DE: You'll love this...

[bjornwilde]

 Seems I sparked something yesterday. I love when a DE does that. Running off the subject, let's do a landscape rollcall. What is out there? And heck, what is in there, i.e. what rooms and or special features do you think folks need to be reminded about?

Also, why don't we throw in any jobs your pups do as well.

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[bjornwilde]

Autor's Milliways guide has a lot of what I think of as perminant features, though I will add Ironhide's crator cause I have a pup in mind who would use it a lot.

As far as jobs go, I don't have any officially working for bar pups but Andrea Nash has volunteered to play bouncer at the back door during full moons. She's missed the past couple because I have her wrapped up in canon plot, but she will be back.

ETA: A late addition, but I've often thought Calcifer could be a fun addition and he'd have the fire fish to play with!

[camwyn]

1. Belar's mountains. They only have one side. Climb up to the top, turn around and go back, and you're back to your starting point; climb up and go over them without ever turning around and you're still back at your starting point. (There's a one-ended stick in the Belgariad universe used as a distraction for small children. I just scaled the idea up a bit.)

2. In the mountains is a delta-marked entrance to Daedalus' Labyrinth from the Percy Jackson books.

3. Also there is Amascut's warrior training course.

4. The garage is not just huge. The garage contains one of every vehicle known to fiction; the people from Firefly found Serenity in there, and we've had at least one Jaeger located, along with an X-Men Sentinel, a skimmer from the John Carter movie, a Gundam or two, and at least two sets of four of the Voltron lions. (Good luck finding the fifth one from either the original show or Voltron Force.) I've had a couple of characters use a golf cart to get from the elevator to other parts of the garage.

5. The residential rooms come in different varieties. The majority resemble any hotel room you might find in a Holiday Inn or other chain hotel, but any character who wants is more than welcome to open a door and find any of the rooms or suites from the Madonna Inn.

6. There are at least three bathrooms off the main Bar. One is marked with a vaguely human-male-looking icon, one with a vaguely human-female-looking, and one has an icon that sort of resembles a fire hydrant with tentacles and eyestalks. There may be other bathrooms as well.

7. The walls in the main Bar move. Seldom while they are being watched, but the layout of the main Bar is never the same twice; it drove Whistler crazy when he was trying to install a sound system because he couldn't rely on the acoustics.

8. There is an island in the lake which has not been mentioned in a while. On this island is an Air Temple- as in, the kind of temple one sees used by the Air Nomads in Avatar: The Last Airbender- built entirely of beer and liquor bottles. This was the inspiration.

9. The grounds are home to red deer and roe deer, with a possibility of fallow deer being out there as well. There are a number of bears in the mountains that may be encountered either there or in the woods; Belar added them when he raised the mountains, because he's the Bear God, that's why.

10. The mountains have several streams and brooks that are populated with the species of fish one would expect of Scotland and/or parts of Scandinavia. At least one Alternian river serpent has also been found there, along with a flathead catfish in the lake and one memorable case of Bill Pardy (I think) catching Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish from the Simpsons.

11. If I remember correctly, somewhere on the grounds there may still be a stand of marijuana plants originally sowed by John Constantine. I have no idea if that persisted after the Allpocalypse or what using that weed would do.

[gredya]

Is "welcome to open a door and find any of the rooms or suites from the Madonna Inn" a threat? Because having looked at them I'm kind of terrified. And kind of tempted to drag Bossuet through Décor Hell.

[camwyn]

Threat, promise, clear violation of Skippy's List Rule #87 ("if the thought of something makes me giggle for more than fifteen seconds I am to assume I am not allowed to do it"), potato, potahto...

[gredya]

How do characters get bar jobs?

[camwyn]

Generally by talking to either Mike or Sallie; if they're looking for Security or stables-related jobs, by talking to Mel Fray or to whichever stable boss is available.

[1nv1nc1ble]

The sign that Teja posts on occasion of the full moon, warning of werewolves should be mentioned. And I thought that one of the Galactica pups had set up a pyramid court outside. Might be as overgrown as the baseball diamond.

Didn't Harry Wells have a heavy bag hanging outside? Or did that get moved inside to the gym?

[camwyn]

Harry did have a heavy bag. I'm not sure if it got moved or if it was destroyed in the Allpocalypse.

[bjornwilde]

Several people mentioned it in the backroom post that Autor-mun threw up before the character's EP, so I think it's a feature now. = ]

[genarti]

At one point before the Allpocalypse, one of the upstairs rooms was a dance studio/practice room. Not sure if that's still around, but I've occasionally been tempted to have either it or another similar room show up for fencing/martial arts/etc practice.

Waaaaaaay back in the day, some of the X-Wing pilots set up an upstairs room full of fancy sci-fi-type piloting simulators. I assume that vanished in the Allpocalypse if it hadn't done so long before, but I mention it in case anyone likes the idea and wants their character to find or make something of the sort.

...I think what this comes down to is that I would 100% believe that there's at least one Room of Requirement kicking around upstairs. Although nobody's ever millicanoned that as such to my knowledge, so this is brainstorming, not reminding.

[bjornwilde]

I love all of these points! And the idea of a Room of Requirement is likely a really good way of describing it. =)

[death_gone_mad]

Hmm, in addition to John Constantine's stand of marijuana plants somewhere out there, Amascut also bumped into a stand of (what she knows as) marrentil plants somewhere on the boundary of the forest and the Dreamtime.

... it might be the same stand of plants, it may not ...

Anyway, the stuff is like catnip for gods (her canon's gods at least, play with that as you wish) and being a responsible citizen she tried to burn it all down with predictable results. It has probably grown back.

As for jobs, after I get around to threading it, Amascut will need someone to tend to the cacao trees that she is about to bring in while she is away pretending to be a pirate.

[herr_bookman]

Awesome, this helps. Related to the jobs topic, Teja has suggested adding a list of current Security, infirmary, and stables members to the guide. Is there such a list available, or should I make one and post it for editing?

[1nv1nc1ble]

Would it be worth putting an entry about the Window? I know that the Rule of Funny states that anyone who's told not to look at the Window invariably will, but it strikes me as something that should be mentioned.

[herr_bookman]

Absolutely. There's a bit about the Window in the guide, but he can warn people off of it.

[guppy_sandhu]

There is definitely an infirmary list because we updated it earlier in the year, and I keep a work in progress copy of it here.

But definitely worth contacting people OOC first, because people have different fields/abilities/time zones.

[herr_bookman]

That's fantastic! Thank you so much. If you don't mind, I'll link to this as an appendix.

[is_the_motion]

Please do, then next time I mislay it I will be able to find it. :)

[runningred]

Jay's set himself up quite an extensive workshop in the garage and Olivier has a small herb garden that he tends with great care.