One of the things about playing The Sims is you're never really satisfied with just one family. Unless you're my wife, who can derive endless amusement from making a couple representing us and then humiliating my character. But me, I like to build more families and make them interact with each other, hopefully leading to hilarious personality clashes. Since we've had a spurt of new commenters on these entries since I last introduced anyone new to this game, it gave me an excuse to build what I called, in a fit of divine inspiration, the Three family.

You'll notice there are no girls in this house. As I've mentioned, they all suck. But in having it be a bachelor house, they're free to play video games whenever they want -- which has turned out to be, basically, all hours. This is truly the house of the bad boys of computer science.

FerrioClef was one of my inspirations for setting up this house -- he was the first one in my group of online friends who asked for guinea pigs to stick into a Sims house. Clef operates on a Romance aspiration, and as you can see he's wasted no time getting his schwerve on with Jenny Smith.

OK, so it's not funny, Jenny, you don't have to be fucking sarcastic.

Magatsu I actually don't know that much about. He posted a lot before I found BBoCS and then fell off the planet. Probably he ran away because I smell bad. At any rate, he immediately found a job in the medical track, but as you can see, that didn't really work out for him.

In the last week or so, we've attracted a new forumite, MustKillMoWhee. Mo is actually my real-life younger brother, but that's not the reason I put him in the game. The reason I added him is because he's already posted more in a week than most of us did our first month. (Well, OptimusMiddleFinger excepted.) He's already made fast friends with Laz here, which is good in attaining my other goal in putting him in the game -- to kill him off at the Badboy house.

See, every now and then one of your Sims will have the desire to see a ghost. Laz is just such a Sim -- I've ignored it a couple times, but it keeps popping up in his wants bar, so finally I just locked it and built a new family with which I could kill off somebody. And hey, what better way to initiate the moobie than with grisly murder?

So early next morning, Gray calls up Mo and invites him over ...

... to have a little dip in the pool expressly built for this purpose. Buahahaha. Fool.

Hey, bro, I can't help you. I mean, come on, your death wish is actually in your name.

Augh. I can't do it. Even though it's virtual and a rite of passage, I just can't bring my self to kill off my own brother. I'm so weak.

Fortunately, as I mentioned earlier, it's easy and fun to create new families.

The Ghosts are, from left, Anj, Debuchan, Borealis, and Starchild -- all one-time big-time forumites who, in this newest incarnation of the boards, have posted fewer than ten times. You'll notice they're all girls. Yeah. Suck big time.

But what the hell -- might as well get a little fan-service out of this house before everybody dies.

When Q lures Borealis out to the far corner of the Badboy property, you'd think she'd suspect something is up. Fortunately, she's one of the few who trusts me farther than she can throw me, and I'm able to quickly fence her in, thereby trapping her back there. Going nowhere but up, girlie.

The others aren't so easily duped.

But eventually, evil triumphs because good is dumb.

Our first casualty in the Sim Pen is, that's right, dear Borealis. Death arrives punctually, makes a little note on his clipboard, calls upstairs on his cell phone, and all that's left of Ghost Number One is a tombstone.

Do you see, TheLazarus? See what your whimsical desire has brought upon this household?

On the bright side, the whole ordeal has made Endy and KC best friends. Who knows where this could go from here. Oh, I know. We all know.

Once all four Ghosts have kicked off, the rearrangement of the headstones and picket fences and addition of a few futons make for a peaceful little memorial sitting area. The weeds, having sprung up from the wet spot on the ground where Debuchan pissed her pants because I wouldn't let her get to a bathroom, add a nice touch, I think.

As an added bonus, over on the Ghost lot the girls are still walking around and using the bathroom like nothing happened to their corporeal bodies. This makes my initially-ironic naming of the family look pretty damn smart in retrospect.

Posted by Endymion at March 2, 2005 12:14 AM