Wellsian Time Portal

The Wellsian Time Portal is a time portal featured in The Sims 3: Into the Future. It can either be bought in the Transportation area under Outdoor or wait for its arrival, similar to the visits of the university mascot to a Sim's home. However, if the portal doesn't have enough room to properly appear on the Sim's lot, it will spawn on a random community lot instead. In map view, the portal will display a purple map tag of the time portal icon, surrounded with a yellow star frame. The time portal can bring Sims to the future. It will not work unless a Sim inspected the portal first. The time portal can occasionally cause a Sim to suffer from time anomaly or give the Nauseous or Scared moodlets if they go to or from the future.
On brand new save files (Ones that start at 08:00), the Time Portal will spawn at 10:00, ±3 minutes.
==Interactions==
The time machine has four interactions, including a trip to the future. Multiple households members can travel to the future, but cannot be left behind when returning back to the present. Sims that are werewolves and in their werewolf form will be unable to travel and initiate the action to travel with others.
The time machine can also be deactivated if it isn't in use or a Sim doesn't want to go to the future. It can summon the time traveler anytime.
It can also reset the time continuum for resetting the future right from the start, however a Sim must have mastered the Advanced Technology first before doing this. Additionally, if the Sim has reached level 10 in Advanced Technology before anyone in the town has inspected a portal first, nothing will happen if the Sim tries to reset the time continuum before they've traveled to the future in the first place.
==Trivia==
*Although a moodlet called Traumatized by Trash exist in the game files that imply a second form of time sickness caused by returning home from the Dystopian Future, there are no known cases of it occuring in unmodded gameplay, and giving the moodlet with NRaas Master Controller does not by itself give the promised Neat trait nor making it possible to go to a hospital.
*The option to go to the future will not show up if the time portal is placed in another sub-world.
*The object's name is almost certainly a reference to the real-life writer H.G. Wells, who is credited with writing the first successful novel that involves time machines.
**The name can also indicate George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four that involve rewriting both the past and the future, with the colloquial name for such rewrites being "Orwellian retcon".
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