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Los Porablos
Los Angeles; low density, exotic beaches, big freeways and a gangster's paradise.  This city will grow up with some areas boasting good education, low crime and an excellent police force, while the other parts will be run-down, with residents either planning to move or to become the greatest gangster in 'da hood' within a crooked police catchment area. (Hopefully I'll get some of these parts to riot to create a good close-to-LA-style history).

Updates...

First Development... Update 2
Time for a quickie... Update 6
Have you missed first city ... Update 7
Welcome to beachead... Update 8
Marrast Financial develops ... Update 9
Triad Colonisation suspected... Update 10
Los Porablos reaches International Shores ... Update 11
Los Porablos reaches 1,000,000... Update 12
Los Porablos ... Update 13
Orton Point Housing Assosiates... Update 13a
Some Pictures of the Beaches... Update 15
Teaser pictures of LPX... Update 25
Beverly Heights Develops!... Update 26
Los Porablos impresses Big Office types!... Update 29
Los Porablos GLR - Stoopid or What?... Update 45
Beverly Heights develops & expands... Update 46
LPX???????!!! ... Update 47
Los Porablos International News Flash... Update 50
Shingdu & Beverly Heights... Update 69

City Story...
The Gangsters and weasals are all out on lunch in Los Porablos, exchanging thier stories of thier struggle and life down in the rotten cesspit which unfortunatly is thier city. Will you trust in the Greens? Or will you side with the Triads? Or will you join arms with the police to crack down these unjust and unwanted criminals?

Los Porablos: A Gangster's Review; Part 1 ... Update 12a
Los Porablos: A Gangster's Review; Part B ... Update 40


San Fernandes
San Fransisco; barely any run-down areas and the place to be when you want to see a good downtown district.  Boasting the golden gate bridge! You'll find her behind the mountains north of Porablos.

Updates...

San Fernandes first Shots ... Update 4
San Fernandes sneak peek... Update 32
San Fernandes grows... Update 33
San Fernandes memorial park... Update 34
Common San Portello problems ... Update 35
Looking into the depths of the city... Update 36
San Fernandes Finance... Update 37
San Portello Government Times... Update 38
San Fernandes rail circle completion... Update 42
San Fernandes housing estates... Update 43
The traffic-modding facilities of the NAM introduced!... Update 44
Hurricane Carl; Part 1... Update 52
Fernandes, Boom or Bust?... Update 66
And now a quicky from San Fernandes!... Update 67
Big city, little city... Update 68
CAMming San Fernandes... Update 73

City Story...
A typical Sim goes by uneeded or unrecognised in a place like San Fernandes; yet one Sim's whole life is about to change with the introduction of a future given only to those that are strong and pure of heart.  Will he make it to survive until he grows old and frail? Or will he perish against the monster that approaches the place he calls home?

San Fernandes, A MySim life; Part 1... Update 39
San Fernandes, A MySim life; Part 2... Update 41 


Las Ventura
Las Vegas; casino-lined streets, exotic hotels and parkways galore! I'm trying to work my way to creating some custom casinos/hotels to put into the city, this is why it'll be 3rd from last to build.  I'll need help with this one though...

Updates...

- To be made -

City Story...
Deep in the squalors and dirt of the typical Las Ventura Casino lies a man looking for a future; gambling away his money and his life like every other poor retched soul within this odd prison. However, fate is about to test him... He is about to win the biggest jackpot known to Simkind, and this whole story tells of his struggle to separate and fight the luxury and the price that comes from being super rich in the richest town in the Simworld.

- To be written -


Georgetown
Original concept, outside of the state.  Georgetown will be a mix of Chicago, New York and Hong Kong, with a busy downtown centre and endless tracks of medium-wealth housing.  Georgetown will be the city that marks the end of the state and the beginning of San Portello's declaration for independance from Simnation!

Updates...

- To be made -

City Story...
Georgetown is up to its knees in criminal injustice and corrupt capatilist regimes.  The populace has no faith in the mayor, and the mayor has no faith in his own leadership.  The entire city is going to hell, and the only thing that can stop the fall is a superhero... And that is just what Georgetown got. Follow him as he becomes the legend that saves a city and helps name it the safest in Simnation, from sucess to total ruin, and then back up again...

- To be written -


Santa Neyorka
A coastal city inspired by the island towers of Spain, Morroco and Latin America. Not only is it beautiful, but it is also very dirty. The police are currupted and the ganglords kill just for a penny.  The city is going to improve though, unless of course an evil scientist gets in the state's way...?

Updates...

Santa Neyorka... Update 54
Santa Neyorka begins... Update 55
Santa Neyorka: Industry! Industry!... Update 56
Market ... Update 57
Frogface Financial ... Update 59
All Hell breaks loose ... Update 61
Neyorka Bay ... Update 62
Hurricane Carl; Past-tense ... Update 64
The Great Water Crisis... Update 65

City Story...
Dr. Vu has done it; he has condemned Simnation to death by the impending destructive force known only as Hurricane Carl.  Millions flee for thier lives, yet hundreds of thousands stay in search for a way to save San Portello... But only one will truely make the difference... A woman whom falls in love with a man whom has been deemed the most dangerous criminal in the world... Or is he?

Santa Neyorka; A Love Story; Part I ... Update 58
Santa Neyorka; A Love Story; Part II ... Update 60
Santa Neyorka; A Love Story; Part III... Update 63
Santa Neyorka; A Love Story; Part IV... Update 74 (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=2071.msg62901#msg62901)


Out-Of-Town
In between cities are long, endless interstates and great tracts of land; I'm going to place some random towns here and there to make the countryside more like the real thing rather than the good-old endless world of skyscrapers and emptyness.  We're going to call this vast wildness Out-of-Town...

Updates...

San Portello Begins ...   Update 1
Borders almost touch... Update 3
Golden River is complete... Update 5
The San Andreas Junction ... Update 23
Fernandes and Portello - Cities to be proud of?... Update 48

Misc Journeys/Updates...

Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part A ... Update 14
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part B... Update 16
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part C... Update 17
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part D ... Update 18
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers... Update 19  + Riots (20)
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part E... Update 21
Sculpting the I-30 through the Rockerfellers; Part F... Update 22

Journeys of the I-35 ... Update 27-Update 28
Journeys of the I-35 ... Update 30-Update 31


San Portello Main Story
The Story of Eddie Porablos as he flees his home city in search of fortune, love and most importantly... Survival.  The story that covers all of the cities... The story that takes you on a trip through a reigon built by me, Nealos101.  Will Porablos survive? Or will he be hunted down and killed by his enemies before he even has a chance to leave his name in the concrete of society?

San Portello Main Story - Act 1... Update 51
San Portello Main Story - Act 2... Update 71

Neal.

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The City of Dreams after years of struggle.

Long ago, before the detonation of the nuclear explosive upon Portello's shores and further beyond the Republic's stride to power, there was a time of glory and celebration for the what was at that time, a puny and poor state.  Before this national celebration, common folk would wander helplessly thorugh the streets looking not only for work, but for a place to stay as well.

It was a terrible, terrible time for all that lived in San Portello.

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...However, a storm was coming.

Many buildings, after being derelict and dangerously towering over the downtown area of San Fernandes for over a decade, were oblitered in a massive cloud of smoke and debris in what could only be the sign of change.  Useless and empty roads were torn up, homes were torn apart before being rebuilt, and dead skyscrapers that were vast in number were beginning to shine once more.

In the place of the wreckadge and debris, came Central Park.

But this wasn't all that was happening...

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In a matter of months, weeks even, construction sites were moving in, and as the homeless and jobless watched with wonder, like thier hope and thier dreams, the construction sites grew taller and taller.

What was happening? They didn't know.

What was causing this boom in construction? Where did the funding for this come from? How could San Fernandes afford a massive expansion like the one occuring before thier very eyes?

The court of San Portello knew exactly what was happening...

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The Shingdu Corporation had finally fallen into the clutches of justice through thier own greed and tyranny.

The people under the Corporation's greedy grasp began a massive riot in every city except Fernandes, taking every Shingdu corporation and selling it overseas.  Soon, the Corporation declared bankrupcy and the CEO, including each and every board member, were assisinated.  The Golden Age had begun!

"SHINGDU IS NO MORE! SHINGDU IS NO MORE!" Cried the people of San Fernandes when the new finally reached thier shroes.

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The Freedom sparked a revolution... The revolution sparked a boom in Fernandes' economy.  The city became vast and huge, eating the land and gobbling up anything in its way.

One man saw this expansion and saw the next monster coming; A Stock Market Crash unlike any other.

Being a generous and kind man that he was, he began to draw up a strategy to save at least a part of San Fernandes from the economy struggle that would follow, and eventually bring the rest of the city back to its feet.  This was Bobinator financial.

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Bobinator chose this land to promote not only a stable economy, but also peace.  His 'Collosal' thoughts brought yet more business to the Bay area, and soon, like the monster Bobinator foresaw, it had come.

...Traffic.

Traffic; the one thing that could destroy a city.  If a city is frozen in conjestion, then the economy will not boom.  IF the congestion is not resolved quickly; then the crash will be even harder on Bobinator's growing franchise.

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Bobinator worked hard to raise money for his next idealist plan; he worked day and night to ensure that his corporation would not fail... Would not falter.  Everything was falling apart around his eyes; the buildings were being abandoned again or worse... knocked down!

He had to act and act fast!

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The traffic issues were diverting with the millions that had lost thier jobs that no longer commuted to the area in question... So construction would be a piece of cake.

Quicker than a bolt of lightning, the GLER went up faster than monolith! Construction teams worked day and night digging, filling, welding and scraping in a fit of rage. Hope, as it seems... Was coming back.

The GLER was a triumph in it's own right - No other transit system in the whole world could second-best it! Sims from across the city would end up riding the GLER for a certain reason regardless if they even worked at Bobinator Financial.  It took every passanger and directed them either to another major transit system, or the place they needed to go to.

Success! Bobinator had saved the city once again and opened the doors for another golden era!

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Unfortunatly he passed away not very long after the first GLER train made its journey.

The city was free... But for how long?

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Neal.

I am commenting on your mosiac ... very nice. You have a great skyline but even at that I note you still have some skyscrapers growing. Good Show. I enjoyed your pictures.

OMG Neal you are alive woohoo... A super start wow, that mosaic is just sick man wow  :o the whole area... i so cant wait to see more of San Portello - pat

Great start, Nealos101! Wonderful looking region and city! Also nice mosaic and pictures! :thumbsup:

Great pics.

I like the way you've shown us different stages of development.  It'd be good to see some close ups of the GLER that you put in place to save the city from traffic.

I look forward to seeing more.

Glad to see you transfer this over here. :thumbsup:

BTW check this out

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=2046.0

This is amazing MD, it has always been  &apls

You can see, how great this is just looking region maps and with good story this will be at Classics-section in no time.

Mmmmmmm, Neal... San Portello!

This is tasty stuff, and it's great to see you over here.  Good Luck!


David

p.s.-

Quotethis will be at Classics-section in no time

Bengt, I was thinking about buying a lottery ticket...   -DE

Wonderful start. Amazing mosaic and region view   &apls

looking forward for more   :thumbsup:

jmyers2043: Thankyou Jim! I hate the perfect picture and the perfect skyline; something must be happening that draws the eye away from the spectacle in my personal view. That was my first mosaic and I am quite proud of it.

patfirefghtr: I shall never die so long as I am still around. If you haven't seen San Portello before then I shall reinburse your memory laterrr...

bat: Nice start? Dude, this reigon has been going since I started on Simtropolis in 2004/5! It was the beginning of the beginning for me! The whole reason why I started BATing in the first place... San Portello man! The place that started it all... The child of all children... In my view... My GOD.  Thankyou for the comment man!

paroch: Thankyou my good fellow! I shall get right on to that request after I introduce the SC4D community to the reigon.

NASCAR_Guy: We're in the leauge now! Thanks for forwarding that to me!

Bengt: I appreciate the warm comments my freind, and with a little pm to a moderator later, that dream was realised.

dedgren: It took me a while to get this far but it has gotten this far! Thankyou!

Berethor: Thankyou for your comments and applause! I shall continue always until the reigon is full... But even then I'd expand!

An update is on its way!

Neal.

Hello Neal, great to see Son Portello in this site  :thumbsup:

really nice and intrincated mosaic ¡¡¡ a pleasure for my eyes ;)

Thanks jeronij!

San Portello is back for the SC4D fans as an update as to where San Portello stands and an update to one of the stories of San Portello; Santa Neyorka, A Love Story...

Update 74: Santa Neyorka; A Love Story - Part IV

Los Porablos (http://blogster.com/host/images/73016312993.jpg)

'The Harliquin upon the Peagan Sea'

San Fernandes (http://blogster.com/host/images/14308647832.jpg)

'The Crystal of The East Coast'

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Santa Neyorka (http://blogster.com/host/images/92266933366.jpg)

'The Diamond Arrowhead'

All were cities to be saved and cities that must be protected from the fate that is coming for them in the form of clouds, heavy winds and massive torrential storms.

Hurricane Carl was approaching.

Dr. Vu was having a nightmare of sorts, tossing and turning in the cold, hard surface that was ridiculously called a bed.  His dreams were filled with his mistake, and the hurricane that wore his name like a serious commitment to death.  Vu slowly awoke in his room to find the shadow of a plump man standing by his bed.

"Don't turn on the light old freind," Dong-Sung-Jin asked Vu, making Vu shoot up from his blankets in horror as the deceased spoke. "What of the hurricane and the off-worlders?"

Vu calmed down for a moment. "They are still coming," Vu answered, before looking out of the only window overlooking the Bay of Neyorka and the masses of clouds afar that sat above Los Porablos like your everyday-Los-Porablos-Smog.  Dong-Sung walked over to window to look for himself. "That is only part of the hurricane - Unlike normal hurricanes Hurricane Carl spreads through a chain of supercells like that one - The supercell will expand and cover most of San Portello, and then..."

"...The Devil's time." Dong-Sung finished. "Tell me; what are doing to stop the hurricane?"

"What can I do?" Vu asked helplessly. "Nature cannot be controlled by Sims... Only the Aliens have the power to stop it now."

Dong-Sung raised a finger in appreciation of Vu's responce. "Exactly."

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8 years have passed... The Hurricane... The Destruction... Everything... Has been wiped clean.

Vu was a shadow in a city that has forgotton zero hour; the day the Hurricane was stopped by Project X-2.  The appreciation was lacking some what; there was only one thankyou, and that was from some FBI girl that was infatuated with him.

6 years after the Hurricane came a new threat; the real Hurricane.  Shingdu.

"The Hurricane has passed," Vu replied as the clouds vanished to a normal Los Porablos morning covered in smog and distant skyscrapers. "We saved Simnation."

Dong-Sung smashed his fist against the bedside table. "You did not stop the monster that is the hurricane!" He shouted. "Cuttingwood is still out there preying on the weak and innocent, and here you are dreaming of a lost love and what to do with your miserable life!"

"Enough Dong Sung!" Vu shouted in return.

"Don't enfatuate me with your commands Vuvarious!" Dong Sung shouted in reply. "I give you a new mission now - The real mission! One that may take your life in exchange for freedom and justice!"

Vu looked at him curiosly. "What is it?"

"Find Sadina first," Dong Sung replied. "And bring her to the construction site... You remember the construction site, don't you?" Vu nodded. "Good - Take her there; to the floor where I was murdered!"

Vu awoke, and planned to find Sadina.

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"...I got your call..." Sadina spoke from within the plaza.

"Thankyou for coming on such short notice," Vu replied. "I need your help."

"It has always been for help Vu," Sadina replied with a slow nod. "What is it this time?"

"I found a clue," Vu returned, remembering her beautiful face and those enticing lips. "Atop of the Construction tower were Dong Sung was shot..."

Sadina nodded. "So you want to go there?"

"Immediatly!" Sadina shook her head. "You need permission from the Neyorka Bay Hotel; it is there land now... They're planning on building a hotel in it's place; or something on those grounds."

"You're an agent!" Vu argued. "You can authorise it!"

"Not without civil athority," Sadina replied. "Shingdu is squeezing the FBI dry; we need all the public acceptance we can get... One slip up and Shingdu will crush us like they did with the police."

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So they went to the Hotel and leasied with the manager.  Being in the interests of all business, the manager was quick to accept since it is Shingdu that wishes to buy out the hotel's rights.  And to even ensure victory, the manager gave them the best suite in the hotel so they had all the energy they need for the trip back and any perils they faced.

But it was more than just energy that filled Sadina's mind... Watching the man that was the greatest of them all overlooking Simgoober Colliseum...

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Sadina stood beside him as he peered out into the world that he has come to know and love. "What is bothering you Sadina?"

Sadina was shocked and surprised to be asked this question, for she was the one that should have asked it. "What is bothering you Vu?"

"What does Cuttingwood have in store for this world?" Vu asked her and the skies above. "What is he trying to do?"

"I don't know..." She replied as she edged ever closer to him. "Why must you fight this fight?"

"I made a promise to a man just before his death," Vu replied. "He made me swear that I must stop the Hurricane... I must stop it from destroying everything we know."

"...Does it ever stop?" Vu turned and looked at her oddly. "I mean; do you ever get a chance to live?"

Vu shook his head and continued to stare. "There is no time for living for me... Time is unimportant... Only life."

Sadina's hand trialed across Vu's left shoulder as if comforting him. "It must be so lonely."

Vu turned again. "It isn't..."

Sadina stopped. "Why not?"

Vu embarresingly looked at his feet for a moment before continuing to stare at the mountains and the Collesium. "Becuase I love you Sadina."

Sadina's eyes lit up with suprise. "I... I..."

Vu looked back at her again. "Since the moment outside of the Opera House," He explained. "I knew it."

Sadina could not condure up any words, and after a minute of a silent stutter or two, she perked up the strength to say: "Make love to me Vu."

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A few hours later...

"Look at it," Cuttingwood ordered his assistant as he looked at Santa Neyorka from Shingdu Tower. "The poorest city in San Portello yet I cannot own any of it.  Every other city on the globe has my corporate name imprinted upon it! But why not this one? What is there to be had in this city?"

"Perhaps," The assistant began. "It is thier sence of freedom?"

Cuttingwood snarled. "Freedom! Pfft! I would take their freedom and enslave them for the rest of thier lives! Yet they continue to walk and live free.  This city is the smallest city on the playing field yet it is the largest by heart.  What am I missing?"

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"I left her in that hotel room..." Vu replied to Dong Wing within the Construction site. "Like a used prostitute."

Dong Wing. "In my city," He began. "That is a good thing.  Yet I see it was unwise of you.  Should you of not brought her along?"

Vu nodded. "I cannot let her see this," He replied. "Whatever it may be."

Wing nodded. "True indeed," He explained. "Dong Sung didn't want her to know before, and he doesn't want her to know now."

"But why is the Freedom of the Populace so important?" Vu asked impatiently as Wing guided him up the stairs to the hallowed level. "Surely they are not free now?"

Wing shook his head. "A free man may be enslaved through money constraint or life's test," He explained. "Yet he still has the power to break away from it and choose a different path; choice... That is freedom."

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"My god..." Vu shockingly spoke as he looked at the plans laid out by Dong Sung. "Is it really that simple?"

Wing nodded. "Simple as simple can be."

"Freeze!" Came a shout.

Out on the floor.  Hands cuffed.  Knocked out.  Cold black darkness.

San Portello Reigon View (http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4883/nealos101cjsanportellouam1.jpg)

Sadina... If you can hear me... Santa Neyorka needs your help...

Neal.

Again you show why this is a classic  &apls

Though I can't critize the story (not my speciality), it's good though. Realistic story with "normal" people. But the city itself is something fresh, it's a skyscraper forest but still it's so unique and realistic with those cranes and plazas. And the Bay park is stunning, I think I've never seen such large park near waterfront in such a big city  &apls

Excellent overviews of the cities! Beautiful new pictures! Also a fantastic story! :thumbsup:

Very nice update, great story and very good pics.  I'll have to watch for this one.

Robin   ()stsfd()

Neal wow a wonderful update and a great story as well....  I do have to comment though on your CJ over at ST, i got the chance last nite to catch up and seeing the progress and evolution is just stunning!!!!!

An Update has been posted at this (http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=62043&STARTPAGE=16) location.

Bengt: I enjoy making skyscraper forests sometimes I don't know what happens to me; ()sad(). But saying that, I did enjoy preparing the story for it though, and admittably there is going to be at least one more Skyscraper Forest before my time is over.  Hopefully the rural areas caught your eye too! And yes, that is a large park... The damn thing took me ages to build but it was worth it.

bat: A story is to be told in every city! Hold on tight!

rooker1: Thank you for watching and hopefully the next update will be just as good.

patfirefghtr: You read ALL of it? Holy momma... I salute you for your bravery!

Well, that's it for me today!

Neal.

Yesss, Yess i did neal.... i love the little ending there Neal and i cant wait to see what happens..

She's coming..  :D But if we think like normal people, your update was good though pics were too small. Airport was good, are those terminals from new airport pack or? And what a farmlands :P I've never built that big area.

Pat: You truely are a legend my freind, I plan not to finish the story just yet; the story doesn't finish until I can say in my heart the city is finished, and the only city close enough to completion is Los Porablos, but even then, it still needs more work ;)

Krio: I admit the pictures were tiny, in some ways that was intentional, in others, I just didn't want to show you too much... lol. The Terminals are from the most recent airport pack - the one that released the 747's I believe? Farmland is awesome to look at when finished, they can be a pain though when building...

To all our other dearest supporters...

We apologise (again) for the hiatus, since our creator's time was big used in real life to at least pass the next year of his University programme.  We apologise sincerely, and, after much deliberation, hair pulling and screaming mutiny, we have produced an update for you...

...

We also apologise for the missing updates... We have squaloured our time (When we had it) on a different website in order to update them, and we have come to realise it was time wasted. We apologise again, but must keep out consistancy if we are to include the other updates at another time. Thankyou for your patience and we apologise yet again!!!

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Update 81: LAS VENTURA; From pit to plateau, the Story Part I: Before time began for him

In the blistering darkness comes a headache, a headache so large and intense it forces him to scream, holding his head in agony.  He awakens to find himself laying upon a long piece of steel, twinned with another running parellel to it, both bars reaching into the horizon elevated by blocks of wood beneath them.

A train line? What is going on? Why I am lying upon a train line?

WOOOOOOT! TOOOT!

"AAAH!" He shot up in a scream, leaps off of the track and lands hind-first into the gravel, head smashing into wood.  The steam engine, hauling all kinds of flatbed and boxcar, roared past on the very line he had just slept upon.  He looks at the wood which gave him another headache; it was another boxcar, stationary, labelled with the words "Las Ventura International Postal Service."

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"Las Ventura?" He asked himself in shock. "I'm in Las Ventura?"

The city was not a kind one in his book of confused memories, years of terrible struggle had forced a set of interlinked towns into recission, forcing the government to destroy all thier ties and bonds, producing one small city in the barren wastelands of the Ventura Desert.  To climb out of recission, the remaining souls hired a contractor and developer to find a solution that would aid them in rebuilding thier heritage, and thus, the gambling history of the towns was reborn.  Gambling in the city enticed poverty, crime and extreme tourism.  The city, instead of rebuilding its lost ties, began to dig a sinkhole in itself and, although now the richest city-state in the entire country, it was the most corrupt.

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"Indeed you are kid," Our avatar looked around suddenly and found a tall man wearing overalls seen on a typical train engineer. "But you seem shocked; aren't you meant to be here?"

Our avatar shook his head. "N-no," He replied in terror. "I'm supposed to be in... In Rosefur?"

The engineer laughed. "Rosefur?" With a snort he helped him up. "Rosefur has been wiped off the map; an avalanche cleared the whole area and the state now belongs to the Air Force.  Try again - Where are you from?"

He brushed his face clear of any remorseful tears. "Rosefur..."

The engineer took a clean look into his eyes. "Rosefur has been gone for ten years!" He shouted. "Tell me anouther one... How about your name?"

"A...Alex?" He stuttered.

The engineer nodded in acceptance. "Good enough for me," He replied. "So, what are you doing all the way out here anyway boy?"

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"It was the prom," Alex began, trying hard to remember the past events in his mind. "We were all celebrating at Los Porablos Junoir High - Everyone was there... We all danced and got drunk until we all were taken home.  There was at least five of us from Rosefur... I got into bed and I don't remember anything else except waking up here."

The engineer sighed. "It's a dead case," He began. "You can't of sleepwalked from Porablos - Let alone Rosefur - in one night, or ten years even! You'd be in hospital by the time you cleared the mountains!"

"Maybe so," Alex replied. "But that still makes me homeless, without a job or anywhere to go..."

The engineer nodded. "...I know some one who can help." He replied. "He is looking for young blighters like yourself; you'd fit right in to the regime he's running."

"Regime...?"

"Come on; I'll take you to him."

"What if I don't want to?"

"You don't have much of a choice," The engineer replied. "Stay here and die, or go see him and maybe make a name out of yourself!"

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The Church of Saint Ventura

"A church...?" Alex asked in shock.

"Shh!" The engineer hushed. "It is a low profile one at that; people don't believe in religion around here, and the thought of a church..."

A man doused in a large, black cloak was standing at the entrance hiding a weapon of some kind. "State your business or leave..."

The engineer nudged Alex. "I am homeless and I need a place to stay," The man showed no emotion, so the engineer nudged Alex again. "And a job?"

The man in the cloak looked oddly at Alex for a moment, showing his powerful nose and his scratched lips. "A job you say?" The figure slowly pushed the door he blocked open, revealing the broken down and smashed interoir of a once powerful religious institution.  At the rear, past broken walls and smashed plasterboard, was another man covered in a cloak playing the church's organ loudly and passoinately. "Address him as master, and he will give you food, shelter and money in exchange for your effort and time."

Alex looked at the enginner. "Work hard for him..." Alex nodded, and before he could thank the engineer or the doorman, the door was shut.

The organ's tunes and screeches filled the entire building with a triumphant chorus of holy power, making Alex slowly and without fear proceed towards the great hall at the rear, barely smashed or broken unlike the other rooms, with powerful rays of sunlight seeping through the boarded-up windows and holes in the fabric.  Alex slowly pushed the grand door open, and with the large creak that followed, the organist stopped playing, and turned to look at him.

For a moment only silence and stares were exchanged.

"You seek redemtion my child?" The frail, old man spoke behind the black veil of nothingness. "Or the power of faith?" The organist picked up a stick sitting on his left side, and stood.

"I need your help..."

"...You only need to help yourself in order to save your immortal soul," He replied in interruption. "You seek immortality?"

"Master, I..."

The figure's head tilted in question. "So you seek a new life?"

Alex nodded, and then shrugged his shoulders. "It appears I have no home and no food or money..."

"...Here you will find all," The figure replied. "Las Ventura is rotten and corrupt... Full of blood money and fools, all banished from god's blessed understanding!"

Alex nodded slowly. "Yes master..."

The figure began to approach down the main isle. "You will do the god's work..."

"...Yes master."

Each pound of the figure's stick was like a drumb beat, demanding the boy's acceptance. "You will become noah to the flood of the Ventura plain!"

"...Yes master."

He stopped before Alex and looked at him with a serious note of understanding. "You will clense this retched place of all evil," He began. "Give it a reason to have faith, and by doing so, removing all sins from thier sinful lives."

"Yes master."

"Good," He replied. "You must be hungry? Come; we have plentiful room for lost souls like yourself."

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The Mayoral Mansion

Alex was asleep in a small bedchamber made for three, with the door left slighty open, allowing his ears to be filled with the banter of master, the mayor himself, the state govorner and a few other unnamed souls.

"Father," The mayor began. "Your proposals are shrewed and obviously will be dejected by the 'lower' populace."

"I don't understand your worry," Master replied. "God smiles on those that accept thier sins, by introducing a personalised police force into the city and making the stakes higher; we can bring religion and heaven back into this corrupt town."

"Father please..." The governer starked.

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"...Don't!" Master replied, with a raised voice. "This town is old and frail, made of many towns that went backrupt over 60 years ago.  They owe god that much! The people here have no faith; no appreciation of what god has done for them! Just gamble, gamble, gamble until they become criminals!"

"But what you are saying contradicts everything you are trying to do..." The governer replied.

"...I know," He replied. "In a town this bad, we need to own the real estate and the money to put any message across or achieve any victory.  That is the problem with the Ventura plain; too hot with power to care about the true stakeholder..."

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"...Our first arrangement is to get our workforce into the city," He began. "Ensure they are working everywhere when a person hits the rocks; so that all whom fall will be offered a choice." He sighed. "Second; set off the explosion.  Make corporations from across the globe know what is going on and what is at stake if they watch it pass.  Third; begin expanding the airport... More tourists mean more business... More business means more bankrupt people... More followers.  Eventually the gambling will still be in existance in Ventura, but god will rule all."

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"What's going to stop the workforce from turning sour on you?" The mayor asked.

"They won't becuase they will either leave for thier homes and thier lives that they left behind," Master replied. "Or they will stay in the system until they die."

"What of the one you picked up yesterday...?" A stranger asked.

"He is the ultimate test," Master replied. "We must watch him very carefully..."

"Where is he to go?" The stranger asked again.

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"In the heart of the struggle," Master replied. "In the plazas and the stands, watching all whom go about thier daily lives gambling thier rights away.  He'll be the one to pass the messages and show the guidance; he'll be the one that will change everything for us soon."

"Agreed..."

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(Picture of the airport under construction)

To be continued...

Very good looking City you got growing there. I like that name too Las Ventura. How many do u have in population? Just curious.

Your Friend;
Mayor Of Steven's Point & Maxiston
(Proud To Be Cities Of Sim Nation!)

I haven't completed an audit yet but I shall do a head count for the next update.  Proir to our release of the second update I also update you on this matter at hand:

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The Model Master File

This Casino has reached uploading status for the LEX, and awaits scruiteneering from the BSC Team.  We are inches away from owning a copy of the Casino.

Neal.

Neal welcome back and wow what a come back it is!!!! SGM mmmmmmmmmmmm i cant wait to get ahold it... I will be awaiting the next update - pat

Hello, my friend!

I see that you've started updating here again, so I've moved your MD back into the active forums! I'll be looking forward to seeing what you've got in store for us!

Great new update there! And nice pictures! :thumbsup:

Pat: Almost there, just a couple of more tweaks and we'll be ready to unleash it.

thundercrack83: Thank you for returning the MD, and we have another update...

bat: Thankyou sir!

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Update 82 - Las Ventura, Giving Birth to a Legacy

Has been posted here (http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=62043&STARTPAGE=17)!

Neal.

Neal that was a fantastic update there and most wonderful!!! I soo cant wait for the SGM new version!!!

Ah finally! An update...

Update 83: San Portello; Main Story ACT III

The state has hit silence and rock bottom with any clue as to where or when Porablos will enter Ventura.  The police are on full alert; the mob continues to roam the streets with loaded automatics.  The army has scattered itself across the entire city state looking for him, and the navy is doing just the same with every beachhead and bulkhead.  The special forces team are the only crew that know the exact location of him, and are tracking him at this very moment... The integrity of the state lies in thier hands, and already, they are playing a dangerous game with it...

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City borders, just miles from downtown...

"Porablos..." Shi-Tan asked Porablos as he drove the van through the collosal streets of Las Ventura.

"What?" Porablos asked, quiet and steady.

"There's some one following us." Shi-Tan replied sternly, looking in his mirror.

Porablos looked in it too, and, oddly enough, the police lights began to flash. "it's the police," He replied. "You better keep going..."

The Van was beginning to slow down.

"What are you doing?" Porablos asked in panic. "Speed up!"

"Wait!" Shi-Tan shouted as the van came to a stop. "It could be nothing!"

A tense moment passed as the Police Officer got out of his flashing vehicle, and walked up to the van with his flashlight on.  He came to the window.

"License and reg..." The officer's flashlight shone on Eddie's face for a while. "Porablos! Step out of the...!"

The van screeched away as the cop pulled out his gun, and after a few seconds began to fire.

"I told you not to stop!" Porablos shouted.

"Where'd that one come from?" Shi-Tan asked as he saw a police vehicle coming up really fast with flashing lights. "Are they getting quick or something?"

Porablos stuck his head out of the window to take a look; SFPD. "No," He replied, before jamming his head back in after a gun shot. "San Fernandes police! Something is fishy here!"

"Another SFPD!" Shi-Tan shouted. "A trap!"

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The second car joined the chase and blew off a mirror and hurt Shi-Tan.

"Are you all right?" Porablos asked him.

"Fine!" Shi-Tan replied. "Just keep your head down!"

"They're organised!" Porablos shouted over another bullet hole. "Like some kind of secret agency!"

Shi-Tan nodded, ducking away from another bullet. "Never screw with SP Government!" Shi-Tan leckured. "Even Traids know that very well!"

Porablos looked at her queerly. "Who did I anger?"

Shi-Tan laughed. "Everyone."

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Police frequency: "United 345 and 145!" Came a shout. "Be advised! Heavy gang presence on Georgetown, Georgetown! You have to stop them right now!"

Unit 345: "Suspects are turning off!"

Unit 145: "Wait! They're gone! Where did they go?"

Police Frequency: "All units in northern area: Surround the casino and take down the gang! All units in vicinity of suspect's last sighting: search and destroy - I repleat, search and destroy!"

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"Some one wants you dead, no?" Shi-Tan asked Porablos.

Porablos slowly nodded. "The mob is looking for me," He replied. "The Amry and Navy are looking for me as well for thier ties with Cappichino, and the Federal Government just wants my hide so they can stop some kind of war from erupting."

"Civil War?" Shi-Tan asked.

Porablos nodded. "Something like that," He replied. "The military keeps clashing with the mob, if there is a major confrontation like the one back on the interstate, then a whole city could be destroyed just for me being there!"

"All for one man..." Shi-Tan chuckled. "You are very powerful... We stay here until daybreak, eat, then see an old freind."

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Confrontations arise... Casulaties are hit and suspeneded.  The SGM is one of them.

Sundown...

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"Who is this old freind you spoke of?" Porablos asked at the gate.

"A very old freind indeed..." Shi-Tan replied.

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They both walk into the factory, to find it is a safehouse for crooks and criminals desperate from the cold of Las Ventura, all working or exchanging goods to earn some money for good eating.  At the centre of hit sat a small cubicle, and when the two of them walked in, Porablos tried to run away, for standing there, in a group waiting for him, was Spaghetti and a handful of hard-knock gangsters.

"No! No!" Porablos screamed as the door slammed in front of him, leaving him to the gang. "It wasn't me I swear!"

Spaghetti and his boys looked at each other oddly, before shrugging thier shoulders. "Relax you frightened pussycat," Spaghetti enticed. "We're here to talk about business."

Porablos stopped panicking and looked at him strangely. "Really?"

"Really really," Spaghetti reached into his coat pocket and stepped forward. "What is this business?"

Spaghetti lurched his fist backward and smashed Porablos in the nose, therefore breaking it. "That's for ratting us out you turd!" He shouted, before stepping back and throwing an envelope on the floor. "And that is for helping us escape."

Porablos carefully picked up the envelope and opened it, before reading the paper. "A meeting?"

Spaghetti nodded. "5 a.m, the old pocket park." He replied, before beginning to walk out with his thugs. "A future is set for you Porablos."

"What future?" Porablos asked oddly. "Spaghetti! Who am I supposed to meet?"

"Just be there," Speghetti replied sternly. "The problem with you Porablos is that you are too much of a chicken to even dare the inevitable and take a chance; I could have pulled a gun out on you and blew your brains out, but instead I'll leave that to some other createn that wants to see you hanged."

The last thug tapped Porablos on the forehead. "Five in the morning," He replied. "Be there or be dead."

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5.01 a.m...

"He's not coming..." Porablos replied to himself with a sigh.

"...Who isn't?" An old vocie asked.

"C-Cappichino?" Porablos asked with a shake.

"It's all right kid," Cappichino reassured. "I've got what I wanted and got what was comin' to me.  You did a brave thing back in Porablos, and I respect you for that.  Even more so for the fact you saved my chops of a certain death; at the resturant and again if it wasn't for my prison sentance."

"What did you want Cappichino?" Porablos asked.

"I have a proposition for you kid," Cappichino replied. "Think of it as a gesture of good faith for an old freind.  I have me a few plans for a new casino see, right here in this crummy town, that'll eat away at a good-man's savings like a fat kid on a straight diet of chocolate cakes.  Here's my proposition; you show your sorry hide in front of Miss Liberty in Georgetown on national television and apologise to the world, and you get yourself a flashy, new casino to play with."

"Apologise to the world?" Porablos asked oddly. "Whatever for?"

"For having your sorry butt ruin the whole infrastructure!" He shouted. "For making the mob look like some kind of cruel band of brigands! For hurting my daughter, sleeping with her and then throwing her to that good-for-nothing Spaghetti! I don't even like pasta! For almost creating and unleashing a civil war that will bring about the next depression!"

"Is that it...?" Porablos querly asked.

Cappichino opened his arms in question. "What do you mean?"

"Cops..."

"What?"

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"POLICE!" The copter paraded. "PORABLOS! DROP YOUR WEAPON AND LAY FACE FIRST ON THE GROUND!"

"You betrayed me?" Porablos shouted in horror with his pistola pointed at the chopper.

"I don't stoop to your level idiot." Cappichino replied with his hands up. "You've been betrayed by some one else in the mix."

Police sirens were starting to fill the area.  Porablos looked at the weapon lovingly. "What do I do now?"

"Just get in that damn van and drive away!" Cappichino shouted. "Give me that gun!" Porblos threw Cappicho the gun and ran for the van.

"HE'S RABBITING! OPEN FIRE!" The copter's rifle began to fire at Porablos.

"You're shooting the wrong guy idiot!" Cappichino shouted, before shooting at the helicopter.

The police vehicles came into sight, and the van began to screech away, leaving Cappichino to shoot at the police vehicles as they approached very quickly.

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Police Frequency: "SUSPECT SPOTTED AND IN PERSUIT!" He shouted. "All units, prepare to open fire when he passes you! DO NOT let him get to that Casino!"

Unit 345: We need blockades to stop him! Both directions!

Police Frequency: "In place!" The reciever shouted. "Just take him down now!"

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Unit 444: "Blockadge in place! We have him! Wait! He missed the main turn off, heading north on Ventura! All units south on Venturaegress and persue now!"

Police Frequency: "BLOCKADE TWO, PREPARE FOR BREACH!"

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SMAAASH! SCREEECH!

Unit 135: "Ahhhh!"

Helicopter Unit: "PORABLOS' ESCAPE VEHICLE IS SMOKING AND FAILING!" They screamed. "APPROACHING THE CENTRAL BORDER NOW! Permission to use minigun?!!"

Police Frquency: "DENIED! You'll only provoke them!"

Hoodlums on Georgetown campus...

Thug 1: "What the heck is that?"

Spagehetti: "What ever it is it is coming straight for us! Move out of the way!"

Thug 2: "It's Porablos!" He shouted. "And the police!"

SCREEECH! SMASH!

Porablos leaps out, couching and spluttering.

Spaghetti: "Porablos!" He shouted. "What brings you to these parts of town?"

Porablos: "Get out of here!" He shouted. "They're after me not you!"

Thug 1: "This is our territory!" He smashed open the back of the van to reveal a cache of weapons.

Porablos: "Since when were they in there?"

SCREECH! NEE-NAW!

Spaghetti: "No time to explain!" He shouted. "Get inside the statue now!"

Thug 2: "This is it fellas!" He chuckled.

Police Copter: "POLICE! PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN AND YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEADS, ALL OF YOU! NOW!"

One unnamed Policeman: "SURRENDER PORABLOS AND YOU'LL LIVE!"

Spaghetti: "THIS ISN'T ABOUT BARGAINS ANYMORE, THIS IS THE LAND OF THE FREE!"

Policeman: "PORABLOS IS DESTROYING THAT LEGACY! SURRENDER HIM AND YOU'LL SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES SPAGHETTI!"

Spaghetti: "He's not destroying that legacy here you clank!" He screamed. "You're running after the wrong person; he can save it! He has already saved millions of live just by being here!"

BANG!

Policeman: "HOLD YOUR FIRE!"

Thug 2: "Spaghetti! NOOO!"

BOOM! BANG! BANG!

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Police Copter: "BAZOOKA! ABORT! ABORT!"

Pilot: "TOO LATE!"

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The firefight lasts for only a few seconds, killing all whom apposed the orders of police, wounding many of thiers but leaving a bloody mess in the central point of a town that was "supposed" to be made of dreams.  The confrontations of all confrontations had just been spilled and selected, and be it not the Navy, Army or the Triads taking down the Mob, it was the police.

Policeman: "Porablos!" He shouted, making Porablos raise his hands slowly. "Keep them there! Show me your face!"

Porablos slowly turned...

Policeman: "W-what?" He questioned oddly, not recognising Porablos' face at all. "Y-You're not Porablos!"

The stranger nodded.

Police: "V-Vu?"

Vu smiled and pointed a pistol at him.

Vu: "It's for the best Porablos... You are the key to saving San Portello..."

Porablos: "Wait!" He looked at himself oddly. "How? How did I get here?"

Vu refused to stop smiling.

Vu: "Trust me."

Porablos: "Vu! WAIT! NO!"

Vu shot Porablos, and in his fit of self realiance, Porablos shot Vu.  Both fell to the floor, both dying, but only one would die, and being it Porablos whom now was in the Police Officer's Uniform, Vu became the vigilante of vigilantes, and upon his deathbed on the cold, hard concrete floor, Porablos would get his second chance to shine and rebuild what he had mistakenly destroyed.  Questions went through his mind continously: How did he swap! How is it I am now a police officer? How is it I am now saved and he on the floor digraced? Why me?

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This marks the end of ACT III...

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Transportation

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Reigonal Shot

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Reigonal Transportation Shot

Amazing pictures  :thumbsup:

Fantastic update, my friend! The storyline is great and the pictures of the city are fantastic, too! Keep up the good work!

sauron620: Thankyou again!

thundercrack83: Thankyou sir! I'm glad somebody liked them, alot of work it took indeed.

Any more appreciated.

Pictures look good. Dark nights combined to your story is excellent, though I did stop reading in one point, but I'll finish it up tomorrow. New casinos also look good, but why MGM was abadoned?

very good realization! &apls

wow  a bunch of nice updates, love the "casino"'s torn down !