by J'anim Paedet » Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:56 pm
If we put stairs in the towers, there'd be no room left for people! I think the nexus should link directly to the towers. Perhaps they can function a bit like the Spyroom in Ae'gura? Maybe one of them could house a telescope for viewing the city, and the other a telescope for viewing the sky (depending, of course, on what we choose the sky to look like)?
As for the stairs, I'm going to try wrapping a spiral staircase around the outside of the 3rd pillar. Perhaps that will work, at least for the time being.
About the transparency issues: I'm making sure to test the objects in Uru to make sure they work before I completely construct them, so the glass should, in theory, work. I did a lot of transparent stuff in Terrati Lab (portholes, windows, and the like), and it worked just fine. And when I say "canal", I really mean something about (in Uru perspective) about 1' to 2' wide, not something on the scale of the actual city canals (just in case there was some confusion).
As to the nexus book... well, we could put a pedestal in the center of the glassed-over hexagonal water basin. But it probably would get in the way of speakers addressing the crowd in the theoretical bench area. Really, it depends on where the players link-in: upper or lower level?