29. Complexities of Enlightenment

There was this horrible accident in the Steambaths! The machines that are being cooled by the Steambaths overheated and the whole bath was *boiling*! Luckily Xanders and the Firemen got there in time before more people died! Five didn't make it, though, and a whole 15 people were burned up bad...
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The Fire Brigade with some engineers from various rings are investigating the accident. I wonder what they'll find out... So far it seems it was nothing but a malfunction in the machinery.
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Six people were found dead and four wounded in the Canyon ledge near the Recspace entrance! They had been shot in the head, all of them!
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Sinuhe and Andrea are fighting over Mira of The Scholars now. I hear they had a real loud exchange outside McGregor's appartment today. What's the deal with these people? Can't they see how irrelevant such things are?
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Did you know Mike has converted to The One Faith? They had his ceremony this very morning.
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Theodore of The Horizon has really been on the edge lately...
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What are the TSR up to *now*?

Lockerhalls

A Lockerhall is a more or less square-shaped room. It consists of 2 levels. There is the ground level (a flat floor) and the upper level (a bridge that runs square across the room). The room is about 20 by 20 meters long and wide. It’s about 15 meters high. The walls are lined with rectangular lockers that are slightly wider than the average person, but not quite as high as a person, and about 2 arms-lengths deep. There are also some bigger, and some smaller, storage spaces along the walls. Some of the lockers have locks, but not all of them. Many people have taken the habit of making a personal locker out of one of the empty ones by simply placing a lock on it.

Ground level has 2 openings into corridors. Both corridors lead out to hubs, more corridors, or a floatbed chamber. Right outside the Lockerhall, the corridor branches off straight to the side (along the wall of the Lockerhall, really, only outside of it) and leads upwards at an angle (on both corridors). If you follow it up, you will reach the bridge that makes up the second level of the Lockerhall. If the ground-floor openings are located North and South (so to speak. They are located opposite eachother), then the bridge runs across the room from East to West. The bridge is about 2 meters wide. There are also several larger and smaller loose storage crates scattered across the Lockerhall floor.

Most everything is made of metal.

There are two Lockerhalls. Lockerhall Alpha has but one corridor leading to it (although it still has 2 ground floor corridor openings, the second one leads only straight upwards to the side, to the bridge), while Lockerhall Beta has two.

28. The Tailoring of Turncoats

I don't really like those Da Vincians? I mean, they're always like they're better than everyone else just because they were the first ring of second generation colonists.
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Well, I kind of like that Wacko guy, though. Relaxed fellow, not too many worries.

Not too many worries indeed... I heard he once ventured into the floatbed shafts to fix something - without bothering to ask TSR to halt the floatbed traffic! Almost got himself splattered againt the wall!
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I think McGregor is great. He might be a little strange at times, but at least he doesn't let his ring get messed up in politics like the rest of them.
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Wait. Was that Andrea entering McGregors appartment with Ami following?
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I heard the Lurkers attacked someone again! This time at the Shaft!
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Did you hear the Lurkers have started killing again? They killed Iwo, of the Stalwart. You can ask Zeven, Ishi, or Andrea, they say it was them who found him.
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There's this strange device in the AI Core near the Silo. I wonder what it does...
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The Chimbots are really kind of cute, don't you think?
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I heard McGregor has three modules worth of this... lore of his.
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Look at that Mara! What vanity!
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The Tubelift Central sure is empty these days. I guess all the machines are so beyond repair nobody bothers... yesterday, when I passed by, I saw only four people altogether.
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Sinuhe really should stick to his mathematics...

A floatbed chamber (there are two identical ones, named Floatbedchamber Alpha, and Beta)

The floatbed columns of Floatbed Chamber A are connected all the way down to the Speedgrowth Chambers while those in Floatbed Chamber B are a part of a separate, smaller system.
Circular room, but it only makes half a circle. Along the outer wall is a sort of broad corridor, into which the floatbed access doors open. There are six such doors in the inner wall, each corresponding to a floatbed column. Floatbeds are stacked like columns, and transported to the floatbed chambers when someone needs to get in or out. (See here for a floatbed: http://polygonpoop.dk/2007/05/seed-inte … ntent.html . Then imagine countless of those stacked along a pillar, in columns, pointing outwards so to speak, transported along something like a rails, a piece of which you can see in that picture too).

When you step out of a floatbed, out of the door, into the floatbed chamber, you will find yourself standing in the broad corridor that runs in half a circle, at the inner wall of it. Opposite you is the outer wall, which is slightly longer than the inner wall, of course. In the outer wall are 3 corridor openings into the rest of Recspace. They lead to hubs that will lead to locker halls, the other floatbed chamber, more hubs, a radlock to the Canyon, and the Garden (with another radlock to the Canyon right next to it). The 3 openings are located at the start and end of the half-circle corridor, and one just about right in the middle. Pathfinders are located above each corridor leading out, stating one or more of the other things that corridor leads to, although all of Recspace is more or less connected in more than one way, and there are usually at least two routes to any location (apart from Lockerhall Alpha, which has only one corridor leading to it). The Pathfinders work through your necklink, the locations are not actually written on the sign as such.

Most everything is made of various metals.

The length of the chamber, measured along the outer wall, is approximately 80 meters.

The floatbeds themselves are filled with a liquid. Seedlings sleep in them, are healed in them, TAU maintains their health and body in them.

For those who don't know the game rules, here is a version.

OK, will add Mehken to the list of maybies.

Edited some more details into the ring descriptions (organizational structures, forming dates etc). The attitude on multiring membership will probably be removed due to negative feedback on the idea.

That's why it would be a change.:) (I think this game should be more about recognition and less about sporting your obscureness and google fu.)

Due to several other things fighting for my time next Sunday, we can't play at the date. Saturday, usual time?

Another testing session on Wednesday 5.9. at 18:00 CEST. Everyone welcome! I think we'll be able to play a full-scale game this time, provided we get a lot of players!