Under-dome

There is an ‘upside-down’ city beneath Inisfree’s downtown area.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Basics
  3. Tallies
  4. Fake Magma
  5. The Bowl Pit
  6. Special Features
  7. Faves
  8. Events
  9. Overall (Images Begin)
  10. Fire-spouts
  11. Model

 

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Introduction:

This part of Inisfree includes all the same features found in Sotu, except that the skyscrapers here hang from the ceiling, just like those (and the hanging spherical mansions) that hang from the skyscraper-sized bridges which connect some of them, and the penthouses are on the bottoms of each of them, rather than their tops.

 

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The Basics:

This is the lower hemisphere/half of the dense urban area called Sotu.  It is a 1.5-mile diameter, cavernous, ‘super-basement’ (a bottom level of enormous size) with a slightly-domed ceiling. Its skyscrapers do not rise up from the floor, but are suspended from their foundations on the ceiling one quarter of a mile above the floor, and hang like stalactites from these positions, their lowest floors being their narrowest tips, and each of them coming to within a few dozen feet of the floor of this cavernous lower hemisphere.  It is for this reason that these buildings are actually called ground-scrapers, not skyscrapers.

The roadways of this section of Sotu are the same gold-and-white G.A.H. sections one will find on the surface of Inisfree, and are, as in the upper hemisphere of Sotu, triple-decker in some areas, wrapping around and through many of the larger skyscrapers down here.​​  This means, it is of note, that none of the highway lanes are on the floor of this super-basement; all of them are high up in the air of this cavernous room nearly one third of a mile in height in some places.

It has a word in its name which stems from “concave” because that is the ‘shape’/curve of its encircling underground wall, as viewed from within this half/”basement” of Sotu.

The waterfalls of its ground-scrapers fall into big grate-covered shower-like drainage-areas which prevent them from being heated into steam from the fake lava-flows.  The water is instead pumped back up to those skyscrapers (via the massive support-columns of this under-city region), keeping their waterfalls eternal and cool.

 

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Tallies:

There are 505 hanging skyscrapers here, the same number as their ‘mirrored’ counterparts on Sotu’s surface.  The Under-concavity also has the exact same number of skyscraper-bridges, and in the same places, as well as the same number of hanging high-rises and Hanging Mansions (a.k.a. Ball Homes) as up there (on Sotu’s surface).  The only difference is that there is 1 less shibuya down here; the Under-concavity has 49 of them.

Millions of people are able to live comfortably down here with lots of room for each and to spare.

Hundreds of hover-taxis help get them to and from the ceiling-mounted buildings, though everyone is welcome to keep a vehicle or two of their own.

 

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Fake Magma:

Like the fake lava-flows of Dante Peak, the Amusement Park‘s Lazy Lava River, and the Faux Volcano of the Military Training Area, the Under-concavity has fake magma-flows (as they are underground; not visible on or from the surface of Inisfree).  It is just as easy and safe to ride inner tubes and other floats along the surfaces of these flows, and this is, perhaps, the best form of transportation along the floor of this super-basement.  A few bridges arch their way over these fake-magma flows, and are wide enough for both foot and vehicle traffic, though they are seldom used for such; Inisfreeans (ICVs) prefer to fly and teleport in an enclosed under-realm such as this.

 

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The Bowl Pit:

There is a bowl-like pit in the center of the floor of this super-basement, and it is half a mile in diameter, and more than 500 feet deep at its center point.  Its walls are smoothly curving slopes of onyx, and are too slippery to ever climb.  Once an Outlander is cast over the edge, sliding down in toward its center, there is no escape unless another Inisfreean is commanded to free them.

 

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Special Features:

The entire floor is a ‘smart’-surface which automatically generates gentle energy-cushions anytime something is falling toward it.  Similar ‘smart’-systems in and around all the buildings hanging above also work proactively to help prevent any falls or harm.  In other words, air and gravity can be rapidly, precisely, safely adjusted here, always to ensure that no one falls down all the way or smacks the ground/floor (though the ever-watchful Inisfreeans (at least those already suited up in an S.T. suit, or riding upon an “Owl” hover-saddle, or driving/piloting a hover-shuttle or one of our police Tumblers) would instantly sense an impending mistake/trip/fall, then skillfully fly/hover into place to catch whatever fell).

 

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Faves:

The Drow and Naga love doing business here.  Some even call it their home; they are used to living and working in vast caves and cavern networks, building their dwellings and other facilities into the massive stalactites of such places.  Many of the Demons (a race of the species called Angels, these variants hardened for daring exploration across the realms beyond the Heaven dimension) also call Sotu’s Under-dome their home away from home.  Vampires, of course, are also often seen here, fully shielded from the direct light some of them still don’t much care for, even in their invincible Inisfreean forms.

 

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Events:

As of the end of 2022, some of Inisfree’s street races, as well as a lot of practices for them, happen down here; the otherwise-unused floor of this artificial mega-cave is perfect for them.

 

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Overall:

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Fire-spouts:

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Model:

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