Timbervale

[suplado! 23]

wow -- those are really cool pics, the effects added in each of the pics, make the post really realistic...awesome work

[anarchy0029 2]

This is one hell of a City Journal. I am amazed of the work you do.

[Porter 68]

Ugh..... and the page flip bug attacks on number 5. 

Was sick all weekend and didn't get much writing in. Did however get a slight chance to play around with the new Photoshop CS4. Just to give everyone an idea of what goes into my pictures, and to tease you all, I'll release one of the billboards from the next update

Jacob

PS: Character named after the first person who can guess the actual manufacturer of this car!

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work your doing here my friend cant wait for more

[CarmineHilton 6]

Jacob, it's the Honda CR-Z Concept Car

Mwuahahaa!!! =p

Love it how you photoshopped away the 'H' from Honda..

Great work, can't wait to read the next chapter from Timbervale

xo

[ky72x 13]

Ah, I would've guessed it was an Audi. And I thought I knew most of the cars! Good job editing it, I have to say it does look nicer without Honda's logo on the grille.

- Kyle

[Zelgadis 638]

Okay, so no definitive body count, but a definite workout for the hospital emergency room!

And it appears to have become higher with this episode...

Thanks very much for the shout-out. Conversely, you keep me going with all the lovely fun graphics that keep people coming back for more!

ISF

*Edit:  Was that car up there really made by Honda?  What happened to that company?  Everything they touch turns ugly now...    Element, Ridgeline, Accord, Fit, and the biggest travesty of all, the new Acura TL with the W.C. Fields nose... 

The Audi supercar sure looks a lot better than that...  thing up there...  Blargh...  Honda died.  I'll miss you. 

[Artur_001 4]

Great photos. There're very dramatic. Can't wait to see more.

[Porter 68]

OK. Just a quick blurb about why I haven't updated yet. Turns out that my being sick started to escalate into walking pneumonia. I'm now finally getting over it (have the nastiest tasting medication to prove it) and should be able to churn out chapter 4 today after class. But never fear, another billboard is here. Jacob

[underwearman2007 0]

I love it. Where do u design all of there excellent logos and stuff!?!

[TheSixCents 0]

Great photo-shopping Jacob.

I really like how the story is progressing so far.

I hope to see more how this plot thickens and develops

-Chris

[rushman5 33]

Wonderful, city, beautiful photoshopping, and enviable story; well done!

-sean

[patfirefghtr 159]

ooooooo Jacob I love it and yes I am sneaking over here for once lol heheehe and I will hit the other place too!!!

[jonnycolombiano 0]

Jacob, this is my first time posting on Simtropolis, and let me just say, you have a natural-born gift! I mean, aside for the other very popular CJs you have (Pine Grove, anyone?), Windsor Park, Timbervale, it all becomes increasingly clear that your ability to manipulate pictures and create a strong, working story line is cause for celebratory emotions. I just wanted to tell you to keep up the good work, congratulations on all the great support, and I hope to see many more entertaining updates soon!

-JonnyColombiano-

[hamsterTK 93]

I hope you have a new iteration of the story soon. Though it is that time of the year with finals and all that. But soon it will be over

[WARGOD 11]

where did you get the rain mod? good cj by the way

[WARGOD 11]

where did you get the rain mod? good cj by the way

[fabsies55 5]

your city looks awesome and cold although i've only seen page 4 from wat i've seen its great, really well done

just one extra thing... i dont care about the story lol

[jacqulina 162]

get well soon my friend

[Porter 68]

Ok. So I think a quick little heads up is in order for everyone.

I am feeling better, now that I'm on my 3rd (yes, you read that right) round of antibiotics. Also, I've been preoccupied what with the holidays and finals as well, so I just haven't had time between being sick and school and work to get a chapter slammed out. Today though I will be trying to get something written out and then proofread so that I can get it up on here.

Other than that, all I have to say is that I am overwhelmingly surprised at the turn out on this last chapter!

Jacob

[underwearman2007 0]

well, that's too bad. I missed 3 days of History and Algebra and I'm making a 67 in H and a 78 in A, which sux. Anyway, I love you CJ and curse you CarmineHilton.

[Porter 68]

 OH THE JOYS OF NOT BEING SICK ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!

So, I'm finally over being sick and finally got a chance to get a chapter written out as well as the next chapter(s) planned out. So, I have some major news. But first.... replies....

Replies:
hamsterTK: I think you're overthinking this..... all the accidents are happening at the same time. (After a quick call to the insurace company) Insurance usually covers family members as well in the events in an accident. Also, most car insurance policies require medical payment in the event of an accident.
wishfulanthony: Thanks! I really try to take pride in my pictures!
JJC12321: Hmmmm.... you'll have to read the announcements after the replies section...
art128: Thanks! I personally have photoshop to blame!
KingTitan: Thanks!
SimHoTToDDy: Thanks! Ive really been trying to get this moving faster, but my being sick for over a month really slowed things down. Glad you're liking the writing as well as the pictures.
Tomasneto: Really helps the effect to read the story as well!
ky72x: Lol.... let me know if its too much to keep up with. Yeah... Going to have to rely on the extras this update.
panthersimcity4: Great now I have to add another thing to the readme.... Author assumes no responsibilty to the destruction of any keyboard due to photoshopping effects.
suplado!: Thanks! Your's are always great as well!
anarchy0029: Thanks!
jacqulina: Thanks!
CarmineHilton: You won! I'll have a character named after you in the next chapter. I'll PM you tomorrow (or I guess its today) with the details.
ky72x(2): LOL!!! The car person gets it wrong.... shameful.... shameful indeed....
Zelgadis: Congrats Mr ADMIN!!! Keep in mind this is going to be a nightmare.... the ER is shut down, remember? No worries for the shout out. And to answer your question, yes.... its a Honda. And I pesonally think the car isn't that bad looking. But I will admit that Audi just.... rocks....
Arthur_001: Thanks!
underwearman2007: It's all in house by me.
TheSixCents: Thanks! Glad you enjoy it so far!
rushman5: Thanks!
patfirefghtr: Thanks!
jonnycolombiano: Thanks! And welcome to ST!
hamsterTK(2): Yeah.... had it ready for a while, but being sick means I'm not able to sit in front of the computer and stay awake to photoshop everything.
WARGOD: Thanks for one. Second, makes sure not to double post. And last, its not rain, its snow, and its actually photoshopped in.
fabsies55: Well, tough. The story is the most important part.
jaquilina(2): Thanks! It's much appriciated!
underwearman2007(2): Yeah.... I actually went to school while being sick, and ugh.... took ever bit of energy out of me!

OK! So I'm finally done with a months worth of replies! So I imagine you guys are glad to know I'm finally over the wonderful virus that wanted so badly to develope into walking pneumonia. Now that it, and my finals for fall, are over. I now have a little more free time on my hands. And guess what?

Chapter 5 will be the very end of the character intros.

Which means, that yes, voting will open after the end of chapter 5.

I'll post the rules for voting on it ra few days before chapter 5 so everyone can be acquainted with them. Fairly simple, but people could have trouble nonetheless.

Now that that bit of news is out of the way, I want to introduce another feature of the story.

People have asked before what I like to listen to, what inspires me, yada-yada-yada. So, I'm going to post the song I was inspired by when I wrote each chapter, with links to youtube, so you all can enjoy them. You can access the video by either clicking on the Chapter Header or clicking on the link below it. This will in leau of the CJ/MD shout out paragraph, since I just dont have the time to rave about all the wonderful ones I lurk in.

So.... without further ado....

  Angel- Sarah McLachlan

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Why did I do it back then, she wrote, scribbling her thoughts yet again in her jour nal. They should have meant the world to me! I could have gotten clean back then. Nothing is different than it was back then. God…. who am I kidding, everything is different. I was such a disaster back then. I was a junkie, a user, a prostitute and a terrible person to boot. It’s probably a good thing I gave them up. Even if I could find them, they’d have every right to hate me.
 
Elsa Baum continued to scribble down her musings into the heavily-used book, tears slowly streaming down her face, occasionally putting her hand to her large round stomach and looking out the window to the dim snowy sky as morning soon approached.
 
It’s hard to believe, that I’ve been lucky enough to get a second chance. I just wish there was some way to … not that I deserve it… fix everything…  she wrote at the end of the page, and taking a deep breath, closing the diary, wiping away the tears around her eyes.
 
Hearing a yawn, she turned to her husband standing in the door way, as he held out a cup of tea to her and he continued drink the coffee in his other hand.
 
“You alright?” he asked, concern filling the features of his face.
 
“Hormones. That’s all it is,” she laughed, her voice still quivering, “And I have you to blame for it, Doctor!”
 
Looking down, he watched as she pointed to her overly swollen stomach and let out a loud laugh.
 
“Are you really sure you HAVE to go in person to that meeting in Seattle?” she griped, taking the tea and holding it close to her chest. “You know that Zoe is not going to stop asking when Daddy is coming home.”
 
“Dear, you know I can’t. They are insisting I’m there to make sure that the entire hospital staff has proper training,” her husband calmly replied, pulling her into a hug as her continued, “I mean, it’s not like I’m going to be gone for more than two days. And I may not even be able to go if this snow doesn’t stop.”
 
Scowling, she sighed and began to walk out of the room and made her way towards the kitchen.
 
“Hi sweetie!” she called to her daughter, who was sitting at the table, eating her Fruit Loops and watching yet another cartoon with some blatantly feminine, neon yellow blob and his mentally handicapped, pink star shaped friend. “You all ready for school?”
 
Severely engrossed with the show, the little, pig-tailed girl smiled and nodded as she took another spoon full of the cereal into her mouth.
 
Turning back to her husband, she smiled warmly, watching him sneak another gift from his laptop bag under the already overflowing Christmas tree in the corner.
 
“And what, Tristan, are you putting under the tree now?” she said, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrows as she watched her husband jump at the sound of her voice.
 
“Nothing that concerns you,” he replied, failing miserably to hide the fact the fact that he’d been caught in the act from his voice.
 
“Uh huh….” she replied, rolling her eyes as she grabbed her daughters backpack and jacket. “So I was thinking that I might go down the Central Plaza today and do a little more baby clothes shopping. And before you even say it,” she continued, cutting her husband’s complaints, “I will be just fine. The doctor said I’m not even due for another month and that I could go out and do things. You hover around me too much!”
 
“But…” he protested.
 
“But nothing! Conversation is over. I’m going shopping, and you’re going to take Zoe to school,” she countered, smirking at the man, and holding her hand up in the air, “And you better get going if you want to get her to school on time and make your flight.”
 
Sitting down on the couch, she watched as he gathered up their daughter and helped her with her jacket. He leaned over her and gave her a quick peck on the cheek as she turned to say goodbye.
 
“I’ll call you when I land. Love you…” he said, smiling at her several inches away from her face.
 
“Lies…. All lies I tell you…” she smirked as he turned, and lead the small girl out the door.
 
“Bye Mommy!” the young child called out, waving her arm in the air outside the apartment door.
 
“Bye sweetie! Mommy loves you!” she called out, smiling as the door was shut behind them.
 
Setting the now empty cup of tea on the coffee table in front of her, she sighed and slowly pushed herself off the couch, and made her way, or in her opinion waddled, back to the bedroom to get dressed for her shopping excursion.

After getting dressed and running a comb through her hair, she finally decided that she was as ready as she would be and walked out of the large apartment, locking the door behind her, and taking the elevator down the front entrance.
 


“Well, looks like we’re just in time for the bus!” she said out loud, her head looking down to her protruding belly, as she pulled the thick jacket closer to her body as the she began to shiver slightly against the cold morning air and stray bits of snow slowly falling.
 
She looked up as the large gleaming bus stopped in front of her, and grabbing on to the hand rail, pulled herself up, taking note that she’d probably be standing as every seat on the bus was full.
 
Walking towards the back, she smiled as a blonde young boy stood up and graciously gave her his seat. Taking a seat, she looked up and smiled yet again as she studied him.
 
One would be about the same age, she mused, looking at him. In fact, she thought to herself, probably  a lot like the boy in front of her.Tall and lanky, hopefully as polite as the boy in front of her.
 
“Stop it,” she muttered quietly to herself, not drawing any attention from the people around her. I can’t think like that. I screwed up. I can’t just go around and think that. I need to stop this!


 
Looking in front of her, she noted that her stop would be coming up soon, as the large bus turned onto the aging metal bridge into the heart of the downtown area.
 
If only I hadn’t. Things would probably be so much different. I wish I could make it up to them. If only I could find them. Looking up she noticed the kind boy that gave her his seat jump and begin to point out the front of the bus as he began to yell out something. Turning her attention to the front of the bus, she gasped as the bus jolted and blood spattered the front windshield, the glass cracking into a spider web.
 
She, as well as many others let out a small gasp as what had just happened began to be processed in their minds. Her stomach suddenly feeling light, she realized quickly that the bus was beginning to sway, its tires screeching. Looking back in front of her, she watched as the boy that gave up his seat went flying through the air, the back of his head slamming in the metal pole in front of him, sending blood flying across the cabin of the bus as a giant semi hit the other side of the bus. Watching as broken glass went flying everywhere, she felt her heart stop in her chest, listening to the groaning of metal and tinkling of glass as time moved slower and slower.
 
She reached out to the boy, barely catching his shirt as he slumped to the floor, blood drenching his back and her hands. Pulling him close to her, she held him tight as the bus finally toppled to its left side, throwing everyone in the bus around, much like a bunch of rag dolls.


 
Squeezing her eyes shut, she thought her silent apology to herself as glass shattered around her, the metal body of the bus snapping loudly as if it were made of wood. She winced as the rain of glass made tiny cuts on her pale skin. Hugging the lithe blonde boy to her, she whispered those same thoughts out loud as the chaos ensued around her.
 
“I’m so sorry. Lukas, Sebastian, I wish I could have found you both and made everything up to you both. Tristan, Zoe, I wish I could have been with you both longer… I’m so sorry…”

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And last but not least....

[jacqulina 162]

excellent story my friend,great pics to go with it,excellent work

happy xmas

[Tomasneto 20]

Nice Job!!!

[art128 4,618]

fantastic pictures Jacob, great work

[Wrightguy0 40]

Holy Twist Batman! I thought their mother died!

[Zelgadis 638]

Certainly not the sort of reunion she was hoping for, I am sure. What of the baby, I wonder... And how many more interesting people are going to end up in that pileup...

On another note, if I may nitpick for a moment here, I hardly think that a bus plying a route in that weather would be "gleaming." When it's like that in Toronto, the buses all look horrible.

ISF

[TehMondayAvenger 0]

this is good stuff. almost as good as the stuff the devil sold to me in Jamaca

[Hawkeye9 0]

Wow, awsome cj!!!!

Your photoshoping is amazing and the city itself is incredibal!!!!

Lookin forward to more!!!!

[suplado! 23]

awesome pics and the story looks interesting, the images are of high quality, really like the cool effects you added in!!