A Sharebears Legacy Story: You Give Me Fever (4/7/18)

[oshizu]

Wow, look at all those collectibles!!! I'm so far behind, lol!
But thanks for sharing your museum lot. It motivates me to buy one, too!

[simfulicious]

ah...very nice idea!  I must steal it!  Of course, Charlee is just now getting a house built, so it will be a little while before there's money to buy back what I sold off.

[Shewolf13]

Wow, what a death!  And huh, didn't realize getting eaten by the cowplant takes away the fever!  --note to self--

[simfulicious]

Wow, what a death!  And huh, didn't realize getting eaten by the cowplant takes away the fever!  --note to self--

Maybe it takes away the poison from the jungle, too.  My sims have a hard time getting the bone dust sometimes.

[oshizu]

@simfulicious
Regarding poisoning and cowplant, I'll wait until somebody else tries it, hehe.
I didn't realize until very very recently that there are different degrees of poisoning. Google was my friend...

[LenaLJ]

Your collection part is going really good. I like that you made a extra lot for your museum. Cant really decide if I should do that too.

[PeregrineTook]

Some Rilee really impressive work here!  I'm also trying to get an early start on the collections, so we're either both being super clever or wasting time early on.  Fingers crossed it's that first one  ;=)  I can't wait to see the kiddos hit their teens!!

[reggikko]

Imagine, if you will, a perfectly ordinary house in a perfectly ordinary neighborhood.



Also, imagine a perfectly ordinary Sim. His name is Tate. Tate has one thing, and one thing only, going for him. He is at level 10 of the Politician Career.
He has virtually no skills. His aspiration is the dreaded Friend of the Animals.



While Tate was happy enough to join the family, what he does not know is that he is about to enter THE HAMMY ZONE.



Tate: Hi there little buddy. Oh, aren't you a cutie! I just love animals.



Hammy: Ear-piercing ninja shriek.

Tate: Arrrgggh! What are you doing?



Tate: Someone please help! AAARRRGGGHHHH!!

Hammy: Squeak.






Tate soon found himself isolated from the rest of the family and with little in the way of creature comforts.



Oh, my. That doesn't look good.



Yep, he's really sick.











A few days later...



Farewell, Tate Whateveryourlastnamewas.

[oshizu]

Bwahahahahahaha. I'm dying!!!!
I love how this update started out so mundanely then quickly dissolved into the weird.
The different shots of Hammy are all marvelous but I would have to say my favorite one is where Tate screams "Someone please help me" in profile and Hammy seems to be grinning.

I've never watched any livestreams or youtube vids about rodent fever, so your update was my first exposure to rodent fever.
Tate's infection must have been hard to set up but well worth the effort!
Thanks for making my stomach hurt from laughing!
This update is perfection!

[PeregrineTook]

Oh my goodness!!  I'm pretty sure Erina wants me to buy the hamster expansion pack now!
Excellent usage of a secondary spouse, by the way  ;=)  Knocked out a career and a death type!

[reggikko]

@oshizu  It's not all that hard. It mainly just takes patience. You have to wait for the cage to get dirty. You can have the Sim be mean to the rodent, but I'm not sure that's even necessary. Alasdair and Rashid were both bitten while having a pretty good relationship with Hammy. In Alasdair's case, the cage wasn't dirty. Kids can't get the disease, by the way.

What I did was have Tate get a somewhat negative relationship with Hammy and, once the cage was dirty, choose "play with" from the menu. That causes the Sim to remove the rodent from the habitat. I then put the habitat into household inventory to save it in the dirty state. After a few hours I could tell that Tate wasn't infected, so I pulled the cage out and tried again. That time it took. After that, it's just a waiting game. It takes about three whole days to go from the bite to death.

A couple of things to note: You can buy a lifetime immunity inoculation on the computer for (I think) $800 per Sim. You also have three days to buy a cure, so there's no real danger.

[oshizu]

*joins the throng of Sharebears rushing out to buy a hamster pet...

Thank you so much for outlining all the essentials for us!
One more question: You mentioned before that children insta-complete their homework when studying their rodent. Does that work for teens, too?

[Shewolf13]

Bwahahahaha, I have the Pet pack, but haven't done anything with the rodents yet!  That is amazing.  Loved this.  The ghost is my favorite XD

[reggikko]

Just for kids, unfortunately.

*joins the throng of Sharebears rushing out to buy a hamster pet...

Thank you so much for outlining all the essentials for us!
One more question: You mentioned before that children insta-complete their homework when studying their rodent. Does that work for teens, too?

[simfulicious]

haha!!!  Looks kinda like rabies!  My Ellis has a hammy, but so far I haven't let anyone take him out of the cage.  Maybe that will be the ** butler's job, because I got the same one when I tried to hire a new one...didn't even let him back in the house! lol