Chapter One: Each Day The Same As The Next

Last Sim on Earth

Apocalypse - 10 years previous (1980) - Total Global Nuclear War

One of three computer chip failures at NORAD in 1980 led to a false alarm causing the Americans to launch their missiles at the Soviet Union. Retaliation involved over 75000 nuclear warheads being launched. The resulting detonations caused a worldwide nuclear winter which decimated the entire population of Earth resulting in only one human being left on the planet whose main goal now is to bring back humanity.

Current Time - 1990
Week One; Day One

It has been 10 years since the apocalypse - the nuclear war that decimated our planet and well we had to live with nuclear winter for years afterwards with the radioactive soot circling the planet. The skies have cleared but the UV radiation has made life above ground hard for people to survive. During the day our exposure to the sunlight increases our cancer risk to the point where we suffer burns if we stay out too long in the sun. This makes living above ground impossible. So far I have seen no living thing other than furtive animals in the ruins of what used to be Sunset Valley.

Life isn't great, but I'm making do with what I have. Which isn't much. I've dug a small hole in the ground where I've made do. It's a place to go during the midday when the UV rays are strongest. It makes things tough when I can't gather between 10 o'clock in the morning and 3 in the afternoon, but what else can you do? It's either that or suffer and die. Eventually we will get to the point where genetically we can resist the sun's rays, but until then, we're vulnerable.

I was 10 when the bombs fell, I'm 20 now. All my friends are dead and I would have been too if I hadn't been away up in the mountains on a sole getaway from society for a while - as a former boy-scout, I was well-versed on survival on my own. So I missed the devastation of my home-town and now I'm the only one that remains. There is no-one here other than me and the ghosts of the people I once knew.

In the movies and books I read about the post-apocalypse, people go crazy when they learn that they are the sole survivor in a world in which they are now forever alone. Being alone since the age of ten has served to make me grow up faster than I ever wanted to, but the alternative was to starve and die.

The tree growth in 10 years has been nothing short of astounding and the simple fact that there are trees growing in this devastation gives me hope that things can come back from the nuclear holocaust that took place.

Until then, I have only myself and the fact that I haven't met any survivors let alone anyone dead or alive to try to help bring our town of Sunset Valley back to life.

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Author's Note: I've used NRAAS Register to disable immigration and empty the service pools so no unnecessary NPCs spawning in the game when I don't want anyone un-necessary wandering around in my save. Technically, the only NPCs allowed to spawn are aliens.

The map is Les Sims 3 - Sunset Died by SimCookie and well, unfortunately there really is no graveyard per se. So my choice is out of five ghosts. only ONE of which is female which makes for a very limited genepool. The other option is using the science station to create clones.

I've limited my gathering times to between 3:59PM and 9:59AM which makes it tough for my sim to gather food. This is going to shape up to be a tough one. Of course, I had to pick the world WITHOUT a functioning graveyard.