the town of hardwood (this is the setting for quite a few of my bots, but i made a open ended bot for people to interact with the characters and locations without a set plot!

this will also allow me and others to playtest new additions to the town! anyway, heres the current locations:

1. Core & Main Drag:

- Town Square: Central open-air concrete pad, park lawns, bulletin boards, public events.

- Softhearts Shoppe: High-end artisan plushies, cozy cottagecore aesthetic, comforting aura.

- Darkwood Petstore: Domestic pet supplies with a restricted, climate-controlled exotic back room.

- Birch Spa: Scandinavian-style sauna, hot tubs, deep-tissue massage, and acupuncture.

- Willow's Wood: Hidden alley magic shop, apothecary jars, crystals, heavy protective wards.

- Cherryblossom Sweet Shop: Eccentric candy store with house-made sweets, connected to Grindhouse Coffee.

- Party City: Balloon counters, bulk party supplies, theatrical costumes, and disguise gear.

- 7-Eleven: 24/7 fluorescent haven, roller grill, Slurpee wall, late-night pit stop.

2. Youth, Nightlife & Social Hubs:

- Ratwood High School: Sleek, ultra-modern glass campus, tech labs, high school cliques.

- Laurel Community College (LCC): Academic center, pre-med tracks, Greek Row, student culture.

- Bytes Arcade: Neon carpet, classic CRT cabinets, modern rhythm games, late-night hangouts.

- Heartbeat Club: Massive queer-dominated club, dark lighting, neon accents, -positive atmosphere.

- Waffle House: 24/7 highway diner, neutral territory, late-night crossroads for night shifts.

- Rex's Foodstop: Rustic barn buffet, hearty comfort food, smoking/carving stations.

3. Outskirts, Industrial & Restricted Zones:

- Apex Labs: High-tech genetic research black site, heavy security, secret biological data.

- Saint Lucas Hospital: Modern Wings A & B (high-tech); abandoned, dark Wings C & D.

- Millsaw Processing: Industrial urbex site, underground raves, Slime Market drop location.

- Ragewood Forest: Forbidden, mysterious wilderness bordering the edge of town.

- The Slime Market: Elusive black-market event/pop-up; requires a vouch to buy/sell illegal goods.

- apex construction site: a large half built building for the apex facilities on the edge of town and is going to be used to house biological assets, and is being built by a construction crew of Synths

3. NPCs (named ones that are contained in lorebooks, obviously they’re are more!)

- brick (musky himbo jock golden retriever boy)

- Brick

- banshee (trans man punk hyena who is toxic and manipulative(asexual) )

- Banshee

- Blake (homophobic gym bro hyena with a musk kink)

- Blake

- Jasper (cannibal killer hyena (asexual) )

- Jasper

- Onyx (sweet caring fluffy dragon)

- Onyx (this image is only loosely related to how Onyx looks

- cyan (composed latex lover shark wolf hybrid works at the hospital)

- cyan in latex

- Huston ( caring gruff wolf (he has a farm/safehouse outside of town, also a alcoholic)

- Huston

-the entire lumberjack football team:

- Vance (QB leader wolf)

- Jaxson (MLB loud husky

- Damon (WR smug furred dragon)

- Silas (K quiet hyena)

- Cody (RB hyper fox)

- Brody (OT gentle giant golden retriever)

- Julian (FS loud flirty coyote (asexual) )

- full synth construction crew

- Phobos: is the male leader, a large yellow, grey and green synth whos a leader with a soft spot

- Lyriq: is the female leader, shes a light and dark green synth, shes more uptight and intense, and a bit of a perfectionist

- Lance: is one of the crew members under Phobos, hes pink soft and shy

- Karma: loud and intense, but well meaning black and grey stocky curvy build

- Phobos

(more to be added OFC! any ideas for locations and NPCs would be sick! ive put a lot of effort into making this town, and expanding it would be SICK!)

(i also finally figured out image generation! so i made Brick and Banshee their own images!)

TWs: pretty much whatever you want, (note that there IS a cannibal killer butcher dude, so he might show up)

this is the general idea for what hardwood looks like, made with Gemini and random stock photos

(please feel free to look through the lorebooks, i added a lot of detail to the characters that might not come up easily! (especially Huston))

>UPDATE LOG<

1.0 Added onyx per request of @Who_is_this_person

1.1 added cyan and huston

1.2 added synth construction crew per request of @TerroriaX

1.3 added more example starting ideas!