Atlanta Botanical Gardens

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Renown: 4

Description

Atlanta's botanical garden is home to a wide variety of rare plants, including some species indigenous to the area and others from regions as far flung as the Amazon, Southeast Asia, and the middle east. As such it is something of a tourist attraction and draws many admirers.

Some of Atlanta's more esoteric residents prize the area for far different reasons. Nestled deep in an innocuous seeming plant enclosure in the northwest corner are a variety of flowers, mosses, and fungi that are absolutely vital in the preparation of a wide variety of occult rituals. For many of the rarer specimens, the botanical gardens represent the one and only source of this component.

As such, this area is heavily guarded and quite concealed. Few are even allowed to observe this part of the gardens, let alone enter it. Generally it will require a special clearance from the Garden's director, at minimum.

For those who don't know about or cannot access this hidden gem in the garden, the grounds are still far from useless. It's highly prized by members of the Circle of the Crone, who make good use of the seeds and clippings available to grow their own exotic gardens. Other vampires, particularly vintners of lacrima, find good use for what the Garden offers, as well.

Size, Location and Security

Size 5, Location 1, Security 4

Benefits

Minor

You can access the garden late at night and are well known enough to get the occasional plant or seed for free.

+1 Science, and free access to common plants, none of which are suitable for creating mandragora

Sizable

You're probably reasonably respected for your knowledge and love of botany, and the considerable time and effort you've put into the keeping up the gardens. You can access some rarer flowers and if you ask around, might be able to get some truly valuable species, but where exactly they come from is still a mystery to you.

+1 Science, gain the specialty "Botany", +1 medicine, access to rare plants for rituals.

Uncontested

You've cultivated a personal relationship with the director of the gardens, and have occasional access to the rarest and most prized plants in the northwest corner.

+2 Science, gain the specialty "Botany", +1 medicine, access to rare plants for rituals, once per IC year (every two months) can arrange the sale of a precious flower (+$1,000 resources), for each purchase of a mandragora retainer, you gain a second for free once per month