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#so it wins by default. if you would like to ride a horse i hope you get to do it & you have a good experience
missrubybird · 9 months
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Seven Sims and a Unicorn
Thanks to the EA Creator Network I was able to get the new Sims 4 Horse Ranch Expansion Pack a little earlier and right away got to making a bunch of townies to go with the lore and existing pre-made Sims in Chestnut Ridge.
Below the cut you’ll find:
The Sims Download Link
Sims’ Backstories and Traits
CC Links and Credits
All Sims have all 8 Outfits using only HR and Basegame
Have fun!   ♥️ 🦄 ♥️
CC Links: Freckles//Lashes (make sure to download all 3 versions!)
Please Note:
There is CC included in the Download Files, make sure to put it in your Mods Folder along with the CC linked above! 
You need a No EA Lashes mod for the Sims to look exactly like they do in the pictures!
The Unicorn has my Default horse eyes, please be aware of this in case you're using other horse Defaults
Credits:@tamosim@vibrantpixels@vegantrait@rheallsim  Thank you so much for your generous TOUs! ♥️♥️♥️
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Sims' Backstories (from left to right and top to bottom):
Issi Miashintubbee (loves the outdoors/loyal/rancher) Tula Miashintubbee (silly)
Issi comes from a long line of ranch owners and was supposed to take over her parents' ranch and business and get married to the father of her daughter Tula. To her family's shock and surprise one day she decided she was tired of everyone's expectations and the path already decided for her and packed her stuff and set off with Tula into the unknown to find out what it is that she really wants. Will she find her fortune in Chestnut Ridge? And what does Tula think of all this?
River Dempsey (loves the outdoors/perfectionist/horse lover) Milla Dempsey (bookworm)
River, widowed and possibly looking for love, is a passionate horse breeder and father who would like nothing more than to impart said passion for riding and horses on his daughter Milla. After all, there are competitions coming up! To his great disappointment Milla is all about books and hopes to one day become a published author. It's not that she doesn't like horses but she would much rather think up stories and spend her free time browsing the library.
Yona Kitegista (cheerful/outgoing/foodie)
Yona has run the Oak Barrel Bar as long as anyone can remember and she takes great pride in making the most popular nectar in town. If only there weren't those two youngsters, Marissa and Dani, who seem to have quite the touch at making new and exiting flavors of nectar. Her old friend and childhood sweetheart Don Gooseman is convinced hers is the best around but Yona isn't sure she won't have to change up her longstanding recipe to keep up with the competition!
Jaxen Tracey (creative/music lover)
Jaxen is Marissa's brother and the newest addition to the household, although Dani isn't too sure what to think of this, since things have been a little tense between her and Marissa lately. And now Jaxen is here, playing that music of his rather loudly! Marissa and Dani can tell that he is quite talented but his electro beats are a bit of a sore thumb among the blues lovers of Chestnut Ridge. All the while, Jaxen isn't so sure either what to make of his new surroundings. Will he eventually don the country fashion, get on that horse and become a blues lover?
Arabella von Rosenberg (intelligent/brave/friendly) Charley Bullhorn (rancher/romantic/familyoriented)
Why does Charley have a pink, sparkling unicorn, you wonder? No one knows, but he sure is proud of his beautiful, prize-winning Arabella. The two have travelled all over the country from shows to competitions but now Charley feels like it's time to settle down and find a permanent place to stay. Some may think he's a bit of a ladies man but actually he's a bit shy and secretly wants to have a big family. Can charming Arabella help him find the love of his life? And maybe Arabella too might find a new equestrian friend?
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ceruleanchillin · 5 years
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I Missed You/I’ll Miss You
Arthur Morgan x F!Reader
Warnings: “light” smut, slight spoilers of chapter 2
A03
There was true irony in the fact that you’d dramatically flitted about the camp comparing it to a prison prior to getting a horse, but you’d spent the last three days in camp doing less than you had before. It didn’t take the best of learned men to figure out what your problem was. However, only the women had the gall to call you on it.
Arthur had been gone for three weeks, and while bounty hunting was rarely a quick job, you were still worried. You were sure everyone was worried in their own way, but the the simple fact that it was their way of life, softened the edge of said worry. You understood that yourself, it was your way of life too. However, you had something new and fragile with Arthur, so it wasn’t quite the same as it was before. You hadn’t expected that either. The bounties had been particularly nasty, and thus worth a decent penny, the only way Arthur would consider taking them. He was a capable man, that you knew, but you were a well traveled woman. You’d seen enough to learn, even for yourself, that no one was a god.
Miss Grimshaw tried to busy you with chores, “What’s a wandering mind ever been good for besides trouble? That boy’s too stubborn to die. Now, clean laundry is a different story and I got a wagon fulla potential”.
Karen had suggested going into town to play the ‘Chaos Game’, something you and she had invented on a whim to drive the men in camp crazy when they had to “save” you. It was especially fun when it was John and Arthur. Start a major saloon fight here, plant an idea in a girl’s head about her fella to start a screaming match there, sloppily pick pocket and pin it on someone else, steal a horse, etc.
Of course, how much fun could that be when the best part of the game, for you, was being ‘punished’, and you didn’t think it appropriate to ask John to fill Arthur’s shoes.
Abigail told you it was downhill from there. Now that you and Arthur had fallen into something resembling being together, you should expect the aches of disappointment more often. “They fuck you so good you think the next time might be different, but nope. That’s about the highlight of their use.” And no, she wasn’t “bitter” she’d quickly informed you at your side glance of her.
Mary-Beth had tried to get you to see it as something romantic and adventurous. “Just imagine when he rides up like a knight, and sweeps you off your feet.” she sighed, a wistful smile playing on her lips. “Then you’ll be able to make some more of that pretty soap with the flowers in it that you make. We’re running low.” Ah, thanks for caring.
The men had been the ones to pussyfoot around the topic. They just wanted to entertain you in the moment, never mentioning or hinting at what was wrong. John suggested you take him spearfishing, “For your benefit of course.”.
Dutch sat audience while you sang a duet with Uncle, and was kind enough not to comment when you kept falling out conversation with the two men. Uncle wasn’t.
Tilly was the one to really snap you out of it though. You two were playing poker for candy with Karen, and where you normally walked away with a store’s stock full, that game wouldn’t make the books as one of your best.
“If you ask me, Arthur wouldn’t even recognize this mopey piece of furniture. I mean what happened to the girl who jumped off the top of a cliff into a lake for fun?” Karen reclined in her chair in time to her unapologetically sharp statement.
Tilly snorted. “Poor Arthur, may as well have climbed into a coffin his damn self as close to death as you took him that day.”
“You two could make sitting on the pot a headline. I’ve just been taking things easy for the past few days. I’m still me.” you knew what she meant, but she’d essentially called you boring. For you, that was worse than the ugliest of vulgar insults that could be hurled at you.
“Girl you better stop lying like an old rug,” Tilly crossed her legs in a matter-of-fact way. “You miss your man, and that’s ok, but you can’t get down everytime things look dark for him. You’ll kill your spirit and not even realize it!”
You heard, rather than saw, her kick Karen under the table for attempting to peek at her cards.
“And I swear if you kill that crazy spirit of yours, and make laundry some horseshit chore again, I’ll murder you myself.”
“Hey!” Karen nearly lowered her cards out of indignation, recoiling at the last second. “I make laundry fun too. I make all the chores more fun.”
“You make us have to do them all over again the same day. The second time being set to Grimshaw’s fussing.”
“Fun!” Karen rocked the table with her boisterous laughter.
Tilly’s response was lost to you, because you were starting to focus more on what she’d said before. You didn’t think it had been that serious. You were fine with him accepting the job, just when it started to approach a month since having last seen or heard from him, it hit you in a way you hadn’t been expecting. You’d been fine when you two were just friends who flirted a little too much.
It was far past that now. Arthur was the first time you weren’t flirting and fucking for fun. The new territory excited you, and you’d went in head first, but this wasn’t a part you’d been informed of.
That being said, you had to admit Tilly’s statement struck you because there was some truth to it. It was a matter of when, not if, Arthur would get into another harrowing situation. You couldn’t lay around in bed, or half ass your way through the day, every time that happened. It wasn’t you, and replaying the last three days to yourself turned your stomach.
“Well Tilly, you went and broke her.” Karen snapped her fingers in your direction.
“Opposite actually.” you shook your head with a grin. “I fold.”
“Look at that hand!” Karen gestured to the cards you’d placed down. “You definitely broke her. Oh well, can’t be helped. Whaddya got?”
“Fold.” Tilly rolled her eyes.
Karen hooped loudly as she pulled all of the candy that made up the pot to her side of the table. “Thank you kindly ladies, I do so hope we do this again soon.”
“Yes ma’am, I intend to get my title back. Enjoy it for now.”
“So that means you’re back?” Tilly swatted at Karen’s teasing pokes and jeers of ‘loser!’.
“I told you I never left. Now I’m going to make a kite, who’s in?”
Both women exchanged looks of pure puzzlement, before turning those looks to you. Unlike most people you were comfortable with being looked at funny. It occured to you, that no one had looked at you that way in days without there being an air of sympathy behind it.
“How adventurous.” Karen replied sarcastically. “I think I’ll retire for the evening and enjoy my winnings instead.”
She not-so-quietly made her way back to her tent with an armful of sweets. Stopping every so often to inform a camp member she had beaten you at Poker.
“Don’t worry, when she’s drunk I’ll steal it all back.”
“It’s Karen, so by morning then?” you grinned while Tilly snickered into her palm.
“She’s right though. A kite? For you that’s pretty tame...unless you’re planning on jumping off the cliff here with it.” her widened eyes indicated she wasn’t joking about thinking you capable of that. “Tell me you’re not planning on jumpin off the cliff with it.”
“Of course not,” You said, though the thought was a fascinating one. “It’s only tame because you haven’t seen where I’m getting the material.”
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In a testament to your revelation the previous night, you were up before the camp even began to stir. You’d been up for most of the night with Tilly working on a complicated kite. You’d learned how in a caravan comprised mainly of Chinese men and women, and regaled Tilly with tales of their beautiful culture. The longer the conversation went on, the more the tense anxiety that’d filled your being lessened it’s grip. You were still worried, incredibly so in fact, but you weren’t going to let it take you out of character another minute.
You scribbled a quick note for Miss Grimshaw, knowing she’d be among the first to wake soon, and set out a little ways from camp. Finding a spot where the forest danced along the edges of plains, you tried recalling everything you’d been taught about catching the wind.
Such a seemingly simple activity could demand so much of your attention, that you might miss the sound of a horse’s light trot behind you. You might miss the softening gaze of a rugged cowboy once he spots you. You might even miss him dismounting and hitching his horse in favor of sitting back against the base of a tree to watch you.
“Beginning to think I’m never gonna come back to find you doing something normal. Like baking a cake...or cleaning a rifle. Anything else I suppose.”
You froze, your grip tightening on the fishing line you were using for a kite line. You turned carefully, mindful to not bring your hard work crashing to the ground. Arthur gave you a lopsided grin, and though you couldn’t see his eyes beneath his hat, you were sure his smile reached them. He didn’t look worse for wear that you could see, but you couldn’t be sure until he undressed. Just to look him over of course….
“Then you’re beginning to realize who you hitched your wagon to.” you finally found your voice, though it cracked under the pressure of euphoria. “Arthur Morgan I would both hug and slap you, if my magnum opus wasn’t at risk.”
He laughed, from deep in his chest. “My hats in the ring for first one.”
A quiet moment blossomed between the two of you as you readjusted to being in each other’s presence. It was beautiful to you, and better than any fantasy scene a novel could propose. You wondered if it was putting him at ease to be back around you the way it was for you.
“It wasn’t my intention to worry you my lady, things got crazy out there. Did my best to get back at a reasonable time.”
“Well I figured that, I wasn’t that worried.” you fingered the fishing line gently. You were suddenly embarrassed to tell him you’d moped, and defaulted to lying.
“You’re lucky you’re so damn beautiful, even when you lie.” he chuckled. His smugness let you know the camp had already told him everything.
“Ok, I missed you and I was worried. If you make fun, I’m leaving you on your own horse. She likes me better anyways.”
“Fair enough I think. I’d have to keep the winnings from the bet though.”
You knew immediately what he was talking about. You, unintentionally, provided many opportunities for the gang to make quick money off of your antics. You didn’t mind the audience, it amused you.
“What’s the bet this time?”
“Whether you can fly that thing or not.” he nodded up at the kite, that while lower than when he first got there, was still still sailing through the air. “I reckon some of them are gonna have to learn about betting against you the hard way. Like I did.”
You grinned, and ducked you head at the slight compliment. Arthur had a way of empowering you that you were sure he wasn’t even aware of most times. He swore he wasn’t a romantic, and to some degree he wasn’t, but in his own way he was better. Genuine.
“Well, you won. How are you gonna prove it?”
The sound of rustling caused you to turn halfway to face him again. He slid his camera out of his satchel and patted its top.
“I’ll be ok giving up the winnings to you if I can keep the picture.”
That was how Arthur Mogan obtained a photo of his sweetheart after he’d redenered her a bashful mess. Every other photo of you he had, drawn or otherwise, you were confident and radiant. This one felt different, and perhaps why it would go on to become his favorite.
“Now,” he carefully packed the camera back in his satchel. “You gonna keep putting that before your own feller? For shame Miss (L/N).”
“Jealous of a child’s plaything? That’s a new low Mister Morgan.”
Arthur made a noise of mock surprise. “Child’s plaything? Well what are you doing with it then? The things you’re capable of certainly are not childlike.”
Hard work be damned, you turned on your heel, yanking the kite down after you. In a swift, and for you, unsurprisingly graceful movement, you’d tackled the man to the ground. You laughed at his hearty grunt, eyes following the bouncing movement of his now dislodged hat. The kite came crashing down near you, but neither of you were too focused on it.
“Someone should shut you up Arthur Morgan.”
He shifted to allow you to fall into a more comfortable position on top of him. “If anyone’s gonna try I’d rather it be you.”
Up close, hat gone, you could see evidence of his journey. You gently ran the pad of your thumb over the bruise under his right eye. He closed his eyes, cheeks reddening under your loving gaze. Unspoken words traveled through touch instead. Your soft examination admitting you were worried, his gentle lean into you a form of apology.
You pressed your forehead to his own, and let your lips collide. Soft hands slid up his neck, over his stubble, and into his light locks. You shivered when you felt the combination of warmth and rough texture, that was his hands, grip your waist under your shirt. You felt him standing at attention, straining against the fabric of his pants. You gripped his shoulders to fight the urge to grind down on him.
He broke the kiss, and your lungs greedily took the opportunity for air. His lips roamed your neck with no particular destination in mind, simply trying to soak up the feel of your skin. Distracted by his mouth, you jumped feeling his hands travel beneath your skirt to grip your thighs. A dizzy laugh left you when he roughly lifted you up to remove your panties.
A mewl escaped you when his thumb carded through your folds. The tiny pricks of pain his stubble caused, juxtaposed against the soft touches to your heat, made you see in tunnel vision. You needed him.
“Ar-..Arthur…” you voice was a husky, broken whisper that indicated you were having trouble gathering your words.
Arthur understood. “Drawn out?”
He broke the kiss breathing harshly against your cheek. Your hips jumped after a particularly swift swipe over you.
“No,” you shook your head. “Been such a good girl since you’ve been gone. I won’t last long.”
His deep chuckle against your collarbone drew another moan from you because of the sound alone. “I have not been that well behaved, I must admit.” his lips split into a sheepish smile. “But it’s about the same for me too.”
His dirty admission drew a laugh from you. You began covering his face in kisses while you released him from the confines of his pants. “It’s fine.”
His hands captured your hips and carefully lined you up. You inhaled sharply once he was inside, overloaded by too many feelings. Arthur’s hands trembled, and you imagined it was the same for him too. He waited patiently, painfully, for a sign from you to move.
You rolled your hips once, and he went from there. The two of you worked out a rhythm and fell into it rather quickly. Your hands found purchase at the base of neck and held on tightly. Every night you two had been apart, the frustration of not knowing if he’d come back, the sheer loneliness neither of you could fix without the other. It all came out in the shared act.
You’d both been correct when you admitted you wouldn’t last long. You lost it first, having been more tightly wound, and you weren’t quiet about it. Your raw moans spurred Arthur on, and he drove you through the blinding heat coursing through your being. You cradled his head and whispered loving words of encouragement to push him to his own release. He dropped his forehead to your shoulder and bit down, as a fierce shudder ripped through his form. You rubbed his back and guided him through it.
A final kiss was shared between you two, one that spoke of a love growing between you two. It said there was plenty of space for it to fill, and that was something you both wanted. He cupped your face, about to speak, when something caught his eye.
“Did you use one of Dutch’s silk shirts for your kite?”
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The two of you walked rather than rode back to camp, and it was filled with effortless conversation and teasing. You came so close to blurting out that you loved him, but bit it down every time. You’d never had anyone in your life to say that to, and weren’t sure if it was too soon. You weren’t too sure about Arthur, but it terrified you to think about sending the words out there only to have them hang alone.
“We should go to the lake.” you commented as the camp came into view.
“To bathe.” you emphasized when you saw his wolfish grin.
“I’ll meet you there, Miss Grimshaw wanted to see me. Sounded pretty important, but I wanted to see you first.”
“Flattery may change your luck.” you winked at him and headed for your tent to grab your bathing kit.
Arthur never met you at the lake, and you went forward with bathing, figuring he’d fallen asleep. Possibly one of the cold souls you now called family had roped him into an errand. Either way, he was making it up to you later.
The first thing you heard when you got back to camp was the distinct sound of an annoyed Miss Grimshaw, and a firm toned Dutch, coming from the direction of Arthur’s tent.
“Let the boy make his own decisions Miss Grimshaw.”
“Boy is exactly right!” Grimshaw’s hands shot up as if to ask ‘why her’. “Only a  boy could make such a foolish decision. You don’t line up for a second helping of disrespect with a side of humiliation Arthur. It ain’t right….she ain’t-”
The others in the camp pretended to be busy, but kept a decent distance away. You frowned and sped up your pace.
“A man has to learn on his own,” Dutch shook his head in Grimshaw’s direction. “You can’t make this choice for him. Accept that.”
Arthur, meanwhile, hadn’t said anything. He simply continued his task which, as you got closer, you discovered to be packing.
“What’s going on?” you walked past Dutch and Grimshaw, straight for Arthur himself.
You felt the heat of numerous gazes on your back, but you stayed focused on the only one you needed to see at that moment. Arthur hands slowed, enough to see the tremble, but not enough to stop his task.
“Where are you going?” you asked, your tone carrying more edge than you wished had escaped.
“I gotta go into Valentine on some business. I’ll be back in a day or so.” he still hadn’t met your gaze which started to upset you.
“Tell her where you’re going Arthur. The girl deserves that much. She’s so sweet on you she nearly rotted thinking something bad had happened to you.” Miss Grimshaw crossed her arms, eyes locked on Arthur’s tense form.
“Grimshaw!” Dutch barked taking her by the arm to lead her away. “Leave.It.Alone.”
Whatever she said in protest was lost to you. Everything else may as well have fallen off the face of the earth for all you cared at the moment. Every perceptive instinct you’d honed in your nomadic life was screaming so many possibilities at you, that you almost shook Arthur to demand an answer simply to make them stop.
Instead, you reached for his hand and grasped it. “What’s wrong? You know you can tell me.”
Arthur pulled away from your touch, still refusing to meet your gaze. “I believe I did tell you, business.”
“I’ve robbed coaches with you, setup hold ups, spied for information. What kind of business can’t you say all of a sudden?”
“The kind I don’t have time to get into right now. I’ll explain when I get back.” he placed a few small supplies into his satchel, carefully fitting his journal in after them.
“So you were just gonna...just gonna leave and not tell me? What the hell is that Arthur Morgan?” you snapped, stubbornly blocking him from going for his clothes chest by sitting on it.
“I wouldn’t have done that to you.” he lifted you from the chest with ease, ignoring your cry of indignation.
He got a few articles of clothing while you cycled through what to say. You had so many questions and he was moving so quickly. By the time you figured out what you wanted to say, he was already moving towards his horse.
“I’ll go with you,” you jogged to keep up with his pace.
You expected him to snap at you, with how tightly he was wound up, but you didn’t care. You weren’t afraid of him, he couldn’t brush aside your concerns so easily.
He stopped in his tracks and turned to you. “(Y/N). I’ll be back, I promise. I’ll tell you everything then, just let me handle this on my own.”
One hand cupped your neck, while the other gently grasped your cheek. You leaned into his touch and nodded. You would trust him, and pray he didn’t give you a reason not to.
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jaxonah · 7 years
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BTS Reaction to you being a top class equestrian-
(for anon)
Jin-
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Jin was always proud of how hard you worked to become top class. “Babe without me, you and your horse would not have made it this far. You’re welcome.”
Suga-
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He loved watching you win and succeed but did not like big animals. “I’m very proud of you. Please don’t ever ask me to get close to your horse though because no.”
J-Hope-
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Hoseok’s favorite thing to do when he had down time was go watch your equestrian practices. “It’s a good thing I don’t know how to ride a horse. I’d be the best of the BEST.” He would tease.
Rap Mon-
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Namjoon would show off every chance he had the fact that you were a top class equestrian. “You’re the queen of horse riding so i’m the king by default babe.”
Jimin-
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With how busy jimin’s schedule is, he’s never actually been able to see you in action at the equestrian center. “Babe you’re supposed to wear cool hats like this, right?”
V-
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Taehyung loved that fact that you were a top class equestrian. He thought it was the coolest thing ever and wanted to learn himself. “Hey let’s go, you’re gonna teach me how to ride a horse.” 
Jungkook-
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Jungkook was so filled with pride about your success as an equestrian, he made so much effort to attend all of your competitions. But always seems to forget it’s outside in the hot sun. “Fuck it’s hot out here...” 
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I’m having too many feelings about Arya’s characterization on the show, so here we go:
I feel really, really strongly that D&D decided that Arya was going to be the “Strong Female Character” trope, and they took away all of her...softer character development/relationships and grafted them on to Sansa. It kind of reminds me of book Hermione and Ron vs. movie Hermione and Ron--by removing one character’s flaws and giving them another’s strengths, it shortchanges both.
So let’s just dive right in, shall we?
"I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me.  -A Storm of Swords
So, Sansa knows that fear is no way to rule. That’s important. The thing is, this is pretty much the first time we’ve seen this sort of awareness from Sansa. I don’t know that, apart from Joffrey, we’ve seen her worry about gaining the love of others. She gets along well with other lords and ladies, so it’s never really been an issue for her, though at this point in her story, she’s being shunned by the court. Still, it’s interesting to see her realize that she should observe what Cersei does, and then do the opposite of it. 
How do you make people love you--specifically, people you rule? The phrasing of this is interesting, too. “I’ll make them love me.” Make is a forceful word. Compared to later in the series, when the Tyrells bring carts of food to win the love of King’s Landing for Margaery, make implies a certain amount of fear, or compulsion. 
The Bread Riots are the first time Sansa is forced to reckon with the reality of poverty in King’s Landing, and the first time she’s really confronted with the fact that people who have never even met her hate her. In a lot of ways, you could say it’s the first meaningful interaction she’s had with people below her station. She has maids and servants, of course, but up until this point I don’t think Sansa truly comprehends how fortunate she is. She still faces danger in the Red Keep. Any wrong move could result in being beaten and humiliated, but that’s danger of a different sort than starvation or rape or death.
Arya, on the other hand, is, from the beginning, defined by her ability to connect with people who are different than her. Unlike Sansa, who enjoys the people at court, nobles and knights and lords, Arya loves the smallfolk. Blacksmiths and butcher’s boys, cooks and horse masters. Not only is this important enough that Sansa comments on it, it’s so different from Sansa’s own worldview that it is spoken of with derision.
Sansa knew all about the sorts of people Arya liked to talk to: squires and grooms and serving girls, old men and naked children, rough-spoken freeriders of uncertain birth. Arya would make friends with anybody. This Mycah was the worst; a butcher's boy, thirteen and wild, he slept in the meat wagon and smelled of the slaughtering block. Just the sight of him was enough to make Sansa feel sick, but Arya seemed to prefer his company to hers.  -Game of Thrones
Everything Arya has done since this observation was made has only driven the point further home. Arya can make friends with anyone--from her tentative friendship with the Hound to her friendships with the Brotherhood to Lady Smallwood--as she continues on her journey, she has started to learn better how to interact with nobility, something Sansa has always excelled at. In Braavos, Arya is quite literally putting herself in someone else’s shoes. 
Cat had made friends along the wharves; porters and mummers, ropemakers and sailmenders, taverners, brewers and bakers and beggars and whores. They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi. -A Feast for Crows
Arya’s ability to make friends isn’t just a casual thing, either. Maybe it’s the wolf in her. Maybe it’s the nobility in her--chivalry in the classical sense--but she protects people. She looks out for others, to the point where she knows she might do better on her own, but they wouldn’t, and she can’t leave them. This holds true for people she knows:
She would make much better time on her own, Arya knew, but she could not leave them. They were her pack, her friends, the only living friends that remained to her, and if not for her they would still be safe at Harrenhal, Gendry sweating at his forge and Hot Pie in the kitchens. -A Storm of Swords
"You leave Weasel alone, she's just scared and hungry is all." Arya glanced back, but the girl was not following for once. Hot Pie must have grabbed her, like Gendry had told him. 
The roof was gone up too, and things were falling down, pieces of flaming wood and bits of straw and hay. Arya put a hand over her mouth and nose. She couldn't see the wagon for the smoke, but she could still hear Biter screaming. She crawled toward the sound...Jaqen saw her, but it was too hard to breathe, let alone talk. She threw the axe into the wagon. -A Clash of Kings
And people she doesn’t:
"He is not a lord," a child's voice put in. "He's in the Night's Watch, stupid. From Westeros." A girl edged into the light, pushing a barrow full of seaweed; a scruffy, skinny creature in big boots, with ragged unwashed hair. "There's another one down at the Happy Port, singing songs to the Sailor's Wife," she informed the two bravos. To Sam she said, "If they ask who is the most beautiful woman in the world, say the Nightingale or else they'll challenge you....”
...Don't do that either," said the barrow girl, "or else they'll ask for your boots next, and before long you'll be naked." ...And suddenly there was a knife in the girl's left hand, a blade as skinny as she was. The one called Terro said something to his fair-haired friend and the two of them moved off, chuckling at one another. -A Feast for Crows
Arya’s training arc in Braavos is simply giving her better tools to do what she has always done: defend people. Superficially, yes, she’s learning how to kill people. The show seems to think this is the most important thing she learned in Braavos, but there’s more to killing people than just killing:
"Are you some butcher of the battlefield, hacking down every man who stands in your way?" -A Dance With Dragons
As a Faceless Man in training, Arya is learning discretion, patience, and temperance. Particularly with what she saw as she traveled Westeros, this emphasis on the value of life, and the importance of not taking more than is needed, is pretty profound. 
Sansa’s character growth is leaning more towards political savvy--just her proximity to Littlefinger would lead to that conclusion, but she’s taking part in his plans, she’s learning how to play the game, and far more convincingly than she ever did at King’s Landing. In the books, she’s learning how to manage a household--managing the resources at the Eyrie--and how to interact with people whose default is not to treat her with respect. As Littlefinger’s bastard daughter, she doesn’t have the protection of being a lady.
In the books, this is a really important part of Sansa growing as a person, something the show doesn’t give us.
It wasn't fair. Sansa had everything. Sansa was two years older; maybe by the time Arya had been born, there had been nothing left. Often it felt that way. Sansa could sew and dance and sing. She wrote poetry. She knew how to dress. She played the high harp and the bells. Worse, she was beautiful. Sansa had gotten their mother's fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys. Arya took after their lord father. Her hair was a lusterless brown, and her face was long and solemn. Jeyne used to call her Arya Horseface, and neigh whenever she came near. It hurt that the one thing Arya could do better than her sister was ride a horse. Well, that and manage a household. Sansa had never had much of a head for figures. If she did marry Prince Joff, Arya hoped for his sake that he had a good steward.  -A Game of Thrones
Arya has practical skills, Sansa the glamorous ones. I think it’s important to note that, as Arya lists off the skills Sansa has, she does not deride them. Arya isn’t maligning the things Sansa is good at--Arya just knows that she’ll never be as good as Sansa at them. And even though “managing a household” is tacked on at the end there, as if Arya herself isn’t too impressed with this skill, it’s so incredibly important, particularly when paired with other foreshadowing we get about her future. Having a head for figures, being able to connect with the smallfolk--these are all skills rulers need. 
Of course, in the show universe, we don’t see Sansa learning these skills--it’s just sort of assumed that she has them. Again, this undercuts the importance of her book training arc and completely disregards certain things, like Robb striking Sansa from Winterfell’s succession line and the fact that, with Bran and Rickon presumed dead, Arya not only has a claim to the North, but the ability to rule it. 
Sansa is cultured. She’s a proper lady, the kind of girl who would do well at court, who has the potential to become great at court politics. In some ways, given her stated affinity for children, GRRM might be leading her to becoming a Master of Whisperers. A little bird commanding a flock of little birds.
"Nothing happens in this city without Varys knowing. Ofttimes he knows about it before it happens. He has informants everywhere. His little birds, he calls them. One of his little birds heard about your visit." -A Game of Thrones
Arya reads, and writes. She rides, and can fight with a sword and a dagger. She’s learning to speak different languages, and she was raised with the old gods and her mother’s faith, and has a respect for all religions that she is learning through being a servant of the Many-Faced God. She’s hunted and cooked worked for her food and been hunted. She has lived with people who wanted her dead, she’s gone hungry and begged and hang on a minute. 
This sounds familiar. 
"He is here. Aegon has been shaped for rule since before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. Tommen has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows that kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them."  -A Dance With Dragons
In the books, it seems pretty clear that Arya is the one being groomed to rule. The show (D&D) seem intent that Sansa will take that role. A lot of Arya’s defining character traits have been reassigned to Sansa, leaving Arya as just an assassin. The show truncated book!Sansa’s journey to becoming a political operator for a reason I don’t get, and in the process managed to completely eliminate Arya’s interpersonal skills as well as her and Jon’s bond.
In the books, the oldest Starks (or Stark-adjacents, if we’re operating under the assumption that R+L=J) are, or have the potential to be, highly complimentary. 
Jon has command experience. He’s dealt with military, with strategy, with battle. Sansa has political experience. She has seen and lived with some of the shrewdest minds in Westeros, and has the potential to be a diplomatic link between the North and the South. Arya suited to the boring, hum-drum aspects of ruling, the day-to-day. She is a good listener. She is learning the value of patience in the House of Black and White as well as humility. She’s sweeping floors and scrubbing dead bodies. She’s not afraid of hard work, and since she started her dancing lessons with Syrio, has been learning that change only happens if you keep working at it. It doesn’t happen all at once. She knows what life is really like for the average person in Westeros. 
More than that, she’s seen firsthand the cost of war. This is so, so important. Arya has fought, she has walked through burned fields and castles, she’s been on the run, she’s killed, she’s saved people. Of all of the potential queens--Daenerys, Sansa, and Cersei--Arya is, I would argue, the only one who has truly experienced the horrors of war. Cersei and Sansa survived the Blackwater, true, but they weren’t fighting in it, and neither of them have seen the extent of damage the war as a whole has had on Westeros. Daenerys has seen more--she has waged war, but she has not fought, or killed, though she has seen the devastation of war.
Now, I’m not saying that hand-to-hand combat is required for someone to be a good ruler; I just want to point out that, of all the nobility who currently have the ability to angle for a throne, only Arya and Stannis have actually witnessed the toll war takes on the land and the people. Arya being disguised as a commoner would also vastly change what she and Stannis saw.
When show!Sansa walks through Winterfell, coming up with a plan for the surrounding areas to send grain, when she notices the armor being made should be covered with leather--these are not things Sansa would know. We’ve never seen her in a situation where she would have this knowledge, unless simply being raised in the North is enough of an explanation.
Book Sansa is a selfish character. There’s no way around this. She’s selfish, and petty, and shallow, and her journey is so poignant in the books because she comes to realize that the things she thought were important actually aren’t, and the people whose approval she once yearned for are terrible and she’d really just rather be around her obnoxious siblings. Even then, her thoughts of her siblings tend towards...well, snotty.
Sansa had once dreamt of having a sister like Margaery; beautiful and gentle, with all the world's graces at her command. Arya had been entirely unsatisfactory as sisters went. 
A Storm of Swords
That’s...Sansa, your sister could be dead, for all you know. The fact that GRRM includes this thought is, again, interesting. As much as Arya and Sansa disagree, Arya’s thoughts never have this sort of flavor to them. When Arya thinks of Sansa, it is more often with worry, or regret, and occasional bitterness. It’s fascinating to me how immature Sansa often is in comparison to Arya. Of course, Arya has her moments. I’m not denying that. 
Honestly, rereading Sansa chapters--I’m not sure if we’re supposed to like her in the beginning? She never strays into hate territory, but she does some pretty crappy things. She thinks some pretty crappy things. The fact that GRRM shows us these things and lets us be privy to these thoughts is important. I didn’t like book Sansa until she escaped King’s Landing. This is when her life takes a pretty sharp turn from “pampered and scared” to “lying for survival without the comforts of home”. Her journey to the Fingers is the first time she’s started to experience the things all of her remaining siblings or presumed siblings (hi, Jon) have been experiencing since the first book in some cases. She’s lying about her identity. She’s around people who can overpower her and won’t care because they don’t know she’s a lady. Even then, she’s not starving, or begging, or freezing, or fighting for her life. 
Sansa’s journey is almost purely internal. It’s all about her mental and emotional growth. Maybe she’ll wind up in a place of compassion. Maybe she won’t. Maybe her ability to detach from a situation will help her family stay alive and they ante up for the game of thrones. 
Arya’s journey, by contrast, is very external. She travels all over Westeros, to Essos. She learns how to change her outward appearance. She learns how to physically protect herself. I would argue that this is because she already has all of the internal character traits she will need to reach GRRM’s final goal for her--compassion, understanding, and a genuine love for people. 
Arya’s importance to the narrative is undermined so much by D&D’s writing. I think it’s pretty clear that they don’t understand either Stark sister. Sansa does not need to be put through more pain to be compelling; Arya doesn’t need to be emotionless to be badass. 
Here’s the thing: GRRM doesn't write strong female characters. He writes female characters well. None of them are perfect paragons. Arya and Sansa, Brienne and Cersei, Catelyn and Melisandre, are all deeply flawed just like real people. They each have strengths and weaknesses. They are petty, or impulsive, or narrow-minded. They are naive or jaded or willfully cruel. They are kind and soft and honorable. this is one of the greatest weaknesses of the show--it’s unable to let its female characters be people, and it’s Arya and Sansa who suffer.
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Nippon Safes Inc. – Get smart (Won)
Written by Torch
I ended the previous post on a slightly slow-moving note, if I can call it that. For the umpteenth time, I needed to find 100 yen for a metro ticket. While I didn’t flag that post as a request for assistance, I nevertheless found myself unable to obtain the necessary funds for the duration of my next play session. So I went ahead and sneakily requested some hints in the comments section, and luckily, Vetinari yet again came to my aid. I’m not sure what to think about the solution to the problem, but at least it again confirms my theory that the game interface is doing its utmost to fool me at every opportunity
Consider the following screenshot
Looks like we’ve got ourselves a Mexican standoff. Only I don’t see any Mexicans
This is a screen I’ve visited frequently. The gentlemen pictured here are passers-by that randomly cross the screen in a set pattern. Not once in the game so far has there been any indication that these men could be interacted with. Not until I suddenly come carrying a hat. A hat that I acquired by accidentally pushing a guy off the top of a very high building.
Well, that’s about to pay off in a big way, because I can now use the hat to…. wait for it… beg for alms from one of the men….
Oh no, I couldn’t. It would ruin your suit
Yes, if I squint really hard, I can sort of see the game developers’ logic here, but why did I need the hat? Couldn’t I just talk to the guy and ask him for money? And why oh why couldn’t the game at least let me know sometime in advance that it might be able to interact with this guy at some point? Like “look”-ing at him and getting a “Looks like a rich businessman on his way to work” or something similar. It’s really annoying trying to figure this stuff out when you’re convinced they’re just part of the scenery.
Sigh, let’s at least hope it’s the last time I’m fooled like this. Rant closed. Moving on.
100 yen in pocket, I can now buy a metro ticket to Subu. Oh, by the way, as I receive the money, I get a new copy protection question, asking how long the city’s railway is. I find the answer in the manual and move on. After a short metro ride, I end up at Subu, where I’ve also been before.
It’s like deja vu all over again.
On the right we see Doug’s pachinko hut, and on the left is Donna’s beauty salon. This time, however, we’re going to Sento baths. I have a flyer for Sento, but it doesn’t seem to be a coupon or anything, so I probably won’t be walking out of there after my visit with a basket full of soaps.
As I enter, I find myself (or Dino’s self ) in a small waiting room of sorts. Attached to the door is a large gong, and Dino exclaims that one would have to be a Hercules to be able to use it. Well, he IS sort of a (stupider) Hercules, and he hasn’t punched anything since he ate those beans in the previous post, and – to jog your memory – Dino gets strong(er) from eating beans. So I punch the gong.
Seems like a mallet would be easier. How do beanless people get in?
And the door opens. Inside I see a lone man in a jacuzzi. The cursor identifies him as Mr. Y.
Thanks, but I only know that one song. The one that goes “GONNNNNNNNNG”
By talking to the guy, everything sorts itself out. He approves of Dino fighting Futotta, and tells me to go back to the arena and tell them that “The Sento man said yes”. So… no written statement or anything…? Well, ok.
Another two metro rides ( why can’t I go directly from one station to another without going through the main district? ) and I’m back at Kinza, where I talk to the aptly named “sumo man” again. After a short conversation in which Dino needs a couple of tries to remember what he was supposed to say, I’m allowed to wrestle. There’s only the small matter of a contract.
19%? But I know Donna gets all 50 000 yen. How does that compute?
Seems fair
Dino agrees to sign the contract, but as I already know from Doug’s chapter, there’s the issue of Dino not being heavy enough.
I wonder what 12 kilos of beans would do for Dino’s punching capacity
As I leave the arena, I bump into Doug (as expected), and the exchange goes the same as last time.
150 – 138 = 10 ( Well, it’s Dino )
In case you don’t remember, Doug needs a ticket for the match and promises to help Dino with the weight problem if he can get one. Ok, great. Now, to get Doug to uphold his end of the deal from this point, I needed to:
Travel to main district
Use a wrench to disassemble a radio at Doug’s house to get a speakermagnetthingy
Trade the wrench for a jar at honest Chan’s
Travel to Subu and enter the Pachinko house
Play the pachinko game, using the speakermagnetthingy to win a bunch of tiny balls
Put the balls in the jar to see how many it can hold
Travel back to the main district
Go to the restaurant in the park and enter it
Talk to the chef to “guess” how many balls are in the competition jar to win a voucher for free food
Travel back to Kinza and give the voucher to Dino.
And that’s if I had known in advance exactly what to do, and didn’t have to mess around.
Now, for Dino:
Enter Arena – Pick up ticket – Exit Arena
Looking back at the amount of frustration this game has caused me, I guess I shouldn’t complain when things are easy. As you know, I now have a voucher for an “all you can eat”-meal at the Kaizen-Sushi restaurant in the park, so I hop on the metro and get there in a jiffy ( do people still say jiffy? ). What happens at the restaurant though, is slightly anti-climactic.
Because.. onions
Right after entering the restaurant, Dino comes back out again, and the whole thing is apparently done. No eating animation or anything… Meh… But ok. I still have something to look forward to. Due to the order of the chapters, I’ve felt that the game has been building towards the sumo wrestling match. We’ve had sexcapades, overeating, jar ball guessing, etc. all in order to get this fight of the century to happen, so there had better be some serious payoff now.
I travel back to Kinza and enter the arena building, ready to witness this clash of titans. Will there be puzzles to solve or an action sequence to master in order to win the match?
It’s like that movie “Click” with Adam Sandler, only they skip the good parts
Or will the whole thing be over in 1 second with no graphical depiction of how this went down?!?!
This is seriously disappointing. Like at the restaurant, right after entering the venue, Dino comes back out, having won the fight, and Donna’s outside waiting for him. They just… skipped over the whole event. Groan….. We never even got to see Buta Futotta.
19% manager fee or not, Dino gives 50 000 yen to Donna, and the rest is history. Or rather herstory ( sorry ). Which means that Dino is pretty much done with what he set out to do.
The end. Thanks for reading…
… but wait. A familiar face suddenly shows up
Well at least one of us saw the match
It’s Dr. WooKi! He serves up a story about being from the Secret Service, and he needs Dino to steal a rare element from Mitsushita technologies. I guess the real mission is about to begin.
I head towards the Mitsushita office, which is where Dino first tried to apply for a job in his intro segment. On the way there, however, I notice a new item hanging on the newspaper seller’s booth. It’s…. A newspaper! I pick it up and read it.
Apparently the newspaper seller is so caught up in his metro ticket business that he forgot to charge for the newspaper
After knowing about the volunteer applications, I can now get into Mitsushita offices
Yes. I’m volunteering to…. steal stuff from you! *snigger*
Inside a quite garish looking reception area, I’m greeted by a receptionist who calls for a Dr. Buoz.
Maybe you should experiment on making a carpet cleaning device instead
He leads me in to a lab of sorts, where he and some guy who looks like Albert Einstein want to ask me some questions.
Please let the answer be “E=MC²”?
The questions are fairly simple, ranging from what’s 5×7 to what was the color of Napoleon’s white horse. On each question, I can choose the correct answer, a wrong answer, and a way off answer. If I answer them all correctly, they tell me I’m not stupid enough, so I can’t join the experiment, and I’m subsequently evicted from the premises. If I answer everything incorrectly, I’m apparently too stupid, and will also need to leave. Every time I fail, I can enter the building for a new attempt, as if nothing happened, so it’s just a matter of experimenting.
I end up answering the question “What’s your name” correctly, and everything else wrong, and they’re finally happy. They bring me in to another room and hook me up to a machine.
Um.. something something… cereal simulator. Got it.
They have a theory that the IQ of an individual is closely related to the electrical conductivity of his neuron synapses, and that by giving Dino’s head an electrical shock, they can increase this conductivity, thus increasing his brain capacity. Seems legit. And to top it off, the chance of failure is lower than 70%. If only more people knew.
At this point all I can do is watch them send a bolt of electricity into Dino’s head. After it’s done, the good doctor wants to know how he feels.
Sounds impressive, but it’s mostly due to the glasses
They seem happy with the results, and administer another “IQ test”, or as I like to call it, a quiz.
How does this help you to determine IQ?
There are a couple of math questions as well, but they’re also in the “either you know or you don’t”-category. Like “What’s the formula of Coulomb attraction?” ( I had to google it ). Contrary to the previous quiz, where I was evicted and had to come back to try again, this section just loops until I’ve answered all the questions correctly. By default, Dino guesses wrong on the last question, so the scientists determine that the machine is unstable, and want to keep Dino for a couple of days, for observation.
I’m moved to the previous examination room, where I’m now free to examine stuff (as one does). The room contains a computer, a printer and several drawers full of floppy disks. I can insert the disks into the computer ( after which they mysteriously disappear ). Most of them contain unspecified experiment results, but one contains some of developer Max’s adult entertainment:
But look at the size of those pixels!
One disk contains a Cray emulator. Cray was a line of supercomputers, starting with the 64-bit 80MHz Cray-1 in 1976. When I look at the computer in the lab, Dino says it’s an Oric-1. Ok ok, nothing out of the ordinary here, right? Wrong! The Oric-1 was a cheap 8-bit 1MHz machine, and would probably pass out from just being in the vicinity of the Cray. And that’s not even taking into account the newer models that would have existed in 1992! Pfft! Cray Emulator…
Anyway, there’s also a disk labeled “Copy Nippon Safes Inc.” This naturally won’t work in the computer, because it’s a pirate copy. And those never work. Ever. The last labeled disk is um.. labeled “COBOL compiler”.
The 4 labeled disks don’t disappear, but they also don’t produce any results when inserted. But then I noticed I can pick up the printer cable, and next to the door is a loose panel, that can be removed. Behind the panel I see what must be a parallel port, since I can actually plug the printer cable into it, thus connecting the panel to the computer. I can now insert the COBOL compiler disk, and Dino will write a COBOL program that opens the door. That’s what a little electricity through the brain can do for you, kids! It can put knowledge into your brain, that’s what.
The door opens and I can enter the reception area again. Rummaging through the filing cabinet, I find no files, but rather a flower pot, some fennel, a pack of spaghetti and a sack of bean seeds ( I think I can guess where this is going )
Hope they’re not has-beans
I go left again and find myself back in the electric chair room. The scientists are still nowhere to be seen.
Just about everything in this room looks dangerous in some way
I can remove a grid from the left door, marked “lab”, creating an opening too small to go through, and I also can’t reach anything inside. There’s a faucet to the right of the chair, that doesn’t register on a plain mouseover, but can be used to fill my flower pot with some sort of radioactive looking green goo.
I wonder if we can make a flying spaghetti monster
The contraption on the left wall hides a robot that chases me when I push a button that I can’t really make out, but that shows up on a mouseover.
What’s with the smiley face? Is that supposed to be scary?
At first, I run out of the room, and come back to see him back in his place, but after a few tries I realize I don’t have to react at all. He’ll just move back to his spot after a short while. I try to reach whatever’s behind him, but Dino moves a little bit automatically when the robot is activated, and I don’t have time to get behind him before he moves back.
Eventually, I discover another switch above the door, that turns on something in the chamber on the right, making it glow green. It’s called a reducer. When I click it, Dino goes in and gets shrunk. Like proper Alice in Wonderland-stuff. Walking around like this, he’s suddenly small enough to go through the whole in the door
How can you be re-duced if you’ve never been duced to begin with? Yes, I’m running out of caption ideas
At this point, I encounter a bug. If I click the lab door while standing in the green area, Dino does a weird graphic bug thing and teleports to the a bit outside the playing area at the bottom of the screen, and I can’t move him anymore. I find no other solution than to reload. The next time, I make sure to leave the green area first.
Reducer and dissolver, actually
That last caption totally floored me
On the other side of the lab door, Dino automatically goes back to normal size. (I don’t know if that’s with or without the 12 kilos he had to gain to become a sumo wrestler.)
There’s some sort of weird water tank or something inside. Trying all my items at random, I find that I can plant the bean seeds in what appears to be soil at the bottom of the tank.
What has bean seed, cannot be unseed
Since not much happens after that, I try pouring my pot of goo on the whole shebang, and a tree rapidly grows before my eyes, sprouting a superbean. I kid you not. Just look:
Would you REALLY eat this?
The lab door opens from the inside, and after eating the superbean, I gain the by now customary punch action. After activating the sentry robot again, I now have the beans… sorry, means to incapacitate it
Recognize THIS!
The robot shuts down again, and I’m free to pick up whatever’s behind him. Which turns out to be the object I was sent here to retrieve, a magnet. Having fulfilled my mission, I leave the building, and…
Plants vs. dummies
And that concludes Dino’s chapter. Now this would’ve been a good time to stop if not for the fact that the “great” part of the “great final” clearly isn’t referring to its length.
The end is near, I promise. Let’s press on and get through this last stretch together.
But what if we’re expecting you to kill us?
Seems like the good dr. WooKi isn’t so good after all. Who’d have guessed? He thinks our heroes know too much ( debatable ), so he’ll have to get rid of them. But as any good villain knows, you can’t kill heroes without first antagonizing them with a boring monologue, where you provide a detailed explanation of your sinister plot.
Whaaaaa…?
Nippon safes inc. Now where have I heard that name before?
Ok, history lesson time. Nippon Safes inc. used to be one of the most famous safe companies in the world, and rich guys would come from all over the world to put their bling in them. WooKi’s partner was the real genius behind the safes, but one day he disappeared, and business went downhill. WooKi was a sort of business manager in the company, so he got in trouble when the safe creator was no longer with them.
But one day WooKi found a letter from his partner, detailing how to discover a safe containing a book with all his secret. It would allow the reader to open all safes built by the creator ( sounds terribly unsafe to me ). To open this safe, one would need three keys, each hidden inside a special item. Now, if you’ve been paying attention, you might guess that these items are the ones our three protagonists have sacrificed hours of my time to obtain.
After the rant is over, I gain control over the evil doctor. The safe door has 3 holes, and I have 3 items. I’m pretty sure I don’t need to issue a request for assistance to this puzzle.
So the Buddha shaped peg goes in the… sword shaped hole..? No, that’s not right
After putting all objects in their right place.. Wait, weren’t the keys supposed to be hidden inside the items? Oh whatever….
I still don’t think I’ve been told the name of this guy
The recording of the dead partner concedes that WooKi must be the smarter man, since he managed to find the safe and open it, that he holds no grudge, and that WooKi is truly deserving of the book. All that remains is for him to go in and grab it. Come on now. Don’t be scared. Go get your prize
Psych!
Mr. creator devoted his life to protecting honest people(‘s valuables – my edit), and he was certainly not about to help a thief like Dr. WooKi. Then the whole safe/trap falls down into a lava pit, uncovering a cleverly placed reminder of what game I’m actually playing. In case I’d forgotten.
Obvious product placement
After some light banter, Doug and Donna discover that Dino’s hands aren’t tied. The dr. apparently forgot, but Dino didn’t want to interrupt the story. Cute. We get some reminiscing about what our guys have been through. Doug’s going back to cracking safes, now that Nippon safes inc. has gone bankrupt. Donna has a marriage proposal to reconsider ( just.. don’t ), and Dino can’t remember how he got here.
Finally, all line up and smile for the camera. And end with a joke
Oh, that Dino
Ok, I guess we’re done…. But wait!
Sequel!
Ok, now we’re done. For everyone who made it through to the end, I appreciate it. Now I need to go back and think long and hard about how to rate this game.
Time played: 18h 40m
Tioko/Tyoko mentions (accumulated) Tioko: 13 Tyoko: 13 ( No way! )
Inventory: Well, nothing really, since I used all three items in the last section
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