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World map.

Yer known world.

Table of Contents
1
Title, Links, & Rules
2
World map & Contents
3
Barton Town
4
The Villages
5
Bill's Ranch
6
House on the Hill
7
Zen Garden
8
Bass'ken Lake
9
Old Aqueduct
10
Otami Ruins
11
Buccaneer Boardwalk
12
Gold Beach
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Barton Town.

Ye start here.

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__'When you start Battle, you’ll play through a training mission that teaches you the basics of the game, but when you’re done with that training mission, you’ll enter into…
__…Barton Town!
__We don’t want to reveal the whole thing quite yet (because surprises are fun), but here is a section of that town brought to life within Battle.
__The Town is thriving with not just the various shopkeepers and personalities you already know, but many more characters are being added to make it feel like a thriving village. You’ll be able to spend a lot of time here, in Gaia’s first town.'

NPCs

__Rina: The good-natured, flighty, some would even say ditzy, owner of the Barton Flowershoppe. Rina can be challenging to speak with because she's just so excitable, but almost everyone in Barton Town loves her like a daughter.


__Leon: The commander of the Barton Town Regulars, Leon leads the defense of Barton Town and its outlying suburbs. He has a large contingent of guards that operate in Town and the surrounding countryside. Leon is a friendly, good-natured, bear of a man who treats his mother well and is loyal to his friends.


__Nicolae: Nicolae (“Nicu” to his friends) is the owner and proprietor of a travelling gypsy wagon. He’s set up camp in Barton Town while “all the craziness settles down”…which may be for much longer than he originally intended.

Shops

Backalley Bargains

__Nicolae (“Nicu” for short) has a mobile shop in the back of his horse-drawn wagon. He’s a somewhat mysterious fellow that traffics in the new items found after the Animated began to appear in the world.
__Nicu is the one that handles all the recipe exchanges, converting monster loot drops into items that you can wear and place in your house. He also sells rare and unusual items that may pique your interest. Stop by and say “hi” sometime.

Monsters

N/A

Environmental "Critters"

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The Villages.

A.K.A. Towns.

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_'South of Barton Town lie the sprawling suburbs known officially as “The Villages” or more simply, “Towns” to the locals. Enclosed by a low wall to keep out riff-raff, it’s bounded on the west by a golf course and is mostly grassland.'

NPCs

N/A

Monsters
A coalition of lawn ornaments is threatening citizens!



Lawn Gnome: Yup…it’s a lawn ornament. In fact, there are a LOT of lawn ornaments out there…and they don’t seem to be very happy-go-lucky. Together with their pink flamingo guards and pop-up mushroom turrets, the gnomes have been constructing formidable bunkers at a rapid pace and seem to be threatening Barton Town with invasion.

Pink Flamingo: No description.

Environmental "Critters"

N/A

 

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Bill's Ranch.

No UFOs allowed!

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__'To the west of the Villages are the woods near the cleft hill known as Barton Trench. Carved out of those woods are the pastures and farmlands of Bill’s Ranch. Bill raises cows, chicken and is a famous farmer of garlic. He and his son, Purvis, run the ranch, selling their wares in nearby Barton Town.'

NPCs

__Rancher Bill: Bill runs a farm and ranch to the west and south of Barton Town. He’s been here for years and has quite the extended family working the ranch along with him.


__Purvis: The spectacularly dense, but amazingly strong son of Rancher Bill. Purvis’s hobbies include carrying cows for distance (he puts them over his shoulders like a yoke) and driving fence posts for speed (he holds them still with one hand while he drives the post into the ground with his other fist).

Monsters

__Garlic: This “stinking rose” has a tendency to belch excessively on anything that startles or annoys it.

__Alarmskeeter: Combining an alarm clock with a mosquito left the world with a critter that possesses the two most annoying sounds in the universe. The Alarmskeeter uses its highly irritating alarms and buzzes to aggravate a target’s inner ear and drive it mad.


__Laceback Bootsnake: Yes…this creature seems to have once been a rubber boot. And yes…it seems to now be a snake. But it’s NOT “a snake in my boot”…so don’t say that.




Environmental "Critters"



_'Moo?'

_It's a cow?.  

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Dead Man's Pass.

Who the heck wants to live up here?


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_'It's dark. It's gloomy. It's a twisted, creepy mountain above Barton Trench with a house at the top owned by an ancient family that no one sees in the daytime. It's not a popular tourist destination.'

NPCs

N/A

Monsters


__Laceback Bootsnake: Yes…this creature seems to have once been a rubber boot. And yes…it seems to now be a snake. But it’s NOT “a snake in my boot”…so don’t say that.
(It's shown here in a screenshot, so I'm placing it here.)

Environmental "Critters"

N/A

 

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The Zen Garden.

Watch out fer them ninjas.

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__'To the west of Barton Town lie the sculpted and manicured Zen Gardens, tended by a family of resident botanists and horticulturists. Koi ponds, bamboo trees and groves of lanterns surround a central contemplation shrine. Famed throughout Gaia, these Gardens are a famous tourist attraction. The woods they border to the west are dense thickets that few people have a reason to brave. The road leading west is the way to Durem.

__It is home to the Wish Tree, the Shrine, and the entrance to the Ninja Enclave.'

NPCs

_Katsumi: This lonely and slightly detached girl tends the shrine in the area. Solitary for many reasons, she is reserved and quiet, speaking rarely and only to those she has come to trust.


_Ninjas: There is a Ninja Enclave deep within the forests to the west. These ninjas have been known to help the Barton Town council with issues from time to time, in return for the sufferance of the Town’s guards. They have had many conflicts with the Pirates of the Shallow Sea and have run afoul of G-Corp and its plans on several occasions.

Monsters

_Kokeshi Doll: Seemingly small and innocent, these toy dolls have become twisted. Watch what they carry. They are NOT your fans.

_Ghost Lantern: Each evening after sunset, these disembodied flames hover in the night air. Why? That would be telling. (And this is just the floating flame right now... not the actual monster.)


"Envirnomental" Critters



_________Blurp?

_________Koi say blurb?

Crafted items

Ninja Set
NPC(s): N/A

Items___________________________________Loot needed

Ninja-To______________________________N/A
Ninja-Yoroi top________________________N/A
Ninja-Yoroi bottom____________________ N/A
Ninja Hood____________________________N/A

 

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Bassken Lake.

Hey, bub!


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_'The home of some mighty fine fishin’, Bassken Lake feeds Upward Creek that heads toward the forest to the southwest. The old lumber mill here has been closed for some time, but The Ole’ Fishing Hole is still going strong.'

NPCs

N/A

Monsters

Buzzsaw: No description

Environmental "Critters"

N/A

 

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Old Aqueduct.

Maybe that stargate leads to something...

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_'The remains of the old aqueduct that was used before the Durem Reclamation Facility came online are still present here, although dilapidated and fallen now into beautiful ruin. The jungles to the northwest stretch down this far, but have not yet fully consumed the old stones. The Zurg artifact called the Star Portal lies dormant here still, guarded by a handful of ever-present GIB agents.'

...
Q said something about a "Blood Tree"...

NPCs

N/A

Monsters

_Predator Prairie Pup: A scouting party from an highly technological race of beings came to our planet and were stranded here. Unfortunately for them, despite their vastly superior weaponry and armor, they are the size and appearance of small prairie dogs.





Environmental "Critters"

N/A  

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Otami Ruins.

Ancient treasures await!

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_'Long ago, there was a fierce civilization of warriors that built a huge empire in the area. So ferocious was their society that they tore themselves apart with their constant aggression. Eventually, the people themselves disappeared, leaving only their monolithic statues and ruins behind to tell their story. Jungles overgrow the entire area and what was once a massive city-state is now the home of monkeys and macaws.'

_Old'The giant stone remnants of an ancient empire fallen into ruin still stand among the dense jungle of this area. Rumors of a few, fleeting sightings of the ancient Otami themselves are surely just that…rumors. The Otami have never been seen since they destroyed their own civilization…and that was hundreds of years ago.'

NPCs

__Blaze: Blaze is the daughter of a famous deep sea diver who operates his business out of an old waterwheel mill near Bass’ken Lake. She has a younger brother, Todd, who constantly gets in her hair, which prompts her to spend a lot of time outdoors.




Monsters



__Feathered Coatl: No description available.


(Not official, but they fit the theme...)
__Tiny Terrors: Nope…we’re not telling you anything about what this monster does or why it looks the way it does…but when you find these little guys running around…watch out! You’re getting into dangerous territory!

Environmental "Critters"

N/A

Crafted items

Otami Armor
NPC(s): N/A

__Items___________________________________Loot needed
____N/A______________________________________N/A  

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Buccaneer Boardwalk

Here thar be pirates!

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_'The old boardwalk here has been purchased by a coalition of pirates and is being renovated for a massive grand opening in the future. Currently, most of the area is still sealed off as the construction continues, but some of what is changing can be seen from the beach, and pirates give hints of things to come.'


NPCs


N/A

Monsters

N/A

Environmental "Critters"

N/A  

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Gold Beach

Surf's up!



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_'This popular tourist beach is golden sand next to gentle lagoon-like waves. Surfers paddle far out past the barrier reef to catch the bigger waves there, and they swear that the swim is worth the time. A lighthouse stands high over the beach, warning ships about the reef so they don’t add to the countless shipwrecks found throughout the Shallow Sea.'

NPCs

__Ike: Ike (his real name is “Gray”) loves the waves. He loves a lot of things, actually…but he loves the waves the most. He’s out in the water most days (unless the sea is glass), but he and his friends party on the beach most nights, gathered around a raging bonfire.




Monsters



__Anchor Bug: These bugs lose their head at the slightest aggravation…and then they reel it back in again…and then they lose it again…and then they reel it…okay…you get the point. You might even say that they’re real heavy hitters…but perhaps that’s going a bit too far.

Environmental "Critters"

N/A

 

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