Settlers of Simtaan 1.06

Week 6

Random Event: The community wants to hold a block party!  Host a house or dinner party with in your next event roll and receive at least a silver rating.

This is an exciting time in Simtaan. The existing families, eager to welcome the Sylvesters, are happy to plan a party to celebrate. Not only that, but Annie and the other family leaders decide that now is the perfect time to add a church to their small community. 

The church is finally constructed on Monday. This is St Bartholomew's Church, which will be a great gathering place for the community with its fairgrounds and children's play area. 

View across the street to the church. 

View of the fairgrounds and part of the cottage. 

View inside the church down the nave.

Word of the improvements to Simtaan's community infrastructure spreads, drawing more new residents. Bryant and Lucille Midgen move their family into the nearby Cottage Am See, which just barely has space for their twins Ashley and Evan and Lucille's widowed mother, Jocelyn.

On Tuesday, while the children are at their first day of school, tensions reignite between Annie and James. In fact... they get into a huge fight. 

Annie, though the loser of the fight, now openly despises her husband. By Wednesday their differences seem completely irreconcilable, and Annie decides they must cut ties. 

James isn't happy about it, but moves to Havisham House across the river. 

The planned day for the block party is Saturday, and Annie has a lot to do securing introductions to all the colony's new residents and  issuing invitations. She also spends some time learning some new recipes she hopes will make a splash among her neighbors. 

Some visits are easier than others. Mary Brown, she learns, is actually Evil.

Saturday, it turns out, is also Annie's birthday, so she serves cake as well as garlic noodles and her new tofu-chicken dish at the block party. It might not have brought the roof down, but it wasn't a total disaster either, and she has plenty to be proud of. 

Poor Bess catches a cold during the party, though, and by the next morning she has passed it to her brother Brick. There isn't much to be done for either of them. But Bess's own birthday is coming up, and Annie invites neighbor Max Sylvester to visit for the afternoon. He and Bess met at the party, and they seem to hit it off again. 

First, though, is the triplet's teenage birthday. Coming so soon after a neighborhood event, it's a small affair. Brick, still conscious of his responsibilities, forms an aspiration to have a Successful Lineage. Boomer wants to find his Soulmate and Butch would rather focus on Bodybuilding.