Rebuilding Worlds Vol. 2
Welcome one and all to volume 2 of the Rebuilding Worlds Challenge! This challenge has gone through a few different renditions and has been going on in one way or another since 2010! With V...
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Buckle up, everybody - we've got THREE birthdays and a holiday in this long update. I played so much yesterday :lol:
Rebuild Evergreen Harbor: Gen 1
The Greenes have been working hard, and it finally paid off! They're both only one promotion away from maxing their careers now :smiley:
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Just in time for Iris' birthday too! Iris made another honey cake, and she & Aiyden had another late night celebrationbecause I'm awful at planning parties and they have no friends tbh :sweat_smile:
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It's almost like she didn't age up at all! She's still as young and beautiful looking as ever :love:
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I did give her a makeover to try to make her look at least a little older :lol: But she still looks so young...I guess the secret to immortality is fresh produce, lots of sunshine, and yoga lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/4.png
I figured I probably need to start putting some effort into her aspiration if she's ever going to finish it, so she took a day trip to Willow Creek to hunt for collectibles. She knocked out the first couple stages of her aspiration, but she didn't look like she enjoyed it at all :confused:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/6.png
Eden tagged along to meet some more kids. As expected, she made lots of friends & became the most popular girl on the playground.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/8.png
The girl in the cream shirt is her bff. Surprisingly she's not that good of friends with Suri (purple dress), despite Suri being Haven's bff and practically living at their house lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/9.png
By sunset, Iris had explored every inch of the park. She was in a much better mood after a nice walk around the park and finding some new plants for her garden :smile:
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Ah beautiful Willow Creek, I miss you :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/10.png
Back at home, Aiyden was perfecting his candle-making techniques. The community center was recently converted into a farmers market, and Aiyden wanted to try to sell some candles there over the weekend. I LOVE the carved candles :love:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/12.png
Also good news -- I think we finally got rid of the monster under the bed! It doesn't bother Haven anymore, because it apparently moved to Eden's room...
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/13.png
...but she figured out how to get rid of it :smirk: When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "We aren't worried about you getting kidnapped, cause you would talk so much they'd beg us to take you back!" Yeah, well that's Eden lol. She talked the monster away :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/14.png
Evergreen Harbor is looking better and better every day. Side not: there was an AWFUL thunderstorm right before I got this shot, and it was such a stark contrast I had to get a pic of it. But apparently I didn't get a pic of the thunderstorm. So just enjoy this nice scenery shot :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/15.png
Anyway, time flies, and Haven was already ready to age up again! Iris made his fav dinner and baked him a "normal" (not healthy) cake this time lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/16.png
Haven made sure Eden understood he was going to be a highschooler soon, and that meant he'd be too cool to hang out with her and her kid friends anymore. She honestly didn't care, she has plenty of friends lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/17.png
And with that, he was ready for teenagedom! He got the weirdest combo of traits, I swear. So apparently he loves the ocean and wants smart, successful kids now, idk. Not that I'm complaining about his aspiration, parenting ones are always easy with this challenge lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/20.png
Looks-wise, I love him! He's definitely Aiyden's son, but he got a couple features from Iris - skintone & eye shape. I would've preferred a better mix (like at least Iris' eye color or nose or something), but at least he's cute lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/21.png
My new fav thing, the outfit tour! I looove his everyday outfits. I'm also just partial to neutral colors lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/22.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/23.png
He's a typical phone- and self-image-obsessed teenager, but he's really helpful too -- seriously the best teen ever. He became the family cook after he made a grilled cheese without any cooking skill whatsoever and didn't burn down the house lol. So proud of him!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/24.png
He picked up some handiness tips from Aiyden and helped fix the old appliances as they started breaking down. He even added a fireguard to the fireplace! My little helper :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/25.png
Aiyden hadn't used the juice-maker he installed forever ago, so he recycled it and had a robotics station installed in its place. Now he has a workshop buddy!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/27.png
Here's Haven with his first "robot" -- an rc helicopter toy! So cool!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/28.png
It seems like Evergreen Harbor gets prettier and prettier everyday. They still don't have a green eco footprint, but Port Promise looks pretty green to me! We now have the following NAPs: Green Gardening, Green Initiatives, Modern Development, and Promote Creative Arts. I'm thinking of changing Promote Creative Arts to Upcycling Initiative to see if that helps the footprint move toward green, plus it still fits Aiyden's career/skills which is what I chose the creative arts one for in the first place.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/29.png
Anyway, it was the perfect sunny day for Aiyden to finally go to the farmer's market and try to sell some candles. This chick hung around all day and bought several! She and Aiyden bonded over their shared love of fabrication and became friends too :smile:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/30.png
Eden tagged along, she'll really take any excuse to get out of the house and be around new people lol. She played on the monkey bars for awhile, since there weren't any kids there.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/31.png
Toward the end of the day, a kid and his mom showed up! Eden immediately cornered the kid and forced him into a conversation lol. She doesn't have a lot of male friends, so this is exciting :wink: (Also note Iris in the background at the one and only dig hole in the entirety of Evergreen Harbor :lol: )
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/32.png
Aiyden still had some candles to sell when they got home, so he decided to list them on plopsy. Within hours, he had someone offering 200+ simoleons for one of his candles!!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/33.png
He accepted the offer and shipped it off right away :smile: I love this new plopsy thing. You can use a computer to 'browse plopsy' and there are some really cool random items on there! I think Aiyden's going to retire from the civil engineer career when he becomes an elder and focus more on his plopsy store and selling at the farmer's market.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/34.png
Eden's also trying new things. She took up knitting! She wants to be a "fashion designer" when she grows up, so she's "practicing" by knitting some of her "original designs" lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/35.png
She also completed her aspiration (social butterfly)! Kids befriending adults is always weird unless they have aunts/uncles or whatever, so I just chose a couple of her kid friends' parents for her to befriend (still feels weird lol). But yeah, here's her "core" friend group. I might even make them a 'friend club' when they become teens.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/36.png
Haven can't do much with his aspiration (successful lineage) right now, but he's making "progress" in the sense that he now has a girlfriend! His best friend from childhood, Suri, aged up into a total bombshell, and Haven wasted no time in asking her out. They're so cute together :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/38.png
Harvestfest rolled around, and that meant a gnome invasionbecause I forgot to delete that tradition. Everyone else appeased their gnomes with no issues, but Iris - who actually 'loves' the tradition - made it so mad it electrocuted her...several times :grimace: I honestly have no idea how she's still alive...
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She managed to cook harvestfest dinner, but she was NOT in a good mood. Having to clean up after didn't help either. Poor Iris really had the worst day :confused:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/40.png
Thankfully she was in a much better mood after some good eatin' and good company :smile: Aiyden had picked up some fancy drinks for them while they were at the farmer's market - the kids drank different kids of kombucha while Aiyden and Iris drank some 'focus' juices. All in all it was a great harvestfest dinner.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/42.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/41.png
Eden spent the rest of her day off knitting by the fire.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/43.png
She made the cutest socks ever!! Iris' love of quirky socks lives on in this one :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/44.png
But uh...I really gotta remember to delete the gnome tradition. Getting a bunch of seeds was nice and all (though I didn't get any new plants :unamused: ), but these things are just creepy. By the end of the day there was some kind of weird gnome cult going on in the garden... :flushed:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/46.png
Last but certainly not least, we had a houseful of phone-obsessed teens for awhile, because all of Eden's friends aged up! Which means it's also time for Eden to age up!! :smiley:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/47.png
That's her bff in the black and red snowsuit, and the boy from the farmer's market in the red & grey jacket and blue & white hat. He aged up quite nicely, if I do say so myself... :wink: I'm just proud of myself for throwing her a "proper" party for once lol (it wasn't an event, but there were friends there at least!).
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/48.png
Buuut I was so busy trying to wrangle a bunch of teens that I didn't get a pic of her blowing out the candles, so here we go right to the traits. She got the academic aspiration, which I think is totally fitting for her "most popular girl in school" personality. She also got the neat trait. Maybe her mom leaving laundry all over the house finally got to her and now she's obsessed with cleaning :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/50.png
She's so pretty! She got an interesting mix of physical traits. She takes mostly after her dad -- hair color, eye shape & color, nose, cheekbones (I think), and jawline (I think). And of course she got a medium/mixed skintone and her mom's lips.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/51.png
Outfit tour ~ I tried to keep her style similar to her child clothes. I'm thinking maybe she won't be a 'fashion designer' as in the stylist career, but she might be a social media personality and do beauty/shopping haul videos, but I like her having a "thrift store" style to keep it "green" for Evergreen Harbor.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/52.png
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Back to the party! Aiyden made sure to get a hug in between cake and presents :smile:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/54.png
Iris bought her present on plopsy - a super super cute knitted cactus for her room :blush: I seriously love the items from the knitting pack, it's sooo worth unlocking them (or buying them on plopsy lol).
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/55.png
She spent the rest of the night hanging out with her friends and taking selfies with everyoneto post on social media. She even got her 'cool big bro' to take a selfie with her. I present to you my two options for my gen 2 heir. How am I supposed to choose?? They're both such interesting sims! I'm really excited to explore the robotics stuff with Aiyden, and I honestly like the looks of him better than Eden (I think), but Eden might be the better genetic mix? And her college life/social media stuff might be fun too. Idk. Send help! :grimace:
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The Greenes have been working hard, and it finally paid off! They're both only one promotion away from maxing their careers now :smiley:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/1-1.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/1-2.png
Just in time for Iris' birthday too! Iris made another honey cake, and she & Aiyden had another late night celebration
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/2.png
It's almost like she didn't age up at all! She's still as young and beautiful looking as ever :love:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/3.png
I did give her a makeover to try to make her look at least a little older :lol: But she still looks so young...I guess the secret to immortality is fresh produce, lots of sunshine, and yoga lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/4.png
I figured I probably need to start putting some effort into her aspiration if she's ever going to finish it, so she took a day trip to Willow Creek to hunt for collectibles. She knocked out the first couple stages of her aspiration, but she didn't look like she enjoyed it at all :confused:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/6.png
Eden tagged along to meet some more kids. As expected, she made lots of friends & became the most popular girl on the playground.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/8.png
The girl in the cream shirt is her bff. Surprisingly she's not that good of friends with Suri (purple dress), despite Suri being Haven's bff and practically living at their house lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/9.png
By sunset, Iris had explored every inch of the park. She was in a much better mood after a nice walk around the park and finding some new plants for her garden :smile:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/7.png
Ah beautiful Willow Creek, I miss you :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/10.png
Back at home, Aiyden was perfecting his candle-making techniques. The community center was recently converted into a farmers market, and Aiyden wanted to try to sell some candles there over the weekend. I LOVE the carved candles :love:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/12.png
Also good news -- I think we finally got rid of the monster under the bed! It doesn't bother Haven anymore, because it apparently moved to Eden's room...
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/13.png
...but she figured out how to get rid of it :smirk: When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "We aren't worried about you getting kidnapped, cause you would talk so much they'd beg us to take you back!" Yeah, well that's Eden lol. She talked the monster away :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/14.png
Evergreen Harbor is looking better and better every day. Side not: there was an AWFUL thunderstorm right before I got this shot, and it was such a stark contrast I had to get a pic of it. But apparently I didn't get a pic of the thunderstorm. So just enjoy this nice scenery shot :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/15.png
Anyway, time flies, and Haven was already ready to age up again! Iris made his fav dinner and baked him a "normal" (not healthy) cake this time lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/16.png
Haven made sure Eden understood he was going to be a highschooler soon, and that meant he'd be too cool to hang out with her and her kid friends anymore. She honestly didn't care, she has plenty of friends lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/17.png
And with that, he was ready for teenagedom! He got the weirdest combo of traits, I swear. So apparently he loves the ocean and wants smart, successful kids now, idk. Not that I'm complaining about his aspiration, parenting ones are always easy with this challenge lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/20.png
Looks-wise, I love him! He's definitely Aiyden's son, but he got a couple features from Iris - skintone & eye shape. I would've preferred a better mix (like at least Iris' eye color or nose or something), but at least he's cute lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/21.png
My new fav thing, the outfit tour! I looove his everyday outfits. I'm also just partial to neutral colors lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/22.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/23.png
He's a typical phone- and self-image-obsessed teenager, but he's really helpful too -- seriously the best teen ever. He became the family cook after he made a grilled cheese without any cooking skill whatsoever and didn't burn down the house lol. So proud of him!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/24.png
He picked up some handiness tips from Aiyden and helped fix the old appliances as they started breaking down. He even added a fireguard to the fireplace! My little helper :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/25.png
Aiyden hadn't used the juice-maker he installed forever ago, so he recycled it and had a robotics station installed in its place. Now he has a workshop buddy!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/27.png
Here's Haven with his first "robot" -- an rc helicopter toy! So cool!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/28.png
It seems like Evergreen Harbor gets prettier and prettier everyday. They still don't have a green eco footprint, but Port Promise looks pretty green to me! We now have the following NAPs: Green Gardening, Green Initiatives, Modern Development, and Promote Creative Arts. I'm thinking of changing Promote Creative Arts to Upcycling Initiative to see if that helps the footprint move toward green, plus it still fits Aiyden's career/skills which is what I chose the creative arts one for in the first place.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/29.png
Anyway, it was the perfect sunny day for Aiyden to finally go to the farmer's market and try to sell some candles. This chick hung around all day and bought several! She and Aiyden bonded over their shared love of fabrication and became friends too :smile:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/30.png
Eden tagged along, she'll really take any excuse to get out of the house and be around new people lol. She played on the monkey bars for awhile, since there weren't any kids there.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/31.png
Toward the end of the day, a kid and his mom showed up! Eden immediately cornered the kid and forced him into a conversation lol. She doesn't have a lot of male friends, so this is exciting :wink: (Also note Iris in the background at the one and only dig hole in the entirety of Evergreen Harbor :lol: )
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/32.png
Aiyden still had some candles to sell when they got home, so he decided to list them on plopsy. Within hours, he had someone offering 200+ simoleons for one of his candles!!
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/33.png
He accepted the offer and shipped it off right away :smile: I love this new plopsy thing. You can use a computer to 'browse plopsy' and there are some really cool random items on there! I think Aiyden's going to retire from the civil engineer career when he becomes an elder and focus more on his plopsy store and selling at the farmer's market.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/34.png
Eden's also trying new things. She took up knitting! She wants to be a "fashion designer" when she grows up, so she's "practicing" by knitting some of her "original designs" lol.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/35.png
She also completed her aspiration (social butterfly)! Kids befriending adults is always weird unless they have aunts/uncles or whatever, so I just chose a couple of her kid friends' parents for her to befriend (still feels weird lol). But yeah, here's her "core" friend group. I might even make them a 'friend club' when they become teens.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/36.png
Haven can't do much with his aspiration (successful lineage) right now, but he's making "progress" in the sense that he now has a girlfriend! His best friend from childhood, Suri, aged up into a total bombshell, and Haven wasted no time in asking her out. They're so cute together :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/38.png
Harvestfest rolled around, and that meant a gnome invasion
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/39.png
She managed to cook harvestfest dinner, but she was NOT in a good mood. Having to clean up after didn't help either. Poor Iris really had the worst day :confused:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/40.png
Thankfully she was in a much better mood after some good eatin' and good company :smile: Aiyden had picked up some fancy drinks for them while they were at the farmer's market - the kids drank different kids of kombucha while Aiyden and Iris drank some 'focus' juices. All in all it was a great harvestfest dinner.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/42.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/41.png
Eden spent the rest of her day off knitting by the fire.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/43.png
She made the cutest socks ever!! Iris' love of quirky socks lives on in this one :heart:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/44.png
But uh...I really gotta remember to delete the gnome tradition. Getting a bunch of seeds was nice and all (though I didn't get any new plants :unamused: ), but these things are just creepy. By the end of the day there was some kind of weird gnome cult going on in the garden... :flushed:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/46.png
Last but certainly not least, we had a houseful of phone-obsessed teens for awhile, because all of Eden's friends aged up! Which means it's also time for Eden to age up!! :smiley:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/47.png
That's her bff in the black and red snowsuit, and the boy from the farmer's market in the red & grey jacket and blue & white hat. He aged up quite nicely, if I do say so myself... :wink: I'm just proud of myself for throwing her a "proper" party for once lol (it wasn't an event, but there were friends there at least!).
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/48.png
Buuut I was so busy trying to wrangle a bunch of teens that I didn't get a pic of her blowing out the candles, so here we go right to the traits. She got the academic aspiration, which I think is totally fitting for her "most popular girl in school" personality. She also got the neat trait. Maybe her mom leaving laundry all over the house finally got to her and now she's obsessed with cleaning :lol:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/50.png
She's so pretty! She got an interesting mix of physical traits. She takes mostly after her dad -- hair color, eye shape & color, nose, cheekbones (I think), and jawline (I think). And of course she got a medium/mixed skintone and her mom's lips.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/51.png
Outfit tour ~ I tried to keep her style similar to her child clothes. I'm thinking maybe she won't be a 'fashion designer' as in the stylist career, but she might be a social media personality and do beauty/shopping haul videos, but I like her having a "thrift store" style to keep it "green" for Evergreen Harbor.
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/52.png
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/53.png
Back to the party! Aiyden made sure to get a hug in between cake and presents :smile:
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/54.png
Iris bought her present on plopsy - a super super cute knitted cactus for her room :blush: I seriously love the items from the knitting pack, it's sooo worth unlocking them (or buying them on plopsy lol).
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/55.png
She spent the rest of the night hanging out with her friends and taking selfies with everyone
https://rebuildwillowcreekrotation.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/57.png
