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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Monday, March 5, 2007

Week 5 - Round 9 - Luworld Home


Loretta's taking advantage of the last day of summer and the fact that as soon as you install a new expansion everyone has just moved in motives status and is standing around doing nothing.

The Luworlds, as always, have things to teach me. For instance, Pinkie here loves watching Falcon.

She also likes staring at herself in the mirror. I want my pets hack back though. How's a girl supposed to build without killing off the darn birds?

Loretta's been given the task of leaf raking since Hygenics is the only scholarship she hasn't learned yet. This lot is another lot that has a lot of trees on it. She's got her work cut out for her. I guess she should consider herself lucky that the dogwoods don't shed their leaves too.

Abhijeet came home with Monica today. That works out pretty well. He needs more friends, and it keeps her happy. And maybe they'll become close enough that Abhijeet will have a nice inheritance one day.

Loretta had to change to her swimsuit to continue raking. It must be really warm today, because her temperature was just sky rocketing.

Grayson's getting a head start on his retirement by fishing in this rather pathetic pond.

Blank stare. Loretta and Abhijeet are watching the weatherman while getting to know each other. It would be odd for Abhijeet not to know his in-laws afterall.

This is why Grayson's pond is so pathetic. Monica is going to become a Garden Granny.

Loretta, try not to bean your future brother-in-law this time, will you?

Bronze Gardening badge! Wow that was fast. All she had to do to earn this was compost and plant 14 garden plots.

"Bye-bye Falcon! We wish we could keep you, but everytime the Plumbbob Diety trys to give us some renovations, you cost us $20 for no good reason, other than the fact that EA can't fix the broken things and breaks new things instead."

Happy Retirement! You've now been promoted to full time gardener.

Grayson's earned his Bronze Fishing badge with that boot, but I wasn't fast enough to catch it.

Third times the charm apparently. This is Pinkie's third bath today, and the first she hasn't escaped from.

"Oh man! You're making me dance with my mother!"

"Now this is more like it!"

Gotta take advantage of autumn and get those last two cleaning points!

Wow! I guess Joy enjoyed your date too!

That was really fast!

Grayson wanted Pinkie to get a job, and anything that gets her out of the house is good with me, so we hired the pet trainer to teach her some tricks.

See? Don't let politicians intimidate you! You gotta stand up for the little guy.

Oooh, pretty fireflies, ooops, my bad! It's birthday time!

Nice clothes Grayson! I so enjoy it when the transition into something half-decent.

Presenting Grayson Nott as an Elder
Aspiration: Romance
LTW: Become Hall of Famer (accomplished)
Neat-5, Outgoing-5, Active-3, Playful-8, Nice-4
Taurus
Turn-Ons: Makeup & Blonde Hair, Turn-Off: Cologne

Loretta wants to become friends with Abhijeet before she leaves for college, so we decided to try out a game of Timlo Tourneau. Wow! They really did improve the pool graphics beyond belief!

"Take me away Sim State University!"

Grayson's really getting the knack of this fishing thing. This family may never need to buy food again!

He's also opted to retire. Their house is nice, neither of them is actually crazy about buying stuff, and there are so many more interesting things he can do with his free time.

End of Round Review

Monica
Friends: 13
Work: Retired Hall of Famer
Skills: Cooking-4, Mech-7, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-3, Creativity-10, Cleaning-4
Badges: Gardening - Silver

Grayson
Friends: 13
Work: Retired Hall of Famer
Skills: Cooking-7, Mech-7, Charisma-10, Body-10, Logic-9, Creativity-10, Cleaning-9
Badges: Fishing - Silver

Loretta
Friends: 17, 1 Pet Friend
School: A+, Private
LTW: 15/20 Best Friends
Skills: Cooking-8, Mech-9, Charisma-9, Body-8, Logic-8, Creativity-8, Cleaning-8
Pinkie
Behaviors: Clean, Playful, Respectful
Commands: Come Here, Stay, Speak

Household Value: $133,636

2 comments:

Mao said...

Oooh, the pool graphics are pretty! I have a lighting mod, so I can't see them.

You're really raking in those badges! It seemed to take forever to get the gardening badge... but I guess I just wasn't trying hard enough. That garden club is really harsh, too. Sheesh...

NightRowan said...

You should really remove your lighting mod Mao. As far as I know, most of the lighting mods were created to give exactly the effects that seasons does. You're really missing out on something! That or remove it and play in a new blank neighborhood to see what you think.

The badges are super easy to earn, especially in fall. Check out the Wetstein Home this round to see how to earn a Silver Gardening badge in just two days!