Part 34: Scrollin' Scrollin' Scrollin'

: Could you make my place less lame so I can, you know, lead a better life?



Yay!



... yay!



... you can stop now!

With the addition of Rusty's, uh, 'found' Scrolls, Sam has no fewer than five Scrolls hanging around waiting to be completed. We should maybe do something about that.



Let's talk about Cowboy Junction's weeding chain, and the sneaky trick that it pulls on us.



The first weed in the chain drops a pineapple, which is ridiculous but unsurprising: there are pineapple trees all over this island.



See?



The second weed in the chain, however, drops Tire Essences. We have a Scroll which requires ten of those, and this is the only way to get them. If you haven't figured out that you can pull up weeds, or if you haven't figured out the hidden weeding-chain trick, you'll never find any Tires and you'll never be able to complete that Scroll. Fortunately, Cowboy Junction deliberately puts two weeds right next to each other as a teaching aid.

The third weed nets us Musical Notes, and the fourth gives us Electrobits. Tires and computer chips are still totally cowboy, right? Anyway! After some concerted weeding, we have enough pineapples to make a thing!







Sam unlocks a Picnic Blanket, a Sack--no, really, it's just a burlap sack tied closed with a chunk of rope--a Barrel, and... a Pizza Oven. Okay, then!



The second Scroll is completed literally five seconds of tree-shaking later.

: A piano? How neat! Do you think someone around here likes music?



Unsurprisingly, this nets us a fancy upright Piano.



Speaking of sneaky...





Every time we run Sam through the 'wash hands' animation, there's a small chance that a pink Octopus will squirt out of the faucet.

(Sam totally alludes to this in MySims Agents, if you make him examine the sink in the kitchen of Cyrus' bayou manor.)



Here's the second fishing spot, back behind Roxie's cow pen.



Where we can catch Jellyfish! (Soooo many Jellyfish.)



And, far too rarely, Electric Eels!



Still, eventually we put everything together for the third Scroll.

: Wow! This stuff looks great!



Sam unlocks a Stereo (powered by electric eels, I guess) and a Trunk to put his stereo on.



Poor Gino! Let's hurry up and dig up everything we need for the fourth scroll.



: These will allow you to add camping gear to the exteriors you build.



Sam gets a Campfire, a Tent, a Pile o' Logs--no, really--a Cow Skull, and a Sandbag.



And finally Sam's patient Tire farming pays off!

: These will allow you to recreate the look of Roxie's interior.

Oh, like her spleen and stuff--no, okay, there's a small Bookcase, a potted Palm Bush, an End Table, some Pig Farmer Wood Floor Paint--did you steal that?!--some Ketchup Paint, some Cow Hide Paint, and some Hearthstone Paint!

That's all five Scrolls. Let's head back and see what we can do for Rusty.



You may well be in luck, varmint.


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Next time on MySims Kingdom: Showering criminals with gifts makes them stop committing crimes, right?