Winterfest

 

It's Winterfest and although Willow doesn't like the festive spirit or to eat a Grand Meal, she does love the decorations and also the presents!

Although Willow doesn't need an excuse for a party, Winterfest is a great time to invite a few "friends" over for some company and to open some gifts together.

Now Willow has quite a few enemies, most of which are dead but the few that remain didn't show up in the list of Sims that she could invite over.  Maybe it's because they really despise each other but I don't seem to remember this happening before as she has in the past invited quite a few Sims over that she hated.  Maybe EA/Maxis have changed things around a little with their updates to the game recently.  It's probably just as well because as I have said before, it seems strange to me that Sims that are despised and who despise Willow, still turn up to her parties.

So even though she didn't have much of a relationship with the Sims that she invited, and not much of a choice of Sims to invite, they still turned up.  This time however, Willow left her door unlocked so that they could enter her home for some festive cheer in the form of opening gifts and eating Pufferfish Nigiri...

A couple of Sims didn't get to open any presents unfortunately and they didn't see out Winterfest either.  They lay dead on the kitchen floor.  The good thing is though, the Grim Reaper turned up and joined in the Winterfest fun.

Willow then decided to build a snow pal in her garden with one of her guests, just to round off the party.

After a while Caleb Vatore called to ask Willow if she would like to go over to his place.  Willow thought this would be a great idea as Willow and Caleb are quite good friends and this would give Willow a chance to see Caleb's home and be introduced to Lillith, his wife.  

Willow accepted the offer and, with a few friends, travelled to the Vatore's home to hang out.

At first Willow and Lillith didn't really like each other but this was soon turned around a little.  Willow does need to be friends with Lillith considering she too is a vampire.

As there is a lot of time left in this Sim day, maybe Willow should return home and invite a few Sims over...

- Minicart

Building Snowpals

 

It's still mid-Winter in the little town of Glimmerbrook and the day before Winterfest.  Caleb Vatore has visited Willow at her home and there is thick snow laying on the ground.

If you have Eco Lifestyle installed in your game, you won't be a stranger to the NAP Inspector.  He's the guy who comes to your house uninvited to make sure that you are in compliance with the neighbourhood rules, i.e. a recycling initiative.  If you are not in compliance then your bills will be higher.  Much like a Tax Inspector, this sim isn't liked very much.  Now, higher bills doesn't worry Willow as she has plenty of money which she is growing on trees in her garden.  However, it's the principle...

Willow decides to Chillio the NAP Inspector in which she takes great delight.  However, once thawed, the Inspector tells her she is not in compliance and quickly takes his leave.  Being stupid, he will probably be back.  Our evil witch will be waiting.

Willow then decides to take Caleb out and about to build some snowpals.

They arrive at Magnolia Blossom Park in Willow Creek and start to build snowpals together in the freezing cold.  As Caleb is basically a "living dead" sim, i.e. a vampire and Willow loves the outdoors, the temperature doesn't seem to bother them.

While they are building, a few other sims appear in the park.  As stated in my previous post, Willow doesn't have many acquaintances left as she has killed most of them so going out and about is a good way of meeting new sims.

Willow, being a supernatural sim herself, doesn't really want to make enemies with vampires or other witchy sims so she decides to give a "cheerful introduction" to those she meets at the park.  After introducing herself, she is then able to see whether or not the sim is a witch.  However, it is a little harder to find out if the sims that she meets are vampires.  In The Sims 3, they had a mark on their necks but I cannot see anything like that on sims necks in The Sims 4.  One way of finding out if the sim is a vampire is to be mean to them.  So much so that if they are a vampire, they will turn into their dark form and attack.  This isn't something that Willow wants to see or experience!

So, finding out if a sim is a vampire is impossible on first glance.

Being nice to other sims however has it's benefits as the other sim is more likely to give you a gift.  In Willow's case, she was given a "Morcubus" by Cassandra Goth.  A Morcubus is a little figurine which is found in the world by digging up rocks and which can also be used as a potion ingredient.  Although Willow has a few of these in her inventory, this was still a thoughtful gift.

As not many sims were arriving at the park, Willow decided to take Caleb to the bar in Glimmerbrook.  She met a few sims there too and one such sim by the name of Milan Orourke she found was a mean witch.  Willow added this sim to her coven, making four members of mean witches.  Another sim who she gave a cheerful introduction to gave her a Furium which is a collectible crystal/rock and which can also be used in potions.

Although in this episode Willow didn't make any enemies, she met a few very friendly sims and had quite an enjoyable outing with Caleb.

Tomorrow is Winterfest.  Time for a party...

- Minicart

Chillio

 

Willow seems to have a fascination with fire.  You could say that it was her forte.

After setting alight items in Willow Creek park, the Romance Festival and burning to death one of her party guests in her own back yard, our evil witch decided to visit the home of one of her neighbours.

After being invited in and of course a "friendly introduction", she decided to set the poor unsuspecting Sim's bed on fire.  Of course this is not a normal thing to do but we are talking about an evil witch.  Willow Mendip, to be precise.

As I stated in a previous post, EA/Maxis seem to have changed things a little since The Sims 3.  Unable to cast any more "inferniate" spells because everything "clicked on" brings up a red notice stating that "this cannot be done because there is a fire on the lot", Willow runs out of the house waving her arms in the air, followed by the poor neighbour.  There's nothing else she can do but to call the fire brigade.  In The Sims 3, she would have been able to light fires in every room of the house, causing more havoc than she can in this incarnation.

The firemen/women take their time, seemingly more interested in playing with clay than putting out the blaze.  However, they manage it after a fashion and everything is back to "normal".  Apart from, of course, the poor neighbours blackened bed.

Willow takes her leave and decides to go homeward bound to practice some more magic.  What else can she learn?

Chillio.  That was what she learned - chillio.  It seems to go from one extreme to the other.  Instead of burning Sims to death, she can now freeze them to death.

Armed with knowledge of a new spell, she travels to Mount Komorebi.  Needless to say, she chose this location because of the snow...

After introducing herself to a Sim on the lot, again in a friendly manner, she invited the Sim outside to help build a Snow Pal.  The Sim was of course happy to oblige and followed Willow outside into the freezing cold.  Once the Snow Pal was finished and having lulled the poor Sim into a false sense of security, Willow "chillioed" her.  To put it more plainly, she froze her into a Simlish iceberg.

Other Sims started to appear on the lot and Willow chillioed a couple of them too.

Unfortunately, this practice of freezing Sims is not lethal, for now anyway.  Things may get better as time wears on.  We can only wait and see.

- Minicart