Strangetown extras: Ripp is obsessed with his own mortality

[strangetomato]

Now, I know that I've been known to InSIM Ripp into a variety of ailments, and I've even killed him a couple of times to get the shots I needed for the story, but is that any reason for him to become fixated on death? I'm starting to worry about his mental health, just a little. Check out the fear that he rolled during a recent session at the Grunt house...

Hmmm. Does this happen often? I've never seen it before. I mean, it seems reasonable to fear your own death, and maybe a little obvious, but does Ripp have some reason to think that he might actually die? Is it because of the recent trend of deaths in the Grunt family? This doesn't seem very healthy to me.

The other wants/fears are typical. He's been fairly obsessed with becoming friends with both Frances and Nervous, based on his recent interactions with them, and he always rolls wants to flirt with people (that one is a cheerleader - a favourite booty call of his), and to buy various instruments. The only typical want that's missing is "woohoo in bed". Yeah, it's always there and it's always "in bed" (I think he just likes to pass out afterwards, since he's so awesomely lazy). Also, Ripp's not really a freshman. He's a senior. (InSIMing is to blame again.) Don't get the idea that they'll never, ever graduate from LFT. *snicker* I may be slow, but I'm not THAT slow.

Anyway, I thought that it was pretty amusing, so I thought I'd share.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

There have been a lot of suspicious things happening in Strangetown, so I guess it would be normal to be a little nervous about it.

The fact that Ripp is interested in being Frances' friend probably shows that he learned his lesson at the party, which I think he did, though we haven't seen them interact a whole lot since then. I don't think you'll see him being quite that much of an asshole anymore.

I don't have the vertical lines in gossip about death, but the only death gossip I have seen so far has been about Olive or Ophelia. It's their portrait, followed by a tombstone, followed by the dead person (a normal portrait, or at least the odd portraits that I've been getting - that might be another issue). Based on that, I don't think that this is happening to me.

The solution to the corrupted memories thing seems to be the "nocorruptdeath" hack from MATY, but this just prevents future problems. It doesn't fix any that have already formed, but it seems that SimPE can correct those. The manual explains how to purge them. I'll have to do that if any evidence of this surfaces.