McKinley Poverty Challenge 1.1
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engramI decided to try to get back into playing TS2 rather than just retexturing hair, making defaults and recolouring stuff that lay within my limited Photoshop "expertise".
I got two cute sims from hellokomrade for my Sims 2 Supernova Secret Santa and decided to useone of them as my poverty challenge founder. I'm using the full rules, which are kind of scattered throughout the enormous thread linked.
Meet Matilda McKinley.
She is a Popularity sim, with the LTW to have 20 simultaneous best friends.
She is also a Gemini (3, 7, 7, 5, 3) as her personality description was that she is messy and a bit mean and also a pirate, so she's a bit messy, a bit mean and also fairly outgoing because she has to be able to SOMEHOW make those 20 best friends.
She likes blonds and redheads but dislikes it when someone slaps on too much cologne.
Matilda is thinking big and this is going to be one of those poverties where nobody gets to move in.
So she's in deep trouble right there because there will be no handy windfall from a spouse moving in.
And I have Seasons. So there will be winter soon.
I didn't want to introduce any more CC into my game and bulding a "poverty legal" community legal lot sounded like more fun than trying to make over one of the ready made ones that would get stripped of their CC.
So, since Matilda is a pirate, I built the Golden Hind. Where she went off after the welcome wagon failed to show due to this being a fresh hood where Matilda was the "townie maker sim" and thus apparently not eligible for a welcome wagon.
Almost immediately she ran into this cutie with red hair and alien eyes. His name is Phoenix so we just know that this is meant to be.
The NPC and Townie Maker apparently took Matilda's preferences into account because the lot was crawling with blonds and redheads. Like Jerry here.
Looks like Phoenix found a lost plumbbob.
Matilda: I know that I gave up my life at sea to move to this new town but it still feels so natural to stand on the bridge of a ship.
Matilda: Avast mateys!
Matilda: I can't see any other pirates :( But this is still SO MUCH FUN!
Free hot dogs. The diet staple of any self-respecting poverty challenge founder.
Matilda: And highly favoured by pirates.
Once the basics were taken care of Matilda went back home to mooch around her home lot.
And Rod Humble helpfully left her a computer she's not allowed to have.
The garden club lady came around and Matilda got right to the point.
Matilda: I want to make friends. Lots and lots of friends! Will you be my friend?
Matilda: I will sing you a sea shanty. I know lots of good ones XD
The garden club lady wasn't having any of it and left. Probably scared off by Matilda's singing. she didn't tip, either.
Matilda's mean streak comes out. She won't be cowed by some wolf growling at her.
You go girl!
She got herself a job in the Adventurer career track. If I manage to keep her from skipping rope long enough, she won't get a body skill point and thus won't get promoted. And she can now afford this lovely lounge chair in which to take a nap in the pouring rain.
Her fitful slumber was interrupted by a phone call from some obviously inappropriate teen she'd met at the Golden Hind.
Matilda: Can't you see it's the middle of the night, you idiot? I was sleeping! And you made me be awake! And NOT SLEEPING! So is anything exciting happening where you are? XD
The mean + outgoing combination makes her a bit of a strange conversationalist. She yells at people then is all smiles and "how's it goin'?"
The next day she invited Jerry over for a date. He wanted to slow dance and she obliged.
Even though he farted pink crush hearts, Jerry wasn't up for a kiss, though.
He liked her sea shanties, though. She scored a grand total of 10 bucks from him!
Matilda: Teenagers are the bane of my existence! Always waking me up with their telephone calls and newspaper deliveries!
She took a morning spin to the Golden Hind to use the amenities and eat some more free hot dogs.
Somehow, I don't think she's too popular with the locals...
She got a love letter <3
Matilda: It's from Jerry :D
And then she passed out from the excitement of it all.
She sold the lounge chair and with the day's wages it gave her enough for an actual bed.
Matilda: Need. Toilet. NOW!
Matilda: Bad Leader Of The Pack! You know you're not supposed to be out after it gets light.
LOTP: *cowers in the face of such piratical ferocity*
Yes, piratical is most definitely a word. I made it up so it must be valid.
Weren't you wanting to go to the toilet?
Matilda: Oh, yes, but I need to play with this paper aeroplace first.
*Facepalm*
So close!
I leave you here, pondering whether pirates are the best type of sim to be the founder of a poverty challenge.
I got two cute sims from hellokomrade for my Sims 2 Supernova Secret Santa and decided to useone of them as my poverty challenge founder. I'm using the full rules, which are kind of scattered throughout the enormous thread linked.
Meet Matilda McKinley.
She is a Popularity sim, with the LTW to have 20 simultaneous best friends.
She is also a Gemini (3, 7, 7, 5, 3) as her personality description was that she is messy and a bit mean and also a pirate, so she's a bit messy, a bit mean and also fairly outgoing because she has to be able to SOMEHOW make those 20 best friends.
She likes blonds and redheads but dislikes it when someone slaps on too much cologne.
Matilda is thinking big and this is going to be one of those poverties where nobody gets to move in.
So she's in deep trouble right there because there will be no handy windfall from a spouse moving in.
And I have Seasons. So there will be winter soon.
I didn't want to introduce any more CC into my game and bulding a "poverty legal" community legal lot sounded like more fun than trying to make over one of the ready made ones that would get stripped of their CC.
So, since Matilda is a pirate, I built the Golden Hind. Where she went off after the welcome wagon failed to show due to this being a fresh hood where Matilda was the "townie maker sim" and thus apparently not eligible for a welcome wagon.
Almost immediately she ran into this cutie with red hair and alien eyes. His name is Phoenix so we just know that this is meant to be.
The NPC and Townie Maker apparently took Matilda's preferences into account because the lot was crawling with blonds and redheads. Like Jerry here.
Looks like Phoenix found a lost plumbbob.
Matilda: I know that I gave up my life at sea to move to this new town but it still feels so natural to stand on the bridge of a ship.
Matilda: Avast mateys!
Matilda: I can't see any other pirates :( But this is still SO MUCH FUN!
Free hot dogs. The diet staple of any self-respecting poverty challenge founder.
Matilda: And highly favoured by pirates.
Once the basics were taken care of Matilda went back home to mooch around her home lot.
And Rod Humble helpfully left her a computer she's not allowed to have.
The garden club lady came around and Matilda got right to the point.
Matilda: I want to make friends. Lots and lots of friends! Will you be my friend?
Matilda: I will sing you a sea shanty. I know lots of good ones XD
The garden club lady wasn't having any of it and left. Probably scared off by Matilda's singing. she didn't tip, either.
Matilda's mean streak comes out. She won't be cowed by some wolf growling at her.
You go girl!
She got herself a job in the Adventurer career track. If I manage to keep her from skipping rope long enough, she won't get a body skill point and thus won't get promoted. And she can now afford this lovely lounge chair in which to take a nap in the pouring rain.
Her fitful slumber was interrupted by a phone call from some obviously inappropriate teen she'd met at the Golden Hind.
Matilda: Can't you see it's the middle of the night, you idiot? I was sleeping! And you made me be awake! And NOT SLEEPING! So is anything exciting happening where you are? XD
The mean + outgoing combination makes her a bit of a strange conversationalist. She yells at people then is all smiles and "how's it goin'?"
The next day she invited Jerry over for a date. He wanted to slow dance and she obliged.
Even though he farted pink crush hearts, Jerry wasn't up for a kiss, though.
He liked her sea shanties, though. She scored a grand total of 10 bucks from him!
Matilda: Teenagers are the bane of my existence! Always waking me up with their telephone calls and newspaper deliveries!
She took a morning spin to the Golden Hind to use the amenities and eat some more free hot dogs.
Somehow, I don't think she's too popular with the locals...
She got a love letter <3
Matilda: It's from Jerry :D
And then she passed out from the excitement of it all.
She sold the lounge chair and with the day's wages it gave her enough for an actual bed.
Matilda: Need. Toilet. NOW!
Matilda: Bad Leader Of The Pack! You know you're not supposed to be out after it gets light.
LOTP: *cowers in the face of such piratical ferocity*
Yes, piratical is most definitely a word. I made it up so it must be valid.
Weren't you wanting to go to the toilet?
Matilda: Oh, yes, but I need to play with this paper aeroplace first.
*Facepalm*
So close!
I leave you here, pondering whether pirates are the best type of sim to be the founder of a poverty challenge.
