The Grand Palace of Klington!

[Klington]

*News Music begans to play as a Small Framed Women appears on the television screen, her bright and cheerful smile are enough to tell people watching the program that something exciting is happening in Klington*

"Hello! and welcome to KINN, the Klington International News Network has some exciting news from the Emperor." As she stated this a Man appeared on screen, it was the Klingtonian president Opist Hurakishi and he states this "We in the Oligric Council have decided to build a new palace, since the old palace was destroyed long ago. We will build our palace and will pay for all the parts but we ask are allies and other nations to give us ideas to build are palace. This is because we want other nations to know Klington is a nation based on alliances and friends, and we will show that through are own Emperors palace. With that I will give the first ideas for the castle."

The screen flashed back to the women and she opened her mouth and delicatly said, "The President has released these designs for the castle."
(OOC: These are the general outside designs, everything else is up to you. Landscapes, inside design and if you want you can add a few outside designs but nothing major.)


(The above picture will be a little offscale, we plan to have it much larger.)


OOC:
I know it may seem like we are demanding you to donate workers and parts of the building, but we are not, for that would be unally like and really contradictory, all we are asking for are ideas or blueprints and we will pay to have them built, if you want to donate workers, pieces to a project or funds, then that is fine. But please note that is not what we are asking for.

[Klington]

[Klington]

I also have an idea for the central room in the palace. I want a huge round room and on the floor I want a map of the world. But I also want crystals in the floor tiles so that we can place a laser below the room. And at night we can turn on the laser and have the world map projected into the room like a hologram. Ok, sorry I forgot to include that in the above.

C'mon someone reply.....

[Sheynat]

This isn't very complicated, just a general idea. You already seem to be going with a Japanese castle. I'd suggest you model it after Himeji Castle in particular. Himeji couldn't be stormed by land; as an army entering the castle would make the mistake of believing it would be a straight shot to the castle proper, as it would truly seem to be. However, the landscape was designed in such a way that they ended up having to take sudden turns and go through narrow spaces covered by archers. The invaders would take hours to reach the castle, and would be ripped to shreds before they ever did.

[Klington]

Sheynat said:

This isn't very complicated, just a general idea. You already seem to be going with a Japanese castle. I'd suggest you model it after Himeji Castle in particular. Himeji couldn't be stormed by land; as an army entering the castle would make the mistake of believing it would be a straight shot to the castle proper, as it would truly seem to be. However, the landscape was designed in such a way that they ended up having to take sudden turns and go through narrow spaces covered by archers. The invaders would take hours to reach the castle, and would be ripped to shreds before they ever did.

Thanks for the idea.

[New Age Guilds]

incorporate moats. also, have it on many tiers. make a level for defense, adn another for pleasure

[Sheynat]

That's a good idea. In the Japanese castles I mentioned, if I understand correctly, the lord and his servants slept on the upper levels. Although they slept on the upper levels, they patrolled the lower levels. To get to the lord, you had to fight through the patrolled levels and the servant's quarters. I don't know how valuable a moat would be, though, when one can simply take tank cannons and blow the castle apart. Another idea I thought of was to build it in the mountains. Find or make yourself a little valley in a steep mountain range. Cut yourself an accessway through the mountains, but only one, and keep it narrow. Guard both ends of it.

[New Age Guilds]

www.internetboekhandel.nl/1841764299.jpg

how about the top bit for you private quarters

[Klington]

Ok....
Thanks for the feedback.

[New Dracora]

Two words:

Underground Labyrinth.

[Klington]

New said:

Two words:

Underground Labyrinth.

Yeah, Ive been thinking about that, I also want to put a place to put the past emperors.

[BealtleManium]

here's an artistic rendition of my palace

[Alfonia]

Japanese castles are beautiful, sure. But If I may suggest something:



Cheverny, the chateau this picture shows, is in my opinion one of the more beatiful palaces in the world, and something cheverny-ish would be nice.

[BealtleManium]

Alfonia said:

Japanese castles are beautiful, sure.

mines not Japaneese... mine is norweigian

speaking of chateaux here's a good one, Chambord... a fireplace in every room(they have very well hidden chimneys) And there is a double staircase you can't tell which 1 goes where... so if your wife gets mad just go to the other one and get away

[Alfonia]

BealtleManium said:

mines not Japaneese... mine is norweigian...

Actually I wasn't talking about your palace. I agree that Chambord, it's a nice castle. Funny that you should mention Norwegian castles though, since've got two of those just kilometres from where I live. The first one is a ruin that's very old, and rather small. The other one is newer and bigger, I think the earliest parts of it are from the 1100-1200's or something like that. But they're more of the defensive type of castle, not the fancy type.

[BealtleManium]

well... that was the first intention of them, infact they were more of a nessecity than a luxury