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strangetomato) wrote2010-06-11 01:35 pm
strangetomato) wrote2010-06-11 01:35 pm
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Belladonna Cove: Watervista Place = Baba Yaga's Hut
I've always been fascinated with the odd little witch cabin on the "hidden" (it is if you don't have a camera mod, anyway) Watervista Palace lot on the edge of Belladonna Cove. It really begs for more development, and gets me thinking about the witches and their mythology. I've been planning to build up more of a hidden town for the witches out there, where the Cordial's actually live, when they're not blending in with the rest of society as normal sims.
Do you see them? Perhaps if we pull the camera away a little...
Look at the base of the stairs! :D
I always thought this pair of staircases seemed like they were meant to look like feet, but this confirms it. Those darker patches of terrain are obviously references to the clawed chicken feet of Baba Yaga's hut.
Here are some artistic interpretations that I dug up through google image search:
Now that this has brought it back to my memory, I remember this little bit of folklore from some computer games of my childhood (the King's Quest series, maybe? They were full of myths and fairytale stuff from different sources). There's something extremely terrifying about a house with legs, not to mention the skulls. It's strangely familiar, even the first time you hear about it. I think it must be part of our collective landscape of nightmares that we have as children.
Now I'm going to need to find some cc skulls to try to bring out this look a little more. Have anyone extracted the skull from the Resurrect-O-Nomitron, I wonder?
Don't you love finding things like this in the game? I'm always impressed at all the small details the designers have worked in there. ^_^
ETA: I just did a search on this, and there's also a very small entry (it's actually in fine print) on it in the Sims Wiki.
... and the Baba Yaga connection was already mentioned on MATY, MTS2, and a bunch of other places, so this isn't really breaking news.
Do you see them? Perhaps if we pull the camera away a little...
Look at the base of the stairs! :D
I always thought this pair of staircases seemed like they were meant to look like feet, but this confirms it. Those darker patches of terrain are obviously references to the clawed chicken feet of Baba Yaga's hut.
Here are some artistic interpretations that I dug up through google image search:
Now that this has brought it back to my memory, I remember this little bit of folklore from some computer games of my childhood (the King's Quest series, maybe? They were full of myths and fairytale stuff from different sources). There's something extremely terrifying about a house with legs, not to mention the skulls. It's strangely familiar, even the first time you hear about it. I think it must be part of our collective landscape of nightmares that we have as children.
Now I'm going to need to find some cc skulls to try to bring out this look a little more. Have anyone extracted the skull from the Resurrect-O-Nomitron, I wonder?
Don't you love finding things like this in the game? I'm always impressed at all the small details the designers have worked in there. ^_^
ETA: I just did a search on this, and there's also a very small entry (it's actually in fine print) on it in the Sims Wiki.
... and the Baba Yaga connection was already mentioned on MATY, MTS2, and a bunch of other places, so this isn't really breaking news.
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You can make them do the shock thing yourself, the option comes up as Prank... Shock when they're standing on a rug. :D
I've yet to SEE a toddler escape from the crib, although I've had a few do it when I wasn't looking. :P
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I know you can do it, but I always forget to try it. Do you need two children or just one child and anyone else?
I had that happen just the other day! And I did see it, but I didn't get a pic. I was so disappointed. You really have to let them bawl for a while before they'll attempt it, I think. My toddler was stuck in there with a stinky diaper, and so he decided to take matters into his own hands and go seek help. :P
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You just need one child and I think anyone else, I know it definitely works with adults.
I'm probably not patient enough to wait for it, usually my sims have a very tight toddler-training schedule so there's no time for them to sit around in the crib. :P Do they have to know how to walk to do it, or is that one of those spaghetti-twins type myths?