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The town

VanillaCity has two parts. The Town is City Central, built round its courthouse square, plus Ogeechee Park down the riverwalk. Downtown is at the far end of the Midland Pacific line.

VanillaCity (Town)

City Central

The square has a gazebo, a flagpole and two cannons given in 1913. City Hall is across Main Street, there are shops on every side, the Ogeechee River runs along the bottom and the railroad down the east side. Two loops of traffic drive the streets and stop at the lights.

City Central, the whole district, empty of people

Places in City Central

  • City Hall, where every citizen signs the rules

    City Hall

    Mayor Ty and Assistant Mayor Lucian

    Where every new citizen meets the Mayor and signs the city rules.

  • Vanilla Threads, the clothes shop on the square

    Vanilla Threads

    Sxniyah

    The clothes shop on the square, with 2,209 things to wear. New citizens begin in the closet at the back.

  • The Post Office: Mabel's counter, the P.O. boxes and the writing desk

    The Post Office

    Mabel, the Postmaster

    Your P.O. box, a writing desk for postcards and a table for wrapping and sending gifts. The blue mailboxes around town take postcards too.

  • The Garden Apartments' lobby, Dottie at the desk

    The Garden Apartments

    Dottie, the Concierge

    Main Street, next to the fire station. Everyone's apartment is up the stairs.

  • Ogeechee Hardware: Ken's materials, the workbench and the showroom

    Ogeechee Hardware

    Ken

    Hill Street. Furniture materials, the workbench to build with, a showroom of ready-made pieces and fishing rods.

  • Donna's Pet Pause: the pens, the fish tanks and Donna's own dogs

    Donna's Pet Pause

    Donna, and her dogs Bogie and Roo

    Ogeechee Street. 16 kinds of pet, some loose in the pens.

  • The Bank of Vanilla, Tony at the middle window

    The Bank of Vanilla

    Tony, Officers Grady and Lane

    Corner of Ogeechee and Main. Deposits, withdrawals, and sending money to friends (5% fee on coins, 10% on VanillaBucks).

  • The Town Market and Marisol's fish counter

    The Town Market

    Marisol and Gus

    Second Street. Groceries, and Marisol's fish counter, which buys what citizens catch.

  • The public library, Miss Ruth at the desk

    The public library

    Miss Ruth, the Librarian

    Story time: read to the children and get paid through the Job Board.

  • Vanilla Arcade & Billiards: the arcade games, Skee-Ball and the pool tables

    Vanilla Arcade & Billiards

    Benny, at the prize counter

    By the railroad: 7 games, the pool tables, and 116 prizes for tickets.

  • Vanilla Cinema's lobby, Rosa at the concession stand

    Vanilla Cinema

    Rosa, at the concession stand

    Second Street. Four screening rooms, each showing YouTube videos put up by the people inside.

  • The station, the Midland Pacific standing at the platform

    The station

    Johnny

    Midland Pacific tickets to Downtown at 5,000 coins a ride, and the platform where the train waits.

  • The Chamber of Commerce

    Mr. Whitaker

    Ogeechee Street. Where an approved business voucher becomes a business request.

  • VanillaCity Police and Engine Company No. 1

    Officers Haith and Bell, Sergeant Pike, Captain Hayes and Firefighter Lou

    Side by side on Main Street. The patrol car answers calls, and the fire engine goes out for cats and kites stuck in the square's trees.

  • Storefronts for lease

    Citizens' businesses

    Four empty shops on Ogeechee and Second Streets, open to citizens' businesses (café, bakery, boutique, flower shop, bookshop, sweet shop, toy shop, corner store, pub and tech store).

  • Opening soon

    Hill Street and Ogeechee Street

    The Ogeechee Diner, Peach Tree Cafe, Pages Bookshop and Bloom Florist.

VanillaCity (Town)

Ogeechee Park

Along the riverwalk, past City Central's west end. The park has basketball courts, a riverbank and a pier for fishing, the boathouse where Mo rents boats, a playground with a slide and swings, and Coach Darnell. In winter it's under snow, the sledding hill opens for sleds and tubes, and the lake freezes over for skating.

Ogeechee Park, the whole district, empty of people

VanillaCity (Downtown)

Downtown

The far end of the Midland Pacific, 90 seconds down the line. The railway comes out of a tunnel, passes a white lighthouse and pulls into a granite station with a copper-roofed pavilion. In front is Station Square, with its fountain and maples, then a street of shopfronts and the harbour boardwalk, with a ferry out on the water. More shops open as Downtown grows.