Instant City - a BaMC Challenge: Household D, Spring 1

Instant City , a BaMC-Challenge
Household D
Spring 1
Instant City
Household D,
Spring 1

- Hello and Welcome back to another…Zzzzzz….-
‘EY!’
- …zzz…Whu? Oh, sorry… the boredom from last chapter carried over…-
‘That’s not a really inspiring way to start Household D’s Spring chapter…’
- Sorry, sorry… so, welcome to the next chapter of Instant City, a BaMC Challenge… and slowly, our Business District is
starting to take shape… surrounded by beaches and piers, with a helicopter airport, an observatory and other stuff, it is still
a long way from being completely built though…-

-…. Anyway, back to our artists household…-
‘Teachers.’
- Whut? –
‘Yeah, well… since you decided to switch us off last time because of… oh heck, whatever excuse you used to starve us
artistically , we decided to reconsider our career choices… turns out, there is currently an abundance of job openings in the
education career…’
-… hm, you’re right… we currently have 2254 inhabitants, that’s … every 250 population one education opening… so 9…
yeah… minus the education positions taken by the A and O household makes 7….-

-… so, in fact, you can take 7 education positions, leaving only one of you unoccupied… congrats on finding a job opening so
early in the rotation btw…-

-… and with everyone – well almost everyone, Servo D-2 draw the short straw – at work and me missing the car taking them
away to take a snapshot, once again it was inventory clearing time…. -

-… and – yes, you guessed right – it’s chance card time again… This weekend will be the office party, and somebody has to
take care of the decorations. Serva D-1 is sure, that she could do it, but in the last years, the decorations were always done
by the same colleague. Serva D-1 doesn’t want to anger her colleague, since it’s ‘her baby’. Should she leave the decorations
to her colleague or volunteer? –
‘Wow… when we had the time to be creative, you just switched us off, and now that we have jobs and no time, we suddenly
have to be creative?
-… being under time pressure can sometimes be inspiring…-
‘…point.’

-… so… Serva D-1 volunteers for the decorations. Her colleague asks if she could help her, and together they do a great job.
Serva D-1 gets a bonus for her great teamwork and the decoration. –
‘Why is that even a chance card? Shouldn’t such tasks not always be handled like this?’
- You don’t want to have an answer for that, trust me….-

-… next one: Serva D-4 is about to carry the bad role sheets to the Directors office, when an upset mother pulling her son
with her storms into her office. ‘STOP!’ she screams ‘Please don’t hand my sons sheet in!’ Taken aback for a moment, Serva
D-4 informs her, that there is nothing she can do about it. The mother begs though, and jumpily explains, that her son has to
repeat the third school year, just because he was always late, but that it was all her fault and he shouldn’t be punished for
her mistakes. Serva D-4 now has 2 options: either she hands in the bad role sheet following the rules, or she shows leniency
and alters the bad role sheet.-
‘Wait, we have children in Instant City?’
-…. Just alter it. If we’re lucky, you’ll get fired…-

-… dang… Serva D-4 doesn’t want a child to get punished for the mistakes of his parents and decides, to give the boy one
more chance. She writes down several names on a paper and creates an algorithmic wordpuzzle, that needs to be solved by
calculus, mental arithmetic and spelling. The boy needs a minute to analyse all the facts, and two more, to write down the
answer. Serva D-4 is happy, that the boy has answered the question correctly, but she is even more happy, when she realizes,
that the principal has witnessed the whole scene. Since she has solved the problem like a professional tutor, she is promoted
to teachers aide. –
‘Really? Wow, never knew that toying with a kid by giving him a problem way above his head just to watch him fail… well,
luckily it was also above the principals head so I could pretend that he had passed…’
-…-

-…of course, the whole thing was not really an achievement, as everyone got promoted to teachers aide when returning
home…-

-… still, to keep the promotions coming, it was time to start working on the required skills, so we need … logic? For
teachers? Okay, perhaps it is meant as a way to cope with the daily chaos…-

-... And while our 7 teachers slowly raised their logic skills, Servo D-2, the only procastinating loser of the household…-
‘HEY!’
-… finally found a job too... As Instant City’s first Doctor due to crossing the 1000 Population mark ! –
‘ Hey… that’s actually great! Where’s my Tardis?!’
- … not that kind of doctor…-
‘…Oh. Do I at least get a whip and a cool hat? But I’m not following a guy around, who constantly says ‘elementary’…’
-…you know what? Yes, yes you are ‘the’ doctor…-

-… and here’s your Tardis! –
‘It looks like a surgery station…’
-PSST! The Dalek and Cybermen might be listening and steal it… that’s why the Chameleon circuit is switched on so they
can’t find it…-
‘ Oh.’
-… also, you’re on a secret mission to save the multiverse, during which you disguise yourself as a plain normal doctor, so
shut up and start saving the world by working on your logic skill…-

-… and so everyone was saving the wo… skilling, and after maxing logic…-

-… and then working on their charisma… again, for teachers?... Sorry… and also painting a few more masterpieces…-
‘Creativity isn’t required for teachers…’
- Absolutely right … but for now, we’ll stop teaching and instead go back to being artistic again…-

-…. Because we’ll need for the households first Business: an art gallery*! And yes – once again, I took the
supermarket/bowling alley design from last chapter and reworked it into a gallery…or at least what I would qualify as
one…with easels outside…-
*This art gallery was also the blue print for LorinsV60’s Mesa Vista Art Gallery in her Mesa Vista BaCC – go read it, it is a lot
of fun to read!

-… while the inside houses several wall columns that will later carry all the paintings… I thought about just using single wall
elements first or a line of walls, but then found that it looked better that way and was surprised how well Sims who would
usually block each other in such narrow corridors easily circumvented each other… as for the idea of removing the windows
and placing the paintings on these walls… I felt that it looked better with windows. Also, the environment score from them
worked very well for raising the Business level…-

-… though it was again the good witch Vonnie that helped us making it to the first level…-

-… despite the fact that some time passed before the gallery was actually opened… in the meantime, I tried a few things for
spicing up the place , like pottering some plates for the walls and amphores for the corners…-

-… and Servo D-4 was so good with it, that he eventually reached Gold… he also helped us getting a positive income within
the next days…-

-… while the evil Link was so evil, that he pushed our business to level 2… yeah, okay, he sucks at being evil…-
‘HEY!’

-… finally, to have something to present in the gallery, everyone started to paint… well except D-4, who continued to
potter…-

-… and soon, the empty spaces in the gallery were filled…-

-… and since we had a lot of rain showers, a transparent awning was placed over the easels to prevent the masterpieces
from becoming puddles…-
‘We’re pretending again, that it matters, don’t we?’
- *sigh* yes… -

-… anyway, some more spicing up the place came in the shape of Serva D-2 sewing some curtains for all the windows of the
gallery…-

-… and for her work, she got rewarded with a silver sewing badge…-

-… while the rest of the household got up their aspiration with cheesy talk…-

-… and gold...-
‘Wow, you’re really rushing it this time, aren’t you?’
- What do you mean? –
‘Well, for household C, you took snapshots of almost everything, while here… well, you’re still taking pictures of everything,
but … it’s been already 3 weeks since we came here… you’re holding back this time!’
-… well, we’ll need a lot – and I mean a lot – of paintings, and you’re drawing so slow…-
‘HEY!’

-… oh well, at least everything looks good now – paintings, amphores, plates, curtains … yep, we’re ready to…-
‘EEEEEEEEEEE…!’

‘….EEEEEEE…’
- What? Aw, come on, you’re not even close to an aspirational fai…-
‘It was a lightning bolt!’
-… Oh. Okay, I guess, all that time painting, sewing and pottering outside raises the chances to get hit eventually…-

-…. Luckily, we have lightning rods, so hopefully, any more servo breakdowns can be prevented from now on…-

-… and to keep you painting a bit more, some need perks were added… -

-… and to for even more moola, now and then a painting was sold, which also helped to keep up the aspiration of those who
were more into finances than cheese…-

-… until…-
‘300! We painted 300 paintings, plus all the paintings that are already hanging in the gallery or were sold… can we finally
stop now?!’
- Yeesh… you’re complaining over not being able to be creative, not having the time to be creative… and now you had more
than enough time to be creative, and you’re still complaining… get your act together guys!...-

-… okay… let’s start bringing art to the artsý-fartsys…-

-…. And of course, Karen was one of the first customers we had the pleasure to persuade into buying stuff that isn’t even
remotely useful or pretty….-
*Picture of Will Wright:* HEY!

-…. Though it was this …idi…gentleman who put the first masterpiece into his shopping bag…-

-… while Karen needed a little more persuasion… oh well, more chances for the household to get their sales badges…here
we get bronze…-

-… and then silver… unfortunately Karen then left without giving us a price… next time, Karen, next time…-

-… and even before the first customer got cashed, we made it to level 4…-

-… and got our first gold sales badge…-

-… and then, with making it to Level 5, unlocked our first job opening for Artist…-
‘Do you think, that is correct with what the rules call an art galler…’
- STOP! I had the choice between an art gallery where you can sell tickets to let people either see custom made paintings or
maxis ones or one where you have to sell aforementioned paintings… I went with the second one and custom made stuff
only, ‘cause it is the hardest and I’m sticking to it! Now shut up and buy another business…!-
Lvl 5 Art Gallery
= 1 Artist Career
unlocked

-…. The Numa Key Video Game Shop! –
‘Okay…. But I’m missing the connection, with us being artsy and/or educational…’
- Video games are art and educational! –
‘Yeah, right… *A-ch…*nerd*…oo*’
- Gesundheit…-

-… anyway, Gamers from all of Instant City soon started to frequent the shop… btw, see the Urbz game rack? Don’t use it, as
Maxis didn’t make it OFB-ready… so you can’t sell anything with it… any programmers or people with enough SimPE
knowledge left to fix this?...*sigh* -

-…. Anyway… nothing special happened this time before we made it to level 5…-

-…. Except for another attack by the Alien Bunny invaders!!! AAAAAAH! –
‘This old joke again? We Social bunnies have feeling s too, dude…’
- You can talk? –
‘D’OH! Ehrrr…. *silence* *silence* *silence*’
-…. Go. away….-

-…annd we also made another attempt with the counterfeiting machine…-

-… though this time, I ordered several Servos to switch off in the service car area, so a police car couldn’t arrive anymore!
Muahaha…ha… yeah, while the switched off servos blocked police cars from arriving, the game didn’t like the idea at all,
and starting queuing up police cars and officers, seriously starting to make my game lag…. And once the Servos left,
immediately an officer appeared to do his usual routine of fining us… so, another idea busted…-

-… but at least everything else works, like restocking badges…-

-…. The lower rent network benefit…-

-… silver cash register badge…-

-…. Annnd another Level 10 Business…. Okay, enough with video games for now, lets go back to the real art…-

-… the art of persuading Not-Komei into giving us another crème price… okay, since the pictures in the art gallery actually
took some work to create, it is deserved this time….-

-… and the art of making it to Level 10 without me taking another picture until then… yes, I’m learning…-

-… oh well, one last picture of the art gallery showing the message for a gold cash register badge, before we move on to our
next business…-

-…. Numa Key Gold Lake! Let’s go fishing, guys! –

-…. And they fish and they fish and fish and… actually, Servos are pretty good at fishing – both fun and social will stay high, if
8 of them fish in close proximity, so only thing you’ll need to make sure is that they recharge once every day…-

-…. They can even invite a passerby to fish with them, and the passerby can even gain a fishing badge – Serva E-4 for
example gained a bronze fishing badge during her stay…-
‘You know, this is odd…’
What? –
‘Well, Numa Key is an island, right? Yet we can’t fish anywhere but here, far away from the coast in this small little lake…’
*groan* It’s an underground sweetwater lake, okay? One of Numa Key’s natural miracles…-
‘Are these fishes even sweetwater…?’
- Yes they are – now stop bringing logic into this and continue fishing….-

-… and while I appreciate that you catch a variety of fishes, tone it down with fishing out all these boots…. This’ll be a fish
shop later, not a shoe store…-

-… luckily, the household learned fast… we got bronze after a few hours…-

-… the first night silver….-

-…. A little recharge next day…-

-…. Vonnie takes Serva E-4’s place for a while…-

-…. Link also joins the crowd…-

-…and, after only 2 days, everyone got Gold… and of course, we didn’t stop here, cause we need a lot of fish to replenish
our sales if needed…

-… but of course, we can already put the fish into the shelves and mark it for sale…-

-…. And…oh. OhnononoNONONO – GO AWAY! THIS FISH IS NOT FOR YOU! YOU SHALL NOT PASS! –
‘Aw… what a cute little penguin… are you lost, little guy?’
- DON’T ENCOURAGE HIM! HE’LL EAT ALL YOUR FISH I ORDERED YOU TO Fish and then did nothing than to speed up the
game and wait till you… oh well, whateva… give him a fish, and then let him go…*speeding up the game some more*…-
(

-… okay, with the penguin fish massacre averted… Link again shows his incompetence of being evil with pushing us to level 1
all by himself…seriously Link, this is embarrassing… Vonnie stayed longer than you and didn’t give us any stars…!...-

-… oh well, we’ll just continue fishing… hey, ‘nother fortune perk earned by Serva D-1…-

-… and here is Vonnie making up for not giving us any stars earlier by pushing us to Level 2…-

-… and… oookay, I guess that’s a enough fish… enough for Godzilla, actually…-

-… so we open up the fishing shop and… Hey Link, fishing time is over, come over here and buy something…-
‘Awww… but I like fishing… finally a place, where I don’t have to pay and can just be…’
- Yeah, really nice… see, as I said – evil my as…-
‘HEY!’

-… okay, okay…. Lets stop picking on Link for a minute and instead focus on the fish sales…. Serva D-4 for example got a Gold
fishing badge and… ehr…. On second thought, let’s just continue picking on Link….-
‘HEEEY!!!’

-… well excuse me, Link, but the level of your fishing obsession exceeds all bounds… the entire household has spent less
time fishing in the lake than you….!-
‘So what? Just because I’m evil doesn’t mean I can’t have a hobby….!’
- I thought your hobby was loitering up the place with roaches…-
‘HE… actually, roaches might make a good bait for fish….’
-… annnd too much info for me, I’ll leave you alone now with your roaches and fishes…-

-…. Because we made it to Level 5… yep, fishes really sell good…-

-… and some extra money perks…-

-… and another Bronze Badge…-

-…. And then Karen made a return, after giving us no price with the art gallery…. She might not have given us a price for the fish shop
either, but luckily this time we have a secret weapon in store…. Because as anybody knows, no woman can resist going shopping for
shoooes….!-
‘Hey, now that is really discriminating! Not all Woman go crazy about shoes, and even if they do, there’s nothing wrong with it!
Besides, we can only sell oversized, left shoes that look completely…. Actually that’s a really stylish shoe…. Yeah, yeah really….’
- …Just sell her the shoe, Serva…-
- ‘NOOO! IT’S MINE, MINE! MY PRECIOUSSSSSS….’
-…. This might take a while…-

-… okay, so in the end, Karen got her shoe, and we got our crème de la crème prize…for our wonderful ‘shoe’ store….
Oookay….-

-…. Anyway, in the end, we got to Level 10 again, so it was once more time to move on… please disregard the guy in the
picture with the bad mascara as I don’t really know what to say about him except that he was at the dentist last chapter….-

-… and this is our next business, the McMillen Ice Arena by ambers_journey at mts.com! Now, this was supposed to be a
coffee bar with ticket machine business, but then I added a Laptop, because….-
‘Lemme guess… one of us poor fortune dopes has to give financial tips, right?’
- Well if you already know, why let me explain it first, hm? –
‘*groan*’

-… and so…-
‘Yeah, we have an ice skating arena, the only one in the neighborhood, so come over and buy a ticket and then go on the ice
and make a fool out of yourself…!’
‘… do you have coffee…?’
‘…. Yes…’
‘AWESOME! Sign me up!’

-… so in the end, no one was really interested into the ice arena at all, and out of sheer boredom, some household members
tried a few rounds… unfortunately, they seldom landed on their metal butts, so nothing interesting happened here…-

-… except for some ‘lookatme,Imsoripped’- poses… you’re metal, guys, you don’t have ribs…-

-…. Alas, the only real action happened with the coffee shop inside…-

-… and the Laptop outside…-

-… and the rare pics, where other people than the household members at least followed their invitation onto the ice,
needed a lot of precision, because they often quit after only one round… too bad…-

.-… so back to the coffee drinkers, who then pushed the business to level 3…-

-…annd then I redecorated the room a bit… -

-… we made it to Level 5…-

-… and finally added a small clothing department in case anyone went to the ice skating arena and forgot to bring warm
clothing…-

-… unfortunately, it became a bit crowded after that, but we still managed…-

-… and finally made it to Level 10 again…-
‘That was pretty rushed this time, don’t you think?’
- Well, if you had produced a few more skating accidents, it would have been longer… anyway, next business…-

-… again from ambers-Journey from MTS.com, the Lookout Mountain, perfect to take a short look over Numa Key…-
‘Well, perfect is a bit of a long stretch… I’m pretty sure, you’ll get a better view from the observatory…’
- Shush! I wanted to include all of amber-journeys outdoor lots, and this was the only place left I could place the
mountain in a semi-logical way… by the way, I also finally decided to include some Deco on Numa Key, starting with a
connection to Instant City via an underground sea tunnel… see? Makes perfect sense….-
‘…opposed to what? Complete Lobotomisation of the brain and nerve system?’
-Will you finally close your nonexistent mouth? Also, with this lot, our population grew some more and opened up another
job in architecture as we reached 60 Lots alltogether plus the military base in this neighborhood…-

-… one thing I had to do though was that I had to add a street element made by criquette at mts.com that came with the
tunnel so that the curve the road was actually taking here would lead directly into the tunnel… unfortunately the street
element came with a footwalk, so I had to place two of them in a way, so that the strepart of one covers the sidewalk part
of the other…-
‘Bo-ring! Who cares?!’
- I had a lot of trouble placing these parts, I want my appreciation for it…!-
‘You’re such a big baby…’

-… *grmble* stupid Sims… so Lookout Mountain…. Yeah, it is another snack machine business…-

-… but it is also a small stargazing spot at night…-
‘So we are competition for the observatory?’
- Nah, you’re just a tourist spot… also, they do real astronomical research up there…-
‘You mean giving finance tips?’
-… with astronomical numbers… totally counts!-

-… so after a while, we finally earned our first money… took a bit longer this time, apparently, all the snack machines around
satiate peoples appetite a bit too good apparently… -

-… but our stargazing added some extra money to that… -

-… not to forget random people giving us Plasma TV’s….-

-… or money perks for making it to level 5 once again…-

‘Heh! Heeh! Do not forget the Not-Komei giving this business a price and a good review! The Not-Komei likes having this
mountain, where his pet moon rocks can run around and watch their moon rock brothers at night…’
-… yeah … and the Not-Komei… seriously? -

-… okay, so the snack business continued to climb the levels up, bronze restocking badges popped up…-

-… then we reached level 9…-

-… and then I added a tent as a means to later allow non-Servo-Sims when they visit the Business district to replenish their
energy needs without buying coffee and then clogging up the toilet…-
‘BOOR…!’
- YES, for crying out loud! You know, sometimes I wish you nitpicks would just disappear and ….-

-… ehr… hey, where did everyone go? –
‘We disappeared, just as you wished!’
-… you’re behind the mountain…-
‘…maybe…’
- Oh, stop fooling around, and get on with raising the business to…-

-… Level 10 – thank you! –
‘And I got my Platin Level for making 100.000 Simoleons – and that just by rapping on the street all the time, what you
never mentioned at all while you were taking pictures here…’
-… too many pictures, not enough pictures… I give up… you’re never satisfied…we need another business now, so I can
finally close this chapter…-
‘… and which one would that be….?’
‘Well… ask the Doctor…..-
‘???’

‘Hello… here is the Doctor … yes, ‘Who’ is right, but Servo D-2 will do too… and I need a place to park my Tardis, the
chameleon field seems to be broken again, and it feels kinda odd traveling in a surgery station, plus I’m still… what do you
mean, ‘Nerd’? Look, just sell me a lot I can use to… oh yes, that’s a good idea, I’ll take it…’

-… and here it is: the Neighborhoods official – Hospital! Made by Phaeno at mts.com and originally meant for an Apocalypse
challenge, it will now cure the pains and aches of the inhabitants of Instant City and Numa Key… that is, if we ever get any
more human beings for Instant City…-
‘It’s just another car shop, right?’
- No. it. Isn’t. It’s also a restaurant! –
‘… yay?’

-… and not just any restaurant, it’s a restaurant that only sells grilled cheese!-
‘Why that?’
- Because you have a Grilled Cheese Secondary Aspiration, I felt it made sense…-
‘One day you’ll have to explain, what you understand under ‘sense’…’

-… whatever… so right after opening, the hospital started doing its job, curing the ailments of everyone … especially the
‘no-car-fever’ was widesrpead and needed immediate attention…-
‘Seriously… a ‘no-car-fever?’
- Yes, really contagious, I’m suffering from it too… -
‘You’re a sad man with a sad life…’
- … you don’t have to rub it in, you know…-

-… okay, so to keep at least a little resemblance to the work of a real hospital, we also tried to earn some money by selling
massages… not bad, but unfortunately the massage tables were a bit too far away for most customers…oh well…-

-… the restaurant worked a bit better….-

-… and Grilled Cheese was served…-

-… and if somebody thinks, that a Grill Cheese only restaurant doesn’t sell… well, ask the Not-Komei, who gave us a price
simply for eating all the Grilled Cheese he wanted…-

-… and…-
‘Hello Professor, what may I serve you? We have Grilled Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Grilled
Cheese….’
*MontyPythonSpamMusicplaying*
‘… ehr, do you have something without Cheese and Grilled…?’
‘We have Grilled Cheese, that only has a bit Grilled Cheese in it…’
‘… okay, I’ll take it…’

-... Smooth crimi…-
‘STOP! I’m not Michael, I’m Angelo Bigfoot!’
-...oh… oh, sorry, I didn’t recognize…. –
‘And it is really unfair, that Michael gets all the attention with that song. Why can’t you characterize us other Bigfeet a little
more?!’
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRLQs0w4ExY -
‘….please ignore me again, please….!’

-… okay, so nothing really interesting happened after that…. Robin/Son-1 showed somewhere around level 9, but apparently
his stomach aches had cleared since last time, so he just stood around and picked a flower…. You‘ sure, you don’t want a
check-up, boy? We have a nice ultrasound machine…no? your choice…-

-… okay, so before reaching Level 10 for the hospital, we had to swap locations once more to get all the money perks… and
since Serva D-1 had reached her lifetime goal a short time before - no really, a short time, between the Lookout mountain
and the hospital only little time passed, that’s how fast the level of the hospital got raised – we could finally activate the
investment perk for this household…-

-… and lo and behold, our first investment plus of almost 9000 Simoleons rolled in that day…-

-… and at night, level 10 was reached…Well guess it’s time to call it a day…-
‘HEY!’
-… *sigh* what now…?-
‘I wanna reach my Lifetime want! 100.000. Simoleons!’
-… fine…-

-… and so Servo D-1, who like his Serva-friend D-1 has a want to earn 100.000 Simoleons, started giving financial tips to get
to 100.000… actually, this was also my third try at making the counterfeiting machine profitable, by blocking the road with
Servos against police men and then make the activated ones to travel to another lot with the enire household, so they
would be gone when the police car comes… failed as well, so I can now clearly say, that outside from the secret society,
counterfeiting machines are mostly useless to earn money… though I might try a test later on an unowned community lot,
or one with the car portals for service cars removed… but for now, let’s see how Servo D-1 fares with his lifetime want…-

-… okay, so fire, 25.000, caught counterfeiting money and fined, dreamdate, 50.000… man, this wish takes forever, it’s been
2 weeks, since D-1 started giving financial tips…-

-… aah, finally, 100.000 – congrats, Servo D-1… and with that we can now all go home and…-

-… and get chance cards… Serva D-3 has to substitute for Mrs. Moorington, who’s been declared teacher of the year for the
past 3 years. Therefore Serva D-3 is rather intimidated before she enters the classroom. To her amazement, she finds total
chaos within the classroom! Grabbing a child climbing around the ceiling she demands answers. It turns out, that Mrs.
Moorington never gave real lessons, but just bribed the children with candy for falsifying her reports! Since Mrs. Moorington
has a lot of influence over the school inspectors, Serva D-3 would take a risk, if she reports her discovery. But if push comes
to shove… what should Serva D-3 do?-
‘ …cannnndy…’
- … this is not an answer I expect from a machine being with no mouth and a hard drive for a brain, but … go on…-

-… Fire is fought with fire, and candy with… candy! After a last warning, Serva D-3 starts mouthing down candy herself, and
soon, a hefty sugar shock surges through her. Gaining hyper-fast reflexes, she beams through the room, stopping all the
chaos within seconds. The children have never witnessed a teacher reacting so fast to all their shenanigans and are
speechless. The sudden silence attracts the attention of other teachers and soon, everybody talks about Serva D-3 being an
exceptional teacher dedicated to her task. Serva D-3 earns a point of creativity…. Ookay, this is a ridiculous outcome… and it
is not bettered by the fact that all household members have creativity already maxed… though perhaps it’s the
ridiculousness why no teacher ever tried it… perhaps it actually works! So to every teacher who reads this: eat lots of candy
and perhaps you’ll make the world a better place… or die of diabetus… yeah, forget what I said…-

-… ah, and now the alltime favorite ‘should I participate in a friendly poker night with the colleagues or not’…-

-… annd Serva D-2 decides against it, the boss fires the lazy workers and she gets promoted! Tip: never go to poker night…-

-… or play games during the work time, like Servo D-3 does… shame on you…-

-… no wonder your boss keeps your salary today…-

-… and poker night again…-

-… and here our determined Non-poker-players return home with flowers ready…yeah, that is always a hassle, when they
start doing that – often the flower routine becomes corrupted with them placing down the roses several times etc… -

-… though eventually everyone delivers his or her date roses…-

-… which are then removed to make space for the car pool to return the other household members who also bring roses
over…-

-…and when that’s over, it’s once more bills paying time…-

-… and getting the last skill points needed to excel in any job…-

-… and then back to work…-

‘I want my Tardis!’
-.. Shut up, Doc, go to work…-

-…. And chance cards again: It is Servo D-1’s utmost desire, to impress the school board, and the city’s science contest seems
to be the perfect opportunity. Two projects of his children seem to extremely promising: harry Monroe’s Hot Cocoa Volcano,
where hot cocoa is brewed inside a volcano, or the holographic gelatin projector by Sally O’Minky. Servo D-1 may only send
one of them to the contest tough – which one shall it be?...-
‘I’ll try the hot cocoa… both sounds silly, by the way…humans are weird…’

-… Servo D-1 sends Harry to the Science Project, because everyone likes Hot Cocoa, right? Unfortunately, all the jurors hate
hot Cocoa. Despite Servo D-1’s pleas for a non-cocoa-biased decision, Harry’s project fails, and as a result, the schoolboard
decides, that Servo D-1 has to cover the costs for Harry’s experiment and pay 475 Simoleons…-
‘Aw man…’
- Well, at least you didn’t get fired, and not just from your job, but a Cocoa Volcano too…-

-… moving on: Serva D-2 plays scrabble with her boss and suddenly realizes, that she can place a word with seven letters and
subsequently win the game. Should she do that or let her boss win?...-
‘No way – the game’s mine!’

-… Serva D-2 puts down her letters, placing the word ‘V-I-C-T-O-R-Y’ ! Her Boss is impressed and subsequently promotes
Serva D-2!...I wish that would ever happen to me…-

-… so Serva D-2 gets promoted and… ohoh, we unlocked the board of education… guess what that means?... It mea…-
‘CHANCE CARD!’
-…whu…?-

-… oh, that one… scrabble chance again…-

-… and one more V-I-C-T-O-R-Y…-

-…annd V-I-C-T-O-R-Y…. Okay, that’s enough, do all bosses promote their colleagues via scrabble? It would make sense in
some cases…-

-… anyway, doesn’t really matter, as everyone got promoted….-

-… even D-2, who became a surgeon…-
‘Wait… I’m really ‘a’ Doctor and not ‘the’ Doctor? So I have to operate, cut open people, look at their squishy organs and
stinkin’ fluids and… *faints*’
-… -

-… but back to the board… or rather boards of education! Wow, that’s a lot of boards… annnd it actually gave me an idea,
that from now on took a large impact on the future of the neighborhoods households…-

-… and so short before the summer set in, I sent out a few of the household members with 6 of the 7 boards equipped, to
track down Servos of other households annd…-

-… gift them one of the bookcases for later use… pretty good decision, by the time this rotation ended, most households
had maxed all their skills so they could apply for any job they wanted…-

-… oh, and Robin/Son-1 also got a bookcase… after all, there is a high chance that he’ll need it later…-
‘No, I don’t! I’ve maxed all skils as a toddler, so why would I need…?... Dang, it’s these stomach cramps again…’
-… just take it… like a man! -

-… and with this and the household members earning their last skill points, the chapter finally comes to an end…-
‘Kinda unimaginative this time, if you ask me…’
‘Yeah – he’s focusing only on the Lots and Businesses, not at all on us…’
‘Well, we aren’t that interesting, I’ll give him that…’
- Thank you! –
‘Which, given that we are but a figment of his imagination, says a lot about him…’
- HEY!-

-… oh well, that’s all there is to Household D… and while I definitely don’t have much to say to the households, as there are
no family relations or anything similar whatsoever, I actually enjoy building up Numa key while exploring different business
ideas, with some working and some not…. Anyway, thanks for reading and hope to have your attention again at one time or
the other…
Happy Simming! -

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