Vampira 1.01


Meet Vampira, Vampire Housekeeper. 
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Vampira needs a place to hide from those fearless and annoying vampire hunters. In return, she'll help keep house.

Basically, she's like the skeleton maid, except:

1) She looks like a vampire. It uses the vampire graphics from the Beauty or Beast spell. 

2) She won't freak out the maid (I think), so they can co-exist. Non-magical sims will still find her coffin a bit freaky.

3) She can do most of the things the Butler can, like fill pet dishes, cook meals if your simmies are hungry, bring in papers, beat up the paper girl, garden. Actually, she doesn't seem to "tend", she just waters, and if you have plots to grow stuff, she'll water and water and water and water and water and never go back into her coffin (though it's low on her priority list, so she'll go and do other things if they need it, then come back and water). 

4) In theory, she comes out of her coffin a few times a day - at noon, midnight, and 6'clock (am/pm). However, sometimes she is lazy, and won't come out (this is a bug) 


You need:
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The Sims & Makin' Magic

To Install:
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Put npcspellboundvampire.iff and the vampirecoffin.iff in your downloads folder


Misc Bugs/Issues:
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1) When she leaves the coffin herself, she goes through the door. Hey, vampires can turn to mist, so it's a feature. Yeah!

2) If you are using a patch that allows NPCs to join actions, sometimes this can confuse her, and she gets stuck in a loop. You'll have to use Ctrl-C, then move_objects on, and delete her if this happens. I've tried to trace this, but it now seems very rare.

3) It's very rare, but once it spit out 2 Vampiras. Though it was in an early version, and I haven't seen it since.

4) Did you know, Vampires can actually stand daylight? It wasn't until movies that Vampires were hurt by sunlight. So it doesn't bother her, though it's probably not hard to make her go back into her coffin in daylight. It would make her less useful.


Misc:
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If there is demand, I can make a male version. Though, feel free to clone and/or modify freely, so you can make your own.

Jeremy
jer@connectria.com 



History:
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1.00 First public release (on Binary Sims newsgroups)
1.01 First version on website
     Updated head graphics in thought bubble so they show Vampira, not the skeleton maid 

