Scared of the dark...

BlogpostAuthor: CyclonesuePublished: Oct 30, 2006Views: 670

I decided that I didn't like playing any more, last week. Those of you who already know me already know that I'm no great player of The Sims (after all, it is a game about people, and I don't DO 'people' very well at all). But last week, I WAS playing. I was having great fun - actually PLAYING The Sims! It all started to go horribly wrong when I started to be a bit creative with a couple of the Nightmare Sims creations I'd made for this week's theme. I'd placed my Grey Lady ghost at the window of my haunted house: Knell's End, and I noticed it was as though the ghost was sadly gazing at the Jobling Gibbet (you can just about see it through the window on the right - sorry about the bad image). Isabella Jobling had apparently been able to see the gibbeted body of her hanged husband from her home, and I rather fancied that this ghost could be like Isabella, come back to haunt the window where she suffered such misery...

Oh, STOP IT! That's what I said to ME! For I realised that I wasn't liking this thought very much any more. It was nearly 3.00am here and my old house (over 400 years old, which means some of you weren't even born when it was built) was being a bit draughty and there was the odd creak or two from the beams. It got worse as those draughts suddenly seemed like very chilled INEXPLICABLE draughts, and some cracking sound in the wood not being at all like any noise I'd heard here before... And, in 400 years, a lot of people have lived and died here, and then my imagination really was starting to over-react! So, now I'm not playing. There! I shall wait until I grow up a bit (and have the nerve to rescue my family from "Knell's End" without looking too much out of that upstairs window...). Oh, and sorry about all the links. For once, I wasn't hammering you with shameless plugs! No, I just imagined there would be many of you wondering what on earth I was going on about with knells and Joblings and gibbets and grey ladies. Well, now you know. I recommend you don't play with any of these items - not if you're easily spooked like me!

Oprah Noodlemantra ∙ Nov 2, 2006

LOL No wonder. When I first saw your Grey lady, my eyes grew wide with fear and I immediately knew that, no matter how fabulous, this lady would never get into my game because I would be too scared to play it lol

MoonlitMaiden ∙ Oct 31, 2006

Never know when you're kidding, Sue! But here's something weird that happened to me, 'way back in ancient times when I was still playing Sims 1:

Somewhere -- 7 Deadly Sims, I think, but I'm not sure -- I downloaded a Satan. If you remember, in The Sims 1 you had a choice of heads and bodies only. Anyway, this Satan had a head with goat horns and a bright red, bare-chested body with cloven-hoofed furry legs, like a satyr. The legs were bent, like an animal's, and of course he had a forked tail and long, black fingernails.

I made him the nicest guy! Gave him full niceness points, got him a good, steady job, had him married to an angel (an actual angel, with flowing white robes, wings and I think she even had a halo) and two adorable children. Even a dog and a cat. (I had Unleashed.)

I could only play that family a couple of times, it creeped me out so much to have that Satan walking around. And I'm not a believer in the traditional Christian concept of demons and angels and heaven and hell. My bent is extrem

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