What's the Matter?

What's the Matter?

Tapped Out Quest Information Level: 5 Update: SciFi Required characters: Stephen Hawking, Ned, Homer, Evil Homer Optional characters: Barbarian Homer, Cool Homer, King-Sized Homer, Strongman Homer Previous quest(s): Dark Matters Pt. 7

What's the Matter? is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the SciFi content update.

Dialogue

Pt. 1

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark To understand the nature of the wormhole, we'll need to gather matter samples from a number of other universes. Team Homer is on the job! And as coach of the team, I'll be in the coach's hammock. Very well. You other Homers, travel through the wormhole and liberate a few items of exotic matter. Liberate? That's one of my favorite synonyms for larceny! We're stealing stuff?! Woo-hoo! Task: "Make Alternate Homers Gather Exotic Matter" (x5). The jobs take place at the PolyVac and take 4 hours. Message While these Alternate Homers are visiting your Springfield, keep sending them to Plunder the Multiverse! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 2

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark This exotic matter the Homers obtained is fascinating! What a boon to science! That's nice, Professor Hawking, but the robots are still attacking! I know it's hard to see at this pixel resolution, but a lot of us have very serious wounds. Well, there's not much I can do about that. We'll just have to get used to living in a world where a never-ending line of robots are continually murdering us. Science offers no means to stop them. Then it's time for prayer! Oh, Lord. That's the spirit, Professor! We call upon the Lord to smite these wicked robots! Everyone, bow your heads in prayer to the Almighty One... The Sky Finger. Task: "Make Ned Pray to the Sky Finger". The job takes place at Flanders House and takes 8 hours. Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Roll His Eyes". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 8 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 3

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark Seeing the finger of God smash the robots of science makes ya think, doesn't it, Dr. Hawking? I'm always thinking! What does it look like I'm doing? Don't have a cow, man! That's what I used to say as a boy. The Sky Finger is not a god. It's a natural phenomenon, easily explainable by, uh, basic laws of physics that we don't yet understand. Then how is it that the Sky Finger can make us do his or her bidding, with a simple tap of his or her mighty finger? Let's just assume it's a him. And that his cubicle is littered with vending machine pastry wrappers. I respect your ludicrous blathering, Ned. But the Sky Finger does not control me. Task: "Make Stephen Hawking DJ Some Tunes". The job takes 60 minutes. Okay. I acknowledge that the Sky Finger is an entity of power. But it's still not a god. For no god would force me to spin records all day! The Lord works in mysterious ways. Can I get an amen and a little more subwoofer? Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 4

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark Whatever the Sky Finger is, it must be governed by the laws of science. To fall back on supernatural explanations means giving up the will to understand our universe. Understanding is overrated. Just do as the Sky Finger commands, and enjoy the calming numbness of true faith. Never! As an independent thinking being, I choose to exercise my free will and ponder the nature of the Sky Finger! Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Ponder the Nature of the Sky Finger". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 8 hours. Task: "Make Ned Enjoy the Calming Numbness of Faith". The job takes place at Flanders House and takes 8 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 5

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark Logic demands that we consider an alternate hypothesis. Perhaps we're all actually living in a simulation... a virtual world manipulated by the Sky Finger. Like a video game? No, nothing like that. Professor Hawking, while you're gassing on, the robots are continuing their attack! Luckily it's mostly stab wounds so far. But still, the sheer quantity of stabbing is hard on people. Particularly the children. Great, now I lost my train of thought. Homer, block as many knife thrusts as you can absorb while I consider whether I'm really just a simulation. Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Wonder if He's a Simulation". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Homer Relax in the Brown House". The job takes place at a Brown House and takes 2 hours. Task: "Make Alternate Homers Absorb Knife Thrusts" (x4). The jobs take place at the PolyVac and take 4 hours. Task: "Make Evil Homer Scheme". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 4 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 6

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark I've come to a conclusion: I am NOT a simulation. For truly, any being capable of contemplating such a question is by definition sentient. That's super. I may never understand the Sky Finger. But that doesn't diminish my personal dignity. Task: "Force Hawking to Drive His Wheel Chair Up and Down Stairs". The job takes place at a Brown House and takes 8 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 7

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark I've come to a new conclusion: the Sky Finger is a Sky Jerk! Blasphemy! Thou'st mayn't taketh the Finger's name in vain! The Finger giveth and I giveth the finger. Clever. But still blas-diddly-asphemous! I'm tired of thinking so hard. And I'm tired of rolling up and down stairs! Haven't you people ever heard of a ramp? It was invented thousands of years ago! What kind of society has black hole generators, but no ramps?! Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Fight for His Rights". The job takes 8 hours. By the power vested in me by the unelected superdelegates, I hereby decree that all buildings are now required to have ramps. Thank you. Let us bow our heads and pray to Sky Finger that such ramps might miraculously be built. Oh, for Finger's sake! Just forget it, I'll use the stairs. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 8

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark Perhaps I've been viewing this through the wrong lens... Like that time I put on Milhouse's glasses and caught lice. If the Sky Finger is an intelligent, albeit non-divine being, physics may not be the best approach to understanding it. Instead, I need to employ that lowest of pseudo-sciences... psychology. I take offense! Psychology is the most rigorous of the self-help infomercial sciences. Sky Finger, it's time you and I had a serious discussion. Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Rocket Around Town". The job takes 8 hours. Observation: this rocket chair makes ramps obsolete. And it's, like, totally fun! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 9

After tapping on Stephen Hawking's exclamation mark I get it now! The Sky Finger is merely a cosmic child! A powerful being with infinite time to waste! To keep the Sky Finger happy, we just need to offer it things to play with! Just as the ancients offered up blood sacrifices unto the Almighty! Yes. Except instead of a freshly slaughtered goat, we'll offer it digital shrubbery, brightly colored dumpsters, and other such treasures. So science and religion are in agree-diddly-eement? It's not an agreement! More of a, uh, covenant. No fair, that's our word! This is all well and good, but what about the army of bloodthirsty robots invading from another dimension? I heard you the first time, Marge. We'll let the Sky Finger play with the PolyVac. That'll keep its juvenile mind busy so I can think without him tapping me all the time. Task: "Make Stephen Hawking Think Without Getting Tapped by the Sky Finger". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 8 hours. Task: "Make Evil Homer Scheme". The job takes place at the PolyVac and takes 4 hours. Message This story will continue in the second act. For now, keep playing with the PolyVac; get more cool "treasures"! Quest reward: 100 and 10

The Simpsons: Tapped Out SciFi quests
28 Years Later • Across the Multiverse • Alternate Homers • Army of the Five Monkeys • Dark Matters • Do Me a Solid • Judgment Day! • A Matter of Fact • Photo-Sensitive Deficiency • Pillow Talk • Return to Status Quo • Rise of the Machine Dialogue • SciFact Bonus • Smack to the Future • What's the Matter?
Rockstar Maggie	Dial M for Maggie • Purple Reign
LadyBot	Android in the Dungeon
Mooch Bart	The Mooch Who Knew Too Much
President Lisa	Presidential Primaries
Robo Burns	Population Control
Sgt. Skinner	Sgt. Skinner's Robot Parts Club
Frank Grimes	Graveyard Shift • Grime and Punishment
Lampwick	Lampwicked
Buildings/Decorations	3D Printer • Astro-House • Atomic Hula Hoop • Cryogenics • Dome-icile • Elysium Project • Future-Proofed Home • Giant Robot • Global Housing • A Matter of Density • Mech Bart • Mushroom Office Building • Office Towers • Place Crazy Plane • Place Holo-Bench • Retro Style Townhouse • Rocket to Your Doom • Tomorrow's Costington's • Unlock Mini Mecha Hawk