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This challenge was inspired by the other amazing 10 generation storytelling challenges out there including, Not So Berry, Sims in Bloom, Whimsy Legacy Challenge and many more! 

A massive shout out to my friend Sophie 'Folklore Adventures' for helping me with this challenge, coming up with ideas and helping write the backstory for each generation. 

General Rules: 

-Each Generation complete the given aspiration & career 

-Max out required skills for each generation 

-Money Cheats allowed for story telling purposes ie freerealestate

*Make the challenge harder by not using any cheats 

-Play on any lifespan you wish (although short is not recommended with all the goals that need to be achieved for each gen) 

-Please add extra story elements and ideas throughout the challenge and make it your own, have fun!

-If you do not own all required packs, either leave that part of the rule out or change the trait/skill to something that is similar 

-Some Generations are named after tv shows or movies and the storyline for these are not the same, they are just inspired by them.  

-You will notice each generation has two colours, an aesthetic and inspiration. These are not required for the challenge but are a fun add on to the Groovy theme of the legacy (though I know this style isn't for everyone). You may like to just do the colours or the aesthetic or neither, it's totally up to you! 

-If you decide to play this challenge I'd love you to @me playing_it_groovy on instagram or use the hashtag #Groovylegacy

Packs needed: 

Seasons,Get to Work, Outdoor Retreat, Snowy Escape, Strangerville, City Living, Cottage Living, Realm of Magic, Get to Work, Parenthood, Knifty Knitting, Jungle Adventure, Get Together, Highschool Years, Spa Day, Dine Out, Bowling Night, Discover University, Horse Ranch

Edited:22/07/2023

Optional New first Gen (can continue with following generations after)

Generation 1 (alternative): Not your average Rancher:

Your parents gave you the perfect suburban upbringing, but the world is changing and you don’t want a mundane job and a house in the suburbs. So you run away and start a new life with only the clothes on your back. You are quirky, with a love for all things colourful and fun, you show this part of your personality through your home interior and how you dress. Your deep connection to nature, animals and gardening inspires you to start your own farm on an empty ranch. You find someone who shares your love for the outdoors and together you raise a family that grows along with colourful quirky farm.

Aspiration: Expert Nectar Maker

Traits: Loves Outdoors, Rancher, Horse Lover

Career: Nectar Making (make your money from your farm and nectar making)

Skills: Gardening, Nectar Making, Horse Training (get a horse to level 10 in 3 out of 4 skills)

Goals:

-Start from nothing Rags to Riches style, you can either start with $400 or $0 if you would like to make it harder! -Build your home from the ground up - it grows as your family grows -Must end up owning all the 'colourful' mini sheep types -Own a colourful horse -Must also own at least one chicken, cow, goat & llama   -Have a minimum of 3 children

*Colours Pink & Green *Aesthetic Colourful Western *Inspiration: Western Barbie, Barbie Movie, Dont Worry Darling

Generation 1: Flower Child 

Your parents gave you the perfect suburban upbringing, but the world is changing and you don’t want a mundane job and a house in the suburbs. So you run away and start a new life with only the clothes on your back. You are strong, independent and are driven to make a true difference in the world. Your deep connection to nature, plants and flowers inspires you to find someone who shares your youthful hippie spirit and cares for the environment like you do. Together you raise a conscious family who appreciate the environment and the world around them. 

Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast

Traits: Loves Outdoors, Vegetarian, Self-Assured 

Career: Conservationist - Environmental Manager

Skills: Flower Arranging, Herbalism  & Gardening   

Goals: 

-Start from nothing Rags to Riches style, on an empty lot with no money 

-Build your home from the ground up - it grows as your family grows.  

-Your home is always decorated with flowers from your garden 

-Collect and grow all flower types used for flower arranging and grow to Magnificent quality

-Make all types of flower arrangements

-Have a minimum of 3 children 

-Take family on camping holidays for each of their child to teen birthdays 

*Colours - Green & Brown 

*Aesthetic - 70's Flower Child 

*Inspiration - 1960s Hippie Movement, Films - Hair, Dare to be Wild, Across the Universe

Generation 2: Space Oddity 

You were raised to love and care for Mother Earth but as the rest of the world begins to look towards the stars, you wonder what else might be out in the world. Ideas of space and the supernatural consume your thoughts and while people might find you strange, you don’t mind at all, because you know there’s something out there.  You’re a neat freak and long for the next genius idea you’ll have in the shower. You leave the family farm and move to an unusual new town hoping to meet like minded people but when things start getting strange, you go searching for answers.  You finally find a Sim who accepts you for you, quirks and all. 

Aspiration: Strangerville Mystery 

Traits:Genius, Neat, Erratic  

Career: Astronaut

Skills: Rocket Science, Logic, Handiness  

Goals:

-Live in Strangerville

-Build rocket ship 

-Have a fleeting romance with an alien from Sixam 

-Collect all Geodes 

-Collect all aliens 

-Collect and Grow all Alien Plants 

-Get married to to a sim with the geek trait and raise a family together 

*Colours - Turquoise and yellow 

*Aesthetic - Retro Futuristic/Fallout 

*Inspiration - Classic Sci Fi films, War of the Worlds, Area 51 

Generation 3: Brady Bunch 

You grew up in an unusual family and just long to fit in with everyone else. You dream of a simple family life, with routine, order and nothing out of the ordinary. You find your soulmate and raise a large family of six children. You love being a stay at home parent and focusing on your children. You strive to be the perfect parent, knitting for your family, cooking big family meals and helping your children with their studies. You don’t have many friends other than your family so you decide to have pen pals.  

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Traits: Family Oriented, Cheerful, Perfectionist 

Skills: Knitting, Parenting and Cooking

Career: NA

-Be a stay at home parent 

-Have a hobby of knitting and selling your craft

-Have 6 children (adopt or have naturally) 

-Help Children with all school projects 

-Cook a large family meal every night 

-Collect all postcards through having penpals 

*Colours  - Orange and Green 

*Aesthetic - 60's/70's California 

*Inspiration - The Brandy Bunch, Leave it to Beaver 

Gen 4: Grease 

Growing up in a large loving family, you were the perfect child that couldn't do anything wrong. You are a straight A high school student and cheerleader, but you wonder if there’s more to life than having the perfect home and family.  Towards the end of your teen years, you meet the Sim of your dreams who is the total opposite to you. They are adventurous and rebellious but they change you for the better and bring out your wild side. You live a busy, fast paced and exciting life having adventures together and only have one child. You have a career in writing, sharing your travels with the world. While you teach your only child to follow their dreams, you don’t spend much time together because of your busy travel schedule.    

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast 

Career: Freelance Writer

Traits: Good, Bookworm, Adventurous (last trait given) 

Skills: Selvadoradian culture, Skiing, Rock Climbing 

Goals: 

-Get A's in School

-Be a cheerleader in High School 

-Have a partner that also has the Adventurous trait

-Only have one child 

-Have at least 3 tattoos 

-Go on as many trips and adventures as you can afford 

-Collect all Omiscan treasures 

*Colours - Red and Pink

*Aesthetic - Grease 

*Inspiration - Films - Grease, Dirty Dancing

Generation 5: Arts Factory

If your globetrotting, absent parents taught you anything, it was to have fun and follow your dreams, so that’s exactly what you do. You move to the city as an aspiring artist/photographer, live with a group of fellow artists and creatives and throw lots of fabulous parties together.  You find yourself an incredible muse, have a whirlwind romance, move into your own apartment and have a baby. But long term relationships just aren’t your style and realising you’re losing your creativity and passion, you break up and raise your child alone. You’re forever destined to search for your next muse, while living out to your artistic and party animal dreams. 

Aspiration: City Native

Traits: Creative, Party Animal, Noncommittal 

Career: Painter

Skills: Painting, Photography, Mixology  

Goals:

-Complete childhood aspiration Artistic Prodigy 

-Move to city once young adult and stay for remainder of life

-As YA live with roommates (must be other creatives)

-Throw a party once a week with your roomates & make drinks for guests (whilst in shared apartment) 

-Collect all City Posters 

-Paint and keep 5 masterpieces for your apartment

*Colours - Black and White 

*Aesthetic - 1960s New York Art Scene 

*Inspiration - Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgewick, Yoko Ono, Films - Factory Girl, Music - Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground

Generation 6: Bewitched 

You grew up in a dysfunctional apartment in the city surrounded by wild parties and celebrities and dream of a more quiet, traditional life for yourself. But there’s a catch, because you’re a witch! While you love being a witch and developing your powers, you long to fit in and want the world to think you’re just a regular Sim. You find a partner that you love and tell them your secret, but don’t disclose it to anyone else. To your neighbours and friends you’re just a regular suburban parent, who bakes for their kids, cross stitches and enjoys bowling. You go all out celebrating every holiday, while living a secret spellcaster life. 

Aspiration: Spellcraft and Sorcery 

Traits: Proper, Cat lover, Overachiever 

Career: Education 

Skills: Baking, Cross Stitching, Bowling 

Goals: 

-Become a Spellcaster as a teen 

-Collect all 26 magical artefacts 

-Decorate and go all out for every holiday 

-Always own a black cat 

-Get married before starting a family

-Have a hidden locked room for all spellcaster items 

-Only perform magic at home or Glimmerbrook

-Go Bowling as your hobby 

*Colours - Navy Blue and Purple

*Aesthetic - 60's suburbia 

*Inspiration - Bewitched, Practical Magic, Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Generation 7: Saturday Night Fever 

During the day you work a typical nine to five job just to please your pleasant suburban parents, but all you really want is to be going out dancing. You love music, disco and all things shiny. You love the nightlife, you love to boogie!  

You go out dancing multiple times a week. You find it hard to commit to one Sim but you love the chase and romancing them on the dance floor. One night you accidentally get pregnant 

(or get a sim pregnant) from a one night stand. This makes you change your ways and you become the most loving parent and devote most of your time to raising your child. You still go out dancing when you get the time.

Aspiration: Serial Romantic 

Skills: Dancing, Charisma, Dj Mixing Skill 

Career: Business 

Traits: Dance Machine, Romantic, Childish 

Goals: 

-As a young adult go out dancing/DJ at least twice a week 

-You do not need to reach level 10 in this career as you are not passionate about it 

-Never get married or have a long term partner 

-You love wearing all things that sparkle 

-Collect all Crystals 

- Throw a Gold Medal birthday party each time your child ages up

*Colours - Hot Pink and Silver 

*Aesthetic - Disco 

*Inspiration - Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, Studio 54

Generation 8: Commune Farm 

You grew up surrounded by bright lights, sparkly things, music and dancing. You had the best parent, who worked a job they hated just to make sure you had a great upbringing.  But now you long for a simple life, away from all the hustle and bustle, connecting with like minded people. You move to the country to live off the land, reconnect the earth and participate in a harmonious community. You are all about wellness and living a clean lifestyle. But are you getting yourself into a commune or a cult? You have a child with one of your friends in the community and everyone helps raise your child.You make money from selling produce and items you craft by hand, while living your dream hippie commune life. 

Aspiration: Zen Guru 

Skills: Handiness, Wellness, Fishing

Career: NA 

Traits: Maker, Animal Enthusiast, Recycle disciple

Goals: 

-Have all types of farm animals 

-Live on a lot with simple living and off the grid traits

-Survive off the land and your farm only 

-Sell items you farm and make on woodworking table 

-Invite sims to be your roomates that you want to live with you on the farm 

-Collect all types of fish 

*Colours-Orange and Yellow

*Aesthetic - 1970s Age of Aquarius 

*Inspiration - 1970s counterculture, Hippie Commune, Woodstock

Generation 9: Almost Famous 

You grew up surrounded by music, playing instruments and listening to stories about  the wild music festivals and concerts from your commune family attended. And while commune life is nice and all, you dream of more. You want the rockstar lifestyle and when you’re old enough you take off to chase your dreams of being a famous musician. 

Your guitar skills start to pay off as you make your own music and busk on the streets for money. You hang out at all the celebrity hot spots in the hopes of meeting someone famous and you do! You fall in love and live your lives in the spotlight. Now that you are with a celebrity and you start to enjoy the finer things in life and focus on creating beautiful music on the piano. 

Aspiration: Musical Genius

Career: Any part time job to make extra money 

Skills: Guitar Skill, Piano Skill, Gourmet Cooking

Traits: Music Lover, Foodie, Self Absorbed 

Goals: 

-Play instruments as a child 

-Start learning guitar skill as a teen 

-Move to Del Sol Valley as a young adult stay there for life 

-Busk to make your main income (allowed to have a part time job to earn more money) 

-Focus on Piano Skill later in life 

-In spare time hang out at celebrity hot spots until you fall in love with one

-Dine out for meals at least once a week

-Collect all experimental food prints 

*Colours - Black and Red

*Aesthetic - 70's/80's Rock

*Inspiration - Films - Almost Famous, The Doors, Dazed and Confused

Generation 10: Charlie's Angels 

With two famous parents, you grew up in the spotlight but you long for a different life, one far away from fame. So far away in fact, that you decide to be a spy. You are always well put together, fit, fashionable and intelligent, the whole package. Growing up with the finer things in life, you like your home to feel special and enjoy splashing out on expensive household items. You meet the love of your life but they can never know what you do for work. To them you are the perfect partner, but they have no idea of the adventures you go on and enemies you make along the way. 

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Secret Agent Career (Diamond Agent) 

Skills: Fitness, Mischief, Programming Skill 

Traits: Materialistic, Active, Overachiever 

Goals: 

-Have a beautifully decorated home 

-Constantly update your home with expensive items 

-Hide your career from your partner and children 

-Have 3 enemies 

-Collect all fossils 

*Colours - Light Pink and Blue 

*Aesthetic - 1970s Charlie's Angels 

Cedar goes on a date with Nancy 💘

-Cedar and Nancy share their first kiss

-Cedar notices strange vines growing from the sink

-Tests out the experimental vaccine

-Sibling hang out

Cedar meets Nancy 💗

-Cedar got the keycard to open the lab door

-Cedar met Nancy the new girl in town

-They quickly became friends and she comforted him through the loss of his mother Olive

Cedar is having a alien baby 👽

-Cedar discovered there was life growing inside him

-Clarissa and Cedar had a cheeky woohoo in the shower, they discovered they weren't meant to be

-Cedar went into labour and his alien baby was delivered by a ghost

CEDAR WAS ABDUCTED 👽

-Cedar was picked up by some alien friends

-He continued to work on his aspiration

Cedar in space 🪐

-Cedar made it to Sixam and started finding his collectables

-He met a mysterious turquoise alien named Clarissa

Cedar has moved to Strangerville and it certainly has been living up to its name. 👽🛸

-Cedar was greeted by his interesting neighbours that didn't make much sense when he tried speaking to him.

-His neighbours proceeded to plant some weird plants in his back yard, once they left secret agents turned up took the plants and conviscated Cedars conteminated fridge?

-Cedar started his quest to find out what is going on in his new town

LAST POST OF GEN 1 🌼

Finally finished playing through Generation 1 of the challenge! Can't wait to share how I've been going with Generation 2

-Olive maxed out all skills require for the Gen

-Cedar graduated high school early from getting such good grades, this meant he could start skill building before he aged up

-sadly our cow plant died

-then even more sadly Maggie passed away

Groovy gameplay shots;

-Cedar is consistently getting A's in school

-Olive drank the golden honey milk and got all of her plants to perfect condition

Groovy Legacy Challenge, gen 2's house. A retro futuristic home for our astronaut, space loving, quirky guy. 🪐

I finally built a house I'm proud of from scratch! I was too excited and wanted to share it even though I'm not up to sharing that far into gameplay yet (still a few more posts for Gen 1).