The Greenhouse
(Warning this article contains dark imagery.)
Depending on how you find your way to The Lost Place you can come across The Greenhouse in two very different ways. If you are a Luftkun, you would most likely travel the dead-end path that meanders through the dense jungle between Pumpkin Hill and The Greenhouse. If you are like me and found your way there as an escape, you would have found your way there through a red door or a section of sidewalk that abruptly ends.
Anyway, let's assume that you have found your way to The Greenhouse. This is what you would see. There are two buildings sitting at the center of a clearing in the jungle. This particular location in The Lost Place always sits in gloom. Sun doesn't shine here and that is okay because what grows here in this greenhouse doesn't need sunlight. Now and again the persistent clouds spit rain showers out. There is the occasional rumble of thunder and streaks of lightning.
The overall feeling you get when looking at these buildings is that of neglect. Weeds grow up around the foundations a sure hiding spot for some wretched snake to bite you as you walk past. The building that actually grows things looks like you would expect, a long rectangular building with a semicircular roof all made of glass held together with a metal frame. Most if not all of the glass panels are covered in a film of dust and dirt that seems to grow like living skin.
The second building is a three-story structure made of brick. There are no windows and only two doors. One door is at best three feet tall. This door is made of wood and was once painted white but the majority of the paint has peeled and blown away and the rest hangs like scabs waiting their turn to be carried away by the wind. This is the main door that The Luftkuns use to come and go as they go about their duty working on their shifts. The other door is a much larger door. It is a rusty metal door that rolls up for the passage of carts meant to haul the product grown in the greenhouse to the Castle of The Corpse King.
A twisted tangle of metal pipes travels between the second and third floor of the brick building to the roof of the building that looks like a real greenhouse.
I have only been inside The Greenhouse one time so I am telling you this all from memory. We shall start with the second and third floors of the brick building. Both of these floors are used the same. Now what I am about to go into now isn't the most pleasant but what is, is. So let's just yank the bandage off and get it over with. The second and third floors are darkened. Fluorescent bars flicker on and off with longer off periods than on. Hanging down out of the rafters are chains here and there. Most days you will find a young person here that either fell asleep after having too much cotton candy or too much fun at the fairgrounds in these chains shackled at the wrist. Beneath them, there will be a drain that leads to one of the pipes I told you about that run from building to building. The Luftkuns that work on these floors cut the chained youngsters. The drain catches said blood and the pipes transport the gatherings to the building that looks like a greenhouse.
The tangled mass of pipes enters the roof of the glass building and provides a steady dripping of blood to aquariums here and there around the interior of the building to feed the things growing inside. Inside these aquariums, you can find a variety of body parts growing from soil. At any given time you might find different varieties of growing parts. Some days it might be eyes growing on stems and others it could be fingers or toes, a hand, or a nose. Some aquariums are for growing internal organs. Really it is just a matter of whatever The Corpse King needs to regenerate himself. Gardening Luftkuns walk here and there tending to the crops. When there is a harvest the Luftkuns with pick whatever is ripe and it will be shipped to The Corpse King for him to consume to heal whatever organ or body part is failing him.
Greenhouse worker Luftkun
WARNING: This picture is really gross!
Type
Hospital
I would like to see a TW or CW for harmful imagery. I can't think of the proper term at the moment. This is dark and yet interesting. I am going to need to immerse myself more into your world and see where it goes from here.
I have removed the image. Not sure what a TW or CW is.
TW is Trigger Warning... CW is Content Warning.
Thank you for all the feedback.
Not a problem. The image itself wasn't the issue. The warning at the top is sufficient thank you.
You are most welcome. I look forward to catching your stream again.