The Barre Legacy | 1.0
Behold! The first ever installation of The Board Game Challenge ever! As I said over at that post, I was looking around for a fun challenge to play my next legacy off of, and after having a small run of no luck, I decided to create my own!
Basic rule of thumb to remember, for those not wanting to read the whole thing of rules, is that the WHOLE family is based on Monopoly, in that they will 'make their way' around the game board, each generation reflecting a property set and it's corresponding color, etc. Then, each GENERATION is another, separate board game, and has unique challenges reflecting the gameplay for that game. That's about it! Hopefully it won't confuse anyone too badly. ^_^;;
Our founder, Chocolate Barre! I decided to go with a Candyland-esque naming theme, since that is my favoritest board game EVER, so all the childrens will be named after candy bars! :3 Chocolate has S4 ~chocolate~ skin, dark brown ~chocolate~ eyes, and ~chocolate~ brown hair! Then she also has a rather dashing set of (not-so-chocolate, sadly) brown antlers! :D She's a Family sim, and a sloppy, shy, lazy, playful and nice Aquarius. The challenges she must overcome for this generation are:
Mediterranean Avenue & Baltic Avenue
Generation 1: Purple
LIFE
- What better way to start out on your sim's life journey than with The Game of Life? But, unfortunately for you, life is hard, and this first generation will be no exception. Your sim may only enter one of the five careers that are on the original Life board: doctor, journalist, lawyer, teacher, or physicist. They may never quit or change professions (but they may retire), and if they are fired you must get them back into that profession as soon as possible. Spouses may not be employed at all.
- You MUST send your sims on a honeymoon as soon after their wedding as possible. If you have to sell the couch and microwave to afford the airfare, so be it.
- In The Game of Life, players receive a large chunk of money after the birth of each of their children. Well, real life isn't like that, and for the purposes of this challenge, neither is life in the sims. Kids COST money. A LOT of money. So after the birth of every child, you must SUBTRACT $1,000 dollars from your sims' household. You may do this via cheats, or by buying one or two expensive decorative objects that you MAY NOT SELL until the next generation takes over. Now just hope you don't go bankrupt.
My goodness, it's been nearly four years since I've had to make a legacy shack. XD The concept of having to pay attention to tile prices was SO FOREIGN TO ME. I was confused as to why she had so little money after I had done so little... then realized I had chosen floorings that were like, $15 a square. >_< YEAH, NOPE. Only the best $4 stuff for you, missy.
Now, I didn't place her on the BIGGEST lot, like we're supposed to, but I did adjust her funds down to 13,500 before I moved her in, so she still ended up with the right amount. :3 Woo, following the rules kinda~~
First thing to do? GET A JOB. She only had about $600 when I was done decorating, and that's about one fridge-worth's of food, so I figured she better start pulling in money before she starts running out of food!
HUZZAH! First job listing was in the Journalism career, and I am TAKING IT. Of course, a few days later I had the GREAT IDEA to finally check her LTW, and it was to reach the top of the Education career. >_<;; It TOTALLY would have been within the rules, too, but I was just so darn excited to get her a job, I didn't think to check her LTW before sending her to the newspaper. AND, as per the rules that *I* wrote, she's not allowed to ever switch careers. SO. I am very sorry for cursing you to a life of mediocre happiness, my dear! ;_;
Meeting people~~~ The first person to welcome Chocolate to the neighborhood was none other than this neighborhood's den mother, Michelle Tse, who lives on my townie-making lot! She will literally know everyone who's anyone, ie: sims I have downloaded from other creators, and are therefore eligible to make babies in this legacy! I won't be toting the pixel_trade label for this legacy though, as I am ABSOLUTE BALLS at remembering to tag posts with creators' names. :P I mention who made them the first time we see the sim... and then never again. >_> I know it's bad, but I don't feel like teaching this old dog new tricks, soo... laziness it is. All sims donating their genetics to this legacy will have been made by other people, though, that's a definite.
Michelle tried to do a litte house-warming by giving Chocolate a lamp of SOME sort, since she currently has none, and the thought was sweet, really, but I don't like my lamps turning into jars of carcasses atop my fridge. So...
Cute releasing-of-the-fireflies picture, it is! And Chocolate's home is plunged back into darkness. XD Dark Chocolate~~~
Lamps really would be a good idea, though. Maybe windows, or wall coverings, or that sort of thing, too. SO DIG, MY PRETTY! Get us some stuff to sell!
She dug up far more bones and rocks than this before she found that treasure chest, obviously, and then as soon as she got it I felt instantly guilty and like I was cheating and made her stop digging immediately. XD
I gave her home a little upgrade, maybe $1500 worth, but then stuck some solar panels up on the roof just to burn off the rest of my ill-gotten booty. >_>
It still benefits me a little, in that I GET money every Tuesday and Thursday when the bills come instead of paying them, but it's a lot less outlandish than a whole $5000 treasure chest, and I feel much better about it. XD My conscience is letting me get away with it, anyway, so I'm going with it!
Aww, our first skilling picture of the legacy. *sniff* They grow up so fast.
It worked, too, because she got promoted a couple times over the next few days, until she ran into those darn friend requirements, and I realized she really hasn't met anyone other than Michelle yet. :| No one interesting has been walking by her house!
BUT FINALLY! One did. Joshua, by trappingit!
They got along fairly well, chatting for a couple hours and securing Chocolate's next promotion, for which I was very pleased. They didn't get to talk too long, though, because Chocolate quite literally dashed off to work mid-conversation.
Joshua: "And then the zombie like.. Wait, where did she go?" *looks around sadly*
Chocolate: *drives off*
He wasn't discouraged, though, because the second she got back from work, he was calling her up to continue the conversation.
And he called the next morning... and the next morning... but even though Chocolate is running short on procreating time, I didn't really want the spouse search to be so easy, so I made sure she went out and greeted the very next eligible sim that walked on to her lot, so they might be a possible prospect.
Chocolate: "Greetings from earth! *salutes* I welcome you in peace!"
Baqi (brilliantcat): "Umm.. I was born here, but thank you?"
Chocolate: :D :D :D
Baqi: "...You can stop saluting now."
Her greetings with others in the neighborhood went slightly less awkwardly, though, and she made some more friends, both animal and human (and alien).
Some did not make very nice guests, though. :| I really CAN'T afford replacements if you ruin those, bucko, so you better watch yourself. Somehow, even though Pochi here about destroyed her house, soon after he left for the night she rolled the want to obtain a pet, so...
Everyone welcome Klondike Barre, the polar bear!
I'm just SO happy he's here. >_<
It didn't even stop her from continuing to spoil Pochi, either. WHY DO I EVEN GIVE YOU THE THINGS YOU WANT? I get no appreciation, man. Putting me on 'dogs-destroying-the-furniture' patrol is not the reward I wanted for this.
Oooh, you meeting another handsome man is a suitable one, though! Skullduggery Jones, by brilliantcat! They started off okay, having a couple nice chats..
But then he started to get huggy, and Chocolate wasn't having ANY of that. She likes her personal space bubble, Skullduggery, sorry.
She was making plenty more friends, though, and steadily climbing up the career ladder. Mostly I can't wait until she gets promoted into an outfit that DOESN'T attempt to make her white. :/ A super pixelized beige neck and hands are no bueno, Maxis, especially on my chocolate founder.
N'aww, bonding with Klondike. Pochi has been showing up less often nowadays, so she's been putting more energy into her relationship with her ACTUAL pet.
So sad! Giving poor Klondike a nice hot bath, and then sending him straight outside into a BLIZZARD?
You're lucky he's a polar bear, Chocolate, and that he likes the snow. Otherwise I would be most displeased with you.
Ohhh, hey. All the dashing young men she's met so far. I figured I would invite them all over to see which one she likes best, and then take it from there. She needs to solidify her friendships with all of them anyway, so she can keep getting promoted.
Of course. Make all my extra effort at finding you more prospects pointless, thank you.
You don't even make sense, Chocolate. You have LESS chemistry with Joshua than you do with Baqi OR Skullduggery, so how are you finding HIM the most attractive? :/
And letting Baqi make the first move! You're supposed to like Joshua! FICKLE CREATURE.
This is about the time it hit me that inviting all the fellows over at once might be a bad idea. XD
Lucky for me, they later decided that taunting the polar bear would be more fun than macking on Chocolate, so that was one crisis averted. However, now there's the possibility that they tease Klondike just a little too much, and they have a polar bear maul their faces off. You daredevils.
I figured I should probably send the whole lot home before any more possible disasters cropped up, so they all called it a night, and after a quick dinner, Chocolate headed to bed so she could be nice and rested for work in the morning.
After work and another quick nap, I decided she should invite Joshua over and we should get things going. She's been around for nearly two weeks now, with nothing to show for it but a few promotions, and those aren't going to keep the legacy going. I also let Joshua bring along his friend so she could maybe do a little networking as well, and work on her next promotion.
Did NOT occur to me that it would be Baqi he brought with him. -__- Or that she would greet Baqi first, and with a big ol' smooch. You know, for thinking Joshua is super hot, you are terrible at showing him any affection, Chocolate. Again, I am just trying to give you what you want, and you just have to make it SUPER DIFFICULTS FOR ME.
Luckily Joshua didn't mind her greeting smooch for Baqi, and proceeded to woo her anyway.
They quite quickly fell in love, and Chocolate rolled the want to become engaged to him, and as I said, she is quickly approaching her two-week mark so I figured STRIKE WHILE THE IRON'S HOT. And BAM. ENGAGEMENT. While the 'just-fell-in-love-' hearts are still in the air, oh yeah.
BUT NO. CHOCOLATE JUST HAS TO RUIN ALL MY PLANS TO MAKE HER HAPPY.
Strictly speaking, though, this wasn't her doing. It was Baqi's. He went to go hold her hands, and I tried to cancel it from her queue as soon as I could... but it was too late. Their hands touched... and Joshua flipped a freaking NUT.
Joshua: "BITCH. HOW DARE YOU. YOU ARE MINE NOW, AND YOU ARE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO /TOUCH/ ANOTHER MAN."
Chocolate: "Hee~~ I know I'm being slapped in the face right now, but I just got a new crush, so I can't stop smiling! :]"
Baqi: "Heh. She likes me. Awesome."
Chocolate: "This is your fault, Baqi. >:["
Baqi: ":( I know."
Joshua: "I will fucking /cut/ /you/ /in/ /your/ /sleep/."
I made Baqi go away at that point, as to not make things even WORSE as she tried to repair her relationship with Joshua, and OF COURSE she just had to smooch him again. YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE, CHOCOLATE.
Chocolate: "I am so sorry, honey. I didn't ask him to do that. I tried to stop it, but it just happened. It wasn't even that big of a deal. We just held hands. It's hard to deny my animal instincts sometimes, hon. Do you see these horns? I've got to fight the instincts even harder than a normal person would. I really am sorry for what happened, and it won't happen again. Can we move past this? We just got engaged tonight, we should be HAPPY, we should be CELEBRATING. We shouldn't let something small like this come between us so soon."
Joshua: "NO. YOU BETRAYED ME. We are OVER, Chocolate. You're right, we just got engaged. And then YOU decide to celebrate with ANOTHER MAN. How could you DO something like that? How could you even THINK of anyone else but me at time like that? Are you so "animal" that you don't understand common decency, that you don't understand the way human relationships work? Because most of them in the human world are monogamous, and ALL the ones with this guy are, so you just missed out."
Chocolate: "Joshua! How can you say things like that?! You love me! And I love you!"
Joshua: "No. I USED to love you. Before I saw you for what you really are. Now I can't stand you. What you did in THERE will NEVER be okay. So we're done."
Chocolate: "But.. we just.. engaged. We were supposed to be together forever."
Joshua: "Maybe you should have thought about that before you let another man put his hands all over you."
Chocolate: "We only HELD hands, Joshua! His hands didn't go anywhere they weren't supposed to!"
Joshua: "To YOUR loose morals, maybe. To mine, you crossed a line you can't come back over. No. We. are. done. Goodbye, Chocolate. Thanks for wasting my time."
Chocolate: "What am I going to do now? :("