Maxis Taste Dare 007 - Veronaville Asylum (Week 2)
Last time:
Titania developed an unhealthy obsession with Kent
Kent befriended a wolf but did not get nibbled
Albany and his sidekick Mr Mirror made their appearance
Goneril had a band of stalkers
Albany made friends with a stray because nobody would talk to him
"Tweet, tweet" go the birdies. "Chirp, chirp" go the crickets.
Welcome back to Veronaville, which would have been named Tranquility Valley were it not for the bunch of crazies living there.
Goneril: Wheee! A rare moment of not having my head pounded in and my teeth being knocked out!
Yeah... That didn't last long.
The shower had been leaking for several days so I sent Kent to fix it. Even if the puddles were a good source of cleaning skill points for the non-controllables, I was sick of the dripping.
Bianca: Want some help? * merges bodies with Kent *
Uhhh... I think he's got it. But thanks for asking!
I notice Goneril stalking Patrizio when...
Yeah, I know. They're losing family friends left right and centre. I had no idea. Thanks for reminding me!
Back to our regularly scheduled programme.
I'm a bit sick of all the fighting, actually.
But the faces they make while there's a fight on are so cool!
I have no idea why I took this picture...
I sent Kent jogging and he declared that he'd had a good week. Then I took the picture for some reason but being unable to figure out why, I have highlighted the most striking features of the image.
Also - as you can see I didn't cheat and he hasn't been upgraded with extra want slots like so many people do!
It was one of those death match fights with total lack of death. Kent jogged back after dark and the fight was still on. I think that's Goneril and Patrizio still going for it since the first Goneril-Patrizio fight pictures several images back.
These two are pretty good friends now. Also - elder giggle = somewhat frightening sound. I had no idea. I usually play with sound off.
Kent: Welcome back my furry friend! * impales arm in wall *
Still. No. Nibble!
It wouldn't be a Veronaville Asylum update without a picture of Kent with his ass up in the air.
Sigh. Goneril and Patrizio have moved the party into the dining/entry area, I see.
Oberon: That looks like fun! Can I try? * shoves arm through torso *
Aaaaand another death match. This one lasted for a few hours. I was afraid someone would die of hunger or something at the end because they just kept going and going and going and going...
Right after the fight Bianca dragged Kent into the hot tub.
She wasn't the only one that got hot and bothered by the world's longest fight.
Herr Freud is shocked by all this!
I got Kent to organise some more peace talks (then made him leave to do some skilling). With Kent out of ear shot...
Bianca: I think it would be best all 'round if you just moved out, Goneril.
Maybe the peace talks aren't going so well after all.
Titania's name has now officially benn changed to The Stalker.
The Stalker: You don't mind if I sit here and watch you sleep, do you Kent?
The Stalker: So hungry!
Well, you wouldn't be hungry if you just went to the kitchen and oh I don't know - maybe got one of the meals that one of the others served?
She just kept getting up, demanding to be fed, then going back to relax by the sleeping Kent. For HOURS! In the end I was hoping she'd die of starvation but she didn't.
Herr Freud is shocked!
Apparently there are less beds than residents.
* Evil laughter in the background *
And of course The Stalker wasn't helping much by occupying a bed slot but not using it for sleeping.
Since I had started to play with the sound on, this necessitated sending Kent to tune the piano.
Nice tuning fork!
The Stalker: He looks so hot playing the piano...
Kent: *finishes playing piano * *plus tinkering enthusiasm! *
Say what?!?!?!?
Albany: There's a camera behind me, isn't there Mr Mirror? I just know there is! Oh, Mr Mirror! I CAN SEE THE CAMERA IN YOUR REFLECTION!!11!!! I just knew hanging out in the kitchen would pay off in the end!
It's sibling bonding time over some cereal.
Bianca: Take THAT bitch!
Kent: My girlfriend is so hot when she bitch-slaps my sister!
Goneril: * merges with the counter *
Kent continues working on that body skill. Also, you can't see it but he's doing the psycho eyes / nictitating membrane shit with his eyes.
Look! The fruit trees gave a crop that wasn't "bland"! Still no mouthwatering crops and Kent only has the bronze badge, but we're workign on it :) And SPARKLY FOOD FTW!!!
I see what you did there, Tybalt!
Meet the new newspaper thief. Regan and Old Man Capp have apprarently retired from the business.
Just in case Kent's freako-blink was easy to miss due to picture angle, have a picture of Patrizio without pupils.
I'm 3 for 3 now! LOL
Either there's another fight or someone is playing the piano. They cheer for both and both happen so often that I'm having trouble telling the difference between fight-cheering and piano-cheering.
Awwww... Even with her brain reduced to pulp from the constant beatings she dreams of her one true love.
Sigh. Slap!
Bianca: Oooof!
After the last lot of peace talks, Goneril appears to have just about repaired her relationship with Patrizio so they're not at each other's throats any more. Now it's just girl-on-girl action.
The Stalker: You don't mind if I just quickly check my makeup, do you Kent?
Kent: No, just go right ahead. All I'm doing here is TAKING A GODDAMN DUMP!!!
Bianca (in next door room): Stay away from my man, bitch!
Albany: Oh Mr Mirror! You never fail to find the camera!
Note The Stalker still stalking Kent, who is still on the crapper.
He was stuck in bed for a while, until his sister and his girlfriend had beaten each other to a pulp.
More sibling bonding time.
Albany: I can't believe your brother is about to faceplant in the soup I cooked.
The Stalker: You looked really tired back there, Kent. I'm glad you were finally find a quiet corner where you could get away from it all and rest.
Errr... Go AWAY!
Kent: Nice puppy with glowing eyes!
Nibble update: still not happening.
I want to see the Family sims peeing themselves when he howls!!!
They ran out of food. The delivery dude was REAL popular as you can see. Also - note Isabella in the background, congratulating Oberon on learning to talk.
Bianca: Congratulations on getting a bad reputation, Mum! Well done!
You lot are majorly messed up!!!
A bit too much information there, Isabella, dear.
I decided to make Kent nocturnal so he could start working on his abduction logic skill points.
Obviously the telescope was pointed at a really uninteresting part of the sky when I snuck a peek.
This picture pretty much summarises the entire Asylum experience.
Kent: * is in the zone *
Bianca and Goneril: * scratch and pound at each other *
Albany: * ignores everyone and does his own thing *
Everybody else: * sleeps or watches fight *
The Stalker: We're engaged so I'll just stand uncomfortably close behind you while you play the piano.
The Stalker: Your piano playing reminds me of the beating of drums.
No, that would be the sounds of Goneril packing them like a herd of elephants coming down the stairs that reminds you of the beating of drums.
The Stalker: You've lost some backbeat and it sounds more like you're just playing a piano now...
Goneril: What does he see in her? I don't get it.
The Stalker: If I strip down in the middle of the kitchen and give myself a sponge bath Kent won't be able to resist me!
I found her some nice biohazard icons :)
The Stalker: When your brother bends over like that, plunging the toilet, he gives me hot flushes like a chilli con carne!
Goneril: Yeah, I know, rite?
Huh????
The Stalker: It doesn't bother you that I'm sitting here while you read that cookbook? It's just that my feet are tired and I thought I'd take the load off and there you were. Fancy that! Any good recipes in there?
And then Oberon got up so she ran off to stalk him. Trapping him on the stairs.
Then Bianca decided she had to go upstairs, trapping Goneril so she couldn't let Oberon pass in his need to get to the toilet.
So close!
Apparently she was trapped at the top of the staircase! LOL
I had Kent call over Bianca and The Stalker (who then started stalking him again) and as soon as Oberon moved, Isabella came pounding down the stairs at about a million miles an hour, she skidded into the bathroom and... didn't quite make it in time.
Le sigh... And hello thar Mr Penguin!
Mr Penguin: Dude! There's a total lack of peace in this here abode!
Unfinished Snowman: ...
Penguin spam!
/end penguin spam
Goneril: Dear Diary. The end of the week is coming and I wonder if we'll get another cool garden gnome like we did last time.
Goneril: Maybe we'll get a cool new widescreen TV instead! * shoves diary through screen of old crappy TV in an effort to force my hand on the widescreen TV issue *
The battle of the zone effects! I kinda think Kent is winning, seeing as how he's supporting his entire body weight on one finger.
And then he maxed his body skill! And the game went into total meltdown and blue screened on me.
engram_au : * has minor heart attack *
Screen: * returns to normal after about 5 minutes *
engram_au : * saves and turns off shaders * Damn you NVidia graphics card!
Albany's friend Bailey returned but this time Bianca played with him/her.
Pro tip: next time you steal the paper, don't run through the house waving it around. We see you, Tybalt, even if the newspaper is invisible!
The Stalker: Need some help with the soap?
Kent: Thanks, but I got it.
That looks really uncomfortable. It's like they have merged and he's eating her right ear while soaping his left armpit...
I think someone is starting the free fall into aspiration failure. She's been starting arguments with people she's got "best friend" status with and her portrait is looking rather orange.
I have no idea what happened there. Oberon put out the jar, spun into this spiffy little number and proceeded to play-and-zone.
Is this something new? I've never seen any of the LL30 Asylum folks do the presto chango routine even when in the zone and performing rather than just practicing.
And they got a miniaturised bear statue rather than a garden gnome :)
Achievements:
Cooking: 5
Mechanical: 5
Charisma: 3
Body: 10!!!
Logic: 3
Creativity: 2
Cleaning: 3
For a grand total of 31/70 skill points!!!!! Wooooo!!!!!
Maxed fitness enthusiasm
Bronze Gardening Badge (still - it's been winter so no gardening while the trees are dormant)
Either the Asylum lot is bugged or the whole hood is falling over. Yes, already! Where you see the picture of Titania stalking Oberon at the piano and Goneril standing behind them (the drum/piano exchange), Goneril then walked off with a thought bubble with those vertical lines of doom. So I probably won't keep playing the hood after I finish the Asylum because the hood is corrupted. It started out with Oberon having no wants (all fields blue and refusing to roll over, I fixed him with the bat box), and with the number of animation glitches I've been having (I NEVER get animation glitches, or hardly ever) and now the vertical lines of doom... I might just have to play a newly generated one at some point down the line, but this hood will be deleted once I finish the challenge.
In other news, a tropical lizard, around 30 cm long, got into our house through a window. It's hiding in a wardrobe at the moment, waiting for an opportunity to give me a heart attack when I go looking for stuff in that wardrobe. I have repeated my demand for screens on windows but I believe that particular demand is falling on deaf ears. Sigh...
And look! New header on the journal! If I change it, I'll post a link here to the original image for posterity. That's the outside of the Veronaville Asylum (aka beatdoc16 's The Quinn) in the winter. At night.
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