The Hermit

 

Venturing through the forest in Granite Falls and having exhausted items for collecting, Willow decides to travel through the secret tunnel via the bramble patch at the edge of the wood.

Overcoming a few barriers, she arrives at a clearing.  Here she finds a little hut wherein lives a hermit who is out fishing.  Willow searches around and finds some dig spots and insects for her collection.  She also harvests another plant that she previously didn't know existed, from the hermit's garden.

Now Willow, being an evil witch, did have some mean thoughts about inferniating the hermit as she stood quietly at the edge of the lake.  However, Willow decided to have a friendly conversation with her instead.  It seemed futile to try and kill the hermit as no doubt, even she has a fire extinguisher.  After a nice chat, Willow learned the herbalism skill from the hermit so it seems that Willow is now on her way to building another skill which incorporates the new plants that she has found.  

As, in this episode, it's Spooky Day, Willow decides to make her way home back to Glimmerbrook to prepare for a party.

Looking through the items she has collected from Granite Falls, she decides to copy-pasto some of them so that she has enough to make any potions she may need.

Whilst doing this, she has a few visits from Trick or Treaters, eager to sample the sweets and candy that she has left in a pumpkin bowl on a table outside her door.  One by one she "tricks" them as opposed to giving them a treat.  One poor Sim was already scared because of the candy bowl and Willow frightened her even more.  However, one small child thought it hilarious and went merrily on his way to "trick or treat" other neighbourhood Sims.

It's Willow's favourite time of the year - Spooky Day!  Time for a party...

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Granite Falls

There comes a time in a witch's life when one has to travel further afield to obtain rare ingredients for one's craft.  Willow is no exception and in this episode we see her travel to Granite Falls.

Although Granite Falls is a vacation world, full of forests, rare and wild plants, insects that can be caught and unique fishing spots, it's also a place for relaxation, fun things to do and to allow Sims to feel at one with nature.  

Willow searches around and finds quite a few insects and frogs for her collection.  She also comes across a couple of dig spots for more items and does a spot of fishing.  There were also some unknown plants that were ripe for harvesting so Willow garnered those too.  However, some of these unknown plants did not bear fruit.  Willow therefore needs to raise her gardening skill a little so that she can take cuttings and, to enable her to find out what these unknown plants are, she will need to learn a new skill of Herbalism.  Maybe this is something that Willow could do in the future once she has learned everything she needs to learn about her craft.

Of course Willow wouldn't be the evil witch that she is if she didn't cast a few inferniate spells on her forest journey, so she took the time to do that too.

Unfortunately, as we already know, Sims are now equipped with fire extinguishers on community lots so trying to cast a decent blaze at or around Sims is completely futile.  Of course, on residential lots Sims seem to forget they have these fire extinguishers and just either run away or die in the flames.

Although Willow didn't stay the night, she spent a good amount of time in Granite Falls and returned home with a few new items that she quickly cast the "copy pasto" spell on, so that she always has these items in her inventory and never has to worry about going out to collect them again.

Tomorrow, Willow will be visiting The Hermit through the secret tunnel via the bramble patch.....

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