The Sims 3 Seasons: Alien Encounter

"I heard some noises coming from the sky above"

"What's that? What's wrong with the sky tonight?"

"Uh...What is happening?"

"I cant move! I cant move!"

"Help me!! I am trapped!! Is that a UFO?"

" Teehee...This girl looks pretty, I shall abduct her to my tea party"

Soon, the girl returns with some memory lost. She can't remember vividly what has happened. All she can recall are vague images of her being in a grotesquely distorted dimension where a tea party is held and making a new inhuman friend. But, she can't find her new friend when she jolt awake in the lawn of her house soon afterward. 

She hears some rumour circulating in the town that Alien is likely to be attracted to the many space rocks that can be found in this town. Hence, she decides to assign her pet dog to find a space rock for her. Then, her pet dog returns with a gigantic space rock, much to her surprise by how the small dog can carry such a big rock!

The rumour is true! Few days later, the Alien friend returns to check out the space rock and she seems like enjoying the rainy weather, playing in the rain, splashing around jubilantly.

She is deeply intrigued by her own reflection in the water. 

The girl can hear some noises coming from the outside and to her surprise, she sees her alien friend playing outside her house when she peeks through the window. Without hesitation, she invites her inside and they start to getting to know each other. The girl cannot fathom why she can understand her new friend's language. Has her mind somehow tuned to the frequency of the alienated world and hence able to understand the language? Or what she tries to say somehow comes out as their language?

Since, the girl is currently staying alone, she has an idea of asking her new friend to move in with her. The Alien agrees without hesitation because now she can easily bio drain from the living things in this town to satisfy her seemingly infinite brain power.

After a few days of staying in Monte Vista, the alien soon grows accustomed to the town's culture and fashion. She has a full body make over, from head-to-toe, to her new uber cool outfit, at the famous salon in town. 

At times, she needs to take  siestas to recharge her brain power. (AKA sleeping for human)

She can also summon meteor from outer space when she is fully charged up!

Beware of summoning the meteor around your sim's house, as it will certainly lead to catastrophe and at worse case, demise of the unlucky sims around.

The remnants of the fallen meteor are her alternate source to restore her brain power!

These space rocks provides a substantial mind power booster!

She also enjoys activities held in the festive ground and meets new friend like Zombie!!

The Sims 3 Sunlit Tides

Below are some of the in game pictures taken for The Sims 3 Store new world - Sunlit Tides. And I am gonna show you the items come with the Gold Edition.

Skip the introduction and let's have a look at these awesome new venues!

 You can find this new venue- The Relaxation Station at the peak of the mountain in Sunlit Tides.

The Steam-it-up Sauna is one of the premium contents come with the new world.
Below are descriptions copied from The Sims 3 site.

Sauna

Take a break from the worries of the world and refresh your body, mind, and soul with a tranquil sojourn in a little slice of paradise! Experience a relaxing hydrotherapy soak in crystalline waters, rejuvenate with a revitalizing mud bath, or simply sit back and enjoy the steam. The Steam-It-Up Sauna will soothe away your aches and pains and put your worried mind at ease. So sit back, relax, and experience the exhilaration of paradise.

• Regain Fun, Energy and get the new Refreshed moodlet from taking a Refreshing Steam
• Want to work out longer or recover from a particularly hard training? Take a Hydrotherapy Bath and see those negative moodlets melt away. Gain Fun, Energy, Hygiene and a new moodlet Recover Like a Sports Star which will keep your Sim from getting Sore and Fatigued as fast!
• Take a Revitalizing Mud Bath to regain Energy, Fun, Hygiene and get the new Inner Peace moodlet, which will let you work longer without getting Stressed Out.
• Have more control over the gender of your baby with the new Sauna Woohoo. Try for a Boy or Try for a Girl!
• Sims that are in the Sauna with Pets and Werewolves might get the Wet Dog negative moodlet.
• Is your Sim a Vegetarian?  Take some vegetables into the Sauna to Make Steamed Veggies!

Interactions:

• Hydrotherapy
• Revitalizing Mud Bath
• Make Steamed Veggies
• Enjoy Refreshing Steam
• Turn Waterfall [Off/On]
• Sit
• Invite to Cuddle
• Sauna Woohoo
• Try for Boy
• Try for Girl

Hydrotherapy - It is Duckie TIme

Enjoy Refreshing Steam

Enjoying Refreshing Steam

Revitalizing Mud Bath

Make Steamed Veggies

Indulge yours sims with picturesque views of Sunlit Tides while eating the cooked veggies!

One of the many resting areas with hut you can find in this world!

Views from the top of the mountain 

Views from the top of the mountain 

This romantic luxurious bed can be used to have wohoo in public??

With Gold Edition, the game also comes with Serenity Retreat! 

The Wedding Arch to the entrance of Serenity Retreat

One of the Massage rooms in the retreat

Outdoor Shower!

Tropical style hot tub

 Another premium item of Gold Edition is this awesome Infinite Zen Massage Table. This table is great for building relationship with the massager (no NPC massager) and for relaxation!

Acupunture 

Rain of needles!

Deep tissue massage

Deep tissue massage

Swedish Massage

Swedish massage

One of the rooms in the retreat

Giving my sims a Hot Stone deep heat massage!

Giving my sims a Hot Stone deep heat massage!

I have been hankering for this massage features in The Sims 3 game since the release of Sims 3 World Adventure as previously, you can also find it in The Sims 2 Bon Voyage!

There are still more to be explored in this new world. I love this tropical-ish island with its vibrant colors of floral and rabbit holes!

The Sims 3 Store - Vertical Challenge Rock Wall in Adventurous Life! set

Finally, I have gotten this month new items. And in this new blog post, I would like to talk about the Vertical Challenge Rock Wall, though, the items i truly love in this set is the Safari Living Set.

Here's what the item in game description 

Vertical Challenge Rock Wall

An adventurer's journey awaits any tenacious Sim courageous enough to take on the Vertical Challenge Rock Wall! Your endurance and athleticism soar with each vertical inch ascended, and with every climbing competition won, your confidence (and your wallet) will swell! Whether your goal is fitness, climbing supremecy or conquring K2, with the VC Rock Wall the pinnacle of adventure is finally within your grasp!

Immediately after installing the new item, it is time to head into Outdoor activities category to test out this cool new item! I dragged out the vertical wall and placed them back to back in the big park that comes with The Sims 3 Generations.

 There are three levels of difficulty of this rock wall - easy, medium, hard. The wall becomes steeper with each increasing level of difficulty. Sims can use this wall to skill up their level of athleticism and gain some fun too!

Although this rock wall might seem interesting at first time, there are not much interactions available. Personally, I feel that my sims cant live without it and,instead, choose to hit the gym to gain their athletic skill.

LOl, if only sims could die of falling off the wall.....

The Sims 3 More Magic!

Finally, the More Magic set has landed on The Sims Store. 

Here are some in game pictures I have taken and some facts discovered!

Malleable Mimic Voodoo Doll

This Malleable Mimic voodoo doll, generously stuffed with the early spring coat of an organic Spanish moss fed llama, is the cutest and cuddliest way ever devised to harness powerful mystical forces! Reward your friends and family members with blessings and/or subjugate them to various curses and torments, and all with the simple prick of a pin! With the Malleable Mimic in your home, you do the voodoo!

Lord Vladimir's Magic Cauldron

Conjure, brew and imbibe your way to magical and mystical excitement with every turn of the ladle ‘round Lord Vladimir’s Magic Cauldron! Collect or conjure dozens of potion components, brew up a magical concoction, and then throw caution to the wind and take a big swig of MAGIC! Mmm…it’s delicious!

Soothsayer's Crystal Ball

Clear your mind, focus your attention and rest the gaze of your scrying eyes on THE FUTURE. In the smooth spherical surface of the Soothsayer’s Crystal Ball you will suddenly see; the future is crystal clear, your friends and family members are in awe of your predictive prowess, and your complexion has never looked better.

Please note that as I dont like the chair that comes with the crystal ball, I think the one I got from Dr Pepper Alice Stuff looks much cooler with the table and crystal ball.

Now, see why I told you I dont like this chair?

Besides those cool objects above, the More Magic set also includes some hairs and outfits (one for each gender) for both males and females.

Fortune Teller's Turban + Divine Future Fortune Teller's Outfit + Boots from The Sims 3 Pets

Close up look

Mr. Tailored Topper 

Fortune Teller's Charmed Hairstyle + Divine Future Fortune Teller Dress + Heels from The Sims 3 Late Night

Ms. Tailored Topper

The Dandy Lady

Blown Away Hairstyle

I love those outfits very much! Dont you love them too?

Let's move on to the next three magical stuff, shall we? 

 The Malleable Mimic Voodoo Doll

I love this most compared to the crystal ball and cauldron. 

To start this magic trick, first you must successfully bind the targeted sims to this doll. I failed once before and I think the reason was that my sims and the targeted sims are not close to each other enough. If the binding process is successful, the puppet will glow and there are some cool magical effect glowing under your sims!

Love ALL the magical effects!

Sometimes, the magic will backfire too. Your sims will be shocked by the doll (as in the picture)??? So beware when performing this trick as it can BURN your sims!

Some tricks you can perform with this doll:

(I) Cupid's Arrow

(II) Pins and Needles

(III) Hot Foot

(IV) Wet Pants

(V) Curse

(VI) Bless

(I) Cupid's Arrow --to better improve your targeted sims relationship with your sims.

Red glowing hearts come out from the targeted sims if the trick works!

(II) Pins and Needles - to torture the targeted sims. I know you enjoy seeing this! 

Dark Magiccccckkkk!!

(III) Hot Foot - to torture the targeted sims. It is funny to see your sims trying to burn the doll's feet with the ignitor.

As if cat on the hot bricks!

As if cat on the hot bricks!

(IV) Wet Pants - to torture the targeted sims and cause them to wet their pants!

It is always funny to see sims on the edge of peeing themselves. But, you know you will have mess to cleanup afterwards!

(V) Curse

The cursed sims will be shrouded with dark smokes/clouds

Not all the magic tricks are meant to torture the others. You can also use the doll to (VI) Bless others. The clover leaves and golden sparkles look just so pleasant right?

This is the case where your sims fails to bind the doll to the targeted sims!

She will be mad at your sims and show him the middle finger..*rubbing my eyes* I mean her index finger.

Moving on to the Soothsayer's Crystal Ball

As you can see from the above picture, you can tell your own fortune or tell bogus fortunes to other sims. Before you start to read the mystical crystal ball, you need to place at least one chair besides the table (two chairs ,if you want to help others to fortune telling). And  according to The Sims 3 Forum, there are some players experiencing difficulty in placing those chairs correctly next to the table. So try your luck until you get them work for you!

Just a bunch of pictures of my sims doing fortune telling for others.

Love their facial expression!

Something good is gonna happen?

You can predict your own future using this crystal ball. My sims was foretold that he was going to receive something good through his mail and it did happen that a few thousand simoleons decoration painting was sent to his mail!

Lastly, the Lord Vladimir's Magic Cauldron. 

You can create these potions with this magical pot:

(I) Sleeping potion 

(II)Vanity potion 

(III) Emotion potion

 You need to collect some stuff (I am not sure what are the specific things you need to prepare) before you can brew the potion.

According to the tips, it seems like you need Rainbow Bettle, Rainbow Trout or Rainbow Gem to create the strong powerful potion.

You need three identical ingredients to brew the potions??

If you are lazy to collect the ingredients in the wild (fishing or searching for the gem) or buy them off the grocery store, you can try to conjure the ingredients too. But the ingredients turn up in your pot is random. Also, each time your sims is trying to conjure an ingredients, it will deplete your sims energy. Beware of over exhausting your sims and pass out!

As I love my sims doing magical stunts, I like this set introduced by EA. I know they are others simmers who dont enjoy the magical parts in the game. They just feel the game needs to be more realistic, more magic-free. People have their own preferences right? One man's meat is another man's poison. So, respect choices made by other people and happy simming!

PS: Since, EA introduces this set and the magical spell book few months ago, does this mean that we are not getting an expansion pack for magic like we did in The Sims 2 Apartment Life?

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Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it! 

(have you downloaded the free stuff for dragon year and the coming valentine from the store?)