Last week I dreamed that I was playing Sims 3, and I adopted the black unicorn into the family, and I named it Zanzibar. (100% true.) Obviously that became the first thing on my playing agenda in real life.
When you ride a unicorn, sparkles trail out behind you. And when unicorns eat or drink, a rainbow happens.
Zanzibar (who is female) and Gaucho got along well.
I also had a yen to try some other animals. I started by creating a kitty that I named Bad Kitty. I gave Bad Kitty the traits Aggressive, Destructive, and Adventurous.
I bought Bad Kitty an awesome kitty tower.
But that didn’t keep her from destroying the family’s newspaper when their backs were turned.
Kitties like to explore and hang out under the furniture.
Don’t get between Bad Kitty and her food bowl!
Bad Kitty started off on the wrong foot immediately, by hissing at Felicia.
I LOL’d!
Bad Kitty seems to get along better with the other animals. Here she is having a chat with the unicorn.
Zanzibar’s eyes are an unusually light shade of brown. It gives her a perpetually startled look.
I also LOL’d when Butters screwed up a jump through the flame hoop and caught fire.
This time, there weren’t any neighbors around to put him out. He had to run – on fire – out of the pasture, around the corner, in through the front door, upstairs, and into the shower to put himself out.
The lot was getting really laggy with all these animals. I decided to sell Bacon and Indigo at the horse farm. It’s weird to sell off members of your family, but hey, each one net us over §8,000. That really helped ease the sting.
Of course, the next thing I did was have Gaucho and Zanzibar “Try for Foal.”
Will it be a unicorn or a horse? Pinto or black? Only time will tell!
In exploring the town, I discovered that it not only has a dog park, as you might expect. It also has a kitty park!
The kitty park has all the things kitties like. Including a Litter Box Gazebo…
Benches for kitties to sit on…
And a Room Full Of Beds.
Bad Kitty liked it!
Dramatic Pose!
Around this time I started thinking that maybe I should consider matching Butters up with a lady Sim, so that they can have an heir. But it turns out that, although it’s chock full of deer and unicorns and wild horses and raccoons, Appaloosa Springs is kind of empty of Sims. Most of them were either male, or elderly.
Gaucho and Butters spent an entire day loitering around downtown, with no success at The Ladies.
That night, Butters turned from Young Adult to Mature Adult. I decided to start with a make-over. Gone was the Emo Hair. Gone, the Crazy Angry Eyebrows. It was time for Butters to grow up.
Time for a new wardrobe, too. I tried out several sensible and attractive outfits. Then I clicked on this thing, and it made me laugh.
Good enough for me!
(I later changed his hair to sandy blonde, because it was clashing with his red shirt.)
The instant he switched back from the wardrobe to the game, a new maid appeared. The Alphabettis have had a young blonde man as their maid ever since they moved to Appaloosa Springs. I don’t know what happened to him, but it seemed like fate.
Butters seemed to think so, too.
Here is a sentence I have never typed before in my whole entire life: My horse gnome is sleeping.
Butters asked the maid out on a date, and it went splendidly.
Near the end of their date, she gave him flowers.
Which caused him to make this face.
Words fail me.
I realized, while reading this, that if an outside viewer was reading about this family’s life, it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. In fact, they’d probably be calling the psych ward about now.
And for us unstable people it’s just all like “Oh la dee da gotta ride my unicorn to work so I can be promoted to Evil Overlord today.”
Bad kitty ROCKS!
I cant breathe…hypoxia from laughing too much!!
love (eleventybillion)
MAN I gotta go get Pets. And a sack of Spare Time (TM) to play it with. Le sigh.
Right after reading this earlier, I went and played Sims…about 5 minutes into playing a unicorn wandered onto the lot.
So I had one of my sims keep feeding the unicorn apples and petting it and letting it sniff her hand. After a few minutes of that, the unicorn blessed her. I had to get rid of one of the dogs to do this, but eventually the game gave me the option to invite the unicorn to join the household. Which it did.
Now I have to get rid of one of my sims, or one of the dogs (the sim will probably go before any more dogs do) and see if the unicorn will whoohoo with one of the horses.
I havent looked, do they have any pegasus (pegasi?) in Sims Pets? I’d like to see my sims flying around on a pegasus.
hahaha…that last image reminds me of Harpo a little.
Wow… The “destroying the newspaper” animation looks like the cat is performing some kind of satanic ritual. o_o;
I was gonna ask if a unicorn and a horse could have babies.
(Actually, I think in the MLP fandom world, there’s speculation about how the genetics of unicorn vs. pegasus vs. “Earth pony” work…I think it’s been posited that “unicorn” is a dominant trait, and “pegasus” is recessive. Though I’d think it would have to be more complex than simple Mendelian….)
Wow. You have a baby and when you finally get your shit together 3 months later you fight to catch up on everything and it wraps up with that face. What a treat! hahaha
I’m so tempted to go out and buy Pets but I’m fairly sure that would lead to what technical people would call “parental negligence.” Danm kids. I should have thought this out better!
Told ya Butters needed flame-proof riding gear…
Though watching him catch fire (again) is probably a lot more fun.
Love the horse gnome. And Bad Kitty even more.
Cool thing about unicorns…not only can they bless the flora and the fauna…they can also Ignite things! (whoohoo!! Sims arson!)
Last night when I discovered this, I had my unicorn set the horse training track on fire. A small child caught fire and nearly died. (why is it that all sims run *towards* fires? Even if they’re coward sims and faint when they get there?) Luckily she wasnt one of my sims, and also luckily, my one of my bipedal sims extinguished her…
I experimented a little bit and sent the unicorn into town to set the museum on fire late at night. That was fun. (my inner arsonist likes unicorns now) It burned for several sims hours and once morning came all the sims in town started to show up to dance in panic around it.
I ended up sending in all my sims to put the fire out since it seemed like the fire department was on vacation.
Unicorns are cool!
Most. Epic. Sims. Post. EVER!
“When you ride a unicorn, sparkles trail out behind you. And when unicorns eat or drink, a rainbow happens.”
ZOMG.
Whenever my husband catches me reading these he’s like, wouldn’t you rather be playing this game instead of just reading about it? And I emphatically respond in the negative, because I’ve always found the Sim games to be really boring after a few days of playing, whereas your posts are consistently hilarious and awesome. But this pets expansion really makes me want to give it one last college try! HorseGnome FTW!
Also, just like in real life, I cannot be upset with Bad Kitty for destroying the paper because she is just so cute when she’s doing it. Look at her, making her own confetti, isn’t that just adorable! (And Alec walking by all nonchalant cracked me up again.)