Fireworks Night

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.

- Minicart

Making Friends

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.

- Minicart

Partners in Crime

 

Willow seems to have a little problem getting her Coven members to cast spells, be mischievous and basically mean and evil to other non-coven members.

During The Sims 2 years, if your Sim had a good relationship with another and had enough "influence" points, you could get your Sim to influence another Sim to talk to someone for example.  You could also influence other Sims to clean or cook.  Unfortunately this feature is not available in The Sims 4 and I don't remember it ever being in The Sims 3 either.  This feature, had it been added to The Sims 4, would have benefitted Willow enormously in as much as she would have been able to influence her coven members to cast evil spells and do all the mean and nasty things that The Coven members should be doing but don't do themselves.  It seems therefore that Willow, even though she belongs to an evil group of witches, is on her own.

One thing that she does have however are potions.  Giving a potion to another Sim will allow that Sim to drink it - no questions asked it seems!  One such potion is the potion of "Masterful Insults".  Giving this potion to one of her coven members seemed to Willow to be a good idea so as to make that Sim insult others.  How wrong she was!  This potion just made her coven member angry.  Maybe Willow should have hung around a little longer to see what else this Sim would do but after having spent too much time at Pupperstone Park already, Willow was ready to do something else.

That evening, Willow decided to have a party.  Of course, this wasn't just any party, this was a Willow Mendip party.  Music, Pufferfish Nigiri, and fire.

She invited most of the Sims that she was enemies with and, not surprisingly, they all turned up.  Even the Grim Reaper made a show and Willows vampire friend, Caleb Vatore decided to pay a visit.  This is where things became a little more interesting.

After the Grim Reaper had reaped a couple of souls, Willow chatted with Caleb amongst the frozen Sims in her garden.  It came to pass that an option to "Become Partners in Crime" came up with Caleb.  Of course Willow chose this and they sealed the deal by shaking hands.  Now it seems, that Willow and Caleb can plan some mischeivous stuff to do together.

I wonder what an evil witch and a vampire will do to cause a little bit of mayhem in Glimmerbrook.  We will just have to wait and see...

- Minicart