@Hooligan: Yeah, the Hobbits are mostly gone now, but occasionally you find a couple hiding out in the woodpiles
We're not really that close to Australia. There's quite a bit of open ocean between the two and no sharing of critters. Now and then you might get a spider or two sneaking in on a boat, but customs/agriculture usually stamps down hard on that... so to speak. No rains of spiders, fish or otherwise. Seriously, NZ has only one poisonous spider and it's not actually lethally so. The most scary looking bug we have is a sort of giant cricket known as a "Weta," and it's only scary looking.

The Australians mock us for our wimpy wildlife.

Damn. I have relatives in the UK. *worries*

I'd say come to NZ (we have no dangerous animals!) but our immigration policies are really random. We have highly qualified people being turned away, and unskilled refugees being allowed in. And sometimes vice versa. But students are always welcome

On the Brain Gender note, I took a personality test once which told me I was 71% female. Which was a little alarming. I suspected I might swing a little that way, but not so far as that!!! But I'm a little dubious, because it claimed "sports fan" was a male trait. Seriously, given a choice between reading a book and watching a game? I'm a bookworm for crying out loud!

Okay, rant over.

*Pokes Sadie for new chapter*

First: Yaaaaayyyy! Update!:blob5:
Second: "Just have to do?" It's great!

So, we meet Tim's mother. Now he has a real excuse for not calling.
"Hi mom? Remember how you were joking about a monster kidnapping me? Well, funny story - But hey, good news! I have a girlfriend!"

Bloom: I have used Simpe Simsurgery to replace a servo with an existing sim. You have to get it to change to formal and back again to fix it, but then it seems to work fine. Seeing a normal-looking sim recharge is a little eerie, though.

*Bows* The muse she ambushed me that time

The tune is based on this song here.

Sadie: Ah yes, the problems of balancing Real Life and creativity. (sighs) And when the pesky characters start bugging you when you're trying to do Work... (grumbles) Still, it's better than staring at a blank page with no idea of what to write...

Hooligan: Just out of interest, it's pretty much like that here in New Zealand, too. Unconnected houses, private yards, etc. I visited relatives in England and was like - what? You're all joined together???

More Strangetown! Yay!
With some new faces, perhaps?
Is that Nervous getting smooched there?

I'm intrigued enough to keep watching.

Though, I'm still trying to work out if I like Bryan or not.

If she was my sister, I'd be like, really nervous by now...

Let's all sing the update song,
the update song,
the update song,
Let's all sing the update song!
the update song.

We're all holding all our breaths,
the update song,
the update song,
We want to know what happens next!
The update song.

Oh Cliffhangers, they make us squeak,
the update song,
the update song,
We could be hanging here for weeks!
The update song.

Let's all sing the update song,
the update song,
the update song,
Let's hope we won't be waiting long!
the update song.

:blob7::blob7::blob7:

I have no idea where that all came from.

Awww.... They're such a cute couple.
So the Women in this legacy so far are - Mad Scientist and Criminal Mastermind?
These guys like Bad Girls, right?

And dead cat whaaaaagghhh! (sob)

Sadie: There's a no auto-noogie? Nah, it's too much fun to watch 'em.  Johnny did it to Ophelia today... I'm just waiting for a girl to do it to her boyfriend..

Astral: Hey, we're beginning to hijack this thread, too!

I'd say about six, but it depends on the characters you make.

This could be fun to read, but it is just a race? Or with various challenges?
And who is setting it up, and why? And... and... and...

Do it.

*Backs up truck. Tips out cookies.*

Whaahooo! Tim Not Dead! Tim Remembers! Tim and Ileeya back together and plotsing! Trippy near-death sequence!

*Dances*

But Tim and Shirra. Eeeeewwwwwwwwwww!!!

Astral - I think your readers have threadjacked your story! I haven't seen so many posts between updates!

Must be the cliffhangers. Keeps us all twitching.

Hey, this is really well written, and the pictures are pretty good too.
Except, in the bit where you say he's wearing a leather jacket, the pictures have him in a t-shirt. *nitpicking*