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Extras: Death by Hail!
Sep. 4th, 2010 10:33 amI was playing the Newson lot in Sim City just before I started to notice the trouble with vanishing lots in my game, so I thought I'd share this little extra (as the idea of rebuilding is keeping me pretty disinterested in my game these days, so I'm lacking in anything fresh to report). I knew where I was going with Ginger in S,HWC, having played her in Pleasantview already (and the matchmaker pulled her in from the bin!), but I wanted to get a sense of where the rest of this twice-orphaned family might end up. The news wasn't good for Gavin:
This is the first time I've seen the death by hail in my game! I've had hail before and sims have complained that it was stinging their skin, but it wasn't severe enough to cause damage to them. This time it actually showed up on the ground (I'm guessing that's the sign you want to look for to know when to stay inside), and Gavin was getting pelted so hard that every time I cancelled the "Ow! Ow! Hail!!" interaction and tried to get him to run for it, it was only a matter of seconds before he was stopped by the hail again. Gallagher was with him, too, but since he was still a child, he was harmed, but not killed. Ginger was in bed, exhausted from the unpaid caregiving of her adopted siblings, and I couldn't get her up in time to plead for his life. Poor Gavin. :(
The one I really feel for now is Ginger. Her sim bio says she was "a troubled child with a troubled past" before she was adopted, then she's faced with the death of Gloria, her adopted mother. Then, after acting as a mother to her siblings with Gavin's help, he too dies, leaving her a single teen mother of four! This girl has had quite a life, without even getting into my own version where Gavin and Ginger end up falling for each other in a quasi-incestuous manner, once they become "parents" together. Troubled past, indeed. Luckily, the matchmaker in Pleasantview ( Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! XD )
This is the first time I've seen the death by hail in my game! I've had hail before and sims have complained that it was stinging their skin, but it wasn't severe enough to cause damage to them. This time it actually showed up on the ground (I'm guessing that's the sign you want to look for to know when to stay inside), and Gavin was getting pelted so hard that every time I cancelled the "Ow! Ow! Hail!!" interaction and tried to get him to run for it, it was only a matter of seconds before he was stopped by the hail again. Gallagher was with him, too, but since he was still a child, he was harmed, but not killed. Ginger was in bed, exhausted from the unpaid caregiving of her adopted siblings, and I couldn't get her up in time to plead for his life. Poor Gavin. :(
The one I really feel for now is Ginger. Her sim bio says she was "a troubled child with a troubled past" before she was adopted, then she's faced with the death of Gloria, her adopted mother. Then, after acting as a mother to her siblings with Gavin's help, he too dies, leaving her a single teen mother of four! This girl has had quite a life, without even getting into my own version where Gavin and Ginger end up falling for each other in a quasi-incestuous manner, once they become "parents" together. Troubled past, indeed. Luckily, the matchmaker in Pleasantview ( Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! XD )
