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| ''"Worlebury-juxta-Mare is precisely like every other weekend destination: shabbier than advertised and bristling with ways to spend more money than intended."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Worlebury-juxta-Mare|Worlebury-juxta-Mare|Sunless Skies}}</ref> | | ''"Worlebury-juxta-Mare is precisely like every other weekend destination: shabbier than advertised and bristling with ways to spend more money than intended."'' |
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| '''Worlebury-juxta-Mare''' is a recreation of the British seaside in [[the High Wilderness]].__FORCETOC__ | | '''Worlebury-juxta-Mare''' is a recreation of the British seaside in [[the High Wilderness]].__forcetoc__ |
| ==The On Season!== | | == Donkeys! == |
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| Worlebury-juxta-Mare is Albion's premier tourist destination: a glittering little amusement park of a space-town, with many different shops, attractions, and even a donkey ride! The only issue is the corrosive mist that surrounds the entire town and slowly dissolves everyone's clothes...<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Worlebury-juxta-Mare|Receive an explanation|Sunless Skies}}</ref> | | Worlebury-juxta-Mare is [[Albion]]'s premier tourist destination - a glittering little amusement park of a space-town, with rather strange and Rubbery secrets. ...And a cult, apparently, because everything's a cult these days. Sadly, the proprietors seem to have contracted a [[Flukes|Fluke]] for its expertise in London's more Earthly history. Though it did its job with all the eagerness and competence of [[Rubbery Men|other attempts at mimicking human behavior and history]], there are anomalies that it might be best not to think about. |
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| Except it's not the only issue at all. The shops sell trash and human eyeballs instead of jewelry, or aren't even functional.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Airs_of_the_Lanes#Lanes|Airs of the Lanes|Sunless Skies}}</ref> The tea is made using, among other things, insects and dirt.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Airs_of_Tea#Tea|Airs of Tea|Sunless Skies}}</ref> The donkeys are all carnivorous, possess horrific genetic deformities, and constantly spew out large amounts of intestines.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Airs_of_Donkey#Donkey|Airs of Donkey|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
| | ==Wait a moment...== |
| | | Well, the whole thing's an illusion, which leads to things like donkeys that puke their innards and hatch from polyps. And you can ride their bellies. And they ''won't stop screaming''. It's perhaps for the best that the acidic mist makes it impossible to stay in the resort for too long. |
| Despite all of that, the average visitor probably won't notice anything strange, and even if they do, they will quickly convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Worlebury-juxta-Mare|Consider the strangeness of the Lanes|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
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| What the devil is going on here?
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| ==The Off Season...== | |
| The Off Season represents the true reality of the town, and can be accessed in various ways, including fleshy, membranous tunnels.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Worlebury-juxta-Mare|Clamber through the gnarled door|Sunless Skies}}</ref> The true Worlebury-juxta-Mare is extremely dilapidated and covered in filth, but neither that or the resort's poor workers are visible to an average visitor, hidden by the same power that doesn't want people to notice all its strangeness.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Worlebury-juxta-Mare|The Off Season|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
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| There are two main groups with deep knowledge of the town's inner workings. The first one is '''the Bureau of Entertainments''', led by '''the Toymaker''', who run the resort and want to limit the town's paranormalcy.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Bureau_of_Entertainments|The Bureau of Entertainments|Sunless Skies}}</ref> Their opposition is the cult of '''They Who Must Grieve''', a being that's responsible for the area's strange happenings. The cult, led by '''The Bedraggled Parson''', reveres that entity as a god, and in return the mists change their bodies in disturbing ways - such as turning all of their hair into cilia.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Church_of_They_Who_Must_Grieve|The Church of They Who Must Grieve|Sunless Skies}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Whispers_in_a_Voice_like_Water|Talk to the cultist to your right|Sunless Skies}}</ref> <br />
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| ==In The Depths==
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| '''They Who Must Grieve''' is actually an enormous [[Flukes#Scorn-Flukes|Scorn-Fluke]], whose body is severely diseased and covered in cancerous tumors. They are filled with an enormous amount of anguish and self loathing, to the point that the air around them is twisted, creating the corrosive mists around the area and most likely acting as the source of the town's oddities.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/In_the_Depths|Behold the Fluke|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Places]] | | [[Category:Places]] |
| [[Category:The High Wilderness]] | | [[Category:The High Wilderness]] |
| [[Category:Albion]] | | [[Category:Albion]] |
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