Fountain Quest

[BunnyB23]

I am currently doing the Fountain Quest and am using my physician who is puny. I can't return to the forest until she has the sore debuff but I don't know how to get it for her. I've gotten it plenty of times with other heroes who were able to duel others or train with the training dummies but I can't get it for the physician. I've tried taking a stroll in the forest, playing kingball for hours, collecting for hours, jumping in the pit. I even bought a sword thinking that then she might be able to train and get sore but no luck. Does anyone have any ideas or tips on how to get this debuff. Thanks!

[Schipperke]

I haven't tried this, but what if you  had your sim pick a fight with someone?  I would think a fistfight might do it.  If you do try it, let us know if it works.  And welcome to the forum, BunnyB23!

[Jonna]

The in-game hint is to try fiddling, and it works like a charm!  Go to the village, buy a fiddle, play a song, and almost instantly you'll get sore.  I think it lasts five hours.

I think that my doctor might have gotten sore from doing too many 'surgeries' in a row but I can't remember for sure.

[Ricalynn]

Plus it's an achievement for your watcher level or whatever to have your physician fiddle 20 songs.

[BunnyB23]

I tried the fistfight, in fact I made an enemy from fighting with the same person so many times. But the fiddle worked!! Thank you for your help everyone!

[Simmerqueen]

I'm doing this one at the moment too, and my physician is a drunkard.  She has the 'needs a drink' debuff showing, but when I click on the forest she has no option to go to the fountain.  It's odd, because the text with the quest task says something about 'guess I could have another one or two', but if she does that she won't have the 'needs a drink' debuff anymore that I thought she needed to go back to the fountain.  Has anyone done this quest with this fatal flaw and have any insight for me?

[HtFde]

I'm doing this one at the moment too, and my physician is a drunkard.  She has the 'needs a drink' debuff showing, but when I click on the forest she has no option to go to the fountain.  It's odd, because the text with the quest task says something about 'guess I could have another one or two', but if she does that she won't have the 'needs a drink' debuff anymore that I thought she needed to go back to the fountain.  Has anyone done this quest with this fatal flaw and have any insight for me?

I haven't played a drunkard yet with this quest but with this flaw I see two different ways - good thing there is a save feature.

(A) You must get the "needs a drink" debuff and can enter the forest
(B) Get *DRUNK* then enter the forest

Both things would - to me - work with the way the quests went for my other characters. If (A) doesn't work for you I'd try (B).

[SassySimmer]

If you whittle it gives you the sore buff also (doesn't cost anything) 

[Simmerqueen]

Thanks HtFde, it's true it's a good thing there is a save feature.  However, for the drunkard fatal flaw there are not just two options - there are quite a few levels of 'drunk'.  Anyway, I did finally figure it out through trial and error, although I think there may have been a bit of a 'stuck' effect at one point because none of the options seemed to be working to bring up the 'return to the fountain' option.  I saved and shut down, and then when I started back up again one of the options finally worked.  If anyone wants to know exactly which one, you can pm me as I wouldn't want to put up a spoiler.   

In general, I can just say that how you exhibit the fatal flaw to the fountain varies quite a bit depending on the trait.

[Musicmaker60]

I am doing this one with a night who has the FF of bloodlust. I waited around for "looking for a fight" to come up and then went back but I thought I was supposed to then have a fight with someone. That took away my debuff. Is there any way to get it back without waiting around for another day? Thanks!

[Dellena]

With the "looking for a fight" debuff, I'm afraid you just have to wait.

[Musicmaker60]

I did - and it FINALLY showed up! I was SO happy to finally finish that quest, maxed out in platinum! thanks anyway.