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Topic: The castle of my nightmares
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VincentMaloy
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posted 07-18-2000 09:50 PM
  
I am currently designing my own Castle/Mansion and am looking for more ideas. It is not traditional in any way. I want it to be a dark and awe inspiring. I have taken ideas from some of the most unconventional places, such as movies, video games, and story books but I am seeking more. Any ideas, no matter how rediculous they seem, I would appreciate hearing. I can get most things to work that other people would dream impossible. I work in research and have ways of making things reality. Any resources you might know of would be welcome also.------------------
Valete' |
duncan
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posted 07-20-2000 01:05 PM
As someone once said, watch what you wish for, you might get it.
Seriously, your's is the only posting of this type here that i know of. Most people who visit CQ love castles, no matter what shape they take, and are the furthest thing from being a nightmare. Good luck with your dreamsDuncan |
bnelle
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posted 07-28-2000 01:26 PM
I think I know what he means- a castle like the type you find in fantasy pewter figurines, sitting at the top of a steep mountain, with only a narrow, winding path to it's door... The kind that says "Powerful Wizard lives here, keep off the grass."What are some of the ideas you already have, Vincent? Get the creative juices flowing, and maybe we can come up with more ideas! |
duncan
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posted 07-28-2000 02:58 PM
One mans nightmare {why does the daymare get no credit?} can be anothers fantasy.
Vincent was very clear in his meaning, I hope he can find what he seeks. |
VincentMaloy
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posted 07-30-2000 08:04 AM
Bnelle is right, I'm looking for that Creepy-Mysterious, not Creepy-Evil. Some of the Ideas I have are secret passage ways from one part of the "house" to another, a large semi-circular perimeter hallway with smaller corridors branching toward the center, false stairways and doors, hallways that gradually slope down so that at one point you can't even throw something and hit the ceiling, and at the other end you can barely stand up strait, false mirrors (a very nice trick, one of those optical illusions where you see a mirror but if you reach out and try to touch it you realize that the mirror is a few feet behind the frame with another mirror((not false)) across the hallway), labyrinthine tunnel system, but the best part of all (in my opinion) is the location, which I have already aquired. It is a large open area with an underground river flowing roughly diagonal beneath the plot. The tunnel for the river is still in it's natural state which means that the ceiling is too low, the bottom is too high, and it has that Carlsbad Caverns look to it. I am going to hollow it out and make it bigger with small landings ever so often, and it will have that nice 1700's style sewer look to it. Now, I know I can think of more than that but I just can't seem to get anything else down. Any ideas, even things you have seen in movies or read in books, would be greatly appreciated. As for daymares, I believe someone used it in a vampire movie before, where that vampire had a bad dream, or for him, a "daymare", and said it to someone (I don't remember who, if I did I might be able to remember what movie it was). ------------------
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duncan
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posted 07-30-2000 09:34 AM
What i was in reference to was from the book
Night Mare by Piers Anthony a xanth novel isbn o-345-30456-x published by Ballantine books 1983 first edition------------------
Megan and Ralph
DUNCAN CASTLE [This message has been edited by duncan (edited 07-30-2000).] |
canadab
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posted 07-30-2000 05:07 PM
I prefered 'Crewel Lye"... gotta love those panties references.. go Xanth!Amberein ------------------
If you can dream it, you can make it a reality.
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bnelle
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posted 07-31-2000 10:11 AM
For creepy and bizarre construction ideas, you might want to look into the Winchester Mystery House, in San Jose, California. If you are unfamiliar with the story, goes a lil' something like this: Mrs. Winchester, widow to the Winchester who was responsible for manufacturing the Winchester Rifle, believed she was haunted by the ghosts of all of the victims killed w/ her husbands rifles. SO she built this mansion with hallwayd that go no where, stairs that step into steep drops and what not, to confuse the spirits and, I guess, keep them away from her....
Heres a link to the official page.
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/ bnelle |
duncan
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posted 07-31-2000 05:02 PM
Thank you for that post, it had been a while sence i was in Calif. and had almost forgot that strange house. | |
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