A view of the scene
[Note from the author: I'm on a really crappy connection here so i can't work with rich text, takes too much of my bandwith. I know it sounds crazy but that's hwo it is. And now, for todays update...]
Imagine this. As Cousken is leaving the room, our vision traces him to one of the exits. Upon reaching the end of the table, the camera looses interest in our protagonist and decides to show us the full of activity Dining Hall from the windows point of view.
The room is still brightly lit by the light coming in from behind us, revealing the busy mages going on with their routine, some of the living their lives in this very room. The students are studying or playing pranks on each other, and countless servants carry plates in and out. If you could feel it the aromas of countless meals would make you drool.
But our spunky camera doesn’t stop there, It moves backwards, passing magically thru the window of the Great Hall to show us the building from outside. As it slowly zooms out, we can see more and more detail of the Unseen University, brightly lit by the midday sun.
From the main building of the university small corridors and walls venture out to connect all the other outlying buildings. Many towers shoot out from between then and from their roofs. There is no point in paying attention to how many towers in particular, or indeed how many buildings are in fact connected to the main one, as the architecture may change overnight due to bursts of magical energy.
But some are far too important to be left unmentioned. The triangular rooftop of the library can be seen to the left, just next to the main building; a place of truly high density magic, storing countless of mortally dangerous books. Some say that tribes of lost student’s and mages endlessly wander therein, lost between the bookshelves and beyond in L-space.
To the right, we can see the peculiar dome the High Magic Facility. It is connected to the main body of the university by many pipes and tunnels, keeping quite a distance from all the other buildings. This is because it is more likely to explode any day now than any of the other ones.
Above all this the highest of the towers, the Tower of Art looms ominously with it’s murders of super intelligent crows circling the top of it. As our curious camera ventures up that very tower, letting us look down from it, we can see the pleasant gardens surrounding all of this, and the magically tainted grounds where no one dears to venture out in the back.
And yet that is not all, for when the camera goes even higher, we can see the wall surrounding the university, and beyond that the you-must-be-mad-to-call-it-beautiful city of Ankh-Morpork, a metropolis which millions of people love and live to hate. The river that slithers like a snake thru the middle of it divides the town into two. And as we are hit by the dreadful stench of all those people living without a sewage system, the light dims and time passes by rapidly…
Imagine this. As Cousken is leaving the room, our vision traces him to one of the exits. Upon reaching the end of the table, the camera looses interest in our protagonist and decides to show us the full of activity Dining Hall from the windows point of view.
The room is still brightly lit by the light coming in from behind us, revealing the busy mages going on with their routine, some of the living their lives in this very room. The students are studying or playing pranks on each other, and countless servants carry plates in and out. If you could feel it the aromas of countless meals would make you drool.
But our spunky camera doesn’t stop there, It moves backwards, passing magically thru the window of the Great Hall to show us the building from outside. As it slowly zooms out, we can see more and more detail of the Unseen University, brightly lit by the midday sun.
From the main building of the university small corridors and walls venture out to connect all the other outlying buildings. Many towers shoot out from between then and from their roofs. There is no point in paying attention to how many towers in particular, or indeed how many buildings are in fact connected to the main one, as the architecture may change overnight due to bursts of magical energy.
But some are far too important to be left unmentioned. The triangular rooftop of the library can be seen to the left, just next to the main building; a place of truly high density magic, storing countless of mortally dangerous books. Some say that tribes of lost student’s and mages endlessly wander therein, lost between the bookshelves and beyond in L-space.
To the right, we can see the peculiar dome the High Magic Facility. It is connected to the main body of the university by many pipes and tunnels, keeping quite a distance from all the other buildings. This is because it is more likely to explode any day now than any of the other ones.
Above all this the highest of the towers, the Tower of Art looms ominously with it’s murders of super intelligent crows circling the top of it. As our curious camera ventures up that very tower, letting us look down from it, we can see the pleasant gardens surrounding all of this, and the magically tainted grounds where no one dears to venture out in the back.
And yet that is not all, for when the camera goes even higher, we can see the wall surrounding the university, and beyond that the you-must-be-mad-to-call-it-beautiful city of Ankh-Morpork, a metropolis which millions of people love and live to hate. The river that slithers like a snake thru the middle of it divides the town into two. And as we are hit by the dreadful stench of all those people living without a sewage system, the light dims and time passes by rapidly…