strangetomato | Strangetown Extras: Ripp tests out the new hammock

Here's a little extra featuring some of the new (to me) Bon Voyage content: the hammock. This is just what was missing from the Ophelia's garden.

Note: If you haven't already guessed, this extra involves sex in a hammock.

Ophelia: What a beautiful day for gardening. I've been waiting for a chance to get these eggplants in all week.

Johnny: Sure would be a whole lot easier with three sets of hands, Ripp.

Ripp: Hey, I'm testing the new hammock. Someone has to make sure it's safe.

Ophelia: I think you've tested it enough for one day.

Ripp: *plays on hammock* Wheeeeee!

Johnny: If you don't soon start helping, you're going to get your ass kicked.

Ripp: You wouldn't do that. Not to me. Empty threats, my friend.

Johnny: Oh, yeah? You really want to test your theory?

Ripp: Okay, okay.

Ophelia: It works better when you actually get something to dig with, Ripp.

Ripp: Yeah, I'm working on it. *looks around in confusion, then pulls something out of his back pocket and gets to work*

Lucy Burb: Hi Johnny!

Johnny: Oh, hi, Lucy! What are you doing here?

Lucy: Just walking by, so I thought I stop to see if you needed any help.

Ophelia: Do you really like to garden in heels like that?

Lucy: Hmmm. Maybe you're right.

Ripp: *sneaks back to hammock*

Ripp: Hey now... *enjoys the view*

Cheerleader: Oh, hey there. That looks comfy.

Ripp: MmmmHmmm...

Cheerleader: Hey, I know you...

Ripp: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

Cheerleader: Say what?

Ripp: It's from a play.

Cheerleader: Really? Which one?

Ripp: I don't know... something where everyone dies at the end, I think.

Cheerleader: Wow, cool. *thinking* Theatre guys are hot because they're all crazy.

Ripp: Why don't you... hop aboard the Ripp Express?

Cheerleader: *thinking* I hope that's not a reference to his staying power...

Ripp: There's a seat available right here. *gestures to face*

Cheerleader: Okay. *giggles*

Both: WoooooooooHOOOOOOOO!

(Looks a little dangerous to me. Like some kind of scary cocoon that's trying to eat them.)

Ripp: Ahhh. I'm just going to lie here for a while.

Cheerleader: I think I sprained my wrist.

Ripp: Well, I think I sprained my tongue, so we're even.

(They didn't even take off their clothes. *snort* Ripp didn't even move. I can just imagine him reaching down to zip up afterwards, and that's it. Hammock sex is lazy sex.)

Ripp: Mmmm. The brilliant glow of a platinum aspiration.

Cheerleader: Wow. That's a lot of points.

Ripp: Yup. The big 2-0. Number 20.

Cheerleader: I'm your 20th lover?!

Ripp: Yup.

Cheerleader: Like 10 lovers, using that trick where public woohoo counts as sex with a 2nd person?

Ripp: They have a trick like that?

Cheerleader: Wow. I mean, I knew you were a slut and all... but that's just... Wow. *leaves*

Ripp: *thinking* So hammock woohoo turned out to be pretty fucking sweet. I can just lie here and relax, and then send out a request to any sim on the lot to come over an hop on. Brilliant. What should I test next? Tent woohoo? Sauna woohoo? Oh, that one sounds GREAT. Johnny and Phi would probably like to go to a sauna... or some hot springs... I wish I had enough money to take them on vacation...

Ripp: *plays on hammock* Wheeeeee! I love this hammock.

So, Ripp seems to be a big winner when it comes to the new EPs. An armload of new woohoo options, hammocks to laze about and play on, and lots of new romantic advantages, including the ability to make Ophelia (and nearly everyone else) shoot hearts 24/7. So far, Phi is still his only triple bolt match.

Ripp: I can't help it. I'm irresistible.

Johnny: You can't expect me to believe that, Ripp.

Ripp: Oh yeah? Just look behind you...

The conflicting dual romance/family aspiration hasn't seemed to mess with him all that much yet. He had a couple of "fall in love with someone" wants, but he used to get those anyway (he wanted to fall in love with Jaxy, for example). After he achieved the woohoo with 20 sims (which is not even his LTW - he just did it for fun), he rolled a couple of romance-worthy new power wants: woohoo with 5 service sims (the cheerleader is a "service" sim *snicker*), and woohoo in public with 3 sims. So, he's not exactly settling down and getting married yet. (If he ever does, what am I going to do with all of his old flames? Oh well... most are in college, so it shouldn't be an issue. He'll never see them.)

I may as well confess that I used the College Adjuster to add an extra semester for these three (or just force them to start the last one over again, to be more accurate). I play them so much that they have been close to graduation for quite a while now, and I wanted to play around with my new EPs.

I do realize that I'm probably the only simmer to ever use the adjuster to extend college instead of shorten it. That's just the sort of player I am (most of the time - sometimes I do rush through a little faster if there is no potential story involved). I also don't usually send teens to college until the very last second, and I have been known to turn aging off so I can let my sims be toddlers for a while longer. With the leisurely pace at which this story advances, none of this should really come as a surprise.

I just love them all so much. It's hard to see your little simmies growing up and old in the blink of an eye.