Scooter 7.8 - The Undergrad III: Son of the Undergrad

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Hello, stinkies. Welcome back to the Scooters. Listen I'm not entirely sure why I put a drowning townie (...a drownie) in the header but that really is just the mood for today. So let's get into it.

 

When the family computer can't run games very well and you really have a craving for Dragon Age.

Koichi: Laila? Are you using my highly secure computer that cost me thousands of dollars and a hit on my life...to play a video game from 2011?

Laila: Shhh. I'm romancing Fenris and it needs all of my concentration.

Seriously, what's a kid gotta do to get fed around here?

Xavier: (babbling excitedly, almost desperately)

Koichi: Haha! Funny little baby make a dance. Good job, funny little son of mine.

Xavier: :((((!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and wouldn't you know it--it's finally time for these motherfuckers' adult birthdays.

Laila: Finally. I'm tired of being youthful. I want to be a grouchy old milf.

Finally indeed! Now, Laila. Mrs. Scooter.

Laila: No...

Let's discuss your university degree. The one you "deferred" almost 15 years ago...

Laila: UGHHHGHGHHGHHG--

And so Laila hopped back onto ye olde internet to re-register herself. Thankfully, her program hasn't been dissolved in the last nearly-two-decades that she's been away and she can pick up right where she left off.

Laila: (sniffing) They changed the year-one requirements of my program and now I need to take the methodologies agaaaaaaaiiinnnn :( :( :( :( :(

Koichi is older and wiser now too. Old and wise enough to learn that in order to develop a relationship with your child, you need to interact with them.

I'm kidding lol. They don't really ignore Xavier AS MUCH as I make it seem. I mean, their relationship bar isn't exactly at 100% but it's not exactly flagging either. It is simply avéragé.

Come to lovely Evergreen Harbour! We have picturesque sights such as haunted bicycle driving itself in the middle of the night??????

Why is this picture giving me an unbelievably cursed energy?

Koichi: Hey. My wife and I spotted you from across the bar. We love your vibe. Can we get you a drink?

Laila: Ugh. I can't believe I am being forced to clean like this. I'm a student. I'm busy. I have so much to do.

You have two classes a week?

Laila: UNbelievably just swamped with work, it's insane.

Ichi has gotten good enough at robotics to craft himself a REALLY FUCKIN AWESOME robot arm!!!

Koichi: It's time I reveal my true university ambitions. I never wanted to be an engineer. I wanted to be a Bond villain. And I've succeeded.

Speaking of villainy, Miss Laila is getting promoted again and again at work. What did she need that degree for again?

Laila: That's a very good question. You see me making this money. I never really needed it in the first place. (sigh)

Does Xavier approve of his papa's robot arm?

Xavier: (crying loudly and trying to get away)

Koichi: Xavier, it'll be okay! I promise! It's okay! It's not THAT cold...

A woman who robs for a living, a man with a robot arm, and a baby with a bowlcut. Man. These guys really are a family of villains.

FINALLY. We have racked up enough parts and illegal hard drives and modules, for Ichi to start building his robot!

Koichi: (whistling) Ah! I can't wait to have something around to do my bidding. Dishes begone. I am far above you now.

Watching a heartfelt dog movie, huh, Laila? Doesn't exactly scream evil villain to me.

Laila, sniffing: I'm taking a break from evil for a bit. The dog has almost found his way back home :'(

Alright, back to your regularly scheduled evil. I feel like completing Laila's terrible little aspiration. One step of it is to witness the death of a Sim.

Laila: Hi, wife of the family whose house I now live in? Yeah! It's me. Look, I was thinking, maybe you were right! I will sell the house back to you. Thing is, I installed a pool and I was wondering if your family would appreciate one, even... You'll come see it? Great! That sounds great. See you later, then!

And so it came to be that Laila (well, I) enclosed the pool once whatsherface got in. I even gave her a little window, for some sunlight.

Neighbour: You...are gonna let me out, right?

Laila: Absolutely not, stupid. Have a fun death.

Bot station is flashing red and making a scary noise!! You know what that means!

Koichi: Come on, take! Take! Don't you give up on me now, goddammit...!

Ichi's robot is done! And you know what that means. He's completed his life goals!

Robot: Hello, Koichi! I am your personal Servo! Thank you for giving me life!

Koichi: Oh, I could just cry.

Robot: ERROR-16: Unit currently not equipped to deal with: Emotions. Please refer to manual.

✔ Master Robotics skill and craft a Servo

Everyone, meet the newest addition to the family. Koichi has named his bot Hayabusa-001. I think I had the idea to make MORE Servos but I never did. So, you'll just get the one.

Hayabusa: I am unique! And friendly to boot!

It looks like young Xavier is taking a liking to the new robot.

Xavier: (babbling away excitedly)

Hayabusa: Haha! I can't understand you, little creator. But it is fun pretending.

I quite like the robot but sometimes it just...does things. Like stare at the laundry going for its entire cycle. Kinda weird, I fear.

Hayabusa: ...

...

...This is exciting!

Anyway, back to ole girl in the pool--she FINALLY died. omg. It took her RUDE ASS long enough.

And yet, it didn't count for some cursed reason? Like, okay. I guess cause Laila wasn't actually watching her like a hawk through the window? Whatever man.

That just means we have to find a fresh new victim. I am not opposed.

Terribly accursed image of Ichi fixing the robot by plunging a screwdriver into its guts.

Koichi: I can't believe I have to screw my robot to fix it. (deep sigh) Rule 34 please don't come for me.

We are trying again with a new victim: the husband or relative or whatever, of that woman we drowned in the pool. To be quite honest I cheated this one, prepping him with an intensely playful moodlet. All it needs is one well-placed joke.

Laila: Hey. How do you find Will Smith in the snow?

Neighbour, already cracking up: Wh--what?

Laila: You follow............................the fresh prints.

Neighbour: (chuckles) ... (laughing)

Neighbour: Holy shit! The fresh prints!!!!!! (laughing uncontrollably)

Neighbour: (gasping and sighing as he dies)

Townspeople: (concerned murmuring)

Laila: God. Fucking finally. Uh, I mean--nothing to see here, folks!

Grim didn't know how to process this one.

Grim Reaper: So...you just told him a joke, and he died?

Laila: Uh-huh.

Grim: And you had no way of knowing that his heart was going to burst from laughing so hard?

Laila: Not a one.

Grim: Hm. Okay. And him being the husband of the woman found dead on your property is completely coincidental too?

Laila: Hundred percent. Look--I've got a class to get to. Let's cut this short, Grim.

Honestly, big fan of Hayabusa. It's adorable! Look at its little face!

Hayabusa: It is thanks to the installation of my 19753-UWU-KAO chip :)

Man, this family is incorrigible. Not one day after his father died, the son of the couple Laila killed showed up to cry at their doorstep?

Neighbour: H--hey--you k--killed my parents :( Me and--and my b-- brother are o...orphans!

Koichi, from inside: Uhh...can we help you...?

And now, here's Laila, with the weather! What's in the sky, Scooter?

Laila: Menopause.

...alright! That's Laila with the weather!