Storyteller-Ann

A storyteller focused on the classic rags to riches story, with a few surprises thrown in to spice things up.

The goal of this mod is not to drastically change up gameplay, but to provide a sort of Vanilla+ experience that is a bit more challenging and doesn't butt heads with any other storytellers or the core games default balance.

Storyteller configurations are about the same as Ricardo, however:

• Starting funds are set to 0

• job performance threshold for strikes is set to 25, so its a bit harsher

To make gameplay a bit more unique, Ann comes with some custom card packs that appear along side the normal cards.

Since I don't want to mess with the starting tutorial hand you get on the first night, Ann also provides a unique life goals card called "Humble beginnings" which prompts you to purchase your first lot, the reward for completing this goal is a starter bed.

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Care Pack

Cards focused on relieving low needs, to help with rough early game so you don't meet an untimely demise just trying to find somewhere to sleep.

Card

Effect

Requirement

Snack obtained

+7 hunger relief

missing 7 hunger

Small nap

+3 sleep relief

missing 5 sleep, not asleep

Bathroom relief

Fully relieve Hygiene and Bathroom need

Low hygiene need, Not owning a lot

Proper meal

Fully relieve hunger need, and ignore hunger for 8 hours

low hunger need

Decent Sleep

+7 sleep relief

low sleep need, not asleep

Good sleep

+5 max sleep need, fully relieve sleep

Sleep need critically low

Feast or Famine Pack

Cards to add a little extra spice, only 1 card can be drawn in the pack and you must accept the result. Cards in here can grant great benefit or terrible misfortune.

Card

Effect

Requirement

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Tier 1

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Riches

Get $3000

Have at least $500 on your person

Rags

Lose $3000

Have at least $2800 on your person

Rancid Day

Can't level skills for 24 hours

none

Good Day

+3 and x3 Learning speed

none

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Tier 2

-

Job Rank Up

+4 job upgrade points

Own lot of value $8000, Have a job

Job Strike

All jobs get a strike

Own lot of value $8000, Have a job

Riches 2

Get $6000

Own lot of value $8000

Rags 2

Lose $6000

Own lot of value $8000, Have $4000 on your person

Intense Focus

ignore sleep and x4 learning speed for 24 hours

Own lot of value $8000

Forgot how to cook

Resets cooking knowledge and cooking skill to 1

Own lot of value $8000

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Tier 3

-

Riches 3

Get $10000

Own lot of value $35000

Rags 3

Lose $10000

Own lot of value $35000

Gnawledge is power!

+1 in all knowledge skills

Own lot of value $35000

Laid off

Get 3 strikes on all active jobs

Own lot of value $35000, Have a job

Unstoppable

Needs max +5, needs relieve much faster, +5 learning speed for 72 hours

Own lot of value $35000

Crashout

Need max -2, needs relieve slower, uncomfortable +10 for 72 hours

Own lot of value $35000

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Legendary

-

Personal Growth

+500 personality xp for all household members

none

Fire

Burst into flames

none

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There is no good rules out there for a rags to riches challenge I have found, so treat this as more just a start from $0 challenge. It's a much harder start, but once you're established it should be the same as playing the game normally

A known issue is when starting a game with a household loaded from the library, you will not start with 0 funds. a temporary workaround is to open the cheat menu with 'control + shift + c' and type " SETMONEY 0 "

Ann is also not compatible with modded cardpacks, they should still work like normal on the standard storytellers though. Ann uses a custom set of cards she draws from as to not modify the vanilla story tellers in any way, however, this means cards added to the normal pool of cards via mods won't affect the cards Ann can recieve when she is your selected story teller.

--- Standalone Household for Ann here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3735935179