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GRAVEYARD LOCATIONS
Not sure what you were expecting upon walking through the side of a mountain, but it probably wasn’t this. Welcome to The Lobby, a large, circular room with a high domed roof decorated with a mural of a cloudy sky in blue and gold. The walls are transparent - glass, maybe, but never smudged or dirtied and barely reflective. Peering through them you can see what lies beyond them is an endless sea of stars. Similarly to the walls, the floor is made of the same transparent material. While it’s just as useless when it comes to reflecting your surroundings, somehow a shadowed version of the mural above in red and black spreads beneath your feet.
In the dead-center of the room is some kind of structure that you can walk beneath. You can walk through as many times as you’d like! It doesn’t appear to do anything, though.
But perhaps more interesting than that are the several doorways scattered around the room. Though the arches seem to show you nothing but those stars, walking through will take you somewhere new. Through each gate, invariably, there is a large screen set up to view the living.
🏫 The Kindergarten Gate - If the colorful gate didn't clue you in, surely the sign hanging from the arch will give you an idea of what lies ahead. When you pass through, you find yourself at the bottom of a scenic, grassy hill. At the top of a winding stone path is an equally colorful school (also helpfully labeled.) This one-story building spreads out pretty far over the hillside, but walking inside you'll find it's less of a school and more of a…daycare center? Everything seems to be within eyesight, and it's easy to spot all kinds of different authority figures roaming around. The in-house doctor, the lunch-ladies, and even the principal are all chao, doing their best to look busy throughout the day. However, if you approach them they don't speak in words and they tend to wander around like lost toddlers getting into whatever they can find. That's probably fine, right? It's not like some of you brought dangerous items with you to Heaven—ohhh wait. Hm. You may want to collect your things, and fast.
😇 The Hero Gate - Through the downright angelic gate lies a warm sunny day on a small island in the clouds. While you can stand or sit on its edge, a magic barrier keeps you from ever falling. There are scattered palm trees across the island, and a few small chunks of land floating in the sky around it for those of you looking for a higher vantage point. One of these land masses hosts a bell tower, a structure that glistens in the sun and rings every hour on the hour.
Centered at the far end of the island is a fountain its crystal clear waters curving through the land. Though it isn't very deep, there's a bridge so you don't have to hop over to get to the other side of this river, and some kind of large structure that doesn't seem to have much of a purpose. Judging by how chao react to it though, it's pretty fun to climb on just because.
😈 The Dark Gate - Through the demonic gate lies a predictable opposite to the Hero Gate. The sky surrounding this floating island is an odd, dark purple, though much of it is blocked out by the tall mountains fencing things in. Unlike the waters in the Hero Gate, the lake here is a vivid red and more difficult to see through. The ground is grey and cold, and the trees look dead despite bearing fruit. The lack of sunlight may make you feel a little more boxed in, and a little more depressed, but nothing's forcing you to stay.
You can try to head upward, but the jagged wrought iron fences do very little to make the main path up the hill any safer. Should you make it, you'll find a small garden at its peak, though all the flowers are wilted. At the very edge sits one lone, dead tree, and dangling from one of its branches is a cage that hangs over the water below. Strangely, none of this seems to concern chao, who just continue to play and explore. Oh well. Probably nothing to worry about then.
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The Boardwalk - A brand new gate leads you to a partial facsimile of the sunny beachside city you may have seen the living enjoy last week. You're granted a short boardwalk with a variety of fast food options and little souvenir shops full of trinkets such as sunglasses, sunscreen, customized keychains, swimsuits, beach wear, etc. The highlights of this strip are the pizza shop and fry stand, and a little ways down the street is a donut shop. Pop on in and get yourself a tasty treat from the specialty menu.
The Arcade - Continue down the boardwalk and you'll find a massive arcade. Home to rhythm games, racing games, shooters, and fighters, this is the perfect place to beat the heat and your friends' high scores. Any game you can think of it, there's a cabinet tucked away somewhere among the cheery music and flashing lights. Despite being unmanned, the prize counter does require some tickets if you want one of its incredibly desirable items. We all know you want a sticky hand or a finger puppet of your own to take home.
The Comic Shop - To make up for its limited replication of Bikini Bottom, your version has a few bonuses. The first of which is a cozy comic shop. Rows and rows of shelves overflow with comic books, and they've got every genre you can think of. There's a little nook dedicated to old VHSes, complete with a CRT TV, a VCR, and some comfy cushions. The most open area of the shop is set up with a table, several boardgames occupying the shelf nearby.
The Beach - Of course, no boardwalk would be complete without a beach. It's toasty during the day, and that makes it perfect weather for splashing around in the shallow waves. Naturally, there's a gift shop on the boardwalk with towels, swimsuits, and anything else you might need to make the most of it. Inner tubes, life jackets, floaties - you name it, you'll find it. But the beach isn't just for the daytime hours. This beach is home to some of the most beautiful sunsets, and if you look hard enough you might even find a few designated areas for evening bonfires to keep the fun going well into the night.
The Botanical Garden - Stroll down the beach long enough and the distant view of the boardwalk will disappear behind a burst of leaves. What lies here is a botanical garden with many sprawling, leafy plants: alocasia, Monstera deliciosa, philodendron xanadu, creeping velvet philodendron, Calathea orbifolia, and Licuala grandis. Enormous pitcher plants grow in groups between other plants; care should be taken with them - while they don't move on their own, they are large enough to fall into, and their belly cavities are filled with digestive fluid. A few smaller plants in between have prominent flowers budding, but much of the foliage is merely stem and leaves. Some are wide enough to create shade, especially when sitting on the curved stone bench in the middle of it all.
The Church - Up on the hilltop, where the living have a lighthouse, you instead have: a church! The windows let in plenty of bright, warm sunlight. Tidy rows of pews face the chancel. A bell in the tower chimes every hour on the hour. The door is always open. Strangely, all of the paintings and stained glass art inside is of axolotls.
The Cemetery - Despite the pleasant, welcoming vibes of the church, out behind it is a cemetery much larger than the one beyond the Dark Gate. Which is a bit of a downer, even in the sunlight. Although... on that note, it does feel a little colder out here. Though it's a sunny day everywhere else in the area, as soon as you're among the graves you feel a chill. Clouds overhead seem to blot out the sun. Stay long enough and it might even rain. But from your vantage point up on the hill, you can tell that it's only raining here. Hmm. That's fine.
Fries
(Fry Shop)
Meow or make cat puns for 2 hours.
Like... y'know, nyah?
Donut
(Donut Shop)
Float just off the ground for 2 hours.
Guacola
(Boardwalk Vending Machine)
Turn green for 1 hour! Get Elphaba'd, idiot.