The Institute

> My friends and I built it as a safe haven for people to learn, grow, and thrive.
>
> Invidere, Introducing the player to the void

The Institute is a large, white, geometric, and cathedral-like building. Tall towers shaped like quartz crystals jut out from the back of the building. In front of the complex, a tall spire with a winding structure on top of it winds around its tip. The only known entrance to the Institute is through an arcing doorway up front located in the Institute Entrance.

The Institute is surrounded in a space filled with varying shades of cerulean and pink clouds. It sits on a white floating platform that seems to have been broken off from a structure. A light cyan river curves around the building and flows down off the platform into the void. There is a white winding road that bends and curves away from the Institute, starting from the entrance.

Despite containing the sky of Daydream Fields, The Institute is located in The Gardens Of Consciousness, the second layer of the Void. Snake Road lies in front of its entrance and Ghost Road is behind it.

## The Hortus

The Hortus is the garden out back in the Institute. It is made up of two areas: Institute Horto West and Institute Horto East. It is located south of Ghost Road South and north of the Institute Tablinium and Institute Tricilinium. Both locations within the Horto Wing are populated by tamed Voidpets. They can be battled but cannot be caught as these Voidpets belong to the characters in The Institute.

### Horto West

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Horto West is one half of a vibrant, green and grassy field that lies outside of the Institute that is surrounded by a white border and geometric pikes and swirls that serve as a fence. Yellow, violet and pink flowers are scattered sparsely across the grass while a thin and faint periwinkle colored tree with blue leaves sits to the left of the field. Sunbeams shine down from the top left. To the top right of the scenery, there is a gate that leads to Ghost Road South that can be seen. Voidpets can be spotted running across the grass.

### Horto East

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Horto East is the second half of the Hortus garden which is also encompassed by a white border. This side of the garden contains less flora than Horto West with pink, cyan, and violet flowers grow in scattered clusters around the field. The area appears to be fenceless, with the exception of the right side of Ghost Road's gate on the top left of the scenery. White swirls and spires that resemble Snake Road can be seen on the top right.

## Main Building

The Main Building houses most of the Institute's staff as well as the students too. It's the place where the player also spawns in after being introduced to the void and where the player will be after being knocked out from a battle. There is only one area in the entire building where voidpets can spawn and be caught.

### Institute Entrance

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As it name suggests, this is the entrance to the Institute building, one of two exits out the Institute. A large arching structure leads inside while its path is lined with floating white, barren tree-like spires.

Wild Voidpet Spawns
 Lonely
 Sadness
 Spite
 Sonder

Seeing Red Spawns
 Lonely
 Sadness
 Spite
 Sonder

### Institute Atrium

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It's the first room when entering the Institute from the entrance, its colored in warm and light beige hues. There is a hallway visible upfront that leads into the Atruim Pool. Two candles burn on the bottom two corners of the room with its swirling smoke reaching up to the ceiling while hanging pathson lights decorate the space above, with five lights on each side and each bathing the room in warm orange light.

A floating blue table called String's Workshop hangs at the center. On it lies two aura tesseract containers, an aura orbit container, an aura prism container, a pepperoni slice, a bowl of rice, and a New York slice. It's surrounded by electricity-like void matter that is colored with a gradient of light blue to violet top to bottom. Clicking on this table leads you to a catalogue of craftable items that use void matter as material.

Above the table is a bright, glittering green button labeled with "Heal my pets" in bold white font. Clicking it heals the pets that are currently in your party to 100% HP.

### Institute Atrium Pool

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This room is where you can find Invidere standing in the center. Before her is a rectangular white platform that is carved into the floor as fumes from the candles in the Atrium waft their way inside. Similar to the Atrium, the room's walls are colored with beige with the exception of the left wall. The left side is a plum-colored rectangular entrance that leads to the Institute Freshman Common Room while up front is an archway that leads to the Institute Tablinium.

### Institute Tablinium

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In this room you can find Cogito with multiple books floating around him, one of them being "How to be Depressed". The room seldom has any furniture, bathed in cool shades of periwinkle, with two openings upfront and on the right: An archway with visible green grass that leads to the West side of the Hortus and a square hallway that leads into the Tricilinium. Two candles adorn the bottom corners of the room with smoke rising up into the air.

### Institute Tricilinium

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This room is where you can find the Great Friend hanging out in the middle and talk to them for your daily quests. The Tricilinium is near identical with the room on its left, except for its orange hue instead of blue. It lacks any furniture or decorations inside. There is an archway with green grass that accesses the East of the Hortus garden and a rectangular hallway that leads to the Tablinium.

### Institute Taberna

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This room is where you can find String themselves floating in the center. The room is colored deep violet hues with magenta light shining down from above. On both sides of the area are square entrances that lead into two different rooms: The Atrium and the Battle Chamber.

### Institute Battle Chamber.

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In this room you can find Pecunia and enter a dungeon with other people or by yourself.

## Freshman Student Wing

The Freshman Student wing is made up of the Institute Freshman Common Room and a hallway of four doors heading west. This wing houses the rooms of the freshman class. It can be accessed by heading west from Institute Atrium Pool in the Center Wing of The institute. Each of the students' rooms can be accessed by heading north from the door location labeled with their name.

The Student Wing contains four characters who offer quests.

## Gallery

### Snake Road Void Entrance

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 Envy | Low
 Alex | Very Low
 Peponem | Very Low