Killing in the name of

Do you remember how, way back when (https://dayesofourlives.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/what-doesnt-kill-you/), Fuji Daye had this annoying husband, Elvis the firefighter? He just WOULD NOT DIE no matter how hard I tried. After a LOT of trying and failing to burn him, I finally electrocuted him on the umpteenth attempt, but never got electric ghost babies out of him, so it was slightly in vain. This was the days of yore before my game has Twallan mods all over the place. (And on that topic – WAAAAAH at his retirement) and so I wasn’t cheating and only ever had 8 sims at a time in the family. I thought Elvis was good at evading death. And then I met Dracula.

He has eaten so many jelly beans – has had almost every reaction possible from them.

He’s been set on fire, been prickly, had pretty much every moodlet ever. BUT HE HAS NEVER DIED.

Still, I’d heard the chance of a jelly bean killing someone was super-rare, so I decided to get less picky. There are a whole host of ways sims can die now that we haven’t tried, so he had a go with the fold-up bed.

I was annoyed when he just got a bad moodlet and wouldn’t go near it again until the moodlet went (and I bought a new bed to see if that worked but he wouldn’t touch that, either.) Eventually he got caught putting it up.

But he still didn’t die.

I remembered Fuji’s useless husband who didn’t give us yellow ghost babies, and we DID have a broken laptop.

He repaired it.

Then I heard you could turn a sim to gold with the transmuter thingy.

We turned lots of old books and newspapers and tat into gold bars.

We even turned gold into gold. But no dice.

So I thought we’d try something else to see its effect.

Here Dracula, get a load of this voodoo doll…

‘That… seems threatening’

You think?

It turned him into a zombie.

And he could transform between toy and zombie form, but still only got gold, no death, from the stone.

Still, maybe we could get a zombie baby out of it. Only he couldn’t get in the bed, FOR NO REASON.

Elvira was being a super creeper while they got it on. OK, she was broken because her battery died, but still. On the subject of Elvira, she kept throwing up errors every five seconds, and now Twallan’s gone I just hope someone can understand her error trap files. She wouldn’t go anywhere or do anything much. In the end I had to master control her out of the house. We’ll hold off making more robo-sims for a while, it’s not like we need them taking up room anyway.

Still, she seemed to be a bit of a mood killer…

Eventually we got Bathory up the duff. Am pretty sure you can’t have a zombie baby but there’s no harm in trying. (I love how Zombies have the menu of interactions that are all ‘ugh’, ‘aaargh’, ‘braiiins’ etc by the way.)

With the deed done and the zombie moodlet worn off, we were back on trying something… only this time I had added the clumsy and loser traits to Dracula in case they helped. I was shocked when I saw this. Could it be?

COULD IT BE?

Please, please….

YES!

New ghost colour success!

I like how it has feathers!

Bathory got all the massages she needed.

I do like the facade on the Starlight Shores spa/book shop.

Believe this or not, this is her jogging.

We interrupt this episode to bring you a cute photo of Peter Jones the dragon I forgot to put in the last chapter. Awww.

Back to business…

Say hello to little SuperCasino Daye (Bathory’s naming trait is night owl and SuperCasino is what’s on Channel 5 late night after even Big Brother live streaming has stopped. Not that I stay up late watching reality TV or anything….)

Before I even looked at the baby’s favourite colour (her traits are heavy sleeper and friendly and she isn’t a zombie, nor does she appear to be an imaginary friend), I added Dracula back.

I don’t know if we’ll keep him but I’ve given him a new LTW, the one that needs to make 10 zombies, just in case. The LTW specifies they must be through the super spell or potent elixir, but thought we’d see if the zombification from the voodoo doll also worked for it.

Turns out it doesn’t. But hey, Rosanna, you get another shot in!

Anyway, on to the important stuff…

…and we have a new baby-making pod to christen! Join us next time to see if Leon Jackson can escape our clutches, and whether all my hard work in killing Dracula pays off with a ghost baby!