07-08-2021, 05:20:32 AM
Cyan: Viewing Platform.
The Viewing Platform is a box-shaped room decorated with potted plants (in remarkably good health) and marble floors. It's quite nice looking. There are benches for observation sitting next to the large window that makes up the far wall. Through that window, an enormous open cavern can be seen. Instead of stalagmites and stalactites as would be expected for an enormous cavern such as this, however, the walls are smooth, charred, and melted, glowing in places. An enclosed walkway goes through the cavern, presumably accessible somewhere above where the viewing window is. Also there's some kind of enormous, blazing-bright, swirling tear in the air that extends from almost the floor to almost the ceiling of the easily fifty meter high cavern, the rock around it melted into a glowing yellow slag which is pumped away by several enormous pipes which are somehow surviving the impressive heat that that rift must generate, while similar slag appears and drops down around the rift into other pools, but that's really an afterthought. A series of informational placards with illustrative pictures as might be found at a museum can be found in the room, which refer to the cavern as the "Planar Engine One Thermal Injector", and provide mildly interesting historical context and facts about the enormous rift. Whatever's going on with the windows, they must be made of something quite insulating, because the room is only slightly warmer than the other places in the complex.
Meanwhile, Kellensea, now mostly recovered, and with her scarf back on, has followed Doof, because he's the nearest person going somewhere that she can see.
Huh. They've changed this place a bit since I've last been here. At least, I assume this is the same place I've been. I can't think of anywhere else that I know of like this, at least. Can't remember much about it though, I mostly stayed outside. I was undergoing the worst days back then. Wish I'd memorized the map I was given. Might have been helpful even with the changes made... Oh, that's adorable!
Kellensea is quickly distracted by a number of pictures on the wall at a little cafe-type thing that went overlooked by virtue of the huge distracting thing through the window. They appear to picture couples dressed in reasonably nice clothes, holding up rings, necklaces, and other bits of jewelry. Humans, Elves, Lizard-people, Dwarves, and many other sorts are represented. Most look relatively normal, but some look rather disturbingly like Kellensea without her helmet on, with a rather unpleasant pallor, dark bruising around their eyes and mouth, greasy hair, and bloodshot, glassy eyes. But all of them look happy. Beneath each is a brass plate providing the name of the pairs in the picture and what presumably is the date the picture was taken.
This might be close to home. Or at least, somewhere very similar to home. For me, anyway... Aw! Look at them! This was worth not running away and staying away forever to escape that clicking for.
The Viewing Platform is a box-shaped room decorated with potted plants (in remarkably good health) and marble floors. It's quite nice looking. There are benches for observation sitting next to the large window that makes up the far wall. Through that window, an enormous open cavern can be seen. Instead of stalagmites and stalactites as would be expected for an enormous cavern such as this, however, the walls are smooth, charred, and melted, glowing in places. An enclosed walkway goes through the cavern, presumably accessible somewhere above where the viewing window is. Also there's some kind of enormous, blazing-bright, swirling tear in the air that extends from almost the floor to almost the ceiling of the easily fifty meter high cavern, the rock around it melted into a glowing yellow slag which is pumped away by several enormous pipes which are somehow surviving the impressive heat that that rift must generate, while similar slag appears and drops down around the rift into other pools, but that's really an afterthought. A series of informational placards with illustrative pictures as might be found at a museum can be found in the room, which refer to the cavern as the "Planar Engine One Thermal Injector", and provide mildly interesting historical context and facts about the enormous rift. Whatever's going on with the windows, they must be made of something quite insulating, because the room is only slightly warmer than the other places in the complex.
Meanwhile, Kellensea, now mostly recovered, and with her scarf back on, has followed Doof, because he's the nearest person going somewhere that she can see.
Huh. They've changed this place a bit since I've last been here. At least, I assume this is the same place I've been. I can't think of anywhere else that I know of like this, at least. Can't remember much about it though, I mostly stayed outside. I was undergoing the worst days back then. Wish I'd memorized the map I was given. Might have been helpful even with the changes made... Oh, that's adorable!
Kellensea is quickly distracted by a number of pictures on the wall at a little cafe-type thing that went overlooked by virtue of the huge distracting thing through the window. They appear to picture couples dressed in reasonably nice clothes, holding up rings, necklaces, and other bits of jewelry. Humans, Elves, Lizard-people, Dwarves, and many other sorts are represented. Most look relatively normal, but some look rather disturbingly like Kellensea without her helmet on, with a rather unpleasant pallor, dark bruising around their eyes and mouth, greasy hair, and bloodshot, glassy eyes. But all of them look happy. Beneath each is a brass plate providing the name of the pairs in the picture and what presumably is the date the picture was taken.
This might be close to home. Or at least, somewhere very similar to home. For me, anyway... Aw! Look at them! This was worth not running away and staying away forever to escape that clicking for.
I am the They who says it!