Looking for something

Now that I have my volunteer work out of the way I can search for seeds to replant in the community garden and find stuff I can sell.Still pretty tired but I must keep going. Last thing I want is for the villagers to die of starvation.

Time to work in the community

I know I do not look happy. My birth parents are dead and I am tired. But I must keep going, moving forward. The next thing on my fathers list is to volunteer in the community one day a week. So off I go for my first day of volunteer work. Hopefully I will get into a good routine and won't get tired so quick. Living as a fisherman's daughter you would think I would be used to this kind of life. On the go from the time I get up to the time I go to bed.

Exploring the castle.

I absolutely love the huge fire places in the castle. The one we had back home was small but we also had a tiny house so it did not need a huge fireplace to keep us warm. I think that my birth parents would have spent a lot of time in here so I thought this would be a great place for their urns to sit. I just hope they do not cause much trouble.

Early wake up

According to dads list I need to get up at 5 am every morning and no later than that. Which I can understand. When you get up at that time every morning you have more time to do things you need during the day.  This is not a problem for me since I get up around this time every morning anyway. Time to get my day started.

Alone in a castle

I found out the hard way that I am all alone in this huge castle. It seems after my birth parents died their staff left and refused to return. For now I eat alone, I live alone. Its a good thing I know how to cook so I won't die any time soon. I'm sure the residents would love if I lost my life. They do not want some poor fisherman's daughter and proven to be the child of the late Lord and Lady Randwulf. They have all but told me this in their looks and stares when I am in town.

Digging for gold

Since I now am the Lady of Randwulf castle I need to find a way to make money. I helped my parents by digging up stuff to sell in town. Perhaps I can do the same thing now and not only make money but get to know the villagers and hear our what they have to say. A few did look at me funny while I was digging in the ground.

Learning new skills

I had no idea how much stuff was in this castle until I started wandering around and exploring. One thing I found in the front sitting room was this pipe organ. That is one thing I have always wanted to learn how to play. Now I get the chance to. This will help with the stress and will give me something fun to do. I will have to check out the other things around the castle to play with. There are tons of bookcases here to!

The list

My father had a list on his desk of things I needed to do everyday. I hate to say it but I think he knew they were going to die soon. A bit sad when you think about it. One of my daily tasks I need to write in a journal. In his notes on the list he mentioned it helped to write about each day and it served as record of what happened each day in the village. I may see if I can find his journals and maybe get some much needed advice. What would be better is if his ghost came around. Its a bit selfish I know. I need all the help and advice I can get.

Death in the family

Not only did I lose my adopted parents but I really liked Lord and Lady Randwulf. Now I know why they were always so nice to me. I wonder if they would have at some point told me I was their daughter of if they would have kept it a secret. I have a hard enough time trying to run my own life how am I supposed to run an entire village and keep everyone alive?

Meet the Lady of Randwulf Castle

I do not know where to start. This is all to much to handle right now. I lost my father and a few years later my mom died leaving me alone. It was tough each day trying to fish and collect things to sell. I received a lot of pity stares from the other villagers. Some bought my wares out of pity while others brushed me off. Jump forward a few years both Lord and Lady Randwulf die suddenly. Some people tried to take the role of new Lord and failed only creating more problems for the rightful heir. 

So to my surprise I found out that I am the lost child of Lord and Lady Randulf. Apparently, they had me before they married. In fear they found a couple to take me in and raise me as their own. The scholars had to prove to the villagers that I am indeed the heir. Now I have to move into this huge castle and try to show them that I can run the village and bring them back to the glory days when my real parents were alive. 

Well, here goes nothing.

Challenge info. This is a very long post.

The Sims 4 Heir Lost and Found a Medieval Challenge

* * PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING * *

* This is a three-part challenge. You must do them in order. You will need all the packs, but you can alter the challenge which I will mention when needed. *

Table of Contents

Back Story

Rules

Approved Items

Mods and CC (Custom Content)

The Set up

Create a Sim

The First Challenge

Back Story

The Missing Heir

Living in the medieval times life can be hard. Depending on your station your life could be very hard or very easy. Growing up you had very loving parents. You father was a local fisherman while your mother tended to the family and sold the odds and ends your father caught.

You may not have been rich or well off but your parents gave you the best life they could with what they had.

 You had begged your father to let you go fishing with him and at times he would say yes. Tragedy would strike.

 The winter was very hard that year and your father resorted to breaking the ice and trying to catch fish so your family would not starve. Both you and your mother pleaded with him not to go. It looked like a snow storm was going to move in. He ignored your pleas promising to be home by curfew.

The storm came with a vengeance. Curfew came and went. Your father was nowhere to be found. Knowing the punishment for breaking curfew you left your home in search of a guard leaving your mother who was in a state of worry. Unfortunately, you could not find a guard willing to help you and of course you were told you needed to volunteer an extra day on top of your daily tasks at home. On the way home, you searched for him with no luck. Sleep would not come easy that night for your mother and yourself.

You would be woken by the screams of your mother. Rushing to the front room you find a guard from the morning shift trying to console her with no luck. He informs you that your father was found having gotten lost in the snow storm that hit. He was found by the guards who took over this morning. He had tried to take shelter with no luck and froze to death.

The guard expressed his condolences leaving you to tend to your mother promising to find out why the night guards refused to search for him and told you that you did not need to work an extra day of volunteering unless you wanted to.

Less than a week after your father passed away your mother died of a broken heart leaving you alone in the world. Thankfully your mother had taught you how to care for yourself in the event you were left an orphan. It would be spring before your parents were buried in the local cemetery.

Being a teenager life became even more difficult trying to keep up with your studies and your duties not only around the house but your duties to the village. 

A year after your parents died both the Lord and Lady that oversaw the village died suddenly leaving your village without a leader. It would prove to be a hard two years as people tried to take the role of leader but failing the village. People stopped coming to spend their hard-earned money and the community garden had been destroyed by a hard winter.

Now a mystery plagued the village. The will had finally been found and turns out that the Lord and Lady had a child before they were married. In fear of what their families would say they found a family willing to take the baby in and raise it as their own. This was difficult for both parents but knew it was best. This unknown baby was named the heir of the Castle and the village. One small problem arose, they had no idea who the adopted parents were so they had no idea where the child who now is a young adult is.

If your village did not have enough problems the Author who provided books for all to read has either disappeared or died around the same time as the passing of the Lord and Lady. Small talk and gossip spread like wild fire through the village that you were the heir. You sure did look like you had a good mix of the Lord and lady in you.

Scholar’s continued to search for any scrolls that gave the name of the child and who the child was raised by. Finally, the scrolls had been found and it named you as the heir and your parents as the adopted parents. The entire village was in shock including you. Now you must bring the village back to its golden years and bring back people to trade and buy with the villagers. 

As for the Author that mystery must wait for another day. You have a village to save. Only time will tell if you can handle such a task.

Rules for Challenge 1

1.      No electrical items except a fridge, and a stove. No computers used in this Challenge. See approved items list.

2.     All lights must be in candle form.

3.     You need a toilet, sink, and a tub. No showers or shower tub combo. See approved items list.

4.    Pools must look like natural streams, ponds or lakes.

5.     Your day starts at 5 A.M and ends at 6 P.M.

6.    Your curfew is at 6 P.M no matter what world you are in.

7.     Breaking curfew means you have to work an extra day

volunteering. If you don’t have that as an option work an extra day at the community garden.

8.    You may not date, get married or have kids in this challenge.

9.     Jobs, see break down of the challenge goals.

10. Clothing must be as medieval as possible. No shorts for women. Dresses and floor length skirts. They must wear some kind of boot or flat shoe. Men must not wear shorts and keep it as medieval as possible. The must wear boots.

Approved Items List

*Try to keep things as medieval as possible.*

*Comfort- Try to keep it as medieval as possible.

*Surfaces- Try to keep it as medieval as possible. No modern items.

*Plumbing- Rub-a-dub-tub, Floral hygiene clawfoot tub, Princess Cordelia’s bathtub, RAW toilet, Old fashioned high tank toilet (Vampire pack), Old time antique toilet, The patrician sink, Gothic pedestal sink, Clean machine sink (Get to work), The wash basin (Get together), Poulton footed sink vanity.

*Activities & Skills- Meditation stools, Yoga mat, chess board, Bonsai tree, 16^th century monte vista globe, Painting easel, Pumpkin carving station, Wood working table, Napri parlour organ, Grand piano, Dance floor (make it look medieval), Violin (no electric ones), Bars (no electric ones), Private journal (Parenthood), Bubbles, Fish bowls, Hotshot foosball table, Family bulletin board (parenthood), Garden pots, The gift of fire, Bird feeder, Summer drink tray, Planter boxes, Monkey bars, Whispering wishing well.

*Decorations- Try to keep it as medieval as possible.

*Kids- Not needed in this challenge.

*Lighting- Candles only.

*Electronics- None for this challenge. Keep sims off their phone.

*Appliances- Ice box vintage refrigerator, Auld crow wood burning cook stove, Carbonette charcoal grill, Summer drink tray, No electrical trash cans. No fire alarm or fire suppression system.

*Storage- Keep it as medieval as possible. Toy boxes, Bookshelves, Storage trunks.

Mods and Custom Content (CC)

You may use mods to help with making the game play more medieval. McCommand is ok and you may use CC to make the game play more medieval. I do not use mods or CC so you do not have to use it unless you want to.

The Set up

All buildings you have need to be medieval. No electronics unless needed such as shops and restaurants. See approved items list. You need a book store, grave yard, herb store, restaurant, market, toyshop and a bakery and a mansion or castle. If you do not want build these you can find them on my gallery under willowrazorclawz.

Here is a list of builds I made for this challenge:

Sleeping Dragon Tavern

Randwulf Market

Ye Old Toy Shoppe

Baker’s Dozen

Dragon Herbarium (You cannot sell remedies but you should be able to sell the plants needed. Check buydebug or unknown section of buy mode.)

Book Binders End,

Randwulf Cemetery

Randulf Castle furnished

Randwulf Castle (unfurnished)

Bloodstone Manor can work as well. Make the needed adjustments to this build with the approved items list. The castle is placed in Forgotten Hollow and the rest of the builds except Bloodstone Manor has been placed in Newcrest. You may want a park, keep it as medieval as possible.

For your own builds see approved items list.

If you make your own bookstore have a test sim and have them buy every book that is available and place them in the bookstore. This includes both homework books for kids and teens. Arrange your shops how you want if building your own. You must have projects in the toyshop if you have parenthood if not disregard this sentence. Staff must be in medieval dress or as close to it as possible.

Create a Sim

Try to keep your sim as medieval as possible. Dresses or floor length skirts for the females and boots or flats for shoes. Little to no makeup. Male sims may not wear shorts and must be as medieval as possible. They must wear boots. Remember your sim is the Lord or Lady of the town you choose and Newcrest. This next step will be a pain. Sorry loves. You need to make over the townies in the town you chose and remove all electronics from their homes. No computers, TVs etc. Candles only for light. See approved items list. You can do this to all townies in other worlds if you want to as well.

You may choose your life span. Short, Long or use the youth potion. Whatever you choose will be your life span in challenge 2. The youth potion can be bought by using whim points.

Challenge 1- The missing heir found.

You are now in charge of both your town and the village (Newcrest). You must gain the trust of the villagers and resume the duties of your birth parents.

 See below for the breakdown of your goals.

Breakdown of Challenge Goals

1.      Complete A friend of the world aspiration

2.     Max out the Charisma skill

3.     You need to complete whims to get points to buy the youth potion. Not the age freeze. Disregard if you’re not using the potion.

4.    Life span is either short, long or use points to get the youth potion. DO NOT TURN OFF AGING.

5.     Your day starts at 5 A.M and ends at 6 P.M

6.    Curfew is at 6 P.M no matter where you are you must be home by 6. Failure to do so will result in an extra day volunteering or working in the community garden.

7.     Absolutely no electronics. See approved items list.

8.    Pay your bills.

9.    Find seeds and plant them in a lot you want to community garden in. I tested this and you can plant on a lot you do not own. You must have one of each fruit and vegetable. You can find a list of plants on carl the sims 4

10. You must volunteer one day a week. Disregard if you do not have the option to. You need to use your phone for this.

11.   You must work the community garden once a week.

12.  Stock your fridge with the produce you harvest to reduce the cost of cooking food.

13. You will need to visit the bakery if you want baked goods.

14. You must write in your journal once a day.

15.  Collect items around the town and village to sell at the market once a week. One-yard sale session to complete this. You may fish as well.

16. You cannot date, get married or have kids in this challenge.

17.  You must sell $10,000 in order to move on to the next challenge.

18. You cannot use any whim rewards except the youth potion.

Once you have completed all your goals you may move onto challenge 2. Good luck Bloodstones and happy simming!