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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Week 4
Week 4 of the Christmas Challenge requires the protagonist to make a number of friends, good friends and friends with specific traits/careers.
Normally “playing” week 4 boils down to counting the friends the main sim already has made in the previous three weeks, little to no actual gameplay required anymore. But this time the game threw me not only a curveball, but a giant dung beetle pill. (And it was amazing!)
Week 4 of the Christmas Challenge requires the protagonist to make a number of friends, good friends and friends with specific traits/careers.
Normally “playing” week 4 boils down to counting the friends the main sim already has made in the previous three weeks, little to no actual gameplay required anymore. But this time the game threw me not only a curveball, but a giant dung beetle pill. (And it was amazing!)
Spoiler
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Peggy: “Hello, Mr. Connor! Can you translate something for us, please?”
Sigstein: “Sure can. But why is the DPD here? I don’t think we’ve met, Officer… Mack, was it?”
Alexander: “Yeah, I knew my luck in this regard would run out one day. The wife and sister in law spoke of you…”
Connor: “Only badly, I hope!”
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Alexander: “What is this? Looks like the sensor module of a civilian surveillance drone.”
Peggy: “That’s what it is! There’s footage of the vampire lady instructing the workers at the Chocolate Museum, but she speaks in…”
Sigstein: “…High Omiscan! And not only that, that’s as close to an accent-free Omiscan I’ve ever heard. It’s especially noticeable because the conversation partner is a Selvadoradan native speaker, who struggles with the Omiscan.”
Alexander: “What does she say?”
Sigstein: “That she has spiked the cocoa with a chemical that mimics the Influence Emotions vampire power. In the audio she wants to change up the SAD and ANGRY flavor to a DAZED one.”
Peggy: “So that’s how she got all of Newcrest under her power! We all drank the cocoa and ate the chocolates!”
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Alexander: “Thank you, Mr. Connor, that was helpful. We know now that Mrs. Diaz y Allende is behind all of this, and we can safely assume that she did it to bully Gavin into joining the vampire conspiracy. Now all we need is a confession.”
Sigstein: “A confession from a vampire, who has survived for at least seven hundred years, because the 14th century was the latest date at which a person could have grown up with High Omiscan as their first language? Good luck, kids!”
Alexander: “Maybe we should start with asking other employees first.”
According to the challenge rules, sims with the EVIL, MEAN and GLOOMY trait, as well as criminals, belong to the shadow group that wants to prevent the Snowflake Gala. I imagine the inner circle rather small, so most of the sims that work for Coco are not aware what they are taking part in. Like Elsa Bjergsen here:
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Elsa: “Wait, what? The Chocolate Museum is run by an ancient vampire that wants to suck the life out of Newcrest?”
Peggy: “Sort of.”
Elsa: “Well, yes or no? Because that’s my semester break job you’re threatening there, kid! I had planned to work as a waitress at the Chocolate Museum! Can’t you wait with your investigation until spring?”
Peggy: “But by then more people might fall into swimming pools or forget where they live!”
Elsa: “Cool, gene pool purged of idiots that are too thick to watch their steps.”
Peggy: “You can’t mean that!”
In the next step I sent Peggy’s family, Sigstein and Alexander to the Chocolate Museum to see what might happen. While I was still in the process of looking around who else was there and switching sims into their correct outfits… the game crashed. I got set back to the moment before leaving home, with everything that had happened at the restaurant deleted from my sims’ memory.
In the context of the story that means the vampires at the restaurant ambushed and memory-wiped Peggy & Co. They made sure to also destroy the video.
The Snowflake Gala is saved, but Coco’s involvement is gone from the sims' minds.
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Someone’s laughing… let’s see who laughs last!
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Peggy: “Hello, Mr. Connor! Can you translate something for us, please?”
Sigstein: “Sure can. But why is the DPD here? I don’t think we’ve met, Officer… Mack, was it?”
Alexander: “Yeah, I knew my luck in this regard would run out one day. The wife and sister in law spoke of you…”
Connor: “Only badly, I hope!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/95b5873a89c2d97ef9db320a264b85b1/a01361e06a3e92e2-be/s1280x1920/1e566d35b6a589c5e9611605b17d8caf930f20d0.png
Alexander: “What is this? Looks like the sensor module of a civilian surveillance drone.”
Peggy: “That’s what it is! There’s footage of the vampire lady instructing the workers at the Chocolate Museum, but she speaks in…”
Sigstein: “…High Omiscan! And not only that, that’s as close to an accent-free Omiscan I’ve ever heard. It’s especially noticeable because the conversation partner is a Selvadoradan native speaker, who struggles with the Omiscan.”
Alexander: “What does she say?”
Sigstein: “That she has spiked the cocoa with a chemical that mimics the Influence Emotions vampire power. In the audio she wants to change up the SAD and ANGRY flavor to a DAZED one.”
Peggy: “So that’s how she got all of Newcrest under her power! We all drank the cocoa and ate the chocolates!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ca304833dbccacbd5abf3843d8208180/a01361e06a3e92e2-23/s500x750/1b7623f5963463b398ec108996b0424a69f7b188.png
Alexander: “Thank you, Mr. Connor, that was helpful. We know now that Mrs. Diaz y Allende is behind all of this, and we can safely assume that she did it to bully Gavin into joining the vampire conspiracy. Now all we need is a confession.”
Sigstein: “A confession from a vampire, who has survived for at least seven hundred years, because the 14th century was the latest date at which a person could have grown up with High Omiscan as their first language? Good luck, kids!”
Alexander: “Maybe we should start with asking other employees first.”
According to the challenge rules, sims with the EVIL, MEAN and GLOOMY trait, as well as criminals, belong to the shadow group that wants to prevent the Snowflake Gala. I imagine the inner circle rather small, so most of the sims that work for Coco are not aware what they are taking part in. Like Elsa Bjergsen here:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c0f1edcf74ded3d8f7bee9d65f193bf0/1aaac024a8f93d2c-d4/s1280x1920/5f8e54191ee9b4fead6198173b3fcd70bd4cd57d.png
Elsa: “Wait, what? The Chocolate Museum is run by an ancient vampire that wants to suck the life out of Newcrest?”
Peggy: “Sort of.”
Elsa: “Well, yes or no? Because that’s my semester break job you’re threatening there, kid! I had planned to work as a waitress at the Chocolate Museum! Can’t you wait with your investigation until spring?”
Peggy: “But by then more people might fall into swimming pools or forget where they live!”
Elsa: “Cool, gene pool purged of idiots that are too thick to watch their steps.”
Peggy: “You can’t mean that!”
In the next step I sent Peggy’s family, Sigstein and Alexander to the Chocolate Museum to see what might happen. While I was still in the process of looking around who else was there and switching sims into their correct outfits… the game crashed. I got set back to the moment before leaving home, with everything that had happened at the restaurant deleted from my sims’ memory.
In the context of the story that means the vampires at the restaurant ambushed and memory-wiped Peggy & Co. They made sure to also destroy the video.
The Snowflake Gala is saved, but Coco’s involvement is gone from the sims' minds.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7278aef65525b3a412a11850ac5f6517/38d5fa77a7d1de31-1f/s1280x1920/64a066a324f59a7ddfbedb4258df05079b6d2c0f.png
Someone’s laughing… let’s see who laughs last!
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