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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 2685083" data-attributes="member: 32340">The Living Area"Quite so, sir."We walked to the last building.Just inside the wide doorway to this building was an expansive commons room with the remains of several tables and chairs about with ovens along the far wall.  Wide double doorways, again, with the doors rotted and in heaps rather than on the hinges, flanked the ovens, one on either end of the wall.  The ovens had been for heating the commons room, and on the other side, depending on what part of the wall, either heated the barracks or served for cooking in the kitchen.One doorway led to a barracks room that looked like it once housed four dozen men.  There were rotting footlockers and the usual detritus.  Built into two walls were fireplaces, the other sides of which led to the other two rooms of the building.Back in the main room, we went through the other doorway, where an enormous oven and scores of rusty iron bands amid copius sums of rat feces gave this area away as the kitchen.I straightened my waistcoat while poking with my cane at a pantry of soiled pottery and said, “Sir, why would the kitchen and barracks be in such unlivable conditions when there were obviously men here at some point?"  Seeing nothing of interest amid the pottery, I turned toward Dongle.  "Why not put effort, admittadly, much effort," I looked accusingly at the thousands of husks of insects floating in spiders' webs around the ceiling.  "into righting the place and give the workers a decent place to live while here?  Why leave such bedlam?”*     *     *Because I had trouble explaining this layout, despite its simplicity:<a href="http://img498.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blackkeepbuilding35pg.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/6100/blackkeepbuilding35pg.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></blockquote>

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