Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Raging


 

An idle witch is a dangerous witch, or at least this is true in Willow Mendip's case.  So to occupy herself, in this episode, she visits Gemma Charm who lives just up the road and is a member of "The Coven".

"The Coven" was created a couple of episodes ago and consists of five witchy Sims.  This group of Sims have had just one outing and Willow noticed that they are all unfortunately do-gooders.  Willow had hoped that they would help her in her endeavours of killing Sims on a community lot but, alas, no.  Even her coven carried fire extinguishers and used them in force.  In fact, none of the members of The Coven passed the test, not even the "mean" ones.

Unfortunately, one such coven member lives alone and on the largest residential lot in Glimmerbrook - the lot that Willow wants to build her new house on when she has enough money.  Taking all this into consideration, Willow decided that Gemma Charm should be the one to "go" first.

Knocking politely on Gemma's door, Willow is invited inside.  After locating the poor Sim sitting upstairs at her computer, Willow proceeds to cast the "inferniate" spell.  It seems however that Gemma was expecting this and proceeded to swiftly move out of the way, running downstairs to safety.  However, Willow had other plans.


As Gemma was lighting the fire in the parlour, Willow lit a fire at Gemma's feet, setting the poor Sims rug ablaze, along with Gemma herself.




The Grim Reaper, as usual, although turning up rather quickly, took his time to check his list before collecting the soul of Gemma Charm and leaving behind a very ornate urn.


Willow's job was done.  One less do-gooder in her beloved Coven and an empty lot that she can build her dream house on.  Unless of course story progression moves someone else into the house, in which case, Willow will have to kill them too....


- Minicart


Saturday, 13 February 2021

Copy Pasto


As a witch, Willow has grown considerably over the past few weeks.  By practising on the cauldron and with her wand and casting spells, her power has grown and she has learned much in the way of new spells and potions.

As I mentioned in a previous post with regard to potions, Willow needs ingredients such as herbs and crystals which she garners from the world and purchases from the little shop in the Magic Realm.  Fishing is also needed as fish too feature in her potions along with gardening to enable her to grow all manner of herbs, fruit and vegetables.

Of course, if one could "magic" these items into existence, there would be no need to purchase, garner, catch or grow anything.

This is where the "copy pasto" spell comes into play.

This spell does exactly what it says on the jar.  As long as you have one item of anything, including bottled potions, you can copy pasto it and voila!  You have another!

Unfortunately this doesn't actually work on fish but it does on mostly all other items in Willow's inventory.

So as long as she has the ingredients to create the initial potion, she can then copy pasto it, nullifying the need for any of the ingredients.  And by casting these spells, Willow's little orange bar goes up, giving her more magic points to enable her to get stronger and stronger.  Its a win-win situation.

Maybe Willow can try this spell out on expensive items and get rich in the process.  We will have to wait and see.

One can only wonder if this spell is dangerous in the hands of an evil witch.


- Minicart


 

Thursday, 11 February 2021

Dark Malevolence

 


I have really been enjoying building in The Sims 4, much more than in previous The Sims games.  I think, for me, the best part is piecing together the images and in game videos to create stop motion videos for my You Tube channel.  

My favourite "genre" of The Sims is the occult - witches, vampires and haunted things so when the Sims Team released the Paranormal Stuff Pack, I was on cloud nine!

Of course I knew I had to create a haunted house with this new stuff pack, incorporating items from the Spooky Stuff pack, the Vampires Game Pack and Realm of Magic.  I wanted the house to be dark, unkempt, old, dirty and haunted.



Dark Malevolence consists of three floors, with two bedrooms and one bathroom.  A couple of the rooms can of course be converted into bedrooms should you want this in your game.  One room is dedicated as a fortune telling room which houses the table with a crystal ball atop.


All rooms of the house, including the hallway and both landings, are lavishly decorated with expensive paintings and of course the odd spider web or two, not to mention the holes and scratches in the walls.


The garden has gravestones, an old bird bath, picnic table, dried up well and an old pond.  Plenty of weeds and dead trees adorn the lot with a little bit of greenery from the plants and trees that are not quite yet dead.


Gargoyles adorn the gateposts and one sits on the roof, watching and waiting.......

It took me a little while to create "Dark Malevolence" but I had so much fun doing it and I am pleased with the way it turned out.

If you would like this build in your game, you can download it for free on The Sims 4 Gallery - just search for my ID: TotallySimlish.  I would love to hear what you think!

- Minicart