Great Eggspectations
Standalone Time-Sensitive Quest
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Wes: Hey, Danny!
Wes waves you over. Nearby, dozens of your classmates crowd around a bulletin board!
Payton: OMG, OMG, OMG!
Danny: Payton, um... seems excited! What’s going on over here, Wes?
Wes: Miss Williams just posted our partners for the final project in Home Ec.
Payton: And get this... we’re raising egg babies! Squeeeeeee!
Danny: Egg babies?
Wes: Oh, you know... Home Ec’s all about learning adult responsibilities, right? So we’re getting paired up and pretending to raise an egg as a baby together.
Payton: We get to name it, and dress it up, and take care of it, and it’s the greatest, cutest thing ever!
Danny: Pretending to raise a baby together? Hope I was paired with someone fun...
Payton: Oh, you were... A very SPECIAL someone! Wink, wink!
Danny: You don’t SAY ‘wink, wink’, Payton. You just wink.
How will your egg baby turn out? Will this assignment be over easy, or will you and your friends crack under the pressure? Better scramble to find out, before this quest is gone! And make sure you’re dating someone!
Requirements
Danny: Can’t wait!
Payton: I’m so excited!
Wes: Yeah, this sounds fun to me.
Payton: We’ll see how long THAT lasts!
Wes: What’s that supposed to mean?
Payton: Oh, come on! Every time we turn around, you’ve disappeared! Off on some mission, like you’re Batman or something.
Wes: I don’t do that! Right, Danny?
Danny: Well... you are a busy guy.
Payton: And it’s not like picking outfits and paying bills are the types of plans you like cooking up. Can you even imagine?
Wes: Oh yeah? Well, just watch me ace this project!
Payton: Wes, you’re too funny. Now come on, you two, we’re gonna be late for class!
You walk into the Home Ec room, where everyone’s finding a seat.
Danny: Hmm, I should sit next to my partner...
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You look around for your partner... And then you see Berry waving to you from across the crowded classroom!
Berry: Danny! Over here! I saved us a couple seats.
Smiling, you hurry over to the empty desk beside Berry, who gives you a quick kiss.
Danny: Hey, partner.
Berry: So do you buy it? That this project is an ‘important learning experience’?
Danny: I think we’ll learn a lot. Teens should get a taste of adult responsibilities, even if it’s all pretend.
Berry: I’m just glad you and I aren’t pretend.
Berry squeezes your hand. You smile.
Danny: Oh, look! Miss Williams is about to hand out the eggs!
Time - 4 hours
The Home Ec teacher hands out a hard-boiled egg to each pair. As you cradle yours in cupped hands, Berry draws a smiley face on the smooth shell.
Berry: There. That’s a happy baby.
Danny: It has your eyes.
Berry: Well? Got any ideas for a name?
Danny: Let’s name it Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch!
Berry: Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch? I deduce that’s an eggs-cellent name!
The Home Ec teacher begins passing around scissors and plastic tubs full of various fabrics...
Berry: Looks like we’re about to make outfits.
Danny: I wonder how everyone will dress their egg...
Requirements
Nalo and Luke are the first pair to select their materials for baby outfits...
Nalo: Perfect! 100 percent all-natural organic cotton! From the feel of the grain, I’d say it hails from Brazil...
Luke: Who cares? The question is, do we have enough of it to make an extra, extra-large white tee?
Berry turns to you.
Berry: What should we pick, Danny?
Danny: Hmmm...
Time - 8 hours
You and Berry rummage through the bins and pick out an assortment of fabrics!
Berry: We’ve got all sorts of materials and paints here, Danny. Looks like we could make anything! What would be a cute outfit for little Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch?
Danny: Hmm, let’s make an astronaut suit!
Berry: Are you trying to raise our egg baby to be a nerd?
Danny: We want our kid to be the first egg baby on Mars, don’t we?
Together, you and Berry gently hold your egg as you glue on a shiny astronaut suit, your hands often touching. At the next desk over, Nalo and Luke struggle with their egg...
Luke: Babies can’t have mustaches!
Nalo: It’s ironic! Besides, babies can’t be covered in tattoos that say ‘Extremely Young Money’ but you did that anyway!
Luke: Fine, whatever. At least stop trying to shove Carlton into those skinny jeans! He’s gonna get crushed! Give him here, I’ve got a better pair.
Luke holds out a pair of loose, low-hanging jeans and tries to put them on the egg... But it slips straight through and smashes against the floor!
Nalo: Carlton, noooo!
As Miss Williams shakes her head sternly and marks down Nalo and Luke’s grade, the bell rings for the end of class.
Berry: We’ve lasted through the first period in our egg baby’s life! Cause for celebration?
Danny: We’re just getting started!
Walking through the halls together, you read over the Home Ec project guidelines while Berry cradles the egg, weaving through a torrent of students...
Danny: So it says here that our next task is to plan out the baby’s future!
Nearby, two students bump into each other, both dropping their eggs!
Berry: I just hope ours HAS a future!
Requirements
At your next class, several of the pairs are already working on the second part of the project!
Brandon: If you examine this collection of binders, Yangchen, you’ll see I planned out everything for this project months ago!
Yangchen: You opened a 401(k) for our egg? And he’s gonna be a... a what?
Brandon: Why, a deputy on the House Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies! Quite an achievement!
Yangchen: BO-RING!
Brandon: Hey, you can’t just scribble that out!
Yangchen: I’m doing you a favor, amigo. Now our kid takes Krav Maga lessons and backpacks through Tibet! And we’re naming him after the X-Men!
Brandon: No! He’s named after a president! Sigh... where’s another Student Gov when you need them?
Meanwhile, you and Berry grab a seat. Berry lays out the worksheet.
Berry: It looks like this says what our fake jobs are.
Danny: It says I’m a neurologist, and you’re a teacher!
Berry: Helping kids for a living? I wouldn’t mind that being in my future.
Danny: And this is why I like you.
Time - 12 hours
Berry: Now we have to plan how we spend our money on our egg baby’s life. First, what kind of house do we live in together?
Danny: We live in a cozy apartment!
Berry: Works for me. I don’t need that much space, especially if it means I get to be close to you. Next, we have to write down what kind of car we drive...
Danny: I want to drive an SUV!
Berry: Think we need that much room?
Danny: You never know. We might have more egg babies on the way!
Berry: Last, we need to write down what kind of pets we have!
Danny: I think we should get one cat and one dog!
Berry: Won’t they fight?
Danny: Nope! They’ll be best friends.
After a few more questions, Berry tallies up your expenses...
Berry: Wow, Danny! We perfectly balanced our finances! Our family has a fun, safe life, but we didn’t spend ourselves into debt!
Danny: Oh yeah! Totally meant to do that!
You look past Berry to the next desk, where Wes stares down at his project worksheet with a melancholy expression.
Danny: Hey, Wes. Is everything okay?
Wes: Huh? Oh, yeah. It’s just... All this stuff you need to balance... maybe keeping a family together is harder than I’d thought.
Just then, you hear a shout across the classroom! Yangchen is juggling their egg along with several hackysacks!
Brandon: Yangchen! Put him down!
Yangchen: But he’s training to be a circus trapeze artist-- Whoaaaa!
Yangchen slips, and their egg flies into the air!
Brandon: Lincoln!
Yangchen: Professor Eggs!
Their egg shatters against the floor!
Yangchen: Hah! That was so funny, even our baby cracked up!
Danny: Uh oh! A lot of our friends are losing their eggs already! We need to get Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch some protection!
Berry: I know where we can find some. Come on!
Requirements
You and Berry head to the quad, where dozens of egg-carrying students are crowded around Maya and Kimia!
Maya: I know how important your egg babies are to you! If you want to keep them safe, come talk to me!
Kimia: Forget Maya! Come with ME if you want your egg to live!
Danny: What’s going on here?
Time - 10 hours
You and Berry squeeze through the crowd to get a better look...
Maya: Come one, come all! Drop off your eggs at Maya’s Eggstraordinary Day Care!
Maya gestures at a colorful, cozy space, where several eggs are nestled in blankets!
Maya: A one-day stay comes with a free egg-dyeing kit, to make YOUR egg baby the talk of the town!
Kimia: Why trust another human with your egg, when human error is responsible for 99% of all egg crackings!
Kimia produces a padded foam box with mechanical locks and hinges!
Kimia: I present to you, the Kimia Corporation’s brand new In-Q-Bator! Temperature controlled, fire retardant, shock resistant, it is THE cutting edge of egg baby defense!
Berry: Well, Danny? These look like they might be able to keep our egg baby safe. Which should we pick?
Danny: Ummm...
Right as you’re deciding, Maya tries to pick up a just-dyed egg, but it slips free and breaks! And at the same time, Kimia’s mechanical box closes too tight, pulverizing another student’s egg!
Berry: Never mind. Maybe we should just hang onto ours.
You see Wes snatching his egg back from Kimia.
Wes: Gimme that back before you put it in one of those trash compactors!
Kimia: Hey, no refunds!
Wes: Whatever. I’ll just build my own protection...
The bell rings for lunch. You and Berry head into the cafeteria... And find it a chaotic madhouse of classmates scurrying around!
Danny: Uh oh...
You see a student slip on spilled pudding and drop their egg! The shell cracks against the floor!
Berry: This place looks pretty dangerous for our baby. How are we gonna get across to the lunch line?
Requirements
Berry: Okay, Danny, we need to somehow make our way through the crowd all the way to the lunch line. I’ll lead the way and try to clear a path for you and Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch.
Danny: Here we go!
You follow Berry on a winding path, evading a herd of football players and a pair of practicing dancers!
Berry: Hang on, Danny! We’re almost to the lunch line!
Just then, Calivin gets up from a table right in front of you!
Danny: Look out!
Calivin: Whoa!
You quickly jump to the side to avoid Calivin... And instantly collide into something else!
Jasmine: Oof! Why does no one ever see me?
Your egg pops out of your grip! You watch it sail through the air in slow-motion!
Danny: Nooooo!
Time - 13 hours
Your egg flies through the air!
Danny: I’ll save you, Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch!
You dive forward, stretching out your hands, and catch! You scoop the egg to your chest as you fall to the floor!
Danny: Oof!
Berry: Danny!
You open your hands and look... the egg is unharmed!
Danny: That was close!
After picking up food, you, Berry, and several of your friends sit outside in the quad, enjoying lunch with your egg babies.
Payton: Hey, Wes! You still have your egg in one piece!
Wes: Told you. I even converted this old cardboard box into a safety cradle.
Payton: Well, when you’re right, you’re right! Sorry I was teasing you earlier.
Autumn: Same here. We’re impressed.
Wes: Thanks, but there’s a lot more work to bedone...
Just then, a small shadow scampers toward Payton... And snatches the egg from her hand!
Payton: EEEEEE! What was that?! Ew, ew, ew!
Autumn: A raccoon stole the egg!
Payton: Noooo! It took Princess!
Danny: Hurry! We have to chase it down!
You and your friends start after the raccoon, but Wes lingers behind, his eyes locked on his egg’s cardboard box.
Wes: ...
Autumn: Come on, Wes! Payton needs out help! Your egg will be fine!
Wes: Okay! I’m coming!
Requirements
You and your friends chase after the raccoon!
Payton: Give me back my egg baby! And so help me, if you break a single stitch on that outfit...
Wes: He’s going this way!
Wes gains on the raccoon, until finally it gives up the egg and sprints away!
Wes: Yeah, you’d better run!
Payton: Oh, thank heavens, my baby, you’re okay!
Payton kneels to pick up the egg...
Payton: Ewwwwwww! You’re covered in... raccoon saliva! You’re getting a bath of hand sanitizer!
You and your friends make your way back to the quad, Payton cringing as she carries the egg. Wes looks around the area where you had been sitting...
Wes: Hey, wait a second... where’d my box go? Where’s my egg?!
Time - 9 hours
You and your friends scramble around the quad, searching for Wes’s box...
Danny: I can’t find it anywhere!
Wes: I don’t understand! It was sitting right here! We were only gone for a minute! Where could it have gone?!
Autumn: Guys! I just heard from a Student Gov that the school custodians were scheduled to clean this area at the exact time we left...
Danny: So if they came here and saw an old cardboard box... does that mean...
Wes: No... no, no, no... you’re telling me they threw it out?!
Danny: Maybe it’s not gone yet, Wes.
Wes: You’re right! The trucks don’t pick up from the school dumpsters until tomorrow! My egg’s probably still there! Come on!
Wes takes off.
Autumn: Come on, guys. Help us look!
Payton: In the dumpsters?!
Autumn: He helped you get your egg back, Payton...
Payton: But... I just touched raccoon spit... and... dumpsters? I can’t... Gah! Fine!
Soon, you and your friends are rooting around inside the filthy dumpsters behind the school.
Payton: This is sooooo gross! Wes, seriously, this is not worth it.
Danny: Maybe you should ask Miss Williams for a new one. I think she’d understand--
Wes: I can’t do that, Danny.
You notice the frantic, stressed expression on Wes’s face.
Danny: (He’s taking this really hard. I should talk to him...)
Requirements
You climb inside the same dumpster that Wes is digging through.
Wes: Thanks for helping out, Danny. I know it’s ridiculous... it’s just an egg.
Danny: Then why are we here, Wes? You already proved to Autumn and Payton that you were responsible. They were just teasing.
Wes: It was never about proving anything to them, Danny. It was about proving it to myself. And all I’ve proven is that I’m no better than my dad.
Danny: What do you mean?
Time - 11 hours
Danny: No better than your dad? How could you think that?
Wes: He skipped out on me and my brother when we were kids, Danny. And ever since then, I promised I would never be like him. But everyone always expected me to turn out to be a deadbeat like he was. And sometimes... sometimes I believe them. And here was my chance to prove that I could be responsible for another life, even if just for pretend, and I...
Wes trails off.
Wes: I know people joke about me being a slacker... but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about anything.
Danny: I know that, Wes. We all do. But this was out of your hands.
Wes: So? Does that make it okay to lose what you committed yourself to protect?
Danny: It doesn’t make it okay. But see what you’re doing right now? You’re sitting in a dumpster, digging through trash for it. Responsibility doesn’t mean you have to be perfect, Wes. It just means you have to hold yourself accountable. And you do. You’re trying, Wes. That alone means you’re not like your dad.
Wes: But what if trying isn’t enough?
Danny: Sometimes, it’s all we have.
Wes: ...then I’m gonna keep trying. Thanks, Danny.
Wes goes back to digging through the dumpster, looking determined now. And a little while later...
Wes: Oh man! Guys! I found it!
Danny: You found your egg?
Wes holds aloft a cardboard box! He reaches inside... and pulls out his intact egg baby!
Autumn: Aww. A family reunited.
Payton: Hmph. I hope that was worth making us all smell like garbage!
Wes: Payton, anything’s worth seeing you have to dig around in a dumpster. Thanks for helping me, guys. I know it’s just an egg.
Autumn: No. It’s not just an egg.
Payton: Now that that’s over... can we all PLEASE go home and take a shower?
Later, you meet up with your friends outside the Home Ec room.
Autumn: We weren’t the most graceful parents, but all our eggs managed to survive the project!
Wes: Couldn’t have done it without your help... especially Danny’s. Thanks, you guys.
Payton: Let’s go in and see how we did!
Requirements
You walk through the Home Ec classroom. All around, pairs of students hang onto their eggs, many of them with cracked shells taped back together! You take a seat beside Berry and share a quick kiss.
Danny: Ready to hear how we did?
Berry: No matter what grade we get, I think we make a great team. But that said, I hope we were the best!
Time - 14 hours
The Home Ec teacher hands out your final grades on folded paper. Berry takes yours and opens it.
Danny: So? How’d we do?
Berry: We got an ‘A’! We ‘demonstrated exemplary teamwork and responsibility’.
Danny: Exemplary, huh?
You see Wes opening his grade at the next seat over. He smiles.
Danny: Good news, Wes?
Wes: Yeah, actually. An ‘A’.
Danny: So how do you feel now?
Wes: Like I’ve learned a lot. But even more than this, project, and taking care of this egg... it was YOU who taught me what responsibility means. So, thanks for being there for me, Danny.
Danny: Always will be.
Danny: Hey, wait a second, Berry... Where is our egg anyway?
Berry: Right here. I made a little surprise for you.
Berry sets a large shoebox on the desk. Its interior is decorated like a miniature house... with your egg living inside!
Danny: It’s a diorama!
Berry: I thought it’d be cute to make a home for us, like the one we imagined. There’s Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch... And these little figurines are you and me. See? You’ve got a lab coat and test tubes because you’re a doctor...
Danny: And you’re a teacher! Aww, you’ve got a little desk with an apple on it! And you made it a cozy apartment! You can even see the courtyard through the little window!
Berry: Look, see our SUV parked outside? Wanna go offroading? Our cat and dog can come with us.
Danny: Can you imagine if this was our lives right now?
Berry: Being adults with children? High school’s been a blast. I say we enjoy it while it lasts. So honestly, I’m pretty glad all of this was just pretend. Well, all of it except this.
Berry leans in and kisses you.
Danny: Yup. That was real!
Wes waves you over. Nearby, dozens of your classmates crowd around a bulletin board!
Payton: OMG, OMG, OMG!
Danny: Payton, um... seems excited! What’s going on over here, Wes?
Wes: Miss Williams just posted our partners for the final project in Home Ec.
Payton: And get this... we’re raising egg babies! Squeeeeeee!
Danny: Egg babies?
Wes: Oh, you know... Home Ec’s all about learning adult responsibilities, right? So we’re getting paired up and pretending to raise an egg as a baby together.
Payton: We get to name it, and dress it up, and take care of it, and it’s the greatest, cutest thing ever!
Danny: Pretending to raise a baby together? Hope I was paired with someone fun...
Payton: Oh, you were... A very SPECIAL someone! Wink, wink!
Danny: You don’t SAY ‘wink, wink’, Payton. You just wink.
How will your egg baby turn out? Will this assignment be over easy, or will you and your friends crack under the pressure? Better scramble to find out, before this quest is gone! And make sure you’re dating someone!
Requirements
- 250 rings
Danny: Can’t wait!
Payton: I’m so excited!
Wes: Yeah, this sounds fun to me.
Payton: We’ll see how long THAT lasts!
Wes: What’s that supposed to mean?
Payton: Oh, come on! Every time we turn around, you’ve disappeared! Off on some mission, like you’re Batman or something.
Wes: I don’t do that! Right, Danny?
Danny: Well... you are a busy guy.
Payton: And it’s not like picking outfits and paying bills are the types of plans you like cooking up. Can you even imagine?
Wes: Oh yeah? Well, just watch me ace this project!
Payton: Wes, you’re too funny. Now come on, you two, we’re gonna be late for class!
You walk into the Home Ec room, where everyone’s finding a seat.
Danny: Hmm, I should sit next to my partner...
Requirements
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
You look around for your partner... And then you see Berry waving to you from across the crowded classroom!
Berry: Danny! Over here! I saved us a couple seats.
Smiling, you hurry over to the empty desk beside Berry, who gives you a quick kiss.
Danny: Hey, partner.
Berry: So do you buy it? That this project is an ‘important learning experience’?
Danny: I think we’ll learn a lot. Teens should get a taste of adult responsibilities, even if it’s all pretend.
Berry: I’m just glad you and I aren’t pretend.
Berry squeezes your hand. You smile.
Danny: Oh, look! Miss Williams is about to hand out the eggs!
Time - 4 hours
The Home Ec teacher hands out a hard-boiled egg to each pair. As you cradle yours in cupped hands, Berry draws a smiley face on the smooth shell.
Berry: There. That’s a happy baby.
Danny: It has your eyes.
Berry: Well? Got any ideas for a name?
Danny: Let’s name it Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch!
Berry: Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch? I deduce that’s an eggs-cellent name!
The Home Ec teacher begins passing around scissors and plastic tubs full of various fabrics...
Berry: Looks like we’re about to make outfits.
Danny: I wonder how everyone will dress their egg...
Requirements
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
- A Hipster (Nalo)
- A Hip Hop (Luke)
Nalo and Luke are the first pair to select their materials for baby outfits...
Nalo: Perfect! 100 percent all-natural organic cotton! From the feel of the grain, I’d say it hails from Brazil...
Luke: Who cares? The question is, do we have enough of it to make an extra, extra-large white tee?
Berry turns to you.
Berry: What should we pick, Danny?
Danny: Hmmm...
Time - 8 hours
You and Berry rummage through the bins and pick out an assortment of fabrics!
Berry: We’ve got all sorts of materials and paints here, Danny. Looks like we could make anything! What would be a cute outfit for little Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch?
Danny: Hmm, let’s make an astronaut suit!
Berry: Are you trying to raise our egg baby to be a nerd?
Danny: We want our kid to be the first egg baby on Mars, don’t we?
Together, you and Berry gently hold your egg as you glue on a shiny astronaut suit, your hands often touching. At the next desk over, Nalo and Luke struggle with their egg...
Luke: Babies can’t have mustaches!
Nalo: It’s ironic! Besides, babies can’t be covered in tattoos that say ‘Extremely Young Money’ but you did that anyway!
Luke: Fine, whatever. At least stop trying to shove Carlton into those skinny jeans! He’s gonna get crushed! Give him here, I’ve got a better pair.
Luke holds out a pair of loose, low-hanging jeans and tries to put them on the egg... But it slips straight through and smashes against the floor!
Nalo: Carlton, noooo!
As Miss Williams shakes her head sternly and marks down Nalo and Luke’s grade, the bell rings for the end of class.
Berry: We’ve lasted through the first period in our egg baby’s life! Cause for celebration?
Danny: We’re just getting started!
Walking through the halls together, you read over the Home Ec project guidelines while Berry cradles the egg, weaving through a torrent of students...
Danny: So it says here that our next task is to plan out the baby’s future!
Nearby, two students bump into each other, both dropping their eggs!
Berry: I just hope ours HAS a future!
Requirements
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
- A Student Gov (Brandon)
- A Class Clown (Yangchen)
At your next class, several of the pairs are already working on the second part of the project!
Brandon: If you examine this collection of binders, Yangchen, you’ll see I planned out everything for this project months ago!
Yangchen: You opened a 401(k) for our egg? And he’s gonna be a... a what?
Brandon: Why, a deputy on the House Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies! Quite an achievement!
Yangchen: BO-RING!
Brandon: Hey, you can’t just scribble that out!
Yangchen: I’m doing you a favor, amigo. Now our kid takes Krav Maga lessons and backpacks through Tibet! And we’re naming him after the X-Men!
Brandon: No! He’s named after a president! Sigh... where’s another Student Gov when you need them?
Meanwhile, you and Berry grab a seat. Berry lays out the worksheet.
Berry: It looks like this says what our fake jobs are.
Danny: It says I’m a neurologist, and you’re a teacher!
Berry: Helping kids for a living? I wouldn’t mind that being in my future.
Danny: And this is why I like you.
Time - 12 hours
Berry: Now we have to plan how we spend our money on our egg baby’s life. First, what kind of house do we live in together?
Danny: We live in a cozy apartment!
Berry: Works for me. I don’t need that much space, especially if it means I get to be close to you. Next, we have to write down what kind of car we drive...
Danny: I want to drive an SUV!
Berry: Think we need that much room?
Danny: You never know. We might have more egg babies on the way!
Berry: Last, we need to write down what kind of pets we have!
Danny: I think we should get one cat and one dog!
Berry: Won’t they fight?
Danny: Nope! They’ll be best friends.
After a few more questions, Berry tallies up your expenses...
Berry: Wow, Danny! We perfectly balanced our finances! Our family has a fun, safe life, but we didn’t spend ourselves into debt!
Danny: Oh yeah! Totally meant to do that!
You look past Berry to the next desk, where Wes stares down at his project worksheet with a melancholy expression.
Danny: Hey, Wes. Is everything okay?
Wes: Huh? Oh, yeah. It’s just... All this stuff you need to balance... maybe keeping a family together is harder than I’d thought.
Just then, you hear a shout across the classroom! Yangchen is juggling their egg along with several hackysacks!
Brandon: Yangchen! Put him down!
Yangchen: But he’s training to be a circus trapeze artist-- Whoaaaa!
Yangchen slips, and their egg flies into the air!
Brandon: Lincoln!
Yangchen: Professor Eggs!
Their egg shatters against the floor!
Yangchen: Hah! That was so funny, even our baby cracked up!
Danny: Uh oh! A lot of our friends are losing their eggs already! We need to get Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch some protection!
Berry: I know where we can find some. Come on!
Requirements
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
- A Prep Except Danny (Maya)
- A Nerd Except Danny (Kimia)
You and Berry head to the quad, where dozens of egg-carrying students are crowded around Maya and Kimia!
Maya: I know how important your egg babies are to you! If you want to keep them safe, come talk to me!
Kimia: Forget Maya! Come with ME if you want your egg to live!
Danny: What’s going on here?
Time - 10 hours
You and Berry squeeze through the crowd to get a better look...
Maya: Come one, come all! Drop off your eggs at Maya’s Eggstraordinary Day Care!
Maya gestures at a colorful, cozy space, where several eggs are nestled in blankets!
Maya: A one-day stay comes with a free egg-dyeing kit, to make YOUR egg baby the talk of the town!
Kimia: Why trust another human with your egg, when human error is responsible for 99% of all egg crackings!
Kimia produces a padded foam box with mechanical locks and hinges!
Kimia: I present to you, the Kimia Corporation’s brand new In-Q-Bator! Temperature controlled, fire retardant, shock resistant, it is THE cutting edge of egg baby defense!
Berry: Well, Danny? These look like they might be able to keep our egg baby safe. Which should we pick?
Danny: Ummm...
Right as you’re deciding, Maya tries to pick up a just-dyed egg, but it slips free and breaks! And at the same time, Kimia’s mechanical box closes too tight, pulverizing another student’s egg!
Berry: Never mind. Maybe we should just hang onto ours.
You see Wes snatching his egg back from Kimia.
Wes: Gimme that back before you put it in one of those trash compactors!
Kimia: Hey, no refunds!
Wes: Whatever. I’ll just build my own protection...
The bell rings for lunch. You and Berry head into the cafeteria... And find it a chaotic madhouse of classmates scurrying around!
Danny: Uh oh...
You see a student slip on spilled pudding and drop their egg! The shell cracks against the floor!
Berry: This place looks pretty dangerous for our baby. How are we gonna get across to the lunch line?
Requirements
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
- A Jock Except Danny (Calivin)
- A Wallflower (Jasmine)
Berry: Okay, Danny, we need to somehow make our way through the crowd all the way to the lunch line. I’ll lead the way and try to clear a path for you and Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch.
Danny: Here we go!
You follow Berry on a winding path, evading a herd of football players and a pair of practicing dancers!
Berry: Hang on, Danny! We’re almost to the lunch line!
Just then, Calivin gets up from a table right in front of you!
Danny: Look out!
Calivin: Whoa!
You quickly jump to the side to avoid Calivin... And instantly collide into something else!
Jasmine: Oof! Why does no one ever see me?
Your egg pops out of your grip! You watch it sail through the air in slow-motion!
Danny: Nooooo!
Time - 13 hours
Your egg flies through the air!
Danny: I’ll save you, Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch!
You dive forward, stretching out your hands, and catch! You scoop the egg to your chest as you fall to the floor!
Danny: Oof!
Berry: Danny!
You open your hands and look... the egg is unharmed!
Danny: That was close!
After picking up food, you, Berry, and several of your friends sit outside in the quad, enjoying lunch with your egg babies.
Payton: Hey, Wes! You still have your egg in one piece!
Wes: Told you. I even converted this old cardboard box into a safety cradle.
Payton: Well, when you’re right, you’re right! Sorry I was teasing you earlier.
Autumn: Same here. We’re impressed.
Wes: Thanks, but there’s a lot more work to bedone...
Just then, a small shadow scampers toward Payton... And snatches the egg from her hand!
Payton: EEEEEE! What was that?! Ew, ew, ew!
Autumn: A raccoon stole the egg!
Payton: Noooo! It took Princess!
Danny: Hurry! We have to chase it down!
You and your friends start after the raccoon, but Wes lingers behind, his eyes locked on his egg’s cardboard box.
Wes: ...
Autumn: Come on, Wes! Payton needs out help! Your egg will be fine!
Wes: Okay! I’m coming!
Requirements
- Danny
- Payton
- Wes
You and your friends chase after the raccoon!
Payton: Give me back my egg baby! And so help me, if you break a single stitch on that outfit...
Wes: He’s going this way!
Wes gains on the raccoon, until finally it gives up the egg and sprints away!
Wes: Yeah, you’d better run!
Payton: Oh, thank heavens, my baby, you’re okay!
Payton kneels to pick up the egg...
Payton: Ewwwwwww! You’re covered in... raccoon saliva! You’re getting a bath of hand sanitizer!
You and your friends make your way back to the quad, Payton cringing as she carries the egg. Wes looks around the area where you had been sitting...
Wes: Hey, wait a second... where’d my box go? Where’s my egg?!
Time - 9 hours
You and your friends scramble around the quad, searching for Wes’s box...
Danny: I can’t find it anywhere!
Wes: I don’t understand! It was sitting right here! We were only gone for a minute! Where could it have gone?!
Autumn: Guys! I just heard from a Student Gov that the school custodians were scheduled to clean this area at the exact time we left...
Danny: So if they came here and saw an old cardboard box... does that mean...
Wes: No... no, no, no... you’re telling me they threw it out?!
Danny: Maybe it’s not gone yet, Wes.
Wes: You’re right! The trucks don’t pick up from the school dumpsters until tomorrow! My egg’s probably still there! Come on!
Wes takes off.
Autumn: Come on, guys. Help us look!
Payton: In the dumpsters?!
Autumn: He helped you get your egg back, Payton...
Payton: But... I just touched raccoon spit... and... dumpsters? I can’t... Gah! Fine!
Soon, you and your friends are rooting around inside the filthy dumpsters behind the school.
Payton: This is sooooo gross! Wes, seriously, this is not worth it.
Danny: Maybe you should ask Miss Williams for a new one. I think she’d understand--
Wes: I can’t do that, Danny.
You notice the frantic, stressed expression on Wes’s face.
Danny: (He’s taking this really hard. I should talk to him...)
Requirements
- Wes
You climb inside the same dumpster that Wes is digging through.
Wes: Thanks for helping out, Danny. I know it’s ridiculous... it’s just an egg.
Danny: Then why are we here, Wes? You already proved to Autumn and Payton that you were responsible. They were just teasing.
Wes: It was never about proving anything to them, Danny. It was about proving it to myself. And all I’ve proven is that I’m no better than my dad.
Danny: What do you mean?
Time - 11 hours
Danny: No better than your dad? How could you think that?
Wes: He skipped out on me and my brother when we were kids, Danny. And ever since then, I promised I would never be like him. But everyone always expected me to turn out to be a deadbeat like he was. And sometimes... sometimes I believe them. And here was my chance to prove that I could be responsible for another life, even if just for pretend, and I...
Wes trails off.
Wes: I know people joke about me being a slacker... but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about anything.
Danny: I know that, Wes. We all do. But this was out of your hands.
Wes: So? Does that make it okay to lose what you committed yourself to protect?
Danny: It doesn’t make it okay. But see what you’re doing right now? You’re sitting in a dumpster, digging through trash for it. Responsibility doesn’t mean you have to be perfect, Wes. It just means you have to hold yourself accountable. And you do. You’re trying, Wes. That alone means you’re not like your dad.
Wes: But what if trying isn’t enough?
Danny: Sometimes, it’s all we have.
Wes: ...then I’m gonna keep trying. Thanks, Danny.
Wes goes back to digging through the dumpster, looking determined now. And a little while later...
Wes: Oh man! Guys! I found it!
Danny: You found your egg?
Wes holds aloft a cardboard box! He reaches inside... and pulls out his intact egg baby!
Autumn: Aww. A family reunited.
Payton: Hmph. I hope that was worth making us all smell like garbage!
Wes: Payton, anything’s worth seeing you have to dig around in a dumpster. Thanks for helping me, guys. I know it’s just an egg.
Autumn: No. It’s not just an egg.
Payton: Now that that’s over... can we all PLEASE go home and take a shower?
Later, you meet up with your friends outside the Home Ec room.
Autumn: We weren’t the most graceful parents, but all our eggs managed to survive the project!
Wes: Couldn’t have done it without your help... especially Danny’s. Thanks, you guys.
Payton: Let’s go in and see how we did!
Requirements
- Danny
- A Classmate who is Dating Danny (Berry)
You walk through the Home Ec classroom. All around, pairs of students hang onto their eggs, many of them with cracked shells taped back together! You take a seat beside Berry and share a quick kiss.
Danny: Ready to hear how we did?
Berry: No matter what grade we get, I think we make a great team. But that said, I hope we were the best!
Time - 14 hours
The Home Ec teacher hands out your final grades on folded paper. Berry takes yours and opens it.
Danny: So? How’d we do?
Berry: We got an ‘A’! We ‘demonstrated exemplary teamwork and responsibility’.
Danny: Exemplary, huh?
You see Wes opening his grade at the next seat over. He smiles.
Danny: Good news, Wes?
Wes: Yeah, actually. An ‘A’.
Danny: So how do you feel now?
Wes: Like I’ve learned a lot. But even more than this, project, and taking care of this egg... it was YOU who taught me what responsibility means. So, thanks for being there for me, Danny.
Danny: Always will be.
Danny: Hey, wait a second, Berry... Where is our egg anyway?
Berry: Right here. I made a little surprise for you.
Berry sets a large shoebox on the desk. Its interior is decorated like a miniature house... with your egg living inside!
Danny: It’s a diorama!
Berry: I thought it’d be cute to make a home for us, like the one we imagined. There’s Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch... And these little figurines are you and me. See? You’ve got a lab coat and test tubes because you’re a doctor...
Danny: And you’re a teacher! Aww, you’ve got a little desk with an apple on it! And you made it a cozy apartment! You can even see the courtyard through the little window!
Berry: Look, see our SUV parked outside? Wanna go offroading? Our cat and dog can come with us.
Danny: Can you imagine if this was our lives right now?
Berry: Being adults with children? High school’s been a blast. I say we enjoy it while it lasts. So honestly, I’m pretty glad all of this was just pretend. Well, all of it except this.
Berry leans in and kisses you.
Danny: Yup. That was real!