Author: berrynooboosfour

The next morning during breakfast, Julian came to talk to me. He had just returned from another meeting with the species of this galaxy. He started off by telling me that I seemed to handle the news about the milky way a lot better than the other volunteers. Which was surprising, giving that I was still upset by it. But what was more surprising, was what he told me next…

Julian: They agreed to let us colonize the planet. We decided to call it Terra. It’ll help us remember Earth, but still start fresh.

Landon: That’s great! Though I feel there’s a but coming…

Julian: Unfortunately you’re correct. That’s why I’m coming to speak to you personally. They agreed under one condition. These 5 species that occupy this galaxy, are refugees from their own, just like us now… For a few years they’ve been trying to… well, to mate with each other to expand their numbers. However there has been no success. The Zysi have studied our physiology, and they deduced that we hold the best chance of helping them repopulate. And since we need to as well…

Landon: Wait… ignoring all that science stuff that I can barely follow, are you saying they want us… to have their children? And then why… I get it, you want me to do it.

Julian: Yes, none of the other volunteers wanted to do this… a few, including myself would be willing to… well father children, but not carry them. I was hoping you would be willing, you came here because you thought there was something you needed to do right? Something big? Maybe this is it.

They assigned us rooms and sent us to them, probably so we could process everything they told us. But how do you process something like this? Realizing you are one of the only humans left in existence… it’s a lot to take in. I did say I didn’t leave anyone behind when I left to come to this new galaxy. But still. All those people… I knew I wouldn’t see those people, but I had thought earth would just be full of new ones and would thrive, but now…

Over the next few days they kept us informed, according to them the planet we were floating above was uninhabited, and had oxygen. But there was life in this galaxy. I had expected that, I mean, we can’t be the only beings to exist. Those aliens… though I guess we were the aliens now, had an ambassador from each species, that basically oversee the whole galaxy. The scientists who ran this program were trying to get permission to settle the world. One of the species seemed to be for it. They knew what it was like to lose their home, their people. But it was being a rather difficult situation trying to convince the rest. But we couldn’t float in space forever… we needed solid ground.

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              The Sims 4: Harry Potter Legacy Challenge

Have you ever thought “Hey, how can I make my sims cooler than they already are?” We got you, man. You can now ascend to the next level of fandom with the Harry Potter Legacy Challenge. There’s really only one question, are you ready to get back to Hogwarts?

If you haven’t read (or watched) the Harry Potter series, WHY? Just kidding. This challenge is fun for everyone, not just hardcore fans! Besides, maybe playing will make you want to introduce yourself to the wonderful world of Harry Potter.

This challenge was made by me (@hcbsims) and @bumblebee-sims. We had so much fun making it, and would love to talk to you guys and see your sims if you decide to play this challenge!

Basic Rules:

  1. Each generation is only loosely based off a character from the wildly popular Harry Potter™ series since there’s not an exact conversion from the series to the sims! We tried our best to accommodate what we felt were some of the most important traits and values of each character.
  2. You are in no way obligated to have your heir be the same gender, race, or sexuality as the main character in each generation.
  3. Each gen “starts” when the heir turns into a young adult, but feel free to build up their skills and complete objectives before then!
  4. Normal lifespan, please!
  5. Money cheats are generally frowned upon 😦
  6. Try and save all the gravestones from your heirs (and their families if you would like!) for reasons that will become evident later on in the challenge 😉
  7. Please don’t reupload/repost this challenge as yours without permission! We spent a very long time making it…
  8. The packs technically “needed” for this challenge are Get to Work, City Living, Cats & Dogs, and Parenthood. See the disclaimer at the end for more info if you are missing any of these!

If you want to follow our own HP Legacy sims’ adventures on tumblr, they’re @leviossims and @lumo-sims

You can posts sims you make and builds you create for this legacy on the gallery using #ts4hplegacy or #hplegacy and you can use that same tag on Tumblr if you want us to check out your legacy!

_______________________________________________________________Gen 1: “Harry Potter”

Your childhood was, to use the technical term, sucky. You were adopted by an awful family and when you were still in school an evil classmate would constantly harass you. Because of everything you went through, your dream career is to be the chief of your local police squadron so that you can stand up for those taken advantage of by others. Along with fighting crime, you aspire to give your children the life you never got growing up.

Traits: Good, Hot-Headed, Family-Oriented

Aspiration: Super Parent

Career: Detective

Objectives:

  • Begin your life as a young adult living in a semi starter home- it’s okay to cheat a little so your house is actually decorated, but once you build it cheat the family funds to §2000!
  • Master the Parenting skill
  • Reach level 10 of the Detective career and complete the Super Parent aspiration
  • Have as many children as you please, but one must be adopted. (You want to give a kid just like you a chance at a happy life)

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Gen 2: “Ginny Weasley”

Unlike your parent’s childhood, which was filled with cruelty, your own childhood was practically perfect. With your kind and devoted parents carting you to whatever class or sport they could afford and having enough siblings to form a soccer team, you grew up with one dream: making it to the big leagues.

Traits: Athletic, Self-Assured, Outgoing

Aspiration: Bestselling Author

Career: Athlete

Objectives:

  • Join the Athlete Career (Quidditch, anyone?)
  • Master the Fitness and Writing skills
  • Reach level 6 of the Professional Athlete branch in the Athlete career before you have your first child (traveling for games takes up all your time!)
  • Once your first child turns into a toddler, you quit your job as an athlete and become a stay-at-home mom who loves to write about sports and your adventures as an athlete
  • Complete the Bestselling Author aspiration

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Gen 3: “Ron Weasley”

Your parents were great, really. It’s just that with one of them unemployed and taking care of you and your siblings, there wasn’t really enough money… ever.  It’s not that you were jealous of your friends, per say, you just think that you deserve exactly what they have. Your grandparent helped raise you, and they would regale you with tales of their daring detective adventures. You want to be just like them… except you want more danger.

      Traits: Jealous, Glutton, Squeamish (Squeamish requires OR, you can replace that trait if you don’t have it!)

      Aspiration: Friend of the World

      Career: Secret Agent

Objectives:

  • Marry your best friend
  • Visit all the city festivals at least once on “missions”
  • Master the Handiness and Charisma skills (Macgyver, anyone?)
  • Reach level 10 of the Secret Agent career and complete the Friend of the World aspiration

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Gen 4: “Tom Riddle/Voldemort”

So what if your parents were kind and supportive? Some people just want to see the world burn, and you are one of those people. You know you’re better than your family, and one day you’re going to prove it. This is a world that runs on ambition, and you certainly have plenty of it.

Traits: Evil, Ambitious, Snob

Aspiration: Public Enemy

Career: Criminal

Objectives:

  • Become enemies with both of your parents
  • Have a one night stand resulting in a baby
  • Never marry or have a significant other and only have one (1) child
  • You resent your child and ignore them whenever possible
  • Reach level 10 of the Criminal Career and complete the Public Enemy aspiration
  • Master the Mischief and Vampire Lore skills (you’re obsessed with the idea of being immortal, switch or leave the skill out if you don’t have the vampire game pack)
  • Drink the “Potion of Youth” once in your lifetime

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Gen 5: “Draco Malfoy”

All you ever wanted was your parent’s love. If you had to be a bad person, no matter how uncomfortable it made you, you did it just so that they would pay attention to you for once. Your parent’s evil ways led you to join the business career, although you pride yourself on not always making the unethical decision.

Traits: Snob, Materialistic, Perfectionist

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

Career: Business

Objectives:

  • Have a bad or nonexistent relationship with your parent your whole life
  • Hang around with the “bad” crowd as a teen, and become enemies with a nice sim (it’s your choice whether or not to make up with this sim!)
  • Follow in your parent’s footsteps by joining the Criminal Career, but quit at level three. You want to do something better with your life and join the Business Career directly after.
  • Marry a sim with the “Good” trait
  • Have the perfect little family with only two children
  • Reach level 10 of the Business Career
  • Master the Charisma skill and complete the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration

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Gen 6: “Rubeus Hagrid”

You were always grateful that your parents were the opposite of your evil grandparent, but the world of business and bowties is not for you. You’ve always loved the great outdoors, and all the little animals that came with it. As an adult, you’ve decided to devote your life to saving animals, and you couldn’t be happier. Now all you need is a family of your own to have everything you’ve ever wanted. Little animals included.

Traits: Dog Lover, Cat Lover, Loves Outdoors

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

Career: Veterinary

Objectives:

  • Master the Gardening and Pet Training skills
  • Have a 5 Star Veterinary Clinic before you die
  • Complete the Friend of the Animals aspiration
  • Fall in love with a scientist, but never get married. (You believe that a simple piece of paper isn’t enough to symbolize your love)
  • You always have lots of children and animals running around your house
  • Your partner disappears or dies (up to you) the day before your first child ages up into a teen due to a lab accident

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Gen 7: “Luna Lovegood”

      You’ve always been somewhat of a “strange” child (or so your classmates have said), but when your parent disappeared from your life for good you became even more secluded, and somewhat of a loner. Your other parent loves animals and when their partner disappeared, they became obsessed with idea of bringing them back. You would often join your parent on their quest to the mystical, and now you want to catalogue all of the fantastic beasts you’ve encountered.

Traits: Cheerful, Creative, Loner

Aspiration: The Curator

Career: Writer

Objectives:  

  • Reach the Journalism branch of the Writer career
  • Complete the Curator aspiration
  • Master the Rocket Science and Writing skills
  • Complete the Frog and Alien collections
  • Build a rocket ship
  • Visit Sixam on the rocket ship at least once

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Gen 8: “Molly Weasley”

      If there was a “total bad-a**” trait in the Sims 4, you would definitely have it. As a child, you were always the one dubbed as the “mom friend”, and now, as an adult, you want children aplenty. After all, it’s practically your destiny. With your high school sweetheart at your side, you are ready to conquer the world of parenting- one diaper at a time.

Traits: Neat, Foodie, Outgoing

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Career: Stay-at-Home Parent

Objectives:

  • Marry your high school sweetheart
  • Have at least one pet
  • Have four or more kids
  • All of your children and teens must have an A in school before they age up
  • Complete the Big Happy Family aspiration
  • Master the Cooking and Parenting skills

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Gen 9: “Hermione Granger”

As one of many children, you would often sneak away from your boisterous brothers and sisters to read the newest book at the library. What could be more interesting than the latest adventures of Henry Puffer? As much as your siblings and your classmates tease you for your obsession, one day you’re going to save the world, you’re sure of it.

Traits: Bookworm, Ambitious, Perfectionist

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Politician

       Objectives:

  • Complete the Renaissance Sim aspiration, but cheat/skip over every requirement that has you changing careers (You’re a one career sim!)
  • Reach level 10 of the Politician career in the Charity Organizer branch
  • Master 4 skills, what those are is up to you!
  • Only have twins, no other children
  • One of the twins dies (or disappears) when they are a teen or as soon as they turn into a young adult

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Gen 10: “George Weasley”

Nature gave you a built in best friend. You would run around town with them, playing pranks, and causing mischief. You were inseparable, until an accident took your twin away. It was hard to be funny when you’d lost your other half. Slowly though, you regained your smile, and you continued to live, just as your twin would have wanted. You decided to become a comedian and bring a smile to those who need it.

Traits: Goofball, Childish, Genius

Aspiration: Joke Star

Career: Comedian

Objectives:

  • Every time the Humor and Hijinks festival comes to town, you have to go- it’s a twin thing
  • Master the Comedy and Mischief skills
  • Reach level 10 of the Entertainer career in the Comedian branch
  • Complete the Joke Star aspiration
  • The death of your twin left you emotionally scarred, and you don’t want to have kids and have that happen to them. (See below if you want to continue)
  • If you want to keep your legacy going, only have a few kids after you turn into an adult- it was a huge decision to make
  • Throw a huge party when you turn into an elder and invite as many of the heirs of this legacy as possible! You can do this by befriending their ghosts from the gravestones we had you save, or you can take old copies of them from your gallery. This is pretty much the equivalent of a death day party in Harry Potter 🙂

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Congratulations, you have successfully (I hope) completed the Harry Potter Legacy Challenge!

Disclaimers:

  1. This challenge is only an interpretation of the Harry Potter series by us, and it’s converted to the sims so there is a degree of inaccuracy. Pretty please with a cherry on top don’t attack us if you disagree with something we wrote, if you send us a nice ask we’ll most likely respond!
  2. If you are unable to complete some of these tasks because you don’t have the proper game pack, fret not! You are totally free to make up some rules for that gen that work with what packs you do have based on who the character is- just ask us permission first if you are going to repost a different form of the challenge on your own social media. And if you have no idea what to do for that gen, send one of us an ask or message and we’ll help you out.
  3. We’re not perfect, so if you see any mistakes or have suggestions, just send us an ask or message! (@bumblebee-sims and @hcbsims)

When we all woke up and entered the main office, they explained what was wrong. When they woke up to start building. The were supposed to check back home. Make contact with people in the milky way. It was planned from the start. Even if the people there would be different people, they assured their ancestors would be there when we contacted them.

They were there… but it was bad. War had broken out all over the world by that point. There was hardly anyone left, every country bombed each other, wiping out millions each time one hit. And the few that remained… earth was unlivable, and they didn’t last long. We came all this way to try and see if life in other galaxies could be possible but now… now we were the last ones in humanity. A dozen volunteers and the science staff. There was also Speckles… if you counted my cat that is. We were the only humans left in existance, without a clue about the world we now lived in. 

This here… it had to succeed, or else, our species would be extinct.

All I had to do was go to sleep, I’d wake up centuries later in this new amazing galaxy. There was only about a dozen of us going into cryo. They told us we’d be monitored regularly, as several technicians would wake up for their own cryo sleep to make sure everyone was okay. I wasn’t scared. Sure I was a little worried how they were going to put my cat into cryo with me, but I had a feeling it would all work out.

Only, none of us volunteers expected the sort of shock we’d get once we were there. When we were all being brief, they told us a handful of people would be going ahead of us, they’d arrive at least a few decades in advance in order to settle a world, build a place for us to live as we navigated our new lives there. That was all great, but when we walked into facility… their faces were grim.

The first thing I noticed, was what I saw when I looked out the window. We definitely weren’t on some beautiful planet. We were in some big fortress they built in space. I thought that was why they looked so upset. Maybe settling a world didn’t go so well, but everyone who came here with me was about to get one help of a wake up after sleeping for centuries.

I read about volunteers needed for something big. Now you may think I’m crazy for being excited about it. But I’ve always been adventurous. See, since the first person walked on the moon, humans have always been excited about exploring space. Wanting to go out further and further as possible. Though there was a lot of skeptics as well. Which is probably why I was one of a handful that actually signed up. 

You see, some crazy scientists, probably as crazy as I am, came up with a way to do exactly what people wanted. To go far. They must have had this whole idea hidden for a while, but they found a way to go to a whole new galaxy. Outside of the milky way! See, crazy right? And you may be thinking it was all some big scam to get money out of people and than everyone who worked on the project would suddenly disappear without a trace and you would end up broke. But they weren’t taking any money. They seemed to know how crazy it sounded, and didn’t expect anyone to actually want to go off to space with them on something they didn’t even really know would work.

But I couldn’t wait to go!

Have you ever decided to do something you thought would be fun, and exciting, only to have your plans blow up in your face and then you’re left with this big decision that could basically decide the fate of all of humanity? No? Well, you might think I’m being dramatic, but that is exactly what happened to me. It’s not an exaggeration either. But you need more explanation I’m sure, so let me tell you a little story of how those plans I had, changed everything.

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So yup, I’m starting a new sims story. And yes it doesn’t have much explanation yet, and yup the graphic and the name of the damn story is awful. Not to mention I suck at story introductions, but hey. I’m trying xD. Basically if you don’t know me. I tend to make a whole bunch of stories at once to keep my brain interested. Because playing one thing for too long makes my over active brain kind of bored. So I’m making something new. I don’t know if anyone will like it, but hey, I’m having fun with it.

Also let me just say. It was super difficult for me to make a human sim. I kept looking at him like NO SOMETHING IS MISSING!!!!

So here they are, the WIP I showed yesterday. I didn’t want to take screenshots of each individual one, because they would take way too long, So instead I just took one of each species and gender. For a full look at what these look like, you can see in these swatches HERE. I didn’t merge the files, so if there is any of them you don’t want, they’re listed in order for that swatch, so Type 1 of the Angaran Female tattoos, will be the first one show, and so forth.

These come in all ages and genders, and show up in the facepaint category. They do cover the eyebrows, but I don’t mind that so I didn’t bother with layering. I put them in my Crystallum colors, + also a black one. Feel free to recolor, and use how you wish!

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Full credit to EA & Bioware, because all I did was extract the alpha of each tattoo and shape it to fit sim faces.

Click for better quality, and species names.

Preview of what I’m working on. I replayed Mass Effect Andromeda again for like the 50th time, and wanted to see if I could extract the alien tattoos from the game, and found out I could! So naturally, I obviously need more alien stuff for Sims 4. These are Angara, Asari, Krogan, Salarian, and Turian tattoos. Each species has 6 for each gender. Except Asari, as they only have one gender. Salarian for some reason, only had 6. And the Krogan ones were unisex I suppose. Though I couldn’t find any for the special characters like Vetra and Sid. They’re probably painted on to their skin or something. But hey, I got some good ones at least!

Also I apologize if the turian ones look weird. It was difficult to fit them to a human face. I’ll be releasing them as soon as I put some colors to them, and probably texture as well.