Gothique Library CARNAGE!

As I stated in my previous post, Willow loves to visit new places to cast fire blast spells, just to see what happens.  This episode is no different.

In the little town of Dragon Valley, there are two libraries.  One that shipped with the world and the other is one I purchased from The Sims 3 Store entitled "The Gothique Library".  It seems to go well with the theme of Dragon Valley and witches.  So, Willow decides to travel there as she has never been there before.

The Gothique Library fortunately has a body of water nearby and is situated near a river so Willow knows that if she does set herself on fire, she will be able to extinguish herself quickly.  Of course, the same would go for any other sim that would be set alight too.  All they would need to do is jump in the river, or so you would think...

Willow proceeds to cast a fire blast spell on the steps of the library and a few more around the bottom of the steps, just for good measure.

Soon enough, some sims come running but instead of trying to put out the fire, they do what comes more naturally to them, they scream and shout, wave their arms around in the air and jump up and down.

Soon enough, one sim is engulfed by the flames and shortly after, another bites the dust.

Willow watches as the Grim Reaper reaps yet two more souls, cackling away like the evil witch that she is.

- Minicart (Jules)

 

BURNING to DEATH!

After Willow extinguishes herself in the river, she returns to the police station to find what looks like four remains of sims, albeit no names are attached to these lumps of charred bodies.  Confused, Willow decides to travel to the local school, somewhere she hasn't been before.  New places always hold excitement for Willow.

She proceeds to cast a few fire blast spells around the main door of the building and before long, a few sims gather, screaming and shouting and waving their arms about as usual.  Willow is having a lovely time casting spells and consuming Essence of Magic Elixirs in-between.

Just lately however, Willow isn't really paying attention to where she stands.  She seems more content in casting fire blast spells and tends to stand in the midst of blazes whilst she casts the next spell.  This really isn't a good idea but Willow being Willow does what she wants.  To her own detriment I might add.

This occasion is no different.  Willow casts yet another fire blast spell in the midst of an inferno and catches herself alight yet again!

This could be the end for Willow.  There is no water around apart from a fountain that is unusable and she isn't able to put herself out.  The only water she can see is a river quite far away.  Willow jumps on her broomstick and makes her way around the roads to the river.  Running across the field and up the mountain, she decides it would be better to turn around and make her way to a swimming pool.  

Screaming and waving her arms in the air, she finally arrives at the sims house, only to be saved by the householder who happens to have a fire extinguisher.

Willow goes home to freshen up and as she is a bit of a sucker for punishment, she decides to return to the school where various sims are still there shouting and screaming and a couple of fires still burn brightly.

Willow again proceeds to light a few fires and catches a few sims alight.  It seems her aim is getting better.  She decides to stand and practice some magic while all mayhem breaks loose.

Not one, but two sims burn to death in this blazing inferno that Willow has created.

Once the Grim Reaper has reaped the souls of these two unfortunate sims, Willow proceeds to show him an internet cat video.

- Minicart (Jules)

For WHOM the BELL TOLLS!

 

In the last episode, we left Willow at the Day Spa, casting fire blast spells and generally having the time of her life.

Now while Willow is having so much fun with her fire blasting shenanigans, she doesn't even think if the Sim she is setting alight is even a friend or maybe the spouse of a friend.  In fact, she doesn't seem to care.  She just casts these spells haphazardly, one after another, consuming Essence of Magic elixirs inbetween to refil her magic bar.

As I have mentioned before, the term "sitting duck" is prevalent in these situations and this day is no different.  One Sim decides to pass out.  Obviously passing out is not something that one chooses to do, it just happens.  So, if you have a weak stomach, you really shouldn't be in the vicinity of fires started by an evil witch.  This particular Sim however doesn't take heed to such advice and becomes another "sitting duck", or in his case, a "sleeping duck".

Luckily for him however, a do-gooder proceeds to extinguish the fire which engulfs the poor Sims body, not realising that he himself is burning alive as he tries to help the poor soul on the ground.

Whilst the fires are burning, Willow decides to practice some magic with apparently, not a care in the world.

As the fires are extinguished with the presence of the Grim Reaper, Willow realises that she has killed one of her best friends and fellow witch, Suzy Sackholme, along with her partner.  For once, this causes Willow to mourn, which is something that is very rare.

Maybe we should take pity on Willow or maybe she got what she deserved.  

- Minicart (Jules)

Unity Day Spa INFERNO!

 

Willow tends to have her favourite spots in Dragon Valley to light fires, such as the graveyards, park and grocery store.  She has killed many Sims in these places and seemingly enjoyed every minute of it.  One place that she hasn't been to for a long while is the Unity Day Spa.  She had forgotten that she had great success in killing a Sim there quite a while ago and so decided to give this community lot another shot.

Willow was going to take Tabitha with her but decided against it as Tabitha was quite tired and needed to sleep.  Besides, she didn't want Tabitha getting hurt.

After lighting a couple of fires, not surprisingly, a few Sims turned up on the lot to shout, scream, jump up and down and wave their arms around.  Sitting ducks, (which is a phrase that I use quite often these days), Willow lights a couple of fires very near these Sims to see if she can catch them alight.

As is quite normal in these situations, the Sims just carry on jumping around and screaming.  Sometimes they run off still on fire and return to their homes where you can see the flames emanating from them through the windows.  But not today.  Today they are sitting ducks.  One Sim passes out as the Grim Reaper returns to the realm of the living to reap yet another soul.

- Minicart (Jules)

Death at the Fall Festival

 

In this episode of The Evil Witch of Dragon Valley, we see Willow up to her old tricks again.  In fact, she never really stopped.  Being evil is Willows speciality.  Not only does she annihilate Sims, she laughs at their misfortune and demise.  It's a wonder that Willow has any friends but of course the Friendship elixir helps with that.  Being a friend of Willows means that you stand less of a chance of getting burned to death.

As it's Autumn in Dragon Valley, the Fall Festival has come to town.  Full of Halloween fun things to do such as pumpkin picking and the Haunted House, the Fall Festival is also a great place to start fires.  Especially near the haystacks which lay conveniently by the Haunted House attraction.

Willow, being evil, takes advantage of this and proceeds to light a couple of fires.  Four in fact.  Just little ones which turn into an inferno.  A few do-gooders come by and try and put out these fires to no avail.  Even a ghost tries to help.  However, Willow has got this!  And before long a poor Sim who just happened to be in the vicinity of an evil witch perishes by the blaze.

Another Sim therefore bites the dust and the flames are put out with the grand entrance of the Grim Reaper.

The Grim Reaper reaps very quickly in The Sims 3 and with a wave of his scythe, he is gone in a puff of black smoke.

So Willow has struck again and goes on to create more devastation.

- Minicart (Jules)

House Party

 

As we all know, Willow enjoys a good house party and throwing a few spells around here and there.

Today is no exception.  It's Winter and freezing cold so Willow decides to have a house party in her garden.

To stop her guests from going inside her cosy warm home, she decides to lock the door....

Of course, there is a bonfire in her garden and also a fire pit so her guests can actually keep warm as long as they remember to keep the fire pit going by adding fresh logs.  However, Sims aren't the smartest of people so having the fire pit burn out is a common occurrence.

So, back to the party.

Willow invites a few acquaintances over but checking on the proposed guest list, there aren't many Sims to choose from as most of them are dead.  She still manages to invite around 5 Sims and plays with the Dust Bunny whilst waiting for them to arrive.

One by one they gather onto Willow's lot and make their way to the fire pit.  One particular Sim lights it (with success) and proceeds to roast marshmallows.  The others gather around, also trying to keep warm.

Willow decides to cast a couple of Chillio spells.  Now you would think that the fire pit would thaw them out but no.  Unlike the Inferniate spell, these Sims stay at the roaring fire pit, completely frozen.

As time goes on, one Sim puts a fresh log on the fire and yes, you guessed it, everything goes up in flames.  Fortunately the Sims gathered around (including the Chillioed ones who were no longer Chillioed), decide to run away to the front of the lot, waving their arms around in fear.

Now it seems to me that although the Inferniate spell does the job on home lots, the fire pit seems to be more lethal.  Even though no Sim burns to death, more do die at the fire pit than anywhere else.

To make a further point, one Sim drops down dead through freezing.  But this wasn't one of the Sims that Willow cast the Chillio spell on.  This was because of the freezing weather.

My conclusion therefore is that if you want to kill Sims in game, you really don't need an evil witch to do it.  A fire pit at any time of the year, a party in the garden in the freezing cold Winter months and in the scorching Summer months will do the trick.  Oh and let's not forget Pufferfish Nigiri.  As long as your Sim has low cooking skill, their guests will meet the Grim Reaper sooner rather than later.

Until next time...

- Minicart

Weenie Roast

 

As you may already know, Willow is no stranger to parties.  She also loves the outdoors so what better than to hold a Weenie Roast outside by the campfire and entertain a few guests.

Even though Willow is an evil witch and enjoys making lethal Pufferfish Nigiri for Sims who visit her, sometimes things happen on her home lot that are beyond her control. 

The camp fire is pretty lethal at the best of times and when a few Sims start throwing logs to add fuel, this can make matters even worse.

In this episode, again Willow invites Sims that she doesn't like to her party and as usual, they all turn up.

Gathering by the fire pit, roasting marshmallows and vomiting over the mere sight of one Sim that Willow had previously cast the Strangeify spell on at Magnolia Blossom Park, the little wooden log seats are suddenly set alight.  Now, this isn't Willow's fault.  She didn't cast an Inferniate spell, neither is she near the fire pit at the time.  Willow is completely innocent.  She even tries to put the fire out (!!??) but then decides to wait at the front of the house with the rest of her guests until it's all over.  And, it's all over when the Grim Reaper arrives...

Once the Grim Reaper has reaped the soul of the poor unsuspecting Sim, Willow, with the help of her fire extinguisher, puts the fire out.  Now the coast is clear, her guests come back to gather around the fire pit again, looking rather sad after witnessing the death of yet another Sim.

To cheer her guests up, Willow decides to prepare Pufferfish Nigiri for them.  Now, this is where we catch a glimpse of the real Willow.  The real evil witch that is buried inside.

As her guests consume the poor quality dish, two more Sims meet their fate.  One falls face first onto his plate and the other on her living room floor.  The remaining three Sims, although playing with clay, still find time to cry at the sight of these deaths.  But not Willow.  Oh no!  Willow claps and jumps up and down in glee, revelling in the misery that she has caused.

This is a true evil witch.  This is Willow Mendip.

- Minicart

Pure Filth

 

I have been racking my brains trying to figure out how Willow can get these last 3 spells, Rite of Ascension, Strangify and Duplicato, so much so that I had to search online.  I found out (I can't remember where, probably Sims VIP), that the only way Willow can get these spells to complete her collection is by learning them from the 3 sages at the Magic Realm.  The catch is however, that she has to have high relationship with them.  Of course this really isn't a problem for Willow as she has the Potion of Forced Friendship in her inventory that she can use.

Travelling to the Magic Realm, Willow searches out the Sage of Untamed Magic.  Now when I am playing The Sims 4 and recording as I go, I can sometimes get a little confused thinking on the fly.  I tried looking for the option to give this particular Sage the Forced Friendship Potion but couldn't see how.  I therefore got Willow to take the potion instead.  This actually worked out better as rather than using a whole bottle of potion on each person she wants to befriend by giving them the potion, she can take it herself and then hug each person individually thereby making BFF's with each one.

Willow was successful in befriending this particular Sage and was able to learn the Duplicato spell.

She then searched out the Sage of Mischief Magic, befriended her and was taught the Strangify spell.

Two down, one to go!

Willow then searched out the Sage of Practical Magic, hugged him and they became BFF's!  Willow then asked him to Teach Practical Magic.  Unfortunately the Sage told her that she was at the top of her rank and couldn't learn any more spells.  I thought perhaps that this was because she had already learned 2 of them  and that she would have to come back to the Magic Realm at a later date to learn the last one.  It was only when I edited this episode and watched it back when I realised what I had done.

Now, I record two Let's Play's at once and then edit them one after the other so unfortunately I made this same mistake in the next episode.  What I done was to ask the Sage of Practical Magic to "Teach Practical Magic".  What I should have done was "ask to Teach Ultimate Practical Spell".   Never mind, maybe in episode 38...

Willow decided to return home at this point to have a party.

Deciding on a Costume Party, she invited a few foes over (who all turned up of course) and lit the fire pit, just in case.  She also made some Pufferfish Nigiri so that they wouldn't get hungry.  She can be nice sometimes...

Of course, as with all of Willow's parties, something terrible happens.  This time, one Sim dies of Pufferfish Nigiri poisoning and another dies by fire.  But this wasn't Willow's fault.  This particular Sim was sitting too close to the fire pit and couldn't even be bothered to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher.  Neither did the other guests - they just ran away.

Once the party had ended, Willow went back inside to clean up and my goodness, what a mess!  Pure filth it was, pure filth! But then, an evil witch's house should be dirty, shouldn't it?

- Minicart

Fireworks Night

Fireworks Night comes once a year after Spooky Day.  Having a party where friends gather around the fire pit telling stories, roasting marshmallows and generally having a good time is what Fireworks Night is all about.  And then there's the added bonus of fireworks.  Watching the sky light up with all those pretty colours and sparks makes everything so much better.

Willow, as we know, is no stranger to parties and fire.  She loves to hold a party and get rid of a few Sims that she doesn't like either by poisoning them, setting them alight, keeping them out in the scorching sun or freezing them to death.  So this year, Willow holds a Weenie Roast on this special night, especially for her enemies.

Now, inviting your enemies to a party takes guts in the real world as no-one would turn up but this is Sim Land and all of the Sims that Willow invites turn up to her party.

Now Willow being an evil witch would usually make Pufferfish Nigiri for her guests or cast an inferniate spell near one or two or five of them but this time Willow plays it cool and casually walks over to the fire pit to light it.

They say that those who live by the sword die by the sword and this could also be said about fire.  Lighting the fire pit backfires a little and Willow is set alight.  However, she soon extinguishes it and goes on to light the large bonfire at the corner of the garden.  Unfortunately for her guests, the little fire pit starts raging again and sets 3 of her guests on fire.  Does Willow help them?  No, of course not.  As she cannot do anything else but either put the fire out, call the fire brigade or stand at the front of her house because of a fire on the lot, she opts for standing at the front of her house until it's all over.  A visit from the Grim Reaper is inevitable and he takes his time gathering the souls of her enemies.

Willow on the other hand is itching to light a few fireworks so she has no alternative but to call the fire brigade to put out the fire so that she can continue with her Fireworks Night celebrations.

Watching the fireworks was exciting and the Grim Reaper stood around watching them too.

Willow had a wonderful time this year and no-one can blame her for the deaths of those poor Sims as it was an accident and Willow was just an innocent bystander.

- Minicart

Partners in Crime

 

Willow seems to have a little problem getting her Coven members to cast spells, be mischievous and basically mean and evil to other non-coven members.

During The Sims 2 years, if your Sim had a good relationship with another and had enough "influence" points, you could get your Sim to influence another Sim to talk to someone for example.  You could also influence other Sims to clean or cook.  Unfortunately this feature is not available in The Sims 4 and I don't remember it ever being in The Sims 3 either.  This feature, had it been added to The Sims 4, would have benefitted Willow enormously in as much as she would have been able to influence her coven members to cast evil spells and do all the mean and nasty things that The Coven members should be doing but don't do themselves.  It seems therefore that Willow, even though she belongs to an evil group of witches, is on her own.

One thing that she does have however are potions.  Giving a potion to another Sim will allow that Sim to drink it - no questions asked it seems!  One such potion is the potion of "Masterful Insults".  Giving this potion to one of her coven members seemed to Willow to be a good idea so as to make that Sim insult others.  How wrong she was!  This potion just made her coven member angry.  Maybe Willow should have hung around a little longer to see what else this Sim would do but after having spent too much time at Pupperstone Park already, Willow was ready to do something else.

That evening, Willow decided to have a party.  Of course, this wasn't just any party, this was a Willow Mendip party.  Music, Pufferfish Nigiri, and fire.

She invited most of the Sims that she was enemies with and, not surprisingly, they all turned up.  Even the Grim Reaper made a show and Willows vampire friend, Caleb Vatore decided to pay a visit.  This is where things became a little more interesting.

After the Grim Reaper had reaped a couple of souls, Willow chatted with Caleb amongst the frozen Sims in her garden.  It came to pass that an option to "Become Partners in Crime" came up with Caleb.  Of course Willow chose this and they sealed the deal by shaking hands.  Now it seems, that Willow and Caleb can plan some mischeivous stuff to do together.

I wonder what an evil witch and a vampire will do to cause a little bit of mayhem in Glimmerbrook.  We will just have to wait and see...

- Minicart

Spooky Day Party

Back in 2018 a Seasons Expansion Pack was released for The Sims 4.  This made an enormous difference to the game and gameplay with  of course all the Seasons that we have in real life.  Of course this also meant that weather was added, including rain and thunder and lightening, wind, snow and heatwaves.  Not every day was the same anymore.  Certain plants grew at certain times of the year and fish could only be caught usually in Spring, Summer and Autumn, the Winter making it too cold with ice covering the ponds.

Special days were also added to the game such as Easter, Halloween and Christmas (known as Winterfest) and the festivities that are associated with them.  In my game I have called them Happy Bunny Day for Easter and Spooky Day for Halloween, replacing the "Thanksgiving" holiday that is placed on the calendar in game.  I have also added Fireworks Night or Bonfire Night as it is also known in real life, the original name for it being Guy Fawkes Night here in England.

Many new objects for each holiday were also added to the game, such as a festive tree, pumpkin carving station and a bowl of candies for trick or treaters.  We also had related decor such as pumpkins and ghosts.  Being able to decorate the outside of your Sim's home with lights and banners was also made available, having chosen them from the little attic box of goodies that also came with the pack.

Now of course the best holiday of the year, especially for an evil witch, is Halloween or Spooky Day.  And Willow, being an evil witch, is extremely excited in this episode of The Glimmerbrook Witch, to hold a party.  Obviously, a Spooky Day party has to be very spooky and scary and with the new emotion of "scared" for Sims added to the game with the recent Paranormal Stuff Pack, this year's Spooky Day party is going to be the best ever!

Willow places a bowl of candies outside her door for the Trick or Treaters to help themselves and couples this with a very cool cauldron light that when turned on displays ghostly apparitions.  Of course a pumpkin also adorns her doorstep.

Once Willow has invited a few neighbours to her party, she puts on some spooky music on the radio and prepares fresh Pufferfish Nigiri for her guests.

Everyone arrives dressed for the occasion in fancy dress outfits.  Some dance and some partake of the meal, eating it with relish.  A little Trick or Treater turns up too, so that made it a little more interesting.

As you can guess, it's not long before the Grim Reaper turns up and joins in the fun, as usual.

All in all Willow "lost" three of her guests at this party so it turned out to be very successful.

The next party that Willow will be having is Fireworks Night...

- Minicart

Dancing Mr Reaper

 

Willow enjoys having a gathering of Sim neighbours at her home on a regular basis and this episode is no exception.

In previous get togethers however, only food and friendly conversation ensued, apart from of course the odd Sim dropping dead here and there.  This occasion is somewhat a little different as Willow purchased a music centre.  Just a small one. Some would call it a radio.  Nevertheless, having the addition of music changed her "party" into a "soiree".

As usual, Willow invited a few Sims that she didn't like, five in fact, to taste the delicacy of Pufferfish Nigiri that she made herself, afresh for her guests, participate in friendly conversation and dance the night away.  This is what her guests thought but you would think that, again, if someone you don't like invites you to their soiree, knowing that the feeling was reciprocated, that you wouldn't go, would you?  Well, I would have thought not too.  But, we are talking about The Sims and even though they are supposed to be "Smart Sims" as advertised when TS4 was first released, they are not smart at all.

One by one they turned up at Willows house, obviously looking forward to the evening ahead.  After being invited to dance, they were offered some freshly made food which, although struggling with the chopsticks, they ate with relish.  It wasn't long before one Sim started feeling the effects.  In fact the Grim Reaper showed up before the poor Sim had actually hit the floor.  It seems that Mr Reaper enjoys taking the souls of Sims, rushing to the place of death and then taking his time to read his list.

After receiving four of these souls, he decided to dance.  And dance he did!  He must be on dancing skill level 10 the way he busted those moves.  The Grim Reaper carried on dancing as the fifth Sim (the one who survived the Pufferfish dish) burned to death behind him.

- Minicart

Witch in Flight

 

As I have stated in previous posts, Willow enjoys a good party.

Usually, when "normal" Sims, and people, hold parties, they invite their friends, put on some music, provide good food and dance the night away.  But of course Willow isn't really normal.  As an evil witch, Willow prefers to invite to her party neighbours who she doesn't really like, lulling them into a sense of false security with friendly conversation.  She also provides poor quality food, such as Pufferfish Nigiri which her neighbours eat with relish.  The music is non-existent.  The dancing however is a little different.  You could call it a "fire dance".

In this episode, "Witch in Flight", Willow decides to hold one such party for the neighbours that she is not too keen on.  As before, she cooks them Pufferfish Nigiri and serves it outside in the cold autumn air. Most of her guests take a plateful of this delicacy, struggling to eat it with the chopsticks provided.  Of course, if this doesn't kill them, Willow has a back-up game plan, or two, at the ready.

As Willow now has the ability to cast her spells from afar, from the comfort of her warm living room she casts a few chillio spells.  One by one her guests become frozen, to the horror of the remaining few.

Not satisfied with chillioing her guests, she decides to make a fire.  One such guest was cold anyway, so warming things up seemed a good idea.

It is strange how neighbours on community lots have fire extinguishers and immediately put fires out but on home lots, they either just look on or run away, even if their beloved spouse is burning to death.  Sims also have the ability to put themselves out with their own fire extinguisher, as Willow found out the hard way, but not one of Willow's burning guests even attempt to do this.  Hence the "fire dance" - for two.

And as usual, the Grim Reaper turns up to claim the souls of the poor unfortunate Sims who should know better than to accept the offer of a party at an evil witches house, especially one who doesn't like you very much.

Party over, Willow decides to visit Magnolia Blossom park in Willow Creek, just for fun.

- Minicart