SIM STORY: Colin Harris, BMOC and Boy Toy
Top row (L-R): Colin Harris, Christian Hallin, Jon Hansen, Lynette Walker, Jade Pickett, Kerry Landau
Bottom row (L-R): Lori Garret, Barry Womble
Dormitory: Smithfield House
Residence Advisor: Cara Olshfski
A peek into Colin Harris' life. We previously met him in a Harper House story. But what is he really like?
There's nothing special about Smithfield. It doesn't attract the jocks, the geeks, the princesses, the rebels, the partiers, the rich, the poor, the rockers...it seems to get the other kids, the ones who don't fit neatly into specific groups.
The Evil Cow Mascot visits far too often, perhaps. Sanjay, the Smithfield refectory manager, has an ongoing feud with Cowpat, and has ever since The Great Sprinkler Prank Incident ruined his attempt to prepare something more exciting than macaroni and cheese for the students. Five chocolate souffes, totally ruined!!
The dormies usually take matters into their own hands.
Dinner time provides an opportunity to socialize and flirt with other students.
The Great Sky Hand occasionally forgets to put the walls back up when taking photos, but the dormies are so engrossed in their socializing, it doesn't seem to bother them much.
The dormies may try their hand at cooking, but this doesn't mean that their recipes taste much better than Sanjay's cooking.
Microwave popcorn to the rescue!
Another day, another attempt not to burn mac'n'cheese.
The college doesn't stint on amenities, hoping their efforts will encourage the students to study more (by keeping them busy at home in the dorms). Even if the students aren't keeping their minds on their homework, the dorm carpeting is. Which happens to be kind of creepy.
The Great Sky Hand has been informed that it is actually the dorm door which is thinking, which is no less freakish. Apparently this particular dormie is attending class.
Dorm Mom Cara takes her duties seriously.
Students sneaking out after hours get a darn good scolding.
This doesn't stop them from trying.
Cara's other duties seem to include harassing Sanjay every chance she can get.
This does not improve his cooking, mind you. Poor old guy.
Jon is a card sharp (or is that a card shark?) and enjoys Poker Night with a rotating cast of dormmates.
He may be brilliant at poker, but he is not smart enough to escape from a corner.
The Great Sky Hand was annoyed, and forcibly removed him, and put a potted plant there instead.
Dormie Robi is not sure if the llama is real or a hallucination. They were good mushrooms, you know.
Colin often finds living with other students to be a trial. Here we have eight students each with laptops in their dorm rooms, ten computers in the dorm study room, and everyone still wants to use the computer Colin has chosen to write a term paper on. Typical.
The Great Sky Hand tends to get highly displeased at this point.
Poor Colin even has to deal with intruders in his room.
At this rate, he may never get his homework finished.
On the other hands, living in a dorm has certain benefits, so, on the whole, Colin puts up with the annoyances.
Not all college flirtations end well.
Kerry expresses her opinion of Colin.
Colin spots his next target, Jade.
Things progress, and they two lovebirds go out for burgers and beers.
The date goes well.
Really well.
Really, really well.
Colin! You dog!
The university has thoughtfully provided many distractions to keep the students happy, and to encourage them to get Academic Probations. The more Academic Probations, the longer the students take to graduate.
The longer it takes them to graduate, the more tuition they must pay.
The more tuition they pay, the more distractions the university can afford to buy.
The Great Sky Hand thinks this is brilliantly evil.
Another day, some more annoyances.
Sanjay spots his nemesis sneaking into the dorm, while Kerry gets scolded for trying to sneak Crackers, the dorm pet, to the gym.
Barry fails to understand the purpose of a toga party, and instead geeks out over the telescope.
Colin gets noticed by a mysterious group of students and is whisked away, blindfolded, to a mysterious location.
Mysteriously, it seems to be in a deserted part of town.
It is, actually, a very deserted part of town.
What's a nice house like you doing in a green void-like place like this?
Colin quickly decides that he likes the Secret Society.
He decides he likes it a lot.
He is not sure he believes all the stories about the mansion being haunted.
But perhaps he should.
Sometimes the ghosts outnumber the humans in the house.
There are also a number of mysterious artifacts and devices in the mansion.
Sometimes, however, a plain ol' video game console is more fascinating than ghosts and Mad Scientist toys.
The Great Sky Hand is pleased to see someone scrubbing out the toilets. It might not get done, otherwise.
There are opportunities to build their skills at the mansion, which is a bonus for any student needing to boost his or her grades.
The students still pitch fits over computers. At least they have an excuse, here; there are only four available
The computers are also used to hack into the school's databases to fix grades.
This does not always go as planned.
Colin agrees to be set up on a date by a Gypsy.
There is initial skepticism on both sides.
But the blind date seems to go well.
The pair find many interests in common.
Colin tries out his smooth moves.
Fortunately, this goes well.
Need I say it?
Okay, then.
It goes really well.
Really, really well.
Colin continues his winning streak with an Older Woman.
The inevitable occurs.
After several dates, and more, Milla Harper winds up being his fiancee.
Has Colin gotten all the "sowing wild oats" urges out of his system, or is this relationship doomed?
Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, Colin has to go back to University, and there were, at last count, about twelve ex-girlfriends to contend with...plus his own randy behavior.
Next time, back to our usual cast of characters.
I also hope to have more actual stories to share! I haven't been able to play Sims due to a lack of free time, so these are old snapshots I had laying about.