[XCL] [0.25.6] Bar Activities Expanded 1.0.0

Bar Activities Expanded
 

The Broken Drum has always had one game: blackjack. This mod puts a dartboard on the wall and a pool table in the corner, and wires both into everything the card game already does: the wagers, the girls, Dredd's dangerous stakes, and Bruce's infamous X-Change bet.

• Darts
  • A physically aimed game. Your sight drifts and wobbles over the board; you pick your moment and throw. Higher Fitness steadies your hand, and every drink loosens it. Three darts a round against an opponent who visibly throws back, with the round margins filling a points bar until someone owns the night. Bruce hunts treble twenties and runs hot. Dredd parks in the fat twenty and punishes your misses. The girls throw true to their personality, right down to the bimbo's occasional miracle bullseye.
• Pool
  • A real top-down eight ball simulation. Every shot is two steps: aim while dashed prediction lines trace the cue ball and object ball through cushion bounces to wherever they would actually end up (a gold ring where a ball drops, a red ring warning you of a scratch), then set your power on a slider and let it go. A faint fan around your aim line shows your true accuracy, and it widens with power and drink, so you always know what you are gambling on. Full bar rules on a 15 ball rack: pot your own and keep shooting, scratch and give up ball in hand, sink the 8 early and lose on the spot. Your opponent plays their turns on the table in front of you, and you can tap to hurry them along.
• Built into the bar, not beside it
• The existing "Play cards" moment becomes "Play a game": agree the stakes first, then choose blackjack, darts, or pool
• Every bar girl plays all three games, one of each per night, including girls added by other mods, with a full set of personality-flavored reactions for winning and losing, for cash or for pride
• Dredd offers stakes you cannot cover, and losing a game you could not pay for ends exactly where you fear it does
• Bruce's X-Change pill bet works at every game, in both directions: bet your masculinity against his hundred, or make him match the bet with a pill of yours. The crowd still enforces the result. A bet is a bet.
• The dice-roll skill check (now Fitness-based for both new games), Extra Effort, Action Points, skippable minigames, and the Real Time Minigames toggle are all fully supported
• 7 achievements, from your first won rack to making Bruce swallow his own medicine
• A few drinks in, the games notice: your aim suffers and the narration has opinions
   

Compatibility

• Requires X-Change Life 0.25 or newer

Install

Load bar activities expanded 1.0.0.xcl through the X-Change Life Mod Loader like any other mod. Works on new saves and existing saves.