A short (4 sim weeks) challenge written by Aislynne. The objective is to save your town’s Christmas Fair by completing a series of thematically related tasks.
You can find the rules and original story here: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=567508
For this playthrough I’m changing things up by using a child sim (and an adult helper).
Gavin: “Yeah, and also the doors and the floor and the wall paint... My husband’s gone camouflage, haha!”
Teasing.. cuddling… helping Peggy with her project… Life was good. Even the vampire attack that night wasn’t related to the Landgraabs’ conspiracy, but a perfectly normal burglarizing attempt where the burglar in question was a vampire.
Gavin, too, perceived himself as a member of his nation and culture first, and as a vampire second. Most modern vampires experienced their condition as a chronic illness. Tales of powerful mentors from previous ages of magic were the stuff of urban myths.
@EnkiSchmidt - Great story. I love Peggy's plan on helping the neighbours and her family is so funny. Just love that they are all the different occults. Love the line from Kendra about "the fated mate". lol Congrats on completing week 1 successfully.
Will be joining you shortly, just testing out a few things with my sim.
@EnkiSchmidt - I think you can modify week 3 to be child-friendly.
Instead of making the flirty cupid drinks - how about make silly gummybear pancakes? Making cupid juice requires Level 3 Mixology and The gummybear pancakes requires Cooking Level 3.
"SoulGal7;c-18209517" wrote: @EnkiSchmidt - I think you can modify week 3 to be child-friendly.
Instead of making the flirty cupid drinks - how about make silly gummybear pancakes? Making cupid juice requires Level 3 Mixology and The gummybear pancakes requires Cooking Level 3.
That would indeed be child friendly, but the Reeds are not the most responsible characters, that's why I opted for Emotion Drinks with their unpredictable results. Peggy can make them herself at the chemistry table.
When Peggy returned to her room at the end of the week, she found it changed. Now the girl had complained that the room she was sharing with Ricky was a bit too childish for a ten year old, and the parents had promised to do something about that, but... THIS was a bit TOO mature! (Even though the parrot skeleton was a nice touch.)
Gavin used to have that over his bed before Daniel moved in: https://64.media.tumblr.com/a2d1fd03fd909a023ce89f466f1d4799/tumblr_inline_pn8toxSqJU1sregb9_500.jpg
Daniel: “No longer! We moved the furniture while you two were at school. Oh, and we also decided to get rid of Hendrik Fowler. He never really fit in, with his surname sounding like a holiday meal.”
Peggy: “Uh… really? But I thought… Oh. Well, bye, then, Ricky, I guess…? Oh my god, what am I saying here?!”
Naturally, if Ricky was here to stay for good, he needed his own room. There were two to choose from, the former study and the former master bedroom, both of the same size and offering the same view. Nevertheless the discussion who’d get which one turned a bit heated.
After expanding the house and furnishing the children’s new rooms, there was still money left for an extra:
Ricky: “Why can’t treasure hunting work in real life, too! I heard the news, the children and parents now all are in favor of holding the Snowflake Gala, but the principal said the school has no money left. How much does the gala cost, anyway?”
Peggy: “38,500 dollar. But I’m going to raise that, just you wait!”
Ricky: “How?”
Peggy: “For starters I’m going to sell holiday themed handcrafts!”
Peggy: “And I was thinking we could get ourselves a food cart and sell hot cocoa and teas, too!”
Daniel: “A basic foot cart costs 16,323 dollar. You’d never break even, let alone make profit, in time for the Snowflake Gala. It would be more sensible to straight up donate some money.”
Ricky: “Sixteenthousand... and three? That’s an oddly specific sum, dad...”
Daniel: “Well, yes. Caroline has a food cart up for sale right now, that’s how I know. But that doesn’t concern us."
Gavin: “Oh, c’mon, you know you want that foot cart!”
Daniel: “Maybe...?”
Gavin: “Food cart! Food cart!”
Daniel: “You must admit, it IS the ultimate toy kitchen. Toy kitchen for adults.”
Gavin: “Exactly!”
Daniel: “Weeeell, I could ask Caroline to rent it... With an option to buy it later?”
And with that we are in Week 2 of the Christmas Challenge!
Objective: Fundraising
Scored tasks: - Sell 5 playful paintings (Peggy cannot use the easel yet, that’s why I let her create holiday decoration instead) - Sell 15 Cupid Nectar (Emotion drinks from the science table will do) - Sell 5 My Sims figurines - Run a bakery (1 pt./100 $ profit) - Take loans (1 pt./1000 dollar) - Freeform task (I tend to use photography here, Selfies with Santa or postcards)
The Challenge rules say “Run a bakery” at this point, but they were written before Dine Out, so I’m going to take a creative license here and play a restaurant this time. The rules also state that we can cheat for the bakery’s initial cost, and originally I had planned to let Daniel run the Chocolate Museum for a week, but then I remembered that I still had the long neglected food cart lot and changed my plans. The Reed household funds were at 45,000 dollar before expanding the house, and even afterwards they could still comfortably afford to buy the food truck, so it’s theirs to keep after the challenge.
Peggy asked her father to move the food truck to Corktown, but she wouldn’t say why. In fact, after arriving there, the girl darted away with her nose glued to her digicam. Daniel smiled with relieve, he had been afraid the child would either get bored with the fast food business or get in the way by volunteering to help.
Caroline apparently had thrown in a day long use of her weather machine when she sold the food cart to Daniel, because it was mild and the streets were free of snow all day.
Also memorable was the Snyde-Rendall couple, consisting of the troubleshooter and the head of research of Urban Farms. Despite working for a biofood company, they tend to show up at every possible Fast Food place in my game. Case in point: they were not at the chocolate museum during the opening, only their boss was.
At the end of the day Daniel had actually made a small net profit: 487 dollar. That translates into 4 points for the challenge. The customer verdict was “Barely edible, and unprofessional service, but for the price it was okay.”
@EnkiSchmidt - Peggy is doing so well, and the idea of the food truck is really cool. Love it. I love that you have the servers dressed as gnomes! haha!
Elfie is a teen elf who has lived his whole life at the North Pole. He is a cheerful elf, as most elves are, and has a bit of a childish streak, which got him assigned to the Toy-Testing Team. Yes, this was the life because Elfie just loved to play and play and play...um...test all the toys. Well, the testing part didn't go too well, and Elfie's quota was down one day...really down. An elder elf, named Grumpy, spoke to Elfie and told him that Elfie had to concentrate more on his work, and not be so playful all the time. Not be playful? How could he not? To help Elfie be more productive, Grumpy sent Elfie to...gulp...elf detention! No! How could this have happened?
But maybe it was destiny that Elfie had been sent there because while he was there, he heard some gossip from his friend Decker, about some sims in the Simworld. These sims lived in a town called Willow Creek, and had lost the Winterfest spirit. They were angry and mean, (even worse than that angry elf, Grumpy), and had even cancelled the town's Winterfest Festival this year! From what Decker had told him, the naughty list was getting longer everyday with more and more names of these Willow Creek residents being added. And, according to his other friend, Jangles, it was getting worse. This ho-humness was starting to affect nearby towns. Elfie's other friend, Snowflake, had overhead the conversation and whispered that even Father Winter was getting worried and had refused to eat some sugar cookies this morning! Oh my gumdrops! This was terrible! They had to do something!
And so, after elf detention, Elfie and his friends went to the reindeer barns. They decided that one of them had to help! But who? They decided to draw candy canes from a bag, and having drawn the smallest candy cane, (which he promptly ate), Elfie was chosen to go.
https://i.postimg.cc/yYrCn0GK/yeah-elfie.png
Elfie knew he could do it, and with his elf friends cheering him on, Elfie headed to the magic portal and was whisked off to Willow Creek. Whoosh!
Doing this rags to riches style, so Elfie will start with no funds and no skills in Willow Creek. I had originally made Elfie as a YA, but then changed my mind and decided that he would start as a teen to do this challenge. He is up in the gallery as a YA.
Oh, I didn't expect this, that's an amazing spin to the theme, very fitting! I love how you mixed the packs for the prologue, and especially that conveyor belt in the second picture.
Good luck to Elfie! (I wonder if we'll see his friends again in week 3 or will he recruit humans?)
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