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2.3 Time to Face the Music

Once Lancelot had a (literal) taste of Layla Lufti, his thoughts cleared up about Malika. It was just going to have to end.

He went to her house this time. Jogging, because that paunch was starting to show again.

She was still living in her parents house.

She met him with unsuspicious joy. Despite the fact that he hadn’t talked to her for about a week, Sim time, her relationship meter was near the top. In her eyes, Lance walked on water.

That made this all the harder.

He tried to soften the blow. Tell her it was him, not her.

But it didn’t go over well at all.

She didn’t want to be friends after he’d betrayed her. Their friendship, which had shown such a high meter a minute ago, dropped through the floor. She kicked him out of the house immediately.

At least he was free now.

2.2 That’s Because the Hot Babes all Went to Egypt

Uncle Jared never did get off Lancelot’s ass.

Um, wow, Jared, he can really kick your butt into next week now. Did you notice that?

Lance took his next trip to Egypt and set himself up at the base camp.

He hunted up a bit more treasure.

And found some secret passageways.

And hit on chicks. He met a few completely incompatible ones, including the relics dealer in the bizarre, who just immediately hated everything about him. I have seen Sims take to each other immediately, but never to hate each other immediately.

So he called up an Egyptian chick he was already acquainted with from the hotel he stayed at in France.

She turned out to have recently been dumped.

Was this an opportunity? Was there chemistry? She turned out to be Childlike, like his mom, and they spent a lot of time that evening playing tag. He talked her up until she was his friend, so he could call her later and invite her to visit him in the States.

Then, another alluring woman, this one Chinese, at base camp.

Also single! He stayed up until five in the morning, engrossed in conversation with her, and then slept into the afternoon.

Then, as he was puttering around, trying to do something with the next day before it was totally wasted, he found an Egyptian girl wandering through the camp.

Her name was Layla Lufti. She was a Vegetarian like him. She was also Excitable and Flirty.

Yowza.

2.1 There are no Hot Babes in China

Lance was still torn about Malika. The more he got to know her, the less he really knew here. He took her out on a hot date to a French Bistro, and she didn’t even dress up.

They never really got past smalltalk, and yet she seemed to hang on his every word.

(Seriously, I was trying to see if Lance could actually learn any of Malika’s traits. From her behavior, I was pretty sure we she was Bookworm, Absent Minded, and a Slob — two traits I’ve already played and one that wasn’t very appealing. Lancelot is the strong, awkward type; he doesn’t have any Charisma by design. But you’d think even without it, he’d’ve been able to learn something about her by himself. Seems like the Game Powers were trying to tell me that maybe they weren’t meant to be together after all.)

He escaped his confused ambivalence with a trip to China, where he got his white belt in Sim Fu.

And he explored Chinese tombs with secret underwater passageways.

Way to swim in the slimy, scary water, brave Lancelot.

But mostly he hit on chicks. The first four hot Chinese chicks he hit on were all married. Married! Argh.

Then he met this one at the dojo, and she turned out to be single. Woot!

(I think the mirror in this pic is awesome.)

Then she started yelling at him for no reason. Oh, wait, that’s pretty much what Uncle Jared does. He hightailed it out of there.

The book dealer looked a bit more mature, but she was also single.

Except that the hated each other almost on sight. Every attempt at conversation he made annoyed both of them.

Ah, well, the search for love would go on, but at least he had a bunch of cool swag to sell.

2.0 Passing the Torch to Lancelot

Connor helped Lance finish the last homework he would ever hand in. Isn’t that a great feeling?

Because it was time for his birthday too.

I give you Lancelot, now adult, on his day inheriting the Sample empire.

Um, wow, Lance. Let’s get you to the wardrobe before you’re arrested by the fashion police. And maybe a bit of time lifting weights too.