Busking across the road at 8 Bells is a surprisingly lucrative endeavor — and as upskilling in guitar is essential in the pursuit of writing and publishing a song, I'm counting it as Official Bingo Business. After only a couple nights sleeping rough, we were able to spend a little to earn a lot, knocking out two tasks and building dear Nico a shed in the process:
✅ Befriend the talking toilet
✅ Sculpt 3 different items from clay (bunny • llama • abstract boxes)
I could've bought and reshaped one lump of clay but wanted to keep them, for posterity. Unfortunately, we all know how Sims are when lumps of clay are around, and there has been at least one casualty.
Once upon a time, there was a rock and roll man. A man with hair gone gray and a soft, wrinkled belly who knew his days left rambling on were numbered. A man called Nico.
He'd never been the sort to pull any punches, but at this ripe old age found himself looking back at all the things that might have been: he should've had kids, should've gone solo, should've built something with his own two hands. Maybe he would've been famous. Or at least got laid a little more frequently.
Welllll, the pits of hell can wait. He's old as hell but he's not dead yet, and there's a lot of life left to live and a lot more trouble to get up to! Lord knows he won't be on the list at the pearly gates anyway.
Okay, so, I'm playing rags to riches bingo — sort of, I guess? I'm playing by James Turner's rules but randomly generated my own custom board with his generator because I wanted my own activities. And I'm giving myself a little wiggle room on earning Simoleons up front (basically playing guitar in public for tips / fame) because I'd rather earn things for myself than travel to different lots for hot tub woohoo, befriending a talking toilet, etc.
I've been having a lot of fun playing shitheels in Rotten Berry, but am at this point a couple gens ahead of where I last left off and not sure if/when I will get back to posting that gameplay here. So, let's have some fun tagging along with this asshole til he kicks the bucket.
Okay, here we go. One of our very first bundles of joy turned out to be a two for one! Wow, thank you, Zoe. That's the easiest §1000 Nico's made yet. Welcome to the world, Leah and Kailyn!
Successfully knocking up Catarina requires a trip to Brindleton Bay for a headcount on her beloved cats. With six cats in the household, there's just enough room for an unplanned bundle of joy.
However, Nico spotted this stray gremlin cat in Catarina's kitchen, picking fights with Bartholomew A. Bittlebun, Jr. — we've got a feather collection to start at some point anyway, better bring this guy home juuuust to be safe.
That §2000 came and went in a flash, we need to complete some more tasks already!
As much time and effort as the romance-based tasks are taking at present, I promise Nico's life isn't all get to know you dates and utility closet woohoo.
He's also been working on:
Painting each of the 6 emotion types
Crafting a Dining Table and 4 Chairs
Writing & publishing a song
the Feather collection
And, thanks to kicking things off in the fall (y'know, for the marginally livable weather in StrangerVille), it wasn't too long before Winterfest rolled around and we could complete:
✅ Receive a gift from Father Winter
...which we promptly spent the task reward for on a bee box. Gotta send a swarm of bees after somebody one of these days. 👀
Not 5 minutes after landing back home in StrangerVille, Nico got an invite from Tziporah to join her (and another date??? but not her husband) at the Romance Festival. And as exhausted as he was, I'm so glad we accepted because not only did we make some relationship progress with Tziporah, I also realized Nico could fantasize about weddings at the Festival's elopement setup.
✅ Fantasize about weddings
...and, feeling flirty near a row of empty easels, Nico also got a free jump start on painting each of the 6 emotion types.
Am I going back on my own word about buying objects instead of visiting random lots to complete goals here? Quite possibly. But I don't see Nico buying a wedding arch anytime soon. Or a Crypt, for that matter... 👀
Watch out, Radwan. Nico is coming for your neck marriage, and I have zero hesitation or remorse. I still remember how you treated her when your family stayed over at my house!
