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[Gen1, Part3] A cute little house

It didn’t take long for her to get tired of eating quick meals. Personally, I don’t see what’s so wrong with enjoying some cereal and a nice ham sandwich, but she’s apparently tired of it.

For now, she’ll just have to deal until we can get more money saved up.

I took her back to the park to grab some more collectibles, but none were spawning. The only thing I could find were some plants ready for harvesting. Once I had her grab them, I brought her over to fish for a while until they decided to spawn.

Unfortunately…

Read the rest here: https://thedragoraclan.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/gen1-part3-a-cute-little-house/

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[Gen1, Part2] A loner makes a friend

Despite being a loner who isn’t fond of other sims, Raelin wants to try and change. Even she gets lonely sometimes so, when the neighbors arrived to welcome her, she tried her best to be sociable.

I think they were surprised by her lack of house haha or perhaps just disapproving.

According to James Turner on YouTube, sims tend to paint the social bunny when they have low social. If I remember correctly, though, her social was in the green when she painted this. Either way, it’s pretty cute~

I really do adore Willow Creek, it’s so beautiful. And the cherry trees? They remind me of Japan, which fills me with joy.

It’s pretty fun to paint from reference. I like taking pictures of her surroundings and having her paint them. I wish I would have grabbed the picture of the painting when she finished it, but here’s the picture.

Enough time had finally passed so she was able to harvest the wild plants in the wild and start a garden. It would be a lot of waiting and hard work, but it will hopefully pay off in the future.

When she visited the gym again to freshen up and grab some food, she started talking to Geoffrey. His wife came out of nowhere and didn’t seem too pleased that someone was talking to her husband haha

Raelin has managed to save up enough simoleons to start building her home. We have to start with the necessities first.

Naturally, we can’t just have appliances chilling in the middle of her lot, right? I won’t pretend I’m a visionary when it comes to building haha I don’t do special or good looking builds. I’m more of a… Minecraft square house builder c:

And the inside, which isn’t finished because I was running low on money. I wanted to keep at least 200 simoleons so I could afford to paint.

While she was out collecting, she met someone that she seemed quite interested in. His name is Don and they spent a few minutes chatting to get her social up. Pretty sure she wasn’t feeling negativity from her loner trait as they talked.

She painted another masterpiece and it looks really cool! I’m digging the superhero theme.

Don also stopped by and they were able to get closer.

Here is the updated garden. It’s big enough to provide a nice chunk of change during sells but just small enough to not be overwhelming to take care of.

It’s so much easier to take care of without seasons installed haha

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[Gen1, Part1] That’s a lot of fish!

This series is officially underway and I’m quite excited. I debated for a bit about whether I wanted to do a true Rags to Riches challenge or an easier version (aka with a starter house.) This is simply because I’ve always have money issues IRL and they’re super stressful.

I play games to escape stress, but I thought about it and came to the conclusion that I can live out my dreams through them. I may not be able to get rid of my money issues IRL, but I can help them to overcome their own!

Also, I’d like to mention that I couldn’t remember which neighborhood had all of the collectibles. I chose wrong and had to travel to the other neighborhood to start collecting haha I also immediately regretted choosing Oasis over Willow.

The latter is just so much prettier and, in my opinion, has better resources.

It takes a while for collectibles to start spawning in, so I decided it was best to start fishing. Normally, my sims don’t really catch anything at the start and Raelin was no different.

At least, she wasn’t at first. It didn’t take long at all before she was fishing up the entire river! I’ve never had a sim catch this many fish at one time when they have no fishing skill.

I was seriously impressed! And she seems quite proud of herself, as well haha

Once the collectibles started to spawn, I sent her off to gather as many as she could.

My casual playthrough quickly turned to one of horror, though…

At first, I figured they were just broken CC hairs because I haven’t played in ages, but now I’m beginning to think that they are only broken because I uninstalled all packs except for the base game.

You don’t make much money off photography, especially when you’re just using the cell phone, but it’s a fun hobby. I enjoy taking pictures of the world because it truly is beautiful! Plus, it’s not like they sell for 0.

I’m not sure why, but sims just don’t tend to grill in my games. I’ve watched loads of playthroughs where they go to the park and sims will grill food so they can eat for free. That never happens for me which is super frustrating for this kind of challenge.

Hot dogs are the cheapest at just 13 simoleons, so she’s gonna be eating a lot of that for a while haha

One thing I really miss are whims. I know there’s the wants and fears system, which I did turn on once I remembered to, but it’s not the same. The fears are super annoying, in my opinion, and they can really mess with a sim’s mood.

When I finally did turn it back on, her first want was to play chess because she was at the park. An easy one to accomplish.

Many naps and an uncomfortable bench later…

I wanted to head to Willow Creek because I was already tired of Oasis lol Honestly, I debated for a moment whether or not I wanted to stay exclusively inside of the world I had chosen but I figured that would get annoying down the road.

Snapped some pics, of course.

I have also decided that I’m going to have a “portrait” aka a selfie of each heir to keep on the wall. Not sure how well this will go. Perhaps I’ll have each heir take the photos when they move out, hmm…

Thanks for reading and I’ll see you in the next one o/

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Generation 1 – Raelin Dragora

❊ Basic Info

Race: Sim

Gender: Female

Aspiration: Fortune – Fabulously Wealthy

Traits: Loner – Creative – Gloomy

Career: Freelance Writer

Education: N/A

❊ In Depth Info

Place of Birth: Oasis Springs

Current Residence: Dusty Turf, Oasis Springs

Zodiac: Pisces

Favorite Color: Teal, Purple

Likes: Gardening, Painting, Blue, Purple, Spooky Music, Alternative Music, Writing, Fitness

Dislikes: Fishing, Pop Music

❊ Biography

Raelin was raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her. She grew up to dislike other sims, preferring to spend her time alone reading books about gardening or painting nature pictures. When her grandmother passed, she was kicked out of the house because she hadn’t left a will.

Now living on the street with 0 simoleons to her name and no one to depend on, Raelin must forge her own path in life while trying to achieve her goal. She’s tired of struggling to pay bills and being without money, so she’s determined to become Fabulously Wealthy by any means necessary.

Though she is less enthusiastic about it, she also wants to overcome her dislike of other sims and create bonds that will last a lifetime.

❊ Clothing

❊ Selfie

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❊ Series Index - Generation 1

Generation 1 is tagged as #DragoraG1. All generations are tagged as #DragoraClan. All series index posts are tagged as #DragoraIndex.

❊ Character Intro

❊ Part 1 – That’s a lot of fish!

❊ Part 2 – A loner makes a friend

❊ Part 3 – A cute little house

❊ Part 4 – Crushed by a crush

❊ Part 5 – He’s so… beefy!

❊ Part 6 – Hope?

❊ Part 7 – Gloomy Blues

❊ Part 8 – Impressive Person

❊ Part 9 – 200k??

❊ Part 10

❊ Part 11

❊ Part 12

❊ Part 13

❊ Part 14

❊ Part 15

❊ Part 16

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Welcome to my blog!

❊ Blog Information

This blog will mostly focus on my current legacy challenge, The Dragora Clan, which is a pack-based rags to riches challenge inspired by James Turner's Bigwallet family. I started this legacy on 11/19/23 so I haven't made it very far, but I do hope you'll join me on this journey.

Once I start my Super Sim challenge, I'll also be posting that here.

For more information, please follow my WordPress blog. It's where I mainly post my playthrough c:

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