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The buildings in Gahreesen were designed to constantly rotate, which allowed no [[linking Book]]s to be written from within the complex<ref>DRC. ''[[Reference:DRC research notebooks/Gahreesen|Gahreesen Notebook]]''. [[Uru: Ages Beyond Myst]].</ref>. It also meant that any books which linked to the Age needed to be on special timers so that the person linking in would find themselves where they expected to, and not in another room or even inside a wall. | The buildings in Gahreesen were designed to constantly rotate, which allowed no [[linking Book]]s to be written from within the complex<ref>DRC. ''[[Reference:DRC research notebooks/Gahreesen|Gahreesen Notebook]]''. [[Uru: Ages Beyond Myst]].</ref>. It also meant that any books which linked to the Age needed to be on special timers so that the person linking in would find themselves where they expected to, and not in another room or even inside a wall. | ||
The first building, referred to as | The first building, referred to as "The Well", is mostly embedded in the hillside, and its rotation is driven by a waterfall. The building takes its name from the link-in point: a high-walled central chamber which is open to the air above it. A two-story ring of rooms surrounds this chamber, which are themselves encircled by a hallway that runs around the outermost edge of the building. These rooms were used for a variety of purposes, including screening visitors and distributing [[KI]]s to authorized individuals. Two elevators connect the interior floors to the roof{{mdash}}one takes visitors up, and the other back down. On the second floor, a massive gear connects to the stationary outer wall. When the gear is engaged, it provides power to the facility's doors and elevators. | ||
The second building is a training facility. This | The second building is a training facility. This Training Center is built around a massive interior arena called [[Gahreesen Wall|the Wall]], where trainers could manufacture harsh conditions such as heat or toxic air. Teams of guildsmen used this Wall for training in environmental protection suits. The rest of the Training Center is divided into two identical halves, each with a staging room, a suit storage room, and a conference room which looks out onto the Wall. The roof of the Training Center served a very different purpose: a prison. A ring of small cells are buried in the outer wall of the structure. A metal ladder in the drainage chambers below the cells provides access to the rooftop. There is a central chamber here filled with machinery and electronics, though its purpose is currently unknown. | ||
The Training Center's lower levels are only accessible by jumping from the Well to a small spire of rock, and then jumping from there to one of six long bridges which lead into the Training Center. While this was originally developed as a rather simple security bottleneck, centuries of erosion has resulted in the jump being rather more perilous now than it used to be. | The Training Center's lower levels are only accessible by jumping from the Well to a small spire of rock, and then jumping from there to one of six long bridges which lead into the Training Center. While this was originally developed as a rather simple security bottleneck, centuries of erosion has resulted in the jump being rather more perilous now than it used to be. | ||
==History== | ==History== |