Captain Ahab inspired fishing challenge
This challenge started with me wanting to shoot a sims picture story in the Moby Dick story. While setting up the scenes, I got inspired to turn the lot into a functional one. Of course my gameplay si...
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After losing Tina and sustaining several cases of hull and rigging damage, the Pequod’s lookout spotted a large swarm of giant tuna that got subsequently taken by Chris and Angela. It was their first catch - eleven fish waiting to get processed!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ffc7dcf8dc59bb873c9a88a067aa8f32/5ccf017c6007ab28-d3/s540x810/b85c291065c409b34d42a2ab31fb829c015a1113.pnj
https://64.media.tumblr.com/398a4faab7c7ed2a2a821a3ca9818862/5ccf017c6007ab28-c7/s540x810/a08147cdd4e7cc3df4f6f1822bf8a59ba6eb153c.pnj
But before the sims could do that, they had to see to the leakage...
Susan dearly wished she was on the good old Antelope again, the company's schooling boat.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9ed5bd1481a8c24855619245494bb5d2/a0342871f5662835-21/s540x810/d26e30abe4892c17767abe51a9470714c0541a24.pnj
And this is why we always slide down the ladder, never leisurely climb. Because otherwise the asteroid will catch up with you.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/45ce6894e73f3de185870487754f1cb6/a0342871f5662835-7a/s540x810/0f8e7cc2873e78b9779f2ef3c566dd50733261a2.pnj
This came as a nasty surprise to me. I was certain that leaving the crow’s nest and moving Angela three floors down was sufficient to save her. Turned out the game isn’t looking at “how far is sim from telescope” but “is sim under a roof”.
Lesson learned. The next ship gets a roofed lookout. (Only I have no idea how to do that. The current crow's nest already is the roof of the highest allowed floor. I don't think I can put a roof even higher up. And lowering the crow's nest would look silly.)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/41da346a63a6ef8476401aeffa726f37/683a55882b21b84e-03/s540x810/3abe2afafb694e0cfa3d9b6b44f59c74d17f01c2.pnj
I ruled that the asteroid impact so close to the giant tuna fried the remaining five, not yet processed, fish. Therefore the crew had their first non-Gruel meal that day.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/36c4cf4cbe1bc1f9e4a01b1cb699fa98/683a55882b21b84e-79/s540x810/8dee8679ed74b512468d3b1b01063da4d8f1bc94.pnj
As well as their first kitchen fire that rendered one of the canning stations unusable.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/3b1582b6bf1bfcec1034df11d8b54ab7/3ec53ef9841e20ef-b3/s540x810/770b8dd3fbae723aa37ff5aa6a4034e43c42ffa8.pnj
That night Chris and Rika kept even closer together than normally. They didn’t want the others to overhear their discussion...
Rika: “So we’re in agreement to jump ship when next we meet a trader? And settle down somewhere save?”
Chris: “I would, but I’m loathe to leave Susan. We three are childhood friends, aren’t we? It just doesn’t feel right to sneak away and leave Sue on this death trap of a ship.”
Rika: “Big deal! We’ll ask her to come along!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/df4d4db2d025a6babdf7c1352088a980/3ec53ef9841e20ef-25/s540x810/9c9c5c81c469824f3823762de615245703ee61b1.pnj
Seeing that Susan went to bed next to now two empty cots, Tina’s and Angela’s, she probably won’t need much persuasion.
(In my headcanon the Pequod has a larger crew than just my played sims. So three leaving wouldn’t make her a ghost ship.)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ffc7dcf8dc59bb873c9a88a067aa8f32/5ccf017c6007ab28-d3/s540x810/b85c291065c409b34d42a2ab31fb829c015a1113.pnj
https://64.media.tumblr.com/398a4faab7c7ed2a2a821a3ca9818862/5ccf017c6007ab28-c7/s540x810/a08147cdd4e7cc3df4f6f1822bf8a59ba6eb153c.pnj
But before the sims could do that, they had to see to the leakage...
Susan dearly wished she was on the good old Antelope again, the company's schooling boat.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9ed5bd1481a8c24855619245494bb5d2/a0342871f5662835-21/s540x810/d26e30abe4892c17767abe51a9470714c0541a24.pnj
And this is why we always slide down the ladder, never leisurely climb. Because otherwise the asteroid will catch up with you.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/45ce6894e73f3de185870487754f1cb6/a0342871f5662835-7a/s540x810/0f8e7cc2873e78b9779f2ef3c566dd50733261a2.pnj
This came as a nasty surprise to me. I was certain that leaving the crow’s nest and moving Angela three floors down was sufficient to save her. Turned out the game isn’t looking at “how far is sim from telescope” but “is sim under a roof”.
Lesson learned. The next ship gets a roofed lookout. (Only I have no idea how to do that. The current crow's nest already is the roof of the highest allowed floor. I don't think I can put a roof even higher up. And lowering the crow's nest would look silly.)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/41da346a63a6ef8476401aeffa726f37/683a55882b21b84e-03/s540x810/3abe2afafb694e0cfa3d9b6b44f59c74d17f01c2.pnj
I ruled that the asteroid impact so close to the giant tuna fried the remaining five, not yet processed, fish. Therefore the crew had their first non-Gruel meal that day.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/36c4cf4cbe1bc1f9e4a01b1cb699fa98/683a55882b21b84e-79/s540x810/8dee8679ed74b512468d3b1b01063da4d8f1bc94.pnj
As well as their first kitchen fire that rendered one of the canning stations unusable.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/3b1582b6bf1bfcec1034df11d8b54ab7/3ec53ef9841e20ef-b3/s540x810/770b8dd3fbae723aa37ff5aa6a4034e43c42ffa8.pnj
That night Chris and Rika kept even closer together than normally. They didn’t want the others to overhear their discussion...
Rika: “So we’re in agreement to jump ship when next we meet a trader? And settle down somewhere save?”
Chris: “I would, but I’m loathe to leave Susan. We three are childhood friends, aren’t we? It just doesn’t feel right to sneak away and leave Sue on this death trap of a ship.”
Rika: “Big deal! We’ll ask her to come along!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/df4d4db2d025a6babdf7c1352088a980/3ec53ef9841e20ef-25/s540x810/9c9c5c81c469824f3823762de615245703ee61b1.pnj
Seeing that Susan went to bed next to now two empty cots, Tina’s and Angela’s, she probably won’t need much persuasion.
(In my headcanon the Pequod has a larger crew than just my played sims. So three leaving wouldn’t make her a ghost ship.)
