What was once Razorvine Research Center has been bought and remodeled by the entity known as
Serj. It now operates as his home, as well as both a freshwater and plant resource supplier. In addition to providing typically out-of-season food to the city, there are many species of plants within known to have medicinal or poisonous benefits.
A dumpy little, unsuspecting and easy-to-miss, single-floor building sits in stark opposition in beauty to the huge, lush greenhouse connected behind it, enclosed in a dome of glass and guarded by an elegant, metal lattice shell. A lantern with stained purple glass panes is hung beside the door. There’s also a single boarded-up window on the front’s face with a weathered, functional bench under a small canvas awning that is long past its prime.
The house within is mostly wooden, consisting of a deep first room and scarcely few smaller rooms, including a kitchen, pantry, guest quarters, and a basement.
Front Room
Immediately upon entering is a room without furniture, covered in colorful pillows and rugs. Pink, blue, and green lanterns hang along the ceiling above, and lining it are many creeping ivy vines. A few smoking apparatuses, like hookahs, are scattered to the left and right, and the condition of the air quality suggests that they are being used regularly. Further back is a wide counter space surrounded by cabinets. A hall crosses before it. The kitchen is to the left, and the rest of the house is to the right.
Kitchen
A humble wood-burning stove sits along the left-side wall of this tight space. There is only room enough for an ice box and a prep table. Pots and pans hang from a rack alongside many different herbs in the middle of the drying process. A wide jar filled with cooking utensils sits at the far edge of the table. Beyond is the door to a walk-in pantry, usually filled with all kinds of food and many racks of cut plants that are also drying.
Guest Room
The guest room is outfitted with two sets of bunk beds squished into a corner. A shelf on the near-side wall supports folded piles of extra blankets. The door to the right leads to a little private shower room complete with its own magic mouth system that activates a Decanter of Endless Water.
Basement
The basement is split by a stone wall, the only accessible room being an art studio. Nightmarescapes and references line the walls in a few different styles. A smattering of small tables and shelves support a lot of different supplies for drawing and painting, and they are in a constant state of careless mess. There is a solid door leading to the rest of the basement with the word ‘NO’ written across it in white. Spells of magic detection would reveal it to contain lead iron to some degree.
None of the doors in the place, including the front door, are locked, except for the one in the basement.
The real gem of this place is the greenhouse. Past the double doors in the far back of the front room rests an encapsulated slice of natural paradise, complete with a crystal clear freshwater stream overflowing from a small pool at the very top of the highest spike of land. The air inside is hot and heavy with humidity for the warmer half of the year. The colder half sees some decay, but it remains mildly temperate to a little chilly inside.
Nightshade holds an entire small ecosystem within it. The list of known creatures includes fireflies, scorpions, earthworms, lizards, and a newborn sentient fungus living in the cave called
Ligomycos. Also generally sharing space with Serj right now is the Oni mercenary known as
Obratu, and a puppy dog named Tufi.
