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[notmaria1317]

Hidden Occult Challenge

INSPIRED BY THIS CHALLENGE by squeamishsims.tumblr.com

OVERVIEW

As an occult sim, you have never felt in tune with your fellow occult sims. The older you get, the less your surroundings excite you the way that they did when you were small. Everything about the lifestyle you have lived feels off. Are you supposed to feel this way about your family? About your lifestyle? About yourself? You might not know the answers right now, but you need to find out what your reality is outside of the occult lifestyle. Maybe you run away as a teen to blend in with the townies or you are tasked with colonizing them (i suggest this challenge for added gameplay complexity). Either way, you try keeping your occult identity as secret as possible. It shouldn’t be too hard to assimilate into townie culture, should it? Oh, Watcher, I hope I won’t have to wipe the whole planet for my mistakes.

TIPS

Use this spreadsheet to track your skills and what you unlock.

Use this Google Doc to easy view the challenge.

General and skill rules are listed below.

To complete certain aspects of the game, you must reach certain skill levels because you are trying to assimilate to townie culture.

Your sim starts with limited knowledge on how to take care of yourself, learning most of your life skills as a teen.

Tag me so that I can see your sims and cheer you on!!

RULES

Your sim must be an occult sim.

Any sims in your household (if you choose to have multiple occult sims for a colonization storyline) must be in the teenage life stage.

Move into an empty lot and cannot move out until you are a young adult.

You must start with 0 simoleons after buying your plot of land. You can do so by opening the cheats menu with ctrl + shift + c, entering “testingcheats on”, and then money “0”. You will need this money cheat to deduct money from your sim’s bank account in the future.

Your sim must keep their occult nature, well, occult from townies. This could look different for all occults: aliens must wear disguises, vampires cannot drink blood in front of others, and werewolves or mermaids cannot be seen in those forms.

If any townies catch your sim in a state of the occult, make sure that they are dealt with. You can wipe their memories, hold them hostage, or kill them. Be creative :)

Luckily, your sim does not need to be hidden around townies all the time. When your sim reaches good friends status with a townie, your sim can choose to show them your true nature. Close friends will accept you no matter who you are. However, if you and that townie are no longer good friends, then refer back to rule 5. 

If your sim loves to travel, you must buy a $100 taxi ride every time you leave your neighborhood. Once you have a bike, you won’t have to ride a taxi in town.

If you leave for another town, you must be a $200 bus pass until you have a full-time job (the assumption is that you own a car with a full-time job or you can have someone from work carpool with you.

You start your new life with the same outfit for every outfit with minimal changes (e.g. no shoes on for the swimming outfit). If you want a new outfit, you must buy your outfits on Trendi or at the ThriftTea. If you do not have High School Years, then pay $200 per new outfit.

Keep Simple Living Turned on.

You will be living off-the-grid until you pay to turn on utilities. Turning on utilities will cost your sim $200. You will need utilities turned on to start building.

For every lot trait you add, you must add a lot challenge. If you already have lot challenges from earlier, they do not count towards this.

The only furniture allowed on your lot is outside furniture, portable furniture, and anything you build! Anything from Outdoor Retreat will be extremely useful! Any other kind of furniture can be purchased or fabricated once you build your home.

Before you can build your home, you have to buy a building permit for $750 and utilities turned on. Your initial micro home must be 32 tiles or less. If you have Tiny Living, then change your lot into a tiny home residential. If you want to upgrade the space, you must pay for each upgrade: $1,000 for a tiny home (64 tiles), $1,500 for a small home (100 tiles), and $2,000 for anything bigger than 100 tiles.

To own pets or animals, your sim must have built a home and built a fence for their enclosure. 

To sell items, your sim can vaporize them with their phones. 

Before you reach the necessary levels to go to high school, you can drop out of high school, use a mod, or remove the “go to school” interaction every day. If you have High School Years, your sim will drop out of school by interacting with the principal or by skipping class enough that you fail out of high school. If you drop out, then you will be unable to return to high school and will need to get a degree online as an adult.

Skill-based Rules

To interact with other townies, you must earn Charisma Level 3. This includes buying and selling from stalls.

To interact with other occult sims that aren’t your own, you must reach Charisma Level 5. Learning the townie language is hard enough, but each occult has its own language and set of social norms that need to be learned.

To be romantic with any sim, your sim must reach Charisma Level 6.

To get engaged and married, your sim must reach Charisma Level 8.

To have any kind of job, your sim must reach Charisma Level 4. At this point, they know enough of townie culture and language to work at a job.

In addition to buying a building permit, your sim needs to build their home. To do so, your sim must reach Handiness level 3 and Logic level 3.

Before changing your home from a tiny home residential to a normal residential, your sim must reach Handiness level 6 and Logic level 6. Building a tiny home requires similar but distinct skills from building a normal, neighborhood home.

Your sim cannot go to high school as a teen until they reach Research & Debate Level 3, Charisma Level 3, and Writing Level 3. These are all the basic set of skills needed to be in high school. You cannot join an after school activity. 

If your sim wants to go to University, they will need Research & Debate Level 5, Logic Level 5, and Charisma Level 5 as well as earning an A in high school. 

You cannot change the color of the furniture you purchase until you reach Painting Level 3.

When you reach Painting Level 5, you can start working on any other creative skill (e.g., photography)

Out of fear of giving other sims food poisoning, other sims cannot eat meals you make until you reach Cooking Level 5.

OCCULT Rules

Depending on the occult that you choose, you must use the trait, start with the perk, and follow the rule for your occult sim

Alien

Trait: Maker

Perk: Start with Logic Level 2

Rule: Only allowed to purchase the furniture that you cannot fabricate.

Werewolf

Trait: Glutton

Benefit: Start with Fitness Level 2

Rule: Not allowed to eat produce (i.e. fruit, vegetables, and herbs)

Vampire

Trait: Gloomy

Perk: Start with Acting Level 2 

Rule: Hold hostage anyone that you drink from then and kill them after a week after you kidnapped them.

Spellcaster

Trait: Hot Headed

Perk: Start with Herbalism Level 2 

Rule: You can either make potions or do spells. NOT BOTH

Mermaid

Trait: Vegetarian

Perk: Start with Singing Level 2

Rule: Not allowed to fish or raise insects (i.e. bees and the critter box from Eco Living)

Plantsim

Trait: Loves the Outdoors

Perk: Start with Gardening Level 2

Rule: Not allowed to be outside when it is cold.

[meangirlnurse]

fascinating how often men expect women to sympathize with their fears of being perceived as or treated like a woman

[meangirlnurse]

so much "masculinity" is constructed around the certainty that being gay or being a woman is inherently demeaning. and we're supposed to nod along supportively

[meangirlnurse]

"male loneliness crisis" ok so like.....what would happen if you started acting like a better friend to other men in your life? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

"men aren't allowed to show emotions" ok so like…..what would happen if you started being more emotionally expressive? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

#patriarchy hurts men #patriarchy hurts boys

i think you've VERY fundamentally misunderstood the point of my post tbh

men and boys first and foremost hurt themselves to avoid being perceived as their lessers (i.e. women and gay men)

they could stop. but the punishment is being perceived as one of us, and that would be just terrible. so they won't.

[meangirlnurse]

i'm fucking tired of being expected to endlessly wring my hands over the poor men who are hurt by patriarchy toooooo...when the only penalty they really face is being treated like the people they consider subhuman (women and gay men)

[meangirlnurse]

the Only way men will ever stop "being oppressed by the patriarchy" is if they dismantle the idea that women and gay men are inferior

once a man decides that there's nothing wrong with being seen as gay or a woman, the power of "the patriarchy" over their lives is vastly diminished

but you cannot force your oppressors to stop seeing you as a subhuman. this is something men have to choose for themselves

and they overwhelmingly do not. because when they're not playing victim/wounded bird about the circumstances of their gender, they fundamentally understand that they benefit from patriarchy far more than they are harmed by it

[drchucktingle]

LOVE IS REAL AND WHAT GREAT A DAY TO PROVE IT. LETS TROT

[congratulatorycutie]

I wanna sew but I have no sewing stuff…….

[artemis-the-catgrill]

reposting this so staff will have a harder time trying to make everyone forget it <3

[mayakern]

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thank you!

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[mayakern]

fjdjshshd this made me realize i forgot to talk about the huge pockets so thank you for the reminder 😭

its a little funny but for me our pockets have become such a normal part of my life that i expect all clothes to have them and whenever i wear clothes from other brands im always surprised and dismayed at how small the pockets are.

a phone is simply not enough. i need my pockets to fit an entire 32oz water bottle*

*on garments with silhouettes and structures that can support that kind of bulk/stress (which unforch the maxi dresses cannot)

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Nuke canada now

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Did y'all know that 70% of all mining operations in latin america and the caribbean involve a canadian transnational mining corporation?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Anyway, when I was in college I was constantly going to marches and protests against canadian and saudi mining projects in the Santurbán páramo, one of the most important ecosystems in Colombia in terms of biodiversity, and the source of drinking water of 30+ municipalities in my state, including the city I live in. Ultimately these mining proposals lost their license due to environmental regulations.

But now that our new far-right president elect is looking to suck up to imperial core powers once again, canadian mining corporation Aris mining is interested in re-starting mining projects in Santurbán. Which, would inevitably give cyanide poisoning not only to my city's drinking water, but 30+ other municipalities and indigenous communities.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

The imperial core will see one of latin america's veins and go "is anyone gonna cut that open?" and not wait for an answer

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Thank you so much to all the smart first-worlders who came here to helpfully inform me that literally nuking an entire country would be bad and have negative consequences for people and the environment. I am but a stupid little foreigner with no capacity for abstract thought or figurative language, I will now abandon my plans to literally nuke the entire country of canada, thank you so much smart first-worlders for educating the ignorant little foreigner about "nuking bad", I have so much to learn from you.

[depsidase]

[vasira96]

i will overcome my personality defects that i inherited from my emotionally immature parents but ooh god it's so fucking hard. but it's even harder knowing i'm responding to difficult situations like my parents do, so i will fix this!! i will be better than them god dammit

[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[spiribia]

Why is so much adult oriented 2d animation bastard ugly, do they know they don’t have to do that? The characters don’t have to projectile vomit all the time either, but maybe that’s asking too much

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[wholesome-suggestion]

you can always change. you realize that, right? if you feel stuck and stagnant, and you aren’t proud of who you are, you can change that. the world is not that serious and things are constantly growing and changing. i mean, think about it: the trees change every season; 4 times a year. you can do that, too. 

at any point, you can change and grow into someone you are proud of.

[notmaria1317]

I have been pronouncing my name in the way that it’s supposed to be pronounced, and it’s felt great for the past few months until someone today said that they can’t understand my accent… and my name was the only word that I pronounced without an “American accent”… I’m sad about my name again…

[transgwender616]

[junkyarded]

so many people post like they are from the dimension of No Misogyny because the misogyny all around them just registers to them as fine and normal

[notmaria1317]

Misogyny does not start and end with saying out loud that you hate women. But oh my god do people STILL support and defend the people that do!!

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!