Windchime Playgrounds – Austin Bunton Designs

Other than our city’s Parkour Playground and Skater Parks, these are our only ‘normal’ playgrounds.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dimensions & Layout
Special Features
Additional Notes
Novels Excerpt
2021 Update
Locations (Images Begin)
Concepts: Colorful Giant Windchimes Hanging
2023 Update: 2022 Scale-model of Area/s in Minecraft

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Introduction:

These playgrounds are spread out across many of the neighborhoods of Inisfree, with the majority of them being throughout the Apartments Area. Each of them is based around a metallic ring supported by a few pillars, with human-sized wind-chimes suspended from the ring. As people tap or push past these large wind-chimes, they begin to make their signature music. The wind can produce this same effect, and even when there are only light breezes in the area of one of these wind-chime playgrounds, those breezes still have the same effect as a person blowing air over the mouth of a bottle.

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Dimensions & Layout:

Inisfreean wind-chime playgrounds are about 60 feet in diameter, each with one ring structure at their center. These rings are about 10 feet off the ground, with the wind-chimes ranging in diameter and vertical length. Each ring has 12 wind-chimes for a complete octave (thus they are ~5 feet apart), and each wind-chime is a different color of the rainbow. The colors are always in this order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, violet, purple, pink.

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Special Features:

Small gong-like mallets hidden inside the tops of these playground wind-chimes are used to automate these attractions’ musical functions; activated remotely, either by the Grid Mind when a thought-command is detected, or by a timer (for playing the time of day; once every hour, on the hour), these mallets strike the inside surfaces of their wind-chimes in sequences to play that peaceful wind-chime music at least 24 times each day. This music can usually only be heard one city block away.

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Additional Notes:

* The map of Inisfree shows 10 wind-chimes playgrounds, all of which are located in the Apartments Area, but this type of playground has been added to almost every other region of the city now.

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Novels Excerpt:

Between each cluster of apartment complexes was a playground with large hanging windchimes, each a different color corresponding to its size, all of them hung in a rainbow sequence. The breeze around the central mountain was often enough to play these windchimes like a person blowing on an open bottle. When it wasn’t, passersby, including the Inisfreeans, would sometimes give them a helping hand, tapping or pushing them to get them swaying and musically striking the other hanging chimes.

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2021 Update:

Demon Allison Liddle was the first person to play with Auz here; when she was on her tour of their city, she became the first person to invite him to play at one of these playground, and that was the first time he ever had (having only commissioned the ICVs to build them, never before having the chance/invitation to actually use/enjoy them).

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