This is my story based on the Escape to Nowhere Challenge by Misty found
here at MTS.
Challenge Overview:
The gist of the challenge is your sim and their three children flee from a bad situation and start out with very little money and nowhere to live - hence "Escape to Nowhere". This is a fun take on many other 'rags to riches' challenges but isn't a legacy that goes many generations. In fact you are supposed to accomplish your goal in 60 sim days!
As in all other types of these challenges, you start with little money and are restricted as to where you can live and how you can earn money during the different phases of the challenge. The twist here is you are also faced with a series of daily random events to deal with - some good and some very stressful. This is the part that intrigued me to do the challenge and the fact that it is a fairly short one. The ultimate goal is for your sim to eventually save up enough money to buy their own home for their runaway family in 60 days or less.
My modifications:
- I took a liberty with the events and made it a 30% chance of getting one event each day instead of absolutely having an event each day as the challenge is written since I have never done this before. UPDATE: After 10 chapters I wasn't challenging enough so I changed back to daily events as the challenge is written.
- I also turned off occults, zombies and opted out of the celeb system. (Not required)
I am using a couple of mods to help me out as well:
- NRAAS Relativity - to make the time for each day 50% slower (Not required, just wanted a little more time each day to spend with my sims. Maybe a little cheaty)
- NRAAS Returner - to lengthen the amount of time a sim is pregnant to closer match the speed in years (Seasons are set to 7 days each season which would mean 2 years would pass at 56 days so my sims lives will be the equivalent of just over 2 years so being pregnant for 6 weeks seemed unrealistic - I still only made it 12 days...of course I hope I don't roll THAT event!)
- Ani's No refrigerator shoppingmod - No food buying from the refrigerator - If your sim doesn't have the required food in their inventory or in the refrigerator you cannot make the meal. Period. So no free cereal or yogurt! (You can manage this without a mod. If it cost money, you can't have it and if you take a free meal, you have to eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable from your inventory)
Each blog entry will be one sim day so my blog will have 60 chapters plus this prologue and likely an epilogue. With that, I wanted a good back story and well it got away from me so without further ado I present my Escape to Nowhere Challenge.
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Prologue
Chapter 1 - Indoors!
Chapter 2 - Mommy's Little Helpers
Chapter 3 - Hard
Chapter 4 - Firehouse!!!
Chapter 5 - It IS Better
Chapter 6 - Movies
Chapter 7 - Fishing
Chapter 8 - Cherry Lip Gloss
Chapter 9 - Darius
Chapter 10 - I Am Mean
Chapter 11 - Mr. Reid
Chapter 12 - Leroy the Landlord
Chapter 13 - Friendship
Chapter 14 - Kate's Sexy Rainbow
Chapter 15 - Birthday Surprise
Chapter 16 - If You Need Anything
Chapter 17 - Packages
Chapter 18 - Confession
Chapter 19 - Break Up
Chapter 20 - Ben's Birthday
Chapter 21- Twins?
Chapter 22 - Worth It
Chapter 23 - Sloppy Seconds
Chapter 24 - The Social Worker
Chapter 25 - Who Do You Love?
Chapter 26 - Daycare
Chapter 27 -Bad Day
Chapter 28 - More
Chapter 29 - Truth or Dare
Chapter 30 - Stranded
Chapter 31- Stolen Moments in Time
Chapter 32 - Where's Leroy?
Chapter 33 - New Apartment
Chapter 34 - Meet Brooke
Chapter 35- Perfect Day
Chapter 36 - I Hate You Both
Chapter 37 - Almost Normal
Chapter 38 - Dakota
Chapter 39 - Daddy Roy
Chapter 40 - Uncle Reid
Chapter 41 - Happy Halloween
Chapter 42 - Thanksgiving Part 1 of 3
Chapter 42 - Thanksgiving Part 2 of 3
Chapter 42 - Thanksgiving Part 3 of 3
Chapter 43 - Help Part 1 of 2
Chapter 43 - Help Part 2 of 2
Chapter 44 - Happy Birthday Part 1 of 3
Chapter 44 - Happy Birthday Part 2 of 3
Chapter 44 - Happy Birthday Part 3 of 3
Chapter 45 - Christmas Part 1 of 3
Chapter 45 - Christmas Part 2 of 3
Chapter 45 - Christmas Part 3 of 3
Chapter 46 - The Trial
Chapter 47 - He's Baaack! Part 1 of 3
Chapter 47 - He's Baaack! Part 2 of 3
Chapter 47 - He's Baaack! Part 3 of 3
Chapter 48 - All Messed Up Part 1 of 3
Chapter 48 - All Messed Up Part 2 of 3
Chapter 48 - All Messed Up Part 3 of 3
Chapter 49 - Guilty
Chapter 50 - Finding Out Part 1of 3
Chapter 50 - Finding Out Part 2 of 3
Chapter 50 - Finding Out Part 3 of 3
Chapter 51- The Truth Will Set You Free - Or Not - Part 1 of 3
Chapter 51- The Truth Will Set You Free - Or Not - Part 2 of 3
Chapter 51- The Truth Will Set You Free - Or Not - Part 3 of 3
Chapter 52 - Running Away - Part 1 of 3
Chapter 52 - Running Away - Part 2 of 3
Chapter 52 - Running Away - Part 3 of 3
Chapter 53 - Newt vs Leroy -Part 1 of 2
Chapter 53 - Newt vs Leroy -Part 2 of 2
Chapter 54 - A New Beginning - Part 1 of 5
Chapter 54 - A New Beginning - Part 2 of 5
Chapter 54 - A New Beginning - Part 3 of 5
Chapter 54 - A New Beginning - Part 4 of 5
Chapter 54 - A New Beginning - Part 5 of 5
Epilogue
Enjoying the firepole
Asking for the job at the Fire Station.
Reese has his first crush...
Darius has become a constant in the family's lives....
The flu bug hit them in Chapter 11.
A home of their own!
Kaitlin works the bar while Leroy the Landlord checks her out.
Reid and Kaitlin take the next step to friends with benefits
Kate & Leroy sizzle....
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
Their first official date:
Hmmmmm
Jade and Reese
Kaitlin isn't completely honest...
Kaitlin and Reid part ways
Kaitlin asks Reid to come to see Ben for his birthday
Showdown between mothers
Poor Ben - lost his hair
Reid tries to make Kaitlin listen to him
Leroy helps Kaitlin get through the visit
Leroy and Kaitlin in the hospital
Leroy ponders the recent turn of events
Reid finally learns the truth
Leroy and Kaitlin finally have some time alone
A little too much liquid courage leads to well....