#plchris

[enkisstories]

Hux got the option to propose to Chris, but looking more carefully, I realized that he also had the option to propose to himself.

Chris was the easier choice with a 100% chance. Meanwhile Hux had only a 91% chance of himself accepting his proposal.

Out of curiosity I picked Hux as target, the game rolled the dice and Hux accepted. He is now engaged to himself.

[detroitverse]

It happened on the first day after moving into their new home, on a bright saturday morning: Armitage discovered the missing painting in a crate buried at the foot of the lighthouse.

Chris: "We've made it, Poe! We found the woman combing her hair! Quick, fetch the rest of the paintings!"

Poe waited for Finn to return from work.

Together they delivered the final three paintings, that they had kept for a long time now, but that the curator wouldn't accept before Woman combing hair, to the museum.

And with that, my mini challenge's goal was reached. The community center didn't change visually, so there might be more objectives to fulfill in the future.

I think the finished community center will be the last thing to get implemented at the very end of Early Access, or at the very least, it would be thematically fitting to put this milestone right before release.

I will set this save aside for now.

[detroitverse]

Next to move out were the Millers, and they did so with a clear intent to marry as soon as possible. They both ditched their well paying jobs in favor of ones they enjoyed, Chris in Management and Armitage in Graphic Design.

Armitage: "I've slit tires, delivered packages of questionable contents and set fire to an apartment to hide that fact that I had burglarized it the minute before, but I don't think I ever felt this guilty."

Chris: "I raise you one "put a gun to a person's face" and still I feel the same. We'll never get the hang of this responsible citizens thing..."

(The feeling of inadequacy passed the moment Tina awarded them a trophy for donating an antique pitcher to the museum.)

[detroitverse]

At five in the morning it is already close to thirty degrees - merciless summer days made even more torturous by the metal barrack that serves as the debt prisoners' housing.

For a whole year now the group has suffered through eight workshifts per week. They fondly remember the little stone tower they were imprisoned in before this camp, while the time before their sentencing feels like the memory of a fairy tale, something that has never been real.

Poe's phone almost slips through his sweaty fingers when he tries to take an incoming call.

Space Agency employee manager: "Good morning, Mr. Dameron! We are pleased to inform you that starting today you are the CEO of our organisation. We can pay you 3,650 PD plus enrollment in our excellency and seniority programs. A progressively increasing retirement fund is included in the offer. Be sure to sign first thing when you come in today!"

Poe: "CEO? Is that a joke? I'm nineteen years old with a High School diploma!"

Manager: "You'll get competent assistants, don't worry."

Poe: "Okay? So I'm looking at something like 7,500 PD per month? Great!"

Manager: "No, CEO, you misunderstood. That's your DAILY salary."

Everyone got a similar call. From the space agency... Clickworks Industries... the school... the hospital, the clinic and the pharmacy... and all the little stores in town.

All the companies in Melino together could raise the half million still needed for the community center by the end of summer, mid-fall at the latest. There was no need to force eight youths to spend two decades earning the sum cent for cent.

Since the companies of Melino couldn't just gift the money to the convicts, they manipulated their salaries. The court was fuming, but couldn't do anything about it.

Daniel: "They could have done so the first day already! But they let us work by the skin of our teeth for a full year!"

Armitage: "Yeah. But, I mean... Remember the police helicopter you crashed back in Detroit? Or the fire I set to an apartment, that suddenly engulfed five houses?"

Chris: "A year is fair for that."

Daniel: "Maybe. But quite honestly the court's character building forced labor sentence only makes me want to burn down more houses. The people of Melino who reached out to us, though? I'd risk my life for them!"

The apartment fire happened in Sims 4: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4

[detroitverse]

The virus struck again, but this time Chris had enough experience with it to share a means of flushing it out with Poe.

Armitage: "Why did you share that super-secret method with Poe instead of using it to get healthy again yourself?"

Chris: "It was the choice between curing him and being stuck here with you or curing myself and leaving you and Poe in isolation together. You two are way too flirty with each other."

[detroitverse]

Armitage: "What about us? Do we still rule Melino together?"

Chris: "I wish I knew. I honestly wish I knew and I'm so relieved that you asked this, because not being certain anymore made me feel like a cheater."

People said spring was the hazy season, where the hormones went wild. But the workers at the Community Center construction site felt that for them this summer would bring those crazy sitrrings that would change everything.

[detroitverse]

Dancing into the summer!

Chris: "You really need to work on your quests, Rose. You don't want to be stuck in a long-sleeved jacket when the first heat wave strikes!"

Chris: "See? Armitage is already sticking his arm into the fridge!"

Funnily, Rose indeed earned a color upgrade in between these two screenshots by completing a life goal. (When they complete a quest while wearing white, the Paras can pick a new, individual outfit.)

[detroitverse]

The first bill in their adult lifes was a little lower than it could have been thanks to Chris' clever accounting tricks.

The mushroom containers are the bane of my Paras, causing the lot worth to shoot up. Fortunately Tina found the Black Trumpet that's needed for the donation bundle, so this chapter is behind them and it's only Spring 24 - I think they are doing well!

And finally, Daniel can be so vengeful, lol. Look what he learned only a few hours after Tina made her discovery... Take that, for making our lifes so difficult, evil mushrooms!