The Christmas Challenge
A short (4 sim weeks) challenge written by Aislynne. The objective is to save your town’s Christmas Fair by completing a series of thematically related tasks. You can find the rules and original st...
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Next Gavin experienced disorientation.
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When he returned from work, he arrived at the house next door, where his parents live with Jin and Tina. The vampire stretched and looked up as if seeing this place for the first time. And then it slowly sank in: This… not… my home.
It felt like an epiphany only a very advanced mind would ever reach.
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Evelyn: “Hello, Uncle Gavin!”
Gavin: “Hello, Lynnie. Are we close to the Kamski residence, by chance?”
Evelyn: “Uh… no? Who are you calling?”
Gavin: “My husband. Asking him to get my coordinates and fetch me home.”
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Evelyn: “…and then he said he’d call Uncle Daniel to guide him home!”
Evie: “That sounds rather like my parents, too. It started Wednesday morning. I thought they were just overworked, but… they’re acting pretty odd. My sisters, too.”
Peggy: “How about yours, Lyn?”
Evelyn: “I’m Lyn KAMSKI, cousin. I’ll start to worry when my parents behave normally.”
Peggy: “Good point. Call me when that happens. For now we can say that the problem is a local one. Agreed?”
Evie: “Uh-huh.”
(Note: Evie lives in the same street. Lyn lives in Magnolia Promenade.)
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When both parents were finally home together, Daniel made sure to mark his property.
Daniel: “That’s MY husband!”
Gavin: “But those were MY shoes!!!”
Free Will is wild.
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Poor Peggy had her work cut out for her, with the free willed sims, especially the two that I must not control at all. Rescuing housemates from freezing to death in the pool was her daily bread and butter now.
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Peggy: “Oh, will you wake up already, Kendra! Please, because if you don’t, you won’t wake up ever again! We already have matching skin tones from the cold, but it’s not funny!!! Let’s get matching hairclips instead, okay?”
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That evening Gavin’s father, Jim Reed, swung by. Peggy immediately stormed him with her news:
“Grandpa, grandpa! My dads are acting strange!”
“Strange for the standards of this family, the city or in general?”
Strange like this:
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Jim: “I see. First, you call over Daniel, so that he doesn’t freeze. Then try locking doors to control comings and goings.”
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This, to the contrary, is not strange, but perfectly normal Reed family behavior.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e6a91b75a32ccf001ccb9ea40ae6cc03/2890880ee4135ff2-ce/s1280x1920/0e3e33810e96d4c135b015fc427c9ea9fb0a7f84.png
The residents of Newcrest have learned to tell eccentricities of the DPD officers and their friendship circle from truly weird occurrences. But this time it isn’t just the DPD. This time the whole street is affected and whatever holds sway over the residents slowly reaches out for the rest of Newcrest. And from there - all of Detroit?
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When he returned from work, he arrived at the house next door, where his parents live with Jin and Tina. The vampire stretched and looked up as if seeing this place for the first time. And then it slowly sank in: This… not… my home.
It felt like an epiphany only a very advanced mind would ever reach.
Spoiler
I have no idea what went wrong with the spawn point. That never happened before and so far hasn’t happened again.
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Evelyn: “Hello, Uncle Gavin!”
Gavin: “Hello, Lynnie. Are we close to the Kamski residence, by chance?”
Evelyn: “Uh… no? Who are you calling?”
Gavin: “My husband. Asking him to get my coordinates and fetch me home.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6437dfaa67c38b4d7004138045d07bae/354e4955c88f0761-a5/s500x750/e21246fe5e3dfd6c6883a20b4d1ebcbce1ca1e7c.png
Evelyn: “…and then he said he’d call Uncle Daniel to guide him home!”
Evie: “That sounds rather like my parents, too. It started Wednesday morning. I thought they were just overworked, but… they’re acting pretty odd. My sisters, too.”
Peggy: “How about yours, Lyn?”
Evelyn: “I’m Lyn KAMSKI, cousin. I’ll start to worry when my parents behave normally.”
Peggy: “Good point. Call me when that happens. For now we can say that the problem is a local one. Agreed?”
Evie: “Uh-huh.”
(Note: Evie lives in the same street. Lyn lives in Magnolia Promenade.)
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When both parents were finally home together, Daniel made sure to mark his property.
Daniel: “That’s MY husband!”
Gavin: “But those were MY shoes!!!”
Free Will is wild.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f7d13d40a110b4034630440ab0720a85/defda05d44178808-72/s1280x1920/70948cac440e9b8794b2449da3cfc9da6e970935.png
Poor Peggy had her work cut out for her, with the free willed sims, especially the two that I must not control at all. Rescuing housemates from freezing to death in the pool was her daily bread and butter now.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4d55aa5bc0745573d02747e55308969d/defda05d44178808-6e/s1280x1920/54d7a511bde1b2697ee1dec677e03b474814aa80.png
Peggy: “Oh, will you wake up already, Kendra! Please, because if you don’t, you won’t wake up ever again! We already have matching skin tones from the cold, but it’s not funny!!! Let’s get matching hairclips instead, okay?”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/d450cfbb54f01e5015094a9d44d45d1f/f585c78ecfaa2149-31/s1280x1920/b880e8ceb2ad7a68f388fc3be38aa1f2a5f9e35a.png
That evening Gavin’s father, Jim Reed, swung by. Peggy immediately stormed him with her news:
“Grandpa, grandpa! My dads are acting strange!”
“Strange for the standards of this family, the city or in general?”
Strange like this:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/912ab2bf978ee09f81adc6088712176c/f585c78ecfaa2149-5a/s500x750/4d84f67cc50bdb5df3e8b432841afba1d8b6e0a5.png
Jim: “I see. First, you call over Daniel, so that he doesn’t freeze. Then try locking doors to control comings and goings.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/cc2dbf5a48f8e847112d026b3f041cf9/2890880ee4135ff2-cc/s1280x1920/42bb7dd6a5045936486b28caf2a347d45b576b3e.png
This, to the contrary, is not strange, but perfectly normal Reed family behavior.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e6a91b75a32ccf001ccb9ea40ae6cc03/2890880ee4135ff2-ce/s1280x1920/0e3e33810e96d4c135b015fc427c9ea9fb0a7f84.png
The residents of Newcrest have learned to tell eccentricities of the DPD officers and their friendship circle from truly weird occurrences. But this time it isn’t just the DPD. This time the whole street is affected and whatever holds sway over the residents slowly reaches out for the rest of Newcrest. And from there - all of Detroit?
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