• Notes: Still testing to see how a schedule with time off for blogging is going to work, but I have to say – it’s already starting to combat the burnout I have been feeling coming on lately. As you can see, Tuesday’s Blog day has me working on stream-able stuff, so I’ll be doing five streams instead of the four from last week. Also! I am extending my hours streamed on my four stream days to five instead of four. We’ll see how that goes.
• Also: this schedule obviously doesn’t reflect my second channel, which I will likely be streaming on each evening (https://twitch.tv/thrallsnightoff/) .. Currently working on Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood!

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenge! –
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
• Coming Soon… My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded This will be starting in November, and will NOT be a community challenge. Rather, it will be an interactive Shell challenge COLLAB where I will give everyone participating (people who sign up via a Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea – like maybe a Christmas Village in December?
• Also:

• Notes: Yes, this is a major change, I’m cutting back to four days a week streaming Sims. This is a TEST to see how it works out, and if it helps combat the burnout I have been feeling coming on lately. However, it will also give me some “creative time” that I have been sorely missing, and allow me to get some blogging stories out. On days that I’m working on a stream-able blog story, I will hop online and show you all what I have going on in the background, but the two I picked this week just aren’t really stream-able.
• Also: this schedule obviously doesn’t reflect my second channel, which I will likely be streaming on each evening (https://twitch.tv/thrallsnightoff/) .. Currently working on Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood!

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
  • Coming Soon… My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• Also:

Streams This Next Week:

• Monday, September 6th (1-5 PM EST): No Stream, I took the day off.
• Tuesday, September 7th (1-5 PM EST): Farm Legacy Challenge
• Wednesday, September 8th (1-3 PM EST): Building Stream
• Wednesday, September 8th (5-9 PM EST): Special Stream – Roll the Dice Shell Tours! After Tours, I will be debuting my October shell challenge early so everyone will have extra time, because it’s a tough one!
• Thursday, September 9th (1-5 PM EST): Farm Legacy Challenge
• Friday, September 10th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Chat Dictates My Build! (possibly just part one) Chat will get to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
• Saturday, September 11th (1-5 PM EST): Save File Saturday – this is going to be a weekly thing now – working on build(s) for my save file once a week. I realized I can’t ever get this done if I don’t start working on it, so… here we go!
• Sunday, September 12th: No stream

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more! Completed
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/) – Completed Will be scheduled for sometime in the next couple of weeks!
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
  • After these three are done, the next challenge(s) to be added are:
    • My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• Also:

• Current Shell Challenge: NOW DUE Sept 8th!!

Streams This Next Week:

• Monday, August 30th (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge
• Tuesday, August 31st (1-5 PM EST): Building a pub for the Farm Legacy Challenge
• Wednesday, September 1st (1-3 PM EST): NO STREAM – this is the twitch walk-out day
• Wednesday, September 1st (5-9 PM EST): NO STREAM – this is the twitch walk-out day – if you need to contact me, do so via discord, I will not be on Twitch at all all day on this day. (Also may have my computer pulled apart putting in a new solid state hard drive to replace my cluttered and over-filled main drive, so be patient with me if you do need to contact me.)
• Thursday, September 2nd (1-5 PM EST): Farm Legacy Challenge
• Friday, September 3rd (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Saturday, September 4th (1-5 PM EST): Save File Saturday – this is going to be a weekly thing now – working on build(s) for my save file once a week. I realized I can’t ever get this done if I don’t start working on it, so… here we go!
• Sunday, September 5th: No stream

Fun Stuff:

• First off, I want to thank everyone who came to the first ever community night! We had a lot of fun! In fact, we had so much fun, I now plan to make this a monthly thing. Expect to see a Community Games stream every last Saturday of the month.
• Notice on my Youtube: I officially have videos scheduled for the next week, and more that are sorted and ready to upload to continue the trend. I know several of you are anxious to see the old VODs from when I started streaming, so I’m working on getting them actually going up there instead of just sitting around on my hard drive.
• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges. *OF NOTE: I am thinking about considering one or both of the first two challenges on this list as complete and putting them on the schedule in the coming month. This would mean your points would be getting refunded… Let me know what you think about this idea in the Announcements channel on my Discord.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
  • After these three are done, the next challenge(s) to be added are:
    • My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• Also:

• Current Shell Challenge: NOW DUE Sept 8th!!

Streams This Next Week:

• Monday, August 23rd (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Putting together the rooms for my collab with DeeDavidSim into a house, then landscaping and the like.
• Tuesday, August 24th (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge
• Wednesday, August 25th (1-3 PM EST): Building?
• Wednesday, August 25th (5-9 PM EST): Either building or Farm Legacy Challenge
• Thursday, August 26th (2-8? PM EST): Special Stream – Simmer Sabotage collab with BritishSimerTime – Notice that this will be starting an hour later than usual, and I have no idea how long it’ll go. So we’ll just play it by ear.
• Friday, August 27th (1-5 PM EST): Farm Legacy Challenge (Would like to get some work done on the second generation!)
• Saturday, August 28th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Our first-ever Community Games Night! Let’s all get together and have a good time with this!
• Sunday, August 29th: No stream

I will hopefully be getting back to the decades challenge next week, but this week I really wanted to do some other stuff, like the Farm legacy. ALSO: Tours MAY be postponed an extra week for our shell, I’m considering being part of the no-stream on Sept. 1st with the protest on twitch against hate raids. Will let you know!

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin* COMPLETED
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
  • After these three are done, the next challenge(s) to be added are:
    • My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• Also:

• Current Shell Challenge:

Streams This Next Week:

• Monday, August 16th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Buildalong (#picknicbasket) tours! After tours, I’ll do a couple of channel point redemption builds that need doing, the load up my rooms for my collab with DeeDavidSim. I hope to finish them on this day, so this stream may run a bit late.
• Tuesday, August 17th (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge
• Wednesday, August 18th (1-3 PM EST): No Stream
• Wednesday, August 18th (5-9 PM EST): RainbowSins Challenge
• Thursday, August 19th (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Friday, August 20th (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Saturday, August 21st (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Sunday, August 22nd: No stream

Looking ahead to the week after, I’m planning to schedule our first ever Community Game Night on EITHER August 25th (the wed evening stream), or in the afternoon/evening on August 28th (Saturday). Putting up a poll on discord to decide which day it will be. Also: yes, I realize that the community challenge for the Community Game Night wasn’t completed all the way. I decided since it’s taking so long for all three, I am going to refund all points for it to you all and consider it completed. If you’re paying close attention, you’ll notice that there’s a new third Community Challenge added in, with a lower point target.

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin* COMPLETED
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
  • After these three are done, the next challenge(s) to be added are:
    • My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• Also:

• Current Shell Challenge:

Streams This Next Week:

• Monday, August 9th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Putting Brindlelynn‘s rooms together for our collab!
• Tuesday, August 10th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Designing rooms (yep, this time I’m doing rooms, too!) for my collab with DeeDavidSim. This stream may run late, as I would like to get them all done today, but if I don’t finish it, I will schedule another day for it next week!
• Wednesday, August 11th (1-3 PM EST): No Stream (Taking off for my son’s birthday)
• Wednesday, August 11th (5-9 PM EST): No Stream
• Thursday, August 12th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – By request – Playing my Diversity Experiment Challenge blog save on stream. Will be working to end the generation and get ready for the next. https://illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/the-diversity-experiment/
• Friday, August 13th (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge game play
• Saturday, August 14th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream – Buildalong (#picknicbasket) tours! Afterwards, I will either load up my Decades save or do some building.
• Sunday, August 15th: No stream

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin*
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • After these three are done, the next challenge(s) to be added are:
    • My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
    • Sims Murder Party: 8 Rainbow sims competing to see who lives the longest. Chat redeems to add either helpful or murderous items to my build, as well as other chaos redeems. This idea comes from BritishSimerTime‘s stream – and as a chat participant.. it was SO much fun.
• Also:

• Current Shell Challenge:

• There is also another puzzle-type shell/build-a-long up, feel free to jump in! Rules are as follows: Download lot from this hashtag on the gallery: #picknicbasket – Designed as a choose your own size shell. The only piece you MUST use is the rounded deck, but it can be merged with other pieces so long as the outside rounded edge is still clearly visible. Your prompt: Build a home for picnicking with a large deck area (covered or not) outside. Choose at least 6 rooms from the given 25 (plus deck), & build a home or venue. Adding walls & changing to spandrel fence or half wall is ok. Must include a water feature. Tours: THIS WEEK – Aug 14 (a Saturday, starting at 1PM)

Streams This Next Week*:

• Monday, August 2nd (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge Play
• Tuesday, August 3rd (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge Play
• Wednesday, August 4th (1-3 PM EST): No Stream
• Wednesday, August 4th (5-9 PM EST): Special Stream – Tour night for #thrallshell6 (My Best Friend’s Shell) – and debuting my new shell challenge after.
• Thursday, August 5th (1-5 PM EST): NSB Plum Gen finishing – once it’s done, we go back to my on-stream Hard Mode Decades play.
• Friday, August 6th (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Saturday, August 7th (1-5 PM EST): Hard Mode Decades Challenge
• Sunday, August 8th: No stream

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin*
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • After these three are done, the next challenge to be added is: My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• In Search of Streamers to Collaborate with: I am also hunting for more streamers who are willing to collaborate on Twitch stream challenges: For more info, contact me on Twitch or Discord.
  • Inside/Outside Shell Challenges: This involves you building a set of rooms and decorating them, me building a shell and all the landscaping, and then switching said builds. I would then put together your rooms into a house and landscape it, and you would decorate the shell I made.
  • Chaos Wheel Challenges: This involves doing a multi stream (or just both of us streaming at the same time) with both streamers coming up with their own wheel of “bad things” to do to the other person’s game and build. We start with a sim we’ve created and then play “Rags to Riches” style, with the “goal” being building a full house and having a family. Each of us will get to pick our own things to put on the wheel. At the end of stream, both streamers upload their builds and families and wonder where it all went wrong. (LOL)
  • Blind Building Challenges: Again, a same-time stream, only this time it’s all about building. One person is building “blind”, without being able to see the other person’s screen. The other streamer builds a build, and directs their partner to build the same build with just verbal directions. At the end of stream, both partners upload their builds and laugh about how different they are.
• Current Shell Challenge:

• There is also another puzzle-type shell/build-a-long up, feel free to jump in! Rules are as follows: Download lot from this hashtag on the gallery: #picknicbasket – Designed as a choose your own size shell. The only piece you MUST use is the rounded deck, but it can be merged with other pieces so long as the outside rounded edge is still clearly visible. Your prompt: Build a home for picnicking with a large deck area (covered or not) outside. Choose at least 6 rooms from the given 25 (plus deck), & build a home or venue. Adding walls & changing to spandrel fence or half wall is ok. Must include a water feature. Tours: Aug 14 (a Saturday, starting at 1PM)

Streams This Next Week*:

• Monday, July 26th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream Alert – Building & landscaping a cottage core farm shell for a collaboration with brindlelynn. If we finish early, we’ll to to work on the Black History Challenge.
• Tuesday, July 27th (1-5 PM EST): Black History Challenge Play
• Wednesday, July 28th (1-3 PM EST): Building Stream – or Black History Challenge
• Wednesday, July 28th (5-9 PM EST): RainbowSins Challenge is back!!
• Thursday, July 29th (1-5 PM EST): NSB Plum Gen finishing
• Friday, July 30th (1-5 PM EST): NSB Plum Gen finishing
• Saturday, July 31st (1-9 PM EST): NSB Plum Gen finishing – once it’s done, we go back to my on-stream Hard Mode Decades play.
• Sunday, August 1st: No stream

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin*
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • After these three are done, the next challenge to be added is: My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• In Search of Streamers to Collaborate with: I am also hunting for more streamers who are willing to collaborate on Twitch stream challenges: For more info, contact me on Twitch or Discord.
  • Inside/Outside Shell Challenges: This involves you building a set of rooms and decorating them, me building a shell and all the landscaping, and then switching said builds. I would then put together your rooms into a house and landscape it, and you would decorate the shell I made.
  • Chaos Wheel Challenges: This involves doing a multi stream (or just both of us streaming at the same time) with both streamers coming up with their own wheel of “bad things” to do to the other person’s game and build. We start with a sim we’ve created and then play “Rags to Riches” style, with the “goal” being building a full house and having a family. Each of us will get to pick our own things to put on the wheel. At the end of stream, both streamers upload their builds and families and wonder where it all went wrong. (LOL)
  • Blind Building Challenges: Again, a same-time stream, only this time it’s all about building. One person is building “blind”, without being able to see the other person’s screen. The other streamer builds a build, and directs their partner to build the same build with just verbal directions. At the end of stream, both partners upload their builds and laugh about how different they are.
• Current Shell Challenge:

• There is also another puzzle-type shell/build-a-long up, feel free to jump in! Rules are as follows: Download lot from this hashtag on the gallery: #picknicbasket – Designed as a choose your own size shell. The only piece you MUST use is the rounded deck, but it can be merged with other pieces so long as the outside rounded edge is still clearly visible. Your prompt: Build a home for picnicking with a large deck area (covered or not) outside. Choose at least 6 rooms from the given 25 (plus deck), & build a home or venue. Adding walls & changing to spandrel fence or half wall is ok. Must include a water feature. Tours: Aug 14 (a Saturday, starting at 1PM)

Streams This Next Week*:

• Monday, July 19th (1-5 PM EST): Playing my Drifter Challenge, the Ramblers, House 13. Goal is to get through the very last week of the generation, and prepare for the next if we have time. https://illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/ramblers/
• Tuesday, July 20th (1-5 PM EST): More Master Simmer blog challenge (gen 4 currently) Goal is, to get to end of generation (and finish our goals) by the 22nd. I’m hoping to finish it sometime today. https://illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/thralls-master-simmer/
• Wednesday, July 21st (1-3 PM EST): No stream
• Wednesday, July 21st (5-9 PM EST): Catch up stream or Building. If either Drifter or Master Simmer generations aren’t done, this is when I’ll finish them. If those are done, I will probably put the time into building.
• Thursday, July 22nd (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream Alert – First Cottage Living Play Stream!! The plan is to go back to my Stream “Hard Mode” Decades Challenge, which is patiently waiting in the 1900s for their farm to get some animals. However, I reserve the right to make a new sim and just enjoy the new pack for this day if MCCC isn’t ready for me to play my Decades quite yet.
• Friday, July 23rd (1-5 PM EST): By this point, MCCC should be ready, so I’ll be playing my “Hard Mode” Decades Challenge.
• Saturday, July 24th (1-9 PM EST): More Decades Challenge Play.
• Sunday, July 25th: No stream

*As you can see, everything is moved around with the 22nd of July as the “finish” date for a lot of things. As of the 22nd, the new pack is coming out, and I will also be stopping my current blog rotation of stories, and switching to “Rotation Two”: my Decades Challenge War, and the Diversity Experiment. Expect the week after this to go more or less back to “normal”.

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! – I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on… ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you’re able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build – Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night – Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can’t promise it’ll stay safe for work! *grin*
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel – Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you’re interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I’ll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • After these three are done, the next challenge to be added is: My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you’ll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be “tiny homes”, so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn’t), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• In Search of Streamers to Collaborate with: I am also hunting for more streamers who are willing to collaborate on Twitch stream challenges: For more info, contact me on Twitch or Discord.
  • Inside/Outside Shell Challenges: This involves you building a set of rooms and decorating them, me building a shell and all the landscaping, and then switching said builds. I would then put together your rooms into a house and landscape it, and you would decorate the shell I made.
  • Chaos Wheel Challenges: This involves doing a multi stream (or just both of us streaming at the same time) with both streamers coming up with their own wheel of “bad things” to do to the other person’s game and build. We start with a sim we’ve created and then play “Rags to Riches” style, with the “goal” being building a full house and having a family. Each of us will get to pick our own things to put on the wheel. At the end of stream, both streamers upload their builds and families and wonder where it all went wrong. (LOL)
  • Blind Building Challenges: Again, a same-time stream, only this time it’s all about building. One person is building “blind”, without being able to see the other person’s screen. The other streamer builds a build, and directs their partner to build the same build with just verbal directions. At the end of stream, both partners upload their builds and laugh about how different they are.
• SimNaNo: This started July 1st, (and finishes on the 31st) and is the main reason for my main streaming challenges being missing from the streaming schedule. I want to get my current blog rotation finished at the very latest before July 22nd so I can move to my Decades rotation with the new pack.
• Current Shell Challenge:

• There is also another puzzle-type shell/build-a-long up, feel free to jump in! Rules are as follows: Download lot from this hashtag on the gallery: #picknicbasket – Designed as a choose your own size shell. The only piece you MUST use is the rounded deck, but it can be merged with other pieces so long as the outside rounded edge is still clearly visible. Your prompt: Build a home for picnicking with a large deck area (covered or not) outside. Choose at least 6 rooms from the given 25 (plus deck), & build a home or venue. Adding walls & changing to spandrel fence or half wall is ok. Must include a water feature. Tours: Aug 14 (a Saturday, starting at 1PM)