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Hello and welcome back to another Easter Egg challenge update! The last time we were with Tara and the boys, they worked on the rocket and the various stands to make some money. Tara worked as a scientist and got the satellite that let them watch alien TV. We completed the postcard collection, and Tara tried to win a SimScuffle tournament. Let’s dig in!
Week 11
When we first rejoin the family, the boys are out tending the garden and the bees. They have taken on a lot of this work while their mom desperately tries to win the next tournament.
Sadly, so far, no luck. SimScuffle is either the hardest game on the sim planet to win, which seems unlikely, or I am missing something about it.
The boys also go and work on the rocket ship some more. Tara helps out in between gaming sessions, but with three sets of hands, it’s bound to get done even faster.
Cad takes on trying to work the selling table to get more funds. One thing this family does not have a lot of is money. Even though Tara maxed her career a long while ago, she spent a good portion of it on the house and the boys.
Cad goes and checks on his mom, who continues to have no luck. If Tara doesn’t manage to win this week, I think we will switch gears and work on the others. If SimScuffle is this hard, I hate to think what we might have to do for Hillock II.
It’s Robin’s turn to work on making some additional money, and he opens up the snack stand. They have decent sales for the evening and bring in a decent amount of money.
Tara does still go to work, I just haven’t been following her all the time, but she comes home with a new promotion! Contrats, Tara. I believe it was at this point I decided to have her quit this job and focus solely on gaming.
She plays, she researches, she competes. Over and over and over again. Nothing changes, and she basically never gets any message but that the other contestants are better than her. No placement, not even 3rd.
Cad, being the active sim he is, really enjoys heading out for a jog now and then. It also helps keep him fit; he’s very thin.
Poor Tara leaves her game to go check out the lights. Maybe she’s hoping the aliens can help, or MAYBE the aliens are the cause of her issues?!
Aliens or no aliens, poor Tara is just STUCK. She cannot progress in this game. It really is time to try the others. Maybe something will come up to explain this.
Geekcon is back in town, and Tara has to go and compete. If nothing else, her spirits can be lifted by participating in the hackathon, which she won handily last time. She gets an even better score than last time
Sure enough, Tara wins again. That gives us another new computer, which we may just sell because we already have multiple computers.
With the success of the Hackathon, Tara goes and competes in the ultimate gaming test. She did pretty good, but it wasn’t the best score ever. She did, however, do well enough to win prizes. We also realized there is a tournament for a game on the gaming mat I wasn’t counting before.
Tara is back to trying to win SimScuffle at home, still with no luck, and the boys are getting to know some of their fellow classmates. They invite people over quite often now.
I haven’t really focused on either of the boys’ aspirations, but since Cad wants to work out at a gym, I figured, why not? We can go ahead and take them and their friends to the gym to reach that goal.
The rocket ship was completed, so I went ahead and sent Tara out on her first mission. This is important not only for her current aspiration, but also so we can see if we can find the space bunny!
The boys opened the food stand, but one of them nearly passed out, so he was sent to bed, and the other needed to use the bathroom badly, so when Tara returned from space, she took over for a bit.
The next day was a beautiful, warm spring day, and Cad was happy to head outside and sell some things. Turns out, though, he does not like mischief.
That could have been in relation to the fact that a friend stopped by, and turns out they are a werewolf. They decided to take out their fury on our gaming table. Not that we ever use it, but still.
The boys have A’s in school, but they do still usually try and get their homework done. They are almost through their teen years already, and it’s kind of crazy to realize how much time has already passed.
With all the frustrations about SimScuffle, Tara switches games. Next up is Road Rivals, which looks to be a play on fighting games, like Street Fighter or Tekken.
Robin actually paints us a new easter egg painting, and I am SO excited by that. This is the little spore character, and that will bring us in 10 points! It gets hung by the easel.
These aliens, I’m telling you what. I know Tara has the satellite, but as far as I know, she’s never contacted aliens. It’s just wild, because the Monster Mash side didn’t have a satellite, and I’m pretty sure it happened multiple times in the Genetic Roulette branch too! I guess they just like the Cobb family!
Cad is really one of my favorite kids. I think the game trolled me so hard with him; he just became a standout for me. He’s a good kid, cares for Thimble, is really good at selling things, and just has fun.
I am not sure which of the twins was SUPPOSED to be tending the stand. I want to say Cad, but it seems no one is watching it now. This stand has brought in a fair amount of money lately.
Daddy Don came over to hang out, and it’s a bit weird to see him all grey. He grew into an elder not that long ago. He still cares a lot about his boys. They all sit down and play a game together.
Late that night, a burglar visited the house. No one was awake, so I had someone wake up and call the cops. Then the burglar didn’t come inside. Instead, they were out stealing our weather machine!!!!
Sadly, the burglar got the weather machine before the cop showed up. The cop was still able to fight her and win, so the burglar was apprehended.
Then it was a happy day because instead of giving us money for our troubles, they actually returned our weather machine!!! That was wonderful news, since I did not really want to buy a new one.
That brings this latest week to a close, and while they didn’t earn a lot of extra points this week, we did make progress on a few things, like getting the rocket ship built. We did add 10 points for a new easter egg painting. That brings us to 385 points so far! Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the update. We will be back again soon, but first, we are going to pop over to visit with Dawn next.
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