Asylum - Chapter 2

Modest and Supportive



Welcome back to the Wainwright Asylum. The nutjobs patients here have been finding ways to pass the time while waiting for resident controllable sim Lizbet to rise to the title of Education Minister. Hopefully it won't be a long wait.

Despite being given (or maybe because they were given) a comfortable, casual wardrobe for every day wear, most residents seem to prefer wandering about in their unmentionables. Provided by FHP Apparel, these garments were described as "modest and supportive."

Yeah, there's a lot of modest and supportive running around the Asylum.

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Here we see the modest... Not. (Marie)

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And here's the supportive.... Not

Lorna, it's not nice to make fun of Wanda. She's had a rough first day. Two nervous breakdowns are bound to take their toll on anyone.

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This became readily apparent with Wanda, who was whipping out Wondra, her flour baby, at every opportunity. But she wasn't the only resident troubled by extreme mental instability.

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Parson has been quietly chatting up Dr. Phyllo der Flugball in the privacy of the dormitory. Their single meeting seemed to help clear the young man's head and allow him to resume his daily activities.

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Not all patients were able to recover their wits quite so quickly. Like Wanda, Earl was having some problems coping with the fact they couldn't afford to replace the stove his tomato soup caught on fire -- twice. There wasn't even enough to pay the bills (you can see them yellowing away on the mailbox shelf), so Earl took it upon himself to panhandle for money from passers-by. Unfortunately, most people tended to lock their doors and drive away very quickly once they saw him.

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Wanda and Earl eventually found another method for relieving their post-fire stress.

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It took till Day 3 for these two to get busy between the sheets, probably because they spent most of Day 2 pulling out their aspiration toys at random times.

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Wanda, however, seems to be a fickle creature, as a few days later she asked surfer-boy Van to... ah... show her his 'wave riding technique'.

Believe it or not, a few hours later Wanda and Earl were back in here for woohoo round 2. Family sims are just romance sims who want to get married and have kids.

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Wanda wasn't the only sim getting some sweet lovins. Lorna and Raul took a little time out to further their relationship as well. I was a bit surprised that it wasn't Marie that Raul first hooked up with, but...

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I guess she's still peeved at him for stalking her in the shower.

*sigh* This happens a lot in my challenges I've found (the shower stalking)

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Later on Lorna would break the shower for us. Yay, my first borkened appliance. Lizbet was not pleased.

Raul would plug the toilet up about the same time, so Lizbet kinda got 2 for one.

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Turns out Lorna is a bit of a troublemaker all around, what with the breaking of things, mocking other residents, and peeping on the neighbors (not like Sim-Keth doesn't visit the asylum a lot.) But Lorna's pretty cool about things too. She doesn't usually panic (much) over the fires, she's smart enough to take a shower when she's stinky, and she's made it her mission while at the asylum to steal Gnutzo back every time he's gnomenapped. She's even too cool to be phased by Sim-Keth's pokey finger... that or she's too engrossed in Wanda's cleavage. *facepalm*

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But time and tide catches up with all of us. See Lorna, I told you not to make fun of Wanda for falling asleep standing up. I hope that mac 'n cheese is comfy.

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Moving right along, as the first week moved into the weekend, we had our next sim self visit. Sim-Lynn happened to be passing by as Lizbet returned home from work on Friday, so I had her run over and greet her. Lynn, however, was not interested in chatting with Lizbet about the state of the economy.

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It was the asylum's resident recluse Parson she wanted to have a long in depth conversation with about the current political scene.

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These two were so caught in conversation, I don't think I could've separated them if I tried. I've never seen Parson have the kissing conversation with any of the other residents. It's looks almost like he's propositioning Lynn for one. (Who knows, he may have never had one)

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Sim-Lynn seems interested, so long as they're not recycled kisses.

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She was actually starting to get a bit stalky with Parson, even following him into the pantry while he was taking his sponge bath (He didn't seem to mind; he didn't shoo her at least). I can just hear her..."Um, that's nice Miss Asylum-person, but could you leave the two of us alone? I really want to stare at your institution-mate as he rinses off."

So I sent Lizbet off to make dinner for everyone...

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Which was a bad idea.

Yes, they've got a stove back. It took me two days to be able to afford it, and in those two days the residents did pretty good at gaining cooking skills. I think everyone has 2 or 3 of 'em now, so I was hoping not to see another cooking fire for a long time. I should've known better. *laugh*

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Lynn decided that no matter how much she wanted to stay and chat up Parson, it was time to go, what with all the stinky people now running around. On her way out she decided to stop and pick up a souvenir of her visit, namely Gnutzo.

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The neighborhood wolf who was wandering by at the time had some issues with the gnomenapping, however. Sim-Lynn still didn't give Gnutzo back, despite the scare. Lorna had to go steal him back later.

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Things were pretty quiet in the Asylum until Sunday morning, when Parson's pop tart started a fire. Yep, that's 4 fires in the first week alone. Oy

Oh, and see that kid sitting at the table...

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He's Taylor Braddock, another custom townie sim I released into the wilds of Middlington (he's a slightly tweaked version of a lovely young man from Linuslover30 and BoolPropped's website If you haven't been there, go... they have very tasty sims)

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Taylor was a walk by Saturday afternoon that I had Lizbet greet. She greeted several walk bys that day to get them in her phone tree. I'm not sure how many friends she'll need eventually and I wanted her to have a number of people available for her to call and make friends with. Well, Taylor started following her all around the asylum, trying to do things with her or talk to her. He even hovered around over her bed while she slept. He took stalking to a new extreme with her.

After he eventually left (after Sunday morning's fire) I just happened to check Lizbet's info in the ACR adjuster. Well, the adjuster said that she had the hots (was most attracted to) for Taylor. WTF? I checked her relationship panel and she had all of an 11 relationship with him (11 STR/6 LTR) I've got the ACR plug in that allows teen and adults to have attraction for each other, but the lightning bolts won't show up on the panel. I figured this was probably the case; they had a bolt or two for each other but because I have teen-adult relations disabled, the most he could do was stalk her.

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In order to see just what sort of attraction the two of them have, I sent Taylor to University after I finished the first week in the Asylum. Taylor's relationship with Lizbet is even lower: 6 STR/5 LTR. However, they have 3 bolts *facepalm* Now, I've rigged a lot of 3 bolt couples (*cough*SK & Kasson*cough*) but I rarely have one just 'happen'.

After he claimed his room, I send Taylor out to greet walk by Kevin Bear. First thing he did was start talking about Lizbet and spouting little pink hearts.

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Needless to say, I've got a whole new reason now to get Lizbet through this challenge alive (and still an adult).

So how do things stand at the end of the first week?

Fires: 4
Stoves destroyed: 1
Nervous Breakdowns: at least 7
Job Level: 3 in education (substitute teacher)
Chance Cards: 1 (earned promotion to substitute teacher)

I meant to note down the number of family friends, family funds, and lot value, but forgot. I'll grab those when I load the lot to start on week 2.

And now, a quick check back on Sim-Keth...

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...whom we left with a party in progress.

Yep, all sorts of scandal and crazy party antics here. Red hands and a ride in the Whirling Sphere O' Puke. Actually Sim-Lisa had pretty good luck in the sphere. No falling out and no losing her dinner. SGT Heather has apparently forgiven Quavi for getting stalky on her.

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Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Bacillus shared some juicy gossip with Sim-Lynn.

Dunno who the red haired guy in the background is. Random walk-by Keth grabbed I think.

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And what was so startling that it got Lynn's face stuck like this till she left the lot?

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Could it be that the hostess was getting down and dirty with her leather-clad party attendee?

*chuckle*

ACR had been trying to queue these two up for woohoo for a while and I kept cancelling it out of Sim-Keth's queue. I missed one during the party though. And before anyone asks, this all happened before Sim-Lisa and Orrin got 'friendly' with each other at the asylum. If I'd let Sim-Keth throw her party after that happened, we might not have had a chance to see these two snuggled up all cute together.

Not that a proper Orrin clone would tolerate being called cute.

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Although I'm not sure this is a proper Orrin clone. The cats adore him. Seriously, as he was getting up the next morning both Bibby and Atticus rushed in with him in their queues and he was happy to hug and play with them. Which was a good thing, because they weren't getting any attention from Sim-Keth.

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She was rather busy elsewhere.

*facepalm*

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