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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New Year, Year 2
(Ingame this is really the morning/noon of New Year’s Eve, but it fits better the next day)
Fred was looking at another nightshift today, and considered dozing through the day, but then again, it was January 1, the day of the annual Polar Bear Plunge, one of his favorite holiday customs. He didn’t want to miss this for any reason!
Neither Rika nor Hank were particularly interested in ice bathing, that left only Gavin out of Fred’s three friends. Gavin immediately agreed to take the plunge together with Fred. He suggested to meet at The Bluffs and brought along his employees from his private investigations agency.
The private detectives are a club with an office as their hangout. One day Gavin invited Fred to join it and I agreed.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-26-32xufzf.png
The investigators were still dressed for the mountain excursion they had undertaken recently. Except for proper Connor, who was dressed for a day at the office. Like always, regardless of weather or occasion. The moment this realization struck Fred, he knew that he had known Connor in his life before the Tabula Rasa spell. Gavin confirmed this suspicion when he introduced Fred to only two of his employees, not to all three of them.
Gavin: “Danny, Todd - this is Fred Collins. He wasn’t told yet, but Captain Fowler wants him to act as an intermediary between us and the Law Enforcement this year.”
Todd: “So – a double agent?”
Gavin: “That would be the cool way to call it, yeah.”
Fred shook hands with everyone, smiling especially wide at Daniel and Todd, his new acquaintances. This wasn’t just meeting someone you had merely forgotten, but a person you had never met before.
Never!
Met!
Before!
For amnesic Fred this encounter was like a milestone, although he took care not to voice his feelings in this matter. The others would be aware of them anyway, but kept their mouths shut about it, too.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-26-42vvicj.png
Daniel seemed to be a lot more level-headed than his partner and had some choice words for the concept of jumping into ice cold water today: “This is madness!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-27-30voizt.png
SPLASH!
Fred was in first (and so far also alone).
Next: Enough with the fluff, it’s back to the challenge and money earning!
(Ingame this is really the morning/noon of New Year’s Eve, but it fits better the next day)
Fred was looking at another nightshift today, and considered dozing through the day, but then again, it was January 1, the day of the annual Polar Bear Plunge, one of his favorite holiday customs. He didn’t want to miss this for any reason!
Neither Rika nor Hank were particularly interested in ice bathing, that left only Gavin out of Fred’s three friends. Gavin immediately agreed to take the plunge together with Fred. He suggested to meet at The Bluffs and brought along his employees from his private investigations agency.
The private detectives are a club with an office as their hangout. One day Gavin invited Fred to join it and I agreed.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-26-32xufzf.png
The investigators were still dressed for the mountain excursion they had undertaken recently. Except for proper Connor, who was dressed for a day at the office. Like always, regardless of weather or occasion. The moment this realization struck Fred, he knew that he had known Connor in his life before the Tabula Rasa spell. Gavin confirmed this suspicion when he introduced Fred to only two of his employees, not to all three of them.
Gavin: “Danny, Todd - this is Fred Collins. He wasn’t told yet, but Captain Fowler wants him to act as an intermediary between us and the Law Enforcement this year.”
Todd: “So – a double agent?”
Gavin: “That would be the cool way to call it, yeah.”
Fred shook hands with everyone, smiling especially wide at Daniel and Todd, his new acquaintances. This wasn’t just meeting someone you had merely forgotten, but a person you had never met before.
Never!
Met!
Before!
For amnesic Fred this encounter was like a milestone, although he took care not to voice his feelings in this matter. The others would be aware of them anyway, but kept their mouths shut about it, too.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-26-42vvicj.png
Daniel seemed to be a lot more level-headed than his partner and had some choice words for the concept of jumping into ice cold water today: “This is madness!”
Spoiler
The hypocrite! As a fellow Loves the Outdoors sim, Daniel has Polar Bear Plunge marked as “Loved tradition”, too!
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-27-30voizt.png
SPLASH!
Fred was in first (and so far also alone).
Spoiler
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-27-590jew0.png
Being submerged for just a few seconds was already enough to give Fred cold water shock. But it had been worth it! Surrounded by the elements and the investigators, Fred felt a surge of CONFIDENCE.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-28-30aocrx.png
Connor: “You need to get out of there quickly, lest you freeze to death in the cold!”
Fred: “Nevermind, Con’. See? I’ve already donned my cold weather outfit again!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-28-43swi2w.png
Connor: “That I’d see the day I’d agree with Daniel on something… This really is madness! Get out of there immediately! Your “cold weather clothes” won’t do you any good, if they are soaked through!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-30-090zecp.png
Fred: “Oh, no biggie. I have a second set!”
Connor gave a sigh from his artificial lungs, then asked what they’d do next.
Fred: “Next we do this again! See, I have a bug on me that registers a successful Polar Bear Plunge and sends a notification to the Polar Bear Club database. For some reason my jump just now didn’t count.”
Connor: “Okay, but let’s go to Del Sol Valley! Temperatures should be a tad bit more comfortable there, while still fulfilling the conditions for the Polar Bear Plunge.”
Fred had worked on several cases in Del Sol Valley last year, the coordinates were still saved in his teleportation device. And technically he was on duty today, so what did it matter that his shift would start only later today? In the blink of an eye the officer had brought his companions over to Del Sol Valley alongside him…
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-30-10a3ffk.png
…only to learn that without a legit search warrant he couldn’t enter the house with the swimming pool he’s had his eye on.
Gavin: “What now?”
Sims can’t knock on Celeb houses.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-33-01tkijq.png
Fred: “Now we walk around the house! We don’t have business with the family living here, all we need is their pool!”
Gavin: “Whoa, Fred, first willful misuse of work equipment for personal gain, now bending of the rules, all in the first twelve hours of the new year? There may still be hope for you, haha!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-33-39j9iym.png
Gavin: “So, do we jump in now?”
Fred: “No. Let’s raise the stakes a little and SKINNY DIP!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-34-2503dmu.png
And in they went!
Funnily the three humans jumped in readily, while the two androids had reservations. Connor is Proper, so no surprise here, but Daniel is Hot-headed, so in the context of the story I have no idea what’s gotten into him today to exercise such restraint. Probably still hungover from yesterday.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-34-55vld2u.png
Octavia Moon with five naked men in her swimming pool: “This is fine.”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-35-18a3ilq.png
Despite having the landlady’s implicit permission to use her swimming pool, the investigators didn’t linger in there for long. It was freezing cold, after all.
However, while the investigators celebrated their deed with confetti, the Polar Bear Plunge still hadn’t registered for Fred.
“What have I done differently? Wait… what if it’s not just my skills that won’t stick, but also achievements? Could the Tabula Rasa spell block the data getting sent to the club server?!”
On a sidenote, yup, Daniel is definitely hungover/confused. Look at the outfit he spun into: the kitty slippers! (This is his cold weather outfit for indoors)
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-35-19dvet1.png
An hour before his workshift started, Fred visited Stargazer Lounge, where he got a new sensor. Turned out the first one had been damaged, because the second immediately picked up the fulfilled tradition and registered it into the club database. Fred now had earned his 2040 badge, the latest in an unbroken list since his 14th birthday.
(Could it be that a sim needs to exit the pool via the ladder for the jump to count? That’s the only thing I can think of. I always have problems with Polar Bear Plunge registering for some sims, but not for others, even in the same household.)
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-27-590jew0.png
Being submerged for just a few seconds was already enough to give Fred cold water shock. But it had been worth it! Surrounded by the elements and the investigators, Fred felt a surge of CONFIDENCE.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-28-30aocrx.png
Connor: “You need to get out of there quickly, lest you freeze to death in the cold!”
Fred: “Nevermind, Con’. See? I’ve already donned my cold weather outfit again!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-28-43swi2w.png
Connor: “That I’d see the day I’d agree with Daniel on something… This really is madness! Get out of there immediately! Your “cold weather clothes” won’t do you any good, if they are soaked through!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-30-090zecp.png
Fred: “Oh, no biggie. I have a second set!”
Connor gave a sigh from his artificial lungs, then asked what they’d do next.
Fred: “Next we do this again! See, I have a bug on me that registers a successful Polar Bear Plunge and sends a notification to the Polar Bear Club database. For some reason my jump just now didn’t count.”
Connor: “Okay, but let’s go to Del Sol Valley! Temperatures should be a tad bit more comfortable there, while still fulfilling the conditions for the Polar Bear Plunge.”
Fred had worked on several cases in Del Sol Valley last year, the coordinates were still saved in his teleportation device. And technically he was on duty today, so what did it matter that his shift would start only later today? In the blink of an eye the officer had brought his companions over to Del Sol Valley alongside him…
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-30-10a3ffk.png
…only to learn that without a legit search warrant he couldn’t enter the house with the swimming pool he’s had his eye on.
Gavin: “What now?”
Sims can’t knock on Celeb houses.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-33-01tkijq.png
Fred: “Now we walk around the house! We don’t have business with the family living here, all we need is their pool!”
Gavin: “Whoa, Fred, first willful misuse of work equipment for personal gain, now bending of the rules, all in the first twelve hours of the new year? There may still be hope for you, haha!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-33-39j9iym.png
Gavin: “So, do we jump in now?”
Fred: “No. Let’s raise the stakes a little and SKINNY DIP!”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-34-2503dmu.png
And in they went!
Funnily the three humans jumped in readily, while the two androids had reservations. Connor is Proper, so no surprise here, but Daniel is Hot-headed, so in the context of the story I have no idea what’s gotten into him today to exercise such restraint. Probably still hungover from yesterday.
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-34-55vld2u.png
Octavia Moon with five naked men in her swimming pool: “This is fine.”
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-35-18a3ilq.png
Despite having the landlady’s implicit permission to use her swimming pool, the investigators didn’t linger in there for long. It was freezing cold, after all.
However, while the investigators celebrated their deed with confetti, the Polar Bear Plunge still hadn’t registered for Fred.
“What have I done differently? Wait… what if it’s not just my skills that won’t stick, but also achievements? Could the Tabula Rasa spell block the data getting sent to the club server?!”
On a sidenote, yup, Daniel is definitely hungover/confused. Look at the outfit he spun into: the kitty slippers! (This is his cold weather outfit for indoors)
https://abload.de/img/07.05.23_00-35-19dvet1.png
An hour before his workshift started, Fred visited Stargazer Lounge, where he got a new sensor. Turned out the first one had been damaged, because the second immediately picked up the fulfilled tradition and registered it into the club database. Fred now had earned his 2040 badge, the latest in an unbroken list since his 14th birthday.
(Could it be that a sim needs to exit the pool via the ladder for the jump to count? That’s the only thing I can think of. I always have problems with Polar Bear Plunge registering for some sims, but not for others, even in the same household.)
Next: Enough with the fluff, it’s back to the challenge and money earning!
