[I've got to start dying less. Really. Really, really! It is not just the incoveniency... Lives are getting expensive, and I'm always taking money out of the bank. And then there's all the trouble of having to spend some long time cruising the corridors and bookshelves of the Library... and such silly deaths too... The last one came from impacience: wanting to climb down faster the jewel tree in Skund forest, I ended up coming down faster than I'd like to...
Anyway, that's not the point, although death and corpses make a proper introduction for the following Order Room. In this case, those friendly cadaver-corroders and necromancers of the Midnights. Special thanks to Master Hitcher for the views - and to their Senior Wizard, Master Trident, for helping me the other day to some beautiful and dark nigromantic attire...]
Standing heavily in the centre of the room, a large slab of marble dominates. Around it sit a good many stools, positioned as if beckoning a mortician to observe whatever happens on the table. Hanging from the centre of the ceiling is a large swag-lamp which offers its light with infrequent flickers. There is a air of science and mystery hovering around the room. A bulletin board and a plaque are hanging from one of the walls.
A small octarine eye, hovering in the middle of the room, watches you.
There are three obvious exits: west, southwest and east.
look lamp: This is a light giving lamp which swings from the centre of the ceiling. It hangs from a chain that is connected in a few places to the ceiling thereby creating a "swag" effect.
l chain (in lamp): This is the chain that allows the lamp to swing from it.
l ceiling: The ceiling has been hammered from fine galvanized steel. From the centre, a swag-lamp is hanging.
l floor: The floor is comprised totally of surgical steel and is heavily ventilated, allowing any splatter from the marble slab to simply drain away. Despite this, it is perfectly sturdy and very capable of holding multiple wizards.
l walls: The walls have been forged from a type of stainless medical steel. They have been brushed to a smooth matte finish. They are so smooth, in fact, that if something were to splatter on the walls from the slab, it would melt right off and slip into the grates.
l stools: These are observation stools raised high enough that someone could easily sit and work on the marble slab. They have been constructed from stainless steel, in whole, and seem very uncomfortable.
l table: This is a table a little more than nine-feet in length and four-feet wide. The perfect size for a autopsy. It has been carved from fine white marble and features both a raised rim and a small drain. Along the head of the pallet is a tray for holding various tools of the trade as well as a neck rest just below it. At the foot of the bed is a disposal unit for discarding unneeded bits and pieces.
l rim: This is the outside lining of the marble slab. It has been carved this way to reduce the risk of fluid spillage.
l drain: his drain is located in the middle of the slab and allows for any fluid to drain away properly.
l tray in table: This is the head of the slab whereon a tray is set. There should be an assortment of tools laying here, however, there is seemingly no work that needs to be done, so the tools are missing. Just below this area is a neck rest which allows the spine to stay perfectly straight. It's not wise to ask why the corpse needs to be ... comfortable.
l neck rest: This is built into the slab in order to keep the participant's spine completely straight. We wouldn't want bad posture, now would we?
l disposal unit in table: Here, at the foot of the slab is a small opening through which extra bits and pieces might be tossed. The inside doesn't look to be very sanitary. There is the odd bit hanging around as if afraid to travel down its last path. Silliness, really. I mean it *is* dead, isn't it? What more could happen? There is also a small chest hidden just under the slab, here. No telling what *that* is used for.
l bits in disposal unit: This is a fresh head severed from the corpse of Fireclown. It seems to have been pickled. This is a single bit of the last person to use the slab. Or rather, be used on the slab. It appears to be a hand gripping to the last vestiges of hope. You could do your civic duty and push it the rest of the way down.
A small octarine eye, hovering in the middle of the room, watches you.
There are three obvious exits: west, southwest and east.
look lamp: This is a light giving lamp which swings from the centre of the ceiling. It hangs from a chain that is connected in a few places to the ceiling thereby creating a "swag" effect.
l chain (in lamp): This is the chain that allows the lamp to swing from it.
l ceiling: The ceiling has been hammered from fine galvanized steel. From the centre, a swag-lamp is hanging.
l floor: The floor is comprised totally of surgical steel and is heavily ventilated, allowing any splatter from the marble slab to simply drain away. Despite this, it is perfectly sturdy and very capable of holding multiple wizards.
l walls: The walls have been forged from a type of stainless medical steel. They have been brushed to a smooth matte finish. They are so smooth, in fact, that if something were to splatter on the walls from the slab, it would melt right off and slip into the grates.
l stools: These are observation stools raised high enough that someone could easily sit and work on the marble slab. They have been constructed from stainless steel, in whole, and seem very uncomfortable.
l table: This is a table a little more than nine-feet in length and four-feet wide. The perfect size for a autopsy. It has been carved from fine white marble and features both a raised rim and a small drain. Along the head of the pallet is a tray for holding various tools of the trade as well as a neck rest just below it. At the foot of the bed is a disposal unit for discarding unneeded bits and pieces.
l rim: This is the outside lining of the marble slab. It has been carved this way to reduce the risk of fluid spillage.
l drain: his drain is located in the middle of the slab and allows for any fluid to drain away properly.
l tray in table: This is the head of the slab whereon a tray is set. There should be an assortment of tools laying here, however, there is seemingly no work that needs to be done, so the tools are missing. Just below this area is a neck rest which allows the spine to stay perfectly straight. It's not wise to ask why the corpse needs to be ... comfortable.
l neck rest: This is built into the slab in order to keep the participant's spine completely straight. We wouldn't want bad posture, now would we?
l disposal unit in table: Here, at the foot of the slab is a small opening through which extra bits and pieces might be tossed. The inside doesn't look to be very sanitary. There is the odd bit hanging around as if afraid to travel down its last path. Silliness, really. I mean it *is* dead, isn't it? What more could happen? There is also a small chest hidden just under the slab, here. No telling what *that* is used for.
l bits in disposal unit: This is a fresh head severed from the corpse of Fireclown. It seems to have been pickled. This is a single bit of the last person to use the slab. Or rather, be used on the slab. It appears to be a hand gripping to the last vestiges of hope. You could do your civic duty and push it the rest of the way down.
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Winswand says...
Two things to add. The first one is that, as you probably noticed, this room description is the most complete up to date. That wasn't only the result of my zeal for details. It too both me and Master Hitcher a great deal of time and looking to find the secret door to the bar...
Second, I'd also like to include Fireclown in the chapter of acknowledgements, as he kindly offered to show me the room (but my curiosity got me another Midnight before he returned) and, in a way, was present with his pickled head during the search (very proper ideed! These midnighters...).
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