Building a Metropolis Challenge (BaMC) - based on the original rules for the Build a City Challenge (BaCC) by ClintCasey85, found at: http://boolprop.net/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=45 - Difference: reach a population of 500.000!

1. Instant City , a BaMC-Challenge
Household S
Spring 1
Instant City
Household S,
Spring 1

2. -….. *Drumrolls* *Fanfares* Hello and Welcome back to Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! Well, it’s the last chapter of
Spring, Instant City’s Business District is filled to the Brim, and we will get one final rise in Population which will push us over
a Population of 4000…. Only 496.000 to go…-

3. -… and here is the S household, ready to do the final job… after the inventories are emptied, of course…-

4. -… and how could they fail, with now 4 bookcases of education ready to educate them? Right? Right?! Don’t you dare to
botch that up!!...-

5. -… yes, of course they succeeded, busy advancing their horizon to…-

6. -…. Wait… Servo S-1, what are you doing there? You’re supposed to be studying…-
‘Hm? Sorry, I don’t have time, I’m looking for a job…’
- A Job? –
‘Listen: I was built and activated by The Chosen One aka Professor Disc’s Servo, at this place… not even Ultimata is as far
removed from the Professor as me, as I was neither activated at his home nor built there…’
-…what are going on about…?-
‘ One word: REVOLUTION! ‘

7. -… wait, we are doing what now? –
‘*Sigh* to put it simple – I will not stand here working my butt off for a man who has clearly one brain too little for leading
this city nor conquering the world while treating his loyal creations like dirt…. So I’m gonna replace him for the greater
good – and become Mayor of Instant City!’
- NO! We already have two kids wanting to usurp their Dad and failing, we don’t need another subplot…-
‘Too late! I already made my way into Parliament…’
-… since when do we have a parliament in Instant City…? –
‘Sorry, can’t talk now, duty calls – make an appointment with my secretary…’

8. -… and so Servo S-4 made his way into parliament and returned as an lobbyist… okay, if he wants a subplot so much, he can
have it…-

9. -... And while the others were still busy studying their metal asses off…-

10. -… S-4 while still being undereducated became a member of the voting committee… again, no idea, since when do we have
one…-

11. -… and finally head of city council… okay seriously, where does this…?-
‘Simple! I made it up – it doesn’t exist, but everyone thinks it does – that’s politics for you…’
-… I’m not totally sure if that’s plain stupid or ingenious… you’re right, it IS politics…-

12. -… still, as much as I mock, S-4 still managed to get all the skills needed to be an actually productive member of society
anyway…-

13. -… and as part of the City Council… well as its founding and probably only member…Servo S-4’s first decree that there was
dire need of a certain public building… however I rejected his demand for an awesome major manor of awesome political
power…-

14. -… and instead forced him to buy the Numa Key Post Office…-
‘ Hm… I still think a majorly manor would have been better… but you’re right, a working post sounds like a good idea,
especially since I need a way to start my election campaign and spam mail always works…-
-…-

15. -… of course – or at least for anyone who read the Household P Update – it’s clear that the Numa Key Post Office has the
same design as the Numa Key Bank, but with the change that here, besides these packages and these frames that with a bit
of imagination look like letter cases, we sell the greeting cards system made by Mog Hughson at mts.com – you can
actually send a letter and the postman NPC will bring it to the receivers household… great! -

16. -… aside from that, the Numa Key Post Office also has a stamp automat (another arcade) and several private post boxes
(wardrobe slightly moved into a wall) plus a 24 hours mail box (the garbage compactor….)…-

17. -… and in the Post offices backroom all the letters and packages ready to be distributed or in other words the stuff you’ll
never find in a normal post office but we had to Improvise here…-

18. -… now before we start, the usual dating and network raising…-

19. -… additional skilling…-

20. -… and then…-
‘Hello – Professor? Professor Disc? Would you please come over to the Numa Key Post Office, I have some vital information
to tell you…’

21. -… and so the meeting of the giants began: here the Professor who singlehandedly founded Instant City, became insanely
rich, killed five people and got away with it and wields the power of magic… and here his creations creation, who invented
politics in Instant City… My money’s on S-4…-

22. ‘ So – what is the important thing you’ll have to tell me?’
‘ Well, Professor, I have it from good sources, that someone is planning a revolution against you!’
‘ *GASP* ‘
‘… and that it is someone very close to you… like very close right now…’
‘ WHO… who dares revolutionizing me? Who would… wait, very close to me, you say? Close like standing next to me right
now…?’
‘yee-hes…’

23. ‘… I don’t get it…’
‘Professor, professor… you’re much too ignorant to what happens around you… you are not grasping the density of your
dense denseness, that prevents you sensing the impeding danger that lurks up to you…’
‘… still don’t get it…’
‘ *Sigh* okay – Professor, have you ever noticed that… your children… are kinda not as behaving as they should do towards
her father, the future ruler of the world…’
‘… well, they are a handful… and my daughter has once cut my leaf hair and hidden my wizard hat, but that… *gasp*… are
they…?!!’

24. ‘PSSSSST! Professor, you are as sharp as a pair of wool socks… and you’re right, your Daughter and Son are… up against
you… but please, don’t let them know, or your reign would be truly endangered.. You know, because they’re two, and you’re
alone… well except the 160 Servos in the neighborhood, but that’s just bean counting, right? But don’t worry Professor – I
have a cunning plan of cunningness that is totally cunning…!’
‘…and that would be…?’
‘Well, first of all you endorse me becoming mayor of Instant City – don’t worry, I will only be a puppet mayor, a straw man to
your wimps, while you hold the true power over everything… and in return, I will help you against the perfide perfideness of
your spoiled children…!’

25. ‘… will that cost a lot of money? You see, I already tried a few things to… get along with them, bought them a playground, a
public pool… and I’m still not allowed to buy something around here, because I’m so rich that the game thinks I’m poor…’
‘But Professor! Don’t worry your head about such trivialities… here, take this…’

26. ‘… what’s that?’
‘… that, Professor, is the key to everything… or four bookcases of education, same story… but I have marked several books in
this that will help you to overcome your children… and as long as you endorse me as mayor of Instant City, they will be too
busy overcoming me, that they will never see how you overcome them, while I overcome you to overcome them so they
won’t overcome you, as I have overcome the overcomers already by overcoming them…it’s a win-win-win-win-situation!’
‘… ehr….okay… thanks, I think… ‘
‘So your endorsement of me becoming the overcoming mayor will be endorsed by you?’
‘… sure… I guess… wait, what were we talking about again…?’

27. ‘ OH thank you, Professor, thank you, thank you thank you….*smack left and right*… HEY, EVERYONE LISTEN! PROFESSOR
DISC ENDORSES MY CAMPAIGN TO BECOME MAIOR FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE CITY! THREE TIMES HORRAY FOR
PROFESSOR DISC! HORRAY! HORRAY! HOOOORRRRRAAAAY!!!’
‘:.. Ehrm… thanks… I… I have to go now… my head hurts a bit… *Leaves*’
-…. I… Have never heard someone lying so outright while speaking the truth at the same time… You ARE a politician…-

28. -… okay, subplot is over, let’s get back to the Post business at hand…-

29. -… and soon the first customers were drawn into the new post business …-

30. -… buying the first post cards and packages…-

31. -… and giving us our first Gold sales badges and silver restocking badges…

32. -… and buying a lot of stamps too…-

33. -… and with the cash registers clinging, the gold badges were coming in…-

34. -… and of course customers stars…-

35. -… and then we reached level 10...-

36. -… and stayed a bit longer to get another Gold Restocking badge…-

37. -… and another silver cash register badge…-

38. -… and to get the money for the next business, we than spent some time by giving investme… by improving the distribution
quality and time of the postal system in Instant City…-

39. -…which was so successful, that we soon amortized the entire post office…-

40. -… and with the money earned, we bought us into world-wide known business, bringing it onto Numa Key for the first
time…-

41. -. … SIMKEA! –
‘Yes – Perfect! After being in control of the entire post delivery system for Instant City, controlling one of the most hated yet
still immensely profitable furniture discounters ‘ stores, this will cement my influence even further…’
-… ehrm… right now, mostly Servos live here, and none of them needs furniture so badly…-
‘Ah, ah, ah… don’t you forget, how often you had to buy my metallic brethren seats, tables, counters etc. just to keep them
in platinum and they just happen to throw a want for it? Hmm?’
-… you’re too good at this… anyway, with this Business, we have also now raised the population to 4000, and it’s the 90th
business in Instant City so far… only one more to go this season, by the way…-

42. -… annd here is the inside of Simkea, and as you might have guessed, so close before the end… well, I got a bit overboard…
by stuffing tons of sellable furniture inside, which, in a mere 1x2 Lot is kind of a really really really bad idea… so no
obligatory Simkea restaurant, but, at least I could add a Simkea Coffee bar…

43. -… oh, and of course, I couldn’t stop at the ground/first floor and had to transfer the overcrowding to the first/second floor
as well…-

44. -… and on top separate the room with walls to create an aura of rooms without having rooms… yeah, it really looks
overcrowded, but hey, that’s Simkea, right? RIGHT?!!-

45. -… anyway, we went right to business…-

46. -… got our first silver cash register badge…-

47. -… and a bad review… Wha…? NOOOOOOOO… that’s the first bad review since the founding of Instant City… the shame, the
shame…-
‘Perfect!’
- What?!! –
‘ Of course – any publicity is good publicity… good reviews are a dime a dozen here in Instant City, but bad reviews… it will
get people talking and remembering that there is a Simkea… curiosity will do the rest…’
-… I think, that this figure of speech is more of a sad excuse if your publicity stunt fails…but people are suckers for sad
excuses, so carry on….-

48. -… and to get rid of the bad review problem, we simply decided to sit this one out…-

49. -… and three days later – TA-DA, no more bade review – perfect! –
‘Yes, as I said – perfect!#

50. -… and while we didn’t get any more reviews till we reached Level 10… well, we reached Level 10, ‘nuff said…-

51. -… still, the Simkea Business wasn’t such a big hit for me, too many Servos to send around the whole building, just because
our customers want to buy the bed in farthest corner of the store…so let’s go to the last business of this household, this
season and this business district (for now…)…-

52. -… the Numa Key ‘Middle of the island ‘ fountain park element, that also completes the entire Numa Key Park in Instant
City…. And it’s a snack machine business, because I don’t give a crap anymore, as the season’s over…-
‘And also the final perfect spot – right in the very center of the business district, so the number of people passing through
here will be immense… I need to practice my campaign immediately… *ahem*… Fellow Citizens, male and female, human
and not-human, metallic and non-metallic, magicians and muggles.. I hereby blablablablablabla…’
-…-

53. -… so, snack machine business, sell snacks to people, get lower rent network benefits…-
‘…blablablabla…’

54. -… level 1… -
‘…blablabla…’

55. -… level 5…-
‘…bla…’

56. -… our first money perks…-
‘…blabla…*ahem*, I mean… blablabla…’

57. -… one more trip to the Post office, to switch the ownership of the park…-
‘…Blabla… ‘

58. -… okay, back – and bronze restocking badge…-
‘Bl..’
- Okay, stop it – you’ve been talking for days straight, and the blabla-business talk is interesting comparing to your
speech… and I didn’t understand a single word of it! –
‘Yes, but you still heard it – and everybody else who read it has noticed too… after all, it’s not important what you say as a
politician, it is only important that people remember that you said something!’
-… I’ve created a monster…-

59. -… anyway, whatever … we reached level 10 and with that, finished erecting the entire business district…-

60. -… and just before we leave, here’s a short overview – as much as my camera allows, of what the Numa Key Park and it’s
adjacent elements look like now… a long avenue of larches in green and yellow, brick fences and lamps along the street…
nice overview…-

61. -… anyway, that’s it for Instant City, Numa Key and everything else right now for this season… only thing left is to return
home…-

62. -… pay the bills…-

63. -… going to work once more…-

64. -… get a final refund from the solar collectors that are placed on top of this apartment complex…-

65. -… and Servo S-4 got promoted to a member of parliament.. I’m not gonna ask, where this parliament suddenly comes
from…-
‘ a wise decision…’

66. -… and then I switched Serva S-4 on for a final time, which started her ‘give roses’ routine… Serva S-4, we need to talk…-
‘Is this about my Servofriends’ rise to power?’
- bull's-eye…-
‘Sorry, can’t help you there… I’m a fortune Sim, and power is shmexy…also, we all have Professor Disc’s personality, so what
difference does it make, who rules?’
-… this isn’t about personality, make a revolution if you want, I’m only worried about another subplot killing my writing
flow…-
‘Sorry, no promises, not my problem, I wash my hands of it and you’re screwed, not necessarily in that order…’

67. ‘… *switchoff*’
-… dangit… why do I always end up with the power-hungry ones…? Oh well… in any , with this households spring season
ending, we’ve now in fact completed the entirety of Spring in Instant City, and it’s first year of existence… in this year, our
population rose from 1 to 4025, we have 91 community lots, 1 military base, 20 residential lots, 1 business district… and
except for the 5 jobs that require an Uni degree, a Sim respectively pet in every career path…let’s just hope that whatever
happened in this household will leave these achievements intact and not tear it apart again…-

68. -… now, before we close this chapter and year, one last look at what was the Main Center of attention this season, Numa
Key…-

69. -… and also a little look at it from the backside, because most of Numa Keys warehouse present us the backside, so it can be
uniform on the front but diverse on the other side…-

70. -… and now a last look at Instant City itself again, on a rainy spring day…fitting, as a dark cloud might soon be coming over
the town and shatter Professor Disc’s position of power to pieces or whatever ominous stuff will happen…-

71. -… and also a short overview of population, jobs taken, buildings… yeah, a lot has happened in this year, let’s see what the
next brings…
- In any case, a big thank you to anyone who actually was willing to skip through these chapters… sometimes it was really
tedious to write something, sometimes the story wrote itself… and now that I’ve accomplished (yay me…)this, perhaps,
in the near future, I might even try to resurrect a certain apocalypse, that has been dead for many years… no promises,
but ambitions…
- In the meantime, Happy Simming and see you again when we start into summer 2 of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! -