Day 28
I could crack another Ghostbusters reference joke here, but it's been done.
The ghost of ForeverGrey scares the life out of Otik.
Literally. He's dead, Jim.
I was really confused for a moment. I had thought maybe he had gotten scared and passed out... but then I noticed his portrait disappeared from the character bar on the left.
Death shows up. That had sealed the deal.
I am actually sort of irritated, by this. I would've been ok with them dying due to old age, or due to major stupidity on their part... but a god damn ghost of a permaban? The referees agree, and a yellow flag has been thrown on the play.
So, since Rathen's the first on the scene, I am going to have him plead with Death, just to see what that's all about.
This is funny!
Death makes these waving gestures, like, "Knock it off you god damn baby." Then, shaking his head, and with an impatient, otherworldly grunt, tells him to get on his feet...
Oh, this is just fucked up. Death is making Rathen play a game, 'guess which hand the soul is in!'
RATHEN WINS!
Here's another angle on it. What really defined the moment though, was his 'ha-HAA!' victory cheer in Death's face.
Death slumps in resignation and loss while Rathen pumps a 'FUCK YOU!' victory fist.
Aww how cute he has a little cel-shaded death over his head!
Otik is restored...
...and is clearly overjoyed about it.
Otik was going to give Rathen a friendly hug, except he stunk really bad.
And there's that cocksucker skulking around in the background. I wonder if there's some sort of ghost busting service.
Rathen takes a victory spongebath.
OH WHAT THE FUCK
You know what this is? This is the aftermath of FG's ghost scaring Otik to death AGAIN.
I am pissed off now. Ghosts are no longer fun, they're a giant fucking liability.
So we'll have Ripley try pleading.
Notice the coffeerings on Death's chart. Nice touch
Death treats her to the same game of chance.
She lost.
What in the hell.
I want to make someone take a steaming dump on FG's grave. Alas there's no option for it.
Death leaves behind a little urn, for Otik.
I can't tell whether this scene is macabre in a Tim Burton sort of way, or a Tom Waits sort of way. I suppose it can be both.
JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
Duey lives through it.
THIS SHIT STOPS. It's like Amityville horror in there!
SHIT. I went to delete FG's headstone but 'object is in use,' and I can't.
Oh well, I can't put it on the fireplace, but I can put it by it.
Oh, merciful fuck.
Ob's reaction? Cry about the recent death in the family. OH WHO EVER SHALL TALK TO THE FIREMEN NOW?
A firemen puts out the blaze while Duey prances all over the place as if he heard that Carson Daly was going to be over to administer him a high colonic, and he found out his dry cleaning was still out.
With no other reason to linger about, the fireman leaves.
Ok, ToiletDuk, at this point if you're reading I want a Sims afterlife expansion so I can create a special little Hieronymous Bosch-colored hell to torment ForeverGrey in.
Both of the worst chefs the day has to offer eat their horribly burnt meals across from eachother.
Our brood parasite recipient du jour is managing quite well today. Which is nice... everyone else in the house has had their moods utterly anhillated by Otik's double-death adventure.
...
He didn't die, but like Duey before him, he pissed himself.
Well, I suppose if nothing else, he's economic about his time, this way.
Good, I just watched the little bitch's ghost jump back into his headstone.
After deliberating a moment, I decided not to delete the headstone...
...so instead I placed it in his father's inventory.
That must've been pretty exciting, because for I don't know what reason, he sprinted through the livingroom and kitchen and just about leapt on top of Duey's face.
While I could do another one of those invent-a-dialogue conversations I do when I see pretty questionable shit come up in the thought bubbles, I instead will point out that the men are ALWAYS talking like this. About shoes, makeup, pearl necklaces, girls' hair of varying colors, dresses, holding hands with other men, etc. Ripley's the one frequently with the more interesting word bubbles... we've already seen 'FUCK THE EARTH' and the handcuffs. She's also talked about criminals, and once I think I saw discussion of a riot baton.
GIIRyudo enters the third trimester.
That looks awesome.
For the hell of it I decided to get Etcha's career reward out of his bonuses tab... a marij... er HYDROPONICS GARDENING rack. For growing hydropons. You know.
Must be all the hanging around with Rathen. Etcha bursts into tears for no discriminate reason.
Duey got to work planting the dru... hydropon seeds.
At this point I got a slew of warnings that all the men were turning old in 2 days. Oh boy.
The house jams out.
These look like very pretty opiu... HYDROPON flowers.
Well look who's back. The great Death Toilet the First!
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I have determined one legitimate method for 'retrieving' Otik, which I might just partake, immediately. Ram Ripley through college for the paranormal career line so that I can get that career bonus it has, for bringing people back from the grave. I don't entirely want to do that, because Ripley's got over half of her teen years to go through.
A second option, is that I could ram some completely unrelated Sim through college for it. Maybe a volunteer goon or something. Drop them into the Gamesforum house afterwards, and if it's not a goon, just steal their career reward from them and punt them out.
A third option is to hunt for cheats. Wouldn't be clean but it'd be quick.
This leads to the next dilemma. Do we bring back Otik fully? Or just as a zombie? I think I'll let the real Otik decide that.