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Hello and welcome to the Easter Egg challenge! With this challenge, we are starting the 3rd of five challenges for the Boolprop 20th Birthday celebration. I decided we will be using Tara Cobb as our founder for the Easter Egg challenge. You may recognize her from the Genetic Roulette challenge that started this birthday celebration. The rules are posted in a few places, but here is the link again if you want to review them.
One of the things we will be trying to do is find many of the various Easter Eggs that exist in the game. Some of them will give us points, based on the rules, and others will not; they will just be for fun. If you want to see the list we are going to be working off of, check out the wiki entry here.
So our start nets us no points, since we are starting with Tara, but that’s ok. I want to keep these challenges all in the family, and Tara was one of my favorite kids from the initial challenge.
Week 1:
We do get some points by starting with this cute little starter house in Yuma Heights. That gains us +25 points just for that. Yuma Heights is a play on Lima Heights from Glee.
We got super lucky with our roll. Tara only needs a single kid for this challenge, which will be done easily, and won’t break the bank expanding the house, since we have a lot of stuff to buy.
One of the things we have to do is get all the build/buy items on our point list before the end of week one. So we start with this little gnome, parodying Guardians of the Galaxy. That gives us +10 points
Off to the side of the house, under the awning, we grabbed the Wolf Pytts gaming table. It’s based on Bear Grylls, and is worth another 10 points, provided we keep these through the entire challenge, which I plan on doing.
On the other side of the house, we grabbed the Bertie’s Bee Box, which is an homage to Burt’s Bees. They do skin care products mostly, and Tara will need to bond with the bees. She gets another 10 points for keeping the bees.
We had to move some things around to add this High Ground stool. This is, of course, a reference to Star Wars. This adds another 10 points to our score so far. We will have a lot of points in week one, and probably lessen over time.
Our last immediate buy item was this wall of stars. This is a reference to a Coldplay song, if you happen to know it. If we keep it as well, that’s another 10 points.
Actually, there was one more thing we bought on day one. This Schmapple Kettle. Schmapple is obviously a play on Apple products, and while we will try and get more of the Schmapple line, for now it’s just the kettle. That is still +10 points though.
Tara gets herself a job as a Tech Guru, starts as Code Monkey (another reference), but before work, she has some time to go collect frogs. We need a HypnoFrog, but so far, no luck. We might be able to breed one if we get the right frogs.
Since she was out anyway, Tara went on a whole collection run. We need a lot of money to finish buying the build/buy items, plus we are going to need a weather machine.
We got the notice of the flea market, so Tara went out and tried to sell some of her collected items to the masses. She got a few sales and packed the rest away.
Tara was super hungry after a full day, so she grabbed some food at one of the stands and sat down to eat. I’m not entirely sure who will be the father of her baby. I have an idea, but we’ll see if it works out.
Once Tara is back at home, she plays some BlicBlock, which is obviously an homage to the game Tetris. Tara is going to have to play all the games and attempt to win tournaments for each, which I have heard is pretty tough, so we’ll see how she does.
The bees have already produced some honey, which will be a good money-making venture for Tara in the future. They are also already pretty comfortable with her, and she has bonded a fair amount.
She goes on another collection run now that the plants have produced and gathers up and plants some of her own. The bees will help with making them high-quality and provide her with some cooking benefits.
This has nothing to do with the challenge, but I found this notification rather humorous. I have a feeling Olive might have met her match with Caleb. He’s not going to be easy for her to kill off.
Tara came home with her first promotion. I plan on finishing this career, if possible, so we get the benefits for our hacking and gaming, and then move into the science career. That’s at least the plan.
We have another couple of items checked off our build and buy list. In her room, we now have the Teen Idol Poster based on Hatsune Miku, a Japanese voice synthesizer, as well as the Henry Puffer poster. This is obviously a reference to Harry Potter. Each gives us +10 points.
We also finally have enough money, thanks promotion, to get the Morphing Pictures set. These pictures are rather large, but they have “spooky” versions, which are apparently similar to TS3. They make me think of the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney. That gives us +10 each.
We managed to capture the spooky versions of all the paintings. You can somewhat ignore the last picture, as I thought MAYBE I could shrink them, but no. Anyway, they are kind of fun.
Tara had a day off at the end of the week, so she spent it hunting for frogs. We have had no luck finding the HypnoFrog, nor being able to breed it so far. I checked through the rules, though, and since this is NOT a build/buy item, we will just keep going and take the points when we do get it.
We are going to wrap up week one with another sale. Tara got herself a selling table to start selling her produce, “extra” frogs, honey, and other collectables she has found that we aren’t keeping. With that, Tara finishes week one of this challenge, and she has managed to amass 135 points so far. These will be slowing down now that we have the build/buy items out of the way. We will hopefully be back with another update soon, and I hope to see you there! Thanks for reading!
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