Heart-Catcher Gardens

 is a platform in Eleutheria. It occupies the very middle of the central circle, close to Pan.

=The Hour in Pan= This storylet will sometimes automatically show when docking in. See The Hour in Pan for possible interactions.

=Heart-Catcher Gardens= ''A grizzled coterie of gardeners care for this unusual orchard. The plants that grow here are Heart-Catchers, whose fruit looks - and speaks - like human heads.''

The Nurseries
''A series of finely-manicured indigo lawns cover this corner of Pan. Peculiar plants grow in the beds: tangled as rose-bushes, and budding with fruit. The fruit is lumpen: perfectly formed facial features are growing on it. This one has a frantic, staring eye. This one is growing an ear. This one keens pitiably through tiny, trembling lips. Silent gardeners, whose broad-brimmed hats are hung with veils to hide their faces, tend devotedly to the plants.''

Interactions

The Green-Fingered Warhorse
''He must occupy a senior position, for the other gardeners nod their heads as they pass him. Beneath his overalls he wears a ratskin suit, ragged from the plants' playful thorns. There is a deadness to his gaze. ''

Interactions

The Mimiricon
''The inner gardens are surrounded by a hedge as thick as a fortress wall, knotted with thorns and strangled with vines. Behind it are the grove-homes of the Heart-Catchers, steeped in Eleutheria's midnight and frequented only by their favoured servants.''

''Within the Mimiricon, the Heart-Catchers are big as trees and clustered with mature heads. Each plant is a council of intellects, debating the secrets of the sky. ''

Interactions

The Second Storyteller
''The oldest of the Heart-Catchers is a crooked tree, roofed with rattling leaves. Stone props support its vast branches, keeping their weight from toppling it. All but one of its heads has grown huge, grown old, and died. Now they are great, grinning skulls. The last living head rests on an altar. It is as big as you are tall: lank-haired, stone-grey, graven with wrinkles. It sleeps.''

Interactions

The Nepenthine Ritual
''First, you are asked to inhale mists from a copper bowl. "Vapours from the Achlaean marsh," the Old Warhorse explains. "It's for the best." Your world disjoints. Events separate into isolated moments, each untroubled by sensation or emotion. A lamp-lit grove, ringed by veiled gardeners. The heads of a Heart-Catcher looking down at you, speaking with tongues of fire. The Old Warhorse advancing with a set of garden shears...''

Interactions

One Voice among Many
"A Friend to the Heart-Catchers(Severed)"

Trigger conditions

A Friend to the Heart-Catchers ≥ 22 ≤ 22,

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