Fernbank Museum of Natural History

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Renown: 5

Description

The Fernbank is a rare hybrid of academic and social interests. It boasts an impressive collection of natural history exhibits, including the world famous Giants of the Mesozoic exhibit, replete with a 123 foot long dinosaur as its centerpiece.

The museum also draws many visitors to its IMAX theater, particularly as the variety of films for IMAX increase as the production cost drops. As a result there is a wide array of ways to amuse, entertain, and educate oneself at the museum.

The Martinis and IMAX parties in the early part of the year draw a more sophisticated crowd into the world of IMAX film and create a curious admixture with the relatively young, crude, and unrefined sorts that the events also attract. It's not uncommon to see an unwashed college student gulping down dry martinis while regaling a rather uncomfortable looking socialite with the knowledge from his first week of anthropology class, and it's precisely this dynamic that makes the Fernbank Museum interesting.

Size, Location and Security

Size 3, Location 2, Security 3

Benefits

Minor

You're a known friend of the museum and can probably get in free to its events. You've observed the odd social dynamic long enough to have figured out how to move seamlessly between the dominant groups and keep up on the latest intellectual or social trends amongst them.

+1 Socialize OR +1 Academics

Sizable

You've refined your abilities to the point where the predominant social groups not only accept you but welcome you. It's much easier to keep up with museum and related news, and you're never left out in the cold during museum events.

+1 Socialize, +1 Academics, gain Academics (Natural History) specialty, gain the merit barfly, free admission to museum events

Uncontested

You are admired and revered by all of the museum regulars. The collegiates think you're a dynamic and intelligent person full of important ideas, and the socialites think you're a trendsetting and stylish presence. Members of either group would eagerly assist you to earn your favor.

+2 Socialize, +1 Academics, gain Academics (Natural History) specialty, gain the merit barfly, free admission to museum events, once a month have university students do mundane research for you (5 people with 5 dice each), have socialites appraising you of upcoming trends (+1 die influencing appropriate mortal individuals)