Single Earth: Ramsa Center

[Akahebi Ayuru]

Single Earth Center of Ramsa


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1. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=12\' target=\'_top\']About Single Earth[/a] (jumps to another thread)
2. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry551\' target=\'_top\']About Ramsa Center[/a]
3. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry552\' target=\'_top\']Outside[/a]
4. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry553\' target=\'_top\']Ground Floor[/a]
5. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry554\' target=\'_top\']Upper Floor[/a]
6. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry555\' target=\'_top\']Basement[/a]
7. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry556\' target=\'_top\']Additional Housing[/a]
8. [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=46&#entry557\' target=\'_top\']Residents and Members[/a]


If you want a character connected to Single Earth or adopt one of the NPCs (see last post), or if something needs to be added or corrected, contact Angel through IM, PM or E-mail. Contact-information can be found in Ayuru's [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=6\' target=\'_top\']profile[/a].

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2. About Ramsa Center


History

After the publishing of certain books and the following investigations proving the truth of them, it was decided that a more firm presense of Single Earth would be benefitial to the populace of Ramsa that inadvertently got in touch with Nyeusi. The final decision and agreement on funding took a few years, but eventually the project got under way. It was built during 2005, the actual completion taking far less time than the decision.

A couple of months after the completion, the first residents arrived. Taking on the assignment of Nyeusi-relations and main coordinator was Akahebi Ayuru, a long-standing member recently moved to the States from Japan. Soon following were Miracle and River Sinclair, two human siblings who took on the task of human relations and caretakers of the house and premises. Though there aren't many people at the Center yet, it has only just opened up. More people are expected to start working there eventually, either living at the house itself or in their own private homes in Ramsa.


Local Policy

Ramsa Center, like all of Single Earth, does not actively try to inform humans about the parallel existance of non-human beings. If someone can live out their life in innocense, they should be allowed to do so without interfearance. The purpose of the Center is the protection of these people, providing support and knowledge for those exposed to Nyeusi, giving peaceful Nyeusi a safe haven where they can relax and be themselves, as well as to try and create and maintain a positive relation with the people residing in nearby Mayhem.


Location

The Ramsa Center stands a little outside of the town Ramsa, the byroad leading to it located along the larger road out of town that hides the turn-off to Mayhem, though on the opposite side of the road and closer to Ramsa itself. The little sideroad winds through the trees of the forrest just deep enough to shield the large oppulent house at the end of its destination from prying eyes.

For almost one hundred yards, there's open ground all around the buildings. This is deliberate in order to see any human approach well in advance so Nyeusi traces can be hidden if the human is an innocent and thus to be protected. Closest to the house a small garden is planted, there to shield the inhabitants from being observed from afar as well as to provide a comfortable environment.

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3. Outside


Outside view, front of the Center:


Outside view, back of the center:


See floorplans in the following posts


Outside Descriptions

Motor Court

The little road leading to the Center is paved with stones rather than asphalted and ends in a wide space framed on three sides by the pale two-storey house and two garages. Lamps on the garages and the porch make sure it's always easy to see regardless of time of day, and usually the warm glow of the windows add their welcoming touch. Part or the road continues on behind one of the garages where an outside parkingspace for guests can be found.[/li]

Garages

Both garages are large both in width and height, made for two cars with plenty of space for workbenches, tools and bulky spare parts. Each has two wide doors that open upwards, and high narrow windows on the outer short end.

Inside Garage 1 there's a spiral staircase leading to the basement level of the Center, near the lower bath and the recreation room. If instead going up a few steps there's a door that leads out onto the roofed porch walk to reach the main entrance. Behind this garage is a guest parkinglot with enough room for twelve cars if used economically spacewize.

Garage 2 has two doors inside it, one of which, up a short flight of stairs, opens up into an ante-room of the house. There you can either go through the next door into the rest of the house, or down another steep spiral staircase to the basement near the laundry. The rest of the room is taken up by a small slow laundry elevator that only moves between there and the basement. The other exit in the garage leads outside to the greenery surrounding the center and long lines for hanging up wet laundry to dry.[/li]

Veranda

The raised veranda out back is almost as large area-wise as the house itself. Pale stone makes up the floor, with white Romanesque pillars that surround the outer perimeter, white railing in-between them, and hold up the roof that covers parts of the veranda. Clinging flowers planted in the flowerbeds below entwine themselves around the shorter outer pillars, the taller roof-supporting pillars standing bare.

The most prominent feature out back is the large, clear pool sunk unto the veranda. It's almost square in shape, the corners rounded inwards with equal rounded steps giving easy access into the water on the side near the house. At the opposite deep end is a trampoline and a short ladder instead.

There's roof over the veranda on three sides. The largest section is the one extending from the dining area part of the house, underneath which there's plenty of room for the comfortable low chairs and tables. A white bricked bardisk with a permanent barbaqeue grill make up the heart on that side. The opposite roofing is more there to give shelter against rainshowers, extending like a spacious frame around the infirmary and quiet-room, and the center part is the underside of the large upstairs balcony.

There are several ways to reach the veranda. First from the diningroom, a small ante-room that can also be reached from the bottom floor livingquarter's bathroom, is an exit that leads out to the major roofed section of the veranda, providing access between the barbeqeue and the kitchen. There's also a short flight of stairs beside that exit that lead down onto the backyard lawn. Then there's the glass sliding door to the livingroom, the glass double doors of the office, and the sliding doors of the infirmary and quiet-room. Another flight of stairs down from the veranda are at the corner of the house on that end as well.[/li]

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4. Ground Floor


Floorplan of the ground floor:

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Ground Floor Descriptions

Foyer

Up four steps you come under the large two-storey arch that shields the front porch from weather and wind. Entering through the double doors you come to a large open space that is the foyer. Two pillars lead the eyes upwards to a curved railed opening that indicates the second floor hallway, before continuing on into the cealing. The floor beneath your feet is pale marble covered with cream-coloured and tan runners, the walls are a goldeny cream. Everything is decorated in light colours, even the woodtypes chosen being fair pine.
Straight ahead is a livingroom-like space with a huge window at the other end that grants a view out back. Looking slightly to the left, after a short hallway leading deeper into the house - to the kitchen to be more precise - a coatroom can be found. Sharply to the left, almost around the corner, is a more formal seating area for new guests to wait comfortably. To the right is a large staircase going up, underneath which stairs going down can be seen past a railing.[/li]

Coat Room

Somewhat to the diagonal left of the foyer, inbetween the hallways leading to the kitchen and to one of the living quarters, is a place to hang outdoor clothing. It has three doorless arches for entrances, the fourth wall being covered with a coat- and shoerack. Just outside the left arch is extra space for the clothes, inside a pine-door closet.[/li]

Reception Area

To the sharp left of the foyer is a seating area for guests who are new to the Center and aren't comfortable with or know where to go directly. Soft dove-gray couches surround a low, delicately carved, pine table, and glass doors that can be opened to the porch on warm days display a view of the front yard. Likewise thik heavy floor-to-cealing draperies can be pulled to ward off chill and add privacy from outside view.[/li]

Alcove

Being on of the more private social locations in the house, the alcove offers a good look over who is approaching the front of the house through a narrow window, as well as who comes through the front door, while the viewer can sit relatively shielded from notice as they sit on the loveseat against the wall. Two decorative pillars separate it from the reception area and a sideopening is opposite one of the coat room's arches.[/li]

Stairs

The main stairs are wide with delicate-looking wrought iron railings adding a contrast to the otherwise light colourscheme. On the upwards stair the first couple of steps are the same marble as the floor before becoming stairs fully covered by dark tan carpeting. IT goes up one half-flight to a landing, continuing the rest of the way after a U-turn.

The downwards stair is behind the upwards one, and instead of straight, it curves gently in a quarter circle. A pair of windows would overlook the descent if they hadn't been hidden behind thick curtains that shut out any sunlight. The thickness of the ground floor is noticable as you move downstairs, the basement being almost one and a quarter floor down instead of just the ordinary height.[/li]

Livingroom

A large open room across from the foyer, the livingroom is a light and airy place. It has a central seating-area with couches and sofas in golden brown leather, and a massive round coffee table in goldeny oiled pine. The outer wall is one huge glass widow shaped like a blunt arrow pointing outwards towards the pool on the back veranda. A large fireplace covers most of the inner wall on the kitchen-side and a number of vases with flower-arrangements, and curious objects d'art stand around on the marble mantlepiece and in several oiled pine cabinets with glass doors and gentle lighting inside. Most of these are for show to keep up the appearance of a rich eccentric's home, since the bottom floor and livingroom in particular will be seen by any visitors, but in practicality it's a room for the residents to relax, converse, or mundandely watch television - against the wall opposing the fireplace is a large TV. On that same side of the room, beside one of the fascets of the window and almost hidden by the heavy drapes that can be pulled all across that wall, is a glass door that opens up to the veranda.[/li]

Diningroom

As you pass the coatroom the floor turns from marble to off-white ceramic tiling. The diningroom is the largest room in the house, with a kitchen-part, and a small seating area in addition to the main space. In the center stands a long table that can seat up to sixteen people. It's usually covered by a pale skyblue linen tablecloth, and the seats on the unpainted pine chairs are a rich deep blue. As a contrast to the pale furnishing, a set of four darker chairs sit around a circular table in the caf?-alcove, and dark blue and creame coloured drapes are tied together at the edge of each window.

Like the livingroom, the windows in the diningroom are large floor-to-cealing glass panes, the one in the alcove actually being rounded semi-circle. There are actually two fireplaces, the larger one being the "point" of the windows forming the bluntnosed arrow, and the smaller opposite the alcove. Next to the smaller fireplace is a doorway to a small ante-room with two doors - one leading to the bathroom of the bottomfloor quarters (#1) and the other leading outside onto the veranda.[/li]

Kitchen

The kitchen contains just about everything one might need in a modern kitchen. There's enough space and enough kitchen- and silverware to provide for a small convention, if anyone has the time and strength to cook that much. In shape it's roughly an octagonal oval, with cabinets of natural pine, workbenches, stove, oven and microwave along one section; more cabinets, a large fridge and large freezer along another; and a stand-alone breakfastbar with a sink finishing the framing around a central rectangular workbench.

The breakfastbar is set apart from the other sections at both ends, giving two entrances to the actual kitchen-part of the diningroom. There's also a doorway between where the microwave oven is and the freezer, that leads straight on past a cupboard, passage between the coatroom and alcove towards the foyer, and a bathroom - all on the left - and the bottom floor quarters (#1) to the right, and on straight into the ante-room with the spiral staircase down, laundry elevator and door to garage #2.[/li]

Quarters #1 -- Resident: Miracle Sinclair

The only livingquarters on the bottom floor are these, and they're the most central of all with close access to the kitchen, the back veranda, the foyer, the spiral staircases down near the laundry, and garage #2. It's also the quarters with the most available exits (conventional ones, at least).

The main room is slightly rectangular and approximately ?x? in size. The door is in one of the corners with a window across from it and another window near the other corner along the same wall as the first window. There's also a doorway along the short side between the exit and the window, that leads to a small cubby with two windows casting their light on the door to the walk in closet opposite them.

Continuing on through from the doorway is a large white-tiled bathroom with a sink sunk into a marble counter, a toilet and a shower hidden behind frosted glass. The outer wall is windowless with plenty of room for cabinets, a single window alone to cast light against the glass wall of the shower. Last is a door in the bathroom, continuing the straight line from the main room, that opens up to a small ante-room between the diningroom and an exit to the veranda out back.[/li]

Office

To the right from the foyer, past the stairs and through an arch is a short hallway. The first entrance in there are the double doors to the large office. Inside are filecabinets and fully stocked bookcases, and of course a large desk with chairs both in front and behind it. The walls have oak panneling below cream painted walls, and the desk is likewise in polished oak. The floor is covered with a thick pale doveblue carpet, the seats on the chairs and the floor-to-cealing draperies across the windows in a similar colour in a darker shade.

Right across from the doorway the wall arches out much like a bay window, and glass double doors can open up unto the roofed veranda out back. The desk is aligned along the wall to the right, giving a sideways view of the veranda. A phone and computerscreen stands to one side of the desk, angled for the one seated behind it - usually Ayuru, though some others have access to the office as well.[/li]

Infirmary

Past the office there are two more double doors at the end of the little corridor. The ones on the left lead into a hexagonal-shaped infirmary. In here are all the medical equipment one can have outside of more serious hospital care. Along the right wall, past a small door to a spacious storage area, locked metal lockers with sterile surgical equipment and less dangerous medications stand side by side with glassfronted cabinets that hold the sort of things that are needed for first aid. One cupboard is for clean bandages and washcloths alone.

To the left of the entrance is an alcove with a pair of chairs standing in front of a shielded table that has sterilisation equipment, a microscope and a few other odd and ends that are mostly familiar to hospital crew and researchers. The center space is open apart from a single table that can be raised and lowered, in case of emergencies.
It's a very white room, with carpet-free ceramic floor and heavy white drapes that can be pulled against the large sliding glass doors that take up the left long wall, and as dividers between the infirmary and the informary quiet-room at the far end.[/li]

Infirmary Quiet-room

A comfortably large square room hidden away behind the white drapes at the far end of the infirmary, his is the place of rest for the sick and injured. The colours in here are less harsh, with off-white walls and soft seagreen details, and unless they're in the way, thick rugs on the floor. An easily movable bed stands to each side of the entryway, and there is plenty of space for another should it be needed. In the right hand far corner is a well-shileded fireplace that can be lit for warmth. The other corner is made out of glass sliding doors that can be opened up to the veranda in case cooling is needed. The glass itself is tripple-glazed in order to control heat-loss.[/li]

Bath

To be added[/li][/list]

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5. Upper Floor


Floorplan of the upper floor:

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Upper Floor Descriptions

To be added


Quarters occupied:
#2 -- Frances Rier
#3 -- Akahebi Ayuru
#4 -- Winter Smoke
Guest #1 -- curently occupied by Shakiazu Kasumi

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6. Basement


Floorplan of the basement:

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Basement Descriptions

To be added

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7. Additional Housing


There are future plans to expand, making a smaller building behind the main house with additional livingquarters, or a pair of separate cottage-like quarters. There are also ideas of having Single Earth extensions in the own of Ramsa itself. Since the Center is yet so new, these are no more than ideas for now.

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8. Residents and Members


Residents and their quarters

[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=6\' target=\'_top\']Akahebi Ayuru[/a] - Quarters #3, upper floor, Nyeusi contact and main coordinator

The floor is bare, and most of the space is taken up by a large round bed, located nearer the back wall than the center of the room. Two low, dove-blue couches face the open fireplace and an equally low table descreetly painted with pale cherry blossoms.
The colourscheme is a pale blue and cream, with gauzy curtains that can be pulled across the sliding doors leading onto the balcony.[/li]

[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=28\' target=\'_top\']Frances Rier[/a] - Quarters #2, upper floor

Description to be added[/li][/list]
[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=74#entry1238\' target=\'_top\']Miracle Sinclair[/a] - Quarters #1, bottom floor, Human contact and house caretaker, adoptable NPC

Description to be added[/li][/list]
[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=85\' target=\'_top\']Shakiazu Kasumi[/a] - Guest Quarters #1, upper floor

Description to be added[/li][/list]
[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=97\' target=\'_top\']Winter Smoke[/a] - Quarters #4, upper floor

Description to be added[/li][/list][/li][/list]
Other Single Earth Ramsa Members

[a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showtopic=74#entry1295\' target=\'_top\']River Sinclair[/a] -- Ambulance driver at Ramsa hospital, adoptable NPC[/li][/list]

If you have a Single Earth member living in Ramsa, contact Angel through IM, PM or E-mail to be added to this list. Contact information can be found in Ayuru's [a href=\'http://midnightmayhem.ourdarkarts.net/index.php?showuser=6\' target=\'_top\']profile[/a].