What's going on in your Apocalypse?

[Radiochocolate]

I hate my creation. Peasants in an apocalyptic world is

Lesson of the day: do not have children before lifting at least one restriction.

[MichelleCYoung]

Chapter 2 of my Alphabetepic apocalypse is posted.

Generation 2 (with founder as generation 1) is all grown up, and Generation 3 is born.

[Radiochocolate]

It's allowed to grow children up early, right? The self-interaction, I mean.

If it is then I plead guilty.

[MichelleCYoung]

The self interaction is allowed. You're just not allowed to use cake, until Culinary is lifted.

I think the self-interaction is vital, because sometimes you just need to do it RIGHT THEN, to avoid total aspiration failure. I use it all the time.

[Radiochocolate]

I used it to avoid getting children stolen again. Though now I'm not sure of what to do with the teens.

[MichelleCYoung]

Skill the teens up, and keep them cleaning, cooking, and fixing stuff, I guess. Or making friends with all the walk-bys.

Speaking of kids, my first child of generation 3 (with Ragnar counting as generation 1), has just grown into an adult! Yaaay! The chapter is written, and uploading, as I type.

And Chapter 3 is posted!

[Jendra]

I decided to start a new apocalypse family. I went to my neighborhoods screen and I had one titled Ground Zero. I had a family already there with two kids called the Spectrum family. The neighborhood is dirt with seasons set to all winter, the house looks apocalypse style but I don't remember this family! The last apocalypse family I remember was the Storms which got to generation six before the kids ended up in university and I didn't want to play university so I ignored them. I sort of remember a family where I was naming kids after colors, but didn't remember it being an apoc family.

Ah well, going to try an adult start as soon as I figure out a theme.

[MichelleCYoung]

Well, since it's an apocalypse, why not have disasters as your theme? You could name them after volcanoes, famous hurricanes and tsunamis, and the like. Name them after cities that had famous disasters, like fires that burned down half the city, or that were wiped out by an epidemic or an earthquake. Then again, there are wars and famous battles. Troy and Carthage were pretty much wiped off the map, when they were conquered.

The list of possible names goes on and on. And actually, that could be rather inspiring, if you stick to names of cities that were hit hard, and nearly destroyed, but managed to revive and thrive, despite it all. London, San Francisco, Chicago are just a few examples off the top of my head.

Or, just don't worry about a theme, name your family anything you want, and just enjoy the game. I gave up on my "Rock" theme really early, even though I had a long list of names ready to go.

[Anne]

I don't have a theme for the McHeroes either, and having tons of fun anyway! I planned on finishing the challenge this summer, but as of late I've had quite some trouble with my hands (RSI, probably), so I'm not able to play much if anything at all, which makes me sad. Going to the doctor on Monday though, so let's see what he has to say about it.

[Lorinsv]

So sorry to hear that, Anne, and I hope your doctor is able to help you find relief soon!

[MichelleCYoung]

Oh, Anne, I sure do hope your doctor can help! HUGS!

[Jendra]

Well, so Henry got into the Adventurer career, which I was happy about because it's one of my favorite first lifts. After almost two weeks, he got fired . He got a job in Gamer, but has gotten nowhere (not entirely true, he got one promotion... and promptly demoted). Luckily, however, he's gay, so as of the next Tuesday, one boyfriend (he has three) will be invited over and we'll try to get a kid to lift Hopelessness. I'm using the apocaborg life of crime restrictions, so I should have enough money to make it through until adulthood, especially if Henry spends the rest of his adulthood writing.

[Lorinsv]

Jendra, I found those Seasons careers chance cards are the pits!

I'm anxious to hear if the alternate strategy works for you and Henry.

[Anne]

Thanks you guys!

Wow, Jendra, that's a tough start... Good strategy with the kid, though, I hope it works out!

[MichelleCYoung]

Jendra - COOL! See, I would have just started over at that point, but that's an awesome strategy! And really shows some stick-to-it-ive-ness-tude. YEAH!

So, are you posting it? I want to read about it!

Ooooh, now I'm just so tempted to do a new apocalypse with a founder who doesn't even TRY to lift hopelessness, herself, but just goes for a big family to start off.

[Jendra]

Failed . He had twins and turned to an elder the same night they turned into toddlers. I've seen elders refuse to change diapers before, but I've never seen them refuse to feed the toddlers. I couldn't watch them starve anymore . There's no way they would have made it into childhood, they'd only been toddlers for a day at that point.

While he was pregnant, he had the worst case of food poisoning I ever saw. He'd throw up four or five times in a row, and every time he got up, he'd have to run off and throw up again. It never got dangerous, so I thought it would be okay.

I'm going to try from my last save, which was a couple of days before he got pregnant, see if someone walks by that can be a parent a couple of days earlier. Otherwise, I'll have to go for a total restart.

[nicholaplaysthesims]

I haven't played mine in a while, at this point I'm scared to open the save just in case there is utter chaos.

[Radiochocolate]

There is a high chance I will be playing more of my apocalypse than the other challenges this month.
Which might seem a little odd or ironic or whatever since it's one of the toughest challenges and I've just started school again. Then again I tend to play it a little bit at a time since it's so frustrating, so it might go well with my limited spare time. Plus I don't have to try so hard to be funny

I'm about to start rotation 3, it should be more interesting now that the taxes are suspended.

[Jendra]

So I restarted. I opened my first one thinking it would give me a couple of extra days, turned out it would have given me one, not worth it, so I started with basically the same character, except I made him popularity instead of knowledge this time. On Friday, the last day before a three day break that would have made him an elder, he topped military. He was gay, but Michelle was the first of his friends to walk by, so oh well, I guess he's prison het <grin>. (Actually, ACR rolled him as het this time, but I preferred the chances if he was gay, so I switched him, I'm just putting it back the way it should be.)

Michelle is in Culinary, Level 4, with low skills and is a fortune sim. I shouldn't have rushed to get her that third logic skill for the promotion though, she would have two days off in a row in a couple of days if she doesn't get promoted. I'll have to see what I can do to keep her miserable until then, hmm? ^_^

Big problem is I didn't get as invested this time with Henry because I didn't want the disappointment if he didn't make it, so I didn't take near as many pictures, don't know if it's even worth trying to put up a story. I kind of wanted to at first, now I'm not sure. Trying to keep up with writing is one reason several challenges have gone by the wayside.

[MichelleCYoung]

Jendra, it's OK to go heavy on the text and light on the pictures.

Was this Michelle my simself, or is that just me being egotistical and paranoid?

Also, "prison het" in order to get the needed heir, while he really wants to get it on with his boyfriends could make for some excellent drama fodder.