DarkUnder is a vast underground cavern (or what passes for ground) in
Downwarp. The outer cavern seems to be a graveyard for giant robotic machines, but it houses several other interesting locations of note. It seems to be old or perhaps older than the main city above it, and might have been built by
Eisenstimmen.
Places to see
- The Factory is a strange place, seeming to create and destroy all at once. It is in the shape of a sphere, gravity-warped so the conveyor belts and supply feeds loop around its inner surface. There are a lot of robotic drones on the belts, being disassembled or assembled and shipped off through some dark tunnel. In the middle of the sphere is a whirling set of nested rings that guard the entrance to the Core. The factory has been known to protect entrance to this inner sanctum, but lately it's been lax.
- The Factory Core houses a giant amber crystal with light-circuitry and power conduits. It is the apparent center of operations, controlling the factory and Fnord knows what else. Oddly, the crystal also once contained the mindstate upstream backup of Nikolai, until it was forceably removed by Coalesce. The crystal is currently looking rather damaged, though the factory continues to churn.
- The crystal also turns out to have housed the backup for the entire Laboratory. It has been smashed entirely in an effort to keep the Lab from rebooting itself, just prior to Nikolai, System, and Ojou's assault.
- Opposite the factory, inside the hulk of two titanic robots fused together in rust on the cavern's floor, there is a singular club known as the Forge. It is a place of electricity, giant floating menhirs, arc-weld strobe lights, stompy dancing, and even a concrete (re)bar. There doesn't appear to be any DJ, as the music is created and extrapolated by the movements of the dancers on the dancefloor, lending to a unique bodyjamming experience.
- Nikolai's Laboratory lies just beyond the Forge, housed in the same complex, but in the part of robotic chassis where their ancient mechanical hearts intersected. He harnesses the power from the still-fluxing hearts to create all manner of experiments and mad creations. The Lab is open (IICly and OOCly) to anyone else needing equipment or space to perform any kind of experiment, surgery, or otherwise transformation. Just don't be alarmed if it explodes. It seems to almost daily, under Nik's haphazard experiments.
- The Forge and the Lab are both currently missing, the robotic shell that housed them having first been infected by Strangevirus, then having fled after the complete destruction of the Lab by action taken by Nikolai, System, and Ojou. It was captured and quarantined during its flight by action of the SMC.
- The Lab and the Forge are back in their usual place, having been disinfected. But the Lab is still pretty thoroughly destroyed.
Comments
For comments and further notes on development.
- For one thing, I plan on linking DarkUnder to a network of other tunnels that are rumoured to run underneath Downwarp. A inter-warp subway system, perhaps, as XOR had suggested might be built. It will also connect with future expansions planned for Down's upper level near the main square.
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