Hassler's apartment

The Trista Clarion Cabal HQ, located at 1524 W. 19th St. in Little Rock, AR in the Central High district, is a major location in Swappernetters, as well as its tie-in Swappernetters Story Pack Series for Sims games.

Earth-GØ
Built in 1905, this residence has undergone a number of revisions, and survived multiple trials of time. In 2014, the home's tax value decreased very rapidly. It recovered some of its value in 2015. In 2022, it was placed up for sale.

Notable residents

 * Pete Hassler (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Rev. Beauregard (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Various Swappernetter youth (rare visitors)
 * Frontliners (potential contract workers)
 * Cassidy "Atroce" Verner (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Selina "Triflow" Travin (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Twirlflame Trio (most frequent contract workers)
 * Tabitha Pang (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Sarah Ruben (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Tobias Reno (🕮 • 🕹)

Specs

 * Address: 1400 N. Pierce St. Little Rock, AR 72207 (main office)
 * Phone: (501)-664-6172
 * Average apartment size: 1,136 sq ft.
 * Rental rate: Varies ($1,200 - $1,600 / month)
 * Pets: Limit of 2 pets per household. Extra $20 a month rent for pets.  Pet initiation fee of $300 one time for one pet, $400 for two pets.
 * Amenities:
 * Swimming pool
 * Fitness center
 * Dog park
 * Elevators
 * Access-controlled doors and entry camera system
 * Recycling stations
 * Emergency maintenance
 * Poolside cabana
 * Clubhouse with game room and lounge
 * Resident pavilion with outdoor kitchen
 * No weight or breed restrictions on pets
 * Five different on-site laundry rooms
 * Covered and gated parking available
 * Pay rent online
 * Online work orders
 * Walk-in closets
 * Fully-equipped kitchens
 * Ceiling fans
 * Stainless steel appliances
 * Built-in microwave
 * Private balconies / patios
 * Woodburning fireplaces
 * Central AC
 * Granite countertops

Nearby early education
Moreso than any other institution, Gina Swinton would weaponize elementary schools, the way woke activists have done in real life. With all the seething passion and hatred of Audrey Hale, the Chrome Kite regime would mercilessly shut down key schools not willing to bend the knee to Gina's demonic curriculum. Schools are listed here according to which ones would be appropriated for the Swinton Curriculum, and which ones would be forced underground or shut down or even blown up by General Clamdor.



Nearby later education
Not counting the whole of Swappernetter society and its underground education operations, there are a few official high schools in Little Rock. While their integrity would be under attack by the Chrome Kite, as of 2023 in real life, the following existed in the Little Rock area near Trista's house:

High schools


Colleges


Trade schools
The Chrome Kite would likely drive all but a tiny handful of tech schools they could control underground. In spite of this, as of March of 2023, Little Rock had the following tech schools near Trista:



Nearby grocers
The following grocers are known to be near Trista's house. How many would survive under the Chrome Kite is up for debate.


 * Uncle T's Food Mart
 * Broadway Food Mart
 * The Green Corner Store
 * Edwards Cash Store
 * EZ-Mart
 * Road Runner
 * Vestal Gourmet Foods
 * Garden Square
 * Stratton's Market Wine and Spirits
 * K Hall and Sons Produce
 * Our Community Market
 * New Africa Market Place
 * Woodrow Food Mart

Nearby fast food
The following fast food places are known to be near Trista's house. How many would survive under the Chrome Kite is up for debate.


 * The Box
 * McDonald's
 * Rally's
 * Wendy's
 * Taco Bell
 * Sonic
 * Chik-fil-A

Nearby insurance firms
The following insurers are known to be within reasonable driving distance of Hassler's apartment. How many would survive under the Chrome Kite is up for debate.


 * Cashion
 * Nationwide
 * Allstate
 * Bowen
 * Comparion
 * Arkansas Insurance Professionals
 * Farmers
 * Priority

Nearby hospitals

 * CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
 * UAMS
 * Arkansas State Hospital (psychiatric)
 * Arkansas Children's Hospital

Nearby gas stations
The Chrome Kite would allow these stations to stay open, but would help them augment in support for water cars. Because murdering water car inventors by the FBI is a level of stupid in real life that even the Chrome Kite won't stoop to.


 * Exxon
 * Shell
 * Mobil
 * E-Z Mart

Nearby pharmacies

 * Walgreens
 * Cornerstone Pharmacy of Main Street
 * City Pharmacy
 * Kroger
 * Agenta Drug Co.

Area crime rate
Note: All data listed here is from 2023, given released FBI statistics. These are only the incidents actually submitted to the FBI after screening by local police reports, and not indicative of all possible incidents that went unreported.

The Heights district of Little Rock is surprisingly safe, compared to several other districts. There were, in 2020, approximately only about 150 crimes total reported in the Heights district. Just under 3 out of every 100 residents, in 2020, either committed a crime or was a victim of one. Exact statistics aren't provided for the Heights district on AreaVibes, but the fact that the site gave this district a C+ grade, in spite being surrounded by far more dangerous districts, speaks volumes for how comparatively safe the district is purported to be. By contrast, the average for all of Little Rock was shown to be the following:


 * Murder: ~93 (31.3 per capita)
 * Rape: ~300 (127.1 per capita)
 * Robbery: ~600 (200.2 per capita)
 * Assault: ~4,000 (1,704.8 per capita)
 * Burglary: ~3,000 (993.6 per capita)
 * Standard theft: ~9,000 (3,837.9 per capita)
 * Vehicular theft: ~1,500 (532.6 per capita)

Active Frontliners would seldom have to worry about violent crime being committed against them near Hassler's apartment. They would, however, have to be mindful of any members of the regime taking issue with their presence, or any bootlickers of the regime that might snitch on them.

In video games
Around 2:38 PM EDT on Saturday, April 8th of 2023, Hassler's apartment was uploaded to DzMD as a set residential lot with a second story pretending to be a Magnolia floor plane apartment from Forest Place. This replaced the earlier actual in-game apartment on a different lot in the same neighborhood that had been designated as the model for Hassler's apartment as of the summer of 2020. This was due to the dependency of that other lot on TwistedMexi's T.O.O.L. mod in order to put balcony objects on the balcony properly, given the game didn't count the balcony as part of an apartment. This simple fix often made the original lot buggy, leading to it not being allowed on DzMD. Hassler gained a lot more beds and closets, but had to forfeit some of his plants and other miscellaneous decorations, due to floor plan restrictions.

Forest Place was chosen as the template for Hassler's new apartment build based on its balconies, and on the pretense that sufficiently-skilled Frontliners could find a way to access the balcony and be let in to the apartment - provided no regime were watching, and Hassler had cleared visitors for arrival by that route. Tabitha and her friends would have it much easier than others finding alternate ways in, though most clients meeting with Hassler would have to meet by knocking on his apartment door from inside the building.

Notes:


 * The living room sofa contains a Murphy bed, which allows the living room to double as a third bedroom.

Cost of living
Hassler's operation tries to cut some of the costs of Trista and Kamhold's operations for itself, due to the fact that Hassler's rent alone far exceeds the average monthly costs for either of his two closest comrades in their immediate market for Frontliners. While he utilizes many firewalls, proxies, and VPNs to hide his true intentions and contacts with Frontliners he hires, Hassler doesn't have his own server for analyzing on-site schematics, the way Trista does in her basement. He mostly uses data to inspect and assist his hacker teams, and then compounds evidence and discoveries into encrypted packaging to give to trusted SCALLOP liaisons. This allows Hassler to appear less like a Frontliner cabal boss, as he has a greater need to conceal his operation than do the likes of Trista or Kamhold. His working with Birch on developing smarter green technology and city beautification standards means that Hassler must appear beneficial to the Chrome Kite. His duplicity therefore requires him to appear the least like he may be harboring Frontliners.

In spite of this, Hassler has done Corazowork by utilizing one of the bedrooms to his apartment. He's utilized this to both hide his hacker teams, as well as to give the children the appearance of not being Swappernetters, to minimize suspicion by the regime. Charity work to assist him has led to donations that go toward his basic living expenses. Moreso, Hassler's jobs for his teams to hack lead to Hassler himself getting large cuts of the paycheck from Swappernetter society financiers, with actual Frontliners getting reasonably smaller cuts for their own use.

It's estimated that in early 2023 USD, Hassler's living expenses per month would be about $3,000 total. If he makes at least $200 a month from charity donations and a minimum of $2,500 a month from performing odd jobs for the financiers above him, then Hassler can use his innovations and connections with Thunders to generate an additional $1,000 a month of income, allowing him to afford a living. These figures, however, are difficult to ascertain with regards to actual monetary value quality, given that Arkonian and Toklisanan currency would have to be very different from real-world US currency. Assuming that both Toklisana and the Chrome Kite are better with resources and wiser with regard to financial prudence than the 2020s United States government, then it may be possible to ignore real-world inflation rates, which could significantly lower Hassler's cost of living.

Maintaining this facade does require Hassler to be careful whom he is seen associating with, and when. He insists, for example, that Sarah only visit him under the alias of "Mona Reece." Likewise, Tabitha must disavow all variations of her "Jolt Figment" persona, and only visit him under the disguise and alias of "Vanessa Chartreuse." Hassler furthermore seldom hires Tobias directly to any of his operations, given that Tobias' "Jake Hambone" disguise is less convincing. Similarly, Tobias is only essential when Hassler needs his Frontliners to go any place where physical danger is anticipated. Hassler already knows that Tobias lacks hacking skills, and would be wasted on such intellectual pursuits.

The more Hassler gets careless with whom he is seen with, the more danger he finds himself in, both financially and in regards to his very life. When inquired about the fact that Atroce had been seen near his apartment one time, Hassler had to get clever to play off his association with her. He was fortunate that Atroce had already fallen prey to Lady Chillingworth, lest future encounters lead to more suspicion.