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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 4982579" data-attributes="member: 23484"><p>Though most of the spectators are unaware, the floor to the arena is not solid. Solid timbers are supported on elaborate stonework arches that support the whole substructure where animals and gladiators are kept. From the subsurface chambers, with its cells, its stables, its public spaces where meals are served for the gladiators and those who endure their servitude without facing death quite so regularly -- from these spaces access to the arena itself is possible at either end. One can climb to ground level, stand in the antechamber (where the acoustics from the full arena echo so loud one can barely hear oneself think), and wait for the portcullis to rise. At the East end, Pirx can see the three gladiators, wearing new, special armour. </p><p></p><p>In addition, there are three lifts, where the floor can be lifted away (this takes eight men, or four ogres if there has been a hunt recently and the captives survived), and a large cage raised into the arena. It's not a practical access to the arena, though. </p><p></p><p>But there is also ventilation, puling fresh air to the substructure below, more than fifty vents that Pirx has discovered over the past few days. All leading to the arena, none to the outside. Around the oval perimeter of the sand, blended into the sculptural ornamentation, carved abstract representations of mythical battles of some imagined dragon past, these narrow openings seem constantly to breath -- a steady wind that represents the respiration from the world beneath the sand -- evidence that it is still alive, breathing, ever ready to serve, and to provide entertainment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kobold Stew, post: 4982579, member: 23484"] Though most of the spectators are unaware, the floor to the arena is not solid. Solid timbers are supported on elaborate stonework arches that support the whole substructure where animals and gladiators are kept. From the subsurface chambers, with its cells, its stables, its public spaces where meals are served for the gladiators and those who endure their servitude without facing death quite so regularly -- from these spaces access to the arena itself is possible at either end. One can climb to ground level, stand in the antechamber (where the acoustics from the full arena echo so loud one can barely hear oneself think), and wait for the portcullis to rise. At the East end, Pirx can see the three gladiators, wearing new, special armour. In addition, there are three lifts, where the floor can be lifted away (this takes eight men, or four ogres if there has been a hunt recently and the captives survived), and a large cage raised into the arena. It's not a practical access to the arena, though. But there is also ventilation, puling fresh air to the substructure below, more than fifty vents that Pirx has discovered over the past few days. All leading to the arena, none to the outside. Around the oval perimeter of the sand, blended into the sculptural ornamentation, carved abstract representations of mythical battles of some imagined dragon past, these narrow openings seem constantly to breath -- a steady wind that represents the respiration from the world beneath the sand -- evidence that it is still alive, breathing, ever ready to serve, and to provide entertainment. [/QUOTE]
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