The Moncur Dynasty 1.0

[sims_by_izza]

I've never posted in this style before, and I'm really not used to it.  I'm a beginner at "legacy style posting" so please be gentle.  This isn't exactly going to be a "legacy", nor is it an "apocalypse challenge" or even a "build a city" challenge.  Rather, it's my own little mish-mash of all three, though I made up some rules of my own and disposed of others.  This is more the kind of challenge I wanted to attempt without having to follow the preconceived rules of other people's challenges.  So though it may have many rules you've heard of before, it's all it's own.
I will post the rules of the challenge if people are interested, but for now I'll just give a general outline.  I started with completely empty neighbourhood templates, created a main hood (which I've called Abandoned Cove) and built one beach lot, completely furnished with very shabby holiday home type furniture, very run down.  Mostly because I've never bothered to have a beach lot before and because I never build anything - I usually just stick my sims in pre-made houses due to laziness.  That isn't allowed in this challenge.  One more thing - since there's been a horrible disaster, weather is erratic - I did a die roll for each of the four seasons for complete randomness.  My seasons are spring, winter, summer, spring.  I created a family - one parent and one teenager (any personality and looks are allowed, but a die roll is required for aspiration, both primary and secondary), moved them in, and then promptly moved the parent out via the newspaper, immediately deleting them from the family bin.  Then created two batches of townies (mostly to eliminate too much spawning of those stupid AL townies - I hate them!)  The scenario - there's been a nuclear war, fallout is over, and the only playable sim is a newly grown up teen who has been left orphaned at his/her parents' old rarely visited holiday home.  Jobs are all locked, the world needs populating, and the only allowable electrical applicance is a tv (not even electric lighting - candles and lanterns only!)  Battery powered appliances are okay (eg. those tiny little stereos.)  School is indeed back in session and your teen must attend, though grades aren't too important.  There's no college or private school on the island.  No services are allowed except adoption/pet adoption and grocery delivery (I'm considering that the island's leaders would want to make sure all people had enough to eat, for a price.)Yeah, that'll do for a rule outline for now - I've got them all written out and I will post them later if anybody has interest in starting a similar challenge.  For now, on with the show!


Meet my orphan, Amelie Moncur.   Her stats are Libra 3, 7, 2, 6, 7.  Aspiration Fortune/Family.  Her lifetime want is to marry off 6 children (at least she's planning to do her part in repopulating the planet!)


For now, still very much a child herself, though...


Still coming to terms with the new world she finds herself in.  All she has left of her parents are family photographs and she has no friends on the island yet....


Obligatory cute dance picture - in background - creepy garden club member is creepy....


Amelie: "I don't care how cute you are, blue spotty stray dog, do not be chewing on my stuff!"
Creepy Garden Club Guy: "Look, Amelie... this could be our baby..."
Izza: *shudder*

]Amelie: "What?  Nobody can tell me not to have beer anymore... I do what I want..."


Amelie: "Ugh, homework blows!  Why do I even have to go to school?"
Izza: "Because I'm not in to the whole inteen thing, there aren't any jobs available yet, and you need to do something to fill all those hours until you grow up."
Amelie: "Meanie!"


First thing to break - the television.  Let's see how Amelie's handyman skills are doing....


.....not great.....


Amelie: *sigh* "I don't wanna go to school today...."
Izza: "You'll go and you'll like it.  You have yet to meet even one teenage boy.  Get to it!"


Oooh, success.  She brought home this townie, Finn Cave from school.
Finn: "Uhh, there's a big black wolf over there...."
Amelie: "Yeah, I know.  He comes by every day.  I call him Shaft."
(Yeah, seriously... his name's Shaft... I giggled when he first showed up...)


Amelie: *moves in immediately for first kiss* AND *gets first crush*


Amelie: "Seriously, Finn, GTFO!  This is one of those alone time moments!"


Candlelight - it's most definitely for lovers....


Creepy doll picture!  I'm so glad I put that doll in the house - it's gonna be one of those things that is around forever!


All the recent dancing with Finn earned Amelie a membership to My Muse - Music + Dance Studio.  This girly here?  She's the music + dance lady for this hood - WAY more perfect for it than that Noelle Dennis chick, huh?  She's got a tutu and everything!  Her name's Serenity. 


Second attempt at fixing the television.  It all worked out this time without incident.  For the firs time in days Amelie's fun meter was full...


Poor Amelie.  Her aspiration is always low too due to being a fortune sim and not being allowed to buy anything or get a job.  With her fun meter finally in the green, it was time to attempt all that was available to her... selling lemonade to complete random strangers!  Woot!
Izza: "Uhh.. Amelie, watch where you're pouring..."
Amelie: *not listening*


Amelie: "This bathroom sure is creepy at night..."
Izza: "You're telling me!  I'm glad it's not mine..." *shudder*


Amelie: *smug smile* "I'll have that first hundred simoleons in no time..."


And I leave you with... a random pic of one of my favorites of all Amelie's furnishings - her oven, which also acts as a trash can and is most definitely not electric.  I love when it smokes!