The End of the Beginning

The End of the Beginning
Event	Winter 2015 Event
Release Date	January 02, 2016
Level Required	15 During Event 26 After Event
Number of Quests	23
Side Quests	TBA
Preceded By	Play-Annoyed Grunt

The End of the Beginning is a questline released on January 2, 2016, originally released as the limited-time main questline of the Winter 2015 Event's Act 3. It then became permanent after the event ended.

Quests

Quest	Requirements	Time	Reward	Triggered By
The End of the Beginning Pt. 1	Make Marge Take Maggie for a Walk	8h	100 10	Maggie
The End of the Beginning Pt. 2	Make Marge Take Maggie for a Quick Walk	4h	100 10	Maggie
The End of the Beginning Pt. 3	Make Homer Spit Take	6s	100 10	Maggie
The End of the Beginning Pt. 4	Make Marge Research Daycare Build the Police Station Make Homer Take Bart to Retake His Mug Shot	8h 24h 8h	100 10	Lisa
The End of the Beginning Pt. 5	Make Marge Apply to Preschools Make Homer Apply to Daycares	8h 8h	100 10	Marge
The End of the Beginning Pt. 6	Build Ayn Rand School for Tots	4h	100 10	Marge
The End of the Beginning Pt. 7	Make Homer Mention Blowing up the Town Make Maggie Start at Preschool	8h 8h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 8	Make Homer Mention Blowing up the Town Make Moe Tear Up Homer's Bar Tab	8h 12h	100 10	Moe
The End of the Beginning Pt. 9	Make Squeaky Voice Teen Reroute Parade* Make Sea Captain Cull the Sea for the Last of its Shrimp Reach Level 20 and Build Town Hall Make Quimby Name a Holiday After Homer Make Homer Acronymize Acronyms	8h 8h 24h 8h 8h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 10	Make Homer Do 10-Hour Spit Take	10h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 11	Make Homer Play at His Workstation Make Maggie Teach Homer How It Works	8h 8h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 12	Make Homer Drown His Sorrows in Beer Make Maggie Drown Her Sorrows in Beets	4h 4h	100 10	Moe
The End of the Beginning Pt. 13	Make Homer Search for the Unibrow Bomber Make Moe Tag Along Because He is Bored Make Lenny Tag Along Because He is Bored* Make Carl Tag Along Because He is Bored*	16h 16h 16h 16h	100 10	Moe
The End of the Beginning Pt. 14	Make Mr. Burns Recruit Babies to Work	12h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 15	Make Homer Go on a Job	8h	100 10	Mr. Burns
The End of the Beginning Pt. 16	Find R.O.S.A Parts (x24) Characters: Apu Bart Cletus Homer Lisa Milhouse Ned Willie	4h	100 10	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 17	Make Homer Draw the Short Straw Build the Krustyland Shuttlebus	60s -	100 10	Mr. Burns
The End of the Beginning Pt. 18	Go to Krustyland	-	-	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 19	Make Homer Find the Last R.O.S.A. Part A.S.A.P. to Get Out of Krustyland	4h	-	Homer
The End of the Beginning Pt. 20	Go to Springfield	-	Unlock R.O.S.A***	Auto
The End of the Beginning Pt. 21	Make Homer Guess Mr. Burns's Password	12h	100 10	Moe
The End of the Beginning Pt. 22	Make Moe Argue Online That Maggie Created Skyfinger Make Lenny** Complain Online That the Game's Not Good Anymore Make Carl** Argue Online it's a Retelling of the Genesis Myth Make Homer Troll the Forum with Shirtless Selfies	8h 8h 8h 8h	100 10	Homer
Play-Dough's Republic	Play "Where's Maggie?"	-	100 10	Marge

* will only appear if the required character is unlocked
** if Lenny and Carl are unlocked, otherwise Bart and Lisa need to complete the task.
*** works only if Moe is available (i.e. as soon as Moe is idle, i.e. does not carry out a task).

Dialogue

The End of the Beginning Pt. 1

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"*suck* *suck*"
	"Oh, you want to go for a walk with Mommy? That's one job I'd love to do!"
	"Wait, I'm sure I've seen you carrying her around town before."
	"That was just a sack of flour."
	"And all those Mommy & Me classes?"
	"Also the flour. I needed to get out of the house. It's not easy taking care of a bag of flour twenty-four hours a day."

All Objectives Started

Character	Dialogue
	"It's so much nicer carrying a real baby than a flour baby. Finally I can show you off to all the gluten-free moms!"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 2

Character	Dialogue
	"*suck* *suck*"
	"Again? Sweetie, we just finished a walk five minutes ago."
	"*suck* *suck*"
	"If I wanted a job that took eight hours a day, I'd get one that paid."
	"Just kidding. Who's ever heard of a "working mother"?"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 3

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"*suck* *suck*"
	"Ugh, Maggie -- I simply can't go on another walk with you. Maybe if there was a stroller in this game, or at least a Baby Bjorn."
	"How about I get your Daddy to walk you instead?"
	"Sorry, I'm already busy watching Maggie. She's holding my beer and showing me this really interesting recipe for cookies."
	"That's the bag of flour!"

End

Character	Dialogue
	"You tricked me, Flour Maggie. You'll rue this day... or should I say roux this day!"
	"Hahahaha! That's-a funny-a one-a! Finally a joke-a for me, Luigi!"
	"Glad you liked it. I said it, but I don't get it."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 4

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Mom, maybe you should enroll Maggie in daycare. Outsourcing our responsibilities as human beings is an American tradition."
	"Let my kids be raised by someone else? Wouldn't that be acknowledging my failure as a mother?"
	"Can someone drive me down to the police station? Wiggum left the lens cap on when he took my mug shot last week."
	"Then again, trying something new with parenting isn't always a bad idea."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"I had no idea how important daycare is for babies."
	"Did you know that babies that don't attend daycare are 100% less likely to form memories in daycare?"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 5

Character	Dialogue
	"I didn't want to enroll Maggie in a daycare where all they do is paint, clap their hands and listen to music."
	"But then I found out about preschools, where children learn to paint, clap their hands and listen to music."
	"But isn't preschool just the same thing as daycare?"
	"No sweetie, they have different names -- one which sounds like we're good parents, and one which sounds like we're lazy."
	"But they do the same things! The only difference is that daycare is a little bit cheaper."
	"Cheaper, eh?"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 6

Character	Dialogue
	"Maggie was too young for any of the schools I applied to."
	"There's a bunch of elementary schools in this town, even a high school, but nothing for pre-K."
	"We did get into the Stonecutter's Daycare, but that was a limited-time building from a long time ago. Almost no one's got it."
	"There's only one thing to do. We need to build something new."
	"Got it. I'll build the fire department -- you get the basket!"
	"That's not what I meant."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 7

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"I'm sorry, but we can't accept your daughter Maggie. We received your application too late."
	"Too late?! This place just came into existence!"
	"If you loved your child, you'd have found a way around that. As it is now, our wait list is several years long."
	"So I needed to apply when I was pregnant?"
	"No, you needed to apply when you first signed up for ReadyToSettle.com."
	"This is stupid! And I know stupid -- I'm the guy who blew up this town in the first place!"
	"Are you threatening to let that happen again if I don't let Maggie into our school?"
	"I wasn't. Should I?"
	"No, we would never kowtow to the threat of violence. We do however kowtow to the threat of stupidity."
	"The only way we can ensure someone with as dangerously inept a parent as yourself doesn't become dangerously inept herself is to educate her."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Wow. My stupidity scares people into giving me what I want? I'm just like President Bush!"
	"Bush isn't president anymore."
	"He's not?! Is he king now?"
	"Maggie can start today! Please, Mr. Simpson, just don't go to work."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 8

Character	Dialogue
	"The IRS finally found out that I faked my own death, so I've got to call in all your bar tabs."
	"Hey Moe, remember that time I blew up the town?"
	"No need to go crazy, Homer. I'll just make up a fake dependent I never see because my fake ex-wife got custody."
	"How about Hazel? I've always wanted to lose custody of a Hazel."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 9

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Sir, you can't park there."
	"Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I blew up the town?"
	"Yarrr, we have a quota of five hundred shrimp per all-you-can-eat session."
	"Blew Up The Town."
	"There is no possible way we can name a holiday after you!"
	"B.U.T.T."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Close the banks! I pronounce today Homer Day!"
	"B.U…"
	"The first in the eight day celebration we call Homerka!"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 10

Character	Dialogue
	"Mr. Burns! I demand a raise… as well as paid time off for Homerka, Rosh Homershana, and Simpsom Kipur."
	"Keep in mind that I'm that guy who blew up the town, and that will make you say yes to me for some reason."
	"No, you’re the man who THINKS he blew up the town. The truth is you had nothing to do with it."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 11

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"I distinctly remember destroying the town. There's even a video of it you can watch in the front of the store menu."
	"Pish. You were at your workstation... or should I say "doesn't work"-station."
	"I had it disabled years ago, on the recommendation of every other safety inspector at the plant."
	"What you've been working on is nothing more than a child's toy with spinny wheels and lights that blink when you push the big button."
	"Oh!!! So THAT'S how you get the lights to blink."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Sing together, A, B, C..."
	"You're the head of plant safety…"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 12

Character	Dialogue
	"One Duff beer for you and one Duff pureed beets for the baby. That'll be 12 dollars."
	"Put it on my tab, and then rip up that tab unless you want me to blow up the town again."
	"Nice try. Lenny and Carl overheard your conversation with Mr. Burns and told me all about it."
	"Sorry, buddy. Slow news day."
	"Thanks a lot! Just wait ‘til everyone thinks YOU blew up the universe when YOU really didn't and YOU want to keep it a secret!"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 13

Character	Dialogue
	"So if Homer didn't blow up Springfield, who did?"
	"I guess we'll never know, unless someone who witnessed the events miraculously steps forward. Perhaps at this very moment..."
	"*suck* *suck*"
	"Hey, I think Maggie's trying to tell us something!"
	"Say it again slowly."
	"*suck* ... *suck*"
	"Okay, that didn't work. Why don't you just draw it on this napkin?"
	"So the one-eyebrowed baby blew up the town? How is that possible?"
	"Well, Maggie DID shoot Mr. Burns. And there's that baby that talks in the E*Trade ads. Kids today are precocious."
	"We've got to go to Maggie's preschool and look for this evil baby."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 14

Character	Dialogue
	"Check out what I found in the Unibrow Baby's cubby. It looks like a manifesto!"
	"I can't read this. It's all illegible crayon scribbles."
	"The only thing I can tell for certain is that whoever wrote this is a deranged sicko."
	"That's not the manifesto -- that's my memoir "Why Not Moe?"."
	"Here's the thing the baby wrote."
	"Oh, okay. This is much more legible."
	"Who is this “ROSA"?"
	"You're not pronouncing it right! You need to roll the R. R-r-r-r-r-osa!"
	"Mr. Burns?! Why are you here?"
	"I'm looking for the nuclear plant's next Vice President of Operations."
	"You mean I'm getting promoted?"
	"Get real, fopdoodle! This job requires someone more youthful and full of energy!"

The End of the Beginning Pt. 15

Character	Dialogue
	"This daycare is excellent! I haven't had such a steady supply of child labor since the plant did "Take Your Child to Work Month.""
	"Oh yeah, Maggie loved that "screw in tiny screws for an hour" game!"
	"Wait a minute! You force babies to do manual labor at the plant?"
	"I don't, no. That's why I built R.O.S.A. -- the Robotic Offspring-Sitting Automaton."
	"Oh right, that was the silver lady in the manifesto."
	"Okay, enough explaining! Let's get back to reading it already."
	"Wow, this R.O.S.A. looks like a real task-master, making those babies do her bidding."
	"I would never let someone order ME around like that."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 16

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"So Mr. Burns built a robot to exploit babies, one of the babies got mad, and the whole universe blew up. It all makes sense."
	"None of that makes sense, Homer."
	"Especially the part about my robot exploiting babies. She was incentivizing them!"
	"She gave them sugar to make them work, Benadryl to make them sleep, and donuts as a reward for a job well done."
	"Mmm... donuts. Also, mmm... sugar and mmm... Benadryl."
	"It seems like we're still missing a piece of the story."
	"Well, R.O.S.A. had a built-in nanny-cam. If we could recover her pieces, perhaps we could see what happened right before the explosion."
	"*moans* I knew this was going to turn into collecting things."

Parts Found

Character	Dialogue
	"We found a part! It looks like... a leg."
	"It's an arm, Dad."
	"Nope. I’m pretty sure it's a leg. This robot must be tiny!"
	"It is not tiny! That's an arm..."
	"Let's keep looking everyone, only a few parts to go! Almost there."
	"Yes, let's rebuild the tiny robot and find out what happened."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 17

Character	Dialogue
	"We've found all the R.O.S.A. pieces except one... her feather duster."
	"What does she even have a feather duster for? She's a nanny, not a maid."
	"Children get dusty too. But we need that piece -- it contains the surrogate motherboard."
	"But it's impossible! We've looked everywhere!"
	"Everywhere in our MAIN Springfield. But there's one place we haven't looked..."
	"Oh God, no. You don't mean..."
	"That's right. That place we dread... that haunts us in our nightmares... that we pretend doesn't even exist..."
	"Krustyland."
	"Nooooooooooo!!!!"
	"Nooooooooooo!!!!"
	"Nooooooooooo!!!!"
	"Let's just draw straws and get this over with."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 18

Character	Dialogue
	"Woo-hoo! I drew the short straw so I don't have to go, and all you long straw guys are stuck going to Krustyland."
	"That ain't the way drawing straws work, Homer."
	"ARRGGGGHHH!"
	"Fine, I'll go. If the shuttle crashes on the way to Krustyland, tell Marge and the kids I died happy because I didn't make it to Krustyland."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 19

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Ugh, this place is awful… and it’s so far from Springfield. That shuttle bus took like 16 seconds!"
	"It's the only amusement park so boring that even the gangs won't come here!"

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Bye, Krustyland. Forever this time. I'm serious."
	"Would you like your hand stamped so you can re-enter?"
	"Has anyone ever asked to re-enter this place?"
	"No. Thank you for not punching me in the face for asking."

The End of the Beginning Pt. 21

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Okay, we've assembled all the pieces. Let's turn this robot on."
	"Hello, I am R.O.S.A. What can I do for you, mister?"
	"Ooh, mister. I like her already."
	"We need to see your video from right before the explosion."
	"Of course. Please enter the password."
	"Password?"

All Objectives Started

Character	Dialogue
	"Did you try "Excellent"?"
	"Yeah, it didn't work."
	"Try "Excellent1"."
	"That's it! His catchphrase plus the year he was born."

End

The End of the Beginning Pt. 22

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"I'm confused. What were those things the one-eyebrowed baby put in R.O.S.A.'s battery compartment?"
	"Fuel rods. You know, the things your job is to keep from overheating?"
	"Oh, that makes sense."
	"Now that that's clarified, can you explain everything else that happened in the video?"
	"No. But if anyone asks me at a dinner party, I'm going to say yes so that people don't think I'm stupid."
	"Regardless of whether that scene had a meaning or not, the important thing is that we spend hours debating its meaning in the Tapped Out forums!"

End

“	Way to go! You've finished the main quest line. Keep tapping bears and sending Maggie on jobs to collect pacifiers and unlock more prizes!	”
	— System Message.

Play-Dough's Republic

Character	Dialogue
	"Homer, where's Maggie?"
	"I dunno, she was right here before I went out for snacks."
	"I wouldn't worry. She always comes back eventually."
	"That's what you said about our first cat."
	"Oh yeah... we better go find her then."

Trivia

• This is the only quest line with drawings in it.

Gallery

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