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===Entrances:=== | ===Entrances:=== | ||
There are at least two entrances to the Hive. One is located within Liscor and another secret entrance just outside of it.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/15/2-02/ Chapter 2.02]</ref> | There are at least two entrances to the Hive. One is located within Liscor and another secret entrance just outside of it.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/2-02/ Chapter 2.02]</ref> | ||
<nowiki> </nowiki>From street level in Liscor, descending into the Antinium Hive looked ridiculously easy. There were no noticeable guards, and the dirt was sloped for easy entry. But that was an illusion. | <nowiki> </nowiki>From street level in Liscor, descending into the Antinium Hive looked ridiculously easy. There were no noticeable guards, and the dirt was sloped for easy entry. But that was an illusion. | ||
About ten steps into the darkness below, there are silent Soldiers standing in alcoves, ready to step out as one to immediately trap and apprehending any intruder. Said intruder survival would have been contingent on how much of a fight he put up, as the Antinium had made many concessions to live in Liscor, but they did not suffer intrusion lightly.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/22/3-06-l/ Chapter 3.06 L]</ref> | About ten steps into the darkness below, there are silent Soldiers standing in alcoves, ready to step out as one to immediately trap and apprehending any intruder. Said intruder survival would have been contingent on how much of a fight he put up, as the Antinium had made many concessions to live in Liscor, but they did not suffer intrusion lightly.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/3-06-l/ Chapter 3.06 L]</ref> | ||
===Tunnels:=== | ===Tunnels:=== | ||
The tunnels are extremely dark, but not fully, as glowing patches of moss and fungus lit up to light the way every twenty feet or so, and the Antinium (and Gnoll) could still see perfectly fine. Still they are far too dark for any Human to see. | The tunnels are extremely dark, but not fully, as glowing patches of moss and fungus lit up to light the way every twenty feet or so, and the Antinium (and Gnoll) could still see perfectly fine. Still they are far too dark for any Human to see. | ||
The tunnels used solely by the Workers are barely large enough to accommodate them. They had only a foot of height as they marched through the cramped corridors built to accommodate exactly two Workers at a time.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | The tunnels used solely by the Workers are barely large enough to accommodate them. They had only a foot of height as they marched through the cramped corridors built to accommodate exactly two Workers at a time.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | ||
==== <u>Trapped Hallways</u> ==== | ==== <u>Trapped Hallways</u> ==== | ||
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====<u>Klbkch's Quarters</u>==== | ====<u>Klbkch's Quarters</u>==== | ||
Klbkch's personal quarters within the labyrinthine tunnels, is a hollowed-out room of stone and dirt near to the surface.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2016/11/09/1-25/ Chapter 1.25]</ref> The room is filled with a table, two chairs, and a coatrack. The coatrack holds no coats, only a single scarf that Erin gifted him on Christmas.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 4.13 L]</ref> | Klbkch's personal quarters within the labyrinthine tunnels, is a hollowed-out room of stone and dirt near to the surface.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/1-25/ Chapter 1.25]</ref> The room is filled with a table, two chairs, and a coatrack. The coatrack holds no coats, only a single scarf that Erin gifted him on Christmas.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 4.13 L]</ref> | ||
====<u>Queen’s Room</u>==== | ====<u>Queen’s Room</u>==== | ||
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There are many storage rooms the Antinium of Liscor had built. True to their nature, each storage area had its own designated location and purpose depending on the value and need for each item contained within. | There are many storage rooms the Antinium of Liscor had built. True to their nature, each storage area had its own designated location and purpose depending on the value and need for each item contained within. | ||
Some of the storage rooms that contained items not useful for Soldiers and Workers fighting in the Dungeon, will be located closer to the surface. But depending of the value of the items contained within, they will be relatively close to the Queen’s room.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/06/07/2-27/ Chapter 2.27]</ref> | Some of the storage rooms that contained items not useful for Soldiers and Workers fighting in the Dungeon, will be located closer to the surface. But depending of the value of the items contained within, they will be relatively close to the Queen’s room.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/2-27/ Chapter 2.27]</ref> | ||
====<u>Chess Room</u>==== | ====<u>Chess Room</u>==== | ||
The Chess Room is a special room built near the surface of the Hive. It's a large room that instead of acting as another feeding room, it had been sectioned off and given a new purpose. The low-ceiling area had been filled with cushions, small rectangular wooden boards filled with pieces, and even odd chair. Antinium, all Workers, sat around these boards, playing chess. | The Chess Room is a special room built near the surface of the Hive. It's a large room that instead of acting as another feeding room, it had been sectioned off and given a new purpose. The low-ceiling area had been filled with cushions, small rectangular wooden boards filled with pieces, and even odd chair. Antinium, all Workers, sat around these boards, playing chess. | ||
In truth, the dirt ceiling was too low to really allow any Workers to sit on the chairs. They sat around the chess boards on the dirt instead, completely ignoring the cushions that had been piled neatly in one corner of the room and never been used. At the start of winter, the room could hold around sixty Workers.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | In truth, the dirt ceiling was too low to really allow any Workers to sit on the chairs. They sat around the chess boards on the dirt instead, completely ignoring the cushions that had been piled neatly in one corner of the room and never been used. At the start of winter, the room could hold around sixty Workers.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | ||
====<u>Treasury Rooms</u>==== | ====<u>Treasury Rooms</u>==== | ||
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The Workers withdraw exact amounts from the carefully organized stacks of gold, silver and bronze coins, and recording the number on a piece of parchment. | The Workers withdraw exact amounts from the carefully organized stacks of gold, silver and bronze coins, and recording the number on a piece of parchment. | ||
The Antinium don’t post guards in the rooms, because there was no need for them to steal, and no [Thief] would ever make it this far into the hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/14/3-23-l/ Chapter 3.23 L]</ref> | The Antinium don’t post guards in the rooms, because there was no need for them to steal, and no [Thief] would ever make it this far into the hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/3-23-l/ Chapter 3.23 L]</ref> | ||
==== <u>Promise of Memory</u> ==== | ==== <u>Promise of Memory</u> ==== | ||
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It was meant to be some lost building that had once been part of Liscor, or at least, part of some ancient city. Despite the precarious appearance of the room, there is no fear of anything collapsing. The stone may look weak, but it was as structurally sound as any part of the Hive. | It was meant to be some lost building that had once been part of Liscor, or at least, part of some ancient city. Despite the precarious appearance of the room, there is no fear of anything collapsing. The stone may look weak, but it was as structurally sound as any part of the Hive. | ||
Over one of the walls, Klbkch had some Workers drag in a wine rack and nearly fifty expensive vintages and then had the entire structure smashed before adding a coating of dust to the mix.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/06/07/2-27/ Chapter 2.27]</ref> | Over one of the walls, Klbkch had some Workers drag in a wine rack and nearly fifty expensive vintages and then had the entire structure smashed before adding a coating of dust to the mix.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/2-27/ Chapter 2.27]</ref> | ||
===Areas: === | ===Areas: === | ||
====<u>Sleeping Area</u>==== | ====<u>Sleeping Area</u>==== | ||
The Antinium sleep in small cubicles of dirt, in a huge barrack-like sleeping area. The Antinium do not lie down to sleep. It’s not that they can’t, but their backs do not curve like mammals as it resembled a beetle’s in many ways, and they disliked the rocking that occurred when they tried to lie down. Thus, both Workers and Soldiers alike slept while sitting. The Workers sleeping area can hold up to five hundred Workers.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> The walls of the barracks the Soldiers lived in were dirt. Not loose dirt, but hard-packed, as good as stone and unbreakable in most circumstances.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 13 L]</ref> | The Antinium sleep in small cubicles of dirt, in a huge barrack-like sleeping area. The Antinium do not lie down to sleep. It’s not that they can’t, but their backs do not curve like mammals as it resembled a beetle’s in many ways, and they disliked the rocking that occurred when they tried to lie down. Thus, both Workers and Soldiers alike slept while sitting. The Workers sleeping area can hold up to five hundred Workers.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> The walls of the barracks the Soldiers lived in were dirt. Not loose dirt, but hard-packed, as good as stone and unbreakable in most circumstances.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 13 L]</ref> | ||
====<u>Food Consumption Area</u>==== | ====<u>Food Consumption Area</u>==== | ||
When the Antinium receive their food, they go in the food consumption area and slowly ingested the muck they had been given. There were no seats for the Antinium to eat at; they simply collected their rations on earthenware bowls and ate as efficiently as possible before depositing the bowls to be used again by more Workers filing into the room. | When the Antinium receive their food, they go in the food consumption area and slowly ingested the muck they had been given. There were no seats for the Antinium to eat at; they simply collected their rations on earthenware bowls and ate as efficiently as possible before depositing the bowls to be used again by more Workers filing into the room. | ||
Workers and Soldiers ate separately. This wasn’t because one group ate better quality food than the other—they all ate the same highly-caloric mush, but Soldiers just ate three times as much as Workers, and thus used different containers, necessitating a separate room to feed in.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | Workers and Soldiers ate separately. This wasn’t because one group ate better quality food than the other—they all ate the same highly-caloric mush, but Soldiers just ate three times as much as Workers, and thus used different containers, necessitating a separate room to feed in.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | ||
====<u>Waste Area</u>==== | ====<u>Waste Area</u>==== | ||
The Antinium have designated areas where their waste is accumulated, and than recycled within the Hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2016/12/25/1-33/ Chapter 1.33]</ref> | The Antinium have designated areas where their waste is accumulated, and than recycled within the Hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/1-33/ Chapter 1.33]</ref> | ||
==Inhabitants== | ==Inhabitants== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* There are no doors in the Hive except where it is crucial to maintain an airtight environment.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/22/3-06-l/ Chapter 3.06 L]</ref> | * There are no doors in the Hive except where it is crucial to maintain an airtight environment.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/3-06-l/ Chapter 3.06 L]</ref> | ||
*For the Antinium it’s the same all the time in the Hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | *For the Antinium it’s the same all the time in the Hive.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/3-05-l/ Chapter 3.05 L]</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||