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Oh, this one is interesting. There are two lakes, one of which is higher than
the other. They are appropriately named Upper Lake and Lower Lake. I’m a
little disappointed at the lack of creativity, but there’s no mistaking it,
and it’s not that big of a deal. The water flows from Upper Lake, into a
river. Can you guess what it’s called? You’re close, it’s not just River, but
Spiral River. This river flows all along the entire perimeter of the dome, and
then some. There are bridges all over, so you can step out to your left any
time you need, and head for the nearest exit. They’re hidden behind the dome’s
immersive hologram, but will illuminate once you get close enough to the wall,
so if you get lost, just find the border. You won’t get trapped, I promise
you. I say this because someone on my boat did have an issue, and they were
struggling to get out. They probably should give you the instructions ahead of
time, so that’s a bit of constructive feedback. Let’s get back to the river.
You can take all sorts of leisure boats on this thing. Canoes, kayaks,
riverboats. You choose whatever you want. You may be with a group, and they
may be humans, or NPCs. It really just depends. The river flows out of Upper
Lake, and down a steady slope in a spiral. It isn’t perfectly circular, it
still meanders a little bit, but if you look at the drone feed above, it still
doesn’t look natural. It’s often raining, which is why this isn’t called
Lake-Spiral River-Lake Dome. These aren’t the sprinklers that I think they use
in Nordome. This is real rain, powered by the process of evaporation and cloud
formation above, supplied by all the water that’s around. Since there’s no sun
inside the dome, they use extremely precise heating lamps to trigger this
evaporation, but they try to keep visitors from seeing it. I suggested to our
captain that they should heat the water from below, but he says the physics
doesn’t work out all that well, and they would like to put fish in there at
some point. That would be cool, I wish they were already there. I hope they
don’t have to transport them all from Earth, or we could be waiting for over a
hundred years. Here’s what’s amazing about this. You can request a boat that’s
completely sealed up, which has its own holographic display. You collectively
decide on the apparent environment. You can make it look like it’s raining
when it’s not, or not when it is. That was such a great idea. I never would
have thought of it myself. And it really works. Anyway, I think you can guess
the rest. The river keeps going down the spiral until it reaches Lower Lake in
the very center. Keep in mind that while I said there were all sorts of boats,
that doesn’t include all boats, full stop. There are no motorboats or
personal watercraft. This is meant to be a relaxing environment, not an
invigorating adventure. There are plenty of other places for that. Have you
tried Polar Tropica? Like, stop complaining. Sorry, it was annoying that our
boat ride was delayed because of a belligerent visitor who was demanding them
to give him a water jetpack. They literally didn’t have them. Again, that’s
not what this is. This is an amazing feat of engineering, and nothing you
could get on Earth. It’s against the law to rupture land like that these days.
One last thing so you don’t wonder, but you don’t have to be in a boat, or be
on it the whole time. You can just get out and relax, maybe have a picnic
under a mini-dome where it’s not raining. Don’t be rowdy, though. Just sit
back and enjoy it.
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