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
 * Monica Shelly

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
 * Bob Lusital
 * Vance Lingolin
 * Clyde Spendelworth

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.