CHAPTER FIFTY-NINEAfter an impromptu hiatus due to illness, I'm comin' back swinging.
I got locked out of my house this afternoon. I spent a while trying to break into my own house before my mom finally came to the rescue. I tried to lift the garage door open and failed, so I started using a huge amount of sticks as a system of levers to try and open it. Failed again, now my back hurts. At least I'm inside.
Tatiana: These past couple of weeks have been hilariously awful for you.
Thankfully I finally got all of my math work done.
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Guess what finally happened?
More on that later.
Beatrix finally broke down and told the other immortals the entire story, from her family growing up to how she will have to die. They were all very, suspiciously quiet afterwards...
At Beatrix's request, Elisabeth hid away in her logic room and began making potions almost nonstop. And they weren't the usual turbo sleep potions...
Since there are so many people in the house and not a lot of bathrooms, it can get pretty messy. Everyone gets the Steel Bladder lifetime reward after the Long Distance Friend reward, but there's no way to permanently stop hygiene from decreasing. Tatiana has Dirt Defiant, but even she gets messy at times, and with random strangers coming up and throwing test tubes into the bonfires, everything stinks. So I added a sixth bathroom to the house and will eventually get around to adding a seventh. And more. There's a small toilet stall in the barn and in the nectar making room, but it's a long walk.
I got a special request to make Margrethe's wedding extra beautiful, so I did just that. Instead of getting married in the barn, I set up an outdoor wedding. It's a little bittersweet because this is the second to last wedding for the Royales.
Anyway, here's the new and improved wedding area.
Here's where most of the partying will take place. It probably won't be as insane as Margrethe's bachelorette party since you can't pass out at wedding parties (totally unrealistic, by the way, my cousin's wedding when I was little was insane...my cousin's new father-in-law actually lost his pants), but juice-and-nectar-holic step aunt Kesha is going to be there and that's always cause for great fun.
Beatrix starting drinking early. Attending so many weddings at her age gets tiring, they all seem to run together now. I've lost track of just how old she is.
Beatrix: I'm...actually, I don't even know anymore. I just five hundred years old and leave it at that.
Tatiana: Thank you for not saying years young.
Yeah, that makes me uncomfortable.
Always breaking tradition, Margrethe and Gustav took their own wedding photograph, the first in this dynasty. I've tried to take regular wedding photographs in my other dynasty attempts, but it always took a while since I didn't have University Life or World Adventures in those days, just Ambitions (I got UL in the middle of my first dynasty). But the pictures of Brent and Tatiana in the main room are old and we needed an update. They've been moved to Brent's memorial while some were placed in Tatiana's room, and now Margrethe and Gustav have taken over.
Just before they took their picture, however, there was a bit of a fiasco that made me nearly rip my hair out and rejoice at Margrethe existing in a state of obliviousness. You see, everyone was standing around talking in the kitchen after changing into their formal wear (Margrethe, of course, talking to herself). I step away from the computer to sneeze and blow my nose, because, y'know, sick, and then I come back a little over thirty seconds later to see everyone yelling at Gustav.
Turns he used a pickup line on Tatiana and they were flirting with each other (almost as frightening as the time I saw Lolita and Cornelia Goth flirting with each other
-shudders-). Everyone was raging, but Margrethe didn't even notice even though it was happening right next to her. Now Gustav is no longer friends with everyone in the household. I'm just glad Margrethe was oblivious.
Thankfully I went and got everyone moving, putting Elisabeth on fire duty. Giant bonfires seem to be the key to great parties.
Elisabeth's in-laws showed up not long after.
With their arrival, the party could begin! The blonde teenager never sat down, instead yelling that she couldn't make it. There's always one.
With that, the ceremony went off without a hitch.
Margrethe and Gustav cut the cake as soon as they were done and everyone scrambled for a piece. Poor Jimmy got his piece last!
Alright, now for some pictures of the extended family. The woman with black hair in the light green maternity outfit is Margrethe's aunt Jodi Andrew, younger sister of Cheryl Andrew, who is dating Garland Groves, brother of Jimmy. After the teenaged Kristen O'brien (I think that's her name), she was the youngest person in attendance to the wedding. Everyone else was an old man or old lady.
The woman sitting next to Margrethe is juice-and-nectar-holic step aunt Kesha Dye, Jimmy's stepsister. She was once again stuck in the loop of drinking all of the juice and nectar in sight. Another ten bottles were lost to her.
She and I would probably get in a fight over nectar if we were at a wedding together.
Jimmy got to spend to time talking to his ex-girlfriend-turned-stepsister Tamra Dye. They aren't friends, but they can have civil conversations with each other. He managed to catch her in the bathroom as she was washing dishes.
The whole party rounded off with step aunt Kesha showing Margrethe how it's done. Everyone was so juiced at the end, but Margrethe, Gustav, and Tatiana have a trip to take...
