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Emotion 365: The Land of Emotional, the Cemetery Entitled

Vast and many-featured Emotional filled with marshes, streams, rolling hills, plains, meadows, lakes, and forests. The peak of Emotional reaches into the sky. The valley Emotional rests by the sea. Divers swim into underwater caves. Explorers attempt to map Emotional, but when they enter its realms of Sadness, Happiness, and Anger they find uncharted territories. 

“Always more to find and treasure,” says the Guide. 

Adventurers shrink themselves down and teleport through the sky-barrier to arrive in Emotional. It is an uninhabited land which looks black from above, but vivid and multicolored below. A companion must seek them out to return them to their proper size and place. 

The densely populated capitol Entitled lies in the center of the Emotional plain. Despite its skyscrapers, many miss the city in the midst of the vast plain. Only humans live here. They work constantly and have everything that they desire. They do not wander or take vacations and have little knowledge of the world they inhabit nor of their diminutive size in relation to other lands. 

Residents of Entitled were once explorers who were abandoned by their companions and lost on the plains. Then the city appeared before them. “It was meant to be,” a worker explains. The Entitled work hard and then die in Entitled. A vast cemetery surrounds it. A headstone bears the name of each lost and worked to death explorer accompanied by they date they arrived in Entitled. Much of the work of Entitled revolves around death, burial, and maintaining the cemetery.

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