Questions/Question 470

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit viciousabyss asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-07-02 Answer date: 2025-07-06	Hello mod besties, Eli is looking to move out of the Valentia eventually with his worm bestie Cassius. I am going to cash in threads for a monetary reward for this purpose. The only goals they have for housing are to meet the bare necessities of living, and Cas wants a space where he can grow a big-ass flower garden. From the housing page, I am seeing that big yards are not a thing unless you're uber rich because space is at such a premium within the barrier, understandably. So, we have two ideas: 1. Could they find a shittier, very small house on a larger plot of land on the very outskirts of the city near the barrier for a "modest" price? What about outside the barrier? What kind of long-term effects would the two of them living outside of the barrier have? 2. Probably more feasible- if they got a small apartment that had a balcony and big communal terrace/rooftop, do you think they could rope their way into getting Cas hired as the gardener for said communal space? If not for pay, I think he'd also be happy to do it on a volunteer basis. Cassius is... a little off-putting, given that he's made of worms and has a blank wide-eyed stare, but he's very polite and sweet. Eli is better at acting like a normal person so he could do the persuasion part of getting him the job, while hiding his own corruption as well as he could. Edited 2025-07-02 09:10 am (local)	1. If they're looking for actual acreage, that wouldn't be possible within the barrier. Even the independent houses in Basileios (a district which continues to refuse tenancy to Augmented, if it could even be afforded) don't have that much land. So it's less a matter of money, and just a problem of space. But it would be possible to say a rowhouse of some otherwise modest variety has a larger-than-average backyard, if that would be enough land for Cassius to be content in. It would still not be dramatically large, even close to the barrier. Housing outside the barrier- well, no one lives there or could quarrel with some Augmented choosing to live there. The houses there have no connection to Karteria's utilities, and are in various states of decay, but they could claim as many yards as they wanted, really. To spend most of one's time outside the barrier isn't wholly healthy even for Augmented, however; while they won't ever perish to arcane radiation, it will speed up their corruption. This is especially true if a significant amount of that time is spent alone; the company of at least one other Augmented conveys additional protection. In the long-term it may result in additional effects as explored here, but if they're mostly out there together (or with some other Augmented company) then it's far, far safer. 2. Being allowed responsibility for a shared rooftop garden on top of an apartment building should be feasible, though! There's some that are not particularly well-tended, or fully neglected, even, if no one in the building happens to find gardening a congenial leisure activity (and no one wants to take responsibility for organizing outside help for it). Actually employing Cassius to do it- it's possible, especially with Eli to help smooth out any misgivings, if they found Cas initially unsettling. It probably wouldn't pay very well, but he could get some sort of token salary for maintaining the space.