#bluewater challenge

[annegirl13]

Bluewater Village 2024

I'm not going to be documenting every detail this time, but I am back in Bluewater! (I finally found a work/life balance that lets me play sims every once in a while!) I've played four rounds now, so maybe 15-20 years? Let's call it 20 because it's a nicer number.

I'm still playing with the basic rules I had all those years ago (2016!) but I focused more on gameplay than on storytelling and I've changed some of the challenges. I'll share more about each family and their challenges in individual posts. (Otherwise this one would get way too big!)

[annegirl13]

Jacquet I’m a Lover Challenge

You’ll notice somebody very important missing from the Jacquet family photo. Denise died at the very last minute of this last round. She was 70 days old. She definitely made an impact.

I changed the challenge for these guys as well. Originally again, I think they were some kind of random occurrence scenario based challenge, but then I found the I’m a lover challenge. It’s perfect for these guys.

Denise counts as the founder. She was married to her husband Yves until his untimely death, which obviously happens before the premade story starts. Yves owned the bakery and, thanks to the challenge, Denise wrote romance novels. I think it became more of a passion for her after he died. I also think she was a little embarrassed, because she definitely wrote bodice rippers.

Gilbert grew up seeing his parents passionately in love and really wanted that for himself. Because he’s a romance, Sim, I imagine he dated a lot in high school in college. He was looking for that spark. He didn’t exactly find the spark he wanted with Brianna (although I absolutely adore her and she’s one of my favorites, and I put them together on purpose) but she ended up getting pregnant and Denise had old-fashioned ideas. They currently have three kids: Roman the teenager and twins Yvette and Nicole.

Technically, the challenge rules just say that Gilbert has to get divorced. They do not say any reason why. However, I’m thinking that the death of his mother is going to send him spiraling, looking for that spark, that he still feels like he doesn’t have, into the arms of another Sim…

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Ramirez Rainbowcy

The Ramirez family challenge has changed! I think when I originally started playing Bluewater with a bunch of challenges, there’s was kind of a random occurrence thing, but I was never really happy with it. This time I decided to do the Rainbow challenge or the rainbowcy challenge or whatever you wanna call it. I’ll put the link to the one I’m using down below.

Basically, each generation has a color and a challenge associated with that color. Checo and Lisa are the blue generation, which is the just starting out generation. Technically, if I’d been playing them from scratch, they would’ve started out with absolutely nothing, but I am jumping in with premade families so we’re going with, they got started with nothing, they’ve built up this far, now it’s up to the next generation to see what happens. Counting Tessa, who can’t inherit as a premade sim, they have two kids. Their other daughter is Maria, who you can see, has quite a big personality.

Tessa and Maria are the purple generation, which means they get at least one want fulfilled per day and there needs to be some kind of magic in there. I think I’m going to have Maria try to get the voodoo doll and use that for hijinks. Tessa is in college and is currently romantically interested in Justin Kim. They’re probably going to raise dogs together.

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The Traveller I’m Surrounded By Idiots Challenge

I don’t think I included these guys in the original Bluewater challenge, but I really like them. I always got the impression from these guys that Trisha is the only one with the brain cell. Therefore, she is the only one with the brain cell in this challenge, and by brain cell I mean plumbob.

I honestly thought this was going to be way harder than it actually has been. These guys are way less chaotic than the Kims. Trisha has managed to: raise Tina well enough and get her grades high enough that she went to college with a scholarship for her A+ grades, keep everybody alive, and have another child named Troy, who is newly a teenager.

The one trick that I learned to do with this family was to have the parent queue up an interaction with their child and then queue up the help with homework interaction. So if I had Trisha hug Tina and then offered to do her homework with her, it worked way better than just clicking help with homework.

Troy is going to become the torch holder for the family once he goes to college and returns. Tina is technically free of the challenge now that she’s in college. I will have to find something else for her to do once she graduates because as a premade, she cannot inherit the family challenge.

I had never played an ISBI challenge before this, but I actually really kind of enjoy it. I’m looking forward to what comes with this family.

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Larson Double Random Legacy

(Technically, I’m playing this really fast and loose with the whole random legacy thing, but I started out, intending to make it a random legacy, and just kind of forgot the rules that I set for myself.)

I’m doing Jason and Jodie together because they are following the same challenge. It was just easier to split them into two households once they got married. Especially since they both had twins!

Jason married Adela, who is a bowling shirt wearing downtownie and who looks remarkably like his sister. 🫤 Their daughters are Elinor and Luciana. I don’t remember what either Jason or Adela do for work but their challenge has something to do with toy making. They haven’t done much of that…

Jodie married Pierce the Bluewater townie, who I’ve always liked her with. they are definitely more business driven than Jason and Adela, and that means they also kind of let their kids go a little more wild. Their kids are named Dante and Arlie and they’re pretty cute.

The best thing I did with these guys was make a big Larson family group for outings. I took them all to the diner downtown this past round and had all the kids take pictures of themselves in the photo booth. It was really cute. Everything that happens with his family from here on out is supposed to be random, so I don’t know what I will be doing as far as who inherits what goes. We’ll have to see what happens, I guess.

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Tinker Impossible Wants Challenge

This family is solely responsible for the incredible number of children in this next generation. Not only do they currently have nine children (if you count Melody), but they are also the reason I installed the triplets and quads mod. Yes. Really. And apparently I am far too fond of clicking the random button because you will notice quite a number of twins in this neighborhood this time around.

Currently, Stephen and Wanda have: Melody, Aria, Harmony, Bass, Timpani, Soprano, Tenor, Abby (the redhead and the only adoptee so far), and Rhapsody. Aria and Harmony and Soprano and Tenor are two sets of twins. Abby was adopted when Soprano and Tenor were just babies, right before Rhapsody was born. (I think Wanda panicked a little bit about not making her goal before she became an elder.)

Stephen just became an elder this past round. melody went to college after around two and is currently in her junior year. I’ll do more about her later.

The challenge, by the way, is no longer just to have 10 kids. Whoever inherit the challenge will then have to do an impossible want for their aspiration. We’ll see where this all takes us.

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Kim Officially Wacky Boolprop Challenge

Ah, the Kims! An officially wacky chaos family if there ever was one!

Justin doesn’t count and every OWBC family needs 3 pregnancies, so in addition to the eldest Kim kid, we have Barbara and Billie, Osgood, and Oscar. The O boys are not twins, but they’re close in age.

The family also has 3 dogs: Gabby the original, Pongo the one with the black ear, and Winnie, their puppy and the one with pointy ears. they are probably going to be Justin’s once he comes back from college. I don’t know if he’s going to breed more dalmatians, but he’s definitely the one in charge of the dogs.

Robert and Cynthia, of course still have their big personalities. And by big personalities I mean that Robert is a moron and Cynthia and in everybody’s business. they just got the rest of the kids into private school, no, thanks to Robert, who almost burned the house down and killed himself. When I looked over, he was the only thing on fire. I almost didn’t have Justin save him. But we need him to make the army of robots that we require for the challenge.

(I really do like these guys – – they’re just super chaotic and not very smart. Which I guess it’s the definition of Sims.)

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Delarosa DITFT Challenge

Florence Delarosa married Robi Monif, a Bluewater townie. technically my rules for the differences in the family tree challenge recommend that she marry a garden club member, but they have a lot of chemistry. He became a garden club member quite soon after they married.

The two of them have been very, very very focused on their garden, almost to the exclusion of everything else. That’s why their kids are a little younger than some of the others. Their daughter, Heather, and their son Moss are kind of being left to their own devices.

I don’t know yet which one of them is going to inherit. I think it’s going to be whichever one has the lower relationship with their parents, because the point of this challenge is kind of for each generation to be the opposite of the one before.