#hopefully I'll be able to have them resume those side hustles soon!

[victorluvsalice]

Anyway -- while the Oversized Crops Fair wasn’t exactly hopping, there were enough NPCs around to make it interesting -- and I was very pleased to see a few come over and throw their hats into the ring for the actual competitions! After all, I’d heard before that these fairs can be a little, uh, broken, at times, including never having any competitors besides your Sims (which does NOT guarantee them a win!). Fortunately for me, a couple of wandering NPCs submitted pies for judging (a cottage pie and a meat pie if I recall correctly), another guy submitted his oversized lettuce, and this little kid submitted his little baby lettuce as Alice went to check out Victor’s watermelon versus the competition, aww. :) We’re all pulling for you, buddy!

With the promise of an actual competition in the offing, I set about keeping the gang busy until the final judgment came. Alice joined the gang grooving to cottagecore over by the speaker (when in doubt, dance!), while Victor finished up his fruit pie and Smiler traded their Wrench for a Plasma Jane and started making friends with the other people at the bar -- specifically the dude in the yellow sweater with the pointy beard named Jameson. They really seemed to get on well! (I mean, yeah, everyone gets on well with Smiler, but still.) Victor submitted his pie and came back to the bar to finish off Smiler’s unwanted drink as a sort of reward for himself --

And then I was like, “Hang on, the festival generally has special deals at either the grocery stall or the garden stall -- why not have Victor and Alice pick up a few things?” And so they did, with Alice taking on Agnes (and not impressing her with her scratching, apparently) and Victor chatting to Kim. They both got some good stuff too -- as I was planning on getting them a cow in the very near future, I had Alice pick up some new treats (including Party, Fishy Protein, Pumpkin, and Veggie) and a glow orb she found in Agnes’s inventory, while Victor picked up some blueberries and cherries for the greenhouse, plus a quill fruit! Both that and the glow orb are normally only found on Sixam, so getting them here was indeed a special deal! Thanks Agnes and Kim!