What I would love to see is an expansion pack for Vampires/Occult Sims Dietary Requirements that is also attached to a location: Transylvania.
As it is likely advanced cooking, it could be opened up after Vampire Lore, Gardening, Herbology, Baking, Cooking, and Gourmet Cooking are up to 10. Give those vampires incentives to explore those human foods even when their stomachs can't even handle plasma fruit salad because plasma fruit salad like most require other fruits.
When Valdimer, (sorry likely spelt wrong), is finally a Best Friend or Lover, he has an option. "Do you know of older vampires?" (This is something of a confidence that he wouldn't tell just any vampire acquaintance)
He mentions a friend that knows of a friend who was recently evicted from the old country. "My brother is younger then me yet an older vampires currently living in the cemetery. Knock thrice, but note a human should never visit there. Only those of the occults should speak to him or ever touch that grave. Do you know he has a spell over me? If he weren't my brother that I swore to protect with my dying breath I'd kill him. You can go there but he is a massive cad, a fiend, and entirely evil." This comes from a dark vampire that will suck the blood of a vampire's human husband regularly. Maybe that is the spell maybe it isn't.
Go down to the graveyard, knock three times on a special stone. (there is an option to knock once or twice always, but know there is a knock thrice)
The grave opens up regardless of the number of times with the option bubble being. "Are you sure you want to go in here?" Human's get a second one, "Are you really certain? It looks deadly dangerous."
Entering this grave be expected to be killed or turned into a vampire. Being turned into a vampire is only available if Valdimer is a friend or just happens to be at home. Valdimer saying "Fool, humans shouldn't enter here. He is always insatiable. Oh well enter into my family friend." He likely expects you to move him in like some old uncle, but life goes on with or without him. Turning to his brother, "Control your temper already."
"Never."
Anyway, it doesn't matter inter wrong or be human you wind up back at home with an urn, an extra deep bite mark as transformation gives an extremely massive negative moodlet for the entire time of transformation.
The occult entering into the grave without knocking thrice will be attacked. Even a very powerful one. Anyway the knocked out vampire finds themselves back home. If there were humans in the party, their dead or vampires if Valdimer liked them. The dazed and confused occult has trouble remembering to do stuff like absent-minded sims and clutzy sims for a full day.
Knock thrice be a vampire or occult, it is time to make friends with this fellow. Bring him perfect plasma fruit, frogs, and fresh fish. He cares diddly for conversation really. He will suffer through a jokes and friendly conversation. Watch out for his snide remarks as he is hard to like. After enough time he will randomly seduce someone in your family line. He just appears, compels them, and goes after whatever. He prefers seducing humans or grand master females 'go figure' and three days later a baby might be born as he is rather a cad doesn't care about 'protection'. Likely because, he doesn't know about it. :) When the baby is born, you will be asked like 'alien' babies born after abductions who should tend the child.
Anyway ask him after being friends, "Am I worthy to learn the ultimate recipes?"
If you are not 'friends' "I don't even like you. Stop chittering away and bring me something good to eat. Like some frogs, fish, or whatever but I need fresh stuff or perfection as I am rather picky when it comes to food."
(Your person raises an eyebrow, as if he is truly picky)
If you are friends but fall short of the requirements. He looks at you deeply and sighs, "No you are unworthy. Learn to perfection all the ways of mortal cookery, gardening, and plant handling and prove complete knowledge of the vampires. Until then, begone, stop bothering me for X days." (Anything missing Negative Relationship hit that grows as he is bugged. He can be annoyed to death and not speak to a sim calling him up annoys him for those X days, a minimum of 3. He won't answer knocks on the tombstone either.
(It will take after visiting him again more bribes to get the option)
You cannot give him an apartment key, he is uninterested in anything but fine food and drinks, using his powers over random members of the populace, and cares really diddly about anyone but himself. He is rather emotionless and has been ejected from the Old Country for great reason.
If you are friends and have the skills, He looks at you deeply and smiles, "Yes, you are finally worthy of the book. What took you so long? The Ultimate Occult Cooking books are available by computer. You need to get thee hence to Translvania. Let dear old... Nevermind, that isn't important. Let's cook. After I show you this one, you cook it for me with your own stuff. Surely you have a perfect plasma fruit."
After cooking it for him with his makeshift kitchen and your two perfect plasma fruits, the bowl becomes impeccable. He loves it and he is in a friendlier type of mode for those that want to delve there.
After you return home, he calls up for several days. When answered, You get a nice trip to Translvania. He will pay for whatever accomodations that you want for (a single night) each recipe he has not tasted in these many years can also offer X nights. Improved Plasma Fruit only works for one time for one night. After all, he can in his hole in the ground make plasma fruit.
Get the Occult Cookbook Skill, Occult Gardening, and Improved Plasma Fruit Salad unlocked. The first Gardening Book of Occults has initial seeds not found in world. To find the others, travel to 'Transylvania' required, and visit the relics of dear long dead Father Dracula. (Or is he still undead)
Improved Plasma Fruit Salad Two Plasma Fruits Required, but satisfies thirst nearly twice as much as regular fruit salad in the same amount of time and a treat squimish Vampire stomachs can tolerate. (Modlet for Vampires Extra Tasty +1 happy, for squimish vampires Finally Something I can eat. They never get the Vampire Extra Tasty +1 or Vampire Food Perfection +2 ) These dishes are always 'group meals' with 8 servings.
Non Occults eating such a food Makes them ghastly sick just as regular plasma salad. To solve the issue with the 'get leftovers' option please make it to where either Vampire Food Cannot Be Stored in a Human Fridge. Just instantly turns it to mush or at least have the same rundown as being left on the counter. Instead have upright coffins of varying size, like some mummy's sleep in, have a nice creak sound, and be the vampire food equivalent to the plasma fruit storage.'
A new food aspiration, Top Vampire Chef.
A new nature aspiration, Master Occult Herbologist
A new food store only available while in vacation in Transylvania and special gardening plants beyond wolfs bane, garlic, fly traps, and plasma fruit. These bonus plants need special pots with special soil or grown around the base of plasma fruit trees if planted in ground. The ground looks very red under these plants as they need blood. These pots can only be bought in Transylvania and will only be sold to those that at least know to ten Herbology and Gardening.
New Jobs Vampire Chef/Ultimate Herbology (where a vampire can actually drink on the job and are expected to drink. )
Let the Occults have more variety of foods with the Occult Cookbook that makes variations of all corresponding food that offer better thirst recovery and moodlets based on the meals complexity and satisfaction rating. Level 10 of 10 The Ultimate of Dishes Tombstone Pie. One tombstone, five flagans of fire juice, 3 fish, 3 frogs, and ten plasma fruit. It might take a lot but a sloppy drinker can go from 0 to 80 in one serving. Those supper friendly with our recluse can get tombstones for reasonable bribes of plants from the Old Country.
Warning: Tombstone Pie when ate when less then half thirsty has been known to put on weight on the scrawniest of vampires. (It looks like a big square pizza)
Plasma Fruit Salad does hardly anything for thirst. I can have a vampire half thirsty (not a sloppy drinker) and take three bowls of plasma fruit salad to get the thirst to full. It wouldn't be so bad if I could chain up more then one plasma drink pack but I have to patiently wait for them to select it. My sloppy drinker on a quarter thirst binge, needs a bowl of fruit, two plasma fruits straight up, two bags of regular/fishy & froggy at times to sate herself.
I don't mind having to work 'hard' to get better food, but I'd like to be able to chain plasma packs of the same type at the very least, and this sounds like a bit of fun.
