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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 4033922" data-attributes="member: 54364"><p><strong>Say "No!" to siege mentality.</strong></p><p></p><p>Bugger this hide in a deep dark hole crap. If I'm an epic wizard then I've got epic cajones (not literally as I'm a female epic wizard.) I'm building for style. Now alignment has something to say in what this style is. Evil: you must have black. Fiery reds are good too. Good: then shining whites are unavoidable (but hard to keep clean.)</p><p></p><p>It really depends on what sort of epic wizard I am.</p><p></p><p>Were I a Dread Necromancer then black basalt is <em>de rigeour</em> (spelling?) Hollow out a mountain (having my undead minions do the grunt work) and shape the top of it like a grinning skull. Yeah it's been done before but it's a classic for a reason. I'd put a nice observatory in one eye socket (comfy sofas, karaoke bar, studdly zombie servants in loincloths) and a hangar/stable for my undead wyverns in the other. Entrance must be through the mouth!! (Except for the unguarded, secret entrance in the enormous sub-basement that I build for reasons inexplicable to me.)</p><p></p><p>Were I more of a summoner of terrible servants from the netherworld then over the top of a live volcano. The tower will be a sharp cylinder made from some black, unearthly metal suspended over the the centre of the crater by 3 long, elegant flying buttresses. The crenellations atop the spike will be razor sharp and decorated with servants who displease me. From this vantage I will watch as my demonic minions fly to do my bidding. A drawbridge can be extended, like some strange organic metal pseudopod, to allow my foot soldiers of darkness to march out and subdue the world. Ahhh, I can hear the tramp of cloven hooves on metal even now!</p><p></p><p>Both of the above must have a magic mirror in my private apartments. And it had better tell me I'm pretty if it knows what's good for it.</p><p></p><p>If I'm more of the Elemental Master then obviously I'd have to go with my element ie: the tower should be made from the element. For instance: water. I don't mean ice for water, I mean water. Probabaly some sort of super-strong surface tension and a general water bed effect. Oh and fishies (et.al.) swimming in the walls/floors. I'd put it on the sea (not an island, the sea!) so that I could cavort with my elemental friends and go to sleep listening to the merfolk's music (but I'd ban covers of Octopus's Garden.) There'd be no doors as such, to go from room to room you just have to push your way through the slight resistance of the walls. In the outer walls I'd put defensive spells like a dispel magic (targeted against water breathing magic) and a linked hold person.</p><p></p><p>If I'm Goodelf the White, all round doer of noble deeds and vanquisher of evil, then white marble. Shining white marble. There's just not a choice. An army of unseen servants will be on call just for cleaning purposes. (The battle against grime, like the battle against Evil, is never-ending!)* From an elegantly shaped balcony I shall look out smuggly over the world I have made safe with my extreme butinskiness. From here I shall listen to the petitions of the common folk and dispense my wisdom. There will be no other doors or windows (that look onto this world!) any who visit me shall be whisked into the cool, mosaicked interior by my teleportation magic. I'll have a copy of Keats <em>Ode on a Grecian Urn</em> spelt out in coloured tiles on the entry chamber floor and completely miss the meaning of it.</p><p></p><p>Will have to think more about the little details, like feeding folk and so forth.</p><p></p><p>* LG = OCD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 4033922, member: 54364"] [b]Say "No!" to siege mentality.[/b] Bugger this hide in a deep dark hole crap. If I'm an epic wizard then I've got epic cajones (not literally as I'm a female epic wizard.) I'm building for style. Now alignment has something to say in what this style is. Evil: you must have black. Fiery reds are good too. Good: then shining whites are unavoidable (but hard to keep clean.) It really depends on what sort of epic wizard I am. Were I a Dread Necromancer then black basalt is [I]de rigeour[/I] (spelling?) Hollow out a mountain (having my undead minions do the grunt work) and shape the top of it like a grinning skull. Yeah it's been done before but it's a classic for a reason. I'd put a nice observatory in one eye socket (comfy sofas, karaoke bar, studdly zombie servants in loincloths) and a hangar/stable for my undead wyverns in the other. Entrance must be through the mouth!! (Except for the unguarded, secret entrance in the enormous sub-basement that I build for reasons inexplicable to me.) Were I more of a summoner of terrible servants from the netherworld then over the top of a live volcano. The tower will be a sharp cylinder made from some black, unearthly metal suspended over the the centre of the crater by 3 long, elegant flying buttresses. The crenellations atop the spike will be razor sharp and decorated with servants who displease me. From this vantage I will watch as my demonic minions fly to do my bidding. A drawbridge can be extended, like some strange organic metal pseudopod, to allow my foot soldiers of darkness to march out and subdue the world. Ahhh, I can hear the tramp of cloven hooves on metal even now! Both of the above must have a magic mirror in my private apartments. And it had better tell me I'm pretty if it knows what's good for it. If I'm more of the Elemental Master then obviously I'd have to go with my element ie: the tower should be made from the element. For instance: water. I don't mean ice for water, I mean water. Probabaly some sort of super-strong surface tension and a general water bed effect. Oh and fishies (et.al.) swimming in the walls/floors. I'd put it on the sea (not an island, the sea!) so that I could cavort with my elemental friends and go to sleep listening to the merfolk's music (but I'd ban covers of Octopus's Garden.) There'd be no doors as such, to go from room to room you just have to push your way through the slight resistance of the walls. In the outer walls I'd put defensive spells like a dispel magic (targeted against water breathing magic) and a linked hold person. If I'm Goodelf the White, all round doer of noble deeds and vanquisher of evil, then white marble. Shining white marble. There's just not a choice. An army of unseen servants will be on call just for cleaning purposes. (The battle against grime, like the battle against Evil, is never-ending!)* From an elegantly shaped balcony I shall look out smuggly over the world I have made safe with my extreme butinskiness. From here I shall listen to the petitions of the common folk and dispense my wisdom. There will be no other doors or windows (that look onto this world!) any who visit me shall be whisked into the cool, mosaicked interior by my teleportation magic. I'll have a copy of Keats [I]Ode on a Grecian Urn[/I] spelt out in coloured tiles on the entry chamber floor and completely miss the meaning of it. Will have to think more about the little details, like feeding folk and so forth. * LG = OCD [/QUOTE]
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