The Totally Official and Sometimes Unbelievable Story of a Welcome lot
And here's how it all went down: One night, in the midst of the freakiest psycho blizzard crisis her area had seen in six years, Kat said to her good friend, Teri, "I'm bored... I want to build something. I know, let's build a welcome lot." And Teri said, "Okay."
That was Thursday, January 8.
On Friday, they were #54 on the welcome list.
On Saturday, they were #6.
Sunday? #2.
The place is called You're Welcome. Currently it's sandwiched between two of the biggest scam lots in Alphaville -- and by that, I mean, one of the scam lots is #1, the other is #3. But that's cool -- even when they send their stupid little minions over to spy on us, it's cool. And the taggers? Gotta love 'em. But what am I saying? I really need to back up, here, and give you the full story -- on everything that has happened in the past week and a half...
When we first began, things were pretty quiet. A few people came to check us out, some came by accident...
I don't even know what was up with this guy. He has lots of friends and his profile seems nice and normal... doesn't he know that sometimes Maxis goofs and sends you to the wrong lot when you click on a property name? He didn't have to get all nasty and blame it on us! Oh well, he won a spot on this page, that's saying something...
On Day 3, the day we were at #6, we got a visit from Ken...
...who hailed from, like, the #9 welcome lot -- some Church of Alphaville place. I've never really been concerned when people from the other welcome lots show up -- they usually just want you to know they're there, which is cool, only this guy started insulting one of the other guests -- he told him his profile was terrible, then stupid. At that point I told him to please not insult the other guests. The guy being insulted was very cool about it and knew how to hold his own, but then Ken started attacking us, trying to accuse Teri and I of being greedy sims.
It's kind of funny because we never started this place for the money. And we haven't made back a single cent and I'm not sure when we will, if ever. But you know, Ken, if it makes you feel better about us having more visitor hours than you, then go ahead... insult away... oh wait, you can't anymore, we banned your arse... well then, I guess we'll see you when you recreate. Can't wait!:)
On Day 4, the day we hit #2, I started getting pounded with IMs from people wanting to roomie with us -- and no, naturally, I'd never met these people before. Even after putting in my profile and the property description that we didn't need roomies, the IMs kept coming...
Some took the rejection well; others did not...
(Sorry, I feel the overwhelming need to include that guy's profile in here...)
And still others wanted to buy the place...
Lady Luck Ape began her quest by IMing me, telling me what a lovely place we had (which was odd because she'd never stepped foot in it...). She sweetly asked if she could be a roomie, and I told her no, politely, and she seemed to accept that. 10 minutes later she started IMing me again...
And then she came on the lot and tagged me...
...which I just rolled my eyes at.
A few hours later, the enemy link was gone.
Sooo... roomie beggars, buyers, taggers... and then there was Ashley, the girl who didn't even bother to ask but just thought she lived here anyway...
Ashley was a fun one. First she was typing in all caps, and we asked her to stop. Her response? "OKAY." Later, we asked her a question and she goes, "What did u say?" so we told her about the Control+H command. Obviously she wasn't listening to that, either, because she kept asking us to repeat everything -- and kept typing in all caps. Soon a guy Sim came on. She introduced herself to him and told him to go into "her" bedroom and wait. They both went in and then changed into their skivvies...
They both got into bed, but since you can't do anything in the game when it comes to beds, they both got bored and he left, then she did. Not sure if they ever hooked up in the game, but then again, I don't really care!
Now, sometime between her male-luring and her caps-typing, some of us other sims were trying to start fires in the living room -- not an easy task. We were thrilled when we started one, and then another soon followed. So what does Ashley do? She runs in and extinguishes them both.
ARGHHHH!
Now, I really don't care if you extinguish a fire on our lot if you started the darn thing yourself, but leave other people's fires alone!
Oh well...
After she left, we were afraid to sleep in the then-dubbed Ashley Bed because of what had gone on in it earlier. How to solve that problem...?
Burn the bed!
Okay, so we never did get the bed to catch on fire... mainly because we just couldn't seem to get a fire going. It was as if Ashley extinguishing those fires had ruined our fire streak!
Meanwhile, Teri changed the sheets on the bed... ;)
After replacing the bed with the pool table (which usually sits in that spot), we got some fires going... thereby proving our theory that the fire spirits were angered by the presence of the Ashley Bed. Man I love fires...
One of our favorite things to do, here, after we have a successful fire session is have a Birthday Party! Yayyyy! Cake and balloons and
hats for all!
One of the most interesting nights occured on Day 11, the night we decided to try to cram everyone into the pond I built for my buddy Morgan (the bear) in the backyard. It started out innocently enough...
...until I got the notion to make the pool just a tad bit smaller.
Disaster struck, as poor Teri actually got trapped in the cement, and I got stuck standing on the edge of the pool.
After some renovation and me exiting the lot, everyone was freed.
Afterwards, poor Morgan sadly surveyed the damage...
...while we all decided never to try that again!
;) ;) ;)
Anyway, those are just some of the fun and crazy things we've been up to this past week and a half. :)
I just could not finish this article without mentioning just a few other people who have made our time here so interesting and worthwhile and fun...
--MonkeyMan, the guy who wanted to know how you could make money "really really fast," and when we didn't give him money told us our place was 100% boring. ;)
--Tattoo Man, who waltzed in and then proceeded to send roomie invites to all the guests... and who saw nothing wrong with that...
--and Sotaro, friend of the scammers, who tagged me, got tagged, then sent a complete stranger to avenge that tag... and deleted my tag.
And last, but... well, yeah, least... the award for the freaking funniest screencap goes to this one:
