Spells, Spells and More Spells!

 

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.

Maybe next time Willow will have another party...

- Minicart

Dust Bunny

 

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.

- Minicart

Hollyhocks

 

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!

Happy Simming!

- Minicart