Ooze Gardens

""Upon entering I am filled with serenity. Lush forests of slime trees cover the area, with crystalized slime trunks supporting the softy lofty blobs above. As I walk down this gravel road I come across a house from time to time. This would be a great place to live if the internet wasn't complete ass. Even so, I might end up raising kids here one day, if I ever find a waifu to marry. The slime kind, not anime.""

- Niboe

Channel Description
A quiet and scenic district. Only slightly more dense with ooze than the rest of NLACakaNM.

!Look Message
Walking paths connect dozens of greenhouses and gardens featuring rare, exotic, and irradiated flora. This district is really just one big park, broken up into several sections hosting different types of botanical attractions, as well as several museums and even the city\u2019s zoo. Musical concerts are often held in one of the several outdoor amphitheatres that are scattered across the district. Truly, an amusement park for lovers of nature and culture.

Ooze Gardens is a clear cultural outlier of the city. The residents of this district are largely pacifist, choosing music, love, and psychedelic drugs over violent crime. They make you sick.

Previous !Look Message
A bird chirps its last before falling dead from a withered tree. A trickle of slime runs down its bark. The resident's attempts to beautify the neighborhood with foliage have really backfired, aesthetically speaking.

Festival Grounds
This large section of park is reserved for musician concerts, theater plays, cult meetings and the odd stand-up act. Performances happen almost daily, with the locals attending every one. These audiences are usually anything but, as they can get pretty active in the performances themselves. After getting thoroughly wasted, high, or the legendary combination of the two (colloquially known as "twisted"), audience members are known to lose all self control and climb on stage, strip naked, start drunken brawls, hug each other, or otherwise descend into debauchery. It's in these moments you remember that the residents of Ooze Gardens may be belt-weighing pussies, but they're still slimebois, damnit.

Wine Gardens
This expansive garden is split into various sections by hedgerows, with each section featuring unique patterns of exotic flora and intricate fountains. However, it's not all peaceful contemplation of nature here. Some sections of the garden have tables and booths that charge extortion rates of terrible alcohol that nevertheless widely circulates. So, while you're reading some plaque explaining whatever dumbfuck genus of flower you're supposed to be looking at, if you look closely, your entire immediate surroundings may in fact be covered in throw up.

Museum Row
This row of museums sits on the edge of Ooze Garden's largest public park. You'll find museums dedicated to all manner of humanities and sciences, as well as art galleries and, of course, souvenir shops. You think knowledge is actually lowkey kinda gay, so you're not going to be stepping inside one anytime soon. You're just looking forward to blasting someone's greymatter across all these beautiful facades.

NLACakaNM Zoo
This menagerie is home to dozens of rare species of beasts, both organic and slime-based, displayed in mock-ups of their natural habitat for maximum theming bonuses. Of course, some of the crazy shit that gets displayed here, especially the stuff from the outskirts, are all horrifying monstrosities that don't really have natural habitats or even really any proper rules on how to care for them. As such, the zoo's pretty nasty and brutish towards the animals, as they are sometimes held in inadequate conditions and kept in line with force. Whatever, though. Not your problem. Haha, look at those orangutans! They're so silly.

Cool Shit To Know
"a SlimeTube video extolling the virtues of Ooze Gardens"

- WeAllLiveInAGreenSubmarine

Oozeland
In Ooze Gardens there is a joyous theme park featuring mainly bumper cars. While people and slimeoids come from all around the city to visit, it is most popular with the locals who frequently come here to !kill time and !fun. Many of them started going as little kids. "Welcome to OozeLand. There will be no pleasure, and there will be no pain. No gang warfare, just heavy-duty bumper car rides." - OozeLand's perpetually droning slogan, forcibly drilled into the minds of all its frail, escapist visitors

The Gardener
A strange man, creature, or something else, is commonly believed to reside in Ooze Gardens, doing who knows what. Many have disappeared in trying to get into close contact with it and evidence of the creature's existence is shaky, but terrifying. "In this house supposedly lives a man they call The Gardener, a sort of human-plant-hybrid, whose existence is widely doubted since most sightings of his lanky, shambling figure have happened in a state of intoxication, whether alcoholic, psychedelic or otherwise. He seems to have incredible foresight, to such an extent where, if he really exists, he'd only ever revealed himself to people who are unlikely to be believed. The only reason he is believed in is that many unnatural deaths could otherwise only be attributed to random chance; or supernatural powers, perhaps. And no one who has taken it upon themselves to explore his presumed residence has ever come back from their expedition. At least not in human form."

- urban legend/creepypasta/real story often shared between Ooze Gardeners and other NLACakaNMians alike. Interestingly, local residents perceive the myth with vastly more seriousness than outsiders, and almost a fourth of them report to have seen him at one point in their lives

Credits
Lat for the arts and quotes besides Niboe's.