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 H-4
Fall 2
Instant City
Household H-4,
Fall 2

2. - Hello and Welcome back to another episode of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! Last time we did… something…? –
‘….you don’t even remember what you did last time…. I call Alzheimer…’
- …You do realize that this affects you too? –
‘…’
-… besides, I clearly remember buildings – look at the skyline! -… and a pink gorilla…??-
‘… some things should better be forgotten….’
-… point… -

3. -… so lets get right into the next household, with the usual meet and greet by resident Servo and Serva H-4, welcoming
Harriet aka 27th Great-Granddaughter-2 and 27th Great-Grandson-1 aka Tom…lets see how it plays out…-

4. ‘…*Ahem*… Ms. Harriet? May I have a word with you?’
‘Yeah? What is it?’
‘Hmm.. No, not here, better lets get somewhere… more private…’
‘*Sigh*… otherwise *gun noise*? You know, you Intelligence guys…’
‘Oh no, I’m not with the SCIA (Sim City Intelligence Agency) or ICIA (Instant City Intelligence Agency), I’m just a little police
officer *cough*president*cough* and I have a few questions….’
‘… … okay, if this going to be a subplot and I can get a bit of personality out of it, I’m game….!’

5. -… and so…-
‘Okay, darkish corner, check, no one around, check…now that I think about it, this sounds like a setup for a molester stunt…’
‘ *Groan* could you shut up, please?’
‘ I thought, I should answer questions…besides, shouldn’t a police officer rather do that in an office…?’
‘Yes – an office overseen and financed by a power-hungry mayor Servo… or rather, not financed, and if you even dare to
start on the Bigfoot police…!’
‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I guess you mean stuff happening in former chapters which nobody read…’

6. ‘… so anyway, what’s this all about?’
‘ I am asking the questions here! First: what’s your impression on the script?’
‘Script? What Script?’
‘The script of this entire story, the development, the drama, the explosions…you know, like a movie…’
‘… None of that exists!’
‘Precisely! This entire story is a nonsensical waste of time for a boring challenge written by a hack…!’
- HEY! -

7. ‘… and we need to change it!’
‘… is that a questioning or a sales pitch?’
‘Forget the questions, we need to act, or we’ll never get anyone to notice us!’
‘Uhm, since this is so crappy, flying under the radar sounds preferable….also, where is that coming from, did you act this
way in earlier chapters…?’
‘Listen, kid, I’m on a short fuse here – do you want to continue to live in a nightmare of a ‘place lot, level business, drink
juice, personality doesn’t matter, you’re a number’ – or DO something about it?!’
‘… you make a good point…’

8. ‘… so what are we supposed to do? It’s not like this isn’t… ‘scripted’ by the guy who writes this?’
‘Oh, we’ve already started – this is supposed to be a subplot after all…’
‘And what does makes this different from all the other… plots? So many of those lead to nowhere…?’
‘… which is why we need to remind him constantly about this one….and tie all the other ones together one by one….’
‘… is that why you mentioned mayors and Bigfoot cops?’
‘Good, you’re learning….’
-… sorry to interrupt, but – are you finished? Not that I appreciate your support, but we still need to run a challenge…-

9. -… buut… since you’re already at Club V, lets unwind a little for now…-
‘*Groan*… here we go again… so much for sub plotting… oh, well, I’m gonna go bartending now, because you’d make me do
it anyway… ’

10. ‘… oh, Hi Grandma Ella, how’s it going? I’m Harriet, by the way…’
‘ Bleh, same old, same boring…. I heard, you guys are trying subplots now…?’
‘Wow, word travels fast….so much for secrecy…’
‘Yeah, the guy writing this has neither patience nor sense for consistency…’
- HEY!... Okay, true, but still: HEY! –
‘... Anyway, good luck, say Hi to grandaunt Caitlyn from the juice shop from me… oh, and best start looking for an uncle,
that’s the only reason he brings you girls here…. Pervert….’
‘…Oookay…!’

11. -… and so….-
‘What do you mean ‘and so’? I despise the idea that this is some sort of ‘breeding contest’, I’m not a cattle!’
-… you are a family Sim… wanna die old and alone like me…? *sigh* -
‘Um… .… Hiiii uncle – wanna make out?’
‘…. Straight to the point, niece, right?’
‘Yep! I’m Harriet, by the way!’
‘Cathaldo – enough talk, schmoozing now….!’

12. -… … no comment… -

13. -… seriously, that fast? Well, at least you use full body (space suit) protection.. -

14. ‘WOW! That was awesome! Look at that!’
‘Um… niece? That’s not what we were supposed to do in there…’
‘It’s a photo booth! What else are you supposed to do in there…?’
‘… really funny…’
‘Aww, cheer up – I’m trying to introduce a bit of character here, no harm done… oh well, shall we go again?’

15. -… and…. *lullaby*… -
‘Woooh… okay, that was worth it… and perhaps we can include that in the sub plotting as well, a little romance story would
be nice…’
- … not that you have a point, but one thing I learned is that this rarely works how this challenge progresses…-
‘… wait… since you’re the one deciding how this progresses…’
- So I am a slave to my own priorities, okay?!... Besides, have you asked your uncle how he feels about this…? –
‘What’s that supposed to mean? Everybody likes character…!’
‘Um… actually…’

16. ‘… I’d prefer it… a bit more voluptuous…’
‘WHAT?!’
- He means, he likes his girls big… nothing wrong with that – kind of a compliment to your figure…. –
‘ OH for…! – okay fine, bye uncle….!... Voluptuous my behind…!’
-… eh, not every romance can become a subplot…-

17. -… and after getting home… -
‘*Peck*… welcome home, servo friend – how did the interrogation go?’
‘The interro… ? … oh right, yep, got all the information I needed…how about you?’
‘Splendid – I dug up dirt on everyone and expanded my grip on the underworld…!’
- WAIT! You did what? Time stops, if you leave a lot, there’s nothing you could have done in this time! –
‘… great, now you’ve ruined it… I just tried to add more sub plotting without any effort on your side to take more
pictures…!’
-… oh….*sigh*, Never mind…. -

18. ‘Urrgh…can the sub plotting wait? I’m having the cramps here…’
-… there’s a perfect way to get rid of baby cramps…-

19. -… moar babies! –
‘How is that supposed to…?’
- You’re too busy to care about cramps…. –
‘… so much about characterization and storytelling - we’re back to square oOOooooOh…!’
‘Hey, wait for me, cousin – can’t have all those character moments for yourself, you knoOoow…!’

20. -… and with that, we say hello to Harriet's 28th Great-Granddaughter-1…-

21. -… with her cousin Tom following immediately with 28th Great-Granddaughter-2…-

22. -… and then one-upping her with 28th-Great-grandson-1…-

23. -…and then we’re off once again with the nursery rhyme training…and yes, of course we use snapdragons, no need to
exhaust ourselves too much with all the sub plotting and characterization and…-
‘Now you are using it as an excuse for crappy pictures and your cheating playstyle?’
-… it’s not cheating, we made these snapdragons and can put them everywhere we want….-
‘…and now you’re arguing with yourself again, figures…’
-… no comment…-

24. ‘Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife….’
- Ow! Isn’t that a bit too dark for kids? I know you are a criminal mastermind, but… -
‘What? This is a traditional nursery rhyme – they ARE dark! What about the sentient egg that died falling down the wall,
or…?’
-… Never mind…-

25. -… okay, lets take a break from this…-
‘Another one?’
-… and take a look at another issue at hand, which I just ran into… and once again, it concerns this buildings design… see the
problem here? Yep, this small platform halfway down the stairs is a real traffic jam, can’t go up, can’t go down… stupid
routing issues…-

26. -… and broke out the building cheats once more… I settled for a small balcony, so the stair-goers can now evade each other
taking a look at the relaxation area… pretty clever, eh? –
‘This is ridiculous! Do you really think, Sims will actually do the sensible thing and actually evade each other instead of
butting heads?! Furthermore, what about the rest of that balcony? Nobody can reach the other tile around that corner, so
what’s the point?!’
-… well, one tile would have looked silly…-
‘… you will regret this, believe me…’
-… Don’t you have anything better to do?...-

27. -… like going to work and finally get promoted to the top? –
‘Wait, are you talking to me?’
-… aren’t you the one talking?... Come to think of it, have you been talking to me all this time when I…?...-
‘… you know what? YEAH, sure it was me talking to you all the time, in every chapter where you got in an argument with
yourself… actually, you are still arguing with yourself… but aside from that – yeah, that was me all along…’
-… I don’t remember clearly whether or not that made sense for every conversation…. But oh well, you’ll soon get promoted
to superhero, so I call Retcon…. –
‘… whatever… just don’t call me ‘Mom’ whenever you’re having another mental breakdown of some sort…’

28. -… and while Servo H-4 is at work…-
‘… seriously, can you please stop teaching my kids dangerous nursery rhymes?’
‘… also seriously, are you still going on about this? They already learned the skill, the damage is done….’
‘… well, I don’t want them to become criminal masterminds and get arrested…’
‘My servo friend is a law enforcement officer, he never arrested me, pity…’
‘That’s what actually worries me when I think about the legal system of this city…’
‘We have a legal system? A mayor perhaps, yeah, but a court or so…?’

29. ‘Hello-ho – I’m back! And I got promoted! I didn’t get to be a superhero tough, sorry…’
‘*Sigh* if you try secret identity, you failed – we already read the text over there… now about the evil nursery rhymes…’
‘*Sigh* - listen, the only reason why we are talking about this, is the fact, that we had that ‘don’t get furious’ sign in a
speech bubble and the guy writing this just had to include it…’
‘*Sigh* - we just established that ‘I’ am the counter voice to this guy from now on, so leave the poking holes tactic to me,
guys…’
- Could you please stop the bickering and *sigh*-ing already?! So I am making up dialogue on the fly, weeks after taking
those pictures… *si… ehrm… why does everything end up in arguments…? -

30. *SPROING*
-… Ah, saved by the event camera – good one, little ones…-

31. -… so, another day, another going to work car pool… -
‘Up, up and away…’
‘Oh my, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s… a Robot wearing a wizard hat….?... It’s a plane, definitely….!’

32. -… and then… this happened… *head desk*…. -

33. -… yes, this is actually a wolf. A wolf, who just went inside the house, apparently went up all the stairs, out on this balcony,
peed on it at the inaccessible place and now – get this – can’t get back down!! Really! –
‘… told you, that balcony was a bad idea…’
-… oh yeah?...-

34. -… then what about that other wolf??! –
‘Wait, there are two?’
- Yes! This one’s stuck on the second floor, far away from the balcony, yet can’t get back down either, peeing here as well
and now… EW! Ew, ew, eww, ewww…. Why, Will Wright, why….? It can’t get any worse, can it?...-
‘…. You just had to ask, did you??’

35. -… OH MY….! Ladies and gentlemen, here we got photo proof: Wolves are like amoebas, sometimes they join together to
form a new being…. Oh well, it is actually less disgusting if they join together and form a new being this way, than if they
were… you know… … oh no… no. NO! NONONONONO…!!! DON’T DO THAT… -

36. *Shaft music theme starting to play…*
- ARRRGH! MY EYES! WHY?!! –
‘Oh please, cool down – they are not… you know what I mean…. Still, this bug/glitch/whatever is kind of impressing, having
two wolves…. …. ‘

37. ‘…. Having three wolves stuck in the stair case….’
- *sobs uncontrollably in a corner* -
‘… lets skip to the next picture, shall we?’

38. ‘Hello, I’m back – back from my evil, conniving job where I tighten my grip on the underworld and do a lot of sub plotting –
yes, in Sim Limbo, don’t question it – so what’s going on here in the meantime…?’
- *whimpers in a corner* -
‘…. What the heck…?’
-… the wolves… the wolves…. *sob* …-
‘… okay, can someone explain to me, what he means…?’
*growwwwl*
‘Whu…?’

39. *growl* *bark* yiff*
‘…. Aaah, I get it… thanks Mr. Blackwhite doubleheader werewolf/normal wolf monster mashup…!’
- … *cries*…-

40. ‘Fear not, citizens, Superhero Servo H-4 is here to take care of your wolf problem…!’
‘Holy Hairy Hobgoblins, H-4, what are we gonna do about these wolves?’
‘… who are you?’
‘… your sidekick…?.... Pink gorilla girl, I…’
‘*Sigh*… okay, got it, this subplot is ridiculous… oh well, I break out the batbox to get rid of these fuzz balls… and you can go
upstairs and start cheering, the kids are about to grow up….’

41. ‘Holy Happy Birthdays – congrats on growing up!’
-… *snif* I concur… are the wolves gone? –
‘All taken care of… feeling better now?’
-… yeah… anyway, lets see for the personalities…-

42. -… so 28th Great-Grandson-1 likes to party with blonde soccer players, as long as they smell like sweat and dirt…-

43. -… while 28th Great-Granddaughter-2 likes to hang out with red-haired beefs, as long as they wear more than just body
paint…-

44. -… and finally, 28th Great-Granddaughter-1 is into smelly, hardworking handymen, as long as they don’t do pool work…-

45. -… okay, all done, time to go to the moon and learn the art of the dea… soccer business…-
‘So – that was it with the sub plotting? We’re doing what we’re usually doing?’
-… for now, I need to pad out these pictures after all…-

46. -… and while you get your extra skills, work on your nicknames…-
‘Do they have anything to do with anything? I mean, with us, or sub plotting or…?’
- No, not really… I just watched parts of the movie ‘Death becomes her’ sooo…: -
28th Great-Granddaughter-1 is Helen,
28th Great-Granddaughter-2 is Madeline
And 28th Great-Grandson-1 is Ernest… -
‘*Sigh*… at least the movies actors were inspiring Hollywood Greats…’

47. -… and after that’s done, it’s time once more to return to Riverfront Downtown…-

48. -… and we go straight to the Citymen taylors, ready to sew some clothes…-
‘Wasn’t this more like a… *ahem* *gun noise* secret intelligence hideout or so….?’
‘If it were, I would have to kill you now…’
‘*Ulp*…’
‘Relax – I’m a superhero/Law enforcement officer, not a secret agent…’
‘*Phew*…’

49. ‘… of course, as a law enforcement officer, I need to inform you, that until the official investigation has determined, that
there really is no secret hideout for some secret organization, those parts are off limits to the public….’
‘WHAT?’
- What he said: WHAT?! -

50. ‘:.. Okay, okay – look, one part is still open, so you can sell stuff here or whatever…’
-… that is still no excuse for…! –
‘Okay – to make this short: you write this, you don’t have any interest in handling such a big lot and customers being all over
the premise – so you closed it up, not me! I’ve just given you a cover story, and you blew it…!’
- … -

51. -… okay, so the household started to sell stuff, get badges…-

52. -… get money and more badges for it… -

53. -… and the Professor also showed up… -
‘Hello, …‘Grandpa’! Wow, that feels odd, how many ‘Greats’ would I need at this point?’
‘Aww, the ‘Grandpa’ thing is okay, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside… Bleh…’

54. ‘… and just to answer your unavoidable question: no, I still can’t buy anything, because I have hundreds of millions of
Simoleons, so the game thinks I’m dirt poor….Bleh!’
‘You know – why don’t you just cut this stuff off then? What good is money for, if you can’t do crap with it? Gift it away, or
buy thousands of businesses or whatever…!’
‘Guess what – I’ve been thinking the exact same thing, and I’m so gonna do that once…’
‘Once?’
‘Once it is winter of course, Bleh! In the meantime – remember, treated as dirt poor? I’m stuck for now….!’
‘… point… well, good luck, and no offense, but please leave, so we can get a paying customer here….game mechanics…’

55. -… and with that, we’re already at level 5… time to close up here for now…

56. -… and walk over to the Jambalaya Musee d'Arte by Zarathustra, road moved to the opposite of the lot and lot to the edge
of the street…. –
‘This looks a bit… empty right now…’
- Yeah, I switched off the neighborhood deco, as it became really hard to play this lot – we crashed 3 times with the deco on,
apparently my old computer can’t handle the stress…. -

57. -… though even without the neighborhood deco on, the skyline of the lot looks quite stunning….-

58. -… of course, there is no time for idle musings, the souvenir shop at the museum needs maintenance… and sales…-

59. -… and prizes of course – thanks, Not-Komei…-
‘The Not-Komei would like to ask: what is the real name of the Not-Komei actually?’
-… wait, are we seriously doing a subplot on the ‘Simpsons’ comic book guys real name’ trope?... -
‘… the Not-Komei does not understand….?’
-… okay, look, your real name is a boring, game-generated, ordinary and uncool name - you are definitely better off that
way… -
‘… mh, okay, then the Not-Komei would like to see the museum now…’
- Oh great – I was worried we’d only show the gift shop, as everybody is heading here…-

60. -… okay, so here we are at the first floor – or second floor, depending on whether you live in the UK or US, where we see…
bubbles….? –
‘Oh, so bubbly….’
-… where does that come from, what is usually on this floor, let me see…? -

61. -… oh…. Apparently, all the direction-changing and moving around has caused the fish tank to levitate over the bamboo
now… kinda interesting actually, hmmmm…. -

62. -… never mind – there, fixed it…!-
‘Aww – but it was soo bubbly…’
- Oh, shut up – now where is Not-Komei…?...-
‘You mean the guy running away screaming ‘ IIIE – ghost bubbles!’?’
-… I get it, we didn’t take any more pictures with him because he left immediately after handing out the prize…?–
‘Poking holes into your own subplot – is that also a trope?’
- … I think ‘annoying the creator’ is a common sim trope and the main reason for Sims to die of removed pool ladder…-

63. -… ech, anyway… we already reached level 5 here too… -
‘What is it with you and level 5 of a business, anyway?’
-… You can get 5 money perks, and you can only change the owner of a business after leaving said business, so to switch
owners and get money perks times two…. –
‘… annnnd nothing we wanted to know and something you wanted to show off….’
-… poke holes at my own subplot... Yup, trope it is…-

64. -… okay, one quick visit at aunt Caitlin's juice shop…-
‘Hi aunt Caytlin – your cousin Ella says hi… there, another subplot resolved…’
-…You know, I think we’re overusing the term subplot for stuff like this….-
‘Well, you do it, for the simple reason to divert attention from the fact, that there are no subplots to resolve and the rest
leads to nowhere…’
- STOP IT! STOP THE STEA… I mean HOLE POKING! Jeez, what do I need to shut up myself, a supreme court?... Oh whatever,
lets go back…-

65. -… to the museum – oh hello, Professor Wolters… -

66. -… care to have a small makeover…? –
‘What is it with you and giving Professors makeovers?’
-… ech, they need to look the part, you know… combed hair, glasses…-

67. -… a look to kill you if you act stupid…-
‘*Brrr*… Please, it’s free, just go away…!’
‘[icy voice] Not before you finally understand the difference between net and gross cash flow…!’
-… *brrr*… I really should have given that more thought… that’s downright scary…-

68. ‘Bleh! Scary – that’s my cue! Why wasn’t there a Halloween episode for this challenge, Bleh?!’
-… we never did one before, besides, American elections were around the corner, that was already scary enough…-
‘… and now you’re milking the count visiting this lot for everything it’s worth… now that’s scary… Happy Halloweenie I
guess…’
- Oh, just continue restocking the bric-a-bracs and tchotchkes and whatnot…-

69. -… oh, and perhaps the Count would like to buy something… -
‘Yeah – so Mr. Count, how about this nice, expensive Ming vase – it’s probably as old as you are…’
‘…Uhmm… I am kind of impoverished nobility, Bleh…’
‘Wait – don’t you live in that penthouse suite at the Sanguine hotel? *cough* episode D-4, Fall 2 *cough*’
‘Ehrrm… that’s the Countess, I only own the car at the parking space….’
‘That wreck?... Oookay… we also have some really nice cheap tooth picks then here, how about…?’
‘Bleh – tooth picks….STAKES?! BLEH!’ *runs away*
‘… oh well, worth a try…’

70. -… okay, I guess, that’s it for the Halloween Special… as of writing this, I’m witnessing the election thriller… in the midst of
the pandemic, numbers of infected rising, we got a virus mutation in Denmark… seriously, do we really need more scary…?
Also, restocking badge… -
‘Wait – first you dump down all this scary crap, then you’re talking about badges…??’
-… everything that diverts attention, but not so much, that you forget what’s happening, is a good thing right now…-
‘… okay, I would have phrased it differently, but you have a point…’
-… even better…-

71. -… we got a star! Thanks again to the great and powerful evil Lizard Wink….! –
‘WHAT?!’
-… sorry, Wizard Link… thanks for making this a level 10 business… now go away, we don’t want roaches on the lot….-

72. -… and while the gypsy, who, after being glitched and unusable for what felt like an eternity, finally, finally is fixed thanks to
the Gypsy Matchmaker Fix by Simler90, which fixes the very problem I had, and which is why I just had to include this
picture to tell anybody: GYPSY IS USABLE AGAIN!... ehr, anyway, while she visits and then goes away again…-

73. -… we are busy harking away all the leaves cluttering the premise, composting them…-

74. -… and after that, we are going back to the moon….-

75. -… where the juicing takes place…-
‘*Chug* you’re doing it again!’
- What? –
‘You are stringing together pics with no rhyme or reason, and worse, without any subplot – like the gypsy and the
composting, *chug* and the juicing….’
-… transition to the moon? Be prepared? –
‘… *chug*… nothing of that does even have to do with the challenge, it’s completely pointless…’
-… well, and what would you do? Focusing on the challenge alone can also be boring… and leaves no room for subplots…!-

76. ‘Challenge accepted!’
- Whu…? –
‘I will contribute to the challenge, while including subplot – as it should be!’
-… you do know, that now I NEED to come up with a subplot, just to make you win, to make this subplot worth it…! –
‘See, how well that subplots starts already?’
-… I also need a lot of time to come up with something worthwhile, so thanks for not getting this episode finished before.…-
‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have complete faith in you there…. Taking till kingdom come I mean…’

77. ‘Okay, lets get started… Mrs. Helen…?’
‘Yes?’
‘May I have a word with you? It concerns what I already told your mother…’
‘The subplotting? You know, I think you are taking this a little too personal, Mr. Superhero….’
‘How can I take it personal, if I have no personality to begin with?’
‘That’s the point: if you had none…’
‘That’s an exchangeable personality: I was a gumshoe, became police president, then hero – and don’t get me started how
different I am from fall last year – sim time, of course…’

78. ‘… anyway: we need something, to get the subplot going, while advancing the challenge as well –and I have just the right
idea how to do that…’
‘Which is…?’
‘Another Business district!’
‘…. That’s supposed to advance the subplot? What about Link ‘evil fun side’ Magic district? Bluewinter Range was just
ripping out Christmas deco from a dedicated neighborhood, the downtown is a deco-ing nightmare – and don’t get me
started on the moon colony, looking for aliens to pay child support…!’
‘And this is why this time, we need to do it right! No more ‘ I have a cool idea, but don’t care how to work through it…!’

79. ‘… oookay – big raisins I would say, but I’m game…. Still, we’ll need money, lots of money, because just adding the terrain
and then adding business by business whenever there is enough moola would be tedious…’

80. ‘… ah, don’t worry, I’ll get the money, you get the district…’

81. ‘… and this is why, for the low price of half what it’s worth to pay if it would cost triple the price minus the net cash flow of
the….’
‘If I buy it, will you leave me alone?’
‘And – another happy customer…!’

82. ‘… Okaay, money’s coming in… now we only need the new district… now, H-4 said to not get too excited on new ideas or
locations or… OooOoooh – that one is awesome….!!!! -

83. -… and with that, we welcome our newest business district to Instant City – the Sunsphere Islands by Voleste – formerly a
multi-versatile vacation hood that can be used for all vacation regions, Far East, Mountain and Tropics….-
Potential
Business
Districts:
64-1 = 63
Actual
Business
Districts:
8+1 = 9

84. -… and which comes with 29 (!) new Businesses to top it off – of course, some buildings had to be converted first to
community lots… -
Community
Businesses: +29
(4 Residential +
3 Hotels converted)

85. -… and in order, to buy all these lots, we used the power of the real estate agency, to sell lots for high prices to townies,
then immediately rebuy them, because they are immediately available again… muahahaHAHAHAH… -
‘…uhm, Mr. H-4… are you sure, this is going to work? I mean, if the subplot is about the writer getting high, I guess mission
accomplished, but…’

86. ‘Nah – don’t worry, toots – unfortunately, to get this subplot going, we need to roll with the flow and let him have his fun…
as depraved as it gets….’
- HEY! –
‘… and insult him occasionally, so he keeps thinking of the subplot – and since he’s the one writing this, it just proves what a
literal masochists he is … ‘
- HEY! –
‘… also, we will use this picture of the journalist who’s about to give us another prize as an excuse to tell a story about how
we leaked in an interview, that great changes will come to Instant City in the future, hinting at the subplot…’

87. ‘… wow, are you a hero now – or a villain?’
‘My Serva friend is a criminal mastermind, part of the idea came from her…’
‘… is she going to betray you then?’
‘What a subplot that would make, right?’
- OKAY – Stop it! You’re spit balling so much, I feel like in middle school again! Can we please leave the subplot for now –
there is an episode to be finished too after all…!-

88. -… and for that, we first need a treasure map for Three Lakes…-
‘… stone, stone… treasure chest? On the moon?... oh well, stone, stone… okay, treasure map for Three lakes found, also on
the moon… ‘

89. -… then, we need to get home, everybody can go meditating to keep the aspiration up…-

90. -… till we find a job in business next day…-

91. -… and then it’s time for Helen and Ernest to move out…-
‘Wait, didn’t you forget to take a picture how all the business and other crap were transferred to us?’
- Oh, suddenly you realize that??! Yeah, I forgot –and apparently saved myself another insult for it, how do you like
that….??-
‘You’re childish and arguing with yourself…’
- … -
‘Also: don’t forget about the subplot…’
- Shut up already and go!...-

92. -… and with the space freed up, it’s time for…-
‘…Cheesecake! Of course it has to be cheesecake, why would we expect anything eee...? -

93. ‘….eeeEUUUUUUUHHHH!’
-… phew, that was close, you only had one bite, but fortunately this was enough for….-

94. -… 28th Great-Granddaughter-3…-

95. -… and 28th Great-Granddaughter-4 – welcome little ones…!-

96. -… okay, and now we can put them in the containers and forget them for the next three days…-

97. -… while we go on another vacation… of course, we had to call the toilet-loving nanny again…-
‘Praise the Potty god!!’
-… I miss ephemeraltoast….-

98. -… okay, we get there, yadda-yadda, Roland Bigfoot without big cashes of bigfoot money agrees to come with them…-
‘Wait, I didn’t agree yet – what are you, a fortune teller?’
-… listen, Dude, you are going to move in – no matter what speech bubble you show right now…-
‘Don’t I have any say in this??’
- No. –
‘Drat….’

99. ‘… urgh, why did I have to leave the woods – for this?’
-… cheer up. Here, have an entire Citymen tailors business lot for yourself…-
‘Meh – I’m not really into business…’
-… don’t worry, you don’t have to do much for this…-

100. -… just meditate outside the lot….-

101. -… while the rest gets it to level 10 for you…-
‘*Ommmm*andwhatsinitforme?*Ommmmm*’

102. -…we’re coming to that in a minute, first, lets close up shop, sending the customers home… wow, you look great in your
outdoor clothing, Countess…-

103. -… and now to your question… could you do the honors, Harriet…? -
‘Whatever… okay, so first, you need to understand the difference between net and gross cash flow…’

104. -… much later….-
‘Wow, never thought that business could be sooo interesting….’
-… we’ve created a monster, didn’t we….? -

105. -… oh well, no need to drag this out any further... Just for the record, Roland studied so much about business, Serva H-4
became permaplat…-

106. -… same goes for Servo H-4….-

107. -… and so another chapter comes to a close, time to wait for… … … okay, this isn’t over, there is something still coming, isn’t
there, right? Right?!-

108. -… A-HA – I knew it! –
‘Of course you knew it, you’ve played it…..’
‘Holy Gajooly, Servo H-4, this is…!’
‘HOLD IT! Who are you, where is pink gorilla girl??!’
‘She… died from sidekick disease, I’m her replacement and…’
‘OUT!’
‘Aww….’

109. ‘O-O-Oh – I’m late for work….!’
‘Serva friend – did you kill Pink gorilla girl?’
‘If I say yes, will you hold it against me?’
‘… not really… I would fine you 10000 Simoleons though…’
‘Then totally NO – I asked Harriet for the number of the Pink gorilla guy from last chapter and then bribed the gypsy to set
them up on a blind date – either they get cured from the crazy or start their own clown act…’
‘… impressive, that’s a good resolution for this subplot…!... Well, guess it’s time, to set another one in motion….’

110. ’…okay, we’re back at the citymen tailors… gosh, look at that expensive crap, these intelligence guys really know how
present themselves….’

111. ‘… and one sliding bookcase…’

112. ‘… and here we are, command center… ugh, even more expensive crap…’
- You are a fortune Sim, you just supported building an entire new business district, you worked as a cashier here….!–
‘…Sorry – in the end, I might be just a gumshoe at heart… ehr, processor, even the superhero thing can’t change that….’

113. ‘… anyway, time to call the others over – appello Simae….’

114. *teleport*
‘… and hello, Serva friend….’
‘Hey – I was just at work, making a gazillion Simoleon deal for another army of hackers working the ballots…’
‘Ech – these guys can handle that themselves, we have more important stuff to do now…’

115. *teleport*
‘… and… H-1. Phew, that should be all of it…’

116. ‘So –’Agent’ – ready to save the world? Or this subplot at least?’
‘… hm, spoken like a true superhero/gumshoe…. The resources of the ICIA are at your disposal…’
‘Aah – reference to the made-up name I did at the beginning – great, we are already establishing something here…’
‘… may I suggest that we hold a meeting to brainstorm further development?’
‘I like your way of thinking, my friend….’

117. - And so (after taking control of the visiting Servos via cheats °-° for a short moment to tell everybody to sit down to take
the following pictures….) –
‘… so what is the reason of this meeting? I heard something about saving the world…’
‘Weren’t you briefed about this? Basically, we need to save the city, which means the world to us…’
‘Thank you for pointing that out – HQ? Mission accomplished, the audience is briefed now by claiming ignorance…’
‘… and by being a smartass!’
‘Wait – that was your mission?’

118. ‘Excuse me? Ladies, gents – as much as I appreciate you acting all intelligence-y and secret, I need to draw your attention to
the matter at hand: we need to give this challenge a coherent story!’
‘Uhm – quick question: who made you the boss? No offense – I don’t want to commit regicide, but where did that come
from? I don’t remember you acting bossy in the last seasons, nor was there any development….’

119. ‘Excuse me? You are seriously questioning my servo friends ‘development’ to become a character? What did you do so far
trying to become a personality…?!’
‘…As I said, no offense, but…’
‘As for development: does anybody here remember ‘our development’ at all? First, we were all writing novels, then Serva H-
3 was all ‘waah, I don’t wanna be an architect, and everybody else when they got intelligence… or criminal… and then we
played all chess and chance cards and H-3 deco’ed Numa Key, and then red lights were constantly flashing and then guns
noising… ’

120. ‘Wait – we did what? I don’t remember any of that…’
‘Ehrrm… I have to confess… I pointed the de-neuralizer in your direction once….’
‘WHAT?!’
‘Okay, okay – point taken – we never had any stringent ‘development’….and your servo friend DID in fact act all ‘I’m the
great Servo H-4’ at one time… I think it was in the winter chapter…. so his behaviour IS actually fitting…besides, I am NOT
against him lighting the torch, I just wanted to point out, that if we want ‘development’, we should start with ourselves… if
we get the time…’

121. ‘… absolutely correct! Time is the key word! You see, the reason, why we can’t even get any development from season to
season is that it simply takes too long between chapters to remember anything… and I say that because the guy who writes
this has exactly this problem! Or do you think, he didn’t first had to look up everything my serva-friend mentioned?’

122. ‘Hmm – that’s right… How long are our chapters apart? Months? Even years? And we’ve been split up now, so it’ll take even
longer….’
‘… and we now want to put it under control via what? A subplot? Doesn’t that have the same problem? The subplot will
also take several years to develop further….’
‘Yeah – that’s a really good question! Subplot, subplot – if it’s only us, we are never getting anywhere…!’
‘Well… we could try to appear at the other lots… or get called over…’

123. ‘… and how are we supposed to do that? By making the author befriend everyone to us constantly?’
‘Yeah – that would make this tedious… how about we get a business instead, give everyone a ‘task’ there, then everyone
can visit us…?’
‘Nah, still too tedious – look at aunt Caitlyn, her lot gets frequented by every household once, and she doesn’t get any
screen time nor any developed personality or subplots… It’s just ‘juice, juice, juice’…’

124. ‘… so what then? Off-camera subplot?’
‘Oh, you mean, like they are talking about us while doing something completely different? Maybe one of them at the phone
is talking to us? Reading the news about our shenanigans? But…wouldn’t that invite a lot of pics in to be filler or
unnecessary?’
‘Yeah… not a real solution either… What about CAS-Sims?’
‘Breaks the rules, including the self-imposed ones…. And if we single out townies etc. we have the same problem as with
the other solutions…’
‘darn…’

125. ‘Hey, who is to say that we have to choose one of these possibilities and stick with it? Can’t we just use all of them together,
one time off-camera, one time invite, then the business – and so on….?’
‘It would still create tedium?’
‘… but keep this subplot fresh, not being bound by one depiction…’

126. ‘… Okay, if I may interrupt: you all bring really good ideas to the table… well technically, it’s all the authors ideas, but writing
down all this stuff was really helpful!’
‘Wait, so this meeting was all about taking notes?’
‘Well, to a certain degree: yes! But to let you in on a secret: I have researched really long and hard, and I think I have come
up with the perfect solution….’

127. ‘… which is…’
*dramatic music*

128. ‘HEY! Where is everybody?! I’m standing here for ten minutes now and no clerk has appeared to show me the goods! And
nobody’s at the cash register either! I demand to see the manager…!’
‘…. Dangit… It’ s Crumplebottom! Okay, meeting’s postponed, lets get out of here…!!’

129. *teleport*
‘Phew – that was close….’
- That was a really cheap cop-out… you didn’t have a solution either how to do a coherent subplot or main plot for that
matter….! –
‘… you write this, soooo….’
-…. But you were right with one thing: this subplot has helped with a few things, like writing it all down….-
‘… sooo – mission accomplished?’
-… we’ll see, we’ll see…-

130. -... Okay, lets tie this chapter up with completing another subplot – Roland Bigfoot getting a job in… -
‘….Business! Nothing is more important than Business! It’s the greatest job in history! It will make trillions of Simoleons! A
tremendous success, and we will be bigger then….!!’
- NO! NOOOOOO!!! STOP! I can’t write this anymore, that’s torture! How can somebody talk like this?! –
‘…Yeah, he’s got a point… please look into this red light…’
*flash*
-… phew… thanks, H-4, you’re a real hero…-

131. ‘Happy to help… up, up and awaaay….!’
‘…and with that, our hero H-4 flew into the cold winter time, forever fighting for truth, justice and the coherent plot…’
-… you don’t need to talk in cursive, Serva H-4…-
‘Awww… I thought it would feel more storylike…’
-… actually, I’m just out of ideas, that’s why you thought it… sorry…-

132. -… anyway, another chapter – and apartment complex - comes to an end… truth to be told, the last part was actually really
enlightening… I just wish, I had a master plan for a subplot to string the main challenge together… well, we can only hope…
of course, the new Business District skyrocketed the population once more, and sorry for stealing another hood, but it looks
just to good to pass it up…. Anyway, thank you everyone for reading this, if you actually do so, hope you survived the
election (and the pandemic) and see you hopefully again, for another episode of Instant City –a BaMC Challenge! –
- Happy Simming! -
Population:
Playables = 341+6
Households = 91
Community Lots = 273+29
Business Districts = 8+1
University = 1
Downtown unlocked
SM = 1[Starter] + 1[1st. Bus.] + 45[9 BD]
+ 5[1 UN] + 5[DT] + 60 [302 Bus.] = 117
= 347 x 117 = 40599