I was a bit surprised though that most of them still sleep at 8 AM. Those sharing bad quality rooms, that is. So bed quality seems to have a greater impact than I'm used to from TS3 - good!
Ochana gets up first, and decides to grill hot dogs for all. This terrace is facing their tiny garden. There are also 2 balconies upstairs, one on each side of the house, but they are long and narrow, not suited for group activities at all.
Quatore joins, and he has a normal chat with Ochana. Then Ona arrives (Ochana's room mate), and Ochana quickly decides to eat in the dining room alone. Was she defended somehow?
Also Toby is up, Quatore's room mate. Toby tries to make scrambled eggs.
9:25 Morning meeting (delayed because so many overslept)
Quatore welcomes everyone. Today is Culinary day! There will be two offers at this meeting, a new chore and a candidate for the Sim in Spot mission.
Today's Super Sim is announced; Ona!
She is wearing the silly green Super Sim hat, and Quatore and Ochana seems to hide a grin. Sissela is seated on the red chair, as the current Loser. The others are seated according to rank, more or less.
Every day Super Sim gets a few privileges. Choose a skill book for the group to by (costing max §100), having one purchase related wish come through (whims), and for the rest of the day Super Sim ranks first when it comes to offers.
For the skill book Ona chooses Fitness vol 1. Ochana notes that §75 is spent from their common account.
Ona has no desired purchase (whims) at the moment.
Quatore informs them there will be two offers today, so let's have a quick look at the current rank:
Super sim, Ona: 1600 points, Chore: none.
Quatore: 1900 points, Chore: Manager.
Ochana: 1850 points, Chore: Accountant.
Toby: 1500 points, Chore: none.
Fabian: 1000 points, Chore: none.
Fiona: 900 points, Chore: none.
Otto: 900 points, Chore: none.
Loser, Sissela: 800 points, Chore: none.
New chore: Chef
The chore on offer today is of course the Chef. It's Culinary day after all. Quatore explains that the Chef will serve lunch and dinner every day starting today, except if the group eats elsewhere. It's expected to learn a few recipes, and to organize a small herbal garden. This chore pays a total of 300 points.
Ona gets the offer first. Originally she thought gardening would be a good chore, but building muscles from growing parsley? No thank you!
Toby is next, but he is still hoping for something more fun than food.
Fabian dreams of becoming a Chef, so this is an easy choice to him. Fiona wants this chore, too, but she ranks after Fabian, and never gets the offer. Fabian accepts this chore and receives 300 points.
Sim in Spot
Next offer is the Sim in Spot. One of the candidates will get a mission outside the house, lasting for 10 hours! Sim in Spot is taken off any chores or common schedule until 8 PM. The Sim in Spot will normally get some good chances to collect stuff that might bring him or her some points, depending on the mission. However, if Sim in Spot does not return with a certain mission fulfilled, 200 points must be paid to the common account.
Today's Sim in Spot will first collect harvested fruits or vegetables (2 hours), then visit Gloom Garden to eat lunch (2 hours), and then harvest more fruits and vegetables (2 hours). Finally Sim in Spot must visit a neighbour to cook and eat (4 hours). You must return with minimum 15 fruit items and 15 vegetable items. Who will accept this challenge?
Again, Ona is first in line, being Super Sim gives her top rank all day. This time she thinks it sounds good - there might even be time for some jogging! Ona accepts, although she seems to worry a bit about her new green hat.
Yes, Ona, you must wear the green Super Sim hat all over town today!
- Oh, by Similius!
Ona collecting edibles
So Ona leaves the house, but decides to spend the first two hours looking for fruits and vegetables here in the local hood, Willow Field. Then she might also run into a neighbour that she can visit tonight, as part of the mission.
But what exactly will she be looking for? Across the street she spots something, wild strawberries! This is easy peacy!
Then she runs over to the neighbour on the same side of the street as the Sims by Numbers house. It looks like they grow a lot of stuff, after all this is what's left of the old Willow Farm, she heard. But it turns out she can't just harvest from their property, at least not without paying them a visit. And there...
- Wild snapdragon can't be served, can it?
Then Ona runs into local, she thinks, but it turns out he doesn't live at Willow Field.
His name is Trever Hadley. He talks about Llamas, while Ona rather wants to discuss motorcycles...
Ona decides to move on to Gloom Garden, the largest park in Gloomville. She feels pretty safe with her collected stuff, she already got 20 wild strawberries and 10 onions. Lacking only 5 vegetables she feels ahead of her Sim in Spot mission.
Before we travel to Gloom Garden, let's have a quick check on the other 7 contestants that are doing whatever they like today, on free will.
Technically it's easy to switch between the house and Ona while she is on public areas of the hood. There is no loading at all as the public area works as an extension to the active lot, no matter what lot of the hood that is active. And the public area is pretty large, the content is mostly picnic areas or small fields, but in other hoods there are small common gardens, playgrounds etc. I suppose this variety of each hood's public content adds to the local flavor.
So, back in the house about 12 AM.
Fabian was intentionally watching the Cooking TV channel, to build skills for his new chore, but at this time he is no longer watching TV. Instead Otto and Quatore have joined him in the FUN room.
Fiona is cleaning something. Hopefully they will clean stuff often by free will, because hiring a Maid might be a problem on their low common budget.
Sissela is playing with the huge virtual reality game upstairs. This is naturally a magnet to some of them, but I'm glad they don't use it all the time. The library computer is another magnet and time waster.
12 AM Arriving Gloom Garden
Ona travels to the Gloom Garden of Gloomville. I noted that traveling only steals a couple sim minutes, so even if you switch back and for several times during a stay, it shouldn't waste much sim time. Good!
Hey, you were not supposed to exercise, but to have lunch! Or maybe even collect some more harvestables.
Ona is single, and of course she likes to meet the local guys. Especially when they look decent. She will probably choose the Gym to find a partner later, because it's such a strong interest over chess with Carlos Egan, but at least she makes some contacts, which might even benefit her position in the group later. Also Kale Baxter jpined them.
Okay, taking a quick jog can't hurt. Ona still needs to collect 5 more vegetables, but there should be enough time, hopefully. If she returns to the house at 8 PM with less than the minimum, she will lose 200 points.
Well, there was nothing to harvest at Gloom Garden so she returns to Willow Field to search for vegetables in new public areas.
Mushrooms? Are they vegetables?
- Well, they are not berries, nor fruits, nor herbs... and I don't like them, but they will do for my mission!
4 PM Visiting a neighbour
Next on Ona's mission is to visit a neighvour to cook dinner and eat. I was curious to how this would work out, because although you can cook at a strangers house in TS3, those living there will react to your unpolite behaviour. Not so in TS4!
Ona chooses the closest house to where she was standing. Her decisions are meant to reflect her personal number - 1, so it had to be the nearest house, the little red house at the end of their road. Brox and Kammin live there. Two young women who recently moved to Gloomville, sharing address while they decide where to go from here.
The Brox woman who owns the house, is not seen anywhere, but it turns out that Ona and Brenda Kammin have lots to talk about. Their chat goes very pleasantly. Then Ona decides it's time for some cooking in a stranger's kitchen. Ona has no skills, so let's hope she won't cause a kitchen fire...
Ona's personal number is 1. If you wonder about her tacky fashion sense, everything about her was decided by her number - 1. Hench, her name, even :)
So, she picked the first food option, Mac and cheese. And she did not start a fire :)
- This was not the plan! Why did Brenda choose yogurt instead of my first ever Mac and cheese?
All good visits must end, and just before 8 PM Ona returns to the Sims by Numbers house.
She plants some of the wild strawberries outside, and hands over the mushrooms and onions to Fabian, their new Chef, who will need some of those for their new vegetable garden outside the kitchen. The rest is stored in their fridge. All harvests made Ona just 80 points, not the greatest pay for such a long day as Sim in Spot...
In the FUN room, Ochana, Sissela and Toby discuss something, while watching the Sports channel and drinking some juice. The multitasking feature is just great! Fiona is obviously not watching TV, and funny enough - Fiona who was quite popular yesterday, seems to be a bit ignored sitting over there all by herself.
Summing up mood and score
So, Day 1 comes to an end and at 11 PM it's time to check on everyone's plumbob. Tonight there are 3 contestants with a green plumbob, Fiona, Sissela and Quatore.
Fiona has the greenest though! She will be tomorrow's Super Sim! Then she will choose the next skill book, might get a purchase wish fulfilled, and will rank first all day long!
- Congratulations! Did you have a good day?
- Oh, thank you! Nothing spectacular, just the regular quarrel with my room mate. And some volunteer chores in the kitchen.
- And just what are you wearing?
- I had hit the sack before 11 PM. Do you think there's a way to switch rooms, and room mates?
On the other end of the scale, we find Ochana with the poorest of the yellow plumbobs, she is the new Loser! She will need to pay 100 points to Fiona, unless she fulfills the midnight challenge!
Ochana's personal number is 8, and this is day number 1, so her lucky number is 9:
9. Phone another household and hang up after hearing their reaction this late.
Well, this was actually too easy to do, but this early on the show there could have been a chance of the Loser not knowing anyone outside this house. Luckily for Ochana, she had some unpleasant chat with the elderly jogger at yesterday's welcoming party. So she called that old woman and probably woke her up.
Midnight challenge fulfilled, and Fiona misses out on those 100 points!
Summing it up - day 1
Culinary day
New chore on offer Chef, accepted by Fabian.
Sim in Spot: Ona, collecting harvests/seeds
Super Sim: Fiona
Loser: Ochana
Relations:
There were just a few small changes today. Ona's best relation is now with the local Brenda Kammin. And Fiona and Sissela must have had some bad conversation again, because their relation now seems even worse - far in the red.
Skills were hardly improved today:
Toby: 7 total (Violin 2, Video gaming 1, Charisma 1, Cooking 1, Comedy 1, Mischief 1)
Ona: 6 total (Comedy 1, Cooking 1, Fitness 1, Gardening 1, Logic 1, Charisma 1)
Otto: 5 total (Charisma 2, Comedy 1, Mischief 1, Video gaming 1)
Fiona: 5 total (Mischief 1, Video gaming 1, Comedy 1, Fitness 1, Cooking 1)
Ochana: 5 total (Charisma 2, Comedy 2, Cooking 1)
Quatore: 5 total (Cooking 2, Video gaming 1, Comedy 1, Logic 1)
Sissela: 4 total (Handiness 1, Video gaming 1, Fishing 1, Comedy 1)
Fabian: 4 total (Cooking 1, Gardening 1, Mischief 1, Charisma 1)
Standing score and chores:
Quatore: 1900 points, Manager
Ochana: 1850 points, Accountant
Ona: 1680 points
Toby: 1500 points
Fabian: 1330 points, Chef
Fiona: 900 points
Otto: 900 points
Sissela: 800 points
Common account: §913
* Tech note: Graphics might seem low on these pictures, but regarding my computer hardly meeting required specs, I can live with it :) Might experiment with better settings later.
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