Other Sims Stuff: Prosperity Challenge

[strangetomato]

I took a little detour on my way to the next Strangetown update, and I've decided to start a prosperity challenge neighbourhood. I'm not entirely sure where I will go with this, but I'll be posting updates on it in a looser story form, as a bit of a palate cleanser when I'm struggling with Strangetown and could use some time to think.

Since I know that you all love Strangetown, and the Maxis sims, I have a feeling that you'll have some interest in these characters.

Let us gaze into the future, and observe the residents of the prosperity neighbourhood, which, for now, we will simply refer to as "The Cove".

There are 6 houses in The Cove. We have the single and mysterious James Davenport, The Wolfe family (you may have heard of the daughter, Virginia Wolfe), Richard "The Dick" Cole and his alien children, The Snow family, the beautiful Catherine Lamb, and all of the Fishers.

In total, 22 residents. But wait... some of these people may seem familiar to you.



















Yeah, that's right. Everyone in The Cove is a Maxis clone, or the offspring of Maxis clones. I do love those Maxis sims. I'm pretty predictable like that. I'm also a huge fan of alternate realities (like Peculiar, created by madame_ugly). These are mostly Strangetown clones, but I threw a couple of my favourite Pleasantview characters in there too, and a couple from La Fiesta Tech (see if you can name them all).

They've gone through some cosmetic changes, since I used this sim randomizer, and I took the suggestions for their colouring from that. Personalities and aspirations are also random, though some did influence the Maxis sim that I chose for that character (The Dick is a good example of that - his stats were very Ripp-like, so I couldn't resist).

All of the names were taken from that randomizer too. Virginia Wolfe - I nearly died. And she's the daughter of a cloned Nervous Subject. Too perfect. I instantly love her. But really, I love all of my sims. (I clone Nervous a lot, don't I? *snicker*)

Also, check out the awesome matchmaker! She's a female alien Komei Tellerman!

This is just a sneak preview. I will set it up and give more details later.

And about that update... I'm going to try for a post tonight.

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Wow, everywhere I turn, someone is doing the Prosperity Challenge! It's extremely contagious. :P

A good chunk of characters I recognize, some I don't. Course, I'm sure once you get into the details, I'll be kicking myself in the ass for not seeing it sooner. I do look forward to seeing what you come up with!

(ps, and I'm uber excited to see that you might be posting tonight, woot!)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It is contagious. *chants* Do it, do it, do it...

I started another one a while back, and I do still have it in the game, but it didn't hook me at the time. Maybe because it didn't have a bespectacled, sexy sexagenarian Ripp clone with three alien children. *grin* Among other things.

Some of them are pretty well transformed, and there is one of them that even switched sex. I might make a game out of guessing them in the first post. Some are super obvious though. They're just too distinctive.

I'm really going to try my best to post the next part of chapter 22 tonight. One more round of photo taking should fill in the gaps. I'm glad I stepped back from it a little. I think I needed it. And I wouldn't want to force the story either.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Truth be told, I have thought about it. I've written out all the details, even made some sims in bodyshop. But, I think I want to get further along in my assassin story before I launch into it.

For it to last, you have to really be into the characters. So, of course using Strangetown would get you hooked.

Ripp with alien kids?!?!?!?! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

A guessing game would be cool. My money would be the madame_ugly gets the most right. :)

I can relate on stepping back. You have to be in the mood to write. If you force it, the story may suffer, which is never good. I'll be constantly refreshing my f-list tonight. :):)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea. It's best not to have too many things starting up at the same time. My Strangetown story is so established at this point, that I'm not worried about losing interest in it.

Yeah, that's what I figured too. I really want to breed Strangetown like crazy, and now I will be able to, so that holds my interest.

Ripp's alter ego is named Dick. *snort* I'm so immature, but it kills me. (I'm the sort of person who laughs when my SO uses Ben D. Dicks as his MSN name.) It's a sort of what-if scenario for a guy like Ripp, if he became the victim of an overly jealous pollinator. Very sad and funny for a romance sim - it does nothing for your love life.

Madame Ugly probably would get them all, since she's in the habit of cloning and altering Maxis sims herself (not to mention, breeding them). We'll have to wait and see.

Sometimes I have to push the story, but I don't like to really have to force it. There has to be some love involved, ya know?

I'm happy to hear that you'll be waiting... I'll try to be true to my word.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Dick............heh heh heh. You perv you. I cannot wait to see him in action: "Hey there hot mama, you wanna have a little fun? We can go back to my place......No, I don't live alone. I live with my 3 alien children........why you walking away?"

LOL

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I can't help it. Dick is a funny word. (And that was the randomly generated name, so who am I to argue?)

*snicker* I'm going to have fun with this. And there's still some room for more "oopsie" babies in his life too. Not that I'm the kind of person who'd do that to my sims...*wink*

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

It is contagious! After reading the rules I decided to start one also. Lord knows why because I play Strangetown that way anyway (each house gets played for one week then on to the next).
the thing that's hardest for me is to play without cheating. No aging off! My favorite cheat. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm used to using aging off and maxmotives when necessary for the story, so I have to drop the habit.

Are you going to post your prosperity challenge?

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

I actually do have a journal that I started for myself to keep notes on my Strangetown families in and I have started keeping my prosperity challenge there also. It's my_simsession if you want to check it out.
It's not fantastic writing but you're more then welcome to read it. As for posting it anyplace else? Uh, I don't know. That will remain to be seen. For now, the stories can sit there.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool. I'll check it out.