Topic: Andu's Residence. Gaia de Hut

Andu Kirost

Date: 2013-05-27 09:46 EST
Gaia de Hut is an intelligent item that includes a portal into a pocket dimension, and the pocket dimension itself. Gaia evolved into a sentient item after she came into Andu's possession and he started to store large numbers of low power and otherwise unwanted magic items obtained during his decades of adventuring across many realms. Gaia's personality developed a very strong "Mother Hen" streak. possibly due to Andu's own rather child-like personality during the time of its formation.

She also has complete control over who can and can not enter through the portal. Teleportation, whether magical or Technological is severely restricted. The Hut will allow anyone to exit it's dimension through these means, but to gain entrance through these means one would have to first get permission, and then be able to "alert" the Hut they were trying to enter by a particular Teleport.

Gaia has the ability to "reconfigure" the space inside her into what ever shape/format/physics she or Andu decide is needed. Practice with this ability has alowed Gaia to learn to maintain different "Parameters" in different areas. As an example, Gaia is able to vary the gravity effecting the Waterslide her and Andu have built so that in-spite of several "drops" of seemingly a couple hundred feet each, no one using it ever exceeds a safe speed.

Andu Kirost

Date: 2013-05-27 10:13 EST
Gaia's Pocket dimension shape is now that of a cone.
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Again the interior levels are devided into 2 types. These are Outdoor Levels and Indoor levels. The levels are numbered from lowest to highest. The first 7 are the outdoor levels, the rest are the inside levels. If a section takes more than one level, the lowest level (first one listed in the chart) is labeled. Levels with a + in place of a name are currently unused.
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Andu Kirost

Date: 2013-05-27 10:53 EST
L01 Nature Park This entire level is maintained in as "natural" setting as Gaia is able to design. Features include waterfalls, hotsprings, forests, hiking paths, ponds for swimming and for fishing, creeks.
L02 Amusement ParkThis level is set up as an amusent park with rides and entertainments. Included are, a Roller coaster, waterslide, arcade, picnic area, pool, ferries wheel, bumber boats & cars, go carts, mini-golf.
L03 Training This level is dedicated to combat training with firing ranges for bows & crossbows, thrown weapons, pistols, rifles, explosives training ranges, and "danger rooms".
L04 Ranch This level is sculpted into gentle, rolling hills with a creek and pond. There are currently 3 horses living here, Andu's 2 plus a "guest" boarder.
L05 Residence This level is designed to simulate an tropical island, including beaches with surf, a creek, and individual houses for each resident. Curently Andu and Robyn & Nick are the only ones living here.
L06 Robyn's Gardens This entire level is given over to the Flowrist Robyn and her flowers.
L07 Temple and Grounds to Lami Shori no Haha/ This level holds the temple to Kami Shori no Haha.
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Andu Kirost

Date: 2013-05-27 12:07 EST
L08-L10 are the "Guest Quarters". These levels are outfitted with living quarters and facilities for "guests" of Gaia. Evacuees or actual Guests, with about 37 acres of barracks, staterooms, and facilities, this area can house a couple thousand people.
L11 is the Library. This area is so large because it houses not only Andu's collection of books but also an extensive collection of movies, music, and even art work that those using the public areas can borrow during their stay.
L12 holds Andu's "hoard" of non-magical clothing. This hoard is comprised of new items Andu "salvaged" from the stores of various Strongholds and bandit groups. Most are various bulk uniform collections, but there is a small collection of "civilian" clothing from various Realms.
L13 The "Senate Complex" The name is Andu's little joke. This level holds all the many "intelligent" magic Items Andu has aquired ove the decades. Each item is allocated a small space as its own "private quarters". There are also several gathering spaces of various sizes, which is important, because many of these items seem to like the sound of there own voices. Warning! Discussions in these meeting spaces have been known to go on for weeks with out any break.
L14 holds the raw materiels for various Arts & Crafts.
L15- L16 is Mundane gear storage Be it tents, rope, axes, anvils, or what ever, this is where it is stored if it isn't a weapon or magical.
L17 Workshops Workshops for everything from leather working and smithing to gunsmithing and computer repair are located on this level
L18 - L20 Garage Ships, cars, trains, chariots, Mechs. If it is a form of transportation, or simply too big to fit in one of the Armouries, this is where you will find it.
L21 Melee Armoury Swords, Polearms, axes, daggers. It's here, unless it is enchanted.
L22 "Modern" Armoury Guns, Guns, and more guns, and ammo, of course.
L23 "Magical" Armoury If it enchanted, but not intelligent, it's here. Swords, daggers, shields, books, hats, helms, weapon or not, it's here.
L24 This is Gaia's "Brain". This level holds the computers and other related items that Dia and Gaia have "integrated" into Gaia.
L25 - L27 Gaia's Heart. These levels hold Gaia's powerplants and batteries.
L28 - L29 are Andu's Magical item vaults
L30 is Andu's Currency and gem vaults.
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Andu Kirost

Date: 2013-05-27 13:18 EST
Gaia's Communication array consists of transmitters and receivers for most bands of the electro-magnetic spectrum that are suitable for communications use, broadband net and matrix connection for Rhy'din as well as other Realms, as well as a Rhy'din standard cellphone connections and connections to many "out Realm" cell-phone networks. The "Out-Realm" connections are achieved and maintained by the use of an array of micro-portals. The primary means used iin Gaia's own communications is a MagicTech secure "radio" that uses a combination of radio and magic to create an unbreachable encoding. The ComBands given out by Andu are all linked into this system and are capable of audio/visual remote reecording as the usual standard verbal commu7nications. They are also able to connect telepathically to their wearers. This linkage gives anyone wearing one of the ComBands direct, immediate access to Gaia, and therefore any of her capabilities.

Gaia's Transporter is a salvaged late model transporter similar to those used in Star Trek, but heavily modified. These modifications include both tech and arcane changes. The most noticable change is the removal of the annoyig "whine" that normally accompanies this kind of transporter beam. Additional modifications include the inclusion of ARcane circuitry to allow the transporter to be deliberatly used between dimensions and to detect Arcane energies and devices on or effecting those using the device. While the primary equipment is housed on the layer along with other, non-core computer or communication devices, pads are located in several other places throught out Gaia.

Gaia's Brain is a computer core mixed tech item which Andu, Dia and Gaia are constantly adding to, not always successfully. The main source of parts for this device are the various Star's End scrapyards and "discount" bins. Gaia and Dia working together have successfully integrated Arcane circuitry into the naub cire and created an interface whereby Gaia is able to directly access the Computer core as if it were part of her own "mind", and through the core any other Tech equipment connected to it. Currently, the core of this system consists of 3 outdated (by standards of their home Realms) starship computer cores that have ben fully integrated into a single system. This gives Gaia a triple core system with aproximately 1 brontobyte ram operating at 3 Zettahertz, each. "Hard storage" for this system is in the Geopbyte range.

Gaia's "Heart" Gaia's power plant consists of three starship anti-matter engines with added Arcane safety precautions. Thses are backed up by batteries and various other power generators/collectors. The most noteable is Dia's "Black Globe" generators. These are devices that she has designed and crafted during her study and research of MagiTech. In simple terms, these devices create a "energy siphon" leading directly into Gaia's batteries. Just about all known (on Rhy'din) types of energy can effectively be "redirected" directly into Gaia's batteries, thereby protecting anything encased in one of these globes or their lesser versions.

Dispite the massive amount of power this gives Gaia access to, she has limited means of actually using the power externally. Internally she can convert it to matter, but it costs a "lot" of energy to do so for each ton of matter. Externally, Gaia must operate through her attached peripherals, ie, the transporters and communications array. Gaia "could" transmit the power to any one suitable linked with her, but there is currently no one able to make use of the power so linked. While Dia is a TechMage, she isn't experienced or trained enough to make use of that power.