THE SIMS
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The adventures of the Shoe family begin. It is clear they do not fully understand their destiny.
The first thing Ying and Space Retard do is walk straight into the bathroom and recoil in disgust that there is a garbage can in there.

The youngest of the Shoes sits down and watches some TV. Wilma joins her. Ying instead opts to sit and read his newspaper at the dining room table. Then he repeats a process three times where he gets up, places the newspaper down on the table, then picks it back up and sits in a different chair and begins reading it again.
The school bus pulls up and for a moment the young student ignores it. But somehow, she dutifully removes herself from the TV and makes it out to the school bus before it leaves. I find myself surprised that a girl named Space Retard values education, but I digress.

The Shoes' first visitors arrive. Ronald and Barbara of the Buttblast family. Wilma and Ying go out and greet their neighbours. Then something inexplicable happens. Barbara slaps Ying in the face. No reason is known for this sudden outburst. Like Deus Ex Machina, Fartfart of the Fodders walks by, presumably to lend his detective skills to the crime that has just happened.

Then, he continues on without a single word. Ying quietly returns to the indoors while Wilma continues to chat.
Ronald exhibits some more strange behaviour, giving his wife a massage out in the middle of the street.

Wilma seems to be at a loss for words, so she walks into the house. The neighbours invite themselves in as well.
Barbara corners Ying and begins talking with him. She tells a joke to break the ice. Ying seems to enjoy this joke and laughs. Then, inexplicably, Barbara slaps him. Again.

Ying Shoe takes a moment to cry.
As if these neighbours were not weird enough, things escalate.
Ronald tries to give his new female neighbour a massage, right in front of his wife. Things don't go too well, and Wilma fumes at him.

They argue for a bit, then Wilma turns her back on him. Big mistake. He tries to give her a backrub again.

At this point Ying makes some food. Everyone momentarily forgets their strife and takes a moment to grab something to eat. Yes, after all that, the Buttblasts simply help themselves to the Shoe's food, unashamed.
Our local hero, Suave Creamsoda shows up at the right moment to simmer the situation.

As Suave arrives hot on the scene, Ronald attempts a THIRD time to give Wilma a back rub, whilst Barbara is still helping herself to food.

Barbara goes outside to talk to Ying (who's still there from letting in Suave) and teases him. He takes it in good humour and a bit of a bond is build between the two of them at last. Barbara insults him. He cries again.

This Barbara woman has again and again spat in the face of my chosen people. As the player, and by default the Shoe family's personal deity, my will must be done.

So after Space Retard comes home and has a nice little chat with Suave about kittens, I order Ying to walk upstairs to the dungeon and call Barbara up. She obeys. I then order him to go back downstairs, and I use my divine power to construct a wall.

Now, I decide I must determine the appropriate punishment.
My first thought is to start a fire.

I start with a torch. Then I quickly add flammable objects.

I leave her to her own devices and go downstairs to see how everyone's doing. Everyone's great in fact, now that she seems to be out of the way. Ying compliments Wilma, they both have a laugh. Wilma complains she needs to go to the bathroom, and it turns out my earlier crack was eerily correct and in fact I did forget to put toilets in the house. So I remedy that.
Everyone in the house takes a moment to enjoy their three shiny new toilets. Nothing much happens for a while. Suave peruses the master bathroom while Rupahl comes for a visit.

Barbara takes a moment to wonder where the door is in her new residence, but otherwise seems to enjoy standing there.
I decide to provide her with a chair. Sure, I'm going to kill her, but I might as well be civilized about it. Moments later she pees on the floor.
Ahh. Excellent. The first mark of agony in my dungeon. Let all who are to be made to suffer within these castle walls smell the pee of she who was known as Barbara. She wanders a lot, looking for a door. I decide that the fire I wanted is not coming fast enough, so I build a fireplace and a couple of garbage cans.
She falls asleep on the floor.

After the family all go to sleep, she gets up early in the morning and wanders around looking for a door, then eventually goes back to sleep again.
Things are still not progressing fast enough so I quickly build a door while she's asleep, and have Ying build a fire in the fireplace and then leave. I destroy the door, and leave her there asleep with an unattended fire.
It's not long before Saucy comes visiting, and as such, Ying is too enthralled to think about the fire he's built and soon it all proceeds as I have foreseen.

Well, not quite. The fires build, but Barbara scarcely does anything except wake up, complain about not being able to get a good sleep, then wanders around until the fire burns itself out (and burns up the pee stain I was so thrilled about)
Okay, fine, but at least now I know what needed to be done.

I build walls around her, built another fireplace, surrounded her with garbage cans, then went about the other tasks of the house. Since hitting on Saucy didn't work, I thought maybe Ying should get to know his own wife for a change.

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