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daemonmuses2012-02-12 11:28 am
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The Blur Building
You've come to a lake today. Perhaps on purpose, perhaps by accident- it's up to you. The lake's a broad, still body of water, its dark bluegreen surface a deeper contrast to the cloudless sky above. A fence-sided pathway leads out across the surface to a nebulous structure of rectilinear struts and diagonal rods cantilevered over the water.
Nebulous is most assuredly the word for it, too- the struts and rods are nothing more than a skeleton to fog, a building of sorts constructed entirely of half-anchored cloud and steam three hundred feet wide and sixty-five feet high. The approach is a damp one, as the building of fog replenishes itself by drawing a constant stream of fine mist from the lake below even as the upper reaches drift off onto the wind. Not to worry, though. The four hundred foot long ramp that leads from the pathway up to the heart of the cloud-building has a booth at the very bottom which offers coats to the visitors, protective clothing of neutral color and cut. The coats shift slowly in color and intensity as the wearers come into proximity with other visitors, apparently indicating some kind of personality compatibility- or not. There's no sign up to explain that, so it's hard to say.
Inside the cloud building are rooms of white noise and white-out conditions, or rooms in which the visitor can look down at vistas all over the world and receive the view they would from a passing cloud. There's an area called the Angel Bar, as well, which purports to offer water from everywhere on Earth- among other things. There's even a string of rooms that seem to provide the experience of passing through the clouds of other planets, or interstellar nebulae somewhere, if one is equipped to recognize the experience.
Come, visit. You can return home any time you like.
[OOC: setting taken from the 2002 Swiss Expo in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.]
Nebulous is most assuredly the word for it, too- the struts and rods are nothing more than a skeleton to fog, a building of sorts constructed entirely of half-anchored cloud and steam three hundred feet wide and sixty-five feet high. The approach is a damp one, as the building of fog replenishes itself by drawing a constant stream of fine mist from the lake below even as the upper reaches drift off onto the wind. Not to worry, though. The four hundred foot long ramp that leads from the pathway up to the heart of the cloud-building has a booth at the very bottom which offers coats to the visitors, protective clothing of neutral color and cut. The coats shift slowly in color and intensity as the wearers come into proximity with other visitors, apparently indicating some kind of personality compatibility- or not. There's no sign up to explain that, so it's hard to say.
Inside the cloud building are rooms of white noise and white-out conditions, or rooms in which the visitor can look down at vistas all over the world and receive the view they would from a passing cloud. There's an area called the Angel Bar, as well, which purports to offer water from everywhere on Earth- among other things. There's even a string of rooms that seem to provide the experience of passing through the clouds of other planets, or interstellar nebulae somewhere, if one is equipped to recognize the experience.
Come, visit. You can return home any time you like.
[OOC: setting taken from the 2002 Swiss Expo in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.]