Rebuilding Worlds Vol. 2

@Heckstress17 I downloaded your life changing app! I'm not quite sure how to use it yet but I'm excited for the possibilities!!

OMG how sad that the next day was Christmas! Those poor kids, and poor Iris. I wonder what was under the tree for her from Aidyn? Despite the tragedy, the house looked so pretty. I love the pictures of them opening their presents. How sad when Knox came over and learned the news. I'm glad he was able to make Iris feel a little better. The poor thing though going into her golden years alone . I like the picture of Silas playing basketball. I can picture him not being a chef too! hehe Aww I'm disappointed you're not happy with Fawn! I love her!! I think she's really pretty. Zach aged up nicely too! Is he Heath's son? I think you said he was but I don't remember. Go play the field sweet Fawn, but come back to Zach!! (if he's Heath's son! haha) Aww what a bummer though that Silas lost his girl! It's ok Silas there's a better girl out there for you!! But Knox...this is not cool man! This is so sad! Poor Iris!! I'm so glad Silas was there for his mom (I love Fawn). Good girl Fawn, be smart. OH and yes, I have had snow in Evergreen Harbor. Not often but occasionally.

@IllusoryThrall Oh what a great job you did with the 2nd floor plan! It looks really good. I am also excited about your community space! I have not given that a try yet.

@JordanNicoleJJ I totally agree with your rant about the pack!

@Wentcrazy Do it!! I had never done this before too and this challenge changed the sims for me! I didn't even really care for sims 4 actually before I started this challenge. Come play with us! We're super nice!! <3

@Kiwicantdie I LOVE them bickering instead of being the usual lovey dovey couple!!!


IT'S A LONG ONE!!


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TO RAISE A WOLFE – Evergreen Harbor Edition
Callahan Family Tree
Wolfe Family Tree
Valentino Family Tree
West Family Tree
Wolfe Family Tree

Chapter 5: Blackmail and Babies

One morning Heath seemed particularly smug at breakfast. Of course Lia wanted to know why.
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He wouldn’t tell her. “Sorry honey it’s just work stuff I can’t talk about.”
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Lia’s Dad stopped by at lunch time. Heath is trying to make friends with him, but despite his charismatic personality he always feels awkward. (Try getting dressed sweetie…it helps if you have clothes on)
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The neon sign wall keeps breaking and while it’s a definite help to the handyman skill it’s annoying. I finally turned them all off so they would stop breaking.
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After Dad left and they were fairly certain there would be no drop ins they decided to sunbathe. Heath doesn’t really seem to be a big fan of clothing.
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Then just before Hailey got home, they relaxed with a game of ping pong.
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Another meal with everyone sitting.
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Then story time.
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Finally, Heath took his future bride to bed too. He loves her so much.
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The next morning she made him pancakes.
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At dinner time the local tinkerer came over to encourage their green behavior. (Notice the random cake ingredients left on the table. EA please send help!) You can see Heath is listening intently.
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He responded by adding a second shower to the master bath. “Heath?!” Lia exclaimed, “How will that save water?” Heath grinned mischievously, “Hey at least we’ll be in the tub less.”
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After the visit, Lia started getting more serious about candle making.
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Then one day while Hailey was in school this guy showed up and let himself in.
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He cornered Lia in the pantry and wasn’t being very nice.
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Heath heard the ruckus and him come out to the table. He didn’t offer him any of their lunch. Also look at his tan btw! Where is Lia’s tan? Anyways he nicely expressed to Jay that he didn’t want him randomly showing up anymore. Jay kept trying to look at Lia as if to say “Really?” but she had agreed to let Heath handle this.
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Lia went out to her garden and Heath escorted Jay to the door where he took off the sugar coating. “I don’t like the way you treat Lia and it’s going to stop.” “Oh no…I’m so scared.” Jay mocked.
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Then Heath let Jay know what information he had. “Look, we can get along and your family doesn’t need to know. I won’t even tell Lia, but leave her alone. Try spending some time with your actual wife.”
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Jay finally agreed he would only come over when Hailey was home and he had been invited.
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Then it was time for the special day. They went back to Willow Creek where Lia’s parents live for the ceremony. Someone is pretty pleased about this turn of events!
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I just love how these two look at each other.
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I love her little fists at her side.
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True love
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The party was great.
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I love my boy double fisting.
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The bride and groom wasted no time getting on the dance floor.
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Heath had to show off his moves.
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But so did Lia.
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Night weddings are the best.
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This was my favorite wedding photo.
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So the newlyweds were home, doing their thing, when suddenly the fire alarm was going off!
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Little Hailey had started a fire in the laundry room!
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These two were not having it! (How did they get dressed so fast?? Hehe)
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This picture says it all.
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For a while, things were quiet in the Emerson house but one day this guy showed up.
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Heath raced the family to the secret room and started making calls. Lia made it seem like they were just playing a game and she helped Hailey with her homework.
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Then he went back to the door to great the intruder. (pretend he looked like this in the first picture!)
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They exchanged a few insults on the front steps.
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Then Heath brought him inside to casually explain where the agent and his team had gone wrong.
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They finally had a confrontation. “You are done messing with me and my family! I have information that will destroy your organization.” The diabolical agent was shocked!
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Then like all bullies confronted with the truth, he broke down in tears.
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When he tried to escape, a fight broke out.
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Heath kept him in hand until his organization showed up to arrest the agent. Heath had accomplished his goal of bringing down this entire organization. He knew he was going to have another battle after dealing with his furious wife.
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She actually had more exciting things she wanted to talk about.
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If we’re going to start a family, you have to quit your job.
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He agreed. There were just a few more things he had to wrap up and so he spent the next few days going into the office.
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Lia was so happy she started painting again. She hadn’t painted since she’d been in college.
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Despite all the changes for the better, Heath’s paranoia did not go away.
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Lia is looking pretty good for a pregnant woman!
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Heath on the other hand wasn’t feeling very well.
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Heath did quit his job though and he got the approval from his father-in-law when he started bartending.
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They had a big party to celebrate everything that was going on. (That’s @Ojenn ‘s little Georgia Lee)
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So this is the cute room I had put into my original build.
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Heath and Lia had an ultrasound early on though and found out this was the room they needed.
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A happy man on his way to his new job.
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That night Lia had a bizarre dream. It was time to have the twins, but her doctor was a vampire!
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She rode her bicycle in past the receptionist who was a ghost!
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When she got to the delivery room her doctor came swooping in leaving a trail of black smoke.
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Her husband was trapped screaming on the other side of a glass window.
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Screaming because the vampire doctor was ripping her heart out instead of delivering a baby!
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Despite being horrific, the dream ended well when Heath swooped in and saved her. Bringing her home in her johnny.
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Of course we all know that would NEVER happen.

Grandpa came over to stay with Hailey while her parents went off to do something very important!
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The birth was fairly uneventful with the exception being there were two of them!
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And Lia did come home in her Johnny.
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@Wentcrazy If you're intimidated by the building don't let that stop you! You could download my house and use it as a shell. @IllusoryThrall also has a place you can dowload her version of house A. You could just put them in unfurnished and put your own touches on them :) But also, you might find you like building. When this challenge first started I didn't do community lots but I now have a few of them under my belt.

Plan A

Plan B

I use puush for my photos because it's really easy. https://puush.me/ However, I've discovered that if you don't get constant views on your pictures they start to take them away. I've started experimenting with imgur https://imgur.com/ for my builds to see how I like and so far it's pretty good. I may switch if I can get unlazy.

Thank you for your comments on my story! They sustain me! :D I will start liking your posts to help you get to where you need to start posting pictures!

@debjameswhite Epic story. Every special, scary, funny, endearing, powerful, romantic part of it. Your picture taking is incredible. I especially like the fire picture where poor Hailey is singed and Lia and Heath have the same reaction. Twins too! You've decorated the rooms really cute. :)

@Wentcrazy Hi! Welcome to this fun challenge. You don't need to write an actual story unless you want to. I just do commentary myself. I find it easier personally. Again, welcome! :)

@Kiwicantdie It stinks (or doesn't) that your smog went away so fast.

@debjameswhite omg I almost missed the update! Good thing I always remember to refresh the page after I post here. And what an update I could have missed! The sunbathing pic cracked me up :joy: that's the kind of lifestyle I could only wish I had: sunbathing naked on top of a hill, looking down at the city :joy: ... anyway, so many kudos to you for you storytelling <3 the scene with Jay and Heath was so good. I love how Heath made good use of his paranoia to get information on Jay. The wedding was soooo sweet tho! Lia looked so beautiful with that hairdo and her gown. I almost re-lost it when I saw that pic of Heath with the two glasses of wine :joy: :joy: .... aaaaaand the first night as husband and wife ruined by the freaking drier :joy: my god, the game knows how to amuse us, doesn't it :joy: poor Hailey tho! She was really a goner for a moment! (That picture :joy: I can't :joy: ) I didn't expect to see the agent once again, but wow, Heath was actually so brave for confronting him and fighting him too! OMG meanwhile Lia found out she was pregnant :dizzy: ... it makes sense for Heath's paranoia to not go away that easily, so I'm going to guess that expanding the family is only going to make him even more worried. Here I thought that nothing was going to surprise me anymore in all of this... and there goes Lia, going into the delivery room to give birth with the help of a vampire doctor, while riding her bike :joy: I can't anymore :joy: :joy: :joy: what a great update! Congrats for the twins, I can't wait to see them grow up! <3

@Wentcrazy I totally feel you on the building part. I'm not a builder either and I always have such a hard time doing it, but I have to admit that the challenge also helped me a lot speeding it up and learning new things :wink:

@Mionax it does and I'm still mad about it :disappointed:

Just popping in to share these @Heckstress17 you mentioned baby skins not working and these showed up on Tumblr.

https://coliswonderland.tumblr.com/post/625958473788801024/new-default-baby-skins-the-nifty-knitting-patch

I'll be back later to continue updating the main page

"OJenn;c-17608506" wrote:
Just popping in to share these @Heckstress17 you mentioned baby skins not working and these showed up on Tumblr.

https://coliswonderland.tumblr.com/post/625958473788801024/new-default-baby-skins-the-nifty-knitting-patch

I downloaded this. Maybe I won't get pulled into the infamous CC rabbithole because of it.




@Wentcrazy You can cheat money all you like. There is no rule against it that I saw. I never would have guessed that English was not your first language. You write it better than I do. :smile:

"Wentcrazy;c-17608516" wrote:
Oh and just in case, English isn't my native language, so I might use the wrong words or my grammar might be all over the place :) Or even both :D Hopefully that will change in the future and I'll be more comfortable with English :)

Don't worry @Wentcrazy I'm not English either! I still make grammar and spelling mistakes in my posts but nobody seems to mind them :wink:

Thanks all for the comments on the house building. It turned out really nice, I only hope I can do the inside decor justice.

@Wentcrazy Welcome! My advice with building: practice, practice, practice. The more you do it, the better you'll get. Don't expect it to be great at the beginning - I know my builds were awful when I started Sims 4 (and I had been building for years in previous games!) Also: using real life photos and floor plans really helps make your builds a lot nicer. The biggest advice of all: PLAYTEST. Especially if you're going to upload it - so many people don't even think how their build will actually play, and therefore it's pretty but unusable. It usually only takes a few minutes to try it out in live mode, and it's totally worth it. Also, if you want to skip the building the Plan A house I built is called "The Shelter Modern House" and is here. As for posting pictures, I believe you can do that when you hit 50 posts. And if you want the shell of my Plan B house, I'd be happy to upload it for you!

@debjameswhite I loved the update! Especially the spy intrigue. Poor Lia must be so glad to be done with that. Or - I'm sure she's hoping they're actually gone!! Great wedding pictures - and thank goodness the birth didn't actually turn out like her dream! Good luck with the twins!

Meanwhile, I've spent all day in game, and I plan to do more, but I wanted to stop in here with an update before doing much more. I built a restaurant for Evergreen Harbor I'm incredibly proud of, so I absolutely have to show it off.

The outside: (And yes, it's inspired by the Old Spaghetti Factory)
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Overhead of the inside/the upstairs "party room":
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The main dining room and water "features" (pools with windows.. lol): - also note, I added a couple high chairs after these pics.
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The bar and waiting area:
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The important part - the kitchen:
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Upstairs bathroom area:
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The "office":
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And, finally - proof that the restaurant works:
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If anyone wants it for any of their games, it's uploaded under my "Wyldhawke" origin tag.

Oh, and I also worked on my community space:
The Market:
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The Garden:
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Hopefully all the pics aren't too annoying! I'm SO close to being able to start playing, I just need to build the Maker Space for the junkyard (and yes, I'll be testing it and uploading it.) And maybe some more decor for the junkyard version. @Kiwicantdie 's clutter in her junkyard build makes me feel incredibly inadequate. LOL. :heart: .. oh yeah. and the furniture for their house. At least so it's livable.

@Kiwicantdie Your update is great! I adore the clutter in your builds, it's something I am horrible at doing in my builds. I'm so sorry you can't figure out how to get the smog back, how annoying!

Omg so much to comment on! I love it!!

@Wentcrazy Welcome!! Don't worry about the story too much. Everyone has their own writing style and we love them all :smile: Money cheats are allowed, some of us use them, some don't, and some of us impose our own "money rules" (like I won't let my heir "inherit" all of the previous generation's money, because I hate having super rich sims lol). I can't wait to see your founders & home!

@Kiwicantdie I did some research this morning and found out you can report the eco footprint bug here (you can just click 'me too'). It's a compilation thread of several different bugs about the eco footprints. I found out that all of the bugs basically come down to the order of the coding -- the "default" footprint is being prioritized over the "changeable" one, so no matter what you do (building industrial/green lots, choosing industrial/green NAPs, performing certain activities, etc.), it always reverts to neutral. I'm a little annoyed at the fact that Port Promise doesn't have a default footprint of industrial -- I personally think it should, and it should be more difficult to get it "green," same with how the "default" green neighborhood should actually have a default footprint of green and be harder to make industrial. At least it's been reported, and it's still listed as "open" meaning they haven't attempted to fix it yet, so hopefully they will in the next patch.

Okay enough of that -- moving on to your update! That community lot is so cool!! I feel your pain with holiday decorations ruining everything though lol. You're making me want to remodel my own community space and make everything super industrial now lol. Your Iris is literally the cutest thing ever, those glasses just complete her look. Even when she is waving around fire like a madwomen :lol: LOL Vlad's still hiding from Pablita...PLEASE tell me you added Pablita to this game?? She's the best vampire ever. Aiyden and Iris' personalities are complete opposites and I love it. Your Aiyden reminds me a lot of @Heckstress17 's Aiyden -- super moody and confrontational, but their woohoo life is better than ever :lol: Yesssss I can't wait for the "Aiyden Eater." Just make sure you get some kids out of him before he dies though :lol:

@debjameswhite YESSS I missed your long updates! Heath is so mysterious... I still can't tell if he's a secret agent or a criminal (though I'm leaning more toward secret agent now). Either way, it's exciting and I like the mystery. Oh my god can Jay just leave her alone already??? I'm so over that guy. You tell 'em, Heath -- go spend some time with your actual wife and quit ruining people's lives!! That wedding was so pretty! Lia and Heath were both absolutely stunning, and little Hailey was so cute in her little dress too! Oh no!! Fires scare the heck outta me when there are kids involved :grimace: Go Heath -- you tell those creepy men-in-black what's what! I'm so happy that they don't have to worry about those creepy guys anymore. Just in time too, cause it's nooboo time!! :smiley: Aw man, I'm a little torn on Heath quitting his job, mostly because he looks soooo good in that uniform... :smirk: :lol: Oh man, twins! Good luck! That pregnancy "dream" was hilarious. Super cool that you found a way to work it in without it ruining the story -- playing it off as a dream was perfect. Two boys! I'm sure they're gonna be total stunners with Heath's amazing genes!

@IllusoryThrall Those community lots are amazing! Your restaurant looks so good -- AND it looks super functional!! I can only seem to get one or the other out of my restaurants :lol: And I adore that marketplace community space. It looks way more useful than the one that comes with the game -- the art-selling things are a great addition. Between you and @Kiwicantdie I now have a very strong urge to go remodel my own community space... I am at a good 'stopping point' in-game to stop playing and start building, hmm...