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Life Tragedies Adds a Halloween Horror Icon

Sacrificial is undoubtedly the king of Sims murder with mods like Extreme Violence, Sim Torments and Life Tragedies. These mods give you access to creative ways to end your Sims lives whenever they displease “The Watcher” and as this Watcher loves Spooky season more than Winterfest, I went looking for something more Halloween to add to my game and found the one and only Jason Voorhees in Life Tragedies. It’s been a lot of fun watching him slash and choke his way through The Sims 4 population. First thing’s first, who is Jason Voorhees?

“Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie-in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who was thought to have drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff. Decades later, the lake is rumoured to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, as either the killer or the motivation for the killings.” Wikipedia

Not to be confused with Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise. Now that we have that all sorted out, let’s take a look at the mod. Before activating the mod it’s best to familiarise yourself with everything the mod adds to your game so you can turn off anything you don’t like. These tragedies occur autonomously unless you disable that feature too so be careful. Some things the mod adds are fatal illness, armed robbers, car accidents and of course, serial killers. I find bullies, armed robbers and serial killers very annoying in my everyday play and disable them immediately but they are great for storytelling purposes so give them a try in one of your not so special saves.

I decided the best way to kick off Spooky Season would be to murder a bunch of teenagers at a remote camping site. My cast included all the horror movie stereotypes. The airhead hot blond and her jock boyfriend, the nerdy girl, the hippy chick, the edgy street-smart girl, the preppy dude, the weird yet hot new transfer from another school.

With everything packed, these seven teens set of for Camp Gem Lake as counsellors for the young scout troops that will be staying there for the summer. Little do they know that the camp is

cursed and a mad man in a mask is sharpening his machete in anticipation. Who is your money on to survive this slasher? To begin, disable all other tragedies except for serial killers. When everyone is in place, click on serial killers, no mercy and select Jason Voorhees. If you don’t do this, the game will spawn random serial killers like the nanny or the son of flames. Also, if you don’t select the no mercy, Jason tends to kill one or two NPC’s and then just walk around for a bit before disappearing. You can’t make a slasher movie with just two dead bodies now can you.

Once you select Jason, the mod will spawn him at the edge of Granite Falls or neighbourhood you are camping. I have to admit that I wish Jason and only Jason spawned when you get to Granite Falls but even thought I’m not a modder myself, I imagine this would be difficult to do. Jason’s look is spot on and the fog that surrounds him makes it all feel like your Sims find themselves in a horror movie. Even the classic ch ch ch, ah ah ah sound is added to this mod and can be heard when Jason kills a Sim. Chilling stuff likes to BBQ and stargaze. I had to spawn him multiple times to kill off the teen counsellors because he had so many other things he wanted to do. Honestly, if he took the time to go fishing, I might have died of laughter. He did take a lot of naps though but killing is hard work so I get it.

There is a glitch you need to watch out for. Once Jason starts his killing spree and Grim shows up to collect souls, Grim gets stuck because there are so many bodies (I guess, I’m not a modder so I don’t know for sure if this is the problem). The other small glitch that happens is Jason has such a big ego, he isn’t even scared of Grim and will try to kill him. Since Grim is death itself, he doesn’t die and just stands around. This means you can’t save your game or exit the lot. Best thing to do is enable cheats, click on Grim and the dead bodies and select reset object. This should fix the problem

without any damage to the save. Life Tragedies is a great mod for more edgy stories but without going too far. Jason Voorhees is a classic Spooky Season character and I can’t wait to see what stories are born after he slashes his way through your game.

In the end, The Nerdy Girl and The Airhead Hot Blonde survived the murder and mayhem becoming close friends but as they look at this picture and notice a figure in the background, they realise that this is far from over. *Que the seque* ch ch ch, ah ah ah

Household: Friday The 13th Campers by SueSimming