Black Sunday: Back from the Future
Alternate title: Meddle Not in the Affairs of Witches.
Featuring Crash Capello by iceraptoress, Pretty Hatemachine (PHM) by tolwynn, and Johnny Pandemic by laridian.
When we last left off, our band of merry scalawags had traveled to the future. Not pictured due to user error: they returned from the future. Moving on!
When they arrived back, everyone was tired. PHM and Crash had to head to work in their secret underground criminal lair anyway. They were exhausted when they emerged.
PHM: "This is all your fault, Capello!"
Crash: "Are you delusional? In what way could this possibly be my doing?"
PHM: "I don't know, but I'm probably going to kill you for it anyway!"
After getting some sleep, Crash needed to go earn some body points. He met an elderly werewolf at the gym.
(Only when playing Sims can you say that sentence casually, and with a straight face.)
Crash knows when he looks good. (The dog collar and skin-tight animal-print T-shirt still cracks me up... but it's his work uniform, I think, and I'm not exactly Crash's target audience anyway.)
Just to prove that people don't really change all that much, here's the fairy police officer neglecting his toddler in the park. Again.
After hours of working out, Crash heads home, feeling refreshed. "Oh, hi, Al!"
Late at night, PHM has a choice to make about the course of her profession. (Isn't the answer obvious?)
PHM seems to have mixed feelings about this all, since Matteo is her boss.
Or maybe she's just following her lifelong plan of murdering her way to the top.
Johnny tries to explain the concept of "college" to a woman who's never been to school at all, while HeadLikeAHole recharges on his power station.
Giving up on understanding the idea of "higher education," Alatan goes outside to hang the laundry out to freeze. Johnny follows to pummel her with a pillow.
Maybe he's disappointed he didn't get another opportunity to subdue the washing machine?
Seriously, I think pillow fighting is low-level flirting to Sims, like pulling a girl's pigtails.
See what I mean?
I call this image, "Awkward Moment of Silence. Also, LOL at the palm trees in the snow."
Meanwhile, Crash was paying a visit to the winter festival, and he met a stray cat. Its name was Shadow Cat, and since Ombra (the name of Crash's canonical pet) means "shadow," I decided it was fate and cheated Shadow Cat into the family. (Cheated because I am not 100% certain how to adopt an animal in Sims 3, didn't want to spend that much time clicking to build relationship with a pet, and I've read it's a bit buggy anyway.)
At the full moon, a zombie complains of backache. HeadLikeAHole offers a full range of pharmaceutical remedies!
I probably should have cropped this pic down further. Turns out that Alatan, being a witch, gets a constant positive mood let from being around Ombra Shadow Cat.
(Side note: Acorn, of course, cooed over the cat as soon as he saw it in the game, and wanted to know its name. When I told him, he gave me a very serious look, and said, "Shadow Kitten does not think that is funny at all. It doesn't even look like her." Shadow Kitten is an imaginary creature with magic powers in one of Acorn's many long-running games/stories. The connection hadn't occurred to me, but it was amusing.)
I finally figured out where the grocery store is on Isla Paradisio, and sent Crash and PHM there to buy lottery tickets. When I didn't tell them to do something else immediately afterward, they started building snowmen. At first I thought PHM built an evil snowman because she is Evil.
See? Crash made a normal one because he isn't Evil!
Johnny looks politely interested while Alatan talks about what she's going to do with the garden when the ground thaws.
He's rolling vague wishes to do things with her, again.
The conversation continues for a while.
But Alatan only feels the sudden and inexplicable desire to learn to play guitar. o_O
She also takes on the task of upgrading all the household fixtures. WITH MAGIC. No mechanical ability required!
Later, she got an opportunity to bring some vegetables she had grown to a particular person. I nearly always accept opportunities when they arise, and she already had them in her inventory, so why not.
Maybe this is why not?
Yep, the stranger Alatan is delivering those vegetables to is a vampire. What does a vampire want with vegetables, anyway?
Well, the vampire in question is a famous chef. (Wait, what? I don't think I would be at ease eating anything a vampire cooked for me.)
And, uh... Oops? I didn't even pay attention to what the reward was when I accepted the opportunity. Now Alatan, who is painfully shy, is the first of the four to gain a celebrity star and thus start attracting attention from paparazzi.
Back at home, Johnny continues his quest to master the alchemical arts.
And Al proves that she can feel shy, even when she's practicing magic in a room all by herself.
Crash and PHM bought winning lottery tickets! (Granted, they did look up the winning numbers while they were visiting the future, but it's still a nice infusion of cash.)
It's the middle of the night, they were both asleep after a long night of crime and are starving to boot, but they wake up to celebrate their successes!
Crash looks so pleased with himself, standing under the shower of confetti.
Alatan has never been in a place with snow before, unless you count that time with the Winter Lords in Paragon City, and that didn't exactly allow for time to make snow angels. This is a first for her.
A paparazzo comes to document the occasion. (You'd think the mysterious portal to the future lighting up the front lawn would be a more interesting news story, but noooo.)
And there's an immediate attraction between the reporter, Inez, and Alatan. Al invites her inside, so they can talk where it's warmer.
The conversation seemed to be going well at first.
Then out of nowhere:
I wonder what she said? Al's beyond furious.
"Please, oh please, let me smite her?"
Sure thing!
(Hilariously, they require a certain amount of floor space for one sim to cast a spell on another… so the victim of a dangerous spell like this one obligingly walks to a nice open space, and then cowers before the might of the evil witch.)
HeadLikeAHole displays his loyalties by breaking Inez' back!
No, actually, it's just a massage. It doesn't look pleasant, but it does look like Inez is enjoying it.
(See? Heady did tell that zombie he had the cure for backache!)
I usually try to make these read a little more coherently, but it's been a while, and it's been a rough time. I hope at least a few people enjoy reading it anyway.
Featuring Crash Capello by iceraptoress, Pretty Hatemachine (PHM) by tolwynn, and Johnny Pandemic by laridian.
When we last left off, our band of merry scalawags had traveled to the future. Not pictured due to user error: they returned from the future. Moving on!
When they arrived back, everyone was tired. PHM and Crash had to head to work in their secret underground criminal lair anyway. They were exhausted when they emerged.
PHM: "This is all your fault, Capello!"
Crash: "Are you delusional? In what way could this possibly be my doing?"
PHM: "I don't know, but I'm probably going to kill you for it anyway!"
After getting some sleep, Crash needed to go earn some body points. He met an elderly werewolf at the gym.
(Only when playing Sims can you say that sentence casually, and with a straight face.)
Crash knows when he looks good. (The dog collar and skin-tight animal-print T-shirt still cracks me up... but it's his work uniform, I think, and I'm not exactly Crash's target audience anyway.)
Just to prove that people don't really change all that much, here's the fairy police officer neglecting his toddler in the park. Again.
After hours of working out, Crash heads home, feeling refreshed. "Oh, hi, Al!"
Late at night, PHM has a choice to make about the course of her profession. (Isn't the answer obvious?)
PHM seems to have mixed feelings about this all, since Matteo is her boss.
Or maybe she's just following her lifelong plan of murdering her way to the top.
Johnny tries to explain the concept of "college" to a woman who's never been to school at all, while HeadLikeAHole recharges on his power station.
Giving up on understanding the idea of "higher education," Alatan goes outside to hang the laundry out to freeze. Johnny follows to pummel her with a pillow.
Maybe he's disappointed he didn't get another opportunity to subdue the washing machine?
Seriously, I think pillow fighting is low-level flirting to Sims, like pulling a girl's pigtails.
See what I mean?
I call this image, "Awkward Moment of Silence. Also, LOL at the palm trees in the snow."
Meanwhile, Crash was paying a visit to the winter festival, and he met a stray cat. Its name was Shadow Cat, and since Ombra (the name of Crash's canonical pet) means "shadow," I decided it was fate and cheated Shadow Cat into the family. (Cheated because I am not 100% certain how to adopt an animal in Sims 3, didn't want to spend that much time clicking to build relationship with a pet, and I've read it's a bit buggy anyway.)
At the full moon, a zombie complains of backache. HeadLikeAHole offers a full range of pharmaceutical remedies!
I probably should have cropped this pic down further. Turns out that Alatan, being a witch, gets a constant positive mood let from being around Ombra Shadow Cat.
(Side note: Acorn, of course, cooed over the cat as soon as he saw it in the game, and wanted to know its name. When I told him, he gave me a very serious look, and said, "Shadow Kitten does not think that is funny at all. It doesn't even look like her." Shadow Kitten is an imaginary creature with magic powers in one of Acorn's many long-running games/stories. The connection hadn't occurred to me, but it was amusing.)
I finally figured out where the grocery store is on Isla Paradisio, and sent Crash and PHM there to buy lottery tickets. When I didn't tell them to do something else immediately afterward, they started building snowmen. At first I thought PHM built an evil snowman because she is Evil.
See? Crash made a normal one because he isn't Evil!
Johnny looks politely interested while Alatan talks about what she's going to do with the garden when the ground thaws.
He's rolling vague wishes to do things with her, again.
The conversation continues for a while.
But Alatan only feels the sudden and inexplicable desire to learn to play guitar. o_O
She also takes on the task of upgrading all the household fixtures. WITH MAGIC. No mechanical ability required!
Later, she got an opportunity to bring some vegetables she had grown to a particular person. I nearly always accept opportunities when they arise, and she already had them in her inventory, so why not.
Maybe this is why not?
Yep, the stranger Alatan is delivering those vegetables to is a vampire. What does a vampire want with vegetables, anyway?
Well, the vampire in question is a famous chef. (Wait, what? I don't think I would be at ease eating anything a vampire cooked for me.)
And, uh... Oops? I didn't even pay attention to what the reward was when I accepted the opportunity. Now Alatan, who is painfully shy, is the first of the four to gain a celebrity star and thus start attracting attention from paparazzi.
Back at home, Johnny continues his quest to master the alchemical arts.
And Al proves that she can feel shy, even when she's practicing magic in a room all by herself.
Crash and PHM bought winning lottery tickets! (Granted, they did look up the winning numbers while they were visiting the future, but it's still a nice infusion of cash.)
It's the middle of the night, they were both asleep after a long night of crime and are starving to boot, but they wake up to celebrate their successes!
Crash looks so pleased with himself, standing under the shower of confetti.
Alatan has never been in a place with snow before, unless you count that time with the Winter Lords in Paragon City, and that didn't exactly allow for time to make snow angels. This is a first for her.
A paparazzo comes to document the occasion. (You'd think the mysterious portal to the future lighting up the front lawn would be a more interesting news story, but noooo.)
And there's an immediate attraction between the reporter, Inez, and Alatan. Al invites her inside, so they can talk where it's warmer.
The conversation seemed to be going well at first.
Then out of nowhere:
I wonder what she said? Al's beyond furious.
"Please, oh please, let me smite her?"
Sure thing!
(Hilariously, they require a certain amount of floor space for one sim to cast a spell on another… so the victim of a dangerous spell like this one obligingly walks to a nice open space, and then cowers before the might of the evil witch.)
HeadLikeAHole displays his loyalties by breaking Inez' back!
No, actually, it's just a massage. It doesn't look pleasant, but it does look like Inez is enjoying it.
(See? Heady did tell that zombie he had the cure for backache!)
I usually try to make these read a little more coherently, but it's been a while, and it's been a rough time. I hope at least a few people enjoy reading it anyway.