The Bachelor(ette) Challenge

PART 5

NOT SURPRISINGLY AT ALL, Jack has easily the lowest scores and she's furious at him (but still in love, notice!) You see? You SEE how you just can't predict these things? She got a crush on him first, fell in love with him first and even Woo-Hooed him first--twice--and yet, due to the vagaries of chance and Sim emotions, he STILL didn't win! HA! This is why I do these kinds of challenges! You throw together a bunch of colourful characters, (mostly) leave them alone to be themselves...and see what REALLY happens!

(She has THREE bolts with Buddy now...whoah.)



And as Jack shakes hands with the air, Raistlin and Reggie wave a fond goodbye. Ah, but the astute viewer might've noticed we have two household members missing for this event--where can Belinda and Buddy have wandered off to...?



...Like you even have to ASK? Geez, you got over wolf-boy fast, didn't you? (puts hands on hips, looks at her sideways).



And as the autonomous make-out/woo-hoo session continues...I'm not sure if Reggie here is more upset that he can't use the hot-tub too, or at the fact that there are CLEARLY no brains here. None at all.



The rules for the afternoon/evening of Day Five are to take everybody out on an Outing, so here we are, arriving at the Lulu Lounge.



...and that was the ONLY shot of the lounge itself you're gonna get, 'cos they spent the entire time out on the sidewalk interacting with each other. Never went inside to eat, dance, sing karaoke, or anything. Here Buddy has just fallen in love with Belinda after her autonomous flirt...



...and then immediately falls RIGHT back out of love again, BANG, as Reggie kisses her hand! I swear, it was THAT FAST. Bing. (snaps fingers) Bang. (snaps fingers) One second he's in love, then literally, the VERY NEXT SECOND, he's out of love and crying bitterly. Wow.



So, naturally, he smacks her across the face--while she looks...stoned out of her gourd about it.



Then as she hauls off and smacks him back, the Outing score plummets all the way to "Disaster" with a glowing red background on the scorebox. Wow. I'm bad at Outings, but I haven't even SEEN that before!
The message in the corner there cracks me up. Gee, I WONDER why you didn't have a good time, Raistlin!

With the Outing over, we...might as well go home? Dang, I was hoping to get to DO something fun here at the Lulu Lounge. Ah well. So Belinda picks up the phone to call the taxi home but while they're just waiting for the cab...


DANG, woman, what is it with you? You just barely woo-hooed with a different guy earlier this same morning! You can't even wait for the cab? Dude!

On another note, isn't this shot pretty? I deliberately zoomed way in through the steam, to get it. Doesn't it look exactly like a classic pose off the cover of a romance novel, or a movie? Ya know, except that the guy is, like, a zombie. Well...zombies have feelings too...
(THIS would be a great Twilight-parody picture--she falls in love with a different type of undead guy. They pose! Romantically! In the mists! They hold hands, are just about to kiss, the violin music swells, and...! His hand falls off. And she tenderly offers to sew it back on.)



So they FINALLY get back home, they grab each other for a romantic kiss and...they're in love. Aww. Again, the other guy watching seems strangely calm about this.



Belinda needs a bit of refuelling a day like that (I wonder why) and makes ham-and-cheese baguettes for everybody. Mmm.



Then she greets Hilda Jordan as she walks by--one of the few visitors we've had who wasn't just a random townie or Maxis-made character--and invites her and her broken, floating accesories in for breakfast. I kept hoping one of my colourful superheroes or Time Lords would come by, but, oh well...
(The "welcome wagon" on the first day was Nervous Subject, Leela Sevateem (the Fourth Doctor's warrior-chick Companion) and...Sim-Me! And I utterly failed to get a picture of it.)



Hilda sits down to play mah-jong with Raistlin--and I would say ENOUGH with the MAH-JONG!, except that the poor lady has eight kids at home including TRIPLET. TEENAGERS, so I'll let her have some fun--while in the foreground, Buddy tries to console himself over his broken heart by cuddling her kitty, Itty. Aww.



Then Belinda descends the rest of the way into madness and becomes an axe murderer! AAAA!!
...or she just felt like playing the axe-throwing game and I took a picture from the scariest angle possible; your call.



Buddy, not content to convey his displeasure only once, WHAPS her across the face so hard he knocks her arm INTO the sink. Um...ouch?
(Lookit that expression on her face. Geez.)



And of course, she whaps him back. While he does the...Spores of Happiness (?!) Huh. First of all, he's DEFINITELY not happy--his Aspiration was quite low at this point in addition to...this little problem. Secondly--I've played PlantSims quite a bit and I didn't know they could DO the Spores of Happiness thing autonomously...

"Day Six--Morning Dates: Have your lonely Sim do one flirt and one kiss with each of the singles."



Good luck with THAT...
(He won the fight--he'd been bowling so much that by this time he'd gotten like SEVEN body points! She had maybe...1? Didn't stand a chance.)



(winces) Ooh, ouch. Actual enemies. In a way, I'm kind of surprised this didn't happen before, however...making enemies is what Sims with only one Nice point DO.



But I've got them here in the Date Room and I'm...bound and determined to at least go for it anyway! Unfortunately as you might imagine the "Kiss" options are all gone from her menu for him and so are the flirts, other than "Check Out"! The only even remotely friendly thing she was allowed to do was "Apologise". So I had her do that.
As you can see from the plus signs and smiles, the apology did go well...amazingly...but they're still enemies.



Raistlin accepted her flirt, and then wandered away from the Date Room before she could kiss him, so she catches him by the ice rink. Oh, and as you can see from the little red heart floating away--he's in love.



And Buddy is back to bowling--his one true love, apparently. You know? I think I'm'a try opening a bowling alley as a home-venue style business one of these days. Maybe I'll have it be his bowling alley. Why not, right?



It's noon and time once again to tally up our scores--who's in, and who's...oh, who am I kidding. We already KNOW who's out. But TUNE IN NEXT TIME anyway to see what happens on Day Six of: The Bachelorette Challenge!