Sim Sacrifice

When you’re a magician, you may find yourself making deals or bartering with gods, egregores, and thoughtforms. Usually, they mostly just want some form of attention, or tribute in their name. If you’re open to the idea of technology mixing with your sorcery, I would like to suggest offering a Sim for sacrifice.

How does this work?

You’ve spent an hour just working on your Sim’s physical details, clothing, and traits. You built up an idea of this fictitious life you’d like your Sim to step into. You already have an idea of what kind of job you want them to work toward before the screen finishes to load. Your investment has already begun at Sim creation, but it needs to build up more.

You need to spend time with this Sim. Get them going in a really cool direction that you’d like to see through. Whether it be their job, their relationships, whatever goal you have set in mind for them and enjoy it. If at any point the Sim feels boring or you’re otherwise “just not feeling it,” then it will make for a poor sacrifice. This creation of yours must be one that you enjoy fully. But nor can you fully and completely satisfy your goals and desires for this Sim. If you’ve reached a point during play where you feel “completed” with this Sim and have no further real desires or goals for them, then this too will ruin the sacrifice. You will need to work toward and build up a sense of investment and the feeling of looking forward to advancing your Sim.

When is it time to sacrifice?

The sacrifice must take place before you feel completed with what you’ve done with this Sim. When you have reached a point in play where the idea of Death coming for your Sim now would bother you, especially by your own doing, then the time for sacrifice has come! If you are unable to care about this Sim on any level, abandon this sacrifice as it won’t make for much of an offering.

How should I go about sacrificing my Sim?

Whether it be in a pool with its ladders removed or a shack you’ve rigged to catch flame after you remove the doors, you should build it with a solemn state of mind. You can be as creative about it as you like, but it shouldn’t be something you’re looking forward toward. Take pleasure in the creative way you’re designing the sacrifice if you will, but not in the sacrifice itself.

When you are as prepped and ready in the digital world as you need to be, the last thing you need to do before the sacrifice itself is issue your statement of intent to the entity you are making the offering to. This can be done in any way you are comfortable with. You could write a note or signaled intention to the entity and burn it. Or simply say with reverence, “I make this sacrifice and offering to you, O Great Flying Spaghetti Monster!” Say and do whatever you need to that makes you feel like you got your entity’s attention, and then begin the digital sacrifice.

Some ideas I would offer would be to dress up the sacrifice area in witchy themes or surrounded by statue idols to represent the entity being offered to. Maybe throw a Sim party just before the sacrifice to make it feel like other Sims are there to join in on it and praise the entity along with you. With all the mods, skins, and cheats Sims offers, you have a lot of wiggle room for aesthetics for your sacrificial area. Just make sure you are using aesthetics the entity in question would approve of and enjoy. Or rather, things that only make you think of that godform in representative ways.