... that 'Real' in that line was Neshomeh's addition.

I wrote 'proper'. XD

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... that line was written with the explicit intent of winding up Italy and everyone who knows it. ^_^ If I could have found a way to also annoy both sides of the 'thin or thick' argument in America itself, it would have been perfect.

I actually had a work trip to Rome back before, y'know... [gestures vaguely at 2020], and had some Real Italian Pizza for a meal or two. It was indeed very different to what we mere mortals use the name for. :)

Thank you for popping in; it means a lot.

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Tia is sixteen, and my goal with her piece was to capture how a sixteen-year-old writes an essay. She's probably actually reading a bit younger than that, but I doubt the PPC schools spend too much time on essays, plus she's at least bilingual (possibly tri-, depending on whether she remembers Galactic Basic), so her word-use can be a little odd.

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I've got to say, working through all of this has made me really wish I could go and visit. It's such a lovely city, other than, y'know, not existing. :D

Captain Dandy's censorship is because Undis was trying to point out the original map location of the door to HQ, and of the city itself. This is marked on the Google Map as "Mysterious Site", but exactly what it was in-universe is a mystery: it can't have been the Door, because Weed-37 tells us that the Door has always been in the farmlands. And there certainly can't have been a previous New Cal city on that steep mountain slope. But you can't help but feel there's something about that spot...

So yeah: nothing in the works, but it was an opportunity to add a bit of character and a bit of mystery, so I grabbed it with both fronds.

Hands. Because I am a bipedal mammal with limbs who doesn't photosynthesis at all. >_>

Weed-hS

You said 'one of the beaches (I never ended up specifying which)'. Has the RP scene been using the named bays in the area, or specifying them in some other way? I only stuck pins in Mueo, Nekoro, and Poya a few days ago, so if they need to move to account for what already exists I'm happy to do that. :)

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And like many lovely things, it is also difficult. ^_~

Okay. Forgive the patchwork map, but:

The three yellow icons are the local beaches: Mueo Bay, Nekoro Bay, and Poya Bay. Yellow and blue lines are paths down to them (yellow exist on OpenStreetMap, blue are plausible additions; 'blue' may be 'purple', forgive my colourblindness). Green thick lines are roughly the outlines of the mangrove swamps.

The two white loops are the best I can find for your cove. In the west, we have a hill right on the seashore, and right on Mueo Bay. There could plausibly be a cave in that hillside, which could plausibly be cliff-y. The downside is that the 'cove' is just the mouth of the Mueo, and is mangroves on most of the other sides.

In the east, there's a long stretch of what do appear to be cliffs running down the headland, and towards the top is a (semi-artificial, semi-open) cove-ish thing. It's not perfect (the geology really isn't right), but it's plausible.

My problem with that one is that it's 2 km down the beach! I mean, the beach itself is a good 12km from the city centre, so maybe that doesn't make much difference? I can tell you from experience that walking 2 km over sand and shingle would probably take closer to two hours than one, but if you're moving around in quicker ways, or don't mind the occasional temporal lacuna, I think this is your best bet.

The other problem is that walking to Poya Bay takes you right through the village of Nepou, whose people may want to use the beach too. Though... maybe those two problems solve themselves? If you're avoiding people, moving further down the beach is probably a good move.

It also allows for distinguishing the three beaches a bit more: Poya is the one with the cove, Nekoro is the one with the islands, and Mueo is the one with a decent-sized town (if you want to go shopping or whatnot). They all have their share of mangroves, mudflats, and sand.

Okay, I've convinced myself; I'll note the cove on the map. (We can always move it later if it's problematic.)

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It's not even been a full year, somehow. Wait, does that mean the Gathering was last summer? That really doesn't sound right, but I promise it's true.

Anyway, I've got loads of projects that have sat idle for much longer than that. Don't fret about it. :)

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Out of curiousity, whose section did you enjoy the most? I had a lot of fun trying to write in different styles.

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