[Mkguild] Proposed redesign of the Mages' Guild Tower

[Ian Jones]

Ugghhh.... This makes my head hurt.

Ok, so when you would turn on to the vertical passages, would you have to step at a 90 degree angle (like place your foot up on the wall to re-orient yourself, and have a interesting moment when you are oriented in two directions at once)? Or would you just turn left and look through the door and see the floor continue unbroken but when you step through you're oriented so that up is sideways?

This whole blasted tower is just so hard to get a mental picture of.

Ian

>>> Kamau 08/23/10 6:48 PM >>> 
I did a quick read through of this discussion and have a possible 
suggestion that is KISS (as Ryx suggested) but also works with magic and 
Kyia's abilities. 

Why not have the halls running around the outside as Stealth show but 
every half or quarter way around the tower there be an intersection of 
hallways. Now rather then this being on the horizontal plane, as it 
would appear to a person walking the hall, it is actually on a vertical 
plane. 

Thus as you walk around the tower in say a clockwise direction you come 
to one such intersection and you turn right. You now walk 20 feet (or 
whatever the height is between floors) and you come to another 
intersection. If you turn left you would now be walking clockwise on 
the floor above where you made the first turn. Turning the opposite 
direction at the first turn would lead you down to the floor below. 

To someone walking what is actually the vertical hallways the walk would 
still appear to be a normal horizontal hall. Magic or Kyia are both 
quite capable of providing such a device. It would also be a nice 
little defense mechanism to be able to turn off the effect in the 
vertical hallway causing an attacker to free fall to the bottom of the 
tower. (Not to mention an evil prank for someone to play) 

Doing it this way would mean the tower has ring passageways on each 
floor and vertical passageways (2 or 4 of them depending on if they are 
half way or a quarter way around the tower) that connect the floors. 

This also might provide a solution to Matt's question about the practice 
room in "Never Again a Man". If the vertical hallways were at the 
cardinal points they could lead to the chamber buried deep beneath the 
tower. 

Just a though of a KISS solution that still holds to Stealth's design, 
at least in some ways. 

Kamau 


On 8/17/2010 10:44 PM, Stealth wrote: 
> http://stealthcat15.deviantart.com/#/d2wnm9z 
> 
> Idea carved out with Misha 
> 


 

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