There are some contradictory things I don't even *attempt* to resolve about the Place. Since the French Doors, I don't attempt to make it consistent with anything more "rational" than, oh, the TARDIS. So, there are things that are different depending on what direction you look at them from, and stuff like that. There it is.
The net.Place is definitely far more spacious than its literary counterpart. We have rafters for lurkers and all, and more private corners than I think Spider ever planned for. So, while I think the book Place was all right angles, the net.Place has a sloped ceiling and angles wherever anyone is moved to put them. :)
So. A quick walk through my Place... we start in an urban (though off the beaten path) parking lot, with, naturally, vehicles parked every which way. Linda the Starship parks on the roof, as I recall. I'm not quite sure how she does that; the roof is alternately sloped and flat. Actually, I think I've sussed that out, bear with me.
Okay, bare pavement up to the front door, which is rather featureless, so it gets noticed by only those who know and those who need. Walk in and the bar is on your right, after a little corner for hats and coats and boots and all. The fireplace and most of the sitting area is on the left. The decor is rather rustic... bare beams, sloped roof, plenty of perches for lurkers and flying patrons. I'm unclear on whether the walls between beams are timber or stone.
Here's the map, more explanation follows. I'll be real impressed if anyone guesses what the WWW and I are before reading.
east
------------======--V-- -----=======----========------
| X +____+ +_____+ +______+ # |
| X X # |
|----- __ #|
| |---- |__| |
| | [] /\ /\ ||
| [] \/ \ \ ||
| | [] \/ <> |
| | [] X
| | [] __ ^^ ^^ ^^ |
| | [] |__| < O / ==|
| | B [] < | | | s
| | [] | | | o
| | A [] <> | | | u
| | [] | | | t
| | R [] <> < \ ==| h
| | [] < *** * |
| | [] --------- vv vv vv |
| | [] | | X
| | [] | hot | <> <> |
|--D-- [] | | X
| ___[] | tub | |
| | | @@ }
| --------- @@ }
|-==-----"""---- WWW }
| | | }
|folx| danger | = = =o= = =o= = =o= = = | I |
| | | - - - - - - - - - - - |_____________|
|----| room | | |
| | | |
| | lounge porch /
| | / /
----------- / /
| | /
|________________________|-------/
west
At first, my compass directions were arbitrary, but then I realized
one must be able to watch sunsets from the porch. So they're real, now.
One enters through the eastern door... there are windows with window seats to each side. The V is the gravity button (just read Al's map and it reminded me of that... the rest I had constructed beforehand). The X's in the NE corner are a cluster of coatracks, next to the corner of the bar where the Lunch and the quarters reside. The #'s in the SE corner are where I imagine hammocks being mounted whenever anyone has them. Next to that on the southern wall are the stations for the VPM and Wurlitzer, which rather meld into each other in my mind because I only see VPM in a.c and Wurly in #c.
The X's in the wall are where I picture X-windows appearing, though I suppose they can really appear absolutely anywhere. {'s mark the French Doors. The quadrilaterals scattered about represent tables; chairs I didn't draw cluster about them and independently of them. The ^^, vv, <<'s mark couches that form a rough U facing the fireplace. The O is Dave's beanbag, the ***'s Faith's couch o' pillows, and the * my pillownest. Funny how those seats drift, though... I was *sure* Dave and I sat right next to each other and yet I could look across and see him. :) The pillownest is multicolored. It tends to warm brown tones, but really it tends to neutral, comforting tones so translate that according to what's comforting to *you*.
The @'s mark the staircase to the roof. I picture the roof over the front part of the building as being peaked, the peak running east to west, and round about where the staircase (and the dumbwaiter, the D near the west end of the bar) hits the roof there's a structural alteration, and the back half of the roof is flat... for stargazers, rain lovers, and other roof recreations. (The two parts of the roof is a recent imaging... previously I pictured the roof peaked and flat depending on context.)
Behind the bar is a door back to a pantry/kitchen and maybe office. Near the western, open end of the bar is the folks' room and the Danger Room. Hot tub is shown. The dance floor tends to hover around the same area as the hot tub, or else over the seating area near the front door (near Wurly).
Sorry, Rene... for much the same reasons as Thea has given, I think of the lounge as being a bit separated. A couple stairs down, and a few wooden columns divide the space. The porch with its swing... and, oh, yes, the WWW and I. *grin* Maybe Kath guessed? When Gene Kelly died, we brought his Singin' in the Rain lamppost in. Then we added a wardrobe, and it now depends which way you get to the lamppost, what purpose it serves. Go through the warddrobe and the lamppost is the last landmark before parts unknown. Approach it from another direction, and it's a mundane prop for dancing around or leaning on. ;-) Very much *not* the LoR. Which, incidentally, I don't tend to *place* in the Place as that's sort of contradictory.
Those are one of those additions that didn't really get announced generally... but they're there in my mind.
So, there she is.
Claudia