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• The Setting Poll is closed! As of Day 423, Tokyo-F now has:
  
  WA Spa
  

  While 30 minutes by train from the hotel, the WA spa makes every minute of the trip worth it. It offers both body and facial courses of Authentic Japanese™ treatments—green bamboo therapy, salt scrub treatments, body oil aromatherapy, and hot stone therapy just to name a few offerings.
  
  The courses are free, though alcoholic beverages may be provided with payment. There's just one rule in the establishment: "Keep your eyes closed."
  
  It's listed at the front entrance of the spa; idols can enter the changing room where they have their own locker for belongings, before standing in the designated line. Once they close their eyes, a warm hand will lead them to one of the back rooms, where they'll be treated like royalty, massaged anywhere and everywhere they like with the most expert and deft touch. There's even ASMR indistinct chatter for those who relax to the sound of people talking—and if one concentrates, the indistinct chatter sounds like it's spoken with the voices of the idol's favorite people, even if they're not even in Tokyo-F. Isn't that nostalgic? Isn't it comfortable?
  
  There are designated sauna and soaking rooms where they can open their eyes and relax with their phones, or otherwise lounge around with friends taking the same treatment as them—but. If anyone opens their eyes before they're allowed, all operations in the room cease for every person, therapy tools dropped to the ground mid-treatment. Only when every person in the room has their eyes closed again will the treatment continue.
  
  Of course, for those who would prefer to do things themselves, the treatment supplies are all available for them to use. Regardless of which method they choose, at the end of the treatment they can go down the hallway to find that it's actually circular, and they're right back in the changing room to get their things and leave when they're ready. While none of the large-sized treatment supplies can be taken out, there are complimentary treatment samples available for idols to take home at the end of their visit.

  All of Japan
  

  In the Game Tower ground floor lobby is a long table with what looks to be a 3D-printed model of the island chain that makes up all of Japan. Game board tokens line the border of the table—should an idol pick one up and place it onto any island, they'll find themself transported to that location, with a paper copy of that token in their pocket.
  
  . . . Some version of that location, in any case. It changes without rhyme or reason—sometimes it seems to be prehistoric Japan, and sometimes it seems to be some variation of a post-apocalyptic world. Regardless, all versions are devoid of human life (and sometimes, of animal/plant life as well) as well as any functioning technology.
  
  There seems to be a limited size of where they can go, for that location—travel farther than a small town's worth of distance and the idol will find themself transported back to where they first "spawned". If they want to visit a different town, or a farther location, they'll have to get back out and go back in again.
  
  Speaking of which: idols can return back home by either tearing the paper copy of their token, or waiting out 3 IC days and be returned to Tokyo-F automatically (though they will have to fend for themself until then). They may also be returned to the city if their token on the model is moved off the board, or if they somehow die while still in the model world, in which case they'll transport back to the Game Tower with their injuries intact.
  
  Note: There are no instructions, nor any automatic intuition of how the teleporting table works.

  The Locations page has been updated with these changes.


• This cycle's Test Drive for the app cycle beginning December 5th is up!


• Fanmail submissions post is up! Due to the Handshake Event, we'll be posting fanmail on December 16th!


• Activity Check is due this Saturday, 10PM PST! Remember: Activity Check is reduced this month. December will be check-in only as well!


• The Handshake Event will be going on from December 1st to December 14th! Transferred idols & Hell Graduates are welcome to visit!


• Marie will be running Oregod Trail on December
  18th, found here!


• And finally, Ideal Worlds will be running from December 26th thru January 1st—check the above link for preliminary interest checks!

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