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extinctmods) wrote2014-05-23 01:21 am
extinctmods) wrote2014-05-23 01:21 am
Setting
Sadly, the professional map varies a little from the map we mainly use, due to differences in novel and movie canon. Until we find a way to make a custom map specifically for this game, pretend everything is the same as the locations map.
Visitor Center Front Entrance
Possibly the most important building on the island - not only is it the first destination of all visitors, it also is home to the very core of the Park: its control room and the labs. The JP game gives a pretty good impression of the place with this handy little intro video.
As shown in the video, the lobby is a rotunda full of exhibits surrounding previous paleontology results. Don't know as much about dinosaurs as you should? Here's the place to cover up for it. With friendly capital letters the 'WHAT IS A DINOSAUR?' exhibit practically yells at you to fresh up your knowledge.
From the Lobby, that is very much reminiscent of a museum, you can get to various other rooms (as this first floor map shows):
Cretaceous Café (also known as Restaurant Les Gigantes, depending on who in the staff you ask):
What's a good amusement park without a restaurant offering horrendously overpriced food? Feel lucky that your stay is all inclusive and your meals are free, because one look at the menu is enough to make you fear for your wallet. At least the dishes are kind of worth it - it's a three star restaurant that you should visit while electricity lasts. There is an ongoing debate among staff members concerning the name of the place.
The room is cozy, but if you thought you could escape the dinosaur theme for a moment you're sadly mistaken. It could be worse though. With the large windows it's actually kind of pretty. There is also an outdoors area for nice weather days.
Kitchen:
Obviously the food in the café does not make itself, so there is a large kitchen. It has access to the giant freezers that store the food characters will live from. Better not copy the movie and lock a raptor in there, because you're gonna need those resources.
Gallimimus Gift Shop:
Need a souvenir to remember your journey by? Just kidding, we know it'll be unforgettable anyway. But still, you need a souvenir, don't you? The Gallimimus Gift Shop has everything you could ever wish for - but with a Jurassic Park logo stamped on it.
You're sick of dinosaurs and don't want to ever see any again? Oh. Sorry.
For a gift shop, this store is amazingly well stocked but you will not find a single item that is not either printed with dinosaurs or shaped like one or otherwise related to the prehistoric animals. Stuffed dinosaur toys, dinosaur stamp sets, dinosaur-printed t-shirts, pajamas, pants.... Also dinosaur soap, dinosaur toothbrushes, dinosaur flashlights... The gift shop may come in handy for any situation, if you are willing to bear becoming a walking JP advertisement.
Even the test visitors need to pay for the items sold here, but you may be able to steal something while a guard is not looking.
Control Room:
This room will normally be closed for characters as it is the most important control facility in the Park. From here, the entirety of the Park's computer programs are run. Hammond and above all Arnold seem to spend most of their time here.
All video feeds from the security cameras around the Park can be viewed here, including those from the hotel.
Laboratories:
The wonder factory where all the Park's dinosaurs are engineered. There is plenty of room for scientists to work on all stages of the bio-engineering process. From super computers that decode the DNA strands to a hatchery with real dinosaur eggs - everything is combined in these large rooms. Usually the lab can't be entered by visitors, but there is a window that makes it possible to observe the breeding process from the intro ride.
Next to the labs is the cold storage room that contains the frozen dinosaur embryos that are supposed to be hatched at a later point in time.
Garage:
Located under the Visitor Center is the Garage - it's accessible for staff only at this point. This is where the land cruisers go when they are not in use. There are also two jeeps that are used by the vet and other park staff. Maybe one day characters will also gain access to them.
Hospital:
It's hardly a real hospital. Rather than that, it's a simple room where the scientists take dead bodies to experiment on them and bring them back to life. Characters will hardly have a chance to see its insides, as the scientists are always very quick to close the door.
Emergency Bunker:
The emergency bunker is exactly what is sounds like. A small bunker located under the building, intended for emergencies. It has to be entered from the control room, so characters will have to talk their way through with the NPCs to get in there.
Inside, a bit of weaponry and some park maps are hidden.
As always, if you need to know more about the Visitor Center in general, visit the Jurassic Park wiki, because honestly, these guys do a good job collecting important data.
The fancy three story hotel in which characters are supposed to be staying. It and the entire area around it are protected by a heavy fence. The building itself also appears to be built with the thought of high security in mind. Even the glass pyramids on the roof, that allow people on the Third Floor to look up at the sky, are protected with strong steel bars.
Rooms:
There are three floors with 10 rooms each. As described on the Housing List the First Floor has rooms with two individual beds, the Second Floor has rooms with a double bed each and the Third Floor, as it was intended for families, has rooms with a double bed as well as two normal size beds.
In decoration, all the rooms are done similarly. Everything in the Safari Lodge looks very, very beige and most of the furniture is rattan. Everything that isn't rattan has been carefully decorated in jungle-themed colors and patterns.
When there is electricity, the TVs in the room can be used to watch live footage from the different dinosaur enclosures. The channels are as follows:
Channel 2: Hypsilophodont Highlands
Channel 3: Triceratops Territory
Channel 4: Sauropod Swamp
Channel 5: Carnivore Country
Channel 6: Stegosaurus South
Channel 7: Velociraptor Valley
Channel 8: Pterosaur Peak
Pool:
A beautiful pool with crystal clear water to swim in. The normal swimming pool spills over into a multitude of small waterfalls and smaller, more natural and rocky looking pools. It's a beautiful area, surrounded by technically extinct ferns - ferns you should be very careful about, as they are poisonous and even touching them can make you sick. If you get any closer than that, you'll be at risk of death.
Sport Courts:
Seeing Jurassic Park is planned as a resort, there are a few sport courts in the hotel area. Namely, characters can play Tennis at the Tennis Court and Golf at the Golf Court. There is also a little Mini Golf area next to it.
Your beloved host's private residence. A small building a little off from the other buildings in the safe zone. It's just as you would expect a holiday lodge would look. Hammond spends most of his time here and occasionally invites his staff over as well.
Visitors don't usually get permission to visit him.
Raptor Pen:
Due to the incredibly dangerous nature of the raptors, they are kept in a small but heavily protected cage and not in a large area outside like the other animals.
Once upon a time, the Raptor Pen was located within the safe zone, but now the staff has learned from their mistake and put it a little outside the safe zone fences. Like the safe zone fence, the fence of the Raptor Pen is also powered by a secondary source of electricity and doesn't go off when the rest of the system shuts down.
Aviary:
This is where the Pteranodons are contained. Basically it's a giant bird cage, built over a river. There is an unfinished visitor's facility inside it. However, the Aviary is not currently included on the tour as the Pteranodons have a habit of attacking anybody who dares to enter their territory.
Maintenance Sheds:
Maintenance Sheds are to be found all over the island and serve to make maintaining the park easier to the staff. They're small buildings and depending on where they are they house different things. For example, sheds in the animal areas often contain food specific for the animals living around it. The shed in the safe zone contains the controls over the main power.
Docks:
Just as you'd expect the docks are small docks to welcome ships. Mysteriously, they've been abandoned ever since characters arrived on the island. No ships ever come and there are none around that could be used to leave.
