B1

「THE CASTLE」

What you currently know is that the castle is in a sort of dead forest. It has a Transylvanian style and its location on Earth is a bit unclear, other than it's in an European country. A sure thing is that this castle is not in our current dimension (α-1). The known dimension plan the whole castle is μ-138.

The castle has originally 150 bedrooms on the first floor. Most of them are locked, we are at about 20% unlocked and being busy. When Nynthixia welcomes a new inhabitant, she unlocks a room. When the rooms were created, there is already a huge canopy bed. It's typically a royalty bed. There is also a table, where Nynthixia adds a computer. The table has also some drawers where are some everyday products. Nynthixia connects on purpose some rooms depending of the relationships of the concerned people with the others.

You might also know there is a garden in front of the castle. The gardens are very inspired by the Versailles gardens, and have multitudes of flowers living in a quite uncommon way. Typically, they don't live depending of seasons. They are communicating with each other so they can regenerate their population and not be in the same vegetal state as some of their comrades. Most commonly found: lilies, roses and Japanese cherry blossom trees.

「CRYOGENIC ROOM」

This room is in the garden on the right side. There are little stairs that permit to access a sort of little cave. This room is only "cryogenic" in name: the temperature is actually more approaching 15°C. Like mushroom caves. Inside, don't expect to find an old style. The room is very recent and has been built during January and February.

It has ten medical pods which can contain one person each. Also, quit the idea of pods being just cold inside with a hard surface. The inside is colored velvet. Pods have different colors are called by them: black, white, purple, pink, yellow, orange, red, cyan, green and blue. They are meant to be very comfortable. Each pod is also linked to a giant machine, a sort of super-computer. This unit especially permits to generate a dream-state world in it, like a virtual reality. Once you are inside a pod, the temperature is brought back to between 23 and 27°C, depending of the origin country. People coming from Japan usually use a 24-26°C temperature. European and American people are using a 23-25°C. However, Chinese people, known to have a more tropical climate in their lands, are more using 25-27°C.

How does the room work?
The pods are meant to be used for maximum a whole year.

When a person enters the pod, the pod remains open and they receive a first injection in a syringe linked to a machine. This is a single-time injection of painkiller. This is meant to numb the sensations especially for skin and the muscles for what's coming next. The first cable to come is an injection of a morphine-derived substance which will put the patient into an artificial comatose state. Once the subject is sleeping, three other cables are connected: input and output cables, the first one injecting nutrients and the output one getting rid of all unneeded matter; the third cable is for another painkiller, injected by little impulses every six hours, and not using the same molecule depending of the injection time. This is to make the body unable to adapt itself too much to a painkiller in particular.

During this comatose, the patient will have its spirit also transfered from the pod to the computer, where their dreams are entered into the machine to change the virtual reality in real time. Just like changing the electricity signals from your brain into signals a computer can understand. You want to be in space? Then your reality will turn into space. You want to be next to a river? Here you are, next to a calm river where you can rest. This is perfect to escape from your harsh reality!

But at a moment, the dream must end. Once the module needed to wake up the patient arrives, it is connected to the pod. It can be a singing module or an AI (for example, a S-type AI). Once the module is introduced to the machine, the waking-up sequence will start. First, input and output cables and disconnect themselves from the body. Near the places where they were injecting their needles, the skin is helped to be regenerated with a very little dose of cell proliferation helper substance and some mild radiations. Secondly, the painkillers cables inject a higher dose of their product for few seconds before being disconnected as well. The regeneration process is also done. Finally, the comatose-inducing cable is disconnected. No regeneration is done on this one, its needle being very similar to the one of a syringe. Once the patient awakes, they receive painkillers in pills for 2 to 3 days still to eliminate the remnants of pain from the previous needles and they can enter the castle.

Why is this used? This is meant to put arrivants in a waiting state due to them unable to communicate with all other castle inhabitants. For example, if some Chinese girls are unable to speak in Japanese but still arrive, they can go to this room where they are put to sleep until either a language module or a S-type AI arrives to wake them up.

「THE FORBIDDEN TEMPLE」

The temple is accessible from the Chinese annex's bridge to a misty island, but anyone else other than Nynthixia is forbidden to go in there. The warning?
"Beware of the spirits in a deep slumber, may ye lose yer sanity forever".

In the temple there are drawings on the walls of what looks like to be Shub-Niggurath. The question you might ask is: do Lovecraftian gods exist in this dimension?
We don't know. Actually, the humanity of this dimension is way more superstitious than the one of our dimension. This is partially due to the fact magical deeds actually exist. There is way less rationalism than in our "real world". Explaining how Meiji was able to rebirth or to cast spells for real, with real magic. Not the same laws of physics or laws of chemistry.

Coming back to the temple. The reason why it is actually forbidden to the others is not because insane gods are being prayed inside. No.
The real reason is that this temple is hiding a dimensional breach, that could cause huge damage (mental AND physical) to anyone approaching it without taking any precautions. Thanks to this, Nynthixia is able to communicate with Circeres, being in the upper plan compared to her own.
So yeah, typically, the drawings of Lovecraftian deities... It's just a mere decoy.

What are the 2 talking about?
Nynthixia and Circeres are two different personas of the same person. However, they don't share the same memories, and their way of thinking is also different. If Nynthixia is known to be psychotic, it's not the case of Circeres who is absolutely IMMUNE to any kind of insanity. So when Nynthixia is lending Circeres some of her material so the latter can compose to appease the Sirens, demonic god-like beings having destroyed more than 85% of humanity in Circeres's dimension, Circeres on the other hand is giving Nynthixia some tips to try to immunize herself to the corruption syndrome. But typically, Circeres is not the responsible for the "curse". According to her, this curse came from at least several dimensional plans above her own, two of them having been "nuked", and the "curse" descended several plans. It didn't affect anyone in Circeres's dimension due to a huge part of the humanity already being dead, or immune to it due to Sirens's spells.

「PENTAGRAM TEMPLE」

The temple is at the South of the Japanese annex. This part has been opened recently only as well. The Pentagram Temple is called as such because all of its corners form a pentagram star. Inside of each corner, there is a little "ritual" room, with a statue. Surrounding each room, little rooms containing either ritual material, either resting places with a futon, either meditation rooms.

The following material has been found in these rooms:
- a set of incense sticks and burners
- a set for Japanese tea ceremony
- a miniature zen garden
- chemistry sets
- a mini-planetarium
- alchemy material
- room humidifiers
- some musical instruments including gamelans and ceremonial bells
- chaman sticks
- witchcraft practicing materials (cauldrons, athames, chalices, wands)
- books about different mythologies, all treated the same way (polytheist, monotheist and cosmic mythologies)

The temple is currently unused but might have a greater importance soon since Nynthixia asked for it to be reopened...

「NECROPOLIS」

This is an actual cemetery to the North of the Japanese annex, often hidden by a misty forest alley. Once you pass the mist, you enter in a forest of... Necropoles. These are actually tombs with a little ritual autel above them. These are visited only between October 31st and November 2nd. At the time, the incense sticks are being replaced before lighting them on. The used incense is a special mix for the deceased, but its exact composition is not well known, as it is "a mystery of several centuries".

Only Hachi's body is resting there. Stella's body is still well alive, and Meiji ressurected herself through necromancy so her body is not decaying and she still uses it.

In general only Nynthixia goes to this place.