Kev is feeling his age. You never know exactly how long someone has left to live in The Sims, but you can get some idea from the little green progress bar of their life. Kev’s is nearly full.
He has accumulated a lot of wishes in a short space of time. All of them are to say certain things to various people he’s met in his life. To tell them what he thinks of them. First on the list is Rhoda Bagley, who he wants to insult. Rhoda’s brother Sherman answers the door, and clearly remembers Kev.
Once upon a time, Kev had a job working for Rhoda. A job that got him a spell in prison more than once. It doesn’t look like Kev blames himself for that. He strides into her living room and starts a loud shouting match with his former boss.
When he leaves, Rhoda still has a scowl on her face. Let’s hope that anger and frustration doesn’t get passed on.
Next: Kev and Robert Newbie
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If you’ve found this tale of homelessness affecting, you might want to consider helping a real-world charity.
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Charity spotlight: Homeless Truths
A while ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to appear on a local radio show because of this blog. That radio show was Homeless Truths, which is run and presented by a bunch of lovely people who are all homeless / ex-homeless / vulnerably housed.
Homeless Truths is the only radio show IN THE WORLD … produced and presented by homeless people for 209radio 105Fm in the Cambridge area. We have just completed a funded course teaching us all aspects of radio production and we’ve been broadcasting live once a fortnight giving voice to the stories and issues and talents of the homeless community in Cambridge.
We love making radio! and we want to carry on producing Homeless Truths … but now it’s up to us to cover the core costs so that we can continue to broadcast with 209radio. Our target of £3,500 will enable us to produce one more year of programmes and train up to 6 new team members.
Whatever you can spare – even £1 – will give us a huge boost. THANK YOU
– Kirsten Lavers
Update: Unfortunately, I’ve received word that Homeless Truths failed to raise their funds, and 209radio have shut down. But I have been told that many of the homeless people who worked on it are now participating in a venture called Homeless Not Hopeless, and I am sure they would appreciate any support you can give them.
Alice and Kev 
Welcome back! 🙂
It’s sad to think that, for all the wrong he had done, Kev will not be missed remembered by anyone except Alice and even then she’ll be bitter about it.
Either way, good to have you back.
great update, thanks 🙂
BRILLIANT!
It’s Great that your back!
Yay!!!!
🙂
Thank you for the update.
YAY
It’s back.
But I’m guessing it gotta end soon, Kev’s soon dead and Alice’s all grown up.
*sniffle*
To be honest I was expecting loads of comments heehee. Good comeback though I guess I need to run through everything again cause’ I forgot what’s been happening:( Oh dear me
Interesting piece on Homeless Truths… I was wondering if you’d be doing any media about the success of the Alice and Kev story/homelessness awareness. Good for you!
Good to have you back, thanks for the update. 🙂
Welcome back!
finally my fav soap returned…
well, at least kev wont have to blush when hes going to be judged in the end. he can stand up straight and and sing ‘my way’ …
welcome back!
There should be a real TV show made about this it is so amazing 🙂
I want to grow up to be like Kev
0.0 you…want to be like… KEV?
I love your stories!!!!!! Are you going to let Alice marry someone or just die? I am a big fan of sims and tried to make Alice and Kev in my sims, but horribly failed. OH and what is Alice’s fifth trait that she got when she became a young adult?
Months for that?
just what i thought.
Stop acting like spoiled brats. Robin is doing this for free and for fun. If you don’t like it, don’t read it 🙂
Thanks Robin, I love the blog and it’s great to have you back!
You know what you two?
I love you. C’mon, group hug, share the love, share the love. It’ll all be okay, don’t you worry.
To be fair roBurky did say he was building up a buffer and had several posts on the go.
I don’t care, you’re being hugged anyway.
lol, what’d you expect, giant asteroids from space (burning Sunset Valley to the ground as a maniacal Kev cackles at the scene, muhahahaha….)?
^Whoops, sorry, directed at people who were like “whaaat??” I’m still excited!
I want a hug too, anywayz….
If you’re expecting the new updates to demonstrate a month’s worth of work spent on them, whether this entry individually or the new series as a whole, I am afraid you will be disappointed. I’m sorry about that.
i agree. months of waiting… for that?
DISAPPOINTMENT
Oh, come on. You could, at the least, show a morsel of gratitude. Robin does have a life and he took the time to make such a great story for all to enjoy.
Guess we’ll just call this blog “Alice”, I’ll miss Kev and his shenanigans. But did we ever see the outcome of what happened when Kev messed with that big Grocery Guy?
no that was the last thing we saw about kev before this i think and it doesn’t look like we will either
Today is United Nations Peace Day.
I maintain that a group hug must be had, whether or not you love Alice and Kev. Prove that something as trivial as a blog will not make you hate your fellow humans and net-hug people!
I don’t know how to net-hug. I assume that you do.
Hop to it!
Well, I’ll be damned, it actually is United Nations Peace Day. And I’d thought you were goofing too.
Here then, I’ll virtually give everyone Peace Chocolates and Super-Friendly Cupcakes. 😀 There are no refreshments because on Peace Day your thirst will only be quenched by love. ♥
*hugs everyone*
Ok, I’m done. Also hahaha@Dryad.
Here’s a hug for you!
OK, but I haven’t showered in a while…..
JK
Hugs for everyone!
So Kev’s bucket list in his twilight years is just people to tell off? Good for him! No hypocracy or false repentance – he’s living his life the way he wants until the very end!
yay keep ’em coming good to have them back…
Crap, reading this whole thing makes me want to buy the sims, but I hate that game…
Hi Roburky. I first read this story while doing the B-n-S challenge. I just wanted to come back and catch up! I really love your characters and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Congratulations on your radio spot. Your story has touched the lives of the truly homeless and that is special.
SimEve
Woo, it’s back!
Kev’s such a great guy. Terrible, lonely life drawing to a close and what does he do? Lets everyone know he still hates them. 😀
i feel a bit sorry for kev, i think something made him this mean. i hope he sorts himself out before its too late
welcome back roburky!
Welcome back!
I’m glad you’re back!
Welcome back 🙂 Thank you so much for doing this for us and don’t mind them haters.
This is a great blog!
I’m sorry for my English, I’m Dutch.
Every time I see something on the Internet about “the Cambridge area” I mentally dismiss it as Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then I saw the money goal in £ and realised that you mean Cambridge, Cambs- I live just around the corner from these people. Thanks for making me aware of what was going on on my own street :$
Welcome back- time to tell all my friends to resume reading.
Glad you’re back!
Robin, I decided that since I derive so much entertainment from this blog, I would donate the money I might have spent on some other form of entertainment (say, buying a book, or going out to the movies) to Habitat to Humanity. Thank you for your story. I may decide to even buy my own copy of the Sims 3 soon.
Thank you and happy studies.
Whoops, I meant Habitat For Humanity. I volunteered with them once and enjoyed the experience, and this also lead me to pick them from your list.
Good show–Habitat is one of the few charities that I’d trust enough to donate to (unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of spare $$$ for that, but I do try to get stuff from their Resale store when i can)–they have demonstrable solid work, rather than some of the song and dance you get from other charities.
Plus, it still amuses me that when one of the hurricanes came through a while back, one of the news stories was about how professionally-built houses collapsed…but the Habitat-built ones withstood the storms just fine. 🙂
I’m not sure “amusing” is the word you meant… good for the Habitat houses, but I bet the owners of the “professionally built houses” that collapsed didn’t find it very amusing.
Karen
The irony of your hurricanes statement may have a reason behind it. Perhaps the Habitat-built houses withstood hurricanes because they were built with the intent of helping others rather than the professionals’ intent of making money.
Hope your summer was great, RoBurky! So happy to see Alice and Kev moving forward!
Glad you’re back. 🙂 Been checking every once in a while to see if you posted anything. Hope your summer was great~
Welcome back 😀
Welcome back…
In true form Kev is out to wreak havoc before he dies. Because of this, he may die a happy man.
Great to have you back, Robin! I’m sure the story will continue awhile longer, as Robin was building up espisodes for us… and Kev’s not dead yet!
Yey You’re back… you were missed.
I hope that Kev thinks back on his life… and makes some good decisions about his last impressions on people.
Welcome back!!! 🙂
so lovely to have you beck I have so missed this blog!
Tuned in to Homeless Truths, like the radio station!
its great that a & k is back, BUT CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THEIR LAST NAME IS?
sorry, its just that you have so many posts and never once have you told us what it is.
Their last name is Bin Diver, GerandLer.
That was short and sweet.
awwww as much as i dont like kev i will miss his insanity!!! 😦
is there a ressuerect-o-nomitron like in sims 2????
Welcome back!!
yes! yaaaaaaaaay
Oh, lord, poor Sherman looks TERRIFIED.
In other news, SO glad to see this is back.
I love this blog, and I am very glad you are back. I do have to say, and I’m not saying it to be mean or be a “hater” lol, that I wish there had been more to the update. I don’t think anyone expects for you to have spent an entire month on the post or anything, but I think perhaps at least some of us expected for you to do more than a few sentences and three pictures. I know how much time and effort go into a blog like this, but it has always been my opinion that I would rather take a few extra days to make a post worthwhile than post just because I said I would post on this day. It might be better to just post a longer entry once a week than try to do three times a week if they will all be this short. It’s just really hard, for me at least, to get into the story when it’s this short, you know? I hope I’m not coming off as mean about it, just thought I’d let you know how it might be for some readers. I’d hate for the blog to lose readers especially now that it’s becoming linked with charity and needs those readers.
But at any rate, I am really glad you’re back and also that you’re doing great things in RL as well.
Glad you’re back RoBurky!! Forget about the whingers, they’re a small minority. We all understand the time it takes to make this. Poor Sherman, it looks like his trousers were about to become a bit damp!!
You have no idea how excited I got when I got a Twitter text this morning saying you had updated 😀
Welcome back, Kev and Alice.
And for what it’s worth, I’m gonna miss the ol’ guy when he’s gone. He may be a crazy old man, but he sure has grown on me.
Is this like the “bucket list” for Kev?
Lol, I smell another blog idea coming along. 😀
Great to have you back! ❤ And nice update. 🙂
A radio show? Go you! 🙂 That must’ve been way past cool. And welcome back, to. I was happy to see an update! But… whose the kid in the Bagley house, anyway? I don’t remember him…
Yes. I’m so happy that its here, but it was not worth the wait.
OMG! Is that Kev’s SON!?
Considering these pics might have been taken months ago, before a certain patch, we may still be seeing spontaneous kids/ clones with only one parent, thanks to “story progression”.
I’m still very close to being homeless myself, spending all my time going to job fairs, and investigating colleges, wondering which will be the better path for now. I think I’m out of the running for one job; they asked for a list of current residences for the last 10 years, and I’ve had 6 different addresses just for the last 5 years, as well as 2 companies which are now listed as “formerly known as”. Every time I’ve lost a job/ been laid off/ downsized/ outsourced, etc., it usually includes more couch surfing.
I barely had money to buy Sims 3 in the first place. I noticed it was coming out, and saved for about 3 months, just to have the $50 to buy it. I downloaded Alice & Kev, and moved a self-sim onto the bench with them. I was rather surprised and amused and saddened and shocked by the results.
I’d donate to the homeless cause if I could, but considering my own situation… I’m trying not to turn my self-sim on the bench into a reality. I’m already far too close.
Glad to have a new update though. YAY!!! 🙂
And because I’m spending so much time looking for work, I’ve hardly been updating my own blog. I really do understand the need for LOTS of time off, and random schedules.
No, the Bagleys are a premade family. Sherman is Rhoda’s brother. I assume either he or Rhoda is the parent of that child.
huray
Yay I am hooked on this!
Hmmmm…just how many Sims will Kev insult before he kicks the bucket?
Why do I think he’s going to save his own sweet daughter Alice for last?
Hoping he might have it all out of his system before he gets to her and actually says something kind before the Reaper takes him…but I have to remember this is Kev.
This is a nice Sims journal, but I don’t know if people realize that this isn’t the first – so if you like this kind of thing, Google “Sims 2 legacy livejournal” and you’ll get hundreds of sites that have followed Sims families through 10 generations, sometimes longer.
Note: I’m not saying this isn’t good, it’s very entertaining. Just wanted to let fans of this kind of thing know that there’s a *huge* community of storytellers out there, and lots to see! There are legacies, “uglacies”, all sorts of challenges, etc.
A good place to start is
http://community.livejournal.com/legacychallenge
Have fun! Hope more Alice and Kev comes, too!
Karen
Hey all – people who are wishing it were longer of an entry are not “haters”… they’re fans. They wish it were longer because they like what they read.
It’s a compliment, although sometimes that’s not obvious. 🙂
Karen
i’m going to download the teenage alice and adult kev and play right now 🙂
great to see the story of alice and kev continue 🙂
Good to see the old crazy man back in action! I think this list of wishes is foreshadowing the end of Kev, but I am sure he won’t go away without a fight 😉
Glad you’re back!
I imagine a lonely old man wanting to put things right before passing away… only instead of telling his children he always loved them, he has a list of people to insult before he dies.
Welcome back, Roburky! I know how much work this can be. I’m glad to see you are back at it!
Go Cat Dave
http://www.teenagersfrommars.com
I hate Kev…I mean his character but his plot-point is really good!
Ha, wow, I was actually surprised to see a post! It was short X 100000000000, though…doesn’t matter, though. Good to have you back!
yay, you finally posted!! although im REALLY happy that u finally posted, i expected a little tiny bit more considering it took u a while. 😉 BUT, dont get me wrong, im glad you’re back!!
oh, and Jackrabbit, you are a jackass!! 🙂
Hahaha. Kev is about to die(happy dance!) and sherman’s scared of him. Ha! That’s right sherman. Fear that white-haired wookie thing! He’ll be gone soon, anyway. Best to get our laughs in while we can. And the post are as long as always BLeH blEh!! Otherwise i agree with you. (interpret that anyway you want jackrabbit.)
Good to have Alice and Kev back! 😀 and also awesome post!
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They’re so sweet together! I hope they get married.
So glad your back, and hopefully more of your posts to come.
THE CHILD SHALL DIE!!!hahaha! that was priceless! keep up the series DONT END IT NOW!