Spooky Day Party

Back in 2018 a Seasons Expansion Pack was released for The Sims 4.  This made an enormous difference to the game and gameplay with  of course all the Seasons that we have in real life.  Of course this also meant that weather was added, including rain and thunder and lightening, wind, snow and heatwaves.  Not every day was the same anymore.  Certain plants grew at certain times of the year and fish could only be caught usually in Spring, Summer and Autumn, the Winter making it too cold with ice covering the ponds.

Special days were also added to the game such as Easter, Halloween and Christmas (known as Winterfest) and the festivities that are associated with them.  In my game I have called them Happy Bunny Day for Easter and Spooky Day for Halloween, replacing the "Thanksgiving" holiday that is placed on the calendar in game.  I have also added Fireworks Night or Bonfire Night as it is also known in real life, the original name for it being Guy Fawkes Night here in England.

Many new objects for each holiday were also added to the game, such as a festive tree, pumpkin carving station and a bowl of candies for trick or treaters.  We also had related decor such as pumpkins and ghosts.  Being able to decorate the outside of your Sim's home with lights and banners was also made available, having chosen them from the little attic box of goodies that also came with the pack.

Now of course the best holiday of the year, especially for an evil witch, is Halloween or Spooky Day.  And Willow, being an evil witch, is extremely excited in this episode of The Glimmerbrook Witch, to hold a party.  Obviously, a Spooky Day party has to be very spooky and scary and with the new emotion of "scared" for Sims added to the game with the recent Paranormal Stuff Pack, this year's Spooky Day party is going to be the best ever!

Willow places a bowl of candies outside her door for the Trick or Treaters to help themselves and couples this with a very cool cauldron light that when turned on displays ghostly apparitions.  Of course a pumpkin also adorns her doorstep.

Once Willow has invited a few neighbours to her party, she puts on some spooky music on the radio and prepares fresh Pufferfish Nigiri for her guests.

Everyone arrives dressed for the occasion in fancy dress outfits.  Some dance and some partake of the meal, eating it with relish.  A little Trick or Treater turns up too, so that made it a little more interesting.

As you can guess, it's not long before the Grim Reaper turns up and joins in the fun, as usual.

All in all Willow "lost" three of her guests at this party so it turned out to be very successful.

The next party that Willow will be having is Fireworks Night...

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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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