Boston
Boston is the home to the Boston Flowers.
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History
Founding and Growth
Boston has a long and storied history. Founded in a swamp in the late 1700s, the city was slowly built up by landfill. While Boston was famous for it's public gardens and historic architecture, it was most well known around the world for its natural resources. Boston had the world's largest deposit of raw donuts buried deep underneath it, a fact which led to the founding of the Dunkies Donuts corporation.
Boston grew on the wealth Dunkies brought into the city, expanding ever outwards as more donut mines and coffee drilling platforms were built in the Commonwealth. In 1976, it was estimated that 70% of the city's residents were Dunkies employees.
The Dunkies Years
in XX04, the Dunkies Donuts Corporation was voted in as the mayor of Boston due to a technical loophole that allowed corporate entities to run for office. Quickly they began ramping up production, building new factories and streamlining the school to employee pipeline. Paving over the Boston Garden to build their new HQ, Dunkies established their new control over the city.
With donut mining and coffee drilling reaching record highs, it didn't take long for industrial disaster to strike. In XX09, a series of total cave-ins and collapses of the mines beneath Boston opened massive sinkholes into the ground, exposing the grand jelly reservoirs Dunkies had installed. In an event that would be known as the Great Jelly Flood, donut jelly surged into the streets of Boston, killing and injuring hundreds of miners. According to a local correspondent:
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Even this disaster did not stop the Dunkies Corporation, and after a basic effort to clean up the jelly, Boston returned to business as usual. Dunkies went on to develop the Dunkies Donuts Human Replacements in XX12, a line of robots that ran on Dunkies coffee and would not make the same mistakes as their human employees.
The Big Dunk
Ongoing experiments in Clambridge's many universities revealed that it was possible to synthesize coffee beans from outside the universe. Seizing upon this information, Dunkies began its biggest project yet: a massive particle accelerator known as the Super Donut. Built in the ground under Dunkies HQ and the paved-over Garden, the Super Donut promised to synthesize enough beans to more than triple the corporation's yearly profit. However, the accelerator was flawed.
The first and only time the Super Donut was turned on, the fundamental particles inside began a resonance cascade. In an unstoppable reaction, the Super Donut collapsed in on itself in a temporal implosion, obliterating Dunkies HQ and opening uncountable rifts in the space-time around Boston. Almost immediately, Boston began to merge with versions of itself from the past, future, and alternate timelines, creating the version of the city that can be seen today.
Following the Big Dunk, the inhabitants of shattered Boston renounced capitalist living and began returning nature to the city. New species emerged from the distortions, and together, the Bostonians recreated their city.
Regrowth
The nature in and around Boston seemed almost eager to reclaim the city. Plants of all kind soon strung themselves up buildings and across streets. As the center of the distortions, the Garden bled together with every possible version of itself, replacing the pavement and factories of Dunkies HQ with infinite acres of fens, marsh, and forest.
Geography
Space and time in Boston are hard to pin down, but there are a few regions that stay reasonably constant. While it is inadvisable to travel around Boston without an experienced guide, it is possible to get around relatively safely by avoiding the dimensional distortions entirely.
Dunkies HQ
In the center of the infinite gardens is the ruined headquarters of the Dunkies Corporation. Now overgrown, and populated only by ghosts and wandering Dunkies Human Replacements, it still menaces with its massive scale.
Star Boston Flowers pitcher Dunn Keyes is known to visit the old HQ often. Though they do not call it home, they are the most consistent resident of the location.
The Fens
In an alternate timeline where Dunkies was never founded, Boston's natural landscape was preserved in the Fens. The Fens are a massive web of interconnected rivers and swamps, home to the Fenmaids, and one of the most stable regions in Boston. They remain remarkably consistent, with only minor changes to the branching watery paths even as the city changes around them. The Boston Flowers used to play blaseball here, at Flenway Park, until their recent move to the Boston Garden.
Population
Boston is populated by a massive variety of species from all times and timelines. The city's population count fluctuates every second as different parts pop in and out of existence. Nevertheless, a few key groups can be established.
Humans
Descended from Dunkies employees, the human population of Boston is now composed almost entirely of gardeners. Living a communal lifestyle, the Humans spend their days tending to the plants around the city and enjoying games of Blaseball at the Boston Garden.
Fenmaids
Populating the Fens of Boston, the Fenmaids are an aquatic species of humanoids from an alternate version of the city. They have adapted to life in post-Big Dunk Boston very quickly, trading with the local Humans and helping them navigate the strange landscape. Enough blase balls have landed in the Fens that the Fenmaids have based their economy on them, trading balls for goods and services. Signed balls are worth far more than unsigned, so one can often see Fenmaids at Flowers Games catching foul balls and trying to get the players to autograph them.
Plants
In recent years, as the city has become saturated with plant life, sentient and sapient plants have emerged from the nature around Boston. While initial attempts to communicate with them were stymied by their lack of speech, the Plants picked up ASL[1] quite quickly. Now, the Plants are fully a part of Boston society, and a few have even begun playing Blaseball on the Boston Flowers.
