Her quaint lot comprised of all the essentials: A grill out front,

A juicer, a hammock, a toilet, a shower and a darling little outdoor fireplace.

Over here are the ambrosial trees, a bit of fertile earth for planting and some chairs and a table.

On the other side of her 'shelter' is the serene pond. Okay, so this isn't the actual lot for this challenge, but you try searching for the rules and lots for this challenge, Sims 2 version! It's impossible! So yes, in a sense, I have no idea what I'm doing, but I gather the rules are pretty simple. Live off the land for all four seasons. You can't go anywhere and you can't move anyone in. Youre right, Beryl isn't a CAS sim, but I removed all her skills, and she never earned any badges so she's as good as the real thing, right?

Anyway, our protagonist gets to work right away. Oh, never mind the dirt template outside the lot, I switched it to dirt for the apocalypse challenge.

Ariel and Michael pop over to introduce themselves, and me being a complete snob totally ignore that lady in the pink dress. Oh my gosh, I forgot to tell you about Beryl. So she's a virgo pop sim, 9-3-1-2-10, with a LTW to become a hall of famer. Hm. Interesting.

Not really.

Having lost all her skill points, Beryl never fails to burn the bass with squash. Oh. I'm hungry.

But it took her no time at all to top the nature hobby. Gee, I wonder why.

And shortly after that the gypsy woman dropped off this little beauty. Not sure if it's against the rules to use it or now, so better safe than sorry and leave it alone.

So Beryl got to chat up the trees. Which was great because the only person who ever called her was her brother, Tiger's eye and he was starting to get on my nerves.

This challenge seems awful easy. Except when this happened and Beryl peed herself after using the toilet twice. Being a super way neat sim, she was totally devastated despite no one being on the lot to witness her shame.

Gotta say, was kind of expecting this. I don't know what it is about the plants she... plants, but they get infected with aphids like ALL the time.

I even bought a ladybug house to keep them away, and it hardly did anything. Oh, did you think this was about her tree being on fire? Pfft, it's a lightning storm, the tree will go out before the rain stops.

Ahh, the last days of summer. Beryl finally branches out from Tiger's eye being her only friend. Yes, that's him fishing right next to her. I didn't say she wouldn't still see him! He just mosies on over like he owns the place.

So it's fall and the pond is frozen, and after getting gold badges in gardening and fishing (Fishing, by the way, is a huge money maker.) I got her the pottery bench. Being a plant sim gives these guys way too much Free Time. You liek that plug? A hyuck. Anyway, so I had to get Beryl something she could spend her time on.

Until she met Rodney Jung. No idea why this picture is so far away from them.

Hey look, it's our resident zombie, Zeus Cygnus. Or Seraph.

Anyway, these two only share one bolt, but Beryl must be hurting for some romance 'cause she opted to firt with him with no influence on my part.

He fell in love rather quickly, so I decided to have them go on a date.

Which led to woohoo. Yeah, I bought this JUST so they Beryl didn't have to remain a virgin. She's getting up there in age since I didn't bother giving anyone the green jello juice of life before divvying them up for these challenges.

She got close to freezing once during winter. Cold plant sims look just as cool as alien vampires with their awesome teal colored skin.

After her date with Jung Ariel popped over and goodness me, they share two bolts for each other. This also happened without any influence from me. but it was as they were saying goodbye so no hearts for them. Damn angels. They're are supposed to be chaste!

Somewhere along the way, Beryl maxed out her lifetime aspiration and became permaplat without actually earning it. Not that I mind, but I guess it is kind of cheaty because she wouldn't have achieved this if she was a CAS.

Jung must have heard about that indiscrete kiss Beryl planted on Ariel. Get it? Planted!? Augh, I'm awful. Anyway, he's not mad at her, but he did bust up her snow man.

Anyway, that's the end of the challenge. It's spring now, otherwise Beryl wouldn't be able to chat with her trees. She used a bunch of tomato juice to stay warm during the winter, and early on she enjoyed and wasted a lot of Bass with Squash. I guess there were a couple of close calls, but over all, things were quick and easy.