Jack and Mary Piper, although being the newest members of Animalia, didn't really know much about it. Fortunately, there was an Animalia tour ticket as a bookmark included in their gift.
When their tour trolley showed up at their front door, the Piper family all got on board to begin the tour.'
"We'll be starting the tour at the Great Hall and ending at the Worldmeet Glade and Casino." said the assigned tour guide for them.
"Why would that be?" asked Mary.
"You'll see when we get there." answered the tour guide.
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"The Great Hall of Animalia is pretty much the community central for Animalia." said the Tour Guide, "It includes the City Hall, the performance hall, and the newest addition: the Department for Media Public Relations, or PR-MD. It's to make sure that the celebrity newsmongers such as World News Weekly, National Enquirer, or similar agencies keep their tentacles out; and makes sure to all other news groups that Animalia is not a lamb to be sacrificed to their rating gods, so to speak."
"The media can be quite vicious, so to speak." Mary helped explain to Jack.
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"The Claw Coliseum is where strength, flexibility, and endurance can be tested, trained, and displayed without hurting anyone or anything." Said the tour guide as they came up to the next stop in their tour. "It's Classical Roman architecture on the outside, but all modern on the inside partly because it's based off of the Roman Coliseum. It's also home to the Animalia Hunting Offices, and the various MMA fight leagues. However, unlike many underground fighting rings, everything is taken to be as safe and permanent-injury-free as possible."
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"The Animalia School of Modeling is where many Animalians can learn everything about modeling, from showcasing, to the catwalk strut, and everything else about modeling." said the Tour Guide, "A new addition/neighbor coming this spring will be the Animalia-Robinson School of the Performing Arts, where everything from acting to dancing can be taught to Animalia."
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"Siam Shine is where animal grooming meets professional hairstyling." the tour guide continued, "They do everything from de-lousing, to regular cleaning, to seasonal offers such as helping shed the winter coat and shearing for sheep and goats."
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"Now we are finally coming up to the Worldmeet Glade and Casino, home of the Meat Market, the one few places where you can get Prohibition-era alcohol, and also the home to the largest natural hot spring bath cavern and spa." finished the Tour Guide as they came to their final stop. "Now Parents have a special offer for themselves while everyone else gets to play in our adult-sized play place and ball pit, and arcade. Parents, remember to present your IDs to gain access to the spa." he said as everyone disembarked.
Jack and Mary Piper headed over to the Cavern Spa, talking about everything they had seen. Fortunately, a loud buzz managed to get their attention before they went too far ahead.
"Can I see your IDs?" asked the Panther Bouncer at the stand nearby. Fortunately, Mary was able to keep Jack from making a fool of himself by getting both his and her own for the bouncer. The bouncer inserted both into his console, and two minutes elapsed before they popped out with a ringing bell noise. "You're clear." confirmed the bouncer, handing the cards back to them. "Be sure to enjoy all spa options, and not just the hot spring."
As they entered the heavy plastic curtains, with "no cameras allowed inside" on them, they started heading down. Soon, the constructed look stopped and more natural formations took their place. To keep from damaging the natural formations, there were no plaques that informed on the various rock formations. Instead, there were projectors on the ground that shone light through silhouettes that projected the information onto the rock wall.
The brochure that was included with their tour package told about all the services in the Cave Spa. It included various kinds of spa treatments from around the world, ranging from massages (Swedish to Chinese acupressure) the only natural sauna (seemingly formed from the lava flow that supplied a lot of the geothermal energy to Lyre and Animalia, as well as the signature hot spring lake.
One thing that was surprising, was that there were no "complimentary" swimsuits. Mary was still not used to the seemingly relaxed standards of nudity in Animalia. While the rest of the spa treatments went off without a hitch, Mary still brought a towel in with her at the hot spring lake (divided into male and female sides). On entering the female side, she immediately felt out classed at the many bosoms that were larger than her own, which showed her that she was firmly in the average level.
"No towels in the pool, little mousie." said Heather, coming up from behind Mary, "Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. How will you have it."
"The easy way! The easy way!" said Mary, flinging her towel away hurriedly while her instincts screaming 'Predator!' full on, "Just stay away!" After that, it was a lot easier for her to socialize with her fellow bathers.