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The series featured the misadventures of the titular Candice "Candi" Marie "Stevens" Flippo-Levens-McArthur / Ciem, a teenage girl in 2019 who finds out that Phaelite aliens mutated her father while he was a baby, which allows her to have centipede powers. From there, she realizes that she is supposed to help her [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] battle their archnemeses: The [[Fantastic Racism|genocidal]] Hebbleskin Gang, made up of Meethlite aliens.

The trilogy initially began in 2005 as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''Spider-Man'' [[Spider-Man (film)|film series]], and was a [[Spin-Off]] of an obscure comic called ''The Battle for Gerosha'', before becoming an entity all unto itself. The first webcomic was attempted once in June 2005, once in March–September of 2006, and a satisfactory version was completed in January–October 2007, being published to Mod The Sims Social in November 2008 and completed in the DSHW [[Machinomics|Machinomic]] format in January 2009.

 

 

Also, in spite the first story's original subtitle, it has absolutely nothing to do with the horror film series ''[[The Human Centipede]]''. In fact, the realization of them being [[Similarly Named Works]] actually resulted in [[Writer Revolt]], where the author of ''Ciem'' decided to create an [[Ultimate Universe]] dubbed "Comprehensive Gerosha" in novella form to justify renaming the first story "''Ciem: Vigilante Centipede''." And while ''that'' was in [[Development Hell]], it got some high marks as a promotional tool for UGO.com, for the fact that nearly every character from the cast can be easily re-created with their HeroMachine software.

The Phaelite Society of Earth in this version is shown forming an organization to serve as a liaison between itself and the national guard of what is left of America [[After the End]], appropriately dubbing itself "SCALLOP" after the scallop shell that is the Gerosha Stone that is the official symbol of ''The Gerosha Chronicles.'' (SCALLOP, of course, being a hat tip to SHIELD in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) The series in Cataclysmic Gerosha's timeline that would deal specifically with Candi and her friends (as well as the aftermath of other characters' stories) was initially dubbed ''Ciem: Cataclysmic Horizons'' in early November 2012, before being quickly renamed ''Cataclysmic Horizons''. It was later retitled ''Sodality'' in 2013, around the Sodality of Gerosha superhero league that Ciem eventually joins. This was to emphasize the ensemble nature of cast in the series premise, as Ciem was no longer viewed as being interesting enough to carry the series as a solo main character.

 

 

==''Ciem''==

A Mexican community starts cheering for the great ''Ciempies'' that rescued one of their own from a [[Complete Monster]] [[Paedo Hunt|who was fond of children]], so the news begins calling her "Ciem." Candi then learns that her original boyfriend Donte [[Not Quite Dead|might still be alive]], and decides that part of her quest to save her hometown must involve saving Donte from impending doom.

 

 

== Ciem 2 ==

* [[Mad Scientist]]: The Phaelites and the Meethlites, but the Hebbleskin Gang and Insila Murtillo (Ploribus' mother) in particular. The only reason that Centhuens, Centhuen Prototypes, Milthuens, Milthuen Prototypes, AI-possessed homocidal maniacs, werewolves, and other types of monster are even possible. That, and Zeran Holes.

* [[Morning Sickness]]: Averted. Apparently, losing one's superpowers (and a general sense of fatigue and loss of courage) is punishment enough.

* [[Named After Somebody Famous]] / [[Shout-Out]]: Dolly Malestrom is named after [[wikipedia:Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the Cloned Sheep]]. Her future son will be named ''Gunther''.

** In the Fox animated series ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]''?, one of the villains is named ''Gunnar Maelstrom''.

* [[Thriving Ghost Town]]: In spite being fairly well-populated, the Dirbine area seems very sparsely physically occupied in areas were denser populations seem more logical.

** This is due to the video game engine only allowing eight controllable players per lot at a time.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: ''[[But I Can't Be Pregnant|Pregnancy]]'' makes Candi's powers not work right! Therefore, she wouldn't want to be on the pill, even if she believed in it.

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* [[Anachronism Stew]] / [[Zeerust]]: The town of Gerosha is slowly catching up culturally with the world around it. Meanwhile, nearly everyone [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the year 2021]] is still using CRT computer monitors!

*** The IKEA Stuff Pack, which came out in late 2008, [[You Are Too Late|was of little use]].

* [[Bury Your Gays|Bury Your Lesbians]]: Claire Rauscher, who jumps out a window to escape Musaran, and breaks her neck. While she [[Depraved Homosexual|did little harm to anyone]] in the story, Musaran [[For the Evulz|is nevertheless intent on killing her]]. For her, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].

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