DownTown
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DownTown is one of the larger urban centers within the Core, and is where the Blaseball team is based.
Geography
DownTown is located in a series of large open spaces within the Core, linked by large tunnels. It is held between four of the megalithic Pillars which pierce through the Core. DownTown can be broken into the following districts. Uptown DownTown is the uppermost cavern, which holds warehouses and private residences as well as having a notable amount of parks and open, green spaces. The City Center holds the Blaseball stadium, workshops, hydroponics facilities, and a statistically improbable number of swimming pools, though only one or two tend to be open at a time due to an also fairly statistically improbable number of swimming pool related incidents. The DownTown Outskirts are in the cavern which is usually geographically furthest from the City Centre. When it is not geographically furthest, it is called the DownTown Inskirts. This holds laboratories, meeting spaces, headquarters for several Core Organizations as well as being a common launching point for expeditions into the Deep Core. Notwest DownTown is largely taken up by the B.A.C.K. archives but also serves as a university and education district, with several institutes of higher learning as well as schools.
DownTown is connected by an extensive tram network, as well as some ziplines, and the Maintenance Closet system.
Notable Locations
Research and Education
The Anaconda-Cademy
Founded and currently run by Doctor Ilane Snart, the Anaconda-Cademy is a general scientific research university with a focus on interdisciplinary study and collaboration. It features state of the art laboratories, a highly regarded Research Journal called the Anaconda-Ponder, and while it doesn’t take on students does frequently host lectures for the general public both in person and livestreamed.
Alternate Realities
The Maintenance Closet Network The Maintenance Closet Network is a fluke of Core hyperreatity, wherein sometimes certain places can be the same even when they probably shouldn’t be but also aren’t the same all the time. It’s been the source of several academic papers, one of which won an award for being the most confusing publication in a given year and two of which were runners up, as well as at least twenty career changes. Thirteen of them were researchers who decided to take a radical new direction in life with four of them leaving the Core and vowing never to return, and seven of them were people who cited the Maintenance Closet Network as the reason why they got into Dimensional Studies in the first place.
Entering in one Maintenance Closet can lead to you exiting from a different Maintenance Closet. While some of these links are stable or semi-stable, most of them are not. Sometimes Maintenance Closets are just Maintenance Closets, sometimes they lead to random places in the Core or on the Immaterial Plane, sometimes they lead to random times or alternate dimensions. There are seven stable Maintenance Closets in the DownTown Area. Two of them lead to each other, which is a very rare occurrence, two are one way paths to unstable closets in other parts of DownTown, one leads to a Maintenance Closet in a research outpost 130 miles out of DownTown, one is just a Maintenance Closet and doesn’t go anywhere and one consistently leads to itself in a different universe where Dligestive Biscuits have never existed.
There are four semi-stable Maintenance Closets. One leads to a random Maintenance Closet in the Red Moat, one leads to one of five different facilities around or within the Prophesea, one leads to the Mass Foundries and one leads to DATA EXPUNGED SIMULATION RELOADING
The Glolf Sim
Following the introduction of Alternate PolkaDot Patterson (Alto Patterson) to the Core some aspects of their reality were dragged through with them. This included a simulation of several Glolf players which can be found within one Maintenance Closet within the Core. The location of this Maintenance Closet shifts so it is considered a pleasant surprise for Mechanics to accidentally stumble on to.
Food and Drink
The Foxhole
The Foxhole is a nonalcoholic bar notable for a variety of colourful mocktails, great bar snacks, and alternating mecha-wrestling and robot gladiatorial combat.
Pasta/Sauce
Pasta/Sauce is an American-style diner. It was founded by Ruffian Applesauce and Lizzy Pasta. Following the death of Applesauce and Pasta moving to Hawai’i, the diner briefly fell out of use before Mindy Kugel took over at the request of the team.
It is a popular hangout spot for the Core Mechanics Blaseball team who go there after every game and before election results are announced.
Recently, Pasta/Sauce has expanded its milkshake collection following Kugel’s newfound scientific interests. While everything remains food-safe, the milkshakes now have brighter colours, increased fizz and a tendency to violently erupt everywhere. This is considered part of the Pasta/Sauce experience and there is a wall of pictures of people with exploding milkshakes behind the counter.
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe, run by Kofi Gildehaus, is a teashop and cafe in the uptown area of DownTown, near the S.H.A.D.O.W.S. warehouse.
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe serves a wide variety of teas, your favourite coffee, and a range of snacks and sweet treats. With its cozy atmosphere, eclectic collection of books donated or traded in by Core denizens, and out-of-the-way location, it’s a delightful way to spend an afternoon in uptown DownTown. It’s also a favoured hang out spot for the Core Mechanics Shadow Team and often fan favourites like Bottles Suljak or Jasper Ji-Eun can be found in the Secret Base Teashop and Cafe.
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe looks forward to welcoming you soon!
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous places in the Core and prospective customers are advised to complete three separate training courses offered by Core Organizations D.O.W.N., R.I.G.H.T. and F.R.O.N.T.. C.E.N.T.E.R. also requests that anyone going in wears recording equipment, as if the footage can be found later, it could provide insights into the nature of one of the strangest part of the Core.
The Secret Base Teashop and Cafe has no known affiliation with the Secret Base stadium renovation despite the name and certain thematic ties.
