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Family #1: River & Raven Ahuna
Address: Slipshod Mesquite, Bedrock Strait

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• A New Start – Part 1

Family #2: Shawn & Serena Rawls
Address: Agave Abode, Bedrock Strait

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Family #3: Erick & Evangeline Lily
Address: , Bedrock Strait

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Family #4: Kenji & Jin-Ae Kim
Address: , Bedrock Strait

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As some of you have known, I’ve been struggling with writer’s block for a while. Then, recently, I was contacted about adopting an orphaned & abandoned challenge. My first instinct was to say no, I have more than enough on my plate at the moment. However, upon perusing the original challenge rules, I was hit with a wave of inspiration. Therefore, it quickly became obvious to me that I did need to adopt the challenge, and – for that matter – I also needed to start my own attempt at it. So that’s where this is coming from.

The challenge is called the “Build a World Challenge” and it is 100% up my alley. It’s complicated, long, and difficult. I have begun the painstaking work of updating and adapting the challenge, but I couldn’t resist starting the challenge while my inspiration was hot. Hence, I will not be providing the rules right away, because they’re still in progress. I will provide a link to the previous rules, and my version is coming – but it’s going to be a MONSTER to finish. (Previous rules: pdf here / spreadsheet here) Basically, the premise of the challenge is that you start with one sims world at a time, and eventually fill your entire save, including the “locked” and “secret” lots with your own sims and builds. This is done by “unlocking” lots and actions and careers – basically everything – by completing skills and aspirations (among other things). For example, the required starting community lot for Oasis Springs is a Fishing Spot Lot (Park lot), and it takes getting three sims to max fishing to unlock it.

BAW Challenge Page | New Start – Part 2

River stared bleakly at the pile of bills on his grandfather’s table. If only he’d known how much trouble the old man was really in… ? He paused, then shook his head. No. If he’d known, he would have never proposed to Raven, the girl he’d loved from afar for as long as he could remember. And he couldn’t imagine his life without her sunshine in it. For a long moment, he sat there with a dopey smile on his face… then he again shook his head.

His whole life, he had assumed he would take over the reins, as it were, of his grandfather’s farm. Mom had moved him to the city when he was young and his good-for-nothing father had abandoned them, but he had always known the country was where he belonged. Now… Mom was gone. And so was his grandfather. River squinted while looking out the dingy, cracked window at the dust storm brewing. This land was spent. There was nothing left here except a mounded pile of cascading debt.

What was he going to do now? Desolate and desperately thirsty, he walked back outside and hopped on his second-hand motorcycle. It was a long ride into what was considered “town” in these parts, but it was blessedly cool with the wind ruffling his hair, and the machine humming raggedly beneath him.

He paused at the town’s one stop light… and glanced around. It didn’t look like he was going to be holding up traffic by sitting here longer than he should, and he was at a loss of where to go. Finally, the choking dust at the back of his throat reminded him of why he’d ridden into town in the first place. Across the street, a blinking light showed a general store that was open for business. Perhaps they had something cool to drink.