LOCATION DISCOVERY: THE VILLAGE

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LOCATION DISCOVERY: THE VILLAGE

the basics

While exploring south of town, Billy managed to shimmy his way across the river to find a new core location! The village is now available and with it comes the unlock of another housing area, hooray! Except, hm. Currently, there's no safe, permanent way to cross the river. You'll need to do something about that before you can truly end Beacon's housing crisis.

The village description can be found below, and more permanently, on the setting page! We'll update the map to reflect this discovery soon.

If you have questions, let us know below!

the details

The village is Beacon's residential zone, populated primarily with little houses and cabins. They're clustered together in haphazardly spread cul-de-sacs, and there looks to be 20 houses in total—10 a-frames and 10 cabins, all ranging in size. If you're thinking about moving to the suburbs, let us know!

The housing isn't all you'll find in the village, though. The residential zone comes with a few charming community areas:

Boneset Park
Boneset Park is directly in the center of the village, and it has everything you need for a picnic or a game of baseball... sort of. The place could use some cleaning up, sure, but it's quaint and has all the foundations you'll need for a nice, relaxing park. There's even a playground complete with all the standard (if broken) equipment, and a plot that's been blocked off for what looks to be a community garden.

Near the entrance of the park is an ice cream stand! Probably! It's a little booth with ice cream cones stacked on top of it, at least. The forest spirit that tends it is reminiscent of a hermit crab, only ever peeking out halfway from their home inside the stand. To decorate themself for their station and call attention to outsiders, it has created... a hat! The hat is a surgical glove stuffed with leaves, some of which are poking out of it and have begun to tear at the stretchy material. It also looks like the word BEES has been scrawled messily onto the palm, though its hard to say why or if the spirit even did that themself. Speaking of its hat, it also sells balloons! The balloons are surgical gloves, custom-blown-up by the forest spirit to complete your order! They, uh, aren't filled with helium or anything, though, so... Enjoy your inflated surgical glove tied to a string. It promises to drag sadly behind you and probably lose inflation after a day or two. It's a good deal.

Rec Center
The rec center is in about the same state as the park, but at least the building looks intact and structurally sound. Inside, you can find quite a few things!

First, there's a gym with basketball hoops, mats, and adjoining locker room complete with showers and working lockers (assuming you can figure out the combination).

Next door is a fitness center with some basic, nonelectrical workout and sports equipment (it's all a bit run-down, but it works! you might have to re-inflate the balls, though).

Across the entryway, you'll find an auditorium with a stage and rows of chairs stacked against one wall (and a working, if severely out of tune, piano).

And finally, in the back of the building there's a swimming pool that is, uh, filled with something resembling water, though it sure doesn't smell like it. Best to make sure you're up to date on all your shots before jumping in.

Beacon Public Library
Strangely, the library actually looks to be in decent shape, at least compared to the rec center and park. The outside is imposing brick overgrown with ivy, but the interior seems to have been well taken care of. It's a small building boasting a modest selection of books, but there are books. They're mostly fiction and probably nothing you've heard of before, but... is it just your imagination, or is the stock constantly changing? Hm. It wouldn't hurt to keep an eye out for some more specific literature, maybe even something nonfiction.

There's no one tending the counter and nothing out of the ordinary seems to happen if you sit down to read for a while, but you do notice a faint scurrying sound darting between the shelves every now and then. It's... probably nothing.

That said, do let us know if you attempt to leave with a book. 😃

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