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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And so the residents of Newcrest decided to set up a neighborhood patrol.
Spoiler
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With a variety of sensors and natural senses at their disposal, they felt they had a good chance of detecting the cause of the recent oddities, now that they had finally admitted to themselves that there was something wrong in the first place. Maybe the Newcrest Watch would catch Sigstein the spellcaster red-handed, or maybe the culprit would turn out somebody else. Only time would tell.
*RING-RING*
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Coco: “Good evening, Captain Reed and Captain Anderson. May I inquire about the presence of police drones at my business?”
Connor: “Who…?”
Daniel: “Good evening, Mrs. Diaz y Allende. - Connor, this is the owner of the Chocolate Museum.”
Gavin: “We didn’t position any cops or surveillance devices at your restaurant. The drones you saw belong to the neighborhood watch.”
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Coco: “Oh. In this case, sorry for having taken them apart. Maybe you can still repair them? Here’s the sensor module… it looks quite okay?”
Connor: “Welcome to Newcrest, Mrs. Diaz y Allende. You’ll fit right in.”
Poor Cocochimetl. She looked like a door to door saleswoman, when she pulled that thing out and presented it with glee. Admittedly one of her traits is indeed Materialistic, so it wouldn’t even be out of character. Also Connor's face, lol!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4af97668ea20b9d0721ff74aef194dc5/94ea9fbc2959811f-e7/s1280x1920/b51bea922a96028f7788afb18c8e52434e0f0d15.png
Cocochimetl used “reveal secret” with Gavin twice, showing vampire related imagery. Her telling the first person she met what she is certainly wasn’t how I had planned this to go!
Coco: “Psst, I know what you are!”
Gavin: “All of Detroit knows.”
Coco: “But what if all of Detroit knew that YOU are manipulating the life force in Newcrest as a compensation for not being able to drink from the residents? Think about that!”
Gavin: “It’s great that you opted for blackmailing instead of the stake, but you’re still wrong. In Detroit it’s not a given that the first vampire you meet is also the villain of the story. Heck, for all I know our street’s garbage disposal guy is a vampire, too.”
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Damian: “What the commotion in the fl… AAAAAHHH!”
What a sight to wake up to! But the grim reaper hadn’t come for Damian, but for the lone figure that was desperately flailing in the pool behind the child’s room. It was hard to tell whether the man drown first or freeze to death.
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It was Jim Reed, Gavin’s father.
The elder lived next door and had somehow wandered onto the lot and into the pool.
My bad. Jim had visited earlier and I thought he had left. Ricky’s tent obscures part of the pool in lifemode.
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Coco: “See, that’s what happens if people walk around aimlessly, because a whim tells them so. It can happen all the time, to everyone… Makes one think, huh?”
For once Daniel kept himself in check, remembering what his cop friends had told him: Don’t let them goad you into talking, let the other party reveal their cards first.
Coco: “Your child’s party getting canceled, your father in law dying and your husband getting accused of using his powers for nefarious purposes… Nancy and Geoffrey Landgraab could help fellow vampires. You know that we don’t have to be enemies, do you?”
And with these words the woman who called herself Cocochimetl turned into a black mist and vanished into the night, leaving Daniel to ponder the question why villains were under the impression that people would willingly join their cause if they killed people’s loved ones. Wouldn’t giving the potential recruit something they really desired be the better approach?
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The Reeds pulled Jim out of the pool and wrapped him in a woolen sweater. What little life was left in the man would have left him quickly, if not for his son being a vampire with the Manipulate Life Spirit power.
Gavin was routinely using the refreshing component of this power for First Aid. It didn’t disappoint this time, too.
And there go another 5000 dollar to pull one emergency Ambrosia from the library. As for Restore Life Energy, I use a mod that makes it available all the time. It's extremely useful in a story driven playstyle.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ad75ae757751f21a59484042d0c59213/0f8c39c213fb918b-ac/s1280x1920/2d5235de8df7d2612592a8701d74e7339230472c.png
With a variety of sensors and natural senses at their disposal, they felt they had a good chance of detecting the cause of the recent oddities, now that they had finally admitted to themselves that there was something wrong in the first place. Maybe the Newcrest Watch would catch Sigstein the spellcaster red-handed, or maybe the culprit would turn out somebody else. Only time would tell.
*RING-RING*
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4bf770af758277437afc50444ae4f3b/0f8c39c213fb918b-0e/s500x750/1d082afad92eb6344dc421c31bb9b7fd3b9a2dfc.png
Coco: “Good evening, Captain Reed and Captain Anderson. May I inquire about the presence of police drones at my business?”
Connor: “Who…?”
Daniel: “Good evening, Mrs. Diaz y Allende. - Connor, this is the owner of the Chocolate Museum.”
Gavin: “We didn’t position any cops or surveillance devices at your restaurant. The drones you saw belong to the neighborhood watch.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/33bd86dbfc116830ad98615acf84909f/0f8c39c213fb918b-b2/s500x750/042cbd1b5fa5fa71682df50d3e248188cad05246.png
Coco: “Oh. In this case, sorry for having taken them apart. Maybe you can still repair them? Here’s the sensor module… it looks quite okay?”
Connor: “Welcome to Newcrest, Mrs. Diaz y Allende. You’ll fit right in.”
Poor Cocochimetl. She looked like a door to door saleswoman, when she pulled that thing out and presented it with glee. Admittedly one of her traits is indeed Materialistic, so it wouldn’t even be out of character. Also Connor's face, lol!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4af97668ea20b9d0721ff74aef194dc5/94ea9fbc2959811f-e7/s1280x1920/b51bea922a96028f7788afb18c8e52434e0f0d15.png
Cocochimetl used “reveal secret” with Gavin twice, showing vampire related imagery. Her telling the first person she met what she is certainly wasn’t how I had planned this to go!
Coco: “Psst, I know what you are!”
Gavin: “All of Detroit knows.”
Coco: “But what if all of Detroit knew that YOU are manipulating the life force in Newcrest as a compensation for not being able to drink from the residents? Think about that!”
Gavin: “It’s great that you opted for blackmailing instead of the stake, but you’re still wrong. In Detroit it’s not a given that the first vampire you meet is also the villain of the story. Heck, for all I know our street’s garbage disposal guy is a vampire, too.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e52a2492ee1c99e3a4f1e45314c98e31/ab3d542f189f99ab-24/s1280x1920/02e479f4f553b51484c1da0df2962cda109ba5de.png
Damian: “What the commotion in the fl… AAAAAHHH!”
What a sight to wake up to! But the grim reaper hadn’t come for Damian, but for the lone figure that was desperately flailing in the pool behind the child’s room. It was hard to tell whether the man drown first or freeze to death.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/284e1ec4f563c39310b0d1640fbb87bf/ab3d542f189f99ab-41/s500x750/6d8ebe6efa9f217eb53972d7755b229628f5290e.png
It was Jim Reed, Gavin’s father.
The elder lived next door and had somehow wandered onto the lot and into the pool.
My bad. Jim had visited earlier and I thought he had left. Ricky’s tent obscures part of the pool in lifemode.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9f6e99deb1172c55202d20286d078871/ab3d542f189f99ab-41/s500x750/34d15ce9e86dfef9684cd277adbb1018f9a2ba3b.png
Coco: “See, that’s what happens if people walk around aimlessly, because a whim tells them so. It can happen all the time, to everyone… Makes one think, huh?”
For once Daniel kept himself in check, remembering what his cop friends had told him: Don’t let them goad you into talking, let the other party reveal their cards first.
Coco: “Your child’s party getting canceled, your father in law dying and your husband getting accused of using his powers for nefarious purposes… Nancy and Geoffrey Landgraab could help fellow vampires. You know that we don’t have to be enemies, do you?”
And with these words the woman who called herself Cocochimetl turned into a black mist and vanished into the night, leaving Daniel to ponder the question why villains were under the impression that people would willingly join their cause if they killed people’s loved ones. Wouldn’t giving the potential recruit something they really desired be the better approach?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f1fe534cbfde00f391b2ae3760051faf/583a21fc64a6f5ec-49/s1280x1920/f10d54e43046b7e2dba9e0cbffaa615adfbdb7ee.png
The Reeds pulled Jim out of the pool and wrapped him in a woolen sweater. What little life was left in the man would have left him quickly, if not for his son being a vampire with the Manipulate Life Spirit power.
Gavin was routinely using the refreshing component of this power for First Aid. It didn’t disappoint this time, too.
And there go another 5000 dollar to pull one emergency Ambrosia from the library. As for Restore Life Energy, I use a mod that makes it available all the time. It's extremely useful in a story driven playstyle.
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