LOCATION DISCOVERY: THE MUSEUM

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LOCATION DISCOVERY: THE MUSEUM

the basics

A few weeks ago, two intrepid explorers found a route along the cliffs to the north of Bonfire Square. And along this route: a strange building full of even stranger things. Welcome to Beacon's own museum!

The description of this location is detailed below, and it has already been added to the map on the settings page. It will be added to the page itself shortly!

If you have any questions, please let us know below!

the details

The museum is a bizarre building that looks like it was made by jamming two other buildings together. It sits relatively close to the northern cliffs, which drop down to the lake far below. Jutting out over these cliffs is a kind of viewing platform, though it's difficult to really see anything out there but stars. Between this structure and the building proper is a strange little sculpture garden, the most prominent feature of which is the bronze statue of a woman on a pedestal. She has long hair and holds a clipboard under one arm, with a flame in her outstretched hand as she looks defiantly toward the sky. It looks like there used to be an inscription underneath, but it's been violently scratched away. The building's front facade faces the garden (and therefore the cliffs).

Just inside the double doors is a massive hall filled with specimens of various long-dead creatures. Some of these are a little odd. Hanging above all of them is a massive whale skeleton that looms over the space. There are large doorways which lead to three more halls, and a central staircase at the back which leads up.

The first of the ground-floor halls is more natural history. This time it isn't bones, but taxidermy animal mounts in realistic environments. Most of the fauna depicted is fairly typical of what one might expect from this climate (moose, deer, foxes, wolves, etc.) but there are some oddities. The second hall is more focused on humanity— or whatever sapient species once lived here. There are stone tools, a recreation of an ancient hut, and, in a case at the back of the room, what appears to be a shriveled, blackened corpse. It... looks human, if you squint, but only if said human was flattened and turned into coal-dark leather. Spooky!

The final hall on this floor has a name: the Solis Hall. It contains a surprising array of items, each one placed behind inch-thick bulletproof glass. These items include: an unopened bag of Cheetos^tm (flamin' hot), a pair of jeans with four legs, something that might be a seed pod, whatever the hell this is, and some unique eyewear.

And then there's the upstairs. This floor is divided into two sections: one on rocks and geology, the other on local history. The geology wing seems fairly straightforward, with crystals and minerals and such, except, hmm, something's missing? Where there should be a specimen of plutonium, there is instead a broken pane of glass and nothing left. The local history room features a lot of cultural artifacts and even modern art from local artists. Pretty much everything relates back to the people who lived on this land for thousands of years, with some nods here and there to influential immigrants (from countries no one has heard of). The local culture's art style resembles that of the Ojibwe people of Earth.

The back doors of the museum simply lead out into more forest, and it doesn't appear to have any basements or storage areas.

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