Larissa dies
Larissa Landgraab, daughter of Malcolm Landgraab IV and his first wife, starved to death in her home, along with her teenage son, Larry Danaher.
Because Larry is a Danaher and the Danahers’ story is over at Growing Sims, the details of their deaths are there.
Money and death
Malcolm did well in his furniture shop one night. He made 15,000 simoleans. He’s decided that he’ll get his daughter, Celine, to help him out to avoid paying anyone. I doubt Celine will be allowed to go to college. She’s been out shopping for clothes and mobile phone and has changed her image somewhat (sorry no pic).
Malcolm’s mother, Jancine, died.
She had just got up to attend to her granddaughter, Brittany. She was 71.
Update soon
Apologies once again that I haven’t updated. I tend to play the lives of the numerous residents of Veronaville and Pleasantview. Who has time to play more than two neighbourhoods properly? I’ve barely looked at new neighbourhoods that came with the new expansions.
Anyway, I hope to get back onto the Landgraabs as soon as poss. I’m currently playing another couple of days of each Sim family in Pleasantview so have a read there in the meantime.
Cheers.
Kids growing
It’s been a while since I played the Landgraabs – sorry about that. I finally entered the household to find just two children. I’d forgotten that at some stage between the last update and this one, Miseria sadly drowned in the family pool.
Malcolm jnr now snr (I keep forgetting what number they are) was struggling a bit with the family businesses. Naturally when he took over the electrical store, he lost the previous employees. He had to hire new ones. He hired two – an experienced checkout operator and a young talentless guy to stock up. Unfortunately no-one appeared to be buying anything. The prices appeared to be set too high. There were two sales only that particular night and Malcolm was exhausted.
Meanwhile back at home, Melina was looking after the new Malcolm jnr. The toddler grew to school age and slept in the bedroom above the garage.
His sister, Celine, grew to a teenager and was relegated to the bed in the garage itself (there being no other bedrooms in the house).
Whatever happened to…?
Jancine Landgraab? Jancine was Malcolm senior’s second wife who’d cheated on Malcolm with Dan over in Veronaville. Malcolm, you may remember, had realised Jancine (his second wife) had cheated on him and threw her out. She moved in with her lover, Dan, and married him. Their daughter’s name was Jasmine (after one of Dan’s earlier conquests). Unfortunately Dan was old and he died, leaving no will and his much older legitimate daughter wanting the house to herself. Jancine and child were thrown out yet again.
Locked out
Jancine moved to a tiny two-storeyed house in Veronaville and looked after her daughter on a pittance. She got fired from her job just before retirement so got no money and eventually got a low paying job as an elder before she was fired from that too. Jasmine ended up earning money from the money tree (a mere 40 simoleons at every harvest). The most Jancine ever had was about 6,000 simoleons.
Jasmine grew well and went to uni but dropped out. She returned home with enough money to make the tiny house a little larger. Jancine hoped Jasmine would find a nice man to marry and live in a nicer, larger house and have babies. She wanted to be a granny.
Jasmine had other plans though. She wanted romance so she paid the gypsy woman for a blind date. But she didn’t choose a male. She chose a female.
The date went very well and Jasmine starting having feelings for the blonde woman. Unfortunately once the woman left, Jasmine had no way of contacting her. Jasmine complained to the gypsy woman who offered to give her another blind date – for a price. Jasmine paid more and expected someone better – perhaps prettier. To her disgust the second blind date turned out to be an old woman! Jasmine was angry – she’d paid thousands of simoleons and for what? She ended the date immediately and asked the gypsy woman for another date. She was determined.
Lo-and-behold a dark-haired young woman fell from the sky and looked dazed and confused. She asked Jasmine where she was and when Jasmine informed her that she was at her house in Veronaville and about to have a date with her, the woman was distressed and said she was engaged to a (male) student at Academie le Tour. Jasmine had had enough – was this the best the gypsy woman could do? She let the young woman go and turned angrily on the gypsy woman.
The gypsy woman was happy enough to try again – after all, she’d been paid well and was ready to go home. This time a young black woman was Jasmine’s date and Jasmine fell in love. She forgot about the gypsy woman and had a wonderful date and even better, she got the new woman’s phone number. Her name was Celeste Cameron.
Jasmine and Celeste got on very well and Jasmine invited Celeste to move in, which she did, bringing another 30,000 simoleons with her. Now they could (and had to) extend the house adding a wing to both storeys.
Jancine was rather shocked but accepting and she was the only guest at Jasmine and Celeste’s union. Jancine did mention to Jasmine that she wanted to be a grandmother so Jasmine said they’d eventually adopt once the house was finished and they had good jobs.
Christa Landgraab? Malcolm senior’s third wife. She married Dominic Brown and they had two kids – a girl and a boy. They lived in the house opposite the Landgraab residence. Dominic had a job in the military and Christa was a gamer when she wasn’t looking after the kids. Dominic finally got a really good promotion, bringing in lots of money when there was a thunderstorm and one of the trees outside caught fire. Dominic ran out, perhaps to put out the fire, or just to watch, but he got too close and burned to death.
The end of Malcolm, long live Malcolm.
Malcolm senior was pretty depressed. He was getting old and tired, so he transferred his property deeds to Malcolm junior and didn’t have the energy to do anything more. He despaired of ever getting a grandson. Meanwhile his grand-daughters were, of course, not getting much attention.
Baby Miseria, forgotten in a cot in the garage, grew to toddlerhood.
They’re quite cute kids actually. But Malcolm senior discouraged his son from giving them much attention. They got fed and cleaned and that’s about it. Melina was by now heavily pregnant, but Malcolm snr didn’t live long enough to see whether it would be another grand-daughter or the much wanted grandson. His end came just as he got back from work.
He was just 68.
Celine grew to school-age.
Then Melina finally gave birth – to Malcolm VI. The grandson came too late for Malcolm IV but Malcolm V was relieved. He couldn’t concentrate on business with a constant stream of screaming babies.
Just briefly
A pic of Celine, now a toddler.
As you can see, Melina was pregnant with a second child. Unfortunately, it was another girl, and was named Miseria. What a disappointment. Naturally Malcolm senior wants Malcolm junior to ditch Melina and try someone else. Instead Malcolm junior has got Melina pregnant again. Who knows what will happen if it’s yet another girl!
Malcolm senior, meanwhile, is trying to pass on his awards, etc, to Malcolm junior – it seems to be taking forever – probably longer than the time Mal snr has left!
Another girl
Having Malcolm Landgraab IV as a father-in-law is pretty creepy.
Malcolm snr and Melina
But then Melina and Malcolm V aren’t married yet. Malcolm senior said not to marry her until she produced a boy – or be thrown out of the house penniless. So no wedding bells yet.
Family dinner
The Malcolms talk shop while heavily pregnant stay-at-home mum-to-be feigns interest.
The day of the birth came round but alas, it was another girl called Celine. Oh dear. Try again.
Meanwhile Malcolm IV made another few thousand profit at his furniture shop.
Malcolm V’s mother, Jancine, is still living in Veronaville fairly broke. Her daughter by Dan, Jasmine, is now school age. (No pics.)
The young daughter of Melissa, Malcolm’s first wife, (Adriana) is also now school age. Adult daughter, Larissa, is still living a meagre existence in a beach house by the sea – no job, no boyfriend, no friends to speak of. (Perhaps having Malcolm Landgraab IV as a father led to her unpopularity?)
A very brief update on Dan’s daughter, Jan, is over at Growing Sims.
More infidelity
Christa was pretty unhappy and quite lonely. She wanted to get a job but Malcolm expects his women to stay home. So Christa went on a date with her lover, Dominic Brown.
They met at the love maze and took romantic pics, woohooed and, lo and behold, Christa got pregnant.
All was fine for a while. As usual, Malcolm didn’t notice anything as he was hardly home. Christa seemed to have put on a little weight. There was also a new vase he hadn’t seen before but he didn’t think anything of it. But then the inevitable happened. He began to notice Christa’s growing bulk. But it wasn’t until he caught her kissing Dominic that he put two and two together. He gave Christa her marching orders and fought Dominic.
Malcolm’s third marriage was over. He’d rejected four women now.
Just as Dominic was leaving, Malcolm junior returned home with his girlfriend.
Christa moved into the house of rejects (the murder place of Malcolm’s illegitimate children and the refuge of Jancine and now Christa). Christa invited Dominic round so he could move in. Not a moment too soon.
Christa gave birth to a girl – Chrystal.
Back at Malcolm’s, Malcolm junior successfully got Melina pregnant in his room above the garage.
Another generation of Landgraabs begins.
Mehrissa and Larissa
Larissa was doing mathematics at uni and was enjoying it.
But I couldn’t be bothered getting her through so I made her drop out. She wasn’t too happy about that.
She moved back to Bluewater Village but instead of moving back home to share a bedroom with a baby, she moved into a beach house just by the sea. She got a job as a button masher but made a wrong choice and got fired. Damn. She was down to her last 800 Simoleans.
Meanwhile her kid sister, Adriana, had grown to a toddler and looks very much like her father, Adrian.
