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theharvestmods) wrote2013-01-06 12:47 am
theharvestmods) wrote2013-01-06 12:47 am
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Welcome to Cape Beryl!
Under construction.
BOWER VILLAGE
1. Town Square
Town Square is, as it sounds, square, with a floor of red brick and tiles, lined by seasonally-colored trees and perennial flowers.
Town Hall stands dead center along its north side, and next to it stands the bulletin board, the Bower Village source of news, declaring plans for the village's many long-standing festivals, public service announcements, job and errand posting, and most anything else suitable.
The square and de Sainte-Coquille Park together serve as the site of the majority of town festivals and ceremonies.
2. Town Hall
Bower Village's Town Hall is a wide building with three floors, one subterranean. On entering, in the main room, the first thing you'll likely see is the Mayor's desk, behind which are several shelves and probably Mayor Thomas himself. To your left will be a nook serving as Jonah's office/reporting station.
To the right will be a door leading to the post office, half the size of the main room - Anette, being usually out and about and conducting her services in a small town, makes do with the space well. If you have a letter for her to deliver, stroll on in, slip it into the cubby labeled by recipient's name; if you have a package, put it into the box below. She'll take care of it for you the next day. In the post office is a door to a set of stairs leading down to Anette's home.
The stairs to the upper floor are back in the main area. The top floor is mainly used for such purposes as storage, but through the door at the end of the hall is Zeke's simple office, where he makes plans for his trips out of town and keeps track of the town's imports, exports, and requests and orders.
3. Aerie Inn
4. Bower Village Library
5. Bower Village General Health
6. Blacksmith Saibara
7. Gotz Company Carpentry
8. All and Nothing
9. Lilia Florist
10. Fine Eye Tailor
11. Salt & Sky Fishery
12. Thomas's House
13. Jonah's House
14. Zeke's House
15. Mary's House
16. The Lighthouse
The tall stone lighthouse is an artifact - it's an old thing that's been standing longer than any of Bower Village's current residents have been established, and the only boat that makes regular trips to or from Cape Beryl is the fishery skiff. Wes, who has the key, lights it daily after closing up shop anyway, just in case - as he seems to manage it well, he is the only person in the village who's cared to go inside in the past few years.
17. de Sainte-Coquille Park
A lavish, spacious public park between the road to Town Hall and the beach with soft grass and well-tended trees and gardens. The de Sainte-Coquilles spared no expanse in creating a lovely, peaceful environment for their neighbors - along the road roughly around its perimeter are benches and lantern posts galore, and even the occasional garden with a fountain at its centerpiece.
Gated off within a gated off park and nestled in magnolia trees in the corner is the white-and-purple-painted de Sainte-Coquille Manor. Make no mistake - the gate is usually open for a reason. Visitors or anyone looking for a loan or any other assistance any of the family can provide are always welcome to knock, at least!
Town Square and the de Sainte-Coquille Park between them host the majority of the town's festivals.
In the park are also fruit-bearing trees and patches of bushes and flowers also free for the public to enjoy. In the Spring, Strawberries are ripe for the picking, with pink trees encouraging you to come by in Summer for Cherry-picking, and Blueberry- and Raspberrypicking while you're at it. In Autumn, Chestnuts fall from the trees off the path and you're free to pick Grapes and Roses off the vines around the park and mansion gates, while in Winter, during which ice sculptures are set up on display around the park, most ought to find the sight of big bright Oranges in the trees enticing!
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OUTSIDE OF TOWN
18. A Harvest Sprite Camp
19. A Harvest Sprite Camp
20. A Harvest Sprite Camp
21. Goddess Grotto
Follow a short stream to its source on the west side of the beach and find yourself looking into the wide and welcoming mouth of Goddess Grotto, with a statue of the Goddess herself placed in the back cave wall behind three thin waterfalls pouring out of three respective holes in the ceiling and splashing into her spring. The spring, like the cave entrance, is edged with tufts of grass and little flowers, and practically glows with a calming spirit. On either side of where the stream breaks away, meanwhile, are soft sandy patches where anyone actively coming by for a visit may sit to drop in an offering or offer a prayer.
22. Bower Village Outskirts
The areas of the cape after wilderness ends but before the town and beaches begin are worth exploring. Most of it is open, breezy and fog-clung field, but the prevalence of flowers and plants over the space may just be of interest to you.
Year-round, Mint leaves and Happy Lamp flowers, brief-lived and resembling red tulips with a tighter bell shape, can be found in abundance for picking on the outskirts of town. In Spring, they are joined by tiny white-petal Toy Flowers and Dandelions, and you may even find Wild Garlic out there if you know what to look for. The dandelions last all the way through Summer, which also sees bushes positively crowded with Blackberries and Raspberries as well as the every-popular Pink Cat flower. In Autumn, those berries are replaced by Cranberries and, if you're lucky enough to find one of the few shrubs, Olives. The blue and rarer red bells of Magic Grass flowers will turn up.
There's less foraging to be done in Winter - but what you can find if you bother to look ought to make you glad that you did. Valuable White Leaf and Black Leaf medicinal herbs can be found under the snow as well as Elli Leaves, like lavender tulips on short stems with wide, dark leaves, surprisingly effective in correcting the body's health.
23. The Forest
There's a fairy-tale like feel to the forest on Cape Beryl's north. Perhaps it's the thick foliage smell and leaves on the ground; perhaps it's the lazing fog; perhaps it's the sheer fact that it's known to be home to forest sprites and, if one goes deep enough, mysterious beasts.
It's really surprisingly easy to avoid that last bit, though, and as long as one stays out of where the trees suddenly start getting denser much faster, it's perfectly safe and pleasant; the only people who do go that far in are Gotz and Co. and Jonah, usually as a group of four, as that's the best place on the Cape to collect lumber - not only are there trees all around, they grow back at a seemingly unnatural rate, and include desirable lumber trees simply termed White Wood, Green Wood, and Black Wood trees. 10 pieces of lumber can be harvested per tree - though you'll need at least a Silver Axe to do a thing to White, Black, and Green Wood trees.
There's plenty to do and find in the woods for those who aren't hunters, fighters, or lumberjacks - it's not recommended that just anyone picks the purple Toadstools that grow there all year, though the Shiitake are another story, but bring a little basket with you in Spring to collect yellow Moondrop flowers, Sorrel, and if you keep your eyes peeled maybe an occasional Quail Egg. The Summer's flowers are the Goddess Drop and Lavender, and Trumpet Mushrooms, Green and Red Leaf medicinal herbs as well as very sweet-wine-flavored pink Wild Grapes are easy to find. In Autumn, trees drop Pine Nuts, Almonds, and Hazelnuts, the popular Trick Blue flower (so named because a single stem grows two colors of flowers, red and blue, each with a strangely different scent) grows, and Button and Milk Cap and occasional Matsutake Mushrooms are also available. Winter sees a forest floor covered in Snowdrops, and White Leaf herbs for those willing to dig through the snow. Dig a little deeper with some knowledge of how to search and you may even turn up Truffles!
24. Mt. Throne
The only way to proceed with exploration of Mt. Throne is to enter it. The trail that leads to the mountain through the woods from the village will take you to a cave opening at its base. From that first spacious, lit cavern are three ways to go. The first is down a ladder in a mineshaft to your left - but this will take you to a dark dead-end chamber.
The second is down a stairway in the back that will take you further inside into the mines. Of course, if you have the strength and a hammer, you'll have an easy time gathering Material Stone for any building or crafting projects here, but moving deeper inside the mines will also allow you do gradually find Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold, and even Mythril, Orichalcum, and Adamantite. Even more committed digging will even get you gemstones - Crystal at first, and later Amethyst, Moonstone, Fluorite, Agate, Ruby, Emerald, and Diamond and Pink Diamond. Note that it'll take training and very solid equipment to get you that far in one mining trip - you'll need a Mythril-reinforced hammer before you'll reach diamond.
The third way is down another stairway to the right of the one leading further in, which will take you to the paths cut around the outside of the mountain, where in Spring and Summer Blue Leaf and Green Leaf herbs grow for harvesting - and in Autumn, lovely Blue Mist flowers can be found.
25. The Beach
Down from the cliffs south of Bower Village, Cape Beryl is lined by its beach, along a clear blue and green sea and fine beige sand, on which the occasional big white stone rests that, if you'd like, you may use as a seat or picnic table given the appropriate shape. If you're a beachcomber, interesting shells wash up on the shore nearly every day - which in Summer includes Oysters and Mussels (and Purple Leaf herbs that sprout along the cliffs) and in the Autumn includes Clams, all nice enough eating. In Winter and Spring, if you don't mind a bit of pinching, you may even be able to catch a few Crabs! You'll find the highest concentration of shellfish and shells washing up as you approach the muddy mouth of the beach caves.
26. The Beach Caves
Making one's way through the beach caves is much like making one's way through the caves of Mt. Throne - except that the spaces fluctuate more widely from chamber to chamber and are varying degrees of damp, with some simply home to dripping sounds and others flooded entirely, though not impassible to a strong swimmer. What can be found inside is also similar - you'll probably find the same metals, minerals, and gems (excluding Diamonds) as you dig, as well as chunks of caked high-grade Sea Salt. Make your way deeper and you may be able to pick up Pearls, including Pink Pearls and Black Pearls with sufficient luck and attention, and also Pontata Roots, a valuable and versatile medicinal root.
27. Sprite Station
There is a large tree stump with a jaunty little miniature double door in it, lined with red- and white-spotted toadstools, at the junction of the two roads leading to Mt. Throne. Knock and you may receive an answer from a tiny little doorman willing to lead you underground...
BOWER VILLAGE
1. Town Square
Town Square is, as it sounds, square, with a floor of red brick and tiles, lined by seasonally-colored trees and perennial flowers.
Town Hall stands dead center along its north side, and next to it stands the bulletin board, the Bower Village source of news, declaring plans for the village's many long-standing festivals, public service announcements, job and errand posting, and most anything else suitable.
The square and de Sainte-Coquille Park together serve as the site of the majority of town festivals and ceremonies.
2. Town Hall
Bower Village's Town Hall is a wide building with three floors, one subterranean. On entering, in the main room, the first thing you'll likely see is the Mayor's desk, behind which are several shelves and probably Mayor Thomas himself. To your left will be a nook serving as Jonah's office/reporting station.
To the right will be a door leading to the post office, half the size of the main room - Anette, being usually out and about and conducting her services in a small town, makes do with the space well. If you have a letter for her to deliver, stroll on in, slip it into the cubby labeled by recipient's name; if you have a package, put it into the box below. She'll take care of it for you the next day. In the post office is a door to a set of stairs leading down to Anette's home.
The stairs to the upper floor are back in the main area. The top floor is mainly used for such purposes as storage, but through the door at the end of the hall is Zeke's simple office, where he makes plans for his trips out of town and keeps track of the town's imports, exports, and requests and orders.
3. Aerie Inn
4. Bower Village Library
5. Bower Village General Health
6. Blacksmith Saibara
7. Gotz Company Carpentry
8. All and Nothing
9. Lilia Florist
10. Fine Eye Tailor
11. Salt & Sky Fishery
12. Thomas's House
13. Jonah's House
14. Zeke's House
15. Mary's House
16. The Lighthouse
The tall stone lighthouse is an artifact - it's an old thing that's been standing longer than any of Bower Village's current residents have been established, and the only boat that makes regular trips to or from Cape Beryl is the fishery skiff. Wes, who has the key, lights it daily after closing up shop anyway, just in case - as he seems to manage it well, he is the only person in the village who's cared to go inside in the past few years.
17. de Sainte-Coquille Park
A lavish, spacious public park between the road to Town Hall and the beach with soft grass and well-tended trees and gardens. The de Sainte-Coquilles spared no expanse in creating a lovely, peaceful environment for their neighbors - along the road roughly around its perimeter are benches and lantern posts galore, and even the occasional garden with a fountain at its centerpiece.
Gated off within a gated off park and nestled in magnolia trees in the corner is the white-and-purple-painted de Sainte-Coquille Manor. Make no mistake - the gate is usually open for a reason. Visitors or anyone looking for a loan or any other assistance any of the family can provide are always welcome to knock, at least!
Town Square and the de Sainte-Coquille Park between them host the majority of the town's festivals.
In the park are also fruit-bearing trees and patches of bushes and flowers also free for the public to enjoy. In the Spring, Strawberries are ripe for the picking, with pink trees encouraging you to come by in Summer for Cherry-picking, and Blueberry- and Raspberrypicking while you're at it. In Autumn, Chestnuts fall from the trees off the path and you're free to pick Grapes and Roses off the vines around the park and mansion gates, while in Winter, during which ice sculptures are set up on display around the park, most ought to find the sight of big bright Oranges in the trees enticing!
---
OUTSIDE OF TOWN
18. A Harvest Sprite Camp
19. A Harvest Sprite Camp
20. A Harvest Sprite Camp
21. Goddess Grotto
Follow a short stream to its source on the west side of the beach and find yourself looking into the wide and welcoming mouth of Goddess Grotto, with a statue of the Goddess herself placed in the back cave wall behind three thin waterfalls pouring out of three respective holes in the ceiling and splashing into her spring. The spring, like the cave entrance, is edged with tufts of grass and little flowers, and practically glows with a calming spirit. On either side of where the stream breaks away, meanwhile, are soft sandy patches where anyone actively coming by for a visit may sit to drop in an offering or offer a prayer.
22. Bower Village Outskirts
The areas of the cape after wilderness ends but before the town and beaches begin are worth exploring. Most of it is open, breezy and fog-clung field, but the prevalence of flowers and plants over the space may just be of interest to you.
Year-round, Mint leaves and Happy Lamp flowers, brief-lived and resembling red tulips with a tighter bell shape, can be found in abundance for picking on the outskirts of town. In Spring, they are joined by tiny white-petal Toy Flowers and Dandelions, and you may even find Wild Garlic out there if you know what to look for. The dandelions last all the way through Summer, which also sees bushes positively crowded with Blackberries and Raspberries as well as the every-popular Pink Cat flower. In Autumn, those berries are replaced by Cranberries and, if you're lucky enough to find one of the few shrubs, Olives. The blue and rarer red bells of Magic Grass flowers will turn up.
There's less foraging to be done in Winter - but what you can find if you bother to look ought to make you glad that you did. Valuable White Leaf and Black Leaf medicinal herbs can be found under the snow as well as Elli Leaves, like lavender tulips on short stems with wide, dark leaves, surprisingly effective in correcting the body's health.
23. The Forest
There's a fairy-tale like feel to the forest on Cape Beryl's north. Perhaps it's the thick foliage smell and leaves on the ground; perhaps it's the lazing fog; perhaps it's the sheer fact that it's known to be home to forest sprites and, if one goes deep enough, mysterious beasts.
It's really surprisingly easy to avoid that last bit, though, and as long as one stays out of where the trees suddenly start getting denser much faster, it's perfectly safe and pleasant; the only people who do go that far in are Gotz and Co. and Jonah, usually as a group of four, as that's the best place on the Cape to collect lumber - not only are there trees all around, they grow back at a seemingly unnatural rate, and include desirable lumber trees simply termed White Wood, Green Wood, and Black Wood trees. 10 pieces of lumber can be harvested per tree - though you'll need at least a Silver Axe to do a thing to White, Black, and Green Wood trees.
There's plenty to do and find in the woods for those who aren't hunters, fighters, or lumberjacks - it's not recommended that just anyone picks the purple Toadstools that grow there all year, though the Shiitake are another story, but bring a little basket with you in Spring to collect yellow Moondrop flowers, Sorrel, and if you keep your eyes peeled maybe an occasional Quail Egg. The Summer's flowers are the Goddess Drop and Lavender, and Trumpet Mushrooms, Green and Red Leaf medicinal herbs as well as very sweet-wine-flavored pink Wild Grapes are easy to find. In Autumn, trees drop Pine Nuts, Almonds, and Hazelnuts, the popular Trick Blue flower (so named because a single stem grows two colors of flowers, red and blue, each with a strangely different scent) grows, and Button and Milk Cap and occasional Matsutake Mushrooms are also available. Winter sees a forest floor covered in Snowdrops, and White Leaf herbs for those willing to dig through the snow. Dig a little deeper with some knowledge of how to search and you may even turn up Truffles!
24. Mt. Throne
The only way to proceed with exploration of Mt. Throne is to enter it. The trail that leads to the mountain through the woods from the village will take you to a cave opening at its base. From that first spacious, lit cavern are three ways to go. The first is down a ladder in a mineshaft to your left - but this will take you to a dark dead-end chamber.
The second is down a stairway in the back that will take you further inside into the mines. Of course, if you have the strength and a hammer, you'll have an easy time gathering Material Stone for any building or crafting projects here, but moving deeper inside the mines will also allow you do gradually find Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold, and even Mythril, Orichalcum, and Adamantite. Even more committed digging will even get you gemstones - Crystal at first, and later Amethyst, Moonstone, Fluorite, Agate, Ruby, Emerald, and Diamond and Pink Diamond. Note that it'll take training and very solid equipment to get you that far in one mining trip - you'll need a Mythril-reinforced hammer before you'll reach diamond.
The third way is down another stairway to the right of the one leading further in, which will take you to the paths cut around the outside of the mountain, where in Spring and Summer Blue Leaf and Green Leaf herbs grow for harvesting - and in Autumn, lovely Blue Mist flowers can be found.
25. The Beach
Down from the cliffs south of Bower Village, Cape Beryl is lined by its beach, along a clear blue and green sea and fine beige sand, on which the occasional big white stone rests that, if you'd like, you may use as a seat or picnic table given the appropriate shape. If you're a beachcomber, interesting shells wash up on the shore nearly every day - which in Summer includes Oysters and Mussels (and Purple Leaf herbs that sprout along the cliffs) and in the Autumn includes Clams, all nice enough eating. In Winter and Spring, if you don't mind a bit of pinching, you may even be able to catch a few Crabs! You'll find the highest concentration of shellfish and shells washing up as you approach the muddy mouth of the beach caves.
26. The Beach Caves
Making one's way through the beach caves is much like making one's way through the caves of Mt. Throne - except that the spaces fluctuate more widely from chamber to chamber and are varying degrees of damp, with some simply home to dripping sounds and others flooded entirely, though not impassible to a strong swimmer. What can be found inside is also similar - you'll probably find the same metals, minerals, and gems (excluding Diamonds) as you dig, as well as chunks of caked high-grade Sea Salt. Make your way deeper and you may be able to pick up Pearls, including Pink Pearls and Black Pearls with sufficient luck and attention, and also Pontata Roots, a valuable and versatile medicinal root.
27. Sprite Station
There is a large tree stump with a jaunty little miniature double door in it, lined with red- and white-spotted toadstools, at the junction of the two roads leading to Mt. Throne. Knock and you may receive an answer from a tiny little doorman willing to lead you underground...