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Here's the experimental apparatus available to us here at SecretChambers!
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note, images are full size. Links instead of embeds Photobucket sucks, and scaled the images without asking! Sorry!)
Here at SecretChambers, Dwarven luxury is not just a euphemism, but a way of life! Initially built as a containment facility to prevent the local human necromancers from raising unholy armies of the undead to use against the mountain home, SecretChambers quickly evolved into a truly unique place to live! Take a virtual tour!
Tower level 3Tower level 2Tower level 1Tower ground floorSub level 1Sub level 2Sub level 3Tower level 3 currently contains the food stockpiles, kitchens, and the initial flying dining hall wing. It will be renovated for growing surface crops once the floor tiles have been muddied with water from the two wells in sub level 1.
Tower level 2 currently contains the initial stockpiles required to service the fortress, and the makeshift masonry and crafts dwarf's workshops. This level will be re-designated for textile processing at a later time.
Tower level 1 contains the drop-chutes for the quantum food stockpiles in the nuptial suites on the Tower ground floor. It also contains the initial living quarters, and the drop bridge for depositing our honored dead into the chamber of eternity on the ground floor. Visible from this level are the rooftops of the 4 security pillboxes installed to safeguard the facility from marauding green-skinned mutants.
Tower ground level contains the 7 nuptial suites, the ground floor of the necromancer tower, the chamber of eternity, the trade depot portico, and the extra special* office of extra-dwarven affairs. The security pillboxes are readily visible, as is the crowd control moat.
Sub Level 1 contains the growing chambers for dwarven staple crops, as well as the hospital zone storage annex, and the 2 wells. (currently dry. The moat is still filling.)
Sub level 2 contains improved housing, the overseer's office, the sherrif's office and jail annex, and the hospital wing, as well as the security offices and municipal weapons lockers for each pillbox.
Sub level 3 is where the magic lives. Welcome to SecretChambers, where the fortress gets its name! This level contains 4 massive, and luxurious dining halls, complete with dedicated kitchens and living accommodations for over 700 dwarves, all of solid stone, smoothed and polished. Access to the security stations is a convenient ascent of the central stairs at the hallway terminus of each wing. This level houses the Royal Suite, as well as untapped provisions for lesser nobility and royal mausoleums.
Our facility is completely self sufficient, and requires no outside interventions of any sort. In fact, it doesn't even have a front door! (or a backdoor either!)