When Alice became hungry that evening, she chose under her free will to spend money on a meal at the restaurant nearby. When she emerges, there’s no sign of Kev.
It’s all very quiet, and Alice tries to get a little more sleep.
But it turns out Kev hadn’t gone very far, and with Alice asleep and unable to object, he can make fun of her to everyone who passes by.
Kev eventually gets bored and wanders off. But it’s now way past curfew for Alice, and she only narrowly avoids getting caught by running across the road before the police arrive.
She sits down near the pavilion to attempt her homework, with an eye on the road to watch for the policewoman. but when she comes, Alice is too slow to react, and she’s spotted.
Alice has spent more time in the company of this woman now than anyone else apart from Kev.
Next: Birthday
Alice and Kev 
I haven’t reached a point in the game where the child/teenager has been absolutely miserable…but why does the social worker not come by and take her away, I wonder?
Anyway, am enjoying this story very much. It definitely gives me something to think about regarding real life homelessness.
Thanks for doing this!
Teens can’t be taken by the Social Worker, and Alice was unfortunate enough to not be taken away from Kev as a child.
Didn’t know that. Thanks.
no it is because sims cant be taken just becauss they are being smacked at times, that just means the other sim dislikes her, only if she starves or something
Lol, it would have put a bit of a dent in poor Roburky’s story had Alice been removed right from the start!
Those look like some pretty interesting movie titles.
Nice job with the narration. =]
Alice is training for a getaway driver.
I love this story! I can’t wait for the next chapter!
I love this blog.
This is great.
I really like the Alice storylines.
I wonder about the social worker thing as well.
Fandabbydozey.. keep it up please lol
brilliant 🙂 thanks so much for making the posts longer 😀
Hey, I’m loving this blog! Keep up the good work, you really feel for poor Alice, I hope she gets more happiness in her life soon 🙂
Too bad there’s not a jail. Alice could just break curfew, get caught and spend a quiet night getting sleep without her dad around.
There actually is a jail, but you have to be in the criminal career to go to it. One of my sims at, I think, level 4 of the career would be at work for an hour until a police car rolled up and arrested her. This happened two days in a row and she almost lost her job.
yes there is a police department, maybe if you break curfew like a lot of times youll go to jail, or maybe only adults can
Cool there is a jail! I have to get a criminal sim and check it out…….
P.S. I love this blog keep it up!
My criminal sim went to jail like three times in a row (well, there was one day between) on her first working days
I think only adults can go to jail, and it has to be for stealing I think
When caught a criminal track sim cannot sleep in jail. My theory is that it is best not to fall asleep.
What about kleptomaniacs? Can they go to jail?
Ugh. Kev is just an incorrigible jerkface. 😦
Any chance of the copper adopting Alice?
nah if you recall in earlier posts the cop makes mean comments about Alice and her smell… copper doesn’t like Alice 😦
Great job again! :]
Did the cop have a wrench this time around again?
I absolutely adore and love this blog!
Feels pity for Alice’s misfortune yet I find Kev’s behaviour amazingly hilarious, how old is he? 15? No, but that old man sure knows how to act like one… Poor Alice, but I’m sure that her comeback would be something big or at least bigger than her dad^^ LOl
Look forward for your next post
Luckily enough there are no drug dealers and/or criminals of some sort in the game, otherwise I guess Alice’s life could be so much worse…
There ARE criminals, and even teens can steal stuff from any place if they’re kleptomaniacs! I think it’s a pity that there are no drugs in sims, it would just be realistic if they could use drugs, but then there would be bad consequenses too…
I just downloded Alice and Kev last night and after Kev had insulted her and called her mother a lama (dosen’t look good on him for that though). She told him he was being mean. She then had an odd wish she wanted to be level 10 in the crimanle caree but she wants to take the path of evil. lol I guess dad drove her over to the other side 😀
Haha I like that one…I was wondering about her going to work for the criminals…
These just keep getting better and better.
Can I ask if the author is “driving” its characters, or leaving them totally alone and just watch? In Sims2 the sims doesn’t really do anything if left alone, is Sims3 different?
Yes, the sims really will do things on their own in the game. Mine usually do something that suits their interests, like painting or reading, but I’m sure that if you sent them downtown and then left them to their free will they would explore and surprise you by unexpectedly doing things.
I don’t think sims will leave lots on their own and need to be directed to do so but other then that my kids even come home and do their homework all on their own.
roBurky was kind enough to answer that exact question from me back in “Optimism.” Explanation follows:
“It’s a mix. Sims from the active household won’t go to other places without direction, so I have to do that, and Alice won’t try to do things that are inappropriate without my direction either. I’m generally giving them prods to initiate things, then letting them take over for the details.
I’m not differentiating much in the story between whether something was initiated by me or by them. When I give a reason for one of their actions, it’s either why I think their free will chose to do it, or it’s the reason I made them do it.”
That’s a great way to do it! If he wouldn’t direct them at all, they would just rot and die in their park
Just enough direction to keep things on track.
This is a great story!!……but ther is one thing thats inoying about the curfew why is it so early one of my teenage sims was on a date and when she got out of the movie theater it was 11 and the police took her she was like happy though…. anyway keep it up!
Yes, the curfew simply sucks! It isn’t even realistic, maybe in some country they have it, but most of the world… so NOT. And how can you force a homeless sim to go back to their park??
My town has a curfew…small town in Oklahoma, US. 10&11pm may be slightly earlier but they don’t surprise me
Is it the policewoman with the wrench again? lol XD Poor Alice. But maybe when she gets home Kev with be all fatherly and help her with her homework.
she can adopt her xD
nope, ppl cant talk to the cops
Heh. Just the other day I downloaded Alice and Kev. A burglar took her teddy when she becae a young adult. D’:
And it really didn’t help when Kev died not long after that.
Yeah a burglar took my alice’s teddy bear when she was a child so i had her call the cops while that was happening but they were too slow so by the time they chowed up the robber was long gone so they just yelled at alice and took kev’s park bench!
aw D’: I feel so bad for Alice when I read these. Even though she’s a computer game person……
Poor Alice. She really can’t catch a break, can she.
And Kev just gets weirder by the day.
I just love Alice & Kev! It is the best! I loved it so much, I tryed to make an Alice & Kev in the Sims2…They are BestFriendsForever! 😦 Yea… So much for letting them interact by themselfs! LOL! Please keep writing Alice & Kev!
How many days untill Alice is going to be an YoungAdult??
YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS INTO A BOOK/MOVIE/TV SHOW! IT WOULD BE SO COOL! Alice & Kev the story of being homeless in the Sims3 The Movie/book/TV show!
Ive told 19 of my friends and 10 members of my family to check out this blog and ALL HAVE LOVED IT!
wth lol how big is your family?? 😀
lol! pretty big!
thats a cool idea id wacth/read that!
omg me2!
I love this.Keep up the good work. Can’t wait for tomorrows post
I am really loving this. Thanks to you, I am playing the Sims for the first time. Oddly enough, I also became inspired to play a homeless hooker. lol It’s definitely been interesting, especially when she aspired to become a test subject at the labs, seduce a cop, and then fight said cop’s son.
you can be a hooker in the sims 3? omjeeze, i really SHOULD get this game XD I have the sims 2 but i guess its a bit different!
No you can’t 😦 Maybe Luthien is just using his imagination to picture his character as a hooker.
I had a sim with the same want as Kev and was gonna try to have 10 girlfriends at once for him but was sad to see not even that is possible…can only have 1 partner but many romantic interests. And in order to be a “hooker” you’d probably have to have a flirty mooch who would have a romantic intrest…woohoo then ask for money.
I feel so sorry for poor Alice I wonder how many days remained for her to become a young adult?=(
This is so epic.
I find it kind of cute that they serve people without shoes at the restaurants 😀
What town is this in? I don’t recognize that park or the layout of the buildings. Amazing blog, by the way!
Riverview
I watched Matilda the other day out of boredom and I thought of this and how Alice also has a horrible father. This is a great blog and please keep up the good work!
RUN ALICE RUN!!! though it would be cool if she went to jail. Sleep, probably eat, maybe shower, no kev
Riverview looks like a nice town.
It’s SOOO unfair, that the teens can’t actually run away from the cop, neither the adults 😦 When the police come, they simply have to follow1 Stupid 😦
^^ I’m glad Alice was able to eat a good meal for once at the restaurant. Since there’s somewhat of an income now I’m hoping this will occur more frequently. =D If her need for Hunger becomes less crazed and desperate then maybe she’ll even have more free time to work on her homework or befriend some people who’ll ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF HER!
Magnificent story~! I’m sure everyone who’s read Alice & Kev knows this already, though. 😉
What are the traits, lifetime wishes, etc. for Kev and Alice? I’m going to try to make them myself. Very hilarious blog! Kudos!
Alice and Kev are downloadable on the Sims3 website.
I love the blog! I’ve read it from the very beginning, but I think this is my first comment. I downloaded them myself with the idea of having Alice completely turn her life around. I wanted to experiement with the Rags to Riches challenge, as well as this one. I must say, you have a very nice sense of captioning! I love to read what you have to say about each picture!
The traits are told in the very first post. Kev is Hot-headed, mean spirited, insane, inappropriate, and hates children. Alice is good, clumsy, loser, and as a teen unlucky. Kevs life time goal is to be a heartbreaker with 10 girlfriends (it might be 5 but whenever i get that lifetime wish its 10). Alice I don’t think has one yet but as a young adult she’ll be forced to choose one.
i love this blog! thanks for updating!
this is just like a soap opera i can’t help but tune into.
I installed Alice and Kev into Riverview long ago while I played another family. When Alice was an adult, I finally made Alice and Kev the active family. I found Alice downtown drinking. When she was done drinking, she just kept going back for more. Seems she was an unemployed alcoholic. Kev was a retired bedpan cleaner making 40 simoleons a day, spending most of his time harrassing his child son, who was always miserable. Remarkably though, Alice and Kev had an excellent relationship.
she can go to the community garden in game and steal veggies and fruit to eat. thats what i did with my homeless child 🙂
i know this is off topic but how do sims3 sims go on a date?
Well i dont think they can, what happens usually for my sims is that my sim will call someone over and they will chat and talk until the other person has to go home cause its “getting too late.” but they will stay over if you ask them to “sleep over”.
unlike in the sims2 i don’t think you can click on the option to go out but the two sims can go to a public lot with eachother…like to the movie theatre, the sports stadium, or the park and have a nice picnic. With free will you could probably ignore the rest of your family members and just concentrate on the two love birds. Usually the others take care of themselves and if someone doesn’t you have the little yellow box warning to let you know to check on them.
I’m tempted to play a homeless family, but I don’t know if I can take the suffering of a child for long without cheating. All my families are happy, loving, and comfortable, and that’s how I like it (as boring as it may be).
They’re homeless but there are ways to keep them from being miserable. It just requires you to control them more than what is done for this story. In both neighborhoods there is plenty of fruit/vegetable plants to harvest. In Riverview there is a garden down the street from kev and alice and several families have gardens in their backyards (the grandpas, the joys, and the mcdermitts). Children cannot harvest but teens and adults can even without permission (drag and drop inventory onto child). The gym next door to the school has showers and toilets, tv and sterio, and in Sunset Valley it has a fridge and comfortable lounge chairs. As long as the child is with an adult curfew will not send them home so they could practically live in a public lot.
One thing i found out while playing and not sure if it would work always is that my alice befriended an adult (family-oriented, good, bookworm, ambitious, hopeless romantic). After becoming friends the woman stopped telling alice she was being inappropriate, allowing her to eat from her fridge, shower and sleep as needed.
i tried making a kev but he died of starvetion right away lol!
I’m planning on buying the original game some time this week. I already experienced The Sims 3 gameplay, but it’s so good, I just need to buy the CD itself. And when I get my hands on them, I am so going to download these two! :3
Poor Alice… getting caught just cause she’s out a bit late.
At least she’s learning how to evade them. Does she have a relationship with the policewoman?
I think it’s really amazing how you manage to update every day. 🙂
I can’t help but wonder, by this point in the blog, how close Alice is to young adulthood and how close Kev is to death.
To be fair, she could’ve waited to get home before doing her homework. Very passive aggressive.
To be fair, the way Kev has been acting all day (and night) she probably would rather be in custody than go home to him.
but if Alice wasnt with Kev, their would be no Alice&Kev
i agree Kasey, the story revolves around them two. But when Kev get’s dies for being an elder, i wonder what Alice will do. Will she make something of herself? Or will she fall in love and have someone else support her?
Hey, Kev doesn’t make the rules—he just follows them.
This is like a soap opera, sooner or later her mother is going to come along and give her endless riches and then she will fall in love only to be torn back to her father. The plot line thickens
So, am I the only one who think it would be a happily-ever-after
if she grew up into a young adult and fell in love with that guy Zedadias?
It would be awesome!
And then Kev could be the “father in law from hell”!
LMAO
Hah! That’d be sweet! xD
I have been playing the sims ever cense sims 2 came out… they have came a long way cense then. But any way the other day I was playing the Sims 3 and I made a BEAUTIFUL blonde woman very “hookerish” and then I made her husband an obese inappropriate slob with hair that looked as if some 6 year old smashed play-dough all over it. But then I got bored and we locked play-dough head in a room and he starved to death…
lol i did something liek that. i made thhis total slut that looks like katie from my class and after i made her not kiss all the boyz i made her eat so much she popped lol
What happens when she is picked up by the cops? Where does she go? Do they keep her for long?
They take them home.
I’m going to download Kev and have him move in with my Gary Busey sim!
Who will break first?! Taking all bets!
DarkRexx-
My money’s on Kev. He’ll snap like a twig against Busey! LOL
I absolutely love how you made a blog for the Sims.
i love this story
with any luck i can get sims 3 very soon
i would very much like to try to make a homeless family
sadly i dont think it would work in the sims 2 but i think i’m gunna try anyway
I love this story.
Indeed you can do a homeless family it the sims 2, I’ve done many in the past. It’s way easy though.
I downloaded Alice and Kev, and they’ve taken an od turn:
Kev found another evil Sim like him, with the exception of being filthy rich and fell in love with her, and proposed to her, so she left her husband. Then Kev died of being electrocuted in his new mansion. This leaves Alice and the woman, and Alice has a job 🙂
it works just fine in ts2, just keep sending them to community lots and let them carry out their lives, sleeping at home and taking care of themsleves at comm lots.
BTW: I ❤ this story so very much.
Great update as usual:)
My Alice (downloaded from this site) is doing surprisingly well. They aren’t my main family but the teenage son of my sim family met her in school and has invited her over to feed her as often as possible. He’s started rolling wants to kiss her… (she’s also a teenager now)… Alice Santos has a nice ring to it:)
uh oh…I woke up too early and the next episode has not yet been posted. >.< (forgive me if any posts seem random while i stalk the blog)
I did the same with my alice. They met has kids and grew up together, during highschool they started going out and then married after they both became young adults. Alice is a good person so I invited kev to the wedding, but refused to let him live with her. He was forced to watch her happiness from across the street as when my son moved out thats where he chose to live. (and I used the kick out option so that was sort of a free will thing I'd say). Alice gained the trait grumpy instead of unlucky as a teen and then became a natural cook as an adult. Shes now in the business career track hoping to be CEO. Shes also the only one who married into my family and hasn't had more then 1 child (the children moved out and became npcs).
Aww. Poor Alice!
I came here following the article in the Big Issue – fascinating stuff, great writing, thank you!
Love this story!!! You should consider a career in this sort of thing, roBurky
I tried this, and on the first day alone they became friends…weird. I would have thought he’d always be insulting her and making fun of her. he’s only scared her a few times it seems, and he hasn’t even shooed her away.
I downloaded teenage Alice and Kev and basically ignored Kev entirely. I have high free will on, so he just did what he liked. Alice started out wanting to learn gardening, which was entirely sensible, and she wanted a job. Day one she went and picked up a job at the book store. She tried to finish learning gardening at the library, but couldn’t before curfew, so she went home.
Kev was already asleep on the bench, and spent all his time either talking to himself or sleeping. Alice went to school and had just enough time to run next door to the gym to shower before work. She was rubbish at work because of her exhaustion, but managed to make it through the day. She went home to sleep and donate money to the Walled In Sims Society. She did her homework just before school, and finished it IN school, poor thing.
Her first few days were like that, eating at school or what she harvested from the community garden down the road from her lot. She worked hard at her job but barely stayed employed. It all turned around when she saved her pennies and bought a tiny four poster bed. She cleared the brambles in the back corner and set up her bed and teddy bear. The sleep made all the difference.
She aged up *really* fast it seemed, but by the time she did she was on honor roll and knew how to garden and fish. Kev died not long after she aged up by drowning in a swimming pool of some rich family he’d been abusing. Who knew he could swim? Guess he couldn’t. Alice is currently in mourning.
I agree with what some people are saying, that if Alice went to jail, she could sleep, and be away from Kev. Probably be good for the girl.
But it’s sad to think that she would be better off in jail than at her own “home”.
This story is so good! I could never make anything this good.
I like the story but most of all I liked the location where Alice was sleeping. Actually that is little bit similar location that I want to make in my Home Garden.