SPERO
Spero
A city located on the western side of the lake from Discedo, currently there are three methods of travel between the two. One may ride the subway (it's a seven hour trip), take a boat if they can find one (a three day trip with the possibility of monsters) or walk around the edge of the lake (this takes about a week and monsters are encounterable along the way).
Spero Housing
Accido Camp
At the edge of the city lies several trailers, big enough for four or five people. Characters from previous trips can tell you that this is where the Accedians camped out during an occupation of Spero; the only evidence now left of the trailers' purpose can be seen a few dirtied papers.
Apartments
[ Map ]
(Every floor looks the same, except the numbers change according to floor.)
Once a sixteen story apartment complex now stands as a twelve story one due to deterioration and collapse of the uppermost floors. The first few levels reflect the same as most other buildings in the city and most useful items are nearly impossible to find. However, the higher you go, the less damage there appears to be. It looks not only safer on the upper floors but also nicer.
Hospital
[ First Floor ] - [ Second Floor ] - [ Third Floor ] - [ Basement ]
(The dark, pixely, blocked out areas on the map indicate extensive damage)
As you enter the building, you may notice some animal prints and blood on the walls and floor, though not extensively. With the exception of some overturned gurneys and trays, the hospital remains in relatively good condition if you can ignore the debris.
Some patient rooms are empty, some have remnants of what looks like human bone or hair. The morgue, though it is a morgue, is eerily empty and carries a lingering smell of burnt materials. The walls of it are also blackened, as if having been burned in the past.
Hotel
[ Map ]
(Blue coloring means wrecked or dangerous areas while dark red/brown represents completely missing/destroyed)
The Lakeside Hotel looks to have been once very prosperous. Murals in the lobby and pool area reflect happier water scenes and activities, including a ferry with many passengers heading towards Spero. The indoor pool stands under a broken and dirtied glass skylight. The pool itself still holds water, but it's darkened with algae and grime. Nearly everything has been knocked over and threaded through of anything edible or useful in the shops and restaurants.
The higher up you go, the less things have been disturbed. Floors two and three are nearly identical, except for the wreckage. The top floor holds three suites (Diamond, Crystal, and Executive) but also a few meeting rooms as well as a ballroom for gatherings.
Mall
[ Map ]
Looting has robbed the mall of most items that could be used as weapons. The most abundant items are still clothing and shoes, with perhaps a few impractical electronics thrown in (such at TVs and MP3 players). There really isn't as much left as one would expect; it would probably be easier to simply raid the residential area or take cloth from the hotels.
In the electronics section, you can still find advertisements for "COM-U: Social networking at your fingertips!" It's larger and clunkier than your communicators, but looks like it's your current communicator's predecessor.
Observatory
A little ways away from the university lies an observatory, up on a hilltop.
The observatory in Spero is a little bigger than the one seen in Dissimulo. The walls are completely bare, a solid metallic gray. They're wide enough where even the smallest sound will echo. The building itself is separated into two "floors" or tiers, rather: the bottom level is where all the data-recording seems to be done, various desks with computers, shelves with books, all mushed in together. Up the small, spiral staircase in the center of the observatory is the second level where the large telescope rests. The ceiling of the observatory is still opened up, showing the sky, the building's only source of lighting. The electricity seems to be out and none of the computers seem to work.
09/26/11
Some machines exploded, taking Knowlton's life with them. Not all the computers were damaged but they're not up and running, including the one with the small glowing screen that once showed images of other worlds.
Subway Entrance
Like the other cities, there is a subway entrance that leads underground. However, the tunnels in Spero seem to have collapsed and flooded.
Walls
The walls in Spero are a bit different than the other cities. A reminder of an event not so easily forgotten, these haunting messages can be found both inside and outside of buildings, on the floors and on the ceilings. The messages are in all kinds of styles, but the one uniform thing about them? Desperation.
THE SCIENTISTS DON'T CARE
we're all going to D I E here
BETTER TO GO LAUGHING→
STAY STRONG
w e w o n t m a k e i t
I don't want it to end here
love you
Characters can try all they like to cover up or remove the messages, be it with paint, water, soap-- but they'll soon find that nothing can get rid of them. They'll show through no matter what.
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A city located on the western side of the lake from Discedo, currently there are three methods of travel between the two. One may ride the subway (it's a seven hour trip), take a boat if they can find one (a three day trip with the possibility of monsters) or walk around the edge of the lake (this takes about a week and monsters are encounterable along the way).
Spero Housing
Accido Camp
At the edge of the city lies several trailers, big enough for four or five people. Characters from previous trips can tell you that this is where the Accedians camped out during an occupation of Spero; the only evidence now left of the trailers' purpose can be seen a few dirtied papers.
Apartments
[ Map ]
(Every floor looks the same, except the numbers change according to floor.)
Once a sixteen story apartment complex now stands as a twelve story one due to deterioration and collapse of the uppermost floors. The first few levels reflect the same as most other buildings in the city and most useful items are nearly impossible to find. However, the higher you go, the less damage there appears to be. It looks not only safer on the upper floors but also nicer.
Hospital
[ First Floor ] - [ Second Floor ] - [ Third Floor ] - [ Basement ]
(The dark, pixely, blocked out areas on the map indicate extensive damage)
As you enter the building, you may notice some animal prints and blood on the walls and floor, though not extensively. With the exception of some overturned gurneys and trays, the hospital remains in relatively good condition if you can ignore the debris.
Some patient rooms are empty, some have remnants of what looks like human bone or hair. The morgue, though it is a morgue, is eerily empty and carries a lingering smell of burnt materials. The walls of it are also blackened, as if having been burned in the past.
Hotel
[ Map ]
(Blue coloring means wrecked or dangerous areas while dark red/brown represents completely missing/destroyed)
The Lakeside Hotel looks to have been once very prosperous. Murals in the lobby and pool area reflect happier water scenes and activities, including a ferry with many passengers heading towards Spero. The indoor pool stands under a broken and dirtied glass skylight. The pool itself still holds water, but it's darkened with algae and grime. Nearly everything has been knocked over and threaded through of anything edible or useful in the shops and restaurants.
The higher up you go, the less things have been disturbed. Floors two and three are nearly identical, except for the wreckage. The top floor holds three suites (Diamond, Crystal, and Executive) but also a few meeting rooms as well as a ballroom for gatherings.
Mall
[ Map ]
Looting has robbed the mall of most items that could be used as weapons. The most abundant items are still clothing and shoes, with perhaps a few impractical electronics thrown in (such at TVs and MP3 players). There really isn't as much left as one would expect; it would probably be easier to simply raid the residential area or take cloth from the hotels.
In the electronics section, you can still find advertisements for "COM-U: Social networking at your fingertips!" It's larger and clunkier than your communicators, but looks like it's your current communicator's predecessor.
Observatory
A little ways away from the university lies an observatory, up on a hilltop.
The observatory in Spero is a little bigger than the one seen in Dissimulo. The walls are completely bare, a solid metallic gray. They're wide enough where even the smallest sound will echo. The building itself is separated into two "floors" or tiers, rather: the bottom level is where all the data-recording seems to be done, various desks with computers, shelves with books, all mushed in together. Up the small, spiral staircase in the center of the observatory is the second level where the large telescope rests. The ceiling of the observatory is still opened up, showing the sky, the building's only source of lighting. The electricity seems to be out and none of the computers seem to work.
09/26/11
Some machines exploded, taking Knowlton's life with them. Not all the computers were damaged but they're not up and running, including the one with the small glowing screen that once showed images of other worlds.
Subway Entrance
Like the other cities, there is a subway entrance that leads underground. However, the tunnels in Spero seem to have collapsed and flooded.
Walls
The walls in Spero are a bit different than the other cities. A reminder of an event not so easily forgotten, these haunting messages can be found both inside and outside of buildings, on the floors and on the ceilings. The messages are in all kinds of styles, but the one uniform thing about them? Desperation.
THE SCIENTISTS DON'T CARE
we're all going to D I E here
BETTER TO GO LAUGHING→
STAY STRONG
w e w o n t m a k e i t
I don't want it to end here
love you
Characters can try all they like to cover up or remove the messages, be it with paint, water, soap-- but they'll soon find that nothing can get rid of them. They'll show through no matter what.
»Back to the main settings page