Re: Just like the SimsheddaleeApril 11 2006, 05:58:00 UTC
I tried to google it coz I remember writing about it before. Anyhoo. *sobs* It was very sad. I only played once, for a couple of days, and I accidentally murdered two of the characters when I built them a swimming pool but they ran and jumped in before I built them a ladder to get out, and they drowned rapidly. While they were in the pool (the dad of the family was in there too, but he went in last and I built the ladder in time for him to get out), all of them except the baby they'd adopted, social services came and took the baby.
The daughter came back as a ghost to haunt the father - so not kidding with this. Every single night she'd come out about two am and wander through the house as a green spectre and make howling noises. I'm soooo not kidding about this.
Eventually she was joined by another ghost - no idea who he was. As you know, sleep is critical to the Sim peoples all over the world, and Dad's sleep being interrupted every night by the green ghost of his daughter made him something of a nervous wreck. He built a hedge maze around his house and essentially moved into the maze, assuming, I suppose, that he'd be able to protect his sanity there, but you know, it didn't work. Daughter found him no matter what.
Eventually he couldn't sleep at all, and he would wander around cursing all the time, occasionally falling to the floor for a few minutes of rest, getting up to curse and moan in exhaustion. I'm so not kidding. He did invite his neighbor over to hang out, but while the neighbor was there, the house caught on fire. Why is this a problem? Well, once a fire starts in Sim-ville, at least in the version I was playing, nothing can be changed until the fire is out -- and the hedge maze kept everyone else out, including the neighbor's wife, who'd been invited over. She, the firefighters, and this paper girl who spent weeks walking back and forth through the backyard trying to find a way around the hedge maze, all had to stand and watch the house burn, while the two men inside attempted to put it out themselves, unsuccessfully.
As I watched in horror and shock, the fire eventually burned its way out of the house and onto a patio that one had to cross in order to reach the front door. After the patio burned down, the hedges finally caught fire, and once there was a space in the hedges that the fire had cleared, everyone came rushing in : the maid, who headed right to the kitchen to clean, the firefighters, who worked to save the two men trapped in the unburnt half of the house, and the neighbor's wife, who WAS PROGRAMMED TO GO TO THE FRONT DOOR NO MATTER WHAT when invited over, so she ran into the flaming patio and immediately burned to death.
At that point, I had to give up playing; the accumulated grief and despair was too much for me.
Re: Just like the SimsheddaleeApril 12 2006, 00:11:26 UTC
They all look so panicked, too! Not one of them seems to be thinking, "What do people do when a fire starts? Hey, maybe I should think about trying to put it out!"
Re: Just like the SimschaostinyApril 12 2006, 00:49:20 UTC
Just try getting one of them to pick up the phone and call the fire department... it takes 3 or 4 tries before they will actually stop panicking and do it! Strangely enough, I know real people much like this... :)
The daughter came back as a ghost to haunt the father - so not kidding with this. Every single night she'd come out about two am and wander through the house as a green spectre and make howling noises. I'm soooo not kidding about this.
Eventually she was joined by another ghost - no idea who he was. As you know, sleep is critical to the Sim peoples all over the world, and Dad's sleep being interrupted every night by the green ghost of his daughter made him something of a nervous wreck. He built a hedge maze around his house and essentially moved into the maze, assuming, I suppose, that he'd be able to protect his sanity there, but you know, it didn't work. Daughter found him no matter what.
Eventually he couldn't sleep at all, and he would wander around cursing all the time, occasionally falling to the floor for a few minutes of rest, getting up to curse and moan in exhaustion. I'm so not kidding. He did invite his neighbor over to hang out, but while the neighbor was there, the house caught on fire. Why is this a problem? Well, once a fire starts in Sim-ville, at least in the version I was playing, nothing can be changed until the fire is out -- and the hedge maze kept everyone else out, including the neighbor's wife, who'd been invited over. She, the firefighters, and this paper girl who spent weeks walking back and forth through the backyard trying to find a way around the hedge maze, all had to stand and watch the house burn, while the two men inside attempted to put it out themselves, unsuccessfully.
As I watched in horror and shock, the fire eventually burned its way out of the house and onto a patio that one had to cross in order to reach the front door. After the patio burned down, the hedges finally caught fire, and once there was a space in the hedges that the fire had cleared, everyone came rushing in : the maid, who headed right to the kitchen to clean, the firefighters, who worked to save the two men trapped in the unburnt half of the house, and the neighbor's wife, who WAS PROGRAMMED TO GO TO THE FRONT DOOR NO MATTER WHAT when invited over, so she ran into the flaming patio and immediately burned to death.
At that point, I had to give up playing; the accumulated grief and despair was too much for me.
*wipes away tears*
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Beautiful. I've had all those things happen to my Sims, except for buidling the hedge thing. But never in such a short time period.
Oh, the humanity! I mean, the Simanity.
First thing I do when I build a house is put in a smoke alarm, because fires are INEVITABLE.
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hehe!!
*still giggling!*
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Why, btw, are all those people in the same place at the same time (in the Sim-capture above)? What's their motivation?
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You crack me up. :D
Probably a party. *shrug* Hard to say for sure though.
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