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Gen 3, Part 13 - College Households Grunt
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Dear Buck,

I am writing to you like I promised to tell you that I have arrived at La Fiesta Tech and that everything is fine. I hope everything is fine at home, too. Please inform me if there are any problems with Ripp.



I am glad to hear that your birthday and father’s went well. Don’t forget to do well in school. Please take care.

Your brother,
Tank Grunt

P.S.: I am concerned about the reports of Ripp being unable to get a scholarship due to his failing grades. I consider it my duty to offer him a place to sleep when he gets here, but sincerely hope that he will pull himself together and work for his own place.



Towards the middle of his second year at college, Jonny Smith was very surprised to find Ripp Grunt standing on his porch with his luggage behind him.

“Jonny! My best friend! My one and only buddy! Please tell me you have a tiny broom closet left for me to stay in!”

“…I’ll… have to ask Ophelia…”



“Well, we do have this second room upstairs.”

“Awesome! Okay, let me just get my stuff…”

As soon as Ripp had settled in, the three sat down to listen to the tale of Ripp’s college adventures.



“We got off to a great start. I had just arrived, decked out in my new college outfit, when Tank started to complain about what I was wearing. HE still had the facepaint on, so I don’t see what right he has to criticize anybody’s clothes.”

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“…looking like I don’t even know! Some sort of biker with an open shirt or what, with some stupid necklace! I swear, I don’t know what he’s thinking!”



“I guess Ripp thought he looked like a rock star, because he brought this loud guitar with him and played it all the freaking time! I have no idea how he could even afford this thing!”

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“He was especially pissed about that old guitar I bought. Said I should have used the money to buy better clothes. I was like, hello, I bought awesome clothes!”



“And the nagging just kept going all day.”



“And all the women he brought home all the time! I’d hoped that this would stop after high school, but college just made things worse!”

“…Wait, you thought Ripp would settle down in college?”

“…That’s another one of those things that I don’t get, is it?”



“Yes. Yes it is.”

“Anyway, while I may have moral objections to my brother switching girlfriends more often than his underwear - and before you say anything I would like to remind you that I did his laundry, so I know it’s true - this was still within the expected parameters.”



“I did not expect simultaneous girlfriends. And I definitely did not expect that one of them would be the cow mascot.”



“That’s when things got really weird, incidentally. As soon as Ripp had… you know, let’s not go into details on this… as soon as I had heard loud mooing noises from Ripp’s bedroom where I am sure they were playing Monopoly, the llama mascot started to come around our place every day and did those weird dances of his.”



“And then Ripp, the cow and the llama had some long talks and the end of it was that they all decided to be best friends.”

“…Are you drunk?”

“I am considering it. But no, this is really what happened. Ripp told me some weird story about how the Llama and the Cow were ancient enemies from times before our town existed, but now they had decided to unite for a worthier cause, that being the worship of one Ripp Grunt. He wrote a song about it. It’s called “I sold my soul to the devil, but it was too hot for him to handle”.”



“Anyway, after a year of that madness, I had enough and kicked him out.”


And thus concludes the tale of The Cow and The Llama.

The original plan was that if The Cow took a liking to another student like she'd done with Michael Simnitch, and if that student was unattached and had a Family or Knowledge aspiration, he could try to free her from The Llama cult again by beating up The Llama, and he and The Cow could get married. Preferably, these would have been Michael's children or grandchildren. His eldest son was a Fortune sim though and she didn't care about his younger son. I tried to set her up with Gabriel Curious, but she wasn't interested. Michael's grandchildren were still too young at the time - the only one who had gone to university was another Fortune sim, as well. And that's when I decided to change the ending a bit and have the Llama cult and the Cow join forces to worship Ripp Grunt.

Then The Llama spontaneously combusted on Tank Grunt's porch during his first year. Which sucked. I mean, obviously a new llama spawned and they look completely alike, but it wasn't the same Llama. The one in the screenshots is actually the new llama. The actual Llama's grave has been watered in and he's still on the Grunt College lot, because I don't know what to do with him.


Coming up next: More of Ripp's college adventures!

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