The Tricou Challenge - My Gameplay II

In the first installment here we met Orion, unsuspecting heir to a Mansion full of ghosts, also known as the House of Fallen Trees. I made a challenge out of it, called the Tricou challenge, which is described here.

As I mentioned there, it was a struggle to keep Orion Tricou happy. As a pleasure sim, he came home from school badly in need of fun, but in this dark, haunted house, this was not easily reached. Notice the pile of homework in the back, causing Orion more distress.

Orion in an obviously suicidal mood, visiting the family graveyard after dusk.

Thankfully, he survived.

Orion ready to tear apart his report card.

Lucien is a dear friend and comes over frequently, while Orion tries to study hard for his teen job.



A view of the frugally decorated living-room. My poor Sims usually need to struggle for every piece of furniture.

The first outing to get in touch with his siblings.  Excuse the bare-boned downtown, my machine can´t handle decorations and other buildings.

It is Kestrel Tricou, who was quickly renamed to Jan Tricou and later received a makeover. The outing didn´t go too well.

Tiave is next. Finally someone to play with!

Later that week, he invites Loren over.

 And some more impressions from Orion.

 

Puberty has hit him hard, I noticed a while ago that teens get pimples after their first romantic interaction. His flirt is Lucien.

Admire the Magically Burning Tree which quickly restores itself!

 

Patrick Tricou who received a new name and is now called Arn.

Fricorith, still unsurrected, is a real spoil sport.

This is Jan again, formerly known as Kestrel. She and her sister Swan, now Pandora, cleaned up nicely!

Now Orion met all his siblings, the task now is to make best friends with each of them! Will Orion succeed with this daunting task, or will lack of charisma, burnt noodles, piling homework, burning trees and evil spirits stop our young hero from reaching his goal? Find out in the next installment!

Continue to Part 3!

The Tricou Challenge - My Gameplay I

Warnings: Dark pictures, ghosts, sparse text, adultery, half-nakedness, Photoshop. Oh yeah, and ghosts.

This will probably never be finished, but enjoy what is there (Five chapters). Based on the Tricou Challenge I wrote up here.

It all started when Lucien decided to have some posh dinner downtown.

While feasting on his Lobster Thermidor, he suddenly spotted an unfamiliar face in the crowd he had never seen before.

He quickly became friends with Orion, and the idea for the whole challenge was born! I realized I had finally found one of the elusive Tricou kids. Years ago, when I started playing in a different hood, I spotted a townie that looked different, but before my Sim had a chance to speak with him, he was gone again. And here he was again!

Orion quickly received a little makeover:

As did the house, which had this terrible basement:

Yeah, nice, right? They had swimming vampires back in the day. I know "the basement under water effect" can be avoided, but who needs a basement 250 steps down anyway?

This is how the house looked after a makeover:

Orion moved in, got a job, and started contacting his siblings struggling for his life.


Eating and food were of great concern first - Orion was not a great cook.

And the ghosts kept stealing food.

Thankfully, Lucien invited him once in a while to feed him.

There were constant thunderstorms.

Lightning hitting the graves, which woke up the ghosts also during daytime.

Did I mention the ghosts?

Poor Orion, it was a struggle to survive.

I forgot to mention the fires.

A little cat kept him company once in a while.

 

Ghosts jumped out of the toilet to scare the visitors, or took bubbly showers.

I am afraid of no ghost!

Orion tried not to lose his spirit, but to no avail.

Gvaudoin Tricou will definitely be the last to be resurrected!

The source of the evil spirits.

Going to bed early because of exhaustion.

And thus the first installment ends!

Continue to Part 2!