Monday, August 29, 2011

A Sim Drama - Storytelling at its Finest

Last night I was avoiding revisions playing the Sims as I like to do, and some pretty hilarious drama unfolded ALMOST without my doing. (I mean, they have free will people!) It was so random I decided I needed to share. 

My female Sim had just gotten engaged, to a celebrity nonetheless. She was over the moon excited and couldn't wait to start their perfect life together. I figured she should celebrate so I go ahead and throw her a bachelorette party at the local dance club. Everything's going great, her friends are having a fabulous time, and then the male "dancers" show up (Seriously, so funny that they put that in. They're wearing cop uniforms and everything). Well my sim has had a little too much "Fizzy Nectar" thrown on her and toasted to her, so she ends up getting VERY close with one of these dancers. She did not realize the paparazzi was there photographing her every move. So they catch her cheating on her fiance. Suddenly she has a cheater reputation, and this is where everything starts to go downhill. 

I tried to have her invite her fiance over the next morning and apologize so we could get this wedding back on (I created a gorgeous venue with a waterfall as the background and everything. I wasn't about to let it go to waste). Well he won't hear of it, and flat out denies to see me. So I try to invite him out. No go. Finally I figure she's just got to stake out his house. Luckily she's friends with his parents too. So she convinces them to let her stay the night, in order to be there when he got home. He didn't get home until midnight, which I thought was a little suspicious, but was too concerned with getting their relationship patched up. She tries to apologize and he won't hear it. She tries to calm him down and he only gets angrier. Their relationship is getting worse and worse. I feel TERRIBLE. Finally I have her give up, since she's about to pass out from exhaustion. She goes upstairs to the guest room to fall asleep around 1am. 

Then the craziest thing happened. At 4am I hear an eerie music and see the grim reaper in the room next to my sim. That's right, his dad DIES IN THE VERY NEXT ROOM! And even better, he's a vampire so instead of dropping dead, he turned to ashes right there on the carpet. My sim wakes up and runs next door to witness his death and mourn him, but the grim reaper is not moved by her display and quickly claims his quarry. Not five minutes after he's moved to his grave, the eerie music starts up again. Right down the hall her future-mother-in-law starves to death and disintegrates right in front of her son! What the? So the grim reaper literally walks down the hall and starts his ritual over again.

At this point, I'm staring open-mouthed at the screen. First of all, I didn't know I was about to marry her into a family of VAMPIRES, but I've rarely witnessed death on the Sims (that wasn't intentionally brought to pass...ahem). So after the shock wears off, I figure this could be a blessing in disguise. Maybe now he'll need a shoulder to cry on and will let her back in to his life. No such luck. He's madder than ever, and now he's crying on top of it. 

I've had enough. Thank goodness for the save button I think to myself. I quickly return to the main menu without saving and hope everything will go back to normal. 

When I log back on, sure enough, their relationship is wonderful, his parents are alive and all is well. I figure I'll have her invite him over for a nice dinner and get them married before anything else happened. Surely nothing else could go wrong, Right? Right?

Wrong. 

He shows up and my sim marches directly over to him, and without me being able to stop her, she accuses him of cheating on her. AND HE ADMITS IT! THE JERK HAD BEEN CHEATING ON ME THE WHOLE TIME! Our relationship went into the red instantly, he tells me I have "issues" and leaves. 

And the next want that pops up on her screen is to break up with him.

I don't think that will be a problem. 

Man I love this game. 

16 comments:

  1. Hi there Kadie. I'm taking part in the campaign too and you are in my group so I thought I would come and say hello!

    I'm also glad to see I'm not the only gamer writer. Your story about your sims actually made me want to reinstall the game (but I shall resist, I need to finish my WIP).

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  2. Wow. I've never played the SIMs but it sounds like it is filled with drama.

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  3. Wow that's simply amazing! Almost as cool as the time you drowned your husband and his ghost kept swimming in the pool where he was murdered!!!!

    This might be a good reason NOT to have your brother read your blog.

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  4. LOL! Hilarious!! :D Great storylines for books I think! :)

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  5. Holy crap. I constantly have to balance my love of video games/internet videos with actual writing. Props if you can do both at the same time!

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  6. Lol. I really need to start playing the Sims again.

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  7. Writer campaigner here. Thank you for sharing your sims story-within-a-game. The level of depth and complexity is staggering. I like to play Dragon Age for its story, and I do it without restoring. Whatever falls, falls. Makes it more intense. A choose-your-own adventure book of sorts.

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  8. Hello from a fellow campaigner!

    Wow. I haven't played any Sims for about 10 years and I had no idea that kind of thing could happen. That is too funny.

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  9. I love that so many fellow writers are fellow gamers too. It's so nice to meetyou all! And Sarah, they have changed the Sims SO much over the years. And I have been playing it FOR 10 years, and have maybe...every...single...expansion...ahem. So yeah, I thought I had seen it all, but this totally took the cake!

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  10. Kadie, I'm a fellow campaigner and checking out people in my group. I loved this! Sounds like your female Sim/you had a prophetic nightmare.

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  11. This cracked me up so badly!! Hi from a fellow campaigner! :D

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  12. Ha, ha, this is hilarious! I was never much for SIMs and I was going meh when I started reading, but the randomness of it all made me laugh!

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  13. Oh my heck, you had me at "avoiding revisions". That is so funny! I'm in your campaign group, and I'm just reaching out to say hi!

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  14. What a hilarious post! I loved reading about you in your WRITING tab too! It's so great to meet you! - I'm in your Fantasy Campaigners group.

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  15. This is hilarious! I love the Sims! I once had a certain Sim family that liked to throw parties. But EVERY TIME they threw one, someone would end up dying of old age in their house. I eventually stopped inviting elderly Sims to their parties...too bad their house was already majorly haunted by then.

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  16. I'm a total Sim addict but am usually a little obsessive with getting them to do exactly what I want them to - think I might leave them alone next time and see what happens.

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