Erin's house

The Erin Flippo House is a residence in Gerosha, Indiana, that was purchased by Erin Flippo some time after leaving the Triangulum, with money inherited from adoptive parents Stan and Shalia Flippo. In this home, for several years, she raised her sisters Candi, Miriam, and Marina. The home is most relevant to the Cataclysmic Gerosha (Earth-G7) timeline, though there are alternate versions of it. It is based on the real life 1205 N. 1st St., based in Boonville, Indiana.

History
The house was constructed originally in 1918, but underwent drastic alterations in 1980. Up until 1990, the home's history is fairly consistent in all Dozerfleet timelines with its real-world history. During the events in The Battle for Gerosha, however, the home's timeline diverges. In most Gerosha continuity from Earth-G6 and onward the home falls at some point into the possession of Erin Flippo, some time around 2003. From there, it became the homestead for Erin to raise her younger siblings in 2006, after Stan and Shalia die. Candi, Miriam, and Marina would live here on and off until some time between 2018 and 2020, when the girls would finally meet their husbands and move out permanently. Erin dies in this house, and its fate afterward varies by continuity.

Specs

 * Lot size: 6,970 sq. ft
 * House area: 2,485 sq. ft
 * Estimated market value: $169,900 (as of September 2021 via Realtor.com)

Nearby early education

 * Loge Elementary School (PreK-5) (Gerosha Elementary in continuity)
 * Oakdale Elementary School (K-5)

Nearby later education

 * Boonville Middle School (6-8) (Gerosha Middle School in continuity)
 * Boonville High School (Gerosha High School in continuity)
 * Warrick Christian School (grade limitations not listed online, but favorable user reviews)

Nearby grocers

 * Boonville SAV-U-MOR IGA


 * Posey's Market


 * Wal-Mart

Nearby fast food

 * McDonald's
 * Long John Silver's
 * Arby's
 * Subway
 * Taco Bell
 * etc.

Nearby insurance firms

 * State Farm
 * Rhodes Insurance Agency

Nearby gas stations

 * Chuckles
 * Kangaroo Express

Nearby pharmacies

 * CVS

Area crime rate
Almost double (91% higher) the state average (a real-world Ciem would be a great benefit to the city!)


 * Murder: almost a complete non-issue
 * Rape: 6
 * Robbery: 3
 * Assault: 26
 * Burglary: 23
 * Standard theft: 150
 * Vehicular theft: 12

Rationale for inclusion in Gerosha mythos
This house was chosen due to its importance in continuity following revisions made after Gerosha Prime. Instead of the McAuley family becoming Candi's legal guardians, the mythos was rewritten from Earth-G4 onward to have Erin be the primary legal guardian of all three triplets. Since Reily became a celebrity chef traveling the world, and decided not to have his siblings live with him in the Triangulum, the girls needed to live somewhere else.

After it was decided that Gerosha would be the alternate continuity name for Boonville, the girls needed to be placed in a home that would put them at just the right distance from downtown and their high school, while placing them far enough from the Triangulum to make it clear that the two homes wouldn't be in the same neighborhood. Erin takes the Gerosha Code about not flaunting wealth more seriously than Reily does. Therefore, she needed a home that could reasonably support her and the girls, without looking too fancy.

Of all these homes, 1205 N. 1st St. seemed to most fit the bill. It also had a lot of photos of its interior available online, courtesy of its homeowners in 2015 being eager to sell the house.

Earth-G∅
In this timeline, the house has had a fairly uneventful existence. In 2016, it was sold by a Gentry family, that specializes in sales occupations. . While most sites list it as having 2 bathrooms, it is listed as having 3 by Tucker Realtors. It once had a detached garage; but that garage has since been taken down. The house is located in the Theresa Hart Addition neighborhood, not far from downtown Boonville.

Earth-G3.1
This version didn't fully flesh out the realization of Boonville being the analog for Gerosha. As such, there was no street address. Furthermore, the McAuley family gained custody of Candi after the deaths of Stan and Shalia, and Erin was irrelevant to the plot. The house they're depicted being in is nothing at all like the real life house, even if the general premise of location is the same.

Earth-G4
This version depicted a very basic 1-story house, with the Flippo girls barely having room to do much. Hardware failures on the PC that was being used led to the graphics deteriorating rapidly, making shots almost unbearable to look at.

Earth-G5


Candi, Miriam, and Marina lived with Erin in a 1-story house with an attached garage. The exact location in town is unspecified. By the time this story opens, Candi has been training on her own, with only occasional help from Imaki. Marina has already moved out, and Erin is coming to grips with the fact that her sisters can't stay single and chaste forever. Nothing especially interesting happens to the girls in this timeline before 2019, and Candi moves away after Erin's death. She visits the house only one more time afterward, to find supplies hidden in the attic to help Donte out. In this version, Erin is decapitated with a machete only after being shot dead - a death which remains canon in every version afterward. In the previous continuity, she was chainsaw-decapitated while being shot. In continuities before that, no details are depicted regarding the exact nature of her being murdered. It's only known that she died.

Earth-G6
This was the first version to explicitly state the street address where Erin and the girls were staying. Initial builds of the house were largely inaccurate in The Sims 3, but this was a start to depicting a 2-story house with a fenced yard on the north side of Gerosha / Boonville. The house is only briefly relevant in the beginning of Ciem: Vigilante Centipede, before ceasing to be relevant ever again.

1990s
In 1990, the Hebbleskin Gang put a dome around Boonville and took it hostage. They destroyed the local cemeteries, and could potentially have destroyed the entire city. However, locals Stan and Shalia Flippo - heirs of the incredible fortune of the pirate Henry Lohtz and bearers of his symbolic lightning-whelk-etched scallop shell dubbed the "Gerosha Stone," helped the Phaelite Society of Earth and National Guard soldier Mitch Brandel to take the city back.

The retreating Hebbleskins swore revenge, and the city was renamed Gerosha in honor of the cultural momentum that Stan and Shalia used to build a resistance and take the city back. Maple Grove Cemetery was rebuilt as the Gerosha Cemetery, with new mausoleums and attractions added built from Stan's massive fortune. They got in good with several key religious leaders and conservative culture warriors, such as Phyllis Schalfly. However, the prosperity and Bible Belt wholesomeness the Flippos brought to their redeemed city, and their city-on-a-hill ambitions, didn't last.

Their oldest son, Reily Flippo, became distracted and apathetic due to his materialistic attraction to the wealth and fame he soon earned as a celebrity chef.

Stan and Shalia's adopted daughter, Erin Wyer-Flippo, was plagued with numerous physical and mental health problems. Their friend Imaki Izuki ran into some difficulty by 1992, when changes to immigration law complicated his chances of getting a green card - requiring him to get frequent visa renewals while returning to Japan. Donations from Stan and Shalia ensured Imaki never had to worry about money; but his unorthodox methods made an increasingly jumpy and growing government bureaucratic machine nervous.

In 1994, Stan Flippo completed construction of the Triangulum, and also enabled the Phaelite Society of Earth to become a liaison between Phaeleel and the US National Guard dubbed the "Security-Centric Alliance Lending and Learning Of Phaelites" (SCALLOP for short.) Stan's half-clone son with the Phaelite scientist Insila Murtillo, Darius Philippine, initially set up a headquarters for SCALLOP in nearby Evansville.

However, the rigors of life and the temptations of fame and power resulted in Darius losing his way. He furthermore moved SCALLOP's main operations to Texas when the agency gained its first submarine aircraft carrier, dubbed the Chen after a mythical clam monster from Chinese mythology. A Houston base made it easier for him to keep tabs on the Chen and its crew, stationed in the Gulf of Mexico.

By 1998, left-wing activists descended on Gerosha with white-hot passion, vowing to undermine and destroy the "offensive" (read: Godly) culture that Stan and Shalia had cultivated there. Worse: some of them even sympathized with the Hebbleskins, to the point of colluding and conspiring with them!

In September of 1999, Shalia gave birth to triplets Candice, Miriam, and Marina. However, an experiment performed many years earlier on Stan against his will by unethical Phaelites resulted in his daughters developing the Centhuen Prototype program - enabling each of them with the potential to become "5%" centipede. Darius stated that if any of the girls manifested properly, said girl needed to be honed as an option for SCALLOP in its continued war on the Hebbleskins - compounded by a growing alliance between the Hebbleskins and a rising Anglo-Italian political death cult known as the Society of the Icy Finger. Imaki looked over the girls, and quickly noticed that Candi showed the most signs of manifesting the genetic program. She'd most likely get the powers, with her centipede DNA bonded to the Marlquaan in space. Miriam and Marina's programs appeared to be mostly dormant, meaning they could pretend to be ordinary and still hope to live ordinary lives.

2000s
In 2006, the Hebbleskins sent an assassin along with then-junior scout Gunner Soorfelt to avenge Fantisk and Trobiskak Luddin from 1990. They vowed they'd one day collect the heads of Shalia's daughters as trophies for new leader Duke Arfaas Hebbleskin. But in the short run, they seized advantage of a security flaw to run Stan and Shalia off the road into a ditch - killing them. Shalia's head was collected for Arfaas, along with vows to one day aim to collect the heads of all of Shalia's daughters to complete the collection. Reily was supposed to gain custody of his sisters in the event of Stan and Shalia dying. However, he reneged on his promise, to focus on his own family and travels.

Erin used her share of the inheritance to purchase the house on 1205 N. 1st. St. in 2007 (first available screenshot in Google Street View.) The garage was falling apart, and needed to be removed. In spite having millions of dollars, Erin chose to keep a low profile and act like a middle-class nobody. She reinforced in her sisters the ethic their parents had taught them: "Always live a little beneath your means."

While Darius wanted Candi taught to be a black ops soldier and cold assassin, Imaki used his position as her godfather to train her to think and behave more like a traditional comic book superhero - even going so far as to draft suit designs for her. He wanted some nobility and empathy in his goddaughter - attributes he feared Darius had lost sight of. Imaki also feared for the girls' future. Stan chose them over Darius, and Darius grew bitter with jealousy, blaming the girls for Stan's death. Imaki and Erin gained joint custody of Candi, while Erin had full custody of Miriam and Marina.

Candi would spend the next 8 years of her life (partially) growing up inside 1205 N. 1st. St., seeing the world around her spiral out of control with violence, nihilism, and cultural demoralization. She would briefly help Erin with assisting her friend, Meredith Celestine, with a move from Big Rapids to Nashville, and would meet Aaron Stefflin in this time. Likewise, her sister Miriam witnessed a car driving through the neighborhood that afternoon, unaware that the man inside the car was Chris "the Purge-Flare" Kennal - whom she'd one day seduce in order to get him to assist her in saving her hometown.

2010s
Candi's powers manifested in full in 6th grade, when Don "the Psycho" Mendoza attacked her in a Gerosha Middle School shower stall and she fought him off. Miriam manifested incredible talent as a hacker instead, and Marina became a talented guitar player - one who would eventually tour with the Starboard Crickets and later become a founding member of Turkeybreath Skyline - both indie bands. Candi tried hard to do right by everyone and make everyone important in her life happy. However, the rift in her soul caused by Don's attack, led to her putting everything in jeopardy. All due to her inability to control her longing for a boyfriend - and to please him at nearly any cost. This began with one Tyrone Menster, though the two were very immature at the time, and the relationship didn't last long. Candi later would date Danny Loffin - and this led to her becoming irresponsible, as she obsessed over him too much.

When the Second Geroshan Dome was erected by the Hebbleskins on October 15th of 2015, Candi found herself trapped outside of the city - and arrested by confused police. Several homes were burned by the Pyro Panthers during this event; but Erin's house remained untouched. It was raided at one point by Quoll and his forces in November of 2017; but left alone when they couldn't find anything inside useful. Erin and Marina found cover elsewhere, so Quoll left the house mostly intact.

Put into an impossible situation that led to her being railroaded into prison, Candi got out in January of 2018 - only to discover that the nefarious quasi-Islamic fanatic / militant Halal Affadidah had teamed up with the Icy Finger to conquer 1/4 of America in 2018. The 2016 elections never happened in this timeline, as Icy Finger leader Warren "Rappaccini" Buntine ensured both Trump and Hillary were assassinated.

2020s and beyond
In early September of 2019, the home was all but completely destroyed by Affadidah's regime after Erin was assassinated by Gunner and Skellig. Candi and Donte, unable to maintain their shack, patched up what they could of this house's remains, and took shelter in the ruins. It wouldn't be rebuilt until many years later, in the 2050s.

Earth-G7.2.0
In the Centipede and Fire Saga Story Pack Series, Erin's house is one of many Sims 4 content uploads that features in relation to Ciem: Inferno. A ruined version of the home exists in the Sodality: Instigation Story Pack. The home is also available for download on Mod the Sims.

Residents

 * Erin Flippo
 * Candi Flippo
 * Miriam Flippo
 * Marina Flippo

Visitors

 * Cory Mogen
 * Tyrone Menster
 * Imaki Izuki
 * Don "Module" Glotine
 * Chris "the Purge-Flare" Kennal
 * Matt Baret
 * Danny Loffin
 * Sam Hoverton
 * Phil Couric
 * Roger Loffin
 * Anthony Wellings
 * Bernie Mudster
 * Gunner Soorfelt
 * Skellig Soorfelt