Lost Legacies Gameplay Thread (Week 4 Now Available)

Gideon headed back to the park, and spoke with one of the first sims he saw there, and Emit said he heard the Envoy saying 'they'll finally buy that fancy house they wanted' Gideon also learned that the Envoy went off toward the Blue Velvet.

With this information in hand, Gideon  felt like he should give the Royal Envoy a call. She want she has to say. 

He pulled out his phone and called the Envoy, and he wasn't getting an answer, however he did hear a ringing sound. He looked around the park, the ringing was close.

It sounded like it was coming from the trashcan near the grills, so he walked over.  and yes, it seems like something was in the trashcan. 

With no hesitation, Gideon started rummaging though the can, and found a phone. This must be the Envoy's phone!

So, why did the Envoy ditch her phone? Gideon took a look in her phone, and saw a file named, "My Retirement Master Plan" However, it needed a password; looks like Gideon had some hacking in his future.  But a Master Plan for retirement, talk about a fancy house, it seems like the Envoy was trying to enrich themself somehow. 

It was growing late, and Gideon was quite tired, so he headed back home to get some sleep. 

After a nights rest, and a shower, Gideon was ready to hack into the file on the phone; however as he was getting started, he remembered that code on the bottom of Cordelia's Statue. Surely it wasn't going to be that easy, the Envoy's password can't be that!  Gideon thought as he punched the code into the password box. 

And... that was it. That was the password for the file. Gideon was slightly disappointed; he couldn't believe that the Envoy had such terrible cybersecurity.  

Gideon read the file, and couldn't believe it. It held the Envoy's plan in detail! The Envoy was going to steal the treasure for themselves the entire time! She then was going to sell it off and make a massive profit! 

That explains why the Envoy acted so shady! Gideon knew he had to find the Envoy immediately. He couldn't just let this go. 

After he finished with the phone, Gideon headed off to speak with his sister, Beth, 

and told everything he just found out, and what the Envoy was up too. Beth, knowing Gideon well,  knew that Gideon was going to surprise the Envoy no matter what, so she told him to be careful. 

And early in the morning, a couple of hours before school, Gideon was at the Blue Velvet talking to the bartender, Vincent, Gideon asked about the Envoy, and Vincent told him that he should look near the lake, the Envoy mentioned they would be taking a one way ferry trip. 

Gideon hopped on his bike and rode down to the lake shore. 

Where apparently the Envoy was just spending some time fishing.  She looks like she's having a good time.  I'm sure she'll be happy to see Gideon! 

Gideon found the Envoy and surprised her, and the Envoy was surprised to see him, "Wh-What are you doing here? Listen this isn't what it looks like-"
"I saw your phone, I read your whole master plan," Gideon told her. 
"Oh, you read that...Well, can you blame me?! I'm stretched so thin between these families! What about my happiness? I just wanted a nice hot tub when I'm done with this job, so look, report me if you want, but this could cause a great upset in the kingdom, I won't ever be able to show my face again! If you forgive me, I'll stop and walk away. The simoleons I would get from these treasures wouldn’t make up for me losing my job and reputation anyway.”"

Gideon eyed the Envoy, Marina Corsair, and shook his head. "Nope, I can't just let it slid, no way." 

After all, Gideon is a Good sim, and he has a dream of being in the Secret Agent career when he becomes an young adult, the Envoy wanted to steal these things and sell them,  that just wasn't right. 

As Gideon recounts all the deceit the Envoy pulled, and told her he was going report her, Marina told him that she would remember this and that she would have her revenge oneday.

Then Marina Corsair left.

It was sweet that Jin was the one who heard the sound of the phone in the trash can ❤️He looks very cute as he watches Tina going through the rubbish! The Royal Envoy doesn’t really cover her tracks too well, and leaves evidence quite openly! The exchange of the cowberry seed was a good trade to get information for the password protected file. They are not so happy with having the ring now they have learnt the ring was cursed 🙁

Week 4, Part 1

While all of this happened, Tina was still at the park with Jin. But rain was setting in quickly and much as mother and son were attuned to the ocean, rain from above they tried to avoid same as the landlubbers.

"Let's go home, Jinny", Tina said, "and hear what your dads were up to over a nice cup of cocoa!"

Meanwhile in the museum, Gavin and Daniel searched the grounds for visitors who had been here before their arrival already, people who maybe had glimpsed some activity of the Royal Envoy's. 

Adam: "The envoy? Yes, I saw her. She left for the nightclub."

Gavin: "The Blue Velvet? Just into the general direction or did she enter?"

Adam: "Went in."

Gavin then did something inadviseable: Call the envoy to check whether she was still there. There was no response.

Tina and Jin were just about to enter the car and drive home, when Jin insisted that someone was calling them on the phone. Tina took hers out, but the little boy shook his head.

"In da drash can!"

And indeed, from inside a garbage nearby can came the default "incoming call" sound.

Jin was excited! Tina less so, seeing that it was her having to sift through all the trash. This really didn't concern her, and if not for Jinny, she'd just walked away.

When Tina had retrieved the phone, it had already stopped ringing. The caller's number was displayed in bright numbers on the screen. Tina knew it well: It was Gavin's!

And the startscreen was a Veronaville landscape. Could this be...?

Tina: "Wow! Can you imagine? This phone belonged to the Royal Envoy."

Jin: "Oh! Oh, mom! Maybe she has her MASTERPLAN on there!"

Tina: "Nah. Nobody would be so careless." *browses* "Strike me with lightning! There's a file here labeled "My retirement masterplan"! Password protected, too."

Jin: "You knew it! You said so today! That she's evil!"

Tina: "Maybe? Someone who throws away their still active phone to cover their tracks and leaves incriminating material not exactly accessable, but visible, isn't a professional criminal, though. Looks like this heist was a spur of the moment decision and someone got cold feet."

Tina called Daniel and Gavin (with her own phone) to tell them about her discovery.

Maybe it was a bad decision, but instead of chasing the Royal Envoy to the nightclub immediately, the trio decided to meet at their apartment first.

Business at the Blue Velvet had barely even started for today, and the envoy would probably want to celebrate her victory. And if she left, well, she lived at the embassy, where Thiago's security would detain her on sight.

Daniel (who had gotten very tired by now) got a strong coffee while Tina knocked at the door of Susan, a friend of hers  who worked as a freelance programmer. She gifted Suesan a rare cowberry in exchange for her help with the files.

Turned out the password was a string of numbers that Daniel knew very well: The code from Princess Cordelia's figurine!

Gavin: "Haha! She sure loves to boast, ey? But soon we'll hear who has the last laugh in this!"

Tina: "So, from what I see here, the treasures you got tasked to investigate are real: The cursed ring, five keys, a saddle, some garments and even a bookcase. The Veronaville nobility really came here to find them, ideally without having to pay the current owners, instead granting them titles and favours."

Daniel: "The WHAT ring? Is that the one Thiago allowed us to keep so "generously"?"

Tina: "Here's a picture - yes, that's the one. Who'd thought that an archduke believes in curses, haha! Anyway, the rest of the files are mostly checklists of treasures and stuff the envoy wants to buy. There's even blueprints for her future mansion."

Some of the treasures the investigators had found, but the vast majority of them the traitorous envoy had claimed. On to the nightclub it was, to stop her once and for all! (Meanwhile Susan agreed to babysit Jin.)

Both clothing items are very lovely! ❤️The gown looks very pretty and elegant, and at the same time soft and dreamy 💗

The fairy princess gown and front lacing corset are both beautiful. 😊

Laura and the Royal Envoy weren’t very happy with each other at all! 🙁The townie does look he is just oblivious to what is happening with him keeping on fishing! 🙂It was a good decision of Kakashi to take the day off work and be there right to the end and see how it all turned out! 
Congratulations on completing the event and getting all the keys 🙂

Week 4, Part 2 (cont.)

Here's what happened after Kakashi talked to the mixologist at The Blue Velvet Nightclub for the second time.

Kakashi, once again in his disguise, finds the Envoy by the lake, and he uses the opportunity to sneak up on her from behind. The Envoy comes up with a sob story hoping that Kakashi will forgive her for using him in her master plan.

Laura, worried about Kakashi, left work early to meet the Envoy then yelled at her, mocked her outfit, and insulted her. (Although, I found it kind of humorous that one of the townies was fishing while this was going on. 🤣)

At this point, Kakashi, who was late for work, decided to take the day off instead of getting in trouble with his boss. Meanwhile, Laura got yelled at by the Envoy.

Kakashi, not wanting to listen to the two ladies bickering all day, opted to report the Envoy's activities. The Envoy tells him that she'll "remember this moment for all eternity" and will have her revenge one day. She then leaves Laura and him by the lake, and all of her plans are foiled.

Not only has Kakashi solved the mystery with Laura's assistance, but he also found all 5 keys! 🎊 Thanks for reading and the support while I was doing this event! 😸

It wasn’t good that your game froze whilst you were doing the event 🙁It also wasn’t good what Kakakashi discovered about the Royal Envoy and her plans! 

Week 4, Part 2

While Laura is grilling plantains in the back yard, Kakashi hacks into the Envoy's smart phone... using the code that he found hidden on Cordelia's Statue in the museum. The Master Plan file opens and the contents were shocking. The Envoy was trying to steal the treasures and then sell them off to make a massive profit! As it turns out, she has been tricking people this whole time.

The next morning, Laura and Kakashi, the latter disguised as Sukea, travels to The Blue Velvet Nightclub. Kakashi asks one of the mixologists, Derick Purvis, if he has seen the Envoy. Derick laughs saying that if Kakashi wants to find her, "look next to the lake", because she mentioned about "taking a one-way trip on the ferry to" her "new life of luxury and wealth".

The game froze up at this point, so Kakashi had to hack the Envoy's smart phone then interact with a mixologist at The Blue Velvet again.

It would have given them a surprise to hear sound coming from the trash can! I hope that they can discover more about the Royal Envoy and her plans the next day! 🙂