Strangetown Extras: Vali Beaker

[strangetomato]

I'm preparing my game to install Free Time. That means removing all traces of InSIM for now (I leave those objects all over the place, so this was quite a task), and checking in with each household to make sure that everything is okay before I install the new EPs (yeah, I'm adding Bon Voyage too - goin' right crazy, I am). I'm also going to extract all the new character files from the game, just in case. Since babies don't show up in CAS, I thought it would be best to age up Vali Beaker. Are you ready for this? Yes?

Who's that pleasant looking little fellow?




Why it's Vali Beaker, son of Circe and Loki. No paternity test required here. That's definitely Loki's son (he has Circe's nose, though).




Did I say pleasant? I meant vicious. The personality stats say it all:

sloppy/neat: 10
shy/outgoing: 9
lazy/active: 8
serious/playful: 0
grouchy/nice: 0




After he works the puzzle piece in with his ingenuity and brute force, he contemplates further world domination.

Yeah, I'd say this is one guy to watch out for.

Comments

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to add (though I do think you know what I'm going to say)... Watch out for those crazy Bon Voyage people! If they come home from work/school with one of your Sims, prepare for their wacky cultural antics to spread through the family like the plague! You know about Tank with the bowing, but I don't think I ever mentioned that Maxis Curious is OBSESSED with doing the hula? (Yes, yet another gay OVERTONE. Thanks the Sims 2!)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard that those cultural things can be annoyingly persistent. I may have to get the MATY fix to reduce their frequency. I'm sure they'll be amusing though.

(As if we needed more gay overtones. What am I saying? I love the gay overtones. :P)

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

They are really amusing on occasion! And some of them do fit. Bunker is constantly doing tai chi, which does match with his personality in a way. But Maxis and the hula... Holy shit. It is the funniest thing to watch because he does his big, goofy smile and shakes his booty like a giddy little girl. I have the greatest picture of him doing at the most inappropriate time that I really can't wait to post in outtakes.

It is those hacks that make me hate my brother and his cc paranoia. The hobby people get annoying too, because they just randomly show up at your house all the time once you hit a certain level of enthusiasm.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those hacks that reduce annoying repetitive actions are great. You should try making a folder for them under downloads anyway. There's no evidence on it in the game (besides less annoying behaviours), so maybe you can sneak it past your brother, like the camera mod.

I'm definitely doing something to keep those hobby people out.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Well, it's worth a try! Anything to make it stop from spreading throughout the whole town. Those hobby people are such stalkers. It really bothers me when they start calling for the children too.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm using the hack that stops the hobby people from showing up, but you still get a message from them. It's pretty funny.

I really like the idea of the secret hobby lots, though, since Johnny has no room to set up any of the sports objects. They need a LOT of room.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Oh, OHHH... and Tai Chi! SAVE ME FROM THE TAI CHI!!!!

I swear, Pascal Curious would spend all day in his workout clothes doing Tai Chi if I let him. (grumbles) And then everyone has to join. And then I have a whole lot full of sims in their workout clothes doing Tai Chi.

But the ninja is cool.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Tai chi... chai tea... these are all good things. I like the fact that sims can do tai chi now. It makes me think of the poem, "In my kitchen in New York" by Allen Ginsberg (which I love). I took a couple of classes in tai chi myself, back in college.

What does the ninja do? Just cool ninja stuff?