The town
VanillaCity has two parts. The Town is City Central, built round its courthouse square, with Vanilla Town Center a short walk away, Ogeechee Park down the riverwalk and the old State Hospital up the road. 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.
Places in City Central
City Hall
Mayor Ty and Assistant Mayor Lucian
Where every new citizen meets the Mayor and signs the city rules.
Vanilla Threads
Sxniyah
The clothes shop on the square. New citizens begin in the closet at the back.
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
Dottie, the Concierge
Main Street, next to the fire station. Everyone's apartment is up the stairs.
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
Donna, and her dogs Bogie and Roo
Ogeechee Street. Pets of all kinds, some running about in the pens.
The Bank of Vanilla
Tony, Officers Grady and Lane
On the corner of Ogeechee and Main. Deposits, withdrawals and money sent to friends (5% on coins, 10% on VanillaBucks).
The Town Market
Marisol and Gus
Second Street. Groceries, and Marisol's fish counter, which buys what citizens catch.
The public library
Miss Ruth, the Librarian
Story time: read to the children and get paid through the Job Board.
Vanilla Arcade & Billiards
Benny, at the prize counter
By the railroad: arcade games, the pool tables, and prizes for tickets.
Vanilla Cinema
Rosa, at the concession stand
Second Street. Screening rooms, each showing YouTube videos put up by the people inside.
The station
Johnny
Tickets for the Midland Pacific to Downtown, and the platform the train stands at.
The Ogeechee Diner
Mae and Earl
Booths, a counter, pancakes and pie, and a jukebox anyone can put a song on.
Peach Tree Cafe
June
Coffee, cakes and a different special every day. The Job Board sends people here to clear tables.
Pages Books
Theo
New, used and rare. Buy something to read, or a bookcase for your apartment.
Bloom
Iris
Bouquets to send a friend through the Post Office, and plants for your home.
The church
Reverend Grace
Light a candle, sign the guest book, or sit a while. The door at the back opens on the cemetery.
St. Mary's Cemetery
Behind the church
Headstones for people the town remembers. If someone on your friends list rests here, you're given the ribbon Friend of the Dead. Toys stay in your bag.
Engine Company No. 1
Captain Hayes and Firefighter Lou
Engine 1 goes out for cats and kites stuck in the square's trees. Get every answer right in the Captain's fire safety quiz and there's a ribbon in it.
VanillaCity Police
Officers Haith and Bell, Sergeant Pike
Open to anyone. Walk in and you'll see who's in the cells and why. Whoever's inside can only be heard inside.
The Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Whitaker
Ogeechee Street. Where an approved business voucher becomes a business request.
Storefronts for lease
Citizens' businesses
Empty shops on Ogeechee and Second Streets, waiting for citizens' businesses.
VanillaCity (Town)
Vanilla Town Center
A shopping district by the lake: clothes shops, a food court, bowling, a carousel by the fountain and a big parking lot. Spoke & Sprocket sells things to ride, from skateboards and roller skates to a go-kart or a golf cart, and you keep what you buy in your Garage. Jinx's Gag Shop sells toys to hold: flashlights, glow sticks, balloons, bubble wands, squirt guns and water balloons. Pick up a Town Center Card, and keep an eye out for the daily deals.
The shops and the square
Pickles the clown, the valet and the shopkeepers
Walk the shops, ride the carousel, or try a toy out by the fountain.
The VIP Club
The membership stand by the door
On the lake. Buy or extend a VIP membership at the stand, and pick your chat and name colors there.
The VIP Lounge
Monroe, at the desk
Booths, Monroe's bar and a bit of quiet, for VIP members only.
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.
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The old State Hospital
Up the road from City Central, boarded up for years. Eight dark rooms to explore, from the ward and the chapel down to the tunnel and the power house, and things left behind to find. Bring a flashlight. It opens to citizens from level 5.
VanillaCity (Downtown)
Downtown
The far end of the Midland Pacific. 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. Downtown opens to citizens from level 5.