These are the stories of the citizens of Knowlton - A Sims 2 Prosperity Challenge. If you love it, if you hate it, if you saw something you wanted to talk about, PLEASE leave comments. I'm a sad pathetic human, and I live for comments.

For those of you not familiar with what a Prosperity Challenge is, it's a Sims 2 Challenge in which the main focus is to build a prosperous community from scratch. There are a few catches though, everything, including your starting families are determined by the role of a dice (or in my case a randomizer). For the complete rules and setup you have two options the Yahoo! Group or the BBS thread at the official site.

The quick low down on the newly created Knowlton; Knowlton is completely deserted. It's set out in a grid, so at some point in the past it may have even been a city, but that may have been hundreds of years ago, because other than roads for miles around all you see is grass plains. Four daring families have decided (okay have been forced) to make a new start here. So come meet these daring folks, hear their stories, and wish them luck folks, they're going to need it! To start from the beginning click here.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Week 4 - Round 8 - Rainseeker Home


We start the round by finding Baxter yet again searching for Tara. Sorry Baxter, wrong house again. Keep trying.

"You know BJ, I'd be Big Sim on Campus if it weren't for the fact that I'm an adult."

When Sierra throws a dinner party for the headmaster, she does things right, including toasting honored guests.

That's got to be the best score I've had to date!

Neil actually seems to spend more time with Tom's children then he does with his own. He's a good step-dad though.

The good thing about the youngest twins having their first day of school on a Friday is that they didn't have to learn to do homework till Saturday morning. Neil was pretty tuckered out from the intensive session he gave on the surgery dummy, so Bobby helped Fraser with his homework.

Then he finally got to go on his first date with Hailey!

While Bobby was busy with his date, Billy helped Laura with her homework. Hopefully these kids will all start getting along together soon. Lord knows, I make them do stuff together often enough. Billy still won't play Red Hands with Laura though.

It was a little rocky there at first, but Billy finally got his First Kiss!

Wow! Good job Bonkers!

Billy also had his first Makeout session, which concluded his first Dream Date.

Way to go Sierra! Now you can concentrate on making friends. Just ignore your son and his girlfriend makingout behind you.

Billy's busy chatting up Amy, and Bobby's busy studying, but the rest of the family sits down to eat together. Sierra's really trying to pull this family together.

Bobby's turn for some dating action! Hello there Amy!

He also got his First Kiss

And his first Makeout and first Dream Date

Guess who's back?

Again

and Again

Wow! Paper delivery must pay well.

And Again, ad naseum

Watcha doing Laura?
"Hiding from my Grandpa"
Sweetheart, that's not your grandpa, it's your mother's dead husband.

You hiding too Charlie Brown?
"Duh"
Hey have a little respect or I'll have you marry Melanie Gothier.

Tom's decided if he can't get to them, he might as well annoy them by playing the xylophone badly.

Billy and Bobby hid from their father upstairs. They knew he'd leave them alone if they were skill building. Billy's in red, and Bobby's in green.

"I have painted the devine"
Yeah well, don't get too excited about it. As you can tell, that shot was taken a few years ago with a film camera as opposed to digital and it shows. But at least it's accurate, although back then it was Sims 1 I was playing!

Oh no, this means the constant want to sell masterpieces. It's only annoying with college graduate they have six want slots. Poor Neil only has four, and now two of them are constantly hogged by Masterpieces and Bestsellers.

"Sim State? Get me out of here please! Oh wait, there are hot chicks there, right? There are? I'm so there!"

Tom's back yet again Sunday night. I've had people running out to his grave all day to mourn for a man most of them didn't even know, and he's still haunting them. I swear he's the meanest platinum-died-of-old-age ghost I've ever seen. I'm not even going to bother uploading all the pictures of him scaring everyone. Suffice it to say, nobody got any sleep. He especially seems to have it in for Fraser here.

Bobby's decided that if I insist on him building skills, he's going to write a love song for Hailey while he's doing it.

"Yes, I'm leaving right now! Hot girls? Who cares, just get me away from my crazy dead father!"

The one good thing about the lack of undisturbed sleep is that Neil actually played with his daughter a little.

Such a sweet mother-daughter moment. Painting in your nighties for all the world to see. Good thing it's like five in the morning and the only people who will see you are other families with psychotic ghosts.

"What a smart kitty you are!"

Random picture of Ricky out for a walk with Miller.

Fraser and Laura have finally figured out that if they want to spend time with their father they have to do it while he's skill building. Neil's discovered that it's hard to cheat against a cheater. Yeah, Fraser caught him!

End of Round Review

Sierra
Friends: 18, 1 Pet Friend (I don't count family in the friend count)
Work: Hall of Famer
IW: 19/30 Best Friends
Skills: Cooking-7, Mech-7, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-3, Creativity-9, Cleaning-10

Neil
Friends: 9
Work: Medical Researcher
IW: $22,379 / $100,000
Skills: Cooking-3, Mech-9, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-8, Creativity-10, Cleaning-9

Billy
Friends: 9
School: A+, Private
LTW: 2/50 Dream Dates
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-8, Charisma-8, Body-8, Logic-8, Creativity-8, Cleaning-9

Bobby
Friends: 9
School: A+, Private
LTW: 2/50 Dream Dates
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-8, Charisma-9, Body-8, Logic-8, Creativity-8, Cleaning-5

Fraser
Friends: 1
School: B+, Private
Skills: Cooking-7, Charisma-8, Logic-8, Creativity-7

Laura
Friends: 1
School: B+, Private
Skills: Cooking-8, Charisma-8, Logic-7, Creativity-7, Cleaning-3

Bonkers
Work: Pet Corps
Behaviors: Eats Pet Food, Housebroken, Respectful, Stays Off Furniture, Stays Off Beds
Commands: Come Here, Stay, Speak

Household Value: $146,979

3 comments:

Lisa said...

*cheers* WTG on the chance cards for Bonkers!

Mao said...

Oooh, another LTW fulfilled, congrats! You sure are lucky with those chance cards... I try to avoid them, haha, I always mess them up.

Does this house run better with your new RAM?

NightRowan said...

Thanks for all the congrats on the chance cards. Normally I avoid them myself, but since I'm keeping track of the score that would cost me a lot of points since some families seem to get them almost every day.

The house does run better with the RAM, it's my poor brain that has trouble dealing now. I'm very controlling of my sims, so at this house I'm constantly pausing to make sure everyone is still doing whatever I told them to do. Oh well, that's a Capricorn for you, we tend to be control freaks, lol!