The Spritas 6.2
I figured there was no point hanging onto these pictures for any longer than I already have (like, almost a week. omg), so here you go! Last time, I set the scene for a pretty epic reboot of this legacy, starting with Julia and an empty 3x3 lot. So enjoy~!
Before I launch into the update proper, I have a little ~dream sequence~ for you. Basicallyyyy I was going to start a poverty challenge with Julia, and I played like two days and then my laptop crashed >:| So you can consider this a dream sequence. I mean it MUST be a dream sequence right -- would the Julia we know and love catch butterflies??
Further proof of dreaming: LOOK AT ALL THE TREES THAT SUDDENLY JUST GREW :O
sexy ;)
ok no, she's birdwatching. This is where I began to realise poverty challenges are pretty boring
Time to get some monies!
THEN I realised that with Julia at work, all I have to stare at is these butterflies. All. Day. >:|
THEN the butterflies DIED. Goddamnit.
Yessss she's home :D
We disperse the family graves among the trees :]
Wootlewoo, jump rope! This is riveting stuff, ppls!!!
Then it's bedtime. This is like the butterflies all over again!
Julia wakes and contemplates catching an ostrich for breakfast :|
lol oops
Promotions are forbidden in this challenge
So I spent all that money on more plants :'( o yeah and a phone so she could quit
Determined to avoid another night of jump roping (riveting as that is) I had Julia target the first walkby who came along: Hillary Spicoli.
Julia: You know my evil overlord wouldn't let me eat an ostrich for breakfast today. You think she'd let me get away with ostrich eggs?? :]
WHY YES I WOULD MIND ACTUALLY
ICU thar trying to glitch up my game. I don't have BV
How the hell is a mattress and some trees that expensive?
But even after paying the bills, we have money left over for this! A phone, for the express purpose of quitting Julia's job, and a table, for the express purpose of hosting the phone...
Well I would not LIKE TO but the rules of this challenge rather OBLIGATE me to...
Hillary: LOL about your ancestor
I forgot what he did :P Yeah anyway, then my game crashed, so now we must...
begin again
What do you mean this looks familiar? I have no idea what you're on about.
The new lot~ I even painted the grass this time
Julia's actually fishing but that pose doesn't really make her look like it O_O
Yes that's what happens when you pull dumb poses instead of fishing properly :P
She caught a boot
Then a fish but because my game was on 3x speed (so sue me, fishing is boring to watch) I didn't quite get a shot in time. So have this steely determination!
~time to find employment!~
I was pissed off because none of the jobs available would have let her work that day... then I remembered "Walk to Work"
Home!
With her salary I bought a grill. But even though she has a delicious fish in her inventory she can't use it >:|
So we find another job!
Off to work again :]
Back!
There still wasn't the money for a fridge, no. But a sofa is surely almost as good!!
For a Romance Sim like Julia, anyway ;)
Julia: NOPE STILL HUNGRY :O
"MMMM I ATE A MILKSHAKE :)"
so sensitive
Bedtime :P
Or, y'know, it would be if Julia weren't too hungry to sleep
This went on for many hours until I finally hit the "3x" button, hoping fervently that she'd hold on until it was time for work
She made it!!!
...only in the sense of not being dead, evidently
baibai
FUCK YOU GUYS how much money do you think Julia has :'(
You know the worst thing?! She didn't actually get paid for this day of work. So they didn't actually dock her pay, they just STOLE WHAT SHE ALREADY HAD LIKE THE GREEDY CORPORATE CAPITALIST PIGS THEY ARE
(in other news, guess who's been studying the Chinese Revolution)
And you see this?? Julia can't find a NEW JOB because someone stole the newspaper while she was at work. WHO STEALS FROM A HOMELESS WOMAN, I ASK~
Then to make matters worse, Julia autonomously paid her bills like a dumbass before I could stop her. She now has $25 to her name and SOMEHOW has to make it through to TOMORROW without a job. Fuck yeah I'm excited
Julia: Yeaaaaah I am hot stuff ;) ;) ;)
Julia: And now I awake to the nightmare that is my life.
Yeah, I'm glad I'm not her :|
FINALLY, A NEW DAY BREAKS
and a newspaper is delivered
and I tell Julia to find a job
and she says she doesn't feel like it
>:|
Yeah, I naively hoped that if she were standing RIGHT NEXT TO the paper she might be more amenable to finding employment in it. Nope :|
She'll read the goddamn sports section though >:(
Will you PAY HER to go? No? Then I don't care
WELL UNTIL YOU EARN THE MONEY TO BUY A WALL AND A TOILET, THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN RATHER A LOT
Julia: I don't need a toilet NOW! I just EMPTIED my bladder! :D
Me: -_-;
Julia: WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY CONSTELLATIONS GIMME CONSTELLATIONS
CONSTELLATIONS ARE NOT WHAT YOU NEED. UNLESS THEY WILL GIVE YOU MONIES AND/OR FOOD
In the end, I cheated. Basically it would be impossible to improve Julia's mood enough that she'd consent to finding a goddamn job, and she was going to starve to death and there'd be nothing I could do about it unless I cheated. I sold the boot and a bouquet of roses from her inventory. Then I had the money to buy this desk.
In desperation I half-remembered, half-imagined some "rule" like, once you can afford a desk, you're allowed to sell Mr Humble's computer. So I did.
So now, Julia has a food supply! I spent the rest of the money on trees though, because $1,300 free simoleons seemed quite cheaty
Julia: This stuff tastes like crap.
Too bad.
Seeing as Julia CONTINUES to refuse to find a job, this is all the newspaper is good for. Being an aeroplane. :|
Suuuure, get the bills. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN PAY THEM
One of the biggest hindrances to improving Julia's mood, so she'd agree to getting a job, was that she hadn't bathed once in her entire time there. Eventually I remembered that primping improves hygiene, so I ordered her to primp 7868395689215 times in a row :D Now she can eat, and sleep, and have fun with paper aeroplanes, and pee her pants, her mood HAS to improve!
RIMMER IF YOU STEAL THAT NEWSPAPER...!
No chance of money until TOMORROW! Thanks for nothing you useless smeghead of a Sim.
At least he lives up to his namesake in my game, but I swear that Rimmer Dork gives me nothing but trouble >:(
So, Julia's life is going downhill fast.
yes, we know
Julia made it cry :|
Julia: Ahhhh, now back to my fishing~
STOP TRYING TO AUTONOMOUSLY GIVE MONEY AWAY, YOU IDIOT
Oh yay, three ghosts out tonight!!
Uhmmmm... make that two o_O
Eponine: WHERE THE FUCK IS MY FUCKING BED YOU FUCKWITS
For crying out loud Eponine, do you see ANY beds on this lot???? If not even the LIVING get beds, WHY WOULD YOU?
Julia: Yeaaaaaaah I'm looking good ;D
Eponine: GET ME MY BED WOMAN
Eponine: I WANT A BEEEEEEEEEED
Julia: HI :D
Fuck.
Death: Hey, God. It's me, Death. I seem to have the childless heir to the Sprita legacy here. What should I do with her? Bring her up? Okay, I'll get right on it~
Should I have noticed this gigantic beam of light before? :O
thx thx~
So yeah. So much for my great idea. I didn't even GET to the great idea part. WHO KNEW SURVIVAL COULD BE SO CHALLENGING?
the end
Well, not exactly. There's still this kid. Generation six firstborn, and the only generation six kid eligible for the heirship (assuming we ignore the fact that his dad is the third katu_sims Sim to contribute to the bloodline, and I'm only allowed two per creator. I mean, he only has two for ancestors, so surely it works out...). I can always try the poverty challenge thing again when he's older... :D?
Thanks for reading!