Level 42 - A Walk-through Fiction (?) WARNING: MASSIVE POST

[rsommons]

Okay, it's a massive post. Lots of words (pictures too). Could have been a blog (kinda is a blog) but the audience is here, so...read away. What can I say? I get bored waiting for these updates. Sometimes I'll create my own fictions. 13 days before the next update, what else are you going to do?

Level 42 - A Walk-through Fiction (?)

Update downloading.....

New decorations available:
Krusty O's billboard
Plumbing truck (premium)
Barrels of horse meat
Twisty slide
Picnic table
Potted flowers (x3 sizes)
Paint and ladder (ladder on a drop cloth with paint cans, etc. around it)
Flowering shrubs (x2)
KBBL van (premium)


New buildings available:
KBBL Radio Station - LOCKED
Graffiti Warehouse - AVAILABLE
Stonecutters Temple - LOCKED
Abandoned store - LOCKED

New characters available:
Bill and Marty
NOTE: The radio hosts do not walk around town. When not on task, they stay inside the radio station. Radio station tasks allow for Bill & Marty to remotely broadcast from businesses around town. see below.
Lunch Lady Doris (aka Dora) - LOCKED
KBBL Penguin (premium)
Number One - In dialog boxes only, not a playable character
Mr T (premium) hey, it's a fiction.
Civil war monkeys - LOCKED


Part 1 - Radio Promo
Opening dialog requires Krusty to start.

KRUSTY

Hey kids! It's your old pal Krusty the Clown here, reminding you to eat your Krusty O's. Now with 90% more flavor! It tastes less like cardboard and more like sugary cardboard! 

BILL

Great news KBBL listeners, the Bill and Marty show is now sponsored by Krusty O's. Mornings will never be dull again.

MARTY 

Unless of course you are tuned to KBBL. 

BILL 

And to celebrate, Krusty O's is throwing out a great promo! Our next caller will receive a YEAR SUPPLY of Krusty O's. 

MARTY

Now your mornings can be spent trying to listen to our babble over the Krazy Krunch of Krusty O's! 

BILL

Haha! Good one Marty. Really though, these things sound like I'm eating rocks.

MARTY

Seriously, not a single call yet?

TASK: Wait for the call. Build KBBL Radio Station - 24hrs

Meanwhile...
Seemingly random tasks are started: (no dialog boxes, just the task box)
WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND Make Carl work a plant shift - 16hrs
NOTHING BETTER TO DO Make Lenny work a plant shift - 16hrs
BE THE BREAD WINNER Make Homer work a plant shift - 16 hrs
When tasks end Carl and Lenny are rewarded with a donut (TSTO player gains 2 donuts). Homer does not receive a donut. Following dialog just appears:

HOMER

Hey! Did you see that? You guys got free donuts. How did that happen? 

LENNY

Sorry Homer, we would tell you but it's a secret.

CARL 

Shut up Lenny.

HOMER

C'mon guys we work together every day, when we aren't outside doing random tasks, we don't have secrets.

CARL 

Sorry Homer, this one we took an oath for.

HOMER

Well how do I get an oath?

LENNY 

um, that's a secret. 

CARL 

Shut up Lenny.

HOMER

Yeah Lenny. Shut up. Wait, I mean spill it Lenny.

After this dialog ends, nothing happens.
After KBBL is built, dialog starts:

MARTY

Look Bill, line one is blinking.

BILL

Congratulations caller! You've won a year supply of Krusty O's!

BART

That's great, but who did I call?

MARTY

It's Bill and Marty in the morning on KBBL.

BART

I must of hit a wrong number, I was trying to call Moe's.

BILL 

Well Sport-o that was one lucky mistake on your part. Now you can crunch away on 52 boxes of Krusty O's.

BART

Wait a minute. I thought you said a "year supply."

MARTY

Um, yes. A box a week for 52 weeks.

BART 

But I eat waaay more than that in a year. 

BILL & MARTY

- - - 

MARTY 

Tell you what kid, come down to the studio and eat as much as you can in an hour and we'll multiple that to get a true years supply.

BART

You're on man.

TASK: Bart gorges on Krusty O's - 1 hour (action inside KBBL).

After Bart starts his task more seemingly random tasks are generated:
TGIF Make Carl Drink at Moe's - 8hrs
MISERY LOVES COMPANY Make Lenny Drink at Moe's - 8hrs
AH, HOME SWEET AWAY FROM HOME Make Homer Drink at Moe's - 8hrs

End of Bart gorges on Krusty O's.

MARTY

Hey kid you don't look so good

BART

Ooooooo

BILL

I think you're done. 20 boxes of sugary Krusty O's is impressive. After some quick math, we've decided to set you up with 7,300 boxes for the year. 

BART

Ohhhhhhhhh

MARTY

I think he likes the sound of that!

BART 

Unnnnngh

BILL

Oh yeah! Another satisfied listener!

TASK: Bart sleeps it off - 16hrs (action inside Simpson house)

When Carl, Lenny, and Homer are all finished with their tasks Drink at Moe's, dialog appears.

LENNY

Okay Moe I'm ready to settle up.

CARL

Yeah, me too.

MOE

C'mon guys. You know you-know-who buys the drinks before the secret wink wink at the you-know-where.

LENNY 

Whoa. I almost forgot this was a meeting night.

HOMER

What are you guys talking about? I could go for a free beer.

MOE

Not so fast there Homer you ain't no you know who.

HOMER

Awww.

LENNY

Sorry Homer we'd tell you about it but it's a secret.

CARL

Shut up Lenny. Let's roll before we're late. It's never good to make Number One wait.

HOMER

Hee hee. "number one." What kind of meeting are you going to? Bladder supporters?

LENNY

We can't say Homer, it's a secret.

CARL

Shut up Lenny.

Closing dialog quietly unlocks Stonecutter Temple - 24 hour build

End Part 1 - Radio Promo

Part 2 - Waiting For To Go
Bart finishes sleeping it off but, stays in the Simpson House until Marge is free to start next dialog

MARGE

Bart, time for school!

BART

Ohhhhhh.

MARGE

Come eat your Krusty O's before they get soggy. 

LISA

Mom, Krusty O's are coated with a special layer of fat and sugar that is impenetrable by any liquid known to man (or woman). They're always Krunchy in milk!TM

MARGE

Mmmm. 

Bart! Right now please!

BART

---

MARGE

Oh good heavens! Bart! What happened? You look like you have gained 40 pounds!

BART

D'oh!

MARGE

Oh my, you get more like your father every day. Hurry up. You two are running late.

TASK: Bart rolls to school - 2hrs (Bart is clearly overweight. He skateboards slowly, with breaks). We only see him skateboard from his house to school. The rest of the task takes place in the school.

Stonecutters Temple finishes building

TASK: Stonecutters emblem shows up with message: attend a secret wink-wink - 24 hours. Task is for 10 men of Springfield (not Homer). Like group tasks before, this one requires 10 men, but is set for many more. Player must find all/any stonecutter (not everyone is a Stonecutter).

After 10th task begins, dialog opens:

HOMER

Lenny? Carl? Where did everyone go? Looks like most of Springfield has disappeared. They must be off on one of those group tasks.

Attend secret wink-wink task ends:

HOMER

What the? Look at that thumb tower! Where did that building even come from? I must investigate.

NEW COSTUME UNLOCKED: Stonecutter Homer [SCH]
TASK: HOMER TRIES TO ENTER THE TEMPLE - 1 hour (action shows plain clothes Homer making failed attempts to enter front door of Stonecutters Temple)

End of Bart rolls to school:

PRINCIPAL SKINNER

Lunch Lady, I mean Nurse Doris, please report to the school nurse's office. 

LUNCH LADY DORIS

Great. Now the food will go cold.

LISA

since when did we have hot lunches?

PRINCIPAL SKINNER

Thanks Lunch Lad..er, Nurse Doris. We have a student who isn't feeling well. He says he's Bart Simpson, but he looks more like a really overweight version of Bart.

NURSE DORIS

what's wrong kid?

BART

uuuugnhhhhh

NURSE DORIS

Eh. You just seem backed up to me. Here's a few laxatives. Go home and wait for them to kick in.

TASK: A kick in the rear - 4 hours (Bart slowly skateboards home. Task finishes inside the Simpson house).

End Homer's enter the Temple task:

HOMER

Marge, there's a huge new building in town and I can't get in.

MARGE

Oh Homie, that's the post office. Only Smithers can get in there.

HOMER

No it's different then that one. 

MARGE

Is it Sprawl Mart, I never see anyone going in there.

HOMER

No it's really big with a dome on top.

GRANDPA

I know how to get in.

MARGE

Oh! The Knowledgeum! Lisa went there once.

HOMER

No. It's squarer than that.

GRANDPA

I know how to get in.

MARGE

Springfield Museum? Really Homer, there are big buildings all over town that no one steps foot in.

HOMER

I know, I know. I tried to take the kids ice skating once. But this building had nearly everyone in town going in.

GRANDPA

C'mon boy, I'll get you in.

HOMER

When did you get here?

TASK: A temple for two Grandpa and Homer enter the Temple- 8 hrs

End Part 2 - Waiting for to go

Part 3 - A Fat Suit

BART

I still feel awful.

MARGE

Is this from eating all that sugary cereal?

BART

I think so. I think I ate too much.

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

I couldn't help overhearing about your situation. And while you may have brought this on yourself. I believe we could turn public opinion, i.e. a jury of your peers, around to blame your condition on any number of people. Preferably, wealthy people.

BART

Do you think I could get another year of Krusty O's out of it?

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

Son, when I'm done you will have full access to the Krusty O's factory!

BART

Wait. Has that ever even appeared in an episode? It certainly isn't in the build menu.

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER 

Don't worry little boy Tapped Out developers are a little, shall we say, tapped out. They'll take any new idea they can get.

TASK: Blue haired lawyer investigates "fat suit." Walks around town, stops at school, radio station, dr hibberts office, maybe one or two other locations in a repeated loop. - 24 hours
ACTION: Krusty O's factory added to build menu (locked)

End: Homer and Grandpa visit the Temple.

NUMBER ONE

Brothers! Let us celebrate a new member! As it is written in our charter, each new member must cross the desert of time, swim through the river of knowledge, and lastly tread through the forest of brotherly trust.

HOMER 

You know on second thought, this sounds like a lot of work. I think I'll be going.

NUMBER ONE 

Oh no, Brother Homer. You have seen and know too much now. The initiation has been initiated. No one can stop it. Besides all that work is really just a continual paddling.

TASK: Hazed and Confused. Homer gets hazed - 16 hours.  Same members of Stonecutters return to temple for hazing.

End Blue haired lawyer investigates "fat suit"

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

Well, I have gathered evidence, talked to witnesses, and outline a million dollar court case. We go to trial in 3 days.

BART 

3 days?! That's a lifetime! It's never taken me more than 24hrs to do anything in this game.

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

Son, you have a lot to learn. We have nothing but time here. Waiting three days is better than aimlessly wandering the streets with no one to sue, I mean greet. But if you're in such a hurry you could always spend some donuts to expedite matters.

TASK: Wait for trail - 3 Days

End haze Homer.

NUMBER ONE

Well done brothers! Another member successfully inducted into the Stonecutters. You may now enjoy all of the benefits, bonuses, mystique, and magic afforded the Stonecutters through the generations! 

HOMER 

Woo hoo! Teleportation, here I come! No more long walks to the car, finding a parking space, walking to the main entrance, or walking to my station. I can just step into a gadgety closet, push a button, and bip I'm at work. Sweet.

NUMBER ONE

Um, not so fast Brother Homer. Perhaps, the next best thing...

TASK: Homer roller-blades around town - 2hrs.

End roller blade around town

NUMBER ONE

Bothers, The Feast of the Inducted is upon us. Food, drink, and company surround us. Before we dine let us recite our code from the ancient text....um, where is the ancient text? 

CARL

Homer, what are doing?

HOMER 

I'm taking notes. I don't want to mess this up.

LENNY 

But your taking them on the ancient text!

HOMER 

This? No, this is the menu for the feast. It's super soft too. I actually used a little bit of it to blow my nose.

CARL 

You blew your nose on the ancient text!?

HOMER 

What the?! AAAA! I thought this was the menu!

NUMBER ONE

A DISGRACE! For such offenses, as outlined in the ancient text (once), Brother Homer must be humiliated by walking around town wearing the stone of shame...naked.

TASK: The shame game - Homer must walk around town dragging the stone of shame - 24 hours (naked Homer trudges around town with the stone of shame).



End wait for trail.

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

Okay son, it's time to stick it to the man.

BART 

Who exactly are we suing?

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

In cases like these, where the resulting condition has been brought on by the victim's own stupidity, we usually look for the biggest payout from the largest corporation around. Unfortunately big tobacco and genetically modified food engineers aren't part of the game (yet) so we're going after the biggest fish we could find...one Krusty the Clown!

BART

What!!? I don't want to sue Krusty!

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER

Sorry son. Just imagine about how I feel. I'm Krusty's lawyer. But that clown hasn't hired me in at least 6 levels. There's no turning back now. Target: Krusty.

TASK: Sue happy to see you - Start the fat suit, have witnesses attend the courthouse. - 12 hours
Marge, Bart, Blue Haired Lawyer, Judge, Krusty, Lunch Lady Doris, Principal Skinner, willie, Millhouse, each entering with a phrase related to the case.

End humiliate Homer.

NUMBER ONE 

WAIT! What is this!? He has the mark! 

CARL

Homer what's that on your backside?

HOMER 

That? That's a birthmark. Don't you think I'm humiliated enough without you mentioning my birthmark?

LENNY

Homer the ancient text, that you defiled, speaks of a Chosen One coming back to return the Stonecutters to its original glory! The Chosen One would be identified by the mark of the Stonecutters. Your birthmark is the mark of the Stonecutters. You are the Chosen One.

HOMER
Shut up Lenny.

NUMBER ONE 

It's true. You Brother Homer are the Chosen One. You are here to restore us to our ancient glory where we held all of the world's secrets. And the answers to life's most important questions. With our clandestine information we can suppress societies of great magnitude. All hail the chosen one! Um, after he puts on the robes of the Grand Ruler.

Part 4 - The Chosen One

TASK: Homer's reign part 1 - 10 hours. Carl, Lenny and Moe (more if possible) hang outside the temple. Homer runs out of the temple wearing the robes of the chosen one and they all kneel. Homer runs back in and they stand up. Action repeats.

End trial.

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER 

Congratulations Bartholomew Jojo Simpson, you are now the proud owner of the Krusty O's factory.

BART 

Wait. How did that happen?

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER 

Well, during our task time we debated the case, called some witnesses, adjourned for lunch, heard from the defense, and then the jury weighed the evidence, and considered the case. The judge ruled and the jury awarded accordingly. They chose to award you what we were asking.

BART 

Really? All that in 12 hours?

BLUE HAIRED LAWYER 

Son. Outside right now there is a dolphin hopping around town. Is it really so hard to imagine that swift justice is possible?

TASK: Build Krusty O factory. (24 hours)
After completion:

BART

Great another building no one will ever go in. I bet it doesn't even "do" anything!

ACTION: Krusty O's Factory - make fattening cereal - 12 hours. (End of task - nothing happens)

End Part 3 - The Fat Suit

End Homer's Reign Part 1

HOMER

Well, that got old fast.

LISA 

You should use your new powers for good, dad.

HOMER 

Like fixing sports events? Or insisting Full House be on 24 hours a day? Or rigging elections? 

LISA

ummmmm

HOMER

I know! I'll get a bunch of monkeys together to reenact the Civil War!

LISA 

I was thinking something a little more community driven like planting flowers or building play grounds.

HOMER 

Are you sure you are my child?

TASK: Homer's reign part 2. Plant flowers, build playgrounds. Task requires multiple Stonecutters to get involved in community projects. There will be "activities" associated with some of the new decorations. As examples: Moe helps Ralphie on the twisty slide - 4 hrs (animation shows Moe getting stuck in the slide), or Lenny plants bush - 4hrs (animation shows Lenny digging a hole, or maybe watering a shrub)

End task

LISA 

See dad. Look how the town smiles back when you put in a little effort to making it better.

HOMER 

I don't see it.

LISA 

Maybe you should try harder. That graffiti building is an eyesore, maybe the Stonecutters could repaint it?

TASK: Homer's reign part 3 get Stonecutters repaint graffiti building. 10 or more work on reprinting building.
NOTE on graffiti building: this building comes with a skin. The first time it is built it is in it's graffiti state. Once it's painted it has a skin that is the building painted completely green like the grass of Springfield. This should act as a kind of camouflage. AND since this is a fiction...the building, designed a lot like Costingtons, has a solid flat roof. A roof that can certain decor can be placed on. Imagine a roof top that can be "planted."


End Homer's reign part 3

MOE 

This isn't the Stonecutters I signed up for.

CARL

I like Homer, but I like the old Stonecutters better.

NUMBER ONE

Indeed. I doubt this kind of community giving was what the ancient founders had in mind when they prophesized about the Chosen One.

MOE 

Maybe it's time to rebuild the ancient Stonecutters. The way our forefathers would have wanted it.

TASK: No Homer's Society - Build new Stonecutter's (abandoned ice cream store) sign on door: No Homer's


End No Homer's Society

HOMER 

Well, it was fun while it lasted. I guess it's never to late to buy some more Civil War monkeys.

--- End. ---

The Rest - 
Various buildings, characters, and their unlocked tasks - 


KBBL station
1 Hour - outdoor broadcast from Kwik-e-mart
4 Hour - outdoor broadcast from Brown House
8 Hour - outdoor broadcast from Moe's
12 Hour - outdoor broadcast from Radio Station
24 Hour - outdoor broadcast from Squidport


Lunch Lady Doris (aka Dora)
1 hour - feed pigeons (i.e. try to trap pigeons)
2 hour - open cans of horse meat (requires barrels of horse meat)
4 hour - smoke break
6 hour - lunch with son (requires Up Up and Buffet, & Squeaky Voiced Teen)
8 hour - serve lunch
12 hour - join Moleman for a night on the town (requires Moleman)
24 hour - prepare tomorrow's "chefs special."


Stonecutter Homer
1 Hour - Attempt to enter the Temple (plain clothes)
2 Hour - Rollerblade around town
4 Hour - Paint graffiti building
8 Hour - Pose for portrait (inside Simpson House)
12 Hour - Greet subjects (runs in and out of temple)
16 Hour - Get hazed
24 Hour - Stone of Shame


Mr T
1 Hour - Pity the fool (goes around town jabbing finger in the air)
2 Hour - Advertise Mr T Cereal (requires Krusty O billboard) (Mr T stands in front of billboard, maybe repaints it and waves Mr T cereal around)
4 Hour - Show off the bling (struts with much gold on, trips every now and then)
8 Hour - Attend Stonecutters secret wink-wink.
12 Hour - Perform as Mufasa on outdoor stage
24 Hour - Advertise for the wax museum (hands out flyers)

[rsommons]

OOF. I was a bit nervous I might break the forum with that post. Looks okay. Cheers y'all!

[Dexy]

Do I really have to wait till Level 42 (also known as the Lessons in Love level?) to get barrels of horse meat??


Who do we have to bribe to get you working on tapped out levels? We all need stone of shame naked Homer!

[Solar Dragon]

Number One should be an actual character with tasks. And I'd rather have Bill and Marty walking around. Getting characters you don't even see would suck.

[lakooo]

rsommons!

rsommons!

rsommons!

I've said your name three times now, so you're magically prohibited from leaving us ever again!!

And I wish desperately that you were writing storylines for EA...

[Jopa]

Wow..bravo! Now we all know what you've been up to for the last few months

[rsommons]

Hey thanks everyone. I love feedback.

Dexy if you find someone, I have my resume ready!

lakooo, I've never been too far away.

Solar Dragon: I get your point. I'm just tired of the same old same old. Plus, my streets are clogged with useless townsfolk and oddities. I'd like a new frustration. In my fiction you would totally see Bill and Marty, though they would just be doing "standing" animation at area locales. As for Number One, sorry that's a deal breaker for me, he stays in the Temple. He embodies too much mystique to be wandering aimlessly about town. But again this is all just fiction. Play it how'd you like.

[rsommons]

Apr 29, 2014 16:30:39 GMT -5 Dexy said:

Do I really have to wait till Level 42 (also known as the Lessons in Love level?) to get barrels of horse meat??


Who do we have to bribe to get you working on tapped out levels? We all need stone of shame naked Homer!

Surely there is a badgemaker somewhere thinking...barrel of horse parts...

[Dexy]

I'd love if you got actual recorded dialogue for Bill and Marty. Then I'd love the donuts that EA would give us after it glitches the game somehow.

Apr 29, 2014 17:07:23 GMT -5 rsommons said:

Apr 29, 2014 16:30:39 GMT -5 Dexy said:

Do I really have to wait till Level 42 (also known as the Lessons in Love level?) to get barrels of horse meat??


Who do we have to bribe to get you working on tapped out levels? We all need stone of shame naked Homer!

Surely there is a badgemaker somewhere thinking...barrel of horse parts...

"More testicles means more iron"

[Peruhomer]

This! Just do it. Do it. Do it now. Now.

[Dexy]

Apr 30, 2014 10:12:07 GMT -5 Peruhomer said:

This! Just do it. Do it. Do it now. Now.

What, right now? You're as eager for the horse meat barrels as I am then? Well, stupid question really, how could you not be?

Edit

Nevermind the horse meat barrels, we have concrete walls now. We're living the dream!

[z]

Apr 29, 2014 16:30:39 GMT -5 Dexy said:

Do I really have to wait till Level 42 (also known as the Lessons in Love level?) to get barrels of horse meat??


Who do we have to bribe to get you working on tapped out levels? We all need stone of shame naked Homer!

I'm currently listening to that song now. Thank you.

[aj]

whats level 41 fire house?

[Shoushi29]

Awesome post !
EA, hire that tapper now !

[JoeBeezy]

Only thing missing is more land

[Dexy]

May 7, 2014 12:45:14 GMT -5 z said:

Apr 29, 2014 16:30:39 GMT -5 Dexy said:

Do I really have to wait till Level 42 (also known as the Lessons in Love level?) to get barrels of horse meat??


Who do we have to bribe to get you working on tapped out levels? We all need stone of shame naked Homer!

I'm currently listening to that song now. Thank you.

I didn't think anyone was going to get that.

[Dalton]

That was really entertaining, and what's better, I can see it happening. Just needs some tweaks, like some of the references to premium characters and limited characters wouldn't work for newer/freemium players.

Also, if they introduced Stonecutters, the game would most likely do the story differently to the show, or pick up where the episode left off. For instance, you might start with the Abandoned Shop, and Homer helps re-build the Stonecutters to their former glory, culminating in building Stonecutter Temple, and Homer finally fulfilling their prophecy. (In a way nobody expects, like how Anakin Skywalker brought balance to the Force, but first almost destroyed it, kind of thing)