Gnomish Behavior 2: Double Buns

     Even though the witch had married someone with no powers, Hyacinth felt proud of her chosen sim. She didn't neglect her abilities, and happily started experimenting with the magic cauldron that they'd received as a present. Who could've given her this marvelous gift? Were there other witches in the neighborhood now?

     She couldn't resist, and she poofed over to try it for herself while no one was looking. After happily producing two lumps of precious metals, Hyacinth passed out from exhaustion.

     When she awoke, she heard Bunbuns sniffing in the corner, mumbling how nobody liked him.
     "Quit crying, you big baby." she scolded him lightly.
     "But you're over there, and I'm over here and I don't want to poof over near the fire." he sniffed again.
      "I'm curious about this cauldron, and I want to find from whence it came. I can't do that from all the way over there."
      The two of them had reached a stalemate. Neither wanted to go to the other's corner.

     Meanwhile, Bill had found what he wanted to find in the trash, and he brought it outside to melt it down in the family's outdoor grill. He sat back and waited.

     "There." he said while adjusting his sunglasses. The key ingredient for his experiment had been created.
     For a few days, Bill had the run of the house while the sims were out of it, on their honeymoon.

     The night after their return, Bill and Hyacinth heard the happy sounds of a bunny giggling on the main floor. The couple had brought back a little rodent, and Bunbuns couldn't be happier. The other two were just happy he was finally entertained.

      "Well, don't that beat all." Bill said one night as the trio found that the couple had moved house.
      "At least they took us with them." Hyacinth pointed out.
      "Where's Matilda?" Bunbuns asked, sounding worried.
      "Who?" the other two asked at the same time.
      "My little friend. Where is she? Did they eat her? Oh, I hope they didn't eat her!" He hopped around looking for the shrew. Bill rolled his eyes, and Hyacinth wondered why they'd been placed outside of the house. Did the husband decide that?

    Bill happily found the family's outdoor grill, and he got right back to work on his scheme.
    He felt there were too little gnomes in the world.

    The following night, Bunbuns turned around really fast and said, "I heard her! Did you hear that scurrying sound? That was her!"
     "Then go inside and find her." Hyacinth said, almost bored. She practiced her broom tricks while she pondered why the man of the house would place them outside like lawn ornaments.

     What felt like only a few nights later, Hyacinth saw the couple get out of a taxi with a little baby girl in their arms! She could feel magic in this one, and she went to sleep that night a very happy little gnome witch.

     Hyacinth and Bunbuns heard a strange noise coming from the backyard.
     "Well, that didn't quite work like I wanted it to." Bill said after the two of them poofed over to him.
      "What are you doing?" Bunbuns asked him.
      Hyacinth answered, "He's making gnomes... or... he's not."
      Bill flopped down on the ground in disgust and said, "It's these blasted inferior materials! Why don't they eat more interesting things and then throw them out so I might use them! I can't do much with pizza."
      He and Hyacinth started discussing different methods of gnome making while Bunbuns stood there, sniffing because he missed his Matilda.

    A few nights later, Bill tried his recipe with mac and cheese, and he got the same result.

     "I just don't understand why it won't work!" he complained to Hyacinth after his second failed experiment.

     "You need a more advanced biological compound." Hyacinth answered. "Perhaps sushi? That, at least, is more connected to its living form. Honestly, what did you expect from packaged meal in a box?" she asked, referring to the cheap mac and cheese. "Oh, if only they had an alchemy station..."

     Bunbuns wanted to take part in what looked like a very intellectual conversation to him. "I don't know... sushi sounds like a fishy idea to me." Then he laughed at his own joke while the other two groaned.

    The next day, Bill woke up to find both gnome statues next to each other in the yard.
    Bunbuns spoke up, "I decided they might want to be next to each other. They look happier this way, don't you think?"
     Then Bill got an idea. Perhaps these not-alive gnomes could be useful after all. What if he could get enough of them and figure out how to use them to take over this neighborhood? Still, he wished to create real gnomes, and he wanted to keep trying before he decided on his plan B.
     "Quick!" he spoke fast. "She's coming! Act natural!"

     "What in the world?" Rose asked. "How did you three get back here? Maybe Pedro moved you. I'm going to have to ask him about these statues as well."
       Once she went back inside, Bill said, "She knows! She knows, surely she knows!"
       "Calm down, sunscreen nose." Hyacinth said sternly. "She can handle strange and unusual. I have faith."
       Bunbuns still wanted to find his Matilda.

    "Failed again. I guess ratatouille doesn't work either." Bill sighed.
    "Rats? Oh no! Not my Matilda!" Bunbuns cried.
    "Not that kind of ratatouille!" Bill said impatiently. "Go make yourself useful and put this one with the others!"

     That afternoon, the family threw a party, and Bunbuns decided he'd sneak into the house, blending in with the crowd. At last, he could see his Matilda. He also found the fish, but the fish didn't have much to say.

     "Pumpkin pie doesn't work either." Bill said.
     "Where did Bunbuns go?" Hyacinth asked curiously.

     "What the?!" Bill thought loudly to the other two as they all three came to, finding themselves on the front lawn again.

    "This is why I don't like sims." Bill said with his face in the dirt.
     Bunbuns sighed, wondering how he could get himself back into the house.

     "Oh no! Who would do such a thing?" Rose asked as she bent to lift Bill to his feet. Bill sighed with relief that at least there was one sim that was worth keeping. However, he changed his mind with the next thing she said.

     "There you go, Tubby." she said.

     Bunbuns giggled silently while Bill thought Watch who you're calling 'tubby', fatso.

     Hyacinth felt happy when she noticed Rose was pregnant.

    "It's just not my day." Bill mused.

    Winter came and went, and Bill failed at his experiments many times.
    Bunbuns's little friend Matilda died, and he was inconsolable for many, many days.

    Bill tried his next experiment with some un-cooked carrots he found.

    Bunbuns kept finding ways to sneak into the house, much to Pedro's chagrin. He liked to go inside and tell his stories to the plants, and he'd made a good friend out of one of them.

     Then, to his surprise, he heard a voice upstairs that sounded like it was carrying on a conversation with the toilet. He called out to it, and it poofed next to him.

    The two of them heard Hyacinth cackling at Bill as he yelled, "Oh no! No!" His experiment had succeeded in a way he hadn't wanted it to.

     Bunbuns was happy at least. Now, he had a new friend, and he called him Junior. Junior didn't mind hearing the same stories over and over again.

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Their yard has turned into a gnome graveyard! I don't think my gnomes are dying because they maintain their names. I was only positive that Junior was new when it gave him the generic name. I really have no idea (well, other than Bill's experiments) how the statues showed up.

I can't help but be reminded of that story from sims 1 where the lawn gnome and his army of pink flamingos burned alive a man in his house because he'd kicked him one too many times. Then they made it a movie in sims 2. That was cool. Maybe I need a flamingo or two. :)