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First, we check on our brand new goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

Then, we send Lyric through CAS - because it's tradition!

She then moves out to her new lot, Nookstone,

... and we roll for lot traits:

Her inventory is cleared out, and here's how she starts:

After all that.. we're ready to play. Oh! Except for one more thing:

It's rebate day! ... Wouldn't it be nice if we had enough money to spend on getting a rebate? Nice wish! =P

Anyway, we have poor Lyric standing around with 0 money, and zero ideas as to what she wants to do in life. I've been thinking on just this conundrum for days now. I've come to the conclusion that we're going to University. To be a Villain. Because - why not? I've never tried it before!

So... the first thing we need to do is raise skills so we can get accepted to a distinguished degree. I'm going to need Vampire Lore, Mischief, Logic, and Fitness all to level three to pretty much guarantee it. Already have Mischief and Logic there, and Fitness will probably be a struggle because she's Lazy. So, Vampire Lore. Which means we will need at the very least, a computer and a bookcase. For which, we need money. Sounds pretty straightforward. It's not like we haven't done this before. LOL.

So.. we start with a collection round. We get some plants, one frog - which is insanely un-useful....

... And, even more un-useful.. some common upgrade parts. Sigh.

At least we were able to afford this. Come on, girl, you can make it!! I believe in you! (She made it.)

We plant the strawberries we found, because they were the highest value plant we picked up... and by nightfall, we notice that some poor fool left an unspoiled hamburger laying on the ground by the (closed) food vendor. I send Lyric to go get it.. because, literally, beggars cannot be choosers.

The (albeit pretty) young adult vendor is the wrong gender.. and, apparently, it's Springfest. We pretty much ignore the bunny, and spend all day gardening and gathering and forcing her to go jogging every once in a while when she's not extremely fatigued. (Which only takes one run. Sigh. I guess that means, of the three careers possible for a Villain degree, Astronaut, the one I was leaning towards - is probably impossible. No way am I dragging her rear end to level 8 + Fitness skill.)

Today was far more profitable - we even found a second frog for breeding purposes.. and we were able to expand our.. er.. house? None too soon, by the look of her. That shower is going to come in handy! You have to wonder if Lyric is looking at all the silly decorations up in the middle of Spring on the past Rambler house and thinking how nice it would be to actually be living inside already.

Lyric: "Well, hi, Dad! Suuuure. Everything's just FINE! Trust me! Things are going great!"

Honey, I think he remembers what starting a Drifter House is like, don't lie to your dad like that.

Needing fun, we have her play in the sand for a while. Then it occurs to me, we could work on Mischief skill. I mean, it IS Prank Day.. so let's take advantage of it.

That, and I've spotted the first Young Adult male to walk by our lot. A mail carrier. Turns out he's alien. Sigh. Moving on.

Sure, let's argue with him. He doesn't seem to get upset about it, so we give up and go for a Lazy nap.

That house sure does look nice, doesn't it, Lyric? =P As opposed to this stone bench. Ouch. At least she's Lazy so she doesn't really care.

Aww.. Darn. Now he'll never see that we actually managed to get a roof over our heads.

Sort of. I mean, the bathroom is enclosed, right? And I *think* the computer will work when it's raining?

She really does hate jogging. I feel your pain, girl. I'm not a jogger, either.

Lyric's first fight. What can I say, I didn't like this girl's haircut?

Unfortunately, weird haircut girl wins. So we can't count this as a real fight. And I don't particularly want to be friends with her, so we let her leave.

By Friday, we have our scholarship applications in, and late that night, I put in our application for college, since we got to a whopping Two in Fitness, and the Three I needed in Vampire Lore.

We got accepted for a Distinguished Degree, which will mean at least a 7 in Criminal Boss, or a level 8 in the Secret Agent Villain one. If I can pull off a 3.9 total GPA, I'd be able to get a level 8 in the Boss career, too. Villains make more money.. but Bosses get better cash bonuses for promotions. I have no idea which one I'll choose.

A huge positive, however, is that our scholarships came through, and we don't have to pay a thing to enroll. Which is nice, because we only have so much in funds.

After signing up, We pull out the checkbook and finally get her a bed. I get a single, because that's the best one I can afford right now stats-wise.. and I'm not planning on a baby anytime really soon. We're sorta missing a spouse first.

Oh, look who I found. He must have the sun immunity trait or something, because he's definitely not smoking. And in this sun, he should be.

Since we're enrolled in University, and have more than 1k in the bank.. we take a trip to the Library (ostensibly to study ...) to mostly scope out any Young Adult males we can find. This fella is named Miguel, and he's studying Villain like us. However, he's noncommittal , and I don't think his looks "gel" with Lyric's. I keep him on the list just in case, though.

I forgot to note this fella's name down... I remember thinking it was a cool name - and his traits weren't horrible.. but after this reaction to us saying hello, we decide to take a hard pass on this guy.

I didn't take a photo the first time we ran across this guy, because he has the "Unflirty" trait... which makes wooing difficult. However, by the second time we find him, I'm rethinking that. I really like his looks... and he seems to like Lyric. They're already "good friends" even though they've only met twice. His name, by the way, is Sione.

We get all but one of Lyric's homeworks done for Monday by bedtime Saturday night, and I plan to come back the next day to start work on her one Term Paper. And maybe scope out some more guys. Meanwhile, Sunday AM is my cut-off for Ramblers.. so I save, and let Lyric nap her way to full Energy. We'll see her again in a couple of days.

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