Palmer Vermachtnis married maid Lexie in a grand wedding after he graduated college. Lexie moved into the Vermachtnis household and became pregnant on their honeymoon. Meanwhile, Penelope finished her lifelong want of eating 200 grilled cheese sandwiches. Max and Maddie aged into elders. Prescott and plant sim Sierra had several children after getting married. The legacy continues into the sixth generation.

2. Welcome back to the Vermachtnis Legacy, a legacy
undergoing an alien revolution. Last chapter, the five
Vermachtnis kids entered college and found love.
Palmer was dating a mean maid named Lexie while
Penelope was dating Malcolm Landgraab. Malcolm
was once a prisoner when Palmer ran a people zoo in
the backyard yet was the only one to escape, earning
Palmer’s eternal ire. And with that, we’re ready to
get going . . .

3. Palmer was chosen in a poll at SiMania to be heir, so here’s his college portrait
in the Urele Ara Hoh library. Palmer is, of course, the mean, outgoing and
playful evil mastermind that we’ve all come to know and love. With this
decision, the rest of the kids were free to start planning their lives sans heirship.

4. Paul and Parker dropped out of college to go marry their girlfriends,
cheerleader Caryl and cow mascot Elle, respectively. In an interesting choice,
they decided to grow up in matching orange and pastel plaid outfits. Hmm.

5. This left Palmer and his favorite sibling, Penelope, as well as their brother Prescott
and his girlfriend Sierra. Sierra is a knowledge sim so it would break her heart to
leave college, thus she gets to stay. It would break Prescott’s heart to be away
from Sierra so he gets to stay too. I’ve always had an appreciation for knowledge
sims so the way to guarantee a college education in my game is to roll that
aspiration. Or date one apparently.

6. With junior year rolling
around, Palmer has a
chance to change his
aspiration, which I have him
jump on. His previous
aspiration was fortune with
the LTW to have 6 pets top
their careers. This gave me
headaches just thinking
about completing it, so I roll
my die again . . .
. . . and get family. Whut.
Palmer is so not a family sim, but I can’t disobey the
rules, so that’s what he’ll stay.
“Winnipeg, I’m going to get married some day and I
can’t wait and then I’ll have lots and lots of babies!
Isn’t that just special?”
This is obviously a good idea because . . .

7. You know who would make a great husband and father?
This guy right here.

8. Penelope’s LTW is, of course, to eat 200 grilled
cheese sandwiches. She had actually done a huge
portion of this so far in college, so I decided to
actually complete the LTW and collect the grilled
cheese grave eventually.
“Penny?”
“Yeah, Palmer?”
“I want to ask you
something important.”
“Ok.”
“Is that an eagle or a
hawk?”
“Um, a hawk.”
“Oh ok. Also, want to move
back home with me after
graduation?”
“Sure.”

9. Penny and Sierra head down to the venue one more time to
accomplish a few things. As usual, it is attended by Vermachtnis
spares (like Julian, at left) and the usual assortment of
placeholders and zombies. The zombies *really* like the venue
and show up more often than anyone else.

10. Penelope works on knocking out
cheese sandwiches for her LTW.
At first I had her doing equal
time on the stove and the
treadmill to try to keep her trim,
but I could see that it was going
to take forever to get to 200 if I
was focused on her appearance,
so I let Penelope put on the
weight and keep it there, at least
for now. When she reaches her
LTW, then we’ll talk. Until then,
eating five sandwiches in a row
(that’s how many you can eat
before the sixth one rots, btw) is
in her best interests.

11. “Just doing a little
gardening – a spray here,
50 sprays there – y’know,
that kind of thing.”
Ever since Parker transformed on this very same lot,
knowledge sim Sierra has been dying to also become
a plantsim. After what seemed an interminable
number of sprays, she finally succumbs and sprouts.
I think she makes a very lovely plantsim, but nearly
every sim in the entire neighborhood that knows her
or is related to her – even distantly – wants her to
turn back. Sorry guys, not happening!

12. Back at Urele Ara Hoh, Palmer divides his time between wooing and being
wooed by Lexie and playing games on Penelope’s computer in her lovely pink
and cheese colored room. Technically, Palmer has the better computer in his
room, but he really likes this one for some reason.

13. Here’s the ladies of generation six. Penelope is the only natural born
Vermachtnis in this group, but the rest are all wives of or engaged to a
Vermachtnis. They spend some quality girl time over – what else? – grilled
cheese. Sierra, no longer needing food, paints in the background.

14. The summer was an unusually stormy one and we’ve had more than a
few weather problems. Besides the usual burnt trees, lightening also
struck Penelope, turning her a lovely shade of charcoal that matches the
bathroom perfectly.

15. The final semester is nearly over and all
the kids have good grades and full study
bars, so they’re free to mess around
some, whether that means reading for
fun, calling friends, or playing on your
sister’s computer for no apparent
reason in the middle of the night while
she’s trying to sleep.

16. Back home, the main
Vermachtnis household
gets ready to make a move.
The last house was built 4
years ago and considering I
used to build a new house
every few months, I just
can’t abide by that.
We have to say goodbye to our awesome shrine to
Fluffy the cowplant (though Fluffy herself came
with us – she’s been around since generation 2
after all) and also to Mary and June’s graves.
Before heading off to join the graves at the
Vermachtnis cemetary, their ghosts wave goodbye
to each other. Even in the afterlife these two
make a very sweet couple.

17. I’m rather proud of the house. We’re
going for a modern minimalist vibe, and
the inside of the house is decorated
mainly in greens, in honor of our green
heir. Kitchen, living room and study are
downstairs, as well as a center area
where the dogs live. Upstairs are
bedrooms, a nursery and a playroom for
the kids. The third floor is a skilling attic
with all manner of career reward
objects and craft benches.

18. Before we get back to the college, let’s check what’s going on at the home base.
Let’s see . . .
Maddie is pelting Max in the face with a baseball while Mr. Humble glitches on
our stairs? Yeah, that sounds about right.

19. The current residents of the
Vermachtnis house are the nearly
elderly couple Max and Maddie,
and their two dogs, Kiki and little
Rolf. Kiki and Rolf also had a litter
of three puppies who are nearly
grown. So far they’re identical but
they grow up interestingly.

20. From top left clockwise we have
Zoe, who looks like a bigger version
of her grandfather, Quorn, who
looks exactly like Kiki, and Captain,
whose looks are in a category all
their own. Just because she’s the
most different (and least
deformed), we end up keeping Zoe
and the other two are put up for
adoption.

21. Zoe likes to be right in the middle of everything. She observes Max
giving her brothers away to the police officer before later joining the
Vermachtnis tradition of Communal Bathroom Time. Unlike her poorly
trained mother, however, Zoe knows that the human bathrooms are
not the place for her business.

22. Now let’s check in on Paul and Parker.
Parker scares the pee out of Zaube II
before having a crisis of his own. I thought
I could keep a vampire/plantsim happy by
liberal application of grow lights, but he’s
forever trying to run outside. Parker is
very hard to keep alive and I’m glad he’s
not part of the main family so I don’t have
to play him much any more. Paul, as
throughout his entire life, takes a calm
backseat to his dramatic siblings.

23. When he’s not trying to commit suicide
on the front lawn, Parker is very happy
to spend time with his wife Elle (for
once out of her cow suit) and their two
boys: Trevor (in red) and Rory (in
brown).

24. Paul is also leading a happy family life
despite being a romance sim. He and
wife Caryl have two children: Arthur and
Vivian.

25. And now back to the college house. After struggling
with Parker, I discover that Sierra, despite not being
a vampire, is not much easier to keep happy, though
she is infinitely easier to keep alive. She doesn’t
really like spending time outside and would rather
be flirting with Prescott or reading in the library.
Between constant tree maintenance and parking her
at the easel under a grow light, I mostly do okay with
her, but she does spend
more than a few nights
passed out under the stars.

26. DID YOU KNOW? – PALMER FAQ
Did you know? Palmer’s favorite place in the world is a
bathtub. He can find many activities to do in a bathtub.
Now you know! Knowledge is power!

27. “Congratulations, sir. You’ve spent so much time goofing
off on your sister’s computer in her pink and yellow room
that we would like to invite you to our private club.”
NO! Don’t encourage him!

28. The kids all pass their exams with flying colors and the time has come
to grow up and move out and on. We’ll check in with Prescott and
Sierra before moving back to the main home.

29. I’m very sad that Sierra’s hair changed
and can’t be changed back, but such
are the compromises a plantsim must
make, I suppose. After a private
wedding, Prescott and Sierra begin
raising Sierra’s spore baby, Ivy.
Prescott is a great dad to her despite
not being related and Ivy grows up very
smart and beautiful.

30. Having survived three
whole days of raising
a toddler, Prescott
and Sierra decide
they’re ready for a
challenge and have
five kids.
Unfortunately they
have four boys so I
couldn’t use the
Leaf many nice girl plant Oak
names I thought of
and end up naming
the boys some pretty
dumb things.
Rose Thorn
Ash

31. Finally we’re back at the main house. Palmer has arrived home and invited Lexie to
move in. Penny also moves home to provide a cheese grave. Astoundingly, Lexie
brings $11,000 with her, which is the most I’ve ever gotten from an NPC. How much
was she getting paid at that maid service? Lexie’s personality is 8/7/7/1/2 and
besides maxed cleaning she has a good smattering of skills.
Anyway, Max and Maddie had a small, private wedding, but we’ve all been planning
for a grandiose one for Palmer and Lexie. The family gets to know each other first
over – yes – plates of grilled cheese.

32. The wedding is held that evening, after sunset so that Parker can attend. Palmer
invites every Vermachtnis he knows plus a few extra friends and characters, and
nearly everyone shows up despite only a few of them actually liking Palmer.
Some kind of alien magnetism is going on, I guess. My computer froze for a good
time while it generated the hordes of guests that descended on the house from
both sides. Of course, it wouldn’t be a party if a few fights didn’t break out, so
we had one of those at the very beginning over at the right of the picture. Lexie
started her bridal walk from the far corner of the lot to give everyone time to
seat themselves.

33. Even despite that a good number of guests never made it to seats, but by the
time Lexie had made her way around the house, most of them had. Some of
the pictures aren’t as great as I would have liked due to the lighting, but it was a
very beautiful wedding nonetheless. Certainly it was a well attended one.
For more details and pictures about the wedding and the following honeymoon,
please check out the extra story “Greetings from Romantic Twikkii Island,” also
on my livejournal.

34. Palmer and Lexie said their vows and
kissed and it was official – Lexie was
now a Vermachtnis and the sixth
generation was complete.

35. Palmer, now a family sim
(grumble), was elated at the
marriage.
Lexie, a romance sim, didn’t fear the
wedding but might have had some
second thoughts as she quickly
rushed away from the ceremony and
the guests. Interestingly, I had given
all my main sims second aspirations
and Lexie rolled family. Perhaps that
made the difference. Palmer’s was
cheese, yet another commonality for
him and Penelope.

36. The party was a roaring
success and besides
being a great time, it
provided many
opportunities for visiting
with Vermachtnises of
generations past.
After a little alone time upstairs, Palmer and
Lexie joined the party and socialized until
almost 4 am. Tired but happy, they
immediately left for their honeymoon on
Twikkii Island.

37. While there they stayed at a
Vermachtnis-owned beach house and
explored the many activities and
locales the island had to offer.
Palmer become obsessed with
sandcastles and built one on every
beach they came across. Sometimes
two.

38. Unlike most Vermachtnis brides, Lexie did not become pregnant
immediately before or after her wedding. Rather, she enjoyed five full
days of vacation time before conceiving. Once she had though, she was
more than happy to tell all the locals about it. Finally the time came to go
home, and the two happy newlyweds were ready to start their family.

39. Hey Malcolm, whatcha doin’ at the Vermachtnis house?
“Oh crap, this is their house?! I thought it was just some new family. I’m
getting out of here!”
Someone is trying to evade his destiny. Too bad Palmer didn’t catch him.

40. Now that Palmer and Lexie are
home again, we can move on with
the regular business of the legacy.
It’s finally time for Max and Maddie
to age up. Max goes first and
Maddie follows . . .

41. . . . And aww, they’re still super cute
together. I’ve been saving this pink
elder outfit forever – it’s just so Max.
I love his hair too. He looks like a
crazy Mozart to me, hee hee.

42. Lexie finally shows her pregnancy. Pregnant sims in my
game get pretty much whatever they want, and what Lexie
wants is to make pottery. Mmkay. She’ll eventually get her
silver talent badge by the time the baby’s born, and then
forget all about the wheel, never to desire it again. Sims can
be so fickle.

43. Time to start painting the official portraits of
generation six.
They go on a long
interior wall that
houses all the
portraits, stretching
back to the founder,
Asher Vermachtnis.

44. Only a few days into adulthood, Penny finally finishes her LTW while her
great aunt Jay looks on. Now that Penelope is permaplat . . .

45. . . . It’s time to get back into shape.
The bottom picture wasn’t exactly
the shape I had in mind, but she
eventually settles out to a nice,
normal sim size.
Like I’ve found with a lot of ‘large
count’ wants (with the notable
exceptions of kids or pets) the trick
is to get the bulk of the want out of
the way in college, when there’s less
other stuff to focus on. Penelope’s
LTW ended up not being so bad
after all, and now she’s going to be
in great form to help care for the
newborn when it arrives.

46. There are several reasons why
Palmer and Lexie might not
make the best couple, chief
among them being their
conflicting aspirations.
However, they’re head over
heels in love and will happily
spend long periods of time
just interacting with each
other. They have two bolts
and I have a strong suspicion
that it would be three if their
aspirations were compatible.

47. Oh, Palmer. Palmer, like any self-respecting mean sim, cheats
at chess horribly. He normally gets away with it but after about
four cheats in a row, Max finally catches him and is none too
happy. I love Palmer’s reaction, though: “Who, me? Nah.”

48. “Um, thanks for baking me dessert and all, Maddie, but you’d
think an executive chef would be able to not burn the
cheesecake.”
“You’d think so, wouldn’t you?”

49. Finally the time comes for the first birth of
generation seven early in the morning, right
after sunrise.
Our little nooboo is a green-
skinned, black-eyed, red-
haired little charmer named
Samwise, Sammy for short.
Yes, he’s named after the
hobbit. I am a
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge
Tolkien nerd. I actually
came this close to naming
gen. 3’s Gabi Galadriel.
Samwise seems a bit more
normal so I’m sticking this
baby with it.

50. Oh joy! Lexie performs the handoff and
we all know what that means. But wait
– why is Penny receiving nooboo
number one instead of Palmer? Well,
he thought the middle of the birth of his
firstborn was a good time to go clean
the dog bed. When he comes back, he
lets Maddie know he had a baby.
“I know, fool! Unlike some people, I
was here for it.”

51. Yay! The cheesecake paid off and they had
twins! With the extra adult (Penny) in the
house, we can only get away with three
children so the next pregnancy will also be
cheesecaked so I can slip in an extra child for
a total of 4.
Baby number two also has
black eyes and red hair,
but has skintone number
three. I love the black
eyes with the normal skin!
It looks like Palmer’s
genetics are highly
heritable. We name the
second-born Sebastian.

52. The new parents are fairly occupied, but
what’s going on with the elders? Well,
Maddie continues to be a ridiculous tub
pirate, and both Maddie and Max complete
their second LTW of becoming celebrity
chefs. Palmer and Lexie couldn’t try for baby
again, so I realize I have to get rid of one of
the dogs and I let Kiki go. Max is close to all
the dogs and is distraught when the officer
comes for Kiki. I felt very bad, but two kids is
clearly inadequate for a Vermachtnis
generation.

53. Just a few days later and it’s the babies’ birthday. I hope they get
Palmer’s big eyes!

54. Well, Sammy has big eyes though
not quite as big as Palmer’s were at
this age. Sebastian has normal size
eyes, but he’s a cutie nonetheless.
Both the boys are pretty adorable,
but Sebastian has that extra
something that puts him over the
top. You can’t tell with their unruly
hair, but both boys have pointy ears
as well.
Sammy’s personality is 7/8/9/10/1.
Sebastian’s is 10/8/4/10/0. Looks
like the mean gene is pretty strong.
I wonder if we’ll get anyone even
just moderately mean this
generation.

55. “I, Sergeant-At-Arms Madeleine Vermachtnis, call this meeting to order.”
“And I, President Maxwell Vermachtnis, would like to welcome you all to
today’s meeting of the Idiots’ Club. First order of business: we’ll stand around
in the nursery and ‘hang loose’ at each other for several hours. Sound good?
First, though, let’s read the minutes from yesterday. Secretary Lexie
Vermachtnis?”
“Present. Yesterday, we stood around in the nursery and ‘hung loose’ at each
other for several hours.”
“Excellent.”

56. “It’s so nice of you guys to bake me dessert when I’m pregnant. You
know how hungry I get. And I am so glad the cheesecake isn’t burnt this
time. I don’t get why it’s always cheesecake, though.”
“You legacy women never do at first. You’ll get there eventually, dear.”

57. The Wall O’ Portraits is right in the middle of everything upstairs, so the
elders often stop to look at them all. There’s something very symbolic
about Max gazing at the last red-headed man to lead the legacy.

58. First as babies and then as toddlers,
the twins get a lot of attention with
five adults in the house. They are
very loved by all of their relatives and
learned all their toddler skills, and
then were often played with in the
nursery.

59. Lexie’s second pregnancy comes to an end and she gives birth to . . . one baby.
That’s . . . that’s not acceptable, Lexie. So here’s how it works, apparently.
Cheesecake will give you the ninth sim in the house, but it will not give you the
eleventh sim plus pet in the house. Boo.
Anyway, kid number three is named Sean, and has all the same coloring as older
brother Sammy.

60. “Penny, we can’t have just three kids. We just can’t. That’s only happened
once before in this legacy and that was before we really knew what we
were doing. I was wondering if you would mind moving out so we could try
again. And could you take Rolf with you? We desperately need the space
to try for twins.”
“Sure, Palmer. I’ve got some plans of my own anyway. No hard feelings.”
“Plans of your own, huh? I wonder if they include Malcolm . . .”

61. This moment of wrongness has been brought to you by Freetime.

62. With three little sims in the house – soon to be five - and all four (now
minus Penny) adults working, someone needs to stay home, so that
someone is Maddie and she retires.
Palmer’s LTW is to become Education Minister. Lexie’s is to become
Celebrity Chef. Thankfully they both got easy LTWs but they need to
work to get there. Max stays employed because it keeps him out of my
hair for three days out of the week.

63. I know everyone else is probably over it by now, but hey, I just got up
to date with all my EPs and I adore this little table. The boys are so
cute playing at it, they get to learn a different skill, and they make
friends while they do it! How great is that?
These pictures are mostly here just because they’re really sweet.

64. Like his brothers before him, Sean is a very well cared for baby.
I’m a little frustrated that we got another boy. Palmer’s
generation had four boys and only one girl and I’m afraid I’m
going to end up with a generation of ALL boys. My game seems
to be rather fond of them at the moment. The last three births
before this – in the Masterpiece legacy – were all boys too.

65. DID YOU KNOW? – PALMER FAQ
Did you know? Even as an adult with lots of responsibilities,
Palmer still works in plenty of bathtub time. He’s very good at
sneaking away to play in it! Now you know! Knowledge is power!

66. The twins have a birthday and continue to
be very cute. It’s more obvious that
Sammy has more of Lexie’s genes and Seb
is an unabashed cutie pie. Their first day
at school, they bring home two distant,
also red-haired cousins: Ethan and Morris
Jr. Vermachtnis, the sons of Morris and
Lydia Vermachtnis.

67. That evening, Morris comes over to collect his sons
but not before a little inane gossip with fellow
Academie Le Tour alumni Madeleine. “Did you
hear?” she asks. “My not-son got married!”
“I know,” he sighs. “I was there. Remember, I got
into a fight? Oh yeah, I was there.”

68. The twins are both a little strange in their own ways. Seb is super neat so
he really enjoys cleaning things autonomously, just like his dad. Sammy
seems to be a genius and learned things very quickly as a toddler. As a
child, he continues to learn quickly but he also keeps desiring to raise his
mechanical skill. I rarely see children so interested in skilling.

69. Sean’s birthday! Everyone – including baby Sean in the very middle of
growing up – is fascinated by the bunny man that came home with
Lexie from work.
And Sean is a clone of Samwise. Damn you, firstborn effect! I had
honestly forgotten all about it until I looked at Sean’s face and
personality. So now we have two big-eyed aliens with the same
personality. Super. At least they’re cute.

70. “Say ‘bottle’, Sean.”
“Okay, okay. Bottle. What’s the big deal?”
Ooh, looks like we got ourselves another genius. Sean is very quick
to learn his skills.

71. Cuteness in the playroom!
As usual, Zoe finds her way right into the middle of everything and
lures Sean away from the table for some cuddling. I love it when
the dogs approach a sim for a little love. Now that she’s the only
dog in the house (since Rolf moved out with Penelope) Zoe needs
all her socializing from the Vermachtnises, but that bar isn’t
bottoming out any time soon with all the loving she gets, especially
from the kids.

72. An epidemic of best friend-ism is
going around at the Vermachtnis
house. With the help of the play
table, all three of the boys are fast
friends with each other. The kids
are also best friends with most of
the adults in the house. There’s
plenty of BFFing going on too as
the kids get older and know their
parents and grandparents long
enough. All three of them got
plenty of cuddling and play as
babies so they had a good head
start on friendship with the older
sims.

73. With the space provided by Penny and Rolf moving out, Palmer and Lexie are
able to try for baby again. Lexie is once again fed cheesecake and we sit and
wait for the final kids of this generation.
Throughout most of her pregnancies, Lexie has continued to work. She gets
pretty hungry when she’s pregnant but otherwise doesn’t seem to mind it at all.
If Roxy Masterpiece is the worst pregnant sim I’ve ever had, Lexie is probably
the best.

74. Finally the birth comes and the cheesecake
worked – we have two adorable new babies.
Both babies have Palmer’s blue eyes. The
first baby, on the right, is a boy named Sid
who is the only baby with Palmer’s brown
hair. On the left, we finally have . . . A GIRL!
Little Sasha is another red-headed green
baby. I’m so happy that we finally got a girl
but I thought it was funny that two gens in a
row have four boys and one girl.

75. “Hey, a new nursery! We can relocate the Idiots’ Club meetings! Hang
loose everyone!”

76. “. . . So I said, what is this, the aerospace museum?”
“Ha ha, good one, Sean. Your wit is as fast and clever as a spinning
top.”
“Truly, the pieces of that joke fell into place like a puzzle.”
Oh, who am I kidding? It went like this:
“I like toys.” “Me too.” “Me three.”

77. Seb and Sammy are both adorable in their own way, but I think
Sebastian really wins the cuteness contest . . . and paper, rock,
scissors. After all their time together in the nursery and at the
play table, they’ve grown up to be besties and they spend all
their free time playing one game or another together. Except
for brief spells of hanging out with Morris’ kids, they’re always
together.

78. Oh lady, you picked the wrong family to fight. Another one of
Lexie’s coworkers causes a different kind of commotion by
picking a fight with Maddie for no apparent reason, but Maddie
gives as good as she gets. Little miss coworker had better watch
herself from now on.

79. We’ve got a triple birthday today
as Sean and the younger twins
are all growing up. The
celebration takes place in the
babies’ nursery because it has the
most room at the moment.
Everyone is there to celebrate as
they sparkle and twirl.

80. “Hey, perfect time to recruit for the Idiots’ Club. Boys, watch this!”

81. Here’s Sean as an adorable little nerd. Even though he’s a clone I want
him to have his own identity. For now he’s staying in the older twins’
room until the toddler twins grow up. Then he’ll share a bedroom with
Sid and Sasha will get her own. Until then, though, the toddlers are
sharing a nursery and we cram three boys into one room.

82. And her’s our little twins. Sasha got the big eyes! Yay! She’s so cute! Both twins
have the pointy ears so that makes five kids with pointy ears! Except for the ears,
Sid didn’t get any alien traits and his face, especially his eyes, shows a lot of
evidence of his mother. To make him stand out even more, he’s the only nice sim
of the generation with a whopping 10 points!
Sid’s personality is 4/7/10/4/10.
Sasha’s is 8/8/10/1/0.
I’m really happy with this generation. All the kids turned out cute and a lot of the
alien genetics came through.

83. Now for a little story time. Let’s catch
up with Penelope after she left the main
house.
I had originally wanted her to stay to
provide the platinum cheese grave, but
two things changed my mind. First, we
really did need the extra space.
Secondly, her lifetime want wasn’t as
difficult to accomplish as I originally
thought, so I can redo it with an heir
before the end of the legacy. It was a
hard decision for me though because
Penelope was actually my favorite, even
over Palmer (though only by a little).
Penny may be my fave but Palmer is the
heir and the heirs get what they want.
Now it’s time to resolve this conflict.
When Penny moved out, she quickly
invited Malcolm to move in with her.
They moved to a mansion called The
Cheese Palace, decked out in Penny’s
colors of pink, orange, and yellow and
got busy celebrating their new life.

84. Meanwhile, Palmer contemplated his stolen picture of Malcolm in his lab. He felt
conflicted. Did his love for Penny win out over his hatred of Malcolm? His hatred
was pretty strong – he had been nursing it since childhood. Plus, Palmer was a
perfectionist and hated to leave projects unfinished.
He decided to have a conversation with Malcolm and try to sort out his feelings.

85. “I’m going to make you a deal that you
should consider very carefully,” Palmer
said. “Leave my sister alone and I’ll spare
your life.”
“Not a chance,” Malcolm replied.
“Besides,” he laughed. “Who else is going
to ever love a cheese freak like Penelope?
I’m just marrying her to get in on that
Vermachtnis fortune. I am a fortune sim,
after all, and I know how these things work
– freak or no.”
“You take that back!”
“Make me!”
“I think I will! I didn’t like you before and
that was when I thought you actually had
her best interests in mind. You’ll regret
this, Landgraab. I’m going to mess up your
little plan to get your hands on our money.”
“Yeah, over my dead body.”
“That can be arranged,” Palmer said icily.

86. “This better be one good apology to
invite me over in the middle of the night
for,” Malcolm said testily.
“Sure, sure,” Palmer replied. “But first,
have you seen this plant? It’s probably
worth millions of dollars!”
“What are you talking about . . . Ooh,
cake!”
A deep crunch echoed through HRH as
the cowplant’s jaws snapped shut.

87. A few minutes later, Penelope ran up. “I heard that Malcolm was coming
over and he said he was going to beat you up. I came to warn you!” she
said, out of breath. “Wait, where is Malcolm?” Then she noticed the
grave. “Oh no! He found the cowplant before he could get to you! Oh,
Malcolm,” she cried.
“That’s . . . exactly what happened,” Palmer lied. The deep satisfaction
he had been savoring moments before cracked as his stomach sank at
the sound of Penelope’s sobs.

88. “Penny, you actually cared for him,” Palmer
said softly.
“Of course I did!” she said, her voice suddenly
sharp. “And now he’s gone!” Her wail of
anguish made the cowplant shudder. Palmer
thought for a moment.
“Look,” he said. “There’s still something we
can do. We have this old legacy artifact that
can bring people back from the dead. It’s a
resurrection phone – I saw it in storage when I
was little. You just call up the reaper and pay
him to resurrect Malcolm. I mean, I’ll even
pony up the money. Just pay whatever you
think is right.”
“Oh Palmer! You’d do that for me? But it’s
not necessary. Malcolm was a frugal man.
He’ll be furious if I resurrect him for a
fortune.”
“I’m sure that’s true, Penny,” Palmer replied
with a wry grin. “Go ahead and lowball Death
. . . Malcolm should appreciate that.”

89. Palmer carried the resurrection phone out from the storage area under the
house, sweating and breathing hard. “It’s a lot heavier than I thought,” he
said, wiping his brow. Penny simply hugged him.
He stood by while Penelope picked up the phone and dialed. He hoped that
his gamble would pay off. Since he had planned on leaving Malcolm dead
until he saw Penny’s grief, he hadn’t thought the plan through carefully.
Would Malcolm’s return make things even worse? He knew the change that
was coming . . . could it possibly make Malcolm a better man?
A blinding orange flash lit up the neighborhood for miles around, and from a
cloud of sulfurous smoke there came a deep groan . . .

90. “Hey man, thanks for the idea to
resurrect me. I never even saw
that cowplant coming. Weird,
huh?”
“Very,” Palmer replied.
“I’m just so happy to be back.
This . . . this changes everything.
Thank you both!”
Palmer winked. “Don’t mention
it . . . brother.”
Malcolm sat down on the couch
with a sigh and wrapped his arm
around Penny with a smile.
“You guys,” he said. “I have a new lease on life. Er,
death. Or unlife. Whatever I have, I’m a changed man.
I had an epiphany on the other side.” He took Penny’s
hand in his and said, “I never did right by you, but
that’s behind us now. From here on out, my life is just
family . . . and cheese.” Penny smiled and Palmer
laughed, saying “A happy ending for us all.”

91. That night, after they had waved goodbye
to Palmer and he faded in the distance,
Malcolm pulled something from his pocket.
“When I bought this, I didn’t do it for the
right reasons, but I am now. Penelope
Vermachtnis, will you marry me?”
Penelope shrieked. “Of course!” Before
the rings had faded from over their heads,
they were married. “It’s a good thing, too,”
she said, opening her coat to reveal her
rounded belly. “Just in time.”

92. Malcolm and Penelope Vermachtnis
went on to have three children. From
top left clockwise we have brothers
Caleb and Vance, and their sister
Bethany. They lived a life full of love
and cheese, and Malcolm became the
husband that Penelope deserved.
The End.

93. Thanks for reading, everyone! Check back next time to answer these
burning questions:
Will sensitive Sid survive a household of meanies? (probably)
Will Palmer and Lexie reach their very easy LTWs? (yes, duh)
And who will become the generation 7 heir? (actually a good question)
Thanks again and I’ll see you at SiMania!