Challenge 002: Drabble+: Death

[strangetomato]

Here's my response to the current challenge over at simstorytellers . I thought I would post this now, since it's based on the Strangetown, Here We Come, and I won't be able to post the next chapter until Sunday at the earliest. I'm heading out of town tomorrow evening for a long weekend. This drabble+ (slightly longer than a regular drabble, which is exactly 100 words) is related to the next couple of chapters in the story, and is thus a slight spoiler, but I like to think of it as more of an appetizer. I hope the next installment will follow by early next week.

This week's challenge was to create a 150-200 word drabble+, using a maximum of two in-game pics, with "death" as the prompt.





CHALLENGE 002:  Drabble+: Death

Prompt: death
Pic max: 2
Word count: 150-200
Expires: 4/16/08

Nervous Subject looked around the cemetery.

He was surrounded by death. This was his legacy. This is what his mother had left him with: a collection of dead people, each of them hand-picked to suit her various whims.

It was also his father's work. He performed his task thoroughly and carefully, leaving nobody behind. Death touched everyone.

Nervous didn't have to look far for examples of the impact that his parents had made on this little desert town. There was Ophelia, his cousin, who had lost her entire family to death at an early age. There was Ripp Grunt, whose parents had also been brutally murdered, though he didn't know that yet. There was Johnny Smith, who had, so far, been lucky, but his troubles would come. Death didn't spare anyone. Nervous knew that his father had an appointment with Johnny's family, and sooner than any of them expected.

There was Pascal.




Nervous hoped that somehow, despite logic, Death might decide to grant Pascal some special privilege to walk untouched and happy throughout his long life.

If Nervous asked, he could make it so, but asking favours of Death always came with a price. 





 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm all about the aging off. I have a really hard time letting any of my sims die too, but I'm forcing myself onward with that sort of thing in this story. So far, so good. I've let Buzz, Loki, and Olive go. P.T. has to go sometime, and I don't look forward to it. The longer I write this, the harder it will be to let anyone die, but if that's the way it plays out, I'll have to go with it. I'll try not to be too much of a bloodthirsty writer, though.

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

It does get to the point where there's nothing more for them to really do so, yes, all good things must come to and end. I lost PT far too fast in my first Strangetown (and I was just getting used to everything, too) so this time I aged him back to adult. I figure by the time he gets to the end of his elderhood I'll be more willing to part with him.

Totally OT, I have a question, since you play around a lot with SimPE and such and have younger versions of sims running around in your game. Can you put two sims with the same first and last names on the same lot for a short time without everything going haywire? Basically, can you have two of the same sim on one lot, moving one in and moving one out?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any issues with it, and the sims did have the exact same name (I often give them a slightly different name, though, since it helps to tell the, apart in the InSIM summoner menu). I would say that you'll be fine, though I'm not 100% sure, since I don't usually save after setting up those types of scenes (not so much because of the summoning, but the other InSIM things, like aging up or down).

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. Then maybe I will go ahead with a little experiment I want to try. :) If I was planning on keeping both in the game they'd have to have slightly different names but I don't plan on keeping the one. I plan on replacing him.
Thanks.