House 003 Chapter 2 | House 004 Chapter 1
Goal check:
House 003 Building Goals: 40,000 value home (2 bedroom, 1 bath minimum) (definitely over value, still working on it though) Build a Park (after gardening and fishing lvl 10) (complete) House 003 Generational Goals: Complete the Angling Ace aspiration (complete) Gardening skill level 10 (complete) Fishing Skill level 10 (complete) Grow a Cow Plant & collect at least 5 unique essences (complete) Young Adult heir (nearly teenaged)
We start out with a reminder to work on my Wall o' Fish.. and Mara again working on handiness.
Oh, no.
Shortly after this picture..
And then Caitlin grows up. She's definitely going to get a makeover.... not a fan of her hair.
Time to visit the park to go open the grotto!!
What's in here?
...More fishies!
After the first trip for the Grotto fish.. uh-oh.
Guess it's time.
A shot of the current essences wall.
And our second trip to the grotto...
..Pays off. Finally got the wolf fish thing. Now I just have the granite falls and selvadorada fish to get.
Meanwhile, since that's the last of the non-expansion fish.. and I get this message.
Showing the collection as it is now:
We spend the better part of the week biding our time.. and on the weekend, I send the girls off to Granite Falls.
Once there, we head straight for the Hermit's "secret" area.
Such a lovely place to fish!
Since the girls are here, I form a group and have them fish along with Mara.
Even Kierra joins in.... eventually.
Yay! That opens up the A grade for Caitlin in high school.
And my Wall o' Fish grows.
And look who's visiting!
Since handiness is maxed and I won't get the last of my fishies until the next weekend.. I have Mara help the gardener.
Caitlin has an "A"!
Now here.. the pictures get a bit mixed up. I had a glitch where my game got stuck (yet again) and I lost about two days of playtime.. I wasn't all that sure which pictures happened the first time I played it and which were the second... so bear with the wierd ages and outfit changes for Kierra.
Apparently someone decided to use the new pool!
The other kid headed out to chat.. so I have Mara join the party.
Helping with homework.
Kierra is back in the pool.
Kierra apparently has it in for the dollhouse... I had to fix it several times over the week.
Look who's got a bad back. 😉
Kierra ages up as she comes home from school. Yep. the second play through I forgot to age her up with a cake. Everything after this is in the correct order.
Yup. More essences.
Some family time. I just love this room.
Now that Caitlin has her "A", I can concentrate on getting the last three fish to finish the collection completely (something I've never done before)
There's crocodiles in the water?? Neat!
While getting to the fishing spot (the one with the croc).. I opened up a treasure chest.. and Mara got cursed. More curses?!? Great. Now I need to get a bone dust to cook the remedy. So I head into the marketplace and start working on her Selvadoradan Culture skill (because at 5, you can buy the bone dust you need to cook the remedy.) Before I can get her to level 5, the curse of sneezes passes to Kierra, too.. so I need the bone dust even more. Finally, after wasting two days getting her skill-ups, I buy the dust and make this noxious green goo they have to eat. I was very glad I went on vacation earlier than I had initially planned.. or that would have been the end of my Wall o' Fish quest.
I spend the next day fishing.. and complete the fish collection. Note I also have the plaque from finishing the collection in the top right of the Wall.
Proof the collection is done.
Caitlin.. why... now you're going to be uncomfortable for the first two days of your next house! Oh well. Keeping things interesting I guess.
Daichi is visiting again from his headstone by the Pomegranate tree. I have Mara spend some quality ghosty time with him since this house challenge is almost over.
Wait.. Kierra too? .. I guess I wasn't watching for the cake as well as I usually do.
And with that... Caitlin grows up. Here's what Mara's stats looked like at the end of the challenge:
Money wasn't quite as easy to get in this challenge, but I still had a nice bank account at the end.
Skill list... looks like I was slacking this time around.. I couldn't have been any closer on the cooking one, though. HAHA.
Here's her traits. That frugal saved SO much money... and getting her the Independent and Free Services made things so much easier.
Final essence count:
Now to check on the house... WAY over value. Ended with three bedrooms and two baths.
Some house pics....
A wall-up shot of my favorite feature.. the open arches in the living areas and the bi-level family room. I love the way it turned out.
And that's the end of it! See you in the next house!
House 003 Chapter 2 | House 004 Chapter 1
