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thewakemods) wrote2009-01-30 12:59 am
thewakemods) wrote2009-01-30 12:59 am
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Setting
Nautilus is a fluidic city, adjusting and changing to the thoughts, unconscious desires, and dreams of its inhabitants. While the basic layout of the city remains the same, everything else, from the architecture to the flora and fauna to the sky itself is in constant flux. As such, it can be a little hard to keep up with!
MAP
Map Key:
= NORTHERN DISTRICT =
N1. Outer Gate of Whirlwinds
N2. Inner Gate of Whirlwinds
N3. Plaza of Whirlwinds (Northern Teleporation Array)
N4. The Northern Welcome House
N5. Medbay
N6. Yggdrasil, the Great Library
N7. Furman's Bar
N8. Lelouch vi Britannia's Mansion/House
N9. The Kururugi Shrine
N10. Big Ben
N11. Irene's Gazebo
N12. Holiday
N13. The Castle That Never Was
N14. Garden of Dreams
N15. Ichijouji Soccer Field
N16. Tails' Workshop
N17. The Pokémon Center
N18. Crichton Household
N19. Sideswipe's Garage
N20. Tomato Patio
N21. Gabe's Facility
N22. Loki's House
N23. The Bending School and Bending Stadium (run by Nash Latkje)
N24. A Theatre
N25. Iason's Tower
N26. The Beacon
N27. Nautilus Television Station
N28. Bag End
N29. Black Arachnia & Optimus Prime's House
N30. Piper's Beauty Salon
N31. Canal Street Electronics
N32. Harlesque
= EASTERN DISTRICT =
E1. Outer Gate of Waterfalls
E2. Inner Gate of Waterfalls
E3. Plaza of Waterfalls (Eastern Teleportation Array)
E4. The Eastern Welcome House (Formerly: Tony Stark's Mansion)
E5. The Fibonacci Museum
E6. The Greek Colosseum
E7. The Junkyard (Iron Giant's Art Workshop and Snack Bar)
E8. The Cathedral
E9. The Hong Kong Water Tower
E10. The Old Windmill
E11. The Memorial Tree
E12. Freedom Fighters Headquarters
E13. Dream of the All Blue Seaside Restaurant
E14. Pineapple Island
E15. One's Island
E16. The Jedi Temple
E17. June's Department Store
E18. The Tallest Bridge in Nautilus
E19. Eric's House (with Pool)
E20. Crystal Gem House (with Giant Hand Statue)
E21. Ground Zero 2.0 Park (Playground and Skate Park)
E22. Dammers' House
E23. Clone Barracks
E24. Dragon's Nest
= SOUTHERN DISTRICT =
S1. Outer Gate of the Forests
S2. Inner Gate of the Forests
S3. Plaza of the Forests (Southern Teleportation Array)
S4. The Southern Welcome House (
S5. The Marketplace
S6. Extreme Pizza and Laser Tag Arena
S7. Dana's (Former Tree) House
S8. Unnamed Spa (Fiji?)
S9. Cybertronian Buildings
S10. The Movie Theater
S11. The Swamp
S12. Sonic the Hedgehog's Hut
S13. Assassin's (Creed) Bureau
S14. Nautilus Police Department (NPD)
S15. Kurenai and Crocker's Mansion
S16. Apartment No. 6
S17. Braca's House
S18. The Antique Shoppe (Klement's House/Calex's Cat-partment)
S19. Nautilus Academy/School
S20. Geppetto's Workshop
S21. Ruins of Dale
S22. Amy Rose's House
= WESTERN DISTRICT =
W1. Outer Gate of Infernos
W2. Inner Gate of Infernos
W3. Plaza of Infernos (Western Teleporation Array)
W4. The Western Welcome House (The Opera House)
W5. Mon Repos (Death's Cottage)
W6. The Hedge Maze
W7. The Fire Station
W8. GothDonald's
W9. Deadend's Garage
W10. NOL Headquarters
W11. AM's Facility
W12. The Magnate Power Office
W13. Fazbear's Fright (A Haunted Pizzeria)
W14. Hang Castle
W15. RED Shed
W16. Vader's Workshop
= THE HEART OF NAUTILUS = is obviously the center of the city, protected by a special seal amid the Central Plaza. Due to past events, this place has been marked off-limits. A perimeter of arrows act as a barrier to keep curious (and persistent) Wakened out of trouble.
DESCRIPTION
The city is built on a hill, with the emperor’s tower crowning the peak and standing far above all other buildings. Surrounding the tower are twelve smaller towers, one for each cardinal direction and two in between those four. Stemming from each tower is a road that goes straight down the hill, like the spokes of a wheel. There are also smaller streets in-between.
There are two additional MAIN roads that start at the eastern and western towers and cascade down the hill in a spiral pattern, like the shape of a nautilus (hence the city’s name). These are the main roads, and most businesses will be built along there.
Flowing down from the tower and alongside the streets and in between the white houses are little rivulets and streams.
At the intersection of the four cardinal spokes and the the third spiral down of the two main roads are the Plazas: The Plaza of Waterfalls to the east, the Plaza of Whirlwinds to the North, the Plaza of Infernos to the West, and the Plaza of the Fallen. Each Plaza bears sculptures that correspond to their names: swirling spirals in the north, running waterfalls in the east, sculpted flames in the west, and what look like the stumps of magnificent trees in the south. Recently, each plaza has been modified by the Elric Brothers, fitted with a teleportation array for more convenient travel back and forth between districts. This comes complete with a sign listed with instructions on how to use them.
In addition, the four districts of the city are named thus: Waterfalls, Whirlwinds, Infernos and Fallen, and all buildings and décor bear this motif. Buildings at the top of the hill, closer to the tower, are grander and larger, and they get smaller and more cramped towards the bottom, but remain nice and spacious. Nautilus is a comfortable city.
Interestingly, the architecture varies vastly; while the 'default' is an Art Nouveau with Gothic and Greek elements, the shapes of buildings change based on the origins of the city's inhabitants. See the State of the Game posts for more details.
At the edge, there is just a white void. Wandering into this area leaves you with a sense of vertigo, and a strong desire to return to the city. If you continue to press on into the white void, you will slowly lose sense of your body, and feel disconnected from it. this can be corrected by simply willing yourself to return to the city. In addition, if you enter this zone and will yourself home, you will return there instantaneously, but please see the FAQ entry on returning home for more information. If that is unclear, you can contact the moderators by commenting on that post (or the mod contact post).
Currently, there is no marketplace, or any semblance of an economy anywhere. Food can be easily willed into being merely by desiring it; but if that is not desired then there is a large fruit and vegetable garden in the District of the Fallen. In addition, there are a large number of birds throughout the city - mostly pigeons and doves, but also a few falcons, some starlings, and other creatures. Plants of all kinds can be found throughout the city, from many disparate locations - including such anachronisms as palm trees growing next to pine. The vast majority of plants grow in the District of the Fallen and the District of Waterfalls.
Days and nights are technically twelve hours long each. In most of the city, the sky is a clear blue during the day and star-filled at night, with one sun and one moon, save in the District of Infernos, where the sky is red with two small moons at night. In the District of Whirlwinds and wherever Pyramid Head is, there is thick fog during the hours of dawn and dusk.
In the past, the so-called Emperor, Cyrus, was an androgynous sexless being with a voice that sounded like rushing water. It kept a blindfold over its face at all times and wore a dark blue-black robe that faded to blue-white at the bottom in stylized wave patterns with a hood. It did not wear shoes. Cyrus’s hair was a strange whitish-blue color. Characters could always understand everything Cyrus says regardless of native language, ability to hear, or even intelligence, unless Cyrus willed it otherwise. Any text written //Like this//, (that is, bold and bracketed by forward slashes) indicated that whatever is being spoken or written was in the Speech, the language of creation itself. The Speech sounded lyrical and elegant, but more than that, each word contained in itself the perfect and absolute idea of the object being described, to an unfathomable point of precision; thus, while the words might be incomprehensible, hearing the Speech generated a flood of images and ideas, so it was often understandable on a surface level to all who heard it.
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