News about full moon:
The night of a full moon is a special event in Moonlight Falls, both
feared and celebrated. As the moon rises forebodingly over the
mountains, strange things will start to happen around the town…and even
pets will be able to sense it. For fairies and witches, this special
evening is particularly favored as it boosts their powers and
happiness. Some ordinary Sims will embrace the eerie light of the moon,
allowing its lunatic glow to consume them for the night and alter their
personalities. Those who are stressed, insane, or more open to the
supernatural will be especially susceptible; beware the slap or hug of
the lunatic Sim who has been overtaken by the light of the moon!
Other Sims will dismiss the strange happenings as “magical rubbish”
and shut their eyes and their doors to anything out of the ordinary.
(If your Sim happens to be afraid of ghosts, he might want to steer
clear of the graveyard on this particular evening, as ghosts love to
bask in the light of full moons). According to rumor, with the onset of
the full moon the stranger, more “eccentric” members of the town tend
to congregate late into the night. No one knows quite what they’re up
to, but the more cowardly Sims may want to wait out the night safe in
their beds. Your werewolf neighbors will be forced to transform and your
dear friends in town might find themselves victim to zombification and
forced into an intense hunger for other Sims’ brains. If your Sim hears a
howl in the night or a deep moan coming from the lawn, this time it
might not be just his imagination.
Too dark? Too scary? Don’t worry! The moon is customizable! For so
many Sims, for so many years, the full moon was all they knew. No
crescent moons. No new moon. No waxing gibbous. This seemed like a
pretty sad state of affairs. In Moonlight Falls, the moonlight,
well…falls in a different way every day! By default, the moon will
rotate through a number of different phases. The length of the complete
cycle can be changed in the Options Panel. If you’re not really into
this whole newfangled moon phase thing and really just want things to go
back to how they were, well, you can do that, too! You’ll be able to
set the phase of the moon to always be one phase and you can choose what
that phase is. If you’re looking for a zombie apocalypse or if you just
really like to make your werewolf Sims suffer, go ahead and set it to
be a full moon every night. You’ll never have a dull night again! (Or,
if your preference for zombie attack frequency leans more towards “no
thanks,” set the moon to always be a nice, safe, waxing gibbous.
Nothing bad ever happens when the moon is a waxing gibbous!)
After the full moon has sunk beneath the horizon, Moonlight Falls
will return to normal. Sims unfortunate enough to have been afflicted
with zombification will suddenly realize the error of their ways and
head back home. Werewolves will return to human form, dazed and a
little confused. Witches and fairies will lose the boost they received
from the moon. Ordinary Sims who were a little un-ordinary during the
full moon will lose their crazy feelings and everything will be back to
normal… or, as normal as it gets in Moonlight Falls.
