and I didn't even take the ladder out of the pool...

CW for death, illness, murder, blood, violence, kidnapping, guns, car accidents, arson etc.

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t send two newsletters in a week. These are not normal circumstances.

For those of you who read last week’s newsletter, you know I have created a family with characters from several of my projects and am seeing who dies first. I got them all into their respective couples and set them on their life journeys, but they were shockingly good at staying alive, so I had to take matters into my own hands.

I’ve played with the extreme violence mod for the Sims before and it was honestly, a little too much. So this time, I opted to add in the Life Tragedies mod. I do like my games to be very realistic, so I have mods pertaining to heights, real time beard growth, reproductive health, an LGBTQIA+ overhaul, etc. I may keep this one but adjust the settings for future games, because as you will see, it got a little wild here.

Where we left off — things were going well. Everyone was happy and in love. Stellan and Myra had just had twins, a boy and a girl, Hayden and Hallie got married and she was pregnant, and El and Carter were happily dating.

See? good parenting!

Then I installed the Life Tragedies mod. The first thing to happen was we got an armed robber. Thankfully, Carter was there to get rid of her. This mod also allows for the players themselves to do crimes, too.

Shortly after that, Jason Vorhees himself showed up and began to murder random Sims on my lot (tbh, I don’t know what they were doing here either).

Once again, we put our boy Carter to work.

GET HIS ASS!!

We suffered another armed robbery on the property (same girl, too! Like ma’am, have you not learned?) and I’m pretty sure this forced Hallie to go into labor. Thankfully, all was well with the baby and we kicked her out yet again.

On a positive note, Hayden got to see a ghost!

For some reason, one of Stellan and Myra’s children disappeared. I have no idea where Henry went and no one seems to remember he ever existed, so that’s odd… Stellan was then hit by a car, but no car ever arrived or drove through the property, so it looked like he really did just belly-flop to his death… hmm…

Mid-reaping, the same damn robber showed up AGAIN.

A few other notable things that happened: Some random woman on a motorcycle showed up “looking for love” and I could apparently accept her date offer, but I did not. Carter began to show signs of a weird illness, as did El. Jason Vorhees showed up again as well, so Myra took matters into her own hands. She’s lost her husband and one of her kids vanished into the ether, so…

It was revealed that El had a fatal illness, so I took her to the hospital to get a couple of surgeries and one was finally successful and she could live out the rest of her days. Jason Vorhees came back again, despite being murdered multiple times, so I tried something new and had Hallie kidnap him to a cave.

You come into my house???

We did what any good kidnapper would do and asked for ransom money.

But the game glitched, and there was no way to go back home without just killing Jason off… again. As we will see, this does not last.

No hard feelings, right?

We return to the house. Promptly, I learn that Carter has been murdered (I think by Jason, so clearly, we didn’t fix the problem)

Hayden and Hallie’s son gets taken away due to “neglect”, and I swear they make this way too easy in-game, but there’s no time to reflect on poor parenting because the finale to V for Vendetta is happening in the frontyard.

It seems like the fire was started by some random arson victim who arrived at the house.

We lose Hayden and El in the process, and this fire just will not go out. And perhaps that is because the fire department itself got hit by a car on the way to send backup.

One of El and Carter’s babies got whisked away due to neglect too, which does make sense on account of her parents being dead and Hallie being the only surviving adult and extinguishing fires. Child, can you wait ten minutes for a bowl of peas???

En route to reap the deceased firefighter, the Grim Reaper himself gets hit by a car too, so I really have no idea how we’re going to work with this one.

in the arrrrmmsss of the angel

With the slaughter over, it’s time for Hallie to pick up the pieces and be a responsible guardian to El and Carter’s remaining daughter.

Never mind, she got kidnapped. As Hallie is whisked away, the game informs me that it’s not responsible to leave the house without hiring a nanny or sending the baby to daycare, so we take option 2.

I try to figure out how the hell I’m supposed to get Hallie back since I can’t even get the baby back from daycare until she returns, and even then, I don’t think that the baby can really negotiate a ransom very well. So I add some rando Sim to the family to try and see what I can do.

I wonder, maybe if I kidnap someone, we’ll find Hallie in the murder cave and can rescue her. It seems like a great plan…

Then, Jason shows up again and murders Sapphire (our random townie Sim) and I am promptly given a Game Over screen and told not to worry because the baby has been taken to a new loving family.

So, the end?

I don’t know what I learned or what you guys learned from this, but I think I can safely recommend this as a great procrastination technique for work or writing tasks. RIP to my characters, who really tried their best.

I’ll be back next time to hopefully talk actual writing and book stuff, about characters who do NOT pee their pants constantly during their stories!