Expired: Bathhouse

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Bathhouse
Found outside of the northwest exit of the gallery. Built in the Turkish style, the bathhouse is a grand bit of sculpture, mosaic tiling in intricate patterns on the floors and up columns, stained glass and wrought iron ceilings let light filter in from above. But despite it’s grandeur, teams are really better off filling a bucket of water here and then tromping off elsewhere to find a place to wash, unless they’re up for the trouble of exterminating a pool infested with sharks.

There’s seven main baths here, each a different, individual watery hue of the rainbow, despite all the baths connecting to each other through underwater tunnels. If someone were to follow the tunnels down, they’d find a strange warm underground ocean, getting darker and colder the deeper down they go. . .

Other locations inside:
Coin Lockers: A small alcove outside of the bathhouse, with a set of fifty coin lockers inside. The majority are only large enough to hold an item about the size of a large purse, a stack of books, or a decapitated head, but the bottom ten are big enough for a traveling backpack, decent sized suitcase, or small child.

Waterfall: More water also flows into the bathhouse from a waterfall, flowing from a missing pane of glass in the stained glass ceiling, into the shallows of the green center pool.

Doppleganger pool: There is also one bath not connected to the rest, the water curiously clear and free of wildlife. But settle into it and it becomes clear why: the pool produces a water doppleganger, that will need to be defeated before the original can leave the water. They’ll be able to breathe, and move around beneath the pool’s surface, but trying to surface is like pushing up against the ceiling, or a box lid closed with something heavy. The water doppleganger, despite being made of liquid will be solid enough to punch and hold things, and be hit in return. But the only way to defeat it is to “puncture” it with something sharp, and it will burst, leaving the original free to leave the pool.

Of note:

Aquatic Life:
Sharks: They look like Mako Sharks! They can swim as fast as Mako Sharks! (31 mph or 50km/hr) However, they’re not mako sharks. Mako sharks would die, unable to navigate the walls and underground tunnels of the bathhouse. These sharks, however, have no such problem! Thankfully, they’re pretty likely to let you go about your business, unless you attract their attention with an open wound.
[???]: Small, shrimp-like filter feeders that camouflage to match the color of the pool they’re in. They’re about an inch or two long each, and can scuttle around on land as easily as they swim about in water. Plentiful, and they make good bait. Edible, except for the brains and shells, but they are very salty. (very common)
[???]: Large aquatic constrictor snakes that lie waiting on the bottom of pools. They wait for someone to become distracted, then wrap around their ankles and try and pull them into the deeps. (rare)
[???]: What the hell are you doing far enough down to see this thing? A crocodile sea-serpent found in the black depths of the underground ocean. It’s a good forty feet long, and probably RPG boss material. (very rare)
[???]: Silver and gold striped fish found in the yellow, green, and blue pools, along with the tunnels between them. About two feet long, they’re ambush fish. If you’re fast, you should be able to catch them with bait.
[???]: A fish found in the red and orange pools, has aggressively vibrant spots and stripes, to scare off predators. The spines on its fins carry a poison, but not one deadly to humans if ingested. Rather, it will cause auditory and visual hallucinations, persisting about an hour or so, along with fairly unpleasant nausea and dizziness, that lasts a little bit longer. If filleted properly, this shouldn’t be a problem.
[???]: Found mostly in the indigo and purple pools, a tentacled octopus-like creature that uses bones and shells from other animals to, if hunted, try and scratch open a wound to get sharks to distract its attackers while it escapes.
Eyefish: What they sound like, they look like an eyeball with fins. If you try them though, you’ll find they’re quite edible.

Other:
Seagulls: Making their nests in the stone eaves and crevices of the bathhouse, seagulls also populate it. You can climb up to steal their eggs or just kill the birds to bring home some poultry when you’re sick and tired of seafood.