Streams These Two Weeks*:

• Monday, July 12th (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream Alert - Working on HiHelloRachel's Shell Collaboration! If I have extra time, I'll do additional building.
• Tuesday, July 13th (1-5 PM EST): Playing my Drifter Challenge, the Ramblers, House 13. Goal is to get through the very last week of the generation, and prepare for the next if we have time. https://www.illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/ramblers/
• Wednesday, July 14th (1-3 PM EST): No Stream, I have a Chiropractor Appointment.
• Wednesday, July 14th (5-9 PM EST): Playing my Master Simmer blog challenge (gen 4 currently) Goal is, in the next week and a half to get to end of generation (and finish our goals). https://www.illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/thralls-master-simmer/
• Thursday, July 15th (1-5 PM EST): Back to our Plum Gen (Gen 5) of my extended Not So Berry. Goal is to finish the generation by Saturday.
• Friday, July 16th (1-5 PM EST): More Plum Gen Play.
• Saturday, July 17th (1-9 PM EST): More Plum Gen Play. If we have finished the Plum Gen by this day, I will do some building instead.
• Sunday, July 18th: No stream: yep, even I take days off. sorta. 😉
• Monday, July 19th (1-5 PM EST): Playing my Master Simmer blog challenge (gen 4 currently) Goal is, to get to end of generation (and finish our goals) by the 22nd. https://www.illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/thralls-master-simmer/
• Tuesday, July 20th (1-5 PM EST): More Master Simmer blog challenge (gen 4 currently) Goal is, to get to end of generation (and finish our goals) by the 22nd. I'm hoping to finish it sometime today. https://www.illusorythrall.com/simlitnstories/challenge-attempts/thralls-master-simmer/
• Wednesday, July 21st (1-3 PM EST): Building Stuff. Probably some Channel Point redeems.
• Wednesday, July 21st (5-9 PM EST): Catch up stream. If I have NOT finished Plum Gen, Drifter, or Master Simmer's Gens by this day, I will be finishing them now. If I am done with all.. hooray, and we'll work on my RainbowSins challenge, or build. In other words, playing this by ear for today.
• Thursday, July 22nd (1-5 PM EST): Special Stream Alert - First Cottage Living Play Stream!! The plan is to go back to my Stream "Hard Mode" Decades Challenge, which is patiently waiting in the 1900s for their farm to get some animals. However, I reserve the right to make a new sim and just enjoy the new pack for this day if MCCC isn't ready for me to play my Decades quite yet.
• Friday, July 23rd (1-5 PM EST): By this point, MCCC should be ready, so I'll be playing my "Hard Mode" Decades Challenge.
• Saturday, July 24th (1-9 PM EST): More Decades Challenge Play.
• Sunday, July 25th: No stream

*As you can see, everything is moved around with the 22nd of July as the "finish" date for a lot of things. As of the 22nd, the new pack is coming out, and I will also be stopping my current blog rotation of stories, and switching to "Rotation Two": my Decades Challenge War, and the Diversity Experiment. Expect the week after this to go more or less back to "normal".

Fun Stuff:

• Community Challenges! - I have all three of my possible challenges up and ready for funding (i.e. wasting your points on... ) Feel free to fund whichever you want first, or keep things wild and interesting by funding all three each day. Basically, you're able to spend a maximum of 2k channel points per stream day on each of these challenges.
  • Chat dictates my build - Once this is funded, I will schedule a special stream where chat gets to vote on every little thing about my build. Type, size, packs used, themes, and more!
  • Community Games Night - Once funded, I schedule a special game-night stream where we all get together to play party games like Jackbox, Gartic Phone, and others. Can't promise it'll stay safe for work! *grin*
  • Put Thrall on the Chaos Wheel - Once funded, I schedule a special gameplay stream where chat redeems wheel spins to add chaos. Wheel will be designed by me with lots of chaotic things to put my sims through. (if you're interested in what kind of things will be on the wheel, I'll be using this reddit post as my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/7gxyl7/random_sim_events_list/)
  • After these three are done, the next challenge to be added is: My new Homes for Gnomes Village project: Another Community Challenge that, once funded, will be an interactive Shell challenge and special build a long stream (starting in August at the earliest) where I will give everyone participating (whether there for the build a long or just signed up via the Google Doc I will set up) a 15 by 15 outdoor room with a shell on it to decorate based on prompts I will be providing. Themes will be based on the base game gnomes in Sims 4, and the shells will be built by me to match. I will spin a wheel for each participant live on stream to see which gnome and shell you get, and your job will be to decorate it in the month following. Lastly, I will put together all builds into a huge downloadable Gnome Village lot (or lots if we have enough participants) and we will schedule a tour of all the builds! Again, you'll have a full month to put your build together as a participant, and they will all be "tiny homes", so this should not be too time-consuming or difficult for anyone. Depending on how this works (or doesn't), I may do more challenges based on this general idea.
• In Search of Streamers to Collaborate with: I am also hunting for more streamers who are willing to collaborate on Twitch stream challenges: For more info, contact me on Twitch or Discord.
  • Inside/Outside Shell Challenges: This involves you building a set of rooms and decorating them, me building a shell and all the landscaping, and then switching said builds. I would then put together your rooms into a house and landscape it, and you would decorate the shell I made.
  • Chaos Wheel Challenges: This involves doing a multi stream (or just both of us streaming at the same time) with both streamers coming up with their own wheel of "bad things" to do to the other person's game and build. We start with a sim we've created and then play "Rags to Riches" style, with the "goal" being building a full house and having a family. Each of us will get to pick our own things to put on the wheel. At the end of stream, both streamers upload their builds and families and wonder where it all went wrong. (LOL)
  • Blind Building Challenges: Again, a same-time stream, only this time it's all about building. One person is building "blind", without being able to see the other person's screen. The other streamer builds a build, and directs their partner to build the same build with just verbal directions. At the end of stream, both partners upload their builds and laugh about how different they are.
• SimNaNo: This started July 1st, (and finishes on the 31st) and is the main reason for my main streaming challenges being missing from the streaming schedule. I want to get my current blog rotation finished at the very latest before July 22nd so I can move to my Decades rotation with the new pack.
• Also: do not forget we have a new challenge up as of last Tuesday:

• As of Saturday, there's a second "shell challenge" from the Build-A-Long. You are welcome to participate even if you couldn't make it to the stream! Rules are as follows: Download lot from this hashtag on the gallery: #picknicbasket - Designed as a choose your own size shell. The only piece you MUST use is the rounded deck, but it can be merged with other pieces so long as the outside rounded edge is still clearly visible. Your prompt: Build a home for picnicking with a large deck area (covered or not) outside. Choose at least 6 rooms from the given 25 (plus deck), & build a home or venue. Adding walls & changing to spandrel fence or half wall is ok. Must include a water feature. Tours: Aug 14 (a Saturday, starting at 1PM)