Foster's Valley - The house next door
Earlier in the thread there's a pic of the
Never Forgotten house and some of the houses nearby. To the immediate left of the NF house is a small, unremarkable dwelling which I didn't identify. Well, it's time to meet the neighbors:
Hiya, Cheese!
The official mascot of Hot Topic stares vacantly at the TV, engrossed by what looks like a pair of gnomes arguing over a shrub. Sim TV's get six different channels, each with 3-4 different programs, but unfortunately their programming isn't any better than ours. They get commercials, too. In the background Louise practices painting, not for any particular reason other than because it's fun, and off to the side her overworked and slightly cranky mom Barbara gets lunch ready:
On the menu: grilled cheese. All sorts of ways to interpret that. This being Day One at the house, the Welcome Wagon showed up while she was cooking and Cheese greeted everyone, including one familiar face:
I saw Sparky coming down the sidewalk and thought to myself, "Sparky is going into the House of Cheese. I'll be apologising for this for months." As it turned out she actually liked the little dimwit; unfortunately I couldn't get a decent pic of them talking because the rest of the Welcome Wagon got in the way. Eh, these things happen. She commandeered the swings for awhile, then it was time to head inside and solve one of FHFIF's greatest mysteries:
Sparky: "Louise, what the heck were you thinking when you created him??"
Louise: "I dunno. He just kind of came that way."
So much for my "Nyquil" theory. Shortly after that the other two members of the Welcome Wagon got bored with the swings and came inside, and here we see Bjorn Gustafsen trying to give Dmitri Chalkovich a big hug:
Which Dmitri does not appreciate:
Oddly enough, a few days later when I played a different house, all three of them showed up as the Welcome Wagon there, too, and Bjorn tried the same thing, and got the same result. I'll give him credit for being friendly, if nothing else. I think his wife Ingrid is starting to wonder about him, though. While this was going on, the clock hit 4:00 pm and that meant someone was due to walk by the house, and sure enough, someone did:
You don't know her, nor do you want to. Her name is Samantha, and of all the residents in the Valley that Cheese could have chosen to irritate, this one should be near the bottom of the list. She's a native of the area, like Sparky, and Sparky was not happy to see her:
She spent the rest of the evening avoiding the girl and being polite but distant when she couldn't. Barbara, of course, didn't know her and didn't have any qualms about disagreeing or arguing with her:
Eventually Samantha left, and Sparky decided that she ought to explain a few things to Barbara, and maybe the rest of the newcomers, too, before they got themselves into some serious trouble. Barbara didn't really care:
"Look, Ms. Read, I don't care about any of this. I'm not afraid of some sullen teenage girl or her family, I don't know anyone named Band-whatever or McBride, and I don't care about the stupid Piano or the dark sun or any of the other weird crap you're talking about. I just wanna raise my kid, get her off to college, and keep her Imaginary Friend from messing up my house. If I can find a rich boyfriend while doing all that, good for me. Kapish?"
Well, that went well. And so the plot thickens, such as it is, here in the northwest part of Foster's Valley. The part where a riddle called the Piano remains unsolved, where a dark sun waits on the horizon, where a priceless treasure remains unclaimed. Where the Bandrowsky family reigns supreme. Stay tuned...
(Okay, that was a lot heavier than what I'd originally planned. Light-hearted comedy video after y'all have commented on all this weird stuff. [
crosseyed Bloo smilie goes here]).