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City Garden | Xanadu

[bridges] [winter] [fall path] [pine path] [desert path] [rose path] [butterfly garden] [abandoned shed]

A large-scale park that may look moderate on the map, but journey inside and places can expand or contract as they will. In winter, the temperate and tropical regions contract into hibernation. In summer, the frostier regions remain hardy and strong under the hot sun. Xanadu is filled with every flora imaginable. At the center is a massive cherry tree that is always filled with blooming blossoms no matter what season it is. Streams run throughout, waterfall and sand in others, crossed by bridges and littered with gazebos in which to find shade. Visit, but don’t get lost lest you lose yourself forever. That abandoned shed could very much lead to the Underground.

&crypt|
This place is quietly nestled in a corner of Xanadu. Rows of stones, crosses, and obelisks bear unknown names, some not named at all. The mausoleum is cold and very empty. If one cannot die in the city, then why does the graveyard exist?

&the zoo| [two] [three]
Oh, you want to think it's a normal zoo but as you step towards the large stony front, noticing everything you've ever known that breathed or wished to woven around and in the rock. You are wondering where your favorite animal is or perhaps scoffing about how this place is for children, but you then know: It is a shell out there, protective, same, but upon entry you can feel it breathe with the yellow heat of the savannah, the chill of the white arctic, the green humidity of the rainforests, the black vacuum of space. It grows and shrinks, withstands and adapts, a living lifeform like the very organisms it contains, and it takes you where it feels that it wants you to go. Anything is in there and everything is. What is real, among the lions, tigers, bandersnatchi, tribbles and pterodactyls? What should exist and what shouldn't?

How it reveals itself, presenting its plumage, its fine collection in beautiful, preened health, is different for everyone. [thanks to silkcutremix for the blurb!]

&Dewi Shri| [lobby] [terrace I] [terrace II] [indoors]
Nestled in one of Xanadu's more temperate areas is Dewi Shri, a restaurant specializing in South East Asia's finest cuisine and a fully stocked internationally palatable bar. The establishment is surrounded by fragrant lotus ponds with several paths for quiet walks. Dewi Shri, the goddess of rice and propsperity, is always willing to extend a benevolent hand to enhance your evening. [thanks to razrsharp]

&the dojo| [two] [three] [four] [five]
Located near the hot springs, the Golden Bird Holy Flower Dragon Tooth Glory Dojo is a place where students and instructors from all the different styles of martial arts across the different worlds can congregate to learn and teach, or to simply practice when classes are not in session. Keep it friendly, though. Non-recreational fighting will not be tolerated and violators will be put in their place! [by sisknowsbest and bright_shield]

&hot spring|
It's exactly what it says it is; a hot spring on the border of Xanadu, next to the temple. It is mostly maintained by the temple residents.
[major thanks to deceive for the pic~]

&temple| [pillars] [side]
The temple is located next to the hot springs at the border of Xanadu. It is open to peaceful people to live in, in exchange for helping out at the temple and the hot springs. There are several small rooms throughout the temple's winding corridors, but remember where you go; it is filled with secret passages, leading here, there and nowhere - sometimes never anywhere you want to be.

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//This post will constantly be updated as we make up new places within the City. If you have any ideas, comment under the intended section (Overground, Underground, Xanadu, etc.) & we'll be sure to consider them. This post does NOT represent every single location in the City. The Hair Salon may exist on the list but there could be at least three or four salons as there would be in any other metropolis to suit a player’s needs. Please remember, when submitting a location publicly this hereby grants other players to use that location as they see fit (excluding owning it or destroying it). Locations with strict in & out privileges are to be noted as such, otherwise places intended for use by only a select number of players should remain private.//

Disclaimer; All pictures used in this post were obtained using google-fu.