Atai Town

*This article is about the remake. For the corresponding location in the original flash game, see Atai City.*

## Atai Town

* Area
* Overworld

## Characters

* Lisa
* Mayor
* Garent
* Bo

**Atai Town** is a major town in *Phoenotopia: Awakening.*  It's a desert town that is bustling with trade and merchants. It's one of the largest areas in all of Castella, and serves as a semi-independent municipality with its own Mayor.

## Description

Atai Town is located directly in the center of the Atai Region, at an intersection between Panselo, Daea, and the Sand Drifts. The town is filled with multi-level buildings with businesses, houses and storage rooms spread throughout. The building balconies are often walked on, and are filled with banners along with other decorations. The town has wells, which house a secret underground passage, including one door that leads to the Secret Railway connecting the town to the Ouroboros Hideout, and another door which leads to a mini dungeon housing an Ouroboros Scroll.

### Shops and Utilities

**Mayor's Palace:** The house of the young mayor of Atai. It is a large palace, with many servants. The history of Atai is explained here. It's also possible to solve the mystery of the attic safe.

**Tailorin' Tracy's:** A tailor shop where Gail can expand her inventory space, by getting extra pockets sewed on.

**Target Range:** The "anything-goes" shooting gallery, where Gail must hit wooden targets to gain points. Various items such as Moonstones, Heart Rubies, and even candy can be won as prizes here.

**Hair Salon:** A salon where Sharla styles hair. Here, Gail can dye her hair a variety of colors.

**Tavern:** A bar/inn hybrid that serves milk and wine. They also offer dorm beds for 20 rin. However, they only serve wine to those with a valid ID card.

**Jail:** Where people who break the law are sentenced to go. Recently, Zeke of the Ouroboros Bandits was put in there. They guards don't let people just enter the jail, but there are a few workarounds.

**Armory:** A shop that sells useful equipment. The wares sold are sky vests, composite bats, civilian crossbows, crank lamps, and fishing rods.

**Meat Merchant:** A merchant that only sells meat, in contrast to his brother who only sells plants. His goods are Big Raw Meat, Drake Tails, and Prime Fish Fillets.

**Vegetable Merchant**: A merchant that sells only fruits and vegetables, in contrast to his brother who only sells meat. Desert Squash, Moon Kelp, and sets of three Vala Beans can be purchased here.

**Fruit Stand:** A stand that sells fruits. Since the bridge to Panselo is out, the merchant needs a supply of Berry Fruit to stay in business. She will pay you 25 rin for bundles of 4, which is higher than that of the recycler. She also sells Prickle Fruit.

**Daycare:** A daycare in the back alleys of Atai, ran by Garnet. Garnet is also able to pick locks. The kids in her daycare love to play hide-and-seek.

## Events of *Phoenotopia: Awakening*

Upon reaching Atai, Gail learns that the town has fallen upon a time of fear and uncertainty because of the recent attacks from the Ouroboros Bandits, as well as an influx of bounty hunters drawn in by the 10,000 Rin bounty placed on the Bandits' leader, Birdy. The Bandits were once a noble tribe that performed acts of heroism, but had turned to crime shortly before Gail's arrival.  Zeke, a former Ouroboros Bandit, had left the tribe and been apprehended by Atai's soldiers, so Gail decides to try and interrogate him.  Having sworn off the Ouroboros altogether, Zeke is willing to divulge everything he knows about the tribe to Gail, but only after she brings him a bottle of wine.  Unable to do so on account of her being underaged, Gail continues to explore the city and runs into Lisa, who's racked up a massive debt to Atai's child mayor and is now indentured to him.  Gail goes to speak to the mayor; he is reluctant to let Lisa go but believes that Gail is a capable warrior, so he offers to forgive the debt if she apprehends Birdy.

Gail returns to Lisa, who offers to help Gail however she can.  Knowing that Lisa is old enough to buy wine, Gail asks Lisa for her ID card, and Lisa happily obliges, telling Gail that there's a hair stylist in Atai who could dye Gail's hair brown to make her look like Lisa.  Gail visits the hair stylist, gets her hair dyed, and goes to the local tavern to buy a bottle of wine.  She then returns to the prison and gives the bottle to Zeke.  Zeke then tells Gail that the Ouroboros Bandits live in a hideout in the middle of the Sand Drifts, and they use special doors locked by Song Stones which can only be opened by playing a song on a flute.  Zeke gives Gail his flute and teaches her how to play the Song of Ouroboros.

Gail then visits Adar's house to take some of his bombs, only to find that the door is locked.  She returns to Atai and asks Lisa for help again, and Lisa tells her to go talk to a girl named Garnet who lives in an alleyway and runs a babysitting service.  As it turns out, Garnet is a master lockpicker, and she agrees to unlock the door to Adar's house for Gail, under one condition: while she's gone, Gail must look after her kids.  Gail obliges, and the kids immediately want to play as soon as Garnet leaves.  They challenge Gail to a game of hide and seek and then scatter all over the city, leaving Gail to go and find them.  After some time, she finds them all, and then Garnet returns.  Seeing the kids happy, she thanks Gail for a job well done and informs her that the door to Adar's house is now open.  Gail returns to the house and finds the Bombs, which she then uses to break through the stone barriers blocking off some of the passages inside the Bandits' Lair.

Inside the lair, Gail passes the trials of the Ouroboros's Three Guardians and is granted entry into the den of the Great Drake.  There she encounters the almighty Great Drake along with Birdy, who both try to defeat Gail but are not successful as Gail manages to subdue the Great Drake and then capture Birdy.  Upon Gail's return to Atai, Birdy is put into the jail and the mayor upholds his end of the bargain, setting Lisa free.  She thanks Gail with a huge hug, and they race each other back to Panselo.  Once there, Gail fills Lisa in on the details of what happened in Panselo, after which she suggests that Gail go visit Thomas in his lab to get the golem head repaired.  Since the Kingdom Bridge is out, Lisa gives Gail a Lifesaver so she can swim across Moonlight Ravine to get to Thomas's lab.

## Trivia

* According to the lead artist in an interview, the grandiose architecture of the town is meant to resemble that of the Ottoman Empire.

## Gallery

A small pond with a jugglerThe marketplaceThe mayor's pooki fieldThe eastern section of townInside the town jailThe mayor's palace

 *Atai Region* | South Castella Bridge • **Atai Town** • Adar's House •
Rhodus Checkpoint • Oasis • Franway - Atai •
 *Daea Region* | Moonlight Ravine • Kingdom Bridge • Thomas's Laboratory •
Lake Laboratory • GEO Club • Antique Shop • The First Wall •
 *Cosette Region* | Wheat Road • Cosette Village • Pooki Farms • Far Beach •
 *Forbidden Lands* | Old Castles • The Last Wall • Scorched Lands ( Ancient GEO Base ) •
Mul Caves • Forgotten Teleporter • Ocean Cliffs • Aurantia ( Terrelum ) •
SPHERE ( Megalith Fields • Pristine City • E.D.E.N )