Working on a save file for Willow Creek for the Ultimate Decades Challenge (1300s edition) by MorbidGamer!!
Serfs: serf was a peasant who was bound to a lord's land and was required to perform labor for the lord. Serfs were at the bottom of the social order and were treated similarly to slaves, but they could not be bought or sold. Serfs were given land for their family's needs, but they also worked on the lord's land, especially during busy times like harvest.
Fief: A fief was a piece of land granted to a lord's vassal in exchange for their service to the lord. The vassal would promise to fight for the lord and the lord would promise to protect the vassal. The vassal would oversee the serfs who worked the land.
I will update as I go along since I will be building everything myself for this challenge (i hate myself and am taking the hard route) and making original townies to give the full immersion of the challenge!
The willow creek map replacement shown in the screenshot is by MissChipsa and is completely free!!
(i gave up on finishing it for my udc playthrough, but im slowly working on it still since im probably gonna run the challenge again (i already love it im a history nerd in this sense))
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I would have kept them infants longer, but having twins is so indescribably stressful especially when their father is FAILING HIS COLLEGE COURSES CAUSE HE'S ALWAYS WATCHING THE KIDS. sigh. I'd rather him fail college than be a neglectful father though.
Sock is the kitty, I don't take enough photos of him, but Levi and Charity got him when they first started dating. He's a grumpy man. Shae is also in this photo; I might start making posts about her and her own daughter as well. ๐ anyways not much happened between this update and the last, I was busy setting up my rainbow legacy house asldnfldsaknff
tbh haven't been motivated to play sims or to post lol posts are hard :/ but we got another year done finally!! hopefully i get back into the groove at some point but just know i do not plan to drop the challenge or stop the posts :)
The quads (yes, one of them is dead, they are still quadruplets smh) are quite literal demons. Love them. But they are demons. Poor Ulla gets no sleep (her bar is constantly yellow or red) and most of time, Ruben is too busy with the farm work to help out. It's hectic guys.
They hug a lot if you can't tell, I think Ben and Lowri hug at least five times a day, I'll just see it out of the corner of my eye. We are going to ignore that Ben is crying in the background of the first photo, Lowri broke the dollhouse again.
Speaking of Lowri breaking the dollhouse, she breaks it like once every day and then cries about it right after... ANYWAYS their winter outfits are so adorable, I love it. Counter note. Playing in winter is hell, they're always on the verge of freezing to death, I swear.
Definitely two different feelings about their first blizzard... Ruben was absolutely not having it, but Philip was loving every second of it. Probably has to do with the fact Ruben actually had to take care of the chickens, cows, and bees, and then also take extra time with the garden and Philip was simply out there to play... Yeah..
As stated in last post, I played with the Royals except for the last day of 1308, so this is a pretty short update for the Frost Family.
Ruben finally got his kids and brought them all to Saint Grace Church for Lilith's burial. A nun had come over and blessed her grave before they left, ensuring Ruben that she would be in heaven. (lol as an atheist, that is so funny and weird for playing a family that are heavily religious but we rolling along.)
Honestly, the kiddos have been getting along nicely. Lowri has become quite a troublemaker, loving to take things apart and leaving them in a destructed state. And surprise surprise, Ben is loving the action and chaos that it brings. Poor Philip is usually the one who is told to clean it up.
Ruben is slowly coming to terms with the fact he will need to rewed, slowly being okay with it too. (When his new wife has children, does it make his first wife's children no longer allowed to inherit the farm?) The only problem? Actually finding a new wife.
I mostly played with the royals this year! It won't be very common that I do, but their children aged up and I thought I would check up on them.
Joan: Bea, I just don't know what to do. The entire town seems to hate me, haven't you noticed? Back home in Tartosa, I was well loved, it does not make any sense.
Beatrice: The people are different here, your grace. You know that King Edward is... Well, I mustn't say this if I want to live, if you understand what I am saying.
Joan: No, no, I understand. I just wish that they did not take it out on me. It's tireless behavior.
Jack: Mother, you will never believe it. I think I have fallen in love.
Joan: Jack... This is the third girl this week. It's Tuesday.
Jack: Well, yes, but this is the one this time. And she is actually a royal, so father would approve.
Joan: Your wife is already picked out, Jack...
Jack: Oh. Well then, I think I will fall in love with her when I meet her!
Joan: You've- You've already met her.
Edward: I've been at this for hours, good grief. Is this all of it then?
Luis: That's your first response of action, Your Majesty. There are dozens of others and there are letters from the other kingdoms wondering about which daughter the young prince is getting married to.
Edward: I still haven't done that. I already told Joan that the girl was picked out, has it not been yet?
Luis: No, Your Majesty, you never looked at the letters or the lineup of princesses yet.
Edward: I swear I will have died by the time I finished all of this. I am done for the day, Luis, tell everyone I am not here.
For this crop year, we rolled bugs zone! Surprisingly, I didn't actually get bugs until two days in- but we digress. Minna had the baby! His name is Adelbert Wendlen and (at least for now-) is our next heir.
I fucking love when sims get stuck. He went in the water and decided he couldn't walk back over the plants. Anyways, here is the infant Adelbert now that we got to the next day, he's wiggly and so far, really loves sound. He really hates tummy time.
I've decided that their only income will be from selling at the lowest price and trading with Jacques (I don't think I spelt that right but oh well if I didn't) so we've got Minna selling to their next-door neighbour here.
Another instance of my sims going into the damn pond (river in terms of not able to make it expand past lot??) Apollo luckily got out just fine by themselves unlike somebody.
And we've got little Adelbert playing with one of Minna's cooking spoons because why not. He's got these animals wrapped around his fingers already and I love it. (especially because they literally hate Rolf if he tries to talk to them)
Babies,,, My renditions of Ray and Evangeline from The Princess and The Frog !! I'm excited to play with them though hehe, I will post their character sheets whenever I get around to actually making them
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ultimate apocalypse challenge | diary entry 3
ultimate apocalypse challenge | diary entry 5
We hit the Great Famine! Content Warnings ensue.
'The Great Famine of 1315โ1317 was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe was affected. Crop failures were not the only problem; cattle disease caused sheep and cattle numbers to fall as much as 80%. The period was marked by extreme levels of crime, disease, mass death, and even cannibalism and infanticide. Historians debate the toll, but it is estimated that 10โ25% of the population of many cities and towns died.'
The Frost family had to say goodbye to their stock when they couldn't keep up with managing even enough food for themselves. It was hard to let go such a well working food source of eggs, but they wouldn't have gotten anything out of the chickens (or their cow) if they had kept them and let them starve.
The garden lost all of the plants, no longer bearing any harvest that Ruben had to dig them all up from the ground. Food helpings are being cut in half and the kids are becoming short tempered as a result. Lowri in particular has been extremely vocal about her distaste towards pretty much everything at any point that she can. (she got the loud child phase lol)
Philip has been getting sick way too easy ever since but is still doing his best to keep the younger ones entertained and shift their minds away from being hungry. Ben, on the other hand, has been angry and quiet, Ulla has been pushing her worries about him for a while. Ruben says that he just needs some time to himself.
If anything, Ruben has been taking this as a chance to work on new seed bags to lure animals during his hunts. They've become scarcer to find on his runs, but that hasn't let him down just yet. Ulla has been subject to his ramblings on the different pairings of seeds and scents would better attract an animal towards his trap that she has begun to follow him around during the day so she can sleep at night.