Spa-Time Adventures at Zig-Zag Zen (Part 1)

The Crossroads

Emperor Saarang awakens in an unfamiliar bed to bright sunshine streaming through the uncovered windows. The room that he is in is just as unfamiliar. He hops out of bed with a vigour he has not experienced for decades. Oh well, no use dwelling on it. I’ll brush my teeth and find out what is going on. He thought to himself as he walked in to the bathroom.

Saarang hadn’t looked in to the mirror at this point, so was unaware of the reflection that was looking back at him. He spat out the toothpaste and finally looked up.

He was young again. Every wrinkle on his face was gone, his hair was once again the beautiful golden blonde colour from his youth. “Hey there handsome!” he said to himself, “Where have you been?”

He admired himself in the mirror for a time, not entirely sure what was going on. The last thing he remembered was… He couldn’t remember, when he tried to recall it, his mind went fuzzy. As he was leaving the bathroom, ready to find some answers, he found a strange man sitting on his bed.

He was wearing a bizarre sequinned suit in a most vibrant red colour.

“Who are you?” asked Saarang as he sat down next to the odd looking man.

“Why I’m Ken Jeong bitches!” the man replied cheerfully.

Saarang peered around the room, he was the only one here. He had no idea why this man had referred to him as not only a female dog, but multiple female dogs.

“Who?”

“Never mind that. I’m here to tell you something important.”

“Like why I’m here in this strange place?” Saarang asked.

“Yes.”

“And why I’m young again?”

“That too.” Ken nodded.

“Well my friend… You’re dead! Bahahahahaahahahahahahahah!” Ken pauses and inhales air, “Bahahahahahahaahhahaha!”

“I don’t see how that’s funny.”

“You don’t? Oh well.” Ken wiped tears of laughter out of his eyes and continued with his explanation. “This place your in. It’s kind of like a crossroads, a world between worlds. I’ve heard of it being called “The Gallery” among other things.”

“The Gallery?”

“Yeah, you’re here because the next world isn’t ready yet. Your creator has decided to do something nice for you, so that is why your young again.”

Saarang was most definitely confused. He’d never heard of this place before, this Gallery.

Ken had more to say. “You’re going to meat a bunch of people here. Some strangers, some friends, some family.”

“And they’ll all be dead?”

“No silly!” Ken laughed, “There’s more than one way to get here. Come let’s meet some of them, they live in this house with you… For now.”

Ken took Saarang downstairs, where he was introduced to four strangers that had somehow found themselves in this crossroads.

The other two were found upstairs, chilling out and playing games.

Saarang hit it off quite well with them all, and spent the morning chatting to them all out by the pool.

After a while Ken came back with an announcement.

“Morning bitches!” he laughed, “Come with me… We’re going to Zig-Zag Zen”

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Story-mode is off as I now showcase the spa, following different sims as they choose where to go, and what they want to do – only occasionally directing them to certain points (like massage table/chairs).

Wow. Many Simselves. Much gym.

Summerfalls & VanityHigh chatting by/in the pool.

Rory joins in. The one and only time you’ll find her not meditating.

“So what’s your name?”

“NinjaPig.”

“That’s a strange name.”

“What’s yours?”

“Saarang.”

“That’s a strange name.”

“Touche!”

Rory, VanityHigh, Penguinwa101 and Ken Jeong are trying to find inner peace.

Aaah… Empy, that’s not a good way to ask for a massage.

Speaking of massage, Penguinwa is getting a nice Swedish Massage.

And Summerfalls is getting a Deep Tissue one. Ouch!!

Another Penguin is steaming away in the sauna. This one is of the BBQ variety.

Summerfalls is in there too. It looks pretty hot in there!!!

Empy did actually get a massage, even after being rude to the masseuse. A certain NinjaPig joined him.

Penguinwa is looking at fish.

Hello Fishy!!!

Rory’s still meditating. Mind you, so are VanityHigh, Penguinwa and Ken. Whereas Empy is meditating in his own special way.

BBQPenguinWings thinks that Empy’s idea of meditation is spot on.

Penguinwa is reading a nice relaxing book.

While Ken mixes himself a drink (why no bartender here? That’s weird right?)

Someone is enjoying a nice walk through the water-feature.

While Ken drinks his poorly made drink.

And as the sun goes down, guess who’s still meditating?

Stay tuned for Part 2 where a new group of simselves join Empy on his wild ride. I’m just going to leave you with this cheeky image of Ken =)

Which is not part of the spa, but thought it was cool anyway.