Blackrock: The Lawless (Work in progress thread)

[Chimaera the Wise]

Nevermind these ramblings if you don't want to. I'm just trying to sort out some logistics for stuff... evil stuff.http://www.livejournal.com/users...30466.htmlI really need to fetch myself a scanner. Or a driver for the scanner I have.I'm drawing up maps for Gryphon's castle-hotel in Curragh, and it's really a pain etching them into gIMP, and I'm sure it'd be even more of a pain in Illustrator, 'cause it doesn't exactly have a coordinate system. I'm thinking maybe just 3d Modeling them, but the problem with that is that 3d models aren't easily exportable from 3dsmax except again via bitmaps, which again, are evil.What I have right now is a page of graph paper with a few floors traced, a couple sloppy isometrics, and labels as to what the rooms are "supposed" to be. I'm still not sure how to furnish them, though.I still think it amusing that Gryphon uses a crummy single-bed hotel room rather than the noble tower suite. I need to figure out who does use that room, tho'...Architecture really isn't my gig.Anyhow, the castle is built on a 20ft-ish cliff, facing Northeast. Despite being in the Northern Hemisphere, there are walls on the NW, SW, and SE sides blocking most of the Sun except in summer. The front building goes up to level with the cliff, creating a courtyard on its roof, with a single square tower in the center. Behind the tower is a large warehouse which serves dual use as a stable/garage and a storage house for the complex's kitchen in the bottom of the tower. It might have other uses, but I haven't yet found them.The second floor of the tower is a gathering room, intended for the resident noble's private parties. It has access to the courtyard via an outside stairway, but also has a large balcony which overlooks it. Above the gathering room via spiral stairwell is the master bedroom, which opens to a large garden terrace built right on the roof of the warehouse. It also has one large balcony overlooking the courtyard NE, and two small balconies on the East and West corners, with wide glass windows to let in the sunlight.The wall around the terrace is actually the main hotel corridor, which may or may not have doors leading out. I'm torn on deciding whether to make the terrace private to the noble only or not.I'm still not completely sure whether it was a castle or a hotel first. It really wouldn't make much sense for it to be a hotel, because it's got a rather crappy location, and is way too expensive to have been economically possible. But if it was a castle first, the architect was no doubt executed, likely in a painful manner. There is absolutely no line of defense between the walls and the noble tower. Everything is accessible from at least two different doors or stairwells, and it wouldn't take much to get from the cliff over the lower wall. Lalalalala. You must only try to realize the truth - There is no sig.

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