“No, Vid, I’m not going to talk some sense into Lazlo. Let him date Erin Curious if he wants. She’s a lot nicer than some other people I could name.”

“No, I don’t care who or what her brother is. You’re just jealous anyway because Circe is dating him again.”

“Yes, I said jealous.”

“Yes, she is dating him.”

“For crying out loud, Vid, this has been going on for five years now!”

“Look, just pack your things and move to college. Leave it to Jenny. Yes, Jenny will look after Lazlo. You don’t have to worry. Let Jenny handle this.”



Dear Jenny,

I’m really sorry for sicking Vid on you, but it was the best option. I mean, he wanted to skip college so that he could stay at home and break Lazlo and Erin up. I had to calm him down somehow. And you know how to handle him better than I do.

Anyway, I feel like I should remind you that you’re not the only one who had to change her plans because of Vid. I was really happy living on my own here and was planning to ask Michael to move in this semester, but since Vid’s plans to move in with Circe were overturned by her moving in with Loki, he’s staying with me for now.

His alternative proposal was to move in with Circe and Loki, but as much as I hate him right now for overthrowing my plans and eating all my food, I don’t want him dead.



Of course he thinks he’s doing me a favor, since I was so lonely here. Now he spends all night writing dirty chat messages with Circe. He forgot to close the window one night and I woke up to indescribable eldritch horrors.

No, I’m not sending you the chat log. I want you to live a happy life with your family. Me, I’m going to join a monastery. My life is over.

I hope little Jonny got over that ear infection.

Pascal





Oh yeah. Things were finally going Loki Beaker’s way. He had rented a small college apartment for him and Circe, with no Vidcund on the premises. Point One. And his facial hair was, as he had on good authority, the most impressive one on campus. Point Two. It accentuated his features and hid the horribly adorable chin. Point Three.



Point Four: Circe looked even hotter now than when she was a teenager. Hot enough to set a beard on fire. And she was all Loki’s. No Vid in sight.

The world was in perfect order, Loki thought, as he went off to fix his beard.





Dear Jenny,

Murdering Vid seems like a pretty good option from where I’m standing. Wait until you hear his latest.

So Circe moved in with Loki Beaker, as surprised exactly one person. And since we all know that Circe is an evil witch from hell, in a move that really should have surprised no one, she still keeps Vid in her clutches. He keeps telling me all about it.



Vid went to see Circe as soon as Loki left her alone to go attend his classes, and she wasted no time sinking her claws into him. Supposedly, he had gone there to give her a piece of his mind for stringing him along all this time.



Well, you can probably guess how this ended.

I did not have to guess.

I really wish Vid had left this up to my imagination.



Anyway, the story goes like this: Circe thought Loki was a nice guy, but it turns out he’s an evil, manipulative, controlling guy, much unlike her sweet and innocent self. Of course, Loki himself is not helping matters by picking a fight with Vidcund every time he runs into him. Which is pretty often, since Vid hangs around Circe’s house most of the time. He still manages to get excellent grades, which just makes matters worse. You know how jealous Loki has always been of him.



So, yeah, Loki’s pretty pissed. It did not help that Vid found out his most embarrassing secret and told all of La Fiesta Tech. No, not Mr. Fuzzlepaws, Erin blabbed about that when he was still a teen. But apparently he’s actually unable to grow a beard. That thing he has on his chin now? Robot beard.

Yeah, I don’t know either. Explains why it keeps changing colors at least.

And the whirring sounds.

You know, we probably should have suspected something way earlier.



Anyway, robotic beard aside, Vid has been entertaining hopes that Circe will come live with us. You know, because the house is not crowded enough already. That would be enough to make me move into the dorms, even if Old Angus still shivers when you mention them. I told him so, and he said I was the best brother ever for paving the way for him and Circe to get together.

Yes, I do wonder sometimes how oblivious Vid can get. I mean, there has to be a limit, right?

Congrats, by the way! Will it be a boy or a girl?





Dear Jenny,

Because having to deal with a lovesick Vid (Circe got engaged to Loki Beaker) wasn’t enough, I seem to be stalked by a woman in a cow suit.



She keeps trying to hit on me. Vid witnessed this and now he keeps joking about how I have found my soulmate.

I figured I’d take this opportunity to come out to him (for the sixth time, seriously, everybody back home knows I like guys except him), but unfortunately he stopped listening after “The cow costume isn’t really the issue here” and, bottom line, he now thinks I’m a furry.

Leathery?

Whatever.



Things with Michael are not going well. He thinks I’m letting myself be pushed around by my brother, and while he is right, somebody needs to keep Vid safe from himself.

To sum it up, we’re not dating anymore.



I’m… not feeling well. Something’s wrong with me. I keep getting unreasonably angry whenever I see Circe.

I know, this is a completely natural reaction to her presence, but I mean really angry. Like I want to beat her up angry.

Vid seems to have told her about the cow mascot (SIGH), since she keeps telling me stuff like “Go back to your barn, COW LOSER!”.



I hear she’s joined up with some shady people, too.

Okay, I’m locking myself in my room until finals, then I’m leaving. College does not agree with me.

Pascal



College time!

The cow chose... poorly this time around. I believe I mentioned before that I have set up some rules that qualify potential champions for the Cow and the Llama. Pascal fulfilled those conditions, but unfortunately as a plot sims he's immune to it. The Cow chose him nonetheless (meaning she stalked his house like she did with Michael), but since his plot didn't involve her, he only got slightly involved with this storyline. Circe, meanwhile, fulfilled the conditions for getting accepted into the Llama cult (which are joining the Secret Society, the Llama's conditions are way easier to fulfill), so this generation's victory clearly goes to the Llama.

Oh, and I should probably explain the story behind Loki's beard. You see, way back, something happened that I assume was caused by a corrupt objects.package - dating the incident to before Nightlife came out and we all learned to make it read-only to protect us from Crumplepires. What happened was that two blonde beards suddenly started to look weird. The big bushy beard Notzo has just turned invisible and since I never use it anyway, it didn't bother me much. The blond Loki beard however changed colors. And by that I mean that it would rotate through all the colors of the rainbow constantly.

It was beautiful. It redeemed Loki. He wasn't just that evil scientist with the evil wife keeping Nervous prisoner anymore, he had a beard that changed colors! He was awesome!

Eventually I reinstalled my game and lost the beard, but for the next several Strangetown iterations, the Beaker house always featured a note about Loki missing his beard of many colors.


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