4th of July Event 2014

4th of July 2014 Event

2 July 2014

Just as the Stonecutter Event is winding down as Tappers log in on July 2nd they get a on-the-fly game Update that instantly adds a new dialogue event to the game in which Homer attempts to purchase fireworks from Apu - who is normally a solid source for that particular special celebratory item - only to learn that they have been made illegal and thus unobtainable!

The conclusion of this dialogue spawns the first mission - and welcomes you to the 2014 4th of July Event!

Failure to Launch

The first and launching mission for the new event requires a new Building to be constructed -- a task that will take 24h to complete and costs you $5K.

Failure to Launch Pt. 1

Your first official act is to build Giuseppe's Workshop - which requires you to have reached at least Level 5, and costs $5,000. This also includes the new character, Giuseppe.

Build Giuseppe's Workshop

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 2

With the workshop completed and Giuseppe added to your Springfield, Homer approaches and asks that he make the biggest fireworks he can manage to make - as Lisa volunteers to help out! This multi-tasker requires that you have completed Building Springfield Elementary School (which requires you to get to Level 9) first.

1. Build Springfield Elementary School

2. Lisa: Read Outdated Chemistry Books (4h) $175 and 45 XP.

3. Giuseppe: Stock Up On Fertilizer (4h) $175 and 45 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 3

After a brief planning session and some ghostly research it is time to get down to the business of making fireworks!

Giuseppe: Invent a New Firework (12h) $420 and 100 XP

Lisa: Mix Dangerous Chemicals (12h) $420 and 100 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 4

Man, sometimes the writers for The Simpsons put their fingers right on hot button issues, right? I mean, Right?! Well this time they are addressing the complicated contradictions of the Right to Bear Arms - err - Fireworks!

Giuseppe: Host a Fireworks Support Rally (2h) $110 and 27 XP

Attend a Fireworks Support Rally (2h) $110 and 27 XP. (x5 Republicans)

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 5

The Fireworks are gone but Giuseppe has a plan - it seems he believes that you can use small fireworks to find big ones?

Giuseppe: Search for Stolen Fireworks (24h) $600 and 150 XP

Homer: Search for Stolen Fireworks (24h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 6

Homer is very disappointed in the way this adventure is unfolding - and decides to head for work. Wait, Homer is going to work? Things must really be boring!

1. Reach Level 11 and Build the Cooling Towers.

2. Homer: "Safely" do his Job (16h) $500 and 125 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with 2 Donuts and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 7

With the true villain revealed (and were you surprised? Really?) it is time for Giuseppe and Homer to get to it!

Giuseppe: Confront Mr. Burns (6h) $450 and 110 XP

Homer: Butt into Giuseppe's Business (6h) $225 and 55 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Failure to Launch Pt. 8

Wow, did not see that coming! Those hillbillies were once Philadelphia elite?! Wow. Well the good news is that Giuseppe has taken his lemons and made lemonade! Or rather taken spent nuke fuel rods and made new fireworks out of them!

Giuseppe: Show Off New Invention (1h) $70 and 17 XP

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Diamond Joe Wows Them Again

This is a one-off for the Mayor - giving him the opportunity to make a patriotic speech.

Give a Speech (1h) $70 and 17 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $50 and 5 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence

It seems that President George Washington has also been swept through time to Springfield - and also has something of a personal issue to settle.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 1

It seems that President Washington has a thing for Jebediah Springfield - a seriously wants to put the hurt on the boy thing!

Hunt for Jebediah Springfield (24h) $1000 and 225 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 2

Wouldn't it be messed up if this was all true??

Write a Tell-All (4h) $260 and 70 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 3

Washington needs to keep his mind occupied while he waits to be sent back home - and a great little mental and emotional exercise would be planning the invasion of Britain! Of course remember that in Washington's era Germany was not a nation, it was a bunch of city-states, and the United Kingdom was not so much United as it was the Trying to Get Along Kingdom - so an invasion really might work!

Plan an Invasion of Britain (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 4

And here we have proof that sometimes delusions are functional! Washington knows that the situation has changed, he can see horseless carriages al around him, and yet he is still willing to invest time, energy and the risk of life for that silly plan of his!

Recruit an Army (24h) $1,000 and 225 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 5

It seems that door-to-door recruiting for the whole build an army idea is not working out quite the way that Washington thought it would. Heck, he should try selling vacuum cleaners that way!

Reject Praise (6h) $350 and 90 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Declaration of Co-Dependence Pt. 6

It seems that Washington has a very bad case of cognitive dissonance in dealing with the friendship and praise of the citizens of Springfield. On the one hand he rather likes how the Grand Experiment in Democracy actually worked out, but on the other he finds the willingness of the typical if well-edumacated persons to be rather odd and disturbing!

Flee Admirers (16h) $750 and 200 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe

President Lincoln has somehow been whipped through time to your Springfield - and he is not real happy about it!

Honest Abe Pt. 1

Lincoln is rather freaked about his situation and needs to do something to relax...

Split Rails (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 2

Lisa tells him about President Obama and does not get the reaction she was hoping for - so quickly points out some rails that need splitting!

Split Rails (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 3

President Lincoln is eager to get back to his own time and get back to what he feels is his most important jobs - ending the war and then rebuilding the nation. Unfortunately while Frink is a great scientist he is a very bad liar... And the look on his face was enough to make Honest Abe Honestly Paranoid!

Feel Paranoid (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 4

After trying very hard to connect with Lisa her reactions simply end up feeding into his feelings of paranoia - this whole exchange is decidedly not heading in a good direction!

Feel Paranoid (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 5

While curiosity killed the cat I don't think that they came up with that saying as a warning to cats... So it makes total sense that a now very paranoid Lincoln would have to be seriously considering a consultation with some History books at the library. Wouldn't you?

1. Reach Level 12 and Build the Springfield Library

2. Research Abraham Lincoln's Fate (24h) $1000 and 225 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 6

Ooohhkaayyy did not see that coming! So the 16th President of the United States - Honest Abraham - was actually a man that was seriously concerned with his own safety and long life??

US President Lyndon Johnson (36th President of the USA) is widely quoted as having said that: "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

I buy that! So for this mission you need to complete the following Tasks:

1. Reach Level 15 and Build Jake's Unisex Hair Palace

2. Lincoln: Get a Beard Trim (1h) $105 and 26 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 7

Lisa cuts a deal with the Prez - coach her debate team at school and she will share what she knows about his future - which is a lot... Yep, little sweet Lisa Simpson has learned coercion!

Coach Springfield Elementary School Debate Team (12h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 8

It seems that President Lincoln is not the man that the History books praise him as being - and more to the point, that he has very little interest in returning to his timeline and suffering the fate he now knows - thanks to Lisa Simpson - awaits him. Personally I think it would have been better all the way around if she had kept her mouth shut, but hey, that's me!

For his part Honest Abe has decided that now - before Frink has the chance to figure out how to send him and Jorge back to their times - would be a really good time to cut and run!

Run for It! (12h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 9

Escaping did not work so Lincoln is now going to try to blend in...

Attempt to Blend In (24h) $1000 and 225 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Honest Abe Pt. 10

Abe hooks up with childhood pal Monty Burns and arranges to lay low at Burns Manor for a bit...

Split Rails (8h) $420 and 105 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Lincoln on Lincoln

We appear to be approaching the end of the Lincoln Missions and this one far from being a new or surprising one has us doing something that we're very familiar with already...

Split Rails (8h) $420 and 105 XP

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Paranoid Android Redux

A new mission for both Rex Banner and Homer Simpson - Oh and Ned Flanders as well, sort of... You see for reasons that are entirely his own, Homer Simpson is once again trying to implicate Ned Flanders in the whole fireworks thing - and in spite of the fact that Lisa Simpson has established beyond question that no laws are actually being broken, Agent Banner allows himself to be convinced to take action despite that!

Interrogate Flanders (8h) $695 and 175 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $xx and xx XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux

This is the mission for Federal Agent Rex Banner (a Premium character that is added by the purchase of the diner). This Building and character was previously available in the 2013 4th Event, so this time around they get a new mission.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 1

Banner intends to stomp out illegal fireworks - and he knows that the best way to do that is to go after information!

Interrogate Flanders (8h) $695 and 175 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 2

Banner is hot on Apu's trail! It is time to hide the evidence!

Apu: Hide Evidence Behind Malt Liquor (4h) $175 and 45 XP.

Rex: Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart (12h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 3

Apu was fast enough to avoid capture the last time, but it seems that Banner is not going to give up so easily - yes, he is back! Apu must quickly re-hide the evidence again before the Fed catches on! Make sure that Apu and Banner are available, then complete the following Tasks:

Apu: Hide Fireworks Behind Malt Liquor (4h) $175 and 45 XP.

Rex: Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart (12h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 4

Banner has taken Apu into custody - but Homer has a plan... Not a good plan mind you but hey, any plan is better than no plan at all and... Wait! His plan is to peach on Ned Flanders?! What kind of low down arrgh!

Rex: Interrogate Flanders (8h) $695 and 175 XP.

Buy Fireworks (1h) $70 and 17 XP. (x10 Springfielders)

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 5

While it is always nice to experience a community come together to make things happen, a community banding together in order to break the law? Well that is actually rather disturbing... Thankfully cooler heads - and smarter brains - will almost always prevail!

Just as Federal Agent Rex Banner is about to arrest local convenience store guru Apu for violations of the fireworks laws, Lisa trots out an old law from back when the community was founded that - this will of course blow your mind - makes the manufacture and sale of fireworks perfectly Legal - well, sort of...

"I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits “the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4," Lisa reveals.

"What's so special about the Fourth of June?" Rex demands.

"June 4th was King George III of England's birthday," Lisa explains. "We've always been America's cowards."

Now THAT makes perfect sense! And it gets everybody out of trouble!

Rex: Eat a Banana Kaboom (4h) $260 and 70 XP.

Of course completing this part of the mission does require that you have Rex obviously :) The Banana Kaboom is a type of desert - I can only presume that it is a lot like one that my wife makes that we call "Strawberry Train Wreck" here at Chez Boots-Faubert.

There is a story there - one day many years ago she set out to make a desert called Strawberry Angel Food Surprise - which is supposed to be a doughnut-shaped Angel Food Cake (mmmm, doughnuts!) that is covered in Strawberries and Strawberry nectar, then Whipped Cream. Except that for whatever reason it did not turn out quite the way it looked in the cookbook - hence the name, Strawberry Train Wreck!

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 6

Now that the heat is off from Agent Banner Apu decides that the time has come to restock his semi-illegal wares...

Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks (24h) $600 and 150 XP.

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

The Rocket's Red Glare Redux Pt. 7

Apu has restocked and is once again in the Firework Business! Yay!

Apu: Turn a Profit (12hh) $420 and 100 XP.

Buy Fireworks (1h) $70 and 17 (x10 Springfielders)

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Ye Old Cherry Tree

In this one-off for President Washington (Premium Character) we get to see him prove to Skinner that it turns out History is quite fallible!

Try to Cut Down a Cherry Tree (12h) $600 and 150 XP

Completing this mission will award you with $100 and 10 XP.

Note: This is the final special-event-based Mission and Quest for George Washington. Once you complete this (and thankfully he does not actually succeed in chopping down that beautiful Cherry Tree!) you have now finished all of the missions and their quests he is meant to do for the event.

Bear in mind that, in addition to these, he also has available to him the following Tasks:

• Get Fitted For a New Pair of Dentures (1h) $105and 26 XP

• Hunt for Jebediah Springfield (24h) $1000 and 225 XP

• Plan an Invasion of Britain (8h) $420 and 105 XP

• Try to Cut Down a Cherry Tree (12h) $600 and 150 XP

• Write a Tell-All (4h) $260 and 70 XP

You can do these as much as you like, whenever you like, which means the Donuts that you spent adding President Washington (and his Cherry Tree) were well spent!

Special Event Items

The following objects, Items, Buildings, and Decorations are added to the game for a limited time while this event is in play:

Decorations

All-American Apu (30D)

American Flag ($5600)

Box of Fireworks (60D)

Fireworks Barge (80D) Reach Level 15 / 2.75% Bonus Money and XP to all Jobs.

Liberty Bell ($50,000)

Lincoln Memorial ($100K) Requires Level 5 / Improves Vanity Rating.

Lisa Statue of Liberty (75D)

Pinwheel Firework (40D)

Ye Olde Cherry Tree (180D) Requires Level 5 / 2.75% Bonus Money and XP to all Jobs (Adds Washington)

Structures

Giuseppe's Workshop ($5K) Requires Level 5 / Mission and Quest Item.

Lincoln's Cabin (150D)

Nighthawk Diner (90D)

Money Sinks

Sit-N-Rotate ($10M) Requires Level 35 / Improves Gluttony Rating.