Empress Crystal, the Beautiful, Amazing, Impressive, Artistic- did I mention amazing? It deserves mentioning again because she is truly one cool chick. She's bearing and raising the next generation of royals all by herself, keeping the palace nice and tidy, keeps her husband on track with his career and royal duties, and finds times to pump out those awesome dragonfruit plant things. And paint portraits of her husband and herself.

While pregnant!

The first day back unto the lot she goes into labor. With no one in the palace to assist her, and a toddler to chase after.

See, it wasn't that much of a give away. She had the baby in the first five slides. Welcome, welcome, the prince of the Silk Road. He's named Meguru. Meguru Vu.

I haven't decided whether or not to have this challenge in the traditional sense or give it a twist. I.E. Have the first male heir take the reigns of the household. I might choose to just have the next heir the eldest sibling. In which case Setsuna would take over. I might throw out a poll when they're older. I'd love to have some input.

The royal legacy is more or less secure, either way.

Crystal soon gets to fawning her new baby with all the attentions.

But she remembers to have her tender little moments with Setsuna.

She's pretty proud of herself. And deserves to be! Alright, now it sounds like Priya isn't the only one who has a crush on the Empress. o3o Enough praising the Empress, people! Move along!

Emperor Lazlo has been making huge break throughs in the field of science. I wonder if there should be any community benefits to topping careers. Stereos, or television or telephones. As Michelle pointed out, phones are pretty hard to live without.

The couple talk about maybe having another child.

lol I couldn't believe that icon popped up just as I thought to myself 'how cool would it be if they starting talking about having more kids?'

They decided to go for it. Afterall, its everyones job to populate their city.

Even if the early years are difficult.

Also, to celebrate completing one whole rotation of this Royal Kingdom challenge, the community lots have been upgraded. In addition to that, Crystal commissioned this lot: The Imperial Gardens.

A little place for residents to gather and enjoy nature.

Here Crystal meets one of the newest spouses, Andrea.

But being that she's expecting her needs went down super fast and we had to get the heck out of dodge before she starved.

The Bath House has hot tubs, saunas and massage tables installed.

See? Saunas.

And Crystal relaxed in the hot springs and chatted it up with Cristopher Tsang and Medical Merchant Cho.

Birthday time!

Meguru has his mother features, but his fathers black hair and brown eyes. He's rather handsome.

He also has his fathers lack of clean points. Well, that's not fair. Lazlo has none. At least Meguru has one.

Empress Crystal starts to show. But that doesn't stop her from her mission. She wants to thank her towns-people for their contributions to the Silk Road.

She runs into Ramir Patel at the Seamstresses and hands him his gift. Ramir is speechless.

Crystal also meets another new spouse, Lydia!

The Empress welcomes Lydia to their little hamlet.

And gives her a welcoming gift. Patels and Contraries down! Five more families to go!

As the Empress tries to head home shes beset upon by hail. A grave omen! Get out, silly! Before you and your unborn die!

Meanwhile, Lazlo doses his spawn with smart milk- oh! that can be the scientific discovery.

And Meguru learns the basics.

The Empress spots a wild Tsang and gives him a little something to being an awesome Peasant.

She also runs into General Ramaswami.

And gives him a gift as well~

Lazlo is happy to pick up the domestic duties while his Empress is out rewarding their subjects.

And a mere fifteen minutes from Setsuna's birtdhay she tops creativity.

Birthday time.

:I

At least the crown is princess-y.

There, that's better. Formal wear to the rescue!

Y-you can stop staring at me now... please.

Empress Crystal finally sold a masterpiece painting. it's been on her want bar for ages.

That poor baby. Someday the royal family will have servants who will deal with this!

There we go. Pandas for Meguru.

Look at him, all delighted that he got the triangle to fit into the box.

"I've brought home a traveller."

"What do I do with it?"

Stop looking at me! Oh em gee, you're as creepers at your dad!

Princess Setsuna did manage to divine the purpose of being a child. Eventually.

And learned to have fun.

And to laugh at herself.

Despite these two wearing military uniforms, they're both actually in science. Dweebs. But! Here's a Wan!

Here's a present, Wan!

Daw, these guys are so cute together! I'm glad they're in the same career. And that they're friends now.

Why is Emperss Crystal still pregnant?! Jeez, it's been ages already.

That's what I like to see! Labor! Pain! Pajamas!

Yay! Another boy! Welcome to the family, Teruo!

The happy couple fawn over their newest baby.

Then the amazing Empress Crystal pops out another son! Can you believe it?! I couldn't believe it! I was so happy!

Welcome twins! And welcome Tetsuo. About here is where I paused, saved and then started hyperventilating and repeating to myself 'I've done twins before- I've done twins before.' Two more days to go. Two more days to go. Meguru hardly even needs watching these days.

Girl, you rock. I mean you totes rock. Twins?! And boys, to boot. The kingdom is going to praise you until the end of time.

"Man, all these babies are going to suck up all of Moms time and I wont get to cuddle with her anymore."

Oh hush, child. Your moms taking you out on a kingdom excursion.

Empress Crystal teaches Princess Setsuna proper royalty etiquette. It lokos like Princess Setsuna wants to get into the paranormal career track as a girl. I mean who wouldn't? It's totally awesome!

They're soon joined by Lydia Contrary- which, now that I think about it, I should change their last name to something theme appropriate. We'll have to mary in a townie with an Asian surname later. Yay plans.

Look, the tea house has an asian bistro now!

Meadow Thayer is trying to make like shes old enough for bar drinks.

But her friend blows her cover.

Almost, Meadow. Almost.

Empress Crystal runs into Cleo Shikibu and I'm surprised they dont know each other.

She gets a present, anyway! Woo! The only person left to give a present to is Vivien Cho!

Damn it, Jill Fleig! Way to ruin your chances of getting into one of the families!

And just to be clear, yes. There are now two Rodney Jungs in the neighborhood. The one brought from Riverblossom and the one that comes with every new neighborhood. -flop-

Emperor Lazlo has the day off. So he's playing pirates in the tub.

And looking at me. Stop looking at me.

And spending time with his family.

"General Setsuna mounts her trusty steed and heads off into battle!"

Happy Birthday, Meguru.

We'll make him into a little pirate. That's time period appropriate, right? :B

He tops logic just as the timer goes out for the week. Thanks for reading and see you next time.