Lord of Elves
Suede-Denim Secret Police
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God save Queen Victoria!
The Sims 2 | "Nehru" Legacy Challenge (Reader Participation Welcome)
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sophie
Break My Heart
Otto. Gotta keep the line on the XY chromosome.
Lord of Elves
Suede-Denim Secret Police
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Confound your patriarchy, I say. CONFOUND IT!
e350tb
Stupendously Illogical Englishman
Victoria! Pax Britannia! 
We really have a tie? Hmm. I wonder if I could arrange a trial-by-combat...
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
Once the game ends, the family tree is going to look very weird.
sophie
Break My Heart
Dude, you've already voted!
Omega124
Challenging Fate
Victoria.
So did west india man, so it would have evened out had I not noticed both of them. 
I've played the family through a season, though neither of them have gone all the way through college. I may be able to post an update tonight depending on how quickly things go. I've checked this thread three times today, and one of the kids has had a persistent lead, so I'll be giving the nod to...
...
Spoiler :
Nehru Legacy 7.4 -- Fall
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The turning of the generations begins with the greying of the house's current masters: both Renee and Wilhelm are now elders.
While her older brother Otto is off enjoying his first few years of college, young Victoria buckles down and completes her very well-rounded education.
She takes a job as a legal secretary, in part to fulfill the Nehru obligation of civic participation and leadership.
I finally remember to let Renee do some skilling, and -- she comes home intent on cloning dinos!
She'll start small, of course.
A year or so after Otto grows up and moves out, Sinead turns out to be pregnant again and (in the spirit of all pregnant Nehru ladies) sets the kitchen on fire. Fortunately her gifts as a witch give her an extra weapon.
The game will only allow one reaction against the fire, though, so Sinead's spell is cancelled out by the arrival of firemen.
I name the baby after an artist who a friend of mine is really into, though it's also a kind of tribute to Sinead's grandmother, Edele.
Seeing as like my Sims to make their own clothes, Victoria starts improving her sewing skill.
She's also interested in becoming an artisan in other areas, as well.
Meanwhile, at Wilhelm's, Alexandros is curious about something:
How can Wilhelm justify this?!
"Enjoy yourself last time? I can assure you, lightening strikes twice here at Wilhelm's!"
$2000, $5000 -- upwards and upwards!
Getting stars this high up is taking longer than I'd expected, so Wilhelm doesn't stick it out for too much longer today.
The mysteriously-fathered baby is now a toddler!
...more to come.
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The turning of the generations begins with the greying of the house's current masters: both Renee and Wilhelm are now elders.
While her older brother Otto is off enjoying his first few years of college, young Victoria buckles down and completes her very well-rounded education.
She takes a job as a legal secretary, in part to fulfill the Nehru obligation of civic participation and leadership.
I finally remember to let Renee do some skilling, and -- she comes home intent on cloning dinos!
She'll start small, of course.
A year or so after Otto grows up and moves out, Sinead turns out to be pregnant again and (in the spirit of all pregnant Nehru ladies) sets the kitchen on fire. Fortunately her gifts as a witch give her an extra weapon.
The game will only allow one reaction against the fire, though, so Sinead's spell is cancelled out by the arrival of firemen.
I name the baby after an artist who a friend of mine is really into, though it's also a kind of tribute to Sinead's grandmother, Edele.
Seeing as like my Sims to make their own clothes, Victoria starts improving her sewing skill.
She's also interested in becoming an artisan in other areas, as well.
Meanwhile, at Wilhelm's, Alexandros is curious about something:
How can Wilhelm justify this?!
"Enjoy yourself last time? I can assure you, lightening strikes twice here at Wilhelm's!"
$2000, $5000 -- upwards and upwards!
Getting stars this high up is taking longer than I'd expected, so Wilhelm doesn't stick it out for too much longer today.
The mysteriously-fathered baby is now a toddler!
...more to come.
Nehru Legacy 7.4: The Rise and Fall
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Wilhelm's youngest is turning out to be quite the success!
....what in the...
Eh, she's the daughter of a witch. Who knows what madness lies inside?
One day after spending most of the morning working on her toy craftsmanship, Victoria finds herself alone in the house -- but she has to get to school, and she can't leave the baby alone. The solution? ...activate that strange robot-thing which has been sitting in the master bedroom for hundreds of years.
NAME: PERFECTION
MASTER: LADY VICTORIA
MISSION: DESTROY ALL ENEMIES OF LADY VICTORIA.
Just babysit the kid for now, OK?
Expansion is good?
- no? Oh. Hey, wait! You can't fire a NEHRU!
This job is unique for several reasons: Sims only go to work once a week, they're there for almost two days, and they go there in a fashion that no one else would think of.
Sowing the seeds of his enemies' destruction, no doubt.
...and Lindsay is a teen! She's Family, but given the interest in money (and the usefulness of the highest Fortune perk), I'm making her primary fortune and her secondary family.
At college, Otto is increasingly standoffish toward his little sister Victoria, fearing that her magnificence may make his succession more difficult.
She busies herself by continuing to master the arts and crafts.
Inexplicably, Otto begins refusing to eat. At present there are three sims in the college house: Horatio, Otto, and Victoria. I tend to focus on one person at a time and let the others take care of themselves, which they usually DO. Horatio, for instance, always made himself lobster for dinner. Every other sim I've played will cook when they're hungry. But despite knowing how to cook, and despite a full fridge, Otto was really dumb. I had to keep telling him to go do it.
There's a fridge right behind you! I tell him to go over there, TO the fridge, and what does he do? He goes to play computer games or pretend he's a pirate using the bathtub as his ship.
I mostly use the college years as a way of helping Otto and Victoria find friends and potential mates. Unfortunately, I don't encounter a lot of success with ether of them. The only woman Otto finds fetching is a granny, and Victoria finds a score of beaus who are inviting in some respects and not in others. Take Jonah here, for instance: I want his hair and eyes in the gene pool, but am not fond of the pale skin and don't want my Nehrus anywhere NEAR those lips.
This guy has the hair and eyes, but he's sort of a blockhead. I've used him in other neighborhoods and do not remember his kids being particularly fetching.
Whine, whine, whine! I told you to go to the fridge, didn't I? Do I have to make Horatio or Victoria cook food for you and call you to the dinner table? Are you a child, Otto? A little whining BABY? SHUT UP!
Oh, boo hoo.
Let's make it more poetic, shall we? We'll make it a genuine tragedy. Behold the man who starves to death in very sight of the fridge!
...Victoria, come rescue your idiot brother.
Not like he DESERVES it. How dare he disgrace the name of Otto von Bismarck, a man who created Europe's greatest power for a generation through wiliness and sheer audacity?
Wait, what? She LOST? How could she lose? She has a 99/100 relationship with him!
..huh. Well, she doesn't have the death pot to bring him back, and no one in Nehru Hills can bring him back from there, so we'll have to wait until someone else moves to college and takes the death pot with them.
I was going to have him build an identical mansion and start a rival Nehru clan, too. I suppose it's worth pointing out that this is EXACTLY why Sims in the legacy challenge always have an heir and a spare: you never know when disaster will strike.
Oh, well. Life goes on.
I bet you're feeling really proud of yourself now, eh?
See, THIS is how you win college. You don't whine and neglect to eat because you'd rather gripe about the computer not working.
Saddened by the death of one of their own, the Nehru clan must take heart in that it will soon by led by the most charismatic and endlessly talented heir the family has ever seen -- one destined for greatness, who has already set the new standard for heirs and who will surely be a shining light of inspiration to Nehrus throughout the ages.
In any case, Otto lives on: for, as Sinead confessed, her second child Adele was fathered by the young prince Otto within a few weeks of his arrival at college.
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Wilhelm's youngest is turning out to be quite the success!
....what in the...
Eh, she's the daughter of a witch. Who knows what madness lies inside?
One day after spending most of the morning working on her toy craftsmanship, Victoria finds herself alone in the house -- but she has to get to school, and she can't leave the baby alone. The solution? ...activate that strange robot-thing which has been sitting in the master bedroom for hundreds of years.
NAME: PERFECTION
MASTER: LADY VICTORIA
MISSION: DESTROY ALL ENEMIES OF LADY VICTORIA.
Just babysit the kid for now, OK?
Expansion is good?
- no? Oh. Hey, wait! You can't fire a NEHRU!
This job is unique for several reasons: Sims only go to work once a week, they're there for almost two days, and they go there in a fashion that no one else would think of.
Sowing the seeds of his enemies' destruction, no doubt.
...and Lindsay is a teen! She's Family, but given the interest in money (and the usefulness of the highest Fortune perk), I'm making her primary fortune and her secondary family.
At college, Otto is increasingly standoffish toward his little sister Victoria, fearing that her magnificence may make his succession more difficult.
She busies herself by continuing to master the arts and crafts.
Inexplicably, Otto begins refusing to eat. At present there are three sims in the college house: Horatio, Otto, and Victoria. I tend to focus on one person at a time and let the others take care of themselves, which they usually DO. Horatio, for instance, always made himself lobster for dinner. Every other sim I've played will cook when they're hungry. But despite knowing how to cook, and despite a full fridge, Otto was really dumb. I had to keep telling him to go do it.
There's a fridge right behind you! I tell him to go over there, TO the fridge, and what does he do? He goes to play computer games or pretend he's a pirate using the bathtub as his ship.
I mostly use the college years as a way of helping Otto and Victoria find friends and potential mates. Unfortunately, I don't encounter a lot of success with ether of them. The only woman Otto finds fetching is a granny, and Victoria finds a score of beaus who are inviting in some respects and not in others. Take Jonah here, for instance: I want his hair and eyes in the gene pool, but am not fond of the pale skin and don't want my Nehrus anywhere NEAR those lips.
This guy has the hair and eyes, but he's sort of a blockhead. I've used him in other neighborhoods and do not remember his kids being particularly fetching.
Whine, whine, whine! I told you to go to the fridge, didn't I? Do I have to make Horatio or Victoria cook food for you and call you to the dinner table? Are you a child, Otto? A little whining BABY? SHUT UP!
Oh, boo hoo.
Let's make it more poetic, shall we? We'll make it a genuine tragedy. Behold the man who starves to death in very sight of the fridge!
...Victoria, come rescue your idiot brother.
Not like he DESERVES it. How dare he disgrace the name of Otto von Bismarck, a man who created Europe's greatest power for a generation through wiliness and sheer audacity?
Wait, what? She LOST? How could she lose? She has a 99/100 relationship with him!
..huh. Well, she doesn't have the death pot to bring him back, and no one in Nehru Hills can bring him back from there, so we'll have to wait until someone else moves to college and takes the death pot with them.
I was going to have him build an identical mansion and start a rival Nehru clan, too. I suppose it's worth pointing out that this is EXACTLY why Sims in the legacy challenge always have an heir and a spare: you never know when disaster will strike.
Oh, well. Life goes on.
I bet you're feeling really proud of yourself now, eh?
See, THIS is how you win college. You don't whine and neglect to eat because you'd rather gripe about the computer not working.
Saddened by the death of one of their own, the Nehru clan must take heart in that it will soon by led by the most charismatic and endlessly talented heir the family has ever seen -- one destined for greatness, who has already set the new standard for heirs and who will surely be a shining light of inspiration to Nehrus throughout the ages.
In any case, Otto lives on: for, as Sinead confessed, her second child Adele was fathered by the young prince Otto within a few weeks of his arrival at college.
