The GO Treatment Centre - A Stranger from a Strange Land

[Schipperke]

Excellent!  I'm delighted to see the interest in this story - I think we'll have fun!  I just wish I could have found a better time to have the computer worked on, but I really wanted to see if it could be upgraded before starting this story.  Oh well.  I'll be missing for a few days, but it will give you time to get your referrals ready.  When you're ready to make a referral, post your referral details here in this thread. 

By the way, is anyone wondering about the name of the treatment centre?  It might be a clever subliminal message: "Go to the treatment centre, GO to the treatment centre, you know you want to GO to the treatment centre."  Then again, those who know my habit of naming things after my dogs might remember that the two new rescue Schipperkes who recently joined the household are named Grace and Oliver - could there be a connection between the first letters of those names and the name of the treatment centre?  Most likely! 

[Audren]

So, we should post our referral in this thread?

[Schipperke]

So, we should post our referral in this thread?

Yes.

[Joanne]

This look great, I'm glad Starr is back. I know we are in for a awesome treat.

[Sophie98]

Hey, Sstarr's back! I'll be reading.

[Audren]

Is this the "Go Treatment Centre?" Do I have the right address?

Okay, Mr. Payne, is it? This treatment centre is a dream come true for us. It's been so hard for us after the accident, you know?

I guess I should explain myself. My name is Eugene Myron, and my brother, Frank, needs help. He was a scientist down in the local lab, working on some scientific mumbo-jumbo. I didn't really understand it. Anyway, one day he volunteered for an experimental test. He did stuff like that a lot. He said it was important in the world of science, and someone had to do it.

Only, this time it went wrong. Something about the test was off. It messed with Frank's head. He wasn't the same when he came back home.



I don't want you to come to the wrong conclusion. Frank was always a kid on the inside. That wasn't a bad thing, whatever our father thought. It's just that, after the accident, his childish nature became his sole characteristic. He reverted back into a kid, basically.



Now, Frank can't even live alone. He doesn't really know how to take care of himself. All he wants to do is hang around the house and play. He'd make me play tag, and hide-in-seek, and have me tell him ghost stories.



I'd like Frank to go to this Treatment Centre so he could learn some skills. That way, he'd be able to support himself later on. If you want to ask me any questions, I've left my contact info at the bottom. Thanks for giving him a chance for a better life.

-Eugene Myron

Referral

Name: Frank Myron
Personal Information: Artistic, Childish, Insane, Genius, Hydrophobic
Treatment Goal: Learning skills to support himself
Other: Frank will be writing home to us every few days, so any paper you could give him to write on would be greatly appreciated. (I will be submitting letters home for Frank)

[Seabody]

My Sims tend to be sneaky devils, so as soon as I track my resident Insane Sim down, I'll refer her here.

[Seabody]

Meet Emily Pinson.



She's always been insane, as long as she can remember. She's had enough of the teasing that it's brought her, and hopes that if she's accepted into the GO Treatment Centre, she would be able to start working towards her dream of becoming a chef.

Referral Information:
Name: Emily Pinson
Age: Young Adult
Traits: Inappropriate, Insane, Natural Cook, Party Animal, Vegetarian
Goal: SuperMax (or, at the very least, Max) the Cooking Skill.
Miscellaneous: Emily does come with a few extras in her inventory, and I will be doing journal entries for her. By the way, I hope you enjoy her sleepwear. Looking back on the allowed list of inventory items, some items may be contraband, apologies if there is any.



Contact Information:

[Shadow]

Wow! Awesome idea and can't wait to see how the insane sims manage

[Gogowars329]

This is looking great! I'm try to get my sim up later today. Poor sim really needs to get over her catfish...

[Gogowars329]

Please Mr Payne. I need help. Wait you're not refusing him yet and you actually want to hear what is wrong with him! We've been to mountains of these places but they all refuse Callum due to his look.
Mr. Payne: But he looks so neat! His hair is beautifully crafted.
Yes but it took me hours to get Callum into the hair dresser's seat and you don't want to see the before pictures.

Mr. Payne: So give me a story about this man Callum Fishis.
Well, he was once the popular kid but one day, he was fishing with his parents when he caught a Catfish. It grew an odd obsession with this Catfish. Her name was Sally. He walked Sally, don't ask how, every morning to keep her fit. Sally died after two years of eating way too much. Callum was devastated. He never recovered. He dropped out of school and went searching for a replacement. He still hasn't found one. He's lost his sense of neatness and has been living filthily for years. His clothes even show his love for Sally. Every piece of clothing he owns has something to do with catfish.
Mr Payne: He doesn't sound too bad.
He is a slob by heart. He's has been rummaging everywhere searching for his precious catfish. He's actually banned from the local supermarket and I have to buy his food. He speaks madness to the local theatre employees as he watches movies and cries and refuses to leave the science centre when he sees dead fish everywhere.
Mr. Payne: I need something else.
His best friend is his statue of Sally.
Mr. Payne: Fill out this form and I'll get back to you to see if Callum has been accepted.


Referral Information:
Name: Callum Fishis
Age: Young Adult
Traits: Insane, Angler, Loves the Outdoors, Slob, Animal Lover
Goal: To find his catfish max the fishing skill and make a friend who is actually living.
Misc: He has an empty inventory. I am going to write 'diary' entries for Callum.

[SadieHamming]

Are you still taking referrals? Because I have an insane sim who needs help.

[Dextra2]

Is there a age limit? Or am I not allowed to send my teen in to get help?

[SadieHamming]

Mr.Payne,
   I heard about your treatment center for insane Sims, and I think it would be very good for the well being of my sister is she was able to be underneath your care. I would be ever so grateful, if you took her in. She used to be normal, but when she turned 13, her dog Fried ran off into the woods. She spent years in the woods looking for him, and she lived out there. Now, she is insane and 'one with the wild' or what ever that means. In the years she was in the forest, she forgot her manners and social skills. And now, she is almost an animal herself. I hope you appreciate how groomed she looks, we fought for hours before I forced her into her new clothing and braided her hair.

She is driving me insane [no pun intended.] I hope that you can take her in, because she is starting to worry me. If that wasn't enough of a reason, the last time I got the Mr.Christopher Steel himself, to come over for dinner, she called him 'over rated', 'ugly', 'Too famous', 'A fishy' [I don''t get that one], 'Too weird' and 'insane'. Then, she chased him home, lets just say I will never get my dinner date.
   She also has no friends, what so ever. The people I tried to help her befriend, she insults and chases them home. Every, single, time. She's a bit of a hot head, so it's hard for her to make friends, unless they are trees. Coleen's so called 'friends' are trees. As you see in this picture;

She had just finished complimenting the tree, on it's clothing. Also, she has a thing with gnomes. She'll randomly yell, "THE GNOME LIVES!!!!" In the most random-est of places, like in the middle of an orchestra concerto. Never bring her to those. Also, she has a thing for ice cream. If she even hears the ice cream truck song, she bolts for the door. But she hasn't figured out how to unlock the door, yet. I only reward her with ice cream, maybe you can do the same.
   I beg you to somehow help her! Please, Mr.Payne, please. She'll help with chores, especially ones to do with Inky. And she likes rock walls, maybe you can reward her with that too. *Sniffle* Please take good care of her, she's like a child to me.
Love,
Katie Bacon

Referral
Name: Coleen Bacon
Personal Information: Insane, Loves The Outdoors, Hot Headed, Athletic, Animal Lover
Treatment Goal: For Coleen to be more in touch with the world, make a few friends, learn manners and a few basic sills in things to support her. 
Other: Coleen only agreed to go if she could write back home, so if Mr.Payne can share any paper and maybe let her borrow a pen, I would appreciate it.

[I'll write journal entries and/or letters back home for Coleen.]
 

[Schipperke]

I'm back!  Thanks to a very dedicated computer guy who spent the weekend working on my computer so I could have it back sooner than expected.  I think he recognized a serious Simmer when he saw one and didn't want to be responsible for my forced withdrawal symptoms. 

It's so exciting to see all these referrals!  And I'm really, really pleased that so many people are interested in contributing letters home, etc, for their Sims.  I know those items will add a lot of interest to the story.  If you look at the referral guidelines above, I've made a slight addition to them - in addition to diaries and letters, if you would like your Sim to receive a care package from home (anything I have in my game), just PM me and we'll try to set it up. 

We have space for 6 Sims in treatment at any time, plus Sstarr (and Mr Payne, that elusive character, may drop in from time to time).  So far our first admission group consists of: 

• Frank Myron, referred by Audren
  Emily Pinson, referred by Seabody
  Callum Fishis (love that name!), referred by Gogowars
  Coleen Bacon, referred by SadieHamming
  

So we have room for two more referrals.  Once the beds are full, I'm not sure whether to start a waiting list or to just close referrals until there's a vacancy - any thoughts on that?

I'd like Frank to go to this Treatment Centre so he could learn some skills. That way, he'd be able to support himself later on. If you want to ask me any questions, I've left my contact info at the bottom. Thanks for giving him a chance for a better life.

-Eugene Myron

Referral

Name: Frank Myron
Personal Information: Artistic, Childish, Insane, Genius, Hydrophobic
Treatment Goal: Learning skills to support himself
Other: Frank will be writing home to us every few days, so any paper you could give him to write on would be greatly appreciated. (I will be submitting letters home for Frank)

Dear Eugene, thank you for referring your brother Frank.  We would be very glad to help Frank learn skills to support himself.  I'm sure your brother will do very well in treatment.

Meet Emily Pinson.
She's always been insane, as long as she can remember. She's had enough of the teasing that it's brought her, and hopes that if she's accepted into the GO Treatment Centre, she would be able to start working towards her dream of becoming a chef.

Referral Information:
Name: Emily Pinson
Age: Young Adult
Traits: Inappropriate, Insane, Natural Cook, Party Animal, Vegetarian
Goal: SuperMax (or, at the very least, Max) the Cooking Skill.

Contact Information:

Dear Seabody,  thank you for referring Emily to the treatment centre.  Emily certainly sounds like a young woman with a lot of potential, and we'll make sure she has plenty of opportunities to practice her cooking skill. 

Referral Information:
Name: Callum Fishis
Age: Young Adult
Traits: Insane, Angler, Loves the Outdoors, Slob, Animal Lover
Goal: To find his catfish max the fishing skill and make a friend who is actually living.
Misc: He has an empty inventory. I am going to write 'diary' entries for Callum.

Dear Gogowars, thank you for referring Callum.  He does sound like a very interesting fellow!  We'll make sure he has plenty of opportunities to spend time outdoors, and I'm sure our cooks will appreciate the fresh fish he'll be catching.

Mr.Payne,
   I heard about your treatment center for insane Sims, and I think it would be very good for the well being of my sister.
Katie Bacon

Referral
Name: Coleen Bacon
Personal Information: Insane, Loves The Outdoors, Hot Headed, Athletic, Animal Lover
Treatment Goal: For Coleen to be more in touch with the world, make a few friends, learn manners and a few basic sills in things to support her. 
Other: Coleen only agreed to go if she could write back home, so if Mr.Payne can share any paper and maybe let her borrow a pen, I would appreciate it.

[I'll write journal entries and/or letters back home for Coleen.]

Dear Katie,  thank you for referring your dear sister to the treatment centre.  Coleen does indeed sound like a very troubled young lady, and I can understand you not wanting her to alienate the most desirable Dynasty Spouse in town.  We can certainly help Coleen learn skills and will be glad of her help with Inky.  However, for lasting improvement, I think it may be necessary for Coleen to make major personality changes, as I fear her Hot-Headed trait will continue to cause problems.  With your permission, we will have her start attending SWAP meetings with a view to acquiring more socially desirable traits.