Clarion residence

1524 W 19th St

Housing Trista's cabal
This house became Trista's base of operations shortly after she retired from Lambrelli Labs. She scouted, and knew this particular home, in need of dire repairs, was the ideal one to choose for starting her plans for destroying the Tug and overthrowing the Chrome Kite.

She emphasized building the catacombs and basement hospital first, wasting very little on other floors of the home until her main operation was up and running.

Any improvements to the house from its trashed state when she bought it, have been the result of various volunteers that she's hired periodically. Steve Trussel also helps funnel spare funds to her, to ensure she can always hire help under the table in getting her home fixed up.

This home becomes the main base of operations for the Twirlflame Trio as well, though they do sometimes take up housing with other cabals. It is gradually updated to better accommodate Chrome Kite architecture demands.

Demise
However, in response to Bliksemhek's rampage, Clamdor and Arbini's paranoia kicks into high gear. They begin launching missiles at targets where they have heard rumors of teens hanging out, in the hopes that they might kill a few Frontliners along the way. Trista and her house are both destroyed by one of these missiles eventually; though that particular missile failed to kill a single Frontliner.

Trista's house being destroyed leads to what's left of the Chrome Kite losing all legitimacy. They do what they can to keep a stranglehold of fear over Arkansas; but ultimately lose when Ciem assists the Twirlflame Trio in finally taking down the Tug. An epic showdown in Little Rock leads to the Chrome Kite finally falling, and to justice finally being served for Trista's death.

Notable residents

 * Trista Clarion (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Rev. Beauregard (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Various Swappernetter youth (frequent visitors)
 * Frontliners (potential contract workers)
 * Twirlflame Trio (most frequent contract workers)
 * Tabitha Pang (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Sarah Ruben (🕮 • 🕹)
 * Tobias Reno (🕮 • 🕹)

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

 * Little Rock Central High School
 * Dunbar Junior High School
 * eStem Junior High
 * eStem East Village Junior High
 * Friendship Aspire Academy Garland
 * Academy at Riverdale

Tech 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:


 * Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
 * Eastern College of Health Vocations of Little Rock
 * Arkansas College of Health Careers
 * Apex Dental Education of Little Rock
 * Belbo Beauty Institute
 * Phlebotomy Training Specialists
 * Pulaski Technical College
 * Philander Smith College
 * Northern Technical College

Nearby grocers

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

Nearby insurance firms

 * 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

 * 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 Central High district of Little Rock is said to be extremely crime-ridden in real life. Approximately one out of every ten residents has either committed a crime, or been the victim of a crime, at some point. Exact statistics on specific crimes aren't available for the Central High district, but Little Rock in general, according to AreaVibes in 2023, has seen the following statistics:


 * 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)

Granted, these statistics are for the whole of Little Rock, not just Central High. Therefore, Trista and her Frontliners would experience perhaps a third of the total risk at worst of becoming victims of ordinary crime, to say nothing of regime violence or persecution, or local police harassment in their setting.

If a thousand burglaries happened a year in just the Central High region alone, going to Trista's house would, for example, put Tobias at an automatic risk any given day of being a victim of one of three burglaries to occur in that neighborhood. He'd be at risk of being robbed every other day, of being a victim in any of 4 assaults to occur every single day in that region, of being a victim of robbery every other day, and a chance at being murdered at least once a year. Tabitha Pang and Sarah Ruben, by contrast, would be at 0.05% automatic risk of being raped every third day of every week in Trista's neighborhood, or a 1-in-10,000 chance of being raped every single week. While those odds seem low statistically, the combined number of crimes that the Twirlflame Trio could potentially become victims of by being at Trista's house ensures that they are at very high risk of becoming victims of a crime, simply by doing nothing in particular, and that Trista's neighborhood isn't particularly safe.

Because of this, AreaVibes grades the Central High region a solid F on crime rate statistics. How the Chrome Kite's rule would affect these statistics is up for speculation.

Networked locations
In addition to the house, basement, and catacombs, Trista has linked her home with that of Craig Mozeg's, located in-universe at 1501 W. 18th St. The Virtua-Clam Soup and Seafood (real life Yancey's Cafeteria and Arkansas Baptist College complex) also operate as a front for various Frontliner cabals. The subway system mentioned in the Gerosha Gaming Universe, however, is not a part of real-life Little Rock. As such, Frontliners would have an easier time smuggling themselves into the north side of town to perform operations by using the bridge by Wright Ave. and Asher Ave. just past Thayer St. to hitch a ride from a train. The legality of this would be questionable, but it would be safer than trying to hitch a ride on a fast-moving subway train.

If avoiding the train itself, and staying near the railways, Frontliners would either have to be good at swimming, or else be careful to avoid detection and traffic when walking across the Baring Cross Railroad Bridge. In most instances, it'd be safer to use connections with a front along The Vue Apartments and The Cliffs Condominiums in order to secure a canoe to cross the Arkansas River, as canoe travel across the river would draw less suspicion than walking on foot along a rail bridge. Failing that, road bridges would need to be crossed on foot, and Frontliners would have to be wary of roadblocks and checkpoints.

In video games
Before a real-life location was finally selected for the geographical designation of Trista's home, a draft of the home based on what it needed was attempted in The Sims 3. However, this version required lots of custom parts, and was not released on DzMD for download due to complications with legal redistribution of said custom parts. In 2020, multiple versions were made for The Sims 4, though multiple changes were required to the property to make it compatible when switching from one game to the next.

This included a slight variation in wall decor, walls and doors adjusted to account for differences between games, how elaborate the underground subway system beneath the home was imagined to be, how big the catacombs were, the presence or absence of Cyclonesue's industrial iron bar window dressing mods, the color of siding for the house, exact contents inside the garage, the presence or absence of Jezibomb's propane tank decoration, whether or not Beauregard had a motorcycle, the garage door used, exact objects in the study room, exact neighborhood decor, etc. The most noticeable change was a bookcase hiding the secret entrance to Trista's underground secret hospital, catacomb entrance, and mission control room. This is because there was no door in The Sims 4 comparable to the tomb hidden door object from The Sims 3: World Adventures.

The house needed to have a basement, look run-down in the beginning (to give the kids adequate home improvement opportunities), needed to have the basement feasibly capable of having a secret hidden room that could link to an underground network of catacombs, needed a second story, and ideally required at least two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Said house also needed lots of tree cover, to allow for backyard boondocking.

Sims 4 specs and game requirements
Multiple efforts were employed to generate a version of the house for The Sims 4, but re-creating the look verbatim required lots of additional custom content, including some not-redistribution-legal Sims 3 object conversions. Content for the renovated season 2 version of Trista's home was uploaded to Mod the Sims on September 2nd of 2019, and modified on September 11th that same year. The home was modified to not include any custom content apart from the walls, floors, and other materials that were packaged as part of The Sims 4: Into the Future Conversions Stuff.

The season 1 variant, not included on Mod the Sims, required Frau Engel's Abandoned Apartment Set and the Crate Furniture Set by Illogical Sims in order to complete its appearance of being a run-down home. Meanwhile, garage door replacement suggestions included the Garages Set by AdonisPluto and the Liberated Street Deco mod by PlasticBox.

Notes:


 * While this story pack was created before the release of Dream Home Decorator, that pack would assist with giving Tobias some work to do when not helping Tabby and Sarah on performing Mancerwork.
 * Officially, there are only three bedrooms on the property. However, the hospital in Trista's mission control room arguably counts as a fourth bedroom.
 * While there are pragmatically speaking only 2 actual bathrooms, the backyard has a bush that arguably counts as a "third bathroom."

Cost of living
In 2023, the estimated mortgage payment for Trista's house was listed on Zillow as being around $747 a month. Assuming that Trista is incredibly wealthy, as her retirement packages would suggest, then she would have had no trouble paying off the house in full. This would still leave her with about $83 a month in property taxes to pay. Homeowner's insurance in 2023 would've been an additional $44 a month. Doing random operations of assisting Trussel and other financiers in operating Frontliner cabals would've earned Trista extra income, allowing her to make at least $3,000 a month of under-the-table income, with other shows of income that would be observed by the Chrome Kite and taxed accordingly. This would put her at a total take-home income of $8,000 a month, able to afford the catacomb construction and renovations on her home that would eventually happen. She'd need to be able to afford food, gas, internet, water, electricity, sewer, trash, mobile service, car insurance, health insurance, and other similar mundane costs, in addition to the costs for home insurance and property taxes, to say nothing of whatever income tax rate the Chrome Kite would set. This would push her to want to maintain appearances, to keep the Chrome Kite off her back - especially given their penchant to turn to violence so quickly.

Arguably, Trista's sources of income would be even more necessary in the 2030s, assuming the Chrome Kite to be like the Biden regime, due to inflation costs. While The Sims 4 reflects very few of these realities, it's possible that her having the same house in the books or in live action that she has in The Sims 4 would result in her living expenses being even higher yet.