Driftwood MMC - Year 1 - Winter
Whenever I take an end-of-season photo it is always this exact same view, haha. Winter was really interesting!
- The Bartlys, our first merchant family, came to the Hamlet and set up a Weekly Market
- The Topsfield family joined town, as market gardeners.
- Annie Dowrick left home to travel to Jiaojing, in the Wainao Empire.
- Several new recruits joined the army, while Lord Lionel and Sir Roberte both retired from duty.
- Multiple sims died of unexpected heart attacks just after moving (enough that I removed the elder death mod): Loreena Bartly, Belsante Topsfield, and Abbess Branwyne. I guess Winter is a bad time to be travelling!
- No weddings this time, but Bryanna Glanndour got engaged to new recruit Wulfgar Garard.
- A Founding Home was established by the church in order to care for orphans.
- Clarissa Benedict raised the funds to open a Charity Hospice.
- The Joshua/Rose/Finley/Nigel love triangle led to feuding and violence! Bermund and his father Lambert have also been fighting.
Our Hamlet raised a grand total of $94,925! I actually thought we'd be upgrading to Village status in the Spring, but we're just shy of the $100,000 mark. (I have raised the thresholds a fair bit!) That's fine by me, as I'd honestly prefer to take the challenge a little slower.
I do wish we had a few more yeomen, as I specifically would really like some blacksmiths and horse ranchers! (To help supply the army, among other things.) I'm not against possibly adding some more CAS families at some point, but I think I've come up with another solution I'm quite excited about, which I'll show off in the Spring.
That marks the end of the first "year" in Driftwood. It's been such a blast to play so far!