The Modern Neighbourhood - A Short History

I should clarify that:

a) This is my first blog entry, and I don't know what I'm doing.

b) I started building this "Super Modern" neighbourhood about three years ago, and it's already onto its fourth generation. In other words, my short history may be somewhat longwinded.

The 'hood is built on the yin-yang model, and for some reason the jpg got lost in translation so that when I scroll through my neighbourhood menu, all I get is the wireframe view. I find this strangely apt.

I decided to generate a neighbourhood with buildings modelled after actual innovative homes that I've seen in books or magazines. I've set the seasons to have two summers and no winter to mimic California, even though many of the houses are based on European designs.

And then I moved in some families: the Skyrockets, The Hipsters, and a single guy named Innocente Seed. Here is where trouble started. Sim trouble, that is.

The Skyrockets were a young couple of Space Superheroes, Jim and Glenda, retired and ready to start a family. They actually had two sets of twins without any cheats! As a couple they did an excellent job populating the neighbourhood. Their family of seven included Randy and Candy, Lucas and Leila, and finally Baby, who, due to an unfortunate accident with a television set, died and came back as a zombie.

The Hipsters were a young family of three - Tyson and Rita and Rita's orphaned teenaged sister Rhona. Rhona moved into her own place after University, but then got into trouble when she had a baby with her Frat-boy crush Castor Nova, and it turned out he was unable to move in with her and raise their baby Jean-Castor. Tyson and Rita had their own wonder-kid Coleville, and would have lived happily ever-after if Rita hadn't been swept off her swollen feet in old-age by their dashing neighbour, Hall-of-Famer Innocente Seed.

Innocente's intention was to populate the neighbourhood by wooing all the passing women and luring them to his love shack. Unfortunately it turned out that he was unable to get them pregnant. Instead he put an effort into his sports career, and left his vast fortune to his last love Rita.

Jim and Glenda got the seven grandchildren they wished for, but died before those dreams were realized. Most of them were the offspring of eldest robot-making son Randy (talented enough to create the lovely Alice, but failed as a business tycoon) and his cheerleading girlfriend Calista Ng. Candy also married a University heartthrob- Glen, but only had one kid, Angel. Candy was too busy looking after zombie-brother Baby (it was her fault, after all) and a Sasquatch she and Glen had picked up camping one summer. Her other twin set brother and sister turned out to be home-wreckers. Brother Lucas stole merchant extraordinaire Lisa Ramirez away from her husband chico, and they had a great kid named Louis. Sister Leila married late, a green-thumbed guy named Peter and they had another set of twins. Leila apparently hadn't finished sowing wild oats yet because she had a third child by a new sexy neighbour Inigo Montoya whom she named Mars. Her twin daughters Terra and Nova witnessed everything, became permanently scarred and never forgave their mother.

Inigo Montoya only moved into the neighbourhood as it seemed bereft of anyone not named Skyrocket. This plight continues despite the introduction of the Champlains (Duke, his teenaged kids Amelie and Rene, and Grand-mere), the Izakos, and occassional strangers popping by. It has been a great lesson in genetics.