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First, we get a look at our brand new goals:

House 013 Building Goals:
2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom home worth at least $100k Simoleons
-Must include a designated gaming room
House 013 Generational Goals:
Achieve Level 10 of the Gamer branch of Tech Guru on Jax
1st place in Pro tournament for both Hillock II and Sims Forever on Jax
Achieve Level 10 of Start-Up Entrepreneur branch of Tech Guru on 2nd sim
*Note* All sims are Controllable in this house!
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

Wow.. that's quite a goal. Hopefully that will keep me more entertained than the last house did! .. And we get to control all sims?? I must have died and gone to heaven!

Next, we run Jax through his makeover.... and I must say, he needed one!!

Then, we plop him onto his new property, strip him of all his worldly goods and money (including a Ducky he had apparently been hoarding since childhood), and take a look at his starting stat panels:

Then, our last - and possibly scariest task before starting this house: rolling for the lot traits:

Okay. Well that could have been a LOT worse.

Finally. It's time to start. First order of business: decide whether he's going to college or getting a job instead. Of course, I suppose he could do both... but am I willing to try to work AND do his coursework? .. Probably not. Also: per his traits, he will be getting a dog at some point. Hm... he did roll for Academic..... ARGH. I go to bed to do some major thinking before starting this tomorrow.

I wake up.. and the first conclusion I've come to overnight, is our favorite little Prissy is going to come with us on this journey. I'll have to pay a 200 dollar pet fee before I buy anything else, but Jax is so happy to have a pet, I couldn't resist. So.. welcome to house 13, Prissy!

So, this challenge starts out SLOWWW.. because the only thing I can think to do to get money right away is collecting... and barely anything is up. I plant the sage I find, hold on to the one frog I found, and head home to say hi to Mom. I don't figure she and Dad have much time left.

I do manage to get enough to pay for Prissy's fee, and get her a food bowl. Jax, however, is scrounging for food still, and peeing himself. We have literally a garden, a dog, a mailbox, a dog food bowl and a squeaky toy Prissy found while hunting.

She seems pretty happy with it, though. So that's good.

Another day, another visit with family. And more collecting. Collect collect collect. Plant what I can, sell the rest. Still, poor Jax is struggling.

This random fella walking down the street became my target for leveling Jax's mischief, because I want to get level 3 in rocket science, mischief, robotics, and programming before signing up for university. I figure mischief I can do through socials, the other three.. I'll make him read books from the cheapest book "shelf" I can buy.

... And because I have no idea how long Prissy will still be an adult, I change out one lot trait very briefly (two days) for the Dog Hangout. I picked out this brown and white mutt named Lucky for her mate, and "luckily" they seem to be getting along better than Prissy has with any other dog she's been introduced to.

Yay! Finally, we got it to work. Puppies are on the way! .. And at about this time, my game started being very weird. The dogs kept leaving lot and I couldn't get them to come back with the whistle. I ignored it for a while, but then I really got concerned and looked up how to fix it. Apparently it's a bug - or it could be because I have no home for them yet. I traveled to get them back and went straight back home. Didn't count it as actual travel because I was just doing it to fix a bug.

All that reading and skilling takes it's toll.. Poor Jax has about had it with the bench sleeping. I had to spend most of the money he's gotten from collecting on the books to skill, which was annoying, and then I saved up for 1000 so I can travel. Still, nothing on the lot other than the bookshelf, cooler, and the stuff I mentioned before.

The puppies are here!! This one is Fiona...

... And this is Sadie. I love them both. One has a troublemaker trait, the other is Hairy like her Dad.. so we have hair piles EVERYWHERE .. All. The. Time. I can't drag them to the trash fast enough. So the dogs are always a mess.

He just dropped his book and passed out. Poor guy. But he's cutting it close on where I wanted him to be at before signing up for Uni.. and I'm pushing him hard.

Now that we have 1k, we explore the Student Library in Britechester.. while we wait for our scholarship and uni applications to come back. I've been looking constantly, but I haven't seen ONE young adult, male or female, walk past Jax's .. er.. "house". Immediately upon getting to the library, I spot this lovely librarian, and all bets are off. I stopped looking right then and there. LOL.

While we were there, we got a money opportunity from our aunt Diedre on the phone, I asked about the conditions.. and she sent us 2500 simoleons. Nice!

So, here we are getting to know the local librarian. Turns out she's Bookworm, Romantic.. and I have no idea what else. Will introduce her better next post. Her name, however, is Adrienne Hahn.... and I think she'll make some cute babies with Jax. At least... that's the plan.

Luckily, she doesn't seem to mind the romancing plan. First kiss in the bag! I head home after this, planning to let Jax get some needs back up.. but the game has other plans. I'll explain that next post, too. Because this one is long enough already. I'll just leave you wondering whether he gets into his distinguished degree or not until next time!

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