Calling All Aussies

Okay what landmarks in Australia would you want to hide a magical shadow govermant in? Somewhere famous but not always crowded.

You want to hide a secret government inside a landmark?

Nobody ever said the magical community were practical people.

The...Sydney....Opera House?

Nah to obvious.

This might help.

The Big Shrimp. No one would suspect a thing.

I love that we have a page entitled "Australia's Big Things".

Under Castle Hill sounds cool actually. Either that or The Big Shrimp, it would come to life and ask you a riddle. Although under the sight of the tree of knowledge could be fitting.

edited 14th Jun '11 4:30:16 AM by Zolnier

I'm a Swed and not a Aussie, but That Big rock in the middle of nowhere...

Uluru? Popular with the tourists and a sacred ground for the indigenous Anangu. Good luck hiding anything there.

It is big, so there can be giant caves to house whatever you want. A part from that, maybe a AncientConspiracy or something is the reason is holy to begin with...

edited 14th Jun '11 9:38:31 AM by TheBorderPrince

You could try the Canberra War Memorial or the Darling Harbour Bridge.

Try to stay away from the Aboriginal culture's sacred objects unless you're going to portray them accurately and with respect. It's profoundly offensive to lump them into some white dude magical conspiracy.

Just hide the base under Perth. It's so stupefyingly boring there that anyone trying to find the location of the base would be overcome by crippling ennui.

Probably not going to use Uluru, to many unfortunate implications.

Canberra's Parliament House.

edited 17th Jun '11 4:45:48 AM by sabrina_diamond

Would certainly explain a few things.

You could try Woomera Test Range, though I'm not really sure to what extent that counts as a "landmark". It's a mostly-desert area the size of England where various weapons and scientific tests occur.

In the great barrier reef.

Turns out the fact it's slowly dying has nothing to do with worldwide pollution...

The Sydney harbor bridge could also work well, if you hide the base in the empty air between the iron beams in some sort of pocket dimension… your wizards can do that, right?

The Habour Bridge is the best suggestion so far.

Pulpo, try the size of France, and you might be closer

Of course, in its orginal iteration, it was the size of Spain, Portugal, France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Combined

So big, they built a highway from one end to the other to get around. Of course, when I say highway, I mean dirt track

my rec. underneath the Big Lobster in Kingston SE. Nobody would expect that

Uluru. It's a giant rock in the middle of the desert. What could be better for hiding a magical shadow government in?

True, buuuuuut...

...just read the rest of the thread.

edited 30th Jun '11 5:13:43 AM by doorhandle

You should hide it under Melbourne, because nobody who isn't from Melbourne knows or cares about Melbourne.

Uluru really is the best place from a story telling stand point, IMO. People aren't allowed to climb it any more because it's considered sacred, so there wouldn't be many problems with the place being discovered, and a magical shadow conspiracy wouldn't really care about respecting aboriginal land rights anyway. As long as the conspiracy is shown as being a bit dickish for doing it, I don't see a problem with setting it beneath Uluru.