Had a lot of trouble with zombies this week, as you shall see. But here: THIS is what I want to see in a zombie!
LOVE IT.
The zombies don’t just show up during a full moon. They also tend to show up any night after dark. In order to keep them from pestering Franco and June, I built them a little safety corral around their sleeping bags.
(By the way, if you want to banish zombies from your game because they are annoying, here’s how.)
Although June wasn’t bringing in very much income from fishing, Franco’s garden was doing pretty well. We gathered up enough money to build a rudimentary outdoor kitchen, as well as a bathroom.
Although it had the cheapest toilet, which was always breaking and clogging and leaking. Still better than having to travel to the nearest public restroom every time you have to pee.
I was surprised at how well-attended June’s birthday party was. Maybe it’s just that, without a front door, there was nowhere for Sims to get trapped and frustrated and leave before it was time for cake.
June’s birthday coincided with a full moon, which can bring out a lot of unusual behavior in Sims. After he blew out the candles and grew up, some random lady picked a fight with him. Before I could intervene, she was beating him up in his own bathroom. Rude!
June received the “Loves the Supernatural” trait, which means that he loves socializing with werewolves and fairies and such. Personally, I think he should hook up with this punk rock fairy, because she is awesome.
The slight problem here being, they hate each other. Oh well.
Yowza!
Another fairy who hated him.
This one was just “Meh.” Which I guess is an improvement.
That night, the zombies were especially plentiful. Franco went to fix himself a midnight snack, and fell prey to a zombie attack. The zombie bit him on the arm, and he fell to the ground.
He died and was sucked into the ground and it generated an unhappy memory, as I suppose would be the case.
Then he was reborn as the living dead.
Before I had a chance to react, Zombie Franco shuffled for his garden. Curses! I had locked the door against “Everyone but my household.” Which meant that it wasn’t locked against him.
He was all “SNARF SNARF SNARF” and I was all “STOP THAT YOU NAUGHTY THING.”
I didn’t really know what to do with him. The other NPC zombies turn back into people at dawn, but that was not the case with Franco: he remained a zombie after sunrise.
For the moment, to keep him out of trouble, I built him a zombie kennel.
Playable zombies are pretty funny. They can do a lot of people things – for example, he took a shower when I told him to.
But their interpersonal interactions are limited. You can’t Woo Hoo with a zombie, which sadly means no zombie babies. (It made me think about Tina and Joe R. Lansdale and laugh.)
When you click on another Sim, you get to choose between four interactions:
You can also click on plants and eat them. This action is called “Graaaaains.”
But these charms wore thin. Luckily you can cure a zombie by buying an elixir from the Alchemy store. And poof: all better!
With June as a young adult, it was time to begin his new life, starting with a makeover. But how do you style a kleptomaniac angler, former goth kid who loves the supernatural, lives on an empty plot of land, and only has a few bucks to his name?
YES. I call this look “The Dapper Hipster.” I’m just sad they don’t have a handlebar mustache.
Why is the random lady thinking happy balloons if she’s beating up June?
I think that the balloons means she likes the party. Maybe she is one of those sims who like fighting. The first zombie is thinking zombie thoughts but his expression is totally…reflective? whimsical? dunno but it’s not braiiiins
why are fairies sooooo grouchy? are there any boy fairies? or just girls?
Haven’t you ever been at a party and been all like “AAAAAAH THIS PARTY IS AWESOME” while you were pummeling the snot out of someone?
Me either. But I guess Sims do.
The hilarious thing is, the guests gave that party the highest rating of any party I have ever held in Sims 3. If only I had known that all you need to do is plunk a cake down in the middle of the yard and have a fist fight in the bathroom.
Gabes, I have seen one male fairy so far. So they do exist, but for some reason are not as common as female fairies. (It is probably just a statistical quirk.)
On two separate occasions I had my Sims beat the stuffing out of a party guest. During both the beat-downs, which the guests lost, they both generated the great party thought bubble. It seems like nothing pleases Sim party-goers more than drama.
I figured the zombies would get tiresome in short order. It’s nice to know the population is controllable for when I finally install Supernatural.
OMG, I played so much Sims 3 this weekend. I decided I wanted my existing Sim to become a fairy and so I sent her to the elixir shop to study alchemy and, in spite of never going to work, she actually got 2 promotions and an award from the town! I don’t even know. Also, she missed her kid aging up 3 times (which was kind of sad, but hey, becoming a fairy is hard work!) and I had her divorce her husband, because there were just too many sims in the house. She did spend a lot of time flirting with the owner of the consignment store and I got them all the way up to engaged, but when I threw the wedding party, her intended was all “this date sucks” and wouldn’t marry her (which was fine because too many sims anyway). The wedding day fell on the full moon and so there were a lot of fairies and werewolves and zombies in attendance, which I thought was hilarious also. I’m really loving this expansion.
Oh, and the zombies! They crack me up because they spend a lot of time hanging around outside complaining about not being able to go inside.
Ugh… Zombies…I had a Sim nicely rising to superstardom as an indie rocker until I installed Supernatural. In quick order, nearly the entire town became zombies, including the venue owners – so no new gigs. Also – the zombie spawners were right against my house so fences would not have helped.
Has anyone else noticed that fairies seem to turn into zombies the quickest?? Also I have had a pretty high number of male fairies, so maybe that is just a randomness thing?
So I started a new game in Sunlit Shores – no zombies for quite awhile, but they are starting to appear now – but no other Supes are around. Also – the family recently took a vacation to France, on their last day the Zombies started appearing.
I am praying that there is a patch very soon to be able to turn off the zombies like the other Supes. In any case, my next Sim is going to be a witch, no question.
So Mondays are always my favorite day because Monday means I get to come to work, get all comfy with a cup of coffee in my cubicle, and read another chapter of Sims Sunday. Seriously.. it’s about the best part of my entire week. Thank you so much for being entertaining. I haven’t quite decided whether I want to buy Supernatural yet (’cause frankly, even at the age of 26 zombies give me nightmares), but it’s so awesome to be able to read about your adventures with it.
On a side note – did you take down the Splines?! I am heart-broken! I loved going back and reading those guys. It was like an awesome old book that you just read over and over because it’s just so darn good.
Aw, thanks! I’m glad I can do anything to brighten someone’s work day… the beginning of the week can be particularly dreary.
I did eventually let the Splines domain registration lapse… on the internet there is no sense of age, so new people would find it, then get really confused and contact me to ask why it stopped, if I might start it again, etc. I felt it was better to let it go rather than to leave it as a ghost ship on the internet.
sigh the splines were classic, good stuff. i started reading them first and always hoped they’d return. All the tylers!!!! hahahahaha