The Mints Of Wrath (A Rags To Riches Challenge)

[Minty]

Day 8 & 9

Magic_Dancer has now dealt with the issues with the map & a corrected version is on the Official Sims 3 forum. Many thanks to her for looking into this.

Here's is the link to it - http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html...Id=6240421




Minty decided to return to the Grogg Factory nectary (with a name like that you'd think Magic_Dancer was Australian!), getting 1500 life achievement points from learning how to make nectar.




While waiting for the nectar maker to cease going snap crackle & pop, he remembered to read the notice on the wall near to the hidden door entrance this time.

It said: "Our life plants were stolen decades ago by the infamous pirate Le Chunk. The Sim who returns it will have a long and happy life."

Um, will returning the fruit do? The plants will get sort of soggy through that dive well.

Wish he wouldn't keep pulling that face btw, like he's thinking about Agnes Crumplebottom in the shower.




Decided it would be an idea to sent him upstairs to try out the free nectar around. The Flame Fruit Cherimola Blan looks a cheeky little nectar (why do people say that about certain alcoholic drinks being "cheeky" or "naughty" anyway? Does the bottle wiggle its bum at you when you're drinking it? Or is it one so potent you think the bottle is doing that?)




Er, how many of those four glasses are you intending to have yourself?




"Yeah, I'm drinking your nectar & haven't paid for it, got a problem with that?"




According to Minty Green, "there are three types of nectar, brown, purple and green." Think he needs to hit the books & skill up a bit beyond supermarket own brand. As he looks pretty ratbottomed, think it best to get him to bed & collect the nectar in the morning as it takes a long time for the machine to make. Had I known this before I would have got the other nectar maker making a different wine as well)

Is it illegal to ride a bike while under the influence of nectar?




After midnight, a glow in the sky made me investigate the waterfall it was above, & found all the local horses with a black unicorn looking sinister. Is there some sort of horsey nostra running Plunder Island that Magic_Dancer never warned us about?

"Okay you mugs, here's the gardens you're hitting tonight for failing to pay the protection money. Piddle on their roses & eat everything they've grown. Let them know nobody messes with Bugsy Unicorn"

"Hey boss, what happens if they still won't pay."

"They get a horse's head in their bed - YOURS!"

"Gulp!"

Bugsy Unicorn doesn't want to be an equine gangster though. What he really wants to be is Mark from G-Force in that old Manga cartoon "Battle Of The Planets".




"TRANSMUTE!"




Good news for Minty the next morning as growing an apple tree gave him enough points for a lifetime reward, but decided to bank the points for a 10000 reward.

A morning tending to the garden took up six hours, leaves his inventory as follows:

Apple (21), Bell pepper (3), Cherries (7), Flame Fruit (14), Garlic (14), Lettuce (13), Life Fruit (1), Lime (18), Onion (6), Plums (6), Pomegranate (7), Pomelo (11), Potato (8), Tomato (31), Watermelon (8).

Yes, only one life fruit left. Took a gamble & used them for fertiliser to get skilled up & better produce with what Minty can grow.

The grapes tally is: Grapes (26), Avonalino Grapes (14), Cranerlet Nuala Grapes (7), Cherimola Bian Grapes (7),
Gralladina Fran Grapes (9), Meloire Grapes (10), Reniot Grapes (6).

Enough for a few bottles of nectar mixed in with the other fruit & veg, but will skill up some more first.

That raccoon was walking round & round Minty's garden like it's constipated. What was going on?




Oh oh, stray raccoon is in love with Minty! Get lost, this isn't a furryfic! Why is all the wildlife on Plunder Island weird?




Does that newspaper delivery girl look evil or what? Is she the driver of the ice cream van with the blacked out windows?




By midday Minty had finished & his gardening skill increased to nine. Only trouble was all that watering gave him an uncontrollable urge!

(How can he water the garden without having a tap? He's near the sea & some ponds. So there)

The Scumm Bar toilets were nearer, but I made him peddle for his piddle all the way to the barbers so he could get a shower too & save time. If you've ever ridden a bicycle for a long time with a full bladder, you'll know all about the funny walk you have by the time you dismount. Aren't I cruel?




After cleaning up, it was time to return to the Grogg Factory to fetch the fruits of last night's labours.

There was this old guy called Sneezer Glum hanging around. Not sure what his purpose is. In that outfit, maybe he's the local flasher or something. Or the not-naked-but-thinking-about-it rambler. He'd be a brave man if he did, with all of Bugsy Unicorn's horses roaming around munching everyone's plums.




Minty retrieved three bottles of Minty's Grapes Nectar. Bad quality, worth §8. Maybe the off-licence will take them to sell to Simchavs?