| Once Upon a City Dreary
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| Tapped Out Quest Information
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Once Upon a City Dreary is a premium questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Treehouse of Horror XXXIII content update. It requires Edgar Allan Poe to be obtained.
Dialogue[edit]
| After tapping on Edgar Allan Poe's exclamation mark
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The denizens of this city cannot appreciate the sophisticated dread of exquisite Victorian horror.
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Can the tales of a Nineteenth Century poet give these modern morons a proper scare?!
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I need to explore the existential dread of their modern lives.
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Existential dread? Well, our pensions were gutted and now we'll all have to retire to jobs as Sprawl Mart greeters.
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Greeting friends and neighbors can be quite enriching.
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Doomed to stand in front of doors that open automatically, smiling at jerks who won't make eye contact!
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Occasionally being asked where the dog treats have been moved to, but no one knows. NO ONE KNOWS!
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*gasp* That does sound horrific!
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Maybe the modern world has more inspiration to provide than I initially believed.
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| Task: "Make Poe Look for Inspiration". The job takes 4 hours.
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Quest reward:  100 and  10
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| After tapping on Edgar Allan Poe's exclamation mark
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Now that I have some ideas, I should run them by the simple, dull locals.
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"Simple"? Sure. "Dull" No way...! Okay, yeah. "Dull" is right on too.
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Our tale begins at twilight in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where we find two young men with terrible secrets and a young woman who is not terribly bright...
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The woman is not "bright"?! You can't say that!
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She's right, dude. Not in this day and age.
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All right, fine. All three are not terribly bright.
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That plays.
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| Task: "Make Poe Tell a Scary Story". The job takes 4 hours.
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So wait, the one guy is a fish person...
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That sounds vaguely familiar.
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And the other guy is suffering from a Romani curse...
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And they both murder the girl, who's struggling to write a term paper for History class.
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Why does the girl have to die?
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Even though that part is strangely relatable.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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| After tapping on Edgar Allan Poe's exclamation mark
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I just can't seem to connect with modern people with this story.
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What is it about?
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Well, there's a boy who has been cursed by a Romani fortune teller, and there's a girl—
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Oh, he's in love with her of course!
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Definitely!
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No. There's another boy, who is secretly a fish person—
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And he loves the girl too!
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Love triangle! How romantic!
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No! There is no "love"!
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Maybe you could do a rewrite and add some romance.
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*sighs* Uh, okay...
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| Task: "Make Poe Accidentally Tell a "Horror" Romance Story". The job takes place at a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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And romance and horror DO mix. I ended up back on the bestseller list!
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Hmm...do you think a love triangle between a space god that looks like a squid, a deranged farmer, and an astronomer possessed by an ancient spirit would sell?
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I'll bet these 21st Century Neanderthals will eat it up!
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| Quest reward: 200 and 20
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Behind the Laughter[edit]
The quest name is a reference to the opening line of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe; "Once upon a midnight dreary."
