The Drifter Chronicles - House 007 - (COMPLETED)

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I think I'm rooting for anyone but Roose.  Maester Qyburn is just a little too interested in all of this.  What's up with him? (I know you can't answer that yet).

Margaery is sweet, and this part of her challenge is so different from the other drifter projects.  Can't blame her for wondering what she got herself into.  I'm glad she stopped taking the supplements.

I really really love this challenge, simply because every house has me doing stuff I normally never bother with. I even liked having to stay at the same house for part I because it helped me realize where I needed to scale back so that it was still playable.

Team Sansa!!  Margaery just needs to smooch Sansa in front of Roose to level the playing field   ;=)

I love how everyone wants Sansa to win Margaery's heart.

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From: Maester Qyburn, Drifter Board of Directors, No Sim Left Behind
To: Margaery Tyrell
Re:  Drifter House 007 – Days 6-8

The program will be the same for the next three days.

At 6PM, you will leave on a scored date with the designated sim. You will return at 10PM.

At 12AM, everyone will go to sleep.

Day 6: Addam Marbrand
Day 7: Roose Bolton
Day 8: Sansa Stark

Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell

This has been the strangest day EVER.

The date with Addam started off fine. We were in Windenburg and it was just a club and we were sitting and chatting and flirting and dancing.



“It’s just a date,” he kept on saying. “No pressure, okay?”



I don’t think he was expecting it when I pushed him into the closet to woohoo. I certainly wasn’t.





I also wasn’t expecting to see Grandma Cersei undead and doing the Macarena on the dance floor either.

She knew what Addam and I had been doing. So did Aunt Nylah and Aunt Sarella.



I was feeling kind of weird about the whole thing and then I remembered something Garlan had told me about Aunt Sarella when we were kids, about what she really did for a living. I pulled her aside and asked if we could talk.



Communique from Control to Sarella Waters:

Chemical analysis report: attached

Steps have been taken. Drifter Subject 007 has a level 8 clearance and may be briefed accordingly.

Phone conversation between Sarella Waters and Margaery Tyrell

Margaery: I don’t understand. What do you mean "they’re just multivitamins?"

Sarella: You were very lucky. You were all in the control group.

Margaery: Are you sure? I am flirty like all of the time. I keep having these impul—

Sarella: We checked and double checked. There was another drifter in this Maester Qyburn’s experimental group. You were all given a placebo.

Margaery: It was all me? Oh my gods, what does that say about me?

Sarella: It wasn’t just you. Everyone in the household was taking the supplements. I’m not saying that there wasn’t some psychological manipulation going on. You’re living on a lot with the romantic trait. And you were given license by an authority figure to gratify any whims you had. It was packaged as being like The Bachelorette. Also, you’re a healthy young woman with the flirty trait.

Margaery: …

Sarella: As your friend Addam told you, everyone knew what they were getting into.

Margaery: What happened to Qyburn?

Sarella: All taken care of.

Margaery: If he’s still out there.

Sarella: He’s taken care of [long pause]

Margaery. Oh. OH. [long pause] But how does this explain me having closet woohoo with Addam? I don’t even like him that much.

Sarella: He’s a nice man that you really like as a person? You’re both unattached? Look, there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with dating before marriage. Most people just do it one sim at a time rather than concurrently.

Margaery: ….

Sarella: It’s going to take some time to process everything.

From: Kevan Hecking, Drifter Project, No Sim Left Behind
To: Margaery Tyrell
Re:  Drifter House 007 – where we are

I wanted to follow up to the phone call we had. If you want to pull out, we totally understand. If you want to continue on, we’d love to work with you.

To give you an idea of what’s ahead should you decide to stay in the project, you would complete the dates and after selecting the person you want as a partner, as with the other houses, the two of you would move to a lot, fulfill some house requirements, and complete the soulmate aspiration, also raising an heir to young adulthood.

Just let us know what you want to do.

Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell





I talked to Mum and Dad. I even talked to Garlan. He’s evil, but he’s my brother and we care about each other and I thought he might bring some much needed perspective.

Kevan called everyone beforehand so we had a frank discussion after at the house. Sansa had her arms crossed most of the time. Roose didn’t see what the big deal was. Addam thought it was funny.



Garlan just watched all of us. Afterward, he said to me privately, “I have no idea why you want to stay in this thing, but if you need to pick someone, do not pick Addam. He’s not someone you can depend on.”

“What about Roose?”

“Well, he’s evil, but so am I and I’ve survived without killing anyone. Look, don’t just go on these last two dates to have a good time. Talk to each of them. Really talk.”

[PeregrineTook]

Multivitamins?  Well, I guess with all of the physical exertion she's been undertaking, that's not a bad thing  ;=)
Why didn't Garlan just tell her to pick Sansa?  Garlan, you had one job!

[Tynynounours]

So, it's only multivitamins. Great. A bit afraid of what it may have been if not. Yes, romantic trait and romantic lot must be explaining. And the pink bars too. Still, part of culture make it not really okay to be that flirty, and it was easier to believe it were the supplements.

Now still two dates to look forward.

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Multivitamins?  Well, I guess with all of the physical exertion she's been undertaking, that's not a bad thing  ;=)
Why didn't Garlan just tell her to pick Sansa?  Garlan, you had one job!

I love your single minded devotion to Sansa.

So, it's only multivitamins. Great. A bit afraid of what it may have been if not. Yes, romantic trait and romantic lot must be explaining. And the pink bars too. Still, part of culture make it not really okay to be that flirty, and it was easier to believe it were the supplements.

Now still two dates to look forward.

I had to change the lot type toward the end. It was insane.

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Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell



On Day 7, Roose and I spent most of our time together. We’re so in sync. We were on our date at the club, and had gone out back to sit and chat together at one of the tables in the garden when he nodded toward a bush.



I’m not sorry we woohooed at all (not the time at home or the time on our date).



We did talk a lot. He wants to get married and he wants like four kids. I don’t know what kind of a father he’d make and since from what Kevan said, he’d be a SAHD, I’m not sure that’s such a good thing.





I just don't know if I love him.



From: Margaery Tyrell
To: Kevan Hecking, Drifter Project, No Sim Left Behind
Re: Re:  Drifter House 007 – where we are

I’m still in.

[PeregrineTook]

Still very unreasonably devoted to my darling Sansa, but that final picture of Roose did make him look almost like a likeable and sympathetic character.  Almost.  Go Team Sansa  ;=)

[commasplice]

Still very unreasonably devoted to my darling Sansa, but that final picture of Roose did make him look almost like a likeable and sympathetic character.  Almost.  Go Team Sansa  ;=)

I will take that as a compliment.

[PeregrineTook]

Still very unreasonably devoted to my darling Sansa, but that final picture of Roose did make him look almost like a likeable and sympathetic character.  Almost.  Go Team Sansa  ;=)

I will take that as a compliment.

As well you should  ;=)

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Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell

There’s a part of me that really wishes we had been given experimental aphrodisiacs because maybe then this would not have gotten so messy. We could have all just blamed it on the meds.

Worst day ever?

The morning started off terribly. Roose was unhappy I was even bothering with my date with Sansa today. He took off. Then Addam came down. He not only hugged me in front of her, he kissed me too.





And Sansa slapped the daylights out of me.



I don’t think I’ll ever forget the hurt in her eyes. 

I had that coming. I really did. It took forever for me to convince her to give me another chance.



The date was kind of a mess even if we did woohoo.







The only reason I think it scored as well as it was probably comes down to the fact that I’m getting really good at dating and also, because I finally told her how I really feel about her.

“What’s the big deal?” Addam asked afterwards.

He is so out.

[oshizu]

I no longer remember any of the candidates' traits except for Roose's Evil trait, but...

Oh no, Addam is out but Roose is still hanging in there?

[PeregrineTook]

Finally!!  Sansa has not gotten in her fair share of time and opportunity (he says with no trace of obvious bias)   ;=)
Loved that they had a date, but wish it would have gone more smoothly.

[commasplice]

I no longer remember any of the candidates' traits except for Roose's Evil trait, but...

Oh no, Addam is out but Roose is still hanging in there?

Top 3 candidates:
Addam: active, a geek, and an art lover.
Sansa: foodie, neat, and childish
Roose:evil, outgoing and a vegetarian

Margaery's pink bar was wayyyyy higher with Roose than it was with Sansa and that's what I needed to go with.

Finally!!  Sansa has not gotten in her fair share of time and opportunity (he says with no trace of obvious bias)   ;=)
Loved that they had a date, but wish it would have gone more smoothly.

LOL, I love your persistance.

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From: Kevan Hecking, Drifter Project, No Sim Left Behind
To: Margaery Tyrell
Re:  Day 9

It’s really loose for today. Just have a party: black and white bash, weenie roast, house party, incognito costume party, dinner party, spooky party.

Pick the person you have the highest relationship with. Ask them to be your boyfriend/girlfriend. The one who isn’t chosen leaves.

Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell

In the end it was easy. I just asked myself who I wanted to grow old with. The answer was clear.

We had a house party. I invited the original contestants and hired a bunch of people to cater and stuff. When I saw Aunt Jenny was available to play the piano, I had her come.

Addam and Edric hung out a lot.



The dancing was a big success. I was kind of surprised how good everyone was and then I remembered that we had the boombox in the office and they all must have picked up some mad skillz.



Everyone was mostly okay about how it all turned out. Mya clearly wasn’t impacted by the project. Like at all.



Walda had the grace to accept my apologies.





I saw Roose eating a hamburger in the kitchen (I don’t know why he does that. He has to know he’s going to feel all grossed out and guilty for having eaten meat). 



He didn’t react well when I told him my choice.



From: Margaery Tyrell
To: Kevan Hecking, Drifter Project, No Sim Left Behind
Re: Re: Day 9



I asked Sansa to be my girlfriend and then because I wanted to let her know I was totally committed to her, I proposed. She said yes.







Let me know what the next steps are.

Journal entry, Margaery Tyrell

“So what’s next?” Sansa asked when Roose had finally left.

“Everyone’s gone so we I guess we just wait till Kevan sends us the instructions.”

“I want to be with you. No dates. No rewards. I just want to be with you.”

I looked at Sansa and knew I had made the right decision. We went into the house and upstairs.

Sansa smiled. “It feels so weird that it’s all over.”

I told her it was just beginning.



Watcher's Note: this is the end of Part 1 of this house. I plan on posting the rest of Part 2 in this same thread.

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Yay!
Congrats to Margaery, her watcher, Sansa, and Pippin!

P.S. Do you think Roose benefited from his Outgoing trait?
So mysterious! It's like nobody even cared about his bald spot, lol.