i finally fully developed a newcrest save, building is by far my fav part of the game so it was a challenge but a blast. we have 3 apartment building, one big one with 6 units, the other two are duplexes. pizza parlor/skating rink, petting zoo/ranch, lounge, rec center, cafe, and library in addition to the residential lots. I never really mess around with community lots so it was really fun to experiment.
I wanted to do a little write up about the founder before I post any updates for the challenge... this is Maple Batter ! Her aspiration is to be a small appliance whiz. She's a loyal foodie who hates children, not ideal for a legacy founder, but she definitely would be open to having children if it's something that was important to her partner. She's a social butterfly who loves being in the Upper Crusts and has even founded her own club, 'the Baker's Dozen' to get together and talk/enjoy pastries. She also loves to dance, garden, listen to blues music, and write cookbooks about the recipes she's developed + she's got a great sense of humor. She's a lesbian and uses she/her pronouns.
Ivy is a young scientist who is enamored with the color green ! She loves playing video games and making people laugh in her free time. As a young adult, Ivy moved to and built her small home in Willow Creek.
She quickly befriended young mother and next door neighbor Bella Goth, she often invited herself over to Ivy’s house after they met at her welcome wagon party.
Ivy started her career as a Live Chat Support Agent and quickly climbed the ranks as she started writing scripts for plugins and modding some of the games she was playing. In the evenings after work if she wasn’t gaming, she often went to the neighborhood lounge for a little dancing, tricking people with hand buzzers, and practicing her stand-up routine.
There she met J Huntington the III who she quickly got along with, the two quickly became good friends after getting a little jealous that Bella hadn’t had time to come over in a while.
Though not particularly interested in romance, Ivy became pregnant with J’s baby. The two met and spoke about it, J and Ivy tried to make a partnership work to make it easier to take care of little bouncing baby boy Vern.
J moved in shortly after Vern’s birth to start helping around and to get to know his son, butJ has a fear of fatherhood and is generally unreliable. Ivy quickly found that inviting J to move in hadn’t really created any less work for her, despite being a good friend he was a terrible roommate and father. This not only caused her to slowly lose friendship towards J, but it quickly influenced her to rekindle her reliance and relationship with Bella. Bella was having problems with Mortimer as well, so the two decided to become partners and parents together. The two merged their households, creating a household of five: Ivy and Vern, as well as Bella and her child Milton. The two eloped without a public ceremony as Ivy is not romantic and Bella had already had a big wedding previously, they exchanged vows and rings to prove their commitment to one another at midnight under the magnolia blossoms in the park they often visited.
Shortly after while Vern was still in infancy, a Berry-Goth is born: Jett (note: Jett is the biological son of Mortimer, not Ivy’s. Bella was pregnant when they got married).
Bella quits her job as a barista and brought her divorce to spend more time at home, as two babies, with Jett being especially sensitive, was difficult for the pair to manage. Thankfully, the extra income isn’t needed as Bella got half of the Goth’s estate funds in the divorce, and Ivy, despite all the babies and drama, has continued to slowly climb the Tech career ladder. When Jett grew past being a newborn to becoming an infant, he moved into Vern’s room which they shared, near Ivy and Bella so they could sneak in some sleep when they could.
Both infants celebrate their birthdays, on the same day so they can grow up simultaneously.
Milton starts going to school and feels a little neglected because both of his moms are really busy and his father Mortimor Goth never comes to visit him, even at his birthday party because he is still so mad at Bella. Milton struggles at school and starts neglecting showing up to class because no one is forcing him to go while juggling two newborns, but with a little encouragement and after everyone got used to dealing with two babies all the time, he rose to be an A student. He also developed a good friendship with the Green kids.
With Vern and Jett aging out of infancy, Ivy’s focus returned not only to Milton but to her career; she had hit the ceiling at her old company, and decided to set out on her own start-up. Bella is able to go back to work around this time and turn her passion for romance into some simeleons writing romance novels. She also enjoys practicing her writing by writing books to read to her children.
Ivy begins going back out to the lounge at night to let off some steam from her large young family and high pressure job, and starts practicing her stand-up again as well as telling ridiculous stories to whoever will listen. She occasionally gets into physical altercations over the preposterous things she says, but lying to strangers is a great escape from your reality when things get tense. There she became sworn enemies with Emilio. The two had a brawl, of which Ivy was victorious, but still took a lot of damage. She stopped going out as much after that.
Things were monotonous for a while, Ivy and Bella both working hard. Milton is excelling in school and his younger brothers continued to develop their skills, Vern veering towards creativity and Jett becoming increasingly talkative. The house was renovated.
Bella threw a sorta fun (bronze) birthday party for Ivy, who then aged up into an adult.
Small note, I’m playing the base game for this so I did have to modify it slightly, she can’t become a scientist without Get to Work so I changed her career to Tech Guru and changed the collection goal to Microscope Prints from the original version of NSB.
Generation 1: Mint
Ivy Berry | She/Her | Tech Guru
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief
Traits: Materialistic | Vegetarian | Jealous
Life Goals:
Max Logic + Mischief Skills, Complete Microscope Prints Collection
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