First update for SimNo!

2. Welcome one and all to my submission for SimNaNoWriMo 2017! An OWBC is a
simple and quick challenge to do if you’re burned out from all the plot heavy legacies
like I am. Also I’m taking my time to get through this, all my previous OWBC’s were
finished in seven or eight chapters and this time that won’t cut it. See I love my Gold
level medals so I need at least ten chapters, which is easy enough to do if you work at it.
This is also my first Sims 3 OWBC, but fourth one overall. The others were Sims 2
ones and for this one I am enjoying the customization of the flamingoes for everyone.

3. My name is Rhode Tothestars, and I’m here at Sims U taking a Fine Arts course. My
dream is to become a Master Magician and this course will help me put some pizzazz
into my performances to get there. I am here for a two term course while living in
paradise. Yes, I’m talking about Isla Paradiso. Lovely ocean breezes, bright colours,
sunshine and plenty of uncharted islands to discover and claim for my own.

4. I still have a long way to go before I can call myself a true artist, but this place is not without its
inspirational scenery and people. Like that fairy girl over there, I feel so average among all these
supernatural creatures here. I’ve heard rumours of a Forbidden Fruit that can turn you into
something called a Plantsim, I wonder if it’s true? I had heard people talking about there being some
beings like that here on campus, but I’ve never seen them myself.

5. Our professor told us we’re here to do some “free drawing” whatever that means, I
thought we had to draw the statue and the flowers. But that’s why she’s the prof and
we’re the students I guess. We’re supposed to let the pencil decide what it wants to
draw…artists man, weird.

6. There’s textbook studying too, my final is on colour theory and the great and influential
artists of the past. I do that as well as some other things to hone my artistic skills.

7. Like some street art, I use all the blank wall space I can around my rental house. If we
get caught doing it on campus then it’s a fine or something. Nothing too severe but I
still like to fill the blank walls up with something nice. Also it helps my drawing skills
so it’s like win-win.

8. My campus life isn’t all studying and drawing, there’s the social aspect too. Like this
one girl I met in the Student Union building on Frosh day. Her name is Joanie Arc and
she’s a vampire! I had never met an actual supernatural before and my first one is a
vampire. I asked how she planned to avoid burning to a crisp in the sun, she said it was
a matter of running real fast and hoping the umbrella doesn’t fly up and expose you.

9. Joanie challenged me to a game of beer pong, she said with her vampiric metabolism she
would drink me under the table. Except for the fact that I kept winning…needless to say,
her vampiric metabolism was a lie.

10. She conceded the win to me and asked me what I wanted as a prize for winning. I had to
think about it, I could ask her to turn me into a vampire like her, or ask for a rematch, but
I think I found the best thing to ask for as a prize…

11. I asked for a kiss and a promise that she would never break my heart. What can I say?
I’m a romantic at heart and she was pretty…it’s said no one will love you as long as an
eternal vampire and I hoped that it would turn out to be true.

12. Soon enough it was back to academics and lectures. I had a hot girlfriend and an A+ in
my course, life was going well for me so far. I couldn’t wait to let Joanie see the house I
had on Isla Paradiso. I knew she would love it, although it did worry me a bit about all
the sunshine we got there.

13. It was hard to concentrate with two others around me snoring…I am not giving them
my notes, they are the ones who slept through the lecture not me, perhaps a little less
partying and more studying. But that’s just me.

14. I might end up eating my words though, with a nocturnal girlfriend who is now living
with me, I might be the one who sleeps in class next time. I can’t say I regret it…it’s
totally worth it.

15. I do get my fair share of nocturnal guests though, like the zombies harassing the
Stalker-Ratzi. Good thing my room is at the back of the house so I can sleep in peace.
Every full moon is like this, it’s annoying.

16. Or aliens who ring the bell at 3 am…why do I attract all the weird ones? She was nice
though, I learned some things about space and her home world of Sixam.

17. I got my report card and at first it looked like there was a mistake on it, I thought I got a
B but turns out it was just a printer shadow. I passed.

18. The first term ended with my A+ and perfect GPA. Joanie said she would look after the
house until I got back next term. She still had another week to go. I did miss the sun
and surf of home.

19. Home sweet home, my three green flamingoes are right where I left them, nothing
appears to have been vandalized or broken into. I guess I can stay here for bit until the
next term starts. I miss Joanie already.
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20. And then I can finally begin my challenge. I can’t wait to show Joanie her new home.