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strangetomatoI'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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Date: 2010-06-11 08:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's on amazon and such it doesn't cost too much either. The downside is that it's a very simple package, a box, a cd with the games on. The manuals are PDF files. It's fairly spare :P But the King's Quest one, for example, has all 7 (we're not counting 8, 8 didn't exist) games on it.
I really do recommend it. Especially start with Sins of the Fathers (the first one) if you can find it anywhere, it's got a good, suspenseful story and good puzzles.