Time anomaly

Time Anomaly is a form of death introduced in The Sims 3: Into the Future.
==Time Paradox Sickness==
There is a chance that after extensive use of the Wellsian Time Portal, a Sim will acquire a moodlet named 'Time Paradox Sickness'. This moodlet is the first of the three stages of Death by Time Anomaly. It lasts 4 hours. The second stage is the "Blinking in and out of Existence", which last 1 day. The final moodlet before death is "Do I even Exist?", which last another full day. Once the moodlet expires, the Sim dies by Time Anomaly.
Teens do not get Time Paradox Sickness when time travelling. 
===Moodlets===
Image	Moodlet Name 	Mood Effect	Time Period	From 	Game Dialog/Description 	Notes 	EP
 	Time Paradox Sickness 	-5 	4 Hours 	Time Anomaly	(Sim name)'s time travel adventures left a trail of residual tachyons through space and time! He/She might want a visit a hospital for a cure… 	Random chance when time traveling. Turns into "Blinking in and out of Existence" moodlet when the timer expires. Teens will not recieve this moodlet when time traveling. 	
 	Blinking in and out of Existence	-10 	1 Day 	Time Anomaly	(Sim Name)'s component atoms can't be seen to stay in one time. Get to a Hospital soon, because Time Paradox Sickness can be fatal and only gets worse… with time!	Turns into "Do I even Exist?" moodlet when the timer expires. 	
 	Do I even Exist? 	-30 	1 Day 	Time Anomaly	Time Paradox Sickness is taking a terrible toll on (Sim Name)'s body and mind. Find a Hospital soon, lest he/she vanish completely 	Death by Time Anomaly when timer expires. If the Sim is outside of a lot when timer expires, the moodlet disappears and the Sim does not die (may cause the Sim to disappear as usual resulting in an invisible but still living Sim requiring the player to reset the affected Sim using cheats).	
==Effects==
If the affected Sim has the 'Blinking In and Out of Existence' moodlet, they will occasionally have an action with the same name in their queue. While performing the action, they will witness an arm or leg vanish and reappear.
On the last stage of the sickness, the Sim may again get an action in their queue, called 'Do I even exist?' along with the corresponding moodlet. During this action, they may completely disappear and reappear.
If the afflicted Sim does not go to a hospital before the "Do I even Exist?" moodlet expires, they will die by Time Anomaly. The dead Sim's gravestone will depict a Time Anomaly victim, partially faded.
An afflicted Sim can admit themselves to a hospital with Time Paradox Sickness or time travel again to cure Time Anomaly. Alternatively, the Moodlet Manager or testingcheatsenabled can be used to remove the offending moodlets. Players can save the Sim by letting the Sim stand outside of a lot and let the 'Do I Even Exist?' moodlet expire, which cures the Sim from Time Anomaly (this is a technical limitation that Sims only die inside lots). The Lifetime reward Portal Immunity will prevent Time Paradox Sickness altogether and it can be bought for 5000 Lifetime happiness.
==Trivia==
*This death resembles Marty McFly in the high school dance scene of Back to the Future. During the scene, as his mother gets taken away from his father, he begins blinking in and out of existence similar to a Sim with Time Paradox Sickness, which ends when the paradox is fixed.
* The Sim will have a holographic gravestone projection regardless of whether they died in the future or not.
*While the Time Machine in The Sims 3: Ambitions also features time traveling, there is no risk of Time Paradox Sickness when using it even if the player has both Ambitions and Into the Future installed. 
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