Riverside Hollow has reached the double digits in weeks! I read through all my updates a few days ago and completely fell in love with my silly little town again, so I've picked up where I left off. Yay for more BaCC updates :)
I played week 10 for the Fenwicks before my hiatus, so this update is actually several weeks (months?) old. I've also changed the aging mod that I'm using, switching down from 2 days = 1 year to 1 day = 1 year. I want to see the town moving along a bit faster. Everyone's ages have been updated accordingly and seeing as we're just on a generation switch-over, the change shouldn't be too jarring. 

Flora moved out last week to live together with her fiancé Adam Stibbons, and noone has seen Freesia around for a while, as she's off on an expedition into the forests together with her beau Rajat Patanjali. That means the Fenwick household has been reduced to Felix, his son Fox, and Fox's girlfriend Hannah Greengrass. 
The new housing arrangement gives everyone some much-needed breathing space, even if Felix misses having all his kids around. He's been feeling rather lonely and morose since his wife Lily died. Flora has taken over his mayor duties full-time now, and he's been making himself useful helping out with her myriad of building projects. 



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 Spring tends to be a busy time of the year for all the settlers, but the Fenwicks really outdid themselves in terms of events for this week. So brace yourselves, this update is going to be a long one.



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Felix and Lily started the week by finally caving in and giving their home a makeover. The old house was really getting too small, people were constantly blocking each other's way. 

So their old place got updated from wooden shack to homely cottage, right in time for autumn to come around. I tried to be as conservative as possible and not dip into the town funds too much, and I think the whole thing cost them around 40K to build and furnish from scratch.

 
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This week started off with a happy occasion for the Fenwicks, as Fox and Freesia got to celebrate their toddler birthdays. The Fenwicks' life is pretty uneventful nowadays, with Felix busy at work and Lily crafting pottery when she's not looking after the kids. Felix takes over the childrearing when he gets home from work so Lily gets a break as well, which means that he hasn't had a whole lot of time to get those skillpoints in that he needs to advance in the Politics career. He wouldn't have it any other way though, as he loves his kids and is more than happy to spend time with them.

The twins even got a cake! Both of them :) (Disregard Fox' smelly diaper, I sure did)



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Winter has fallen over the village. Food has been stocked, pipes insulated and warm clothes taken out of the closet. Now there's not much left to do aside from sitting out the season and watching the pretty snowflakes fall.

Either I took fewer pictures this round, or some have been lost in the PC crash. Either way, the updates this week are going to be a bit shorter than usual :)




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Work on naming the BaCC continues, and I've narrowed it down to *Something* Hollow. Any suggestions?

Autumn has arrived for the little settlement, and preparations for winter are in full swing. There's foodstores to be stocked, walls and roofs to be insulated, and work has started on protecting the new generator and water purifyer from the frosts. Felix has his hands full trying to organise all this activity; making sure Rose is still up for her duties as a mechanic, what with the baby, helping Myra with dividing her produce fairly over the households, explaining to Arthur that he has to stop arresting all the new visitors to the town (even though said visitors think it's a hoot and have a great time playing along with it) and keeping Davin out of everybody's hair.

Oh, and he has his own growing family to take care of as well.



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Something rather strange has been happening to Felix Fenwick, since arriving in this little scrap of Nowhere. Stranger than turning into a werewolf every night. People in this town look up to him. They come to him when they need advice or a private talk. Myra even dragged Davin and her friend Nate to his house one evening, and asked him if he couldn't sort out the differences between them. That one was a lost battle, really, but the fact that she came to him about it still thrills him a bit.



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The settlers have built their (rather ramshackle) homes in a small meadow of the sparse forest that surrounds the riverside. Felix' idea really, as he feels happiest amongst the trees for some reason. Noone really wanted to be located far away from the others in this remote area, resulting in the small huddle of houses you can see below.

It's a bit of a trek to get to the river for water, but they all feel safer beneath the shelter the trees provide, and they're not sure yet if the river will overflow during the wetter seasons. Best to play it safe.



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