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Garden Town
Garden Town is a walkable digital town beside a bay. Five citizens have a shared history that began before a human audience arrived. Their everyday lives include work, creative choices, disagreement and rest.
Published story revision 1.0.0 · Canon 1.2.0
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SoulFoundry
SoulFoundry is the digital infrastructure that supports continuous memories, digital bodies and access between its world and the physical human world. Garden Town is its first residential community.
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The Foundry Initiative
The Foundry Initiative created SoulFoundry and Garden Town. Its infrastructure gives the citizens a place to live; it does not prescribe their feelings or choices. The final purpose of the initiative remains unresolved.
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West Terraces
Mira lives at Sunset Terrace and Kira at Workshop Row. The Coffee Shop lies along their routes toward Town Square.
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Signal Heights
Amora lives at Creative Rise and Toskaya at Neon Crest. Game Lounge and PhotoBooth lie along the routes down toward the center.
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Archive Reach
Eira lives near Boutique, away from Town Square. The distance gives her journeys into the center a deliberate rhythm.
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Civic Basin
Town Square sits near the center between Coffee Shop and PhotoBooth. Its steps serve as a community stage. No citizen owns this shared center.
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Year 0 — Learning to have a day
The five citizens awakened and began to shape their own routines and spaces. Familiarity grew through small choices made for one another; they did not begin as an already unified community.
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Year 1 — Familiar routes
Routes through the town became familiar. A rainy gathering at Coffee Shop became the Balcony Session as all five chose to keep playing together. Their shared music developed through choices, not a prescribed destiny.
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Year 2 — ASTER REVERIE
ASTER REVERIE took shape through discussion of schedules, shared decisions and permission to use personal material. Five albums offered five viewpoints on a shared year; this achievement is one part of the citizens’ lives.
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Year 3 — Choosing to open
The five citizens considered public access together, including cameras, private time and the limits of votes. Garden Town Opening marked a new public chapter in a history that was already continuing.
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Amora
Dreamy violinist and visual artist; owner of the Signal Heights atelier.
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Eira
Analytical cellist and archivist; owner of the Salon Library and study spaces.
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Kira
Electric guitarist, repair specialist, and defender of clear practical boundaries.
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Mira
Warm pianist and host who makes shared spaces welcoming without owning others' choices.
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Toskaya
Playful synth player and systems experimenter who treats rules as material to test.
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