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❉ Winterfest Spirit Legacy Challenge ❉

It's November! Which means it's almost time to celebrate...


❄️Winterfest Spirit Legacy Challenge ❄️
A Simlish take on the classic Hallmark Christmas Movies tropes. Celebrate Winterfest through the generations in a romantic, whimsically dramatic style.


Rules:
1. Aging turned to Normal. This is a seasons-revolving challenge where a short lifespan will be too short and a long lifespan will be too tedious.
2. Seasons change every 7 days. It’s easier this way, trust me.
3. Follow the challenge’s narrative. If you lack a pack or simply something doesn't sit well with you, create a plot of your own to explain why it’s diverting from the challenge’s story portion. Make it make sense to your story! The main objective is to have fun.
4. You may switch between aspirations. However the sim’s initial aspiration has to be the one assigned in the description and will be the only aspiration counting towards scoring.
5. Each generation (besides founder) you get to inherit one trait from their parents. The other two traits are predetermined like most challenges.

MUST HAVE PACKS: Get to Work, City Living, Seasons, Discover University
Not a must but mentioned: Snowy Escape, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Outdoor Retreat, Jungle Adventure, Dine Out, Cats & Dogs

❄ Gen 1: “Father Winter’s Baby”
A gloomy aspiring artist moves away from everything they know to a new town in hopes to find some artistic inspiration. Who could have predicted that they’d have a Winterfest romance with no other than Father Winter himself?

Traits: Gloomy, Art Lover, Good
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
Career: Painter (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max the Painting and Baking skills.
❉ Paint a portrait of Father Winter and frame it in your home.
❉Have one pregnancy (can result in any number of babies) with Father Winter. Only his offspring can be the heir.
❉You can’t marry Father Winter or invite him to move-in.

❄ Gen 2: “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Winterfest”
Your parents always told you you were special, and you wholeheartedly believe them. Being Father Winter’s child carries the responsibility to keep the Winterfest spirit alive by organizing grandiose Winterfest celebrations every year and spreading cheer wherever you go.

Traits: Cheerful, Outgoing + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Friend of the World
Career: Entertainer (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max the Mixology and Guitar skills.
❉Never choose to do mean interactions.
❉Always accept social invitations (not including dates).
❉Unless invited, never leave your hometown (the “world” you’re in).

❄ Gen 3: “I’ll Be Home For Winterfest”
Just because your folks are obsessed with Winterfest and small town vibes doesn’t mean you have to be. Move to San Myshuno, make your big city dreams come true… Until it’s time to come back to your childhood home for the holidays and fall in love with your childhood friend. Realize your heart is where your home is and return to live in your hometown for good.

Traits: Ambitious, Slob + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: City Native
Career: Style Influencer OR Critic (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max the Singing and Photography skills.
❉Study a relevant degree in either Foxbury or UBrite. You may live in the dorms while you’re a student, but you must move to San Myshuno afterwards.
❉Fall in love and marry someone your sim first met when they were a child.
❉After marriage quit your city career and start a business (restaurant, veterinary, shop etc) in your hometown.

❄ Gen 4: “The True Meaning of Winterfest”
Your parents’ ambitiousness passed on to you. You have a successful business/career and live luxuriously that comes at the price of not being as present in your kids lives as they’d want you to be. You compensate by taking your family on vacations in hopes they’d make up for your regular absence, until one day a terrible circumstance brings you to financial ruin… And only after you had lost everything you learned to embrace that having a loving nuclear family is worth more than all the Simoleons in the world.

Traits: Materialistic, Loves Outdoors + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Business OR Salaryman (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Take at least two family vacations every year.
❉Reach at least level 5 in either Skiing, Snowboarding, Rock Climbing, Selvadoradian Culture, Archeology, Herbalism OR Fishing depending on the type of family vacations you’d like to take.
❉You may inherit the family business from the previous generation, or you may sell/leave it in the care of someone else so you can focus only on your career.
❉The realization that your family being what’s most important must happen on Winterfest eve.

❄ Gen 5: “All I want for Winterfest is You”
Growing up with distant parents who only ever showed their love with money, you struggle to perceive what love or affection should look like. You've always been "unlucky" romantically, maybe it’s due to your cold upbringing, or maybe it’s because you’re subconsciously in love with your best friend and just wasn’t ready to admit it. All it took was a kiss under the mistletoe to realize true love was right in front of you this whole time.

Traits: Romantic, Clumsy + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Serial Romantic
Career: Social Media (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max Violin and Charisma skills.
❉ Upload to your sim's social media every day.
❉Reach at least level 5 in the Flower Arranging skill.
❉Become BFFs with your future love while you’re either a child or a teen, however becoming romantically involved with your bestie must happen during Winterfest only after you’ve finished the Serial Romantic aspiration.

❄ Gen 6: “Wish Upon a Winterfest”
Life’s good to you. You have supportive parents, a high-paying job and close friends who appreciate your puns and pranks. When your boss sends you to facilitate a corporate takeover of a small Winterfest-themed business in some peripheral town you don’t think much of it… Until you’re smitten by the business’ wholesomeness, the quaint charm of the town it’s in and the just as charming person who works there.

Traits: Genius, Goofball + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief
Career: Engineer (either branch) OR Law (Private Attorney branch)
Objectives:
❉Max the Mischief skill.
❉Max Robotics OR Debate skills. (depends your career path)
❉Have at least 3 good friends and give them keys to your place.
❉After falling in love with the owner/employee become enemies with your boss.

❄ Gen 7: “Last Winterfest I Gave You My Heart”
Being married to your work broke your marriage apart, or at least that’s what your ex always claimed. You’re divorced and your kid(s) sometime seems more heartbroken about it than you are. Some time later, your kid(s) devises a plot to rekindle your flame with your ex, something to do with Winterfest (a bake-off? A vacation? a dance? Anything goes!) knowing you’d be more receptive, since this holiday always meant something special to you.

Traits: Perfectionist, Loner + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: The Curator
Career: Doctor
Objectives:
❉ Master the Logic and Handiness skills.
❉Finish the fossil, frog, crystal OR metal collections.
❉Divorce your spouse while your oldest kid is still a child (or even a toddler). You may decide how to handle custody.
❉If you choose to return to your ex you must leave your dream job as a doctor and may only work part-time or freelance jobs (or retire if you’re an elder).

❄ Gen 8: “A Winterfest Wedding”
The fiasco you pulled with your parents emotionally drained you. If this is love you do not want it. Since having a family is something you always cared about you chose a serious, sensible partner. Because what’s love got to do with it? After getting engaged, you miraculously meet the sim of your dreams! Being the responsible adult you are you push those feelings down, down, down… Until your Winterfest Wedding comes around and grant you the courage to follow your heart.

Traits: Active, Family-Oriented + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Career: Athlete OR Detective
Objectives:
❉Max the Fitness skill.
❉Be engaged to a Mean, Hates Children or Hot-Headed sim
❉Have a “meet cute” at work, a local café, the library or on vacation with your one true love.
❉Leave your fiancé at the altar and elope with your new flame on the same day.

❄ Gen 9: “The Nightmare Before Winterfest”
What’s so great about Winterfest anyways? Just another sugary cliché holiday. You’re a misunderstood dark individual and nobody understands you. On one Winterfest evening you found yourself in a place you’ve never been to before… What’s this? You’re amazed! You can’t believe your eyes. How could life ever be the same? You must make this new and exciting thing your own!

Traits: Childish, Creative + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Nerd Brain
Career: Astronaut OR Education (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max Piano and Rocket Science skills.
❉You may only get married after you've reached the top of your career.
❉Visit either Sixam, The Magic Realm or Forgotten Hollow and become obsessed with the aesthetic for the rest of your sim’s life.
❉Fight either with an Alien, a spellcaster or with a Vampire (depending on your narrative).

❄ Gen 10: “A Winterfest Prince”
Having weird parents didn’t help your popularity as a child, but that’s okay. You had your books, movies and video games to keep you company. Why waste your youth away playing on jungle gyms when you can be swept away by heroic knights and princely wizards. Creativity and good grades lead you to a great career which landed you a prestige gig for an actual, real-life royal family! What secrets hide behind the golden curtains? And is the prince always this nice or does he crush on you as hard as you crush on him? All concludes during the Grand Winterfest Ball in the castle.

Traits: Geek, Bookworm + either parent’s trait
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Tech Guru OR Writer (either branch)
Objectives:
❉Max the Programming and Video Gaming skills
❉Create a castle/mansion and move in a "royal family" of your creations (or the gallery, no judgement). All of the royal family members must have the Snob trait and the Mansion Baron aspiration, the rest is up to you.
❉Create a video game OR write a biography in honor of the royal family depending on your career path.
❉The challenge concludes after earning a gold medal on a Black and White Bash event (“Grand Winterfest Ball”) in the castle during wintertime.


Looking forward to seeing you brave this challenge! I love tacky Hallmark movies almost as much as I love The Sims and I’m sure I’d love the stories you’ll create with it. Cheers.
Crossposted on MTS: https://modthesims.info/m/showthread.php?t=653067
Happy Holidays!
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