001 {what a fantastic death abyss!}

[sandcastleking]

[The hand is small, slanted, and the letters and words have barely any spaces between them. There are no flourishes, swoops, or other such things; everything is compact--like the writer is more used to making notes in margins and along diagrams than writing across a full page. Letters appear very quickly.]

Testing, testing...

What a place--what a

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[felinemystique]

Your best bet is probably to talk to the maintenance people. I doubt any of them built this, but they work with the various systems all the time.

[sandcastleking]

The maintenance people, thank you. May I ask for their names, or a location amongst those incredible floating islands where they may be found?

[felinemystique]

I believe they share space with Housekeeping, on the island called Stuff Inc.

[sandcastleking]

The Housekeeping building on Stuff Inc. Right.

Thank you kindly, good sir or lovely lady.

[cathar_jedi]

[ooc: Aaaargh, some of her people live in giant trees, but she's so disconnected from them that I can't have her know that with amnesia.]

I know little of engineering, and very little more of plant life, but [pause]

In many, heartwood perishes as outer layers flourish. That is why large ones are, so often, hollow. The heartwood is able to rot, or be consumed by insects, while at the same time the rest of the tree still flourishes.

Perhaps this tree, too, is hollow. Perhaps the shaft of the turbolift was built into this hollow. I do not know.

It appears that there is a discrepancy between what I thought I knew about plant life and what I truly know.

[sandcastleking]

[pentaps]

Is a "turbolift" another word for an elevator?

That's interesting, and I'll admit the finer details of trees--especially magical huge ones--escape me, but it seems the shaft is built quite close to the bark, and not in the heartwood. Though, I could be wrong. And there's more to building an elevator than just hollowing out the shaft, too. A device like that doesn't just need a counterweight but a power source, too. All in all, quite a mystery.

[spandexisyouth]

I do not know that asking names is a good idea, but I also do not think that anyone knows the names so it is probably less of a risk than if someone had them.

[sandcastleking]

Now there's something interesting. What's so dangerous about a couple of names?

[spandexisyouth]

The same thing that is dangerous about many of the questions regardint this place. People have died.

[sandcastleking]

I see.

[pentaps]

I've heard it's more dangerous to write than to talk.