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Stories stall when everyone behaves. Real tension appears when someone:

• asks the wrong question • says something they shouldn’t • notices something uncomfortable • refuses to drop the topic • misunderstands something important • interrupts at the worst moment

They want something REALLY REALLY REALLY bad, but for some reason they can't ask for it -- or can't have it even if they did ask.

They don't notice something that the audience HAS noticed (like in a horror movie when the monster is sneaking up behind the protagonist, or if someone drinks a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak because they don't know about germ theory)

Takes a risk (or otherwise does something they "shouldn't" do) which the audience has to sit through for a prolongued period of time (e.g. slips away from the party to go into the host's private office and rifle through their papers before the guards catch them)

Omg I KNEW someone requested that! I went to go look for the request before I started and it wasn’t there or I somehow missed it? and I figured I made it up, I didn’t have a lot of inspiration at the time so I shrugged my shoulders about it. Sorry about that, hope these work for you! 💗

1940s Aesthetic

Welcome back to the Expansion Legacy challenge! Morgan Ripley is set to complete Discover University, and she has spent her teen years studying hard. All her work paid off and she was able to graduate from high school early, starting college right before she turned into a young adult.

Despite her bohemian upbringing, Morgan has always been a preppy sort of gal. She grew up wanting to be a child psychologist, and so she enrolled in Foxbury Institute, aiming for a psychology degree. This, plus the skills she learned as a teen, will someday help her in the Education profession.

Morgan moved into the Tidal Tower dormitory, but quickly discovered that dorm life was much more chaotic than she'd ever thought it would be. Since she'd grown up in serene Sulani, she wasn't used to this many people being in her space, especially when she was trying to focus.

Luckily, being a mermaid means that she always has somewhere peaceful she could escape to.

But romance wasn't the only thing she discovered at Pepper's Pub: after a date with Scott, Morgan also stumbled upon a secret meeting of cloaked individuals. Everyone scattered when she walked up to their little ritual area, which just left her absolutely determined to find out more about them. After a semester's worth of offering sacrifices to the statue at Foxbury and scouring research machines for information on secret societies, Morgan was finally offered the opportunity to join their ranks.

Meanwhile, Scott randomly inherited an old house there in Britechester, and he invited Morgan to move in with him. Although the house wasn't really Morgan's style, she accepted, and was very glad to move out of the noisy dorms. After living together for a short while, Scott proposed, and they later had a small wedding at the ritual grounds.

That's all for now!

Although Morgan was now qualified in multiple career fields, she wanted to take some time off for herself and her family, so she didn't get a job right away. Instead, she focused on fixing something that had been bothering her for some time: her olden-timey house. After a whole lot of painting and redecorating, Morgan finally had a house she was proud to call home.

This house and the original house are available on the Gallery.

When that project was done, Morgan got herself a job as a professor, and then took a little vacation to Sulani with her husband to celebrate. The family also adopted a ragdoll cat named Lulu.

Once Morgan reaches the top of the education career, she will have completed the entire Discover University expansion pack. But she's not quite there yet!

Please ignore the fact that Robin's dad Scott is lurking in the background of this picture. He's not relevant.