Coelary

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What started as "Anomalous Electromagnetics Research Station - Cliffside" (AERSC) became the town of Aersc over the course of a few decades, not only as the center's location became increasingly important for the research of environmental anomalies, but also as an important hub for communications and as the sole access to the nearby mountain range, where mining is common. It was selected as a place for AEE research due to its favorable location against a high cliff, which provides both access to a large atmospheric distance, and shielding from the sun's rays for half the day, allowing for longer periods of untainted atmospheric data (primarily EM readings and gravitational anomaly readings). The slate cliffside is dense, rocky, and devoid of most plant and animals. Steady misting rain is a constant feature, and the "mushroom" style adobe-ash buildings are constructed deliberately to allow easy runoff of water and to prevent pooling. Food is primarily grown indoors and in hand-dug caves inside the cliff via hydroponic fungus farms, supplemented by trade and shipments of plants and proteins. The chimneys in each house are directional to prevent blowback from sudden drafts coming up or down the cliffs.

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Great question! Graffiti is treated as a kind of speech and expression, which is protected in Coelary. Therefore, graffiti placed on any structure considered "public" probably won't be removed unless it is considered harmful and/or offensive. Which, let's be real, sometimes means that an annoying busybody might complain enough to get something completely innocuous removed, but that doesn't happen very often. Most people mind their business.

Particularly notable graffiti on a public place might even become "protected" - that is, if the community elects for it to be considered representative or notable, and then it becomes managed by the local public works council, which can manage upkeep or replacement.

Colossal Cathedral Mud Daubers

These mud daubers, like many daubers, predate on one specific species of spider ("cattle spider", a spider that predates primarily on cattle hoppers) and are considered beneficial to farmers and ranchers, as they ignore all bugs except their prey.

Their characteristic towers are constructed only from Dover chalk, which is found abundantly from monoliths scattered throughout Posteven's heavily farmed eastern floodplain, north and south of Coelary. The daubers bite off large chunks of chalk and then fly it to their towers, constructing them bit by bit. It is unknown why the towers are constructed separately instead of in groups; leading theories are that these larger predators prefer to separate towers by function, as each tower seems to be exclusively for an individual purpose (food storage, egg hatching, adult housing, etc). Close proximity may confuse young daubers as to where food sources are.

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