Ephram Earl

"In a past life, my last life, that crass and unfriendly morass of life, I was at one time called by a name which remains Ephram Earl to this day! Heed me mortal!"

Ephram Earl
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Ghost
Appearance
Body shape	Thin
Other information
Game	The Sims Bustin' Out (handheld)
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	SimValley

Ephram Earl
Ghost Alive
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Ghost
Biography
Driven to near madness by almost two centuries of lonely wanderings, Ephram is a ghost looking for some rest.
Appearance
Hair color	Red
Eye color	Blue
Skin color	Light
Body shape	Thin
Social standing
Rep group	N/A
Other information
Game	The Urbz: Sims in the City (handheld)
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	Miniopolis

Ephram Earl is a Sim from The Sims: Bustin' Out and The Urbz: Sims in the City.

The Sims: Bustin' Out

Ephram, an old ghost, was driven to near madness by almost two centuries of lonely wanderings, and is haunting the Haunted Shack looking for rest.

Claire Clutterbell first mentions Ephram to the player after he frightened her when she visited the Haunted Shack. After the player returns Ephram his urn containing his ashes and answers his riddles, he calms down and allows the player to take from his possessions as thanks. He can be seen in the background overlooking the rocket that the player had boarded on the game's ending.

While most likely coincidence, Ephram shares a striking resemblance to Lloyd Walter Surghnor, Company A, 16th Texas Infantry of the Confederate army.

During auction periods, in any store, Ephram's bidding often fluctuates until the end of the auction.

Social

The Sims: Bustin' Out

Interactions

Interaction	Points
Annoy	-2
Apologize	-2
Brag	+2
Call Name	-1
Cheer Up	+3
Complain	-1
Compliment	+3
Joke	+2
Flirt	+2
Insult	-3
Intimidate	-2
Gossip	-1
Interests	-1
Secret	-2
Tease	-1

The Urbz: Sims in the City

Interests and Interactions

Icon	Interest	Dialogue
	Talk about Aliens	An alien is a companion in the vacuum of space you delivered the package to.	+2
	Talk about Art	Art is an art which could be nice if you said to say the least thing possible.	+2
	Talk about the Bayou	Could there be bubbles there or everywhere if those bubbles could better serve me as a guide?	+2
	Talk about Books	I read a stern and frowning book, a happy bundle all the same.	+2
	Talk about the Carnival	Music in the air, to polish up the faire, to saddle up the mare, to believe that life is fair.	+2
	Talk about Cars	If it had wheels it would be other than what never was a car but could in any case be driven here or there.	+2
	Talk about the Lounge	Lay down one card, lay down two, the next bet is a green bet, and the third is blue.	+2
	Talk about Miniopolis	Like a shard of glass without the shine or the see-through and the will to comfort the people it keeps.	+2
	Talk about the Coffee Shop	It will never be like me to finish anything except breathing but I try not to be glad.	+2
	Talk about Computers	It was a 1 or a 0 and never both when one wasn't the other and the reasons for this are cloudy.	+2
	Talk about Construction	When an iron beam is made of iron you may say there is a pun in there when others shrug and say not so.	+2
	Talk about Cooking	The sweet congress of lemon and vanilla and sugar is apt to lead to tart delight.	+2
	Talk about Cosmos	After life it was a dark place I spent my death before returning to a place I'd never been.	+2
	Talk about Crime	It is impossible for me to do a bad or a good thing but in most cases someone will accuse me.	+2
	Talk about Dancing	I float for no reason other than to let you know that I am not walking or dancing with joy.	+2
	Tell a Bad Pun	To take offense would approximate a defense but in the wrong direction.	-6
	Talk about Excercise	See the point you earned for running so long in place and found yourself bigger and no further than before.	+2
	Talk about the Market	There was a sale and there was a tale and the teller who set up the sale was a male.	+2
	Talk about Home Decor	Buried deep in loam, an Angel made of stone, a statue for your home.	+2
	Talk about Games	To count on 3 fingers the amount of 4 and on 5 the amount of 9 for certain impossible things are still done.	+2
	Talk about Graveyard	Left untouched for those who slept, and best unearthed for those who wept, being a paradox sometimes.	+2
	Talk about Hobbies	Moaning and groaning or scaring the children or groaning and scaring and warning the parents, take your pick.	+2
	Talk about Health	I have no home but go to a place I return to every evening wondering when it will be safe.	+2
	Talk about Home	If you cough and are in bed, and if you cough and it is red, you may be fed and should be dead.	+2
	Talk about Hygiene	Water which is not solid and soap which is not blue can be mixed on a face which is sweet to smell.	+2
	Talk about Jail	Bars which make hard walls through which air passes but not people can be nice to see from one side.	0
	Talk about the Law	I'm sorry, but you aren't making one ounce of sense!	+2
	Talk about Jobs	If laws are a game and rules rename names and the players are tame then the game stays the same.	+2
	Talk about Simoleons	I know of no novelty more generous than the wiping of stains off walls.	+2
	Talk about Movies	Gold was true and silver was true but lead was not true and for our part we did not mind.	+2
	Talk about the Museum	The image of a photo of a picture of a thing in motion with a sound and a story is simple to understand.	+2
	Talk about Music	Gone things and tall things and lonely things there, and round things and fun things for those who care.	+2
	Talk about Nature	Music like fog which everywhere you listened was beyond the place you remembered leaving.	+2
	Talk about the Newspaper	A pretty place having certain facts you could not object to on grounds that they are everywhere.	+2
	Talk about Ninjas	Like a shadow, not a sneeze, the ninja snuck also like a creek and hid in holes without singing.	+2
	Talk about Politics	Who would you elect to elect if the right man was the right woman and the people shouted nicely?	+2
	Talk about the River	I held the flag, I waited there, with island rats, with patience true, but where were you? WHERE WERE YOU?	+2
	Talk about Rep Groups	I play no part in the earthy fashion of false image making.	+2
	Talk about Shopping	To buy to live to earn to wake to wink to smile to love to care to worry to leave to drive to spend to buy again.	+2
	Talk about Science	If science says that something's new, it isn't true, but things that science says are true, are often new.	+2
	Talk about Sleeping	When may I close my eyes and not see the light that keeps me from my sleep?	+2
	Talk about Sports	In the days before sport people said something about a game all people could win.	+2
	Talk about the Supernatural	Believe nothing above the natural if within nature you find it easily.	+2
	Talk about TV	If it was a box it would not be a ball, and if it was a ball it would be a heavy ball and always electric.	+2
	Talk about Theatre	Go and be gone if there is no sense in going away to stay a while, for such a thing is just not done.	+2
	Talk about Travel	Without which there would be happiness, for which there would be no cure to thank the world for love.	+2
	Talk about the University	Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive by mortals.	+2
	Talk about the Weather	How wet before you said rain was here, and how wet before you said not rain but a river, and why?	+2
	Talk about Work	Those I fight I do not hate and those I guard I do not love but yes the money is my shame.	+2
	Talk about the World	I said I'd build a world or two for your amusement in the future, for the past, and this is it, this world.	+2
	Annoy	To belittle my attention, how dare you!	-6
	Apologize	To toy with my fragile senses, how dare you!	-5
	Brag	To exaggerate your worth, how dare you!	-6
	Call Name	To avoid the use of my name, how dare you!	-5
	Cheer Up	To smile when rain is near, how dare you!	-6
	Complain	To whine about your life, how dare you!	-5
	Compliment	To pander me with quotes, how dare you!	-6
	Entertain	To fool around in shame, how dare you!	-5
	Intimidate	To scare the harmless shade, how dare you!	-6
	Insult	To ridicule a friend, how dare you!	-5
	Joke	To laugh when all is dark, how dare you!	-6
	Gossip	To spread deceit and lies, how dare you!	-5
	Give an Opinion	To express the understood, how dare you!	-6
	Tell a Secret	To whisper things aloud, how dare you!	-5
	Tease	To taunt me with a word, how dare you!	-6
	Cry	To falsify your tears, how dare you!	-5
	Rude Gesture	To violate my space, how dare you!	-6
	Jibba Jabba	I'm sorry, but you aren't making one ounce of sense!	0
	Hug (Accept)	N/A	+3
	Hug (Reject)	There are fouler things to know than the warm wrap of human hands.	-2
	Gift (Accept)	You are the light of little deeds done well.	Varies
	Gift (Reject)	What use has a shade for the shine of that?	N/A
	Errand (Accept)	To [Sim] this item bring, being a cap dating backward to drearier days.	N/A
	Errand (Reject)	No, not a need for the nothing in need, pray forgive me.	N/A
	Move In (Reject)	Alas! Alack! Alone! At last!	N/A
	Silent Treatment	Silence.	N/A

The Urbz: Sims in the City

In this game, Earl is a ghost inhabiting Urbania's SimQuarter Graveyard. His appearance had been enhanced to appear more human such as having a complete pair of eyes. The player is free to interact with him however they like. In the day he can be seen in the mausoleum, and at night he can be seen wandering around the graveyard. Sometimes he can be found in Club Xizzle. At the end of the game the player goes back in time using his/her time machine and meets Ephram when he was alive, and he keeps the flag that Daddy Bigbucks plants to obtain all of Miniopolis. That is the only time the player gets to see Ephram as a living person apart from in the credits.

When the player goes back in time to 31 December 1870, Ephram appears to be in his thirties or forties. This contradicts with the information in The Sims: Bustin' Out, which says that Ephram has been a ghost for almost two centuries, since Ephram would only likely be dead for only one century.

According to Harlan King, Ephram dresses in a Civil War coat not because he was a soldier, but only simply thought that they were comfortable.

Gallery

Ephram Earl's portraits in The Urbz for DS and DSi

Ephram Earl's alive portraits in The Urbz for GBA

Other languages

Language	Bustin' Out	The Urbz: Sims in the City
English	Ephram Earl	Ephram Earl
French		Hector Plasme
German		Graf Gurgel
Italian		Orazio Strazio
Spanish		Espe C. Tral