Completing all lifetime wishes:
Street Credible (p. 3)
On a quiet night at home, Zebedee sat with Taylor and read him a book in the living room.
Soon it was Taylor's birthday and the family held a party at home. They invited a bunch of friends from around town and they all gathered as Thalia helped Taylor blow out his candles.
And with one last masterpiece mural on the wall in the living room, Thalia reached her lifetime goal. She had reached level 10 of the Street Art skill and made 7 masterpiece murals. Right before achieving this, she also reached level 8 of the rebel social group due to all her spray painting and gained the Artistic trait!
The End
Now that we have reached the end, let's reflect! I had a lot of fun playing with Thalia. The finish was a bit rocky, since I just switched the save file to a new laptop and not everything was working properly, but I'm glad I was at the end of this save for that and not somewhere in the middle, as I was truly in love with this one.
Buy the cheapest versions possible of anything: I'm pretty sure I stuck to that the entire time, even while furnishing the new rooms for the kids.
Get to level 5 of horse riding: Was achieved very quickly into the game.
Steal at least 10 things, but give them back: I got to 3/10, so sadly didn't work out.
Make at least 3 murals at every travel destination: I only made 3 murals in France, and didn't travel to the other two destinations, sadly.
Better luck next time! I think I was more focused on the farm and family gameplay sometimes to properly do challenge 3 and 4. On to the next one, now! Very excited to start anew.
Completing all Lifetime Wishes:
Street Credible (p. 2)
After a few days of hard work on the farm, Snowflake Day came around and Thalia asked Zebedee to come over again. He helped her out on the farm a little and they made a snowman together, after which Thalia decided to ask him to stay. To move in with her. She hadn't thought he would, but he actually agreed!
City Hall reached out to Thalia and commissioned her for another piece of street art in town, once again for a good price. She accepted the job and got to work in front of the City Hall itself. Once Zebedee got out of work that day, he stayed to watch her until she was finished. He had intended to propose to her, but she was in a bad mood due to something idiotic he said, and chickened out.
After a long, heavy workday for both Zebedee at the station and Thalia on the farm, they watched some television together on the couch and spent some quality time together.
Thalia had gone out into town and once again attempted to do some street art, this time on the side of the salon. The cops were called on her and she was fined another §1,000. She spent the evening up in the barn's attic, where Zebedee came to find her to comfort her.
The couple decided it was time to get out of Appaloose Plains for a while and flew out to Champes Les Sims, France. Upon learning of Thalia's spray painting skills, the owners of the inn they stayed in asked her to make some nice art on their outside walls.
Zebedee had been asked by the station to bring back some common relics to test some stuff with, so he headed into one of the tombs in France and completed it, emerging with a bunch of trinkets that would likely gain them a lot of money.
On their second night, Zebedee and Thalia went camping on a small official campground. Luckily, no one else was around, so after a romantic night, Zebedee went down on one knee and asked Thalia to marry him. She was besides herself, and of course said yes.
Returning home, Thalia and Zebedee were invited to a formal party at Zebedee's boss' home. When they returned home, they chatted about their wedding plans and discovered they didn't really want to invite many people, as neither of them had much close family or friends, and wanted to marry here on the farm. As darkness fell, they stepped out onto the porch and got married in a sweet, private ceremony.
Thalia announced she was pregnant not long after. She decided that, now that her family was growing, it was time to enter her parents' bedroom for the first time in years and clean it out. With Zebedee's help, the walls were repainted and they got some new furniture to make it theirs, then turned their own old room into the baby's room.
As the couple was celebrating Zebedee's birthday with some chocolate cake in the evening, Thalia went into labor. They rushed to the hospital and Thalia gave birth to a baby boy. They named him Glen.
As baby Glen sat in his crib, Thalia decided she would spray paint something new on his wall.
Thalia's birthday came and she aged up into an adult! She celebrated quietly at home with her husband and they set up some new stuff in the yard.
Thalia gave her baby some snuggles before heading off to sleep for the night.
Glen's birthday rolled around quicker than expected and he aged up into a toddler! The family had a small barbecue in the yard.
After they'd put Glen to bed, Maya suddenly felt unwell and passed away in the middle of the living room. Thalia was beside herself when the Grim Reaper appeared to take her old dog away.
Around town, Thalia had heard word that her old high school friend Anne had a toddler the same age as Glen, so she decided to go over to their new house and reintroduce herself to her old friend. Anne was a lot different now than when they used to be teens, but the two got along as they caught up.
With Maya now gone, Bellamy was growing restless, so Thalia took him out to the training grounds for some jumping practice.
Soon enough, Thalia found out she was once again pregnant. She celebrated by spray painting something beautiful on the front path.
Blackwood's birthday came around and he became an elder. As Thalia spent some time with him, sadly unable to take for him a ride due to her pregnancy, he begged for some carrots. For the first time ever, she gave in. Just because it was his birthday.
Just when the family was all outside celebrating Blackwood's birthday, Thalia went into labor. They hadn't anticipated it and couldn't quickly find a babysitter for Glen, so they decided to have a home birth. That night, their second child and son Taylor was born.
Thalia painted a mural on the wall of Taylor's bedroom and it was an absolute masterpiece!
Glen and Taylor's birthdays rolled around and the family went out to the old mill for a little celebratory tea party. They aged up into two cute little boys, but Thalia thought she picked up on some dislike between the two brothers.
Halloween hit and Glen decided to spend his morning digging through his costume chest. He pulled out a dinosaur costume and pranced around his room, pretending to be a t-rex. When his little brother waddled into the room, he crawled out crying in fear. Oops.
That night, Glen got to go trick or treating and got some good candies from the neighbors.
While Glen was out, Thalia decided to re-do the artworks on his bedroom wall. She wanted to create something a little more to Glen's taste, and hoped this new mural would fit the room nicely.
Glen spent some time getting to know the family horse, Blackwood. Thalia had told him to carefully hold his hand out and the horse would come to him, and it worked!
Completing all Lifetime Wishes:
Street Credible (p. 1)
Reach Level 10 of Street Art Skill, create 7 Masterpiece Murals
Here I am again, actually starting this challenge anew. I had already completed 4 lifetime wishes before, but I didn't really give those sims... a story. They were just there to finish their wish and that was all. No story surrounding them. No depth. It was boring. So, I'm trying again!
Meet Thalia Bellamy. Thalia grew up in Appaloosa Plains, living on her parent's farm and taking care of their horse. Once she started high school, horses weren't cool anymore and she went into a bit of a rebellious face: the emo hair, the edgy clothing and hanging with the wrong crowd. Shortly after finishing high school, Thalia's parents died in an unfortunate accident, leaving her all by herself to take care of the farm. She cut out her bad friends and decided to take some responsibility, but secretly she continued her street art, unbeknownst to the rest of the town.
Thalia's traits are Adventurous, Frugal, Equestrian, Good Sense of Humor and Kleptomaniac. Just one goal is a bit boring, so I've decided to (just like MahriRae on YouTube, who has made this challenge quite popular in the community) give my sim some challenges based on their traits. In this case, I have four:
1. Buy the cheapest versions possible of anything,
2. Get to level 5 of horse riding, (DONE)
3. Steal at least 10 things, but give them back, (1/10)
4. Make at least 3 murals at every travel destination.
Thalia decided it was time to make some new friends. She headed across the road to the Lexington Grounds, where she made some acquaintances with Hailey Shepherd and Gracie Loveland. The sun was shining nicely, and Thalia was getting a bit hot, so she decided to head back home. She found her old family dog, Maya, had fleas and gave her a bath in the tub outside the barn. Her parents had always told her the dog was never allowed in the house if she had flees.
Once Maya was all clean again, Thalia went behind the garage, out of view from the street, and tagged the wall. She used to tag walls and floors all over town with her friends before, but now she needed to be better. She had gotten so many compliments from family friends how well she was doing, she couldn't let them down by letting them see her tag stuff.
After her arm got tired of tagging the wall, Thalia headed inside for some dinner. She missed the smell of her mother's cooking as she entered and made herself a salad bowl. Before bed, Thalia crossed the street again and stole an empty milk crate from the Lexington Grounds. She made sure to give Maya a firm hug before turning off the lights.
Thalia decided it was time to give some attention to her former best friend again. It had once been her dream to take Blackburn into racing competitions once she was old enough to enter, so maybe now she could learn to ride again, as she had definitely unlearned in the past years.
She was certainly terrified when she first mounted Blackwood, but she put her fear away and went for a short ride along the streets of the town.
In the evening, Thalia had planned to go into town to do some street art, but it started raining shortly after dinner, so she went into the empty bedroom of the house and sprayed a mural onto the blank walls. Her parents would have once killed her had she done this, she imagined.
Maya went to sleep in the bedroom of Thalia's parents, which Thalia hadn't entered since their accident. Maya had gotten the door open and climbed onto the soft bed.
In the morning, Thalia made herself some pancakes. They weren't nearly as good as her mother used to make them, but she relished the strawberries she put on them, just like her mom always would.
Some of the eggs in the chicken coop hatched, and now Thalia had some baby chicks! How adorable!
Thalia headed to the library and spray painted the parking lot with a beautiful thing. Feeling brave, she decided to put her initials on it. Someone recognized the signature and called her up, asking her to make a mural in the parking lot of the cat park for some money. She headed over the next day and spray painted a game onto the pavement.
On her way back home, Thalia ran into her new neighbor, Rodrigo Cortés. He was a chef from Bridgeport, who didn't make it very big in his hometown and decided to move to Appaloose Plains to see if he had any chances of becoming a famous chef here. Upon their meeting, it seemed like sparks flew between them.
Once Rodrigo headed back home, Thalia realized she was all alone on the street. She couldn't help herself, her old self was still somewhere inside her, and she stole the park bench!
Thalia brushed Blackwood and cleaned his hooves before heading out for the day and training with him. They worked on racing a little bit, and Thalia galloped for the first time. She was absolutely terrified, of course.
The next morning her butt was sore from riding, and Maya decided to wake her up with some nuzzles. Thalia felt exhausted, but she didn't mind the sweet dog coming upstairs for some cuddles.
Thalia decided it was time for her and Blackwood to enter a racing competition. She was now level 3 in the riding skill, and Blackwood seemed ready, so she went to the training grounds and had him practice some running, and even jumping for a bit, which he quite enjoyed! Once 5pm hit, they entered a beginners competition and won with a steady pace. Thalia put their bronze trophy up by the kitchen.
From jumping up onto anything she could find in the house, Maya gained the Adventurous trait! Now she was just as Adventurous as Thalia.
Thalia decided it was a nice, sunny day for some spray painting at the festival. Sadly, someone called the police on her and she was arrested! At the station, she had to pay a fine of 1,000 simoleons. Can you believe it?? At least the arresting officer was cute.
The next evening, the officer that had arrested Thalia, Zebedee Devoir, came by the house to check if she was alright. He heard about her from his colleagues after the arrest and noticed how upset she'd look during her arrest, so he decided to visit her. They hit it off, discovering they both had a love for horses!
The next morning, Thalia went to her friend Gracie Loveland's house to spray paint her garage. It was supposed to be a joke, and once Gracie called she intended to come back and clean it up for her immediately, but one of the neighbors called the police and, despite trying to explain, Thalia was once again fined 1,000 simoleons. And she'd had plans to go on holiday soon...
After a morning of deep cleaning the house and the pets, Zebedee asked Thalia out to the Fall Festival. Neither of them dared to go in the haunted house, so they played rock, paper scissors to decide who had to go in. Thalia lost, but Zebedee decided to be brave and come with her anyway.
With the money being low after her two fines, Thalia decided it was time to earn some more money, so she set up a small indoor garden in the spare bedroom to hopefully earn some extra money.
The day before, Thalia had harvested some pumpkins from the festival and decided to carve one into a silly ghost to put out onto the porch for the season.
Maya had been playing with her chew toys so much, she gained the Non-Destructive trait!
Thalia spent some time giving Maya some attention before heading out for the day with Blackwood to enter a competition and train.
Two gnomes, one of a horse and one of a dog, appeared on the farm and Thalia put them in front of the house with the ghost pumpkin.
Thalia decided it was time to get rid of her old drawings and put some more recent art on her wall. She put the drawings in a box under her bed and spent the afternoon spray painting in her room.
That evening, Zebedee asked her out on a date and she agreed. They went to the steakhouse together, but the quality of their meal was horrible. Thalia thought it was embarrassing for the restaurant and they should know, so she sent it back and she was awarded the Bravest Customer of the Year Award. At first, she'd thought it was a joke, until they came out with 500 simoleons as a thank you.
Zebedee came back home with Thalia that evening and they woohooed. The next morning, they made their relationship official and Thalia made some breakfast while Zebedee got to know Maya a little. Unfortunately, Thalia got a bit distracted watching them play and started a fire. Struggling with the fire extinguisher, she was able to put out the flames beforee the firefighters were on their way.
