Finding the Missing Piece
Round 1 – Group 5
Challenge 2 – Treasure Hunting
It's another B E A utiful day here in Sulani and after El makes sure everyone paid attention in their morning scuba lesson, off they go to the buoy to scuba for treasure!!!
It's not the treasure hunting challenge if we don't have the ladies trying to make a whirlpool before scuba diving.
IDK why these sprites are following El around but they're pretty!
The first one up is Chloe who doesn't find anything . . .
Jewel only finds a rock but that's alright since she already got her date
Tyler and Skye come up together with Tyler also finding a rock and Skye found the Eye of Sulani!!!
Clearly we don't need to check values since Skye was the only one to find a treasure.
Finding The Missing Piece
Round 2 – Group 1
Challenge 3 – After the Date
"Before we get into the break down of the date, tell me what my sister did before you have your own break down." Dominic starts seeing the look on Ever's face, "And I didn't realize you drank."
"I don't. At least not really since getting together with your sister. This is just Cranberry juice, and Kaye didn't do anything. Mari and I still aren't on the best of terms right now and it's starting to put a bit of a strain on everything."
"You going to tell me what happened?"
"You have enough to worry about, I'm sure you'll find out soon enough. OK, the date?"
"Well the date was good, Gold level and all that. Simone and I really get along great. I was a bit worried bringing her to the museum with her Klepto trait but I didn't see anything go missing so I think she restrained herself."
"Good. You ready for Group 2?"
"Think I'll be allowed a day before we jump to the next group? I miss Trent and Yahir and the reception here kinda sucks. IDK how Baylee can make phone calls."
"Magic. I can put the same spells on your phone. I'm sure she would have if you asked."
"No it's fine. We have the Sat phone for emergencies, and you and Mari can just teleport yourselves here as well as Kaye and the kids if you needed to."
"Alright. You can take the day to spend time with the boys, if anyone has a problem they can take it up with your sister. I definitely wouldn't cross her right now. Speaking of which she just sent me a shopping list. Enjoy the rest of the night with this group and I guess we'll see you in the morning when you grab Tren and Hir."
"G'night Ev."
So after a shower and a wardrobe change Dominic makes dinner for the group and everyone talks. Baylee goes off to work on the woodworking table but I guess her Luck still isn't too good – please no woodworking incidents.
Tyler is once again affected by her Loner trait this round and wants to go off on her own.
I find Anthia researching cooking techniques
and Simone foraging.*
Dom, it would be nice if you would talk to her WHILE LOOKING AT HER! Not from over your shoulder but Sims will be sims . . .
Dom makes the rounds trying to talk to everyone in the last remaining hours but Autonomy continues to take everyone off to do what they want/need(including Dom): Reading, watching TV, Knitting, showering, sleeping, etc.
*Found Simone with a Tense moodlet about a nearby crush but IDK who she's crushing on since she doesn't have the sentiment for anyone! Baylee does have a crush on her though. Could she have a hidden crush on Dom? I've gone through every shift-click option to check and MCCC but nothing is popping up about a crush . . .
SIMONE! I CANNOT GIVE YOU CRUSH POINTS IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY SHOW A CRUSH!!!
I only say on Dom and not any of her other housemates because She isn't attracted to women according to her preferences (I've already stated this but just as a reminder I set the boundaries to open for EVERYONE in the BC so there weren't any issues. All preestablished boundaries will be reinstated in the official save at the end of the BC)
Finding The Missing Piece
Round 2 – Group 1
Challenge 3 – Fishing
The final day with group 1 starts with Dominic making breakfast and Baylee is the first awake. Please ignore the confetti she's celebrating a awesome holiday from the day before.
They sit and chat for some time until Baylee leaves to take care of her needs and leaves Dom just idling at the table. The Watcher sent him to take care of his own needs but he said no.
Dominic goes off for a jog (not what I told you to do dude UGH) and when he comes back Tyler has woken up so he tries to converse with her. She really just wanted to eat and be left alone to wake up fully.
FINALLY Dominic listens to The Watcher's wishes and showers (Leading to another wardrobe change! WHY?). With Anthia awake now he moves to autonomously flirt with her before I can even have him start with the day's greeting.
Baylee has decided that she's going to use the woodworking table (FINALLY SOMEONE USES THE SKILL ITEMS HIDING ON THE LOT) and Dominic had run off to play chess on the laptop.
Simone wakes and moves to flirt and chat with Dom before I have the chance to control him to do any talking.
Simone is then attacked by plasma bats inside apparently (this freaking game) but she fights them off and is fine, going back to eating like nothing happened.
With no more mishaps we check to make sure need meters are full and then off we go to the challenge location where we hear from Ever what the challenge will be.
"Good morning beautiful people! As you're all well aware, Dominic is a major outdoorsy type guy and loves to go fishing, so that is today's challenge. Catch and release of course, as soon as we get word that you've caught something you're done with the challenge and whoever has the biggest fish wins the solo date with Dom."
Everyone runs down to the fishing spots further along the pier but Simone grabs a good luck kiss before running off. It looks like Ever has to look away . . . THEIR FACE!
Now everyone is fishing and it is just a waiting game now. Anthia doesn't like fishing but thankfully she has a ton of happy moodlets to counter those negative ones.
As always we shall use our challenge host to distract Dominic because The Watcher has to keep canceling his queue to go talk and (for this challenge) mentor the ladies, let them do the challenge my guy PLEASE!
Anthia is the first to catch something: A Guzmania Pollenis Flower, very good for being in the jungle.
Baylee is next catching a Bass.
TYLER! Where are you going???
Oh . . . she was hungry apparently. Well Ty's out.
While Simone's still fishing, Anthia has found a book and Baylee is playing on her phone.
SIMONE CATCHES A LITTLE ANGELFISH!!! (please excuse the fact that apparently I didn't screenshot her notification for her 0.75kg Angelfish. Couldn't find it while putting this post together and swear I did but it's not in my screenshots folder *sigh* just glad I wrote things down ugh)
So with only two ladies catching fish and Baylee who had the bigger one already having a date this challenge goes to SIMONE!
Finding The Missing Piece
Round 2 – Group 1
Challenge 2 – Archaeology
"Hello Darlings! For those unaware, I'm Cathrise, Dominic's grandmother. My grandfather, Ayre Glynnan, was a seasoned explorer of these jungles and uncovered many Omiscan artifacts.
"I have brought a few of his treasures and placed them inside these faux digsites for you to excavate. Whoever finds the most valuable piece will get today's solo date with Dom"
The ladies get right to work on their challenge. And Cathrise is tasked with keeping Dominic from talking to the participants or trying to help them with their task.
Everyone has found an artifact and now it's time to authenticate and get a value.
Please note for Anthia's artifact it says Dom was the discoverer he was not BUT because her bladder was about to bust I sent him to uncover the artifact in her stead not realizing it would change the discoverer but this is in fact her artifact extracted from the dirt clump she found.
The original plan was for the ladies to authenticate their artifacts but Dominic I did not realize/forgot that the sims had to be level 3 or higher in archaeology to use the tables to authenticate the artifacts so we will use their unauthenticated values. I was going to have Cathrise authenticate Anthia's and Baylee's because it is the same value but since Baylee already had a date we can just look at the other artifacts (sorry Baylee)
Tyler found a skull worth §65
Anthia and Baylee found statues worth §69
And Simone found a Chaos relic base which would be considered priceless and have won the challenge but we were looking for a monetary value for calculation so the win goes to
Finding The Missing Piece
Round 2 – Group 1
Challenge 1 – After the date
"Dude! What took you so freaking long?"
"You know how glitchy the loading screen gets! Sometimes it's pretty instantaneous others we're stuck in there for HOURS! Look, I even loaded in wearing a different outfit!"
"Ah yes, the joys of having beautiful things like my hair. Alright spill how'd it go? And hurry I need to get back to your sister."
"She doing OK?"
"She's fine, as good as can be expected given the circumstances, but we're not talking about her, we're talking about you and Baylee. And you better be nice we come from the same Universe."
"Totally forgot about that! Everything was great, really great. Had a decent meal, pretended I didn't see you pop up for some take out and ignored my Uncle trying to get some screentime. Baylee's really funny, we have a full romance bar but she was more interested in funny socials — not complaining — we have a lot in common which I already knew from the speed date last round but to get a full date with her was awesome."
"Perfect! Well, you got a little time before relationship tally so see if you can convince them to have some whims for you."
"Kinda hard when everyone wants to complete the Innisgreen collection!"
"Exactly why you need to go talk and get them to want to talk to you about specific things. GET THEM TO FORM CRUSHES AGAIN!"
"Be a lot easier if The Watcher just let them stay from last round."
"Then it would be too easy for some ladies to get more points than others! Go put the darn work in Dom!"
"Alright, alright, no need to yell at me. I thought Kaye was the emotional one. I WAS KIDDING I WAS KIDDING DON'T CHILLIO ME!"
So Dom went looking for the Ladies of the camp. Tyler was hiding in her tent knitting being affected by her loner trait.
Anthia was reading so Dom will come back later.
Dominic found Baylee and Simone talking by the garden Anthia had started and talked to them for a bit.
Baylee went to bed and Simone went to take care of some of her other needs meters and Dominic found Anthia had finished her book. The two of them spoke for some time and foraged sporadically (THIS INTERACTION AND WHIM I WANT TO DELETE!!! ANYONE HAVE A MOD FOR THIS UGH!!!!!) when they were joined by a much refreshed Simone.
Dom was also hit with an ailment but The Watcher just right clicks it away we're going to pretend this didn't happen and Dom spoke with Anthia and Simone until bedtime.
"I can't do this Kaye! How in The Watcher's name am I supposed to choose?"
"Just choose those that you really liked."
"But what if I choose to cut the wrong ones? What if one of them were meant to be my soulmate and I let them slip away."
"Dominic, don't overthink it. You only have to cut six of the ladies, choose the ones you didn't connect with or have the weakest connection with because those won't be your person no matter how lovely they are."
"You're right, just six. And four have already left the competition so I only have to cut two!"
"Umm . . . Well . . ."
"What's going on?"
"About that . . . Production umm . . . They still want you to cut six ladies."
"Are you serious? That wasn't what was agreed upon! I was told I had to cut six this round and now they're upping it to ten?"
"Well, they saw how well the last group went with fewer contestants and thought future rounds would be easier with fewer ladies per group."
"So this is how it's going to be? They're just going to change the rules whenever they feel like and we just have to be OK with it?"
"NO! No. This is the only time, honest. They called me to speak to them and well, I brought Mari and Ever, who — I don't know which one it was when the meeting started going south — called El who brought Abs and Rik — not that she needs either of them when she's as scary as she is when she's mad. I'm going off track, but we made them agree to this one change and one change only. They're not wrong, per se, it did seem like you had an easier time in a smaller group."
"That's besides the fact! Don't you think I should have been included in this meeting? Don't you think I should have a say in this, especially since I had very little say in being part of this as it is?"
"You're right, we should have included you, but you were with the group and we didn't want to interrupt and throw things off the rails, ya know?"
"Production won't hear the end of this. I'm not happy, I should have at least gotten a phone call, something!"
"Hey! Don't be mad at me! They wanted to change a lot more but we got them to stick to just that!"
"I'm sorry, alright, I'm just . . . I'm frustrated. I'm not mad at you. This part is already hard enough as it is."
"I know Donik, I don't envy this decision for you, but it'll be alright. Just calm down, collect some happy moodlets, and let us know when you're ready."
