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EnkiSchmidt's avatar
2 years ago

Prison break?

Something adorable happened in my game just now, but it also disrupted my plot a little. I'd love to hear everyone's opinions before I decide how to proceed.

The situation:
Gavin and two other sims from Newcrest are currently imprisoned in Oasis Springs, awaiting a trial for espionage.
Spoiler
Newcrest and Oasis Springs are part of different countries that both work on the same secret project, a permanent portal to Sixam. My sims trio tested the Newcrest portal, but interferences between the two networks caused them to appear in the Oasis Springs portal room. The two countries are neutral towards each other, maybe a tiny bit strained from Oasis Springs' Landgraab family having committed crimes in Newcrest.

Lorewise the prison is in the middle of nowhere, desert all around, heavy surveillance, equipped to keep the most advanced supernaturals in etc.

I played for three days and on the fourth a very grumpy Daniel, Gavin's husband, spawned in front of the prison. I took a screenshot and decided to ignore the incident. Friends of the prisoners had appeared in the neighborhood before and left again, that's just part of the way the game works and cannot be helped.
Daniel, however, wouldn't have anything of that. I focused on one of my other two sims, then zoomed the camera in on Gavin - only to find Daniel holding hands with him! Daniel had just walked into this super-secure secret prison as if it was nothing, intent on bringing his husband home. One of his speech bubbles even showed a a car - a getaway car maybe?
(Note: The front gate is open to allow the catering lady and a club representing more prisoners in. It's selectively locked for my prisoner trio.)

There are three possible scenarios I'd be willing to play:

- Daniel somehow learned where his husband was held, came prepared and got the prisoners out. A lot of his friend are cop and adventurer types, and I figure they could manage a regular prison break, although probably not on the scale of this desert camp. Also the alleged spies disappearing would only make them look even more suspicious.

- Daniel is hot-headed, he may have come alone and ill prepared, and as a result he got himself captured. One more prisoner and one more trial coming up.

- There's such a thing as visiting hour, maybe Daniel learned where his husband was held and was allowed in for a visit. With Gavin being suspected of being a spy I don't really see this, though.
  • Monet11's avatar
    Monet11
    New Spectator


    "EnkiSchmidt;c-18232209" wrote:
    He's on a sightseeing tour :o

    "Prison in San Myshuno was so-so, but I hear yours is open air? I must see this for myself! I Love the Outdoors, you know?"

    (I loaded my game, it's tuesday and the plan, with now four prisoners, is to vote in "Energy saving", then wait for the blackout when all the drones and cameras go offline. In-story the "voting" represents a mix of persuasion, blackmail and favour trading with the goal to sabotage the surveillance network. Only influence points earned in jail can get spend for this, not the thousands my sims are sitting on from their regular lifes.)


    Nice.
  • Prison-break now, then re-capture plus shakedown of the conspiracy later? Or vice-versa. The conspiracy begins a crumbling implosion, until letting the prisoners "escape" is the only way to cover things up and keep those in power where they are? I'm with you that a prison break alone is too clean, but so is proceeding smoothly to trial. Right? o.o
  • An update:
    - There was some marital tension when Gavin (the vampire husband) flirted with a prisoner vampire, but they tided that over.
    - However, after the flirt and getting beaten up by the Daniel (the werewolf husband), said vampire prisoner grew bold, maybe a little too bold. He drank from another townie, specifically from the government agent who had arrested my sims. Now that agent is being held hostage by the prisoners - I added him to my household.
    - Meanwhile voting has begun and with 24 votes for Energy Saving I'm hopeful to succeed in my sabotage of the surveillance grid.
  • Monet11's avatar
    Monet11
    New Spectator

    You said the prison is equipped to keep the most advanced supernaturals in. Is Daniel a supernatural?