| Warm, soothing goo surrounds your body. It's so hard to move, and impossible to think. You may not realize it yet, but you have been selected for the Crew of the Vesmir. Oh, sure, you may not be capable of anything good or wholesome, and fine, you not even know what space is, but that doesn't matter to your moon-sized captor. You have been chosen, stolen from the only home you have known, and are now forced to suffer the indignities only a ship of kobolds can provide. Perhaps it's not as serious as all that. Somewhere between the crystal spheres and the endless void of space drifts a giant, living, silent ship. The Vesmir. Home. Once you log in, this annoying block of text goes away: |
| The Library Description; Books, books, and more books. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 11 2009, 11:57 PM (105 Views) | |
| The Vesmir | Apr 11 2009, 11:57 PM Post #1 |
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The library is huge beyond words, but let us try to describe. The room is bright with something that seems like sunlight and feels massive. At the entrance, there is an open floor space the size of an American football field, filled with wooden(?) tables and chairs. Each chair has a kobold sitting at it, a book on their lap they look at, flipping pages occasionally. They write on another book on the table, scribbling furiously into it. Around the perimeter of this open space, there is a short set of steps leading up to the stacks. The first area is about ten feet above the floor, paneled in wood with railings and banisters. Flat pieces of metal and scrap have been laid over the stairs to allow for the trundling of the carts the gofer kobolds use to ship tomes back and forth. Except for the sound of little carts and the occasional scream from a climber, the library still has a hushed feel, and with the wood looking steps the stacks are on, has an almost university like feel. From the doorway, you can see the 8 foot wide stacks climb up to a ceiling made of light, disappearing to fine points at the top. The stacks stretch deeper into the room than you could ever possibly see, falling to points of brightness and gray into the distance. The books have been lovingly arranged by Sorts-By-Light by color and size, books sometimes stacked two on top of each other on the shelves. This gives a strange, rainbow feeling to the room, as books stripe in greens and the oranges, blues and reds, a myriad of browns flowing into pale pinks... It is lovely, in a way, as the colors go on for as far up and as far down as the eye can see. Note, though, the books are arranged by color and size, and little else has been done to distinguish one from another. The stacks are made of thick, wood colored material that, unlike the rest of the ship, look undamaged by time. Ropes lead down from the bright ceiling above, allowing adventurous kobolds to climb up to higher shelves. A few have pulley systems to allow for the carrying of more books, but most just have encumbered kobolds carrying the weight of the books on their backs. Some ropes go from stack to stack, and there is a network of barely bridges between the stacks. There are some spaces between stacks, making them into a skinny grid. Along the sides of the room, there are more steps leaning along the walls. Every 20 feet or so, they lead up to a walkway that rings the room. These steps and walkways go up as far as you can see. The walls, where there are not steps or floor, are also covered in books. It looks possible to climb the steps and walkways all the way into the top, though it wouldn't much help you reach the stacks. |
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| MEDUSA | Apr 17 2009, 05:11 AM Post #2 |
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