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it. Anshar hopes it to catch on, and have an annual
gathering, with a few representatives from every major
city, in the next decade.
Hallow 5, Library 4, Demense, the Pentagon
has three shifts of four Sleepwalkers each, and is the
quintessential place of magic and learning. The above
ground structure is only one story tall, shaped in a
pentagon. Inside, however, the walls are arranged to
form the pattern of a pentragram in the structural
shape, making eleven rooms (the eleventh being
another pentagon, where the consilium conducts their
meetings). While these rooms are impressive, they are
relatively mundane, and even though the building is a
unusual shape, there is nothing to garner suspicion to
a Sleeper (even the acres of gardens surrounding the
building have no magical properties per se). Under
the surface of the earth, however, the Pentagon takes
full advantage of the Demense (comprised of six
soulstones).
Besides a great dining hall (a la Harry Potter), a
meeting theatre (a la Star Wars, minus the floating
platforms), quarters, meditation rooms, libraries,
computer and science labs, there are rooms that are
said to exist nowhere else—a continuously 0G room,
an underground arboretum with an illusion of sky, sun
and moon (even rain descends on the gardens there—
always an exact duplication of the conditions outside,
though stars are as bright as if there was no city), portal
Chapter 4-Notable Sites
rooms where Space magic docks the Pentagon to other
willing cities, and much, much more that average
mages know only by rumor.
6. Steel Bridge Cave
On the western shore of the Wilamette River, near
where the Steel Bridge becomes Holladay Street, there
is a small whole no wider than a meter in diameter,
and easy to overlook (plus, it is now on private property
which forbids trespass). The tunnel leads to a wet cave,
discovered by Indiana only a few years ago. Although
it is a Hallow (rating 3), no one knows what other
purpose it serves, but there are those that study its
secrets. It resonates strongly of Time, Spirit and Space
magic, but to what end no one is yet certain.
7. Riverplace Marina
The Space Between have their headquarters
here, atop a Hallow with a rating of 4. It consists of
a boat housing complex, owed by the cabal. There is
a boathouse inside for each member, and it is from
here they conduct their affairs. The Space Between
is known for using the rivers to conduct their affairs,
rather than by car (though not with their houseboats,
of course—several yachts and runabouts also exist in
the complex). Little else is self-evidently special, other
than the fact that anytime a mage visits the Riverplace
Marina he is treading on Guardian ground.