Everyone is Dead

Riverblossom Hills just may be my favorite neighborhood, and the one I've played for the longest consecutive time. (I've spent more game time in Pleasantview, I'm sure, but that's with resetting it a bunch.) Most of the original sims have aged up and hula'd on over to the afterlife, so they've got quite the stories to tell. More than a few mysteriously died from random lightning strikes, fly attacks, and mysterious "disease." It's not like I enjoy killing sims (unless they are ugly, I'm looking at you Ottomas family). I just need to keep the population under control. Besides, if they are already elders, I don't consider cheating them to die of old age "murder." Whose to say Leod McGreggor didn't have high cholesterol? Sure his meals were all sparkly, but he always ate the entire plate. Why should he live longer than Sanjay Ramaswami, whose wife could barely cook? Burnt hot dogs aren't very filling, so he stayed pretty slim. What was he supposed to do, cook his own meals?

That was three servings worth of food, Leod.

Of all the original sims, only Xander Roth and Jacob Martin are still alive, both now elders. Of the binned sims that I placed into Riverblossom Hills, Gallagher Newson is still alive. So is Gabriella Newson Martin. Garrett Newson O'Mackey and Georgia Newson Roth are both alive and still adults, but getting really close to aging up. Tommy Ottomas is still alive, and Emma Ottomas (one of the freak-of-nature twins) just graduated from college. (She's in the showbiz career so I can get Dr Vu's Automated Cosmetic Surgeon and fix her face. Though, even with it, she's still got the guys lining up. But with those genes, she's not allowed to reproduce. She's a Romance sim, so it's not like she'd want to.) And yes, I did break my own rules and create a few custom sim families, and a couple of them are still around, but they don't count since no one cares.