Crazy Things That Happen to Lyla Grunt

After successfully resurrecting Lyla Grunt for the first time in the game, I first wanted to take a look at her personality to see what kind of sim that I would be played as. Here’s what I found:

Now I definitely know where Ripp got his sloppiness from. Don’t get me wrong, sloppy sims aren’t that bad, but they can sometimes be a little annoying when they create puddles every time they use the shower or bathtub and how they seem to break appliances and catch themselves on fire more often than other sims. But as long as you keep them away from all stoves and fireplaces and buy them a fire alarm, they’re not too hard to handle.

One thing that I noticed after I resurrected Lyla is that you are only allowed to change her appearance with the mirror once. If you try to “change her appearance” more than once, her face starts to get corrupted. If you want Lyla’s face to stay the same, then your best bet is to not even try to change her hairstyle or makeup in the first place. Also, if you have seasons installed, make sure that Lyla doesn’t get too hot or too cold, or else her face will get corrupted as well.

Another thing that I noticed about Lyla is that when you take her on vacation (with the Bon Voyage expansion pack installed of course), her face shifts to another custom face when you go on different vacation community lots. Here’s what I mean:

Luckily, her face shifted back to the original one when she returned home from her vacation. Now I know never to take her on vacation again, unless I want her face to shift around every time she switches community lots.

Strangely enough, it’s only vacation community lots that cause her face to shift. When I took her to the community lots in Strangetown with the rest of the Grunts, her face remained intact the whole time.

Another strange thing I noticed about Lyla is that she doesn’t have any memories of her family prior to when the game begins. So if you play as the Grunt family and Tank gets an A+ and you resurrect Lyla after, you’ll notice the only memory that she has is Tank getting an A+, she doesn’t remember anything before the player starts playing on the Grunt family lot.

So Lyla has absolutely no memories of meeting her husband, getting married, having her three children, etc. This means that she’s never had her first kiss, so you could technically obtain the “first kiss” video from her if you interact her to kiss someone for the first time. You’ll also get special event videos if you make her do anything with General Buzz, even though he has memories of those things happening before. Well isn’t that nice to know?

Since I could go on writing about the many unique things about Lyla Grunt and all of the crazy things that happened when I moved her back in with the Grunts forever, I’ll post more entries about her later (so I don’t get too far off the topic of premade resurrections). Don’t worry you haven’t seen the last of Strangetown and this interesting sim!

Next time I’ll be continuing on with resurrecting random premades in other neighborhoods. Our next stop is Veronaville, a place filled with Romeos. You know you don’t want to miss this!

Resurrecting Random Premades Part 2

It’s time to discuss how to resurrect premades in my favorite neighborhood…Strangetown! There are a total of nineteen sims that you can resurrect in this neighborhood, and all of them are located in Olive Specter’s garden. Even though you can legally resurrect all nineteen of them, only certain sims can be safely resurrected (as in, they will not corrupt your game if you do). I only know of two sims that are safe to resurrect: Creon Nigmos and Lyla Grunt, although I have only resurrected one of them in the game so far. Of course, I am talking about the latter, Lyla Grunt, who is the mother of Tank, Ripp and Buck Grunt from 51 Road to Nowhere.

For years, I had been trying to resurrect her and for a while, nothing I tried worked. I tried the Tombstone of L & D method, but she only disappeared after I added her and I even tried resurrecting her using the Resurrect-o-Nomitron, but every time I had one of her sons call the Grim Reaper would tell them they didn’t know anyone that had died. After several attempts, I finally came across a method that worked; the move grave method which I mentioned in my previous entry.

The move grave method was a lot easier than I thought it would be and it only required me to have two Sims expansion packs to do it: Sims 2 University and Sims 2 Nightlife. Here’s how it works:

1. First I went into the Specter’s lot and found Lyla’s grave (it was located in the front of the garden).

2. Next, I clicked on her grave and selected the option “move this grave.” Under the menu for which community lot to send it I selected downtown (which you have to add in from neighborhood view) and “Gothier Green Lawns.”

3. Lyla’s grave then disappeared and her ghost appeared to wave goodbye:

4. I then entered the Grunt lot and obtained a Grim Reaper phone by pressed CTRL + SHIFT + C and entering “unlockCareerRewards” into the cheat box and pressing enter. After that, all of the selected family member’s Career Rewards (which in this case was Ripp’s), were unlocked.

5. Next, I grabbed the Resurrect-o-Nomitron and had Ripp call the Grim Reaper. Sure enough, Lyla was now listed under dead sims that he knew and after I paid the Grim Reaper $10,000 dollars (courtesy of the “motherlode” cheat), she was back and playable. Crazy huh?

Looking back, I understood why the previous two methods that I originally tried didn’t work. The reason why I couldn’t resurrect Lyla with the Tombstone of L & D or with just the Grim Reaper phone alone was because no one in her family had a memory of her dying. So in order to be able to resurrect her successfully, her grave had to be moved, so that her children (Tank, Ripp & Buck) could resurrect her with the Resurrect-o-Nomitron. See? Here she is: 

Next Time: The weird things that happen to the premade deceased townies in Strangetown after you resurrect them. Don’t miss it!

If you want to see a video of the “move this grave” method step-by-step click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSV-rfO78BA

If you want to see Lyla successfully resurrected by Ripp click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxuOqR-Xuvw&feature=channel_video_title