The Bachelor(ette) Challenge

PART 6

Yeah..big surprise, huh? MAJOR negative scores, fury and Enemy-ship with Buddy...of course he's out.

And this takes it down to the final two: Raistlin and Reginald. The wizard and the zombie. Who will taste the sweet nectar of victory--and who will drink the bitter dregs of defeat? Let's find out!





Buddy uses the computer I just got them to "Find Own Place" (Jack, still pissed off, keeps running by and stealing their newspaper!) and these two pictures perfectly showcase the madness that is Belinda Rose. In the first shot, she's all "Oh, I'm so sad to see him go." then like two seconds later "I HATE HIM."



Raistlin DASHES out to say goodbye, in his PJ's. You know, in each of these gradual-elimination type challenges I've played, there's always been one character who makes a point of ALWAYS being there to say goodbye when another one moves out, even if they have to run across the house and drag themselves away from things to do it. I think most of the time on this challenge, that role of "the nice one" has been fulfilled by Raistlin.
...which is interesting, considering he's such an evil wizard, he didn't care if his quest for power ripped the world apart. :P



Buddy gets into the cab...



...and we get a REAL glimpse into the madness that is Belinda Rose. Check this out! She wants to "see the ghost" of Buddy...but also FEARS him DYING! Wow. If that isn't neurotic melodrama, I don't know what is. "I HATE him...but" (swoons, hand over forehead) "But I WANT him..." (hands clench into fists) "But I hate him!" etc.



Evening of Day 6: "Have your Lonely Sim ask his/her two finalists out on dates. Dress up, go somewhere nice. :)"

Well I forgot the "dress up" part (then again, the way a lot of my Sims dress up all day, everyday as it is...) and I'm not sure if where I sent them quite counts as "nice", but here are Belinda and Raistlin, who won the coin toss to go first, on their date at the Crypt O' Night club. The goth nightclub seemed a good match for an eeeeevil wizard.

Now, these are Night-Life style dates--the kind with scores, and also we ARE supposed to direct the Sims' actions during the official activities of the contest. So I will be paying attention to their wants and trying to fulfill them on purpose, rather than letting them run wild as usual. Here Raistlin has just tickled Belinda, which apparently both of them wanted.





He tells her a joke, about a book apparently...
...and she finds it hilarious. (Whether he was telling her something from the book that was intentionally funny, or telling her about a hilariously BAD book is up to you.)



Belinda decides to "entertain" him with FLOATING TIGER LILY DEATH-FOOT! Actually she's just busting a move.



Then they gossip about...nothing. Seriously, there wasn't even a speech balloon!



Backrub time! I wish I had someone around who handed out free backrubs.



Now we start what is to be an ongoing theme throughout this date: Laughing at Nothing. I looked over where she was pointing, and never saw anything all that funny...



Some hugs and kisses later, and now she's in LOVE...but still laughing.



BIG ROMANTIC CLENCH! and...ooh, thats an interesting want...



I went and looked over at the dance floor to see what was so funny, and I guess she means the guy in front, doing the chicken-arms thing?




WHY am I not surprised. Might as well, honey, you've bedded everyone ELSE who stuck around for longer than two days...



And so of course, before I could direct them to, they get into the photobooth themselves and ACR takes over. Here the cute little speckledy alien waiter is cheering them on.



Now the waiter has joined in with the laughing while...Raistlin has no idea he's about to get a purse to the head!



O-ho--it wasn't him Mrs. Crumplebottom was after, but Belinda! HA! Well, it's not as if she doesn't deserve it...
(Mrs. Crumplebottom used: PURSE. It's very effective.)



Romantic slow-dancing. Aww.



Yeah, I wonder why it was a dream date.



And we cut straight to the other date, with Reggie at Red's Diner. Here she greets him with the traditional date move-bust, while he thinks about BRAAAINNNS...



The traditional date tickling session...



And the traditional date pillow fight.



They're in the photo booth but...they're actually taking a picture!



Okay, NOW it's what you think. I swear--they didn't spend even ONE SECOND out of the photo booth before going right back in. I didn't even see Belinda pull out the picture and look at it before Woo was Hoo'd.



Belinda cheers on her own woo-hooing--well, I guess she WOULD be good at it by now...



Then it's time for the backrubs...



And a romantic kiss, right in front of the bathrooms. What a charming location!



Then he gives HER a backrub. About time. She's been giving backrubs like nobody's business, this entire challenge.



REGGIE: Hey, Random Townie. Enjoying my moves? Yeeeaaaah.



Reggie kisses her up the arm, but I mainly took this picture to show how busy Red's is tonight...at like, 3 in the morning. Place is HOPPIN'. Well, by my game's standards, anyway.



Then Reggie starts swooning over...somebody else! Oh-ho...sauce for the gander? Well, considering Belinda's track record...but who is it?



Oh, there she is--it's Heather Huffington, one of the snooty sorority girls from Sim State College. Boy, do all the Maxis Sims look different with my custom-replacement skintones, eye textures, eyebrows, etc.



And of course it was another dream date. You can tell by the way they're...standing several feet apart. Glaring at each other. Great times were had by all!



BELINDA: CRAAAAAAWLING INNNN, MY SKIIIIINNN, THESE WOOOUUUNDDS, THEY WIIIILLL NOT HEEE-AAALLL...!
NEIGHBORHOOD: (stuffs ears with cotton)



Her wants as of late this night/early the next morning: She wants to get engaged to Raistlin...and woo-hoo Reggie. Hmm. Actually, she wanted to woo-hoo BOTH of them right after doing so! Either they're really good or like...really bad. And she wants to keep trying it again until they get it right.



Buddy, still furious about Belinda's betrayal, kicks over their garbage can--the first of many...many...MANY times.



Belinda goes bowling at night, because it makes so much more sense than doing it in the daytime, when you can see the pins.



And then so does Reggie. They both earn body points from it...which apparently you can do even when faceplanting straight into the lane.



It's now noon--the time of decision. After the dates, she's supposed to "agonise about the decision" all morning, and then at noon, decide. The relationship scores are now, of course, exactly even--100 daily, 100 lifetime, love--and nobody has done anything else to set jealousy off during this morning, amazingly enough, so the scores are STILL even.

There are many ways to break a tie listed in the rules; the first one is to check the Lonely Sim's wants. If he/she has a want to get engaged to, marry or woo-hoo one Sim but not the other, then that Sim wins. There are other ways to break the tie if they want to marry BOTH of them, but for now, I've unlocked all of her wants so they can all spin up naturally when she wakes up, and sent her to bed. Let's see who she's thinking of most the next morning, if anyone.



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