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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 Cotton Candy Forest - Through the Candy Gate that you can imagine with your creative minds because I am just so busy this week, you will find the cotton candy forest that circles the Candy Kingdom! Trees stretch higher than the eye can see, all topped with fluffy, sweet, pink and blue tufts of sugary goodness. You can try to climb them if you wish! The branches are usually sturdy…but get too close to a double-striped one and you might fall all the way down into the nesquicksand pit. Darn!
The Candy Kingdom - A short jaunt through the forest brings you to the candy kingdom. It's a world of sweets, sugar, and all things delectable. Everywhere you look - or bite - nature and architecture alike are made of candy. All around you are small gingerbread houses and buildings. Among them:
Seraphora - A one-stop shop for makeovers! Half of the store is a clothing boutique with an endless selection of garments, shoes, and accessories. There is also a chao tailor that will happily make a matching set of tiny clothing for your chao. Unfortunately, there's still only one changing room here... The other half of the building is a beauty salon dedicated to hair and makeup. If you're feeling indecisive about what style you'd like to try, there is a chao concierge in the center that will help make recommendations.
Candy Convenience - A bodega style convenience store. The fluorescent lights inside welcome you to select anything your heart desires. They carry a wide range of... well... conveniences. Toiletries, cigarettes, lighters. Snacks, prepackaged instant foods. Anything you'd expect to find at a convenience store, really.
Fresh as a Daisy - What in Heaven is that blindingly bright building, past the convenience store, just around the corner..? Covered in flowers and claiming that you'll be fresh as a daisy in no time, spring in your step and all, is... a laundromat? It stands out like either the most psychedelic eyesore, or a beautiful ode to rainbow connections, but it does signal the promiseland of clean clothes for stinky little sinners on the road to redemption. The inside is even more brightly colored than the outside, somehow, but it's decked out in washers, dryers, folding tables, and shelves fully stocked in every kind of detergent, fabric softener, bleach, and other product you could possibly need to wash you and your clothes. Signs are posted for you to deposit any empty packaging into the recycling bin, apparently to be reused for the decor.
At the counter, you can find a single chao offering M*nopoly money to use in the change machine. Apparently you need chaorters (chao quarters) to run the machines. Every few hours, the chao will toddle over to the change machine, open it up, and take the M*nopoly money out to begin the cycle anew. When not giving out the cash for the coin exchange, it sits in a highchair behind the counter, counting the money like a miniature mob boss. Is this place for money laundering, too..?
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dramas - Did you want to grab a bite to eat? Or maybe catch a show or movie - maybe even relive or watch the living on the big screen? Good news! You can do both! No need to pull into a parking spot for it, just pull up a seat at one of these classic car booths arranged like a good ol' classic drive-in theater, drop an order with one of your chao waiters clumsily rollerblading down the aisles, and you'll be all set! There are a number of different showings all throughout the day, and in different showing rooms, but each and every one of them has this groovy theme going for it. Cars are lined up facing the screens, and there are two types: benches with minimal table space and room for two - three, if you squeeze - per bench or tables that run the longways center of the car, with three seats on each side. Menus are available in each car, all boasting delicious diner food - but you might see a familiar street food or whatever is considered "junk" food in your world, if you look long enough - with a discount on milkshakes from 5 PM to 8 PM!
For those that bring their chao with them to watch something, car seats (with trays on them for food) at bench booths and highchairs at table booths are provided. Phone holders are stationed in each booth, with signage asking that you silence your phones and not text during the movie. Lights will dim once orders are all placed, though chao will always come wobbily wheeling by throughout the flick you've sat down for to check on you. They're really working for that tip!
Chop & Chill - Somehow both rustic (read as: ye olde) and modern, this roomy and homey space allows for there to be more than enough cooks in the kitchen! Besides the fully stocked pantry, fridge, and freezer, there are numerous recipe books, cooking guides, measuring conversion cards, and more, for both the most adept chef and the nervous newbie. The typical stainless steel stovetop and oven models are available for those more familiar with the comforts of the modern world, but also available are wood-burning options for those that have experience there - or maybe are looking to get adventurous? Either way, you could very well have an audience, with the tables and chairs arranged around the room like a comfortable cafe or tavern.
The Spinny Rift - After a long trek through the kingdom, you may be expecting to find the Candy Castle that should rest in the center. But no! Instead there stands a lone gate standing tall. There's nothing on the other side but more of those candy kingdom homes and businesses. Except... there's a swirling energy that can be seen glimmering in the air of the gate, oddly spiraling.
Stepping through will bring you to a dimly, eerily lit stone corridor, a daunting silence pressing down on all sides that leads one to believe that it's only a small part of a sprawling whole, deep underground. As you follow the corridor, it will take you to only one place - the opening beneath a great spire, showing the phases of the moon in the high, distant opening through the ceiling.
Stepping into the center of the floor, one can summon a variety of temporary opponents to test your mettle against. Injuries are not permanent - but feel very, very real - and your foes disappear into blue and black energy, dissolving into the air as they fall to the floor. Dying here ejects you out of the gate, ass over tea kettle, with a YOU TRIED four-pointed star pinned to your chest.
Lollipop
(Candy Convenience)
Your hair grows and grows and grows. Get Rapunzel'd, idiot.
You'll have to cut it back to length yourself.
Big Baby Rootbeer
(Candy Convenience)
All of your emotions swing to the extreme for 2 hours.