The Farmer Wants a Wife: Day Three
☂ ☃ ☀ Farmer Wants a Wife: Day Three
Sims 2: Reality TV Challenge
Rules and Set Up can be found @ New Challenge: Farmer Wants a Wife (or Husband, or Partner, whatever)
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Day Three: What's Cookin'? Cleaning Out the Closet
The departure of Strawberry was a shock to the system of every remaining contestant, proof that no matter how sure of your position it was still anyone's game and anyone could go at any time. The household made their way to bed almost as soon as she was gone and on the whole experienced a fitful nights sleep.
All except Tiffany the Garden Club Rep. DAMN HER! Cannot take a hint and will NEVER leave, just sits about enjoying the jet streams. You will notice, as well, the windows to the master bedroom's en suite look onto the hot tub. That's the shadow of du Fermier's head in the shower one can spy through the glass and the shower curtain...
We're not begrudging you love, Tiff, but could you find it elsewhere in a less creepy fashion?
Could this be THE most masculine girl in the world?! O_O;;; HOLY CRAP This repairwoman walked in and everyone was actually scared of her (including the narrator). du Fermier exchanged a few jovial comments in welcome but every single one of the contestants forded her a wide berth...
Tiramisu awakens alone in her room. Strawberry's bed remained unmade from the morning before, and Fondue's had been left untouched. A feeling of impending doom swells within her. Could it be that her room is cursed and her elimination notice already signed?
The morning's gardening challenge commences even before breakfast. Cupcake tries her best to buoy Tiramisu's spirits while they work. Though the mood is decidedly low when they begin, the work is refreshing and the spirits of every contestant is raised by the end of their satisfying morning of sowing seeds.
Blackforest is playfully called an assortment of colourful expletives for her apparently miraculous ability to garden competently in sheer stockings and strappy stilettoes without so much as an ugraceful topple or smudge to their shiny patent exterior.
du Fermier free for breakfast once again, the remaining five's conversation turns 100% to speculating on their hosts kissing technique.
Tiramisu: I mean how do we know he's not a complete salamanderie dud, right? Was there some kind of test he had to go through first? Make out with the entire crew? Or did they just individually interview every old biddy from that scandalous garden club?
The mental image of the attractive farmer being set upon by an excess of Tiffany clones with dry lips and overly wet, seeking tongues... ^_^;; The girls are instantly put off of their cereal. Cleaning up their leftovers they hurredly dress and all suddenly wish that the next challenge and not a small amount of free time was next up on their day's schedule. Anything structured to keep their mind off slithering, pickled medusas salivating over du Fermier's prone form.
Blissfully unaware that the girls have been mentally projecting onto him a fate he's gone to great pains to escape, du Fermier indulges in a morning swim.
Lunchtime brings a series of unexpected guests from around the neighbourhood. Most of the girls try not to stare and make polite chit-chat, though Pollination Tech #9's apparent explosive incontinence is hard not to notice. Blackforest and Cupcake take an instant dislike to Vidcund (the blonde) and neither of them appreciate him wandering around without his shirt on.
Nervous Subject, however, is a hit with all the contestants and they flirt and playfully joke with him all afternoon until Challenge time.
A side effect of Pollination Tech #9's incontinence. He turns up unannounced, and procedes to back up the toilet. AWESOME. JUST PEACHY. Whatever happened to "We come in peace." ??
The lake still frozen over, Day Three's evening challenge are switched with Day Four's: Cleaning Study. Studiously attempting to avoild elimination, the girls grab their books and rabidly read up on farm sanitation and related OH&S practices. All except Pistachio who for reasons she cannot explain has formed a decided attachment to PT #9. He asks her to join him in a game of darts and she mutely follows him outside.
Mildly worried or her safety, du Fermier follows to keep an eye on the situation, whistling a little and clearing his throat whenever Pistachio seem's to have fallen under even a vague thrall.
The evening's scheduled one-on-one interaction time, however, pulls du Fermier away from keeping an eye on Miss Saladbahr and he reluctantly seeks out Blackforest. This evening he must share a joke and a little bit more scandalous gossip with each of the contestants.
du Fermier: ...And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes...
Blackforest: *outs herself as an enormous Flying High fan*
Meanwhile, in one of the bathrooms, Cupcake, Tiramisu and Marshmallow appear to form a clandestine alliance. Visibly upset about their situation, they speak with strained voices and steal furtive looks through the ajar door. As soon as they are discovered they spring apart and busy themselves in too-innocent pursuits.
The dishwasher broken AGAIN, du Fermier and Cupcake have a laugh at the Handyman's expense, likening fixing the defective appliance to rocket science. When relating the joke again later the polite blank looks they receive from their audience reveals it was the kind of joke only amusing if one was there. Realising they have a shared in-joke, Cupcake's flushed complexion returns with a vengeance.
Baseball, giant robots and monorails. Huh. Sure you hit enough japanese cliches with that joke there, du Fermier?
Uh. Pistachio..? What exactly is going on in that hot tub out there..?
Pistachio seems to have forgotten that she is a contestant in "The Farmer Wants a Wife" and is instead auditioning for the lead in "Three Men and an Alien baby." Apparently, that's PT#9's happy face. >_>;;;;
Attempting to nip this in the bud once and for all, du Fermier's joke for Pistachio turns into more of an educational parable, which she smiles vaguely at and simply dreamily stares off in PT#9's direction.
When she doesn't get the hint, du Fermier whispers in her ear, "They like to impregnate boys," and Pistachio promptly re-enacts Edvard Munch's The Scream with B-Grade horror movie, performance art precision.
Confident Pistachio is no longer in danger, du Fermier corners Tiramisu by the piano and tells her a rather tasteless joke about the Titanic and the amount of penguins that died due to great ship's untimely demise. She laughs raucously in spite of herself and then suddenly worries if that was a very wrong thing to do...
...And the results are:
Blackforest takes the lead again! Pistachio's trance like thrall of PT#9 brought out du Fermier's protective instincts and propelled her position from likely thenext to go to second -- though the difference between first and Cupcake & Mashmallow's third place tie is all of only three points.
Tiramisu, 8 points behind third place, despite best efforts and her uneasy alliance with Cupcake & Marshie therefore now has to pack her bags and leave the house. Her early morning sense of doom betraying a clairvoyant clarity she'd most likely not dwell on lest she face a future of spinsterhood, dressing in bright orange hip scarves and depositing old oil lamps on people's doorsteps.
Wanting to break the news gently, du Fermier sits Tiramisu down to deliver the Dear Jane in person, and asks Cupcake to set a less tense mood by performing something ambient on the piano.
du Fermier: I think you're very sweet, and I hope we can still be friends...
du Fermier? We know you're trying to do the right thing..? But OUCH!
Insisting she say goodbye to each of the contestents and du Fermier individually, without a big farewell scene, as she leaves the house Tiramisu breaks down into tears.
Tiramisu's parting words: When I woke up this morning in a room, alone, I somehow knew I'd be leaving tonight. I tried to make the best of it and made Cupcake and Marshmallow swear -- no matter what happens -- we would stay friends after this whole thing was over. I hope the girls prepare themselves, because even though its been such a short time, leaving is one of the hardest things I've ever had to face.
Three girls down, three to go. With the competition becoming a lot more fierce, and the distractions of unwanted guests adding spice to the mix, every moment from here on out counts...
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Production notes:
• You may notice there's a bit of a colour difference going on with the background and land colours... In an effort to fix the whole lake-freezing thing I packaged the lot and moved it to Strangetown. You know what it did? I just made Strangetown COVERED IN SNOW >_<;;; GAH! It was only after a series of experiments with different options -- at once point I had Cupcake try and use the weather changing aspiration reward -- I remembered all I had to do was set what seasons the neighbourhood experienced on the actual neighbourhood screen and the lake would thaw in good time. BLAH! Something that could've been more useful to realise BEFORE, Nett >_>;;;;
• SERIOUSLY! XD What was going on there with du Fermier's joke to Marshmallow? You couldn't have planned that more perfectly if you tried! ^_^;;
• I SWEAR Pistachio followed PT#9 around like a puppy all day and night. It was disturbing to say the least. I was amused when du Fermier autonomously went out and followed them around -- easy way to up her relationship score with him much? SNEAKY!!
• I gave MYSELF nightmares with the whole skanky old lady imagery .. >_<;;
• The official rules say that by now the Farmer should've formed best friends or a crush or SOMETHING on one of the contestants already. I'm kind of weirded out that he hasn't at all -- meanwhile some of the girls have become best friends with each other...
• The official rules for this day also say that: "In the afternoon, have the Farmer form a casual group with all the remaining Sims and go on a group date (it must be somewhere where they can eat a meal together)." Which I can't do cause I don't have nightlife. GAH! >_<;; So hence the telling the joke and gossiping with each of the girls instead. ^_^;;