Nate Babbling has been a bit worried about his Servo mate, Anna. She's become quite withdrawn lately, spending hours playing with the little toy robot that Teddy gave to her a while ago.
She seemed quite upset when she figured out that the toy robot wasn't actually self aware. Now she lets it roam around the carpet, looking at it wistfully as it fails to overcome a crinkle in the fabric.






Nate thinks he knows what's bothering Anna, and addresses the issue over dinner. (Not that Anna ever eats anything, but she likes to keep Nate company while he does)

Nate: "It's the whoole baby thing, isn't it deaarrr?"



Nate: "Don't woorrry, I'm heeerrre forr you."
Anna: *sigh*



Teddy donated his old Robotics Station to Anna, in the hope it would be a good distraction. Nate thinks it distracts her a bit too much though, as she now hardly does anything else but tinker around with robots, chips and wiring. She won't even stop for a little bit to have some fun in the snow. He's got a sneaking suspicion that she's trying to create artificial intelligence like herself, but she's not making a lot of headway with her project.



Nate's decided to work on a portrait of Anna. Hopefully it will cheer her up a bit. He's even included her little toy robot.



Yet another failure for Anna as she tries to give her little toy robot a thinking brain. All it does is make it try to choke her, which doesn't tell of great intelligence, seeing as Servos don't have to breathe.

It seems to be the last straw for Anna. As soon as Nate left the house for a family visit at Teddy's, she started running amok.









Nate found her like this when he got home, outside in the backyard, knee-deep in the snow.



At a loss as to what to do, he tried to open up the hatch in her back to see how bad the damage was. Unfortunately, some wires seem to have gotten crossed while Anna was running amok...





The resulting shock nearly killed Nate. Luckily, the only victims of the electrocution were his clothes and hair.



He just about had enough strength to bring Anna back inside, and then drag himself upstairs and into bed.





There's only one person he knows that could help getting Anna back on her feet: his brother's wife.

Nate: "Just cooome as quick as you caaan Rrrrose. I rreaally don't know whaat to doo."



Rose was over as quick as a flash when she heard about Anna's malfunctioning, and set to work trying to repair the damage in the circuitry.



Rose: "There, I think that's done it. She was all tangled up inside, a real mess. I think regular check-ups wouldn't be a bad idea from now on though..."



Anna: *whhiiiirrrrrrr beep boop TING* "What... what happened? Did someone power Anna down?"
Rose: "There ya go Nate, good as new!"



Anna: "All of a sudden everything went dark, and... Ufh!"
Nate: *BEARHUG!*



Nate: "Thank you soo much Rrrooose. I doon't know how I'll everrr be aaable to rrrepaay yoou."
Rose: "You were thinking of opening that  bar, weren't you? Free drinks and we'll forget about it."
Nate: "Aaas many as yoou liiiike."



The shock of her adventure has jolted Anna out of the dip she was in, even if she does occasionally go all quiet whenever she sees one of the town's kids running along the sidewalk in front of the house.
Nate's just happy to have her back, though the whole episode has forcefully reminded him of the fact that Anna simply isn't, and will never be, fully Simmish...


Oooh, this update was a bit of a downer one, wasn't it? Sorry about that. :) Life isn't all sunshine and roses though, not even for Sims...