If you’ve been zapping through your tapping and it’s all been a bit of a blur or if you just fancied a reminder of what the writers got up to this time you’re in luck.
Here’s all the dialog and tasks for this act …
PS – a reminder that Act 3 starts on Sunday
In this post it’s just the Act 2 Prize Track –
• Sparse Comforts parts 1 to 5
Sparse Comforts, part 1:
● Chopping Log Bundle (2x Log Pile Decoration and 1x Chopping Log Decoration)
Homer: All right! Time to explore our vacation home! *opens door*
Lisa: It is possible to have instant cabin fever?
Marge: Looks like a moose and a racoon have been living together here.
Homer: Ooh. Sexy, eh Marge?
Marge: How is that sexy?! Honestly, sometimes I don’t know you.
Bart: Look at all these animal skulls! And hey, a dead possum’s leaking fluids all over the floor. Wow, look at him go!
Lisa: Bart, don’t touch it! It could be diseased!
Bart: Stop enticing me.
Homer: Look what I found. A pair of rackets.
Marge: Homer, those are snowshoes.
Homer: Oh thank God! So I don’t have to play tennis.
Homer: I’ll just strap these on and go for a little stroll. *straps snowshoes to his feet* Adieu, Christmas crew!
Lisa: And that’s the closest I’m going to get to France this year.
• Collect Lumber – x 115 
• Make Homer Go for a Snowshoe Walk – 4 hours
• Make Marge Look Around the Cabin – 4 hours
• Make Lisa Try Not to Have a Nervous Breakdown – 4 hours
• Make Bart Assemble a Pile of Animal Skulls – 4 hours
Bart: I hope he’s coming back.
Marge: He’d better. It’ll be harder to kill him if he doesn’t.
Reward: 100 $$s, 10 XP
Sparse Comforts, part 2:
● Kevin’s Kindling (Building)
Marge: Well, it looks like your father’s little walk is going to take some time, so we might as well start trying to make the most of this.
Lisa: How do you make the most of nothing?
Bart: Yeah, Mom. I’ve hidden the animal skulls every place they will scare you guys. Let’s get the hell out of this log pile.
Maggie: *suck suck*
Marge: That’s enough! I will not have this family ruin our family vacation!
Bart: It ruins itself! Look at this place! We’ve got zero internet reception and I was just about to capture the Golden Dingaroo in Peekimon Get!
Marge: *annoyed grumble*
Marge: Okay! Yes. You’re right. This isn’t ideal, and I really wish your father had discussed it with me before we got out here, but I think we should try to make the most out of this.
Bartand Lisa: What?
Maggie: *spits out pacifier* …?!
• Collect Lumber – x 150
• Make Marge Look Through the House for Supplies – 4 hours
• Make Lisa Actually Have a Nervous Breakdown – 4 hours
• Make Maggie Try to Comfort Her Sister – 4 hours
• Make Bart Finally Get Annoyed by All This – 4 hours
Marge: Come on. This could be fun!
Lisa: Fun? You’re worried about fun? What about survival? There’s no food. We could end up like the Donner party!
Bart: Lis, maybe you don’t know this because you’re never invited, but parties are fun.
Lisa: It wasn’t that kind of party. The Donners were pioneers in 1846 who got snowbound in the mountains and turned to cannibalism.
Bart: Now I really hope Homer comes back. With that lard ass around we’ll have enough for dinner and leftovers.
Lisa: But what about me? I don’t eat meat!
Marge: Enough! No one’s eating their father!
Lisa: *hyperventilating*
Marge: Oh, sweetie, don’t worry. I’m here and we’ll get through this together.
Marge: I found an axe and I’ll chop wood for heat…if there’s a flannel shirt around here. I have to dress appropriately.
Bart: Found one!
Marge: Thanks Bart! See? We can make this a fun little survival adventure! We haven’t had a vacation like that since I don’t know when.
Lisa: Detroit. Remember Detroit?
Reward: 100 $$s, 10 XP
Sparse Comforts, part 3:
● Snow Place Mystery Box Token
Lisa: Mom?
Lumberjill Marge: Yes, dear?
Lisa: I’m going to look for berries.
Lumberjill Marge: Oh good! And take Maggie with you. I don’t think it’s healthy for a baby to watch her mother attack innocent trees with an axe.
Lisa: Come on, Maggie, let’s go forage. Who doesn’t want to starve? You don’t want to starve!
Maggie: *happy clapping*
Lisa: Let’s see. I’m pretty sure I saw some blackberry bushes as we were driving in. Do you like blackberries, Maggie?
Maggie: *suck suck*
• Collect Lumber – x 115
• Make Lisa Investigate the Path – 4 hours
• Make Maggie Follow Along Dutifully – 4 hours
Lisa: Wait, this leads out to a road!
Maggie: *suck suck*
Lisa: What is it, Maggie? A store? “The Voracious Vegan”?
Lisa: Wow. There’s a progressive vegetarian grocery walking distance from our cabin in the middle of nowhere? This makes Apu’s convenience store seem totally inconvenient.
Apu: I sense somewhere someone has besmirched my store and its offerings.
Reward: 100 $$s, 10 XP
Sparse Comforts, part 4:
● Springfield Forest Sign (Decoration)
Bart: Okay, I dragged the possum carcass out of here and tossed out the animal crap. Is this vacation over?
Lumberjill Marge: No, Bart. But I’m glad you’re taking this so well.
Bart: Well, it turns out, without an internet connection, I’m finally finding real peace. I’m seeing the richness of life and the fullness of my personhood.
Lumberjill Marge: That’s nice.
Lumberjill Marge: Oh! There’s something else you can do!
Bart: Whatever nourishes this sense of peace and oneness. Work is my meditation.
Lumberjill Marge: Can it, Bart. No one likes a spiritual show off. I could be enlightened too if I wanted.
Lumberjill Marge: When we were driving in I noticed an old building at the edge of the property. Go check it out.
Bart: Wait…so you’re asking me to go break into a random building?
Lumberjill Marge: We both know that you’re going to do it anyways. Might as well ask you to so that I at least know where you are.
Bart: Okay, I will have a look with eyes of respect and a heart of purity.
Lumberjill Marge: You’re about to get the spank of ass. Now go!
• Collect Lumber – x 115
• Make Bart Investigate the Building – 4 hours
Bart: Whoa! An abandoned fire station? Neat! I wonder if they’ve got axes or anything in there!
Bart: Hmm. Looks pretty cleaned out, but…a computer?
Bart: Hey, it works! This place has power! And a satellite internet uplink?
Bart: Only 10Mbps? This sucks. Life sucks.
Bart: No! I can survive on slow speed. There’s a reason they call it “roughing it”.
Reward: 100 $$s, 10 XP
Sparse Comforts, part 5:
● Lumberjill Marge (Outfit for Marge)
Homer: I’m back! Where is everyone?
Lumberjill Marge: Homer, you’ve been gone for hours. What were you doing out there?
Homer: I was getting an accurate measurement of the property lines!
Lumberjill Marge: That doesn’t sound like something you’d do. What’s your angle, Homer?
Homer: Marge, with those measurements, we can…I mean, you can calculate the acreage of this land, so we can put up this FOR SALE sign!
Homer: *holds up sign* See? I made it myself from an old wooden stump. The post is a frozen snake!
Lumberjill Marge: How did you paint the letters?
Homer: With blood.
Lumberjill Marge: Whose blood?
Homer: Um…some guy’s. I gotta lie down.
Lumberjill Marge: Hang on. So you drove us out here. No heat. No electricity. No food…
Homer: Now listen, Marge…
Lumberjill Marge: No, you listen to me!
Homer: Oh I’m listening. Especially with that axe in your hand.
Lumberjill Marge: This so-called vacation was just so you could measure the property so you can sell it when your father dies? Homer, you ruined our children’s entire vacation!
Lisa: Mom! We found a grocery store nearby! Also, it’s a co-op!
Bart: Mom! That building has internet and a fireman’s pole and internet! Also, internet!
Homer: See, Marge? It’s not all bad!
• Collect Lumber – x 185
• Make Marge Attempt to Stay Calm – 4 hours
• Make Homer Miss Every Warning Sign – 4 hours
• Make Lisa Nervously Back Away – 4 hours
• Make Bart Wish He Had Popcorn – 4 hours
Homer: …err…are you okay, Marge?
Lumberjill Marge: *deep breath, slow exhale*
Lisa: Really, Mom, we’re all set. We can still have a great vacation here!
Bart: Yeah, for once Dad managed to do something right.
Homer: Woo hoo!
Bart: By accident! Let me finish.
Homer: Woo.
Lumberjill Marge: So…you kids really are happy here?
Bart And Lisa: Yes!
Lumberjill Marge: I guess this turned into a real Christmas miracle. Oh, Homie, I could kiss you!
Homer: Set down the axe first.
Reward: 200 $$s, 20 XP
That wraps up Act 2, back on Sunday with the Act 3 Rundown.