1. Hello! (waves enthusiastically) Welcome back to The Jack Point
Home for Pedestrian Playables, my pathetic excuse for -- er, I
mean “my attempt at” an Asylum Challenge!
Our playable, Leila Shankel, wants to become a fairy, or at least to
have fairy wings surgically implanted. Since this costs a lot of
money, she is currently working two jobs and saving up. Leila got
promoted and then demoted again last time, and is now a Mailroom
Technician. However, she does now have a pretty cool boyfriend
named Abhijeet.
Which I believe is all you need to know to be able to follow along!

2. We open with our first case of food poisoning.

3. Closely followed by our first fight.
Personally, if I were Joe Grundstrom, I
wouldn’t go picking a fight with the man I
love, especially not one who keeps himself in
fighting trim.
Of course, I wouldn’t go around in a pink
gorilla suit, either, so perhaps I’m not the best
gauge.

4. At this point, it is probably worth mentioning that my old computer
died between the last chapter and this one. I bought a new
computer (well, new to me anyhow) and reinstalled everything.
There were very few casualties: the Happy Holiday Stuff pack (not
much missed), one moustache (replaced), one skintone (replaced),
and Jay’s outfit (not replaced because I apparently didn’t back it
up). Because taking control of Jay to plan a new outfit would have
broken the rules, he simply borrowed an extra outfit from Mr. the
Spoon and kept going.

5. Cause…
…and effect.

6. Let’s play “Count the Aspiration Failures!”
Jay: 5
Milton: 3
And Jay is the asyl -- the residential facility
champion!

7. In other sports news, Joe and Jeffina are tied for
Spongebather of the Year.

8. Jeffina has started training for the Iron Stomach
Spoiled Food Potty Dash, although she is still
strictly local in her scope of competition.
Flutterby is competing in another class entirely,
and is currently defending her World Champion
Floor Piddler title.

9. Milton is well in the lead on the Visits From
Dr. Shrink category.
IVANOVA: Is that Dr. Shrink? When he’s
done, let him know that I want to consult with
him about anxious-avoidant maladaptive
personality disorder.

10. This is a category that Jay probably should have tried for himself.

17. Life soon returns to normal in an asy -- a
residential facility, and after Leila swept up the
ashes, nobody seemed to miss Jay too much.
Since it took me a while to determine that
replacing the stove was challenge-legal, the
inm -- er, residents -- lived off one of my
custom foods: watermelon and pickled herring,
which they made autonomously.
Technically, it was created for pregnant Sims,
but it works here too.

18. In accordance with the rules, following Jay’s death, I removed the
chair Ivanova is seen sitting in here.
After she got out of it, of course. I couldn’t actually tell her to
move.

19. Leila got promoted thanks to a good chance card, and got to come
home in the middle of the day. She put her time to good use,
cleaning up, practicing Charisma, and repairing the piano.
(Especially necessary since the piano is the only way to build
Creativity skill for her LTW.)

20. I can’t imagine how it breaks so often.
ERNIE THE SPOON: Play “The Cheese Song.”
IVANONVA: I believe I had my request in first, and I want to hear
it fifteen times in a row.
JOE (pounding the keys as he reaches the crescendo): “And the
sign said ‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway
walls/And tenement halls’…”*
*“The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel.

21. In those rare moments when a) the piano is functional and b)
nobody is using it, Leila sneaks in some practice.
MILTON: Get up, you! I’ll teach you to sing rabbit-rousing
propaganda like that!
JOE: You don’t approve of “Little Bunny Foo-Foo”?
MILTON: I do not! (slaps Joe silly)
JOE: Ooooh, I love it when you’re forceful!
LEILA: Thanks for getting Joe off the bench, Milton. I owe you
one.

22. In fact, Leila is in such a good mood that she decided to throw a
pizza party for everyone in the house. (The fact that it also raises
the Hunger bar very very quickly and allows time for other
necessary things like peeing and cleaning the toilet is also a
bonus.)
I checked the rules, and I’m pretty sure this is allowed, but if
someone else knows differently, please let me know.

23. The pizza party was held directly on the porch, and was a big hit
with all the inma -- residents. There’s nothing like tomato sauce
and melted cheese to encourage bonding.

24. Although bonding takes odd forms in this type of facility…
JOE: You know, I’m really glad I’m enemies with Miltie-poo now.
ERNIE THE SPOON: Are you?
JOE: Oh, yeah! He’s even more manly and demanding now! I can’t
tell you how attractive that is. But I think I’m going to have to
become enemies with you too, since Miltie-poo likes you so much.
ERNIE THE SPOON: Well, we are all brothers in Cheese…
JOE: It’s not brothers I’m talking about, and it’s not cheese he’s
interested in being in. (scowls) Yes, you and I are definitely going
to have to be enemies. Stay away from Miltie-poo!

25. Leila’s own relationship is going quite well, with Abhijeet always
up for a date.
And with greetings like this, it’s no wonder!
In fact, things are going so well on the romantic front that there
were swoopy harp sound effects and giant spinny red hearts with
blue halos.
Or rather, there weren’t. Because only crazy people see things like
that. And they take good pictures of them, not embarrassingly
n00bish ones. But you can take my word on this. Honest.

26. But even though Leila is getting promoted, keeping up her
romantic relationship, and managing to sleep in her own bed more
often than not, she shouldn’t rest on her laurels.

27. Because, you see, this asy -- this residential facility for persons
with psychological differences now has a resident ghost.

28. And he’s got a target…
Until next time, Happy Simming!

29. Score
Base score: 100
Minus number of days in the asylum: -9
Total: 91
Running totals
Fires: 2
Potty accidents: 10
Sponge baths: 2
Aspiration failures: 22
Shrink visits: 7
Pass outs from exhaustion: 0
Deaths: 1