Hassler's apartment

The Pete Hassler Cabal HQ, located at 1400 N. Pierce St. in Little Rock, AR in the Hights district, is a major location in Swappernetters, as well as its tie-in Swappernetters Story Pack Series for Sims games.

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Forest Place was first opened on January 1st of 1974. It became an incorporated part of Maxus Properties, Inc. on May 5th of 2008. While going through multiple management teams since 2008, the facility experienced its share of communication difficulties, leading to mixed reviews on management quality. Like many apartments, the scramble to deal with increasing government tyranny and extortion, as well as runaway inflation, has affected the rental rates for this business. This has also led to miscommunications, such as financing billing some tenants twice for the same late fee.

Logistical credence to Earth-G7
The facility's business struggles further lend credence to the fact that Hassler's position with Thunders and cover maintained would be essential, along with working secretly with Trussel and other financiers, to maintain his outward appearance of not being a threat. This would all be necessary for Hassler to produce the income necessary to live at Forest Place, as he would have one of the highest costs of living of any Frontliner cabal boss. That being said, assuming maintenance under Chrome Kite leadership would be on par with or better than 2023 real-world maintenance team quality, then Hassler's extra risks and expenses to live at Forest Place would pay off with him also having much more comfortable living than many of his peers.

The amenities that coincide with the cost of living at Forest Place not only include close access to key highways, but also ensure that second and third story residents would be better insulated against wildfire and flood risks; which could otherwise spell absolute disaster for other cabal bosses such as Trista or Kamhold.

Furthermore, given Hassler's location at Forest Place, and the fact that the Chrome Kite isn't quite as malevolent as Rappaccini or even some individuals within the real world US government, Hassler is more reasonably protected against regime missile fire than Trista or Kamhold. No ruling party would want to have to justify destroying an entire apartment complex on the soil they wish to rule, then gaslight the public into believing it necessary. Meanwhile, a single private individual's home being destroyed in a similar fashion, spread enough apart from other homes, would allow for easier media spin to justify such aggressive tactics.

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Always reinventing himself to adapt to the cybernetic needs of his clients, Pete Hassler lived and usually worked out of this apartment for many years before the Chrome Kite took over Arkansas. He naturally networked himself with Swappernetters to take his home state back from these new Icy Finger puppets. Yet, due to his high visibility in an affluent apartment, Hassler had to maintain appearances with the regime almost as intensely as did financiers like Steve Trussel, in order for his true mission to remain hidden - and so he could continue to afford the rent!

The death of Atroce was almost enough of a publicity risk to expose Hassler to the regime. His one fortune was that Jill Hook, who'd turned traitor, died before she could reveal Atroce and Hassler's connections to one another explicitly. Regardless, Hassler and his apartment came under attack by Bliksemhek after she broke out of prison, growing to her full strength while behind bars and hellbent on killing all Swappernetters and Chrome Kite alike. In spite her worst, Hassler survived Bliksemhek, with help from Extirwraith. However, he eventually fell prey to the Mercury Troopers invading his apartment and assassinating him, once he became suspected of having ties to a mysterious hacker named "Triflow." He was gunned down before he could be coerced into revealing Triflow's real name to be Selina.

While the apartment was cleaned out, and evidence confiscated, the building itself was allowed to still stand. Arbini felt it would result in too much collateral damage to launch a missile at the apartment building, though he had no trouble with launching one at Trista's decrepit old house.

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:

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 Hassler:



Nearby grocers
The following grocers are known to be within reasonable driving distance of Hassler's apartment. 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 Hassler's apartment. 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 plan 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.

Sims 4 costs
Given the DLC requirements, assuming players purchased the DLC post-2022, after the base game was made free, then being able to run Hassler's apartment in-game with all its fixings would cost players about $500 USD. If adding kits to also support Trista and Kamhold's lots, and purchasing everything after buying the initial base game in 2014 on its market price at that time, then this would at least $90 or so to the total price. Assuming also that one only uses the same free mods at are used by Dozerfleet Labs, then running everything from the Frontliner Story Pack as effectively in a player's game at home as Dozerfleet Labs runs it, not counting the 2022 RAM upgrade to Dozerfleet Main, would run players approximately $600 for a fully-functioning Sims 4 gaming experience.

This doesn't include the price of any game or stuff packs not mentioned in the DLC requirements for Hassler's apartment. To be safe, players can expect to have to put aside up to $700 for a total gaming experience. Of that, most if not all the profit proceeds would go to Maxis and EA, as nothing in the Swappernetters set by Dozerfleet Labs was released for-profit on Dozerfleet's end. The continued costs of maintaining Sims titles has become one reason for Dozerfleet's shift toward support for AI.

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.