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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4482808" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p><strong>Cobblestop and Doddoddod's Tower</strong></p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC - If you're not Palindrome]If you're not Palindrome you may still know the things in the Palindrome spoiler boxes. He just definitely knows them, and I don't have time to come up with better titles.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Doddoddod's tower stoops commandingly over the entryway of <em>Cobblestop</em>, the arcanists ward of the city. </p><p></p><p>A simple arch denotes the beginning of the neighborhood; below the arch <em>Clackers Run</em> cascades down the hill, a host of small tradesmen sell a variety of unusual goods brought from around the world to nobles with more money and sense. </p><p></p><p>Above the arch <em>Clackers Ru</em>n turns into <em>Magi Walk</em> for about 30 meters before running into the tower's front door and splitting into <em>Sinister</em> (which heads left toward the apothecaries, herbalists, and fortunetellers) and <em>Dexter </em>(which curves right toward <em>Scholar's Plaza </em>with it's scribes, linguists, loremasters and sages).</p><p>[sblock=Palindrome]Everyone insists that Magi Walk is not called Magi Walk because most wizards can only make it 30 meters up the steep slope before they start wheezing and need to stop for a break.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Magi Walk itself features almost a dozen shops with comfortable chairs both inside and out that serve tea, coffee along with cakes and sweets. More exotic drinks from around the Shifting Seas are available, but the shops strictly obey Cobblestone's prohibition on alchohol.</p><p>[sblock=No drinking for wizards]This prohibition, naturally, doesn't apply in peoples homes.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Above it all looms the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/../wiki/index.php/L4W:Daunton#The_Shattered_Spire" target="_blank">Shattered Spire</a> at the highest point of the hill that makes up <em>Cobblestop</em>. The shattered loops of stone a testament to the terrible troubles that beset the city only a year ago. </p><p></p><p>[sblock=Palindrome]10 years ago this was the cheapest tower in the neighborhood; and the only one Dod*3 could afford. While the wealthy visiting the tower think it's quite an impressive location Dauntonian wizards very much prefer the back streets.</p><p></p><p>(You could have gotten a wonderful house with a lovely private guarden for a fraction of the price, of course, but it had to be a tower).[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Doddoddod's tower is an impressive affair. All told there are almost 30 rooms of various sizes, each room as a theme and Doddoddod uses them on a rotating basis informed by his intensive studies of astrology and the fates.</p><p>[sblock=Palindrome]He moves around the tower a lot, more or less at random. One days he's sleeping on the 3rd floor, in the Sylvan Room, the next on the 1st Floor in the Room of Long Grasses. </p><p></p><p>You've noticed that the fates seem to be very insistent about his sleeping in the Oak room above the kitchen during the coldest nights of the year. The fact that this is the warmest room in the house is surely a coincidence.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>There are no servants in the tower. Everything, from the heating of the water for baths to the impressive booming doorbell that rings out when someone touches the knocker on the front door, is accomplished by magic. There are even certain rituals and items in the kitchen that allow the preparation of specific foods.</p><p>[sblock=Palindrome]He spent six months getting his "egg poaching ritual" right. He won't tell you how much he spent but you're sure it was a lot. </p><p></p><p>If anything happened to the little <a href="http://www.factsfacts.com/EggCups/EggCupEaten.jpg" target="_blank">egg cup</a> that powers the whole thing you think he might suffer some kind of psychotic fit.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4482808, member: 3087"] [b]Cobblestop and Doddoddod's Tower[/b] [sblock=OOC - If you're not Palindrome]If you're not Palindrome you may still know the things in the Palindrome spoiler boxes. He just definitely knows them, and I don't have time to come up with better titles.[/sblock] Doddoddod's tower stoops commandingly over the entryway of [I]Cobblestop[/I], the arcanists ward of the city. A simple arch denotes the beginning of the neighborhood; below the arch [I]Clackers Run[/I] cascades down the hill, a host of small tradesmen sell a variety of unusual goods brought from around the world to nobles with more money and sense. Above the arch [I]Clackers Ru[/I]n turns into [I]Magi Walk[/I] for about 30 meters before running into the tower's front door and splitting into [I]Sinister[/I] (which heads left toward the apothecaries, herbalists, and fortunetellers) and [I]Dexter [/I](which curves right toward [I]Scholar's Plaza [/I]with it's scribes, linguists, loremasters and sages). [sblock=Palindrome]Everyone insists that Magi Walk is not called Magi Walk because most wizards can only make it 30 meters up the steep slope before they start wheezing and need to stop for a break.[/sblock] Magi Walk itself features almost a dozen shops with comfortable chairs both inside and out that serve tea, coffee along with cakes and sweets. More exotic drinks from around the Shifting Seas are available, but the shops strictly obey Cobblestone's prohibition on alchohol. [sblock=No drinking for wizards]This prohibition, naturally, doesn't apply in peoples homes.[/sblock] Above it all looms the [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/../wiki/index.php/L4W:Daunton#The_Shattered_Spire"]Shattered Spire[/URL] at the highest point of the hill that makes up [I]Cobblestop[/I]. The shattered loops of stone a testament to the terrible troubles that beset the city only a year ago. [sblock=Palindrome]10 years ago this was the cheapest tower in the neighborhood; and the only one Dod*3 could afford. While the wealthy visiting the tower think it's quite an impressive location Dauntonian wizards very much prefer the back streets. (You could have gotten a wonderful house with a lovely private guarden for a fraction of the price, of course, but it had to be a tower).[/sblock] Doddoddod's tower is an impressive affair. All told there are almost 30 rooms of various sizes, each room as a theme and Doddoddod uses them on a rotating basis informed by his intensive studies of astrology and the fates. [sblock=Palindrome]He moves around the tower a lot, more or less at random. One days he's sleeping on the 3rd floor, in the Sylvan Room, the next on the 1st Floor in the Room of Long Grasses. You've noticed that the fates seem to be very insistent about his sleeping in the Oak room above the kitchen during the coldest nights of the year. The fact that this is the warmest room in the house is surely a coincidence. [/sblock] There are no servants in the tower. Everything, from the heating of the water for baths to the impressive booming doorbell that rings out when someone touches the knocker on the front door, is accomplished by magic. There are even certain rituals and items in the kitchen that allow the preparation of specific foods. [sblock=Palindrome]He spent six months getting his "egg poaching ritual" right. He won't tell you how much he spent but you're sure it was a lot. If anything happened to the little [URL="http://www.factsfacts.com/EggCups/EggCupEaten.jpg"]egg cup[/URL] that powers the whole thing you think he might suffer some kind of psychotic fit.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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