My new Cat Pyjamas for children are now on my Patreon for early access.
These pyjamas consist of one top with a cat face motif and one bottom part in pink with white polka dots. Each part has it's own swatch icon thing (whatever you call it) in CAS so they are easy to find!
They are good for both boys and girls and will be released on this blog to the public on the 30th July 2021 on the Sims 4 Custom Clothing Downloads page above.
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My new Zebra Pyjamas for Children are now on my Patreon for early access. They will be released on this blog on the 23rd July 2021 via the Sims 4 Custom Clothing Downloads page above.
These pyjamas come with two tops and two matching bottoms. The first top has a little zebra motif with a stripey zebra pattern and the second top has a zebra pattern with matching zebra patterned bottoms. As they are separates, you can mix and match!
The tops and bottoms have their own swatches in CAS with a drop down for the alternative style.
I would love to know what you think of these and whether you will be downloading them once they are released or if you are reading this in the future, if you enjoy them in your game!
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My new Owl Pyjamas for children for The Sims 4 are now available on my Patreon for early access. These will be released to the public on the 16th July 2021 via the Sims Custom Content tab above.
These pyjamas come with one top and one bottom and each has it's own swatch in CAS.
The top has a little owl motif with a spotty background pattern and the bottoms have a spotty pattern to match.
Let me know what you think of these pyjamas - I would love to know your comments!
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I have just released my Sheep Pyjamas for Children on Patreon where you can get early access if you would like to support me. However, these pyjamas will be released to the public here on my blog via the page above in 3 weeks time.
These pyjamas have one top with a little sheep motif and one bottom part that has a sheep pattern. Both items have their own swatch in CAS so you will be able to find them easily and of course, they can be worn by both boys and girls.
I hope you and your Sims will enjoy this item - please let me know what you think!
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My next custom content creation is Safari Pyjamas for children which has two tops and two bottoms. One set has a little picture of a lion, giraffe and elephant on the top with plain bottoms and the other set is patterned on both the top and bottom, so the items can be mixed and matched. Even though I have a little boy showing these off to you, girls can wear them too!
I had a lot of fun creating these pyjamas and I think they turned out really nice. I would love to know what you think!
As usual, these pyjamas are on my Patreon for early access and will be released on this blog in a couple of weeks time. You will be able to download them from the Sims 4 Custom Clothing Downloads tab at the top of this page.
Please note that I will never charge for any of the items I make - they are all completely free. Placing them on Patreon for early access is just a way for you to support me if you so wish - or not, as the case may be!
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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...
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.
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.
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.
There are three different types of spells in The Sims 4 that a witch can learn, namely Practical, Mischief and Untamed. I have however noticed that Willow seems to use more of the Untamed spells such as Chillio and Inferniate as opposed to any of the others. She has used Burgliate which is a Mischief spell but there are so many more that she can try out. So, in this episode, we see Willow travel to Willow Creek's Magnolia Blossom Park to see what mischief and mayhem she can cause.
As it is now Winter, Magnolia Blossom Park is covered in a thick layer of snow and it is absolutely freezing - much to Willow's delight!
She proceeds to make a Snow Pal and wait for unsuspecting Sims to arrive on the lot. Sure enough, a few Sims turn up and Willow starts to try out the other spells that she has learned.
As we already know, starting a fire on a community lot is rather futile as Sims are now equipped with fire extinguishers and all tend to have the "brave" trait. So in order for Willow to stop them in their tracks, she uses the Morphiate spell on them. One by one the Sims change into trees, bowls of candy, bunnies and suits of armor. This enables Willow to light a few fires around them. Of course, a couple of Sims get Chillioed as usual and some other Sims get into fights through Willow's Furio spell.
Now in order for Willow to attain the Lifestyle of Adrenalin Seeker which came with the Snowy Escape expansion pack, she must perform a few daring feats. One of them being that she needs to have fights with other Sims.
The Adrenalin Seeker Lifestyle, if maintained, will mean that Willow will not panic during a fire and will find it exciting. As she tends to produce a fire extinguisher during a fire when I'm not looking, I think this Lifestyle will be good for her, seeing that she's an evil witch and really should find fire exciting.
So Willow decides to have a fight with one such Sim at Magnolia Blossom Park. Unfortunately for Willow, she lost the fight and immediately Strangeified the Sim with the Strageify spell, turning the Sim into what looked like a green zombie. As this Sim became so abhorrent to all others, a few Sims threw up at the sight of her.
Having filled her boots so to speak with casting a few spells that she hadn't used before and causing mischief and mayhem at the park, Willow decided to return home to see what her little dust bunny was up to.
In the last episode of The Glimmerbrook Witch, Willow went back inside her home after the party and found that her house was completely filthy. To top it all, a Dust Bunny was sitting in the middle of the floor jumping around in a little pile of dust, squeeking.
Now, as last time was the first time I had played the game since installing The Sims 4 Kits, Willow didn't have a vacuum cleaner. So before recording this episode, I purchased one for her, along with a couple of other items.
Before cleaning up however, I decided to let Willow interact with this cute yet filthy creature. I had watched James Turner's video on YouTube where his Sim made over 25,000 simoleons in one night so I thought I would give this a try.
Willow was able to ask the Dust Bunny to search for valuables in the home and the Dust Bunny gave her a few simoleons, not much, but a few. However, after Willow had a few interactions with the Dust Bunny, such as "feeding dust" and "petting", she was able to befriend him. She named him "Freckles" and now Freckles can live in his little pile of dust in a clean home without the vacuum cleaner vacuuming him up. Of course you can still do so if you want to. You can even step on him. But that would be cruel, even for an evil witch.
The Dust Bunny came up trumps with finding Willow a couple of crystals which she copy pastoed and then he gave her a gold plate worth over 10,000 simoleons which Willow immediately sold. Silly. Why didn't she copy pasto it!!!??? Maybe next time....
Willow now has over 65,000 simoleons with what the Dust Bunny gave her and what she harvested from her money trees. It won't be long before Willow will be able to afford to buy The Witch's House which I built for her.
This evil witch still needs to learn the ultimate Practical spell so she decided to go back to the Magic Realm. She seeks out the Sage of Practical Magic but unfortunately she asks for the wrong thing and still doesn't learn the Rite of Ascension. Of course, next time she will.
Building a Lot in The Sims 4 takes a lot of time and effort and creating a stop motion video for it requires a lot of patience, concentration and skill.
I watch other creators' stop motion videos and everything seems seamless, perfect in fact. I really admire their creativity and the use of the in-game video to switch between rooms, floors and different parts of the build.
"Hollyhocks" is my seventh stop motion video. I took a lot of care and concentration in making it and thought that this is the one that has no mistakes. How wrong I was!
Piecing together the pictures in the video was a doddle and placing the video transitions went really well until I got to the living room. I really don't know what happened but the video transition that I took in that particular part of the build just didn't go for some reason. I reversed the video as normal but one minute I was filming the wall and the next minute the other wall and then the scene changed to the floor where the rug appeared. I thought perhaps that I had got the photos mixed up but nope, they were in order and so were the videos. There's something not quite right here and I cannot for the life of me figure it out.
So anyway, I rectified the video a little with a fade through so it doesn't look too bad. I'm just annoyed that I don't seem to get it right. I took my time and made sure (or so I thought) that I had done everything correctly. I cannot see how I went wrong.
But never mind. If I keep at it then maybe one day I will be able to create the perfect stop motion video!
Hollyhocks is a 2 bedroom, one bathroom property with a living room/dining room, kitchen, hallway and landing. A swimming pool adorns the back garden for family fun in the summertime together with a swing. This property is perfect for a small growing family.
As I made this build before bunk beds came out, the childs room has a small single bed but of course this can be changed to a loft bed or bunk bed if two beds are needed.
You can download this lot from The Sims 4 Gallery - my ID is TotallySimlish.
I would love to know what you think of the build - and the video!
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?
Willow hasn't ventured out that much during her time in Glimmerbrook. Although she has been to a couple of parks, Granite Falls and of course the Magic Realm, she has been more focused on learning her craft and killing other Sims, the latter being done more easily at home, especially whilst hosting parties.
Fishing is one skill that Willow has been learning. Each time she comes to a body of water that she can fish in, she has given this a go and caught a few fish. So much so that she has raised her skill to level 4.
There are quite a few places in all the different worlds where a Sim can fish, each one giving different varieties of fish that can be caught. Of course, different fish can be caught with different bait such as flowers or fruit and Willow being a bit of a gardener has a variety of bait within her inventory. As Willow is an outdoorsy type, she finds fishing most enjoyable.
In this episode, Willow goes fishing in the Magic Realm and catches a couple of Rainbow fish - a new fish that she hasn't encountered before. This then gave her the idea that maybe she should visit Sulani.
Sulani is a beautiful tropical island with palm trees, waterfalls, a volcano and beaches.
There are lots of different fish there where you cannot catch anywhere else so Willow decides to try her luck.
Visiting the bar, she chats with one of the locals and discovers that he is a witch too. Afterwards, she searches around for a fishing spot but unfortunately there is none to be found. But then Willow comes across a fishing basket laying in the water, ready to be baited for catching fish. She decides to pop an apple inside to see what fish she might catch. While waiting, Willow begins to make a sand sculpture on the beach.
After a little while, Willow checks the basket to see if she has caught anything but alas, no. She goes back to building a sand sculpture and leaves the basket in the water, hoping that the fish will bite soon.
Maybe in the next episode, Willow will be lucky enough to catch some new fish and perhaps she should really buy a fishing basket of her own.
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.
Willow has made quite a few enemies during the time she has spent in the little town of Glimmerbrook, many of which are now dead, although some still remain. It is probably about time therefore, that she makes a few friends.
As Willow is evil, she tends to give a rude introduction to Sims that she is meeting for the first time. This is not always advisable as there are many Sims that she has come into contact with who are either magical Sims, vampires or both.
Willow is now able to talk about magic to other magical Sims and these options show up once the introduction has been made. Similarly, when speaking to a vampire, options for enthusing about vampires and other vampiric interactions also show up.
Luckily for Willow, even though introducing herself rudely to other Sims causes a little animosity, she is soon able to turn this around with a few friendly interactions. So much so, that she is then given gifts from these Sims such as crystals.
Even though Willow wants to make enemies, there is something to be said for making friends with certain Sims. Not only does she obtain gifts from them, she also avoids any animosity from a vampire, which could be quite nasty. I have seen this before in my personal game where the vampire suddenly appeared in it's evil form and attacked my Sim. Needless to say, the vampire won. It wasn't a pretty sight!
So, in this episode, we see Willow making friends with a few other magical Sims and also vampires, gaining gifts and perhaps, some more partners in crime.
Of course, Willow will also make enemies but only with non-magical Sims and non-vampires. She needs to have some enemies too otherwise she wouldn't be the evil witch that we have all come to know and love.
When I first created Willow Mendip of The Glimmerbrook Witch, I placed her in the empty lot in Glimmerbrook so as to build her a nice cheap "starter" home. I knew that as time went on, she would need something a lot better and bigger. Being able to afford to purchase something a little more expensive was obviously down to Simoleons. Even though Willow doesn't go to work, the money trees in her garden will surely bring her enough to afford a more lavish home in time.
With this in mind, I went ahead to create "The Witch's House". I decided to build this on a larger lot in Glimmerbrook so that Willow would have more room for gardening and of course her famous indoor and outdoor parties.
This build took me longer than usual, some 4 weeks in fact. I also had a little trouble with it at times, due to the platform rooms in the house. At one point, the landing at the top of the stairs seemed to sink down a little so I had to fix that.
When I play tested it, everything worked fine except that my "test Sim" couldn't enter the conservatory/greenhouse outside. I found out after a fashion that the little patio outside the door needed to be lengthened for her to get up the steps. After pulling that out with the tools available in build mode, all of the windows in the greenhouse vanished so I had to put those back in and then re-do all of the vines that I had creeping up and around the windows.
Having finished the build, I took a few photos and then went ahead to create a stop motion video.
This consisted of 849 photographs and around 145 videos and took around 3 hours to do. It then took me a further 2 or so hours to piece everything together. Yes, it does take a lot of work to do a stop motion video but I do believe it's worth it in the end.
However, when I came to piece everything together, I found that on a few videos (there were 160 altogether), I had inadvertently recorded myself taking items away for the camera shots and then turning off the video for the transition from one room to another. So there were about 15 videos that I had to discard and this also meant that I had no video on some parts when turning in a room or going to another room. I therefore had to fade these through from one image to another instead.
Unfortunately, even though the build turned out really nice, parts of the stop motion video have no video transitions.
Maybe this build is cursed but then I did build it for an evil witch...
If you would prefer to watch a two minute montage of the build, here it is:
You can download this lot from The Sims 4 Gallery - my ID is TotallySimlish.
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...
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.....
Vampire. The mere mention of the word conjures up images of Transylvania, bloodshed, death and fangs.
There are certain things one must know about vampires. Firstly, they cannot venture into the sunlight as they will die. By nature, they are creatures of the night, the undead. They sleep during the day in a coffin that is placed on soil taken from their motherland. They hunger and thirst for only the blood of the living and can take the form of a bat to venture out and strike the unsuspecting by sinking their teeth into their victims necks. Apart from sunlight, another way to kill a vampire is to drive a wooden stake through their heart whilst they lay slumbering in their coffin during the day. The vampire is repelled by garlic and fears mirrors, as the vampire has no reflection.
If you invite a vampire into your home, even without knowing that he or she is such, they will be able to come back at a later date, either in their human form or the form of a bat, and will enter at will.
In The Sims 4, vampires are a little different in as much as other Sims cannot drive a stake through the hearts of these unworldly creatures, however, sunlight will kill them. And of course if you don't want your vampire Sims to bite the necks of others, there is always Plasma fruit that is available for them to eat which quenches their thirst for blood.
Talking of which, Willow Mendip also seems to have a thirst for blood but in a different way. Being an evil witch, she takes much pleasure in annihilating her neighbours one by one and sometimes two at a time. Unfortunately this doesn't get Willow any friends and although she enjoys making enemies, one should have a friend or two, especially if they are as evil as Willow is.
On this particular evening in Glimmerbrook, a young gentleman paid Willow an unexpected visit. His very name strikes fear into the hearts of Sims, except for Willow of course. Caleb Vatore lives with his wife Lillith in Midnight Hollow, the darkest of The Sims 4 worlds. As we know, Willow doesn't stick to the rules so she invited Caleb in.
Striking up some friendly conversation, Willow soon made a friend of Caleb. They proceeded to watch the movie "Sims of the Dead" together on TV and chatted about it afterwards. They then had a nice outing to the Magic Realm before Willow had to leave to tend her beloved plants.
One can only wonder where this friendship of two supernaturals will lead.
