Pleasant Homes
Pleasant Homes Planned Communities is a Weaver tainted company that creates gated communities.
Overview
Pleasant Homes Planned Communities are sprouting up across America. These gated communities with strict landowner covenants are famous for being clean, safe and good places to raise a family. The ads always show immaculate lawns, tasteful layouts, stylish furniture and contented families. Indeed, demographic analyses of these subdivisions show that the families that live there tend to be more productive at work, do better in school, and live longer, healthier lives. Some critics say that these planned communities are elitist and that the landowner covenants are too restrictive. Members can even be evicted for not following the covenants or failing to pay dues. All pets, regardless of size, are forbidden. However, in unsafe times, the call of suburban safety sounds louder than the desire for personal expression. Anyway, to afford the high mortgage and property taxes, both parents end up working long hours and spending a lot of time in the car, commuting from suburbia to downtown, so they rarely have time to spend gardening.
When is all is said and done, Pleasant Homes residents are content. They become more focused, and lip into the routine of work. Leisure activities center on the planned golf course or group activities. Parents find themselves actually able to trust their neighbors, and let their children play in the streets. Indeed, all of the rough corners in their lives seem to just smooth over, so long as they listen to the beast of the Weaver thrumming through the dappled lanes. Pleasant Homes communities are crawling with Weaver spirits dedicated to making sure that those who live in their webs fit in and conform. Pesky details like individuality melt away. While living there is not a guaranteed ticket to becoming a drone, these neighborhoods do seem to be breeding grounds for the Weaver's human servants.
The communities contain Covenant Spiders who use the charm, Conformity, to ensure that all who live in their domain obey the rules and conform. And can incite others in the community against the "rebel". This usually leads to social ostracism, but on rare occasion led to violence.
References
- WTA: Book of the City, p. 56-57