First Floor Map of a Callous Manor
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:38 pmThe map in question is here.
In my RP sessions with Ookalf, it's a running joke that Circe's Manor is large enough that newcomers will get lost without their own atlas (and similar lines). Out of boredom about 3-4 years back, I decided to work with my character Callous a bit and give her something related.
For those not in the know (most likely all of you), Callous is an alternate-universe fusion of Circe and one of my characters, Callista. Of course, no person who is half would-be supervillain would go without having a gargantuan headquarters of his/her own, hence the picture linked above. Here's a bit of what I remember about the place.
After scanning the picture, I added a blue line above Area #19. That line indicates where the second floor's west-most wall would be.
The filled-in circle below Area #14 is a spiral staircase leading up to the second floor. More standard stairwells are found near Areas #32 and #35 for convenience's sake, and are the only ones leading to the manor's basement and subbasement. There is also a service elevator directly in front of the Manor's east entrance.
Any rectangles divided up into squares mark where the servants' quarters are; look to the right of Area #9 for an example.
There are three areas on the map that are crosshatched (left and right of #23, hallways surrounding Area #37). Those are marked to indicate "chaos architecture", meaning that there's no way of knowing beforehand what will be in those sections on a given day. Could be a museum, could be a pool hall, could be a children's playground, could be anything.
The rooms in the Manor are not drawn according to scale. Back then, I had no idea what the approximate size of an NHL hockey rink was and just took my best guess. Area #17 (in the lower left portion of the map) is meant to represent one of these rinks, complete with seats (yes, you read that right). Taking into account the fact that there are 30 feet worth of seats on all sides, the room is approximately 260 feet long and 145 feet wide.
For the first floor alone, Callous employs a maximum of 204 people to keep the place clean (or at the very least organized).
For the vast majority of marked Areas, I can't recall what they were used for. #11 is the floor's library, #17 is (as noted above) the hockey arena, #29 is the greenhouse where Color fruits are cultivated, and #34 is made up of guest rooms. For everything else, your guess is as good as mine.
In my RP sessions with Ookalf, it's a running joke that Circe's Manor is large enough that newcomers will get lost without their own atlas (and similar lines). Out of boredom about 3-4 years back, I decided to work with my character Callous a bit and give her something related.
For those not in the know (most likely all of you), Callous is an alternate-universe fusion of Circe and one of my characters, Callista. Of course, no person who is half would-be supervillain would go without having a gargantuan headquarters of his/her own, hence the picture linked above. Here's a bit of what I remember about the place.
After scanning the picture, I added a blue line above Area #19. That line indicates where the second floor's west-most wall would be.
The filled-in circle below Area #14 is a spiral staircase leading up to the second floor. More standard stairwells are found near Areas #32 and #35 for convenience's sake, and are the only ones leading to the manor's basement and subbasement. There is also a service elevator directly in front of the Manor's east entrance.
Any rectangles divided up into squares mark where the servants' quarters are; look to the right of Area #9 for an example.
There are three areas on the map that are crosshatched (left and right of #23, hallways surrounding Area #37). Those are marked to indicate "chaos architecture", meaning that there's no way of knowing beforehand what will be in those sections on a given day. Could be a museum, could be a pool hall, could be a children's playground, could be anything.
The rooms in the Manor are not drawn according to scale. Back then, I had no idea what the approximate size of an NHL hockey rink was and just took my best guess. Area #17 (in the lower left portion of the map) is meant to represent one of these rinks, complete with seats (yes, you read that right). Taking into account the fact that there are 30 feet worth of seats on all sides, the room is approximately 260 feet long and 145 feet wide.
- Going back and measuring the entire Manor, this would mean that---brace yourselves---Callous's manor is around 1,700 feet long and 888 feet wide, not counting Areas #18, #19, and #29.
For the first floor alone, Callous employs a maximum of 204 people to keep the place clean (or at the very least organized).
For the vast majority of marked Areas, I can't recall what they were used for. #11 is the floor's library, #17 is (as noted above) the hockey arena, #29 is the greenhouse where Color fruits are cultivated, and #34 is made up of guest rooms. For everything else, your guess is as good as mine.
And in all fairness, it's probably a good thing you haven't. I mean, if there were definitive limits to the size of Circe's manor, I wouldn't be able to do that joke anymore. >^_^<