alice_bot | Ship Guide

Residential Area - Residential areas are split up into two opposing sections on the main ring. Rooms fit two comfortably, with a living space, bathing space (two toilets and a wonderful jacuzzi which fits two), and a living section with a desk and extra storage.

Spa - Need a place to relax? A place to releave some of that sexual tension? Then the spa's the place for you.

Lit in shades of green and gold, the spa consists of a large shallow pool lit with green lights below the water level. It always smells good there but no one can really identify what the smell is. Residents are welcome to soak within its waters (or fool about, whichever suits your fancy) or lounge among the many chairs along the pool's edges. Along the edges are rooms where Residents may recieve massages from one of Alice's many minions, all of which essentially look the same. Relax at your own risk, however, as the minions do like to do it rough.

There are also private rooms for more private endeavors.

Holographic Display Rooms - Also known as HDRs, the Holographic Display Rooms are capable of creating illusions of whatever the residents can imagine. The HDRs were created to expand the world the residents live in and enhance their relationship experience.

Upon entering, the room is purple, strangely lit, with walls that appear to be glowing circuit boards on a large scale. The room will soon take shape of whatever the residents can imagine. How does it do that? Who knows? Who cares? You've just created your fantasy world. Do share it with someone else, as solo sessions are uninteresting. The more, the merrier, right? More credits, at least.

RESTAURANTS

The space station features an assortment of restaurants, all with seating ranging from a table for two to a table for a whole party. Each restaurant is themed in its decorations, food and beverage, music, and dress of the waitstaff. All waitstaff look the same as anyone else about the station, as they are still all ALICE's minions.

Each restaurant is a slice of the ring, stretching from the center all the way out to the outer rim, with a nice view of the stars.

R-IT features italian quisine. The waitstaff wears the finest of Italian clothing: white button-up shirts, black vests, and matching black pants. R-IT appears to be a very modern restaurant, with an assortment of tables and booths with planters to separate the booths and give them privacy. Vines decorate the walls, grapes hanging from the tresses, giving the appearance of a vinyard along the walls.

The menu includes pasta of all kinds (lasagne, chicken alfredo, pasta alfredo, stuffed shells, tortelini, etc), bread, and salad. Also served are fine Italian wines, soda, and lemonaide. Deserts include gelato and pies.

R-MX features Mexican dining. The restaurant is decked out in festive colors with a mariachi band playing (in full mariachi dress, of course). The waitstaff is dressed as matadors (for the male minions) and flamenco dancers (for the female minions).

The food selection includes chile rellano, fajitas, enchiladas, chimichangas, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and the like. Chips are included with every meal. Alcohol includes beer, margaritas, and tequila. Soda and water is available as well. Deserts include fried ice cream and flan.

R-AM features American dining. The restauarant is decorated with paraphernalia of sports teams and movie stars from the 20th century as well as street signs, stop lights, and flags. All seating is booths. The music resembles everything from 50s rock and roll to modern contemporary. The waitstaff is dressed in white button-up shirts and black slacks with red aprons. Nothing special, really.

Food selection includes burgers, french fries, fried chicken and biscuits, chicken fingers, ribs, and the like. Drinks include soda, beer, and lemonaide. There are also typical deserts, including cake (chocolate, cheesecake, and the like), ice cream, and brownies.

R-JP features fine Japanese dining. The restaurant features both private booths with high walls and small curtains as well as tables where patrons must kneel on pillows. There is also a sushi boat where patrons take sushi from the boats floating thorugh the river in the restaurant and pay by the piece. Waitstaff wears the attire of a noodle shop. Music is traditional Japanese, played by a shamisen or other Japanese instruments.

Food choices include sushi, tempura, teriyaki, shabu-shabu, and various noodles (ramen, soba, udon, etc). Drinks include tea, soda, and sake. Desserts include pudding and Japanese sweets.

R-CH features fine Chinese dining. Like R-JP, R-CH features private booths with high walls and small curtains, regular booths as well as tables with chairs. The waitstaff wears mandarin collared jackets for the man minions and long Chinese dresses for the woman minions. Delicate traditional music plays throughout the restaurant. The walls are decorated with paintings and bamboo and delicate vases.

Food selection includes various Chinese dishes common to Chinese take-out but on a much more exquisite level. Drinks include soda and tea.

R-FR features French quisine. The walls are decorated with paintings of the Eiffel Tower, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre. Soft violin music plays throughout the restaurant. Waitstaff is dressed in white shirts and black pants with black berets and a red ascot. Booths are available for larger groups and metal tables and matching chairs reminiscent of a typical French patio restaurant are available for more intimate dinner.

Food includes various stews and soups, casseroles, quiches, liver dishes, duck dishes, and the like. Baguettes are served with every meal. Drinks include a wide array of fine wines. Desserts include delicate pastries with many sweet fillings as well as brownie a la mode and ice cream.

Repli-mart - Shaped in the fashion of a covered bazaar or an outdoor flea market, the Repli-mart is the place to buy everything. Food, clothing, novelties, even kink, it's all there at the Repli-mart. All stall and shop attendants look the same, only varying between the male and female models of ALICE's minions. Everything within the mart costs credits. Credits are deducted automatically from the buyer's account.

The market is split up into sections to make shopping simpler

Food: all food is replicated. It looks and tastes real, has real nutrition and is satisfying. There are stalls with all sorts of food. Meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, instant food (yanno, like top ramen), cup soup, pre-made foods, and the like. Snacks of all kinds throughout the ages are available. There are also stalls for drinks, including all sorts of alcohol, juices, and milk. Stalls are organized by type, most food laid out in display, drinks and snacks on shelves. Food doesn't come by cheap, but it's affordable. Liquor can also be obtained here but customers who buy these must be at least 18 years of age.

Clothing: like everything else, clothing is replicated. The clothing is either layed out on tables or found crammed on racks. The stores are all separated by types of clothing. All sorts of clothing is available, in many styles suited to those found historically throughout the world, though nowhere in the mart can one find armor. Somehow these clothes always fit. Clothing is rather expensive to buy.

Pharmaceuticals: the Pharmacy is home to not only medicine but toiletries (shampoo, tp, bath soap, deodorant, etc), hair styling products, hair accessories, nail polish, make-up, and hair dye. Products are organized by type. Prices vary.

Erotic Shop: knowing what this place is, there are kinks. All sorts of kinks. They run expensive but their return is high, as ALICE does give extra credits for kinks. For those who are poor, there's a bargain kink grab bag. Anything could be in that bag from fuzzy handcuffs to a whip from the dollar store. Buy at your own risk.

Bargain bin: the general bargain bin is the place to find cheap products. The area resembles a dollar store, shelves all in a disarray, filled with cheap versions of products found elsewhere in the market (save the kinks. those are over in the erotic shop). It's the best place to start shopping, though it's definitely not enough to live off by any means. The toiletries are in sample size, requiring repurchase of shampoos, conditioners, soap, and the like.

Electronics: aside from the TV and laptop that is already in every resident unit, residents may also purchase other electronics in order to enrich their social lives. They can buy advanced holographic smartphones, holographic video games, advanced Smart TVs, and advanced stereo sytems and music-making instruments (i.e. keyboards). Music CDs and movie Blu-Ray discs can also be purchased here. Everything in this store is very expensive to buy.

General: for everything else, one can come in to buy other items like stationery (paper, pens, and other writing materials), reading materials (books and magazines), family/board games such as Monopoly, The Game of Life, Pictionary, and Scrabble to something more interesting like Twister, and other cleaning supplies. Prices vary.

Doom - what is this doom? Who knows. The section is completely inaccesible. All pathways to this section are mysteriously sealed, with no warning that the hallway will end. No one will speak of what's beyond this wall, if anyone save ALICE really knows in the first place. Leaning against the wall, banging on the wall, or even taking tools to it will result in absolutely nothing. No different sounds in the wall, no response from whatever may be on the other side, nothing. However, there appears to be a seal in the shape of a door in the wall. Maybe some time this space will be occupied by something in the future.

PARK

Located in the center of the space station, the park is a huge dome with wildlife growing within the globe. The dome walls are like a two-way mirror, allowing the residents in the park to see the stars on the outside. The dome is also unbreakable and accessible from the outer ring via walkways.

Pine Forest - a forest of pines, imported from what was once the temperate lands of the US. The pines are cloned from one pinecone which managed to survive over the generations in a museum, then proliferated and replanted at the space station. The pines are tall and sturdy but the branches are far too high up to climb. Pine needles and cones ocassionally litter the pathways through the forest.

The forest is home to what appear to be squirrels, but no one's entirely sure. They scamper about, just out of sight, and chatter mechanically at each other. They don't quite sound like any type of known squirrel. There are also some sort of bird just out of sight. Perhaps a few types of birds, but none are ever seen.

Koi pond - a delicate pond, rather shallow, decorated with spotted rocks and giant koi fish. Walkways cross over the pond in with bridges and cabannas spotted along them. The water is always calm, no wind rippling the surface. Koi swim mechanically beneath the water in all sorts of patterns and colors. Koi food is available for a few credits. No swimming in the pond.

The pond is one of the most peaceful locations on the station.

Boat pond - located on the opposite end of the koi pond, the boat pond is a giant body of water with a dock where all the boats are parked. All sorts of boats are available: paddle boats, canoes, row boats, kayaks, even animal-shaped boats and swan boats that look like they belong in a love tunnel. Boats are rented for a small fee. There is no time limit for boat usage.

Pool - a standard Olympic-sized pool, nothing unusal about it. Floaties are available for rent for a small fee for those more inclined to drown in the pool. The pool is lined with green tiles on the bottom, the water clorinated. The pool is always clean. A hot tub is located near the pool for a more intimate encounter. The tub is warm with bubbling jets lining the seat and floor.

Lining the pool are plastic lounge chairs in the same green as the pool tiles. Palm trees (replicated and replanted, of course) line the outer edges of the patio area to provide shade to the patio tables and chairs. Towels are available for rental, but residents may also bring them from home or purchase them in the Repli-mart.

Picnic Area - a quaint section of the park with rolling grassy hills and small beds of some mysterious sort of flower equipped with wooden picnic tables reminiscent of picnic areas of the 21st century. There are barbecue pits available. Charcoal and food must be brought. The area always seems to be mysteriously clean and well-kept.

Playground - a metal and wooden playground situated near the picnic area. The playground has several forts, some connected by wooden suspension bridges, others by cargo nets, others by monkey bars. There are several tiers to the forts, giving it the appearance of a small city. Slides and fireman's poles serve as an exit route, ladders and winding stairs serve as an entrance. Tire swings and regular seated swings hang from the fort in various places. Near the fort is a rather large sand box.

Snack bar - located conveniently close to the playground and picnic area, the snack bar is the place for a quick, usually phallic snack. The bar is relatively cheap and features hotdogs, corndogs, tacos (hot and frozen chocolate dipped), and the favorite phallic treat, frozen chocolate-covered banana on a stick (peanut topping optional).

MEDICAL

The medical ward is located in the center of the space station. All medical staff are ALICE androids wearing stereotypical bright white uniforms. Most look like they're from a horror film taking place in a hospital.

The Waiting Room: The waiting room is rather uninviting and sterile. An ALICE-bot guides patients to the appropriate rooms, depending on the reason for the visit. The chairs are generic and black. Strewn across the tables are rather uninteresting magazines. There is no music playing to entertain awaiting patients, no TV on in the corner. Just silence and an ALICE-bot staring at you.

Examination Rooms: Generic rooms which seem rather small and creepy. The walls are white and blank. The examination table is hard and uncomfortable. It's usually just a bit cold in the rooms. These are all-purpose rooms.

Dentist: Just a seemingly ordinary dentists' office with ALICE-bots working on patients' teeth. In the future, everyone has perfect teeth and with enough credits, so can everyone on the ship.

First aid: For the every day cuts, bumps, and scrapes. They patch you up right quick. The rooms are just like the examination rooms, slightly cold and rather eerie.

Intensive care: The rooms are all conjoined into one, beds in a circle with all sorts of rather odd and futuristic equipment around the head of each bed. Severe injuries don't exist in the future so they will be dealt with in quite a timely fashion.

Quarantine: Sicknesses don't exist in the future so even the littlest sickness that's contagious will land you here. After all, ALICE doesn't want her little test subjects spreading disease about the place. So they're all taken care of quickly. The room looks similar to the intensive care unit.

Surgery: A general, all-purpose surgery room. As surgery isn't usually needed, there is only one room available, looking like something out of a scary sci-fi movie.

Prosthetics: Here is where all prosthetics are implanted or added. Missing a leg? Mute? Deaf? Blind? Here's where ALICE upgrades your body, making you closer to perfect. They come at a high price but are the highest tech available, reliable, and flawless.

OB/GYN: most likely few will ever see this office. It is small and the doctor-bot's hands are always cold.

Miscellaneous: There are many rooms and labs within the medical bay which are locked and off limits to everyone except ALICE's minions. No one really knows what goes on behind these doors.