Corinne was excited that this year her birthday wasn’t on parent-teacher-conference week because it meant she’d get to spend more time with friends at school. Her school day went well and back at home she entered the land of Reveria from the Fantasy Life i which she had recently played.
Edward greeted her with urgent news: Trip, his bird friend, injured a wing while flying through the woods and needed help getting home. His path home was blocked by a golem, an orc, and some vines. She would need to practice her skills in many different “lives” in order to rescue Trip. In the game, your character takes on various lives to learn new skills (e.g., a carpenter, a wizard, a fighter, etc.).
The first task she decided to tackle was to take up the tailor life and make a dress for the golem’s doll. After cutting and sewing the dress she took up the artist life to decorate it.
The dress prepared, she took up the angler life to make a fish stew for the orc. She caught some fish in the pond and took them back to the kitchen where she took up the cook life to prepare the stew. In the game, many of the “lives” have mini games associated with their activities. So to be a cook Corinne needed to chop the fish on the cutting board (using her hand as the knife), flip the fish in the frying pan, and stir the fish in the pot–jumping from task to task as I called them out. She had a blast with this part.
With the stew ready she turned her attention to the final task: prepare a potion to pour on the vines to wither them up and allow her to pass. For this task she’d need to take up the carpenter life to build a box in which she could carry the three potions she would make with the alchemist life. The carpenter life had a similar mini game in which she needed to hammer, saw, or sand at the workbench. And as the alchemist she needed to mix up 3 potions of the appropriate colors from the available dyes.
She was now ready to head out to the forest, clear the obstacles, and rescue Trip. She gave the golem the new dress for its doll and it ambled off. She poured the potions on the vines and they withered up. And she fed the stew to the orc who settled down for a nap. She collected Trip and returned him safely to Edward who rewarded her with presents!
After dinner we were off to Panda Express for birthday dinner then back home for a shower and cake. Heather decorated the cake after Jess frosted it.
