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The Couch Caper Pt. 1
After completing Song and Dance Pt. 3 or the event ends
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Honey, I'm home! What in the heck are you doing?
Lunch Lady Dora: Just squeezing these free ketchup packets into our old bottle of ketchup.
Skinny Palmer: Why don't you just buy more?
Lunch Lady Dora: With the money you make playing jazz? I can only afford the essential condiments: salsa and Dijon.
Skinny Palmer: *sigh* It won't always be like this. I promise. I'm gonna land that record deal and things will be looking up for—
Skinny Palmer: Wait, where's Eleanor?
Lunch Lady Dora: Who?
Skinny Palmer: Eleanor, my trumpet! I left her right here by the couch before I went out, and now she's gone.
Lunch Lady Dora: Am I your trumpet's keeper?
Skinny Palmer: Well, jazzos and jazzettes, it looks like we've got ourselves a good old-fashioned mystery.
Lunch Lady Dora: You haven't even started looking yet.
Skinny Palmer: I will get to the bottom of this.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Clues
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
If the user has Lunch Lady Dora: Task: Make Lunchlady Dora Squeeze Ketchup Packets
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
Lunch Lady Dora: *groans* What are you doing now?
Skinny Palmer: If I shine this blacklight, it'll show you where bodily fluids are. I learned it from every CSI that's ever aired.
Lunch Lady Dora: You really think a robber took the trumpet and then left a trail of fluid everywhere?
Skinny Palmer: I'm only following the evidence.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 2
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Hmm, it looks like the trail of clues heads out the door and then goes cold. To crack this case, I must combine all the skills of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Bosch, and Veronica Mars.
Lunch Lady Dora: I used to love that show!
Lunch Lady Dora: Anyway. If you're going out will you at least swing by Krusty Burger and get me some more ketchup packets?
Skinny Palmer: The game is afoot! And justice waits for no condiments.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Stock Up on Detective Supplies
Time: 4h
Location: Try-N-Save, Sprawl Mart, CostMo, Herman's Military Antiques, Springfield Grocery Store or Brown House
Squeaky Voice Teen: One box of gloves. *beep*
Squeaky Voice Teen: One set of night-vision goggles. *beep*
Skinny Palmer: And they better be the kind that make everything look green.
Squeaky Voice Teen: One hidden camera. *beep*
Skinny Palmer: It's not hidden yet.
Squeaky Voice Teen: Thank you for shopping at Try-N-Save.
Skinny Palmer: Now it's time to catch the thief who stole my instrument!
Squeaky Voice Teen: Before you do that, could you fill out a short customer experience survey?
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 3
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Shoot, I forgot my magnifying glass and I need it to find my trumpet.
Manacek: I hear you've got quite a case on your hands...Skinny.
Skinny Palmer: Who are you?
Manacek: My name is Manacek.
Skinny Palmer: You look like you time-traveled here from the 1979 set of "Big Shamus, Little Shamus".
Manacek: See, the curious thing about your stolen trumpet is...stealing it was an inside job.
Skinny Palmer: So you think I stole it?
Manacek: No, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this...even if it means leaving no pet rock unturned.
Manacek: We have to stock up for the stakeout. I'm thinking a bottle of Cognac and a thick stack of "Paris Match" magazines.
Skinny Palmer: A stakeout? Who do we need to stake out?
Manacek: There's a little lunchlady who isn't little and isn't telling the truth either.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Have a Stakeout
Time: 4h
Location: Chalmers' 1979 _ONDA, Canyonero, Sterline Commander, Secret Agent Car, Homer's Car, Unlicensed Taxi, Willie's Tractor, WWII Tank, La Bicyclette or Brown House
If the user has Manacek: Task: Make Manacek Have a Stakeout
Time: 4h
Location: Chalmers' 1979 _ONDA, Canyonero, Starline Commander, Secret Agent Car, Homer's Car, Unlicensed Taxi, Willie's Tractor, WWII Tank, La Bicyclette or Brown House
Skinny Palmer: So why exactly are we staking out my girlfriend? Don't you think the robber is long gone by now?
Manacek: They always come back to the scene of the crime. And in this case, the robber lives at the scene of the crime.
Skinny Palmer: These night-vision goggles make my head hurt.
Manacek: You flip the 8-track and I'll test out this so-called "night-vision".
Skinny Palmer: Do you see Lunchlady Dora in there?
Manacek: Yeah, she's cooking up some tater-tots...in her birthday suit.
Skinny Palmer: You're not creeping on her, are you?
Manacek: Sorry, falling in love with a mysterious woman is the first step to solving a crime. Luckily for you, your lunchlady repulses me.
Skinny Palmer: You haven't helped at all in finding my trumpet.
Manacek: Haven't I?
Skinny Palmer: No.
Manacek: Well, for what it's worth — and it is worth quite a bit — your trumpet isn't at your house. It's at Lunchlady Dora's second boyfriend's house.
Skinny Palmer: She stole my trumpet and she's two-timing me?
Manacek: You really have a knack for this, Skinny.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 4
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: *grumbling* That 1970s detective thinks he knows so much about my personal life just because his entire job is finding stuff out.
Skinny Palmer: I need to clear my head, get a good night's rest, and pick up the clues in the morning after some waffles and—
Skinny Palmer: Wait, what's this? A trail of footprints leading away from my front door?
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Footprints
Time: 4h
Skinny Palmer: It looks like these footprints lead right to the Municipal House of Pancakes.
Otto: Can I get a short stack of pancakes?
Lunch Lady Dora: And did you want those pancakes American, Swedish, or Scooty Hooty Sweet and Fruity?
Skinny Palmer: Dora? Since when were you working night shifts at MHOP?
Lunch Lady Dora: I need — I mean, we need the money.
Skinny Palmer: But I provide for you, right baby?
Lunch Lady Dora: Not really, no. I make more as a lunchlady, and that's really saying something.
Otto: Actually, scratch that. Lemme have the Ham Slam with cheese and a side of Don't Go Bacon My Heart.
Skinny Palmer: Otto, can you give us a minute here? Also, you should really try the French toast. It's delicious.
Otto: Right on, amigo!
Skinny Palmer: Are you not telling me something?
Lunch Lady Dora: I'm not not telling you something.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 5
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: You're right, Dora. Losing my trumpet is probably a sign that I need to get my life together and try to provide for you more.
Skinny Palmer: So I guess my days of jazz are over.
Lunch Lady Dora: I'm sorry, Skinny.
Skinny Palmer: First thing Monday morning I'm going to get me a job that'll make me the man you first decided to casually date.
Lunch Lady Dora: Oh, thank you.
Skinny Palmer: But first things first, let's scrounge up what money we do have so we can find a new place and get out of this dump.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Search the Couch Cushions for Coins
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
If the user has Lunch Lady Dora: Task: Make Lunchlady Dora Search the Couch Cushions for Coins
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
Skinny Palmer: *searching the couch cushions* There's got to be money in here somewhere! Hold on, what's this? *gasps* My trumpet!
Lunch Lady Dora: *gasps*
Manacek: Don't pretend to be surprised, Dora.
Skinny Palmer: No, Manacek. You haven't solved anything. My trumpet was right here in the couch cushions the whole time!
Manacek: But was it? *flashback* It was a simple matter of Lunchlady Dora pretending to look for your trumpet when in reality she was hiding it right under your caboose.
Skinny Palmer: But then why would she leave it in the couch?
Manacek: Because that's not your trumpet. It's a perfect replica — examine the polish.
Skinny Palmer: It tastes unlacquered! It's a silver varnish instead of brass.
Manacek: Once you left to pick up your dry cleaning, Lunchlady Dora went straight to King Toot's to sell your trumpet to the highest bidder.
Manacek: And after selling that trumpet's weight in brass, Lunchlady Dora thought she was in the clear. But then...you ran into me.
Manacek: So, panicking, she made a perfect replica of the trumpet, then stuffed that replica back into the couch.
Lunch Lady Dora: Nothing you say makes any sense!
Manacek: Oh, and one more thing. She's having an affair with King Toot.
Lunch Lady Dora: Okay, it's all true! I admit it! I needed the money! And I needed King Toot! He's the one I love!
Skinny Palmer: I'm sorry, Manacek. I should have never doubted you.
Manacek: Solving a crime has many fathers, but no sons.
Skinny Palmer: *chuckles* I like you, Manacek.
Quest reward: $200 and 20 XP
After completing Song and Dance Pt. 3 or the event ends
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Honey, I'm home! What in the heck are you doing?
Lunch Lady Dora: Just squeezing these free ketchup packets into our old bottle of ketchup.
Skinny Palmer: Why don't you just buy more?
Lunch Lady Dora: With the money you make playing jazz? I can only afford the essential condiments: salsa and Dijon.
Skinny Palmer: *sigh* It won't always be like this. I promise. I'm gonna land that record deal and things will be looking up for—
Skinny Palmer: Wait, where's Eleanor?
Lunch Lady Dora: Who?
Skinny Palmer: Eleanor, my trumpet! I left her right here by the couch before I went out, and now she's gone.
Lunch Lady Dora: Am I your trumpet's keeper?
Skinny Palmer: Well, jazzos and jazzettes, it looks like we've got ourselves a good old-fashioned mystery.
Lunch Lady Dora: You haven't even started looking yet.
Skinny Palmer: I will get to the bottom of this.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Clues
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
If the user has Lunch Lady Dora: Task: Make Lunchlady Dora Squeeze Ketchup Packets
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
Lunch Lady Dora: *groans* What are you doing now?
Skinny Palmer: If I shine this blacklight, it'll show you where bodily fluids are. I learned it from every CSI that's ever aired.
Lunch Lady Dora: You really think a robber took the trumpet and then left a trail of fluid everywhere?
Skinny Palmer: I'm only following the evidence.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 2
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Hmm, it looks like the trail of clues heads out the door and then goes cold. To crack this case, I must combine all the skills of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Bosch, and Veronica Mars.
Lunch Lady Dora: I used to love that show!
Lunch Lady Dora: Anyway. If you're going out will you at least swing by Krusty Burger and get me some more ketchup packets?
Skinny Palmer: The game is afoot! And justice waits for no condiments.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Stock Up on Detective Supplies
Time: 4h
Location: Try-N-Save, Sprawl Mart, CostMo, Herman's Military Antiques, Springfield Grocery Store or Brown House
Squeaky Voice Teen: One box of gloves. *beep*
Squeaky Voice Teen: One set of night-vision goggles. *beep*
Skinny Palmer: And they better be the kind that make everything look green.
Squeaky Voice Teen: One hidden camera. *beep*
Skinny Palmer: It's not hidden yet.
Squeaky Voice Teen: Thank you for shopping at Try-N-Save.
Skinny Palmer: Now it's time to catch the thief who stole my instrument!
Squeaky Voice Teen: Before you do that, could you fill out a short customer experience survey?
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 3
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: Shoot, I forgot my magnifying glass and I need it to find my trumpet.
Manacek: I hear you've got quite a case on your hands...Skinny.
Skinny Palmer: Who are you?
Manacek: My name is Manacek.
Skinny Palmer: You look like you time-traveled here from the 1979 set of "Big Shamus, Little Shamus".
Manacek: See, the curious thing about your stolen trumpet is...stealing it was an inside job.
Skinny Palmer: So you think I stole it?
Manacek: No, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this...even if it means leaving no pet rock unturned.
Manacek: We have to stock up for the stakeout. I'm thinking a bottle of Cognac and a thick stack of "Paris Match" magazines.
Skinny Palmer: A stakeout? Who do we need to stake out?
Manacek: There's a little lunchlady who isn't little and isn't telling the truth either.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Have a Stakeout
Time: 4h
Location: Chalmers' 1979 _ONDA, Canyonero, Sterline Commander, Secret Agent Car, Homer's Car, Unlicensed Taxi, Willie's Tractor, WWII Tank, La Bicyclette or Brown House
If the user has Manacek: Task: Make Manacek Have a Stakeout
Time: 4h
Location: Chalmers' 1979 _ONDA, Canyonero, Starline Commander, Secret Agent Car, Homer's Car, Unlicensed Taxi, Willie's Tractor, WWII Tank, La Bicyclette or Brown House
Skinny Palmer: So why exactly are we staking out my girlfriend? Don't you think the robber is long gone by now?
Manacek: They always come back to the scene of the crime. And in this case, the robber lives at the scene of the crime.
Skinny Palmer: These night-vision goggles make my head hurt.
Manacek: You flip the 8-track and I'll test out this so-called "night-vision".
Skinny Palmer: Do you see Lunchlady Dora in there?
Manacek: Yeah, she's cooking up some tater-tots...in her birthday suit.
Skinny Palmer: You're not creeping on her, are you?
Manacek: Sorry, falling in love with a mysterious woman is the first step to solving a crime. Luckily for you, your lunchlady repulses me.
Skinny Palmer: You haven't helped at all in finding my trumpet.
Manacek: Haven't I?
Skinny Palmer: No.
Manacek: Well, for what it's worth — and it is worth quite a bit — your trumpet isn't at your house. It's at Lunchlady Dora's second boyfriend's house.
Skinny Palmer: She stole my trumpet and she's two-timing me?
Manacek: You really have a knack for this, Skinny.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 4
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: *grumbling* That 1970s detective thinks he knows so much about my personal life just because his entire job is finding stuff out.
Skinny Palmer: I need to clear my head, get a good night's rest, and pick up the clues in the morning after some waffles and—
Skinny Palmer: Wait, what's this? A trail of footprints leading away from my front door?
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Footprints
Time: 4h
Skinny Palmer: It looks like these footprints lead right to the Municipal House of Pancakes.
Otto: Can I get a short stack of pancakes?
Lunch Lady Dora: And did you want those pancakes American, Swedish, or Scooty Hooty Sweet and Fruity?
Skinny Palmer: Dora? Since when were you working night shifts at MHOP?
Lunch Lady Dora: I need — I mean, we need the money.
Skinny Palmer: But I provide for you, right baby?
Lunch Lady Dora: Not really, no. I make more as a lunchlady, and that's really saying something.
Otto: Actually, scratch that. Lemme have the Ham Slam with cheese and a side of Don't Go Bacon My Heart.
Skinny Palmer: Otto, can you give us a minute here? Also, you should really try the French toast. It's delicious.
Otto: Right on, amigo!
Skinny Palmer: Are you not telling me something?
Lunch Lady Dora: I'm not not telling you something.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
The Couch Caper Pt. 5
Skinny Palmer starts
Skinny Palmer: You're right, Dora. Losing my trumpet is probably a sign that I need to get my life together and try to provide for you more.
Skinny Palmer: So I guess my days of jazz are over.
Lunch Lady Dora: I'm sorry, Skinny.
Skinny Palmer: First thing Monday morning I'm going to get me a job that'll make me the man you first decided to casually date.
Lunch Lady Dora: Oh, thank you.
Skinny Palmer: But first things first, let's scrounge up what money we do have so we can find a new place and get out of this dump.
Task: Make Skinny Palmer Search the Couch Cushions for Coins
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
If the user has Lunch Lady Dora: Task: Make Lunchlady Dora Search the Couch Cushions for Coins
Time: 2h
Location: Bachelor Arms, Krabappel Apartment, Spinster City Apartments, Apu's Apartment, Village Apartments or Brown House
Skinny Palmer: *searching the couch cushions* There's got to be money in here somewhere! Hold on, what's this? *gasps* My trumpet!
Lunch Lady Dora: *gasps*
Manacek: Don't pretend to be surprised, Dora.
Skinny Palmer: No, Manacek. You haven't solved anything. My trumpet was right here in the couch cushions the whole time!
Manacek: But was it? *flashback* It was a simple matter of Lunchlady Dora pretending to look for your trumpet when in reality she was hiding it right under your caboose.
Skinny Palmer: But then why would she leave it in the couch?
Manacek: Because that's not your trumpet. It's a perfect replica — examine the polish.
Skinny Palmer: It tastes unlacquered! It's a silver varnish instead of brass.
Manacek: Once you left to pick up your dry cleaning, Lunchlady Dora went straight to King Toot's to sell your trumpet to the highest bidder.
Manacek: And after selling that trumpet's weight in brass, Lunchlady Dora thought she was in the clear. But then...you ran into me.
Manacek: So, panicking, she made a perfect replica of the trumpet, then stuffed that replica back into the couch.
Lunch Lady Dora: Nothing you say makes any sense!
Manacek: Oh, and one more thing. She's having an affair with King Toot.
Lunch Lady Dora: Okay, it's all true! I admit it! I needed the money! And I needed King Toot! He's the one I love!
Skinny Palmer: I'm sorry, Manacek. I should have never doubted you.
Manacek: Solving a crime has many fathers, but no sons.
Skinny Palmer: *chuckles* I like you, Manacek.
Quest reward: $200 and 20 XP
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