Editing The Station Promenade (section)

==Description==
The Path itself is a station with trains arriving and departing regularly, it is lined with shops and stalls. There is also an area where spectators can watch people attempting the Path.

There are around 200 Lost on the Path, many of them from other Paths. Most of them are simply going about their normal business but the ones that are smiling are hostile and will attack if they're close enough. If a [[Finder]] trips or bumps into any Lost, the Path becomes harder and creates more smiling Lost.

On one side there is an alley that is hard to get past due to the amount of smiling Lost that come out of it.<ref>They were talking about the alley, recapping what they knew.  The alley was tripping up the finders, a gap between two stores on the left path, that Lost kept coming out of.  Smiling Lost. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/one-after-another-10-1/ Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.1]]</ref>

The floor consists of red, white, yellow, and black colored tiles, each three feet square. The concourse itself is seven tiles wide. To traverse the Path, Finders have to stick to one pattern of movement throughout their trip, the exact pattern is irrelevant so long as they're consistent in how they move. They have to touch all four colors on four separate turns, then pause for two turns before repeating.<ref>The floor is tiled. We enter one by one and move according to a pattern. I’ll be one of the last to go in and they expect to have a loose system worked out by the time I do. It looks like four colors or designs to the tiles and we use one pattern of movement to touch all four types of tile in four ‘moves’. Wait twice, then repeat. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/9-3-spoilers-path-practicalities/ Excerpt] from [9.3 spoilers] Path Practicalities</ref> There's a time limit on how long they can spend on a tile, requiring them to move every few seconds.

Finders can stand on tables and booths but doing so gives them additional rules they have to follow.<ref>“I think you can get on some booths and tables,” Avery reported, to the walkie talkie.  “I just did one.  I got a bunch of rules I have to follow.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/one-after-another-10-1/ Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.1]]</ref>

Many stationary Lost will interact with Finders if they stand in front of them, such as the flower seller giving a gift.<ref>The ones who don’t move have their little interactions if you stop in front of them.  Not that many are in a position to let you stop in front.  Try to put yourself in front of the flower seller, and then later there’s another one in a booth with a chair, booth has had a purple front, a few times.  Sit in the chair, hear her out, report back. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/one-after-another-10-1/ Excerpt] from One [[One After Another 10.1|After Another 10.1]]</ref>

Lost can give Finders a job or task, in return they get an outfit that allows them to bypass the movement restrictions.<ref>“Avery Kelly, messenger, running an errand.  One minute!”<br>“Heard,” was Peter Garrick’s response.<br>There were no movement restrictions while she was on the job, delivering the letter.  She didn’t have to worry about tiles, and she only had to worry about going as fast as she could while avoiding the smiling Lost.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref>

It's impossible to walk from one end of the station to the other directly, Finders have to board a train to another [[The Paths|Path]] and retain the ability to return by train.<ref>“Then let me tell you the first.  It is fundamentally impossible to traverse directly from one end of the Promenade to the other.”<br><br>Avery blinked a few times.<br><br>“Reaching one end is valuable, as far as the boons imparted,” Miss said.  “But you could not do it.  I could not do it.  The Wolf couldn’t.”<br><br>Avery shivered.  “So if it’s impossible… how are there boons?”<br><br>Miss shifted position, then said, “''Directly'', Avery.  One cannot traverse the Promenade, as you’ve termed it, by the Promenade alone.  One must depart by train, retaining the means to return by train.  It necessitates the walking of specific paths, which will each be subtly different if entered by way of the Promenade.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/summer-break-13-6/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.6]]</ref> To do this they must obtain a ticket from one of the Lost at the station by bartering, buying, or performing an errand for them. The Path they travel to will have something intersecting the Path such as tracks, a road, or a tightrope, and they have to wait there while keeping the obstruction in sight and eventually something will take them back to the Station Promenade. If they repeat the process a second time, they will be able to complete the Path. Each time they return to the Path this way it resets the movement patterns of the various Lost and reduces their number.<ref>“The Promenade can’t be traversed directly from start to finish.  You will, at a certain point, find that there are no moves available.”<br><br>“The value in this information is that we won’t waste our time trying?”<br><br>“You can traverse it by getting on a train.  You’ll want a ticket from someone already on the Promenade, you’ll want to barter, buy, or do a favor for them.  Be careful, some will want you to get them off the Path.”<br><br>Clay was nodding slowly.<br><br>“While you have the ticket, get on the appropriate train, walk the Path that train takes you to, could be five steps, could be having to walk that entire Path, but you’ll run into tracks, a tightrope, a road, something intersecting the path.  Wait.  don’t take your eyes off it, don’t close your eyes for longer than an eyeblink, or the track will disappear.  It will come.  It takes you back to the Promenade, should deliver you further up than you were.  Resets some movement patterns, the population of Lost should be less dense.  There’ll be a pattern of movement that can take you through.  Don’t believe it.  You need to do the same thing again.  You have to run a second path, that relates to the first you walked.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/summer-break-13-9/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.9]]</ref>

[[Miss]] knows something about the arrangement of the shop that eludes human eyes.<ref>For the second tip, you may hint that I know something about the arrangement of the shops on the Promenade, that eludes human eyes- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/summer-break-13-6/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.6]]</ref>