Blood Over Water Story Pack

The Blood Over Water Story Pack is a set of character files for the most prominent and noteworthy of characters as understood in early 2013 development of the remake. The version presented here was made for use inside The Sims 3.

Description
Journey back to the fall of 2009. Two brothers were planning a fishing trip. One never called back to confirm they were still going. What set off next, led to a long series of events, which unveiled a massive conspiracy that would force one company man to confront his own demons. He found himself on the wrong side of a conflict between Big Rapids locals, and a dangerous crime ring that had taken over the local water bottling plant! What would he choose? Blood? Or Water? Either way, blood was being shed...over water!

Characters

 * Aaron Stefflin

Aaron went into the music industry management major at Ferris State, and was also looking to transfer to a school near Nashville to finish up, and support his fiancee Meredith's music career - which is under assault by sexual anarchist activists for being too "fundie" in regards to how she writes her lyrics.

Meanwhile, he tries to enjoy his final semester at Ferris as much as possible, and even plans to wrap up the summer by going on one last fishing trip with his twin brother, Mark, in late September. Thinking if all goes well, Chris will join them. And hopefully...will resist the urge to get too distracted by all the loose women on campus.

However, Mark never answers his phone to verify that the trip is still on. This is strange: Mark has never been non-responsive to Aaron's calls and texts before! Monica's suspicions that Vance was murdered, and her new obsession with conducting some sort of private investigation into his disappearance, suddenly matter even more to Aaron - who wonders if Mark didn't meet a similar fate!

Upon discovering an envelope in Mark's apartment with highly suspicious paperwork inside, much of it redacted, he sets to work unraveling a mystery that implies a Sleet Mountain company with untold levels of violence and corruption - all going back to its new manager, Clyde Spendelworth.


 * Mark Stefflin

Aaron's hedonistic twin brother. Mark was willing to tolerate an awful lot with Clyde's "new direction" at the company; even when it seemed suspicious or criminal as could be!

But when he uncovered evidence of a pedophile ring being involved with Clyde, and could no longer tolerate the fact that Vance's disappearance bore numerous signs of foul play that were going largely ignored by local authorities?

Mark decided to expose the pollution and cleanup fraud scandal at the company. Doing so would, of course, lead to his own going missing. Which would trigger a desperate Aaron to put himself in mortal danger, in his quest for answers.

Chris Kennal
Many strange events happened in Chris' early life, that traumatized him as a child. But upon arrival to working at Sleet Mountain, and practicing at the local gun range, Chris feels he's finally found something to ease his disturbed, troubled soul. He still works out, to keep one step ahead of his inner demons. But when he isn't trying to stay in shape, or slay imaginary foes, he puts on a mask of being a fun guy to be around.

His adventures with Mark outside of work appeared to be all about beaches, liquor, loose women from the nearby university, and shooting the breeze. Because Aaron cared so much about his brother, he was willing to tolerate Chris' antics - though he was convinced that Chris was a bad influence on Mark.

But one day, Mark made a move on Ashley - the only woman Chris ever truly cared about as being more than just a sexual object. Worse: Mark betrays the company and Clyde - placing everyone at the company in danger of being exposed! If not to the FBI, then to the EPA at least! Chris will have to make impossible decisions regarding where his true loyalties are.

George Lawence
George's past is shrouded in mystery. Not so much because it's impossible to know, mind you...but because it causes many way too much butthurt to accept that it could be so. He was a part of some experiments that Icy Finger Marlquaanists were conducting on the mentally unstable, to produce an army of Ijiraq to fight the Inuit Order of the Oraphim with. However, while just as bloodthirsty as the other Ijiraq candidates; he had no interest in letting the experiment be performed on himself.

Others were subjected to the experiment; but the agony of undergoing it caused them to rebel against their captors. George was one of the only candidates of this horrific set of experiments to not be turned into an Ijiraq. He remained completely (physically) normal - but was even more mentally damaged as a consequence!

They were all taken in by a kindly old man that ran a factory up in the deep northern territories, one Patrick Omandis. Patrick gave them all jobs, but George's lust for killing was insatiable. Patrick had George committed. However, he soon found out that the only Ijiraq that was loyal to him in the end, was Gerald Smack. "Jerry" spoke very broken English. Few words. Was a special case. But a good worker. The other Ijiraq, however, considered him inferior.

Deciding to join the Icy Finger anyway, the majority of the Ijiraq staged a mutiny against Patrick in December of 2004, burning down the factory and leaving him for dead. Jerry, who believed Patrick was Santa Claus (due to visual similarity), vowed to avenge his master.

Jerry soon set to work, mastering the transformation process back and forth between man, reindeer, and in-between, better than the others were able to manifest theirs. He also armed himself to the teeth with whatever weaponry he could get - and systematically brutally murdered all of the other Ijiraq. Around this time, the "Secret Kingdom of the North" - being run by viceroys "the Tomte" and "Luca the Snowmobster" was under siege by these unruly Ijiraq. Luca feared having to give the boss - Adolphus "Krampus" Kraus - the bad news. But then, Jerry came to the dark kingdom's aid, slaughtering this Ijiraq threat to Krampus' rule. For this, he was dubbed "Jerry the Psycho Reindeer," and was made an official part of Krampus' Horrorday Gang.

Alas, Clyde Spendelworth lost some valuable clients and henchmen to one of Krampus' feeding frenzies back in 2001. So out of revenge, he looked into the incident with the Ijiraq. He discovered that George was not so different from Jerry. More evil, in fact. But just as eager to work as a loyal henchman.

Clyde figured that if Krampus didn't have the oversight to take in George Lawence as well; then Clyde would do it instead - rebuilding his base from Krampus' squandered opportunities. Clyde staged a complex incident, but one which allowed George to skip his daily medicine - and gave him several guns, and plenty of spare ammo.

The shooting spree that commenced was quickly covered up by media outlets in the area, as Gleeful-N'-Young had infiltrated the local news station. Suffice to say, George escaped from the mental institution, and began working for Clyde. Upon entering Big Rapids, he doesn't hesitate to assassinate anyone whom Clyde orders a hit on. Learning the truth about George, however, could get the curious killed.

Kyle Tugrass
Kyle Tugrass was alone. Friendship with George, and the illegitimate operations afforded unto him by Clyde, gave Kyle's life a twisted sense of new purpose after his family left him. He tried to keep up the ruse that he was still a family man, willing to do what it took to support that family. But Clyde knew that this was just entertaining lies.

Kyle's wife was never once faithful to him. Never once. Alas, he didn't know about her countless affairs. She was clever in this regard. That, and he often didn't know to look for obvious signs.

Yet, in his estranged, runaway wife's twisted mind; she was justified. Kyle wasn't the same man she married. Time spent away working, ignoring the wife and kids, had led to him being distracted by greed. Distracted by illicit activity. Marsha suspected heavily that Kyle was into something extremely of turpitude. But what? She couldn't prove anything. Yet, his temper upon being asked questions about it alarmed her.

As their differences grew irreconcilable, and Kyle became more verbally abusive; she took the kids and fled. She rubbed salt in the wound, by showing him her little black book. Suddenly, being one of Clyde's hitmen for hire doesn't sound so bad. It lets him pretend like he still can have some illusion of respectability.

Ashley Phillips
Ashley has made many mistakes in her short life. Not the least of which, involved having an affair with a married priest! Perhaps a bigger one? Keeping a file on it!

This was used by Clyde to blackmail her, when he inexplicably got a hold of it. How did his henchmen know to look for that file? And why was her boss suddenly so interested in her every past personal indiscretion? She got an uncomfortable feeling that simply trying to go above him to HR to report sexual harassment wouldn't work. She'd not live long enough!

Instead, she went to Mark's apartment, as instructed. But when Mark refused to give up his envelope full of incriminating evidence, Ashley decided that she and Mark should run away together. Instead of locking the door and packing immediately, however, she ran into Mark's arms to be comforted. And then...straight to his bedroom, to be comforted some more!

This last mistake...nearly cost poor Ashley her life.

Monica Shelly
Monica tried to hide it from her sister Betsy and niece Annabelle; but she had been a very bad girl. She thought working as a nursing assistant at the local hospital, attending Ferris, and learning a little bit about the crime lab and its operations would enliven her to serve a good purpose in life. But without a case to care about emotionally, she quickly got bored.

In her boredom, Monica turned to doing what she saw as being "normal," and par for the course, for a gal of her caliber living in the Big Rapids area in that time period: looking for buffoonish men to use for sex. She had...acquired an awful lot of them!

However, she was not without a conscience. She grew to care more and more about her niece, as well as what sort of role model she was being while babysitting. She began to realize that her extracurricular activities were undermining her in that regard.

Then, she met Vance. Passionate. Dedicated to noble causes wherever he could find one. And prodded her on to be more. Sure, she still found a way to use him for sex; but this was different. When he began to have his doubts about Clyde taking over Sleet Mountain, his passion for trying to make things add up caught Monica off guard. Was she falling in love? Unlike the other men, who were content with "wham, bam, thank you, ma'am," Vance seemed to care about Monica as a human being. She wasn't used to that.

When he called her in a panic one evening, convinced someone was trying to kill him, and then all that was found was his charred vehicle on the campus of Ferris State near the Brophy-McNerney Hall Complex? Monica found it disturbing that local police weren't willing to spend much time investigating the case! Vance was the man that loved her. The man she should've loved even more. And now, she did. She had finally found her purpose.

Mindless sex no longer appealed to her. She was convinced the man that loved her had been murdered! And even if she were no good for him; he didn't deserve to die like that! She was going to prove, one way or another, that foul play brought him down! And indict Sleet Mountain, if she had to! At first, she feels alone in her quest. But when Mark Stefflin also goes missing; Aaron proves a valuable ally in her quest to bring about justice for Vance. But will working with Aaron get her the desired result; or will it get her killed?

Meredith Celestine
Meredith is going into the music industry major at Ferris, just like Aaron. However, she is ready for her internship in Nashville, where she and her mother are moving to be closer to family, given her father's death a few years ago. Her new single, "Righteous Judgement," has earned her the ire of the gay pseudo-Christian music industry, with one activist even physically assaulting her over the lyrics and vowing to get her blackballed from her own industry! That activist would later die in one of Halal Affadidah's death camps, whereas Meredith would flee to Texas and survive. That would be many years later.

In 2009, Meredith is merely looking forward to getting out of Big Rapids, and finishing her college degree. She is engaged to Aaron; and has no idea how much trouble Mark is about to get all of them in!

Wanda Celestine
Wanda has no regrets about the rough road she's taken to secure her daughter's future. She also trusts Aaron's judgment - to an even greater extent than Meredith herself does! However, she knows one thing for certain, long before Sleet Mountain corruption is even a well-known thing: staying in Big Rapids for her would be suicide.

There is but one solution in her mind to that town: to leave it. The sooner, the better. She moved there for her husband's job. But he's dead and gone. Her family is in Nashville. So to Nashville, the family must go.

Bob Lusital
Bob got along well with everyone; but was getting old and senile. He wasn't the most organized businessman, and Sleet Mountain was barely turning a profit anymore. He believed his understudy over the last few years, Clyde, would be a worthwhile replacement. Someone who really understood efficiency!

Bob had no clue. He never could've guessed the dark secret that Clyde was hiding, that would turn the mostly benevolent Sleet Mountain Lower Northern Bottling Plant into the most horrific criminal cabal ever seen in northern Michigan! Bob had no clue the monster that would be birthed from that plant: the Purge-Flare! Bob could not have foreseen many things. But most importantly, he could not have foreseen Clyde's measures to ensure that the old guard could never come back! Bob Lusital was destined to loose it all. And Clyde Spendelworth was destined...to spend all that Bob was worth!


 * Vance Lingolin

Clyde Spendelworth
Clyde seemed like the kind of well-organized man at Sleet Mountain that was needed to get things done, as Bob reached into well-past retirement age. Yet, Clyde rubbed a few the wrong way from the very beginning. His dark secrets kept adding up, until Sleet Mountain workers realized they had become a front for a criminal conspiracy with corruption that knew no limits!

But Clyde's real biggest mistake? He messed with Ashley. Chris could forgive many things. He could even forgive Ashley sleeping with Chris' best friend, Mark. What he couldn't forgive? Clyde having Ashley abducted, and sent to a brothel in Kentucky! He played Ashley. He played Chris. He played everyone! And now, Chris was determined to make Clyde have to pay for it!

There were just two problems with this. First, Clyde was selling Gleeful-N'-Young to Duke Arfaas of the Hebbleskin Gang! Chris would really need to step up his game to overcome that! Second...if Chris didn't deal with certain other problems that he and Clyde had in common...then Chris could find himself spending life in prison, long before anyone did anything about Clyde! Perhaps the only thing more important to Chris now than bringing Clyde down...was keeping himself a free man!

Pack contents

 * Blood Over Water Story Pack.zip (compressed to 12.89 MB)
 * Aaron Stefflin.Sims3pack (1 MB)
 * Mark Stefflin.Sims3pack (1.16 MB)
 * Ashley Phillips.Sims3pack (1.11 MB)
 * Monica Shelly.Sims3pack (1.04 MB)
 * Bob Lusital.Sims3pack (1.1 MB)
 * Clyde Spendelworth.Sims3pack (1.17 MB)
 * Meredith Celestine.Sims3pack (1.16 MB)
 * Wanda Celestine.Sims3pack (1.14 MB)
 * Vance Lingolin.Sims3pack (1.15 MB)
 * Chris Kennal.Sims3pack (1.49 MB)
 * George Lawence.Sims3pack (1.2 MB)
 * Kyle Tugrass.Sims3pack (1.22 MB)

Expansions

 * World Adventures
 * Ambitions
 * Late Night
 * Generations
 * Pets
 * Showtime
 * Supernatural
 * Seasons
 * University Life
 * Island Paradise
 * Into the Future

Stuff packs

 * High End Loft
 * Fast Lane
 * Movie Stuff

Development
In late September of 2010, the first attempt was made at an exported pack, focusing instead on the 2009 miniseries. As of 2013, when it became clear that the rise of Cataclysmic Gerosha required revisions to Blood Over Water continuity, the new version has constantly hearkened new versions of its main cast to support the new vision.

These new files were made as exportables first in 2014, then remade yet again in 2020. Sims 3 versions of the cast soon became an afterthought, after it became clear that the webcomic would be told primarily with The Sims 4. In spite all of this, the characters only underwent very superficial changes. The one to change the most was George Lawence, as he was given a more interesting backstory.

Distribution
A proper Blood Over Water Story Pack first dates back to January 17th of 2021, on Utterly Sims on Tumblr. After that was taken down, the character files were later modified before the pack was re-released to Dozerfleet Labs' blog on Blogger around June 23rd of 2020. There was an attempt at making a story pack as early as September 30th of 2010, however. That version focused on the characters as they appeared in the miniseries. The current files focus on the Sims comic versions of these characters canon to Earth-G7.

Follow-up content
An official game of Blood Over Water could be difficult; though a video game sequel documenting the Purge-Flare's origins from the ending of Blood Over Water until right before the beginning of Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil could make for an interesting 3rd-person shooter adventure.

The initially-planned Sims 4 version of this Sims 3 story pack was absorbed in early 2020 into The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff, as it would be redundant to have this pack, that pack, and a Sorbet pack all dedicated to Big Rapids life and lore. While Annabelle Shelly is saved from Gleeful-N'-Young by the Straggele, and then taken to Nordreichdun to be brainwashed into becoming a servant of the Horrorday Gang, neither Annabelle herself nor the Straggele appear in this pack. As of 2021, no Horrorday Gang pack exists for The Sims 3 either.