1760s Scenario Gameplay
I‘m currently enamored with my historical save, but also want to try some of the new scenarios, so I thought why not combine these? This thread will document my scenario gameplay - with some set dress...
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Scenario 1: Parenting Predicaments
…like the Martinez family, consisting of Pablo, Jennnifer and their children Sofia and Leonardo. Jennifer is a correspondent of the Boston Gazette and excited about her new life at the frontier. Pablo’s occupation is hard to describe. Basically he attends every festival that has skill, strength or targeting contests, wins these and then sells the prize for a living.
(Ingame she is a journalist and he a professional athlete.)
CHAPTER 1: A LESS THAN WARM WELCOME
A quick look at their outfits:
https://abload.de/img/screenshot150020xfp8.png
At the moment everyone is wearing their winter clothes, though. In Fort Detroit the Martinez have learned that the house the Boston Gazette has purchased for them is not located within the settlement itself, but somewhere in the vicinity. Two thousand additional settlers make their living off the forest or the river – now there will be four more, provided they can follow the vague directions they received in town.
The family eventually found their new home. Maybe adding some toys to it would keep the children busy and discourage them from touching things they shouldn’t touch again?
This might also be a good time to tell Sofia and Leonardo that we of course brought their rocking horse along. One day soon it might go up into the attic, waiting for the next generation to re-discover it, but for now it was still cherished.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-51-56piiu2.png
At this point the scenario demands to buy a dining table, enough beds and a toy. We are also to assign the beds to the children, bath them (not finished), send them to bed (not finished) and have a family meal.
As if that hadn’t been enough drama for moving in day, the Martinez met a local and that one didn’t exactly make the best first impression:
…like the Martinez family, consisting of Pablo, Jennnifer and their children Sofia and Leonardo. Jennifer is a correspondent of the Boston Gazette and excited about her new life at the frontier. Pablo’s occupation is hard to describe. Basically he attends every festival that has skill, strength or targeting contests, wins these and then sells the prize for a living.
(Ingame she is a journalist and he a professional athlete.)
CHAPTER 1: A LESS THAN WARM WELCOME
A quick look at their outfits:
https://abload.de/img/screenshot150020xfp8.png
At the moment everyone is wearing their winter clothes, though. In Fort Detroit the Martinez have learned that the house the Boston Gazette has purchased for them is not located within the settlement itself, but somewhere in the vicinity. Two thousand additional settlers make their living off the forest or the river – now there will be four more, provided they can follow the vague directions they received in town.
Spoiler
The family had followed a trail, reasoning that this would be the safest way to reach their new home. They could already see a straight wall between the trees, when suddenly Sofia broke off and ran across a meadow. What might the child have spotted, that had caught her interest?
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-25-25ahf7g.png
Oh, right. The summoning circle.
Well, that’s on me for plopping them into an ongoing story. This being the lot right across from the standing stones, Grace Anansi, the local witch, often comes here to commune with the spirits. As do some of my played sims.
Sofia: “Oh, oh, look, brother! A summoning circle! Shall we talk to the dead?”
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-26-1696ixu.png
Sofia was a Hot-Headed child, she of course had to jump to the opportunity, always acting before thinking. Leonardo to the contrary, was mean. Talking to the deceased might be fun, but getting his sister in trouble was also fun. Safer, too.
Leonardo (yelling): “Mooom! Daaad! Sofia is talking to the DEAD! Is she allowed that? Say she isn’t!”
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-27-2253f4u.png
While the parents were still uncertain how to react, Sofia already rose from the chalk circle. The ghosts of the departed had reminded her that however heavy her own troubles might feel to the child, at least she was alive. The girl felt bolstered and ready to start her life in her new home.
“In” had to get taken literally in this case, because after willfully interacting with the circle Sofia got grounded.
The family had followed a trail, reasoning that this would be the safest way to reach their new home. They could already see a straight wall between the trees, when suddenly Sofia broke off and ran across a meadow. What might the child have spotted, that had caught her interest?
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-25-25ahf7g.png
Oh, right. The summoning circle.
Well, that’s on me for plopping them into an ongoing story. This being the lot right across from the standing stones, Grace Anansi, the local witch, often comes here to commune with the spirits. As do some of my played sims.
Sofia: “Oh, oh, look, brother! A summoning circle! Shall we talk to the dead?”
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-26-1696ixu.png
Sofia was a Hot-Headed child, she of course had to jump to the opportunity, always acting before thinking. Leonardo to the contrary, was mean. Talking to the deceased might be fun, but getting his sister in trouble was also fun. Safer, too.
Leonardo (yelling): “Mooom! Daaad! Sofia is talking to the DEAD! Is she allowed that? Say she isn’t!”
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-27-2253f4u.png
While the parents were still uncertain how to react, Sofia already rose from the chalk circle. The ghosts of the departed had reminded her that however heavy her own troubles might feel to the child, at least she was alive. The girl felt bolstered and ready to start her life in her new home.
“In” had to get taken literally in this case, because after willfully interacting with the circle Sofia got grounded.
The family eventually found their new home. Maybe adding some toys to it would keep the children busy and discourage them from touching things they shouldn’t touch again?
This might also be a good time to tell Sofia and Leonardo that we of course brought their rocking horse along. One day soon it might go up into the attic, waiting for the next generation to re-discover it, but for now it was still cherished.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-51-56piiu2.png
At this point the scenario demands to buy a dining table, enough beds and a toy. We are also to assign the beds to the children, bath them (not finished), send them to bed (not finished) and have a family meal.
Spoiler
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-57-051meii.png
For real, EA? “Play with toys”? The infamous objective that never ever checks in the childhood aspirations? Granted, the children are playing with cc here, but I also didn’t have luck with a proper toy chest. Ugh… I might have to resort to the “just hug a stuffed toy” workaround later.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-58-43zme1j.png
A family meal would have been perfect to break in the new dining table… if only either of the couple could cook. They had just placed their “Household help wanted” notice at the community board in town, there was no chance of a maid knocking at their door already. And so Jennifer had to bite the bullet and cook something. One couldn’t go wrong with a nettle soup, right? Just chop up onions and potatoes, add the grinded nettle leaves and stir well?
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-02-40fcfs9.png
The result was barely edible (ingame: normal quality). It was, in fact, so bad that Sofia refused to eat more than a spoonful. Her father instructed the girl to put the leftovers away (that was an optional goal, that didn’t complete). There was no telling how hard it would be to secure provisions for winter in this place, so every morsel had to get saved.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-57-051meii.png
For real, EA? “Play with toys”? The infamous objective that never ever checks in the childhood aspirations? Granted, the children are playing with cc here, but I also didn’t have luck with a proper toy chest. Ugh… I might have to resort to the “just hug a stuffed toy” workaround later.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_16-58-43zme1j.png
A family meal would have been perfect to break in the new dining table… if only either of the couple could cook. They had just placed their “Household help wanted” notice at the community board in town, there was no chance of a maid knocking at their door already. And so Jennifer had to bite the bullet and cook something. One couldn’t go wrong with a nettle soup, right? Just chop up onions and potatoes, add the grinded nettle leaves and stir well?
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-02-40fcfs9.png
The result was barely edible (ingame: normal quality). It was, in fact, so bad that Sofia refused to eat more than a spoonful. Her father instructed the girl to put the leftovers away (that was an optional goal, that didn’t complete). There was no telling how hard it would be to secure provisions for winter in this place, so every morsel had to get saved.
As if that hadn’t been enough drama for moving in day, the Martinez met a local and that one didn’t exactly make the best first impression:
Spoiler
After the soup Jennifer left to collect some rumors or at least return with a nice sketch to send to her employers back in Boston. While his wife was at work, Pablo decided to try out one of the hunting bows he had found in the house. Now the man tried to avoid eating meat whenever possible, but there might be archery competitions around here that he could enter in.
Pablo hadn’t fully went around the house, when suddenly a stranger talked into him in the rudest imaginable way:
https://abload.de/img/screenshot15004p3c9k.png
The man introduced himself as a teacher and claimed that he “was doing things differently at his school”. Alright, Pablo believed that. This being the frontier, there had to be made concessions. Maybe he could donate chalkboards later.
However, the teacher already spoke on, claiming he “knew” that Sofia and Leonardo were intelligent and creative children. Beg to differ, Pablo thought, but they are both dumb as bread. I have to know, I raised them. Creative? Maybe. If playing with occult leftovers counts.
But even so, the teacher blared on, the children were getting Ds by the dozen. Excuse me, please? We only just arrived, they weren’t in school a single day and back in Boston they had solid Cs. What nonsense are you pulling out of your backside there, Mister? You drunk?!
So if the problem wasn’t the children, it certainly was the parents, the teacher claimed, and that he would watch the family and visit again.
Now that was some conclusion! And a thinly veiled threat? Hello? What a “welcome” to town!
I don’t tolerate talk like that from npcs, so I plopped down a teleporter statue and searched for the newly created teacher sim. The idea was to give him a quick makeover, get a screenshot of Pablo yelling at the man and then fire aka delete him. Pablo may be less easily provoked than me, but even he wouldn’t take sass like that from a man he pays to teach his kids the ABC. After such a stunt the teacher wouldn’t find work in the area again anytime soon.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-09-37g1c1p.png
However, at this point the teacher broke into tears over the Martinez’ garbage barrel.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-09-51a7er1.png
Pablo: “Okay, okay! I give you a second chance! We pretend this encounter never happened. But from now on you are on your best behavior, got it?”
Let’s see if he can stick to it.
After the soup Jennifer left to collect some rumors or at least return with a nice sketch to send to her employers back in Boston. While his wife was at work, Pablo decided to try out one of the hunting bows he had found in the house. Now the man tried to avoid eating meat whenever possible, but there might be archery competitions around here that he could enter in.
Pablo hadn’t fully went around the house, when suddenly a stranger talked into him in the rudest imaginable way:
https://abload.de/img/screenshot15004p3c9k.png
The man introduced himself as a teacher and claimed that he “was doing things differently at his school”. Alright, Pablo believed that. This being the frontier, there had to be made concessions. Maybe he could donate chalkboards later.
However, the teacher already spoke on, claiming he “knew” that Sofia and Leonardo were intelligent and creative children. Beg to differ, Pablo thought, but they are both dumb as bread. I have to know, I raised them. Creative? Maybe. If playing with occult leftovers counts.
But even so, the teacher blared on, the children were getting Ds by the dozen. Excuse me, please? We only just arrived, they weren’t in school a single day and back in Boston they had solid Cs. What nonsense are you pulling out of your backside there, Mister? You drunk?!
So if the problem wasn’t the children, it certainly was the parents, the teacher claimed, and that he would watch the family and visit again.
Now that was some conclusion! And a thinly veiled threat? Hello? What a “welcome” to town!
I don’t tolerate talk like that from npcs, so I plopped down a teleporter statue and searched for the newly created teacher sim. The idea was to give him a quick makeover, get a screenshot of Pablo yelling at the man and then fire aka delete him. Pablo may be less easily provoked than me, but even he wouldn’t take sass like that from a man he pays to teach his kids the ABC. After such a stunt the teacher wouldn’t find work in the area again anytime soon.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-09-37g1c1p.png
However, at this point the teacher broke into tears over the Martinez’ garbage barrel.
https://abload.de/img/01.11.23_17-09-51a7er1.png
Pablo: “Okay, okay! I give you a second chance! We pretend this encounter never happened. But from now on you are on your best behavior, got it?”
Let’s see if he can stick to it.
