Shelby BACC – Round 1

Mayor Redd’s first week as Mayor of the city of Shelby. Redd and his tar colored cowboy hat was more than excited to start leading the new city to great pastures. A week ago, Redd along with 45 others arrived to Shelby to start anew and wipe themselves ‘pure’ in the eyes of the Watcher.

Having no City Hall, Redd traveled 10 miles east back to SimCity to conduct business for Shelby. Things were going seemingly well, until Redd was presented a Real Estate deal from Landgraab Enterprises. Everyone knows, when the Landgraab’s comes knocking, you always say yes (if you know what’s good for you). Desperate for money and lacking financial or legal advisors on council staff, Redd speedily agrees to the deal. Days later, he is notified that the deal was a dud due to recent land protection laws and that he is to appear at SimCity Courthouse. Not fully understand the landscape of the situation, Redd represented himself in court, which left the Judge ending the case in tears (from laughing so hard). Redd returns to Shelby with §10,000 less in the Treasury.

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I usually don’t integrate chance cards into my gameplay plots, but this one was too good to pass up.
Redd is currently the only council member and has no experience, so of course he would link up with the scummy Landgraab’s and sign off on a bad deal. It sucks, because Shelby can not afford to lose that much amount of money. We have schools that need to be build.

I love it when they put previous chance cards into later ones. Also always nice when the Landgraabs and Crumplebottoms show up.

I played the O'Connor family in my prosperity-style hood. Previously, Alexa O'Connor had been caught by her husband in an affair with Ethan Stevens. They thought they were being discreet by going to the hotel, but not discreet enough, it seems. Ethan was a townie I put into the game because he had the same last name as one of my playable families, and he's really cute, so I would like him to procreate. He had the want to marry Alexa--odd for a Romance Sim, but then again, most of the women around town find his personality to be a dealbreaker. So he asked Alexa to leave her husband.

When I opened the household, Alexa's husband, Torin, was about as furious as he could be at her. There was a fight and then a breakup. Torin spent quite some time eating his feelings and gained some weight--sad for a once world-renowned swimmer. Finally, he decided to pull himself together and go on a date with a townie named Alisanne. The first date did not go so well because Alexa was on the lot and it was awkward. Torin preferred to get drink after drink instead of pay attention to his date. But his friend Belinda Chapel gave him a pep talk, so he decided to try again, and this time the date went better, ending in woohoo.

Meanwhile, Torin and Alexa's son, Hugo, had decided he wanted to go to university. Who could blame him? He worked on his grades, he worked on his part-time job, he worked on his chess, and he got an impressive number of scholarships. Torin got a promotion in his Adventurer job, which made up the rest of the tuition. Hugo had a place to live already--roommates with Scott Warner, who was already in his junior year. Hugo arrived on campus, put his things in his new room, and then immediately booty-called none other than Alisanne. She ended up spending so much time there that she became like a third roommate. It was clear that she liked Hugo more than she liked his dad--much more. I foresee a wedding in their future.

So, in my previous family, the father divorced his wife and stole his son's girlfriend for his new bride as soon as she became an adult. In this family, the son stole his father's girlfriend as soon as he became an adult. Perhaps this town is too small?

I'm not really sure what to do with the Klapper family now my ToT challenge has entered the Roman era. Based on my class system (money, skills, friends etc divided by family members) they would be Slaves, but the main family have over $70k which is more than most families. So I've kinda just let them continue to be a tribe. I've updated their lot to be more weather resistant, enough beds for all etc and then just kinda let them continue living off of fruits and fish.

Donkerste Klapper turned 79 by the end of the rotation and according to his age meter, still has plenty of life left in him. I was pretty surprised because most of the first generation have since passed. Him and his twin brother Grott have outlived 4 of their siblings even though they were the eldests (To be fair, their youngest brother died in adulthood after a fight). This rotation Donkestre became a great-grandfather to baby Drakari (meaning "happiness", as the new parents were happy to birth an heir), his son Erfgenaam also welcomed their 5th child Nyambe (meaning "Fire", because the mother went into labour whilst cooking and nearly burned to death moments postpartum)

Over in Grott's household, his 3 granddaughters are all preparing for marriage. The oldest, whos name I have forgotten married Brothus Klapper (close enough related they share a surname, not close enough related the game stops them. I think Grott's brothers grandchild?) and welcomed in their first child Amara. The second oldest, Well got engaged to her boyfriend Mensos Akuji, and third grandchild Grok became a teenager and is now finding love. Though her turn ons are grey hair and hard worker... so thats gonna be pretty difficult.

Husband became witch. Wife is not impressed. They have marriage crisis now and I play rarely love crisis Maybe this would be better if he would not be an evil witch... But nice to get something to do with an elderly couple.

Also, my first playable teen daddy has graduated. He founded a fraterity with a friend and found future wife for himself. (Not the teen mom, she is still teen.)

So yesterday I dragged out my backup drive and was looking for a neighborhood I'd made a long time ago. Did not find it, but did find some text output of families that I'd created with randomized family program.

Now I'm considering making an island named Duma Key with them. I'm still up in the air about it, though-Tinsel Town is going to go 'through some things' when a few of my elders start dying off.

Earl Capp married Victor Lillard. In the evening, the party spontaneously turned into some bird watching club. After Victor and Earl came home from their honeymoon, they called to adopt a baby. Earl went to work the next day before I realized it, but Victor was home to welcome his new daughter, and Regan her granddaughter, Aemelia Capp. Goneril came by intending to kick over the trashcan, but a robot that Curtis Ryan built once put a stop to that. Regan fulfilled her lifetime want of becoming a criminal mastermind.

Adriana Monty became a teen, and a popularity sim just like her parents Pamela and Mercutio. She became friends with her uncle Romeo. Her childhood friend Neha Ramaswami also grew up along with her.

Since Ariel recently lost her shot at fulfilling her lifetime want of becoming a mad scientist, I used a randomizer to see how she would deal with the situation. The result was that she would leave her current home (where her daughter Lennox lives, along with Lennox' other mum Beatrice Monty as well as Beatrice's oldest child) for the Capp side of Veronaville, get a new job in oceanography, and spend five days isolating herself in a house, not inviting anyone in, not owning a phone, and only going out for work (which also means she'll miss her daughter growing up to a teenager).
I decided to play all five days at once and then plop her down in the family bin until the rest of the neighbourhood is caught up. Since she didn't have a lot of stuff in her temporary house she spent a lot of time writing in her diary. She got a visit from the social bunny and had a very hot-and-cold relationship with it.
After a few days she found a job opening in the oceanography career, only to be fired on her first day because of a chance card failure. I again used a randomizer to see how this would affect her: she'll never have a traditional job again, but rather make money if she wants/needs to by making and selling medicine with her career reward thing. When she rejoins the rotations she'll move in with some relative (probably Desdemona and her wife) for support. She is in some kind of crisis mode, and until she becomes an elder I will be allowed to control her, but not to look at her needs.

Benedick Monty, his wife Jennifer and their daughter Iris moved into the house where Beatrice lives with her two children. Lennox immediately rolled a want to play with little Iris, and later she rolled wants to befriend Benedick and Jennifer. I've already had the randomizer decide she'll be a romance sim growing up, but with this in mind I think I'll give her a family secondary aspiration.

Shelby BACC – Round 1

Report to Mayor Redd:

Financially, things are looking grim for the city. Taxes aren’t due yet, but the forecast for the city’s first paycheck is cloudy. As the founders continue to move in, there are a number of them who are uninspired to apply for employment. Apparently, there is an issue with willingness to work among the residents. Precisely, 43% of residents are admittedly lazy. Over 60% of residents have high interests in entertainment venues such as sports, food and arts. The residents need to keep in mind that they aren’t living in New York SimCity or Los Santos, established cities that bleeds entertainment. We all came here to Shelby to turn it to an honest and lovely Watcher-fearing town, from the ground up, brick by brick. Mayor, if nobody achieves employment, we won’t be able to accomplish that. There will be plenty of time for entertainment in the future. As of right now, residents need to put on their working gloves and boots, because there are bills that needs to be paid.

Best regards, Treasurer Nessa.