Be Excellent To Each Other

Jazzy and Joans are sad.



They want a great big house, but prices are so expensive at the moment. Instead, they buy themselves a cute little place with plans to extend it when they make some money.



The house has a comfy lounge...



A cool red kitchen...



And big windows so people can look in to see what they're up to.



Yup, life is pretty sweet for Jazzy and Joans right now - at least until the bills start coming in. Neither of them have a job.



But wait - what's this odd little door at the back of the house?



It's a dark staircase, leading down. What could be going on?



Hmm... Looks like Cavey and Craster are down there, doing some coding.



Oh no.



Jazzy and Joans have set up a Beex Sweatshop!



Red lights in the toilets stop the workers from injecting drugs they don't have.



A bedroom full of the very cheapest beds allows the Beexers to get some back-destroying rest.



The tiny kitchen is a rancid sty.



The only decoration in the room is a painting reminding them of what they'll never see again - the outdoors.



Jazzy only comes down to show off her finery, and to shout at Beexers when they're not coding fast enough. DavPaz - by far the worst coder of the group - is picked on the most.



After a few days stuck in the Sweatshop, Grim... rarely gets dressed. Mali is having serious trouble motivating.



With no sun and 24-hour lights, the Beexers bodyclocks are destroyed. Craster washes his hands after a pre-sleep dump while Mali makes breakfast. It's 4pm.



J&J don't seem to let their Sweatshop get in the way of life.



Five days in, and the only appliances still working are the cooker and a single toilet.



Everyone stinks.



Only Jazzy can open the door to freedom. She leaves it open for a tantalisingly long time, but no-one dares to follow her.



Grim... has Stockholm Syndrome, and is convinced he is in love with Jazzy. He spends a lot of time standing by the door waiting for her.



Of course, this just makes her shout at him for not coding hard enough.



"This job fulfilling in creative way!"



While the others descend into misery and despair, Cavey remains remarkably chipper.



He works hard, never once complaining about being "burnt out" or "uncomfortable".



He is Jazzy's favorite, and the only Beexer she's nice to.



This makes most of the other Beexers pretty angry.



And it makes Grim... fucking livid.



As you can imagine, he deals with it maturely.



Cavey puts up a good fight...



...but it doesn't go his way.



Without a working fridge the Beexers are starving to death.



Gaywood, standing in a puddle, does his best to fix it, but to no avail.



Soon it gets so broken that it simply disintegrates. Someone managed to make cake, though.



Upstairs, things are going great for Jazzy and Jones. Their kitchen is still lovely, and they have nearly £800,000 in the bank.



Downstairs, the Beexers are working hard, while slowly starving to death.



Craster breaks his PC, and - terrified of what Jazzy might say - sets about trying to repair it.



Surprisingly, it goes well.



More computers fail, and are repaired by the exhausted users.



It's been 24 hours since anyone has eaten now - and DavPaz has destroyed the last working toilet.



Their outlook bleak, the Sweatshop workers do their best to comfort each other.



No-one is working. Jazzy is mad.



While the rest of the Beexers jump to it, Mali and Gaywood decide they're done.



Grim... gets under his covers and has a little cry.



The Doc is becoming a dab hand at repairing these PCs now.



Ah. Maybe not.



Doc, messing with electronics while tired and starving, is the first to succumb to the inevitable.



Standing next to Death herself, and with only one chance to plead for Doc's life, Craster and Grim... complain about how hungry they are.



It's unclear if the Beexers are crying for their departed comrade, or because they know they're not far behind.



Amusingly, not even Death can pass through Jazzy's locked door, so she remains behind and starts IMing her friends.



Craster is next. 96 hours without food proves to be too much.



He died desperate to level up his cooking skill.



You can stick him in a cellar, flog him until he's exhausted, and take away his food. But Mali is still Mali.



As the remaining Beexers turn on each other in their grief, Cavey fixes the toilet.



Starvation claims Mali. Grim... is too busy examining the wall to notice.



Even as Death is collecting Mali's soul, DavPaz collapses alongside him.



And then there were two.



Sadly, they still hated each other.



Who had Grim... in the "last man standing" sweepstake?



With all his friends dead and minutes until he starves, Grim... fixes the shower and gets clean.



Grim...'s last memory is the woman he loves yelling at him because no-one is doing any work.



The Beex Sweatshop is no more.



With nearly a million in the bank, Jazzy and Joans don't care one bit that all their workers are dead.



Above the six bodies in their cellar, they talk about what they're going to do tomorrow.



"I think this is where our new bedroom should go." says Jazzy, as they both looked up at the stars.

Oh my god. Sim beex is the greatest thing.




I do have that dressing gown.

Amaze

It's like an eerie vision of the future. Except somehow I'm upstairs, rather than in the sweatshop with the rest of you.

Actually crying.

Best start to a Friday ever!

Now get working!!!

Brilliant.

Superb.

Actually loved reading that. What a great amount of care an time you put into constructing the in-game stuff and the story for us. Top work!

Bravo!

That's outstanding. Brilliant work!

I'll turn up in part 2 and charge them £995,000 to remodel the house. There're are plenty of coders left in beex for them to replenish the sweatshop. Excellent work, even if insomnia is a bitch!

Bravo!

It was nearly you and Mimi in charge of the Sweatshop, but you can't change the Sim's height so making you is tricky.

Heh, I like to think my coding level means I'm definitely not allowed in the coding sweatshop!

Brilliant.

Oh man that's amazing!!
Being duffed up and then murdered by Grim... for being chipper seems a tad harsh, but hey, them's the rules. (Mind you, he probably saw the standard of my coding....)

This is Dystopian Beex; wonder how we'd all behave in Paradise Beex!

I had to take a break half way through as I was laughing so much!

This is brilliant. Ace work Grim...

Fantastic stuff, Grim...

It doesn't allow for planet size bonces either, but Davpaz still manages to be there.

However, you can also see me there, making the room look like there's space to move and breath.

I laughed, and I cried, and then I died, filthy and starving. Life imitates art.

Bravo !

Gaywood was disconcertingly tall.

Awesome work, grim....

I've been chuckling about this all day. I tried to describe it to a guy at work, but I'm not convinced I made much sense.

Also, I'm going to make an awesome Madam when brothels are finally legalised.

Aw Grim... this is the most excellent thing I have seen for a very long time and has just made my evening. It's wonderful!

Digital DavPaz likes being rebuked

DigiPaz.

We already have the plan

Is there a secret stash like this down there as well? It could seriously boost their income.

We do! Leeds appears to be going well; it's all coming together!

Amazing!

Excellent work, we should learn from this and imprison a handy man alongside the geeks.

Is that an offer?

Wait. Leeds?

That's fab

So was that all done in a Sims game then? Can you really set up dungeons with slaves in them like that?

Yes, but unlike previous stories I "directed" this one. I made Jazzy shout at people and told the workers to sit down and work, for example, and used some cheats to change Sim's moods for screenshots.

There are some features that helped - only Jazzy could open the door to the basement, for example.

A couple of "big" things happened organically from the game - Cavey really was remarkably chipper throughout, and Grim... was in love with Jazzy, for example. The only death I scripted was Gaywood's (although everyone was going to die of starvation, I didn't know where or when).

Yeah, they've set up a red light district in Holbeck. Sorry for the link but I'm on my phone.
http://www.localgov.co.uk/Red-light-dis ... eeds/40161

Cool.