Showing posts with label The Clone Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Clone Challenge. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
12 Perfect Strangers: Cancelled!
The network decided to cancel 12 Perfect Strangers, due to low viewer ratings. (Probably why I never watched an entire season of Big Brother, lol, got bored with it, sorry!)
However, stay tuned as a new challenge is in the works and we may be bringing back a few of the Strangersims for it!
Sim-u-later!
Sunday, December 29, 2013
12 Perfect Strangers: Week 1, Day 6
Breakfast anyone?My first thought would be if the food is black (and it's not naturally black, and not licorice - though I personally stay clear of licorice), then it's likely burnt. Not only that, but you would think that there would be a burnt smell as well. Sofia didn't feel like cooking her own breakfast, and apparently it didn't occur to her to get some cereal from the fridge - so what does she do? She picks up a plate of horrifying burnt waffles that Vadleany had made sometime during the early morning or the previous night. (Shaking my head. When these sims were made, they forgot to give them common sense!)
Preliminary ratings were handed to me this morning. It's not good. The Strangersims are by far too lazy without prompting and intervention, and now sir crazy moodlets are popping up everywhere. We're breaking the rules, but we're sending them out for another reward/elimination challenge.
Catch of the Day Challenge. We will randomly choose 9 to participate in this challenge, the remaining two will be exempt and will have to stay home to tend to the baby. The 9 will get to spend time at a fishing pond and will have to fish until they catch at least 5 fish or until end of the night - whichever comes first. At the end of the challenge we will sell the fish in their inventory and whoever makes the most money from their catch will be rewarded with a trip to the movies. The three who make the least will be put into the randomizer where we will choose our eliminated Strangersim.
Since Des was eliminated yesterday we took away one sleeping bag. Most of the Strangersims are still asleep and will be given until noon to get their needs taken care of (on their own) before we send them out to start fishing.
#8 and 6 were chosen to sit out the challenge - Jenni (How lucky was that! She gets to stay and bond with her baby), and Sofia (she dis-likes children, but did ok in the baby/toddler challenge, go figure).
Amy was thinking about splashing through the swampy pond instead of fishing. That's some tall grass out there, probably loaded with mosquitoes - ick.
Catch of the Day Challenge Scoreboard
Vadleany - 3 anchovies, 4 goldfish, 1 rainbow trout ~ $48
Betti - minnow, toad, goldfish ~ $19
Doug - 3 minnow, 1 goldfish, 1 toad ~ $30
Lucy - 2 goldfish ~ $13
Tim - 3 minnow, 2 goldfish, 1 rainbow trout ~ $36
Amy - 2 anchovies, 2 minnows, 1 goldfish ~ $27
Sam - 5 anchovies, 1 minnow ~ $31
Nick - minnow, goldfish ~ $11
Bach - 4 minnows ~ $20
Vadleany was the clear winner taking home 8 fish, totaling $48. Doug was the only one to get a Very Nice fish, so he gets a little props - Go Doug, you're awesome! Nick, Lucy, and Betti made the least amount for their fish and have been assigned these temporary numbers for the randomizer: Nick 1, 2, 3; Lucy 4, 5, 6; Betti 7, 8, 9.
Adieu Betti! You're uncleansiness will not be missed!
She wasn't happy to leave and though our cameras didn't pick it up, she actually flipped us off! Well, then!
Tomorrow is the last day of Week 1. We will send Vadleany out to a movie in the evening and will snap a photo then, but other than that during the entire day we're giving them a camera free day (We need the break more than they do!). We'll pick things up again on Sunday for the start of Week 2!
Sim-u-later!
12 Perfect Strangers: Week 1 Day 4/5
As promised we sent Sam off to the Summer Festival, with a bonus of maxed motives.
It was pretty empty there so he decided to stop at the food stand and get himself a plate of chili cheese fries! Yum!
We're really not sure he's having much fun, but hopefully some more people show up during the day so he won't feel as awkward.
Back at the PS House, we left the toilets in after all - two are now in need of repair and the other two are filthy. One of the showers is in need of a good scrubbing as well. If they don't learn a lesson soon, they're going to be out of functional bathroom fixtures.
[Where were these sims raised??? Geez, animals are cleaner than they are.]
Instead of removing the toilets, we're going with another mini-challenge. On an inaccessible part of the roof we placed a chin-up bar, a treadmill, and a workout bench. The three who got the least amount of points from the last mini challenge will be teleported to that area, in whatever state of motives they are in at the time. No maxing motives for these three (though we did deem it necessary to give them a stress reliever pill, since they all had high levels of stress). We're not monsters, we know they have to eat, so placed a mini fridge and a stool up there too.
Des, Betti, and Nick all got zero points yesterday, so they will be the ones to be placed in this challenge.
We call this the Roof Gym Challenge. They will have to stay on the roof as long as they can (or until the game resets them) and whoever gains the most athletic points by the end of the night will be rewarded with lessons in handiness - SimGod help us if they don't take the initiative to fix broken things after they learn the handiness skills! The loser will be promptly eliminated from the house. We realize that the challenge and elimination are impromptu, but hey, we're making things up as we go along! In pilot seasons we can do that!
I'd say that so far it doesn't bode well for these three. Nick went to inspect the Excersinator, but just stands there looking at it, cracking his knuckles and thinking of gardening. Des went straight to the mini fridge and grabbed himself a bowl of cereal, and Betti just stands there looking at the chin-up bar occasionally sniffing herself (she's exuding a visible green putrid aroma, I'm about to gag).
We might end up throwing in the towel, some of the Strangersims are starting to show signs of a virus - and we have reason to believe, to our utter dismay, that it's Accidentitis. We would have preferred Laughter Riot, but from the sounds of it, more things are breaking in the house. We'll wait it out until the end of the night. If things don't improve, it looks like Day 5 will be spent at the Virologist's office getting them their immunizations and sending them ALL to handiness school.
In the meantime, no further activity from the roof gym other than some mild (and stinky) flirting from Betti to Nick and Betti peeing herself. Ah, those embarrassing moments...
Sam's working on his athletics though, practicing soccer! Got to love Sam! If only some of the others would show even a fraction of his drive.
Well, it's past midnight, Sam is back home, the festival was a bust, he tried to enter the pie eating contest, but being that he was the only contestant (only person at the festival other than the concession stand tenders), he didn't bother to stick around to wait for someone to show up and join him.
On the roof... Nick checked his PlumbBook a few times earning him a Social Networking skill, while Betti and Des flirted with one another. Not one of them approached or attempted to use the exercise equipment. We're going to leave them on the roof, ha! But getting tired of them standing around doing nothing, the producers have given the go ahead to zap them with max motives. (definitely crossing fingers hoping that helps motivate them).
And indeed, we're more than certain that Accidentitis has hit the PS House, so the virologist will be seeing us all tomorrow. [Yes, even the staff has to, I'm not looking forward to getting a shot :( ]
Day 5
All Strangersims got vaccinated, the house was thoroughly cleaned and everything repaired. We randomly choose 6 of the 12 to send to learn handiness and gain a level 2 or 3, all determined by random.org. #s 10, 4, 8, 6, 11, and 1 were chosen (Sam -3, Doug -2, Jenni -3, Sofia -2, Nick -3, Vadleany -3).
The three on the roof are still on the roof and since they did not work out at all, we will be using random.org to determine who will be eliminated. For this Nick is #1, 2, 3, Betti #4, 5, 6, and Des #7, 8, 9. AND SO.... we were given the number 9, which means our first Strangersim to leave the house is Des.
Bye-bye Des! He looks a little too happy to be eliminated, doesn't he?
We wrap up day 5 with Betti and Tim both having gained a level in Charisma. And close the night with Bach thinking he has Scarlet Fever.
Sim-u-later!
It was pretty empty there so he decided to stop at the food stand and get himself a plate of chili cheese fries! Yum!
We're really not sure he's having much fun, but hopefully some more people show up during the day so he won't feel as awkward.
[Where were these sims raised??? Geez, animals are cleaner than they are.]
Instead of removing the toilets, we're going with another mini-challenge. On an inaccessible part of the roof we placed a chin-up bar, a treadmill, and a workout bench. The three who got the least amount of points from the last mini challenge will be teleported to that area, in whatever state of motives they are in at the time. No maxing motives for these three (though we did deem it necessary to give them a stress reliever pill, since they all had high levels of stress). We're not monsters, we know they have to eat, so placed a mini fridge and a stool up there too.
We call this the Roof Gym Challenge. They will have to stay on the roof as long as they can (or until the game resets them) and whoever gains the most athletic points by the end of the night will be rewarded with lessons in handiness - SimGod help us if they don't take the initiative to fix broken things after they learn the handiness skills! The loser will be promptly eliminated from the house. We realize that the challenge and elimination are impromptu, but hey, we're making things up as we go along! In pilot seasons we can do that!
I'd say that so far it doesn't bode well for these three. Nick went to inspect the Excersinator, but just stands there looking at it, cracking his knuckles and thinking of gardening. Des went straight to the mini fridge and grabbed himself a bowl of cereal, and Betti just stands there looking at the chin-up bar occasionally sniffing herself (she's exuding a visible green putrid aroma, I'm about to gag).
We might end up throwing in the towel, some of the Strangersims are starting to show signs of a virus - and we have reason to believe, to our utter dismay, that it's Accidentitis. We would have preferred Laughter Riot, but from the sounds of it, more things are breaking in the house. We'll wait it out until the end of the night. If things don't improve, it looks like Day 5 will be spent at the Virologist's office getting them their immunizations and sending them ALL to handiness school.
In the meantime, no further activity from the roof gym other than some mild (and stinky) flirting from Betti to Nick and Betti peeing herself. Ah, those embarrassing moments...
Sam's working on his athletics though, practicing soccer! Got to love Sam! If only some of the others would show even a fraction of his drive.
Well, it's past midnight, Sam is back home, the festival was a bust, he tried to enter the pie eating contest, but being that he was the only contestant (only person at the festival other than the concession stand tenders), he didn't bother to stick around to wait for someone to show up and join him.
On the roof... Nick checked his PlumbBook a few times earning him a Social Networking skill, while Betti and Des flirted with one another. Not one of them approached or attempted to use the exercise equipment. We're going to leave them on the roof, ha! But getting tired of them standing around doing nothing, the producers have given the go ahead to zap them with max motives. (definitely crossing fingers hoping that helps motivate them).
And indeed, we're more than certain that Accidentitis has hit the PS House, so the virologist will be seeing us all tomorrow. [Yes, even the staff has to, I'm not looking forward to getting a shot :( ]
Day 5
All Strangersims got vaccinated, the house was thoroughly cleaned and everything repaired. We randomly choose 6 of the 12 to send to learn handiness and gain a level 2 or 3, all determined by random.org. #s 10, 4, 8, 6, 11, and 1 were chosen (Sam -3, Doug -2, Jenni -3, Sofia -2, Nick -3, Vadleany -3).
The three on the roof are still on the roof and since they did not work out at all, we will be using random.org to determine who will be eliminated. For this Nick is #1, 2, 3, Betti #4, 5, 6, and Des #7, 8, 9. AND SO.... we were given the number 9, which means our first Strangersim to leave the house is Des. Bye-bye Des! He looks a little too happy to be eliminated, doesn't he?
We wrap up day 5 with Betti and Tim both having gained a level in Charisma. And close the night with Bach thinking he has Scarlet Fever.
Sim-u-later!
Saturday, December 28, 2013
12 Perfect Strangers: Week 1 Day 3
The numbers are in and these Strangersims made the Personable Skill Challenge: Vadleany, Lucy, Sofia, Tim, Amy, Nick, and Bach, congrats!
Yesterday, we ended the night with Vadleany's head in the toilet. Poor Vadleany, it just wasn't her night and just as we were wrapping up, our outside camera caught her peeing herself in front of a few of her housemates. Most embarrassing, I can imagine! She's a trooper though as she just stood there humming to herself until everyone left, then she quietly took herself to bed.
Lucy! I doubt she will cease to surprise us, we found her downstairs washing all of the dishes! She still hadn't showered, but taking it upon herself to wash every single dirty dish that her housemates had left around the kitchen and dining room really impressed us. Go Lucy! If she fixes the toilet we might just have to give her a special reward. She's starting to grow on me, just a little.
Just to make things a little more challenging for these Strangersims, if they don't fix the toilet by the end of the day we're going to take out the ones that are functioning. Let's see what they do without a working toilet. SOMEONE has got to get motivated enough to pickup a handy skill. Come on Nick, the future Tinkerer, we're rooting for you!
Did we mention that Bach is a hypochondriac? He woke up this morning forgetting where he was and now he's certain that he has alzheimer's disease and that he inherited it from his grandfather. He also thought he had Hemophilia because he dreamed that he stubbed his toe and the bleeding wouldn't stop. Thank goodness we didn't put any computers in the house or he'd be researching SimsWebMD where he'd find a ton more diseases that he could self-diagnose himself with. It would make for some entertainment though, wouldn't it?
With less than 24 hours to go before Jenni gives birth, we thought it would be fun to insert a mini-challenge, Paternal/Maternal Instincts Challenge, to get her and the household prepared for the new arrival.
We dropped off 2 babies and 2 toddlers at the front entrance, they'd be there at the house for the day: Christian, Brandie, Jedidiah, and Jonathan. They were really simsoid simbots, but the Strangersims didn't have to know that. With no cribs, high chairs, or toys for the tots, this, indeed, would be a challenge. But there are 12 young adults in the house, they can handle it.
Any interaction with the babies/toddlers will gain them 10 points, but since Doug was the first to pick one up, he got a bonus and scored 30 points. Points will be tallied at the end of the night and the one with the most amount of points will be rewarded with a day out tomorrow at the Summer Festival.
Jenni and Sam tied for the most points having interacted with the babies/toddlers 5 times each - we think they have good parental instincts! The toddlers and babies were returned to their makers.
Jenni went into labor very early in the morning, since she was one of the winners of the challenge, instead of giving her a day at the summer festival we provided her with a crib, and a baby swing.
Jenni gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Tanyl, he was born with the Athletic and Clumsy traits. The trauma of the birth cause Jenni to faint shortly after. She's fine now, just a little sore from hitting the ground.
Tomorrow we'll send Sam out to the festival, and we will remove the working toilets (no one bothered to fix the broken one yet).
Sim-u-later!
Yesterday, we ended the night with Vadleany's head in the toilet. Poor Vadleany, it just wasn't her night and just as we were wrapping up, our outside camera caught her peeing herself in front of a few of her housemates. Most embarrassing, I can imagine! She's a trooper though as she just stood there humming to herself until everyone left, then she quietly took herself to bed.
Lucy! I doubt she will cease to surprise us, we found her downstairs washing all of the dishes! She still hadn't showered, but taking it upon herself to wash every single dirty dish that her housemates had left around the kitchen and dining room really impressed us. Go Lucy! If she fixes the toilet we might just have to give her a special reward. She's starting to grow on me, just a little.Just to make things a little more challenging for these Strangersims, if they don't fix the toilet by the end of the day we're going to take out the ones that are functioning. Let's see what they do without a working toilet. SOMEONE has got to get motivated enough to pickup a handy skill. Come on Nick, the future Tinkerer, we're rooting for you!
Did we mention that Bach is a hypochondriac? He woke up this morning forgetting where he was and now he's certain that he has alzheimer's disease and that he inherited it from his grandfather. He also thought he had Hemophilia because he dreamed that he stubbed his toe and the bleeding wouldn't stop. Thank goodness we didn't put any computers in the house or he'd be researching SimsWebMD where he'd find a ton more diseases that he could self-diagnose himself with. It would make for some entertainment though, wouldn't it?
With less than 24 hours to go before Jenni gives birth, we thought it would be fun to insert a mini-challenge, Paternal/Maternal Instincts Challenge, to get her and the household prepared for the new arrival.We dropped off 2 babies and 2 toddlers at the front entrance, they'd be there at the house for the day: Christian, Brandie, Jedidiah, and Jonathan. They were really simsoid simbots, but the Strangersims didn't have to know that. With no cribs, high chairs, or toys for the tots, this, indeed, would be a challenge. But there are 12 young adults in the house, they can handle it.
Any interaction with the babies/toddlers will gain them 10 points, but since Doug was the first to pick one up, he got a bonus and scored 30 points. Points will be tallied at the end of the night and the one with the most amount of points will be rewarded with a day out tomorrow at the Summer Festival.
Paternal/Maternal Instincts Challenge Score Board
Jenni 50
Sam 50
Vadleany 40
Sofia 40
Doug 30
Tim 20
Amy 20
Bach 10
Lucy 10
Betti 0
Nick 0
Des 0
Jenni and Sam tied for the most points having interacted with the babies/toddlers 5 times each - we think they have good parental instincts! The toddlers and babies were returned to their makers.
Jenni went into labor very early in the morning, since she was one of the winners of the challenge, instead of giving her a day at the summer festival we provided her with a crib, and a baby swing.
Jenni gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Tanyl, he was born with the Athletic and Clumsy traits. The trauma of the birth cause Jenni to faint shortly after. She's fine now, just a little sore from hitting the ground.Tomorrow we'll send Sam out to the festival, and we will remove the working toilets (no one bothered to fix the broken one yet).
Sim-u-later!
Friday, December 27, 2013
12 Perfect Strangers: Week 1 Day 2
[WARNING - this post has bare sims butts.]
After we left you last night, the producers and I deliberated and thought it would be best to make it mandatory for Jenni to take a blood test. She got up again during the night to vomit and we approached her with the request. She was hesitant at first, but acquiesced. Our simbot was able to give us an instant reading from the blood test and it turned out that Jenni didn't have any viruses or some such... The results showed that Jenni is pregnant.
Though we joked about what it could be that was ailing her (and we had an office pool going on... I won the bet), Jenni being pregnant gave us some pause. Being that this is our pilot season, we didn't have any precedences for pregnancies occurring prior to entering the house for the show. We had allowed for the exception that a pregnancy might occur during the show by two or more Strangersims, but this we did not forsee and as such there was a little debate as to whether she should be allowed to continue or if she should be asked to leave and a replacement sent in.
{Jenni stands awaiting the decision, she's thinking about the beau she left behind, the father of her unborn child, and wishing that she were home with him to tell him the good news. She and Goodwin Goode, her lover, had had a fight before she got on the show, he was against her going and didn't approve. They had walked away from each other after some heated words, words that Jenni now regretted. She did love Goodwin. She knew he wasn't ready to commit to her and start a family, that is why she decided to come on the show. But this... this changed everything... didn't it? She didn't know whether to laugh or cry or do both, so instead she stood there moping.}
After meeting again with the producers, it was decided that Jenni would be granted a stay. What happened was the marketing department chimed in and said that it would be stupid of us to let her go, we needed to keep her for the ratings that this pregnancy drama would bring in.
So the morning progressed slowly, the Strangersims woke one by one, some were still abed when 11am rolled around (ahem... Sofia). Amy and Bach did end up getting into a minor squabble over some complaints Bach was spewing (just trivial stuff).
Most ate leftover hotdogs that Nick had prepared the night before, but Sam made Autumn Salad.
Nick is currently showing some promise for being a good cook - preparing mac and cheese (he was the first to cook in the microwave and will be the first to cook on the stove) and he also gained a level in cooking. Let's hope Nick is attentive when he uses the stove, because we're not sure he knows that there isn't a fire alarm in the kitchen.
Since Bach and the others were in front of the stove gossiping and wouldn't move out of the way, Nick couldn't finish cooking!
24 hours in the house and 8 have managed to make their way back to the kitchen thus far - apparently it's become their social hangout.
Amy, having had no sleep at all since she entered the PS House, started to fall asleep standing and ended up passing out.
It took a few moments before anyone realized it.
Lucy took the opportunity to let out a really nasty, silent-but-deadly stink bomb of a fart when everyone was focused on Amy. Do you think she will need to change her panties now? Eww.
While the air cleared... gag... we decided to check on the others upstairs. Three are just standing around like zombies and Sofia is still in bed, not sleeping now though, but relaxing and daydreaming. I wonder what she's thinking about? She got up as we were leaving to check on the others, she went to talk to Des. Could Des have been who she was dreaming about? Hmm...
Amy came-to and headed to the bathroom where she passed Bach, who had not slept either. After he broke the toilet, we found him lying on the bathroom floor passed out from exhaustion. Luck for him he didn't faint in the toilet water that was puddled on the floor.
With our first broken household fixture, we wondered who, if any, would be up to the task of fixing it or if they'd just stand around and not do a thing about it except to complain about dirty surroundings. We're betting on the latter.
We thought it might be safe to venture back downstairs to the kitchen/dining room (aka social hangout). Sam took it upon himself to pick up where Nick had left off with the cooking of the mac and cheese (we wondered why he never ate the autumn salad he made earlier... it still sat where he left it). [but mmm, mmm, mmm... who can resist a man cooking in his underwear, serve me up some of that any day!]
He didn't burn the kitchen down, but his first attempt at using the stove wasn't very successful and the mac and cheese turned out horrible. Poor, hungry, Sam. Will he eat the horrible mac and cheese, the autumn salad, left over hot dogs, or try to make something else before he passes out from hunger pangs? (he opted for the autumn salad)
Vadleany hadn't left the spot in front of the fridge, was she guarding it? But then Betti bulldozed her way over anyway.
And Jenni was still over by the dining room table, you'd think she'd at least wash her dirty dish rather than stand there idling. But we understood, her mind must be overwhelmed with thoughts of her pregnancy and the loved one she left behind.
Taking quick stock of the house, there were a few unmade beds, a broken toilet, dirty dishes laying about, and food left out to spoil. One of the show's producers is OCD and the neat freak in him is going crazy; however, cleaning and repair are things we cannot intervene upon, so it is up to the Strangersims to take care of it before it gets out of hand. We think it's only a matter of time before they start passing out from the smell (none of them have taken baths or showers yet) instead of from lack of sleep.
This came as a little bit of a shock, as our resident Mistress of Evil, Lucy, started mopping up the puddle from the broken toilet!
Our neat freak producer just might have a little crush on Lucy now, the whole staff is giggling and making jokes.
Then Des HAD to go sit on the broken toilet (even though there are 3 other WORKING toilets available), and made it overflow again just after Lucy had finished mopping up and telling him that it was broken. We heard her grumbling under her breath about what an A-hole he was, and he, having heard her, responded by saying "kiss my a$$".
We expected a brawl between the two to break out. Didn't happen... instead, pissed off Lucy decided to do the same thing and make the mess even worse, she used the toilet and flushed, making even more puddles in the bathroom. Nick came to the rescue and started mopping up, and though he has the Lifetime Wish to be The Tinkerer, to our disappointment he didn't bother to attempt to fix the toilet.
Diva Sofia was the first to take a shower, which started a small trend as Betti and then Vadleany decided that it was past time that they get clean too.
Right after Vadleany showered she rushed over to the toilet (not the broken one, thank goodness) and vomited. Pregnant too? Nope, this one, we're pretty sure, had to do with the autumn salad, as by the time she had eaten it it had already spoiled having been sitting out all day long.
And that concludes Day 2 in the 12 Perfect Strangers House. Tomorrow, will they wash the dishes and fix the toilet? Will those who didn't shower yet get the hint that they stink? Stay tuned.
Sim-u-later!
After we left you last night, the producers and I deliberated and thought it would be best to make it mandatory for Jenni to take a blood test. She got up again during the night to vomit and we approached her with the request. She was hesitant at first, but acquiesced. Our simbot was able to give us an instant reading from the blood test and it turned out that Jenni didn't have any viruses or some such... The results showed that Jenni is pregnant.
{Jenni stands awaiting the decision, she's thinking about the beau she left behind, the father of her unborn child, and wishing that she were home with him to tell him the good news. She and Goodwin Goode, her lover, had had a fight before she got on the show, he was against her going and didn't approve. They had walked away from each other after some heated words, words that Jenni now regretted. She did love Goodwin. She knew he wasn't ready to commit to her and start a family, that is why she decided to come on the show. But this... this changed everything... didn't it? She didn't know whether to laugh or cry or do both, so instead she stood there moping.}After meeting again with the producers, it was decided that Jenni would be granted a stay. What happened was the marketing department chimed in and said that it would be stupid of us to let her go, we needed to keep her for the ratings that this pregnancy drama would bring in.
So the morning progressed slowly, the Strangersims woke one by one, some were still abed when 11am rolled around (ahem... Sofia). Amy and Bach did end up getting into a minor squabble over some complaints Bach was spewing (just trivial stuff).
Most ate leftover hotdogs that Nick had prepared the night before, but Sam made Autumn Salad.
Nick is currently showing some promise for being a good cook - preparing mac and cheese (he was the first to cook in the microwave and will be the first to cook on the stove) and he also gained a level in cooking. Let's hope Nick is attentive when he uses the stove, because we're not sure he knows that there isn't a fire alarm in the kitchen.Since Bach and the others were in front of the stove gossiping and wouldn't move out of the way, Nick couldn't finish cooking!
24 hours in the house and 8 have managed to make their way back to the kitchen thus far - apparently it's become their social hangout.
Amy, having had no sleep at all since she entered the PS House, started to fall asleep standing and ended up passing out.
It took a few moments before anyone realized it.
Lucy took the opportunity to let out a really nasty, silent-but-deadly stink bomb of a fart when everyone was focused on Amy. Do you think she will need to change her panties now? Eww.
While the air cleared... gag... we decided to check on the others upstairs. Three are just standing around like zombies and Sofia is still in bed, not sleeping now though, but relaxing and daydreaming. I wonder what she's thinking about? She got up as we were leaving to check on the others, she went to talk to Des. Could Des have been who she was dreaming about? Hmm...
Amy came-to and headed to the bathroom where she passed Bach, who had not slept either. After he broke the toilet, we found him lying on the bathroom floor passed out from exhaustion. Luck for him he didn't faint in the toilet water that was puddled on the floor.With our first broken household fixture, we wondered who, if any, would be up to the task of fixing it or if they'd just stand around and not do a thing about it except to complain about dirty surroundings. We're betting on the latter.
He didn't burn the kitchen down, but his first attempt at using the stove wasn't very successful and the mac and cheese turned out horrible. Poor, hungry, Sam. Will he eat the horrible mac and cheese, the autumn salad, left over hot dogs, or try to make something else before he passes out from hunger pangs? (he opted for the autumn salad)
Vadleany hadn't left the spot in front of the fridge, was she guarding it? But then Betti bulldozed her way over anyway.
And Jenni was still over by the dining room table, you'd think she'd at least wash her dirty dish rather than stand there idling. But we understood, her mind must be overwhelmed with thoughts of her pregnancy and the loved one she left behind.
Taking quick stock of the house, there were a few unmade beds, a broken toilet, dirty dishes laying about, and food left out to spoil. One of the show's producers is OCD and the neat freak in him is going crazy; however, cleaning and repair are things we cannot intervene upon, so it is up to the Strangersims to take care of it before it gets out of hand. We think it's only a matter of time before they start passing out from the smell (none of them have taken baths or showers yet) instead of from lack of sleep.
Our neat freak producer just might have a little crush on Lucy now, the whole staff is giggling and making jokes.
Then Des HAD to go sit on the broken toilet (even though there are 3 other WORKING toilets available), and made it overflow again just after Lucy had finished mopping up and telling him that it was broken. We heard her grumbling under her breath about what an A-hole he was, and he, having heard her, responded by saying "kiss my a$$".We expected a brawl between the two to break out. Didn't happen... instead, pissed off Lucy decided to do the same thing and make the mess even worse, she used the toilet and flushed, making even more puddles in the bathroom. Nick came to the rescue and started mopping up, and though he has the Lifetime Wish to be The Tinkerer, to our disappointment he didn't bother to attempt to fix the toilet.
Right after Vadleany showered she rushed over to the toilet (not the broken one, thank goodness) and vomited. Pregnant too? Nope, this one, we're pretty sure, had to do with the autumn salad, as by the time she had eaten it it had already spoiled having been sitting out all day long.
And that concludes Day 2 in the 12 Perfect Strangers House. Tomorrow, will they wash the dishes and fix the toilet? Will those who didn't shower yet get the hint that they stink? Stay tuned.
Sim-u-later!
Thursday, December 26, 2013
12 Perfect Strangers: Week 1 Day 1
You may have noticed that under each mini-profile we have "job sacrificed" - what does that mean? Well if the Strangersims had a job previous to contracting to be a part of 12 Perfect Strangers, they had to quit their job. Not only that, but as the title of the show says, they have to be perfect strangers. After some research, it has come to the attention of the staff that a couple of our town randoms know eachother - we were prepared for this to happen, so they will each be getting a simbrainwash (patent pending)- it's harmless and temporary (we believe), just think of it as a relationship reset. All inter-relationships in the household will be "reset" to zero.
Our first 9 Strangersims promise to bring a whole lot of drama and trouble to the house, let's see what fantastic traits our final 3 will bring to the table.
10.
Sam Grant [644]* {sim by Nicarra60}
Age: 18 days until A
Traits:
- Grumpy
- Athletic
- Slob
- Ambitious
- Charismatic
LTW: Fire Fighter Super Hero
Job sacrificed: Criminal Career Decoy
* Note: Sam will be a part of a 2nd challenge (The Clone Challenge) that I'll run silently in conjunction with this one. For more information on that challenge go here. This particular Sam is #644.
11.
Nick Bowman
{recycled 3th generation sim from The Spades, now cured plantsim though currently his skin coloring has yet to fade and full-feature transition to human has yet to take effect.}
Age: 16 days until A
Traits:
- Kleptomaniac
- Heavy Sleeper
- Handy
- Shy
- Vehicle Enthusiast
LTW: The Tinkerer
Job sacrificed: Unemployed
12.
Bach Saer
Age: 15 days until A
Traits:
- Diva
- Excitable
- Dramatic
- Hypochondriac
- Social Butterfly
LTW: Super Popular
Job sacrificed: Criminal Career Decoy
And there we have it, the 12 Strangersims that will live in the Perfect Strangers House for the next several weeks. Good luck to you all! (you're going to need it...)
I think it just hit them that they're about to enter into this crazy experience, as some of them look pretty nervous and worried. Here they are waiting for the official go-ahead.
WEEK 1
As mentioned before, all relationship levels to housemates were reset to zero. Their moodlets and wishes were also all wiped clean, their motives have not been altered. They were allowed to keep whatever, if any, skills they had existing - which would be to their advantage if they did have any. They could keep their smartphone and cameras, if they had them, but had to sell their vehicles before coming to the PS House. Each were subliminally given a level 1 of the following skills (if they had it already, they were not given an additional level): painting, sculpting, athletic, logic, charisma.
Gameplay:
Rather than resetting my game options for aging (it's set about medium), since it's 12+ sims weeks long, if/when they reach the last day of adulthood, their age will be reset to the beginning of that age stage.
I decided to leave all my mods intact, with the following Twallan (NRAAS) mods enabled and able to effect the PS House: Master Controller, Vector (accidentitis, laughter riot, I may add others as the challenge progresses), Woohooer (~autonomous; and removed the must be romantic for autonomous, kama simtra, risky~autonomous, romance~jealousy:medium, skinny dipping~privacy:false; try for a baby~autonomous:false; ), desensor, shooless (privacy~off). Also have Awesomemod installed, but don't think that will come into active play. Animated woohoo is another that I have that was set to autonomous (chance on flirt~30%, motive gain~normal, wish fulfillment~disabled, relationship loss on reject~enabled, relationship gain on woohoo~enabled, relationship test~enabled,
This week the Strangersims will get a chance to get to know one another. With nothing other than the household to interact with they are challenged to take advantage of this time and form relationships (and perhaps alliances) with each member - learning character strengths and weaknesses. No sims will be kicked out at the end of the week, but the one who gains the most skill points at the end of the week will be rewarded for their efforts.
Day 1
Starts of on a Sunday afternoon, Summertime, 7 Days until Fall.
Looks like Sofia and Tim didn't waste any time and are already hitting it off. Tim started talking about one of the only things he felt comfortable about, computers. Sofia seems interested, giving him all her attention, but could it be that she sees Tim as an easy win-over and has ideas of seducing him into an alliance, using him with only the end prize in mind? After Tim ran out of things to say about computers they just kind of sat there twiddling their thumbs in awkward silence.
Betti spied Sam from across the room and thought that he was a fine specimen of a man, she secretly hopes he will pose nude for her one day so she can sculpt him out of clay. She approached him and complimented him on his appearance. Sam appeared aloof and preoccupied, thinking of something that made him happy inside (probably his lover, Dilly Pidgin). They began flirting, she in earnest and he half-hearted.
Amy hopped on over to Des to introduce herself in her own animated way, they hit it off like they were old friends, getting to know each other, all smiles and laughs. In the background you can see Jenni standing over by Bach and Doug. Doug fidgeted with his sleeve while Bach admired him from beneath his long bangs. Jenni, well Jenni is starting to look a little green, and it's not a reflection off of her shirt, I wonder what could be the matter?
An hour in and so far everyone in the household seems to be getting along with at least one other person in the house, EXCEPT Lucy. Lucy was the first to wander off from the room. She didn't bother to introduce herself to anyone or even speak a single word. Instead she went to inspect a plant on the 2nd floor, then got really excited over seeing one of the sleeping bags. I wonder if she means to sleep in it or if she get's some diabolical pleasure over the fact that someone else would have to sleep in it?
We're rather concerned about Jenni, she rushed to the third floor to the bathroom and vomited in the toilet - she almost didn't make it. We offered to have our on-staff doctor take a look at her, but she refused and assured us that it's probably just some bad shellfish she ate, but we're a little suspicious and will be keeping an eye on her. She still looks a little green, maybe we should give her a barf bag to hold on to!
Woah! WTH is this? Nick has a secret talent... reaching through walls to access our backwards bookshelves. The gag's on us then. Guess we'll have to move out all the bookshelves after all. We were hoping we didn't have to so we could just turn them around when the time came to allow the sims access to them for next week, but not if this can happen. We swarmed in to grab the shelves and Nick handed over the offending book. He was a little embarrassed by the whole situation, saying that he had always had a knack for reaching through walls (it came and went), but shrugged it off, then disappeared and reappeared at the front door (nah, not another hidden talent, the staff just decided he needed a glitch reset, hopefully no more reaching through walls for Mr. Bowman). Nick didn't seem to mind, he headed back to the kitchen to prepare hotdogs.
Though Sam was still thinking about his lover, he felt some attraction toward Jenni and decided to go talk to her upstairs in the bathroom. Jenni wasn't having any of it, she still felt sick to her stomach and anything Sam said sounded offensive (even though that wasn't Sam's intent). By her body language you'd think he asked if he could woohoo with her or something! By the looks of it, she's ready to tear his head off.
She got really ugly with him, almost snarling! Maybe we should have her looked at by our doctor anyway! Maybe she has madsimcow disease!!! Or maybe she's bi-polar, after a few minutes of bitching and snarling she started talking to him, wanting to get to know him. The staff and I are shaking our heads. You never know what to expect from strangers...
Once they started talking civilly, she found that Sam was actually Charismatic; huh, go figure.
But then Lucy crept in on tip-toes and scared the begeezus out of Sam, which put a wedge in his and Jenni's conversation. It was just as well, a few minutes later Jenni got sick again. Lucy joked cruelly that we may need to set up one of the sleeping bags next to the toilet for Jenni since she was having such a hard time keeping her head above the rim. She was cackling in a witchy way when Bach came up behind her and gave her a piece of her own medicine by scaring the devil out of her. We got a kick out of that! Our outside camera caught both actions.
Sofia, being the vain diva that she is, stopped to check herself out in the hallway mirror before witnessing the after effects of the dual action in the bathroom, when everyone had calmed down she praised Bach for his courage to scare Lucy.
While all the commotion was going on up stairs we missed what happened between Tim and Betti, they're down-right hostile toward one-another!
Jenni, Sam, and Betti all achieved the Personable Skills Challenge.
Night-time crept up on us as surely as Lucy crept up on Sam. The first two to hit the sheets (they went to a bunkbed, not a double bed) were Vadleany and Nick. Sam, Des, Lucy, and Amy took to bunkbeds as well. With all the bunkbeds covered, we waited to see who would take the double beds and who would take the sleeping bags.
But then all of a sudden it was like they all had to go to the bathroom, and there was a lineup. Lucy and Tim were doing their business (no, not together), while Doug headed in, and Bach, Betti, and Amy waited to gain access to the toilets.
Doug and Tim ended up in the sleeping bags and Lucy took the bunkbed that Amy had vacated earlier. Betti was the first to climb into a double bed. Amy wanted a sleeping bag and stood above the snoring Tim, shaking her head and tapping her foot before deciding that her growling stomach was an immediate priority before getting some Zs.
Jenni headed back to the bathroom, and though she was tired and hungry, her motives in the orange, her nausea had resurfaced and she didn't want to be far from a toilet... just in case. But fickle-minded as she was, she changed her mind and took the spot next to Betti in the double bed.
With that, and just Amy and Bach awake and a double bed left open, we close the night and say "sleep-tight simmies" until tomorrow as we doubt that anything exciting will happen between the two (unless there's a cat fight).
Sim-u-later!
Our first 9 Strangersims promise to bring a whole lot of drama and trouble to the house, let's see what fantastic traits our final 3 will bring to the table.
Sam Grant [644]* {sim by Nicarra60}
Age: 18 days until A
Traits:
- Grumpy
- Athletic
- Slob
- Ambitious
- Charismatic
LTW: Fire Fighter Super Hero
Job sacrificed: Criminal Career Decoy
* Note: Sam will be a part of a 2nd challenge (The Clone Challenge) that I'll run silently in conjunction with this one. For more information on that challenge go here. This particular Sam is #644.
11.
Nick Bowman
{recycled 3th generation sim from The Spades, now cured plantsim though currently his skin coloring has yet to fade and full-feature transition to human has yet to take effect.}
Age: 16 days until A
Traits:
- Kleptomaniac
- Heavy Sleeper
- Handy
- Shy
- Vehicle Enthusiast
LTW: The Tinkerer
Job sacrificed: Unemployed
12.
Bach Saer
Age: 15 days until A
Traits:
- Diva
- Excitable
- Dramatic
- Hypochondriac
- Social Butterfly
LTW: Super Popular
Job sacrificed: Criminal Career Decoy
And there we have it, the 12 Strangersims that will live in the Perfect Strangers House for the next several weeks. Good luck to you all! (you're going to need it...)
WEEK 1
As mentioned before, all relationship levels to housemates were reset to zero. Their moodlets and wishes were also all wiped clean, their motives have not been altered. They were allowed to keep whatever, if any, skills they had existing - which would be to their advantage if they did have any. They could keep their smartphone and cameras, if they had them, but had to sell their vehicles before coming to the PS House. Each were subliminally given a level 1 of the following skills (if they had it already, they were not given an additional level): painting, sculpting, athletic, logic, charisma.
Gameplay:
Rather than resetting my game options for aging (it's set about medium), since it's 12+ sims weeks long, if/when they reach the last day of adulthood, their age will be reset to the beginning of that age stage.
I decided to leave all my mods intact, with the following Twallan (NRAAS) mods enabled and able to effect the PS House: Master Controller, Vector (accidentitis, laughter riot, I may add others as the challenge progresses), Woohooer (~autonomous; and removed the must be romantic for autonomous, kama simtra, risky~autonomous, romance~jealousy:medium, skinny dipping~privacy:false; try for a baby~autonomous:false; ), desensor, shooless (privacy~off). Also have Awesomemod installed, but don't think that will come into active play. Animated woohoo is another that I have that was set to autonomous (chance on flirt~30%, motive gain~normal, wish fulfillment~disabled, relationship loss on reject~enabled, relationship gain on woohoo~enabled, relationship test~enabled,
This week the Strangersims will get a chance to get to know one another. With nothing other than the household to interact with they are challenged to take advantage of this time and form relationships (and perhaps alliances) with each member - learning character strengths and weaknesses. No sims will be kicked out at the end of the week, but the one who gains the most skill points at the end of the week will be rewarded for their efforts.
Day 1
Starts of on a Sunday afternoon, Summertime, 7 Days until Fall.
Looks like Sofia and Tim didn't waste any time and are already hitting it off. Tim started talking about one of the only things he felt comfortable about, computers. Sofia seems interested, giving him all her attention, but could it be that she sees Tim as an easy win-over and has ideas of seducing him into an alliance, using him with only the end prize in mind? After Tim ran out of things to say about computers they just kind of sat there twiddling their thumbs in awkward silence.
Amy hopped on over to Des to introduce herself in her own animated way, they hit it off like they were old friends, getting to know each other, all smiles and laughs. In the background you can see Jenni standing over by Bach and Doug. Doug fidgeted with his sleeve while Bach admired him from beneath his long bangs. Jenni, well Jenni is starting to look a little green, and it's not a reflection off of her shirt, I wonder what could be the matter?
An hour in and so far everyone in the household seems to be getting along with at least one other person in the house, EXCEPT Lucy. Lucy was the first to wander off from the room. She didn't bother to introduce herself to anyone or even speak a single word. Instead she went to inspect a plant on the 2nd floor, then got really excited over seeing one of the sleeping bags. I wonder if she means to sleep in it or if she get's some diabolical pleasure over the fact that someone else would have to sleep in it?
We're rather concerned about Jenni, she rushed to the third floor to the bathroom and vomited in the toilet - she almost didn't make it. We offered to have our on-staff doctor take a look at her, but she refused and assured us that it's probably just some bad shellfish she ate, but we're a little suspicious and will be keeping an eye on her. She still looks a little green, maybe we should give her a barf bag to hold on to!
Woah! WTH is this? Nick has a secret talent... reaching through walls to access our backwards bookshelves. The gag's on us then. Guess we'll have to move out all the bookshelves after all. We were hoping we didn't have to so we could just turn them around when the time came to allow the sims access to them for next week, but not if this can happen. We swarmed in to grab the shelves and Nick handed over the offending book. He was a little embarrassed by the whole situation, saying that he had always had a knack for reaching through walls (it came and went), but shrugged it off, then disappeared and reappeared at the front door (nah, not another hidden talent, the staff just decided he needed a glitch reset, hopefully no more reaching through walls for Mr. Bowman). Nick didn't seem to mind, he headed back to the kitchen to prepare hotdogs.
Though Sam was still thinking about his lover, he felt some attraction toward Jenni and decided to go talk to her upstairs in the bathroom. Jenni wasn't having any of it, she still felt sick to her stomach and anything Sam said sounded offensive (even though that wasn't Sam's intent). By her body language you'd think he asked if he could woohoo with her or something! By the looks of it, she's ready to tear his head off. 
She got really ugly with him, almost snarling! Maybe we should have her looked at by our doctor anyway! Maybe she has madsimcow disease!!! Or maybe she's bi-polar, after a few minutes of bitching and snarling she started talking to him, wanting to get to know him. The staff and I are shaking our heads. You never know what to expect from strangers...
Once they started talking civilly, she found that Sam was actually Charismatic; huh, go figure.
But then Lucy crept in on tip-toes and scared the begeezus out of Sam, which put a wedge in his and Jenni's conversation. It was just as well, a few minutes later Jenni got sick again. Lucy joked cruelly that we may need to set up one of the sleeping bags next to the toilet for Jenni since she was having such a hard time keeping her head above the rim. She was cackling in a witchy way when Bach came up behind her and gave her a piece of her own medicine by scaring the devil out of her. We got a kick out of that! Our outside camera caught both actions.
While all the commotion was going on up stairs we missed what happened between Tim and Betti, they're down-right hostile toward one-another! Jenni, Sam, and Betti all achieved the Personable Skills Challenge.
Night-time crept up on us as surely as Lucy crept up on Sam. The first two to hit the sheets (they went to a bunkbed, not a double bed) were Vadleany and Nick. Sam, Des, Lucy, and Amy took to bunkbeds as well. With all the bunkbeds covered, we waited to see who would take the double beds and who would take the sleeping bags.
But then all of a sudden it was like they all had to go to the bathroom, and there was a lineup. Lucy and Tim were doing their business (no, not together), while Doug headed in, and Bach, Betti, and Amy waited to gain access to the toilets.
Doug and Tim ended up in the sleeping bags and Lucy took the bunkbed that Amy had vacated earlier. Betti was the first to climb into a double bed. Amy wanted a sleeping bag and stood above the snoring Tim, shaking her head and tapping her foot before deciding that her growling stomach was an immediate priority before getting some Zs.
Jenni headed back to the bathroom, and though she was tired and hungry, her motives in the orange, her nausea had resurfaced and she didn't want to be far from a toilet... just in case. But fickle-minded as she was, she changed her mind and took the spot next to Betti in the double bed.
With that, and just Amy and Bach awake and a double bed left open, we close the night and say "sleep-tight simmies" until tomorrow as we doubt that anything exciting will happen between the two (unless there's a cat fight).
Sim-u-later!
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