No skills, lotsa problems
A playthrough of the No skills, no problem scenario Technicalities: [ Spoiler ] Sim name: Fred Collins Occult Type: Animal Empath with song-based magic (currently dormant) Traits: Animal En...
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Fall Year 1
An incident at Harvestfest
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Around harvestfest Fred realized that he had no friends outside work. None living in the same city as he, that was. And so his guests that day were Rika (naturally), Hank and Gavin.
Gavin: “Nice camp! Sure beats the bus stop I lived at...”
Hank: “Your bus stop came with a cute vendor you’re going steady with now, so you really have no reason to complain.”
Fred: “And you only lived there because you were keeping the other vendor stall across the street under surveillance. Nobody vanished your house into a different plane of existence!”
Hank: “Speaking of, where did all the swag go that you took when we cleaned out the DPD’s basement?”
Fred: “I only kept the mirror and sold the rest. You wouldn’t think there’s a market for used prison doors and iron bars!”
For real, look at the long list of items gained at promotion! This stage of their career always comes with a nice windfall for my police sims from selling all of it. But it also makes it look as if their basement is the worst dump ever.
And what else happened
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“Did you notice the coop in the harvestfest photos? That’s right, I have chickens now! Meet Molly, Polly, Dolly and, uh, The Rooster. Yeah, I know. Loving animals doesn’t magically make one creative with names… But aren’t they the cutest?”
An incident at Harvestfest
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-42-57b9d35.png
Around harvestfest Fred realized that he had no friends outside work. None living in the same city as he, that was. And so his guests that day were Rika (naturally), Hank and Gavin.
Gavin: “Nice camp! Sure beats the bus stop I lived at...”
Hank: “Your bus stop came with a cute vendor you’re going steady with now, so you really have no reason to complain.”
Fred: “And you only lived there because you were keeping the other vendor stall across the street under surveillance. Nobody vanished your house into a different plane of existence!”
Hank: “Speaking of, where did all the swag go that you took when we cleaned out the DPD’s basement?”
Fred: “I only kept the mirror and sold the rest. You wouldn’t think there’s a market for used prison doors and iron bars!”
For real, look at the long list of items gained at promotion! This stage of their career always comes with a nice windfall for my police sims from selling all of it. But it also makes it look as if their basement is the worst dump ever.
Spoiler
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In their career even a major holiday was not really a day off for Fred and his friends. While he was holding hands with Rika on the bench, Hank and Gavin discussed their latest case. It was a testament to how important this case was, if the law enforcement and the private eye, occupations that were normally at odds with - or at least wary of - each other, were sharing information so readily.
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Suddenly Gavin took a picture of… Hank’s manhood?!
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Hank didn’t found it funny.
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Rika: “I don’t understand what just happened, I mean, I SAW, I just don’t get the context. But I had a good laugh!”
Gavin: “At my expense, sure…”
Fred: “Well, Gav, what did you expect Hank to do, after you photographed his…? You SO brought this upon yourself!”
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-44-58c9f0h.png
In their career even a major holiday was not really a day off for Fred and his friends. While he was holding hands with Rika on the bench, Hank and Gavin discussed their latest case. It was a testament to how important this case was, if the law enforcement and the private eye, occupations that were normally at odds with - or at least wary of - each other, were sharing information so readily.
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-45-36wgd06.png
Suddenly Gavin took a picture of… Hank’s manhood?!
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-46-44afcne.png
Hank didn’t found it funny.
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-50-06stdkx.png
Rika: “I don’t understand what just happened, I mean, I SAW, I just don’t get the context. But I had a good laugh!”
Gavin: “At my expense, sure…”
Fred: “Well, Gav, what did you expect Hank to do, after you photographed his…? You SO brought this upon yourself!”
And what else happened
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_00-26-21f9f9c.png
“Did you notice the coop in the harvestfest photos? That’s right, I have chickens now! Meet Molly, Polly, Dolly and, uh, The Rooster. Yeah, I know. Loving animals doesn’t magically make one creative with names… But aren’t they the cutest?”
Spoiler
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“I found a fertilized golden egg in the coop sooner than expected! From what I’ve read, chickens have to really like you to lay one of those, so I assume Polly here is the mother, since she likes me best out of all my feathered babies.”
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“One morning I found three golden regular eggs in the coop. This is getting better and better!”
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“At this point I grew ambitious. Instead of selling the golden eggs fresh from the nest, I invested in a fridge to keep them fresh for the festivals, when people are willing to pay higher prices. I never wanted to be greedy or a miser, but my situation made me one nonetheless, it seems.
While being at it, I also ordered basic kitchen and bathroom fixtures and a waterbed. And with that, I suddenly had a house again. I felt accomplished like never before since my accident!”
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“Starting this fall semester I’m officially a drama student. Theatre is way out of my comfort zone normally, but here’s my reasoning: No actor can have expertise in every role they play, oftentimes the way a play or the movies portray occupations like mine are even downright wrong. Could this be the one field where lack of skill makes no difference whatsoever? An actor skilled at gardening has exactly the same chance of correctly playing, say, a race car driver, as have I, with no skill whatsoever, because we both lack experience as race car drivers. We just pretend.”
Well, there is such a thing as an acting skill existing… And I think subconsciously Fred also hopes to learn how to even better hide the fact that he has lost his professional skills from his co-workers.
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“Aw, will you look a this? Meet Aurelius, my first chick! He will grow into a golden rooster. I can’t wait to watch him do all the firsts: the first time being outside the coop, first time catching a worm… I may never be a father, but I sure can be a good landlord and godfather!”
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Fred was absorbed in his work, so he didn’t notice his wife flirt with a co-worker. Not even one of my own characters, but a randomly generated sim that the game sometimes manages to slip into my heavily curated police crew. Looks like someone has neglected the love of his life over the uni and baby chick business lately!
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I moved Fred closer so that Rika was in his line of sight now and you know what happened? She noticed Fred and turned around to kiss him! Apparently flirting was flirting and stopped there, and kissing was kissing and as such reserved for only Fred.
(The temp will still get fired again aka deleted.)
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-22-0559cev.png
“I found a fertilized golden egg in the coop sooner than expected! From what I’ve read, chickens have to really like you to lay one of those, so I assume Polly here is the mother, since she likes me best out of all my feathered babies.”
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_01-22-06anfgq.png
“One morning I found three golden regular eggs in the coop. This is getting better and better!”
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_02-07-29scc6d.png
“At this point I grew ambitious. Instead of selling the golden eggs fresh from the nest, I invested in a fridge to keep them fresh for the festivals, when people are willing to pay higher prices. I never wanted to be greedy or a miser, but my situation made me one nonetheless, it seems.
While being at it, I also ordered basic kitchen and bathroom fixtures and a waterbed. And with that, I suddenly had a house again. I felt accomplished like never before since my accident!”
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_02-07-309eetj.png
“Starting this fall semester I’m officially a drama student. Theatre is way out of my comfort zone normally, but here’s my reasoning: No actor can have expertise in every role they play, oftentimes the way a play or the movies portray occupations like mine are even downright wrong. Could this be the one field where lack of skill makes no difference whatsoever? An actor skilled at gardening has exactly the same chance of correctly playing, say, a race car driver, as have I, with no skill whatsoever, because we both lack experience as race car drivers. We just pretend.”
Well, there is such a thing as an acting skill existing… And I think subconsciously Fred also hopes to learn how to even better hide the fact that he has lost his professional skills from his co-workers.
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_02-15-53wic0f.png
“Aw, will you look a this? Meet Aurelius, my first chick! He will grow into a golden rooster. I can’t wait to watch him do all the firsts: the first time being outside the coop, first time catching a worm… I may never be a father, but I sure can be a good landlord and godfather!”
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_02-33-12bsffw.png
Fred was absorbed in his work, so he didn’t notice his wife flirt with a co-worker. Not even one of my own characters, but a randomly generated sim that the game sometimes manages to slip into my heavily curated police crew. Looks like someone has neglected the love of his life over the uni and baby chick business lately!
https://abload.de/img/06.05.23_02-34-29bpc8o.png
I moved Fred closer so that Rika was in his line of sight now and you know what happened? She noticed Fred and turned around to kiss him! Apparently flirting was flirting and stopped there, and kissing was kissing and as such reserved for only Fred.
(The temp will still get fired again aka deleted.)
