INTRODUCTION.
Because some stories just need one.
The following story came to be in the "Post The Last Screenshot You Took in The Sims 4" thread by @catloverplayer.
For those who are interested, this is how it all began:
My sim got his girlfriend pregnant. It was an accident, because usually I don't really deal with babies in my game. I posted a screenshot of the babe.
I took this on as a personal challenge: The 1 baby challenge. Very challenging for me indeed.
I decided to raise the kid and not change to another household (extremely challenging indeed) until she, the baby, was to be a young adult.
My seasons are set to 14 Sim days each which means the kid's birthday is every spring. Challenge or Torture? Who knows?
I play this game very slowly...because...life and such. Once again, very, very challenging, because the kid doesn't grow up as fast as I want her to.
To keep this challenge interesting for myself I built a story around my family of 3, which soon turned into some sort of haunted house mystery. In any case, my sims should have it worse than me doing this challenge.
Because the story was part of The Last Screenshot thread, which - as the name suggests - is a thread for last screenshots, not complete stories, folks encouraged me to keep it all indexed and together in one thread. Much easier to read a book when the pages aren't all scattered around the house. Yes I agree. So that's what I did and so here we are!
Fun fact: The country mansion that you will get to know as "The Hall" does in fact exist. I built it from reference, both exterior and interior. It is also haunted, or so they say...
I will post a "prologue" of sorts, just to introduce you to the posts that started this entire challenge/haunted story ordeal.
I also want to thank everyone who has been following this still ongoing story in the other thread for the last couple of months and those who were always very kind to comment. <3
I will try and post updates as often as I can.
Last but certainly not least, a Special Acknowledgement goes to the wonderful @Ellupelluellu who located every single reference post to the story and provided me with links so that I was able to collect and post them here. Sometimes I'm a very busy and above all, extremely slow guy and this was a Team Effort I hugely appreciate! As we say here in "The Land of Saints and Drunks-" *pardon me* "-Scholars":
<3 Go raibh míle maith agat! <3
