I completed this week's tasks rather quickly. My sim is a little bit ahead of schedule with the cooking skill. She now has level 10 in both cooking skills. The death flower task glitched a tiny bit. My sim already had a death flower in her inventory and it didn't register right away but after claiming rewards, it suddenly did. Let's hope the next weeks go fine as well. The painting looks nice but I scaled it down. I would use it more if it had a swatch with a clean frame. 

I like that we only have to acquire the death flower but are not forced to do so with grafting. There are a few options to get one. 

Week 5 flew by, literally.

the first task just asked me to buy potion of youth from rewards store and then it all completed itself

I think I might have forgotten to clear cache as I updated and thats why
cause my mailman also got stuck waving outdoors and giving simmingals stranger danger

I attempted to cheat him free which did not work
then I attempted to get him killed by killer rabbit cheat
but I forgot that kills the sim selected instead soo...

I suppose grimmingal is a ghost now too
she doesn't mind though

seems kinda happy about it actually.

I did add the mailman in family and then redo the rabbit thing
which worked so yeah no forever stuck mailmen waving on my lawn anymore
just some lovely gravestones, I chose to use this one for grimmingal,
simple but lovely think its from werewolves though

the cooking tasks I didn't screenshot think we have seen enough of simmingals cooking tbh
and even Dork is more interested in... other food sources

thats pretty much it for week 5

well besides ghosty knitting
she is trying very hard to create grim plushies before this event is over but I'm not sure if we will get there

of to bar she was..

Her goal was just go to the bar, she did not meet any ghosts.

Tho the boring okes Marcus Flex made... made her wish he was a ghost.

I forgot Grim was visiting.. was dancing all the time she was at bar!

Was time to hold a spooky party!!!

Marcus was happy... 

Zoe not so much..

All had great time!!!

Almost all..

Last letter..

I am so relieved this event is finally finished. Well, I still have one goal open, the ghost bar night, which I have disabled for years now with MCCC. Perhaps I will complete that last goal before the end of the event. But I managed to unlock all the important items, the unlockables like the eye and coffin. At least I got this over with in time so I can now explore Life and Death at my own pace.

The tasks themself were OK, I guess. But I really wish this was a scenario that was available permanently instead of a timed event that plays on FOMO.

One last picture before I leave the household I created for this event with the freezer bunnies all collected.

These...rewards....are....AWESOME. 

Gaaah! So exciting!! 💀🖤

AND... my simself Sim has already made the Ambrosia to bring Reno back to life once, so I'm hoping she has a good head start. Is that cheating?  *  Low, villainous chuckling *   😈

Had fun with the first quests.

What the heck is going on? Luna is confused. 😄

Thank goodness. No attraction.

Time for you to go Grim.

First week complete.

I played through this event and quite enjoyed it. Because of the gardening requirements I chose to play with a couple that already had a large garden and they once needed Ambrosia because of an unfortunate accident so figured they will be good choice. Well, my game was saved in the winter on winterfest day, so had to plant the plants in  a planter on the porch, so it turns out there was no need for the big garden after all. I basically played them as normally would just with the challenge tasks added in. As I haven't played this couple for a while I needed to add some updates to their house and gave them a couple vacuum cleaners, heaters, and a pet door for their cat which took forever to find in the catalogue.  And here's a picture of the vacuum cleaner escaping the one step porch and travelling across the yard all the way to the barn, in the snow,  to do the cleaning. Will need to raise the house another step during next play session. 😁

She received the Grim newsletter and went to pick it up and also sorted through the junk mail. 

She chased after passersby to ask them about Ambrosia. 

My sim grooming and bonding with the cat. It keeps getting sprayed by skunks and such and it's quite filthy but brings in a lot of feathers. 

Naughty cat. Had to move the chicken to the corner counter.

Next day she managed to summon Grim. Well she summoned the night before but I didn't see him and she went to bed so didn't think much of it. When she summoned Grim next morning I thought he would spawn next to her, but no, he spawned across the road in front of the lot and blend into the landscape and I almost didn't see him again. Think we need to give him some bright colours to wear. 

Here she comes to greet Grim and asks him to hang around.  

Grim agrees to hang out and goes and blends again with the landscape near the fireplace. He tries to start a fire but burns his hands and gives up. My sim then gets fed up with Grim and sends him home. 

Here's a wonky snowman my sim built. 

Then it was bonfire night. Tried to get my sims to have drinks with their guests by the fire (by the way, I found it's not possible to buy nectar on the computer, only on the phone) but none of them managed to start a fire in time and it was cold outside and getting late and the guests eventually left. Also, it appears that tree stump can only hold two glasses of nectar, my sim placed the rest on a not so nearby picnic table. I thought he was drinking the rest of the bottle, but I found them after the guests left. By this time simulation lag was so bad I thought the night was lost and they couldn't fulfill the traditions. 

But after those guests left, this clown person showed up and agreed hang out and to listen to stories by the fire. They finally managed to light up the darn thing. However, this person glitched my female sim and she kept appearing as an active conversation even after she had left the lot and from this point onward things kind of snowballed from one glitch to another. 

Then she decided to go off lot to shovel some snow because it was all so important. really, it couldn't wait till morning, or for spring to thaw out. That snow had to go. 😁

Next morning. My sims were wearing newly washed clothes apparently and there is a social option to sniff the fresh clothes on another sim. Well, here he is sniffing her and declared satisfied with the clean clothes smell. Too funny, I need to play couple sims more often. 😆

And here's more pictures of my sims being cute with their cat. It learnt not to scratch the furniture and not to play in the trash can so it earned all the cuddles.  😆 Disclaimer regarding the outfits, if you're wondering, they are all game generated, I only gave this couple one everyday outfit each, none of which is pictured. 😁

I was thinking this would be a chore but I found it fun.  Very thematic and makes me more interested in death expansion.

Meanwhile waiting for week 2

Ghosty has started to cheer up a bit

One day I catched her working on a little pumpkin guy

Oops think I was noticed

the pumpkin turned out great though

I've never really liked Rindle Rose but strangely after making it spooky its growing on me as well

so its safe (is it though) to say Simmingals are getting more excited for the season ahead 💚💀

(Now I just have to resist the urge to rebuild my main save Willow Creek to fit this in... ah why am I like this.)

As a joke, I had my sim make out with the Grim Reaper to try and speed along the "Befriend and Socialize with the Grim Reaper" step. As it happened, a fire started up in my sim's home (probably from the little red ghosts) and my sim's boyfriend died in a fire, and my sim was repeatedly set ablaze because he kept getting routing errors and wouldn't leave.

Moral of the story: The Grim Reaper is a selfish lover. He doesn't want to share.