More Awesome Than You!

OK. I found this link by accident on MTS2: Deception Pass (http://www.deception-pass.com/).

It is the most awesome Sims story I have ever seen. The plot is like Poppy Z. Brite and Buffy The Vampire Slayer got together and made beautiful babies. It has:
- cute arty girls.
- pretty musician guys, who are also vampires.
- an adorable gay couple.
- mad scientists. Who are also cute. If you like evil people.
- a very evil rich overlord. And guess what? Even he's cute! But evil.
- some more vampires, some of them quite sexy.
- an amazing kick-ass voodoo grandmother.
- zombies. Human and hamster.

Anyway, if that sounds like your sort of story, definitely check it out. But make sure you have a lot of hours free, first. I'm a fast reader, and even then it's taken me 2 hours to read the first 13 chapters - and I have 3 more to go. It also has a livejournal deception_pass (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=deception_pass), which you have to go to to read Chapter 16 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/deception_pass/39949.html) - that's not on the web site for some reason.

I am totally in awe. And jealous! This story makes mine look completely pathetic! (But wow, do I have a lot to learn!).

I've just read the first 11 chapters and I have a headache from staring at the screen so long, so I've had to stop!  Not sure how long it's taken me, about 1 1/4 hours I think.  I was supposed to be going straight back into my game!  Will read the rest tomorrow, I think.  Need a break from the monitor now.  You're right, it's a very compelling story - thanks for the link.

Yeah, that one is pretty cool. She does a lot of hard work on that! Half of the fun is seeing all of the interesting ways she's set things up in the pictures and wondering where she got the items - and in some cases, trying to figure out just how she got the characters to do what they did.  ;D  It's kind of  my 'guilty pleasure' reading because, while the story is engaging, it gets deeply silly in places and drifts all over the place. And, um, it's a story told with Sims. *g*

I had to read the whole thing!!  Pretty amazing story, and in my neck of the woods, too. That was a bonus.  Now I can hardly wait to see what you come up with next, baratron.

Everybody in it speaks like Spike in Buffy.

 ;D

Seems cool, gonna check it out.

Thanks for the tip! :)

Baratron, thanks muchly for posting that link. That's absolutely brilliant! I've been chortling like a madwoman here for the past three hours because of it.

Oh, lord. Excellent, absolutely excellent.

Thanks for that. Provided a nice distraction from the essay that has to be done by tomorrow morning :P

Thanks so much for this link. I am already waiting for the next chapter.

Thanks for the reminder to be grateful once again that these days are so far behind me. :)

hmm, still trying to decide if I should bookmark it, or just read the whole damn thing... maybe I'll just pop a couple aspirins and read it now.

Pretty awesome. I'm hooked!  :)

I love your stories Baratron :)

wow, though there were a few silly parts, it was pretty awesome.
I didn't want it to end

Thanks for the link, baratron!  Great entertainment between job-related-yawn activities.

Hey yetyak, Bangelnuts - I didn't write that story :). It's by akiea_guinea and rosewalker. I'm just a reader.

Make sure you stop by the Deception Pass ivejournal to give feedback to the authors.

Thanks for th info I will do that

I guess my post does make it sound like I thought you wrote it, baratron, but I was referring to your last line about having a lot to learn and your stories being pathetic (or something like that).  I think your stories have a lot of charm, and it sounded like you had some ideas to incorporate.  That's what I'm looking forward to. 

Hope this made sense, but since this is my 50th post and I finally get the lips, it might not.   ;D
*goes into celebration mode*  Yes, I lead a dull life....

I just finished reading. I've been obsessed with this story for 2 days! it is truly awesome but for a couple of consistency issues. I can't wait for the next installment! Thanks, Baratron. :)

yeah, ignoring the whole train scene paid off.
I read the entire thing last night and only realized today that I'm in serious withdrawal... I need stories. I actually went looking for good stories today but I've already read everything everyone here's written and then some, and nobody seems to be updating anymore, (hint hint, you all know who you are...)

I posted a new story on my journal last Tuesday, but you still can't read it because livejournal's photo hosting is inexplicably broken >:(. I'm severely Not Happy.

When it is working, I'll post the URL here, of course. But as it is, with pictures missing from all over the place, all you'd get is a massive spoiler - because the last photos are present and correct.

That's too bad!!  I'm waiting for your next installments on all three stories!

I (already) read Chapter 3 which had one or two pictures per page showing and really enjoyed it. Of course, I'll go back if/when you say more pictures are there, but your story stands up without them :)

I've realized that what makes a great story is, uh, a great story.
Not a documentation of what Sims can do, but a story of them doing what they don't normally do. I only realized this (duh) because after reading them, I wanted to go into my game, then realized, blah, Sims don't really do those things.
I mean, Mitch and Max are great, but if they were in my game, they'd just be running around trying to play punch you punch me, or burning Lobster Thermidor the second I took my eye off them.

Great story, I really liked Freeze Pop too, there's something about incorporating that sneaky 'Mad Scientist' thing that really appeals to me.

Baraton, if you're still having trouble with Scrapbook you should file a support request, as per instructions at status.livejournal.com. I can access Scrapbook just fine and upload.

Oh, I put a support request in days ago (http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=527871).

At this point, I'm more amused than anything else. I could've uploaded the pictures to my own web site a dozen times over and had time left for dessert. Now it's a battle of wills. Who will crack first? Me or the LiveJournal Business Entity? Heh.

Oh, so LJ is just being on crack. Again.

Well, it's not like it's any less on crack than before they got eaten by a corporation.. it's just a new and different sort of crack!

(Seriously, though, I hope they pull their heads out and get it fixed, since you're technically paying for the damned thing.)

FYI - Episode 17 of Deception Pass was posted on the Live Journal site yesterday.  Lots of twists and turns.  I loved it.

I've been reading this novel.  I'm enjoying it so far.  They are pretty good writers, the description aren't amateurish and her dialogue is very witty in a Buffy sort of way.

The plot again reminds me of a Buffy episode, but overall it's quite enjoyable.  The novelty factor is the amazing way they manage to make their Sims expression fit the story.  That's pretty cool.

The only distraction, is that I find myself drooling over all her objects, clothes and hairstyles.  Not to mention her houses and neighbourhoods.  I wish she could package her entire sims folder and sent it to me :)  I think I'd pay good money for that!

I'm hooked. Thanks to have posted about it, really.

Great story, I'm still reading but I really loved the hamster bit, I am still laughing picturing that! The dream pictures where really well done! Thanks for the link!

My livejournal ScrapBook is STILL broken! I finally gave up and spent an hour reposting all the photos and editing my links.

Here: The Friends Family: Chapter 3: Mitch's Fan Club (http://www.livejournal.com/community/baratronstories/3139.html). Features 50% more photos and 200% more smut!

If you read it, please comment - I finished this Chapter on November 22nd and have been waiting since then for the photo hosting to stop being broken so I could share it. Having waited so long to post the bugger I'm desperate for feedback!

Damn! I got up to Max hiding the newspaper and the pictures wouldn't load. I'll try again later, as I want to see the greatest Sims picute ever! So far, though, I really like it. Great job!

Oh baratron I read pretty much everything on your site over the last couple of days and enjoyed it very much. Thank you. (I suck at feedback. I read voraciously and never think to post for stories.) Not all the images loaded for me (probably my computer tho, I'm using NN on a mac - I really should switch to Firefox) but enough of them did that I think I got all the main ones. I'll check back and make sure tho. Thanks again - it was fun to read :) I actually like the friends ones much better than the band ones, but that's probably because I'm old and boring and don't know who the band is :)

There was one story I wanted to read and the link didn't work - I mean, it wasn't linked. I think it's the chapter right before this one... I'd love to read it.