Hi Everyone, Iβm new to the city and considering signing a lease at Shangri-La on 4th. Does anyone have any experience living in this building or with North Prairie Rentals? Thanks!
Hi there!
Does anyone live in those cities there? I'm looking for the official websites to check out bus schedules, bus lines maps, stops... in those cities. I can handle a Chinese website with the help of Google translate but English would be better (though I don't expect there're English websites because I searched for it and couldn't find any).
Thank you!
I'm currently DMing a high level evil campaign, and I've sent my players on an interplanar heist operation centered in Sigil.
Their first mark was to retrieve certain items hidden away in the plane of pure law and balance, Nirvana (Mechanus).
In my campaign setting, Nirvana has two facets to it. The peaceful, harmonious paradise of Nirvana, which takes the form of a serene countryside filled with temples and beautiful landscape, and is similar to the spirit world in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Miles above Nirvana is the Clockwork of Mechanus as it normally appears in D&D, separated by a layer of clouds.
They soon learned that Nirvana had a hidden capital city, Shangri-La (also called Shambala). The city was hidden not in location, which was known but sealed away, but in fact hidden within yourself. You can only enter if you attune to the great balance and law of the universe, which even those who were lawful enough to ascend to Nirvana struggle with and spend millennia trying to do.
Of course, they BS'd their way inside as players are apt to do. The city was sealed away inside the largest mountain in the plane, which is partially hollowed out inside for the city. The city is terraced, descending down to the center, with waterfalls falling from the mountain interior, turning into canals in the city. The buildings are lined with gold, jade, and lapis lazuli.
Now, I've been hyping this city up for quite some time, but I haven't been able to think of what I should fill it with. I only have the stuff after they explore city planned (once they find what they're looking for). We cut the session last time as soon as they entered. All they know is that it's patrolled by inevitables.
What magical buildings might it have? What are the city's districts like? What happens when you swim in the canals, eat the food, etc? Are there legendary figures inside? What magic items might be hidden away? Anything else you'd throw in to the capital city of the plane of balance?
...not Shangri-La.
#####It's The Good Place.
Or at least, what Wanda's view of the perfect reality will be. She's running through sitcom scenarios like beta versions of a video game. In each iteration she's bringing in more characters, making the world a little more complex, and a bit more realistic - the same way sitcoms have evolved in real life. Taking the best part from each decade and using it to build the best version of the idyllic suburban life that she can.
And she's doing this for the children. More specifically, the children who perished in the 'hell' after The Blip. The ones who were abandoned and forgotten about. Who died alone and afraid. It's something Wanda emphasises deeply with. We know she, or someone can bring the dead back to 'life'. We know because they're different from the other residents of Westview. Like Agnes, Herb, Vision and now Pietro, they retain some self-awareness.
It's also going to be for the children who didn't die, but were otherwise traumatised beyond compare. We see Billy and Tommy able to age themselves up, but explicitly stated by them to be in 5 year increments - the same length as The Blip. And if they can move age forward, they can age backwards too, with no reason to think they aren't able to exercise that power on others.
Therefore I think Wandavision intended purpose is to give those children and their families an afterlife where they can be happy - surrounded by family, with no worries and no trauma. Where there's no loss and more importantly - no memory of what came before. Both for the children who died in it's aftermath and the one's who survived - to be aged back to that day and mindwiped along with their family to live in Westview. Indeed Pietro remarks on how much thought she's put into it - families are kept together, personalities are based on what's underneath and they've all got better jobs.
But we know by now that there is something or someone pulling the strings behind the scenes. Wanda doesn't know how she created Westview. Norm in his lucidity only says 'you have to stop HER, omitting Wanda's name. Another Witch in the picture perhaps. More tellingly it explains how Pietro returns - Vision had a body from which she could work from. Pietro did not. And that's why whoever bought him back to life had to recast him with what she thought Quicksilver looked like, and the only source of that for her is X-men movies. We also learnt this episode **
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Nepal, Nepal Steel (p) Ltd, Nepal Kangri Carpets, and Nepal Industrial Development Corporation have made plans for Shangri La, a new economic pillar for all nations in the Himalayan mountain range. The city will consist of roads that weave in and out of the mountains, with secure vaults excavated into tons of rock.
The city will be the banking center for Nepal and the surrounding countries. It will cost about $4 billion to construct, but thanks to the private funding, Nepal will have to fund $300 million. We will expect the city to be completed in six years. Banks will have small tax breaks to help encourage economic growth in this city.
[META] Switzerland of Asia boiiii
I opened my eyes and I am in this beautiful place. In front of my all these huge mountains and I know, instinctively, I am in the Himalayas. To my left is a courtyard, trees in pots, grassy type areas to sit. In front of me, i see a man sitting with his legs crossed, hands on knees and his eyes closed. I start to look to my right and as I do, I see his third eye follow me so I double take and I look at him again and now he is looking at me. βYou are not supposed to be here.β Heβs annoyed, but not mad. βNoβ, i say - I donβt know if Iβm agreeing though. And I can suddenly feel the sun on the left side of my face and the cold wind blowing past me. Iβm not cold, Iβm so comfortable. The air is so clean itβs unfamiliar. Behind me the place crawled up the mountain, there are other buildings with lights and almost a small forest crawling up too. This whole place is carved into and suspended on the cliffs. I try to look to my right but the man is pushing me out (not aggressively but just in a protective way). And then Iβm back. I truly believe I was in Shangri-La but had anyone experienced anything similar?
Iβve organised for my grandparents to stay the night at the Shangri-La for their 50th wedding anniversary in a few weeks. Theyβre both from a rural town, my grandmother is in a wheelchair and theyβre not too familiar with the transport systems. Iβd like to find a nice restaurant for them to have dinner but it canβt be too far from the hotel itself.
Any suggestions that arenβt outrageously expensive? Thereβs a restaurant in the hotel but itβs definitely too fancy for their taste. I havenβt been to the quay for a while so Iβm not sure what places are actually still open at the moment given COVID.
I'm currently DMing a high level evil campaign, and I've sent my players on an interplanar heist operation centered in Sigil.
Their first mark was to retrieve certain items hidden away in the plane of pure law and balance, Nirvana (Mechanus).
In my campaign setting, Nirvana has two facets to it. The peaceful, harmonious paradise of Nirvana, which takes the form of a serene countryside filled with temples and beautiful landscape, and is similar to the spirit world in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Miles above Nirvana is the Clockwork of Mechanus as it normally appears in D&D, separated by a layer of clouds.
They soon learned that Nirvana had a hidden capital city, Shangri-La (also called Shambala). The city was hidden not in location, which was known but sealed away, but in fact hidden within yourself. You can only enter if you attune to the great balance and law of the universe, which even those who were lawful enough to ascend to Nirvana struggle with and spend millennia trying to do.
Of course, they BS'd their way inside as players are apt to do. The city was sealed away inside the largest mountain in the plane, which is partially hollowed out inside for the city. The city is terraced, descending down to the center, with waterfalls falling from the mountain interior, turning into canals in the city. The buildings are lined with gold, jade, and lapis lazuli.
Now, I've been hyping this city up for quite some time, but I haven't been able to think of what I should fill it with. I only have the stuff after they explore city planned (once they find what they're looking for). We cut the session last time as soon as they entered. All they know is that it's patrolled by inevitables.
What magical buildings might it have? What are the city's districts like? What happens when you swim in the canals, eat the food, etc? Are there legendary figures inside? What magic items might be hidden away? Anything else you'd throw in to the capital city of the plane of balance?
