The Lazlo Legacy—Guardian 3.2

It’s finally time to visit the lot of the Lazlo heir, Guardian. He lives in this mansion with his wife, Leeann; his parents, Fortune and Tracey; and his younger siblings, Harmony, Summer, River, and Leaf. This home is across the street from Guardian’s aunt Faith.

I’m still jealous of my Sims’ homes. I doubt I will ever live in a place like this.

The pool/hot tub area is really nice.

And the gardens are gorgeous. This lot is called “The Regent House” and is available for download from Sims 3 Real Estate. (This site has a lot of gorgeous houses by the way.)

The home has a library where Tracey writes her books. She’s at level nine of the Writer career and needs about 26,000 Simoleons to top the career, so it’s time for her to write a masterpiece.

Well, what would you expect her masterpiece to be called?

Fortune has been relegated to the garage to learn all he can from the new chemistry set. Fortune had mastered the logic skill, but Generations added a new Logic skill challenge to discover all of the potions. I’m kind of glad EA added this because it gives Fortune something to do. Once my Sims have achieved their lifetime wish, mastered a skill, and topped a career, they pretty much run on free will. Fortune had already achieved all those things, so he was just waiting to die. (Ok, that sounded harsh, how about he was just waiting for grandkids?)

Guardian would be happy to oblige, but there’s no room in the house.

Leeann is starting to put the pounds back on, but Guardian doesn’t seem to mind a little junk in the trunk.

Leaf is taking full advantage of the new prank system. I swear just about every sink, shower, and couch in the house has been booby trapped. I guess he is getting an early start on his Emperor of Evil lifetime wish.

Ok, I’m going to say right now that Leaf creeps me out. Both he and Guardian have the Insane trait. Guardian is more loony, showing up to his wedding in swimming trunks and bingeing on the fruit in his inventory. Leaf is Hannibal Lecter insane. Leaf looks very Simian in this shot, doesn’t he? And by Simian, I mean like Bubbles.

Prom rolls around for the younger Lazlos, so they scramble to find dates. This is Randell Albright, Summer’s date. When she asked him to go to Prom, his response was…

I <3 Randell!

River asks Lil’ Piddy, the daughter of Los Aniegos native rapper, D. Piddy.

Summer’s prom dreams are nearly crushed when dad Fortune yells at her about her bad grades.

Thankfully, he only puts her in a time out. (Really, a teenager in time out?) Fortune is a softie. He would much rather have Tracey do the disciplining.

After her time out is over, Summer begs her daddy for forgiveness.

Fortune accepts her apology and even helps her with her homework. I told you he was a softie.

Prom night arrives, and the kids get done up. Harmony decides to do the Goth look,

as does her date, Alan Murphy, another Los Aniegos immigrant.

Is it obvious how much I love the star gazing interaction? I sighed when I saw Alan whisper in Summer’s ear. So cute!

I didn’t get a picture of his date, but here is River’s formal attire. I think the glasses make this outfit. I love River’s slumber outfit too. I thought I had a picture of it, but I don’t, so I’ll have to show you next time.

Leaf doesn’t care much about Prom, he’s too busy trying to take over the world.

Summer goes with a more classic look.

Randell makes me <3 him even more by picking Summer up! Ok, not really. He happened to walk by when the limo showed up, so I used Master Controller to switch him into his formal attire to make it look like he was picking her up. He did get in the limo with her though.

V196 of Twallan’s Story Progression did not solve the problem of townie teens showing up to the Prom in their everyday attire, so I Master Contolled all of them into their formals. Leeann was getting off work at the time the Prom started, so let’s imagine she was there to chaperone.

And now for the onslaught of Prom messages:

That would be Grace’s friend, Jessica Irvine, and EAxis you need to fix the grammatical error in this message.

Ok, I’m going to tease you. If you only knew what I know about next week’s update with Harmony and Alan…

By the way, did I mention that I <3 Randell?

The star of the Prom, however, was River.

Way to go, River! The first Lazlo Prom King!

Take my word for it, you need to heed this warning.

The game is not joking when it says the police will show up. There are so many teens in town that the Lazlo kids could not get out of the school in time.

All four of them got busted. Mom and Dad were not happy.

I snapped this shot because you can see the resemblance between Fortune and River. I will admit I am partial to River because he has the most of Justice in him (though Serendipity is close too.) You can’t tell from this pic, but River did get Tracey’s green eyes. Harmony and Summer are almost carbon copies of their mom in the face, though they have different hair colors. Leaf is a mix of Fortune and Tracey.

I laughed out loud when Guardian showed up and sat on the couch. It’s like he wanted a front row seat to watch his siblings get yelled at.

Poor Tracey wonders where she went wrong to have all of her children brought home by the cops at one point in time or another.

And just to rub it in that he’s obviously the favorite kid right now, Guardian gives his mom a hug.

Grounding lasts for two days (unless they do something else that adds on to the punishment). They are only allowed to leave the lot to go to school, and I assume work. None of the Lazlo teens have jobs right now, so I can’t confirm the work part.

They are still allowed to invite friends over. Summer invited Randell over and asked him to go steady.

He said yes.

Summer gave Randell one of her inventions as a gift.

Isn’t he the sweetest thing? I don’t know why Summer’s picture didn’t appear in the bubble.

Summer didn’t care that she was grounded. She wanted to go to the movies with her new man, so she decided to sneak out. Warning: do not let your kids sneak out! This is bolded, italicized, and underlined for a reason. If you do let them sneak out, they will permanently walk as if they are sneaking. This is so annoying! It’s the running tag bug all over again. I am keeping my fingers crossed that Summer will revert back to her normal walking when her grounded moodlet goes away or when she grows up. If not, I’ll try the resetSim cheat on her. [Edited 12/30/2011 -- Aging up does not fix it, you must use the resetSim cheat.]

Summer’s attempt to sneak back in was not successful.

Guardian busted her. So, apparently any young adult/adult/elder on a lot can punish a teen, not just the parents.

I guess Guardian is trying to get practice for his own kids. Hopefully, the next time we visit this lot, we’ll see the birth of Generation 4. Up next, Harmony grows up and moves out. Stay tuned!

Here’s a bonus pic of Harmony. I think she’s very pretty. The next time you see her, she’ll be a young adult.

Completion Challenge Scoring:

Unique Traits: 27

Careers:  3

LTW: 6

Skill Challenges: 14

Paranormal: 1

Miscellaneous: 2

Total Points: 53