Wren's Nest: New Chapter August 9 «1234567…21...Next Go

Carewren123

Welcome readers!


Wren McDaniel had a pretty typical childhood. Loving family, high school sweetheart, she couldn't have been happier. Then disaster struck. Now she's all alone. Will she ever find out what happened to her loved ones? Will she even be able to survive in this cruel post-apocalyptic world? You'll have to read to find out.

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FloorRaisin

Loving the visuals and the feel of this blog! I'm hooked! (Also super curious about your adaptation - the Apocalypse challenge was so neat & I'm very eager to try it in TS4. But I'll be patient(er) and wait for Pinstar. For now at least. ;D)

Carewren123

Yay! I'm glad you like it so far. By the way, I was going to post my version of the rules, but I heard Pinstar would be doing an official version. So I won't be posting mine. Most of the restrictions will be explained throughout the story though. I probably would have waiting for Pinstar's version too, but I had already started working on this before I knew he would be doing it. Lol if you look at the date on the blog, I actually started working on the first chapter back in October. I just postponed finishing it until closer to the career patch release.

Silvereyes83

Bookmarked so I can check back for updates. I love the start of your story.

Carewren123

Thanks @Silvereyes83 I had so much fun creating that first chapter. I'm working on the next chapter now. Trying to work in a bit of what happened to her when the disaster struck.

evetfootwear

Wow. One of the best opening chapters I've read in a long time. So creative and fresh!
I've bookmarked your story and I'm eagerly awaiting Chapter Two!

Carewren123

Aww thank you so much

CathyTea

Ohhhh! Carewren! I love this! The only other apocalypse challenge I've read was ephemeraltoast's Apocalypso-A-Go-Go for TS2. You can tell from the name, it was a comedy. Yours is visually stunning and the narration is so effective! I like all the cool things you're doing with the media, too! Really smart and clever.

Carewren123

Thanks. I really loved how the "old" photos turned out.

And I just googled Apocalyso-A-Go-Go and read the Prelude. It is so funny. If I didn't have so many current stories that I'm trying to read right now I would probably go read the whole thing.

I've never read any apocalypse stories. And I only ever play the first couple of generation in TS3. So I hope Wren will fair well once I start playing the actual challenge.

CathyTea

My best source for the whole thing is at clockwatchers.net. It contains links to hundreds of stories from the TS2 database. All of Candi's classics are there, and all of ephemeraltoast's. It's an alphabetical list, with capitalized names before lower case, so you need to scroll a lot to get down to ephemeraltoast's!

RachelRosebud

I really liked the grainy effect (not sure exactly what you'd call it) of the pictures at the end. You could really imagine Wren looking at those pictures, at what was lost but still held in her heart. I'm looking forward to reading more, mostly since I don't know what kind of challenge this is, lol. I'm assuming no zombies, hehe.

RachelRosebud

Oh, and I really liked the house. You did a great job with the roof placement! I thought it was a real architectural image with the neat lines/symmetry until I clicked on it and saw/realized it was TS4 indeed, LOL.

br560

That's just amazing!

Carewren123

Aww thank you so much.

OhRenSims

LOVE IT! I'm glad I started reading it. You've got yourself a reader!

Carewren123

YAY!! Thank you! I should have the next chapter up in a few hours, by the way.

OhRenSims

Yes yes yes yes yes!!!

Carewren123

So glad to finally be getting back into the writing zone New chapter is up.

1.1 Trying For Hope

OhRenSims

This was an excellent update! I love how the door to her home is hidden- that's brilliant. And the white shirts. AH! Love it. I'm so nervous for her though. Eeeeep!

CathyTea

The look is really amazing--The house looks like a post-war structure.

Carewren123

Thanks ladies. I'm glad you like it.

@Jufanzaly Hiding the entrance was jumping off point for building her whole house. It also adds a little difficulty to my challenge because one of the restrictions is not being able to move large pieces of furniture once they are places. The way I built the house around the front door limits my space, so I really had to think about the layout before I committed to it. Oh and I'm really happy that you like the white shirts. I needed some way to introduce some of the rules and restrictions in the story. Wanted them to be sort of creepy, and I thought pristine white uniforms in this post-apocalyptic world would be appropriate.

@CathyTea I had a lot of fun going through all of the buy debug items to decorate the inside of the house. She doesn't have much that is actually useful to her in the beginning, but it really adds to the atmosphere I think.

Silvereyes83

I am blown away by how creative the house you built is designed. And I love how you tie in elements of the challenge into the story itself.

Carewren123

@Silvereyes83 Aw thanks!! I was actually worried I was adding in too much of the challenge rules into this chapter. Good to hear otherwise

FloorRaisin

Man, this is getting me so jazzed for trying the apocalypse challenge again. I love what you're doing with your images and layout - everything is so gritty. Really helps suck us readers in!

Carewren123

I really am having fun with the images for this story. It is soooooo tricky getting screenshots without flower/trees/plants in the background. I'm trying to keep it looking barren until a certain point in the story. I do wish we could edit the worlds, then this wouldn't be a problem. Then again the challenge of it is actually kind of fun.

I was always really drawn to the Apocalypse challenge in TS3 (sadly I didn't discover challenges while I was still playing TS2). I tried it once, but only made it to the point where Gen 2 was having/just had a baby before I gave up. My computer and TS3 did not get along at all. Wish me luck that I make it much farther in this attempt.

FloorRaisin

Good luck!