Kitee Bones Lived in a Graveyard

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Chapter One: In Which Kitee Moves Into the Graveyard (and Catches some Fish)

Hi! I'm Kitee Bones.



My dream is to live in a graveyard. Not that I have any affinity for the dead or anything. It's just that I love graveyards and I love adventure, and why not combine the two?

I moved to Sunset Valley today. I bought 299 Skyborough Blvd, because you can't beat it for proximity to the graveyard. I won't be living there, obviously, but I'll keep it because when someone asks you where you live it's easier to say "299 Skyborough Blvd" than "the graveyard." For one thing, they'd think you're crazy. And if they decide to visit you at 299 Skyborough Blvd and discover that there's no house there, they'll say "Huh. I guess I got the address wrong." And then they won't bother you anymore. Which is fine by me.

My traits are loner, loves the outdoors, angler, and brave. And one other one. What was it? Oh, yeah. Absent minded. I always forget.

Anyway, enough hanging around this empty lot in which I have no intention of living. Time to go to the cemetery!



Pleasant Rest Cemetery is a lovely place. Full of flowers and plants, and not to mention that wonderful mausoleum. The Grim Reaper greets me as I enter. Hi, Grim! Nice to meet you. Guess we're roomies now, huh?

After I get settled down in my new home I visit the bookstore to buy a few fishing books.



Then I head back to the cemetery to read them. It really is wonderful out here. No one to disturb me, the fish jumping in the pond...



I try a bit of fishing in the pond, but I'm not really sure how to catch the fish here. So I head over to the shore and get a couple of jellyfish. A good start! I head home again for supper, which consists of a leftover tomato. Hey! I bet you've had a tomato for supper sometimes, too. When you're just starting out it's not as easy.



But I'm exhausted, so I curl up to sleep on my favorite stone bench. Much more comfortable than it's made out to be. However, I sleep with my eyes open just a sliver, so that nothing can sneak up on me and catch me unawares.



There was some odd phenomena around the tombs throughout the night, but no ghosts appeared.



I decide to start the next day with a bit of reading. Unfortunately Cornelia Goth decides to visit the graveyard, ruining my "enjoying solitude" moodlet. She heads straight over to Gertrude Flansburg's tomb and either mourns her or cackles at her death, it's unclear.



Then she heads off in her cheap little car. Maybe she's going incognito. She might try some dark glasses and a hat at least, though.



Because I actually need the things I bought at the store yesterday to use as bait I decide to head over to the gym for some more filling food. After a tomato, canned soup is pretty good.



So's a hot bath. The steam makes me sleepy.



Like Goldy-Locks, I try out the three recliners. For future reference or whatever.

      

I've decided they're all equally comfortable.

That evening I go fishing to one of the places around town. I catch my first rainbow trouts and catfish. Very nice!



The next morning when I wake up I find trespassers! Buster and Bessie Clavell. How am I supposed to study with them there?



After a bit of fishing here and there around town I go to the diner for supper, and then head over to the park to fish. Across the pond from me is a fellow fisherman, Christopher Steel. He's very nice. Don't worry--I'm not going to marry him or anything. I like my solitude! But maybe I can get a few tips from him.



After a few hours of fishing I get my first perfect fish, a minnow! My fishing level is at five. So lifetime wish of perfect aquarium, one thirteenth of the way complete! See? Who needs a house when they can have a cemetery!


Thank you for reading the first chapter of my new story! It's going to be short, only a few chapters long, exploring how Kitee adapts to living in the cemetery and maybe completes her lifetime wish. Have you ever tried to live solely off of community lots? It's fun!

[RoseLena10]

Great start! I can't wait for the next chapter!

[Spork-tastic]

Very cool, I love graveyards (not goth at all!) me and a friend of mine are doing a photo shoot there in our all white ballet costumes LOL! Creepy, yet oh so cool! Keep writing I love all your stories.

[loveSims]

Awesome start! Look very interesting, I love it.

[MoonsAreBlue]

This is really interesting! I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more updates.

[alex51299]

Great start, I might even try this. 

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Chapter Two: In Which Kitee Meets some Ghosts

After a nice tomato breakfast I decide to explore the catacombs. After all I might as well, right? I can't live in the cemetery and not know what's in the lower levels.



I spend several hours inside. I find a perfect apple seed. And also some pretty freaky creatures that cover me with soot and shear off my hair. My beautiful hair!



Was the perfect apple seed worth all that? I don't know. Fortunately though a shower restores my clothes and hair. (Wow! Regenerative water? I could get rich selling it!)

After completing a couple of opportunities around town I return to the cemetery. For some reason I'm drawn to one of the tombs. I don't know who's buried there, but it makes me so sad I start to cry.



And almost immediately the ghosts start appearing. I meet my first ghost, Tragic Clown. He's a prankster, always levitating benches and tombs, and even though we start off well we don't really hit it off. He refused to tell me anything about himself and yawned when I tried to talk about fishing and the outdoors. Rude!



I also meet Anabelle Oinkslopes... (don't laugh at her name, she's a ghost and can come haunt you!)



Lewis Stu... (did he invent Stu Surprise?)



Kermit and Queenie Landgraab...



... and Gaylord Koffi and Gertrde Flansburgh, who don't seem to get along with Tragic Clown. (Don't blame them.)



Queenie Landgrab has an evil plan: she will sneak up on Gertrude Flansburgh and throw stinky socks at her!



This is crazy! It's like a ghost convention! I have to admit, I'm a bit scared. I'm usually brave, but none of these ghosts seem very nice, and they're all... you know... ghosts.



Fortunately Gaylord Koffi comes over to talk to me, and he's pretty nice. I tell him all about getting my clothes burnt off and my hair shaved in the catacombs.



And then he's like, "You live here?"

And I'm like, "Yeah. So do you."

"Not really. I mean, I'm dead. You actually live here. Why?"

"Because it's nice. Also more cost-effective. I don't have to buy any furniture or build a house or anything. Besides, I like the cemetery."

"Try being stuck here for all eternity. So you don't have anything? No fridge, oven, toilet, shower, bed?"

"Bed? I scoff at the notion of a bed! I'm an adventurer. I don't need a bed."



"What an odd person you are. Nice meeting you, Kitee Bones." At that moment the sun comes up and all the ghosts vanish. Oh dear! I've got to get some sleep.

I wake up sometime later feeling refreshed and ready to start a new day.



I spend it fishing, collecting, and harvesting. Why buy bait at the store when it grows on trees?



I catch all sorts of fish, from piranhas to black goldfish to red herrings to alley catfish. Surprisingly, those teeth are just decorative. I reeled several of them in and not one of them bit me!



I'm getting so good at fishing that fish just leap into my hands!



Afterward I head home (299 Skyborough Blvd, that is) for the first time since I moved there to recycle my newspapers and put my perfect fish in the fridge. I have three now: minnows, alley catfish, and red herrings. Three out of thirteen!


Thanks for reading!

[Figwit]

This is fun and I love the way you interpret their thought bubbles.  I am still smiling over the stinky socks and the sneaky Christopher Steel reference.

Graveyards are fascinating and I love to visit them too and read about people long since gone.  I don't think I would like to live there though. 

[alex51299]

I've never really sent any of my sims to the graveyard, although I know Gaylord Koffi is related to Gobias Koffi and I've heard of tragic clown. Isn't Queenie Landgrab  Nancy Landgrab's  mom?

[ApplesApplesApples]

I've never really sent any of my sims to the graveyard, although I know Gaylord Koffi is related to Gobias Koffi and I've heard of tragic clown. Isn't Queenie Landgrab  Nancy Landgrab's  mom?

I honestly have no idea, but probably. There are five Landgraab graves. I don't know the names of the other three because they haven't come out as ghosts yet, but I guess they're all in the family line. Maybe I'll play with Nancy for a little while just to see, because you made me curious.

[alex51299]

I honestly have no idea, but probably. There are five Landgraab graves. I don't know the names of the other three because they haven't come out as ghosts yet, but I guess they're all in the family line. Maybe I'll play with Nancy for a little while just to see, because you made me curious.

Or you could just check on the sims 3 wiki. 

[ApplesApplesApples]

Or you could just check on the sims 3 wiki. 

Yeah, that's true.

[RoseLena10]

Lovely update! Very interesting story!

[loveSims]

So much fun to read! Can't wait for more.

[Spork-tastic]

When ever I go to the grave yard (on sims) there is only like 2-3 ghosts out you have a lot. Really fun story. That's a cool picture of her pulling the fish out of the water you can really see the fish-details.