Festival of Youth

 

As stated before in a previous post, there are quite few festivals in The Sims 4 if you have City Living and Snowy Escape expansion packs installed.  Willow seems to like to attend to these festivals due to the gathering of Sims and the mischief and mayhem she can cause.  One such festival is the Romance Festival in the city. 

Apart from the obvious romantic vibe this festival brings, there are rare plants that can be harvested, a "love guru" who can be consulted, food stalls and swag stalls and of course, the infamous Sakura Tea which when sipped, places the Sim in a flirty mood.  Although Willow drinks the tea, she is far from wanting any flirty conversations with other Sims.  Willow has something else in mind.

Armed with the "chillio" spell that she learned previously, Willow sets out to cast this on other unsuspecting Sims.  There are a few Sims there that have encountered Willow before and her evil shenanigans plus a few others who have also previously been chillioed.

Of course karma plays a part in Willows life.  They say what goes around, comes around and this is also true in The Sims 4.  Spells can backfire and when they do, they can leave the caster in a bit of a dilemma.

Willow thankfully survives and lives to face another day which she uses to visit The Festival of Youth in Mount Komorebi.  This festival, as the name suggests, is for the youth of any of the worlds to come and visit, play and make friends.  

Willow's evilness knows no bounds as she takes gleeful pleasure in setting alight the little pink climbing frame in the middle of the square.  I hasten to add here that no child was hurt in the blaze, in fact the little one carried on climbing and swinging and having a lovely time.  But in a sense, we knew this would happen, which is why Willow decided to set the climbing frame on fire in the first place.

Our evil witch will of course still try and exterminate her neighbours by fire and/or freezing on community lots and festivals and as she grows stronger in her magical endeavours, one can only hope that she doesn't exterminate herself.

- 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

Voodoo Doll

 

The Voodoo Doll has been in The Sims 4 game from the beginning.  In The Sims 3 however, this had to be purchased from The Sims 3 Store as I remember, as extra content for your game.  When you "bind" the Voodoo Doll with a Sim, you can then affect the Sim through the doll.  For example, if you pour water over the bound doll, the Sim that it is bound to will become soaked.  Likewise, if you place the bound doll on a fire, the Sim that it is bound to will simultaneously be set alight.  I found this out, thanks to a post by a fellow Simmer, on Reddit.

For your Sim to acquire a Voodoo Doll in The Sims 4, your Sim will either need to purchase one, which costs around 1,000 simoleons or may "win" one from the Humour and Hi-Jinks Festival if you have City Living installed.  This is where Willow Mendip acquired hers.

Having had this doll in her inventory for quite a while, it was only a matter of time in which Willow would test this out.

There are many festivals in The Sims 4 and a few more have been added with the Snowy Escape expansion pack.  One such festival that came with this pack was "The Festival of Lights".  Lights of course come in the form of stars, lights, candles and fire, such as bonfires.  One such bonfire is conveniently placed in the Festival Square for anyone to light and interact with.  For an evil witch with a Voodoo Doll, this is a dream come true.

One elderly Sim was chosen for this experiment as it was deemed that she didn't have "long to go" anyway.  Willow introduced herself in a friendly fashion and was then able to bind the doll to her victim; she then threw the doll into the bonfire.  The effect was instantaneous.

Unfortunately for Willow but fortunately for the Sim, the combustion doesn't last long and the Sim survived but, it was fun to do - for an evil witch of course.

- Minicart