Here's a short gameplay challenge for Spooky Season 🎃
It's a challenge for just one generation, but they have a lot to complete and explore!
You can watch my playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83nFBRgU6VPn8zoYDYBJ0SJCJyZQSjnd
General rules
start with a single YA Sim
your starting Sim can be any gender and sexuality
they can have preexisting relationships and an additional backstory
all mods/cc are allowed
try not to use money cheats
Generation rules
Ever since you were born, spirits have always found their way to you. You don’t know why, but they were always there—watching you, guiding you. It never really bothered you, however, your family disagreed. They never believed you, they thought you were making it up. But it still made them uncomfortable. Hearing you talk about something so unnatural made them feel uneasy. When you became a young adult, they wanted you out of their home. Fine, you never felt welcome anyway. After some wandering around you found an abandoned house. It might need a lot of fixing up, but you don’t have much of a choice. At least now you’ll have peace to focus on finding out what these spirits want, where they came from… You decided to dedicate your life to learning about all occult beings and everything their worlds have to offer. Maybe you will finally feel accepted and free in one of them…?
skills to max: medium, mischief, organ
collections to complete: crystals, sugar skulls
live in a haunted house
unlock the Coffee Fanatic lifestyle
become best friends with the Grim Reaper - extra challenge: don't use the phone to invite him over, get creative with summoning him...
become 2 different occults, but find a way to become human again
have babies with 3 different occults (vampire, werewolf, Father Winter, Patchy, Servo, plant Sim - a lot of things count as occults!)
host occult parties every weekend
write 5 books about your life
become a ghost
All of these rules are just suggestions, all that matters is that you have fun! I tried to limit the amount of packs needed for the challenge but feel free to skip things you can't do if you don't have the pack or replace any rule with something else fitting from another pack!
The name of the challenge is, of course, inspired by/a play on the Not so Berry challenge!
If you decide to play this challenge, please remember to credit me and tag me, I'd love to see it 👻
New video! This is a CAS one, with all the links for my sim (be sure to check the description!). I will be playing through the Not So Human Challenge with Leia, which I am so excited about!
(Also infant milestones seem kind of glitchy - so far she's sat up for the first time on at least four separate occasions - thus birthday candles may be a feature sooner than anticipated.)
Here's a little Giftie for you! I had intended to give them to you from the beginning, but I truly appreciate all the requests! they kept me going~
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Please do!
Tag me if you use them for something!
Use them for something!
Change them into your style! / give them makeovers!
Please do not!
Please don't claim as your own creations.
NOTES
Not all packs are required for downloading! Simply substitute any missing components on the sim.
All cc included! Even my defaults! If you happen to have any conflicting defaults that you prefer, simply locate the default file that comes upon download and delete it.
All of them have outfits, skills, careers, likes and dislikes, lifestyles, etc etc. Everything I thought would fit the characters best, you can check it all out for yourselves! (Some have more than others (ᵕ—ᴗ—)ʱªʱª ) you can change these to suit yourself.
on the gallery too, but that doesn't include cc, so they'll definitely look a bit off.
Wyatt’s stomach was still churning too uncomfortably for him to think about dinner, nor did Brynn seem too bothered either; she was far more interested in taking herself to bed. He’d been too distracted to notice earlier, but he suddenly realised she hadn’t even brought a bag along with her.
Wyatt: You didn’t bring anything with you?
Brynn: I not really have anything…
Wyatt: If I knew you were going to set out with nothing, I might not have been so keen to let you leave.
Brynn: It was important to me.
Wyatt: I know.
Brynn: You came to find me, didn’t you?
Wyatt: Perhaps-.. but I changed my mind in the end.
Brynn: Before or after you fail?
Wyatt: [snorts] In between.
Brynn: I not mean to ghost you-.. I hoped to get a new phone, but something more important popped up.
Wyatt: It’s okay.. I have your phone, by the way.
Brynn: Oh-.. is Gael still breathing?
Wyatt: Unfortunately.
Brynn: Maybe you knock some sense into him.
Wyatt: I doubt it.
Brynn: Hm, me too-.. I would have liked to see his face.
[Wyatt snickered lowly; he should’ve taken a picture]
Wyatt: Would you still have come back? You know, if it weren’t for-…
Brynn: I always plan on coming home.
Wyatt: I take it you were busy saving your money?
Brynn: Yes! Though your friend Darien helped me in the end.
Wyatt: I’ll have to pay him back then.
Brynn: Pfft, I pay myself! That’s why I take so long.
Wyatt: I could’ve helped you, if you’d asked.
Brynn: I not think it fair.
Wyatt: What do you mean?
Brynn: Is so expensive.
Wyatt: And?
Brynn: I not want to bankrupt you.
[Wyatt squinted, realising he’d never mentioned the fact that his lifestyle didn’t quite match his bank account]
Wyatt: Brynn, I could buy us a private jet if I wanted-.. several, in fact.
Brynn: Really..?
Wyatt: Mhm.
Brynn: You live so modestly; I never would know.
Wyatt: Well, at least you’re not after my money.
Brynn chuckled sleepily; she hadn’t returned with the intent to sit idly on her hands, but it was nice to know there was no rush to find employment, or to make money. She was beyond exhausted after the past few months
Brynn: Does that mean I not have to get a job?
Wyatt: Not unless you want one.
Brynn: Will you keep yours?
Wyatt: Probably not. I just wanted to know what it felt like-.. mundanity.
Brynn: Is kind of rewarding, no?
Wyatt: Oddly so.
Brynn: I think we have something more rewarding to spend our time on soon.
Wyatt: How long do we have to, uh.. prepare?
Brynn: I not know exactly.
Wyatt: You haven’t been to the doctors?
Brynn: I not able to just walk in without being registered! I feel fine, anyway.
Wyatt: We’ll sort it out tomorrow-.. get you some clothes n’ stuff afterward.
Brynn: You are soft.
Wyatt: Only for you.
With no worries left unsaid and no more secrets between them, Brynn draped herself over Wyatt and crashed-.. hard. Some people clearly didn’t understand her choices, but she’d never felt so loved, seen, or safe with anyone else before. She was finally home, and for the first time in her life, she was truly content…
It's not necessary, but if you want to learn more about the events Grace is describing (particularly the spellcaster who sacrificed herself), it originated in another story you can read here (chrono link for desktop only). I'm sure there are some inconsistencies because I had no idea I'd be doing more with it and my storytelling was more casual and gameplay-oriented then, but it might help fill in some gaps.
[rapid knocking at the door]
Caleb: …Morgyn?
Grace: Caleb-
Caleb: Why are you in your nightgown? Are you crying?
Grace: Caleb, I-
Caleb: Where’s Morgyn? Council meetings never go this late.
Grace: [sniffling] Oh, Caleb… The Sages, they’re… they’re…
Caleb: What happened?
Grace: [strangely detached] I’d already gone home. Almost everyone had. There was an… attack. No one saw it coming. Dark magic… ancient spells… malicious… forbidden. How did he even find them?
Caleb: [impatiently] Grace, you’re not making any sense.
Grace: [distantly] The Realm is secured. Someone stopped him before he could tamper with the portals. A teacher, I think, from the children’s school. She sacrificed herself to drain his power.
Caleb: I don’t care about the goddamn Realm! What about Morgyn?
Grace: [sobbing] I’m sorry, Caleb. I’m so sorry. They were ambushed. They had no chance to defend themselves. Faba, Simeon, Morgyn… The entire Council is… dead. Oh my god. Caleb, are you okay?
Caleb: Stay back!
Grace: But-Caleb: I mean it! You’re not safe around me like this. Go home, Grace! Now.
wesley drakos for @wrixie's cherishing cherry bachelorette challenge !!
I absolutely fell in love with cherry the moment I saw her so I knew I had to make a sim for this!
Wesley grew up in Copperdale and ever since he was a child he knew he wanted to be a rockstar. He didn't know how he would even start but he knew he loved music more than (almost) anything. (nothing could come between him and Ivory) He's not quite famous yet but he plays shows here and there at local places and absolutely loves it...but there's just something missing in his life. Wes was in a long-term relationship throughout and a bit after high school but after they broke it off he hasn't had any love in his life, at least not the romantic kind. Hopefully some day he'll fall in love again...