Challenge created by Playalot

Objective

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• The objective is to have 5 ghosts living with you in your mansion. These ghosts must be deceased spouses. Have achieved the Black Widow in game Achievement. Challenge ends when all spouse-ghosts are living in the house with your main sim and you have completed the Mansion Baron Aspiration and have the skills and ingredients to cook ambrosia.

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Making Money

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• No Money Cheats

• Your Black Widow sim may not have a job/career. You can only make money from collecting, fishing and woodworking/pumpkin carving but only before your sim is married or in between spouses. 

• Your Black Widow may have any amount of pets but ensure you have room left for your spouses. Pets must all travel with your Black Widow every time s/he travels anywhere.

• You may also make money from gardening but may only have plants in garden planters and may only have as many planters as you have ghost-spouses living in the house. Only the spouses are allowed to garden. (This means that you can not use a cow plant to dispose of your first spouse. Note that a cow plant must be placed on a hard surface once it is fully grown so that the pot appears under it.)

• The main source of your income is the money your spouses bring in as living sims when you invite them to move in. If your spouse comes into the house with a career you may keep them in that career (after all they are not going to be alive long enough to make much money) and you can decorate/use any of the career reward items they may have unlocked

• Each time you invite a soon-to-be-spouse into the house you must build or move. This could be an extra room or upgrades to existing items or decorations but the house must be increasing in size and worth over the course of the challenge. If you move it must be to a house worth more than the current house. You can ‘save’ some of the money for a move later on but you must still improve the current home. 

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Rules​

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• Aging on or off as you wish. If you play with aging on you can use Potions of Youth to keep your Black Widow sim young but he/she must buy it themselves. 

• Full autonomy on.

• Start with a new sim made in CAS. He/she must have the jealous trait. 

• You may make a pet at this point or adopt one later in-game.

• Move him/her into one of the games pre-existing starter homes, not an empty lot. 

• You may add Lot Traits to manipulate the difficulty level of your challenge but not to make it easier. 

• Find a suitable sim to be the first spouse, build a relationship to the point where you can ask them to move in. Also must have some level of romantic relationship.

• At least 3 of the five spouses must have the jealous trait. (You can take them into CAS and using the ‘casfulleditmode on’ cheat change one of their traits to jealousy if you can’t find any townies already with this trait.)

• Move the soon-to-be-spouse sim in, decorate/build/extend the starter home.

• You could try to achieve a different death type for each spouse and you could keep playing until you have 7 spouse-ghosts in the house. If you choose to do that you could make 5 of the seven have the jealousy trait!

• The timing of asking soon-to-be-spouses into the house is up to you but you can not have a soon-to-be-spouse in the house without having some level of romantic relationship.

• Aliens and vampires are also fine to have as spouses.

• Having a vampire Black Widow or as one of the doomed spouses is allowed. If the Black Widow is a vampire you are not allowed to drink deeply from any of the household members as this causes sims to pass-out which could be manipulated to your advantage. 

• If you want your Black Widow to make or join a club that is up to you. Your Black Widow is not allowed to be in a club with any household member. Your Black Widow can be in a club with an intended spouse but there must be no buffs or rules that would make romancing this intended spouse any easier. So a dance club would be acceptable where the buffs are for increasing learning the Dance and or DJ skills.

• You must complete the Mansion Baron Aspiration. You are free to complete any other aspiration except the Serial Romantic as the reward trait for this will stop any jealousy.

• Remember to empty the spouses inventories before they die especially if you have been collecting. Full inventories have been known to cause issues. You can store all the excess collectibles in a basement.

• You can alter/build on any lots and add sims into houses or to the ‘Not in the World’ category at any time. If you want a spooky themed house you can demolish and rebuild your starter as soon as your main sim moves in using the money he/she has available. Or find a spooky starter and place it into your game so that your main sim can purchase this as his/her starter home.

• CC is allowed.

• Don’t use Mods that will change the level of difficulty to the game play. (Example, lighting Mods are ok but not mods that effect sims emotions.)

• Ambrosia: You must have an angelfish and a Potion of Youth for each spouse and your main sim must have the skill to cook ambrosia. It is entirely up to you if you actually give the ghosts this ambrosia at the end of the challenge but the ability (skill and ingredients) must both be present. Remember you need a Death Flower to cook ambrosia.

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Prerequisites for the Death of a Spouse

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• Goes without saying but obviously be married!

• BFF with your spouse.

• Soul Mate with your spouse or the romance bar completely filled.

• One gold date after they have moved into the house and the date must happen in the house.

• One Potion of Youth (Paid for with Satisfaction Points by the spouse it is for)

• One Angelfish (Anybody can catch this at any point of the challenge)

• One new training trick mastered by your pet if applicable

• Your Black Widow sim must witness the death of each spouse. (If this glitches out for some reason then mourn the urn afterwards)
   

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The Ghosts​

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• Once the deadly deed has been done you will have to place the urn/tombstone somewhere and wait until the ghost appears. This usually takes a few nights. Because you had such a high relationship with the spouse before they died, the option to ask them to join the household should appear immediately. If it doesn’t turn ‘testingcheats on’ and right click the ghost and choose the interaction to add the sim to the household. The reason I have included this is that if the spouses ghost gets culled it will ruin the challenge for you. You must invite (or cheat) the ghost into the house the first time it appears.

• Once the ghost-ex spouse has been added you may not control the ghost except to direct it to garden, fish and to eat a cow plant’s cake for the essence or to change aspirations for point raking. (You can use these extra points for any potions for your Black Widow sim except Potions of Youth)

• If you leave the lot you can take the ghosts with you or not, it’s up to you.

• You must do your best to maintain a decent level of friendship with all your ghost-ex spouses. The friendship bar must be in the green. 

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