Rosebud 500K Solitaire by EuphorialQueen
Original post Rosebud 500K Solitaire by EuphorialQueen Rosebud 500K Solitaire by EuphorialQueen Based on the Rosebud Achievement with similar goals to Rosebud Challenge (by EuphorialQueen) Rosebud ...
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So I hate to double post but I finished the first week and haven't set myself up a dedicated thread for this yet so have an update.
I have decided to call this challenge: Aria's Adventures in Playing Rosebud Solitaire (aka: Drink Every Time Aria Realizes She's in this Challenge)
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This is Aria Gray. She is a Creative, Gloomy, Loner who really just wants to be left alone to paint All the Amazing Things. Unfortunately for her I have selected her to take part in the Rosebud Solitaire Challenge.
Aria was moved into the empty lot in the Goth neighborhood. She took out a $4,000 loan to cover the difference between it and the cheapest lots available in the game. She can pay it back at anytime as long as it's before she hits the 500K mark. However she will be charged an interest payment of $150 per week that the loan is outstanding.
She has spent most of the first week of the challenge doing a lot of this...
http://oi68.tinypic.com/14mw8lj.jpg
A bit of this...
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2vv46tx.jpg
And being generally too exhausted, tense and hungry to do much of this...
http://oi65.tinypic.com/zmjhcp.jpg
Even though it's the focus of her job and her aspiration and pretty much all she wants to be doing all of the time if the whims she rolls up constantly are any indication.
http://oi66.tinypic.com/wgvvw1.jpg
All in all I don't think she's very pleased with me at the moment lol.
http://oi63.tinypic.com/3013sz5.jpg
http://oi68.tinypic.com/34t8zet.jpg
By the end of the first week she'd earned the right to a tiny windowless not-quite-a-box house which I already hate and will be renovating as soon as I feel comfortable doing so. She has mostly meager furnishings though we splurged for a slightly better then horrible bed and a more expensive counter because it came in colors I liked. Before midnight struck I changed out the bookcase for a stereo and a mirror instead. I didn't buy her an easel because she'll be getting a better one from work after her next promotion. I know most people do the lawn-living as long as possible because it's cheaper but after watching her struggle for a week I had to give in and give her an actual home.
http://oi68.tinypic.com/293hp8y.jpg
Our weekly markers will be the bunny statue.
For some reason I couldn't actually screen cap the achievement page (my computer is crap) so I hope it's okay to just write my status updates down as I go.
At the end of the 1st Week we were standing at $10,788/500K. $5,500 of that is the lot and the rest is mostly made up of the household stuffs. She has $724 in her savings. We have nothing currently in either inventory. Her first week bills were $262 ($112 in actual in-game bills and $150 for an interest loan payment I deducted myself). Over the course of the week we charged ourselves $50 for staying in the same place more-than-once and $150 for pass out failures. We have no friends because it was hard enough just to keep her from passing out and she was already so tense from low fun that I didn't want to compound more tension from her loner trait on top of that.
So all in-all probably not the best start but not completely horrible. I have learned a lot for if I ever decide to do this challenge again after this one is over lol. I'm not overly worried about the slow start since I know once I can get her settled down with an easel she'll start bringing in the money rather quickly.
I have decided to call this challenge: Aria's Adventures in Playing Rosebud Solitaire (aka: Drink Every Time Aria Realizes She's in this Challenge)
* * *
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2vn2kk3.jpg
http://oi65.tinypic.com/50r4fc.jpg
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2nl47pe.jpg
This is Aria Gray. She is a Creative, Gloomy, Loner who really just wants to be left alone to paint All the Amazing Things. Unfortunately for her I have selected her to take part in the Rosebud Solitaire Challenge.
Aria was moved into the empty lot in the Goth neighborhood. She took out a $4,000 loan to cover the difference between it and the cheapest lots available in the game. She can pay it back at anytime as long as it's before she hits the 500K mark. However she will be charged an interest payment of $150 per week that the loan is outstanding.
She has spent most of the first week of the challenge doing a lot of this...
http://oi68.tinypic.com/14mw8lj.jpg
A bit of this...
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2vv46tx.jpg
And being generally too exhausted, tense and hungry to do much of this...
http://oi65.tinypic.com/zmjhcp.jpg
Even though it's the focus of her job and her aspiration and pretty much all she wants to be doing all of the time if the whims she rolls up constantly are any indication.
http://oi66.tinypic.com/wgvvw1.jpg
All in all I don't think she's very pleased with me at the moment lol.
http://oi63.tinypic.com/3013sz5.jpg
http://oi68.tinypic.com/34t8zet.jpg
By the end of the first week she'd earned the right to a tiny windowless not-quite-a-box house which I already hate and will be renovating as soon as I feel comfortable doing so. She has mostly meager furnishings though we splurged for a slightly better then horrible bed and a more expensive counter because it came in colors I liked. Before midnight struck I changed out the bookcase for a stereo and a mirror instead. I didn't buy her an easel because she'll be getting a better one from work after her next promotion. I know most people do the lawn-living as long as possible because it's cheaper but after watching her struggle for a week I had to give in and give her an actual home.
http://oi68.tinypic.com/293hp8y.jpg
Our weekly markers will be the bunny statue.
For some reason I couldn't actually screen cap the achievement page (my computer is crap) so I hope it's okay to just write my status updates down as I go.
At the end of the 1st Week we were standing at $10,788/500K. $5,500 of that is the lot and the rest is mostly made up of the household stuffs. She has $724 in her savings. We have nothing currently in either inventory. Her first week bills were $262 ($112 in actual in-game bills and $150 for an interest loan payment I deducted myself). Over the course of the week we charged ourselves $50 for staying in the same place more-than-once and $150 for pass out failures. We have no friends because it was hard enough just to keep her from passing out and she was already so tense from low fun that I didn't want to compound more tension from her loner trait on top of that.
So all in-all probably not the best start but not completely horrible. I have learned a lot for if I ever decide to do this challenge again after this one is over lol. I'm not overly worried about the slow start since I know once I can get her settled down with an easel she'll start bringing in the money rather quickly.
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