One Month One World One Year Personal Challenge (Complete!)
Have you ever admired those who start a New Year doing a one photo per day contest? I have, but I've never tried it. I had an idea pop into my head on New Years Eve for a challenge similar to those, ...
I'm gonna casually try to do this. I don't own all the packs so I'm gonna have to make a lot of my own rules, but basically I'm intrigued by playing a rag to riches style more slowly and deliberately than I have in the past and having people to share the journey with. I might not post every day, but I definitely want to consistently play this sim over time.
Update 1 - Meet Jules Warner
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Life stage: Teen Traits: Active and Hot-headed Starting Aspiration: Angling Ace (figured I'd pick one that doesn't have to be world specific and would be helpful and easy for a homeless sim)
Starting world: Willow Creek, since it's the only world I currently have an empty lot LOL Starting simoleons: 0 Season: 8th out of 28th day of Spring
So I decided to incorporate this challenge into my main save since I already play with aging off, and I'm much more likely to commit if this sim is tied to my overall universe. In fact, I didn't even make a completely new sim. I plucked a teen from one of my families and integrated her story into this challenge.
The Warner Family has a complicated past. Both parents, David and Louise, worked as secret agents, along with David's brother and his wife. They all perished in a yachting accident (or was it MURDER....?) when Jules was a child and her sister, Dell, and cousin, Bex, were teens. They all inherited the family estate, a giant modern mansion equipped with her parent's secret lab, and a swanky apartment in San Myshuno. Bex lives at the mansion, since she has followed in her parents footsteps in the secret agent career, determined to avenge their deaths. Dell and Jules chose to live a quieter life in the city apartment.
Jules has just graduated from high school (cheated using MCCC to make her "quit") and her sister's girlfriend, Sofia, has just moved in with them. Jules feels like she's intruding on their new life together, and coupled with the fact that she is at a place in her life where she's suddenly desperate to find out who she is and what she was meant to do, so she has made the radical decision to head out on her own, refusing to take any of the family money. So that is where our story begins, with Jules on a journey of self discovery, out on her own for the first time in her life, with only the clothes on her back to call her own.
I only played her very briefly so far. I forgot that I last used this lot to play an alien who I later killed so his urn was just chilling on the sidewalk, so Jules made friends with an angry alien ghost, and also decided to put his urn in her inventory. Who knows, maybe it will come in handy...
She also sold her high school homework book making a whopping profit of 1 simoleon.
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A summary of Jules' journey (will be updated each month!):
Jules started out in Willow Creek, where her best friend Emmett lived as well. Jules and Emmett have been friends since they were toddlers. She ended up going to his house a lot to fill her needs and get on her feet. She started dating Mario Harrison at this time. At the end of the month, Mario's grandmother got sick, so he moved from his dad's house to his mom and grandma's house to help out with his grandma and two younger sisters.
Which brings us to February, where Jules moved to Windenburg. Jules wanted to support Mario and didn't want to live so far away, so her cousin, Bex, who owned a cottage on the island, offered Jules her place. During this month, Jules was asked to join the Renegades, thus bringing the Villareal family into her circle. Emmett's girlfriend, Brittany, was part of the rival club, the Paragons, and things got pretty tense between those two. Jules also joined a club of girls who loved learning called the Curiosity Club, where she met Kaori Nishidake. During this month, her cousin, Bex, who is a secret agent, asked Jules to help her out with a mission. Bex suspected Jacques Villareal to be involved in the unexpected death of their parents, who were also secret agents, so Bex needed Jules to plant a bug on Jacques. Jules gained access to the Villareal mansion by seducing Hugo Villareal and gaining his trust. Mario and Jules began to fight a lot as well - Mario always wanted to keep tabs on her (and the mission with Bex especially put a strain in their relationship), and Jules just wanted freedom. They decided they wanted different things in life, and eventually broke up. Jules moved back in with her cousin, Bex, who lived on the mainland, and Mario kept the house on the island since his mother's home was so cramped and he needed his own space. At the end of March, Jules discovered she was pregnant with Mario's child.
Instead of telling her family and Mario about the baby, Jules left a note that she needed some space to figure things out, and ended up going to stay with her friend Kaori in Mt. Komorebi. Kaori helped her find her own place to live as well. For a while, Jules kept her pregnancy a secret from everyone in her life, and ended up bonding with her neighbor, Lydia Greenwood. Jules and Lydia ended up falling in love, and Jules was content to hide from the rest of the world as her pregnancy progressed. But back in Windenburg, Hugo was intent on finding Jules, since he had been quite taken with her. He enlisted the help of Emmett and Mario, and together, the three of them tracked her down in Mt. Komorebi and discovered she was pregnant. Mario was upset at first that she hadn't told him, but he wanted to be part of the baby's life. Hugo and Jules ended up being quite good friends, and it really gave her a chance to reconnect with Emmett as well. Jules then gave birth to a baby girl who she named Ruby. Things were going well in Mt. Komorebi and she was still in a relationship with Lydia, but Lydia had a dark secret - she was a vampire and the daughter of Vlad (lol, I know, this story is getting wild :D). Long story short, Lydia ended up having to confront her past, and she and Jules parted ways...at least for now.
In April, Jules moved in with her sister, Dell, and her sister's wife, Sofia, who lived in Britechester, so she could attend university. Jules chose to major in communications at Britechester. I decided to do the serial romantic aspiration with Jules this month, so she ended up kissing a bunch of people and even having a one night stand, before she felt like she was losing touch with herself. Emmett was a comfort to her at this time. Jules graduated and got a job as a journalist. Mario, her ex-boyfriend and father of Ruby, got married, and at the wedding, Jules and Emmett caught his girlfriend, Brittany, cheating on him. They broke up and Emmett joined the army. Things in life were going well, but one day, Jules got phone call from her sister, Dell, that their cousin Bex, was acting strange and seemed unwell. It turned out that Bex had gone to Strangerville and had come back possessed. There's a really strong chance that this is related to the mission that Jules helped Bex with in Windenburg, and that the Villareals are somehow involved. Hugo, always the good Villareal, has agreed to go to Strangerville with Jules to help her out as she tries to find the truth and help Bex. Jules has left her toddler daughter behind with her father, Mario, for the time being.
