The Supernatural Challenge – Finished! Sunday, 1 June 2008

Bud Wiser is the target Sim

This sure is an old challenge; and probably ones of those that I struggled with the most. Free Time sure made it easier to get abducted though. Bud is already a knowledge sim, so I used his lifetime awards thingies (those new awards introduced by Free Time?) to give him the ability to summon aliens. He was outside one night only, and *Presto* abduction.

Getting the paranormal career thou took him 4 sim days! Misty Cupp got a job in Natural Science so that she can eventually get the Cow Plant Career Reward. Dan Druff’s lifetime want was in the Education career, so I got him a job as a teacher.

After that I focused more on Bud and Misty’s careers in order to get the career rewards. Bud would eventually get the phone to Death so he can resurrect Luke Warm. He saw the ghost on day 2.

One of the objectives is so make a zombie. I thought that I’ll kill two birds with one stone and resurrect Luke as a zombie… but it won’t work. In order to have a “successful” resurrection, no zombie must be made. So I killed off Misty with the cow plant and got Bud to drink her (cha-ching). The resurrected Misty as a Zombie.

In the mean time Bud had a little alien girl; called her Nonethe… as in ‘None the Wiser’.

Now all Bud had to do was become friends with a vampire. I tried getting him blind dates at night since day 2, but a vampire never showed up. His first attraction was vampires, then blonde, but hates fat. Then I changed his personality (an aspiration reward) and made him dislike vampires and paid a measly fee for a blind date… no such luck.

So I took them all on a downtown outing, and while Nonethe was smustle’ing away with daddy, in stalks a vampire. Perfect. Bud talked to her, emailed her and phoned her until they became friends. Then I moved Bud out. The lot was just too slow and I didn’t know how readily a vampire will bite autonomously. My plan was to move Countess Hailey in and then make her bite him (I could probably have used influence on her by another family member… but no-one knew her well enough for influence to have any effect).

Moved Bud into a cute little starter I downloaded from I forget where L.

That evening he invited Hailey over. While walking to the house, she bit him. Great! Except that Bud still wasn’t a UFO investigator and his current job was during daytime hours. So I cured him, bought Hailey a coffin, and got to work on Bud’s next promotion. He got it, started working nights and Hailey bit him again. Bud’s last act before me exiting the lot, was to invite buddy Dan over for a bite… literally. Bud had some vapiracillin left over, so he first gave Dan a peace offering before turning him. Now my game has 3 vampires. Yay!

Free Time bug causes my sims to loose their interest points after they get maxed… or some jazz like that. So technically I have one more objective left, even though Bud has maxed out his interest in the Paranormal. That’s Maxis for you. Releasing an EP with loads of errors… then releasing a patch with loads of errors, then re-releasing a patch to fix the original errors and the first patch. Will it ever end?