DrSupremeNerd's Home for Unrepentant Sociopaths: Pt 5 Jul 6

[DrSupremeNerd]

Yes, I'm trying my hand at an Asylum! Why? Because the Dualegacy isn't masochistic enough! Wheee!

Part 1: Meet the Patients

Part 2: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad 'Hood

Part 3: The Unusual Suspects

Part 4: Gone with the Stink

Part 5: Sleepless in Strangetown

[MichelleFobbs]

Are you kidding? I get to be First Response? YAY!!

And now I'll edit because I was silly and hit the Submit button prematurely.

Spoiler:

Oh, this was worth it! What a bunch of psychos, eight of 'em, all in one house... oh um, yeah, one of them is you. SEVEN psychos and one doc! Right, that's it.

Oh, man... couldn't have gotten lucky with a career LTW, could you? Max all skills, yikes. Get used to shooing people from the piano and sphere, I suppose. Don't forget Yoga, once you get to 3.

Ooh, I thought of another perk! You don't have to set your gender preference at all, so maybe you'll escape inappropriate heart-farting! Good luck with that!

*starts the queue to dance on Cy's grave*

I can't believe it, but Michael has slept through the howls of laughter. The dogs think I'm hurt or something, though. Good job!

[professorbutters]

OK, I am officially very, very happy.

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YAY! You kept them the way they were! YOU KEPT THEM THE WAY THEY WERE! Seriously, I like that. Take away a Legacy Sim's personality and really you just have a custom-looking sim. And they really seem to be acting as they usually do, too. I can definitely say that that looks like Cecil's behavior to me. I seem to remember that he got a big spike from getting Fit in Marina's Asylum too. It's gotta be the nine active points. Also, so far he is not having a Fortune Sim nervous breakdown.

I notice you have a pile of Knowledge Sims there (and Gaius started Knowledge before he was cheesed) so theoretically during fall/fall/fall/fall, they ought to be very happy. Not to mention that I have been very curious to see what happens if you literally locked Cecil and Cypress up together. You go, Cecil! He dislikes Friendly Hugs even more than I do.

No, it's Gaius! Noooooooo! Have FUN with him, I had to deal with him for months and months and most of the time it was making him eat cheese sandwiches and waiting for him to die already. Yeah, Cecil looks a lot like him. It's the Cheekbones O' Death.

You mentioned that you had two sims beating up on each other. I didn't know it would be Kirstial and Uranium, but somehow, that fits. The Cecil and Kirstial shadowing is just plain weird. My opinion--they were just trying to drive you crazy. I don't think you have enough countertops for the neat freaks to clean. They look as though they're fighting over them.

Cecil: "Really, Mr. Vetinari, logical consideration would indicate that global domination is neither possible nor desirable. It would be ludicrous to assume that one person could rule the world unopposed."

O yeah? Cecil is named after THIS guy:



Maybe it doesn't count if you're just trying to make the world as Victorian and British as you are.

How on earth is Uranium getting all those cooking points? Is that some kind of a glitch?

I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens next. I love Asylums.

PB

[Caffeinated]

This is fabulous! I really feel bad for your SimNerd and her LTW! That will certainly be a challenge in and of itself.

[DrSupremeNerd]

MichelleFobbs:

Spoiler:

I'm pretty sure that LTW officially drove her 'round the bend... I mean, for most jobs, you gotta, what, max one skill, get one to the 8-9 range, and one to the 7-8 range? So that's 25-27 skill points, plus friends. Not even HALF of what I have to do! Except I don't need friends, aside from enough to get SimNerd a few promotions--I'm SO glad Politics pays as well as it does, so I'll need fewer promotions to get enough of a bankroll that SimNerd won't have to work. Then she can stay home and skill...and skill...and skill...and skill...

I might get SimNerd up to 3 Body with the TV instead, and then yoga the rest. It's smellier than the Dance Sphere, but there's no falling off or loss of Aspiration points with Work Out.

Oh yes. The gender preference is most definitely NOT SET.

Prof:

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I don't know why no one's ever done that in an Asylum before--at least, not one that I've come across. It seemed like a totally obvious thing to do. Uranium cuddling Flour Sack Timmy is amusing in its own right, but Uranium stalking Kirstial cracking her knuckles is the gift that keeps on giving!

Since it's permanently fall, I think most of them are rolling at least the occasional skill-Want. Cecil's definitely gotten some Aspiration points from cleaning, and he did get some for gaining Body skill. Uranium's gotten some for cooking and cleaning, Salahuddin's gotten some from the chess table, Cypress isn't platinum, but he's probably in or near gold, Vee's gotten some from the piano, even Gaius has gotten some Aspiration for skilling. Kirstial's a Knowledge Sim, so she'd probably be happy skilling because she almost HAS to be rolling those Wants, but I have yet to see her autonomously skill, aside from making herself food. She might be the first one to crack.

The weird part is Gaius rarely makes himself grilled cheese sandwiches. I have a feeling he could so easily be platinum, but he goes and makes himself a salad for lunch every day.

I have no idea what precipitated the Kirstial/Uranium thing. Now they're both spoiling for a fight!

The nice part about the neat freaks is that I don't have to worry about disease in the kitchen. Something is green for all of thirty seconds, and they've put it in the dishwasher or cleaned it. Cecil and Cypress are really the only ones fighting over the right to clean the counters; Uranium's schedule's a few hours off from everyone else's, so she's usually in the kitchen by herself.

Heh. I forgot that Cecil was named for that guy...

Yeah, Uranium had some weird glitch where she got two random cooking points. I got a popup that she'd gotten another one, so I went to see what she was doing when she got it, and she was actually cooking, and then she stopped getting them. It was definitely weird.

Caffeinated:
Yeah, it's one of those that's SOOOO easy to do when you have the Education Reward bookshelf and a Thinking Cap... I don't think I've EVER done it the hard way!

[Orikes]

Hahah! This was awesome!

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I absolutely LOVE the way you set this up. The tone was just perfect and the pictures are lovely. I think that image editing program has been doing you a world of creative good, because I'm in love with this.

Your simself's reaction was priceless. The first two 'patients' made me snicker so much, and then the rest of them were introduced with a typical peanut gallery commentary. (I don't really know Vee and Saladdin(sp?), so I may just have to check out their respective stories). I'm with the Prof too. I love that you kept their personalities in tact to see how they interacted. THat's a lot of meanieheads in the house.

It makes a lot of sense to me that Kirstial and Cecil are stalking one another, sort of. They're both insanely playful tub pirates. I do wonder what their boltage would be if their gender prefs were set. The running battle with Uranium is made of complete win. Part of me hopes my girl comes out on top, but at the same time, I wouldn't mind seeing her get a little bit of a beat down. I don't know that they've really interacted much in my hood. I know that Uranium has fight-stalked Lisa on a couple of community lots, but I'm not sure about Kirsti.

More? Soon? Please?

[penguingirl0384]

Oh I've been looking forward to this:

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Poor Doc Nerd. I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in an asylum with those 7 sims. (Wait forget I said that, the last time I said I was glad my simself wasn't somewhere she ended up eating pants-fish...)

I enjoyed your introduction as well. Sally is very perky and I love how happy she is about everything. "We've had massive budget cuts! Yay!"

Kirstial and Cecil Simultaneous Crankiness Funtime Hour was very nicely done and loltastic.

LOL and YIKES! at Uranium's face at Sally. Definitely time for Sally to leave.

Kirstial and Uranium's fights are really entertaining. I am glad you are keeping a tally of who is winning what.

Cecil and Cypress talking about kissing in their underwear...priceless...

OK favorite quotes time:

Uranium: "I gotta have a religious experience over here!"

Cecil: "I am shocked! So that is what an unclad female form looks like!"
Kirstial: "Geez, you say that like you've never seen one before!"
Cecil: "..."

Man this is so what I needed after seeing all those villians do some really horrible things recently. I love it! Can't wait for the next installment.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Orikes:

Spoiler:

Doing something off-canon like this really does give me a chance to play around with lots of different things. I'd never seen anyone set up an Asylum like it was an actual facility, let alone not-roll for Personality and Aspiration.

I sort of figured that after Uranium and Caligula, the rest of the villains were just the icing on the cake. The evil, evil cake.

Maybe when it's over I'll set everyone's gender preference and see what kind of bolts I get. Cecil seems to spend more time with Cypress and Gaius than anyone else, and Uranium is kinda-sorta stalking Salahuddin and Cypress when Kirstial's asleep.

Pen:

Spoiler:

Oh, I didn't know YOU wanted to be the playable in this Asylum! You shoulda spoke up sooner!

I was really trying to find a retro-stewardess uniform for Sally, complete with little pillbox hat. That's really what she reminded me of--"In the event of a water landing, your seat cushions double as flotation devices! If the cabin pressure should drop suddenly, oxygen masks will fall from overhead! Please put on your own mask before assisting others!" But I could not find a stewardess uniform for the life of me (and YES, stewardess, frammit, a retro-uniform from before they started calling them flight attendants!).

If you look at the slides leading up to the Kirstial and Cecil Simultaneous Crankiness Funtime Hour, they're still doing it in the background...

Cypress CANNOT STOP bragging about his "Had First Kiss With Mystery Sim" memory. He will literally go up to every person in the room and go: "Me? Yeah, I TOTALLY got kissed! I rule!" He is SUCH a narcissist, and it cracks me up.

[professorbutters]

Spoiler:

The weird part is Gaius rarely makes himself grilled cheese sandwiches. I have a feeling he could so easily be platinum, but he goes and makes himself a salad for lunch every day.

That is because he is STOOPID. I am serious, he was one of the dimmest bulbs I've ever played. What kind of Grilled Cheese Sim makes himself salad? Guh, getting Cecil together with his own father, that would be seriously squicky. Sometimes you'll see an un-gender-preffed sim heart fart another (when this happens to housemates in Uni, I usually move to get them dates fast) but I never saw Cecil do it at all.

PB

[DrSupremeNerd]

Spoiler:

The weird part is Gaius rarely makes himself grilled cheese sandwiches. I have a feeling he could so easily be platinum, but he goes and makes himself a salad for lunch every day.

That is because he is STOOPID. I am serious, he was one of the dimmest bulbs I've ever played. What kind of Grilled Cheese Sim makes himself salad? Guh, getting Cecil together with his own father, that would be seriously squicky. Sometimes you'll see an un-gender-preffed sim heart fart another (when this happens to housemates in Uni, I usually move to get them dates fast) but I never saw Cecil do it at all.

PB

Spoiler:

Gaius really is dumb. Aside from that first day, where grilled cheese was all the had the Cooking Skill to make, he's mostly eaten cereal, salad, and spaghetti. I keep waiting for him to make himself a sandwich, but, nope!

I set Gaius and Cecil as relatives when I was fixing Gaius's hair. For some reason, downloading Gaius screwed up the hair mesh, which I already had, so I had to re-download the mesh because when I entered the lot, Gaius had a combover. Realized things could get a little brain-bleachy if Cecil and Gaius didn't recognize each other as family, so I busted out the InSim for a minute and nipped that in the bud.

[SilvainTheShadow]

This was awesome, I read it last night before bed, but couldn't comment then because I needed sleep. Now I've forgotten what I was going to say....

[Dicreasy]

Excellent. I managed to read this quickly last night at gone mid-night, but didn't think I'd be able to put together a coherent comment, so I waited until now.

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I loved it Doc. I loved the introduction by Sally Perkington, she made the asylum sound so nice. I do feel for SimNerd, being locked up with all of those sociopaths, but then I think of all the snarky comments she is going to make, and I smile.

I love that you've kept all the personalities in tact too, and SimNerd's reactions to them all made me smile a lot.

Ok, I have to say I love Cy's ability to go for the inappropriate hug. I think it's because it seems so against his personality, yet I can't help but wonder what he is up to when he does it? It's a "what do you want?" moment.

Being stalked by legacy villains? Poor, poor SimNerd. (I'm not laughing, honestly I'm not )

I would never have guessed that the fight was between Uranium and Kirstial, that is going to be so much fun for the remainder of the challenge.

Brilliant, I'm looking forward to more.

[tlhs0]

So you've gotten one part done, and this is already one of my favorite Asylum Challenge stories evah.

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I actually read this yesterday, but didn't have time to comment. Since I'm forgetful and I can't remember all of what I wanted to say, I'll just mention my two favorite parts.

1. Cecil and Kirstial's synchronized grouch. The was hilarious, but the best part was at the end when Vee was trying to get in on the action.

2. Sal and Cypress Knowledge sim stalking you while watching the Yummy Channel. That slide was just perfect.

I was so happy to see Vee and Salahuddin in your story. And the fact that you kept everyone's personalities is perfect. I never could understand why people would roll them. I know it's part of the rules, but if you're using a character, let's see what that character would do. Much more fun--as you've demonstrated.

[GintasticNecat]

Good times, oh good times.. I actually read this at half 3 this morning but my comment then wouldn't have got much father than "BWAHAHAHA! Nerd funny." so I thought I'd wait until now

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The intro was hilarious, I was almost considering having a nice little holiday in the lovely villa. The contrast between Sally Perkington and SimNerd was awesome, but shame on getting the hardest knowledge LTW! Well, I say shame, but it'll give us a longer asylum to read - so yaay!

I, like everyone else, think it's great the personalities were kept the same. I don't know why it's meant to be fiddled with actually, it's so much more 'realistic' when everyone's intact

Gaius is making me giggle, I know he's a pain in the *censored* but I kind of want to just give him a GCS, just to make him feel better.

Ahaha, I wouldn't have thought the fight would be between Kirstial and Uranium, I was sure Cypress was going to get in on the action. I'm so glad you put him in actually, we all do hate him so.

It's too hard to pick my favourite quote, there's so many, but Uranium's hats did slay me

Long live DrSupremeNerd's Home for Unrepentant Sociopaths!

[StyxLady]

BWAHAHAHA fantastic! I knew it would be fun watching your simself try and keep her sanity in a house full of insane! This does not disappoint! Moar soon?

[charris]

You know, this is the first asylum I've ever read...

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I loved the intro...and the fact that Sally always said DrSupremeNerd's Home for Unrepentant Sociopaths over and over instead of shortening the name. Hilarious.

Yay, legacy villains! I'm really glad you're using Cypress...it just wouldn't be the same without him.

Uranium and Kirstial are going to try to mudrer each other...and I'll probably laugh the whole time.

Awesome job!

[MaxiBuckle]

Spoiler:

Sally Perkington is a flash of genius. Does she have a british accent? Because in my head she has a british accent.

I didn't know there was a PhD for neuroendocrinological whatever. That would qualify you as a Doctor Supreme Nerd for sure.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Silvain:
Hey, it's all good!

Di:

Spoiler:

Oh yes. SimNerd is full of snark. She is a veritable bastion of sarcasm.

Cypress really is weird. You stick him on a lot, and he will inevitably attempt to hug someone. I think he knows it'll be rejected, and he's just addicted to those double-minuses. But when I was doing that Spider Jerusalem thing on LJ, it was actually mini-Spider who went for the hug on big-Spider, and big-Spider was all, "Waaagh! It's trying to touch me!" and Cassidy was just standing there going, "Chill out, man," and mini-Spider made the sad "Nobody loves me" face so I had big-Spider initiate the hug and then mini-Spider was happy.

My only salvation is that no one's gender preference is set. Cypress would be waaaaay more stalky if I'd set his gender preference.

Lea:

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I enjoyed the Kirstial and Cecil Simultaneous Crankiness Funtime Hour too. The two of them spend a lot of time together--they're the first ones in the house to make Best Friends. I mean, uh, I imagine that the two of them will be the first ones to make Best Friends. Yeah, that's it.

Oh, Knowledge Sim Insta-bolts, how you make my life so interesting. Especially considering SimNerd's stealth Romance Sim-ness.

I don't know why someone hasn't done an Asylum leaving the personalities intact before! It's definitely entertaining to see what they do, and how much of how they were written in the stories is actually from how they act. Uranium really is a sociopath! Gaius really is like Prof wrote him in Squeaky Clean! Cecil is also like Prof writes him in Squeaky Clean! Ah, if only I had a bear for him to Talk Through...

Gin:

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I really wanted to play with how to set up the Asylum. I'd never seen anyone do it that way before. Plus now I want to invite Sally back over and see what happens with her and Uranium. Sally really does have nine nice points. And SHE went after Uranium initially, not the other way around.

I think I'm going to have to have SimNerd serve Gaius some cheese. He's seriously too doofy to do it for himself.

Cypress is getting along with pretty much everyone, oddly enough. I've definitely had Sims make free-will Enemies, and he's one of them, but I think he respects the Eeevil in the rest of the inmates.

Styx:
Even more fun when the fires break out and Cecil refuses to stop tub-pirating... Not that I'd know anything about that...

charris:

Spoiler:

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Of course I had to throw Cypress in there! I figured he'd be more fight-y and less huggy, but I'll take what I can get.

Kirstial still cries every time. Zero nice points, and she's a total crybaby. Uranium just DOES NOT CARE.

MaxiBuckle:

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In my head, she sounds like a stewardess from the 1970s. Back when they were stewardesses. But she can be a British '70s stewardess if you'd like!

There are PhDs for eeeeverything these days! I just got mine in something that I can get employed for having, but that I can't explain to anyone.

[katrih83]

Oh oh oh, you've already done this! I'm sorry I was way late replying to you, but I'm so happy my darling Sal made it in nevertheless - thanks!

Spoiler:

Sally is so hilarious, I can so hear how she's speaking, being enthusiastic about absolutely everything. And the exclamation marks all over the place. "We here at DrSupremeNerd's Home for Unrepentant Sociopaths are all sunshine! And we've got budget cuts!"

Poor SimNerd! I laughed so hard at her reactions! And she got the real aspirations and personalities, poor thing. I'm enjoying that one, though. I really like the idea.

I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner about Sal, I was offline for a while. But anyway, it doesn't really matter, the personality is close enough. I had to check it myself, as I didn't remember. Despite the differences, somehow he does seem like Sal. It's really funny to see him in someone else's story - the intertwining of the worlds is fascinating.

I'm not sure SimNerd would really have wanted the vampire version of Sal, though - you would have gotten a hounted asylum pretty soon I imagine... (By the way, now that I think of it, it's kind of hard to say whether the original Salahuddin was a villain or not... Maybe not in the traditional sense, but he did some not-so-nice things...)

I love the choices for the other patients, too. It's the Eeevil Asulym, complete with Cypress!

Ouch. Of course you had to get the max all skills ltw. The hardest for knowledge. Tough luck. But well, as someone already said, that means longer asylum for us to read, so yay!

Uranium: "You think you could figure out a way out of this joint? I haven't WooHooed everyone in THIS version of Strangetown yet."
Salahuddin: "I'll trade you an escape tunnel for a cowplant."
Uranium: "Counteroffer: an escape tunnel for some evil alien WooHoo."
Salahuddin: "...I'd rather have the cowplant."

Favorite. Quote. I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. You don't suppose it being my favorite has anything to do with my Sal being in the scene?

Aww, eeevil hugs! Gotta love them! (And at Cecil.) I also cracked up at the conversation about eeevil between Cy and Gaius.

Aww, Sal likes SimYou! Go Sal! May not want to compete with Cy though, at least not without the cowplant. Some like simultaneuous stalking, some simultaneous grumpiness...

Salahuddin: "I really can't tell who's dumber here--Uranium for agreeing to play catch with Cecil, or Cecil for hurling a baseball at Uranium."

Hehe. Sal often seems to be the onlooker on things. I don't know if it's true, but it seems to me he can take reasonably good care of himself. Good boy. If you stay alive until the end, I'll be really proud of you! *pats Salahuddin on the head*

Cecil: "Mr. Vetinari was kind enough to leave me a countertop."

again. At least you won't have to worry about diseases or flies.

Sally is one brave girl. I wouldn't have dared to poke Uranium. And well, I guess I, too would be frightened if I knew what Cy and Cecil were laughing about...

The bathroom chick fight scene is just so hilarious. And poor Emperor, demands a shower.

Whee at Salahuddin dancing crazy! And go Sal, for bathing yourself. And wishing Uranium good luck with the post-fight woohoo. (Silly boy, do not play the punching game with her!)

And Poor emperor, again. He gets thrown off the sphere all the time, it seems. When he's not whining in front of the shower, that is.

*joins the line to dance on Cy's grave* Oh, but there's that other line to dance on Jake the Jerk's grave... Umm... Now I can't choose, bah.

I can't tell how much fun I had reading this! Thanks for all the laughs, and thanks for having Sal! Now I think I'll be off, to write in my Sim Page blog about Sal's guest appearence. But I'll be back for MOAR!

[DrSupremeNerd]

katrih:
He's adding some fun into the mix, for sure! Got a masochistic streak a mile wide, but that's a whole 'nother issue.

Spoiler:

Sally is one of those people who makes me want to stick a fork into my brain in real life.

Kirstial's actually a vampire too, and so is Uranium, so I could have had a REALLY haunted Asylum if I'd wanted one. But then I'd have missed out on the Uranium/Kirstial Cage Matches.

At this point, the only place Uranium and Kirstial HAVEN'T fought is the room with the piano and the Dance Sphere. I think I'm up to two in the bedroom, one in the toilet room, one in the hallway, one near the table, and two in the kitchen.

Aspiration-wise, the Knowledge Sims are definitely faring the best, but I have a feeling that they'll run out of things they can autonomously skill sooner or later, and then they'll start to feel the pain. Or when there are fires and they take the Aspiration hits.