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
The entire story pack is in a zip file, compressed to 12.89 MB. Characters are in the form of Sims3Pack files.

Ferris students

 * Aaron Stefflin (1 MB)
 * Monica Shelly (1.04 MB)

Sleet Mountain employees

 * Mark Stefflin (1.16 MB)
 * Chris Kennal (1.49 MB)
 * George Lawence (1.2 MB)
 * Kyle Tugrass (1.22 MB)
 * Ashley Phillips (1.11 MB)
 * Bob Lusital (1.1 MB)
 * Vance Lingolin (1.15 MB)
 * Clyde Spendelworth (1.17 MB)

Other

 * Meredith Celestine (1.16 MB)
 * Wanda Celestine (1.14 MB)

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.