Thinking of that damn crack that is Sims 2, I finally started dabbling in ghosts last night. I was inspired, I guess, by earning the Necromancer title on Fable. In the first Sims, ghosts were simple beings. Something horrible would occur, and you would get a tombstone/urn (depending on where you put it). People would mourn, and a ghost would sometimes show up floating around and scaring the remaining sims. An expansion pack added the grim reaper, who you could gamble with to save the poor corpse, or tie (updated link here) with and get a zombie.
Not so in Sims 2. You've still got the grim reaper, but now you've got a ghost that imitates how the person dies. I think
So I've decided to start a collection. I put the urn of the drowned sim in a tiny hut out back, and had my sim paint a picture of the pool to hang behind the urn. Beautiful stained glass windows and candelabras complete the little nook. My knowledge lusting Hiro Protagonist loves seeing ghosts, so I'll see how many different ones I can get.
Unlike most people, I really didn't enjoy sim torture in the first one. Many of my friends, online and off, had tons of fun with moats and fire pits.
I love this season. Halloween is up there with New Year's for my favorite holiday, not counting All Saint's Day, Kanamara penis festival, Day of the Dead or other holidays that we don't traditionally celebrate. Despite my lack of serious costumery in a while, I love it. And not just because I used to hit all the stores the day after and pick up cheap decorations to leave up year round. I'm lucky
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