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I’m a big fan of board games in general, so when I found the Board Game challenge, I was immediately interested. Finding a Sims 4 version a bit later, was all the incentive I needed.

So it begins. I started it a while ago, and took a few pictures. I was on a tear of starting new things, and getting to a point where I was bored of Sims. I was hoping starting some new stuff would mean I didn’t need a break, but it didn’t happen. I saved the pictures and the save, however, with every intention to come back to it when my interest in Sims came back. Well, it’s back.. and it’s time to get to work on this.

Before we start, I need to introduce our founder.

Amaranthe Brinson

Oh, and if you can’t tell, the color theme for this generation is purple. Which is great, because it’s one of my favorite colors!

…And so this is where the story starts.

Amaranthe starts out in the painting career.. and I work her so hard she has to watch her tiny TV almost every day after work. She meets several islanders at the welcome party (shown in the featured picture) .. and ends up trying a couple Kava parties, but has no luck (yet) at getting the gold she needs for her aspiration.

Her first “summon Island Elementals” pays off, and she finds one of them who seems to have some nice looks, as well as decent traits. Score!

Every spare second is spent painting. Since we have to PAY to have kids.. and a honeymoon, every dime is appreciated.

Hawea (the Island Elemental I’m trying to woo..) .. invites us to the Spice festival. So of course, we drop the painting and go.

Another shot of ghostly Stargazing.

Luckily the Spice fest has food, because poor Amaranthe was starving. Dunno about Hawea, though. Do ghosts like tofu dogs??

Such a fun, colorful place to be. We remember to harvest the plants for possible cash inflow, and try out the bubble blower.

After buying our required festival shirt for the event, we sit and chat until her energy run out.. and send her home.

Looks like such a peaceful place to have a bath. Which is good, because she doesn’t own a shower – yet.

Hawea invites us out to the lounge for the evening, and it happens to be Neighborhood Brawl day… So we find someone to fight.

Apparently ghosts don’t do karaoke .. but Amaranthe is game to try it.

.. Really? doing your uni homework at a lounge?? .. I mean.. multitasking.. I guess?

There’s so much going on in this screenshot I don’t even know where to start. There’s the guy on the microphone, reciting sonnets to… no one. The celebrity watching us fighting with a ghost… and the chick in the swimsuit who could give a rat’s rear end as to anything going on. And still.. how exactly do you get in a position in a fight to have your feet that far in the air?? .. and Still win the fight. I’m confused.

After the next night’s (mostly failed) Kava party (that I apparently got no pictures of).. this lady just wouldn’t leave. I couldn’t ask her to, and she just spent the whole night/morning at our house.. chatting, cleaning house, and generally making herself an annoyance. Although the house cleaning was okay. I didn’t have to clean up after the party, at least.

We summon Island Elementals, ask for judgement.. and get in a flirty mood. Perfect. Soon as we’re allowed, we give him a key to our place.. and start the flirt train.

Luckily, he’s into us. (I also chuckle, because his mood shows as “hysterical” .. and all I could think was “Well at least ghosts can’t die…”

Success! Hey, Mikie, I think he really likes us!

Well.. at least I thought he did…. what’s with the meteor?!

… Are you saying we’re “hot stuff”??  (Couldn’t help it. Sorry. =P)

This was happening while I was getting a notice that above meteor had started a fire on our lot. And that Amaranthe discovered the fire. I’m not sure how… because to my eyes, she was definitely too busy to notice a fire on the lot…  Oh.. and ALSO while this was happening, Caleb Vatore (Vampire townie) showed up at the door.. knocked, then promptly let himself in to take a hot bath in our bathtub. While the fire was raging. I send her to put out the fire, and by that time, Caleb was done with his spa night and had left, so I never got a picture. I was laughing so hard I was nearly crying, though.

Love Day.. and Hawea invites us to Center Park in Myshuno (what is his deal with the city??) for a real date. While we’re at work. So did we leave work early? .. Of course!

While on the date, we get the relationship bar high enough to ask him to move in.. and somehow, he turns human when he does so. Not going to complain, but it was still weird. Oh yeah.. as soon as he moves in, Amaranthe asks him to marry her. He agrees… which is awesome.

And I was right about his traits. He’s a perfect partner for a founder. He wants to be a dad!

I send them immediately to get married.

… And they kiss to the sound of rockets going off.

… Another successful courtship completed.

As per the rules, I immediately send them on a honeymoon. The rules don’t specifically say how LONG it has to be, though, so I pick an ambiguous 3 day stretch.. and I pack her easel, because there’s not much to do in Granite Falls.

Well, other than the obvious honeymoon things. And eating.

Well, I guess a figure painting is appropriate. Since you now have a model to paint…

Working on our cooking skill. There’s no oven in this house, though, so we safely make salads instead of braving the campfire outside.

.. Unexpectedly, it’s Harvestfest.. and Hawea immediately ticks off a gnome. Who breaks everything. So Amaranthe gets some handiness. And we pick up all the seeds that the gnome that Amaranthe succeeded in pleasing drops for us… then promptly sell the gnomes. Hey, money is tight, alright? (well, no I guess it’s not. We got 20k for moving Hawea in… but still. We have to move after this generation, so I better start saving!! I briefly considered getting rid of the money he moved in with.. but there’s nothing in the rules about it.. so I ended up keeping it.)

Hawea keeps distracting her from painting, so I send him out to get fish for dinner. Spoiler alert: he only catches a couple of coolers and some weeds…. so no to the fish dinner.

Then, I notice that Hawea is definitely looking a bit worse for wear. Apparently standing out in the cold fishing most the night was a bad call on my part.

… So we let him pester Amaranthe while painting for a while.

… Great. Amaranthe is now sick, too. What a fabulous honeymoon. I finally decide to send them home half a day early, because they’re both dazed and miserable. We remember to pack the easel.

First thing we do when we get home: get Hawea a job. Due to his love of kids, and rather ambiguous trait set, we have him pick up an Education career. Plus, it’s still new to me.. so that’s cool.

I then decide I’ve had enough playing for one night.. and decide to upgrade their home before I quit. I spend about half their money, but I like the results.

I also buy them a “real” bed – or at least a better one, but I forgot to get a picture of that.

… And it leaves us with enough room to start a family. Which we’ll do next time. Meanwhile, we’ve made a good start to Generation One! See you next time!

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