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Poll #17126 Asking for a friend

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You wish to engage in criminal activity of a magical nature in Toronto[1]. It is summer. Pick a location:

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CN Tower
4 (13.3%)

Casa Loma
7 (23.3%)

Hart House
2 (6.7%)

Leslie Spit
2 (6.7%)

Atrium
0 (0.0%)

Eaton's Centre
2 (6.7%)

Union Station
2 (6.7%)

Other TTC station (specified in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Pearson Airport
3 (10.0%)

City Airport
1 (3.3%)

Elsewhere on Toronto Island
3 (10.0%)

Nathan Phillips Square/City Hall
3 (10.0%)

Regent Park Armory
2 (6.7%)

Queen Street West
2 (6.7%)

Queen Street East
0 (0.0%)

40 College
1 (3.3%)

Flatiron Building, Front Street East
0 (0.0%)

Don Valley (specifics in comments)
1 (3.3%)

Robarts Library/Majestic Turkey
4 (13.3%)

Public Library (specify branch in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Skydome
6 (20.0%)

ROM
7 (23.3%)

AGO
3 (10.0%)

On a streetcar
3 (10.0%)

Ontario Legislature
2 (6.7%)

Horseshoe Tavern
0 (0.0%)

Annex
0 (0.0%)

High Park
3 (10.0%)

Bloor Viaduct
6 (20.0%)

This other location:

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Please speculate freely on tactical, logistical, and other considerations in comments.
No, I am not going to blow up the location in question. Not even if it's the extension on the ROM.

[1] South of Finch, East of Kipling, West of Kennedy. Amalgamation can bite me.

Comments

[graydon]

The type of criminal activity really matters; are we talking "make a sacrifice to dread Cthulu" here, or "cloud the perceptions of the security system at a place where something valuable might be"?

Because High Park is a terrible choice for "something valuable" but pretty good for "sacrifice to Dread Cthulu" (fossil river! open space! tiny slice of original regional biome! surface water! lots of exit routes!).

[random]

Evergreen Brick Works.

It's got everything.

Semi-decayed industrial landscape. Old tailing ponds now full of unknown horrors. Yuppies with farmers' markets. A sculpture of all the Rivers of Toronto. And close enough to the DVP for things to go really wrong.

[welcomingsong]

I totally think it has to be the Great Library, just so the co-conspirators can get distracted by the general gorgeousness. The fact that it's attached to the court house also works well for Really Bad Complications.

[chickenfeet]

Leslie Street spit is terraformed so it is its own weirdness. Also mink and cormorants. There must be something one can do with both of those.

[chickenfeet]

Also, precedent demands that anything weird on the Bloor Street viaduct involve nuns and gravity.

[sexy_romulan]

Personally I'd vote for either the ravines or the depths of the subway tunnels.

[cxcvi]

Stuff like this on my reading page makes me wish I knew Toronto a little better. Or at all...

[curgoth]

Things I can find in Mount Pleasant cemetary; a grave marker with a pentacle on it, the Eaton family mausoleum that has a stained glass image of Lucifer on the back wall, and a crypt that is chained shut, as if to keep something *in*.

[aris_tgd]

All of my answers are based on what locations I remember from the Arrogant Worms' song about Toronto, so they may be a bit biased.

[ccommack]

I'm always a fan of a location being explained by some supernatural mishap in its *past*. For instance, saying that City Airport is where it is because if you put anything heavier than an airport on that island, it would tip over and sink into Lake Ontario. Or that some previous government embedded a ring of protection into the Gardiner Expressway (among other highways), which now prevents it from being removed. (The latter story can also be used quite unkindly to explain why so much weird shit happens north of the 401, or why Mississauga works at all.)