The document provides an update on the patients at the asylum. Key events include:
1. Arvi has multiple breakdowns from low aspiration points and wears a lampshade on his head.
2. Penelope falls in love with Oz but has low hygiene and multiple motive failures.
3. Larch continues having bad luck with his career, getting promoted and demoted repeatedly due to chance cards. Fires break out in the house twice.
4. Theo falls in love with Miranda while Aria is in the bathtub, setting up conflict for the next part of the story.
1. When last we left our unlucky patients, Larch had gotten fired from his LTW job. Arvi and Anne had paired off, and Penelope
and Oz were crushing on each other. Pop Sim Miranda was having a bit of trouble making friends, Aria was missing sweet
sweet WooHoo, and Theo set the kitchen on fire.
But I'm betting you already know that, since you've just read Part 1!
2. Larch takes the news about as well as you'd expect from a Family Sim with one nice point. Tantrum, cry, tantrum, cry,
tantrum, cry.
The only positive side to this situation is that he lost his job on Friday, and he would have had the weekend off anyway, so as
long as I can get his job back by 8am Monday, he won't lose much time. He'll have to start at the beginning of the career path
again, but he can spend the weekend greeting all the walkbys and making friends, and should be able to get promotions
pretty much every day.
Assuming Education comes back up in the paper, that is.
3. Hee!
This isn't the Asylum, but I guess it's AN asylum.
Samantha Ottomas is in the Education career path, the same as Larch, so I'm betting he'll bring her home from work at least
once. I need friends, but you can't call Sims in the Sim Bin, so I moved the Ottomas clan into the "hidden" lot in Pleasantview.
The one-room shack all the way off on one side of the screen? Yeah, I added a phone and stuck them in there. Enjoy your
hovel!
4. Back at the official Asylum, Arvi and Anne finally fall in love.
Penelope neither bathes nor primps. She just stalks Oz and stinks up the room.
5. Arvi's a little hygienically challenged too, but he breaks out his mirror and tries to take care of the green stench-cloud.
6. Anne doesn't seem to mind. Arvi gets a grope in, and Oz is happily oblivious.
7. Larch: "You. Shower. You're stinking up the house."
Arvi: "Once I finish this salad, I'll go primp some more."
Larch: "SHOWER."
8. Penelope's stalking Oz, and decides to have a pillow-fight in the middle of the kitchen.
While they're both ready to pass out from extreme lack of energy.
10. Arvi: "Hey, this painting doesn't look like a landscape! It's meant to be one thing, but it's something totally different! It's
SHREWTASTIC!"
Anne: "I'm going to cheat, just so you know."
Larch: "So am I, but you're going to catch me."
15. Larch gets cleaned up easily enough, and jumps on the phone to make friends. Anne starts sobbing about her Aspiration,
and poor Arvi takes a spill off the Dance Sphere.
16. He takes a hit from it, too, and I was worried that he'd immediately break out the lampshade, but he had just enough
Aspiration left to avoid that fate for the time being.
17. Penelope: "I can't get to the shower because everyone is in the way!"
Anne: "You can go around Theo, or just go through the other door."
Penelope: "The world must move to accommodate me!"
Anne: "Are you like this all the time?"
Penelope: "Only when I'm in an asylum."
Anne: "Good to know."
18. 'Randa: "Cheating is superbaditudinous, Number One!"
Larch: "I can't help it. Call it a personality quirk."
20. This is #2. He didn't even bother moving anywhere, just pulled the lampshade back out.
21. Aria: "You look ridiculous with a lampshade on your head!"
Arvi: "I can't help it!"
Theo: "Perhaps yelling at our rodent compatriot is not the way to cheer him up."
Aria: "You might be next, Harrison."
Theo: "I could say the same of you, Miss Bohemian."
Aria: "...What?"
22. Theo: "I must compliment you on your skincare regimen, Miss Bohemian."
Aria: "Any man with hands like that can call me Aria."
Theo: "Very well... Aria."
I don't hold it against him. He's not Pleasantview's Official Nummy Theo, plus he's crazy.
23. While Aria and Theo were getting better acquainted, Penelope falls in love with Oz.
24. Aria: "No, I don't think it's fair to be punished just because you killed ONE little child."
Anne: "You're kind of nuts."
25. Larch: "How's it going over there?"
Arvi: "Shrew! Thanks for asking!"
#3 for Arvi.
26. 'Randa: "That was hilaracious, Down Under!"
Oz: "You just really want to make some friends, don't you?"
'Randa: "Yes!"
And #4 for Arvi.
32. Anne: "Got that job back yet?"
Larch: "Yup. Second one listed Monday morning! And if I take the car to work, I can get paid and promoted today."
Anne: "Or, you know, fired."
Larch: "DO NOT WANT."
33. Miranda makes a move on Theo. I don't think she knows that Aria's the latest one with dibs on him.
34. Larch brings a friend home from work.
Theo: "Are you sure that's entirely healthy for your babies, miss?"
Samantha: "Whut? Naw, I'm fine. Y'all got any Cheetos? Or pickles? Or Twinkies? Or fried pickles? Or fried Twinkies? Or a
pickle stuffed in a Twinkie and battered in Cheetos and deep-fried? With ice cream and peanut butter?"
Theo: "...No."
37. Count the motive failures!
If you said "two," you were wrong! Arvi also has to pee!
38. Penelope and 'Randa manage to make friends, as Theo shovels down his dinner and Oz stalks Penelope.
The only ones who don't sleep in their undies are Penelope, Aria, and Larch. Penelope and Aria sleep in their jammies, and
Larch does not sleep. He caffeinates and meditates. The reason the others were in their PJs earlier because I didn't realize
they wouldn't sleep in a bed at all unless they had "their" bed with the Smarter Bed hack, so no one was sleeping, and then I
figured out what the problem was, so I sent them to bed with clicking, and pulled the hack.
39. See Wolf. It's a lifesaver in an asylum, I'm telling you.
40. Larch gets a chance to cheat Theo at chess for a change. It's fall now, so I'm pushing to get those high skill points.
42. #11
I swear I am not repeating these. He cannot stop.
43. Larch: "I don't see any childrinions over there."
Oz: "No no, right behind the couch. One sort of looked like a cliff."
Larch: "Well, that sure SOUNDS like Cory..."
51. Larch: "Yes! Aria's head is delicious!"
Everybody but Oz manages to get together for a meal. Penelope's gotten a bit chubby. She and Arvi are the only ones aside
from Larch who don't spend time on the Dance Sphere, but in Arvi's case, I don't mind.
52. Oz doesn't mind Penelope's roundness, and she doesn't mind waking him up to get some groping in.
64. Arvi: "Um? Yoohoo? I got 1000 Aspiration Points from somewhere and now I can't find my lampshade."
65. I bought a bar. I figured Arvi wanted one, and guessed right. There's nothing in the rules about buying a bar partway through.
Since Larch got promoted a couple of times, then fired, then rehired and promoted a couple more times, they've got the cash
to blow on a bar.
67. If Achilles is the doofy one, I recommend never, ever leaving him on his own. Penelope literally does not skill, and doesn't
take care of her motives until they're orangey-red.
74. Penelope: "Oz is in the bathtub!"
Oz: "...What? Oh, no, wait, that's actually correct."
75. Larch is still platinum, but gets demoted. At this point, he's had so many promotions/demotions that he's got a day of
vacation, and he's not even halfway up the career ladder.
76. SimNerd was a walkby, so I had Larch Greet her and start a water balloon fight, inviting Miranda to join. Sadly, she wasn't
rolling Meet Someone New.
77. Way to be subtle, SimNerd. Talk kissing with Oz and Theo in the room.
79. It turns out that if you block off the stove with room divider, the flames won't spread, but the firefighter can't get to it to put it
out. Right now, Larch and two more guests are standing in the mess, and SimNerd's freaking out by the chessboard, but the
firefighter can't get to the fire to extinguish it.
80. One of the other guests left Pequod's cage open, so he adds to the chaos.
Also, I apparently did not make my SimSelf PermaPlat, so she's having a breakdown.
Larch is Primping.
81. Oz and Penelope deal with the trauma by Oz taking a nap, waking up because he has to pee, and Penelope kissing him.
83. 'Randa couldn't wait two minutes for Larch to finish cooking dinner for everyone. Two days, two fires.
84. Larch loses 2000 Aspiration Points, but he was in gold, so he didn't lose his mind.
Yes, that's Christy Stratton. She was a walkby, and Larch needs all the friends he can get.
86. Anne: "Thanks for the grub."
Remington: "Some people think my face has character."
Anne: "Eh. Needs a little something extra for it to be oddly hot."
91. Larch got promoted the day before, and now demoted again. This is the worst string of luck I've ever had with Chance Cards.
And it's always demotions or firing. Holy crap, can't you just fine us or something?
94. Aria: "Oz is hot."
Penelope: "What's that, Professor von Ball? Do you think my boyfriend's hot?"
Aria: "Well, at least I haven't broken out the mop yet."
#6 for Penelope.
100. Larch: "I miss wandering around shirtless all day."
Theo: "It's quite freeing."
Larch: "I'm not allowed to sleep. I really miss the shirtless jim-jams."
101. Maybe not the best decision on Theo's part. Anne looks so smug, too, like she totally called it.
103. Anne: "Wasn't it hilarious that time he got electrocuted?"
Aria: "Oh, there were many lulz to be had!"
104. With everyone congregating in the bathroom, Theo and Miranda fall in love. It's sort of sweet.
There's just one eensy...
...weensy...
...teensy little problem...
106. Whoops! Looks like there's some slapping ahead for some of our patients!
Head over to Part 3, available now, and see the fallout--and does Larch manage to reach his LTW, or will Chance Cards
doom him once again?
