The Joe Baghead Show

Day 1: There's no criteria for this day, it's just for all the contestants to get to know each other - and ideally, Joe - better.

The group arrived at the house all the same time. Gemma, Taylor, and Joe stood outside for a while. Perhaps they were too nervous to go inside, or perhaps they thought they could get in some quick mingling time with just the three of them?
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Meanwhile, Rebecca headed straight to the pool, and the other four girls each opted to play chess - separately. Perhaps their skills aren't good enough to try playing against another person yet?


Taylor was starving and headed inside to eat, and Gemma wandered in as well. Joe, not wanting to awkwardly stand outside the house when he's supposed to be connecting with women, headed inside to join Sienna's game of chess. They hit it off pretty well at first, talking about theatre, comedy, and tanks. Perhaps they have a mutual fondness of the musical The Producers. Gemma also joined Priscilla's game of chess. Gemma pranked Priscilla into thinking there was a bat behind her, which Priscilla thought was a great joke.


Rebecca decided not to swim after all, and came inside to join Katrina's game of chess. I think they didn't get along too well because the game ended pretty quickly. Priscilla got up to play Don't Wake the Llama alone, ignoring that Taylor was already playing it at the other table. Katrina then joined Devon's game of chess, while Rebecca just kind of hovered in the room to see what was up.


Priscilla, Katrina, and Rebecca were all convinced to join Taylor's llama game, perhaps either because of how much fun she was having or because she told them that players are gonna play play play. Devon got bored of chess and sat at the now-vacant second Llama table. While Joe felt awkward that none of the girls seemed too interested in him so far, he saw an opportunity to be the one to start the talking and joined Devon at the table.
Meanwhile, Gemma and Sienna kept playing chess until Sienna got too bored and went for a dip in the pool.


Devon and Joe chatted for quite a while, even though Devon seemed very disinterested a number of times, checking her phone quite often. Joe started daydreaming partway through the conversation, which seemed to irritate Devon. Katrina and Taylor listened to Rebecca doing karaoke outside, until Katrina remembered she's on a dating show and sat down to chat with Joe, unaware of the fact that he's daydreaming. Would they have noticed that his mind was elsewhere if his face wasn't just drawn on? Who knows!


When Joe came back out of it, he, Devon, and Katrina played a game of Don't Wake the Llama. He knocked the tower down, perhaps because of his clumsy trait, which for some reason pleased Devon but lowered his relationship bar with Katrina. Katrina said, "He's so weird. He'll be completely out of it for like 15 minutes and then he'll talk your ear off. I don't like it."

The Welcome Wagon unfortunately arrived at this moment, and its sole occupant was Sigrid Funk, and trust me when I tell you that you are not prepared to see her.


Nobody answered the Unwelcome Wagon, which made Sigrid upset with Joe, a man she never met, for some reason.
Rebecca felt more like actually going for a swim after her karaoke performance. Taylor relaxed in a pool floaty, her ears still ringing from the terrible karaoke performance


Joe went back to a chess table and thought about robots for a while, and then got up to join Rebecca in a game of chess. Rebecca unfortunately was more into talking about writing with Devon, and got up and left 4 minutes into the game. Poor Joe!


Priscilla got flirty with thoughts of Joe during a swim, but then went inside to watch a game of Don't Wake the Llama rather than interact with Joe in any way. Priscilla then realized she needed to pee, which reminded Joe he also needed to pee. Rebecca followed him into the bathroom (which is a public restroom style with stalls). I thought she needed to pee as well, but no, she went in there to do finger guns at the stall Joe was in and then she left. We stan a weird and relatable queen.

Gemma confesses that she's sad about seeing everyone coupled up but her, due to her jealous trait. Nobody in the house is even friends, let alone a couple, so her jealousy must be pretty extreme!

Everyone then realizes they're hungry, and with 8 people and one kitchen it was chaos, especially since nobody figured out to serve a meal for everyone. And despite a dining table with 8 chairs and 4 kitchen islands with 4 barstools, Joe opted for the most comfortable spot to eat his French toast in the house - standing up while staring at Rebecca.

And if you wondered how he was going to eat with a bag on his head, let me tell you, it was sure something to watch! He figured out there was enough room to fit bites of food between his face and the bag without having to move the bag. I can't imagine how that would smell, though!

Katrina was suddenly naked for no apparent reason, which drew Joe to her immediately for a chat. He then discovered he has a Childish personality. I kind of feel like the adult in a house full of strangers who keeps walking around naked is a little more childish, personally! Katrina cut the chat short and headed out to the ocean with Sienna and Taylor. They all waded into an algae bloom, which gave Sienna and Katrina uncomfortable moodlets - probably worse in Katrina's case as she was still naked.

I know algae blooms smell pretty awful, I don't know why they stayed out there so long! I guess they just really hate Joe?

Priscilla had a terrible go at karaoke and then headed up to bed at 8:45 pm. I know they say "early to bed, early to rise, makes a sim healthy, wealthy, and wise" but that's a little extreme!


Joe and Gemma headed to bed next at about 10 pm. I don't blame Joe, what's the point in staying up later when nobody wants to talk to you on a show all about dating you?! Maybe things will turn out better tomorrow!

Katrina had some kind of harrowing experience in the algae-infested water, giving her a fear of the ocean. For some reason she continued to swim in it for the next 3 hours, however, even when Taylor and Sienna headed back to the house.
Katrina finally ends her nighttime ocean skinny dip with a Paranoid personality, but rather than go to sleep like a normal person she does a backfloat in the pool at the house. Since she was still naked we opted not to include that image.

Day 1 ends with nobody having made a particularly strong impression on Joe. Sienna has barely the highest friendship bar with him, but nobody really stands out as a contender so far. Taylor barely interacted with Joe at all. Gemma has gained the most skills in the house at the end of the day.

Next time: After the first day of mingling, will things look better for Joe? What happens when things get too hot? And will I notice that I still didn't put a trashcan anywhere on the property? Stay tuned!

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