Hello, everyone!

As a writer, ideas are always swirling around in my head, and there are so many stories I want to write. Not all my ideas will come to fruition, but there are a number of them in the foreground that I want to bring to life.

One of them is loosely based on a new Sims 3 challenge I came across called the Running Sim Challenge. It’s a rather simple one, really, and it makes for some pretty unique gameplay. Well, you know me; I always have to make a story out of it, and this one is no exception.

For the most part, I will be following these rules with the proviso that I reserve the right to tailor things to meet my story’s needs. This will likely be a shorter work, as this challenge is a rather short one. Basically, my Sim is on the run and must earn a living by hacking. She is not allowed to earn money from anything else and must hack for at least 5 hours a night. She has a safe house which she will never perform such a nefarious deed at. She must use her own laptop, and all hacking must be done away from her safe house. She cannot own a car but can get a bike to get around with. When she gets the “Crime does not pay” notice and her computer breaks, she has four Sim hours to return to her safe house, clean it up, and leave the broken computer and anything else in her inventory there.  Taking the computer and anything else will lead to her getting caught by the authorities. She must then leave town, pick up somewhere else, change her name, clothes, and looks, and do it all over again. If she earns $350,000 from hacking by the time I make it through all the worlds in my game, the challenge is won. She can then get out of this life of crime, buy a nice house, and live a respectable life. If that doesn’t happen, she is caught and must serve her sentence in Simcatraz.

Now, like I said, I like to make a story out of these things, so in Chapter 1, her backstory will be revealed as to why and how she ended up in this situation. She can have relationships and such, but it would be in her best interest to remain a loner. A family would be more trouble than it’s worth, especially since she’d have to leave them behind when the need to relocate happens. After all, this kind of life isn’t conducive for family life.

The story will be called The Running Hacker and will be updated as regularly as time allows.  Forever in Time will always take precedence, as that is my main work.

This is our hacker, Corrine Prater. Her name was randomized and will change each time she is to relocate, as will her hair, makeup, and clothes. Her traits are Computer Whiz, Handy, Bookwork, Loner, and Shy. In the rules, it says to hit the randomize button until the Computer Whiz trait comes up and go with the traits shown. I did not do this and decided to handpick the traits myself because of the needs of my story. These are the traits she will keep throughout the challenge and story. However, you also know me, that I give my Sims/characters a deeper personality than what the traits show. The story will be told in first person POV. After all, there is only one main character, and having this limited of a POV would seem to work well for a story like this.

I hope you all are excited as I am to see this story come to life. This sounds like such a fun challenge with lots of opportunity for humor and suspense.

Stay tuned, for chapter 1 will be arriving shortly.