A Father Leaves...

Soon after Malcolm's 16th birthday, Grandfather Duncan passed away suddenly from a heart attack. The family was heart broken. According to Margaret's diary, Grandmother Trista spent a long time speaking to a person who wasn't there. When she wasn't talking to herself, she was speaking to an old ball she'd had as a child. Margaret encouraged her to put more effort into her beauty salon in order to get through the days without Duncan.

Grandmother Trista did so, and was going to bed one evening when she suddenly screamed "Duncan!" and fell to the floor. The children rushed into the room only to discover their mother, dead on the floor. Malcolm swore that his father's ghost had returned to take his mother's soul. Margaret was heartbroken. She missed her parents, but she also knew this meant her months of preparation for college had been all for nothing. With no one left in the house, she had to stay and keep it running while her brother, the heir, attended college.



Margaret did not graduate high school with honors as she had hoped. Losing both parents so suddenly, as well as having her dream of college taken from her, had left her listless and wandering. She finished school and encouraged her brother to do his very best. He was going to study painting at college, so in addition to his school work he spent all his spare time painting.



Margaret grew into a lovely woman. She threw herself into running the household, ran her mother's beauty business - which had passed on to her - and got a job in the culinary field. She had a new dream, a dream she dared not mention to anyone for fear that it would once again be taken from her. She wanted to become a chef and possibly own a restaurant or bakery one day. Of course, that would be after she completed her training and after making sure her brother finished college.

The family grows up

Grandmother Trista also taught Margaret how to run the business. When she began high school, Margaret started helping her mother as a stylist. She wasn't very successful at the beginning either.

During high school Margaret met a boy. They began dating and one night she had her very first kiss.



"I'm in love!" she told her parents. "We want to get married!"

"Not until after college!" they told her, so she began her preparations for college. Thanks to her parents success in the science field, the family had the money to send her to any school she wished. She wanted to study music and fine arts, so she began practicing the piano diligently every day.

Malcolm was soon old enough to attend school as well. The family made a point to eat dinner together every day and share all of their stories with each other.



If only they knew how quickly tragedy would strike.

An Heir is Born

Yes, the second child born to Grandfather Duncan McBeth was a son! He was thrilled to have a child to continue his line. The child was named Malcolm McBeth.





Margaret was growing up as well. She began school and would play with her baby brother when she returned home.



Trista enjoyed the time off work at the lab and began a beauty consultant business. She had a few successes...



But she had a lot more failures.



Citizens of Veronaville eventually began to enjoy her talents and would come to the house whenever she was open to them.

Malcolm was two before she returned to work at the science lab and ran her beauty shop on her days off.

A Child is Born!

Grandmother Trista took time from work to begin a family with Grandfather Duncan. Soon their first child was born...



Margaret McBeth.

Grandfather was happy about the birth of a child and he loved his daughter unconditionally. But he knew to continue his line he would need a son. Trista was tired from the pregnancy and caring for infant Margaret, but she wanted her husband to be happy and she also wanted more children with him.

Margaret was an inquisitive toddler. She especially liked the family fish tank.



When their daughter was almost 3, Trista discovered she was expecting again. Would she have a son this time? Would she give her husband an heir?

Finding True Love

My great-grandfather was a romantic. He believed in soul mates. He knew there was one woman out there for him, someone who would believe in his way of life and complete his heart. Someone who would give him children and love him until death would part them.

After visiting many areas of Veronaville and meeting different women, he finally met Trista Shaw - almost right under his nose. She worked with him in the science lab. They had a lot in common - the same birthday, the same interests. She would come over for dinner and they would talk late into the night after work.



Finally Grandfather Duncan worked up the courage to propose to Trista. She accepted, and they were married in the garden behind the house.





Grandmother Trista wore her mother's wedding gown created of lace. Grandfather Duncan wore his father's old tuxedo. It was a simple ceremony and they couldn't have been happier.







Duncan was already 10 years older than Trista, but he knew he wanted a family. She agreed, so they began their family right away.

McBeth Family Legacy

My family has lived in Veronaville for many years. It all goes back to my too-many-greats-to-count grandfather, Duncan McBeth. He fled from Scotland when King Duncan was murdered and his throne usurped. My great grandfather loved his country and his king, and it pained him greatly to leave it. So he found this place to begin anew, a place called Veronaville, where the old ways were still much in tradition.



It has been 10 generations since my great-grandfather lived in this house, the same house I now own with my family. His diaries and photographs live on, as well as telling our story to each male heir in the family. As I said before, grandfather believed in the old ways and that meant that boys inherited the estate, not girls.

When he first arrived in Veronaville he had very little money. He was able to buy a large piece of land, large enough for his gardening and building hobby and for a great house that existed, at that time, only within his mind.

He began working and slowly earning his fortune. It was hard at first, living with so little, but he knew it would eventually make his family strong.



He worked so hard at times that he would return home and collapse on the sidewalk.



After many nights of sleeping on an old sofa, he was finally able to purchase a bed and some other items he needed for his small homestead.





After a very lucky discovery at work, he received a large promotion and was finally able to build a modest house.



He then decided to focus on finding a wife.

Delay on New Legacy

I had a post all ready and as I said went to play the game last night. It kept crashing so I had to do some troubleshooting this morning. Apparently Veronaville was bugged. I tested it according to this info from MTS2 and was able to play in Strangetown and Pleasantview for almost 30 minutes each with no crashes. I had to refresh Veronaville to a clean neighborhood. That was fine since I hadn't played it since I got Sims 2. So, my legacy is beginning again and I should have the first post up hopefully by the end of next week. I also plan to package my founder & the lot and save it so that if it happens again I will have the family saved so I can extract them into another location.

Problems...

I am having more problems with OFB. I have the first chapter of my new legacy ready to go, but OFB is crashing on me. I haven't been able to play at all tonight and I've been trying for over 2 hours. I'm going to bed and I'm going to back up and reinstall tomorrow morning. I don't want to post the first chapter because I don't know if I'm going to lose the family or not.

New Legacy begins tomorrow!

I'm beginning a new legacy set in Veronaville this time. I'm following the new legacy rules with the following handicaps as detailed in the list rules:

Extreme Start, True Love, Free Roaming Ghosts, Storyteller, Behind the Times, Living Very Large, Patriarchy. I'm starting on a 5x6 lot as required by the extreme start. I think these handicaps will make the game more difficult and require more thinking and planning than my last legacy.

I'm doing this one in Veronaville because when I added Open for Business it seems to have corrupted Bailey's Ravine. Most of the future generations of the Forbes family is gone. I haven't brought myself to delete Bailey's Ravine just yet, but I know I will in the future.

I hope everyone enjoys this legacy as much as you enjoyed the Forbes family.