Deidal's Place
So, Remy's been trying to get me [Deidal] to write more about innerverse stuff for the collective, as well as internal shit with me personally. e.x Yaay.
So I figure to ease into this process, I could start off with talking about something nice and familiar and controllable and neutral. Which would be the main visitor floor of my tower in the Multiplex, which doesn't really have much of an official name because I've yet to bother coming up with one, so at the moment it's just referred to as "Deidal's place."
I'm working on a picture of the layout of my place, maybe I'll come edit this and insert it when it's done. Or maybe I'll upload a WIP screenshot or something, who knows.
I designed it in mid-to-late 2012, after CJ and Session came to see me in the swamp, which I'm not getting into yet because that is semi-familiar and semi-controllable but definitely not nice or neutral. But I needed a place to hang around and entertain visitors when I saw fit - aka somewhere I could watch TV and browse the internet, and where some of the younger folks could feel comfortable hanging out, under my watch so I could guarantee the safety of the place.
So, I looked at CJ's half-finished rough draft for an internal structure called The Multiplex. Pun intended lolol et cetera. It's basically five very tall cylindrical towers arranged pentagonally, with some walkways connecting them in various ways. I claimed one of the towers, because me, and finalized the design for the overall Multiplex.
One of the walkways between the towers connects to mine toward the middle, and the floor it leads to is the aforementioned "Deidal's place." To the right of the entrance doors is what's generally known as "the laptop lounge," which is basically structured like one of those sunken living room kinda things from the 70s or whenever those were popular, except with a rounded sound-muffling purple-tinted force-field over the top of it.
There are some laptops for use in there, and the main purpose of it is to be a quiet non-sensory-overload-inducing environment: dimly-lit, very little if any sound, soft comfortable seating, et cetera. It's also particularly useful these days for Renata to hang out in there when she doesn't want to listen to me talk about something else in other parts of the room [that tower floor is all open like one of those apartments, lofts I think?, so I may use "floor" and "room" interchangeably], letting us stay in the same area without her having to actually listen in on certain things.
To the left of the entrance doors is the general hang-out area, with my armchair, the shorter couch, and the longer couch. Their design is based off of some furniture we used to have in the outerverse, but father dearest ruined the outerverse ones. e.x Woo.
And over there is also my giant-ass TV, because fuck yeah if I'm gonna actually focus on designing myself a hang-out place inside you can bet it's gonna have a giant fucking TV.
Directly across from the entrance doors, on the other side of the floor/room, is the Suggestions list. It's basically a flat-screen TV on the wall with some seating on the floor around it, and a laptop for visitors to input new suggestions. I didn't want to have any actual "rules" policing anyone's conduct, but I did still want to promote a less-than-hostile environment, so when I first put up the list in 2012, the only suggestion was: "Don't be a complete asshole all the time." Coming up on three years later, it's still the only one on the list.
There are also two doors over there, one on either side of the suggestion input area. [Portal-doors are a common staple of transportation within our innerverse, thanks primarily to American McGee's Alice.] The one on the left goes up or down to other floors within my tower, and it's restricted access, which means I'm currently the only one who can use it, because the other stuff in my tower isn't generally anything that anyone else needs to get involved in.
The one on the right is labeled Elsewhere, and goes, predictably, elsewhere - either to other parts of the Multiplex, or to one of the other areas of the innerverse aside from the Multiplex.
Uh.. I think that's about it, actually. The color scheme of the place is mostly just shades of purple at the moment, because I haven't really bothered with going hardcore mode on the interior design palette, so there isn't much to say about that.. Yeah, I guess that's all for now. Maybe later I'll do another post about some other place in the innerverse, who knows.