So... we are back! After a month-long retirement due to Roundworld travelling in the Baltic, Winswand returns to the Discworld and also to his magic Grimoire. Continuing with the series dedicated to order rooms, today we show you the Hoodwinker hole, with special thanks to the kind collaboration of master Positrix Stormcrow, at the time of enquiry (and probably, still now), the Senior Wizard of his Order...
This room seems to be more of a sphere than one of the more mundane, box-like rooms found Discwide. The walls, though certainly wooden, have been polished to a perfect sheen, like that found inside the mother of pearl. Sitting in the middle of the sphere is a fountain; the water shoots up towards the centre of the great globe. Around this waterworks, two hemispheres have been constructed from petrified wood and carved to resemble benches.
A small octarine eye, hovering in the middle of the room, watches you.
There are three obvious exits: north, east and south.
Room emotes: The basin full of illusions swirls and shimmers ever so subtly before returning to normal. / The shadow of a bulletin board sneaks to the other side of the fountain. / The walls around you shimmer for a moment. / A faintly glowing bulletin board phases in and out of reality.
l walls: The walls are strangely pearlescent. It's almost as if they've been carved from some deep dwelling mother of pearl.
l globe / sphere: Just type "look", silly.
l fountain: The fountain is unlike any other you've ever seen. On closer inspection, it's easy to see that it's not running water at all, but a constant stream of different shapes and objects shoots out of the top and falls into the basin below. The colors are all bright and unrealistic. This must be evidence of the talented illusionists of the Order. A small plaque is mounted to the side of the fountain.
l water: On closer examination, the realisation strikes that the fountain is not, in fact, running water but running illusions instead.
l hemispheres / l benches: These two benches are either half of what was once a mighty redwood tree. Each part has been separated and carved so as to resemble a couple of benches. The variegation of the wood lends to a most fanciful array of rust-like colours which swirl and twine together. A large chest is tucked neatly away under the bench.
l basin: Oddly enough, the basin doesn't seem to have a bottom at all. Instead, the liquid that should be pooling up here for the fountain to use forms a type of stairwell leading down. You could possibly enter the basin and follow the stairs down if you'd like.
l illusions/objects/shapes: These are merely figments of your imagination.
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