Friday, July 16, 2010

Hitch's Career Challenge Legacy

For now this blog is more of an account of my progress with the challenge than a 'story' blog..

This is Hitch's Career Challenge Legacy. All traits and careers are randomized. You can find this Sims 3 Challenge over at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sims3Challenges/

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Here is Mallory Abernathy! Our Legacy founder. She pulled the Stylist Career, and bought a medium sized empty lot in Twinbrook.

All traits and professions are randomly drawn. Mallory herself was a random rolled sim and I only changed her hair and clothes... and believe me it took all the self control I have to NOT fix that nose!! Luckily Stylist was one of the five LTW choices.

- Stylist

- Loves The Outdoors
- Technophobe
- Party Animal
- Perceptive
- Friendly




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Mallory had enough cash left over to build a decent starter home...

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Decorating would obviously have to wait until there was some regular cash rolling in.



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Day one Mallory headed right over to the local Salon - Tattoo joint and applied for a job.


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Of course she was hired immediately given her 'cool' hair and confidence.. so what that she'd never actually styled anyone or cut hair before!


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The Racket family was the first group of customers to enter the shop and Mallory instantly struck up a friendly conversation with a young hottie named Shark. Ok ok ...so he was still technically jail bait.. but only by a few days. She gave Shark's mom a makeover, her first .. all went well. The next few days her and Shark conversed by phone and email.



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Finally the day came... Shark was legally now an adult and Mallory and Sharks internet romance could move forward.


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And boy did it! They wasted no time hooking up and making things all legal like. I think Shark just really wanted to get out of his parents house.

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The had a quicky private wedding....

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But who needed all the horns and flashing lights when you really loved each other anyway? Besides the house REALLY needed some upgrading.

And so Shark is added to the household.

- LTW Golden Fingers/Golden Tongue Reach Level 10 in the Charisma and Music Skills

-Flirty
-Great Kisser
-Genius
-Athletic
-Charismatic




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Mallory - "ummm Shark my eyes are up here"


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Yes that is a pregnancy outfit... despite their full schedule, Mallory and Shark ( and me!) decided an early start on an heir would be the best way to go. Thankfully Mallory was able to keep working on her Styling skills at home.


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In my excitement over the birth of our first heir... I forgot to get pictures! But here he is in his nice new nursery. The house like the family growing a bit whenever possible.

Meet our first heir ... Leo Abernathy!
I rolled his career and got Firefighter!
His randomized traits are ...
-Disciplined (odd that this trait is available for babies)
-Genius


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I have no idea if playing with the firetruck does anything, but it was Leo's favorite toy! (yes I missed his growing up, LOL... Being out of the house on Styling jobs has it's drawbacks. Not really sure who Leo got the platinum blonde hair from though...


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LOL.. yes he is now a child!! I pretty much left him on free will. He is a great kid, always does his homework, helps with household chores. Allowing me to really focus on Mallory and Shark's LTWs.

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OK ok... I'm a FF fiend at times. But this time on the day he was due to age to a teen I actually let the family buy a birthday cake and celebrate this latest transition in life.

Leo's traits (all random) are now

-Disciplined
-Genius
-Easily Impressed
-Artistic

...now he can start working on the skills that he'll need to be a fireman. Handiness and Athletic.


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Mallory and Shark continue to work on thier careers and both are just days from reaching their LTWs. They've also been working on the house adding a tad more flair and color, as well as an extra bathroom!

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... 203, 204 205......


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Leo's not just all about skilling. He like his parents, has a hot internet romance going on. He also is fairly popular at school and often has friends over.. all while keeping his grades in the A's.


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Mallory unceremoniously aged to an elder in the new bathroom. She never was one for big birthday celebrations anyway...haha. But her and Shark have both reached their LTW's Shark is at the top of the Music Career ( Hit Movie Composer) and has maxed out the Charisma and Music Skills to fulfill his LTW of Golden Fingers-Golden Tongue.

Mallory reached her LTW of reaching the top of the Stylists Profession (Fashion Phenomenon)

Challenge Goals

-Reach Top of Career - Check!
-Make 5000 Simoleons from Styling Jobs alone -Check!
-Give everyone a makeover after reaching top of career - Check!!
- Change all outfits every Sunday by midnight - Ok I didn't always stay on top of this one, I did change outfits often and everyone has had a few makeovers in the house. I can't keep track of birthdays much less Sundays, so .. I did so so with this one.


... and now the focus is on Leo the Fair Haired Fire Fighter. Hopefully I'll get more, less sporadic pictures during Leo's lifetime.