Chapter 3.9 | Rules for this challenge | Chapter 3.11
Generation Three: Red Appearance: Red hair, scandalous clothing style Traits: Romantic, Hot-headed, Art Lover Aspiration: Serial Romantic Occupation: Art Critic House Goal: 30,000 worth
We quickly settled into a new daily routine, this little family of mine. Charlie excelled at both school and scouts, and seemed to be the most at home when making friends and being as active as possible. I wondered what that would mean for her future.
Kado helped out around the house as much (or more?) than he ever had, which gave me the freedom to work on my art more. I quickly started to understand the value of having a real partner in life, and Kado went from being just a valuable helper to being completely irreplaceable.
(more…)Chapter 3.8 | Rules for this challenge | Chapter 3.10
Generation Three: Red Appearance: Red hair, scandalous clothing style Traits: Romantic, Hot-headed, Art Lover Aspiration: Serial Romantic Occupation: Art Critic House Goal: 30,000 worth
The next week passed by in a miserable blur. Kado never did come back. I picked myself up by my bootstraps, as they say, and decided I’d better start actually looking for a real partner. Charlie, however, was taking it the hardest. I finally had to sit down and explain that Kado has other kids, and a wife.. a real family, and that was probably where he had gone. She cried herself to sleep in my bed that night, and I felt even worse for having told her the truth. Perhaps I shouldn’t have?? …. But I’d sworn I’d raise her right, and lying to her had just seemed.. worse than breaking her heart, somehow.
(more…)Chapter 3.7 | Rules for this challenge | Chapter 3.9
Generation Three: Red Appearance: Red hair, scandalous clothing style Traits: Romantic, Hot-headed, Art Lover Aspiration: Serial Romantic Occupation: Art Critic House Goal: 30,000 worth
I finally got around to buying a television. Granted, it was because work was requiring me to watch some for research, but still, I bought a TV.
Work seems to take up so much of my time. I try to do as much from home as possible, but trips to the city on the bus were time-consuming and necessary. I hated leaving poor Charlie in daycare, but progressing in my career was definitely a priority for me. Things were going really well on that front, at least. Promotions were coming regularly, and so were the raises – which really helped, because I knew I was going to need to upgrade the house eventually. Charlie wasn’t going to remain tiny forever.
(more…)One last thing to do before I actually start writing: introduce you to the families and lots I added to my game for this save. (Also, make sure you check the Challenge Home Page link below if you’re interested in game details like the ageing scheme I’m using.) All of the below lots and families are pulled off the gallery by searching hashtags, and I’m including item names and EA ids of each piece, so if you are interested in them, you can grab them, too.
(more…)The first thing I want to do before I start writing this new challenge is introduce you to the family and their house. Both are on the gallery, if you’re interested in downloading them. In fact, there’s also a smaller version of the cabin uploaded earlier, because I had to add room for their toddlers.
(more…)“Do I need a new challenge? No. Should I start a new challenge? No. But I want to get back to blogging in the worst way, and I’m afraid to jump back into existing stories until I get the hang of writing again… At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. I’ve started this particular challenge before, and didn’t get very far… so it deserves another look. Then I have this young family from yet another challenge that didn’t get very far (because I mis-read the rules and missed something rather massive)… and I am absolutely in love with them. So I figured, why not restart the Simerican Settlers Challenge… and bend the rules just far enough to allow me to start with an existing family instead of just the one founder.”
So, that’s the plan. I can’t promise that I will be updating this regularly, nor can I guesstimate how long I’ll play it before feeling confident enough to pick up my old stories where I left off… so don’t ask. I just don’t know.
Now, on to the challenge. The challenge I picked for the young McPherson family is the “Simerican Settlers” Challenge. It’s not one I wrote, nor have I done any updating to it…. so some changes may have to be made along the line, as I am approaching this mostly from a story standpoint.
(more…)This is the other half of my Decades Challenge War. “A Tangled Yarn” under the story section is the first half. This particular half of the challenge is played differently from Tangles, because I play it the “easy” way (from my experience).. By playing one generation per “decade” .. it’s not very realistic.. But it is an interesting take on the challenge. It eliminates the need to count the “years” by keeping track of sim days… but makes the challenge much longer. (Which is something that I’m good at doing – making challenges longer.) Another note: this challenge is tied up in another way with the “Tangles” story – at least one of the sims in the Sheppards’ family has jumped saves to marry into the Tangles family. (Which one? … you’ll have to read to find out, when I get it published.)
(more…)“The Knitting Pack is coming out… and I’m so excited. It seems the perfect time to start a Decades Challenge. My problem was – I couldn’t figure out how to play it. There were too many options. And I simply couldn’t decide. So, here’s my solution. I will be starting TWO Decades Challenges, with very different options and blogging styles. If at any time I’m not having fun with either (or I find my setup isn’t working well), I hold the right to discontinue one or the other and just stick with one challenge from then on.”
At least that was the original plan. Then the Tangles’ story took on a life of its own, and even pulled in some of the other Decades story members across the save files (which you’ll see in the next chapters to be published). Both of these challenges will be continuing as they are at this point. In fact, once my blog organization project of Dec. 2021 finishes, this story is top of my list to get back to work on!
In short: this is a traditional Decades Challenge, with time going past as the Sims age instead of by generation (like I’m doing with the other half of the Challenge War). I did modify the aging scheme, though. So instead of one year being 4 sims days, it’s 7 sim days, or one season. It’s easier for me to keep track of. It makes the play take much longer, but I like it because I have tons of time to get to know my sims.
(more…)There are challenges that I have, finally, thrown the towel in on. And the odd one or two that I actually finished. This is the graveyard that those challenges go to. It includes some real gems from the end of my Sims 3 career – ones I just couldn’t delete, because I was so very attached to them. It also includes my first Drifter Challenge that I restarted when toddlers came out, and all the testing I did for my Apartment Switch Challenge ruleset.
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House 013 Chapter 5 < | > House 013 Chapter 7 First, we get a look at our goals: House 013 Building Goals: 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom home worth at least $100k Simoleons (90k-ish now) -Must include a designated gaming room House 013 Generational Goals: Achieve Level 10 of the Gamer branch of Tech Guru […]
WC: Day Four < | Challenge Home Page | > WC: Day Six Shopping Jaz was up early before school, and found out they weren’t the only one awake. They tried to draw Timika into conversation, but all they got for their effort was a weird look, so Jaz just shut up and ate breakfast […]
WC: Day Three < | Challenge Home Page | > WC: Day Five The Concert Jaz woke up the next morning feeling far less disorientated than previous mornings. Perhaps they were getting used to their new home. Rolling over, Jaz, noted that Penny was already up and gone for the day, so Jaz decided it […]
WC: Day Two < | Challenge Home Page | > WC: Day Four Leadership To Jaz’s delight, the next day they were allowed to travel to Oasis Springs Desert Bloom Park for their club meeting. Above anything else, Jaz was really excited to spend some time with their best friend, Colin. It was hard to […]
Magnolia Promenade Recap < | Challenge Home Page | > Newcrest Recap Week 5: (continued) Marnie spends some time cleaning up the house’s garden, planting with plants that are better suited for the desert. Then, her priority was making the dryer lint-proof and safe. Bennie tries to talk to Benji, only to find out that […]
WC: Day One < | Challenge Home Page | > WC: Day Three Another Party Jaz woke up for the second night in a strange bed, and felt an overwhelming sense of disorientation wash over them. Only this morning, there wasn’t even a familiar face to count on. They weren’t alone, but it felt like […]
OS: Day Thirty < | Challenge Home Page | > WC: Day Two Starting Over In the morning, everyone woke up a little blearily, and were called down for a HOT breakfast, unbelievably. The quality of the food was evident in the silence with which everyone ate. They then wandered the house, finding things to […]
OS: Day Twenty-Nine < | Challenge Home Page | > Willow Creek: Day One New Beginnings Marnie was still in her room, sleeping, by the next morning, so, without any other choice, Jaz stayed home from school. Phoenix and Myles laughed at them, and wished them “luck” with the twins and the granola… but Jaz’s […]
OS: Day Twenty-Eight < | Challenge Home Page | > OS: Day Thirty The Nightmare The kids got up and got ready for school silently, trying not to wake Marnie. They made sure the Twins had breakfast, then filed out the door with worried faces. Jaz honestly considered staying home with the twins since Marnie […]
OS: Day Twenty-Seven < | Challenge Home Page | > OS: Day Twenty-Nine Colin’s Tale The morning started like any other. Hungry kids that needed to get ready for school, and a couple of toddlers complaining about breakfast. The only thing was – Marnie knew there was barely anything to eat, and expected complaints. The […]
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