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RAIN TOWN is an optional location in OMORI and one of the subareas of ORANGE OASIS. It is a rainy town filled with multiple VEGGIE KIDS harvesting themselves. It is accessible from a pond found in ORANGE OASIS's center hub.
GEOGRAPHY[]
RAIN TOWN is a small grassy area that houses many VEGGIE KIDS. Within the town, there are four small plowed fields which are fenced up and arranged into a square formation. VEGGIE KIDS and what are presumably saplings of VEGGIE KIDS are planted within these fields. Puddles are present on the ground from the constant rain. A thick forest of trees acts as the boundary of the area.
In the top right, MARI and her picnic blanket can be found. Further to the right of the picnic blanket is a valve that can control the rain intensity of RAIN TOWN, but can only be turned by the Chosen One. If the player chooses the turn the valve to the right, then the atmosphere becomes more refreshing as less rain pours down on this area. However, if the valve is turned to the left, RAIN TOWN will be flooded by BLACK SPACE's dark energy.
This will also render the place inaccessible. However, it can still be revisited on ONE DAY LEFT of the OMORI ROUTE. When revisiting, the entire atmosphere of the town is dark and gloomy while it rains much harder than it had before. Along with that, all of the VEGGIE KIDS there have transformed into LILIS.[1] The only option from there is to either fight the LILIS or simply leave the place to rot.
STORY[]
RAIN TOWN is an optional area that can be accessed by interacting with the pond in ORANGE OASIS. OMORI and friends can speak to the VEGGIE KID in the middle of the town, who tells them that although the rain in RAIN TOWN is now slightly uncomfortable for them, only the Chosen One is able to turn the valve to adjust the rain. This begins the quest RAIN TOWN.
If OMORI and friends turn the valve to the right, the rain lightens, and the same VEGGIE KID thanks them. Another VEGGIE KID decides to join them in their adventure as a charm.
If OMORI and friends turn the valve to the left, the rain severely worsens and floods RAIN TOWN, and RAIN TOWN is never seen again. This renders the area permanently inaccessible, unless on ONE DAY LEFT of the OMORI ROUTE when it can be re-entered. The place will be flooded with the SOMETHING variant, LILI.
In reference to the original OMORIBOY comics by OMOCAT, sitting in the leftmost center field in an empty patch as solely OMORI results in him sitting down and becoming a potato after about nine seconds. This is a direct reference of one of the comics, titled "life would be so much better if I didn't look like a potato."
CHARACTERS[]
.png "VEGGIE KID (EGGPLANT).png (847 bytes)")
.png "VEGGIE KID (TOMATO).png (883 bytes)")
.png "VEGGIE KID (ONION).png (818 bytes)")
.png "VEGGIE KID (POTATO).png (877 bytes)")
ENEMIES[]
.gif "Lilli (Animated).gif (70 KB)")
ITEMS[]
QUOTES[]
To Rain Town
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The surface of the water is shimmering.  Do you want to stare at it intently?
The surface of the water is emitting a dark energy. Do you want to stare at it intently? |
Mari (Rain Town)
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MARI  Here in RAIN TOWN, it always seems to be raining a bit... MARI  It's not the most ideal weather for a picnic, but that's never stopped me before! KEL  Yeah! Anytime is a good time for a picnic! MARI Hehe... That's right, KEL! Anytime is a good time, especially with friends! |
Rain Town Picnic
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HERO  Mmmmmmmm... Yummy... Thanks for the soup, MARI... AUBREY  This... soup... is... slurp... delicious... KEL  Can I... have some seconds... please...? MARI  What's wrong, guys? Is there something wrong with my soup? KEL Urf... Lazing around in the rain is fun and all, but eating in the rain is a whole 'nother thing... HERO I can't tell where the rain ends and the soup begins... |
Flooding Rain Town (Turn valve left)
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The rainfall intensifies and floods RAIN TOWN. RAIN TOWN and its inhabitants were never heard from again. |
GALLERY[]
.png "Rain Town (Normal).png (330 KB)")
TRIVIA[]
- A TOMATOGIRL can be seen forming part of the area's intro card.
- The event where OMORI transforms himself into a potato is similar to an event in WHITE SPACE, in which the former will sit down in place if the player doesn't move or interact with anything for two minutes.
- If the player has already turned the valve to the left, the sparkle will now be darkened when returning to inspect it on ONE DAY LEFT of the OMORI ROUTE. The flavor text hints that RAIN TOWN has been corrupted due to a dark energy of an unknown source.
- Flooded RAIN TOWN will be brightened again if the party drink the soup. This is due to the PICNIC event resets the color tone of the screen after the white-screen animation and likely an oversight.
- RAIN TOWN's BGM is later reused for the RAINY DAY segment from the MEMORY LANE.
- The background of RAIN TOWN is also used for FARAWAY TOWN in the morning.
- When turning the valve to the right, one of the POTATOGIRLs changes her sprite into a TOMATOGIRL. This is most likely an oversight or error left by the developers themselves by accident.
- In the RPG Maker MV project of the game, the "Enemies" database folder categorizes CELERY, CILANTRO, GINGER, and SPROUT BUNNY in the "RAIN TOWN" subsection. This suggests that those enemies were originally planned to be fought within RAIN TOWN instead of DINO'S DIG.
- In the game's files, there exists an unused picture of hand-drawn skies named raintown_sky and it is used by an unused event within RAIN TOWN. This implies the weather effect of RAIN TOWN was planned to be hand-drawn but eventually replaced by the weather function of RPG Maker MV.
