for logic as her first learned skill because she got loves outdoors as her child trait.

Erik got clumsy as his teen trait.  His clothes show of his adventurous side, but who knows if he’ll ever go on any adventures.

This party isn’t going as well as it could be for Elisabeth.  In one of her pregnant moods, she accosts Harold and accused him of tampering with her political mastermind plot.  In the background Don Lothario feels bad for not warning Harold to get out while he could.

Harold tries to calm Elisabeth down with a romantic hug but she’ll have none of that.  “Don’t put your sweaty hands on me.  Get that face caterpillar away from me.”

It must be hormones making her so grumpy.  Right.

After the party Margaret works out in her new purple work-out gear she got at Sluts R Us.  Erik works out, too, but he’s mildly creeped out at how attractive he finds his aunt’s posterior.  “It’s so round and purple like two grapes…”

Erik is adventurous, but he shouldn’t be that adventurous.  This is a good time to be channeling clumsy.

After the party Elisabeth went to lay down for a nap.  She was still feeling out of sorts.  Then she felt the pains and realized why she was so moody that day.  “I hate this part!”

After a trip to the hospital, Elisabeth was tired and still grumpy.  “It’s a girl.”  Having girls is good for the Succubus Legacy because it can only be passed down to a girl.  “It’s not a red girl.”  Bummer.

This non-red daughter got the name Hillary.  We’re on a 1st Lady themed naming kick this generation.  Hillary was preferable to Nancy or Barbara for this melanin challenged pod.

While Elisabeth was laboring to bring Hillary into the world, Eleanor’s scare tactics worked on Theseus who consented to teach her chess.

Eleanor learns quickly and abandons the game early.  Margaret, who finished her workout (not a drop of sweat on her) sat down in Eleanor’s place.  She and Theseus both need to work on their logic in order to move out.  Margaret refuses to change out of her workout clothes, but Theseus insists on changing into regular clothes instead of playing in his swim trunks.

Upon arriving home, Elisabeth immediately accused Harold of genetically spoiling her plan to provide Eleanor with a rival for heiress.  She called him all sorts of insulting names.  “This is all your fault, Harold!”

The one-sided argument (because she wouldn’t let Harold defend himself) ended in Elisabeth kicking Harold out and breaking up with him.

However, it would not be easy to dump Hillary on his doorstep.  Cassandra had found the girl in her crib and immediately picked her up for a snuggle.  In addition, Lilith’s spirit had already seen the child and was sleeping in Cassandra’s bed.

Margaret didn’t have time to feel bad for poor Hillary who would be doomed to the same fate as she is.  The day after her birthday she broke the shower.

She didn’t have time to fix the shower or clean up the mess before running off to work at the warehouse.  She was determined to rise to Empress of Evil as fast as possible.  To that end she had to practice illicit activities the whole time instead of making nice with her co-workers.  She had only 2 athletic points.

It’s hard for me to decide what to focus on with Theseus.  He’s even in points on logic, gardening and fishing—each with 7.  Since he had a day off, I decided to have him spend it watching Got Garden in his pajamas.  This may be foolish, but he’s the only one besides Cassandra who knows how to garden.

Elisabeth acted like she had never given birth or broken up with Harold.  She wasted no time in approaching Hunter, the man-maid, for a quick flirt.  Unfortunately he didn’t appreciate her attentions.  He had a wife and was good friends with Harold.

Since she got no where with Hunter, Elisabeth decided to throw another campaign party since the last one was so successful.  Hillary’s needs never once entered her mind.

Erik made sure that Jason showed up for the party.  Jason had become a loser as a teen, but Erik still liked him.  Jason knows that Elisabeth doesn’t like him so he’s a little worried about going out and joining the rest of the guests.  “She told me never to come here…”

“Don’t worry about it, Jas.  Just come on back and grab a plate of Autumn Salad.”

Elisabeth probably wouldn’t have noticed Jason at all.  She had coaxed her mother and Hunter Cottoneye and a few teenaged girls to join her around the camp fire.  “I may not have a moodlet for Mom’s fiery death, but a girl can still hope, right?”

Erik finally got Jason to come outside when his half-brother said, “Do you get the feeling someone has died?”  Erik’s reply was, “Huh?”
Moments earlier THIS happened!  So Jason wasn’t just acting Insane.

It’s not a fiery death, but Cassandra Succubus was no more.

Victoria was extremely upset at her mother’s demise.  Eleanor looks more startled than upset.

Erik ran off to investigate the disturbance at the fire pit but most of the guests and some of the family continued to party it up.  Margaret was busy eating and Theseus was flirting with Dmitri.  “I see the reaper.  I’ll go mourn for Mom when I finish this food.”

What a considerate daughter.

Elisabeth had to go to the bathroom once Cassandra died to practice her mourning face.  She wanted to make sure this death benefited her political aspirations in the best way.

However when she finally got out to the yard again, Cassandra’s spirit and the Grim Reaper had vanished and Elisabeth found herself unable to echo the grief of her sister and daughter who both had better friendship levels with Cassandra.

Even Jason was best friends with Cassandra.  She was the only Succubus who actually was nice to him besides Erik.  Sally was very emotional and some emo-girl just looked at the grave dispassionately.

Once she finished her food, Margaret finally investigated the goings on by the fire pit.  <<Evil Cackle>> “She’s dead!  Ha ha!  The Legacy is over!  Yes!  If I had been the heir this wouldn’t have happened!  HA HA HA!”

Then Margaret proceeded to console Eleanor.  “Don’t worry sweetie, I know you thought you’d take over the legacy, but it’s over.  I’m sure that Story Progression will treat you well.”

Eleanor thinks that Margaret must have a hidden insanity trait.

While Margaret is making nice with her niece, Elisabeth finally spots Jason, her uninvited party guest.  “Maybe if you weren’t such a loser, Cassandra wouldn’t have died.”

Nice.  She makes him feel even worse about his grandmother’s death.

After Jason runs off, Elisabeth makes a round of her guests to make sure that despite this incident with her mother, the party is still epic and garners massive political donations.  This includes consoling Victoria and ignoring Hunter Cotteneye who doesn’t seem all that broken up about Cassandra being gone since he’s dancing with Sheila Grisby.

Finally, all the guests leave and the party was as Epic as Elisabeth had hoped it would be.  She hadn’t found a new romantic interest, but that didn’t really matter.

Once alone, she goes to her mother’s room and lets her real feelings show.  “Grandma Lilith.  What am I going to do?  Did we fail in our obligation?  Are you cursed to be here forever?  This is all my fault.”

Unfortunately Lilith’s ghost did not appear that night and Elisabeth was left with all of her questions unanswered.

For some reason this burglar keeps trying to rob the Succubus home.  She doesn’t succeed, but it’s fun to watch her try.

The attempted robbery woke everyone up.  Margaret seems to be the most affected by the actual crime.  The others are just annoyed at the noisy alarm.  Hunter Cottoneye was spending the night with Cassandra.  Every time he does, something disturbs his sleep.

Now that she was back at work, Elisabeth got promoted and was asked to throw a campaign party, which she did.  Yuri came and entertained everyone with a nice Russian dance.

He also played chess with Margaret with Hunter watching creepily behind them.

Elisabeth ignored Yuri.  She also ignored Don Lothario, who showed up at the party as well.  Instead Elisabeth spent time with Harold Lanning, the formerly married Harold whose wife had just died.

Harold had once been a man-maid, so he was talking to the current man-maid about his dead wife when Elisabeth butted in and consoled him for his loss.

Didn’t take much to console him.  But he wasn’t willing to take things too far.  His loss was too recent to start another relationship so soon.

Harold left the party early.  Maybe he was uncomfortable with Elisabeth’s advances.  Don Lothario left around the same time.  Don thought hard about warning Harold, but he didn’t.

Meanwhile Margaret chatted up the guests, telling everyone she saw about the break-in.  She seemed obsessed with the event.

In other Succubus news, Perseus and Sally Succubus were having marriage problems.  Sally was bored with her husband.  Something would have to change.

Before the party, Elisabeth had suffered a rare bout of motherliness and taught her son Erik how to walk.  Since Cassandra had made sure he had learned his other skills, Elisabeth decided to let him age up at the campaign party.  Two birds with one stone and all of that.

Super excited birthday shot.  Elisabeth is just glad that she only has one toddler in the house now.

Poor Erik gained the absent minded trait.  I sent him to the dresser to plan better outfits and he promptly forgot what he was doing.  Love this face!

Theseus’ LTW is to have the perfect aquarium.  To help him along, and to raise his fishing skill, I built him a small pond.  He has gardening, logic, and fishing all at about the same level.  I need to focus on one of them to boot him out of the house.

With Erik, like with Margaret, I’m not going to spread his skill points around.  He’s not an heir, so he will just focus on painting.  Maybe he’ll max it out before he ages up to an adult.

Have I mentioned how much I heart Eleanor?  She’s so adorable!  Look how she hugs her evil rocket of death toy!   She’s probably going to take over the world much easier than Elisabeth.

Oh, and I probably should mention that Theseus joined the medical profession.  Sally works there, too.  Cassandra rolled the desire for Theseus to become a doctor, and since her wishes are more important than his, I made him do it.

I still haven’t received the message that Hunter Cottoneye is going to die soon.  It’s very vexing.  Meanwhile, Cassandra just loves him to pieces.  She’s completely forgotten both Norman and Henry.  Elisabeth, on the other hand, doesn’t care for the crazy old coot.  Seeing him and her mother being all lovey-dovey makes her want to throw up.

Oh lord.  Legwarmers are so out!  Still, Margaret has decided to become the Empress of Evil, so she needs to get some athletics for her future in the criminal field.

“Someday I’m going to come back to this house and trash it.  When I’m Empress of Evil nothing will stand in my way!”

“STFU Margaret.  I’m the heiress and there’s nothing you can do about.  Besides, I’ll have taken over the world long before you become ‘Empress of Evil’ or whatever.”

Aw, sisterly love!

Later…Erik is bringing home a friend.  What’s his name?  Why are his piercing green eyes so familiar?  Well, his name is Jason (after Jason and the Argonauts, if you remember way back when.)  Jason lives with his dad, Don Lothario.

Dum da dum!

Yep, Jason is the long-abandoned first son.

The first room that Erik shows his half-brother is Elisabeth’s.  She doesn’t even notice at first.

When she does notice the boy, she isn’t happy.

Jason has heard of her political aspirations and after his not-so-warm welcome, he makes sure that Elisabeth knows that he can ruin her career.

And no amount of money will change his mind!

Secretly, in her heart of hearts, Elisabeth is proud of the boy.  He may not be evil, but in his eyes she can see insanity.  Maybe she should have kept him.  Maybe.

Jason and Erik spent the afternoon bouncing on the trampoline.  Elisabeth ignored both of them after that.  “You’re so lucky you get to live in this nice house.  My dad has a barn for a house.  I live in the attic because he’s always bringing in lots of ladies.  They think I’m weird.”

“Must be nice to have a dad.  My dad lives somewhere else.  His name is Yuri.  Why do my sister and I have the same dad and you have a different dad?”

“Dunno.”

Erik wasn’t the only person bringing people over to the house.  Margaret started inviting ranked chess players over.  She had beat her last 4 opponents, including Billy Caspian.  She was now rank 3.

And Elisabeth invited Harold over.  She had heard through the evil toxic grape vine that he had started a romance with another woman.  “I thought you told me that it was too soon?”  “Um…”

“It’s not like you’re evil, Harold.  Didn’t you get the hint that I wanted you for a boyfriend Harold?”  “Um…”

“Harold, don’t make me pour nuclear waste on you!”

So Harold thought they could just be friends.  Yeah.  He doesn’t know Elisabeth that well.  When she masterminds a plot to trap a man, that’s exactly what she does.

“You WILL be my boyfriend Harold.  I have decided I want you.”

“Um…”

After this amazing back massage, Elisabeth convinces Harold to meet her in her bedroom.  She will make him forget his stupid new girlfriend Linda Whatshername.

And then….Harold would be HERS! <<Evil Laughter>>

And it works.  Elisabeth snuffed out the memory of Linda Whosit.  Harold broke up with the poor thing and Elisabeth was content.  It was like ripping off a bandaid, only hurt for a minute.

Maybe Harold had an inkling of what was in store for him at breakfast.  Elisabeth ignored him completely, leaving him with this perplexed expression on his face.

Margaret began teaching Erik how to play chess.  “When plotting your moves, you must consider all of the consequences.  Every action has a reaction.  And both must be thought out.”

Yeah, quazi chess talk aside, consequences is the clue you should be getting.

‘Cause Elisabeth didn’t think of the consequences.  “Damn that Harold!  I was just climbing the political ladder!”

“Listen here, baby bump.  I didn’t want you.  You hinder my plans to take over the world.  You better be red and a girl, or it’s Harold you will live with.”

Isn’t she a wonderful mother?

When last we left off, Cassandra Succubus was finally sleeping alone.  Norman Joy, her 8th boyfriend was finally deceased.

Though Cassandra cried over his loss, no one else lost any sleep over Norman. 

Elisabeth (who was pregnant with Yuri Ivanov’s child again…hoping for a girl) slept soundly.  She needed a makeover since I removed all of the custom content I used to use, but since she was preggers, no options were available at the mirror or dresser…must be hormones or something.

One little person wasn’t having such a great night, but probably not because of Norman.  Elisabeth’s son Erik (the Red) was not in his crib.  I think he was put there when I last saved, but the Sim Gods seem to have misplaced the little pod.

Or maybe Erik was out of his crib because it was his birthday…who knows.  It’s been a long time.  Anyway, Erik became a toddler shortly after I came back to the Succubae.

Oh, hey look.  They got a new man-maid.  He’s cute, too.  Elisabeth isn’t noticing him much, though, because Yuri came over.  Yuri’s still hot in a dark-haired Fabio-wannabe type way.

Don’t discount the man-maid.  He weasels his way into a conversation with Elisabeth and Yuri.  Maybe she’ll seduce him next.  His name is Hunter, btw.

Did Margaret get arrested for wearing her purple snakeskin slut clothes to school?  Nope, this is the home of Dominick Succubus and his family, the McDermott’s.  You may not recall but Elisabeth had a sister named Victoria who married Dominick.

Yep, there they are post wedding woohoo.  Victoria also became a cop.  She and Dominick will probably have lots of good looking non-legacy babies together.

Ah Cassie is finally doing her duty.  She had this guy lined up before Norman died.  She was hoping that he wouldn’t keel over before Norman.  His name is Henry McGlum.   He’s snazzy.

#9, Number 9, Num. 9!  Did someone say boyfriend number 9?  Cassandra doesn’t mourn Norman for long.  Henry didn’t even get dinner before he was Cassandra’s boyfriend.

Not that Cassandra didn’t spare Norman a thought.  She cried over Norman even during woohoo.

“You know, Lizzie, I’m going to inherit everything because you will never spawn a girl with red skin.”

“I respect your toxic evil thoughts, but STFU Margaret.  I will SO spawn a red-skinned girl.”

In fact, Elisabeth decided to spawn right after she left the table.  “Gods I hate this part!”

Oooh!  And what do you know.  A red-skinned girl.  This one was named Eleanor after FDR’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.  With Yuri’s genetics, though, I hope she is more attractive than her namesake.

Elisabeth doesn’t look especially pleased, but it isn’t because she knows that now she has to dump Yuri the hunk.  Nope, she’s just hoping that with an heir secured, she can now focus on herself.  “I want to be Leader of the Free World!”  Let the evil plotting begin!

“So Yuri, my lover, I am going to dump you soon.”

“Surely you won’t throw Yuri out like so much trash…”

“Yuri, Yuri, that’s what I do.  This is not some sappy romance blog.  It’s a Succubus blog.  That means you’re toast.  Nothing personal.  Excellent spaghetti.  My favorite.”

Meanwhile Cassandra sleeps with Henry who is dreaming about protesting fish.  Interesting.  He died a few nights later, but not on the family lot.

Cassandra still needed to find a 10th man, but Lilith didn’t worry.  She slept soundly in the spare bed in Margaret’s room.  She knew the legacy would be secure.

With the heiress title firmly hers, Elisabeth concentrated raising her children and getting back to work.  Margaret was disappointed, but she didn’t let it stop her from her LTW of becoming the Emperor of Evil.  She began raising her logic by searching the neighborhood for evil-doings.  (She’s got to earn a point somehow!)

Never really worried about his future, Theseus redoubled his efforts to convert Yuri’s son Dmitri, over to his team.  It finally worked and Dmitri became Theseus’ boyfriend.

Instead of focusing on finding her 10th man, Cassie spent time mourning Henry.  “I didn’t give myself time to grieve over Norman and look where that got me!”

Lilith’s ghost haunted Cassandra about the curse until finally Cassandra snapped.  “Leave me alone!  I will find another one in my own good time.  Go bounce on the trampoline.”

Yep, I bought them a trampoline.  I think it’s one of the neatest things in Ambitions.

Lilith uses it every night.

Maybe Margaret isn’t so good with not becoming heiress.  “If it wasn’t for you, you little pod, I could have had it all!”

“So you get no candy!  Take that!”  Margaret evilly snatches poor Eleanor’s lollipop.  That wasn’t nice at all.  She looks somewhat contrite, though.  Friendly and Evil don’t always mix well.

Alrighty, it was time for a birthday party so that Cassandra and Elisabeth could find more men to date.  (Oh, and Theseus and Eleanor needed to age up, too.)

Margaret is slutty even in her formal wear and look, Victoria seems to be pregnant.

Harold Lansing came to the party.  He was a maid in the beginning of the Kendrick Legacy.  I love him, always did.  If he wasn’t so young, maybe Cassandra would do more than dance with him.

Elisabeth, on the other hand… “So, are you married?”

“I am married to an elder named Henrietta.”

“Hmmm.  I don’t break up marriages, but when the old bag dies, come and see me.”

Harold just looks a little perplexed.

Well, if it isn’t Hunter Cottoneye.  Cassandra wants you.

She gives amazing massages.

And is still spry enough to leap into your arms when you agree to go steady with you.  You’d be insane not to go steady with Cassandra…oh wait, Hunter is insane…well, Cassandra likes him, so he’s number 10!

And if fulfilling Lilith’s curse wasn’t good enough, Theseus became an adult. “I thought this birthday thing would be more focused on me.”

Theseus needs to earn at least one point before he moves out.  I plan to install him over at Perseus’ house.  Perseus’ and his wife Sally (with the braid) have never had kids.  They’re both family oriented, but still no spawns.

Eleanor becomes an adorable toddler.  She sort of gets lost in the press to get a hunk of cake, though.  If she could talk I think she’d be demanding that her mom pick her up and move her back into the house.  But she can’t talk yet.

Oblivious to her granddaughter’s danger of being trampled, Cassandra and Hunter are making out on the couch.  Later they go into the bedroom.  Who knows if they noticed when Eleanor was finally brought back into the room.

They noticed her eventually, though.  Eleanor gets what she wants.

Unfortunately Elisabeth did not get what she wanted at the party.  She found a nice looking single man, but he was a goody-goody.  She’d already been there and done that, so she didn’t feel the need to face that particular challenge again.  Besides, pretty soon she’d be off maternity leave.  The world wouldn’t conquer itself, you know.

Elisabeth didn’t worry about the legacy as much now that Eleanor was born and her mom and finally found her tenth man.  She went to work (still only an intern) determined to rise quickly in the ranks.  No more babies to bog her down.

And that’s where I’ll leave it.  Will Elisabeth remain unattached for long?  Will Hunter Cottoneye die before Cassandra does?  (Elisabeth and Lilith have forgotten that she Cassandra needs to break up with him before she has fulfilled the curse).  Will Theseus earn a point and move on or will I get sick of him and move him out early?  Will Margaret ever be beautiful?  Those questions and more will be answered in the next update.