#tlmc

major rules: no money cheats! that’s about it, honestly. on a similar note, this challenge is not about reaching milestones based on age, because of this you may start your sim as a teen, young adult, adult, or even an elder! whatever works best for the story you want to craft.

☽ Character Creation

starting with character creation, you can give your sim any likes/dislikes, traits, preferences, etc. that you want to give them. while child of the ocean trait is recommended, it is not required. what is required though is as follows: your household must only have one sim. you may make family members and even romantic partners in initial creation if you’d like some more fleshed out lore for your sim, but they must be moved out of the household before you start the challenge. you may start with one pet.

☽ Moving In

you can start in any season you choose, however, i do recommend avoiding fall and winter as that’s when monsoon season starts in sulani. if you’d like an extra challenge, go full steam ahead, but otherwise i’d recommend spring or summer. move your sim onto caldera camp, the 30x20 lot in the mua pel’am neighborhood. bulldoze the lot and start from scratch. you can build it in any style you want but you do need three things: a functional kitchen, a bath (or a shower/bath combo, just not a solo shower), and a computer. you do not have to have a computer if you place a functioning library in sulani.

now that you’ve done basic set up, its time for the challenge to really begin. ⋆.˚ ☾⭒.˚

☽ Act I : Into the Tidal Pools

you’ve decided to start a new chapter of your life in mua pel’am, sulani. its an isolated area of the islands, but you’re not so far off from them you don’t have access to community – in fact, you have plenty of community. it’s just, for whatever reason, you’ve decided you need space to write. that’s right, you’ve decided to come to mua pel’am in the hopes that the isolation and beautiful location will invigorate you and lead you to become the next hans christian andersen. you’re going to write a best-selling novel on mermaids! but maybe you should learn about them first.  ♡

you must stay on sulani for this entire act, your sim may not travel out of sulani for any reason. all needs they have must be met in sulani. your sim, however, can freely travel through sulani to make friends. as stated in the first section, your sim can avoid having a computer if they go to the library but the library must be in sulani.

✧ using the practice writing interaction on the computer and get to level 3 of the writing skill. do not write any books until you’re at level 3.

✧ get to fishing level 4, you may use any fishing spots in sulani including the canoe.

✧ meet one of the merfolk townies (your sim must know they are merfolk)

✧ visit each of the sulani festivals once

✧ buy a rebreather from one of the scuba buoys, you will now be able to scuba anywhere in sulani.

✧ get to fitness level 4 through swimming.

✧ explore the cave 4 times

✧ buy volume I of the mermaid mythology book via the computer and reach level 4 of the mermaid mythology skill.

✧ buy all the diving gear from the buoy

✧ use the dive deeper interaction in the sulani ocean until your sim finds posideon’s grimoire

✧ write and publish your first romance book regardless of quality – make it mermaid-themed

☽ Act II : The Tides Begin to Glow

you’ve started to explore sulani, that’s great! but you’ve also started to discover that there’s some hidden magic in the waters here. you’ve even managed to find some strange book while out diving. maybe you should crack it open?

✧ finish volume I of the mermaid mythology book and start volume II

✧ meet the rest of the merfolk townies (your sim must know they are merfolk), ask one of them if they are a merfolk

✧ get writing skill to level 6 only through the practice writing interaction

✧ read the grimoire

✧ become a sea witch by singing poseidon’s incantation on a full moon

✧ reach level 2 of the sea sorcery skill and learn revelation hex

✧ use the revelation hex on a mermaid sim

☽ Act II : The Moon is Out

Now you are part of the magic of the Sulani sea, but you’ve still only dipped your toes into the water. Now it’s time to get into some deeper waters. A little bit of alchemy never hurt anybody.

✧ buy the sea witch’s cauldron in the activities & skills tab of the build/buy mode and practice making potions. practice until you discover the ‘merfolk elixir’

✧ get writing skill to level 7 only through the practice writing interaction, write and publish a fantasy book based off of mermaids regardless of quality

✧ reach level 4 of the sea sorcery skill, learn ingredient conjugation and temperance charm or lunar strike.

✧ use either lunar strike or temperance charm on another, nonmermaid sim

✧ reach level 5 of the sea sorcery skill and learn read about contracts

✧ use the cauldron and the ingredient conjuration spell to make three merfolk elixirs

☽ Act III : Fins Beneath the Waves

you’re a proper sea witch! you can now offer contracts to other sims and make any potion with a spell and a cauldron. you’ve even published a fantasy book about becoming an avatar of the ocean and living beneath the waves. well, what if that wasn’t a fantasy?

✧ drink one of the merfolk elixirs you’ve created.

✧ follow the instructions based on the provided moodlets and become a merfolk!

✧ finish volume II of the mermaid mythology book and start volume III

✧ click on floating debris in the sulani ocean and use the ‘search for human stuff’’ interaction

✧ buy a basking rock in the outdoors furniture section in build/buy, bask on it and/or practice singing

✧ dive underwater; dive deeper

✧ using the merfolk mythology book, create a bath bomb and use it in the bath.

✧ create a contract to turn someone into a merfolk and offer it to a sim of your choice

✧ meet with another mermaid in the water

✧ meet the azure dolphin

 ☽ Act IV : From Hatchling to Nereid

welcome to the world beneath the sea, now you are no longer just a practitioner of ocean magic but an entity of ocean magic in and of itself. what will you do now that you have free reign over the blue?

✧ swim out into the deep water any of island and live there for two sims days – do not return to land for anything. eat, sleep, and socialize exclusively in the water.

✧ when you reach level 3 of xp, choose any of the available perks (hydrokinesis, cryo, thermo, h20 efficient, octopus garden, motion of the ocean) and practice using them!

✧ use a siren song on an unsuspecting sim

✧ make it to the guppy rank

✧ select new perks exclusive to the guppy level (previous perks enhanced, electokinesis, aerokinesis, sea shanties) and practice them

✧ make it to the nereid rank

✧ select new perks exclusive to the guppy level (rehydration melody, speed swimmer) and practice them

✧ write a nonfiction book (or self-help book, if the option is available) about ‘how to be a nereid’ and publish it

✧ reach level 7 of the sea sorcery skill and learn the love everlasting charm and aphrodite’s love spell, make a contract based off of one of these spells

☽ Act V : Avatar of the Aquatic World

your world has become a lot larger, and now you’ve settled into it with ease. you’re a creature of both land and sea, but being capable was never enough for you. you want to become a master of it. you want to become an embodiment of the sea itself.

✧ offer your love everlasting charm or aphrodite’s love spell contract to a new sim, and collect payment at the end of the waiting period

✧ reach level 9 of the sea sorcery skill and learn the humanity skill

✧ reach the marine master rank

✧ select new perks exclusive to the marine master level (siren voice, mesmerizing melody)

✧ write a nonfiction book (or self-help book) about being a mermaid, self-publish it

✧ dive for treasure 3 times

✧ reach the aquatic avatar rank

✧ select the tidal terror or sea savior perk

✧ reach level 10 of the sea sorcery skill

✧ learn all 3 lvl 10 spells (immortality incantation, kelpie transformation, and mermaid transformation)

✧ turn one friend into a kelpie and one friend into a mermaid

✧ earn a final perk – choose immortaility