Aw, thanks, Holly!  I'm sorry you're too busy to sim.  Maybe again someday.  I'm glad you've kept up.  One more to go.  Getting there, finally, lol!

Rock - would you be upset if I told you to play 'Jailhouse Rock' instead?  I mean, just because they escaped Shirra's castle doesn't mean they escaped danger.  LOL - I'm evil, I know.  Tune up your guitar, though, maybe you'll be able to play something. 

ilovejb - I totally understand.  That's probably why I'm not going faster on this last chapter.  It's...the last one.  Though I've fought myself through this story and hated it (a lot!) sometimes, in a weird way I'll be sad to see it go.

lol, that's pretty funny. 

Sadie - that's kind of the point I'm at now.  I keep thinking of color names, then try to dismiss it because I don't need another project.  But then I think of another color name.   I'm probably going to cave, too.  But if I do, I'll just play it for fun.  I don't want to tell another story - not right now, anyway when I have so many to fall behind on already! 

Medagic - thank ya darlin'!  Glad you're liking it.  Will return to it, eventually.  And don't worry about the professor.  She doesn't make it into the legacy and when college is over you'll not see her again.

Zorom - some of that may or may not happen.  Maybe a little, maybe a lot, maybe all, maybe none.  But I'm not sayin'!! 

Demon - Erik is in denial.  He doesn't think things like that can happen to his perfect family.  But he's a 'tard.

Medagic - my dear friend, Zayury, fixed the shots for me - and I didn't even ask!  She fixed them and mailed them to me (after I had my little hissy fit, of course, lol) and I changed them.  I'm very grateful to her, and still stunned that I made that mistake.  And yes, unbelievably, Erik gets worse.  Quite a bit, actually. 

Zorom - lol, no I think my computer would have a heart attack and die if I installed TS2 plus all the ep's twice.  What's really cool about using a second user account, is that the game seems brand new.  All the default families and neighborhoods are there, untouched, just like when you install the game for the first time.  So I was able to give Brandi Broke (my favorite) a life twice.  And I keep my downloads to an extreme minimum on the second account.

Sadie - 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive, graphics card -NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000, 1.80 gigahertz AMD Sempron, it's been defragged recently, and cleaned with ccleaner.  I know it's not fantastic, but it used to run much better, and I can't figure out why it's not, now.  I haven't made any changes.  And like I said before, the game on my second account (that I use for playing and creating sims for a friend) moves much faster with loading times, but gameplay is still choppy (and it used to be smooth).  Sigh.  Annoying.  I can live with slow for photoshoots, though it's a pain, but the freezing and crashing is what keeps me from wanting to get work done.

I'm hesitant to use AGS because I frequently use animations from all the ep's.  I'd really hate to get on the set just to find out what I want to do I can't.  But it might be worth checking into for playing purposes to make the game run faster - but I'd probably miss what I didn't have since I'm so used to all of it.

Medagic - You know that's not the end, right?  There will be one more chapter coming (eventually) to tie up some loose ends and close the story.  THANK YOU for your great compliments!  I really appreciate them and enjoy having you reading!

Thank you, Vickie.  Some good tips.  I'm thankful I'm on the last chapter, because this whole story has been difficult to shoot.  From the annoying lunch room scenes where I need several people, to the cell scenes where it's difficult to move the camera around because they're so small, to Shirra's lot because it's huge and runs so slow.

I've always had problems with large lots, but not as bad as this.  At worst, they would just lag, but they wouldn't freeze or crash my game like they do now.  I DO have a lot of cc, but I've actually purged quite a bit and I'm having more problems than before.  And it seems like I got rid of things I was actually using, so I'm almost afraid to delete anything else.  I inadvertently deleted Kiana's skintone and Gylen's eyes.  I know I could just install one of my 20,000 backups, but that seems tedious to do for minor characters.  I do need to do some more house cleaning, though.

By the way, would anyone know how much free space is needed to run this game?  Like, twice the size of the game, for example?  Though I partially blame my downloads for the slowness, that can't be the only reason because the game on my second account runs slow, too, and that game is tiny.  I only have a handful of downloads in it, and it still plays laggy, though not as bad.

Thanks for hanging in there with me, folks.  Sorry it's taken so long.  The last chapter is another difficult one, as I'll need several extras called in for part of it, and some photoshopping for part of it, and the same old 'how the hell will I take a picture of that' part of it. 

LOL!  Thank you, egghugger.  You are supposed to hate Erik - so you are on the right track.  You will eventually find out why he is the way he is, but not until like chapter 32.  He's a bastard and a half, alright - and he gets worse!!

lol, thanks, jb.  You know I started this legacy because I wanted to take a break from BLD.  Now I want a break from the legacy!    But I'm not planning on abandoning it, just yet.  So no fears, there.  I will update it someday...

Sadie - that's exactly what's happened.  I mean the college thing was really rocking like never before, but for some reason, the family just isn't calling me at the moment.  I'm sure it will again sometime.

The rainbow legacy sounds like SO much fun, and I have to tell you, I'm VERY tempted to try it.  Especially since, while reading through some of the comments, I found out I could exchange the colors, like pink for lime, for example.  I was sure that doing lime AND green would get boring for me.  But I'm quite afraid of starting another project since I have so many going on already.  I would also worry that I wouldn't be able to finish it.  But it does look like so much fun.  Temptations...

Thank you!  I tried shooting yesterday, but I'm having a really hard time running large lots in my game, lately.  They run slow, and keep getting slower, then freeze and/or crash.  Today I'm going to move part of the chapter to a smaller set and seeing if it runs okay.  Plus, my AL disc is cracked and I'm not able to replace it at this time.  It's still running for now, but I don't know how much more I'll get out of it before it decides to quit running.  So... it may be awhile, lol.  But the end is near!

Aw, thank you, hon.  I confess to feeling bored with this.  I haven't quit, and don't want to, but having a hard time dragging myself through it.  I'll get there eventually.

Very interesting so far!  I've not yet seen a story about Olive's life, and it's well written.  I hope you'll continue!

Thank you, Lily!  I'll eventually get to the end.  I'm really dragging, I know.  Thank you for reading.

Hi, Louie!  I never did say what happened to Tim's family - but I'll get to that in the final chapter.  I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Thank you, Venn!  And welcome!  One of these days I'll get the next chapter up, lol.

Aw, thanks, doll!  That's really sweet of you!

Well thank you, DaSpecial1!  I very much appreciate it!  I'm glad you enjoyed it and will stick around for more.