I was wandering around exploring the bright beautiful world we have when I ran across a description that was, well, damn awesome.
Park Street
[Freezing, snowing, strong winds from the north, morning]
The transition into the Southside proper is gradual, like a body
decomposing. Here, at its edge, the road begins to lose cohesion; the
paving stones are partially absent and partially broken, revealing the dirt
below. Darkness rules at nighttime, the lighting dim and insufficient.
Candle flames flicker against dull wooden buildings, their surface
splintered by age and unlivened even by paint. To the south, Park Street
ends at the dirt path of Penitent Way.
So, my question to you is; what are the most awesome descs you've found in your travels of Lithmore and its surrounds?
Your Favorite Rooms
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE THE HEDGE MAZE. IT IS TERRIBLE.
I love pretty much all of the Vavardi Quarter... there's nowhere else on the grid with such density of neat items, extra descriptions, cool mobs, mobprogs, etc.
Out of the major areas in town, I'll admit I love Southside the most. The Stardust Dance Hall is one of my favorite places on grid, not even because the desc is particularly eloquent but because the mental image to me is of a rather shabby place that has a kind of sad attempt at grandeur to it in the candles.
Stardust Dance Hall
[Frigid]
The first and most immediate impression of this cavernous room is
darkness. The walls are all painted black, and the carpeted half of the
floor matches. The scuffed, dinged wood that makes up the dancefloor is
not much lighter, perhaps ancient nightpine worn grey from use. Up above,
long cords hang candles in shallow dishes like suspended stars, providing
only dim illumination diffused upward and outward. Scattered tables in the
back of the room provide points of privacy, including a handful of booths
with torn but soft padding. North, a door exits onto the dirt path of
Penitent Way.
I love pretty much all of the Vavardi Quarter... there's nowhere else on the grid with such density of neat items, extra descriptions, cool mobs, mobprogs, etc.
Out of the major areas in town, I'll admit I love Southside the most. The Stardust Dance Hall is one of my favorite places on grid, not even because the desc is particularly eloquent but because the mental image to me is of a rather shabby place that has a kind of sad attempt at grandeur to it in the candles.
Stardust Dance Hall
[Frigid]
The first and most immediate impression of this cavernous room is
darkness. The walls are all painted black, and the carpeted half of the
floor matches. The scuffed, dinged wood that makes up the dancefloor is
not much lighter, perhaps ancient nightpine worn grey from use. Up above,
long cords hang candles in shallow dishes like suspended stars, providing
only dim illumination diffused upward and outward. Scattered tables in the
back of the room provide points of privacy, including a handful of booths
with torn but soft padding. North, a door exits onto the dirt path of
Penitent Way.
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Onyxsoulle
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Okay, I came across this in a room that will remain unnamed, but I loved the mood. Seems to qualify.
(A dried streak of blood leads from the eastern wing into this room.
Multiple pools of blood(all dry from the time that has elapsed) are
scattered about the room. Some of the dried pools look as if they were
dipped into when they were fresh, done in a manner reminiscent of a scribe
dipping into ink. Some pools have obviously been used as a source of
nutrients till they dried, as no food or water has been brought in. One
particularly large dried pool has had each of the Davite prayers scratched
into it. In the back corner, a mound of clothing has been turned into a
latrine, a piece of cloth covers the top, but the smell has permeated the
room. On one wall, a series of apologies are written in blood, most to
someone named -name edited-, some to -name edited-. On another wall, a crude drawing
in blood depicts a small stick figure riding a large stick horse. The last
wall to be used as a canvas drawn in blood bears a carefully drawn
tombstone. The tombstone reads "Here lies -name edited-, he lived his
life as a fool, but he lived his life." The last half of the epitaph has
been recently scratched out in fresh blood. It is apparent that the
prisoner has taken to sleeping at the bottom of the tombstone. Recently,
the prisoner has apparently reopened wounds and started writing the word
"dead" in any blank spaces. Scattered along the edges of the room,
half-eaten corpses of uncooked rats are seen. For some reason the door, and
the table bearing a variety of tools have been untouched and remain clean. )
Someone had some fun :D
(A dried streak of blood leads from the eastern wing into this room.
Multiple pools of blood(all dry from the time that has elapsed) are
scattered about the room. Some of the dried pools look as if they were
dipped into when they were fresh, done in a manner reminiscent of a scribe
dipping into ink. Some pools have obviously been used as a source of
nutrients till they dried, as no food or water has been brought in. One
particularly large dried pool has had each of the Davite prayers scratched
into it. In the back corner, a mound of clothing has been turned into a
latrine, a piece of cloth covers the top, but the smell has permeated the
room. On one wall, a series of apologies are written in blood, most to
someone named -name edited-, some to -name edited-. On another wall, a crude drawing
in blood depicts a small stick figure riding a large stick horse. The last
wall to be used as a canvas drawn in blood bears a carefully drawn
tombstone. The tombstone reads "Here lies -name edited-, he lived his
life as a fool, but he lived his life." The last half of the epitaph has
been recently scratched out in fresh blood. It is apparent that the
prisoner has taken to sleeping at the bottom of the tombstone. Recently,
the prisoner has apparently reopened wounds and started writing the word
"dead" in any blank spaces. Scattered along the edges of the room,
half-eaten corpses of uncooked rats are seen. For some reason the door, and
the table bearing a variety of tools have been untouched and remain clean. )
Someone had some fun :D
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