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<blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 3950156" data-attributes="member: 48762"><p>Whirtlestaffs is located in a very large, square, squat building. It originated several centuries ago as a classic wizard's tower, but outgrew its space, and additions and new wings kept popping up until a limit was finally imposed. Then, it became a perfect cube, 500 feet by 500 feet by 500 feet, quite coincidentally, the exact limitations for the Academy that had been established by the city fathers. Some claim that WWA actually exceeds those limitations by the use of extradimensional space, pocket planes, gates, and ethereal portals. In their defense, Academy officials simply offer their critics a certified measuring stick and tell them to proceed to measure the outer boundaries. There is no claim made that the INNER dimensions equal the outer dimensions, rather, officials simply say, "Pish Posh," or some similar phrase of dismissal.</p><p></p><p>WWA consists of the aforementioned cubescent building, which has seven floors. The first floor is comprised of the Academy's administrative offices, examination rooms, interview rooms (for prospective employers to conduct interviews of students), and what is commonly referred to as The Vestibule. [The Vestibule is a series of rooms where those inside Academy premises are "cleansed," or "de-magicked" (or as some of the more cynical professors say, "disenchanted") of magical residues before leaving campus.] Near the exit door, the Academy has a very prominent sign that proudly states, "Whirtlestaffs is proud to have achieved 100% Dweomer Containment for the past ____ Days." The blank is the location where wooden numbers are affixed to the wall, and it is the task of Jerabewal (JERROB-YULE), the Chief Custodian/Night Watchman to maintain the correct number on the sign. Currently, the number stands at 684: it's been almost two whole years since that unfortunate business with the City Councilmen sprouting jackass ears right there in the middle of the Mayor's inaugural address. (Damned shame, that!) Immediately above the first floor is, you guessed it, the second floor, which consists of student dormitories. The third floor is also student dormitories, but is reserved for upperclassmen nearing graduation, and graduate students. The fourth floor is a mix of classrooms, libraries, and laboratories. The fifth is almost completely taken up by an extensive library, but has a couple of the more advanced classrooms and laboratories, also. The sixth is faculty housing, for those professors who choose to remain on campus when they are not actually performing professorial duties, and the seventh, well, no one can really say about the seventh floor. Students are forbidden to even approach the stairs leading to the seventh floor. And, incidentally, there would seem to be no way for the seven stories to take up ALL of 500 feet, and yet the view from the sixth floor windows seems to give the appearance of actually being from an altitude of <em>greater</em> that 500 feet. Most peculiar....</p><p></p><p>We now proceed into one of the Common Rooms of the Upperclassman's Dormitory Floor (the third floor) where we join Tylara (Delunamanth Tylarapelotheenia) and Durgeon Firebelly having one of their ubiquitous debates about racial relations. (Tylara usually wins these debates, because, like most females, she is usually more prepared to escalate the debate into out-and-out bloodletting.) Let's listen in....</p><p></p><p>(Other students are arriving and leaving in a fairly constant stream, as classes have just dismissed for the day. All players should enter and either choose a side of the debate to support, work on your homework, read the campus paper, or however else you choose to occupy your time.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leif, post: 3950156, member: 48762"] Whirtlestaffs is located in a very large, square, squat building. It originated several centuries ago as a classic wizard's tower, but outgrew its space, and additions and new wings kept popping up until a limit was finally imposed. Then, it became a perfect cube, 500 feet by 500 feet by 500 feet, quite coincidentally, the exact limitations for the Academy that had been established by the city fathers. Some claim that WWA actually exceeds those limitations by the use of extradimensional space, pocket planes, gates, and ethereal portals. In their defense, Academy officials simply offer their critics a certified measuring stick and tell them to proceed to measure the outer boundaries. There is no claim made that the INNER dimensions equal the outer dimensions, rather, officials simply say, "Pish Posh," or some similar phrase of dismissal. WWA consists of the aforementioned cubescent building, which has seven floors. The first floor is comprised of the Academy's administrative offices, examination rooms, interview rooms (for prospective employers to conduct interviews of students), and what is commonly referred to as The Vestibule. [The Vestibule is a series of rooms where those inside Academy premises are "cleansed," or "de-magicked" (or as some of the more cynical professors say, "disenchanted") of magical residues before leaving campus.] Near the exit door, the Academy has a very prominent sign that proudly states, "Whirtlestaffs is proud to have achieved 100% Dweomer Containment for the past ____ Days." The blank is the location where wooden numbers are affixed to the wall, and it is the task of Jerabewal (JERROB-YULE), the Chief Custodian/Night Watchman to maintain the correct number on the sign. Currently, the number stands at 684: it's been almost two whole years since that unfortunate business with the City Councilmen sprouting jackass ears right there in the middle of the Mayor's inaugural address. (Damned shame, that!) Immediately above the first floor is, you guessed it, the second floor, which consists of student dormitories. The third floor is also student dormitories, but is reserved for upperclassmen nearing graduation, and graduate students. The fourth floor is a mix of classrooms, libraries, and laboratories. The fifth is almost completely taken up by an extensive library, but has a couple of the more advanced classrooms and laboratories, also. The sixth is faculty housing, for those professors who choose to remain on campus when they are not actually performing professorial duties, and the seventh, well, no one can really say about the seventh floor. Students are forbidden to even approach the stairs leading to the seventh floor. And, incidentally, there would seem to be no way for the seven stories to take up ALL of 500 feet, and yet the view from the sixth floor windows seems to give the appearance of actually being from an altitude of [i]greater[/i] that 500 feet. Most peculiar.... We now proceed into one of the Common Rooms of the Upperclassman's Dormitory Floor (the third floor) where we join Tylara (Delunamanth Tylarapelotheenia) and Durgeon Firebelly having one of their ubiquitous debates about racial relations. (Tylara usually wins these debates, because, like most females, she is usually more prepared to escalate the debate into out-and-out bloodletting.) Let's listen in.... (Other students are arriving and leaving in a fairly constant stream, as classes have just dismissed for the day. All players should enter and either choose a side of the debate to support, work on your homework, read the campus paper, or however else you choose to occupy your time.) [/QUOTE]
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